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No Uncommon Mistakes. Mabel must have been visiting iu \ some large city, and her sister Ana , was at the train to greet her upon her eafe return. They hugged each other with fond delight aud immediately began to discus 3 various topics of mutual interest. "Anil, oh, Mabel," exclaimed Anna j suddenly, "why didn't you let me ; know when you got that sls mother gave to me to send you?" "Why, dear," answered Mabel, with surprise, "I d ; dn't get it." "Didn't get it?" cried Anna. "No, dear." "Well," exclaimed Anna, indig- ' nautly, "I sent it by money order. And," she continued, "I have the re ceipt right here for the money." And then the dear girl fumbled iu her purse and drew forth the order which the postal clerk had given her for the money, and which she thought was the receipt. The girls kissed each other again, xnd decided at once to proceed to the postoffice and demand satisfaction of Uncle Sam.—Detroit Free Press. {ssraov Of TTh& Turn of Life This is a critical perioti In the Ufa of every woman and no mistakes should be made* The one recognized and reliable help for women ! who are approaahing and passing through this wonderful change Is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound That the utmost reliance can be placed upon this great medicine Is test!" fled to by an army of grateful women who have been helpod by It• Mrs« Plnkham, who has the greatest and most successful experience in the world to qualify her, will advise you free of charge• Her address is Lynn, Mass. Write to herm U Boat Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Csc lg frl In lime. ?old OT dmafftatfl. p®i I TRUST THE HELM3VIAN. | If It seums, but u stubborn old world, That won't be reformed in a day. I Don't full to .lamenting that ull things are wrong And refuse to bo righted your way; Just guide your own course by the truth, As the truth seems apparent to you. I And when in snug harbor you anchor at 'ast | \ou may (lnd all the others there, too. There's many a ship on the sea, | And all by the same tempests blown, | Cut one ship can't steer by another ship's ' helm, | It has to be steered by its own. I They'll answer a call of distress, And help till the danger is past, | But on his own compass each ship must rely To reach the home haven at last. | —Kipley I). Saunders, iu St. Louis llepubllc. I My Burglar.! ! A TIMID MAX WHO LIVED UNDER TUE ♦ I X KINDLY PBOTECTION OF HIS BItAVE 2 J WIFE OOr INTO TIIOUBLE * O WHEN SHE LEFT HIM. 4) AAAAAAA4AAAAAAAAAAAAAA4AAA WW WWW WWWV WwW WW WWW I have two peculiarities—ami a wife with a will of her own. My wile's name is Maria. I have not named tho peculiarities yet, though 1 expect to some day. They have generic names, however. One of them is timidity. I am not reckless and Ido uot want to be. I have seen too many reckless men hustled into untimely graves to be anxious to emulate them. I saw Hill Jenkins, who was at Gettysburg, kicked into heaven by a mule. That settled my mind so far as violent death is concerned. My other j eculiaritv is in aversion to church socials. I cau't see why it is necessary togo to oue of these and pay '2"> cents for a 15-ceut meal in order to contribute two cents to the missionary fund. Nor can I (or any one else) explain where the other eight cents goes. Just here, however, my wife conies iu. She always does when I don't want her to. She thinks church "socials" the essence of life, and de clares she couldn't get along without then). Ho she goes to the socials and I stay home. The village is eight miles away,and when she goes she staysail with oue of the "sisters" and takes our boy with her. That is where my timidity comes into bother mo. I have to stay all night alone in a big house, and I don't like it. From the time that Maria goes till she conies back 1 worry constantly about bur glars, tramps, footpads and highway men. I never feel secure until I hear her dear, familiar voice singing out from the front gate: "Well, Bill, haven't you got tho wood chopped yet?" After that I brighten up a goo-l deal. \\ ell, the incideut 1 am about to relate has to do with both my peculi arities aud my wife. There was a church social. Maria insisted ongoing as usual; aud when Maria insists, J, as a natural consequence, have noth ing to say. I let her go, therefore. But 1 was unusually nervous at being left alone in a dark hotr \t night. I had quite a sum of m0.,.j iu the house, the proceeds of our hay crop, so I loaded the shotgun with a double load of buckshot and placed it at the head of my bed. J hoped to be ablo to tire this shotgun, or rather its con tents, into any burglar who might «Lunce my way. 1 had never fired it, however, in my life, and 1 am sure 1 was as much afraid of the hiud end of it as any burglar would be of the other. Night fell and I retired to my chamber. I did not undress and go to bed, for I knew very well I would be unable to sleep, So 1 sat down at the open window and looked out nt the yellov moonlight of the autumn night. Though wideawake nt all time, I must have been exceedingly quiet, perhaps more so than I would have beeu in actual repose; for it was to a spot near tho