SULLIVAN JSS& REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHEHEY. Publisher. VOL. XIV. Hot* than one hundred writers have written the life or Mr. Gladstone. During the pist fiscal Tear the num ber of arriving in this country was only 255,536, which waa less thaa any tea's immigration since IS7V. ' A Chicago paper thinks that the trouble with SIE Francisco is that ■"it is too ditUst from the center of tiings." Ia San Franciscothey think that things are too distant from the center. Judge Risks, of the United States Circuit Court of Ohio, bis decided th&t the Comptroller of the Currency on make an assessment on stock holders of insolvent National Banks, and that the assessment can be re covered by a suit at law. The total railway capital of the world is $3s),000,000,000, of which Great Britain owns one-sixth. The total mileage of the world is 400,000, and of this the British Empire has 70,000, employing 400,000 men and carrying annually 900,000,090 pas sengers. "Bwe yen seen the fact stated in the newspapers that Russia has begun to buy her armor plates in this conn try," «ks the New York Herald, "and has it come to your ears that Japan will probably hive some of her new battle ships built here? Those two facts are worth noting. We are a great country." In England a distinction is made between a "village" and a "town," the dignity of town being applied only to those placas which are large enough to support a weekly market in tho public square, to which the farmers of the surrounding country bring for sale an! barter their butter, eggs and other produce. Young women with fortunes to in vest in titles would do well to try Po land, suggests the Saa Fraaciso Ex aminer. In WariiT alone, with a population of 5)0,000, Ihera are 3J,- ■ -*> persons belonging to the heredi tary nobility, and J_.> 7 "personal no bles"—people entitled to tha distinc tion by reason of oSiee or discovery. A curious fact discovered by Penn sylvania's Dairy and Food Commis sioner is thjt much of the raspberry an! strawberry jam pat up so neatly in little jars contains a very small quantity of thi fruit from which it should be made. What appear to be the seeds of the berries, explains the New York Po3t, are introduced into the preserves by using plenty of grass teed. Somebody has unearthed a book wiitten by Bartholomew Anglicus, about 12i*», of whioh ona of the most Ku.u>icg chapters is on the children ol his day. Of these he writes : "They dreal no perils more than beating with a rod, and they love an apple more than sold, and make more sor rowed woe for the loss of an apple for the loss of a heritage. They desire all that they see, and prav and uifc with voice and with hand. Iliey keep no counsel, but they tell all that they hear and see. Suddenly they laugh, and suddenly they weep. Al ways they cry and jangle and jape ; that unless they be still while they tleep. When they be washed of filth auou they defile themselves again. When their mother washeth and c.jwbeth them, they kick and sprawl and put with feet and with hands, and withstand with all their might." All of which makes it appear that those 1230 bovs were the same then as now. Ihe San Francisco Chronicle ob serves : Mrs. Craigie, the novelist, known as "John Oliver Hobbe*," has some •ensil>l.» i *'.i» on tin.' folly o. Anurioan gii'U in.irryiui; Eojjlisaineu or other foreigner*. Whatever may be the virtuis of the foreigner, his training has been so radically tlitter ent from that of an American that there can be uo sympathy between him and hia American wife. The Aiuer.cau girl has been bred to expect ueference from men in private as well n. |{| public. Too often she expects mute than she »ho:ilJ, for the tenden cy of tue American fatuc* is to si>oii bw daughters by o»vr iu tu«lau».l the luelhoU is to tea.