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    SULLIVAN JBSIS REPUBLICAN.
W. M. CHENEY. Publisher.
VOL. XIV'
Tho coal-mining industry of Great
Britain has seldom had a merit unsatis
factory year than 1895 proved to be.
It is said that in the event of war
between England and Venezuela, 100,-
000 Brazilians will join tho latter
country.
•i Indiana Judge, iu his address to
•«1 Grand Jury tho other day,
'hem to hear certain evidence
-nspariug hand."
"> the marriage rate in Ber
■ftsed from 30.fi to 20.3 per
U that rate there would
>ges at all forty years
•an artist Verest
•ole of Moscow
on distinc
architecture.
give the oity au
attract thousands
(he accompanying
jntroversy is now in pro
i St. Paul and Minneapo-
U eats the most mutton,
ins that sho consumes
oy sheep as her sister city,
ieapolis claims that the sheep
..jod in St. Paul arc very small,
<d although slio may consume a
greater number of muttons that they
nre so small as to cause Minneapolis to
lead in pounds ot mutton.
The Scottish Farmer 6ays that har-
UCFS horses are so scarce in that coun
try (lint they must come to America to
hftve their needs supplied. Not find
ing what they wish, they take back the
best available, which is to their loss
and ours. The French aro buying
their light cab horses from us. which
they formerly obtained from Germany.
They contend that they can buy their
cheap horses cheaper than they can
raise them.
! York last yearlfcian
in the world. The
. for the year comprises
as, taken from all walks of
life, and varying in ago from ohildren
of less than fifteen years to men and
wouen nearly ninety years old. This
list is the largest on record in New
York, although tho percentage of
suicides to the entire population is
lower than on some previous years.
During 1895 just closed the Utica
(N T . Y.) Herald tried to keep a record
of all people reported to have died in
the United States at the ago of 100
years or over. The total reported was
curiously enough, pays the Herald,
just 100. Two-thirds of those were
v omen, all but four being white wo
men. Of the colored centenarians
there wore thirteen men. The oldest
person to die was a colored man, who
WHS 125. A white man died at St.
Louis who had claimed to be 140, but
there was no proof that he was over
121. Even at that age, however, he
was the oldest white man to die during
1895. The oldest white woman was
120. There were fourteen people
whose ages ranged from 110 to 125.
The New York Tribune says: Some
little time ago a famous firm of Lon
don solicitors found it neoessary, in a
case involving large interests, to have
Kome detective work of a difficult and
delicate nature done in this city, and
instead of employing the regular agen
cies put it in the hands of an Amerioan
women of good social standing in pri
vate life. She undertook the task,
and has been so completely successful
in the performance of it that the firm
employing her has not only thanked
her, but sent her a oheck for a hand
some sum. The employment of women
of education and position for delioate
work has become common in England,
but thus far few women have been so
employed in this country. If they go
into the business, however, it is pretty
safe to say that they will sucoeed in it.
From Vienna comes the news of a
wonderful discovery in photographic
science. It is no less than a means of
photographing the interior of solid,
opaque bodies. By the new system
the bones of a man's hand were per
fectly photographed, the flesh being
invisible in the picture. Broken limbs
and bullets in human bodies were also
successfully revealed, as well as ob
jects plaocd in a wooden bos. Pro
fessor Routgeu, of the University of
Wurzburg, is the inventor. The light
be tiers to photogroph by is produoed
what is known as a Orooke's pipe, viz :
a vacuum glass tube with an induction
tleotrio ourrent passing through it.
The result j» a light that appears to
penetrate organic substances just as
ordinary light pssnes through glass.
The inventor throws open a wide Held
for the deduction of new truths ia
eleotrioity snd optics.
SONG OF; SPRING.
The spring time, O the spring timor
Who does not know It welly
When the little birds begin to bullJ,
And (ho little buds be.{ln to swell.
When the sun with the clouds plays hide
and-seek.
And tho lambs are bucking and bleating.
And ihe oolor mounts to the maiden's check.
And the cuckoo scatters greeting,
In the spring time, Joyous spring time!
The summor, O the summer!
Who does not know it well'/
When tho ringdoves coo tho long day
through
And the bee refills his cell.
When the swish ot the mower is heard at
morn,
Ani wo all in the woods go roaming,
And waiting is over, and lovo is born,
And shy lips meet in the gloaming.
