Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1891 — Page 6

©he DH2OA.TTJR, IND. BLACKBURN, - - . Pubushhb. The less mind a woman has the more liberal she is in giving you a piece of it. The cold weather in England raised the death rate in London to thirty per 1,000. A tower to be thirteen hundred feet high and to cost $2,000,000 is among the attractions promised for the World’s Fair. There are twenty-six monarchies and twenty-five republics in the civilized world. Sixteen republics are in South America. ** t A Sturgis (Mich.) burglar caused the postponement of a wedding recently by stealing the wedding trousers of the prospective groom. A Tekonsha, Mich., man who is in the hare raising business, calculates that the increase of a pair will number 2,000 inside of two years. Five pounds ten shillings sterling per pound was paid in London for a small package of unapproachable tea brought overland through Russia. Soak waste paper in water until soft and pulpy, then squeeze it into balls, put on the fire with a piece of coal, and you will save coal and increase the heat. Our Puritan fathers may have had to attend church armed with a shot-gun but they were never bothered with microbes “germs” and bacilli. A savage redskin is a picnic compared to these. Senator Vance smokes thirty, strong, imported cigars a day. He is also a worshiper of Andrew Jackson, going every morning to Lafayette Park where he stands in front of the Jackson statue and reverently lifts his hat.’ Lincoln’s birthday, February 12, is being celebrated more generally throughout the country each year, and with good reason. Certainly no event of modern times has had more influence on the country’s history. A sailor at San Francisco has started out to make a stake by complaining of all sailing craft which do not carry a medicine chest/asHhe law directs. He hit seven in one day. The fine is SIOO in each case, and half the money goes to the informer. - Black Sea soundings are said to show that below the depth of 600 feet the water is so impregnated with sulphurated hydrogen gas, emanating from decaying animals and vegetable Eiatter, that living organisms are not found there.

Os all big cities Berlin probably gets the most vegetables from a distance. Her winter cauliflowers come from Italy and Holland, her new potatoes from Malta, her beans from North Italy, her pickles from Holland, her onions from Russia, Hungary, and Egypt Baroness Nathaniel* Rothschild, who recently purchased the celebrated Strauss collection of objects of Hebriac art, has presented it to the Cluney Museum, in Paris. One of the finest and most curious objects is a huge ark of walnut wood, ornamented with fiftyfour panels, superbly carved. A man may put up a prescription, a watch, a candidate, a stove pipe or an umbrella. He can put down his name, a mutiny, a statement, his foot, a subscription or a square meal. Having accomplished these things he usually goes and gets himself elected a member of a philosophical society. It was one of Gen. Sherman’s daughter’s, the eldest, who refused to dance with the Russian Crown Prince when ha mads his tour of the United States. Her refusal raised a cloud of social dust at the time, but she explained it on the ground that out of deference to her mother’s wishes she had decided not to waltz at alb From certain sights and squyita taken at Niagara Falls recently by a civil engineer, it was proved that the brink of the cataract is just where it was seventeen years ago. There has Seen no wearing away whatever, and if you were waiting to seo the falls disappear you have been badly left. Business is booming at the old stand. The Empress of Germany has military tastes, as well as her husband. At the late grand view on TemplehOffield, she was in the saddle for two hours, riding superbly and leading her own regiment of cuirassiers past the Emperor. Her uniform as Colonel was a habit of white cloth, embroidered on shoulders and collar with the red and silver colors of the regiment, and a three-cornered white felt hat, with many ostrich feathers, in which she looked remarkably pretty. Philip A. White, who diedin Brooklyn recently, was a negro, a millionaire, a cultivated gentleman, and one of the best chemists in the two cities. Nearly half a century ago he established a wholesale and retail drug store in the “Swamp” in New York City, and later built a large store and warehouse in Gold street. Here he grew rich and achieved a wide reputation in the trade. For many years he has been prominent in educational circles in Brooklyn. There are few better private libraries than that collected by the late Dr. White, as he was always called. Judge Q , who once presided over a criminal court down East, was famous a as one of the most compassionate men who ever sat upon the bench. His softness of heart, however, did not prevent him from doing his duty as a judge. A man who had been convicted of stealing a small amount was brought into court tor sentence. He looked very sad and

