Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1891 — Page 2

©he decaturTind. ** BLACKBURN, ... PtißLisaxx Four things are greviously empty—ahead without brains, a wit without judgment, a heart without honesty, and a purse without money. Whatever difference there may. appear to be in men’s fortunes there is still a certain compensation of good and 411 in all that makes them equal. Norwegian women are said by travelers always to look sad and bent over. They have low foreheads and high cheek bones, and downcast eyes. Don’t regret anything. Remorse is a corrosive force that eats away the pure gold of vital purpose. Transform regret into resolve, and make the future noble where the past was ignoble. The press and land owners of Portugal are becoming alarmed at the dearth of cultivators, and demand that the government should put a stop to emigration, as husbandry is suffering. The days of whitewashers are over. Paper has generally taken the place of whitewash and kalsomine and where paper is not used paint is. The professional whitewasher belongs to the past. In building a side-track on a Mississippi railroad the workmen uncovered a cannon, a grindstone, a teapot, an anvil, a looking-glass, a door-bell, a bootjack, a keg of powder and a Bible —all deposited in one place. A rabbit fled from a dog .at Rich Hill, Neb., and took shelter under a hen with a brood of chickens. When the dog strove to get at the brightened rabbit the hen scared him ofl’ by picking at his eyes. Now- the rabbit and the hen are warm companions. An Illinois preacher who -efused to have an organ in his church because it “was Satanic,” lost his pastorate and is now engaged in the manufacture of fiddles. He warrants them to “produce sweet, soul-stirring music, which must make men better. ” “We have just been informed,” says a French newspaper, “that the American Government could capture Hudson’s Bay in three days’ time if it so elected, but that it refrains from so doing because its policy is not an aggressive one, We shall, however, keep our readers fully posted. ” A Pittsburgh reporter who wrote up \ an oil well with a bore only two inches across, spoke of it as “a yawning oil well.” This has given rise to the query: “How large is a yawn ?” There must be more than' one kind of a yawn. One who writes should, however, qualify them as to size. Most everything seems to be legal in Idaho, from killing a Chinaman to ac-cepting'a-Jnibe from a railroad company. \\ e notice in a legal advertisement in an Idaho weekly that “desalt having been maid in the conditions of a ' certain morgige,” the property involved is to>.be sold at auction, and the sale S'" will no doubt go off with a whoop. Ijady Marjorie Gordon, the 10-year-old daughter of the countess of Aberdeen, edits the children’s page of a paper styled Onward and Upward, published iff London. Little Lady Marjorie writes a lively letter to her young and tells them interesting stories about her pet animals, being probably the youngest editor in the world. Germany has 9,275 breweries in operation. against 9,556 in January, 1890. j The total beer product in the whole country last year was quarts, against 4,760,293,900 in the preceding year. The consumption per capita was 106.3 quarts, against 97.9 quarts in the proceeding year. The largest brewery in Germany paid last year a tax of $50,000. Petroleum jelly serves to clean and take away all traces of dirt from the hands after work in the shop or laboratory. For that purpose one need only rub the hands with a small amount of jelly, which, penetrating into the pores of the skin, incorporates itself with the greasy matters which are there. Wash them with Warm water and soap and the bands quickly become cleaned and softened. “ The close .of 1890 saw the historic building at Castle Garden, New York, where so many million foreigners first touched American soil, turned over to the city authorities, who will pull it down. It is a pity it could not be pre- ’ served. Hundreds of millions of Americans a century or so hence will look to this spot as a humble rival to the Plymouth Rock, where more than 250 years ago the Pilgrim Fathers began the settlement that will always be of first importance in any history of this country. J • An ingenious soldering apparatus just contrived is made with metal disks for holding the work, and heating burners attached, a treadle mechanism being also provided, which actuates vertically moving soldering irons, raising and lowering the latter above the disk. By this arrangement, as is stated, one workman is able to solder a very large number of tin cans in a comparatively short time. Another device in this line, of German origin, is a soldering iron containing a chamber into which and from which fluid solder may be drawn and forced by pneumatic action. Recent estimates show that in the running of a cotton mill, and particularly print works and dyehouses, steam can be used to generate power as cheaply 7as water up to a limit where the former to needed for heating or dye purposes,

