SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY,/Publisher. VOL. XIV. Massachusetts and New Jersey arc leading the country in road improve ment. ___ Michigan has decided that for judi cial purposes an oath administered by telephono is binding. Not one life insurance company is now doing business in Kansas. The statutory conditions are so onerous that all have withdrawn. The new woman is pleased to reflect that there nro, according to the cen sus, a million and a half moro men ' lhan women in the United States. The Minnesota census this year pre sents nn anomaly. Excepting Dulutb, the cities liateu't grown mcch. but the farming population has greatly in creased. Tho people of the United States use, on an average, 12,000,000 post' age stamps of all kinds each and every day of the year, or a total of about 4,"180,000,000 per annum. It is proposed to run an aluminum works in flreat Britain by power from the falls of Foyer, but the "National Trust for Plaoe3 of Historic Interest . or Natural Beauty" is fljliting the pro- England's harvest will be a very bad oue, according to the Lane Ex press, owing to the severe frost in tho spring, followed by a long diought. All crops aro below tho average, tho percentages being: Wheat, 75.b ; bnr ley, 8t,9; oats, 78.5; grass and hay, G(>; potatoes, 86.7; beans, 72, and pea?, 75.9. Au o»len the door. —Chicago Inter Ocean. A DELAYED ERRAND. tELL, of all the things! Jim Car roll, hev you got home at last I" A red-faoedand angry woman Bto o d in the kitchen door, her sleeves rolled up and her arms akimbo. A meek little man dis mounted from his horse at the gate, and proooeded to unbuckle the girth and take off the saddle, whioh he threw upon the fence. A pull at the headstall removed the bridle, and tho horse, with a snort of satisfaction, at once lay down and rolled in the 6audy road. Tho bridle was thrown across the saddle, and tho little man opened the gate slowly and hesitatingly, as ono who knows what things the tor turer is preparing for him. "1 was a-comin', Minervy," he be gan, but the strident voice interrupt ed him. "Comin'l Yes, I rcokin so I So is Christmas a-comin't Hero I've had this supper ready ono solid hour, an' tho coffee's not fit to drink by this time I An' the ole red cow o' Peterses has been in the corn again, an' no body but me to drive her out; but it's little you keer what I hev to suffer, SO'B you kin goto town an* set roun' tho stores an' tell lies with that no 'eount gang that stays there I An' I know jest as well as ef I'd a seen it that you never brung that thread nor them picpans!" "I wus a-goin' to git 'em, Minervy," began the littlo man, meekly, "but they was up thar makin' up a com pany—" "Didn't I know it, Jim Carroll! Didn't I know it? If ever there was a woman neglected an' abused from one year's end to another, I am that wo man. Hero I am, slavin* an' slaviu' from morniu' till night, an' nover knowin' what it is togo nowhere ox ceptin' to preachin' oncet a mouth— an' gracious knows if it wan't for beiu' a Christian I never oould stand this kind of a life, an' you know that well enough; an' here are you, gaddin' about like ef you didn't hev a keer in the world!" The red-faced woman withdrew into the house, and the meek little man followed her. He hoped that the worst of the storm was over, and he ventured to remark with a conciliat ing smile: "Inover thought you'd bo so mnd about it, Minervy." "Thero it is I" shrieked tho now thoroughly aroused lady. "Yoo kiu tear around this house an' treat mc worse than a slave, but if ever I say a word tho fat's iu tho fire. Thiugs lias como to a pre'.ty pass it 1 can't open uiy mouth but what somebody has to accuso me o' beta' mad I 1 reokin I'll hev to be gugged after a while, eo's I can't sav nothin' 1 If over I did see a domineerin', overbearin' man, you'ro that man. Here you kin insult me as much aa you please, bat I don't dare to say my soul ia my own. An' when you knowed how I needed that thread an' them piepaus, an' you go all the way to town, an' theu como back with out 'em I Go out an' git a ariuful o' wood to git breakfast with I I reckin you kin remember that? Oraoiou* knows, if all the men was like you the womeu folks