SULLIVAN <4S& REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publither. "VOL. XIV. ♦ The Duke of Argyle co mplains that the Highlanders are too prolific. "Tho bicycle is responsible for a serious decay in public manners," de clares the New York Sun. China proposes to fortify Fekin by building a chain of huge forts, pro vided with the best of artillery, around the city. Onr War Department coat last year, 1894, $51,567,930. Our nrmy is the most expensive, proportioned to its numbers, in the world, states tho New York Mail and Express. A Babylonian tablet in tho British Museum which has just been de ciphered lias an account of the death of King Sennacherib, almost identical with that in tho Bible (11. Kings, xix., 37). The Department of Agriculture is preparing a gigantic road map of the United States. The map when com pleted will show the condition as re gards paving or macadamizing, con struction and repair of every highway in the United States. The first step in the constructicn of good roads i.i to find out how many bad ones there are, which this map will set forth. The Volk points out that the Ger man courts discriminate in favor of duelling. If a tailor or cobbler re gents an insult by knocking down his defamer ho suffers imprisonment with all its rigors, but if an officer or other chap of "quality" punishes a similar insult by shooting his adversary, or rnnniDg a sword through liis body, ho is merely detained within tho confines of some fortress and there treated as a "gentleman." Ma ine is well in line, Dotes the New York Sun. Her corn crop this year will be one of the largest ever known. It is also a great year for beechnuts in Maine. It's been a big year for lobsters, too, over 4,000,000 lobster? having been taken along the Maine coast this season, according to the es timate of tho Fish Commissioner. This is a greater quantity than was taken on all the rest of the Atlantic coast from New Hampshire to Florida. The fishermen got au average price of eight cents apiece for the fish. There is considerable talk again in the Michigan peninsula about the pro posed canal to connect the southeast end of Lake Michigan with tho west end of Lake Erie, that is, to connect Chicago and Toledo, and thus save the several days of transit through the length of Lako Michigan and Like Huron. It is said Chicago capitalists have recently been making investiga tions in connection with the scheme. The undertaken is spoken of as the "Trans-Michigan Ocean Ship Canal.'' It looks fascinating on the map. Batavia, N. Y., formerly paid 87,- •200 for seventy-two arc lights, or SIOO a light. By the issue of bonds a new municipal plant costing $23,000 was completed one year ago. The number of lights was increased fourteen, mak ing eighty-six in all. Tho actual cost of running the eighty-six lights was 83570.08, or $41.62 per light per year—less than eleven and one-half cents per night. Adding extraordi nary expenses,Batavia paid for eighty six lights under village ownership $6,- 055.57, or at the rate of sixteen cents a night per light. A lumber dealer in New Hampshire of advanced age, and who retired from active operations many years ago, expresses great surprise at the rapid change in the distribution of wood and lumber since his active business period. He referred to many piles of Southern pine timber along tbetracks of repair shops and railroad yards, throughout New Hampshire and Ver mont, ready for use in bridges, plat forms, car construction and general repairs. He also referred with disap pointment to the almost total cessation in the use of hard wood for fuel by the railroad corporations. These com panies in years gone by made large contracts at almost every station along the road for hundreds or thousands of cords of firewood for the engines and boilers, also for the stoves in the rail way cars. Now the amount of wood consumed by the railroad corporations iB quite insignificant and only for kindling purposes. Thus a large in come is withdrawn from the towns and villages along the lines of New England railways, and the price of cord wood has sunk to an nnremuner atire rate, diminishing the present vaiua 0 f hard-wood lands, but allowing the same to grow up and finally to be use 1 as