SULLIVAJL JSSFE REPUBLICAN. w. M. CHEJTET. Publi.her. VOL. XIV 'The Solid South" will be it finan cial jjbrase ten years hence, predict! the Chicago Times-Herald. The peach blossom has been select b - v a vote ° l the school children ol Delaware as the floral emblem of the State. is remarked by a statistician that the Stales which have the largest per centage of women teachers have also the lowest per cent, of illiteracy. Professor Cesare Lombroso, who ad vises that children and youths of habitual criminal leniencies be iso ated as lunatic?, s.iys there is scarcely a child who does not abuso his power over those who are weaker than he. If England sees tit to equip its most important war vessels with wire wound guns, this country must follow Miit, declares the New York Telegram, liie wire-wound .segmental caunon is »n American device that has proved mic.ei tests by this Government to be practically unburstable. Professor Dyobe, of Kansas Univer sity, tays that lis hag practically de cided mPke another trip to the u u tJi -, xT„ t , I'o '• an nually in CouueouuuK uuJ Massa chusetts. William Clark, of Vernon, Conn., makes a tour of Tolldan County, Connecticut, and Hampden County, Massachusetts, every fall col lecting furs from the farmers. Last reason he collected some 1500 skins, mostly skunk tkins, but many of them mink. These animals aro probably not more plentiful in these two coun ties than in some other parts of the two State?. The result of the census taken the other day in Berlin has caused somo 6iiri rise. It shows the total popula tion of the German capital to he 1,- 071,112, whereof 797,180 aro males •and 87G,92G females. The estimate, based on tho periodical returns of births and deaths and of departure a and urrivals, which iu Prussia have to be reported to the police, had shown, as worked out on November 10, a total 2>oimlatiou of 1,757,805. Moreover, the increase in tho population during tho last five yenri, according to this census, has been only six per ceut., as against twenty per cent, be tween 18S5 and 1830, and sixteen per cent, between 1880 and 1885. The explanatien lies iu tho enormous growth of tho subrubsas compared with Brlin proper. Tho Atlanta Constitution says: About six months ago Massachusetts created the State Highway Commis sion, and since that timo eighty-nine miles of iiret-class roads have been constructed under the auspices of the new Board. Tho experiment is to satisfactory that the Legislature this winter is expected to make a larger appropriation for roadways, and it is now certain that the work so auspic iously begun will be pushed forward with iccreased vigor. Tho fact that tho people.are willing, after spending 8700,000 in 1895, to spend a still larger sum shows that the movement iu favor of good roads is already pop ular enough in Massachusetts to hold its own, and it is natural to suppose that other States will organize their commissions and goto work on tho same line. New Jersey had a some what similar experieuco a lew years ago, aud after a few scoro miles of substantial roads had been completed the people all over the State demand ed their extension and expressed their willingness to submit to a much higher tax rate in order to secure these improvements. As the country lilts up with population the highway question will assume greater promi nence and goo 1 roadways will be con structed at the cxpenso of future generations', instead of causing the entire cost to fall upon tho peopli who are progressive euough to luaug urate such reforms, j A SONO OF LIBERTY. Across the laud from strand to strand Loud ring the bugle note* And Freedom's smile from isle to is!o Like Jreedom's banner floats! The velvet vales ring "Libert, ;" lo answering skies sorene: " The mountains sloping to the »»£ Wave all their flags of green! The rivers dashing to the deoji The joyous notes prolong. And all their waves in glory lea To one Immortal song! One song of Liberty and life, That was.and is to be, j Till tyrant fl'igs are tramplr And all the world is free' „ iotes One song! the nations hai" From sounding sea ton s throats And answer from their 112 That song of Libert' . P . . comes Tuey answer, and e< tara Beneath her f ; 7 , lloreclfl )0l Herheroesbio , iu bar 9, I hat crimsJ; 1 / JT ~ . 