In the summer, riponlng summer!
—Alfred Austin.
wourIUT"
A TAI.E OF BRITISH GUIANA.
s well, you fellows
catt Relieve it or n °t
as you like," said
*' \° Mncka y. "hut I tell
[f ' you that for a day and
» night, I have known
■ what it is to bo dead."
' "Oh, come, Mac,
that's too much. Tho Major has given
us some pretty tall ones, but we can't
quite swallow that."
"Perhaps," suggested the Major,
"Mackay refers to a state of alcholic
saturation. I have heard—"
"Oh, all right," said Mackay.
"Only you said it was my turn for a
yarn ; but of course if—"
"Fire away, Mac; never mind the
Major ; he's an unbelieving chap when
his own tales are bested. We'll believe
you. Observe the childlike innocence
of our countenance."
"Very well then, you shall have the
yarn.
"It happened out in British G'iiana.
Phil Egerton and I had baienTinocking
about that district in --tf yacht. Phil
was a bit of a scientist; had dabbled
in the o!ogi«> when ho was at Oxford,
aud he foujpl something to interest
him in thjrshallow waters round the
ooast. Jjno buckets of mud and slimy
thingwe fished up weren't very ex
citiujjf for me, so I putin a good deal
ofjpme hanging round the billiard
'rooms of Georgetown.
"I don't think I could mention the
place that I've spent more than n
month in without contriving to make
a fool of myself over some girl. Sho
was a waitress this time, and, by
.'ove! she was pretty. We called her
'The Queen,' and I never knew her by
any other name. What nationality
she beiongod to I can't tell you. I
think she had a dash of most of them
in her, but English, Spanish and In
dian were perhaps tho most prominent
—English in business, Spanish in
love, but pure undiluted Indian in
hate. It was a dangerous mixture,
but you've no notion how fascinating.
I wasn't by any means the only fellow
. who'sucoumbed to her charms, but I
believe I was the only one she cared a
fig about. Xou'lf admit that the posi
tion had its dangers. Of course I
knew perfectly well that I was making
an ass of myself, but I couldn't help
it. Tho only thing for me to do was
to bolt. If 1 stayed another week I
should marry her, and then there'd be
the deuce to pay.
" 'Look here, Egerton,' I said one
night; 'you've got to take mo away
from here. Leave thoso confounded
weeds of yours and lot's weigh anchor
and be off.'
" 'What's the matter, Mao?' said
Egerton. 'Gcft the fidgets? I'm sorry,
old man, but I've discovered a now
species among these said weeds, and I
want to woTk it up.'
" Well, Phil, my boy, if you won't
leave, you'll have to be my best man,
that's all.'
"That frightened him a bit. I told
him the whole story, and he saw there
was no time to be lost if I was to be
saved. Phil Egerton knew me pretty
well in those days.
" 'l'll tell you what we'll do, Mao-,'
ho said. 'You know Wilson, the sugar
planter. He tells we there is seme
capital shooting to be had in the in
terior ; any amount of birds aud a
ohanco at a stray jaguar or two. He's
going to have a month of it, and has
askod me to join him. We oan take
the yaoht'B boat and go up tho Dem
erara until we strike the woods.
What do yon say?'
" 'Anything you lite, so long as you
get me out of this moss."
"We went in the morning and saw
Wilson about it. Ho was delighted,
and said he would start as soon as we
could get ready.
"Of course any sensible man in mv
position would have had tho pominou
prudence to employ tho intervening
time in cleaning his guns aud lookiug
out various odds aud ends for the ex
pedition, but as I tell yon, where
women are conoerned I'm not to be
counted in tho c,lass of sensible men.
1 went to see The Queen, and naturally
she wormed tho whole thing out of
me.
" 'Phil,' I said, when I got back,
'if we can't start to-morrow wo needn't
go at all. It would spoil the partv if
I took a wife with ige.'
" 'We'll start to-night if you like,
Mae. I'm ready; aud if Wilson isn't,
ho can follow us. Hut what's the
hurry? You haven't told hur you're
goiug, have you?'
" 'Yes, I have, and that's why it
won't do for mo to stay here louger.'
" 'Well, Mae, ot all tho thundering
idiots it has heeu my privilege to
know, I do think you're about tho big
gust. Why ou earth couldn't you
vanish quietly and leave ber to Unci
out about it aiterwsrJs ?'