hopeless, and the court was much moved by his contrite appearance. “Have you ever been sentenced to imprisonment?* the' Judge asked. “Never, never !* exclaimed the prisoner, bursting into tears. “Don’t cry, don’t cry,” said the Judge, consolingly ; “you’re going to be, now!” The customs service now devotes special attention to the mails from Europe. Smuggling through the mails has grown enormously in recent years. Au idea of the searches may be gained from a few figures: Just before Christmas the Servia brought 450,000 letters, papers, parcels, etc., nearly one-half of which were for New York City; 5,000 suspicious-looking letters were taken in hand, and each of these was carefully examined and returned to the mails in a few hours. Women frequently send pearls, gloves and presents of no great value in books hallowed out in the middle. These are sure to be discovered as all books are looked at to see which come in free of duty. When Baron voh Seidletz-Leipe, Brewer Ehret’s son-in-law, arrived at the Hoboken pier of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company recently, he was met by Capt. Hainelman, formerly of the steamer Werra,and now in charge of the company’s piers. “What is your name?” asked the Captain of the noble stranger, preparing to enter the reply in his record. The baron began to enumerate his various titles and Christian names, but had got only half through when the Captain interrupted him with: “Oh, hang it, you left all those in Germany. You’re in America, now. What’s your last name?’’ The baron, who was exceedingly taken aback, gave the desired information and hastily passed on to meet his friends. O The so-called cities of the United States, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution in 1775. were only what would now be counted towns of moderate size. But in each of these little capitals there was an aristocracy that affected the style and fashion of the English gentry. Gentleman and ladies gathered at fashionable houses in the afteinoon, and spent the-time in talking and sipping tea from dainty little china cups. Sometimes large parties rode down to a public garden in the country, or a tavern by the seaside, to drink tea. In most of the chief towns there were held once in two weeks “assemblies,” or balls. At these assemblies there were stately minuets and country dances, and much money was lost and won at cardtables in a room prepared for fashionable gambling, which was then one of the recognized amusements of good society. A New York gentleman, according to the Sun, had an Angora cat, upon which he set a great value. Unhappily she was in somewhat frail health, but could not be persuaded to take medicine. It was put into her milk and mixed with her meat, but all such experiments were unsuccessful. Attempts to force it into her mouth and down her throat proved equally unavailing. She would not take the disagreeable dose. At last, a your.g riYish girl, just from the old country, was received into the kitchen, and heard of the cat difficulty. “Sure!” said she, “give me the medicine and some lard, and I’ll warrant she’ll be ’ating all I give her.” She mixed the powder and the grease, and smeared the cat’s sides with the compound. Pussy at once began licking herself clean, and, of course, swallowed the medicine. The master of the house expressed his|pleasure and gratitude. “Faith!” said the girl “in Ireland, everybody knows how to give medicine to a cat”

You shall not bo shaved by a ptiblic barber in Philadelphia on Sunday. And the act that denies you this privilege was passed April 22, 1794. A barber, on appeal, butted against this old statutory chestnut the other day, and this is what Chief Justice Paxton said: “We are now asked to say that shaving is a work of ‘necessity,’ and therefore within the exceptions of the act of 1794. It is perhaps as mnch a necessity as washing the face, taking a bath, or performing any other act of personal cleanliness. zk man may shave himself, or have his servant or valet shave him, on the Lord’s day, without a violation of the act of 1794. But the keeping open of his place of business on that day by a barber and following his worldly employment of shaving his customers is quite another matter, and while we conclude that it may be a great convenience to many persons, we are not prepared to say, as a question of law, that it is an act of necessity within the ipeaniug of the act of 1794. We do not make the law; our duties are limited to interpreting it. and we feel ourselves bound by tlie construction which our predecessors have placed upon the act for nearly a century. ” In the Glaus Factory. The Electrician tells of a new application of the electric current in glass factories. When a sheet of windowglass is made it is blown into a cylindrical shape in the first instance; and the cylinder, before being cut down longitudinally, and allowed to unbend on a flat surface so as to form the sheet, has its ends cut off. This was formerly done by wrapping round the part to be cut a piece of white-hot glass fresh from the melting-pot. By the new plan the separation is made far more neatly by placing round the glass a thin wire, and afterwards causing an electric current to traverse that wire. The metal becomes red hot, is removed, and a drop of cold water applied to the heated surface, with the result that it cracks all round where the wire has touched it.’ A ready plan for cutting off the bottom of bottles has long been in vogue, which consists in tying round the part where the separation is to be made a piece of string soaked in spirit. This is afterwards ignited and a drop of water applied, as in the case just described. The lamp of experience is not always fed with the oil of gladness.