titabet -for many and taiijd industries which «re sure to b* toiYu ♦bleed in tlj« I'uturo oconoiuy •I NMH £inland. LITTLS KINDNESSE?. [i you woro toiling up n weary hi'l Bearing u load beyond your strength to bear, Straining eaoh nerve ".utiriuuly, and still .Stumbling and losing foothold hero and there. And each one passing by would do so uiucli As gtvo one upward lift and go Jtheir way, Would not the slight reiterated touch Of help and kindness lighten all the day? If you were breasting a keen wind, which tossed And buffeted and chilled you as you strove, Till, baffled and bewildored quite, you lost The power to see the way, and aim and movp, And one. if only for a moment's space, Gave you a shelter from the bitter blast, Would not tho touch giva you tho strength to face The storm again when the brief rest was past V There is no little and there is no much; Wo weigh and measure and define in vain. A look, a word, a light responsive touch Can be the ministers of joy to pain. A man can die of hunger walled in gold, A crumb may quicken hone to stronger breath, And every day wo give or we withhold Some little thing which tells for life or death. —Sunday School Times. DAPHNE, r~— 1 ALL, angular and peculiarly plain, * * . ' she was the wife of S ft Queensland Bush _. S Nf.. Gairier; and it is, I believe, an ac cepted fact that ladies of that eta *'on are n°t noted vl either for] their culture or their re finement. Crawling with heavily-ladened bul lock wagons across plains and never ending scrubs would not appear to be an existence possessed of many charms, and yet I believe there is no case on record of a man or woman who, having once served his or her ap prenticeship to the trade, has ever re turned to a civilized life again. In the Quecnland Bush carrying trade, you must understand, there are three main arteries, the townships of Hughenden, Longreach and Charle ville, and from eaoh of those places there flows continually a stream of onormous table-topped wagons, bound for stations in the Great We3t, nil more or le3s remote from what is generally supposed to make life worth living. The existence of the carrier is rough to a terrible degree, and must in no way be confounded with that of the respectable, jog-trot class who ply their trade in English rural districts. Small wonder that the women grow to be hard and rough, consorcing, as they do, with none but the sternest of tho opposite sex, and daily doing work that would test the patience and en durance of the strongest man. These are some of the folk who in reality do the building up of our colonies, al though the credit goes to another noisier, uglier and far less useful class. But to get back to my story. As I have said at the boginning, she Was tall, angular and peculiarly plain, and, in spite of the glaring incongruity of it, it must be recorded that her baptismal name was Daphne. Her husband was a carrier on the Hid geree-Kalaba track, and she was at once tho brain and the mainstay of his business. My first aoquaintance with them occurred on the edge of a Boree scrub, a dismal place, and more than a hun dred miles removed from either of the above townships. They were camped beside a big .water hole, and on dis mounting from my horse I was intro duced by the carrier, with becoming ceremony, to his wife. Greatj.were the proofs of friendship they showed to me, and long will I cherish the memory of that rough but hearty hos pitality. Next morning I went my way, they theirs, and it was not for nearly a year that we met again. When next I them, Daphne was in the township hospital, recover ing from a serious acoident occasioned by a fall from the wagon; and her husband, an enormously built man, with a rough manner, which, by those unskilled in such matters, might easilv have been mistaken for insolence, had that very day returned with loading from the west. By inquiring after his wife, whose illness I was aware of, I touched the right string ; for kis eyes lit up, his voice softened and he an swered my questions with surprising meekness. "3he was getting on well," he said, I "but all the same, it was terrible slow work." Now, it must be known here that although the Kalaba Hospital occupies the best position in the township, even