SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XIV. Railway traveling in Norway is cheaper than in any European coun fry. _______________ ' According to English census reports, the number of occupations of women in 1831 was five, while now it is more than 150. In eeveral districts in Sioily the lands hf ZZS t-la communal fiefs are being tiJafiiautc.l to peasants, despite the opposition if the clerical coun cils. During tho past year 8500,000,000 worth of stock in tho African gold mines has been sold iu England and France, "-Marketing beats mining badly," exclaims tho New Orleans Ticayune. Pauperism assumes prodigious pro portions in London. Official relief of one kind or another was afforded to 97,90!) paupers during the month of July, This is supposed to mean 150,- 000 paupers in midwinter. The pros pect Icr the elimination of pauperism is anything but bright. The citizens of Sheffield, England, have asked the Duke of Norfolk to be their in Ivor next year, and it is un derstood that he will accept, thus de voting his spare timo and energy to municipal duties, and giving him a chance for usefulness that the New York Observer thinks any duke xßight envy. Russia is stimulating emigration from the congested districts at home to Eastern Siberia, nnd selecting her material, too. Fino grants of land are given, cattle nnd seed aro fur nished, and religious toleration exists to a degree unknown in European Russia. Henco tho Stundists are multiplying. A writer in tho Popular Science Monthly who has been studying the habits of bluejays finds that they make war on and get the better of the Eng lish sparro r. Tho sparrows, however, join other small birds in common cause against them, and it is not un common to see a jay in screaming flight with a score or more of small birds pursuing him. H. M. Stanley's maiden speech in tho British House of Commons is de scribed as delivered with easy confi dence and as evidently unprepared; his smilo was pleasant, the tinge of Americanism in his accent threw his individuality into a sort of relief, while his quietly assured self-confidence in terested the members. On the other hand, his own party journals, while admitting that his manner was excel lent, say tho matter of his speech was not judiciously chosen for the reason that he managed to offend tho imper ialists, who desiro to reconquer tho Soudan, and thoso who wish to evacu ate Egypt because it is a source of weakuessto the empiie. Harper's Weekly observes: A con temporary newspaper is greatly shocked by the remark of Dr. Baoh, of the Medico-Legal Society, that physicians sometimes administer drugs,to end the agony of a patient. It wonders what reply a trustworthy, honorable and law-abiding physioian ■would make to Dr. Baoh's statement. The chances aro that a physioian of tho sort specified would make no ro ply at all. The statement being tiue, it was injudicious enough to make it at a public meeting, without confiim ing it afterwards. To confirm the truth of it by the testimony of physi cians might interest a newspaper, but thero would be no attraction in it for the physicians. It is as reasonable to supposo that some physicians some times give drugs to end suffering as it is to believe that they do not tattle overmuch about it afterwards. Professor Runnebaum, of Berlin, sent by the German GovernmenJ to examine the timber resources of our Pacific coast, expresses amazement at tho waste he witnessed there. He cays the end of Amerioan forests is near at linnd unless they are protected by law against reokless cutting and conflagrations. While tho leading countries of Europe are trying to make trees grow the Americans are sweeping away not only the mature trcos, but the saplings, whioh are the rightful heritage of future genera tions. "If nothing is done by your Government," in his opinion, "you may live to see lumber shipped from Germany to Puget Sound." When tho professor was iu Oregon and Washington the whole ooast was dark cued with tho smoko from fires de aling enormous tracts of timber inßsed in the world. His remark 'ife of tho forests is the life ' MI the opinion of the no flourish of CHIVING HOME THE COWS. He drops the bars down, one by one, *nd lets the oows pass through. Then follows them along the lane ao onei he used to do, And memory whlspors as he climbs the grassy meadow slops Of happy days when, lontt ago. a boy so full of hope Used often here to He and dream upon the hill's soft crest. When tired of play, hts head upon its