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A NEW YORK paper Las created much astonishment by asserting that the number of pensioners on the rolls today exceeds by several hundred thousand the number of men engaged at any tine in actual service during the rebellion, and in proof of the state ment furnishes figures from tbe re cords of the war and pension depart ments. This is certainly a remark able state of affairs to find twenty seven years after a war is over. THE Democratic party is in great danger of losing the confidence of the people through the cowardice of some of its leaders. After winning an un parallelled victory on the question of protection or free trade there are men high in the councils of the organiza tion who are afraid to put into effect the principles promulgated in the platform. An extra session of con gress should be held and the work of battering down the tariff wall start ed without further delay. AFTER a rest of several years the English yachtsmen will make another effort next summer to capture America's yacht cup. A challenge has been received and accepted by the New York Club from Lord Dun raven. Three new boats will be built on this side of the water, and the best of these will be selected to de fend the trophy. These races never fail to excite interna'ional interest, and the coming contest will stir up some sections almost as much as a presidential election, We can depend on New Yorkers to keep a tight hold on the cup. IT is quite possiblo that the restrict tion placed upon the world's fair commission by congress, regarding the Sunday closing of the exhibition, will be removed. The several church denominations and religious bodies which protested against the opening have since learned that they were un consciously aiding the liquor dealers of Chicago, as the immense crowds of non-church-goers who will be in that city every Sunday would have no place to go but to the saloons; while if the fair buildings were open the day could be spent by them in a more profitable manner. THE tower of the World building, New York city, has become almost as famous as the World itself, owing to the splendid view that can be obtain ed from such a height. The Sun, however, does not propose to let any of its competitors take advantage of public patronage in that way, and it has plans prepared to erect a thirty story edifice on the site of its present building, which is now only a little five-story structure, and the new one will overtop everything in New York. The Sim's weather man ought to be able to give the most reliable reports in his line after he takes his seat up among the clouds. Soloman with all his wisdom did not leave us such an example of saga city as the people of North Dakota furnished at the late election. The state has three votes in the electoral college, and how to distribute them impartially among the political par ties must have troubled its citizens. To the Republicans North Dakota owed its statehood and that party thought it had a claim on the three votes, especially as this was its first time to take part in selecting a presi dent. The Populists thought it should stick to the West, which was to go solid for Weaver. A great many citizens, however, felt that the Democrats would win, and they want ed the state to have some of the honor in electing Cleveland. A compro mise was effected by choosing one elector for Harrison, one for Weaver and one for Cleveland, thereby satis fying the claims of all and still re maining independent. When IlAbj- won sick, wo gavo hof Castoria.' When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Bliss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castoria i.ane'H Medicine Moves the llnwel* lOaclt Day. In Oldor to lie healthy this Is nevuaaiy. AN EXTRA SESSION A WOOL EXPERT'S OPINION ON THE NECESSITY OF HOLDING IT. The Situation That Confronts the Woolen Manufacturer In Grave and Must Be Faced—Unless a Free Wool Bill lv Passed Soon the Industry Will Sutler. The following letter to the New York Evening Post is from Mr. Abraham Mills, a recognized authority in the woolen industry. If there were not hun dreds of other reasons, those given by Mr. Mills would be sufficient to justify a dozen extra sessions of congress: •Sin—Will you permit me as a veteran in the trade to thank you for your editorial of the 18th upon wool and woolens, and to present some ideas upon the same subject which would hardly occur to any except t hose familiar with the technicalities of the trade? Tho situation which confronts the woolen manufacturer is this: In the near future we are to have free wool and a