window on the first tloor, directly under my window, that my attention was attracted about mid night. As the clock struck that lonely hour I heard a dull, rasping sound directly beneath me, and guessed cor rectly that my long-expected burglar had arrived. I peeped over the win dow still. There lie was beyoud a doubt. The rasping sound was caused by a ladder brushing against the side of the house. He was placing it in position so that he could climb into the window at which 1 sat. No doubt I he had noticed that it was open and afforded an easy entrance to tho house. Otherwise I suppose he would have picked the lock of one of tho doors. I wish he had done th.it. I have always had a burning curiosity to see a lock picked, but I never saw a lock picked. In a few momeuts more he was ! climbing the ladder, lie appeared to be a great, shaggy, unkempt rascal. The shotgun was within five feet of me, and JI could undoubtedly have blown his brains out then aotl there , hail the thought occurred to me. But I must confess that the gentle arts of diplomacy are much more to my taste than the horrors of war, so I paused and considered. I have often paused and considered in my lifo without api preciable effect; but on this occasion ! a plan of actiou occurred to me so op- '• portunely that I regard it as Napoleonic to this day. It was I simply this; I, too,would i>e a burglar and would join forces with the invader I in robbing my own house. Such a ! plan would undoubtedly save my life, for they say there is honor amoug thieves. There is mighty little among honest men. My idea grew in my mind. Perhaj s I could do more than save my life. Knowing where all my valuables we e I could be of material use to my bur- j glar, and perhaps he would give mo somethiug for uy pains. I slip] od noiselessly down the back stairs aud out through the kitchen door. Then I went to the corner of the hou-e and said, "Hollo!" in a sort of whispered shont. I uevet knew I coul 1 frighten anybody before but my salutation certainly had that effect on my burglar. He dropped from about the 17th rounleu the ladder to the ground with what the nowspapers call a "dull, sickening thud." "What do yer want?" he asked, after he had recovered his breath. "I just want to be friendly," I answered, advaming toward him. "I'm a burglar myself, ami I thought we might just as well joiu forces, you know. I had just effected au entrance when you came up. I heard you and feared we might disairauge each ot hei *s plant." "Humph!" sail he. "You don't look much like a burglar. Lut you're no softy if you can get into a house sooner than I cau. Have you ever done time?" "Just been leleased from 20 years in Sing Sing," I answered. But I was glad it was dark, for I am only 30 years old, and 1 might have looked too young to suit the stovv. "VYhew!" he remarked. "You must be a corker," I nodded a dignified j assent to this. "Come a oag," said I, "we will go in by the door." "That's dangerous," lie answered, i "There are people in the house, aren't there?" "i'horo were lots of them," Ire : plieded, "but I've scared them away." "How'd you do it?" he asked in an awed manner. "Made believe I was a ghost," I answered. "Say, pard, you're a Jim Dandy," said my burglar with enthusiasm. "Is there any stuff in the house?" "I've located lots of it," I replied, "There's money, solid silver, jewlery, silk dresses, half a pie, au autograph album—everything yon can imagine." "Say, you're a chief," said my bur glar. "I'll follow yon anywhere and do anything you say." 1 may make a loug story short bv saving that my bold demeanor and upj arent professional skill completely captivated him. lie was both astonished aud delighted at the brave manner iu which 1 entered rooms, tripped up and down stairs, lighted lamps and ransacked bureau drawers aud closets. Moreover he was amazed at my knowledge of the interi r of the premises and the whereabouts of the valuables. He said he recognized iu me au expert compared with whom ho was a veritable tryo. iie hazarded •many guesses as to my professional name, and admire! me all the more for declining to "give myself away," as he termed it.in tho end he fol lowed me around like a dog and obeyed every inslruction I gave him unquestioniugly. I had succeeded admirably so far in my plan, as you will observe, but how to complete the affair was a diffi cult matter. 1 knew Maria would be home bright aud early aud I would have to get rid of my new found friend before she arrived if I hoped for any peace and comfort for at least the ensuing year. My bt.rglar ha 1 be come so devoted to me that I was i suie he would follow me wherever I ! went, so there was no use in trying to leave the house. After proving to tho satisfaction of my burglar that there was no one in the mansion, I finally hit tip >ll tho plan of inviting him to spend the night and take an early breakfast with i me before we departed. Ho was charmed with the idea, aud declared that if I could risk it ho could. So j we went to sleep side by side in my own bed. I could have killed him a \ 100 times during the night if I had j not been so afraid of tho rear end of my gun. I had got tho gnu as "boot" ! in