SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. XIV.
The most densely populated district
in the world is said to be sanitary dis
trict A, iu the Tenth Ward of New
York City.
A New York company expeots to
bring out shortly an "automobile,"
or self-running carriage, adapted to
American roads. These horseless
vehicles make a speed of about fifteen
miles an hour on a good road.
At the end of the Civil War tho
Government had 671 ships iu its navy,
with 7000 officers. Of the officers
only one-ssventli had been educated
by tho Government, and only 277 of
the ships were Government built.
China used last yenr 17,000,000
ynrdr> of American cloth less than her
usual consumption. It is thought
that the war with Japan caused tho
falling off", which meant quite a series
loss ton considerable number of
American worker?.
Tho desert of Sahara is not all a
desert. In 1892, more than nine mil
lions of sheep wintered in the Algerian
Sahara, paying a duty of $352,000.
These sheep were worth $4 apiece, or
in all $35,030,000. The Sahara nour
ishes also 2,000,000 goats and 200,000
camels, paying a duty of $200,000.
In the oases palm?, citrous and apri
cots abound ; there are cultivated also
onions, piirentos and various legu
minous vegetables. Tho oases contain
1,500,000 date palms, on which the
duty is $112,000. The product of a
date tree varies from $1.60 to $3.20;
these of the desert give about 15,000,-
000 a year.
Minnesota papers speak with pride
of the results achieved by tho Girls'
School of Agriculture in that State,
said to be the only one in the country.
It has been established for some time,
and has sent young women into the
world who will be valuable aids to the
farmers lucky enough to win their
educated hearts and hands. The stu
dents receivo instruction in cookiug,
canning, sewing, dairying, fruit and
llowcr culture, household chemistry
and entomology, good sub
jects for farmers' daughters and farm
ers' wives to know thoroughly. The
example of Minnesota in this regard
would be a good one for other States
to follow.
According to tho Pathfinder New
York is pluming herself on some re
cent reports of her postoffice busi
ness as compared to that of Chicago.
The recipts of the New York offioe for
tho last quarter of tho fiscal year were
$1,526,000, while Chicago's for tho
same time were only $1,176,000.
This, it is argued, proves the greater
magnitude of the great Eastern met
ropolis as a business center, leaving
numbers of inhabitants out of consid
eration. But it is also pointed out
that Chicago's figures include her
wholo business neighborhood or basin,
while New York's leavo out Brooklyn,
Jersey City, etc. New York mer
chants, too, draw from the country at
largo over a million dollars annually
in stamps for goods. These stamps
uro used instead of so many bought at
the local postoffioe.
Officers and others interested in the
Army have been expressing their views
in the columns of tho papers and mag
azines devotee to defensive branches
of the Government, on "Why Don't
They Enlist?" and 1 "Why They Don't
Eulist." The former question reoog
nizes that there are a large number of
unemployed who would, make good
soldiers and who would in the Army
bo a great deal better off in tho matter
of a comfortf ble place to sleep, and as
to quantity and quality of food to eat
and clothes to wear. Besides, at tho
end of each month they would have a
dozen or more dollars in pocket. But
they don't enlist; at loaat, those who
ore most desirable as soldiers do not
offer to serve Unole Sam. "Why They
Don't Enlist" gives tho true reason
for men not enlisting." It says that
the loldier is not thought well enough
of; that the people outside of the ser
vice aro too likely to call them rogues,
drunkards, etc., and that the enlisted
luau is too often required to do too
much with tho axe, piok and shovel,
iu building earthworks and making
clearing. Another complains that
home of the recruiting officers are too
particular. An iuatance is citod when,
recently, 300 applicants wera exam
ined iu Cbioago and only four of the
uiiSlVer were accepted. These were
for tiki infantry. One athletio young
fellow WK*i »rej«oted booauso ho had
"hammer-tlies." That is, Lis toes re
•■enabled the Haws of a hammer, anJ
he was uot deeriiwl capable of maroh
mg and carrying a kaapaaok. He of
fered togo into tliu eavalry, and be
canoe his offer was declined he cou
«luded that the Army only wanted the
ttueet body of men ia the world, .