smart reduction of the duty on woolens. This is as certain as any thing human can be, and the situation must be faced. Losses must inevitably be made, and the thing now is to make them as light as pos sible. This, I think,can only be done by either getting the senate this winter to puss the free wool bill now before it or to get anew congress to pass such a bill in extra session next spring. If this is not done, and done quickly, all Europe, and tho continent particularly, will run its j machinery night and day making staple goods, with the present, cheap wool and low wages and cheap money there, to be sent to America the moment the tnrilf barrier is down. The amount of goods then thrown in hero will probably be large enough to flood tho American market perhaps for two years. The condition of our woolen industry during this period will be pitiable. Many mills will be closed, and the remainder will run short time. This means disorganization and great suffering to both proprietors and workmen. It would also pre pare tho way for the reimpositionof the heavy duties on wool and woolens, from which we have with such difficulty and labor just eman cipated ourselves. In confirmation of this view we have just learned from Europe that English wools have advanced a penny a pound, lino wools are much stronger, the woolen industry much moro cheerful, and that the Titus Salt com pany, instead of going into liquidation, are to resume making goods for America. Tlie immediate abolition of the wool duty would put us 011 a par with tho European man ufacturer as to the cost of the raw material, and would advance it smartly and naturally with 65,000,000 people coming into tho markets of the world as customers. And this is tlie only way the American will be able to get any benefit from tbe protection of 40 per cent, which the new law will likely allow him. If tho biLl is postponed, to say, July, 1804, there will be enough goods made in Europe before we can get as cheap wool as our rivals to swamp us when wo come into tho uuirkets of the world at a much higher price for our raw material. These arguments have an equal bearing upon the price of domestic wool. Stocks are now smaller than have ever been known. The west seems completely cleaned out of everything but territory kinds. The effect of the new tariff upon present small stocks would lie con sequently trilling. As to the next clip, if for eign wool were rnado free July, 1 893, there would be a great advance ull over the world, and the domestic article would participate in that advance and Hud a ready market. But if the change is postponed and the anticipation of it hangs over us for eighteen months, do mestic wool will drag along at punic prices be cause woolen goods will do so. Much ma chinery will be Idle, and the whole industry, wool and woolens, will he in a disorganized and lifeless condition pending such a radical change. The situation in the goods market is much the same. It is only this year that the stocks of foreign goods imported in anticipation of the McKinley bill have been worked off. This bus given the market largely to the American manufacturer and has enabled him to sell bis goods close uj> to production. There has rarely been a time when stocks, either in llrst hands or among the jobbers, have been smaller. Dur ing the next six months it is safe to say mills will run merely on orders and carry no stocks, and dealers will carry only what their abso lute necessities call for. In fact it is an Ideal situation and a most opportune time in which to reduce duties. Nothing can ho gained by delay, and much may be lost. I am deeply impressed with the seriousness of the situation, and I thoroughly believe that the path of safety is tliut of courage. Pearl Button Trust. Perhaps the most infamous clause iu that infamous McKinley bill was the one raising the duty on pearl buttons from 25 per cent, to several hundred per cent., depending on the size of the buttons. The tax on shirtmakers is enormous. A manufacturer of underwear who em ploys 400 hunds and continues to use pearl buttons now pays about SIO,OOO a year more for buttons than he did be fore 1890. But many manufacturers have stopped using pearl and have sub stituted vegetable ivory, bone and other cheap substitutes. Of course a great many small manufactories of pearl but-1 tons have sprung up here, and equally of course these manufacturers, who are getting about four times the natural value of their buttons, are anxious about I their future, since the people have de cided that industries which cannot stand alone here cost more than they are worth and should fall. On Nov. 22 these manufacturers held a meeting at Philadelphia, and accord ing to one of their circulars "unani mously resolved to form an association known us the Pearl Button Manufac turers' Association of the United States. Officers were elected, a membership fee of twenty-five dollars was agreed upon, and "committees were appointed to look after the legislation at Washington." Another circular states that "all this in formation is to be strictly confidential.