'y! strong she sands, Hail to our et . ... , l .»r-lrum sboat; -for fears t' , . , , oedom in her hands— Ihe sword oi <■ .. The t -Frank L^" 1011 ' in At ' nllta Constitution. THWHANTOM BELLS. "" -Utt BY SIRS. M. It. RAY.NE. jj£ ladies of the i, Bij*. Chateau Fronte- V\\ nac jivi'ed their brother's trsi! fiancee to make them a visit in order to explain ; •*-fc . to lier the strange shadow which K over their house for nearly a .udred years, and to whose baneful influence she must become habituated, when a member of tho family. When they first saw Clotilde, she was so young and timid they made up their miuds to wait until Gaspard him self came, but, one night as they sat around the great hall-tire there was a great jingle of sleighbells and the sound of swift runners on the crisp snow outside, and then that muical clash at the door which announced the stopping of the turnout, and the arrival of guests. Surely there was nothing uncommon in this, the coming of a party of merry people to a country house, and on a magnificent moonlight night when the whole landscape was as light as day ! Yet instead of looking pleased or surprised, the ladies sank back in their chairs, and covering their faces with their hands, murmured a prayer. Clotilde, the little one, clapped her hands, and asked earnestly : "Might it be, my friends, that it is Qaspard, who has come -with a sur prise?" "No, no, Clotilde, it will not bo our Gaspard. Mon Dieu, how then shall ■we tell her? Child, go you not to the door? Those sleighbells you hear are not of the flesh and blood—l mean the driver is not—" But the little Clotilde had run joy ously to the great hall door, and though no servant stood there to open it, she swung it wide on its massive hinges. A bitter blast of cold air rushed in with a dreary, wailing sound, and no sleigh stood outside, but even ns the startled girl watched, a clash of musical bells and the swift sound of the steel-shod ruuners filled the area of snow. She turned whiter than a lily in the somber moonlight, and flung the door to, affrighted. "Come to the fire, little one; you have seen, then, our skeleton in the closet?" "I saw not any skeleton—nothing nothing, but I heard the Bells -oh, what does it mean?" "You tell her, Agatha," said the younger sister. "I would greatly prefer that she should hear it from your lips, Cecile," nnswored the other. * "I am not afraid," said tho girl proudly. Tho color was coming back to her lips and cheeks, and her eyes sparkled. It could not be worse than the legends of the Loup-Garou which her uncle had told her sinoe she was a child—not EO very long ago that—but now she was a woman and would not show fear. "You will now know why our Gas pard has dark spells when not even his sweetheart can comfort him, why the shadow is never lifted from our lives, and we cannot be quite like other peo ple. Perhaps you will not then like to marry our brother, who is the best and dearest in the world, but like us, under the ban." "It is the more I would Jove him if I might, when he has the trouble; but tell me, please, is it that some wiekod souls como back because that they can not rest?" "We know not, petite, but the story is like this: So long ago, maybe, that not our oldest relation can remember, thero was another Gaspard de Fron tenac, a brave, good man like this one, but hot-headed and fiery. And you know, the steep hill? thac shut us in —bo'.high with the big ravine—the precipice on either side? And in the -winter there was always'snow, and the people went coasting and sleigh-riding with swift horses down those long hills, but never could two meet, for the road was just the width for one sleigh, and the people all knew this, and they waited at the plateau on the top, and each took bis turn. "It was my great unole's pleasure to take his young wife and go out on these steep hills and drive her like the wind with a swift flying horse, and she loved the sport and wrapped in furs, with her curls floating in the 7 LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1896. glit her; and that Gaspare! -was jh admired, too, for so the story i come to us, and their pictures are a the salon, though some think us not of the right mind to keep them there. "It comes soon now, petite, the tragedy of those two. One night, just such a night as this, they went riding in the eo gay spirits, and going up hill for tho second or third time what should they see but anotaev sleigh coming down ! It was coming fast, and my great uncle knew it was death for one side or the other, since pass they could not. And he shouted to the other driver to halt! "Ah, it was too sad. On, on, came the other sleigh, fast like the wind, and my great uncle Gaspard saw that it would into him crash, and he quickly drew a pistol, and fired to kill v the horse, before it was too late. And his own horse, he get such a fright he plungo over the side, throwing him out, but taking his bride down to death ! "Ho lived, but like a man in a dream, till some one tell him the truth that on th».