daisy flecked breast, Till leaping dog awakened him with sharp and loud bow-wows, To warn him that the time had come for driving home the cows. And now he splashes in tho brook that flows from yonder spring, It ripples, bubbles, murmurs, liko a bright and living thing; Upon its sparkline current, here, he used to sail his boats. And ouoe again ho throws a chip to watch it as it floats; Whirling, dancing,jumping, faraway a-down it goes, Up and down and here and there, with all the changing flows, Till out of sight it whirls nt last, down where tho channel bows, As once ho did when years ago while driving homo the cows. And all day long in the meadow, while rak ing tho fresh-cut hay, The brightest fancies come to him with tho brightness of the day. And every cricket chirping, and the lark that soars and sings, The butterfly that dazzles with its brightly painted wings, All seem to be companions, as he works and works away, Till sun sinks low and lower, with the pass ing of the day. And a voice calls through the shadows and the slowly gathering gloam; "John, my dear, let down the bars, tho oows aro coming home." —Walter S. Stranahan. THE LOST "EARRINGS, A TALEOFTIIE SKILLFUL THIEVES OFTARIS. ~ c. T was in the palmiest ,11 0-, —days of the Second J[ Empire. It was an \\ B5Kr \ evening in mi d \ KfW 1 winter. The Paris 1 I Bcnscn waH a *> I KSSB 1 height, and a brill w Km I iant audience had / Krfl I assem bled at the ( Theatre Francais to **witness the per '/■ "Ejg&ay 1 formance of Jules * bandeau's delight- U ful play, "Madem oiselle de la Seigliere," The empress was present, graceful and beautiful; tho emperor at her side, wrapped in his favorite air of gloomy abstraction, which, like Lord Burleigh's celebrated nod, was sup posed to mean EO much, yet which, viewed by the impartial light of sub sequent veracious history, seems to have signified so little. Several offi cers in glittering uniforms were in at tendance, sparkling with decoratious showered upon them by a grateful sovereign; and among these gallant warriors, conspicuous by reason of his attire, was a solitary, humble, black-coated civilian, in ordiuary evening dress, with the inevitable speck of rod at his button-hole. In a box almost immediately op posite that occupied by their imperial majesties was a young and exceedingly handsomo Bussian lady, Countess Ivuuofl, ooncernin;; whose manifold graces and fascinations the great world of Paris elected to interest itself con siderably at this period. The beauty and wit of this fair northern enchantress were the theme of every masculine tongue, and her magnificent diamonds the envy and admiration of all feminine beholders. The countess was accompanied by her husband, a man of distinguished ap pearance. The curtain fell after the first act. The emperor and ompress withdrew during the entr'acte. Many humbler mortals followed their example; among them Count Ivanoff, apparently in nowise disturbed by the faot that the golden youth in tho stalls were bringing a small battery of opera glasses to bear upon the dazzling charms of his beautiful wife. The oountess leaned back in her luxurious fauteuil, fanning herself, serenely indifferent to the interest she was exciting. In the dim light of her ourtain-shaded box, the glitter of her splendid diamonds seemed to form a sort of luminous halo round her grace ful head; a myriad starry brilliants gleamed among the masses of her gold-brown hair; aud two priceless stones flashed and twinkled like twin planets in her little shell-tinted ears. The count had been gone but a few minutes, when there was a gentle kuook at the door; and, in answer to tho countess's "Entrez," the ouvreuse appeared, and said deferentially: "Pardon, Mme. la Comtesse; a gentleman charged with a message from her majesty the empress waits in tho corridor, and dosires to know if madaine will havo the goodness to re ceive him." "Certainly I Euter, I beg of you, monsieur," replied the countess, as she recognized tho distinguished-look ing civilian she had already noticed iu close proximity to the emperor in tho imperial box. The visitor advanced a few steps, and, still standing in deep shadow, said, witL grave dignity : "I trust my intrusion may be par doned. lam desired by her majesty to ask a favor of Mme. la Comtesse, aud, at the same time, to beg that she will have the goodness to excuse a somewhat unusual request." "The obligation will be mine if I can fulfill even tho least of her ma jesty's wishes," answered the