a horse trade aud there is no tell- j ing how anything wiil kick that you get iu a horse trade. So I let him sleep peacefully on, even after I had ■ risen myself, chopped the day's wood ! and prepared breakfast. We were just sittiug down to the ! meal when Maria appeared ou the scene of action. It would grieve me even at this late day to describe the manner aud language of my good j wife on seeing me entertaining a visi- | tor, as it were. Suffice it is to say that she gave me a dressing down that ! scared my burglar into a hasty dopar- S ture. He was influenced, I have no doubt, by my own change in de- j liieauor. —New York Herald. A New l T «o for Halloon*. M. Leforey, a French architect, has ! applied a captive balloon in the clean- j ing or decorating of cupolas, high roofs, j towers and monuments. The balloon ! can be raised or lowered fro n a wagon ! by a windlass and it can bo steadied by stays from the side of the en- j velope. It has two platforms, or "na celles," one on the top, the other uu- j derneath, and these communicate by j a ladder up a central tube. The "balloon scaffold," as it is called, might be useful and safe in many operations, such as now require steeple-jncks; for example, the wreath- , ing of Nelson's column, aud also in , wireless telegraphy as an aerial sta- j tiou.—Loudon Globe. on Life. A pessimist is a person who believes 1 that whatever is is wrong. Tho woman who marries a block head doesn't care to celebrate her wooden wedding. The biggest thing on ice this sum mer will probably be the price <>f it. Time tolls on a man—but he doesn't seem to care just so it doesn't tell his wife. It is easy to do right when sin j ceases to be a pleasure. Happiness is o teu the price of being commonplace. There is pro ably nothing quite so I sure as consequences.—Chcago News, ; THE SHIP SUBSIDY BILL. MEASURE HAS BADLY DISCONCERT ED THE DEMOCRATS. I In Attempting to Make Party Capital Out of tlie Sliipping Kill Tliey Show ■ Themselves to lie About Evenly Di vided For anil Against It. J The Democratic leaders in Congress I have been making elaborate prepara | tions to make the shipping bill a cam paign issue. They have attempted to | terrorize the Republicans into nbau- I donnient of the bill at the present ses- I sion at least. It is not known how | much the foreign shipping lobby is ! willing to contribute to the Denio j cratic campaign fund if the bill's con sideration is deferred until the short j session. Postponement, say the for ; eign shipping lobby, means the bill's j defeat. ! A $200,000,000 a year business is the \ stake. If Democratic threats of fili | blistering are effective enough to in ! duce Republicans to postpone the con sideration of tiie shipping bill, the for -1 eign shipping lobby, their free trade ! allies and Democratic dupes will each j have carried their point. Democratic success up to this time ; is the more amazing, as their own i disorganization on this question is dis ! closed. It would lie imagined that I they would he united in opposition to ' tiie bill, if Intending to make a cam ! paign issue of it. Just the reverse is j the case. They are about evenly di ! vided for and against it. This is shown by the two minority reports j that have been filed by tlie Democratic I members of the House Merchant Ma- J rine and Fisheries Committee. The ; first report filed was signed by Messrs. ' William Astor Chanlcr. of New York; ' John 11. Small, of North Carolina, and | Joseph E. Ilansdell, of Louisiana. ; Their report advocates government aid | and opposes free ships. Their sug | gested amendments to the bill are not . of a character to seriously minimize | its effectiveness. The other four Democratic members of tiie House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee who signed the other report are Messrs. John F. Fitz gerald, of Massachusetts; Marion De- Yries, of California; Thomas Speight, of Mississippi, and William I>. Daly, of New Jersey. Their support opposes subsidies and iu effect advocates free ships. Their report, said to have been written by an attorney of the foreign steamship lines, is largely an attack upon the only American steamship line ■Ugaged in tiie transatlantic trade. The odium attaching to tiie Demo unts who are fighting the battle of the foreign shipping lobby in Con gress, and who advocate tiie purchase of ships built abroad, instead of their construction in the United States, pre sents them in a very sorry figure. They will be infinitely more busy in defending their own attitude on this question than they can be in assailing i~.::t of the Republicans and a large ! contingent of their own party associ ates. The Democratic leaders had made desperate efforts to prevent a public disclosure of their differences, out the courage of nearly one-half of the minority made further conceal ment of their condition impossible. The Democratic members of the com mittee who advocate government aid by independently filing their report in advance of tiie submission of the other minority report, forced the sign ers of the latter to lamely limp last j into tiie public eye. Their hopeless ' division shows how utterly impossible it will be for them