ARMISTICE,
The water sings along our keel,
~~ The wind falls to a whispering breath:
I look into your eyes and feel
+ No fear of life or death;
. Bo near is love, so far away
The losing strife of yesterday.
We watch the swallows skim and dips
: Some magic bids the world be stiliz
Life stands with finger upon lip;
Love has his gentle will;
Though hearts have bled and tears have
burned :
The river floweth unconcerned.
‘We pray the fickle flag of trucz
Still float deceitfully and fair;
Our eyes must love its sweet abuse
This hour we will not cars,
Though just beyond to-morrow’s gate
Arrayed and strong, the battle wait.
— Ellen Bui roughs, in Scribner's,
LIFES LESSON.
a
LICE sat reading af
the window when
her mother entered
and said: _
ttAlice, my love,
is it not time for
Miss Fielding to
bring home your
dress?’
*“Yes, mamma, it
is; she promised to
have 1t here at four
o’clock,and it is ten
minutes of that
hour,” glancing at her elegant little
watch set with pearls. «
«‘Very weil, my dear, only see that it
needs no alteration, for I wish you to
appear to the best advantage at Mrs.
Blair's this evening.”
«Never fear, mamma, buf that ¥ will,”
replied Alice, returaing to her book—
the last new novel, while Mrs. Stanley
glided away as softly as she had entered.
Ten minutes passed, and Alice yawned
and looked listlessly out of the window.
As the clock on the mantelpiece, with
musical note, struck four, Alice's eye
caught a figure passing the window, and
starting up, she exclaimed:
«Oh, there she is!” and went toward
the door. “I'm glad to see you come
so punctually, Miss Fielding; it is a great
virtue in any one, but especially in a
seamstress.’
**Yes, Miss Stanley, I hurried very
much to have your dress completed at
the appointed hour.’
*“Why did you hurry so much? I am
afraid you have not sewed it as nicely as
I desire. I gave you plenty of time.”
*‘You did; but last night I had such a
gevere pain in my side that I was obliged
to keep still; and this morning I worked
very hard, so you need not be disap-
pointed at four o'clock.”
“It is all right, then,” said Alice;
$‘come up to my room, and I will try it
on and see if it needs any alteration.”
Alice ran lightly up stairs to her hand-
some room, followed by poor Nora, who
was very weak and faint for having
scarcely tasted food that day, and having
been at work so steadily. She sank into
an easy chair, almost too weary to
speak.
Handsome lace curtains draped the
windows. In one was suspended a bas-
ket of trailing ivy, in the other hung a
bird-cage, its occupant nearly breaking
its itttle throat with a gush of melody
on the entrance of its mistress.
¢¢Oh, hush, you little per; your wel-
come is too noisy,” said Alice, going up
to the cage and placing a piece of sugar
between the wires. ‘‘Now for - the
dress!” she exclaimed, arraying herself
in it before the dressing-table, which
was covered with jewelry and all the
appurtenances of a lady’s toilet.
As Nora laced the dress she regarded
Alice with great admiration. She was
tall and slight, graceful as a sylph, with
golden hair, banded back from a lovely
face. But her beauty was marred by a
look of discontent, an expression of
weariness.
The dress, of rich crimson, very low in
the neck, and trimmed with point lace;
the short sleeves were adorned with the
same. It set off her figure to the great-
est advantage, as its folds trailed on the
floor.
+:It fits beautifuliy,’ said Alice, ‘‘and
I think I shall appear to better advan-
tage than any one else this evening. I
desire to be the belle of the night,”
gazing proudly on herself in the glass.
«Miss Stanley,” said Nora, in a hesi-
tating tone of voice.
““Whet is it?” answered Alice, ‘‘do
not be afraid of speaking.”
*Will you be so very kiad as to pay
me for this dress, and for the others I
have made you?”
‘*How much is it?’ asked Alice,taking
out her purse.
‘Fifteen dollars.”
‘I have uot that in my purse, and I
do not wish to take the trouble of asking
mamma, = Come to-morrow at this hour
and you shall have it.”
Nora glided from the room with an
aching heart, for she needed the money
sorely. Let us follow her as she walks
rapidly through the different streets till
she comes to the more obscure part of the
city, passes down a wide alley, enters a
tenement house, and, ascending a broken
stairway, stops at the door of a third
story front room.