countess, "The case is .this," explained the gentleman. "An argument has arisen LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1895. concerning the size of the diamouds in jour earrings and those of the Coontess Woronzoff. The empress begs that you will intrust one of your pendants to her oare for a few mo ments, as the only satisfactory method of disposing of her vexed question. I will myself return it the instant her majesty gives it back into my keep ing." "With the greatest pleasure," agreed the countess, detaching the precious jewel forthwith, and deposit ing it without misgiving in the out stretched palm of the imperial mes senger. The oountess bestowed a smile and gracious bow of dismissal upon her majesty's distinguished em bassador, who responded by a pro foundly respeotful inclination as he made his erist. Shortly afterward Count Ivanoff re turned. "1 have been talking to Du mont," he remarked, as he seated him self. "Clever fellow, Dumont. lam not surprised at the emperor's par tiality for him; he must find him use ful when he ie in want of an idea." "Who is Dumont?" inquired the countes?, with languid interest. "That is rather a difficult question," replied the count, smiling; "there are several editions of his biography—all different, probably none of them true. Look, he has just entered the emper or's box —the man in tho blaok coat." "Is that M. Dupont?" exclaimed the oountess; "if so, he has been here while you were away. He came on the part of the empress, and carried ofl Joro of my earring?, which her majesty wished to compare with one of the Countess WoronzofFs." "Dumont! Impossible! I was talk ing to him the whole time I was ab sent, and he only left me at the top of the staircase two seconds before I re turned." "Nevertheless, mon ami, he has been here, and has taken my earring. Bee! it is gone." "Effectively," agreed tho count, with a grim smile; "but Dumout has not taken it. It is to the last degree unlikely that the empress would make such a request. Depend upon it, you have been the victim of a thief, made up as Dumont." "Impossible!" cried the countess, in her turn. "The aflair is absolute ly as I tell you. It was the veritable M. Dumont I see opposite who came into this box and took away my dia mond. Only wait a little, and he will bring it back intaot." "To wait a little is to lessen the chance of its recovery. I will go and inquire of Dumont, if I can get at him. whether he has been seized with a sudden attaok of kleptomania; be cause the idea of the empress having sent him roaming about the theatre, borrowing a lady's jewels, I regard as preposterous. Ah, these Parisian thieves! You do not know what scientific geniuses they are in their way." With this the count departed, and the second aot was nearly at an end before he returned. In the mean time, the countess perceived that she was an object of interest to the occu pants of the imperial box. "I was right," whispered the count, re-entering and bendiug over his wife's ehair; "Dumont knows nothing of your earring, and, needless to say, the empress never sent him or anyone else upon such an errand. I have put the matter into the hands of the po lice, and they will do all that is possi ble to recover it." The countess was duly commiserated by sympathizing friends; but nothing more was heard of the stolen jewel un til the following day. Early in the afternoon the countess was about to start for her daily drive in the Bois. The frozen snow lay deep upon the ground, and her sleigh, with its two jet-black Russian horses jingling their bells merrily in the frozen air, stood waiting in the court yard while the oountess donned her furs. A servant entering announced that an officer of the police in plain clothes asked permission to speak with Mme. la Countess concerning the lost dia mond. "Certainly," said madame, gra ciously : "lot the officer be shown into the boudoir." Into the boudoir presently oame the countess, stately, beautiful, fur-clad, buttoning her gloves. Near the door stood a short, wiry-looking man, with keen, blaok eyes, closely-cropped hair, and compaot, erect, military figure. The small man bowed profoundly while he said, with the utmost res pect, at the Bame time laying a letter upon tho table: "I am sent by order of the ohief of police to inform Mine, la Comtesse that the stolen diamond has been sat isfactorily traced, but there is unfor tunately some little difficulty con nected with its identification. I am charged, therefore, to beg that