IF YOU WERE HERE.
If you were here, tho changing sea—
Now gold or green, now purple ..
Now winsome blue at smiling noon—
And fading pale at eve too soon—
Would provo a fairy palace, where
My thoughts a million gems would wear
To eelebrate their joy.
If you wore here, the wilful road,
Meandering now hard by tho sea,
Avoiding, claiming, risking sheer,
Now hiding in a woodland itronr,
Would ben magic lane, whose end
Would golden gifts and rubies lend
To lure us constantly.
Tho thickly wooded island there,
That stretches long and dark and still —
Tho white sand girding all the land,
T'nlTright tho steps of pirate baud—
Would be a mystic shore, where wo
Would soaroh the key of things to bo,
Aud And it at our will.
If you were here, the orescent moon,
Queen regnant of the fitful tide,
Who gilds the crest of every wave,
Proclaiming It her loving slave.
Would fill tho sea from brim to brim
Forgotful of her ebbing whim;
Aud hero our bark would ride.
And all the shells along tho strand
Would empty out ttielr sea-song loro
Upou the Hying evening gale;
And both should push our silkeu sail
Far oft ton sweet-scented land.
Whore we would wander, hand to hand,
Nor part for evermore.
—Sarah Stirling MeEnsry, in Harper's Bazar.
ANN TOD'S LOVERS,
fS Treddennack
Church Rtruck
noon, Noah
Capel and Thom
as Bullasy laid
down their
brushes and
their buckets of
pitch, and,[mak
ing thoir way up
tho narrow path
to tho Three
Pilchards, sat
there in the sun on tho bench at tho
edge of the oliff garden, and ate their
pasties in wide-eyed silenoe, looking
away across the water, with brains in
active and mastication slow. And in
such manner, indeed, might they have
sat until the dinner hour was over had
not a movement on the beach below
caught Noah Capei's eye and enticed
his mind towards mundane matters.
Thie having occurred, he stared for
many moments at tho cause of his
awakening ; then he qbuckled heavily
onoe or twice, and, arranging the cor
ner of his pasty in the side of his
cheek, made way for speech.
"That's Peter Tod's maid down
poddling about them boats," he vol
unteered in food-muffled tones.
"Aw," drawled Thomas Bullasy, "is
'er 'orne agen?"
"Iss, an' a fine handful, too. Peter
won't get her to chapel moro'n 'er's a
mind to, I'm thinkin'."
"There was always a sight of divil
ment in that thero gurl," quoth
Thomas Bullasy slowly, "but 'er's got
a purty face."
Together the youths looked down
upon the girl in question ; and truly
Ann Tod was good to look upon, either
because, or in spito of, the devilment
which lay in her eye. Her faco was
short and round; her eyes wore gold
en brown, and but lazily opened ; her
cheeks wero warmed by tho sun, and
her noie freckled by that same power;
her head was a mop of dark brown
curls, and her blue frook well became
her very shapely form.
As she passed slowly inland, under
tho shadow of the oliff, and out of
their sight, the youths shifted a trifle
on their bench and looked at one an
other.
"'Tis a brave-lookin' maid, sure
enough," decided Thomas Bullasy
again; "I've a mind to do a bit of
courtin' in that quarter."
"Aw," grinned Noah Capel, "you'm
too late, my dear soul, I'm a-goin' to
do a bit that way myself."
Then Thomas Bullasy opened his
big ox-eyes in wonderment. "Why,
law me, how long's the maid been
'omef"
"Ccmed last night."
"You began yer courtin' pretty
slippy then."
"Well, I 'aven' begun yet, as you
might say; but I'd a-made up my
mind."
"Aw, well then," deolared Thomas
Bullasy, "I'm so good a chap as you;
let the best man win."
But Noah Capel seemed not wholly
pleased with the arrangement. "You'd
never a-seen her if I 'adn' a-pointed
her out," he grumbled.
"It was Thomas Bullasy who chuck
led now. "But I 'ave a-seen her,
'ayen't I? Eff you con out me out, do
it."