“Is that you, my daughter?” asked a
feeble voice as she entered the room.
**Yes, dedr mother,” Nora answered,
in a cheerful manner.
“It is very cold, Nora, is it not?”
¢+Yes, and so slippery ; I could hardly
' keep my footing.”
. **Was Miss Stanley pleased with her
dress?”
“Perfectly. She did not pay me, but
~ requested me to call to-morfow; but I
‘hardly expect to receive it then,” said
"Nora despondingly.
‘Never mind, dear Nora; trust in God,
“but then some-
t targotten us, dear
ut it in the heart of a
smber u
| were, and chose this method
lin sent me a nice glass of jelly and some
| delicious chicken broth.
I have warmed
some for you; you must need it after your
long walk.”
“Thank you, mamma; I do feel very
tired and exhausted.”
After the evening meal wasover, Nora
said:
¢‘Mamms, Miss Stanley gave mc an-
other dress to make. Is it not hand-
some?” holding up a rich black silk.
‘She wishes to have it before Sunday.”
All that evening Nora sewed, while
Alice was floating in the mazy dance, the
belle of the room, the loveliest of all the
lovely girls gathered at WMvs. Blair's.
But Alice was not Nora's equal; both in
figure and face the poor seamstress far
outshone the wealthy belle.
The next day, at four, Nora passed up
the steps of the handsome mansion of
Mrs. Stanley, and rang the bell. = A foot-
man, in livery, opened the door.
+¢Can I see Miss Stanley?” asked Nora,
eagerly.
‘She is not at home, Miss, but I will
ask my young lady’s maid whether she
left any message for you.”
‘Thank you, if you will be so kind.”
The footman returned in a few sec-
onds.
“No, Miss, no message.”
¢Oh,” thought Nora, as she turned
away, *‘if Miss Stanley only knew how
sorely I need the money, she could not
be so thoughtless.”
On Saturday of the same week Nora
called again at Mrs. Stanley’s, carrying
home the finished black silk dress. It
was about eight in the evening. The
same footman opened the door. On
Nora’s inquiring for his young mistress,
he replied that she was engaged with
company.
¢:Please ask Miss Stanley,” said Nora,
in a trembling voice, ‘‘if she cannot see
her seamstress for a moment.” ~
The footman disappeared,returning in
a short time.
‘No, Miss; she is much engaged with
company, and wishes you to excuse her,
and call again on Monday.”
When Monday came it found Nora
stretched on a sick bed, unable to raise
her head from the pillow. All that week
passed, and the next, and no Norg ap-
peared at Mrs.Stanley’s.
“I wonder where Nora Fielding can
be, mamma,” said Alice. *¢Here is my
basque to be made, and I do so wish to
wear it on Sunday with my new silk.”
“I hope she is not ill, Alice; but
she has always looked to me very deli-
cate.”
+I will go and inquire for her, mam-
ma.”
«Do you know where she lives?”
¢No; but Mrs. Hamlin does, and I
will dive there first.”
Alice sought and found the alley and
tenement where Nora lived. Knocking
at the third-story door, a voice said:
“Come in.”
“This is Mrs. Fielding?” asked Alice,
entering.
“Tt'is.”?
“How is your daughter?
seen her for two weeks.”
¢‘Nora, poor ctild, has been very ill,
and is still confined to her bed, with the
same cold she caught in carrying your
last dress home to you through the
storm."
I am truly sorry to hear it. I remem-
ber it rained very hard that evening.
May I go and see your daughter?”
‘Certainly, Miss Stanley,” and Mrs.
Fieldling led the young girl to the ad-
joining room.
“I am very glad to see you, Miss
Stanley,” said Nora. *‘‘You find me still
ill, but I am much better, thanks to my
dear mother’s tender nursing.”
«Oh, I am so sorry to find you con-
fined to your bed, and I fear it is owing
to my thoughtlessness.”
Nora smiled and shook her head, and
saidis
“You know I had to carry home your
dress.”
And neither that nor the other
dresses are paid for,” said Alice, rising.
“Iwill send the money immediately on
my return home.”
As Alice passed down stairs, a woman
stood on the threshold.
‘May I speak to you, Miss?”
¢‘Certainly.”
“I am so glad you have called upon
those people up-stairs, for they deserve
all the notice you will give them. You
will never hear their good deeds from
themselves, but there is not one in this
house who has not cause to bless them.