" 'I meant to, lnit wlieu I started
talking to her, out it all earn-.'
" 'What pomreased you to there
at all tu dnj ?'
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1896.
" 'Ob, come, Thil, be reasonable.
You couldn't have kept away yourself,
if you'd been in my place.'
" 'You bad a scene, I suppose?'
' 'Well, slightly. She accused ma
of wanting to get rid of her, trying to
run away, in fact; and as it was per
fectly true, I faucy I didn't show up
very well in the argument that fol
lowed.'
"'Oh, you great bearded infant;
put your hat ou and we'll go and see
Wilson at once.'
"We started next morning. I was
feeling a bit hipped, of course, but
the others were jolly euongh. As I
think I told you, Phil had a weakness
for pottering about in scientific
messo?, and he found a kindred spirit
iu Wilson, whose hobby was birds. It
was really to get some specimens that
he had originally proposed this expe
dition.
" 'By the way, Wilson,' said Phil,
'have you evor managed to get hold
of auy curare?'
" Curare?' said Wilson. 'I don't
know what it is; what is it?'
" 'Probably it has got some other
name out hero. We called it curare
in Oxford—lndian arrow poison, you
know.'
" 'Oh! you moan "wourali." No,
1 can't say I have, and I don't think
I want to", either. It isn't a very safe
plaything.'
" 'Safe enough,' said Phil, 'so long
as you haven't any cuts or scratches
on your hands.'
" 'For heaven's sake, shut up that
scientific shop 1' I exolaimed. 'We've
come out hero to enjoy ourselves, not
to talk like a confounded British As
sociation meeting.'
"'Poor old Mac!' said Phil, J'what
shall we talk about? Will billiards do
—or waitresses?'
'"Drop it, Phil,' I said; 'I
want to be a bear, but your jargon
isn't very interesting to a chap who
hardly knows »iu ology from aa ism.
Lot's "luwtj something to eat.'
''We found a shady spot under some
bushes to have our meal in. We were
just lighting up afterwards, and I was
holding the match to my pipe when
something (lashed out of the bushes
and knocked the pipe out of my mouth.
"'What's that?'said Phil, starting
| up.
" 'lt's a dagger,' I said. 'Just see
what's behind those bushes, you chaps,
while I tie my handkerchief around
this hand. I've got a bit of a scratch.
If it's "The Queen," let her go.
Thank goodness she missed my face.'
"it was 'The Queen.' They nought
sight of her among the bushes, but she
got away all right. They didn't fol
low her far, but came back to see if I
was much hurt.
" 'lt's nothing serious,* I said; 'only
a scratch, but I think my nerves must
be a bit upset. It has made me feel
horribly tired. I'll go and lie down in
the boat for a while, and let you fel
lows finish your smoke. I've got a
bit of a head.'
" 'Mackay, you're crying,'exolaimed
Wilson, 'and the sweat is simply pour
ing down your face. You're pretty
badly hurt.'
"'Crying!' shouted Phil. 'Wilson,
that dagger is poisoned!'
" 'Poisoned? You don't mean—'
"'Yes, I do. It's "wouralia;" copi
ous secretion of sweat aud tears, head
ache, feeling of extreme lassitude—
thoso aro the exact symptoms. Off
with that bandage, Mac.'
'"Good heavens! he's done for,'
said Wilson.
"'Done for? Not a bit of it. Off
with that bandage; I'm going to suck
the wound!'
"I had just got energy enough left
to protest against his doing this, but
lie insisted, and I was too feeble to
prevent him.
" 'Nonsense, man,'he said; 'l'm safe
enough. The stuff isn't a poison taken
internally, even if 1 do manage to
swallow some.'
"Ho put his lips to the wound - , and
then I closed my eyes and everything
becamo blank.
"It must have been hours afterward
that I began to regain, I can't say
consciousness, but an indefinite sen
sation of existence and horrible
weariness. It seemed to me that I was
swimming on and on somowhere in a
vague, purposeless way, and I was
very, very tired. I called it swim
ming, but that isn't an exaot descrip
tion. I could feel my arms moving
back and fore with a steady rhythmi
cal motion, but the rest of my body
was absolutely still. I WHS almost suf
focating for want of air, but 1 didn't
seem to have strength to gasp. How
long that sensation lasted I can't say,
but it must have been a very long
time. 1 wouldn't voluntarily go
through auotber hcur of suoh unutter
able and helpless misery ior anything
you could offer me. I tell you it has
given mo my theory of what future
puuishmeut may bo like.