"I don't see no 'cashnn to grizzle
like a grfeat.bnfflehead even if you aro
goint keepin' company with a giglet
like Ann Ted," deolared Noah Capel,
with some warmth.
Thomas Bullasy's grin died slowly
from the corners of his mouth.
"Well," he said at last, "I don't
want no ballywragging 'bout the mat
ter ; us'll toss fer the maid, an' settle
it fair."
Noah Capel still looked glum, but
after some slow thought he decided
that the chance wu worth the taking,
so he took it; aud Thomas Bullasy,
drawing a penny from bis far corner
of hisfustiau pocket, heaved it in the
air.
There were full five minutes speut
in a vain seeking for the ooin ; then
the gamblers slowly rose again, thoir
faors toward the sua; then they sat
down suddenly, with fallen jaws; and
theu they strove to smile. Just be
low them, on a ledgo of the oliff, sat
Ann Tod, her elbows on her knee* and
her ohin in her hands; aud how long
she had been sitting there was a ques
tion naoomfortably uaoertaiu m the
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1895.
minds of Noah Capel and Thomas
B-'llusy.
For moments they sat there staring
-.'the girl, and the girl at them; then
she, being more clear of consoienoe,
ard therefore self-possessed, spoke
first.
"An' whioh of 'ee won me?" she
asked, calmly.
There was silence again for a full
minute, and then Thomas Bullasy gig
gled ; and then he trusted to the
humor of tho situation and answered
boldly: "Nuther of us; us'll try again,
though."
"I wouldn't try agon," said Ann
Tod, soberly; "a penny's a penny, an'
there's no use wastin money 'bout the
matter."
Then she ceased being sober, and
smiled up at them with allurement in
her half-closed eyes.
"I'll settle it," she declared; "you
come'long with me," and her smile
was indeed so alluring, and her mood
so convincing, that they rose without
protest and followed her down the
cliff.
When they had reached tho water's
edge they began to wonder as to their
future; but there was no manner of
hesitation about Ann Tod.
"Get in tho little boat," she mur
mured coaxingly, and they did so.
"'Tia nigh 1 o'clock," chuckled
Thomas Bullasy aside to Noah Capel;
"not much timo to spare."
But Ncali Capel was smiling in
broad contentment as ho watched' Ann
Tod ; and suu, smiling also guileless
ly, made fast the little boat to the
stern of the ferry-boat, and, spring
ing into tho latter, grasped the oais.
"Now, I tell'ee," she said, as she
pulled away from shore with her two
swains well in tow, "whichever of 'ee
wants me most by tho time us gets
'oine agen, shall have me. An' that's
plain enuff, isn't it?"
"Us won't agree upon tho matter,"
they protested, chivalrously. But
Ann Tod laughed softly aud shook her
curly bead.
It was Tredennack dinner hour
when they loft Tredennack Bench, so
there were no witnesses of their de
parture, and they were well out upon
the face of the river before tho clock
in Tredennaok church tower sent its
clanging notes across tho water to tell
of 1 o'clock.
A half-nervous smile lay on the
laces of Noah Capel and Thomas Bul
lasy as they heard it, and they grew
uncomfortable upon their plank.
"That's work time," ventured Noib
Capel, with a giggle.
"Law, now, is it?" remarked Ann
Tod calmly, as she lookod away at tho
tower meditatively. *
"Us ought'er bo baok," ventured
Thomas Bullasy.
"This is better'n work, don't *eo
consider?" queried Ann Tod, turning
her sleepy, smiling eyes full on him.
"Better'n wcrk," Thomas affirmed,
with half-dazed appreciation. "But
—us—ought'er bo back."
They were Hearing the other aide by
this time, and as Aun Tod looked up
at the sloping gardens there was more
in her eyes than the sleepy smile with
which she had looked on Thomas Bul
lasy ; mayhap it was the devilment he
had remembered earlier in tho day.
Aui in these gardens sloping to the
river, whore tho water lapped the
thick stono walls and left them green
and slimy to the measure of the tide
stood matrons with babies in their
arms, old grandfathers smoking after
dinner pipes, youths netting, maids
ooquetting, children playing in the
sun. And as the boats came alongside
Ann Tod's arm slackened stroke, and
jerking her hoad toward the lovers in
her wake Bhe oalled upward to the
groups:
"What do 'ee think of my sweet
hearts? They's come for a bit of a
boat rido for to seo which loves me.