would be a plagued sight better off without 'em thau th-jy air with 'em." The little man went out at the open door and ajouud the house toward the woodpile. He paused thero to draw his hand acroaa hia perapiriug fore head, and to tuake a remark to him self. The remark was simply 'Whew!" but it conveyed au amount of expression. Theu ho picked up two or three sticks of wood, aud theu lu stool up, lookiug off down the val ley toward the towu, whose lights lie could just see glimmering faintly iu the gathering twilight. He stood there so loug, absorbed in his owu thoughts, that au iiupatieut step began to resouud through the house, aud a sareastie voice was j'*u jvcted luto the gloaming : "Jim Carroll, air yon a-e»win' with that wood, or air you n-goin' to stay all t..*btr The sound awakaiMal bitu aa from a e, and he started #o »ioi..utl» that tba at»«ks of wood fall from hi* aimt Home stfvage emotion ssiiwl btin at the noise Made by tba (ailing wool, tie pulled bti bat down over hM blows, gave una glauca back uvar hia shoulder, seal-'d lha fence and llad wildly down the slu|«.< of tba bill under tba thick sbadoas ol tba tr It waa a loug tiiua ksfui* ba aout I euustueu i,iw»l( tbat ba waa not pal *u*«L 'Tba mailing oI tba tanvaa ba bind bi« lant win** t«» bit h»t, A LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1895. dozen times he felt Mincrvy's hand on his ooat collar, and he knew that if it were there he would hare no choice but togo baok. Such time was never made since the days of Tarn O'Shan ter. Over fallen tree trunks, around upturned roots, vaulting over gullies, dodging low hanging limbs, dragging himself free from the embrace of too affectionate briars, away he went down the hill, pursued by the avenging BU Minervy. Aw foot of the slope, where the hill and valley met, he emerged into the road. It was quite dark, and the fear of pursuit haunted liim no longer —that is, not to any great extent. He didn't run now; he only walked rap idly. He carried his hat in his hand, and mopped his perspiring brow with his handkerchief, and remarked in an amazed undertone: "By Ned!" In the little town a vacant store building was thronged with men,many of whom had just enlisted as volun teers, and many others had como to look on, fillod with ouriosity, but not overflowing with patriotism. Tho war was but a few months old, and only vague rumors of it had penetrated to those remote districts. This was tho first company of voluuteers togo from this section, and it was mada up wholly of those moro daring spirits who wore willing to risk anything in tho mere love of adventure. A commotion back by tho door told of a new arrival, and tho crowd will ingly made way for him. A little man, rumpled as t) hair and tattered as to garments, struggled into the oloor space in front of tho enrolling officer and said: "Ef tho oomp'ny ain't made up yot you kin put mo in." Everybody know him, and every body laughed. Tho laugh was a cheery ono, brimming with amuse ment, audit fillod the room and ex tended out into the street. "How'd you manage to git off from Minervy, Jim?" askod a tall fellow who was going to stay at home, pre sumably because ho oouldn't "git off from"the wife over whom ho domi neered. "Does Minervy know you'ro out?" shouted another jeeringly. "Jist think of it, boys," drawled a third. "Think o' Jim Carroll j'inin' tho Smithvillo Tigers I lie's a whale of a tiger, ain't he?" "Never mind," interrupted tho on rolling officer grimly. "He'll make as good food for powder as any of you." With whioh cheerful suggestion Jim Carroll was duly enrolled as a private in tbc Smithvillo Tigers, and by dawn the next morning the company was on the road, marohing gayly off to tho tune of"The Girl I Left Behind Mo." About a mouth later ono of tho Tigers, Sile Colburu, remarked in a general way to several of tho others: "Wall, boys, fur's I'm concernod, you kin leave off laughiu' at Jim Car roll an' pokiu' fun at 'im. Jim, ho never growls at tho marchiu', nor tho weather, nor nothiu' else, an' ho does more'n his sheer o' the work, you all kuow that blamed well. An' he sleeps on the grouu' without auy kiver so's to give me his oxtry blaukit all o' last week, when I