SULLIVAN JHB REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY. Publisher. VOL. XIV. Japan cracked the Chinese nut, aid now Russia wants to aat the kernel. "Go South, young man,"says the West, as reported in the Chicago Times-Herald. The Chicago Inter-Ocean is very much concerned because Chicago is -eating 40.000 more sheep a month than it used to. There are some 15,000,000 pupils enrolled in the public and private schools of the United States, more than twenty-two per cent, of the entire population. The costly experience of the peoplo of lowa in dealing with speculative building and loau associations prom ises to bring about tho enactment of adequate laws for tho government of all associations, remarks the New York Tost. Sudden death has carried off two very prominent figures iu American literaturo recently- -Professor Boye sen and Eugene Field. They had neither of them reached the age of fifty. Cut off in their prime, it is sadly possible, muses tho Chicago Times-Herald, that they left their best work undone. A learned German asserts that the aversion against horse meat as an arti cle of diet is a senseless prejudico based wholly on an interdiot issued by the church during tho Dark Ages to prevent tho revival of heathen wor bhip, in which the sacrifice and subse quent consumption of horses had played a cherished role. Tho New York World mnintaius that horse flesh is clean, remarkably freo from disease and contains more albumen than beef doep. "Corned horso" smells and tastes like goose moat. In many Euro pean hospitals horso flesh soup is espe cially prescribed for patients in neod of strengthening food. Mr. Labouchere says in London Truth: "Lord Salisbury is suffering from a severe attack of ultimatum upon the brain. His oondition is the cause of grave anxiety to every foreign Government. Thero aro now five British ultimatums out, addressed re spectively to Ashanti, Belgium, China, Turkey and Venezuela. Tho irre pressible anxiety displayed by foreign Governor euts, especially by tho impe cunious Republics of Central and h.outh Amerioa, to have a British ulti matum presented to them is easily ex plained. The present valne of a British ultimatum in the autograph market is 82500." Rhode Island will join Pennsylvania in an effort to proserve the lines at the famous camp ground of the Revolu tion, Valley Forge. Rhode Island has appropriated S2OOO and provided a commifl' j to erect a monument to the memory of John Waterman, a Rhode Islander, who died at Valley Forge during the encampment, and was bnried within the lines. Tho grave is located on the Piersol farm, occupied by I. Heston Todd, abrt t 500 yards east of Fort Hunting don and about 100 yards south of the road leading from Valley Forge to Port Kennedy. Governor Lippett, who is (Chairman of the commission, has written to Governor Hastings, of Pennsylvania, saying that the Rhode Island Commission will visit the place soon and desires to co-operate with the Valley Forge Commission. President Sohurman, of Cornell University, in presenting his annual report to the trustees of that institu tion, recommended a provision for the superannuation and pension of pro fessors in the university and the bet ter regulation of salaries. Conoern ing the questions of interoollegiate football aud college athletios iu gen cral the report says: "If the game of football oaunot be redeomed from brutality and triokery, public spoo taole, and commercial speculation, it is certainly better that it should go and never return to plague us. Hut at present the faoulty refuses to be lieve that the flower of American youth in different colleges and uul rtrsitius cauuot, under proper rogula- together like geutloiueu and football iu a spirit of fair aud gfleroiis emulation. As iutercol leg nit are to be tolerated uuly wheu they do uot interfere with the work of studeuts or do uot dis tract institutions of iMuruiug from the purpose of their existouie, so, further more, they must uot be eucourage.l. They shiiuld be forbiddcu unless play ers uial n.yiuagers reroguige that fur above rji\rds mil vietoiies, higher tbau sports, fegher even thau physical culture, are self respect and courtesy to others, guo I man iters uu I morals, uud that generous uiunliuess which is " e spirit of the a N it 'iir aud tho OJU uce uf sportsman. FOR HER SAKE. AH (lay long, with sigh or song Toil I for her pake. She is where the roses llir >n;-, I where tliund—s