There's no time for the considorin' of
such things on dry land."
And then she threw back her hoad
and showed her broad, white teeth,
and laughed and laughed, A most in
fectious laugh. Then the idlers in
the gardens leaned upon their walls,
and gazing upon the boats as they
drifted slowly by, sent baok words of
rare appreciation. And Noah Capel
and Thomas Bullasy sat and chafed
upon the seat, and regretted the artis
tio prominence of empty hands and
the over-brilliance of blushing cheeks,
as they endeavored to swallow baok
tho mortification which roso in their
throats, and grinned sheepishly '
the blaze of ruthlessly critics'
All along by the houses/" -u
with the stream, and wh< .<*st the
treble-voiced children a.oo realized
that there was humor in the soene
shrill shouts of derision added to their
eldeis' broad guffaws.
All this Noah Capel and Thomas
Bullasy bore awhile with feeble
smiles about their lips, but tho weight
of tho part they were oalled upon to
play grow irksome to them, and they
fretted under the burden of the oom
edy.
"Us'll go baok now, off you please,"
remarked Noah Capel severely.
But Ann Todd ouly smiled upon
him.
"Eff you'll let me take them oars,"
suggested Thomas Bullasy, "I'll be
gettin' back to work."
"Law, now ! I wouldn't for worlds,"
declared Ann Tod. "I do love a
good long rido on tho water."
"Then I'm blest efl I don't out this
'ero 'turnul rope I" criod Noah Capel,
roused into aggression by the sight of
the nearing quay, with its knots of
idlors.
"Whore'dyou bo then, my dear?' -
queried Ann Tod.
And truly Noah could not have au
swerod her with any detlniteuess, for
tho ways of tho waters aro uncurtain.
The sulky faces of tho lover*, towod
all helpless and protesting, their fing
ers idle aud their cheeks atlamo, wore
yet more droll than their sheepish
suiiles hsd been, aud Anu Tod seemed
to find theiu so, for, as they neared
the quay, her whole lungeU laugh rang
ont upon tho air, until the idlers
ceased their gossp, the cbaflers ceased
arguing, and looked upon tbe boats
as they drifted idly by.
"We'm out fer a holiday," called
Ann Tod; "my sweethearts are de
cidin' which wants to 'ave me most."
"Aw, you little imp!" burst forth
Thomas Bullasy, "will 'ee let me land,
or won't 'ee?"
"'Won't 'ee,'" gibed Ann Tod.
"'Ee's a bit shy, is that one at the
loft," she called up again to bar audi
ence on the quay; " 'ee doL . UKS
bein' looked at. Will 'ee be so good
as to turn yer 'eads while we'm
passin' ?"
And the Audience opeaed its mouth
without reserve, and shouted at tho
entertainment.
"I'll get 'omo some'ow," declared
Thomas Bullasy, goaded to fury by
the prominence thus thrust upon him.
"Won't 'ee get out an' walk?" Sug
gested Aun Tod, sweetly.
"I'd like to havo the handlin of
your ears," fumed Capel.
"An' to think I 'put 'eo in Anuther
boat?" deplored Ann Tod.
"Will 'ee take mo back?" roared
Noah Capel.
"Bless yer'eart, I'm a-doin' of it all
the time," cooed Ann Tod, "but 'tis a
brave way round."
"Aw, you little imp?" cried Thomas
Bullasy again, variety of expression
failing him iu bis wrath, "I'd like to
have my foot on land; I'd let 'ee
know."
"Iss, my dear ; I thought you'd 'ave
made up yer mind by time us got
'ome," agreed Ann Tod. And then
she grasped her oars again and rowed
out toward the soa; and the lovers
sat inaotive in tha littio boat as it
bobbed over tho waves, and sickened
of the sight of water.
