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.
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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.
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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.