tl but as soon as that limit is passed any . further amount of steam costs at a oerI tain fixed rate, which varies with the [location and style of engine and boiler used. The following plan has been ■ recommended, therefore, as the most economical in running expenses, in the . case of a large establishment: First,to i provide a steam plant, using all the , steam needed for heating, etc.; second, a water-power plant, using the flow of the river up to about what can be depended upon for six months of the ofdi1 nary year; and third, additional steam ■ power to supply a shortage of water power for the remaining six months. Allowing that the water wheels, penstock, raceway, and etc., are in good condition, the actual expense for water power is reduced to two items, viz., Zrenewals and cost of attendance and re- -- pairs, though in a well constructed 1 plant the cost of renewals and repairs is merely nominal. In an article in the Stahl und Eisen, Dr. Thoerner gives some additional results of analyses made by him to de- , termine the comparaiivb chemical characters of coke and charcoal in relation to their industrial use, from which it seems that ordinary gas coke possesses lower roal and apparent specific gravity than even coke, and shows more cell space in its substance; wood charcoal possesses thrice the purity of coke, with much lower specific gravity and sometimes double the cell space; and pine charcoal, the most porous of all, possesses the densest charcoal substance. The interesting fact appears, however, that in charcoal the smallest details of the original structure of the wood are preserved, the arrangement of the cells being such that, the gaseous products of carbonization can easily escape without rupturing the surface or substance. Consequently, when the charcoal is burnt the entrance and circulation of oxygen in the cells is equally easy. The charcoal substance does not pass through a stage of fusion in the carbonizing process, whereas in coke the substance has been fused into a dense, impenetrable, vitreous mass, through which, in consequence of the want of continuity in the cells, the oxygen can only slowly penetrate. Some interesting experiments relating to the efficiency of chimneys are noted in a foreign scientific journal. It seems that an old chimney, sixty-seven feet high, with an internal diameter of about twenty to fourteen inches, and with total passage froqi fire to chimney top of ninety-eight feet, was taken down, and a new chimney, with an intended total draught of ninety-five feet and a minimum internal diameter of twenty-five inches, was planned out, I and, on the chimney having gone up thirty-nine feet, it was tried. Already there was a gheat improvement on the old chimney, again at forty-six feet it was still better, and at fifty-two and one-half feet the draught proved excellent, the smoke issuing clean, without soot, and there was an economy of 15 to 20 per cent, in The chimney was therefore finished off at that height. It is considered by good authorities in this line that chimneys are commonly constructed too this mischief being also aggravated by increasing their height, so that fuel escapes uhburned, a uniform internal diameter being declared noKonly more rational but protecting the brickwork from the hot and rapid axial stream. Another fact demonstrated is that the cross section of the chimney should be from onefourth to one-eighth the grate area, and the height, not less than fifty feet, should not exceed one hundred to one hundred and twenty feet —the diameter being made to suit—unless the chimney is at a distance, in which case it may be one hundred and sixty to two hundred feet, the diameter being regulated according to the amount of soot which escapes. Why He Hlushecl. The poet Whittier, who even in his old age is as bashful as a girl, was once embraced and kissed by a man in a crowded Boston parlor. The incident is 1 told by the Rev. Carlos Martyn, in his Life of Wendell Phillips. Dorn Pedro, of Brazil, on his visit to Boston in 1876, expressed a wish to meet Mr. Whittier, with whom he had corresponded for many years concerning peltry and slavery. A notable Bostonian 1 gave a recitation to the Emperor, at which the poet promised to be present. Tne Emperor was conversing with Wendell Phillips when* the venerable poet entered, but he immediately rose, threw his arms about the blushing quaker and kissed him on both cheeks. Then seating him on a sofa he placed himself at the poet’s