-h girls that their brothers are superior, ami that oticUuuce u the caniiual virtue IB woneu. lu.toail of waited u ou by her husband the Aiutriuau «Ij i uiar«><.u au KfttfluhillMl 'lu toVvrkwh'-tt too tale that she is e*- |t cater to the t*»t » ..I her ti*u to r- ukr ill .p. i »l Mtttvc wufcievsr be see. lit to <l. iu*i»d ,t Hha gwta no J»l«wui«., auU*uaiity j ip.et. Tbw m*y •®«- m * "wall wai. t ,,, bill it b< . b«iii thi' 1 »•' übuact HUM ill ishn , ttl"i«l ""»* tttfMl SMILES. Smile a little, smile a Ittt'.a, As you go along, Not alone when life is pleasant, But when things go wrong. Care delights to see von frowning Loves to hear yon sigh. Turn a smiting face upon her. Quick the dame will By. Smile a little, smile a tittle. All along the road; Every lite mu * have its burden, Every heart its load. Why sit down in gloom and darxner?. With your grief to sup? As you drink Pate's bitter tonic. Smile across the cup. Smile upon tho troubled pilgrims Whom you pass and meet; Frowns are thorns, and smiles are blos soms OS for weary teet. Do not make the way seoru harder By a sullen face. Smile a little, smile a little. Brighten up the place. Smile upon your undone labor; Xot for on* who grieves O'er his task, waits wealth or g.ory; lie who saailes achieves. Though you meet with loss and sorrow In the passing years. Smile a little, smile a little. Even through your tears. —Ella W. Wilcox, in Youth's Companion. A COWBOY'S LOVE. BY LESTER KETCIICM. BILL stumbled, almost fell, recovered " himself, then stood stock-still, and, 112. fcw turning his head, » looked appealingly into his master's r * T "What's th' mat teh. Bill?" asked Sam. "Casta shoe? Blessed 'f ye hain't," he continued, a r ter dismounting and examining the foot the horse held up for inspection. "Ought 't've had ye fixed up more'n iwo weeks back, ol' boss." He took out his knife—a sort of pocket black smith and carpenter-shop—deftly re moved the rest [of the nails by which the shoe hung to the hoof, put the shoe in his pocket, then stood up aud scratched his head. This was serious business. Here he was, over sixty miles away from home (and inn hurry to get there), in a sparsely settled portion "of the coun try, and without the slightest of whera or how hs w*s to find n place where he might {get that shoe reset. True, hejhal no business rid ing an animal that required the ser vices of a farrier; but Bill was not a native horse, aud, having worn shoes when Sam first got him, he had been kept shod ever since. It was twenty odd miles back to Taborville, whence Sa:n had started that morning, aud he disliked the idea of returning that distance just to have a shoe set; so, after somo min utes' hesitation be decided togo ahead and trust to luck; and after walking about three miles (a p.unful task for a (co.vboy), he "met up with" a man traveling in tho other direc tion, who, much to his relief, told him that there was a cross-roads just ahead in the timber, with a store aud sw blacksmith shop situated close by. Sam thanked hiiu and passed ou, but presently, much to his surprise, the str tuger turneJ and galloped back to bim. "I thought IM tell ye," ho saiil, ! "bein' as vo're a strangeli, th't ye'd j best not dally 'raound that pluoj iioue < —au' don't drink nothin'. Ye see," | he went ou to explain, "they's be'n ! fellahs turned up u rnissin' th't was heerl of last, right 'bout yere. Noth in' wa'n't never proved, but it's n purty good placo t'r t' ftght shy of, I reckon." "Good! Yon bet I'm right glad ye : tol' me—l sho' am. I dou't think I'll ! dally none whatevah." Then Ham and the friendly straager parted, and Sam found his way to tha ■ crossroads. The blacksmith was at work when ho : came alouur, but assured hiiu he would atten Ito Bill "in a jiffy." Four or rive man were loafing about the place, aud they at ouso proceeded to take uote or, aud comini-nt upou, Hill's good points—a fact that Sam would have duly appreciated had lie been able to convince himself that their at tentions were altogether disinterest ed. As it was, however, he viewed with suspicion all their overtures to ward strikiug up an acquaintance, and toiiud it difficult to treat them with I ho civility that Southwestern courtesy demands albeit thu-y were, to all ap pearances, just as honorable aud up ri :ht citizens as himself. In fact, they looked jn->t like the average frontiers uian who.se time, for the moment, hangs heavily ou his bauds, and but for the warning of the friendly string ir, Suiu Stires would doubtless have "mixed free" with them. As it was, even, he luadverieuly udmittud that he was going to K1 lUo, and «a< lit a hurry to get there ; but he si-uiibly re lUM'd all invitations to "likker up," ou the gfouu I that it di (n't atreti with him. I'he blu-k.ini Ill's "jiffy" lasted until alm>-.t six o'olooa, all I whilst he was engage I ou Bill's toot, tho loaters wandered out, one at a time, aud di»- appsare 1 up the hillside, presumably IU the directum of a house, aud this reminded Ham that it was supper tnue, an l that he was hungry. e 'Built »upj-« h tiim, strangeh,"sal I t ji, blacksmith. ail'idi uly, as tumuli div iiiiug his elu ui "s t ho-ights. **Us In't «m in (t.ih eoiHi up an' , r«/.