wau't (eeliu' so mighty vigris. I'll bet they wouldn't nouo o' the rest o' you 'a, done it." "Jcs' wait till a battle comes up," said long Ben Finks scornfully. "You i I never hear of Jim Carroll again alter the fust gun .'"os. He'll pitch out a-runuiu', uu' h '' be a-ruuniu' yit when the trumpit s 'uds for tho uierlennium." Within three days thero was a bat tle ; u battlo for which somo of the Tigers had lougod, and which others had awaited with drond. The weak little man who had tied from Minervy found himsolf, with the other Tigers, and dim, gray-coated ranks beyoud charging up a hill, iu tho face of a battery that plowed through their rauks aud laid rows of slaughtered men nloug the slope behiud them, but still they rushed on, their faoes tut grimly. Jim Carroll was one of the tlrst to leap upon a smokiug cauuon aud enatch away tho fuse, and theu on iu the pursuit, as tho cuomy retreated, stubbornly lighting their way iuoh by inch. Tho next day something happeuod. Jim Carroll was offered promotion for bravery uu the field of battle. "I'm much obliged," he said, fumb ling with liis hat iu au embarrassed manner, "nut if it's all the same to you, I'd rather uot. I'd lota ruther do jest plain tightiu'." So J tut Carroll was loft to do plain tlghtiu', and there is uo denying that he did it well. It caiuu to be acknowl edge 1 as a M'ttlu I fact that the little luitu wlout Minervy had rilled with a r>d of irou did u>t know whit fear was. The lirst guns o( a battle tired ' llliu, as the sound of the trumpet roused the biblical warhorse. He rushed into a eh irge with head np aud eyes tliat he e»uld uot bear to retreat, aud wltcli the eilgouoinsof battle deui*ude|Uiek thought aud ready wit I »lid > save hint. So one had over su*p> < iud I him of bavin* either resume r, I he UWMS out of every difficulty Uttaaatbod sad r* pur lad at beadnuarters with the •Id Meekness aud goatlaaaa*. "that Jitn Carroll ia a eaaliou, r« marked rtilw t'ult>uru tu a afwad of hit usllta Villager*, u ba *a> takiu > a litUv t ill t • i*« mm ai«t of a beli«t through his lung. "It's my beliei that Jim Carroll's the bravest man that's fit into the war. Why, when ou? Colonel went down iu that loa? battle, what does Jim do but run right baok into tho face of tho enemy, grab a loose horse, git our Colonel onto 'im an' como a-bringin' 'im away, 000l as a oueumber. The enemy yelled liks mad when they seen it, an' he could 'a got a permotion then an' thar ef he'd 'a had it. But ho said no, I thank you, Jim did. He said he'd lots rather do plain flghtin'." . Tho four years were past—the "plain flghtin' " was over. Appromattox was a recent memory, and along all the roadways trailed dusty and forlorn figures, their faces turned toward whatever region they had onoe called home. Two men limped painfully down the valley to the little town lying peaceful and serene in the even ing light as though there had beon no such thing as war in all the world. Purple shadows of clouds drifted across the distant hills, and along a strip of white road on the outskirts of the town a company of small boys with paper caps and wooden guns were playing soldier. "Now, Jim," urged Sile, beseech ingly, "don't go back on your word. Remember wha'j you promised, Jim. Don't ye go an' let Minorvy git the stait of you ag'in. Jest think how you fit into tho war, an' stan' up for your rights." "I 'lowed I would, Sile," replied Jim, but there was a faltering iu his tone as he glanced up tho hill toward the cabin, where a thread of blue smoke curled softly up into tho even ing air. "Now, Jim, of you give down I'll be plum ashamed o' ye, that's what I will. If you let Mmervy get tho start o' you oucet moro it's goodbr to your chances. An' a mau that fit like you did, too." "I'll take keer, Sile," said tho hero of battle and soout. "I'm a-goin' into a store a minute to buy something, an' thoi I'm agoiu' up homo." Minorvy had tho supper nearly ready in tho littlo cabin on tho hill. Sho was in a hurry, because every thing must bo clearod away before dark. Candles wero too scarce to bo wasted, and tho tall woman in the homespun dress had leornod all there was to bo learned iu tho way of pinch ing economics. Sho had set