*; night there was no other sleigh bui his own, and that he saw the shadow was of his own, in some way I know not the exact, the moonlight make that effect by what you call projecting the shadow, and when he know that, he take again the pistol and with it end his misery and his life." A long silence succeeded this wair! tale and then Clo'.ildo asked in a broken voice: ' 'ls it then that the sleigh is a ghost ?'* "Yes, petite, a—what you call phan tom." "I am not afraid. I accept, and will pray to givo tho poor ghosts peace." It was not like the Loup-Garou, not to the mind of Ciotilde half as dread ful, but she was not really afraid of theso because her old uncle had much sense, and he did not believe one of these stories, although tell them he did, and most graphically. Again on tho following evening came tho sound of bells, and this time Ciotilde went not near tho door, but sat moving her sweet lips in prayer. Then the door was flung violently open and a brusque, cheery voico called: "Hello, there, Victor, Aiphonso/you varlets, where are you hiding?" Certainly this was no ghost, and the three women who clung about his neck gavo frantic evidence of joy at his coming. Ciotilde was not one of the three. A big old man in a fox-skin coat had taken her in his arms, and was talking to her in gentle burr, the old uncle who told her tho dreadful stories, aud then she slipped one small hand into her lover's and looked at him with shy, huopy eyes. "It was so good of you to come in stead of the ghosts," she said, when later they sat cooing ic a corner, while the uncle, who was a great favorite with the young Gaspard, was making himself agreeable to tho ladies. "Then you know, dear little one?" taid the young man. "Aud you are not afraid to make your home in the Chateau Frontenac?" "Not with my '"laspard," came the soft answer, "but I like it better if the ghosts came not, and your sisters, they are sorry, too. But afraid—no!" "What of this so much being afraid?" asked a gruff voice, and the old uncle of Clotilde hobbled over to the corner where snatches of their conversation located the two lovers. Then he was told the story of the ghostly sleigh, and looked wise and thoughtful for the rest of the evening. The shrewd French Canadian was filled with marvelous stories of ghosts which ho loved to relate, but none of which he believed, not even his stock fright-story, tho legendary Louji- Garou. The next morning Uncle Pierre was missing from the chateau, but no one was disturbed, he had taken his gun, and would return when he pleased, which was at nightfall, and simultan eously with his coining rang out tho jangling, invisible bells. He found tho family shivering around the great tire as if they weio stricken with deadly cold. Even Gas pard looked troublod and the little Clotilde was trying to assure him that she was not—"Oh, no, not the least afraid!" "Fine is the night," he styd in salu tation, "and the air is the clear, so you hear-r-r, oh, so far ! Heard you not, my Clotilde, the sleighballs that come me with?" "Ob, oh," cried the ladies of the chateau in a faint chorus; "the bells do make our hearts to shake," and they said an audible prayer. "What you make afraid? Not tho bells of echo, that tho wind do bring to your door for the too sweet music? Fah ! Ghost is it, not at all, but tho r-r-ravine, and the hills, they do make of the bells of the sleighing companie, the echo which for the minu-t-e stop at your door; 'tis echo always this so many years that you think it the ghosts!" Uncle Pierre was compelled to es cape from the room when the family had accepted his scientific explana tion, which he further elaborated in their native tongue, he was so over whelmed with thanks and praises. So the shadow was lifted forever from the house of Frontenac, and the story which had so sad an ending and was accountable for the ghost, is no longer related as the cause of suoh a dreary effect, and it is now the pleas ure of the ladies of the ohateau, as it once was tho abhorrence, to ask visit ors to listen to the "so strange echo," and out of the materials of a tragedy they have really evolved a comedy.