It had been scarce one o'clock when
Ann Tod left Tredennack beach, it
was nearly seven when she pulled to
ward the shore once more, and tho suu
was growing ruddy, and tbe waters
touched with fire. On their voyage
they had passed by many habitations,
and great was the wealth of badinage
which had floated out to greet them.
Now, as thoy drow near land at last, it
was borne iu upou the fuming youths
that hero also lounged another audi
ence; and tho wrath within their
hearts grow fiercer.
Then from the shore there came a
firo of fierce upbraidings, and Ann
Tod recognized the voice of Peter, her
father. At first tho words were indis
tinguishable ; but Peter To.l, being
wont to "make prayer" at chapel,
could hurl a word as iar as most
mon.
"Garl! gurl!" he thuudered, as ho
shook his fist at Aun Tod's straining
shoulders, "must a second Titus come
upon this earth to teach young whim
men to bo sober and home-keeping?
Suchlike transgressions should be set
to rights by the rod, an' such brazen
faced iniquity with stripes. There's
that lumberin' great boss-ferry bin
across that there bit of water fourteen
times fer fifteen blessed humans,
mostly infants, in les3 than half a
dozen hours."
But Anu Tod only laughed again
quite eoftly.
"All this blossed afternoon havo I
beeu a wastin' space with that great
floatin' oattle shed, till my back's nigh
broken; while you, child of uuroason
ableuess—"
"Law, father, I am ft bit weary in
well-doin'myself," confessed Ann Tod
as her boat grounded on tho beaeh,
"fer I've a-biu pull'u' round this old
ark of yours for uigh pou six hours on
a erran' of meroy."
Then she tittered in the very teeth
of her father's wrath, while Noah
Capel and Thomas Bullasy sat glaring
in the little boat as it gently rose and
fell upou tho water. Theu tho novelty
of the scene diverted tho onlookers,
and they "haw-hawed" in sympathy.
"What've 'eo bin up to, Ann Tod?"
queried a stout fishwife, as sho held
her sides and grinned.
"We've bin deoidiu' of matters,"
qtioth Ann Tod.
"Decidin', av 'ee? Yon've took yer
time 'bout it, I mus' say. An' what'vo
'ee bin a-decidin' of?
"They two young chaps was power
ful disturbed in their minds 'bout
whioh was more set on courtin' me;
so us went out on the water to think
it over quiet-liko. 'Ave"'ee made up
yer minds, do 'eo think ?" sho called
♦o the lovers as thoy bobbed upon tho
*m.
"You young vixen!" answered
Thomas Bullasy, goaded iuto strong
language.
"I pity the ohap what goes a-court
in' you," volunteered Noah Capel,
stung to incivility."
"You can tell 'en that yorself, Mis
ter Capel, laughed Aun Tod, "fer 'ee's
a-comin' all the way from Plymouth
town to take n.., out como Sunday."
And, blowing a resounding kiss from
her trembling fingers, she turned
fiom the water's edge und abandoned
herself to the reasonable wrath of her
sire.
"Mister Luckoy wus'nt aware as
you was a-noediu' of a soa VDyage
fer yer 'ealtb," called a grinuing youth
from tho shore to tho frowning youths
iu tho boat; " 'ee was wisht to think
as you was forood to leav„> a-caulkiu'
of the vessel; uu' 'eo said as 'ow 'eo
was afeered you was too fraygile fer
such as 'ee."
But when tho chuokling crowd had
chuckled sufficiently they pulled tbo
chafing cavaliers to land, aud offered
sympathy which mortified. Noah Capel
and Thomas Bullasy however, werj
in no mood to appreciate tho excellent
virtno ot consolation ; they preferred
togo homo to tea.
"Ole Peter's got 'is aud* full with
that there maid," grinned tbo idlers,
as thoy watched the couples up tho
hill; "'eo won't find overmuch time
now fer tho aiugiu' of 'is p»a'iu*."
Which went lo show that pulilio
opinion was with Thomas llullasy
when he apoke of "devilment" in con
uuctioa with Aut Tod. - The ttimker.
MADRIGAL.
Sweetheart, tho day is done,
And in the amber wes:
The shallop moon her port has win.