the yel low platter of "oorn pono" on tho table aud was turning baok again when a figure in the doorway startled hor. "Minorvy, bore's tho wood you sont me after," said tho moek littlo man, and bo went across tho room and laid tho armful of wood beside tho heartl. "An' hero's that thread an' then* piopans." A grim humor iu tho ntterauoo struck her, and sho foil back into a chair, Uughing aud crying at tho samo timo, and clapping her worn, browa hands. "Well, you waited for 'cm to grow, I reckin," sho ejaculatod between sobs. "Hut it don't make no diff'- runce, Jim. I'm done sooldin' the rest o' my life. Supper's ready, Jim. I'm glad you got homo iu " for supper." Aud while she cried, tho "bravest mau who fit iu the war" wiped away tho tears from her faoc with a hand us tender as though it had never haudlod a gun or been blackened with powder. —New Orleans Times-Democrat. Uad Drinking Water. Too much stress cannot be put upon tho necessity of pure drinking water. Not only is it importaut for villages aud cities, but too often the looation of tho well on u farm has boon a mat ter of iudifforonco. Either fromcaro lossncsa or ignorance it has boon made whore it will take surface drainage or from sumo underground fissure re ceive water from the b.iru or, worsj yet, seepage from tho kitchen slops or other house drainage. The following sad experience affords a warning: Mishawaka, a little vil lage near South Doud, Ind., had been visited annually by ooutagious disease causing many deaths. Three mouths ago an epidemic of diphthoria broke out, which quickly spread over the entire village, aud oaused a number of deaths. Workmen engaged ou au electric plant were obliged to shut oil the water yesterday and drain the reservoir from which the water maim of Mishawaka are supplied. Tho bed of tho pit was fouud covered with dead till), snakes, eels, cats, dogs, aud > other auiinaN. The workmen who at | tempted to clean tho pit wero over , come. All of the wator used iu Mishawaku I was drawn through this mass of do | ouying animal matter. —Farm, Field I aud Fireside. Ulaeuvery Ah ml Filters. It is well kilowu that the thiokuosa 1 of the layer of tiu-j »aud iu filtering bo>l> oauuot bo reduce I bcyoud a oer ! taiu point without oudautgcriutf the quality of the water that filters thr-iti (h. Or. Kurth, ol llremeu. has fouud iu e*amiuiug water filtered through a layer uot siilUeiently thick that the uuiubor ol bacteria was great i ly lucruased, owing to the |iru«euM of a special mierobu that cwitkd uot be fouud IU the water befofu it entered I the it Iter Tho mi microbes must, therefore, have misted iu th«> filter | lug material aud have boeu developed I by the passage of wet-r through it. - Slew York Hun. Preteuillr si l»j[ I'ulton, A writer in Harden aud Poreat *ays a worltuttu in his Hat leu, wlteUevef he had occasion to tuuddlu with pole ion ivy. aiaaye pulU one of the small I wave* ami eat* a piece ol it, asserting that thv. nulla u un railways al>»n, I wlt«»«*< mints the plant abwun4s 1 a t (" • iHVe wst SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, Camphor and gun cotton are tho chief constituents of celluloid goods. A Geneva firm is manufacturing phonographic olooks, which call the hour instead of striking it. Dr. Alexander states that several re cent oases of typhoid fever have been traoed to the eating of watercress whioh has grown in polluted water. - According to the Commander-in- Chief of India 50,000 out of 70,000 men composing the army have been sent to the hospital within two years. A Pennsylvania inventor has pro duced an explosive whioh in recent tests proved five per cent, moro pow erful than dynamite. It Is safe from oonoussion and explodes with a fuse. Dr. Lawrie, of Hyderabad, India, says that there are no parasites in the blood in malaria, and that the Italian investigators have mistaken tho nu clei of the white cells in the blood for microbes. The London Connty Council are considering a proposal to tunnel un der the Thames, from Rotherhite tj Shadwell, and will be asked to take steps to ascertain the nature of the bed of the river. It is well known that where a solu tion of sulphate of iron has been used for spraying potatoes