ASSWARE.

TRUSTS IN GLASSWARE. MANUFACTURERS COMBINING INTO TRUSTS. They Want All the Profits oi MeKlnleyism—Highly l‘rotecte<t Already, McKinley Gave Them SUU Higher Proteeiion— Profit* of the Business. A dispatch from Findlay, Ohio, has recently appeared in the papers as follows: “The Western Flint Bottle Association, comprising thirty-seven factories, at a meeting last night decided to close their works on June 1 instead of July 1 as heretofore. This is for the purpose of maintaining prices and compelling jobbers to come to the manufacturers’ terms.” This is one of the trusts In the glass business. Another is the trust of the manufacturers of table glassware,,, which was started only a month or two ago, and which is now completing its organization. The McKinley law made heavy increases in the duties on glassware; and now the trusts are making haste to get all they can out of the advantage that McKinley has given them. The increase in the tariff duties from 40 per cent, to 60 per cent., not to mention the imposition of duties upon packages, which would addmearly 25 percent, more, was entirely uncalled for, since the .old duties were practically prohibitive. Nevertheless this scale of duties upon glassware was insisted n*4n in the conference committee by Mr. McKinley. What his purpose was, backed as he was by the manufacturers in Ohio and western Pennsylvania, could not be surmised at the time. It is now however perfectly plain. Nine of the largest manufacturers of tablqjvare in Ohio and Pennsylvania have united and applied for a charter under which a table glassware trust has been formed. Their purpose is to control the output of glass and raise the price. This combination was born in Mr. McKinley's district, and the more active manufacturers concerned were among those who contributed large sums to carry on his campaign last fall. Abundantly able to control the markets here even with glassware upon the free list and to export largo quantities besides, they are not content with their present profits'but aim under the McKinley tariff to charge as much for their goods here as. they can force consumers to pay, relying upon the foreign market to take the surplus, at reduced rates. They have secured what they wanted and will not hesitate to carry out their plans. One of these compauiesdeclared dividends of 60 per cent, in 1883, 60 per cent, in 1884, and about the same since. Another has declared nearly the same amount in the same time, and its stock has advanced over 200 per cent, since 1885. Another has doubled its capital out of its earnings for the past three years. When carefully managed these works make not less than 25 per cent, profit each year. These figures show how reckless the McKinJeyitcs were in raising duties where there is absolutely no necessity for an increase. Some of the Hint and lime-glass makers went before McKinley’s committee and pretended that they were being driven oat of the home market by German competition. These men had much to say about the low wages of German labor. It is a specimen case, showing how a lot of smart manufacturers can pull the wool over the eyes of a committee of protectionists, ready, and willing to be deceived, and eager to find an excuse for giving the highest kind of protective duties. s The increase of these duties is rendered all the more inexcusable in view of the great and rapid development of the glassware industry under the old duties. That growth is reflected in the following figures: 1880. 1890. No. of establishments 91 144 No. of furnaces.* I£2 1125 No. of pots 1,559 2,621 Great as this development is, it is not so great as it would'’have been if the glass industry had the benefit of freeraw materials; for the tariff on those is a great burden on this highly protected industry itself. Os the raw materials used soda, potash and lead are imported to a greater or less extent. If soda is used in the form of soda ash it is very largely imported, since a little only is made here. But salt cake is often used as a substitute for soda ash, and of this- the greater part is of domestic production. Soda ash pays Kof a cent per pound duty or 26 per cent., and salt cake $1.25 per ton or over 28 percent’ These duties affect the manufacturer of limo glassware only. Potash is largely imported and.is free of duty. The chief raw material, with the