break; From the reckless city's mart: 31ut a rainbow's rouuil my heard For I sinp: "The Jay will die— Toil will so >u be past, And the stars iu Love's on sky Lead mo home at last! Home, beneath tile tranquil skies, When' she watts with wistful eyes. "Home' where love Is kindest, best, Where tho hearth is bright; Home! sweetly on my breast Fall her curls of light! Home! from all tho world beguiled Uy the kiss of a ehild!" -F. L. Slanton in Chicago Times-Herald. UNCLE COTTLE'S WOOING. .. L 'M going to get mar (7 Uncle Cottle sat tflf very upright in his \ JSB chair, and spoke 1 fiS with on nir of invin / H cible decision. I fIH "What again?" V mE drawled his nephew, -""T'M "Again, sir? _ ~ j When was I married »■ before?" II "But this isn't the first timo you've been going to do it, uncle ; that's what I meant," Tim ex plained. "Do I know tho favored lady?" "It's Miss Sybil Holt, Tim," Raid Uncle Cottle, confidentially. "The most lovely—the—the—oh-h ! I met her tho other evening at Mrs. Dynham's silver wedding party, and she—er quite seemed to take to me. I'm older than she is," he sighed, pensivoly, "but I look a good ten years younger than I am ; don't you think so?" Younsr Tim regarded him critically, without hazarding on opinion. lie was past middle age, and looked it; a lull-bodied littlo gentleman, with short, dumpy legs and a bland, moon like face, whose prevailing expression was of imperturbable simplicity. "Have you proposed?" "Why, no; I'vo only seen her once. Resides," Undo Cottle sighed again, "I'm so shy,'yon know, Tim—so infer nally shy ! The only timo I evor man aged to propose was when I wrote to that widow --you remember,you helped me with tho letter—and she never ans wered. You didn't sav," he added, "whether you knew Miss Holt?" "I don't remember ever to have met her." "Ah? If you had, you couldn't for get her. She's tin auut you'll be proud of, my boy." "Hut sho may not appreciate the honor of obtaining me for a nophow." "If she refuses me, Tim—if 1 lose her as I'vo lost all the others," oried ULCIO Cottle, wildly, "1 shall thiuk there's a cur.se ca me, and I'll give in I'll never love again. 111 live and die single 1" Young Tim hoped ho would. Uncle Cottle had beeu his guardian evor since he was quite a boy, but siuco he came of age, somo six years ago, ho had rather reversed tho position of affairs, and looked upon Undo Cottle with tho jealous eye of a solo proprietor who didn't want anybody to moddle with his business. "I'm his only relative," ho com plained to his crouy. Tod Morrows, as they sat at breakfast next morning in the chambers they tenanted in com mon. "What's his is mine. He's said so lots of times. If ho gots married, though, his wifo will expoot at least half; and if ho has children—thore'll bono meat left ou the bone for mo!" They were both reading for the bar, but Ted Merrows put aside his paper for the moment, aud placod all his in tellect at the service of his friend. "What's the use looking black about it? He's been going to marry often ouough before—" "But he's nover seemed so deter mined as he is now. He's dyeing his hair aud cultivating a figure." "Gono'so far as that!" exclaimed Ted. "Then I'm afraid nothing will atop him." "I shall try, anyhow," growled Tim. "If I can hit on anythiug better, I shall toll him I've found out she's en gaged. I've stopped him twice like that; he's so nervous and afraid of seeming presumptuous. That widow was the most dangerous—threo months ago. I really thougut I'd lost him that time, tie was so bowitcbed, ho was goiug to call at her house, ouly 1 persuaded him it wasn't etiquette, and that he ought to write first and dis close his sentiments, and ask permis sion to call. I undertook to post tho letter ou my way home here to the Temple, and 1 put it in the tire. When he got no answer, he wished he hadn't written —felt he had beeu impertinent and she was ollonded." "Suppose he meets her aud men tions it?" "He daren't; I know him too well. He'd bo so ashamed and pauio-stricken he'd run away at the sight of her." "Well, you have beeu luoky so far, but it ean't go ou like this forever," observed Ted Merrows. "Tako my tip, and make hay while the suu shines." "How do you meau?" & "Vou are old enough to marry, and, as your uncle's sole heir you'd bo a valuable .'article iu tho matrimonial market; but if he marries, you'll tliui yourself on the self atuoug the damaged goods aud reuinauts, Dispose