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 <u. Uo d isles
From chained an hu nder-drums
And roars like ocs, smiles .
Where brave Cc
, v . -/great she sits instate
Where crown<*>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.
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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 - • <
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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.
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4890,009,819
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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*.
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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.