By twilight breezes pressed:
And faint through the sky rings a tcndei
cry,
Sweetheart, in the fndiug ligii!',
While the night winds sigh as they iinget
by—
SweetLiart, good night!
Sweetheart, 'lis night's high nooi,
And through the blue sky's arc
The stars drift down to the harbored moou
In the western portal dark;
And low iu your ear I whisper near,
Sweetheart, do you hear aright?
As with answering sigii you make reply,
Sweetheart, good night!
Sweetheart, the short night gjes,
The daylight comes apace,
And high in the east the morning blows,
A (lower like your faee.
The lark's cry rings aud I he linnet sing?,
Sweetheart, as the sky grows bright,
As faint and far fades the last pale star,
Sweetheart, (rood night!
—Wlnthrop Taekard, in Muniey's Masaziuo.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
There is a charming elasticity abou L ,
a girl of eighteen rpriugs.—Texas
Sittings.
Tho cold ham is far more welcome
to the unlucky thau tho "cold shoul
der."—Puck.
The burden of one man is a bag of
gold, while tbe burden of another is
an empty pocketbook. —Dallas News,
Oo to the sea, athletic one,
Nerves, health and strength to reae'j;
For sand and grit you'll find galore
And mussels on the beach.
—Judge.
She (dreamily)—" Only fancy—\
month from to-day we shall be mar
ried." Ho (absently)—" Well, left)
be happy while wo can."—lllustrate!
Bits.
"It is the hand that cradles the
rooks," crooned Old Bulliou, glo.itiu-*
over tho oontents of liis strong box,
"that moves the world."—Chicago
Tribune.
The new woman may not be able to
sharpen her own lead-pencil, but she
has the paragrapher on tho jump just
now keeping a point on his. —Yonkers
Statesman.
Dagget—"l wonder what's the mat
ter with Growium to-day?" Nagget
-—"Why, is he siok?" Dagget—No;
he seems to be all right to-day."—
Boston Courier.
Though I take tr-idioiue at night
To give roe a ippetl'e,
I'd rather huWTftke any day,
To take my appetite away.
—l'll ok.
Bighead —"They say a man should
never look a gift horse in the month. "
Wisely "That is very true. He
knows nothing of its habits audit
might bite him."—Truth.
"Heve a good time at the lecture?"
"Naw, didn't amount to shucks. His
subject was 'Ancient Greece' and he
never onoe meutioned the price of
pork."—Dansville Breeze.
Optician (to his new clerk) "Now,
in sending out those price lists write
the addresses as small as possible, s>
that those reading them may feel how
badly they need glasses."—Tit-Bits.
Said Jones: ''l think tho Indian
Who follows out Ills bent
Would make a good detective, for
He's always ou the cent.' 1
Truth.
Bendy and Willing: He—"Will
yon marry ine?" She—"Certainly."
He —'Thanks. I was afraid yon were
going to say it was too sudden." She
"lt couldn't be."—Washington
Star.
Piano Tuner—"Good day, madam;
I came to tune your piano." Pianist
"But I did not send for you."
Piano Tuner—"l kcow, but your next
door neighbor did."—Memphis Sciin
eter.
A correspondent aske—"What
should a bow-legged mau do ?" This
is a hard question to answer, but
when he hasn't got anything elso to
do he should be whooping for wider
styles in trousers.—Texas Siftiugs.
"I wonder," said a young lady,
"why Hymen ia always represented as
carrying a torch?" To which her
bachelor uncle sneeringly responded:
"To indicate that he always makes it
warm for people who marry."—Tit-
Bits.
"Of course," said the practioal girl,
"there is suoh a thing as love at
sight." "I'm so glad to hear you say
it," replied her romautio friend.
"Yes—but I'd always advise giving it
at least thirty days to settle, just the
same."—Washington Star.
Elsie—"Yes, dear, my husband is o
doctor, and a lovely fellow, but he is
awfully absent-mind ad." Ada—"ln
deed!" Elsio—"Only fanoy I During
the marriage ceremony, when he gave
me the ring, ho felt my pulse and
asked me to put out my tongue.'
Ada—"Well he won't do the lattei
again."—Tit-Bits.