of your self while you are still heir and tho titling lord for an heiress. You can't stop the old mau marrying, but you oitu take care he doesu't spoil you by marryiug ttrst." "Hut 1 don't know anybody I" re monstrated Tim. "itow am Ito find the heiress, gut introduced aud en gaged, aud marry tar out of baud iu —" LAPORTE, PA.., FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1896. •'You might find onß through the matrimonial journals." "Nonsense 1 Heiresses don't adver tise." "Don't they?" All heiresses are not in society; some of them want to get there, and they advertise. They wouldn't marry a gentleman with nothing, perhaps,, nnless they hap pened to be old and ugly, but thoy would be glad to snap up a man like yon, moving in good society, with a liberal allowance from your uncle and hopeful, prospects. Then, if your uncle desertß you afterward, her money will keep tho wolf from the door and save you from working your self to death." Young Tim had a morbid horror of poverty and overwork, and that story haunted him all day. It shono through hts dismal forebodings like tho moon through a mist; it seemed almost too good to be true. Ho dined alone that evening at a restaurant in the Strand ; and, passing a news agent's on his way baok into the Temple, he noticed some matrimonial journals in tho win dow, and went in and bought one. He was somewhat relieved, on entering his chambers, to find that Ted Mor rows was not yet at home. He opened the journal, and studied the orowdod columns in private, and lighted at length on a business like advertise ment whioh impressed him favorably •, MAUD, young, dark and good looking, with private Income, wishes to corre spond with middle-aged gentleman of means and position, with viow to matrimony. Ref erences exolianged. Replies woro to bo sent to a letter of tho alphabet at the office of tho paper. Tim was not middlo-aged, but ho considdred that, if anything, that should tell in his favor. He road and reread the advertisement till from feeling tempted to answer it just to test the probability of Ted Merrows's story, ho began to succumb to fresh fears for his future, and became anxious to answer it for his owii sake. "There's no harm in writing," ho argued. "If I change my mind or it doesn't seem good enough I can drop it." And whilo the impulse was upon him ho wrote. Ho wrote vaguely of bis inoome and said nothing of his age, but craved on interview. If ho oxplaiued his preciso position, he feared she might fanoy it was too in securo to render him eligible; but if he could see her, he flattered himself that the oharm of his conversation an 1 personal presenco would dazzlo her and divert hor attention from his less pronounced monetary qualifications. Ho signed his own name, "T. Cottle," because, if the negotiations carao to anything, it might shako her confi denoo when ho had to acknowledge that he had onproachod her uuder a false name; at the same timo, as she had|withheld her surname and address, he felt justified in requesting hor to direct her reply, in tho first instance, to the postoffioe in Bayswutor Road, to bo loft till called for. "I can look in for it the next time I goto soo unole," ho reflected. "If it turns out a frost, 1 needn't toll Mer rows anything ; he'd only grin about it. I'll get the letter off before ho gets in." And ho ran out and posted it at once. Ho half regretted his impetuosity when ho contemplated what ho had done in the cold light of tho next morning. Nevertheless, a couplo of evenings later ho journeyed to Bayswater and inquired at the Postoflico for his let ter, but it hadn't arrived. So he walked onto see Uncle Cottle, but as his uncle was not at homo, ho told them to say that he had called, and wouldn't wait. His interest in bis rash matrimonial project had coo led considerably ; but going to see his unole ou tho following Saturday afternoon, he inquirod casually at tho PostofHco again, and was not altoget her displeased that there was still no lotter for him. He decided that his opistlo had not creat ed a satisfactory impression, and that he should hear no more of it. Turning the corner a little beyond tho Postoflico, he was surprised to run into Undo Cottle, gorgeous in a now white waistcoat and with a flower in his buttonhole. "Tim, my boy," ho ejaculated, "I've been expecting you daily. Sorry 1 was out when you called last—l was out on particular business." "Oh!" Tim had dim