Mme. la Comtesse will have tho goodness to intrust the fellow earring to 'the polioe for a short period, in order that it may be compared with the oue found in the possession of tho suspected thief. Madame will find that the letter I bring corroborates my statement." The countess glaueed hastily through the letter, and, ringing the bell, de sired that her maid might be told to bring the remaining earring immedi ately ; this was done, and the dapper little man, bowing deferentially, de parted with the precious duplicate safely in his possession. The countess descended to her sleigh, aud drove to the club, to oall for her husband en route for the Bois. Cross ing the Plaoe de la Concorde, she re lated to him the latest inoident in tho story of the diamond earring. "You never were induced to give np the other I" cried Count Ivanoff, in credulously. "But I tell you, mon ami, an officer of the polioe came himself to fetch it, bringing a letter from his superiors vonohing for the truth of hia state ment.". "IT the prefect himself had come, I don't think I should have been cajoled into letting him have it after last night's experience," laughed her hus band. "However, for the seoond time of asking, we will g« and inquire." The coaohman turned and drove, as direoted, to the Bureau of Police at whioh the count had lodged his com plaint the night before. After a some what protracted delay, the eount re joined his wife with a semi-grim look of amusement upon his handsome bearded face. "The polioe know nothing of your detective or his epistolary efforts," he said, drawing the fur rug up to his chin as the impatient horses sped away over the frozen snow; "your second earring has been netted by another member of the light fingered frater nity, and, upon my honor, I think he was the more accomplished artist of the two 1" And from that unlucky day to this, the Countess Ivanoff's celebrated dia mond earrings knew her pretty ears no more. —San Francisco Argonaut. Death in Awlul Form. A crowd of nearly a thousand people watched a man drown in Los Angeles to-day and was powerless to help him. His name was Thomas Reynolds, and he was a laborer for a sewer building on Los Angeles street, near Boyd. The scene was the most agonizing that can be imagined. At about 3 o'clock Reynolds was working iu a new sewer that is build ing directly underneath an old briok one. The ground is soft there and Reynolds was caught by a small cave in. His legs were pinioned by the falling earth, but no oue thought his situation serious. A rope was made fast to him and an attempt was made to pull him out, but his shovel had fallen across his feet, and it was soon seen that he would have to be dug out. The work was at once begun. Sud denly, to the horror of the great crowd that had assembled, the old brick sewer right over the wretched man's head burst and a large stream of water flowed into the excavation, gradually driving the rescuers out. A fire engine was sent for, and attempted to pump tho inflow of water out, but it proved of no avail. The man was doomed and nothing could be done for him. He was up right in the hole and the water soon reached his waist. For the first time he realized that he would die. Inch by inch the fluid rose, and th 9 poor fellow lost his nerve and commenoed to utter the ruo.*%, beartrendering shrieks and appeals for help. The streets became blocked with people, and as the newß spread of what was going on in that hole the crowd be came frantic with a desire to savo the man. But absolutely nothing could bo done to sucoor him. The water reached the throat, then the chin, then a ripple struck his lips. The watchers at the brink of tho hi' turned their faoes away and groaned as a last despairing shriek came from the victim. His arms beat the water back frantically and theu were still.—San Francisco Examiner. Unique Suit for Damages. A ruined playground is the basis of a damage suit for $10,003 iu the dis trict court, Duluth, Minn. The plain tiffs are Amund and Atnathild i Olsou and the defendant is the contracting firm of Fredin & Wilson, who recently built a block near the Olson home iu the East End. The Olsons allege that tli6 land adjoining their home was an excellent playground for their chil dren, that it was a good plaoe to stretch a clothes line and that on it was a fine well of water. All this had been wrecked, so they claim, by the defendant firm. It is also alleged that the dirt left around by the contract ors has mined the Olson home and rendered it unfit to live in. The health of the children has been dam aged, the complainant states, by rea son of their now having no place to play.