exception of sand in quantity, and the costliest of all used in the manufacture of glass is lead. One third of the total weight of lead glass is lead. Since leal in the form in which it is used in glass manufacture is worth to-day from 63< to 9 cents per pound, at wholesale, it will be seen that in every pound of glass made with it there are from 2 to 3 cents, worth of The duty on pig lead from which red lead and litharge are made is 2 cents .per pound or 72 per cent. On red lead and litharge the duty is 3 cents per pound, or 66 per cent, and 85 percent respectively. The smelting and refining of lead in the United States is in the hands of a “trust,” which manages to keep up the price here above the foreign price by nearly the whole amount of duty. Red lead and litharge are the form in which glass manufacturers use lead, and these products are made by the manufacturers of white lead. It happens that the same trust controlling the production and price of pig lead is also in control of the production of white lead, red lead, and litharge. The excuse which they offer for the high prices which they charge the glass manufacturers is the high price of pig lead, which, however, is not the price they pay for it, but the price they charge their competitors. Nothing shows more clearly the handicap that is placed upon the manufacturers of lead glass in competition with foreigners in the markets of the world by these high duties than the sworn declaration of Mr. Macbeth, a large manufacturer and exporter of lead.glass, who appeared before the Ways and Means Committee of the House early this year. Mr. Macbeth declared that for materials which cost S4O in Germany he had to pay here $79.63, or nearly 100 per cent more; and that upon the materials used in making 1,800 gross of leaachlmneys, or one week’s production, the enhanced cost on account of the tariff on the materials used was $650. Why should manufacturers and consumbe taxed in this way to support the lead trust This tax restricts production and consumption, and-handicaps our manufacturers in the export trade in which there is a great demand for American glassware. Must our export trade in glassware follow that of paints? The high duties on lead in connection with those upon linseed oil, both products are in the control ofxrtirusts, have killed our once flourishing trade with foreign countries in paints. Shall they be allowed to do the same with the only forelgn’trade which we have in all our glass industries—tile export of glasswares? To Whitewash McKinleyism. It is said that the high protectionists of the United States Senate are not exactly pleased with the work oi Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright. Thoy do not deny his conscientious devotion to the truth, it is said, hut they think that some of his recent Investigations

have not token jAt the best for the I high tariff cause. It is doubtless the Commissioner's recent publication of his investigations Into the cost of producing iron and steel In the United States and in Europe that has given the protectionist magnates dissatisfaction. At any rate, just before the adjournment of Congress a resolution was passad by the Senate authorizing the Finance Committee to collect evidence as to the '■ effect of the new tariff law. In view ' of the violent attacks upon the McKinley law, they desire some figures gotten together. by its friends with a view to showing that the effects of the law have 1 been good, and that a high tariff deserves to be perpetuated as the support of our industrial system. In order to secure this evidence the Finance Committee is authorized to sit where and when it pleases, and it is gov- j erned by no restrictions as to hearing j both sides and permitting tho cross ex-* amination of witnesses. The under- i standing is that there will not be so many hearings as there will be letters sent to the right persons to obtain facts bearing on the effect of the new tariff. I Price lists will be sought and statements as to wages paid under the old tariff and the new, and as to the development of old plants and the establishment of new ones. The protectionist majority of this committee is partisan enough to warrant the belief that it will make a report in ; which McKin eyism will l>e whitewashed ! and made to appear as a thing of beauty. I But McKinleyism has been