theu it iir, ll anything, a little less cheerful than an undertaker's show room. Great gray plains surround it ou three sides; the township, with its ugly whitewashed roofs, stares at it from the fourth; and it would be im possible to say which view would be likely to have the most depressing effect upon an invalid. I am told that Kalaba was only designed as a'depot for tho Great West, and I console my self with the reflection that in the very near future the Overland Railway will obviate that necessity, and then it will be scattered to the four winds of heaven. At present it is the Deca logue turned backward. Whoi, my business was finished I rode up to the hospital and left some newspapers. Daphne being tho only patient, I found her occupying the best bed in the only ward. Her wiry black hair straggled in rank confnsiou about the pillow, while her complex ion harmonized, as well as a well tanned skill would permit, with the diugy whiteuu-ib of the couuWnmv. LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1895. Only the great darlu bonest eyes lent | relief to the monotony of her expres sion, and ihey were now full of some thing which, when read aright, spelt hopelessness of itn extraordinary de gree. Toward the end of the afternoon the husband made his appearance, and, preceded by the matron, stalked into his wife's presence. For r, moment he stood in the doorway, dazed, be wildered perhaps by half darkness; then, recognizing his wife, he ad vanced toward the bed. "Daphne, old gal," he said, with a little tremor in his voice, as he bent over her, "an''ow's it with ee now? Ye looks better by a good sight!" She gave a little sigh before she re plied. "I'm nearly well, now, Bill; bet ter'n I 'ave been by a long chalk. Sit ye down, old man, and tell ue \>w it it goes with the children an' the team!" Bill sat very gingerly on the edge of the bed, and as if out of compliment to the peculiar cleanliness of the place, fell to scrubbing his face with a flar ing red cotton handkerchief. "The kidsis fit, and the team's first class!" he answered. Theu with a gesture of almost awe, he assumed possession of ono of the thin brown hands upon the coverlet. "My lass, 'ow dog poor yer 'ands has got, to be sure; but they was al ways pretty 'ands to my thinkin'." Daphne patted his great brown paws and allowed a little wan smile of grati fied vanity to flicker aoross her face. Let the woman be ever so old and plain, shs is never beyond the reach of a compliment from the man she loves. "An* 'ow's the roads lookin' out back?" she asked. "Al, an' no mistake; green as a leaf all the way. From here to Kidgeree Creek there's water in every hole, an the little wild flowers yer used to Tike is that thick along the track yer can hardly seo the grass for 'em. I brought yer some!" Out of the lining of his big cabbage tree hat he took a tiny bunch of Bush bluebells and placed them in her baud. It was a critical moment for both of them. He was acutely afraid of ridi cule ; she, for some reason she could not have explained, did not know whether to laugh or ory. She laid the flowers on the table by her bedside, and then turned to her husband, tho better to express her thanks. "Bill," she said softly, "you was alius a good chap to me !" "Nay, nay, my lass, you mustn't say that. You don't know 'ow we misses yer out yonder ; things ain't the same at all without you. Make 'asto an' get well an' come back to the kids an' me, an' let's get out of this 'ere town." "Bill! I shan't be—" •■Shan't bo what, lass?" He loosed rather anxiously down at her. "1 shin't be—" Tho weak voice paused as if to think of a word, then she seemed to choke, and after that a painful silence ensued. Finally she said: "I—l shan't be long." Bill gave a sigh of relief and con tinued : "I'm 'avin' new tires put on the forewheels, an' we've got the new pair o' steers in place o' Billabong an' Blossom that were too old for work. We've got full loadin' out to the Dia mantina an' back, an' when the trip's done there'll perhaps be a matter o' £2O to putin the stocking for the kids. Get well, my lass, an' come back to yer plaoe on the load; the Bush wind, an' the bluo sky, an' the sight o' them wild flowers'll soon set yer right. Yer ain't