« »tin *»• •it, alt' let th' |ou go t'r a bit* ' "t ain't do 11, parduer," ••a u re pit' i, some a hat hattily, tHsruby «uH> tin. una the »tUer in a e» rt uu suspi t „l„ I). Id .n.i. ■ •a fi that ha wa« a u»huual'» w - < LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1896. deputy)—"'cause ye see, I got It' be a-moviu' right peart, an' gittin* t' Bin. 'Biiged t* ye, all th' same. I'll jes' go ovah t' th' store an' git a snack w'leye finish th' job."., There was a little, faded, sharp featured woman behind the eounter in the little store, and her keen black eyes studied Bam critically as she pro ceeded to serve him with the cheese and crackers he called for. Presently a tall, big, square shouldered fellow came in and stood by the door, and the woman went and joined him. They conversed in low whispers for about a minute, and Sa:n, dimly suspicious, glanced at them two or three times. The last time he saw that they were looking at him. Then the woman, with a half laugh, shrugged her thin shoulders and said, aloud, as the big man turned togo out: "Quien sabe? Quien sabe?" The moment tho big man was gone, however, she hustened to the baok of the store, looked into the bar room, apparently to make certain that it was unoccupied, then came up to Stires, who was hastily gobbling his lunch, and asked, in a whisper: "Strangeh, be you a dep'tv ?" "Me?" No, o' co'se not. What—" "Co'se," said the woman, with an impatient gesture, "I might'a'knowed ye wouldn't say 80, ef ye was. Look vere," she went on, hastily, coming closer and laying a hand on his arm. "Y'ro in danger, mister. Le' me toll ye, w'ile I've got th' chanst, th't ye wantuli git out o' this real quick—an' say, don't take th' Rio trail fur. Leave it a mile out, an' cut 'cross to'ds Amity Fo'ke heah me?" "Yes'm, I sho' do; but whut—" "Don't stop t' ast no fool questions. That big fellah 's Nei Flynn, an 1 yere's w'ere 'o hangs out a lot. They'll git ye, ef ye don't look out. I'm tellin' ye this, 'cause—'cause—well, nevah min\ Only, git a move on." Sam lost uo time in seeing that Bill was properly "fixed," and, getting started, he took tho strange little womau's ndvico and turned toward Amity Forks, thereby preserving, no doubt, a whole skin. He asked him self, many times, why tho woman should havo taken the trouble to warn him, but was unablo to find any rea son lor it. As a matter of fact, the womau her self could have given no reason be yond that essentially leminino "be cause." The fnce of Ned Flynn haunted Sam. Why, it is impossible to say, for Sam Stires, liko tho rest of his family, was not all imaginative. There was noth ing remarkable H'JJSV the face of | Flynn, the outlaw, excepting that it I belied the character of its owner,being a square, honest face, with two clear, honest blue eyes, while Flynn—well, everybody within a hundred miles of the line knew what he was. Neverthe less, that face bothered Sam all the way home nud for two or three days afterward, and ho could think of no reason for its oon-itaut appearance be fore his mental vision until, ono after noon shortly after his arrival liome. ho siarted out for tho ftuston placo to see Mat. Then, as ho forded a creek near the Huston ranch, he remem bered the man ho had met thero ono time, who, ho had been told after his arrival at the house, was Harry Arm strong, his much-heard-of but nover before-seen rival for Mat's affections. And he remembered now that tho stranger's faca was tho face of Ned Flynn, outlaw and "rustler." After making this startling discovery j ho rode more slowly, iu order tore ; cover his mental equilibrium. He ; was in doubt how to act in the matter, j for ho was by no