"As coussiousncss gradually re
turned, tho feeling of infinite weari
ness became moro and moro unbeara
ble. Mv arms were still swinging
backwards nud forwards like a couple
of animated pump handles and I was
quite uuable either to stop them or to
move any other part of my body. Try
and imagine the sensation; it was
simply awful.
"Wheu I did finally come to myself
so far as to know what was going ou,
I did it pretty thoroughly. You know
tho theory that when a man loses tho
uso of bis eyo?, his sense* of touch and
hearing became unusually accute?
From my experience that day I can
quite believe it. Iha 1 lost all power
uf mot'on, anil ray perooptive facul
ties became, to compensate, most un
comfortably keen. J felt as though I
eould alinott see through mv closed
eyelide.
"Phil told mo afterwards that the
peculiarity of 'vrourali' poisoning is
that if the dime is not very large, only
the uervet of mutton are paralyzed,
while thoso uf s. nsitiou become ah
normally semit ve. I knew everything
luu! aa* Hoi-i« ou aro in I •!>*. aud I
conl J hear every word they said, but
I couldn't even wink to let them know
I wan alive.
"They bad stuck a knife handle be
tween my teeth to keep my mouth
open, aud the weariness in my arms
was caused by the fact that for nearly
a day and a night Phil and Wilson
had been taking it in turns to practice
artificial respiration on me.
" 'Egerton,' I heard Wilson say,
'do you think it's any good going on
longer? He hasn't breathed now for
nearly twenty-four hours. I believe
he's dead.'
" 'We'll goon as long as we oan
stand !' said Phil, and I blessed him
for it. 'lf we can only keep the arti
ficial respiration going till the poison
is eliminated, he will recover. For
God's sake, keep it up as long as you
can, Wilson.'
" 'lf you think there is the slightest
chance of saving him, I'll goon; but
I don't thiuk I can last out mueh
longer.'
" 'He's still warm, Wilson, and I
won't give up hope as long as that
is so.'
"That was a nice cheerful conversa
tion to overhear, wasn't it? Listeners
nover hear good of themselves it is
said, but I doubt whether the most
persistent eavesdropper ever had the
pleasure of hearing a man pronounce
him dead, without being able to con
tradict the statement. If I hadn't
begun to breath spontaneously pretty
soon after that, I should never have
had the opportunity of contradicting
it. Phil and Wilson couldn't have
gone on much longer. How they kept
it up for tho length of time they did I
have nover been able to understand.
Tho power ot friendship is very much
undented.
"It must havo been about.two hours
after Wilson had decided that I was
dead, that Phil saw my eyelids begin
to twitoh.
"'At last, Wilson !' ho crie.l. 'Go
and get soma water from the river.'
"They dushed the cold water over
me, and it caused me to gasp slightly.
They carried me to the boat, and as
60ou as they saw the danger was over,
they, both of them, sat down on the
bottom boards and fell fast asloep. In
a very few minutes after them, I was
asleep too.
"Nearly fifteen hours after that, I
woke, feeling rather weak and faint,
but otherwise as right as a trivet. Tho
other two were still asloep, and I didn't
wake tllem.
"That is the story, and I don't think
I was guilty of an exaggeration when
I told you that for a day and a night
I had known what death wa«. A man
who remains for twenty-fonr hours
without drawing a breath may fairly
claim to be dead, I think."—Cham
bers's Journal.
The Deadly Grape Seel.
! The grape seed, having been relieved
of tho charge of causiug appendicitis,
seems to have taken a new tack and is
trying to do its mischievous work in
another fashion.
An official of a New Jersey county
is in a critical condition from the ef
feots, it is said, of a grade seed. He
ate some grapes and took great care
not to swallow the see-Is, but by come
accident managed to inhale one,which
lodged in the upper portion of his
lungs. Himself u physician, he real
ized tho necessity for care and rest,
and supposed ho had given the soed
ample time to become encysted, which
however was not tho case.