feelin' any worse, are yer?" "No, old man; the doctor says I'll be out this side o' Sunday." "That's the talk! Wo're camped down yonder on the creek, an' the day je're out I'll come up and fetch yer meself. The team'll be all fresh, the lnadin' 'll be aboard, an' the very next mornin' we'll have the yokes on, an' be where a man's got room to breathe!" "Why, Bill, I never 'eard yer talk so before! It's like what the parson, who comes here every Monday, oalls poetry!" Thers was an ocean of pathos in the man's reply: "Yer see, old girl, I must talk a bit different, lor yer ain't never been ill like this afore I" Another long silenco fell upon the pair. Then he rose to say goodby, and his wife's face grew, if possible, paler than before. "Bill!" she began falteringly, "I've been a-tryin' all the time yer've been here to tell yer somethin', but I dun no how to begin. It's this way—" "Out wi' it, my lass. What's wrong? Ain't they been a-treatin' yer well in 'orsepital ?" "It's not that, Bill," she answered, "But there—l can't tell you. Flesh aud blood couldn't, let alone yer wife. You must just ask the dootor, when yer get outside, if 'e's got anythin' to say agin' me walkin' with the team, will yer?' "If yer says so, in course. But, Daphne, there ain't nothin' agi'n it, is there?" " "•<•« HX him; 'e'll tell yer, Bill. | But 'ero's the mfttron comin'; I guess I yer'd better bo goin'. Tell them kid | dies their mother ain't forgot 'em I" Raising herself with an eSort, she : pulled the big t«an'« tangled head i down to her, aud kissed him on the | iorehead with a gentleness that would j have been grotesque, if the sentiment ' that prompted it had not beeu FO grewsomely pathetic. Then, uj i . ' matron approached the bed, he went i down tLie corridor to fiud the house ' surgeon. I The latter, I may tell you, was a rough man, embittered by hard work and insufficient returns; tho position yf hoiuc surijbiiu ii» n tiush hospital being bnt little sought after by the shining lights of the profession. When Daphne's husband entered he was engaged writing to the Board, de manding for the sixth time, an in crease in his meagre salary. He looked up, and, seeing the man before him, said roughly: "Well, what do you want?" The carrier shuffled from one foot to the other with evident uneasiness. "Beg yer pardin, sir, an'sorry for interruptin'; but the missus axed me to ax you if it were likely yer'd have any objection to 'er walkin' alongside the team when she eomes out?" "Whoso missus?—Ohl I under stand ; the woman in the ward there. Walk beside the team? Good heav ens, man! What are you talking about ? Are you mad ? How on earth can she walk beside the team?" "I mean, in course, sir, when she's well enough to come out." "Well enough to come out? Why, mau alive! she's as well now as ever she will be. It was compound frao ture of both femur, and a double amputation. She hasn't a leg to stand on, much less to walk with! No! No! You'd better look out for a house in the township, and find some body to move her about for the rest of her life. She'll never be able to trav el with you again. Here! hang it, man, go outside if you are going to be ill!" "I ax yer pardin' sir, but—if yer don't mind, I'll just sit down for a minute. Everything—a-goin' round an' round, an' I don't somehow fee) kinder well."—Chambers's Journal. New Uses lor Peat. Germen chemists have been experi menting with Irish peat, and have secured such remarkable results thai a syndicate has been formed for the manufacture, on a commercial scale, of tho various products that may be obtained from Ireland's bog ilands. One of these products is an antiseptio "wool" for dressing wounds. It pos sesses absorbant qualities so great that it will soak up nine times its weight in moisture. The medical de partment of the French army has adopted this substitute for lint, and 12,000 kilograms of it were sent with tho expeditionary force to Madagascar. By a different process of chemical treatment the peat is formed into a material from which any article re quiring hardness and durability cau bo produced. The German syndicate has now on exhibition in London in sulators, nxlo boxes, machinery bear ings, gun stocks, pianoforte legs and numerous other