to make a success ful campaign issue of the shipping question. If Democrats attack a government aided shipping, Democrats who have tae best of the argument may be quot ed in answer. Republican ammuni tion with which to refute Democratic Attacks of this character need not be used—it is furnished by tiie more hon est and courageous of the Democrats themselves. This is a situation which seems al most providential for the uuited Re publicans. They seem to be assured of the votes of a large contingent— possibly one-lialf of the Democrats in tiie House in favor i,f the ship sub sidy bill, if it is brought up for pas sage now. Such an opportunity lias not been presented in a generation and may never again occur so favor able. The same situation exists In the Sen ate. The Democrats there are unable to prepare, much less present, a mi nority report in opposition to the ship subsidy bill. It is well and publicly known that a number of Democrats will speak and vote for tiie bill. What the Democratic leaders desire to avoid, at all hazards, is the effect it will have upon their party followers that will surely result from the discussion in the Senate of the ship subsidy bill at this session, to disclose a substan tial contingent of their own party as sociates in advocacy and voting for that bill. If Republicans can be coerced, intim idated or cajoled into postponing the | consideration of the ship subsidy bid at the present session, the Democrats may be able to conceal their own weakness in divided opposition to the ship subsidy bill in the Senate. A lit tle incident has clearly demonstrated this, and shown the desperation of the Democratic leaders. The Chairman of the Democratic Na- , tional Committee, in his rage at the , tiling of the Cfianler-Small-Ransdeil j report, sent for these gentlemen and j began to angrily upbraid them as trai-1 tors to their party, so the report goes, and ho told thorn that by their iil- j timed exhibition of independence and j honesty they had sacrificed a splendid \ issue upon which the Democrats could ; have attacked tiie Republicans in the j coming campaign. The Democratic j Chairman, so it is said, was rendered j ahviost speechless when lie was very j erratically told by Messrs. Chanlcr, [ Small and Randall that ho had no an thority to denounce their action; that the Democratic party had not declared itself on this subject in its last na tional platform; and that in any event they were decidedly opposed to the dragging of the shipping question into partisan politics. They told him that the shipping question was a buslress proposition—a commercial question, and of great nnd pressing national importance; that they so consider ;d it, and that they were quite ready to da fend their position at any time. In these very favorable circum stances, for the Republicans to defer action on the ship subsidy bill until the Democratic National Convention can be whipped into adopting an ex pression iu its next national platform, opposing Government aid for the up building of American shipping, will make it intlnitely more difficult than ever for courageous and patriotic Democrats to support the measure. It means to gravely imperil, if not actu ally defeat, its final passage. The prestige of Democratic success in compelling the Republicans to de fer action at this season on the ship subsidy bill— since postponement will be regarded the country over as a Democratic free trade, foreign ship ping victory —will make it all the easier for them to defeat action at the next session, and all the harder for Republicans to secure favorable ac tion. The opportunity of a generation is within the grasp of the Republican leaders in Congress if they have the courage to grasp it by passing the sliipping bill before adjournment at this session. PORTO RICANS PLEASED. ttrltish Consul There About tlie Only Man Who Wmits Free Trade. A private letter received from an American in I'orto Rico indicates that talk of the hardships predicted to fail upon the Porto Ricans following the enactment of the tariff and civil gov ernment laws for the island is moon shine. In his letter he says: "The people here, irrespective of caste or condition, hail the passage of the Foraker bill with the greatest de light, and are now beginning to pre pare for a revival of business and good times. There seems to have been a very grave misrepresentation of facts made in the United States con cerning the wants of the natives and business men of this island in so far as it relates to the tariff. It is a mis taken idea that free trade is wanted here. On the contrary the merchants (99 out of every 100) want a small tariff in preference, aud in fact did not at any time object to the 2~> per cent, first talked of. They are bright enough to prefer a small indirect tax to a heavy direct form of taxation, to raise t lie revenues necessary to con duct tiie government of the island. About the only ones desiring the ben efit of free trade are a few foreigners like Mr. Finley. the British consul at San Juan, who have bought up all the sugar and tobacco in sight at a low figure, and have been holding the same in anticipation of a free entry to the