There are a number of cases on rec
ord small artioles of various
sorts have been drawn into the lungs
with tho breath. In several instances
irritation had begun that ended in
death. Sometimes, though, the articlo
becomes coated with exudations from
tho surrounding surface and is gradu
ally covered up, foiming a lump that
one may carry through tho remainder
of life without serious injury. Post
mortem examinations have disclosed
several of these cysts which had noth
ing to do with the death of the subject.
—New York Ledger.
A Great Bo?.
"That pointer of mine is a great
dog," declared Howard Vernon, as he
petted his SIOOO dog Glenbeigb. "I
oan always depend on him. Whon ha
makes a point I know that he has
scented a bird and I know that he will
not move a muscle while I have a
chance at that bird.
"I was hunting quail up at Point
Reys last month when I lost Glenbeigh.
I knew he must be pointing in the
brush somewhere, but I looked every
where for him and oould not find him.
Tho I resumed tho search,
with no better success, but on tho
third day I found him in a dense
thicket, standing perfectly rigid, with
his tail sticking straight out behind
and one foot up. A quail had run in
to a hollow tree, and the dog stood at
the opening pointing. The quail
dared not come out, aiut the dog, true
to'his training, wouldn't move. He
bad been standing in that position,
without so much as moving a foot, for
sixty-five hours, and when I tried to
lead him away lie could not walk."—*
San Fraucisco Post.
Hallway Travel iu Allien.
Discontented passengers by the
London, Chatham and Dover should
try South Africa. A pathotio atory
comes from tho Transvaal of a traveler
who, at Kaapmuider, ar"*ed a railway
official to direct him to *, train tor
Barberton. He was shown into the
down Delagoa train, aud at Hector
spruit was tiued 8"> for traveling to a
place other than that mentioned on
his ticket. Next day he went baok to
Kaapmuider, inquired of another offi
cial, and found the right train. But
hi* welcome at Barberton waa no
warmer than that at Heutorspruit.
The authorities promptly fined him
another S3 for traveling with a ticket
of the » rerious dar.—London Realm.
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RwVds. ending June 30
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KNIVES AND FORKS.
now nniTisn cutlkry is made
FOB AMERICAN MARKETS.
K(Torts Made to Elood Our Markets
Before tl»e McKlnley TnrllT—Row
It Injured IJiltlsli Cutlery Trade
—Tlielr Trosperlt.y Returning
Under tlie Wilson RIM.
SHEFFIELD, Eng., Jan. 28, 1896.
Iu the hardware liuo of this country,
"Sheffield" is well mall a household
word. But lilte many other English
trades, its success and prosperity is
largely dependent on outside sources
of consumption. In fact, nearly every
industry of Eoglaud is dependent on
outside help before it can "gee" at all
and, like the woolen and worsted trade
of another part of Yorkshire, Sheffield
fteel and cutlery manufacturers find
in America their most important cus
tomer for her made up products.
As one takes np his table cutlerv or
examines his pocketblndcs, the familiar
names Joseph Hogers & Sons, aud
several others of noted fame, convey
the impression that all these produc
tions emanate from large and rnaguif*
icent factories. Bnt such is not the
ease. Some of Sheffield's large con
cerns are housed on back streets so
narrow at to be merely lanes, in build
ings that formerly were used as shops
and dwellings, now thrown all into one,
with the result that to an outsider
having such big notions about Shef
field's cutlery trade, he would think it
degenerating to the fame some of the
cutlers have attained.
Standing one dinner hour in the
street of the very thick of Sheffield's
factories, it was evident that the huge
number ot men, who were hurriedly
walking about, were operatives in the
district factory. It needed no great
effort to button hole one of these and,
having accomplished that, I at once
began the "pumping" process.
"By your appearance you seem to
be a workman in one of these cutlery
factories ;can you inform mo of a like
ly person who can give me a few par
ticulars of your trade?"
"What is it that you want to know?"
was very quickly responded. Then I
announced to him my purposes.
"Look here," be said in effect, "I
have worked in the steel and cutlery
trade of Sheffield all my life, and just
know a thing or two about it; come to
my house, street, No. , at a
later hour when I've finished and we'll
have a talk together."
I agreed to that proposal and now
submit the results of that interview.
I may say here that, on inquiries
about my informant, I found him to
bo a very sober, steady, intelligent
man, whose character was thoroughly
good aud whose ability was undis
puted.