things to illustrate tho possibilities of this new material. Peat has boon used in this country for lining refrigerators and cold stor age rooms and to some extent as a covering for steam pipes, because of its value as a non-conductor of heat. ■But by these new German processes a wide field appears to have been opened, in which capital and labor may be profitably employed, and the Irish peat bogs acquire a value hith erto unknown. One of the largest beds of fine peat in this country un derlies the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia. I)' the experiments of the German chemists should ultimately result in a large utilization of Ireland's great deposits, it- will not be long be fore some American chemist deter mines whether Virginia poat can be treated in like msutier and the same products be -o'nuiued.—Worcester (Mass.) Spy. Nightingales Sold lor Food. M. De Farville, our Paris corre spondent says,'asks for the suppres sion c bird markets. He oounted in one P is bird market last May 200 nightingales, hundreds of pinsons (charming little songsters peculiar to French woods and fields) and 2000 finches. Ship loads of quails are sent from North Africa to France for the food markets. The goura, heron and bird of paradise are beooming rare. The plover must soon disappear, its wings being a favorite tiimming for hats and its eggs a supper table deli cacy. The white of its eggs has also, when dried and hardened, great in dustrial value, imitations of meer schaums being made with it. Japan is the only country that shows itself well alive to the value of all birds. Every species is now protected in the nest ing time. M. Pichet, an authority on bird life, unites with M. De Parville in demanding protection for all birds in the nesting season. They are man's one auxiliary against the insect.— London News. A Remarkable Dog. "I have a dog," said a minister,who had just heard a preoocious crow story, "who is very sagacious. One Sunday he followed me to churoh and sat among the people and watohed my movements in the pulpit. That after noon I heard a terrible howling in my back yard, and of course I went to see what it meant. I found my dog was in a woodshed, standing on his hind legs inn dry goods box. He held down a torn almanac with one paw and gesticulated with the other, while he swayed his head and howled aa to an audience of four other dogs even more sadly than I had done in the morn ing." The narrator of the crow story threw up the sponge.—London Tit- Bits. An Extraordinary Beggar. At Bilboa, Spain, a beggar died lately at the age of one hundred and three years. There are said to be quite a number of centenarians in the land of the Hidalgos, and the beggar's death would liardly have been deemed worthy of public notice if tho autopsy of his body had not disclosed the very extraordinary fact, that the deceased Lazarus was a consumptive for oertain !ly iil. I ess tUau liali u century.—Now Yjjli World, THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIKS THAT ABB TOLD BT THE FUNNT MEN OB THE PRESS. Fulfilment—Rejected—Very Profi cient There—And He Owes Kvery body—A Martinet, Etc., Etc. She grasped the bar, arranged her skirts With dainty little tucks and flirts; Posed on the saddle, felt the tread Of pedal, and, "I'm off," sho said. A whirl of wheels, a swerve and sway, And from the roadbed, where she lay, She realized In full degree The climax of her prophecy. —Richmond Dispatch. VERY PROFICIENT THERE. "They say that Gertrude's husband is almost illiterate." "Well, he signs a check beauti fully." REJECTED. Business Man—"Arc you a good whistler, my boy?" Applicant—"Yessir ; daisy." Business Man "Get!" Boston Courier. AND HE OWES EVERYBODY. "Jones has a good deal of money, hasn't he?" "Well, he ought to have," "How is that?" "He never pays any out I"—Chicago Record. IN NEED OF REPAIRS. Sandstone "Weren't you dancing with Miss Calloway last night?" Fiddleback—"Yes; how did you know?" "I saw her go into u chiropodist's this morning."—Life. SHY. Lothair— "How do you manage about your poor relatives now you have got rich?" Staythair—"Oh, I sift all my rela tions, rich aud poor, the good from the bad, and keep 'em strained."