—Chicago Times-Herald. Resembled a Criminal. The Bavarian minister at Berne is likely to feel a good deal of natural resentment against the Swiss polioe foroe for some little time to come. H»* went to Winterthur, the Swiss Bisleyj where the National rifle festival wai be ing held, and was enjoying himself in a quietly Teutonic fashion when sud denly he was seized by detectives and hauled off to the nearest lookup. His demand for an explanation was met by the confident assertion that he was no other than a notorious criminal, who had been "wantod," for many months. The detectives were so sure they had the right man that it was not until a high Government offioial had identified the unfortunate diplomat that they consented to his release. They had a portrait of the malefnotor whioh closely resembled the features of the minister. The Glow-Worm Cavern. The greatest wonder of the Anti podes is the celebrated glow-worm oavern, discovered in 1891 in the heari; of the Tasmanian wilderness. The cavern or caverns (there appears to be a series of suoh caverns in the vioinity, each separate aud distinot), are situ ated near the town of Sonthport, Tas mania. in a limestone bluff, about four miles from Ida Bay. The appearance of the main caveru is that of au un derground river, the entire floor of the snbteraneau passage being covered with water about a foot and a half in depth. These wonderful Tasmauian eaves are similar to all caverns found in limestone formation?, with the ex ception that their roofs and sides lit erally shine with the light emitted by the millions of whioh in habit them. THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARB TOLD BT THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. A Sad Dilemma—The Contrariness of Things— A Reservation By the Audience—The Cynic's View, Etc. "O dearest heart, be mine," he said, Wheu snlatr for a wife. "I cannot live without you, love, You are nay very life." ''Alas! I canuot tell you. Sir, To take m»," site replied; "For it you tnkn your life, of course, You'll be a suicide." Richmond DispaSh. A RESERVATION. "You say that horse isn't afraid of anything. Can my wife drive him?" "I don't know, sir. I've never seen your wife."—Life. THE CONTRARINESS OF THINGS. He—"That little trip of ours to Boulogne never came off, after all I" She--"Nothing ever does come off —except buttons I"—Punch. HE MANAGES TO COLLECT IT. Gummey—"Young Harkins says his rich wife is all the world to him." Glanders—"l know. He also says tho world owes him a living." BY THE AUDIENCE. "Hist 1" whispered tho villain, creeping stealthily away. "I expected you would be," rejoined the stage managor, with curling lip.— Puck. THE OTNIO'S VIEW. "What," said tho emancipator, "what has the bicycle done for woman?" "It has enabled her," said the cynic on the back seat, "to take her place in the middlo of the road, along with horses." —Buflalo Express. NO DOUBT ABOUT IR. Mrs. Fairview— "Doctor, do yon thiuk my husband fully realizes his condition?" — The Doctor—"l do. He asked me to-day if I was a married man."—Life. PROBABLY TRUE. "You know, George," she was ex plaining, "I was brought up without any care." "Marry me, my darling," said George, "and you shall have uothiug else but care."—Detroit Freo Press. THE NEED WAS SUPPLIED. Creditor—"Now, I want that mouey. Wheu you caiiio to me six mouths ago you said yuu were ia uecd of a temporary loan." Debtor —"Not at all. 1 said I was io temporary need of a loan." —Pujk. AN ARISTOCRATIC P ATI EN'*. Doctor—"Countess, I should be glad if you would let mo hear you cough." Countess--"I don't feel disposed to do so just now. (To her maid)- Eliza, please cough like I did this inoruiug." DISTINGUISHED ABOVE THE RUST. Mr. Hamphatt (the dashing, voting romantic actor) —"Now, why, may I ask, do you call your dry goods clerk your star boarderV Ho has the cheap est room and is not a Thespian." Mrs. Hashleigh - "fie pays his board; that's why I"—Puck. WHY HE WORRIED. "I wouldu't worry so much about that boy of yours at college," said tho friend of tho family. "He's not a poker player." "I know he isn't,"replied tho father ruefully, "but from the size of his ex pense accounts I'm afraid ho thiuks he is."—Chicago Post. A DANGEROUS PRACTICE. A. "ls dyeiug tho hair as danger ous as the doctors would make it ap pear?" B. "Certainly, you may take my word for it. Only last spring an nu de of mine dyed his hair, aud in threo weeks he was married to a widow with four children."