emphatically ; condemned by the people; and it is too I late in the day to try to galvanize that' corspo into a semblance of life again. Wanto l a Rubber Trust. Efforts to form trusts are reported very frequently since the day of MoKinleyism began. A scheme has been on foot for some time to unite all the rub- 1 ber boot and shoe establishments of the I country into a combination to control I prices and regulate output. Tho Boston Boot anri Shoe Recorder I says that “the recent financial troubles * put an end to all negotiations for a time,” Then It goes on to say: “Now it■ is stated that still another movement of the same kind is on foot, that a prom- ■ inent banking house in New York City ! is interested in making the deal, and that the bank expects to realize a good i sum in commissions through floating tho stock of the proposed' now combination, j This movement will probably follow the ' course of tho previous efforts in the same ' line. Some companies when approached ' are found anxious to sell, others will sell at a fair price, while still others name j figures that stagger tho would-be buyers." From the latter remark it appears that the rubber boot and shoo business must be very profitable. The ever generous McKinley, however, was not satisfisd | with tho old duty of 25 per cent. No-1 body apparently camo to ask for an in- ; crease of duty, but as McKinley had coni- i tractod the .habit of raising the tariff wall, up went the duty on rubber bcots and shoes to 30 per cent. This was done . without any evidence that domestic manufacturers are suffering from foreign oompetition. If there are any imports of rubber boots or shoes at ail the Treasury reports do not givo them. And now the effort to form a rubber trust! When it comes let McKinley > blesA it as one of the “beneficences" of his tariff law that he said the people might expect. % Total Appropriations, $1,003,000,000. The enormous extravagance of the last Congress in voting away the people's ' money in order to make tariff reduction ' impossible will ahnost certainly result in i a large deficit next year, and already j there is talk about the necessity of do- I vising new methods of raising revenues j tp me t tho permanent appropriations l saddled upon the country by tho pro- j tectionists. The total appropriat ons made by tho last Congress are calculated by Senator Allison and ox-Gdngressman Cannon tbj have been $988,000,000; but in this sum they do not include tho direct tax refund, 1 which will amount to more than sls,- > 000,000 additional. The total is thus! more than $1,003,000,000, making an in- j crease of over $170,000,00 j more than I the appropriations of the previous Con- j gress. When the country is brought faze to I face with an empty treasury next year nobody will be rash enough ‘to propose ! a further increase of tariff duties. The ! people have already shown what they I think of McKinleyism, and they will I stand no more of it. In finding new 1 ,ways of raising revenue an income ta.x j graded according to wealth is already j mentioned by some as most likely to meet with favor in the next Congress. When such a system of direct taxation has been introduced it will prove the I entering wedge for the destruction of the 1 protective system. Under this system * tho rich are not bearing their due share of taxation. When, there.ore, the people have found that anoth r system can be put into operation, which will shift the burdens of taxation from the poor to 1 those who are better able to bear them, they will soon become eager to give protection itself its death-blow. The equalizing of the burdens of taxation is the ci ying need of the day, and the taxing of the many for the benefit of the few is the first great injustice which must go. Women Pay McKinley I’r en*. A New York paper reports that women who go shopping there now «are hearing much about the McKinley law. One woman related her experience in buying I spring goods as follows: “I’ve heard about the McKin’ey Jaw wherever I’ve besn to-day. I went out to buy stuff for an ordinary every day dress. Last year I got suitable goods for $1 a yard, and that is about what I have paid for the last three or tour years, sometimes going as high as $1.25. I believe that it is only an inconsiderable percentage of New York women who buy more expensive materials for their every day