side and chatted with him for half an hour. When the conversation became general, the Emperor told of his driving over to Charleston to see Bunker Hill monument. It was 6 o’clock in the morning, and the keeper was in bed. When aroused he refused to let the Emperor in, until he paid the entrance fee, half a dollar. Dom Pedro, having left his purse at home, was obliged to borrow the coin from the hackman. The company laughed and Mr. Phillips said: “The story does not end with the payment of the entrance fee. I will tell Your Majesty of the rest of it. Two hours later, a well-know leader of Boston society entered the visitor’s room at the base of the monument. Glancing over the book in which 4very visitor registers, he saw Your Majesty’s signature. “ ’Why,’ said he to the keeper, *you have had the Emperor of Brazil here this morning. How did he look ?” “The keeper, putting on his glasses, 1 examined the handwriting, and scorn--1 fully muttered: “Emperor? that’s a dodge; that fel--1 low was a scapegrace, without a cent in , his pocket!‘ ” L The old TestamenPhas 39 books, 929 chapters, 23,214 verses, 592,439 words, and 2,728,800 letters. The New Testa-, ment has 27 books, 260 chapters, 7,959 verses, 181,253 words, and 838,380 let- * ters. The complete Bible has 66 books, * 1,189 chapters, 31,173 verses, 778,693 l words, and letters. r A courtesy or kindness on the P** r of a stranger should be received in the , spirit in which it to mehnt- \

THE TARIFF ON WOOL HOW M’KINLEY’S WOOL DUTIES WORK. Higher Duties on Carpet Wool and Higher (rices for Carpets—What the Manufacturers Why Fine Ohio Wools Are Lower-Manufacturers Becoming FreeTraders. Mr. Arthur T. Lyman, of the Lowell Manufacturing Co., Boston, points out that the McKinley duty on carpet wool has caused an increase of 10 per cent, in the price of wool carpets “This advance,” he says, “was owing purely to the McKinley wool duties, and no advance would have taken place if the bill had not been passed. If the duty on wool had been removed, the price of carpets wonld have been reduced.” In a private letter Mr. Lyman says; “As to the prices of carpets, we know the effect of the McKinley duties perfectly, because we practically fix the price of carpets for the trade, and we felt that we could hardly hold our old prices if the McKinley bill did not pass. It is an Immense annoyance, but for the moment it helped us, because we had bought a big stock of wool before it passed.” Mr. Lyman also calls attention to the fact that practically all the carpet woo! used in this country is imported, our sheep growers not finding it profitable to produce carpet wool worth from 10 to 15 cents a pound, while they can grow better goods suitable for Nothing and worth from 18 to 34 cents.' “At one of the hearings in Washington on the wool duties, ” says Mr. Lyman, “Col. Shepard, of Texas, is reported to have said that he knew very well' that the shepherd kings of Ohio wished to have. Texas and the Territories raise carpet woo), so that they should not interfere with Ohio fine wool, but that for himself, he would guarrantee not to raise carpet wools, knowing, of course, that they would not pay. McKinley raised, the duty on carpet wools, “and that, ■ said he, “has necessitated an increase of the duty on carpets themselves. ” Accordingly carpet duties were raised from equivalent ad valorum duties of 40 to 60 per cent, to duties reaching from 50 to 85 per cent But even the old duties, as Mr. Lyman points out, practically excluded carpets; yet this exclusion, he says, has not maue them as cheap as in Europe r] “in spite of i the excessive competition at homo which has made the business unprofitable. ” The only thing that the way of making carpets much cheaper is the senseless duty on carpet wools, These I duties are 32 per cent, on the cheaper wools and 50 per cent, on the higher grades. As we do not raise carpet wool, the only reason why the Ohio political shepherds wanted a higher duty on it was to prevent the American people from makingo their clothing out of it; and, aS shown above, to force Texas and the Territories to raise it and thus withdraw them from competition with Ohio in clothing wools. In this way it was hoped by the Ohio clique that the higher duties- ' on clothing wools and” on carpet wools ; The price I Such, however, I hl, jnot been Jlje result lh.o con;' tPary, the ClQthing* Woo’s op Jhio anti Michigan are lowe? in price than usual, and the tendency among the manufacturers is to use more largely the high-priced Australian wools, despite the increased McKinley duties. Why is this? The American Wool Reporter supplies the very simple answer. It says: “Manufacturers have found that by buying Australian wool even at ■ 42 per pound, and mixing it with