promonitions of disas ter; he inly upbraided himself for ueglocting the affairs of Miss Holt. "YOB." Unole Cottlo wiuked his left eye and siuaekod his nopbew on tho shoulder exuberantly. "1 was arrangiug to get married." "To Miss Holt?" faltered Tom. "No," laughed Uucle Cottle. "You'll never guess. It's tho widow - Mrs. Netley. You remember, wo wrote to her? Sho answered my letter that evening, aa hour before you oalled." "Hut you said," ho stammcrod, "that if Miss Holt rejeotod you you'd know thoro was a curse on you, aud •" "I haven't asked Misa Holt -be sides, it's threo mouths ainoe 1 wrote to the widow, so, iu any caw, sho has a sort of prior claim ovor the—" "The other curse," suggested Tim, bitterly. "Here's her letter," said Uuole Cot tle, disregarding his luterpc'ation. "Head it for yourself." He thrust the missive into Tim's hands, and he read it dazedly, as they walked ou together. "I)r»s NIK -II you earn l<> call uu ms I shall Im pleased iu see you. 1 regret you ill t uot KIVH iu« yuiir address, us I should bav« thought ll Implied elthur a waul of coattdeuuelu ill" or candor Iu yourself, liml |t uot IH«*U thai w« ar»almost uolgtiborw, nu T I had tb» pleasure uf mo'w vuu by reputation. Under the circumstances you will appreciate my preferring to send this to your private address, which I have taken from the ulreo tory. Yours, truly, MAUU NETLEY." "That's all right, Tim, ain't it?" chuckled Uncle Cottle. Tim realized in a flash that this was his "Maud," and it was his letter she was answering, not his uncle's; but he could not seo his way to saying so. "What does she mean about your address?" he said. "Why, I was nervous when I wrote that letter, and I must have forgotten to put my address in; that's why she didn't answer before; she couldn't. And it's just occurred to her to look in the directory. See? I meant to have asked her about it, but she was so nice and amiable and smiling, and I was so -so—well, I hardly knsw how I was--but there didn't seem any need to apologize, and, in faot, I never thought about it till I was coming away." "Is she voaug?" askod Tim, for the sake of saying something. "I thought at first she was nearly forty, but she's only twenty-nine -she told me so herself. I showed her my bank book and a list of my securities. " 'Oh, that's all right,' sho says laughing. " 'Then when's it to be?" says I. "And it's going to be next month." "Next "Month. I'm going around to the vicar's now to put up the banns—you como with me. And, I say ! she's an orphan, so wo want you, my boy—age don't matter; it's only a matter of form---to be a father at the wedding, and give her away." Tim was gloomy and reckless, and said he would. Why shouldn't he? Ho had given away his prospects; he had givon away his uncle; he might just as well do the thing thoroughly and give away the widow as well; then he would havo nothing and nobody left to keop---but himself.—Tit-Bits. Capable o! Lilting 100 Tuns. League Islnud Navy Yard will soon have hoisting shears capable of lifting a weight of 100 ton*. Contractor John Tizard is now at work with a largo force of men erecting these shears, which will bo the largest in this oountry, with tho single excep tion of those at the shipyard of the Maryland Steel Company, at Spar row's Toint, near Baltimore, Md., which landed tho great Krupp 120-ton gun. Tho shears at League Island are intended to handle heavy gun 3 and machinery. Tho weight of theso shears is 110 tons, and the two front legs are 120 feet high, while tho back log is 143 feet long. Byjmoansof an immense screw, running L rizontnlly through tho base of the back leg, the tap of tho shears can bo moved back ward and forward forty-five feet out over tho water, or twenty-live feet in ward from the edge of tho wharf. The screw is sixty-eight feet long, eleven inches in diameter and weighs fourteen tons. The shears stand ou the Broad street wharf, eaoh of tho front logs rostingou an iron pedestal two foetby threo feet, upon massive conorete foundations. A steel rope, 1} inches in diameter, 1800 feet iong|und weigh ing five tons, will be used for hoist ing. There are two separate engines, of fifty horse power each. Tho shears were constructed by tho Tacony Iron and Metal Company and the cost of tho whole apparatus, including tho machinery, will bo between $38,000 and $40,000. —Philadelphia Record. Weil (led Eighty Yean. Marriage dons not seoin to bo a fail ure in Black