street cos’ umes. “I could not to-day buy material for I my dre. s for less than, $l6O to $1.75 a j yard. Material of similar value was i easily obtainable last year at from $1 to ' $1:25 a yard. There is nothing desirable • in any of the stares in regular lines at | tho old prices. I had to take my choice J between buying cheaper stuff than I i have ever worn bofo e or paying from 50 j to 60 cents a yard more than I have ever , paid before. “My shopping tour this morning has convinced me that Mr. McKinley and his friends have taken consid Table purchasing power away from the few dollars that I have to spend on dress, and I shall never believe a Republican when he tells me that the tariff is not a tax. ** The Ollulod Trust. There is no falling off in the making of trusts. The Cel.ul id Company, or trust, has recently bought out the nianu- , facturers of lithoid and zylonite, and consol! ated them into a single trust. 1 All the cellu'oid collars and cuffs made 1 in the country wi:l pass through tho I hands of this trust An office has been I opened in New York to handle the entire product. The Cellnloli Trust is Well bolstered up by tho tariff. On a l manufactures of celluloid there is a duty of fifty cents > a pound and twenty-five per cent e ua to . an ad valorem duty of forty nine per cent , Trusts will con tin uo to thrive, and .will l throttle competition so long as the people I are foolish enough to vote them the* protection that makes monopoly |

1 The present tendency among all our Industrie* is in the direction of trusts, and nine tenths of these'industries, it is said, are already controlled by trusts. The President on McKinleyism. President Harrison has recently bad a talk withntho correspondent of the New York Tribune. He gave his views of the tariff agitation and die McKinley law 1 thus: “Most decidedly, I think there ' should be no more agitation upon this subject until the McKinley b!3 has been fairly tried. It has been charged with numerous faults. There is no reason why its workings should bo prejudiced by malevolent predictions. The bill has been already long enough in operation to indicate that much that was charged against it is untrue. A period should be permitted to pass long enough to test I fairly the character of the measure, i Then, if it can bo shown by such fair ; and impartial trial that it has faults, let 1 thorn bo eliminated, but until such period is passed, I should be strongly against any further agitation of the tariff question. ” But the tariff agitation cannot I be stopped. The President can no more stop it than Mrs. Partington could sweep back tho rising waves of ' tho Atlantic Ocean. The President dilated upon one of the beauties of the McKinley law as follows: “Under this act the American merchant can get raw material, for the duty : is not charged where such material is i»imported to bo manufactured into artiI dies for exportation, and so the American ; merchant will bo able to sell at the same ! point of advantage as the English merchant, with the additional advantage of free entry into ports where treaties are made.” But this is a singular position for a protectionist President. Tho Republican party keep reiterating, with parrotlike simplicity, that tho tariff is not a tax: yet this Republican President points j out that the drawback on raw materials I enables the American merchant “to sell at .the same point of advantage 1 as the English merchant.” A drawback I is a refunded duty; but if “tho foreigner I pays the tax,” it is not necessary to refund tho duty on raw materials to our manufacturers In order to place them on ■ tho same footing as their English comj petitors. Is it not a strange piece of legislation, too, to givo our manufac- . tnrers nntaxod raw materials when 1 manufacturing for the foreign market, i and to exactheavy taxes upon materials j to be used in making goods for the homo ; market? [ “The homo market is tho best market in the world,” say the protectionists. At least it is long-suffering and slow to wrath. Opposing Human Pregress. Protection is getting a pernicious brood of ideas in this count y which needs to be destroyed. The starting ! point of the. protectionist heresy is in ■ the proposit on that tho powers of tho | Government can be rightly used to proI tect manufa turers from competition. ; Whatever gives onr manufacturers