— Detroit Free Press. A Chesterville, Maine, couple re cently celebrated their golden wedding in tho very house into whioh thejr moved on their wedding day, lift* ; ears SELECT BIFTINWS. Corn ia being used as fuel in Central lowa. Bristol, Penn., claims the oredit of holding the first annual fair in Penn sylvania. Crab pots and eel pots are exact models, on an enlarged scale, of the Emperor motb. It is said that two women swindlers have been selling colored sawdust for ground coffee at Dunkirk, Penn. A citizen of Bridgeton, Maine, who is nearly ninety years of age, was shaved for tho first time one day re cently. The Mexican sword, in use among the aborigines at the coming of the Spaniards, was modeled after the noße of tho sawfish. Chicory is used ti adulterate coffee, Chunks of dried carrot are used to adulterato chicory, but the carrot is rock bottom. Thieves visited John Brook's farm, at Plymouth, Montgomery County, Penn., and stole a live porker weigh ing 250 pounds. Lots of acorns are bought in Pike County, Missouri, and sent to spice mills ID St. Louis, to be made into coffee and spices. A mountain lion measuring eleven feet from nose to tail, and weighing 250 pounds, was killed in San Antonio canyon, Cal., recently. The use of nets in fishing for stur geon is rapidly supplanting other methods of taking the big fish in the upper Columbia and Snake Rivers. The nets aro from GOO to 900 feet long, and the meshes vary in sizs between twel *nd nineteen inches. - * i possession of the Baroness Burdect-Coutts is a guinea which sho treasurers above all her minor belong ings. Her grandfather, who was a geutleman of Blovenly outward ap pearance, was given it by a benevolent old party, who chanced to mistake hi in for a pauper. Several large consignments oI salm on oggs have lately been sent from this country to Europe. A crate of 50,000 eggs was shipped from the Uni ted States fishery at Buird, Cal., to Ireland, and another crate, containing 50,000 eggs, was shipped from the same placo to Geimany. Two hunters of Boise, Idaho, had a sorrowful cxperienoe. They spent half a day loading shells, being dissatisfied with those on sale, and next morning drovo twenty-two miles to the hunting grounds. On arriving there they dis covered that they had left all their ammunition at homo in Boise. A fox and a banter together stalked a partridge near Tyrou, Vt., the other day, out each unknown to the other. The bird alighted in an apple tree be hind u barn, and the hunter tiptoed around one side of the barn and brought the bird down. But as the bird dropped, the fox, coming round the other side of the barn, seized it nnd was off with his dinner before the hunter could appreciate what had happened. "Little Kentucky." "Little Kentucky," a3 it might bo dubbed very appropriately, is located opposite Island No. 10, whera Ken tucky and Tennessee meet. The river, by gradually cutting out the Kcntuoky bank, had worn off a narrow strip of land, uutil one bright morning several people who lived on this side of the lino woke up to find themselves on the other side. In other words, tho swift current had washed away tho neck of earth which made tho extreme south western oorner ot this State a part of"the commonwealth of Kentuoky. The section of territory thus separated from its parent, as it were, is ten miles long and five miles wide--quite a good mouthful to tako in at one bite, even lor tho greedy Mississippi. Every well-posted river man and every person who is acquainted with the geography and typography of this State will understand how such a thing could happen. Right at the State line the river forms a loop about ten miles long. The loop extends up into Fulton County. The swift stream has simply drawn this noose tight and formed an island out of what was formerly a peninsula. Hickman is tho closest town of any size to tho place where all this land making oc curred. Darnell, a little hamlet over in Obion County, Tennessee, is quite near the spot. The boundary line between Ken tuoky and Tennessee has always been rather complicated down about Island No. 10, owing to tho peculiar bend in the Mississippi mentioned above. The lakes, bayous and sloughs which bisect that coruor of Fulton County in all