For six weeks Miss Nora nursed me
through a severe illness. Every Sunday
her room is filled by poor children, whom
she teaches. Before she cams Sunday
was a day of noise and great disturb-
ance.”
“I am much pleased to hear this of
Nora,” said Alice, with tears in her
eyes.
‘And one never hears a murmur from
mother or daughter. Their beautiful ex-
ample is teaching us to trust in God, aad
to love Him above every other one.”
“Thank you, my good woman, for
what you have told me of Nora,” said
Alice, passing a piece of money into the
woman's hand, who looked after her ad-
miringly and gratefully.
A short time afterward Alice's maid
appeared at Mrs. Fielding’s, with the
money and a basket laden with good
things; and before Mrs. Fielding could
thank her she had gone. The basket
was found to confain tea, coffee, sugar
and a large roasted turkey.
‘Nora, here is twenty-five dollars.
Did Miss Stanléy owe you so much?”
“No, mamma, only twenty dollars;
but I presume she saw how poor we
to relieve
I have not
us. How very, very kind!"
Mrs. Fielding laid on Nora's lap a box
she had found in the basket, directed to
her.
full of delicious white gra
$0, mamma! this is i, at I wished
for!”
We will return to Alice, who was sit.
ting alone in her room.
*¢What a useless and thoughtless life
I have led,” she was thinking. ¢‘Nora.
with all her poverty, bas accomplished u
thousand times ‘than I bave doge.
Eagerly Nora Opened | it, to find ii’
In the future my life shall be different.
I shall attend fewer parties, and spend
my time for the good of others. How
lovely and refined Nora’s mother appears.
I have a plan for Nora. Will she accept
it?”
The next afternoon Alice went to see
Nora, whom she found much better.
“I have a little plan to propose to
you, Miss Fielding.”
Nora smiled, and said she was willing
to gratify Miss Stanley.
“I know you are not strong enough to
sew steadily, dear Nora, and I do so
wish you would live with me, be my
friend and companion. The little sew-
ing I require would not weary you, and
you could spend a good deal of time in:
reading to yourself, or to me, when Iam
lazy.” .
“How I would enjoy it,” answered
Nora, eagerly; *‘but what would be-
come of my dear mother?”
‘Oh, I have arranged that. A Mrs.
Maxwell, a lady I know, takes a few
boarders, and has agreed to take your
mother.”
Mrs. Fielding and Nora gladly as-
sented to Alice’s plan and Nora prom-
ised to be ready to leave her home in the
course of two hours, Soon Nora and
Alice had the ple. u:c of seeing Mrs.
Fielding pleasantly settled at Mrs. Max-
well’s.
As the year passed, Alice became more
and more attached to Nora, whom she
found a refined and hightly educated
companion.—XNew York News.
re — eee
Heroic Lives at Homes.
The heroism of private life, the slow,
unchronicled martyrdoms of the heart,
who shall remember? Greater than any
knightly dragon slayer of old is the nian
who overcomes an unholy passion, sets
his foot upon it and stands serene and
strong in viitue. Grander than Zenobia
is the woman who struggles with a love
that would wrong another or degrade
her own soul, and conquers. ‘The young
man, ardent and tender, who turns from
the dear love of women and buries deep
in his heart the sweet instinct of pater-
nity, to devote himself to the care and
support of aged parents or an unfortu-
nate sister, and whose life is a long sac-
rifice, in manly cheerfulness and majestic
spirit, is a hero of the purest type.
The youug woman who resolutely stays
with father and mother in the old home,
while brothers and sisters go forth to
happy homes of their own; who cheer-
fully lays on the altar of filial duty that
costliest of human sacrifices, the joy of
loving and being loved—she is a hero-
ine.
The husband who goes home from
every-day routine and the perplexing
cares of business with a cheerful smile
and loving word to his invalid wife;
who brings not azainst her the grievous
sin of a long sickness, reproaches her
not for the cost and discomfort thereof;
who sees in her languid eyes something
dearer than girlish laughter, in'the sad
face and faded cheeks, that blossom into
smiles and even blushes at his coming,
something lovelier than the old time
spring roses—he is a hero. 5
The wife who bears her partin the
burden of life—even though it be the
larger part—bravely, cheerfully, never
dreaming that she is a heroine, much
less a martyr; who bears with the faults
of a husband not altogether congenial,
with loving patience, and a large charity,
and with noble decision hiding them
from the world; who makes no confidant
and asks no confidence, who refrains from
breading over shortcomings in sympathy
and sentiment, and from seeking perlious
“‘affinities;” who does not build high
tragedy sorrows on the inevitable, nor
‘feel an earthquake in every family jar;
who sees her husband united with her-
selr indissolubly and eternally in their
children—she, the wife in very truth, in
the inward as in the outward, is a heroine,
though of rather an unfashionable type.
