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that all have withdrawn.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»l<l step ia the movement for
booming local industries, which has
lately started up ami attainc.l much
headway in the West, has been made
at Sioux Fulls, South Dakota, notes
the New York Sun. An ordinance has
been passed requiring all poddlers and
hawkers who sell goods not manufac
tured or produced in the State to pay
a license of 310 a day.
The Sarceo ludiaus recently in
formed the Governor-General of
Canada that they did uot intend to
work, nor did they believe in it, an it
was unhealthy. The idea is not origi
nal with them, observes the TreDton
(N. J.) American, but it shows that
the savage mind is not equal to grap
pling with philosophical problems that
have agitated their civilized brothren
for ages.
In the new British Parliament there
nro 131 graduates of Oxford, 110 of
Cambridge, twenty-four of London,
thirty-one of Scotch and twenty of
Irish universities. Of tho public
tchools Eton iB first with 101 mem
bers, theu comes Hurrow with fifty
one ; Rugby has only seventeen. The
oldest member is Mr. Villiors, who
is ninety-three; nexc OOUIJS Sir John
Mowbray, who nominated tho Speak
er ; ho is eighty-ono. l'ho youngost
members aro Mr. Richard Cavendish,
the Hon. A. B. B.itliurst and Viscount
Miltou, nil twenty-three, and all be
longing to families in the peerage.
The falling o!T in rural papulation,
it3 shown in the last census, is mostly
withiu the first hale of the deea le,
nates tho Boston Cultivator. There
lias long beeu a tendency from the
farm to the cities, but it is at hut
checked, and we believe that the pop
ulation of couutry tow us is now small
er thau it is ever likely to be again.
AH that is needed is to secure butter
roads, thus connecting these rural
towns with their neighboring oitiei
and with the world at large. There in
already the beginning of a movement
of the wealthy towards the country.
With bettor means of eommuuicatiou
between town and city, this movement
will lie sure to increase aud give to
farmlands in Mas-ucliusetts a greater
value thau they have had for many
years.
Char lea Johnson, of New York City,
i« one of the uuluckicst men living,
nnd he ia in a fair way to be crushed
by circumstances over which he h:i»
no control. A short tuue ago, 'relates
the Atlanta Constitution, Mr. Johuaoti
(els three stories and cracked hi* skull.
Tlili was bad enough, but when a jury
awarded hint damages for his injuries
the defeuduut fa,led aud lie got little
or uothiug. The worst, however. was
•till to coiue. lie ha I employe I a
medical expert to testify to the uature
aud elteUt of his Wotlii Is, and Itccause
ha is unable to pay till' man '• In UU
tier au order of tba court ha ia u-i*
»t rviug three mouth* !*■:? contempt lu
Raymond street jail. Ill* a peouUai
rase, aud should la' recorded auiou .
tUa curiosities of justice. Hare •* *
loan who la luuodeut, with a K ,MK '
taar, aa lha verdict shows, and Iw
csnw the defsttttanU lux a tailed lu
pay him tb| amount of hi* pidgmeal
ha utuat be yuatsbaJ Uk* * lelou.
OPEN THE DOOM.
Open tho door, let in the atr,
Tho winds are sweet and the flowers are
fair;
Joy is abroad in the world to-day.
If our door is wide open he may come this
way. /
Open the door.
Open tho door, let in the sun,
He hath a smile for every one;
He hath made of the raindrops gold and
gems,
Ho may change our tears to dind«ms.
Open the door.
Open the door of the soul, let in
Strong, pure thoughts, which .shall banish
sin;
They will grow and bloom with a grace
dlvlno,
And their fruit shall be sweet?: than that of
the vine.
Open tho door.
Open the door of the heart, let In
Sympathy sweet for strangor and kin;
It will make the halls of the heart so fair
That angels may enter unaware.
o|>en 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<l
a retreat he yielded with the Ulo.it
ludicrous UUWllllUgUes*.
Ilia superior officers found him out,
< aud wheu there was a difficult or d*u
gerous mission Jiiu Carroll was the
| utau to bu seut upou It. The meek lit
i! • PI IU with timid aud appealing look
I made more than oMe jitiruey tllto the
' eueuijf'a hues, and returned with in
I loriuatlou which uo owe else Could
i u »*u gained. Lou < aud louely j-mr
u.ye. through section* bristlm < with
I laugers, (e|l to hie share, aud ha Wa*
, lr<x|Ueutly plaved abuts nothing hut
* >|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.
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LABOR AND WAGES.
fHK FALSITY OF FREE TRAI>B
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<lii JT.JM
New capital invented. ... t4(J.IWU,Ooo
isnrsiuui. e***iH, oerouku, IsDJ.
Hluoe Nov., IH'Ji
iH<Tea»>' iu litis <r .... . , ...til*,' per eeut.
Ituereaxu iu wanes liU pur emit.
ll,wr««M> 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« <rtMt»" 14 rate of wa.
.. ... ♦ ii.'li |«ir woelt
l.MUMkiti. «**.in, "Ci.msa, IML
tiiu' U !&>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.