means absolutely i cortuin that ho was carroct, an.l he know that to tell Mat of his discovery and then tiud that ho was mistakeu, would jeopardize, if not ruin, his own chances with her. Wherefore, ho re solved to proceed with caution, nud to assure himself that he was right be fore going ahead. "Say, B.»rt," he asked, in a oonfl dontil tone, of Mat's brother, wuo rode a mile or two with him on his home ward way lato that night, "who's this j yere man Armstrong, anyways?" litrt Huston laughed. "Git tin' scuirtof 'iiu, Sam? Didn't s'pose he was worryin' ye at all, I sho' didn't." "Oh, 1 don't car' p'tie'lar," said : Sam, hastily, with a gesture of depre ! cation. "Ou'y, I'm jes' sort o' cur'us j 'bout 'im, that's all." "Wa-al, fact is, I d'no's I know much about th' diuk," confessed liart. ".Seen 'im oucet, didn't yo? Wa-al, all I know 'bout 'im, th't 'e's got a ranch uveb on th' Peoos, an' 'notheh one oveh b" th'Two-Mile— ol' Watrous place, yo know. Say's 'e's goin' t' -ill aout th' I'neoi place, an' move oveh t' this country afteb th' fall raouud-up. Seems t' taea party good 1 soht o' lellati, an' aj's like 'e's got dough. He's some eddicated, too." "M-bm," grunted Sam, as though it was immaterial, all this information u(miitt his rival. And he said nothing ! more to Hart ou the subject, but cer tainly "kej/ a-thiukin' a lot," as he would hive expressed it. lie must mane »ure tiiat his surmise was cor rect, and th'-u well, Mr. Armstrong, or Pivuu, or wbatovt-r bis name was, would not only be decidedly out of the r'i'i'iiny, bat was m a fair way to eon • nit one of his visits at the Huston pine 'ii the ead of a reata. lint be lore Ham had time to tbiua out tuu best plau for assuring himself o' "Aimtllulig'l" identity Willi Sail ! ynn, he learuu 1 that that guullem-ta »a» i xptctu I, in a lew days, ou a visit to Mat, and this information, volun teered by It art, whom be met on the lunge, decided Haul—who had b- at ihu point of decitiiuu for about • • si .«i « —on a ctMirsa oi aetlou, and lite > i.> it day liu rode over to see \<t he rode <:p to tbi Uoitae, ho i»o Hi-' I that it IU llm-I singularly 1 .. Uvj«d tUv "I dl»«" alt away, and that he could again post pone asking Mat the question he had so long been wanting, yet fearing, to ask. But Mat herself met him at the door. "W'y, howdy, Sam 1" she ejaculated. "I'm right glad t' see ye! Didn't know, f'r sho', but what 'twas some one a-comm't' carry me ofifl" "I've a right good notion t' do it," said Sam, with what he considered re markable audacity—and then he failed to follow up this opening, but asked: "Be ye all alone, Mat?" "Ish'd say alone I Maw 'n* paw's gone t' taown, Bart an' ev'ry han's aout on th' range, an' even ol' Man uela's done skipped—went ovah °n th' creek to a Greaser fun'ral. But go an' put Bill up an' come in. We'll have suppeh, right soon." Sam soon returned to the kitchen, and sat there, with eyes and mouth open, watching Mat as she flitted gracefully about the room preparing supper. He took in every detail of the tail, lithe figure, the pretty face, and tho thick tawny hair, with its lit-, tie curls that clustered about her neck. He wondered if she would ever let him handle those curls. "Well, come 'n' graze, Sammy," she said, finally."l reckon they ain't but us two t' eat, this time." ,'Wondeh whut she'd say ef I sh'd tell 'er I wish't it was jest us two al'avs?" thought Sam. But he did not say it, being very timid, and very hun gry, beside. After supper, however, they sat out in the "gallery," and Mat gave him an opportunity to speak. "Seems funny, don't it, f'r jest us two t' be a-settin' yere?" the girl said, smiling at him frankly. Sam swallowed spasmodically; his throat hurt him. "Why not f'r al'ays, Mat?" ho said, finally, in a husky voice. ".Mat, darlin', s'pose mo 'n' you fix it up t' be t'gethah f'revah? Don't —don't stop me," he went on, as the girl rose to her feet and would have spoken. "I be'n tryiu't' say it f'r two yeahs. Mat, will ye marry me?" The girl had one arm across her eyes, and was sobbing. "Oh, I wish't ye hadn't, Sam! I wish't yo hadn't 'a' spoke! I hain't treated ye right, Sam, 1 hain't. I—' "Wh—why—" "I s'pose I got t' toll you, Sam," sho said, more steadily, but