directions also serve to mix matters. The biting off of such a large strip of soil will add to the general confusion, and the question may arise as to whether "Little Kentuoky" will here aTter belong to the domain of the volunteer State or still be a part and parcel of the dark and bloody ground. —Paduoah News. Hanoverian Etiquette. One of the minute points of eti quette upon whioh the King of Han over insisted was that he would not receive visitors for a first presentation to him except in uniform. Sir Joseph Crowo had no uniform, and he com ments on"the fast that a King who was utterly blind oould not see [sic] unless the person he wished to honor was in uniform." An Amerioan jour nalist was onoe refused an intorview with the same King of Hanover on tho same ground; but he was ultimately more successful, for, pleading that ho was an Amerioan republican, and therefore could not do otherwise than appear without a uniform, he was re ceived, the King commenting himself at the beginning of the interview upon the special ground for the ex ception.—The Atbuuaeum. "TARIFF REFORM" ASI) PEARL BUITOS. II ,Foreign Butlonsand Button Forms i THarkeled |?| v'S# in' United States ; duyiiic)ilie bo fiscal jjeara ending June3Q - • < Doiilrv j" n Pvi!».s' S®! jf ; #j3 W; : IMMI) X 'ffiL Myirn //// 1A VI 00/Iom: if 112 • i 111 fctx 95 I 1 In 1893 we imported 13,057,642 lines of pearl buttons. In 1895 we iin- ' ported 18,537,049 lines. Americans, , under thoGorman tariff, were deprived j of tho work that could have been util- ' ized in making 5,500,000 lines of j pearl buttons. The amount of duty; collected on foreign pearl buttons in ' 1893 was $395,245. In 1895 it was ! DTAH-ODR SEW STATE. EXTENT OF ITS VAT-iUABE PROD UCTS AND INDUSTRIES. Farms, Mines and Factories a Source of Interminable Wealth—Active Progress and Public Improve ments Always In Hand—A Bright and Brainy Senator. Tho admission of Utah as a State of the Union suggests a brief review of itsagrieultura!, minora', and industrial conditions, which wo aro able to com pile from tho aDnual report of tho Governor of the Territory, Hon. Caleb W. West. Tho population./)! Utah increased 41.4 per cent, between 1880 and 1890, and 14.15 per cent, between 1890 and 1895. It now stands at a total o( 247, 324 persons, of whom 120,803 aro males and 120,521 females. Tho as sessed valuation of real and personal property and improvements was $97,- 942,152; the revenue from taxes was $497,510. Almost $2,750,000 were ex pended last year on private and public buildings and in public works, and 440,000 acres of land were surveyed. The report upon the farming inter ests of Utah are very extensive. There are 407,000 acres under cultivation, 417,455 acres irrignted, 294,725 acres of pasturage fenced in, 800,050 acres of improved land a-d 979,182 acres of unimproved land. There are 20,581 farms, of which only 2128 were mort gaged for $1,971,352, uud $720,003 were expended on farm buildings dur ing lhe year, 8226,879 in repairs and over $1,000,000 were paid out for farm labor. We have condensed the principal crop areas and products for 1894 as follows : Crop. Acres. Bushels. Value. Wheat.... 344,717 8.11.1.073 *1,440,G0G Coru 13.843 203,557 J51.433 live 3,71)1 48,353 20,004 Barley.... 8.754 271. MSG 100,207 Oats 43.334 1,387,710 470,653 Potatoes... 13,520 1,010.230 C-22,855 Beets 3.058 *38.015 360,714 Hay SO. 155 *123,640 604.309 Lucerno . 163,544 *402,450 1,831,639 Apples.... 0.60S 377 03J 146.764 Peaches. . 1.63G 154,772 75.152 Apricots .. 351 21.234 10,372 Plums M2 37,810 10,833 Pears 864 27.261 18.8:12 Grapes.... 678 *324 37,263 8 in a 1 I fruits... 747 *SOO 62,441 Sheep yj, 422,802 12.UP.7C3 J4.551.201 Total value 110,240,061 ♦Tons, v Number of sheep. J Value of theep aud wool clip. Besides the above there woro pro duced 860,322 pounds of driol fruits, 200,000 gallons of cider, vinegar and sorghum, 3,411,732 pounds of butter, 820,747 pounds of cheese and 1,102,121 ponnds of honey. Of live stock, other than sheep, Utah has 300,003 head o? cattle, ineluding 60,595 milch cow.