—Fiiegeude Blaettor. NO MORE EXPERIMENTING. Mr. Slimpurse —"Aro you sure you can be contented with love iu a cot tage?" Adored Ono —"Yes, so long as tho love lasts." Mr. Slimpurse (wbo has been mar ried before) —"Um-perhaps we'd bet ter wait until I can allord a regular house."—New York Weekly. IT IS THE USUAL THING. The Chairman of the Meeting— "Gentlemen, you seo only ruin around you. The lurid flames have wiped us out. Our town is goue. It is iu ashes. We were not very well insured, but we must try to build up again on what little money we have. Now, the Chairman would liko to re ceive suggestions as to tho wisest thing to do. What shall be the first step?" Leading Citizon—"l move, Mr. Chairman, that we club in and buy a fire-eugine."—Judge. MERELY A MATTER OF BUSINESS, "Glorioussport!" cried tho man by the roadside as the scorchers went by. "1 can't see it," returned the mau who was watering his horse. "That must be because yon are prejudiced," said the man who had first spoken. "It has everything iu its favor. I even find it an excellent thing for business." "I don't,." replied the other, nulien !*• "From that 1 infer you are tho pro prietor of a livery stable." "I am. And you?" "Oh, I'm a surgeon."—Cbicag'P Post. Termß"-SI.OO in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months, CAPI'UIIIXU THE MARKKAS OF TIIE WORLD, (^ 111 :vS>- 111 ... 'rMi^ ft f° r tfeijiscoi waT OB* p etld 'tiPN"e-3°.-'e^ nds: CONVICTS COMPETE. KUROPKAN PRISONS BUSY MAK ING GOODS FOR AMERICAN MARKETS. No Kflort Made to Check These Im ports—ls American Labor Really Apathetic?—lmpossible to Com pete With Present Prison Prices. The subject of foreign prison made goods was again debated in the Brit ish House of Parliament in August. Mr. Lowles, M. P., said: "The question of tho importation of loreign prison made goods had stirred the working classes of London, who were looking to the present Govern ment to do something to stop this ter rible evil." Mr. ChamberViin, criticising tho action of the lai£ Government iu the premises, said: "Tho late Government had five months iu which to deal with tho question, and in tho course of that time did nothing. The present Gov ernment had already communicated with foreign Governments lor the pur pose of securing their willing assent to stopping this importation which was injurious to British trade. That was the first prescription. The pledge which his right honorable friend (Mr. Ritchie) had given to his constituents was a pledge which they considered in their private capacity they gave, and which they were pre pared to carry out now they were in office. It would be most improper seeing that they had made these friendly representations to foreign Powers to indicate what their second prescription would be if their friendly representations failed. They knew, however, what steps they would take." The suggestion here naturally arises as to what steps the United States Government has taken to prevent the importation of similar goods into this country and what, it any, representa tions have been made to foreign Gov ernments. Mr. Lough, M. P., saiu: "It was notorious that carpets were made in Indian prisons and sent to foreign countries." We learn that our Department of State has received, through the Con sular service, some very interesting information regarding prison mado gocds and prison labor in Germaiy. These advioes state: "The competition of conviot labor with free labor seems to be growing in this country, if the reports of a number of chambers of commeroc and trade guilds are reliable, whioh un doubtedly they are. The resolutions and petitions of these bodies condemn this competition iu the ctrongest terms and even thoso who view this question impartially admit the ruin this competition works on the trade. The cheapness with which goods are manufactured in the prisons can uo longer bo met, it is claimed, by free labor. "In the prison atErlangen, Bavaria, for instance, 63 pfennings, or 14 cents, are paid for making a pair of pants, and 4 marks and 60 pfennigs, or 91.09}, for a whole suit of clothes. Then, too, in many prisons snob ma chines are put np whioh permit tho production of certain artioles on a large soale, thus 'flooding' the market with convict made goods, as the re port of a Chamber of Commerce iu Thuringia puts it. Machines of this oharaoter are chiefly those used for