with eyes averted. "Ef I got t' tell ye—oh, I Sam, I was married t' Harry Arm ; strong last winteh, w'en I was ovah | ou th' Pecos!" | Sam sank limply back in his chair. "Ye don't mean it; ye sho' don't mean it, Mat 1" he, gasped. But tho girl nodded her head affirmatively, and bit a coiner of tho handkerchief sho held to her eyes, j "1 cain't b'lieve it. Mat—l sho' ;oain't!" said poor Sam, plaintively, i "Le' me think." So engrossed were they that they bad not hoard tho sound of galloping hoofs, and both were startled when some one reined np suddenly, almost in front of them, and cried, hoarsoly : "Good God! Mat, where can I hide?" "Ned Flynn!" ejaculated Sam, starting to his feet dazedly. "Harry!" shrieked tho girl, as the man, pate, bareheaded nnd disheveled, ! threw himself from bis drooping horse and staggered toward them. One side of bis fuoe and nock was covered with blood. The girl sprang forward and threw ; her arms about him. "What is it, Hurry? What is it?" "Nothing," said the man, grimly— . "only they've sent out three posses : after me, and I'm caught. There's a lot of 'em just behind. If 1 could get ; over tho Two-Mile—" ! Sam started forward. "Haow fur b'hind are they?" he asked, in a queer ; voice. i "Bight on my heels," replied the other man, with the calmnoss of do jspair. He sat with bis head buried in ""his wife's lap, aud did not look np, sicmiug to caro not at all what hap pened next. I Then Sam did somethiug that sur ; prised himself "Git inside, you two I" ' be said, roughly, and tossed his hat to Flynn. Then ho ran and leaped into ' tho saddle the other man bad just left, | jammed his spurs into the weary i horse's flauks, and, with a wave of tho hand, was off toward the hills— aud not a quarter of a mile behind him, when ho struck the road, were a half dozen horsemen. I They caught sight of him crossing the road ahead, and, with loud yells, raoed after him. Sam knew that the horse ho rode could not last long, but he still had time to think of what he had done, and what would bo done to him. lie know what generally happened to per ilous who aided tho escape of men like Flyuu—but he rettecte.l, grimly, that : be bad his revolver ou, aud they should never hang him, at least. I But —why had he done it? He did not feel sorry, really, but he could ! not comprehend bis own action. "Ping!" They were shooting at | him noiv, and the bullets were ttyiug uncomfortably close. If be could only j reaou luu timber I He glauoed back, and it gavo hiiu a pang to see bow rapidly they were gaining upon him. 11 in horse stumbled, fell, ana threw ' him ; but he was back iu the saddle iu , a momeut aud urgiug the poor creu t ture ou. Agaiu be looked back. Due of bis pursuers suddenly baited his I horse, dismounted, aud, with hit knee 1 fur a rest, began pumping lead after the fugitive. Ouo—two three shots | unseed him. He hoped he wai draw ing out of range. Then — "What's th' matter wi' that?" asked ibu ui»u who had dismounted, as he uaiae up aud joined the reel. It was .lam's cousin, Wiiintires. "Through th' book, hey?" And he turned the body over. "Slick an I —good heav •ll»! It's Hum! You fuilabe don't S'|JO • hu'd l><» in with—" • * 'I I Olio ol l iuoinr. 'hi. •ii.,n n' liinui but tU>« x u 4 u *• u't iu it," And np at the Huston place, other I members of the posse had closed in upon the house, dragged Ned Flynn, outlaw, from the arms of his shrieking wife, and, without any useless delay, were jnst at this moment giving him the punishment he had so long and so riohly deserved. —San Franoisco. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. No insulator of magnetism has yet been found. - A dry heat of 250 dogrees destroys germs of infection. The skeleton of an averagewhalo is said to weigh no less than fifty thou sand pounds. Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, ißsaid to be an excellent winter refuge for consumptives. When water freezes it expands with a force which Trautwine estimates at not less than thirty thousand pounds to the square inch. At last hydrogen is liquified. What was once pure theory is now an estab lished, substantial fact. Every known gas has been forced from invisibility to visibility. The Russian Army authorities are about to establish a scientific branch of the service. Tho object is to work out the applicability of electrical discoveries to war purposes. They aro building locomotives in France now in a form to present as little hold as possible to the air, which, it is claimed, is an important factor iu diminishing the speed of fast trains. The Fourth avonue street car line. Now York Citv, after long experiment ing with storage batteries to run its cars, thinks that it has an article that fill the bill, and is about to equip all its cars. The length of tho day varies in different places. In London the longest day has sixteen and a half hours ; at St. Petersburg nineteen and in Spitzbergen the longest day lasts three months and a half. The water animals were lower in organism aud older iu existence than the air breathing animals. They naturally found ther existence easier than did the animals exposed to tho vicissitudes of the atmosphere. J. E. Gore, writing on the "Size of Solar System," says that "enormously large as the solar system absolutely is, compared with tho size of our own earth, it is, compared with the visible universe, merely as a drop in tha ocean." A new lead for deep sea sounding carries a cartridge <v uicu explodes on touching the bottom. A submerged microphone receives the sound and tho depth is estimated from the tim occupied by the lead in siuking to tho bottom. A heavenly census is now being taken by tho Paris Observatory; to count the stars tho heavens are photo graphed in sections. Some of these sections BIIOW only a dozen stars, while others of tho same dimensions show over 1500. ! There are being showu iu Sheffield, ; England, samples of compound cum- I pressed solid petroleum, tho invention ' of Paul D'Hutuy, a French navnl'eu- I gineer, who claims to h'-.vo solved tho ! problem of solidifying petroleum and low grade bituminous oil. Under his process ho states that three cubic feet : will represent the bulk of a ton of coal, and will last combustible as long as fifty tons. American UU Uauie lor England. Colonel William Boot, of Liramio, Wyoming, recently received an order from tlio representatives of some wealthy British sportsman owning big preserves in the Scottish Highlands for a number of elk, <leer and moose, to be shipped to Saotlan 1 for restock ing the preserves. He has in former years Deemed and sent over several similar consignment of big gauio to Great Britain and the Continent. The deer, ho says, stand the long journey well, but elk and moose Beem more delicate, have to receive the greatost caro and the most, carefully selected food, and after all frequently die ou the ocean trip. Ho will hunt in the northern part of Wyoming, whore elk and moose still abound, for the ani mals to till this order. It is a much harder task, as may well bo imagined, to secure these animals alive an lin good condition than simply to stalk and shoot them. Mow York Sun. Diuoverol a Pigmy Tribe. Dr. Donaldson Smith, of Philadel phia, the explorer of Somalilaud, has reached London in the bast of health. Dr. Smith ha.l a narrow escape from being killed by a rhiuoocrous while on his way to the lakes, but he pushed onward and succeeded in exploring the couutry, discovering many new tribes, the members of one of them being un der tlve foot high. The exploration, Dr. Smith said, had been successful from a natural history puiut of view. They had discovered a number of fer tile districts au I new tribes, and had located several doubtful rivers. They only lost six people killed during tilt) whole journey. Dr. Smith will return to the United Slates in January,— Chicago Times-Herald. At Law Over a IT,'. A $l5O lawsuit ov r u Sl.'i'i pit? hi* justli en ended m Miuhigautown, lud., au I the towu treasury is out the former amount. A moiitn ago the City Mar shal tuipouu le I n pig belonging to a farmer uuiutd llillis. The farmer re fused to pay the $1.51> pouu I char go and leplevined the pig. The towu sued biui, Slid utter thiuo tfUli tit-' Circuit Court the other day gave a verdict for iiillis, withal.ill damages. Wore than half the people in town *ere summoned *■> witm-Mua, ami tho t ital annumt of Money lout over thu , run to a pietty high