* The pet industry of Harrison and Mc- Kinley is so small that it can accomplish j but little, but it will show its grit by doing what it can to bribe congress to let it continue to plunder sewing wom en. It understands the requirements of a McKinleyized industry, and will do honor to the family to which it belongs by forming a trust to oppose the will of the people. The Wouien HclpoU. Outside of New York the politicians 1 did not cut much of a figure in the elec tions. The Australian system, with a j sound, healthy sentiment for Cleveland, brought out a large vote. The dissatis fied laboring classes all over the land did not need much urging to get them to the polls to right the wrongs and in justice of the McKinley tariff hill. All the laboring men's wives were promi nent factors in the election. They all knew the cost of living had been in | creased; that their clothing and woolens ; cost them more, and that their wages j had not been increased. We expect to see the tariff revised so that the laborer will not be taxed to death fur his cloth ing and other necessities. National 1 (i lass Budget. WHY COAL SHOULD BE FREE. It Would Break the Back of a Great Mo nopoly and Benefit Industry. Because coal is one of the most im portant of raw materials. It forms a big item of cost in nearly every manufac tured product. For this reason 110 true Democrat will hesitate to vote to remove this duty. If ho owns coal fields, as 601110 of our congressmen are reported to ilo, ho will consult the good of the whole people instead of his selfish interests and Vote to give them cheap fuel. Because the duty of seventy-five cents per ton handicaps the manufacturing in dustries on the Pacific coast. This coast, which bears the brunt of our coal duty, imported in 1891 800,000 tons of coal, on which it paid a duty of $600,000. Three fourtlis of this coal came from British Columbia and a part of the remainder from Mexico. Cheap coal would bo a boon to the Pacific coast and would greatly stimulate manufacturing there. Because New England's manufactur ing industries have been marking time for many years, waiting for free coal and free ores. Nova Scotia is ready to supply free coal the moment the duty is removed. It costs but 0110 dollar per ton to carry coal from Nova Scotia to Boston, while it costs $2.60 to carry it from Baltimore to Boston. Nova Scotia, then, is the natural source of supply for New England. The present duty does not protect coal miners and is not to cover any difference of labor cost. In fact it costs moro to mine coal in Nova Scotia than here. It is all a question of transportation. Because if we make coal free Canada may be expected to do the same. Then, as Galuslia A. Grow said 111 1890: "If there was no duty*on coal between Can ada and the United States, I think the Nova Scotia region would supply Cana dian territory east of Montreal and west of the state of Maine, and perhaps some in Boston; and Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana would supply all the territory west of Montreal to the Rocky mour tains. We should supply ten miles o* territory to their one." Because the duty on coal nourishes j one of the most gigantic combines that j ever gnawed at the vitals of our repub- 1 lie. The Reading coal combine, which was formed last spring, has already ad vanced prices sufficiently to extort about $50,000,000 a year from the pockets of consumers. Thousands of poor families will suffer with cold this winter because of this combine, and thousands of miners will have short rations because produc tion is restricted to sustain advanced prices. The most certain way to break the hack of this giant monopoly is to give consumers an opportunity to pur chase cheap bituminous coal. Then when the price of anthracite is raised above a certain point (probably about seventy-five cents below the present prices in many eastern states) bitumi nous would he substituted for anthracite coal in many mills and houses. The Democratic party should not lose this opportunity to deal a tolling blow to this Reading monster. Cotton Oil Trust I'roflti*. The American Cotton Oil company held its annual meeting for 1893 