— Judge. A MARTINET. A soldier leaving the barracks is stopped by the Corporal of thejGuard. "You cannot go without leave." "I have the verbal permission of the Captain." "Show me that verbal permission." —London Globe. CRAFTY. Doctor—"l really don't understand. There is no reason why you should go in for a reduction of corpulency." Patient —"Still I want you to put me through a course of anti-fat treat ment. My Eulalia shall see with her own eyes how I pine away for love of her." NO ACCIDENT. Mr. Grogan (with the evening paper) "Phwat's this Oi see! Two yachts turned oopsoide do.vn?" Mrs. Grogan (turning the steak in her excitement) —"Rade it, Moike! How many drowiidict?" Mr. Grogan—"Wait a bit, thin— -it's moi mishtake. Oi hod the papir oopside down." —Puck. THE FAMILY DOCTOR. New Resident (at Faraway)--"Who is the best physician in the place? - ' High Local Authority- "Dr. Germs, by all means. He is becoming a very famous man. Why, people axe send ing for him from everywhere. I ad vise you to try him." New Resident--"What is liis spe cialty?" High Local Authority (with pride) - "Autopsies, I believe, sir."—Judge. A GENEROUS LAD. "Tommy!" No answer. "Tom-mee!" "Well?" "What are you doing to your broth er Willie?" "Nothin'." "Yes, you are. You are making him cry." "No, I ain't—l'm bein' generous. I'm givin' him half o' my coclliver oil."—Harper's Bound Table. NOT QriTE HOPELESS. Husband (after a long tirade) "You have talked for au hour about that letter I forgot to mail." Wifo—"l have a right to. Just think how—" "And you are sure I am just as bad as you make out?" "You are ntterly and entirely—" "One moment. Give mo credit for at least oue thing." "Well, what?" "I didn't steal the stamp."—New York Weekly. A GEOLOGICAL FIND. First Scientist— * 'Eureka ? What a find! Here is conclusive proof of all our theories. See this rock? It is as round as a barrel, and just about the same shape and size. It must have rolled for ages at the bed of some swift stream. Note how smooth it is." Second Scientist—"lt is UDlike any rook in this vicinity. It must have beeu brought from a great distance, probably by some mighty iceberg in the ages that are gone." Third Scientist—"There are moun tains near here. It may have come down in a glacier." Fourth Scientist—"lt is unlike any of tbe rook on those mountains. In fact, it is unlike any rook to be found on earth. It must have dropped from the moon. Here comes a farm hand. I will ask him if there nre any tradi tions concerniug it. See here, my good man, do you know anything about this strange rock?" Farm Hand —"That useter be a bar rel y' eament."—New York Weekly. Terms—tl.oo in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months, WHEAT AD FLOOR. HOW KARMKRS ARK LOSING THE MARKETS OF THE WORLD. Sales Diminishing at the Rate of Nearly $30,000,000 a Year—A Demand for Our Wheat Decreas ing toy 34,000,000 Bushels a Year —And Over 3,500,000 Less Bar rels of Flour Shipped. The official statistics of our exports of wheat and flour continue to be very interesting though, wo must confess, somewhat disappointing inasmuch as the returns fail to show what was promised us by the free trade party should they succeed in demolishing the McKinley tariff. The exports of wheat during the months of July and August, 1894: and 1895, were as fol lows : BUSHELS OF WHEAT EXPORTED. _ July. August. Total. I B9 * 5,557,970 8,546.645 14,104,615 1895 4,271,483 4,265,597 8,537,080 Lossin 1895.. 1,286,487 4,281.048 5,567,535 VALUE OF WHEAT EXPOBTED. July. August. Total. 189 $3,372,687 $5,013,768 $8,386,455 189 2,73J,-7C4 2,911,109 5,641,813 Lossin 1895..5641,983 $2,102,659 $2,744,642 It seems that during the first two months of the current fiscal year we exported 5,567,000 bushels of wheat less than we exported during the corresponding months of the previous year, the money loss this ye' r beincr 82,744,642. Our foreign trade in flour can hardly bo regarded as any more satisfactory, although it is true that the money loss was not so great as in the case of wheat. Here are the figures: BADBEI.S OF FLOUR EXPOBTED. • T »'y. AURUSt. Total. 189 1,193,321 1,469,448 2,662,769 1895 906,438 1,115,101 2,021,597 Lossin 1895. 283.88"! 351,2;17 G417172 VALUE OF FLOUR EXPORTED. . July. Amrust. Total. 1894 54,275.683 $5,153,997 $9,429,680 1895. 