figure. --N» » Terms-—BI.OO in Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. HAPPY UEI3BOYS. BRAOKOKO'B WOOLEN BOOM INCREASES SALES OF THEIR i'APERS; Increase of $0,000,000 In Shipments of Worsted Coatings British Labor llusy While Americans Are Idle—Demand for Hags and Shod dy, But Not American Wool. BRADFORD, November 30, 1895. Hush! Silence! What is that I hear? Not the street urohin, carry ing under his arm his usual bundle of evening papers and shouting in every one's oars the final result of the morn ing or afternoon races; but with a changed chorus he rings forth most sonorously, "Bradford Trade With America! Heavy Business Main tained." What hotter cry could the newsboy have in his eagerness to sell his bundle ot news? None whatever, for nothing touches tho "guick" of Bradford's heart sooner than to know what is her position in regard to her American trade. If prosperous sho will respond with a smiling fnce; if the reverse then you may expect a frown and a scowl. Having glanced through the American Consul's latest production, it was soon evident that we were sail ing still in deep water?. However, let us take soundings and see how matters stand. "Can I vet report any declino?"yon ask solemnly. Noue whatover; for October returns step forth and claim a third position. The occasions re ferred to were July ard August, when the totals were £534,301 and £606,880 respectively, while October returns show a no mean total of £517,279. But the reason of the total exports of July and August being so much iu ox cess of those for the past month is to be found in the fact that immense quantities of raw material were sent out in those month?, and, on this, of course, tho labor employed is infini tesimal as compared with manufac tured products. This to a true hearted Yankee, with a feeling of concern for his own do mestic factories, cannot be lightly passed over ; for in manufactured fab rics October jumps into tho second place and not the third. Really it is in this department where all the weight of argument comes in, for if one could see as large an increase in the exportation of raw materials, it would speak volumes for your do mestic makers ; but the result being the opposite—u..idt>- up fabrics—in stead of raw materials, it must tell powerfully against domestic mills. I say again, that while the principal manufactured exports are below Au gust, yet they aro considerably above July figures. Look for a moment at worsted coat ings, stuff goods and woolen goods. In July there were sent to your feido goods of these descriptions to tho value of £360,110; in August j£425,- 682, and in October £408,540. And I make bold to affirm that, if there had been in October five Thursdays and five Fridays, as there were in August, October shipment-) would have been the biggest ever yet chronicled. Why is that you ask? Simply because tho principal cargo vessels leave Liver pool at tho week's end, and on tho two days previous, Thursday and Friday, three-fourths of the declared ship ments are made. This I know for a fact is the prevailing custom among our Anglo-American shippers. Worsted coatings—and what an amount of labor is spent in producing this class of wearing apparel—gives to American makers another hard knook. Last mouth's shipment of this class 3f goods is the largest since the new tarill came, into operation. Think of it, £182,16!) worth of goods in four weeks. This meaus £15,542 worth per week, and .£'5747 per 27 working days leelaiol. If orders for this amount bad to bo given out to 27 domestic factories it would mean just a little in avety department of manufacture. The shipments of worsted coatings ilone for each oonsecutivo month ore worthy of recapitulation. Let every reader look at them squarely and toberly and study out what they mean. IHIPMKNTB OFSIIIPM ENTH OF WORSTED COATINGS WOUBTED I'OATINiIH UNDKI'. OORM.VX ACT, CSDF.H M'XINLHY 18'Jj. TARIFF, 1894. £. s. d. t'. S. c'. fan... 151,513 tilOJan .. 17,00! 8 4 Feb... 46,041 2 3 Feb. j» 29,957 0 9 March 115.0f'2 1 4 March 19,657 17 3 i ril. 116,500 2 «April.. 14,429 4 7 Mil v.. 164,998 11 11 May . 14,328 11 1 Julie. 115,987 411 Juuu. M 16,770 511 July.. 127,11(1 10 5 July . 22.152 12 8 A.uir.. 160,986 0 lA.ni;... 