Falls, Wis., in one fam ily at least. It has had a fair trial, too, for Louis and Amelia Darwin were married eighty years ago. And now, although tlio husband r is 107 years old and the wife 101, they are living happily together. Twelve children have been born to them, five qf whom aro living. For thirty years Grandma Darwin was 'totally blind. Strange and m crodible as it may seem, in her ninoty ninth year sho recovered her second sight, and was able to distinguish her childreu. Yet during tho peiiod of her blindness she performed her household duties without any assist ance. The old gentleman has been a re markable man. Whou ho was 100 years old ho could dance a jig equal to a dancing master, but tho past four years he has gradually wasted away, until to-day ho ix but a shadow of his former self. The aged conple aro descendants frora a race which, for many generations, was noted for re markable longevity.—New York Press. Noble Wallers. Henry FleisoUman, proprietor of the Vionna restaurant, ooruor of Tenth street uud Broadway, New York City, is quoted as saying that the kind of waiters he wauted were priuoes, bar oud and counts, "for they know how peoplo should be waited on." Priuoe Holian, of Austrian-Uungary, who threw inouoy arouud in Chicago with a prodigal hand a few years, was oueo iu the Vienna cafe, aud It is slid ho could fry eggs on both sides or wait ou a table with skill. The prineo was quoted as often saying : "1 lan't bo a god, 1 dou't waut to be a ruler, and that is tho reason I rem liu a ltohau." l'riuce ltohau finally gave up his position as a waiter, returned houie and committed .suioide. —Chicago Times-Herald. 4iml I ol Dears' Note*. For mauy years tho furriers havo noticed that all the skins of polar bears which they have reoeived have been mutilated by the loss of the note. A Parisian furrier hat discovered that thi« is a result of a superstitious belief among the Kskimo that wherever a polar bear is killed his uose must be cut off aud thrown upon the iee or bad luck will follow the huuter.—Sew York Advertiser. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL, German papers assert that gas pipes made of paper are a success. It has been discovered that it is pos sible to become intoxicated on gaso line. * It is said that Tamango, the Italian tenor, has a collection of butterflies valued at $20,000. Several clay tablets, covered with what are thought to be inscriptions, were unearthed in a Michigan mound the other day. Utah beet sugar manufacturers are going into cattle feeding on a largo scale. Their bagasao makes a x capital feed for cattle. The reoent earthquake has Btirred up all the gas wells in tho natural gas belt, and given them increased pressure and a new lease of life. The village of Artenn, near Rome, Italy, is said to bo a "community of criminals. Its inhabitants perpetrate more oritnes than any other known people, except, possibly, the Kurds. There are more than twenty sp' ' of fur-bearing animals known to in habit the Hudson Bay country, rang ing in sizo all the way from the meadow n.ouse and sand rat to the caribou, music ox, bison and polar bear. M. Pictet has discovered that four parts of carbonic acid and six parts of sulphurous acid combined to form a gas that will kill any microbe in the world, and penetrate into a book. It is called Pitet's gas, and is the greatost antiseptic known. M. Lagnr .u has ascertained that tho military mortality per thousand is as follows in France and tho French col onies: France 7, Algeria 11, Tunisia 12.20, Martinique 50, Cochin China 21, Tonkin 77, Madagasco ; 75, Sene gal 74, Guiana 237. Naturalist W. Victor Lehman, of Tremont, Penn., has just sent to tho Smithsonian Institution at Washing ton tho first fossil insect evor found in the Southern Pennsylvania coal field. The specimen was found n tho coal mine and is a very rare our The St. Lawrence River is abject to a mysterious tidal movement. It falls regularly for seven conseoutivo years, and then rises during a like period. Tho total difference of level is about fivo feet. This unexplained movement is demonstrated l>y the pilots and fishermen, who spend their lives on tho river. A Curious Migration. A writer in tho New England Maga zine presents tho results of his per sonal investigation of a curious migra tion that has been going on for a few years past from tho Northwestorn portion of tho United States to Mani toba, Asainiboia, Alberta