territory, Texas or California they can attain better results and at a cheaper co§t than by buying Ohio xx wool even at 33 or 33> 2 'c. This also accounts for the fact that territory wools have teen so unusually well cleaned up this year, j Manufacturers have neglected domestic ■ fleeces, and if the present state of things I continues it will not be long before deal- I ers in Ohio wools in Eastern markets will be few and far between. With the increased duty on woolen goods, manufacturers can make a finer grade of goods without coming in competition with those of foreign manufacture, and it is quite likely, as things look now, that Australian wool will be more and more in demand as the time ! goes on. The manufacturer prefers Australian wool even at the advanced, cost. Why? Because it is put up better; it is cleaner; it shrinks less; there is less waste and there are fewer tags in it than in domestic fleece. It does not contain so many tarred ends, so many pounds of -strings, and so much burry stuff as Ohio and Michigan fleeces.” The Reporter warns the Ohio and Michigan growers that they must improve the condition of their Wool and not depend solely upon the tariff to insure higher prices. “A high tariff alone,” it says, “will never bring domestic fleeces into favor and increase the demand therefor. The domestic growers are realizing this through experience. If domestic wool, which conies in competition with foreign, is to sell, there must be an Improvement in the present methods of producing and preparing it for market ” A correspondent of the same journal, who is evidently a manufacturer, explains the matter more in detail. He says: “In order to produce goods at the lowest cost, it is necessary to obtain a maximum of production, as the greater the number of yards turned off the lower the cost of production per yard. It is the aim, therefore, of the average manufacturer to make as nearly as possible one line of goods, and his purchases of wools- are with the view of getting tho quality, or ‘leading sort,’ required to make such goods. If Michigan or Ohio wools are purchased, and a strictly clear, fine sort is required, hot more than half and frequently a smaller percentage of such sort is obtained from a fleece, and tho undesirable qualities accumulate from month to month, until, alarmed at the quantity, the manufacturer makes other grades of goods to consume this accumulation, and dispose of them at a loss." It is well known that oppressive wool tariff is rapidly making free-traders of our most energetic and progressive manufacturers. Mr. Lyman, already quoted, says: “Probably more than 50,000,000 of the people of this country would be better off with free trade with al) tho world, such as is enjoyed with ‘such immense advanftigo to all between the States of the Union. ” A Cofitly Industry. An industry which yields a profit on the money invested in it is a good thing to have in a community; but the desire to have industries established frequently becomes a craze. Beet sugar factories may be good things to have, but what an enormous cost to establish them under the present bounty system. The pibneer beet sugar factory tn this country is the one at Grand Island, Neb. This factory can handle 350 tons of beets a day. Allowing 12 per cent, as the raw sugar product from beets, the daily yield at this factory would be 42 tons. As the State of Nebraska pays a bounty of 2 cents a pound, and the United States Government an equal bounty, the Grand Island establishment will collect from the public a tax of 4 cents a pound on all the raw sugar it turns out, at the tom* time that refined sugar is selling

for G sugar, tho factory will net a bounty equal to more than the price of its raw material. The bounty to be paid to this establishment by the State of Nebraska and the United States Government will amount to $3,763 a day. Os course industries can be established in this way at public expense. But does it pay? Is it a proper or wise use of the taxing power to employ it for the enrichment of a purely private enterprise? The people may pay too much for their whistle. THE FOREIGN MARKET. Why Our Manufacturers Sell s<» Little Abroad—Lack of Enterprise—Why Foreigners Beat Us. While our manufacturers are in the habit of leaning upon the Government to protect them in the secure possession of the home market, it is evident that they exert themselves very little to obtain a market in foreign countries. The present interest in the subject of reciprocity with South America and the West Indies calls out frequent communications from American merchants doing I business there, which show that on ’ manufacturers are very remiss in push ing their trade in those markets and in. studying the wants of the people th 're. A