the manufacture of knitted goods. In faot, hosiery of all kinds is made in quite a number of prisons, viz.: Halle aud Delitzscb, both in the Prov ince of Saxony, and Grunhain, Zwick au, Waldheim and Hoheneok, in the Kingdom of Saxony. There are others, as appears from reports before me, the names of which, however, I have not yet been able to ascertain. Tho prison at Zwickau operates flfteeu knitting maohines, that at Waldheim eighty-seven and that nt Hoheneok twenty-five. It is said that some of the largest firms in this branoh of in dustry employ convict labor. "The ohief markets for the prison made hosiery are, according to a statement _cbtaijoatLJroi# an 9®oisl NO. 5. source, Turkey, Brazilians ILe Argen tine Republic for goods from Zwickau prison, and Germany and England for goods from the prisons at Waldheim and Hoheneck. It will ba observod tbat the United States is not men tioned as a market for these goods. But it seems very strange that tho latter should goto every other coun try on the globe, except the United States, whereas this country is tho chief market for Saxon hosiery." Although the United States is not mentioned as being a market for tho prison made hosiery, those who are interested in this trade feel perfeotly confident that considerable quantities of Qerman prison made hosiery were received here among the four million dollars' worth of German hosiery im ported during the first three months of this year. The very low import value of suoh importations is of itself almost proof conclusive. When for eign made hose ceo be retailed in this city at a few cents per pair nobody will venture to assert that freo labor was employed in its manufacture. Whether ready mado clothes do come here from foreign jails, or not, wo are not prepared to state, but with the cost o( making a suit of clothes placed at 81.09J, the price of the shod dy and rags from which suoh goods nro made probably not exceeding a dollar, there is no reason why jail garments should not bo sold in this country, duty |paid, at $5 per suit; and we havo seen ready made clothes advertised for sale in this city at about that price. That we also receive from Germany our share of their exports of prisou inado hats, brushes, dolls, baskets, buttons and artificial flowers is doubt less true. The question is, to what extent shall their importation be per mitted? How high a protective tariff must we have in order to exolude them and give the work to American labor that is now being done in Ger man jails—that is, if it be found im possible to prevent their importation by tho clauso in the tariff law as it now stands. Those "Advances" In Wajes. The wage earners in the woolen mills do not altogether relish thoao "increases in wages" that tha freo traders have been telling ns about. They find that, though wages havo been restored somewhat, there is by no means regular employment for the hands. Hero is a case in point at tin Granite Mills, Pascoa?, R. I. In 1892 these mills were running full time and with full wages, employ ing about 230 hands in the manufac ture of woolen goods. This was con tinued nntil July 22, 1893, when the entire mills were shut down, remain ing closed until September 11, wheu they started »gain on three-quarter time. From September 23 to October 21 the Granite Mills worked two-thirds time; from October 21 to December 2 they worked half time; from Decem ber 2 to January 13 they worked two thirds time; from January 13 to Jan nary 31 they worked full time; then they again shut down until February 19, 1894. From this date until March 10 the mills ran two-thirds time at the same rate of pay as the mills wero receiving in 1892. The schedulo of wages was restored to that of 1893 but, as the hands were not working fnll hours, their earnings were oonse qjently smaller, and tuis point the free trade pipers neves refer to. The MoKiuley rate of wages lasted only nineteen days, and, on March 12, 1891, the schedule was reduced from 10 to 15 per cent., with full working hours till April 21. Then the mills were stopped for two weeks until May 8, when they started up a?ain on fnll time at wages from 10 to 15 per cent, less than in 1892. On July 1 wagea were restored from 8 to 10 per cant, iu most oases, though some hanls were not advanced at all. The indi cations wore, ten days ago, that the mills wonld be comoelled to adopt short time again or stop entirely a lit tle later iu the season for want oI orders.
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