— Grace Greenwood.
The Dahabeeyeh, Yacht of the Nile.
Naturally there was exhilaration in
the first sight of our dahabeeyeh as it
lay under the bank at Koobry, opposite
Cairo, one among forty others—a whole
flat bottomed yacht squadron, suited to
the treacherous shallows which shifl
from day to day in the Nile bed. Ii
was cne hundred feet long, and looked
larger than we had dared to hope; in-
deed, quite imposing, against the mud
houses, with its tall main yard towering
one hundred and thirty-five feet from
heavy butt to taper point; and though
its internal economy of space was learned
only by degrees, the eye at once took in
the general lines, and realized that under
sail it would be a not unhandsome craft,
There it lay, the counterpart of the
dahabeeyehs of the pictures, recalling
the galleys of old prints and coins; a de-
generate descendant of Cleopatra's bargey
and even a reminiscence of Ra and Horus.
Oriental hyperbole has aided this remi-
niscence with she name of dahabeeyeh—
boat of gold--and Egyptian conserva.
tism has kept the general lines of the
ships that bore Pharaoh southward
against the ‘‘vile Kushite,” or brough
back the gold and spices of the land of
Pount to Queen Hatasu. There was th
low foredeck, rising only two feet abovd
the water at the after part, but sloping)
upward to a gayly painted and gilded
prow; there the sixty feet of high dec
house, which comprised the travelers
portion of the boat; and there were man
other things, new then, . familiar now,
and remembered with warm affection.
The blue gowned figures squatting ud
the shore rose as we approached, an
{ handed us down the steep bank to th
| freshly painted deck. ¢‘This is our
crew,” said the ¢‘oig- Howaga,"” as hi
was called by the sailors. We essay
our two words or so of Arabic salutation
hundreds of white teeth flashed a smiil
ing reply, and the presence of these
good natured, picturesquely robed ath
letes added another charm to our pros
pective journey.— Scribner.
‘‘Rehypothecated” is a pretty Ton
word, and so is ‘kleptomania.” u
8 jllabication can never cover up the a
o the plain English ‘‘thief.”=~Puck
“HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
A PERFUME AND MOTH PREVENTIVE,
A delightful mixture for perfuming
clothes that are packed away and which
is said to keep out moths also is made as
follows: Pound to a powder one ounce of
cloves, carraway seeds, nutmeg, mace,
cinnamon und Tonquin beans, respec.
tively, and as much orris root as will
equal the weight of the foregoing ingred.
ients put together. Little bags of muslin
should be filled with this mixture and
pisces among the garments.—8¢. Louis
Repub lic,
SMALL POINTS IN CARVING.
A fillet of veal should be sliced from
the top, a line of veal from the small
end. g
Tongue and ham should be cut very
thin; the centre slices of tongue are con-
sidered the best.
All meats should be placed on com-
fortably large dishes, as lack of room
prevents graceful carving.
The guests should express a preference
for rare or well done, the catver giving
some of the tenderloin to each.
A sirloin of beef should be laid with
the tenderloin down, cut in thin slices,
then turn and cut the other side.
The best parts of fish lie near the head.
If there is any roe put a part on each
plate. Be careful in serving fish not to
break it. A fish kuife or a knife with a
broad blade is the best.—Brooklyn
Citizen. :
A DAINTY WAY TO FURNISH A BEDROOM.
There is no prettier, fresher, or dain-
tier way of furnishing a bedroom than to
have the walls hung with the same
chintz as the covering for the furniture
and the curtains. With a little brass
bedstead trimmed with a flouncé of the
same chintz, a pink, blue or white
dressing-table and washstand, a couple
of easy chairs and a lounge covered with
the pretty cretonune, and a few: other ac-
cessories, such as a tea-table, bookshelf,
a few favorite photos and pictures and
pretty rugs, you have a bedroom fit for a
princess. - There are some charming
patterns shown this season in these
lovely chintzes. Every color is repre-
sented.. Tufts of yellow primroses on
the lightest silver-gray grounds, garlands
of wild roses on pale turquois blue,
bunches of forget-me-nots on a sort of
yellowish cream-color, and natural-
looking wood violets sprinkled over a
background of a lighter shade of lilac—
one and all they are lovely, and so are
most difficult to choose from.—Deiroit
Free Press.