"Well," I said, when I called upon
him later, "how are you off for work
in Sheffield?"
'"Oh, just at present we've got quite
plenty, in fact, in some departments,
they are not only busy, but literally
have more to do]thanthey can possibly
get through."
"Then of late have had an in
crease of employment, say for this la6t
year back?"
"Certainly we have."
"But what is the general opinion in
cutlery circles as to the cause of this
greatly improved trade?"
"Everybody says it's the American
people knocking off the late heavy
tariff," he said, somewhat childishly ;
but ho wat no doubt voicing the senti>
ments of all Sheffield,and speaking the
truth into the bargain.
"But is there no other reason that
can be assigned for Sheffield being so
quiet until this year came in?"
Here he seemed to think soberly,
and after a moment's ictleotion he
gave mo this valuablo piece of infor
mation.
"Yes," he blurted off abruptly.
"One of our largest manufacturers of
cutlery, by name Messrs. George
Wostenholm & Sous, up to lha late
inauguration of those vory tariffs
in America was very busy."
"You mean the MoKinley tariff
which took effect in October, 1890," I
■aid by way of enlightenment.
"Yes, that was it Well, up tothen
this flint was extraordinarily busy.
Every available stand was occupied
•very minute of the day, very much
overtime was worked, and overy blade
Terms—Bl.oo in Advance ; 51.25 after Three Months.
and knife was got out it was possible
for the men to do."
"And why was that?" I asked.
"This firm has branch wurehouses
in America, and thoy know (nil well
that only let these new laws some into
operation it would no longer bo possi
ble for them to send their goods across
and sell them at the old rate, conse
quently they shipped all across tho
Atlantic they possibly could beforo
McKinley dutias became law, so that
they might Le able to warehouse tho
cutlery on the other sido and sell it as
they thought best afterward. Ever
since the high tariff camo into force
Wostenholm's have been slack until
this last few months back, when, like
all the rest, they have become busy."
This was a very frank expression,
and since I had it given mo I have
taken the trouble to investigate into
its correctness. Accordingly I find in
the Century's Progress, published
recently ss 1803, in that part devoted
to Yorkshire under the head of Shef
field's commerce, there stands the first
on tho list tlio name of George Wos
tenholm «fc Sons, limited, solo manu
facturers of the celebrated "I. X. L."
cutlery, and tho famous original
"pipe" razors. In giving a detailed
epitome of tho business career of this
lirni, it 2s stated, among otter tnings,
that this firm have branches at New
York, Philadelphia, Montreal, Sydney
and Melbourne. As every production
made by this firm is marked with their
trado merit, it should be refused by
every lover of American made goods-'.
Continuing 1 said, "How are work
men's wages today as compared with
your former busy time iu 1890?"
"When the slack time came and we
had little to do, the masters of Sheffield
thought that an opportune time for
giving notice of a reduction of wages,
and although we stoutly resented it,
yet wo ultimately had to cave into the
extent of about 15 per cent, reduc
tion."
"And you have not been able to got
that put on again?"
"No fear," he said good humoredly,
"once down, always down, and to-day
we arc working on that basis."
"What do you think is the busiest
seotiou in the Sheffield trado of to
day ?"
"Undoubtedly the spring knife and
table blade cutlery is the busiest."
"And can you give me any whole
sale prices at whioh cutlery is being
made?" I asked.
"Well," he said, "I do know for a
fact that not long ago one of our mak
ers executed an order for one blade
pocket knives at 12 shillings per
gross, or just Id. (2 cents) per piece,
finished and complete, supposed to
have on bone bandies for hiifts. Isn't
that low enough for you?"
YANKEE.
ValueqflDooten and. Worsted 6oods
IRanuJactursd in England,
and Sold to s
Clothe People in the United. States .>
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Clicwio Trade Declines.
The way we captured the cheese
markets of the world laat year i«repre
sented by a decrease of 20,805,00(1
pounds in our shipments as compared
with 1094, aud a money iosa of |3,iy4,-
000. _ .
NO. 22.
Congressman Ilemleraoa to the Point,
Mr. Speaker, this is a business mat
ter, (or a business people, and Bhould
be met in a business way. A few days
ago, when this House was considering
the Bayard resolution, we were taunt
ed by the gentleman from Georgia
[Mr. CrispJ that we dared nottakere
ttponsibility. We will show him to
day whether the Republican party is
afraid to take responsibility or not.