correspondent writes from Kingston, Jamaica, as follows; “Kingston merchants told me that as yet American manufacturers do not cater to the tastes of the islanders. For instance, a dealer showed me some Austrian shoes which were selling well. A few of American make which he had in stock had stayed there month in and month out. The Austrian shoes had very pointed toes, the sole being shaped like a flat-iron, but they were what the natives liked. The shoes from the States were much handsomer, better made, and superior in every way. But they were hot the right shape, and were much higher in price. Cheapness is the great desideratum. Everything must be cheap and look well, no matter if it does not wear any time at all. The negroes would rather have a shoe with a paper, sole that would not last tarought the first rainstorm and pay a dollar for it than pay four for one they could not wear out in months." Anotheiswriter tells, In the Npw York trade jaucaab Hardware how British •anufaeturers accommodate themselves ,0 the wants of the people for whom ; they makb goods. “For all parts of the world, ” he says, “they manufacture goods with reference to the local demand, laying British preferences entirely aside. It would be difficult t> buy a i mackintosh in England similar to the great mass of those sent over for the market of tho United States; every Chola woman in Eastern Peru Wears a peculiar shawl knit in Manchester in exact imitation of the old cotton shawls which the Indians had for ages previously made with their own hands; and the trapiches, or sugar mills, for the Amazon Valley are designed alter those formerly constructed by the natives out of ihe hardwoods of their forests,” Protection has operated to mjikc our , dependent upon the home iharket and to make them ignore the foreign markqL iLhas tended Jo make I them lose confidence Tn themselves and ‘ to jjistrnst their ability. to meet the I “pauper-made goods”.jf Europejn successful competition in the markets of South America and other countries. They need to regain the spirit of enter- ■ prise and conquer a foothold for themselves in foreign markets. They have the advantage of the cheapest and best labor in the world. There is thus no jxcuse for shutting down factories when 1 the home market has been supplied, and standing idle till consumption overtakes production. Bismarck on McKlnleyisin. Somebody started the report, about the time when Congress adjourned, that McKinley was going to Europe this summer; j and it was even stated that a visit to : Bismarck was to be a part of his plan. I It was evidently supposed that the two j great tariff makers of America and Germany would find a bond of sympathy between them which would make such a visit highly agreeable to both, especially as the two are now retired to the rural shades of private life. But whether .McKinley would now enjoy to Bismarck is very doubtful, as<Pthc latter has been expressing his opinions vej-y freely concerning McKinleyism. To a correspondent of the New York World Bismarck said the other day: “I think that in passing the McKinley bill the Republicans made a mistake, politically as well as economically, which can never bo repaired. . The excesses which, they have committed must result in favor of the Democrats. I myself am a protectionist. My opinion has always been that national labor must ’ be protected. The adversarieXof protection think that protection can only be for those not producers, but merely consumSps. “In passing tho McKinley billjhe industrial protectionists have gone too far. They went so far beyond the mark as to affect agricultural interests strongly and force them o'ver to the opposite side. Such excesses affect the national consumers Tragj more than the foreign imis the task of tho state to see that consumers obtain their right. The McKinley bill has hit some industrial branches of foreign nations hard, but on the whole it has not done iso much injury as was at first feared." Ostriches in California. The first pair of ostriches ever brought to this country for breeding was laqded at New Orleans in 18857 Others followed, and an ostrich farm was started as an experiment in Louisian, but the climate proving uncongenial to the birds the stock was removed to southern California. Here several experiments were tried, and it was found that the climate of San Diego County was the best adapted to the raising of ostriches. Here the industry has flourished to such an extent that realestate agents now include ostrich eggs in telling of the various “fruits” favored by tho wonderful climate,of San Diego County. There are now in all about 125 birds in Southern California, yielding an annual crop of feathers to the value of SIO,OOO or more. Quite a demajrtT has sprung up for “native” ostrich feathers. The secret societies of the Papffic coast, snch as the Native Sons of*The Golden State, the higher orders of the Masonic and Odd Fellows organizations, and other societies, pride themselves on wearing “native” ostrich plumes. Fans and other articles of oniamentation, made from native ostrich tips, are quite a fad among the ladies of the Four Hundred of the Golden State. Nor is the demand limited to the ladies of the Pacific coast, for Mrs. Vanderbilt set the fad in New York by ordering a cloak made from California ostrich feathers. The 125 ostriches in California may not be looked upon as constituting an Industry of national importance; but they are not overlooked by the tariff makers. There is a duty of 10 per cent, on crude ostrich feathers, and 50 per cent on feathers manufactured wholly or partly. A Dead Give-Away. Another high protectionist organ has given away the protectionists’case. This is the rabid Boston Journal, to which a correspondent sent the following question: “If the protective tariff on steel rails has, as Mr. Morrill, Mr. McKinley, and others say, caused a cheapening of the price of that commodity, why do they advocate a tariff on wheat and other farm

oducts while professing to be the farmers’ friend?” In answer to this question the Journal replies: “We do r.ot know any protectionist authority who has ever claimed that it is the prime purpose of protection to cheapen products.” So, after all, the object of protection is not to cheapen commodities! Let us then have no more lying on that point! — WANT A HAT TRUST. An Effort to Combine All tbe Wool Bat Manufacturers — McKinley’s Duties on Bats. A scheme has been on foot to combin a all the wool hat makers in the country .into a gigantic trust. Officers were elected, and for a time everything seemed to go well, but more recently there lias been a hitch somewhere, and it is even announced that the trust has fallen through. In the meantime let the people observe what McKinley did to make a hat trust possible. I’he McKinley duties on wool hats show a sharp increase upon the old rates. The duties in both the old law 0 and in the present law are so-called comround duties—that is, there is a specific duty of so much per pound and an ad valorem duty in addition. Thus on hats valued at 30 cents a pound or less the old duty was 10 cents a pound and 25 per cent, ad valorem, the compound duty being equal to an ad valorem duty of 68 per cent. The corresponding McKinley duty is cents per pound and 30 per cent., the two duties here being equivalent to an ad valorem duty of 85 per cent Hats of the next class are those valued at more than 30 and not more than 40 cents a pound. The old duty on this grade was equivalent to 65 per cent and the McKinley duty DO. The next grade of hats under the old law was that valued at between 40 and 60 cents a pound. The McKinley law makes this class stop at 50 cents and adds a class covering those between 50 and 60 cents per pound. Thus under the old law hats in the class between 40 and 50 bore an equivalent ad valorem duty of 71 per cent., and under the McKinley law the equivalent ad valorem is 10l per cent. On hats worth between 50 and 60 cents the equivalent in the old law was 68 per cent.; in tho McKinley law it is 112 per cent The next class in both laws extends from 60 to 80 cents a pound—the ad valorem equivalent being 72 per cent., and the McKinley ad valorem 100 per cent. The lasi class in both laws covers hats valued at above 80 cents a pound. The old tariff levied a duty here which was equal to 69. perccfet.: and McKinley made only a slight advance in this highest class of hats, his equivalent ad valorem being 71 per cent. Having gotten above the range of the poorer class of buyers, he saw no good reason for increasing the duty very much. The equivalent acl valorem duties hero given are obtained by combining tho pound duty and the ad .valorem rate and calculating them upon the value of hats imported. Almost no wool hats have for «ome y§ars. Even in 1882 it vfas stated beibre the Tariff Commission that only S6OO worth was imported. At the same time a hat manufacturgr f ed thaj, manufacturers did not favor a duty on lats, and that they were even willing to soq hats come Tn free if they could have tfieir raw materials free. He said that the manufacturers had “no trouble with tho wool hats imported into tho country at all.” Yet at this late day McKinley builds higher the tariff wall against foreign huts and prepares the way for a trust Muscular Rheumatism. Muscular rheumatism is more simple and common than any other sort (if it can be properly called rheumatism), and can be treated successfully at home. Auy good liniment can be used with rubbing as vigorous as can be borne