there is a stronger growth of vino, which cor roborates the claim that iron iu small proportions deepens tho color of plants. "JAcetylene, tho brilliant new gas, can be easily liquified and stored until needod. When it is to be used tho pressure is lessened, and it becomes gaseous again. It gives more than ton times the light of coal gas uurned in tho best burnors. The Committee for the Study of Glaciers, which was appointed at tho meeting of the International Congress of Geologists of Zurioh, has recently made some interesting discoveries. Tho glaciers of New Zealand have been carefully explored and mapped out. It has been found that tho rate of movement of tho New Zealand glaciers averages 151.2 inches per diem. From observations in the valleys containing large glaciers it is concluded that tho ice has passed at four different levels in its descent. About Keeping Shoes. I have before mo a pair of shoes; one, savo for the shape of tho foot having destroyed the stiff outlines of newness, looking as if it might havo just left the storo; the other alioo looks as if oven a tramp might pars it by with contempt. Yet they are mates. One has been cleanod, cuo oliier has not, is all tho difference; yet neither has ever been "blackedtho shoos havo never been worn with rubbers, yet when cleaned tho leather is soft aud pliablo as one could wish; yet with all tho spiok and spanuess they are half worn out. How is it done? Have three small, clean oloths, a basin of water, a bottlo of oosmolino, vaseline, petroleum jelly, or whatever name you liko to call it, it is all the lime, and a clean shoo polishing or Wloth brush. Tho shoes should bo wiped as free of mud as possible before drying and should bo hung in a warm current of air, say two or throo feet above a reg ister or stove-pipe, not underneath the kitchen range, whore they will bo scorched on top and wet underneath. When they are perfectly dry wipe tho mud staius off with a damp cloth, bo sure to get them all oil; then rub hard with a dry cloth, then polish with the brush, beiug careful about the stitching and around tho sole. It is best to do only a part at a time, say first the vamp, ono side, thou the other, not forgetting tho heel. Uuless your shoos havo been badly scuffed aud rotted by bad shoe dres» iug thoy will look almost like naw. Now rub oosmoliuo over them with a clean oloth aud rub it well iu ; use it liberally, for too little will only de stroy tho polish, whilo plenty of co?- uiolino improves it. Tho whole shoo should be carefully done, oven among lho buttous aud buttouholos, aud presto, your shoes are soft aud pliablo, black, aud just polished enough to look well; will not stain your under clothes or fiugors when pnttiug them on, aud a little water will do them uo harm. Try it oaco, and you will uovet want to do it auy other way,—Phila delphia Times. UiKMiflc Petrified Oyster*. A bed of potriilod oysters was found ou the top ol liig Mountain, just baoU of Forkstou, Wyoming County, l'eun., a short tiiue since. A. Judson Starke aud William N. Iteyuolds, Jr., of Lafayette College; amateur geologist* of Tuukhanuook, spout a day on the luouutaiu and brought baek a lino -JOI lectiou of them. Some of the spool uii us are of luamiuoth size, one meas uriug twenty-two inches long by uiue inches wide, aud weighing forty pouuds. Tho speoiiuoua ruiigo in all sixes, front this dowu to tho ordinary edible oyster of the proseut tline. Hume of the speou tens show tho ey> ol the oyster perfectly, aud la all ol theui the uu at is otxily removed from tho shell. The bed seeius to bo eou lined to a small utouud rll ons broad plateau, at the eitroiuo top ol the mountaiu, near tho Hullivau t'vjiinty line, aud was llrst uut-arthed by workmeu iu gradiug a railroad front Lopca to the Jeuuiugs I trot hers lui tlwi Hants. Philadelphia Le Iger. 4n*l I'reie They Can Kile. litoyoie aneiluuts are very rare iu Ml. Petersburg, Uusala, fur the si tuple t«atus that the authorities do uol •How the uae of the biavole iu public t >i«pl by ri.Ur* »iw hare given salts fwlufy pi »ul of ptutiouinoy before • tit.i*, board of ciamiuvis Terms—ll.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. tAL'IHjUIXU THE MARKETS OF TIIE WORLD. . '■■'• ;■• '• . ' JJtreh,'.'