UNSANITARY CELLARS.
It is small use to say that cellars under
the house are unsanitary and should not
be tolerated. The cellars are chere and
what remains to be done is to keep
them as wholesome as possible. Plenty
of light and good ventilation are great
aids to this end, while once or twice a
week, during the middle of the day, the
window should be thrown open that a
complete change of air may be effected.
This is more especially necessary if fruit
or vegetables in any quantity are stored
in the cellars, care being taken that the
airing is not prolonged to the freezing
point.
In his Monitor of Heald’, Dr. Kellogg
has these wise words in regard to
further care of cellars underneath dwell-
ings: ¢‘A good way to ventilate a cellar |
is to extend from it a pipe to the kitchen
chimney. The draft in the chimney will
carry away the gases which would other-
wise find their way into the rooms above.
Cellars should be kept clear of decaying
vegetables, wood, wet coal and mould.
The walls should be frequently white«
washed, or washed with a strong solu
tion of copperas. The importance of
some of these simple measures cannot be
overestimated.”—Farmer’s Raview.
RECIPES.
Indian Suet Pudding—Two quarts
milk, one pint Indian meal, one cup mo-
lasses, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one-
half teaspoonful ginger, one-quarter
pound suet; sugar to Swesien} a little
salt.
Prune Pie—Wash the prunes thor-
pughly and soak them overnight. Btew
in the same water in which “they were
soaked. Remove the stones with a
knife and fork. Sweeten to taste and
dll the pie.
Cinnamon Buns—Reserve one quart of
dough from the bread and work in a cup
of sugar and two tablespconfuls of but-
ter and roll half aa inch thick; cut into
puas, spread with sugar and cinnamon
‘ind let rise before baking.
Lettuce Salad-—Cut four or five nice
acads of lettuce. Salt it, and let it
stand half an hour. Then add to the
lettuce the powdered yolk of four hard-
boiled ‘eggs, half a teaspoonful of mus—
tard and half a teaspoonful of pepper.
Add a small piece of melted butter.
eat half a pint of vinegar and pour
over. Mix all and garnish the dish with
the whites of the eggs. i .
Ginger Nuts—Three and ‘one-half
pounds flour, one pound butter, one-
half pound sugar, six tablespoonfuls
ringer, three teaspoontuls cloves, four
teaspoonfuls cinnamon, one quart mo-
lasses. Beat the butter, flour and sugar
and spice together, and with the ‘molas.
ses mix into dough, which knead until
smooth. After remaining a short tims
in a cool place, make into small round
cakes and bake them.
Stewed Kidneys—Soak in cold water,
scald and remove the outside membrane.
Cut them through the edge to the centre,
and remove the hard part. Pat them in
a stew-pan with two bay leaves, four
cloves, four peppercorns, teaspoon of salt,
one onion, two tablespoons of vinegar
and water to cover. Simmer till tender.
Brown one tablespoon of butter, add one
tablespoon of flour, and when mixed add
one cup of the liquor; season with salt,
pepper and lemon juice. . Pour this over
‘the kidneys, and serve very hot.
The telephone line between London
and Paris has worked so well that another
will be laid betwega London and Brus.
THE DIFFERENCE IN EFFECT ON AGRICUL-
TURE AND MANUFACTURING—HOW
PROTECTION MAY REDUCE THE
PRICES OF GOODE AND NOT OF PARM
PRODUCTS. : 3
Editor of Home Market Bulletin:
We are ofttimes confronted with the
supposedly unanswerable assertion on
the part of the tariff reform contingent
of the different divisions’ in economic
discussion, that a tariff levied upon
products of the farm must necessarily
operate to reduce the prices of those
products under the protectionist theory
that the tariff, usually considered with
reference to ‘manufactured articles, re-
duces prices. Ishall, therefore, deyote
a few minutes to answering this assertion
and explaining the true condition of the
facts relative to this subject. .