by the patient, but I prefer oil of wintergreen externally and internally. Externally, rub it in well and then wrap up the part affected with flannel. Internally, take every two hours from two to five droys of it in a little water until the pain lessens. In all easels of rheumatism, cooling laxative medicines should be used. They are better than active cathartics. I would recommend laxative mineral waters or salts, either Epsom, Glauber, or Rochelle, preferably Glauber. Better than all remedies, let me advise prevention. Keep dry and warm and well protected as much as possible, but in case bf severe exposure to cold and wet, as soon as possible take a bath in hot water with thorough rubbing. Put salt in the water so that it is almost weak brine, and rub down afterward with alcohol. Drink two cups of good hot tea and go to bed between woolen blankets, or put on a good warm dressing-gown and toast yourself before the fire. You may consider this troublesome, but let me assure you that you should ward off an attack of rheumatism, especially as the second attack comes more readily than the first. Once you have rheumatism and you are predisposed to it for life.— New York World. Bacteria in Brown Sugar. The Philadelphia Inquirer has a scare article about the bacteria in some of the cheap and improperly refined grades of brown sugar. “Thousands of disgusting little insects,” it says, J'crpbp over one another in almost every pound of the low-grade sugars. Samples taken at random from stores by a curious analyst of this city have shown that some qualities contain as many as 250,000 of these repulsivelooking little creatures. They are plainly visible under a microscope, and in some cases under an ordinary magnifying glass and even to the naked eye. In the human stomach they are said to be capable of doing great damage. Afraid of Coyotes. A San Francisco paper says a young man from the East was hired to plow a field near Madera. One day he found himself surrounded by seven hungry coyotes. He left his team and broke in a swift run for the house and •quit work right there. The team was found all right by the owner, a woman, who told the tenderfoot to go back home to his mother, while she finished tiie plowing. < Some time ago a trade paper stated that a twenty-five cent stocking was still kept on the market, despite tho McKinley tariff law, but that the quality had been lowered. The same thing is now noted in the case of cigars. The trade journal called Tobacco says the retail cigar dealers refused to pay the higher prices made necessary by the McKinley law, and now the manufacturers have met the difficulty by reducing the quantity of leaves put into cigars. In this way old prices are maintained by cheapening the quality of cigars. The President of the Sugar Trust has recently testified that the cost of refining sugar is three-fourths of a cent per pound. This being the entire cost of refining, it was a gross absurdity in the McKinleyites to give the trust a protective duty of a half cent per pound to protect it from foreign competition. Why to jt that when a man to flat on htoback hto friend* all urge him to “face the world?”

THE WIFE’S WAGES. She is Otten More Poorly Paid than tibe Servant*. I was asked to s,>euk at a farmers’ institute the other evening on the subject, of tbe wife’s share. This is “talk” of which I never tire, says T. D. Berry, in Rural New Yorker. In it I took occasion to speak of the grumbling way in which some farmers dole out money to their wives/.how the wife often has to ask and almost beg for what is simply her own in justice. The next day I was talking: with a well-known manufacturer and merchant in the town on the subject. He thought I did not overstate the matter. He said that s farmer and his wife were in his store trading. No, I mean that the man was trading, and the wife, or servant, or slave, was standing by. While doing this, she picked out three or four little articles on the 5 cent counter, (only costing 5 cents each) and asked her husband to let her have them. She pleaded that she would like them so much. He answered, with an oath, “No, by , you can’t have any money to spend on such tom-foolery.” Webster defines slavery as having one’s will under the control of another. Isn’t that woman a slave ? Are there not a great many farmers’ wives, and town men’s wives too, who are slaves to a greater or less extent? And still I suspect that even the man spoken of above was not really as bad as his words might indicate. Let us in charity, while condemning the deed in stronge language, think as well of the man as possible. Doubtless money came slowly and hardly to him. Perhaps he was brought up by a lord and master father; or little by little he had come to lord it ovei his