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| If It seums, but u stubborn old world,
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I Don't full to .lamenting that ull things are
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'ast
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| 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
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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 <Jreat Britain and her colonics. The
Times considers the matter one of
grave importance, and it is not in Eng
land only that our increasing export
trade causes comment. Continental
papers have treated the matter with
interest and alarm. A recent shipment
of manufactured goods to Australia,
the largest ever sent to that part of
the world from the United States,
indicated the kind of articles that
constitute these increased exports.
The cargo consisted of sewing ma
chines. musical instruments, vehicles,
typewriters, trolley appliances and
shoes. Another large shipment recent
ly made was seventeen carloads of
cotton goods from an Alabama mill
to China. Europe evidently doesn't
like our expansion.
The Cuban Postal Fraud*.
The Cuban postal frauds are receiv
ing the closest possible attention by
the authorities at Washington and the
defaulters are to be dealt with in a
manner that will surprise the Cubans,
who have been accustomed to see
matters of this sort go unpunished
in the past. No event of this character
has been more promptly dealt with
in the history of our government, and
the transgressors are finding that the
McKiule.v administration is a "busi
ness man's administration" in various
ways.
Tito UnPinyV Country.
The Republicans have captured the
Bryan kopjes in Nebraska, the boy
orator's own State, and are lining up
in great shape for the big tussle next
fall. They are successful in many
municipal contests, and carried Lin
coln, Bryan's home city, by the larg
est majority in years. Is Nebraska
becoming also " the enemy's country";'
—Troy (N. Y.) Times.
Dematnl For Cotton Good*.
In 1895, one of the years of Demo,
cratic disaster, the exports of Amer
ican cotton goods were worth only
913.750.510. In 180!) they amounted
to $23,500,01-1. Under the policy of
protection there was an increase of
nearly $10,000,000 in the foreign de
mand for American goods, and fully
$N,000,000 of this amount was paid
by foreigners to American c.*age-earu
ers.
Power Trade Failures.
Only Tot! trade failures last month,
with liabilities of $7,214,787. Com
pare that with tli- April failures in
the two Democratic years of IS'.)5 and
1 v>;. 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