21,809 5 9 Sep... 172,484 15 2 Sep... 33,671 011 Oct... ]M'i,lo9 1 4 0ct.... 57,187 19 5 rotal. c 7,476.478 17 0 TMal.. .£238,608 6 8 Gigantic increase of foreign ship ments of worsted coatings alone in ten months' timo of £1,237.870 lis. Id. ! Bnt in thu words of the apostle of old I would exclaim: And what shall I say more? for the time wonl 1 fail mo to tell of stuff goods with their Samson like streugth; uf shoddy woolen goods with their Gideon like courage; of cottou goods (Italian manufactured linings, etc.) with their David like fortitude, etc., etc. ; which, through their oheapuesa mid adulteration, have subdued the Auu rieau dom.stio lactones. Aud these all have obtained a good Cou buiar report, li'ivo ''.\fised satelv into our markets to clothe the tiaoke and adorn tho persons lro:u whom your dome <tio maker* have the right to de mand their nrst support ami patron -11(.c. Vankkic. A UeuKirratle Idea. It remained for a Democratic Sec retary of the Treasury to speak "of thu peril* tu which the country is ex po*e 1," as the N'ew York Times put. it. We tho i.<ht that all "perils" Ltd vanished with thu removal of thu parly ol protect ioi(, NO. 15. , . CAPIT«-^_ ' [J ,-v L t 1M «|f I ißT<rrf)i« <5 «ri« pircnit** v i'\) • ,i| ■ ; v.;' v j lb i •£ vg x l 6T<rtln qf <m«>w»iit C" KPsj|i . Ittc«t)i«*^"iwe>trt«iit" ■' | , 'y. 2 Toffis'of wfijT|p * jDecrease '?]l[ OilNiTie* years -H L Jftt Eflrning&oj the Capitol and SufflluYqf . " " Bonlg ' 112? moS^' farpiT^£opocit'S T gf r , _< J. . w»; "k\ SOO DoUars tief* Hccf . fin ' j«- :ni"- £4-851 n« t<- r" jBT 1 12" ! i UOO Dollars "pc/Utcr"** 1 12&~ J£?" £t i 8 348 350 J 30an5lars-pTrSe(iY, I 3;i ~ &r ; i 1 0 ; 2J)O DollarsTper ift I ' ! A» |r —I >|lS- N. 190- '■ ? I -N \ ~ Increase k H j, M years S% SV-- LJSrtroqe' toWage Earners inu jhmfujacturingT j Facts lor Free Trade Liars. The Ananias anil Sapphire of fron trade journalism have loat none o? their natural gifts with the defeat of their party this month. In fact the occasion for the demand of their pe culiar products has been intensified. The people must be deceived again. The truth must not be in them. A oloak must conceal any semblanoe of •verity. Therefore, the Now York Times and the New York Herald, two of the most intensely un-American pa pers in the country, have resumed business on their old platform of false hood, deceit and misrepresentation. They often have much to say about an increase in our exports of manufac tures of iron and steel. It would bo honest to say something about tho in crease of our imports of iron and steel manufactures, hence the omission. Here are tho facts: TRADE IN" IRON F.XD STF.F.t. 000D8. Nine months ending September 30. Increase, XBSM. 1895. 3805. 1 Imports f14.58t.142 $18,500,214 *3.923.072 Exports. 21,882,776 24,851,031 3,108,855 Increase in trade against U?. 9 mo?. £451.227 While our export? of iron and steel goods have increased by $'1,408,85 >, our imports of iron and steel goods have increased by $3,923,072, the net. loss to us in this trade being $454,227 for tho nine months of this year. Thirl has been brought abont by tho breach in the wall of protection. But. Ana nias and Sapphira won't admit it. Wages Broken, Bnl Xi> Opening. x / The Value ol Mule*. isnj. i c P". Nii'nticr S.SU.fiIW .n'; 1 !-' 1 !]? Total value. «74.<W.070 *110.92<.*34 Value per head 4>J\s"> Department of Agriculture reports give the foregoing farm llgures. Ninoe MeKiuley protection.there was au in crease of 15,401 mules, a decrease of 1,1)51,23(1 in their total value, thn loss being 828 ou each mn'e. This is the difference between protection au.l free trade times. \> liut lie Nexloc'.s. The New Yerk Times recently de voted upaarl* ot a column of leading editorial to"The IWvenue—The Pres ident'* Duty." It forgot to mention, »* Democratic paper* have uiuro th in I.uc« averted, that "The I'resideut** tlnty" lis- oeeu more notioeahle in tuu omission than the Mtiim!s*iou. tu imparl*>l Spurt. The v<-r> m wt pr imuluij sport thl« wint*r '«• a *llr • i »«i»} fi » n th'« Kmii'h wuturiir,' |i u -w, nu I evryb xly who visits Florida !?■»•«» 'hrliui»tux. pr<iiioi|tioliii{ It tUt*.: a iiivutlutt of tii«9 a-'f
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