*,' 47,703 hogs and 5000 head of mulej and other animals. The industrial condition of Utah shows 880 manufacturing concerns, employing 5054 bands who earn $2,- 027,118 a year. The amount of capi tal invested is $5,476,246, the value of the plants is $5,986,215, the value of the raw material used is $2,610,033 and the value of the product of the factories is $6,678,118. For commer cial purposes, Utah has 1974 ttorea employing 5023 hands who earn $2,- 685,794. The capital invested in tho stores amounts to $14,551,345 and the the sales aggregate $32,865,611. The capital of thebanksexceedsss,ooo,ooo and the amount of the deposits was $9,689,267 last year, an increase of $423,000 over tho deposits in 1891. There, are 1380 miles of railroad in the HtAte and eighty-four miles' of electric roads. The mineral interests of Utah are important. Briefly summarized they are as follows: G.il 1 niKl Coal. silver. Number of mines 12 546 Employes 139 2,534 Whkoh paid $59,775 52,789,817 Output, tons 62.101 231.924 Cost of plaut 112 46.708 $4,392,800 Coct of development .. 43,60) 7 vol,is", The entire mineral product o." Utah j is next given: Terms---Sl*jyJ\n Advance; 51.25 after Three Months. $241,193. By the Gorman law, tbo ' American Government lost 8150,000 , of revenue while Americau labor lost j the work of making 5,500,000 lines oi.' ' button;. Who derived any benefit ! from this tpecies of "tarifl reform?" j Not our Government, not our workers; ' but foreign manufacturers and foreign ! labor. 1,085,160 pounds copper, at flvj conts per pouud $53,308.00 202.500 pounds rollaed lead, at 112 3.11 per 100 pounds C 2,977.50 55,551,663 pounds unrefined lead, at 533 per ton 838,326.6) 6,659,798 ounces lino silver, at 62 97-100 cents por ounce 4,193,674.8') 56,427 ounces lino gold, at S2O per ounce. 1,19J» "1,00 Total export value .1 .9) Computing the gold and ■ at their mint valuation, and otl* als at their value at the sea it would increase the value of the prod uct to 511,631,402.72. The last delegate sent to Congress from the Territory of Utah was lion. Frank J. Cannon. Upon tho admis sion of Utah to Statehood it is be lieved that lie will bo elected the first United States Senator. Mr. Cannon is a young man, bright, energetic and progressive. He has ulreadv made many friends in Congress and gained the respect of tho older members by his diligence and intelligence. Ho is expected to make a name for himself in National politics. So large and diversified are the industrial interests of Utah that he is a fi'm believer in the policy of protection for tho United States. Xew York's Important lut.'icst, H ME*.* "Ate © /, an , d GW . 112 P° Iflipurta.niblUrejtj °J f~ JgR: - UOOtifijlion Oc".ors U24 fr Total ForeignTTode - _ . ' (Imports ani Exports) 4890,009,819 - •p- -=22. " - • c •' - J 1 :-;;,: ' UOi'lTlilfaiiDlifers '. ' '■ f .II I . 1: I * . •• ■ I JlJhidiJnUfet is Better Ukrlh Carinj for' Fast 3. Tii:i in oar exports o American products and manufactures daring tho first fifteen months of the Gorman tariff, as compared with the first fifteen months of the MjKinley tariff, was $J20,333,320. The decrease in our imports nnder the Gorman tariff, comparing the same periods, was $03,138,975. The excess of exports over imports in the McKinley period was $213,972,- 968, but only $56,758,623 under tho Gorman period, a lose, under tho lat ter, of $157,214,345. Under the Gorman tariff we exported $20,010,210 more gold and imported $19,759,052 less gold than during the McKinley period. The net loss in the trade balance of the United States has been $198,983,- 607 during the first fifteen months' opeiation of the Gorman tariff as com pared with the first fl teen months of the MoKinley tariff. This loss is at the rate of $13,130,000 a month, or $500,000 for every business day in tho month. A Worn to Senators. Faint heart never won fair ladr,*and a faint heart will never provide more revenue for tho Treasury, check the issue of more bonds or afford proper I protection to American labor an-1 in- I dnstrie*. xiat . _r ,±. =- NO. 17. Facts Abmt Furuiluiv. Tbe furnitare men wnut free lum ber, l'ree glue, free varnish and every thing else free, says Editor Godkin of the New York Evening Post, the great destroyer of many industries for the benefit of the few. They nave freo lumber. What good does it do them? Here are our imports of foreign furni ture and the amount of revenue de rived therefrom : Year Value r>f Total A'l vn ending Impor.sol duties lorem rata Jun>s 3'J. furniture. olleetnd. per cant. 1892.... 4411.712 ti11.099 35 1893 382.199 183,77!) 35 lfc94 . 203,730 92,315 35 Average for three year.