Steinitz, the chess player, some
times becomes so absorbod in cousid- |
iug a problem that he will stand still
IC the most crowded thoroughfare. It
is related of him that on one occasion
he caused suoh an obatructiou that n
policeman told him to move on. "Ex
cuse me," replied tho champion ab
sently, "but it is your move."- Argo
naut.
"Wiliun,"
Tho commonest nanj in tho now
British Parliament is Wilson. No
fewer than eight geutleiu >n of that
name have secured olectiou to St.
Stephen's. Tho tusk of distinguish
ing between them will bo somewhat
difficult, especially as tivo have tbe
same Christian name of John. Next
to Wilson the moat common name is
Smith. There are five Smiths ia tbe
House, not reckoning Mr. Smith-
Barry. There ia only one Brown, and
but two Joneses, aud a solitary ltob
iaaoa.
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"PLACID OLD FOGIES."
FREE: TRADE: COBDEN CLUBITES
MEET IN LiONDON.
Regard Labor Unions as "Danger
ous" to Their bow Wage Ideas-
Believe In the Free Sale of For
eign Prison-Made Goods.
At the last general annual meeting
o* the members of tho Cobden Club,
which was held in London August 17,
Lord Farrer seems'to have been spokes
man of the day and he noted with
satisfaction an approach to free trade
in tho Australian Colonies and the
United States. At tho same time,
however, Lord Farrer found it neces
sary to "strongly advise all free trad
ers to keep a careful watch upon Lord
Salisbury's doingp," as he "wished to
have protective <luties upon foreign
manufactures in order the better to
fight the foreign tariffs."
We are not surprised to find Lord
Farrer iogarding trade unions as ''dan
gerous," because they always must bo
in free trade countries wheis the 6ole
desire of the manufacturers is to de
press the value of labor and mako
men, women and children work for tho
lowest possible wages, A tendency
was noted in England among the work
ingmen'to "stop foreign importation,"
and when this tendency was united
with that "of capitalistic producers to
try and get protection for themselves
there was no knowing what mischief
might have beeu the consequence."
From one who regards trade unions
as "dangerous" it is but natural to find
an opinion favorable to the free use
and importation of goods made by
prison labor in other countries, Lord
Farrer saying that "the stoppage of
the sale of prison-made goods was
wrong—economically, socially and
morally." Tho free trade branch of
the Cobden Club, which has its head
quarters at the Tariff lteform Club in
New York, has not yet dared togo as
far as Lord Farrer in advocating the
free importation and sale in this coun
try of goods made in foreign prisons.
A Radical member of the Cobden
Club, Mr. J. S. Leadam, urged "that
the free membership of tho club
should be maintained so that they
might protect a ministry favorably
disposed toward free trade against tho
assaults of their own misguided falla
cies." While the Cobden Club greeted
approvingly [Hearl Heart] this sug
gestion of proteotion for an adminis
tration "favorably disposed toward
free trade," there was not cne word
said in favor of protection for Eng
lish industries or English wage
earners.
Tho suggestion that the club should
adopt and support the principle of bi
metalism was frowned down by the
chairman, "as it might lead to differ
ences in tho club." It was evidently
thought advisible to leavo the money
question in the hands of the American
branch of the Cobden Club, the Tarifl
Reform Institute at New York.
Editorial criticism from tho Man
chester Courier indicates that the free
traders are hard up in England as well
as in New York. "They are unable
to maintain their publications, as "a
question of funds prevents them."
The same trouble exists here, but
"the placid old fogies" of the Tarill
Reform Free Trade Club appealed to
the protectionists for funds to aid
them in the dissemination of their de
structive literature in this couutry.
We are very sorry to say that mauy
protectionists have unwittingly
their enemy.
rinckiiig the Ea?le.
Tho cable letters from London toll
how the Englishmen are making mush
of Americans this year. They cau af
ford toon the bond deal aloue, to say
nothing of the great revival of British
manufacturing and trade consequent
npen tbo passage of tho Gortnau-Wil
sou bill. Englishmen would bo uu
grateful dogs not to coddlo the iuuo
ceuta they pluok. Salt Lake (Utah)
Tribune.