States, thereby enabling them to re alize more largely on their invest ment." I'ear! Ilutton Industry* Penrl button-making was first made possible in the United States by the McKinley tariff of 1592. Of course the industry was nearly destroyed by the free-trade Wilson hill of 1894. Af ter further protection was given the industry by the Dingley tariff of 1597, the eighth biennial report of the Bu reau of Labor Statistics for the State of lowa says: "A remarkable development of the business was wit nessed in ISHS. no less than thirty-six factories being estab lished during the tirst six months of that year." Seven towns in Illinois and six in lowa are centers of button-making. It supports an important fishery, and as the report says: "Besides the people thus directly connected with the business, many others in more than a score of towns are benefited, including merchants, machinists, boatmen, draymen and transportation companies." Democratic free trade will kill the pearl button business, throw lots of people out of employment and injure local trade and transportation. The Tariff* That Pay*. A tariff for revenue only may gen erally be classified as a tariff that doesn't produce enough revenue— either for the National Treasury or the wage earner. Note the following statement oi' customs receipts: Annual Under. Average. President Harrison $207.49! >,093 President Cleveland 11 -s.^TiT President McKinley 177.9:>2,4.->4 The Wilson hill of perfidy and dis honor extended into the McKinley pe riod. but customs revenues are now rapidly increasing and the customs re ceipts of the fiscal year which ends next mouth will be above $225,000,000. Western Wool Value*. Oregon wool prices are interest In" as the following values, at which tin same staple grades were sold in that State, show: High. Low. Avcfige. Year. Cents. Cents. C#ats. 1894 0 » is:»s li'i 7f j ioi-0 IS9O 10' j <> * ( S 1597 12 8 [10!j IH9S 14 9 - 113 1899 15% 01 i -131 During the last three year?, on a clip of 15,000,000 pounds, tl|»>re lias been an average gain of half !: million dollars to the farmers of Oregon every year. Poor Policy. It is quite certain tii.il the condi tion of the I'orto Iticans is not to be improved by a policy of growling aud impediment. \ THE COTTON MILL MEN. FIVE HUNDRED OF THEM MEET IN THE SOUTH. President. J. 11. McAilan Says Ei sry In. ctustrv Is Prospering and That All Are Together For Prosperity—Believes in the "Open Hour." Ono of the largest Assemblages of cotton uiill representatives ever held in the X nitecl States convened recently at Charlotte, X. C., the occasion being the fourth annual session of the South ern Cotton Spinners' Association. Five hundred mill men were in at tendance. and it is estimated that the total capital represented aggregated $500,000,0( M>. President .1. 11. McAtlea called the convention to order. After congratu lating tiie members of the association upon the large attendance at the con vention. President McAden said: "A long period of depression is at an end, every industry is prospering; every man who can work and will work can timl employment at good wages. Money is easy, the finances of the country are on a sound and safe basis, confidence is restored, a bright future awaits us, and we may confidently look for a period of indus trial development unequaled in the history of this country. It gives us great pleasure to give you a cordial welcome at all our meetings. There will be no division of territory, no Mason and bison's line, with the manufacturers. V.'e are all togethei in one common interest and one com mon cause. '"We are endeavoring to convert the raw material into manufactured prod ucts and to find a good market in for cign countries. Our export trade a lost with the empire of China, without auj organized efforts 011 our part, will ex ceed §25,000.000. "We should favor and urge a per manent and vigorous policy on the part of our general government in favor of the 'open door' policy witb China, and we should hold and gov ern the Philippine Islands, which are destined to become the distributing center of the Eastern world, and make our country the center of Eastern civ ilizaiion. "The great hope of the South is in its manufactures. We nsk for 110 class legislation. With extended commer cial relations with foreign countries, new territory opened before us, we can plant our products wherever our flag floats and successfully compete with the world. "We should give strong expressions in favor of appropriations by the State governments for building and main taining textile schools. t here are many things we could do for our operatives—make tenement houses comfortable, adopt improved sanitary and ventilation regulations, build churches and schools, and pro vide libraries. We should do all in our power to erect a high standard of morals, and elevate and dignify labor." Our Trade Expansion. A series of special articles recently appearing in the Louden Tinvs. ad dressed to the British manufacturers, calls attention to the increasing ex ports of American products, especially to ;. Thus: April. Number. Liabilities. 1 v.(.*> 1,0,5i; 91 :{,t ;i i5,7."i; is: If, 1,050 1 4.020.714 1000 700 7,214,787