[Loud applause on the Republican
side.] Whether thiß country is pre
sided over by a Republican or a Dem
ocratic Executive, whether it is threat
ened with bullets or ballots, whether
by deficiency or surplus, the Republi
can party never shirks its duty to this
country. [Renewed applause.] Wo
are taunted with working on a holiday.
I want to say to my friend from Ten
nessee [Mr. McMillin] that if the
Democratic ass falls into the ditch
with a National load upon its shoul
ders we will even work on Sunday to
take the National part of it out of the
ditch. [Laughter and great applause. ]
The gentleman from Georgia tells
us that this is for the purpose of tax
ing the people. My God, there is no
power in Congress to put back in tho
pockets of the American people that
which Democratic polices have robbed
them of since the Democratic Adminis
tration went into power on the 4th of
March, 1893. [Renewed applause.]
They talk of speed in behalf of the
Treasury. Do they forget the speed
with which Democratic policies have
emptied the Treasury? [Laughter.]
They have emptied it, and we propose
to put money there. Since this Ad
ministration came into power it has
kept this Nation oscillating between
chills and fever. [Laughter.] We
propose to stop ttese diseases and let
the American regain a normal condi
tion. We will do our part of it.—D.
B. Henderson, of lowa, in Congress.
Value of HJaol
Sold to the United States
Great Britain
J w
~| i|! I Hal jor
_ v - -||B|li'flol grown
<1 hiwow Pounds Strung fll
j 'SUr.-,aiout««,
:jH in UK V.l
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Scat of the Present Tronble.
Restore again the polisy of the Re
publican party and reverse the balance
of trade in our iavor and the effect
will bo, as it always has bjen hereto
fore, to stop the outflow of gold from
our shores and bring to us instead the
yellow mutal sufficient to make good
the balance of trade in our favor. Tho
real seat of tho present trouble is
largely if not wholly due to a false
economic policy insisted upon by tho
opposition in the face of overwhelm
ing facts us well as the logic of the
present unfortunate condition of our
National well-being.—Hon. Robert J.
Gamble,of South Dakota,in Congress.
Capturing: Those Markets.
In 1893 we sold almost 6,000,000
bushels less wheat and 1,680,000 bar
rels less ilour to foreign countries that
in 1894. Tho money loss exceeded
$10,000,000, notwithstanding the fact
that the average price of wheat wae
about nine cents a bushel higher last
; ear than in 1891.
RATS AND MICE.
Humla Suffered From n Genuine I'lociw
of Rodents.
Russia has suffered from a genuine plague
of ruts ami mice, aud the story is attractivel;
told by Unite! Status Consul Heauan al
Odessa. In a report to tho State Department
The vermin first appeared In Souther#
Russia in the autumn of 1893, and they In
creased in number with marvelous rapidity
owiug to heavy grain harvests leaving muct
untbrashed grain, and to the mild weather
In addition to the common house and Held
mouse, anothor and new variety appeared,
having a long, sharp nose. These mice over
ran every place, and they moved In vast
numbers like aruiies,and in instances did uot
hesitate to attack men aud animals. Wliilf
tho rats were not so numerous as the mice
they were more destructive. entiug every
thing, gnawing away the woodwork, and
even ruiuing entire building.-'. After ex
haustlng all other means, the plague wai
finally terminated in 18!)1 by resort t<
bacteriology, when the vermin were d»
stroyed by tho inoculation of a few rodent!
with contagious disease germs.
CANADA'S MILITIA.
They Are Not Prilling Mitch and IIav«
Obsolete Gil nil.
The Canadian Minister of Militia laid his
report before Parliament at Ottawa. Tho
report shows that only 80,877 men putin
their annual drill of twelve days last year,
the appropriation having run short. The
Minister says it is to bo regretted that tho
whole of the active militia cannot be drilled
every year. The whole force is about 40,000
men, and he believes that by being exercised
twelve days each year they would becomu
quite efficient and available for active mili
tary duty at very shirt notice.
The expenditure on account of militia last
year was f1,£74,013, of which 51.U7.0K) wa>
on account of defences of British Columbia,
tttt.ooo for modern firearms, and t51,000 for
warlike stores.
The Adjutant-General •allsatteutlon to tho
olMolete rifles with which tho force la
I equipped.