on Nov. 3. This trust owns 124 properties in six teen states, besides about 300 oil tank cars. The actual value of all is about $13,000,000, though it is capitalized at $34,225,700. The company did a busi ness for the year ending Aug. 31, 1892, of $20,263,500, and made a net profit of j $1,853,973.42. This is equal to about 15 j per cent, on the actual capital involved. The usual dividend of 3 per cent, was 1 declared, and the balance of profit was | added to the accumulated profits of pre vious years ($4,085,580.07), making a to- ; tal of $5,418,590.79 —a snug little sum for a rainy day. The trustees of this gigantic trust have conducted affairs on a grand scale. In five years they spent $510,000 in New York office expenses. In 1889 its officers speculated in its own stocks and lost largely. It lias reorganized twice within two years to dodgo state and national antitrust laws, and now has separate corporations of all its properties in each state. In June, 1888, bills were intro duced into the state senate and house of Louisiana to break up the trust because it fixed the prices of agricultural prod ucts and prevented the erection of new mills. Yet alter paying all dividends, expenses, losses, extravagances and costs this trust has saved over $5,000,- 000. Now this is just the kind of an in fant industry that Major McKinley be lieves in helping. He left a duty of ten cents a gallon on cottonseed oil. Not that there was any foreign competition or ever had been any; on the contrary, we exported in 1890 13,348,385 gallons of cottonseed oil, worth $5,291,178. The duty was a gratuity, it being one of Mc- Kinley's maxims that a trust which has a complete monopoly of an industry should receive governmental support. If not needed in other ways such duties serve to prevent reimportations, when trusts, as they often do, sell cheaper to foreigners than to Americans. This trust will miss its old companions, Mc -1 Kinley and Miller, in the new adminis tration. A Cheap Man. It 1h a cheap mAn that buys a cheap coat.— President Harrison. It is a cheap man that buys a banana raised out of doors. Get protection. Keep the cheap tilings out. Build houses that will start brick and lumber yards. Cover them with glass that will give work to glassmen and raise our bananas indoors. A banana raised that way, at a cost of thirty cents, is worth eating. Quit using ice made out of doors—too cheap; build houses and make it by steam; it gives employment and makes ice worth mouey. You great cheap slave going around breathing free air I Get some one to in vent away to bottle it up; it will give Work making bottles, and take your air straight out of a bottle at ten cents per bottle and throw the empty thing down hard. Don't use it a second time; get a new one and give work and wages. That is what we want—work, work. We do not want men standing round breathing cheap air. Too cheap, too cheap!—(J. B. Power in St. Louis Courier. TAKE THE DUTY OFF. ARTICLES THAT SHOULD BE PUT ON THE FREE LIST AT ONCE. Halt, Lumber, Coal and Coke, Iron Ores, Silver Lend Ore*. Cotton Ties and Sugar Are All Kiiw Materials and Yield but a Meager Ilevenuc. With duo deference to tho opinions of Ell others and to the fact that congress frill be greatly puzzled during the next few years to reduce duties and at the tame time make the revenues meet tho expenditures, we beg leave to express our opinion that the following articles should be put on the free list before next March, if possible, and certainly very soon after then. They are all raw materials for important industries, and each can bo considered without refer ence to any other duties. The duty on no other article will become unjust be cause the duties on these are removed. Under no considerations can any of these articles be on the dutiable list of a tariff bill made in accordance with the Democratic platform. No matter how difficult it may be to secure sufficient revenue, the duties collected on these ar ticles are so small as to make them on I this account inconsiderable. Out of a j total duty of $215,790,G8G collected for the year ending June 30, 1891, these ar ticles yielded a revenue of only about $3,082,159, divided as follows: Value imports. Amount duty. Salt $027,051 $480,71*) Lumber J boards 4,240,145 380,107 Lumber Bawed 3,570,088 858,027 Coal and coke 3,704,453 804,845 Iron ores 2,420.730 721,383 Silver lead ores 1,023,133 422,738 Cotton ties 480,000 170,009 Sugar (about) 300,000 50,000 $ 10,082,722 $3,032,159 The fact that these articles are all raw materials; that they yield but little rev enue; that they can he acted upon inde pendently of any