-i 352,517 123,301 35 Year ending August 31, 1895 393,017 99,251 25 We give Jlr. Godkin, and the other "placid old fogies" of the local branch of the Cobden Club, all tho comfort they can derive from the foregoing facts. During tho first year of freo lumber wo hive imported 540,47il worth more of foreign furniture and the Government has lost 52>,137 in revenue on furniture alone without reckoning the million dollars' loss of revenue through placing lumber on the freo list. It may also be men tioned that in nine months of this year we captured $243,444 worth less of tho furniture trade of the world thin we secured in the corresponding months of 1894. Notwithstanding these great boons from free lumber, we noted tho other day tbe failure of one of tho largest American furniture manufac turers. Of course the fact that tho people are not able to purchase as much furniture ns in 1892 nnd 1893 has nothing to do with the failure. Labor Looms Up. At a special meeting of tho Phila delphia Workingmen's Protective Tariff League the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted: "Whereas, The Wilson Tariff bill, after one year's trial, has failed to raiso sufficient revenue to meet the expenses of the Government, whilo under its operation the import! of manufactured goods have increased in some instances by 200 per cent. "Whereas, The Fiity-fourth Con gress will be called upon to devise eome means to increase the revenuo for the support of the Government, and "Whereas, The late verdict of tho American workingmen, as expressed by their ballots on November 5, is a further con.lemation to tue present revenue system, and is also a fresh mamteto to their representatives in Congress to make the necessary chmge in the present tariff bill so as to afford adequate protection to all American industries, and also to raiso sufficient revenue to defray the neces sary expenses of the Government with out having to resort to the quesiion ..jlo method of issuing bonds tor t'aat purpose ; therefore, be it ".Resolved, That we enter our pro test against any further internal taxes upon the American people, but believe that all additional revenue should bo raised by increasing the duty on im ports, especially imports coming in competition with the pro Auction of Amer'cau labor. •' esolved, Tnata copy of those res c* ions be sent to our reprasentatives Congress." Let Louis'aua Celebrate, It has been suggested by the Cham ber of Commerce of New Orleans that tbe one hundredth anniversary of tho admission of Louisiani into tho Union be celebrated, oa December 20, 1903, by a great international exposition o£ the producis of the world's progress. Such a celebration would practically include Arkansas, Missouri, lowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Kansas, ; Nebraska, Wyoming, Mon tana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and parts of Utah and Colora 10, as theso States were included with the prchaso of the Louisiana of to-day when the French flag was lowered in 1803. The idea is a good one, because it ciunot fail to convince our Southern friends of the great advance that tbj country has made, both in its igricultural an I industrial resources, during tho un disturbed period ol protection that ended in 1833, a policy that, let us all hope, will again bo iu operation in 1903. Protection—Freo Trade. The exports of 1895 in dome-tie merchandise were $75,812,338 )es:« than in 1894; and the imports vere $76,975,343 greater in 1895 than in 1894. —Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, Dec amber 16, 189^. This Is onicial. The year 1891 was one of large ex ports and diminished imports; 1893 was a year of large imports aud di minished ex ports.—Secretary Carlisle's Annual Report, December lli, 1895, (iooil Maxims. Raiso revenue, not debt. Increase wage earnings, not interest payments. Memo lor Urorer. Dead duoks have no use for ''ener vating paternalism." Hl> Collar Exploited. William Banjamin. a brakeman on (* o Erie Unllroad, caught a spark on the back of his eellu'old collar ns hla train entered Iho station at Hillsdale. N. J. Tho collar took fire nnd exploded with a loud report. Bou jamlnsolrod ihj collar with bilh hands an 1 tore it from his neck. H« was barm* 1 se verely on th < face, neck and hands, lie will bo disabled for some time. A Nil vet Headlight. The Queen and Crescent Railroad is using with success an arrangement which vnries tho reflection of the headlight of Iho loco motive ns It goes around curves to strlketho track. It Is effective up to a curvo of forlv- II ve degrees.