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,
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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.