3.406.270 4.080,111 7,486,381 Loss in 1895. $869,413 $1,073,886 $1,943,299 During the first two months of this fiscal yenr we sold in foreign markets 641,172 barrels of flour less than in the same period of 1891, this year's money loss being $1,943,299 as against ft loss of $2,7-14,612 in our export trade of American wheat. Comparing tho money values of our wheat and flour exports for the first two months of each fiscal yearwehave briefly the following results: TOTAL VALUES FCK TWO MONTHS. Wheat. Flour. Total. 189 $8,386,455 $9,4i >,680 $17,816,135 1895 5,641,813 7,486,381 13,128,194 Loss 1895.52,744,643 $1,943,299 $4,687,911 It cannot be claimed that the Gor man tariff is a new thing. It had been in foroe a year at the close of last August, and there should surely have been time for us to reap some of that golden harvest that was promised ns when the wall of protection was brok en down and we were enabled to reach out into tho markets of the world. Unfortunately, however, in the caso of our wheat and flour export trade the only golden harvest has been n loss of $4,687,941 as compared with trade transacted in the same commod ities ft year earlier, before there was any breach in the wall and beforo we eould let ourselves out iuto the mar kets of the world, but yet while wo etill managed to get there. Free Trade Means Ni» Home. What Senator Brice Did, In case tho farmers of Ohio have forgotten that Senator Brice, while caring for tho interests of the Sugar Trust in the Gorman tariff, failed to secure protection for Ohio wool grow ers, they will see from the following figures that the average price of Ohio washed wool is from 18 to 10 cents per pound less under free trade, which Senator Brice approved of, than it was under the protection given to the wool growers in Governor McKinley's tariff period: PBICE TER FOUND IS CENTS. Oct. 1. Jan. 1. April 1. Jnlyl. 1890-9 31,'* 31 31! £ 29 1891-9 29 28 27 27 1892-93 27 27 29 23 1893-94 21 21 20 18 1804-95 18 IG<4 15J* 16>^ Wool in the markets of the world is higher than it was in October, 1891, aud therefore the decline of from 7| to 15 cents per pound on fleeces and from 15 to 27$ cents per pound on scoured in the United States is the ef feot of the removal of wool duties and of nothing else. Woolen Mill Prospect*. Machinery is better employed to day than it is likely to be two months from now. and the fact that tha mills are fairly busy now is misleading to the average man, who points to ii. an » favorable condition, —Herald, Grand Rapids, Mich. NO. 6. The Ups and Downs of Labor. > ' 1 S K In L j | 'Hands Employed dfry B ; I /80,000 ;■; I Hands Ewjlojad 1.. I J ... Hands Emplotjei I. _I 1.1 J 1 L" J»-5. ■ ■ ■ J. " I I I jiiilj I Handa Employed ltise and Fall of Wagies. >■' . '> A <B9o' IW? |O9S II IB (00%-7S9OU/flje . ,B. .j 90fe~ of 1890 H , B 60% of 1890 [lioqe B H B 70fooj' fB9QUJa(|V'B B : B 60% o|jß9olUai|g B _ B -a; B f->'o% v oj 1890 Uimje A False Balance Sheet. The Treasury Department lias pre sented n statement for last month showing receipts somewhat over $3,000,000 in excess of expenditure.". This statement is a cheat. The sugar producers of the United States have not yet been paid the §5,000,000 duo to them, the authority to pay which was given by the last Congress. It is a just debt owing by the Government and HO long as $1 of it remains unpaid the Administration cannot c':aim that its reveuue exceeds the needs of tho Government. The September state ment is false. While Uncle Sam owes money to the sugar producers, or to any one else, a surplus of revenue can not be c'ftimed. False balance sheets represent nothing but Democratic chicanery. A Hard »'nt to Crack. All I'rotcctionit's Are. Great expounders of protection to home industry, like Henry Clay, were not manufacturers nor interested pecu niarily iu factories. But they were patriots. ltiglit Kind ot Governor. Governor Morrill, of Kansas, sayt: "There is a genuine revival in busi ness in Kausas, but it is due to the large crops rather than tho Wilson tariff." Tho Governor is right. Au Interesting Study. The tariff question should be studied in every household. 'Women can readily master its details.
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