other articles; that the Democrats are under obligations to make them free, and that bills freeing them have passed tho present congress or are in the hands of the ways and means committee, should leave no doubt as to what should lie done with these articles. The sooner they are made free the more confidence the people will have in the Democratic party and the sooner the good effects of free raw materials will begin to be manifest in growing manufac tures. In the case of several other articles the duty of immediate action is just as im perative. Free wool has been promised to the people. The total value of wool imported in 1891 was $17,070,183; duty collected, $0,552,208. The amount of duty in this case is not so great as to cause any hesitation, but it would be unjust to make wool free without lower ing duties on woolen goods And here we run against an important revenue I producing schedule. In 1891 imported woolen goods valued at $43,235,410 pro duced a revenue of $34,857,453. Based upon the Springer free wool bill (now pigeonholed in the senate), which left duties too high, it would be easy to make a tariff schedule for woolens that would produce nearly or quite as much revenue, I and that would greatly reduce the cost of woolen goods to the people. The great importance of cheap clothes and of cheap foreign wools to our textile manufacturers makes it imperative to act at once. The fact that delay will only put our manufacturers at a great disadvantage by enabling foreign manu facturers to make up out of the cheap wools which they already have a surplus stock of goods to bo sold here as soon as our duties are reduced makes it more imperative that we act at once. The duties on tinned plate and pearl buttons should be removed or greatly reduced without delay. This would I probably hurt the feelings of President | Harrison, who took especial pains to i mention these duties and articles in his | letter of acceptance, but even if these I industries now sprouting here should | wither and die (which is highly improb | able) these burdensome and inordinately high duties must go. This government I is going out of the business of giving do | nations to support sickly industries. Hundreds of other duties, which pro duce little or no revenue, but which foster trusts that bleed us unmercifully, though they may sell to foreigners at reasonable prices, should be unceremoni ously "chucked overboard." Some of these duties are those on agricultural implements, axes and edged tools, barbed wire, bolts and nuts, borax, brooms, cartridges, castor oil, copper, cordage, cotton duck, cottonseed oil, cotton thread, envelopes, lead, matches, oil cloth, pocket cutlery, powder, 6aws. schoolbooks, sewer pipes, shot and lead, soap, sponges, starch, steel rails, struc tural steel, teazels, trunks, type, um brellas, wall paper, watches, wheels, wool screws, etc. The most of these ar ticles are produced cheaper here than anywhere else, and we are entitled to obtain them at as low prices as they sell for abroad. Hut for the un-American MoKinlcy bill we could now do so. It is a disgrace to us that we vote for repre sentatives to make laws that make it possible for us to purchase our own products—sewing machines, plows, type writers, saws, cartridges, etc., for from 10 to 100 per cent, cheaper abroad than at home. Jf we tolerate this system longer we will certainly brand ourselves "chumps." No Tariff Commission. The suggestion that a tariff commis sion be specially appointed to sit during the next summer and after an exhaust ive investigation of the subject report to the regular session of the Fifty-third congress does not seem a timely one. Commission after commission lias inves tigated the tariff question. The whole country has investigated it, especially during the last live years. Men in con gress who have taken the lead in dis cussing this chief issue could draw such a bill as is demanded in short order and with full knowledge of what is wanted. In the matter of this reform delay can not be asked for on the ground of needed investigation.—Detroit Free Press. A Poor Folk's Garden. So early were collectors in California, I anil so universal was the interest felt in | Europe over the new plants of the Pa cific coast, that many trees of sequoias anil other superb conifers were planted I in the parks of England, France and Italy long before the discovery of gold. Wealthy Californians, as early as 1855, visiting Europe, were surprised to find how popular were the brilliant annuals, flowering shrubs, vines and trees of their own state. Returning they often urged neighbors to cultivate more of the j native plants, but with little effect. In Alameda county, a plain, unedu- j cated Englishwoman of Lancashire yeo man stock was one of the first persons in all California to make a home garden of wild flowers from field and hill. 1 remember in my boyhood the passionate devotion that she showed to this pursuit. "It do be the best land the sun ever shone on," she declared, "for poor folk to have a garden.