and other portions of British Columbia lying north of the Dakotas and Montana. Acoording to S. A. Thompson, tho writer of the article, a steady stream of emigration trom tho Northwestern portions of tho United States to tho wheat-growing regions of British Co lumbia mentioned has been noticeable for some time. In one place in Al berta he found a settlement containing a population of about one thousand, of whom seven hundred were frotn the United States. Ho discovered that tho Canadian Pacific Railroad Com pany was selling land in small tracts to hundreds of Amerioan families, and ho found a record of no less than 513 homestead entries mado br settlers from tho United States, representing 1552 persons. Mr. Thompson was curious to dis cover the motives which led these American farmers to leave their own country. Mauy individual reasons were given, but tho main cause, as Mr. Thompson says, is to be fonud in the fact that the desirable pnblio lands have been exhausted by entries or gobbled up by the "great railroad mo nopolists in tho United States. In British Columbia thero is almost an inexhaustible supply of farming land suitable for stock raising and grain culture, to bo had on terms quite as favorable as thoso extended to Ameri can settlers in their "*n country. Mr. Thompson S'* eits as a remedy for this emigration reclamation of the vast arid regi >f the Unitod States by irrigatioi his would open up an immense revolt for settlement and in a climate more moderato than that of the Far North.—San Fraueisco Chronicle. A Kemnrkable Hallway. One of tho most peculiar railways in Amoiica is the elevated railway aoross tho Isthmus of Pauaiua. Tho only steam used on this remarkable railway is supplied by tho brawny arms of half-naked Indians, who, turning a handle, work tho maohiue like a rnde velocipede, Tho car is something after tho shape of the small hand-driven machines used by navvies on our railways, and holds about three passengers, not including the native propeller?, who have to walk while working. Tho positiou iu which the passengers are placed, if scaroely so comfortable as a seat iu a Pullman ear, affords at least a capital opportunity of studying the peculiari ties of the beautiful tropical scenery below, of hearing the tnoruiiig call of the whistling grasshopper, the screech ing of greeu paroquets, and all the minstrelsy of the woods, with, it may be, the howl of uu occasional baboon. A eolliaion on this line, however, aud an abrupt descent into the mass of foliage beueatb, lead to a closer acquaintance thau desirable with apiders, centipedes aud snakes, which abound iu the vicinity of the railway. Itemed)' lor "lluue In Hie Throat." A raw egg, swallowed immediately, will generally earry a tlsh bone down that cannot be removed by the utmost exertion, and has got out of reaeh of reach of the saving linger.—Courier Journal. Terms---$l.OO in Advance; #1.25 after Three Months, ITDUSTIIIAL EVOLUTION OF THE JAPANESE. Lands in America,' Eaters Oar Factories. Studies Oar Businoss Meti Js. Retarns to Japan. And Snpplies Our Market^^ T Tho condition of Ili9 York stock market is said to bo invariably tho precursor of trade conditions. What businots men may expect, therefore, is outlined by the following from tho Wall Streot D» ly News: "There seems to be no legitimate buying power. No matter how much stock* deolino they oflcr nc tempta tion to tho publio; hence, the dry goods plan of marking goods down to figure* that will create buying must be followed. Un'il a genuine absorp tion of seenritiea takes place, it is idlo to expect any permanent improvement in prices. For the momont the uncer tainties in tho situation will undoubt edly prevent any general or large buy ing for long aooount. Aside from the fact that farm produots are at starva tion prices and that thore is a halt in industrial activity, is the ooming meeting of Congress and its unset* tling oonsoquenees. Th«rj is also tbo question of gold exports, whioh are likely to takeplaoo at almost any mo ment." ltoports from all ban Is on the gen eral condition of trade ia every line of business, and from all authorities, aro indicative rather of tho nature of a wake. Perhaps this is the free trade uotion of a revival. When Labor Wa« limy. More employment was given to la bor iu the woolen mills of Massachu setts in 180S than ill either of the two preceding or subsequent years, tho average number employed