a bigger job and bigger profits,' it is held, ; is good>for tho entire country. ’lhis thiiTg spreads. The laborers env ployed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at Washington made a curious though logical application of this protectionist principle during the recent session of Congress. The laborers saw 1 that if tho steam plate printing presses in tho bureau wore removed, it would give them a bigger job and bigger profits. The power of the United States Government was invoked to protect the printers from the “ruinous competition" of steam machinery; and the protection Congress ■ obediently voted a law removing the steam I presses. As the result of this measure i tho spendthrift legislators found it neoi essary to increase tho appropriation for ! the bureau by $100,030. Now ,that the I printers are-protected from competition ; it is impossible to print revenue stamps i with the hand presses as fast as they are I ordered; and Secretary Foster has been p ealing with the men to permit the use of twenty steam presses to catch up with I the orders. Tho men, however, are inexorable and will njt yield one jot of 1 their “protection." Every outsider sees how absurd the ' whole business is. On this princip e the j sols-binder woild to be driven from ' every wh at field in order to make a greater amount of labor for; men with the old grain cradle; and the threshing I machine would have to go in order that men might beat out the grain with flails. But these case’, absurd as they seem, ' are precisely parallel to the proposition I of the protectionists that we must man- ‘ ufacturejßveryth ng at home in o°rder to j make more employment for labor. They do not. see that the demand for maI chinery and the demand for untaxed for--1 oign goods are at bottom one and tha j same thing. In both cases you want to produce tho greatest possible amount of j goods with your labor, or get the most ( for your money. 1 The laborer who wishes to burn reaping machines or the one who sets aside steam presses are no more unreasonable than the McKinleyites who try to keep back the stream of foreign goods from com*ng into the country, The saving of labor, not its creation, Is the end and aim of human progresa An Imported Indus-ry. Protectionist orgaSw are rejoicing in the remo.al of a gingham factory from Glasgow, Scotland, to Fitchburg, Mass., as the result of the McKinley tariff law. These organs do not state that the price of ginghams went up considerably at once alter the Mcßin'ey law went into effect as the result of the increase of I d’»ty Imposed by that measure. So I ahxious is this firm to get the advantage of the present conditions that it has begun work with hired looms from Philadelphia . Recently, in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, big. Ciispi, formerly Italy’s Prime Mini ter, applied a vigorous, yet anything but flattering, epithet to a member, at the same time warning the victim of his barbed words Rft to show undue resentment, as he : (Crisp!) carried a gun ready for use. : 80 American methods of legislation [ spread to less favored lards, aud the ! benign influences of eur free institu- | tioas shed their blessings and revolvers ' widely. Italy must see the superiority i of the revolver to the stiletto, the | former fa orite rib tickler in’ aristoi cratio circles. After all, we do not seem to keep far in advance of the decaying monarchies of the rusty old world. When the McKinleyites were making their tariff law they calculated that the sugar bounty would reach $7,000,000; but tho Treasury Department has been figuring on the bounty, and finds that about $9,000,000 will have to be paid out the first year, with an indefinite increase 1 next year and years following. It Is re--1 ported that an unusually large crop of sugar cane will be planted in Louisiana j this year, to get the bounty of two cents a pound. | A year ago the price of cod liver oil I in largo who esale 'ots was from 32 to 35 I cents a gallon. The duty was then 25 1 per cent. McKinley changed the duty to 15 cents a gal'on, which is equal to an ad valorem duty of 53 per cent., and , now the price of domestic cod liver oil is 40 to 43 cents a gallon. It looks as if I the tariff is a tax in this case. ; “Marked down* is the technical term to be used fora boy’s beard which I is just in»\kiug its appearance.