In the first place, all tariffs do not in-
volve the same effects. The tariff re-
formers themselves have asserted this in
relation to the tariff on farm products,
going so far as to disclaim any eflect,
however remote, for the tariff on those
products; consequently we may not be
considered partisan while disclaiming
that those duties may in certain cases
produce scme results, and those results
not necessarily in direct line with the
results of duties on most menufactured
articles, on aecpunt of which duties
prices have undergone a decline,
We assume that there are four ways in
which the duty upon an ordinary man-
ufactured product may operate to reduce
the price, namely:
1. By decreasing the demand for the
foreign product, the foreign supply re-
maining the same, foreign prices are re-
duced.
2. By increasing or creating’ the
American supply, the world’s supply is
increased, the demand remaining the
same. |
3. By relieving the American con-
sumers from the influence of a foreign
monopoly, if such exists.
4. As a result of (2) increasing the
American’ supply, American com petition
is induced, reducing prices and as a re-
sult of which the greatest factor of all,
Yankee ingenuity and invention, is given
the opportunity of exerting itself.
‘When the duty upon any agricultural
product is shown to have ‘any of the
above effects, it may be safely assumed
that it has operated to beneficially reduce
the price of that product, but this is only
the casein rare instances. = The basis of
our National life and our prosperity is to
be placed to the credit of our farmers and
their production, without which no coun-
try can prosperously exist. Nearly all
varieties of farm produce are, therefore,
unlike manufactured products, sure to
be found in our country at some price
under a low tariff or a high tariff, and
consequentiy a tariff on such produce
does not usually operate to establish any
new farming industry, but only in some
cases to secure to our faimers an in-
creased market. This being the case,
any of our before-stated propositions
will rarely be found to apply to an agei-
cultural product and its duty.
The reduced prices which we claim
for the tariff on manufactured products
are the sequence to establishing the pro-
duction of practically our entire con-
sumption in this country. The estab-
‘lishment . of farming in this country,
which existed from the earliest days of
the settlement of North America, was
due to the tariff; and the superlative
productiveness of American soil originally
rendered the levying of a tariff for the
continued existence of a farming in-
dustry a work of supererogation. This
capacity for productiveness was not and
is not inherently possessed by our manu-
facturing industries’ to such a degree,
and in its stead a tariff is levied in order
to secure the production of manufactures
in America; this is the condition ot the
tariff in relation to our manufacturing
industries. The importation of farm
produce, generally considered, is so
small, owing to the inability of foreign-
ers to compete in our market, that the
protective conditions necessary for re-
duced prices are and always have been
established by nature. If, however, the
favorable conditions being removed, as
they seem to be, gradually, and we were
now depending on foreigners for practi-
cally our entire supply of wheat, as of
tin-plates, we should say that the i impo-
sition of a good protective tariff on this
product, establishing the production in
this country, would operate to bene-
ficially reduce the price, not to such a-
‘degree, but in partially the same man-
ner, as it will undoubtedly do in the
mapufacturing industry of tin-plates,
the only difference being that the inven-
tive field in wheat production i is. mot so
large asit is in the case of tin-plates. In
just so much as the tariff upon any farm
product will aid in securing to our farm-
ers directly some additional market, in
just so much will it operateto aid the
process of price reduction, and reduc.
tion not through any indiscriminate less-
ening of net returns, but through the
protectionist method of beneficial and -
remunerative reduction. This is so only
in rare cases, however, few and far be-
tween. Agricultural duties are
levied, taking everything to-
gether, for the purpose of preserving our
home market to our farmers in bad years
on some products, and in order to guard
against any future contingency of foreign
importation on others. And also owing .
to the fact that in some cases the natural.
superiority of American farming is be.
Ing overcome to a certain extent upon all
productions in our home. market, and
which, by raising the duties, McKinley
seeks to remedy to the extent of $23,-
000,000 annually. Upon wool, flax, ete.,
as upon manufactured articles, the above
has always been the case, and McKinley
raised the duties thereon in recognition
of this fact; but we have stated the case
as it is in general. The direct tariff on
the product of agriculture itself is but a
drop in the bucket, for beneficial results,
when compared with the many indirect
| Deasite derived from the protective taril
System ot our country
ing facts.