—Charles H. Shinn in Century. The Juice of tho Pa paw Tree. In his "History of Barbados" Griffith Hughes mentions that the juice of the papaw tree is of so penetrating a nature that, if the unripe peeled fruit be boiled with the toughest old salted meat, it quickly makes it soft and tender. Ker sten also tells us that boiling meat with the juice of the papaw is quite a com mon thing in Quito. Captain S. P. Oliver, writing in Na ture, July 10, 1579, says, "In Mauritius, where we lived principally on ration beef cut from the tough flesh of the Malagasy oxen, we were in the habit of hanging the ration under the leaves themselves, and if we were in a hurry for a very tender piece of fillet, our cook would wrap up the undercut of the sir loin in the leaves, when the newly killed meat would be as tender as if it had been hung for a considerable time." —Chambers' Journal. A Itaronet UH a Constable. Among the constables in the Royal Irish constabulary stationed at the depot in the Phenix park, Dublin, is Constable Sir Thomas Eclilin, Bart. According to Debrett's baronetage the Echlin family is of ancient Scotch origin, and formerly possessed princely estates in Scotland, and also large domains in the counties of Kildare, Carlow, Dublin and Mayo. The third baronet dissipated a large por tion of the family estates, and the fourth, fifth and sixth baronets managed to get through with the remainder. Then the present baronet found himself landless and entered the Royal Irish constabu lary.—Yankee Blade. The Bluine* Will Live In Augusta. The Hon. James G. Blaine and family have decided to make Augusta their res idence after the coming winter. On her recent visit to this city Mrs. Blaine stopped an hour at their mansion here, thoroughly inspecting it. The family have concluded to put it in complete repair and make several changes, re modeling the kitchen, etc. The grounds are also to be plowed and graded. These improvements will be begun at an early day. They will live here, spend ing but a brief period at Bar Harbor during the summer season. Mr. Blaine is strongly attached to Augusta and pre fers to live here. —Augusta Cor. Lewis ton Journal. Money in Clilll. Money in Chili is so scarce just now that pasteboard notes of hand are used instead of coin. Merchants state their name and a certain sum on a scrap of pasteboard, which circulates as money till at last redeemed by its original pro ducer.—London Tit-Bits. John Baird, of Richmond, Me., is a veteran of Waterloo. He enlisted in the British army when but fourteen years old, and is now hale and vigorous at ninety-two. A Strange Wild Animal. A queer wild animal was killed in an Indiana town a short time ago. Ac cording to reports, it seemed to be a cross between a badger and a ground hog, with a white face, powerful legs and clawß, and a long pointed nose. An Echo of the Foot bull Season. There is one doctor in Philadelphia who lias on his list thirty cases of injury at football, and they are nearly all cases requiring surgical treatment. —Philadel- j phia Times. COUGHING LEADS TO CONSUMPTION. Kemp's Balsam stops the cough at once. PATENT I A 48-page book free. Address W. T. FIT7. GERALD, Att'y-at-Law. Cor. Bth and F Sts., Washington, D. C. REPORT OF THE CONDITION of — The Citizens' Bank of Freeland, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, at the close of business, November 30,1892. RESOURCES. Cash on hand $ 11 9* Cheeks and other cash items MJ3 01 I Due from banks and bankers I-oans and diseounts ™ investment securities J;' Renl estate, furniture und llxtures- . • boa 37 Overdraft* ""J < urrent expenses and taxes paid -43 4~ IU w $170,889 12 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in 8 50f000 00 Surplus fund }•£?" Undivided pr0fit5.......... 1,884 90 Deposits subject to check... 122,677 02 Cashiers' checks outst'ndilu? 07 Duo to banks and bankers. 3,121 W Dividends unpaid ItBI 75 Miscellaneous liabilities.... 4(13 68 , State of Pennsylvania. County of Luzerne, ss: 1 i, B. U. Davis, cashier of the above-named i bank, do solemnly swear that the above state ; ment is true to the best of my knowledge and i belief. B. R. Davis, cashier. 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