. •■•■Bmh,'■.■! ;Butfc. y ;•.•'vHyll.'.'V •■;/vffifflSi/.'•;•. 1 ' '•■'■^ jl4 - |i '-" )i ''|'-*-'- > *':' j ''« E - tt9MwB CLAIMS CLEARLY SHOWN. More Hands Were Employed and Better Wages i'ald Under the McKlnloy La>v Tlian Under the Wilson Act—Results of a Thorough Investigation. Since tlio beginning of tho present year tbe freo trade newspapers havo been busily engaged in reporting what they were pleased to term "advances" in wages, though in no single iustanco has it been stated to what previous rate of wages tho "advance" related. With a view to ascertaining tho facte, the American Protective Tariff League has undertaken an investigation to de termine tho average number of hands employed in different industries, dur ing the first half of tho years 1899, 1894 and 1895, together with tho per centage of wages paid, the rate of 1890 being taken as a full standard. A.most 500 reports from oighty-fivo different industries were received, the largest number of industries that ever reported to any census made by the League. As forty of the replies were either unsigned, only partially filled out, or both, the League omitted them —'' 'y from its calculations, leaving L lars representing tho informa tion given by 45G different employers of labor. The first list gives in detail the number of hands employed. It shows that tho tamo industries em ployed 9530 more hands ir, 1892 than iu 1890, nn increase of 12 per cout. In 1894 they employed 24,081 hands less than 1892, a decreaso of 26 per cent. ; in tho early part of 1895 they employed 11,750 more hands than in 1894, but 12,325 less hands than iu 1892 and 2795 less oven than in 1890. For 1895 the employment of labor shows an increase of 17 per cent, as compared with 1894, a decrease of 13 per cent, as compared with 1892, and a decrease of 3 per cent, as compared with 1890. Next theLongno gives the percentage of wages j aid in 455 different indus trial establishments. Such percentage bhows that the average of wages paid in 1892 was 5 per cent, higher than in 1890; iu 1893 it was 1(5 per cent, less than iu 1890 and 21 per cent, less than in 1892 ; while for tho 1895 period the average rate of wages paid was 14 per pent, less than in 1890, 17 per cent. I less than iu 1892 and only 2 per cont. greater than iu 1894. While tho3o re ported "advances" iu wages have been diligently announced in tho cases of the if industries that havo beeu en abled make them, nothing has been heard of tho far more numerous other instances whereiu the wage earners have not beeu so fortunate. l'revious investigations made by tho League were: McKiuloy census, October, 1892, showing over 840,000,003 invested iu now or enlarged industries withiu two years; also that work has beeu pro vided for 37,285 additional hands. Industrial census, October, 1893, showing u loss of 47.2') per cent, iu tho volume of trade as compared with Noveiuber, 1892; a decrease of 60J per cent, iu the umnber of hauds em ployed; a decrease of (59 per cent, iu the aiuouut of wages paid ; aud a de crease of 92.35 iu tho average weekly carniugs. Industrial census, October, 1891, showing a decrease of 50 per ceut. iu the output of factories as compared with 1892; u falling off of 30 percent, ill tho number of hauds employed ; a tailing off of 45 per cunt, iu tho ainouut of wagca earned; a decrease of 855 iu average auuual earnings. These results eau bo briefly tabu lated as follows; m'kixi.ky cmsus or 1*9.1, Kxlra h*ii' iu litis In liu«tn<*>.4 17. J jKtr .out. Number nl bun*!- out >»l ur<>rk ... loi.Jiil t'otai lua In weekly wagui ~ .♦l.'JOa.Sil.W Average ii« J i-'i IUU*. Ih'muv' in luUir . . ... ..90 l 1 * I !'cent. Usurvasu IU 4"t |« r ecu'. Ih'orfHxi iu pro li|ut tatue II |h',' eeui. |l< 'feiwe Iu CUSf »( iiKtletlal it l» •( eeul. liiuu thtl LitHit a»u<, U.L|l«l>», IHSS. l.iU . Kii=* i " r |»u.i . —• pu* e>ul, -II |MKi . ... 