(not upon the prod cts thi
be assumed to have broy
the prices of farm
fashion not in any way detrim
on the contrary, incalculably 1
to the American farmer. Where we
the American farmer be stan
in the markets of the world in co
tition with the grain of Egy pt,
nd Russia, had not the protec
on agricultural machinery indus
competitive manufacture thereof
country, and enabled our brainy
facturers and skilled workmen
overcoming at first the differ
wages, to place the farm machi
America upon a plane which cl
the world in regard to any qua
in 1891? “Would our farmers to:
in possession of any part of a 8
eign market, to any ‘extent’ wha te
it not for the tariff, not upon
ducts, but upon the machin X
has placed them abead of all
| Even Roger Q. Mills at Cresto
Aug. 22, 1890, was candid eno
exclaim: *‘The price of wheat
down with the declining cost of |
tion, but it was not the protect
(on wheat) that did it; it wi
immediate reason) Cyrus MeCormi
In assuming that a reduction
price of agricultural produce is bound to
work an injury to our farmers, any
than the same is true of manufac
the tariff reformer, in an us
moment, lays bare the
thoughts of his brain, and =
acknowledges that he has cogni:
no reduction in price which w
work injury to the producer, anc t
method of reducing the prices o
factured products implies an imi
loss to the laboring man. This
the method conemplated by the
could conceive of every single one
farm products being atdected
tariff in the identical price-produeci
manner in which it effects our man
tures, the protectionists would not
afraid to stand by those reductions
price as bringing about good resull
our farmers, any more than they
-shrink from pointing out the enor:
reductions in the prices of articl
laborers engaged in producing th
a direct result of protection to Ameri
industries. :
GEORGE ALLEN WHITE
Estheryille, Iowa.
‘An Instructive Coatrast.
Certain Democratic and Mugw
newspapers, in their anxiety to. pal
the Democratic theft of several seats
the New York State Senate, have
ferred to the action of the Republican
majority in the last House of Repres
tives as furnishing a parallel to th
achievements of Hill, Murphy
The charge that the Republicans of
Fifty: first House acted dishonestly in &
matter cf contested seats is absolu
false. :
The facts are these: In six case
which the titles of Democrats we
sailed the Committee on Elections p
nounced in favor of the Democrat
against the Republican contestant.
nine cases in which the evidence ©
fraud and intimidation was conclusive
Democrats were ejected from seats
which they had no right. One in
pendent member of Congress was se ed
in place of a Democrat; seven Repub
can contestants were “seated: and on
Republican contestant, Colonel Clayton
of Arkansas,’ was assassinated while co
lecting evidence in support of his claim.
The House Committee on Elections in
the fifty-first Congress were governed by
the law and the facts in their. decision of
contested c.ection cases. Their action
affords the strongest possible contrast to
the cowardly and criminal seat-snatchin
of Hill and his tools.—New York Press
i Days Without Nights.
Nothing strikes a stranger mori
forcibly, if he visits Sweden at the
season of the year when the days are
the longest, than the absence of
night.
Doctor Baird related some intere
distant, in the morning, and in the
afternoon went to see some friend,
He returned about midnight, when it
was as light as it is in England half
an hour before sundown.
You could see distinctly, but all
was quiet in the street; it seemed as
if the inhabitants were gone away,
or were dead. Thesun, in June, goes
down at Stockholm a little before
o'clock. There is a great illumina.
tion all night, as the sun passes round
the earth toward the north pole, a
the refraction-of its rays is such that :
you can see to read at midnight, with
out any artificial light.
The first morning Doctor Baird -
awoke in Stockholm, he was surprised
to see the sun shining into his room.
He looked at his watch and found it:
was only 3 o'clock. The next
time he awoke it. was 5 o'clock, but
there were no personsin the, street.
There is a mountain at the head of
the Gulf of Bothnia where, on the
twenty-first of June, the sun does not
appear to go down at all. A steam
boat goes up from Stockholm for the
purpose of carrying those who are curi
ous to witness the phenomenon. It
occurs only one night. When the sun
reaches the horizon you can see the
whole face of it, and in five minutes
more it; begins to rise. At the North
Cape, latitude 72 degrees, the sun’
does not go down for several weeks.
A day’s work is twelve hours, ‘Birds
and animals’ take their accustomed
rest at the usual hours Whether the
sun goes down or’ not.
me
Old Sport—“How fast do Jou think’
with continued Sralning:
Horses, will got” ©
. Youngun—*“Can’
He arrived at Stockholm
from Gottenburg, four hundred miles
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