Democratic Fas'ilom.
One of the ouckoo organs stepped
to the little door and with
wings shouted : "The great com ero,>
will make good old-fashioned l)etn>-
cratio times." Indeed, and did it al
lude to the timea when for waut
of a market "coru was buriied?"
Those wera good obi-fashioned Dem
ocratic time, but they ar« out of fa»h
ion now.—Grand Itapida (Mich.) Her- ,
aid, T- I
NO. 3.
Lesson of a Democratic Farmer.
A prominent farmer from Western
New York was, four years ago, an un
compromising free trade Democrat.
I toid bim at that time that if the
country should be so nnfortnnate as to
elect a President and Congress in
favor of a low tariff or free trade, Jhe
would get an object lesson that would
convince him of the injurious effects
of such a policy, especially upon far
mers. During the past two years this
gentleman has had the objeot lesson,
, nnd it has made of him a good Repub
lican. Ho informs me now that ha
has voted his la'st Democratic ticket.
He says that in 1892 he had a flock
of about IGS sheep, which were worth
from S3 to 53.50 a head. He sold hid
wool at that time for from 35 to 45
cents a pound, depending upon the
grade. Since the election of Cleve
land the price of both wool and sheep
has gradually gone down until now
his wool is in a storehouse in Phila
delphia and 15 cents is the highest
price offerod for the best grades, while
he has just sold the poorest of it for
13 cents a pound. Three years ago
tho dogs in the town where ho lived
killed about fifty of his sheep and the
town paid him $3 a head for thoao de
stroyed. This summer he has soM
quite a large number of sheep at CO
cents a head. He sold the pick out
of his flock for SI.OO to $1.70 a head,
a year and half ago. He has now re
duced his flock to forty sheep and
would like to dispose of these if ho
conld get any decent price for them.
Three years ago he sold spring
lambs at from Si to SO a head, anil
this season he sold the very best for
51.25 a head. Ho said, "it is very
true tb it I can buy a suit of clothes
cheaper now than I could three years
ago, but if I could get the price for
wool and sheep that I got at that time
I would be willing to pay two or three
timet as much for a suit of clothes
rather than to buy theirt at present
prices."
He does not attribute the deprecia
tion in prices of farm products to the
demonetizing of silver, but to the
lowering of duties and the destruction
of confidence that has resulted from
tho eleotion of Cleveland and the
carrying out of the Democratic policy
on the tariff question. He knows ol
hundreds of Democrats in his section
who say they will never vote tho
Democratic ticket again. The town
in which he lives for years gave a very
large Democratic majority, bnt last
fall and the fall before it was carried
by the Republicans, and this last
spring the Republicans had 130 ma
jority in the town.
If all the farmers of the United
States could realize the injury done
their industry, by tariff tinkering,the
country will be in a much better con
dition after the next Presidential cam
paign thau it has been since Cleve
land went into the White House in
1803. E. P. M. '
That "Unnuer l)ay."
Carried away by its froo'trade en
thusiasm, the New York World said
recently: "Yesterday was the banuef
day of the Custom HOUHO. The en
tries for customs were 1519 and tho
receipts were 3438,203.95. No day
in the history of the customs at Now
York, under tho McKinlcy bill, ap
proached these receipts within $5,',-
03V
As for ourselves, we would m'.ioh
rather hear of "banner days" ut Ameri
can factories, on which more goods
would bo made and more wages paid
than ever before. There is something
absurd in this boasting of tho iutlux of
foreigu goods at a time when ninny
worthy peoplo are out of work and
many more are working for low wages.
The McKinley bill cau stand the iiu
plied sneer iu tho above paragraph,
it did not destroy foreign commerce
as its opponent* held it would, but >1
held iu check foreign imports that
competed with hoiuo industries. It
was not framed to create a "banner
day" at the Custom House.
Preparing to Slint Down.
Maohinety i* better employed to
day thau it is likely to bo two months
from now, aud the fa -t that the mills
are fairly busy uow, is misleading to
the average man, who points to it as a
favorable condition. ToztUo Manu
-1 facturera' Journal.
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