1J j«r ■fui. -17 Itvi \I7 |wr eeui. Xii From ibis latest investigation <1 U eppsrsul that the industrial condition of lb« I'ulWd Hialee lias wliu((f*as.l huh Ibeu ball * decade. Hit y««r< kit* iUuvJ siuee lbs tebtuii "I lbs uIIMW, aud we Ami ibst 8 yt mmo. Urn UWt t| Mutkrvl |if* WM NO. 2. then, also that labor earned this year at the rate of 14 per cent, less wagoa than in 1889. Those results, as ap plied to tho whole country, appear iD the following exhibit: • Census Invcst.ii'B of 189 '. t'OU c 112 1891b Ilauds em ployed 4,712,022 3 por cent .4,571.243 Wages earued.32,283,216,529 -H p. c.s 1,963,566,21 a The result of a Democratic Admin istration and a free trade fanatic Congress is that labor was earning 8300,000,000 less this year than iu 1889. Wo havo to *hank the moro conservative Democratic Congressmen that the result was not worse. Con trast this half decade of Democratio destruction with tho progress of tho country during throo decades ol pro tection : OBOWTn OF CAPITAL INVESTED. 13(10 $1,009,856.71!> 137) 2,118,208.76!) ISRO!" 2,790,272.60(5 189 6,524,475.300 INCREASE Of TEHSON3 EMPLOYED. Children Not Me-I. Women Returned. 1860 1,040,349 270.807 * 1870 1,615,598 323,770 114,623 1880 ..2.019,035 531.639 181,921 189 3.745,213 845,428 121,194 ♦Not returned. TOTAL WAfIES PAID. 1860 ♦378,878.960 1870 775,584,343 1880 947,953,795 1890 2,283,216,52J COST OF MATERIAL AND VALUE OF rIIODTJCT. Cost of Valuo of Mnterl.il. Vr.ilnct. 1860 $ 1.031,605,092 *1,885,861,670 1870 2.488,427,249 4.232,328,242 1880 3,896.823,549 5.369,579.191 1890 5,162 044,076 9,372,437,283 There are two items in above tables that stand out in bold relief of all others: Total Number Total Hauds Employed. Wages Pal.!. 189.1 4.712,622 $2,283,216,529 1831 2,732,595 947.953.795 Increase In ten year?. 1,930,027 $1,335,262,734 Nearly two millions of people given employment iu a decade. Two hun dred thousand pel yeai;. This was protection. And the threat of freo trade bui thrown us back half a dozen jenrs till labor is less busy now than it was iu 1889, and its earning c»pa city is less by throo hundred million dollars a year. Hero tho suggestion naturally fol lows that our consumption of goods must bo ou the basis of our consump tion in 1889, at least as far as tho wago earners are concerned, if they are in receipt of $300,000,009 less than in 1889. This being tho case, tho effect of our present importations of foreigu goods could only bo fairly ganged by comparing them with our imports of 1889. That we aro not con suming as much as wo did from 1893 to 1893 is well kuowu, bnt if the de maud has fallen back to that of 1889, then our manufacturers will certaiuly have to curtail their output very shortly. We have, iu fact, learned from representatives of several indus tries that this is likely to bo tho case." Woolen MauitUir-'urors in Danger. Thoro is a growing feeling in the woolen industry that something must be done, aud at once, to protect tho domestic manufacturer from the un equal competition of foreigu linkers. Tho spring business is iu a terrible couditiou; the foreigu manufacturer has obtained tho larger portion ol the orders placed on worsted goods, aud the outlook for tho next fail season is disuial indue.'» for the domestij manu facturer as his competitor will be iu fsr better condition to control this trade. There is apparently a protec tion of fifty per ceut., but in roility. through frauds aud deception!, tho protection is far below this percent age—there is no protection iu it. Cougrcts meets iu December, aud ef forts should be. and mint be, lua.le to correct the nioustrom evils of tho existing tariff which is rapidly stran gling the domestic iu niufa 'turer. Hoiui tUin,' must lie done, and done quickly, if tho woolen in Imlry of this couutry is to bj save I from exliuc tiou. —Textile Manufacturers' Journal. i'repar*d lor list 11*. "Protection will be tho leading is tue at the oo'iimiug Presidential cam paign. Demcorats may try to divert attention t<» the currency ijuu.tiou, bill thuy will not tuwiwil." Secretary M. J. Powliug, of tbo National Uepublioeu league, made tins reutark wbou su New i'ork recently. Km the HecreUry ol tbe union ol olubs which forms lUu League be isiu touch wllb tbe drift tfl puulto opmiou and ktuws what must eouoerus the people. Tbe many thousand clubs which it combine* lutu a powerful, dtselpliued aud united body will lw to pro lee lion to boiue industry as tbe onu isr iinai pnueipie wbtvb doss not Mil «J fwmprwiuise or swreisdvi.