Itemt'.fM Things in Glnaa> One oi the most-beautiful and wonderful structures of glass was executed by Scaurus, called the Crystal Palace. TTie building consisted of three stories, supported upon 360 columns.' The first story was of marble, the second of glads and the third of gilded wood. The lowermost columns were thirty-eight feet high, and between these columns were 3,000 brazen statues. The area of this building could accommodate 3,000 people. The Portland vase, much spoken of, was found during the sixteenth century in a marble sarcophagus, in the outskirts of Rome. For two centuries it was the principal ornament in the gallery of Princess Barberini, at Rome, ana was then sold at auction to the Duchess of Portland for £1,872 —about SIO,OOO. It was thenceforth spoken of as the Portland vase, previously known as the Barberini. It was placed by the Duchess in the British Museum, where it was much admired by visitors, being very beautiful and of curious workmanship. One day a madman named Lloyd was passing through the building, and, stopping in front of the vase, gazed at it for a few moments and without any warning raised a stick he carried, and with a terrific blow broke it many pieces. The parts were gathered up and a skillful workman called in who succeeded after a great deal of labor in mending it, and did it so well that the most-careful scrutiny fails to detect where the pieces are joined. The vase' is composed of two layers of glass, the lower one of a deep blue color, the other of an opaque white. The figures are etched in white, standing out upon a background of pure blue. Another famous vase is the Strasbourg. It was discovered in 1825 in a coflin. The network is of red glass and the inscription of green. It was disinterred by chance by a gardener, who with his spade broke a th;*ee-eor-nered piece out of. the top. In the fifteenth century Venice became known all over the world for its manufactories of glass, and to prevent the importation of the art into other country's the glass-makers were placed upon the Island of Murano, and they were placed under the strictest inspection, and the law forbade, under the severest penalties, any workman from taking Ids art to a foreign country. If he succeeded in disobeying the law, his nearest relatives were to be cast into prison and kept there until he returned. If he persisted in remaining abroad an emissary would be employed to assassinate him. “Father,” began the boy as he looked up from his First History, “are silver mines very fresh?” “Fresh! What do you mean?” “Why, they have to put salt on ’em to make ’em keep, don’t they?” “What nonsense! I don’t understand you.” “Well, I heard some I men in the car say you salted a silver mine and made a hundred thousand dollars, and I wanted to know what tho salt was for.” The way that boy was hustled off to bed made him dream of cyclones all night. A white man nnmed Johnson shot and killed a negro at McCool's Station, Miss., because he would not dance to suit luin. Mas. McCurry, qf Buzzard Roost, Whitfield county, Oa., held out as long as she dared, and then at 198 was bantized.

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Habits are curious things. Ben 1 Franklin or some other philosopher mod 1 that man was a bundle of habits. Good habits stick to a man and so do bad Ones; and, therefore, it is well to be cautious about forming ’§m. I heard a preacher say once that Rot one man in 10,000 ever changed his habits after he was 45 years old. At home he wants the same chair to sit in and the same bed to sleep in and the same kind of clothes to wear. If children are raised to brush their teeth and comb their hair and keep their finger-nails clean, they will do it all their lives. If they begin early to chew tobacco and smoke, they will never quit it. A man is righthanded or left-handed, according to habit, and he will put on the same shoe or boot or stocking first every morning without thinking about it. Settled habits, if they are good ones, are like settled religion. There is a power of comfort in ’em, and a man is not happy if he makes a change,—Util ArpAll that in this world enlarges the sphere of affection or indignation is to be reverenced, and all those circumstances enlarge it wliich strengthen our taemory or quicken our conception of the dead; hence it is no light sin to destroy anytliing that is old, more especially because, even with the aid of all the attainable records of the past, we, the living, occupy a space of too large importance and interest in our own eyes; we look upon the world too much as our own, too much as if we had pos sessed it and should possess it forever, and forget that it is a mere hostelry, of which we occupy the apartments for the time, which others better than we have sojourned in before.— John Rzcskin. “Once a dead-head always a dead-head applies to our business as well as to any other,” said the manager of a well-known steamboat line. “You see this bundle of letters on my desk? Well, they represent one day’s request by mail—received to-day—for passes next season. There is one letter there from a man who fifteen years ago was book-keeper in a steamboat Office in Buffalo. For three seasons I sent him an annual pass and then he went into the forwarding and commission business in New York. He hasn't been in the steamboat business during those years, and yet each year, regularly, comes his request for a pass. I have declined his proposition yearly since 1885 and I see I must do so again. It only shows, however, the evil of starting a man in a bad habit.” e To Dispel Colds, . - Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse the system effectually, yet gently, when costive or bilious, or when tie blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habitual constipation. to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, without irritating or | weakening them, use Syrup ot Figs. A Monster CutUetish. A huge squid or cuttlefish stranded itself on tho beach at Island Cove, New’ foundland. Its extreme length was thir-ty-two feet, the tentacles alone measuring twenty-one feet; the body was much larger than that of an ordinary horse, and the pelt was three inches in thickness. It was cut up before being removed. Why is whipping a mule so much like playing an organ? Because if you don't O sharp you will B flat.