that yrat being 1383 more than iu 1890, und nearly 4009 more than iu 18tfl. NO. 13.. THE BAG HAN FINDS BUSINESS ACTIVE IN SCl'« PI/YING TIIK AMKRICAN MARKET. Description of till Rags Used In Mai- In™ Clothes lor Americans—The Kind of Good l Wo Must Wear Un der tv »einoc< itlc Kreo Wool Tar iff— *' luck" of the Cheapest Class Most .n Demand. Bradyoud, November, 20, 1895. "Good morning, Mr. , sharp and crisp; such like mornings as these make ono quicken Lis steps to keep abreast of the frost and_ cold." Thin was my greeting ns I entered a well known rag merchant's shop in Leeds the other day. I was standing on the second floor of his warehouse, and ull around mo wero huge piles of old . dusty, sup posed to be cast away forever and worn-out, garments and rags, of evory imaginable shade, color, quality and condition. Aronnd tlo windows wero stonding a dozen women, both young and middle-aged, single and married, all engaged in sorting these rags into distinct and separate colors and qual ties. These nre what are called rag porters, and of all the nasty, dirty, filthy, objectionable jobs human na ture is put to, this, I think, comes out "on top." "Well, and bow are tilings in the rag trade to-day," I asked. "So far as tbo demand is con cerned, it's of considerable dimen sions." "Considerable! is that all? Surely with this great trade in Leeds, But ley, Dewsbury, Morley and Hudders field, tho rag and shoddy trade must have received a good fillip." "So it has. All through the year there has been a good deal more do ing than for a long time back, but we can only reckon since lust June as be ing a busy time. Although, as you know, ojir low goods manufacturers began to bo but;.y last January, yet tho stocks of pulled mungo and shoddy in merchants' and dealers' hands wero somewhat heavy, hence it took a few months' time to absorb and clean them but to-day, on certain descrip tions of ra£,s and mungo, the supply does not near equal tho demand." "Then if thero is this great call for ! mungo, what Ims been tho eflfeot on the price of rags?" "Well, on all things in general there has been some slight advance, but on special descriptions a rise of 100 per cent, has taken place." "And what are tho special descrip tions on which this great riso has been cflected i'' "LineeyF," ho said. "Six months ogo or a little over any quantity could be readily bought at from 2s 3d. to 2s. 9d. (66e.) per cwt., but to-day the price is 55., or $1.20 per cwt." "Linseys; that's a very vague ex pression. What are Linseys?" "Lineeys are simply rags having nil cotton one way of the fabric, which i3 always tho 'warp,' and woolen tho other, which comprises tho 'woft.' This, as you will know from tho de scription thus given, that such rags nro of the lowest quality it is possible to secure, and produce, of course, a shoddy destitute of any wool fibers. Tlieeo rags come from such descrip tions of old oast-off garments as cotton warp serges, presidents, beavers, mel tons, in fact everything having a oot ton warp and low woolen weft for filling." Continuing, ho Faid: "To me it is remarkable that this—the very worst doscriptioa of shoddy—3hould havo shown the greatest advance; but, of course, that goes to show distinctly what manufacturers are making. Prico with them is certainly an object, and no doubt through their having to de liver their goods at a low tig nro they must have a cheap mungo.'' "As a seller of such liko rags, will you tell mo into what district you art) Bending them!" "Undoubtedly. Tho heavy woolen distriot around Batloy, Batlcy Carr and Dewsbury, and even parties in Leeds and district are using them; but, ia and arouud Batloy » great weight is being consumed. To all these parties I am supplying this cheap class of rags." "But can you tell mo what descrip tion of goods this 'muck' is being made into?" I nska to bliod the publio." tfAMten. rhtapnm. "With cheep bread, cheap meat aud cheaper clothing in 180(1 it will take a good deal of courage to try to maki calamity t» politieul issue."—New l'ork World. lint you forget aheap wajes which always travel in the same coash "with cheap bread, cheap most and cheaper dothiug." In fact cheap wage* com pel the obeapues* of bread, meat aud clothing, and when oheui> wages strike tbo people they are more likely than uot "to rnako calamity a political issue." Wage earners nlways have u decidedobjeetion tv putting less uioucj than usual into their pockets.