mate, until thoughtlessly, let us hope, not intentionally, he had become a veritable tyrant. In regard to town wives, I have it directly from a lady living in the city that she is, unknown to her husband, scrimping their living expenses and laying up small sums irom time to time in the savings bank to her credit. This is saved from money grudgingly given her, oftentimes, for household expenses. And s&e says she knows a neighbor’s wife who has quite a little money in the savings bank, which she has from time to time taken out of the money drawer at her husband’s store when she could do it unseen. At another time when her husband was called down stairs at night she took some money from his pocket-book. The remark was made that she had got thrpugh begging for what was her own; she had found out a better way. These cases I can vouch for. A lady says op this point, in a recent number of the Worlcl: “Husbands seldom pay their wives the compliment of thinking they can . manage a &ank account What is the result? The wife grows cunning and underhanded, and condones the ways aqd means she employs to get money from her husband as legitimate self-defense. She enters into unholy alliances with her dressmaker and milliner to send in bills for larger amounts than she really owes, and through their connivance receives the difference. She resorts to coaxing and all the pretty juggling a woman possesses—nay, she even picks her husband’s pockets at night.” I think it was Beecher who said that if you wanted a man born right you must begin with his grandmother. I would like to know what sort Os men we are likely to have in the future from such grandmothers as the above mentioned women T' I hope every man who reads The Rural will do what he can to put an end to this terrible state of at* fairs. If he isn’t yet prepared to take his wife in as a full and trusted partner, let him at least surprise her, 0 beginning tbe firstof next by handing over tc her a reasonable amount of cash, according to their circumstances, once a month, to do as she pleases with. Let this not be less, if possible, than she could earn by doing housework for some one else. If it doesn’t bring tears of joy to her eyes and gladness to her heart, in many cases, enough to well pay you, I miss my guess. But do it because it is simple justice; because it is right Do it for the good of future generations if you haven’t any love left for your patient, hard-work-ing, faithful wife. Give her a little taste of the freedem you enjoy. But, for heaven’s sake! if you must continue to be lord and master, and the head at home in private, when you go to . the store to trade, and other people are around, do not make your wife’s lot doubly hard by showing up -your trup character. ■ An Ex-Folice Reporter’s Story. “Some years ago,” he said, “I was night police reporter on one of the dailies of Chicago. I was ambitious and it was my delight above all things to catch the fly cop when he was on some mysterious case that he was not ready to give away. I encountered one of this stripe one evening in a section of the city somewhat unfrequented. He seemed surprised to see me and I was surprised to see him. “Ah, there!” says I, in a manner quite as mysterious as that employed by himself. “ ‘You here?’ says he. “ ‘I am, every time,’ says I. “Then there was a lull ‘Funny,’ says he, ‘how you reporters get on to everything that we fellows are up to.’ “ ‘That’s all right,’ says I. ‘We know our business.’ “ ‘What do you know about this case ?’ he asked. “I don’t remember my exact answer, but it was couched in such language as I thought would convince him that I knew what I was there for. We bucked at each other for several minutes, when he finally proposed a compromise. “Says he: ‘Well, seeing you are on to me, tell me what you know about the case, and I’ll tell you what I know. Up and up.’ “ ‘That goes,’ says L “ ‘Sure ?’ says he. “ ‘Well,* said I ‘to be honest about it I don’t know a darn thing. Now I want you to keep your word with me.’ “Then he took me down the street and turned into a dark alley and went around behind an ash-barrel and put his forefinger to his nose. “ ‘Sb,’ says he. “ *Sh,’ says I, putting my finger to my ncse. ' “ ’You won’t give it away?’ says he. “ ‘Cross my heart,’ says L “Then he said in a whisper, T live just around the corner, and I was going down to the shoemaker’s to get my shoes half-soled.’ And he looked at me. “Then I took him back into the street and into a cigar-store and told the man to give my friend the best 15ceut cigar in the case. I guess that was the first oigar that was ever sold for 15 cents in that section of the city."-— Chit coffo Tribune. It to absurd to say that a rimri#

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