Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 6 November 1891 — Page 2

———- democrat DECATUR, IND. ft * |l. BLACKBURN, - - . Pmima. The more our girls are pinned back the more forward they seem. The man who,, tells all he hears probably doesn’t hear the things that are said about him. Oregon’s bop crop is said to be a failure this year, which is singular, •Ince frogs generally flourish in such a wet country. " Before he killed himself Boulanger considerately discharged all of his debts, but he overlooked the author Os “The Boulanger March.” Italy has decided to take no part in the World’s Fair. She will have no imitators. Even the State of New York will come la with the rest. A Minneapolis man has invented a typewriter that keeps books. There Is little new in the invention. Any typewriter will if you lend them to her. The task of governing Austria does not seem to be an enviable one. The present heir-presumptive talks Os resigning before he has tasted the sweets of ruling. People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off; it is the nature of vice to leave ns no resource but in itself. In Spain an infant’s face is brushed with a pine bough to bring good luck. In this unromantic country an infant Is not infrequently brushed with a pine shingle to bring good behavior. The “human bag of wind” has just died in a Philadelphia dime museum. Why people should ever have paid a dime to see him when the halls of Congress are open to all is inexplicable. _______ An untutored foreigner stripped off his raiment and went swimming in Boston’s famous “frog pond” the other afternoon. This affords Mr. Howells the best possible theme for another realistic novel. A woman has sued het husband for divorce, alleging that he made her eat at a 15-cent restaurant in Kansas City, Surely she has no right to complain of her diet when she took him for better or for wurst. The results of an attempt to create a popular demand for the recently Issued memoirs of Jefferson Davis prove very conclusively that the peoare not clamoring for any more information regarding Davis’ life. The idea of people flying through the air is no new thing. When your grandmother’s grandmother was a little girl, she could have told you, if you had been there, of the successful trip to the moon made by Mother Goose on a broomstick. There is nothing extraordinary about the frequently published statement that one-eighth of the wine produced in California last year came from a single vineyard. Seven eighths of the wine exported from France comes out of a single laboratory. According to a Chicago paper, “a lineal descendant of George Washington” is a prominent figure at the Washington congresss of the Daughters of the Revolution. There is a slight error in this. The distinguished George was the father of his country, but that was all. Nobody disputes the right of laborers to parade the streets, only the economist recognizes that whether he labors on the street and earns two dollars and a half or parades the streets and spends two dollars and a half for his band and other incidentals makes a difference of ftve ‘dollars to him. It must have been a blow to New York to learn that the very day after Chicago unveiled a Grant monument the contracts for the last of the great public buildings of the World's Fair get a second great enterprise well under way while setting the capstone upon one just completed. When Manager Daly left for home with the manuscript of Tennyson’s hew comedy in his inside pocket the poet said tc him: “If here or there you want any more words, send me the idea in the roughest prose and I will supply the text.” There has never been any doubt of the laureate’s ability to supply words if somebody would send him the ideas. Every lover of Nature will be pleased to learn that the idiotic project of M. Eiffel to erect a tower on the summit of Mont Blanc has been abandoned. There seems to be a vigorous determination not to leave an inch of the Alps without a tunnel ar a railway or an observatory, and if Mont Blanc is to be spared a little longer it is certainly cause for congratulation. It is getting to be an interesting question pauperism. An Immigrant who came to this country with 53,000 on his person was held at the New York custom house until somebody gave a bond that he should not become a public charge. It would almost seem as if the possession of such a sum were a sufficient guaranty, or as much of a guaranty as can reasonably be asked. If every oitixen Who cannot show that amount in pos-

session or expectancy were to be branded as a pauper, the alms-houses of the land would have to be materially enlarged. A woman In Hancock County, Me., was afraid to drive across a railroad track the other day, so she spent hours in a vain endeavor to reach the other side without doing so. How much bitter disappointment she might have avoided had she heeded the lesson taught by the example of that intellectual fowl whose brilliant achievement is immortalized in these touching lines: Our old hen, she crossed the road, She crossed the road, she crossed the road; Why do you think she crossed the road? Because she couldn’t go round it. Vast and admirable is the adaptability of the human mind to the ends to which ibis employed! The British commissioners to Behring Sea have just returned with the report that the seals are rapidly increasing in numbers and seem to be practically safe from any danger of extinction—a conclusion, it is needless to say, that fully supports the contentions of the British diplomats in the Behring Sea case. The United States commissioners, on the contrary, report a most melancholy state of affairs. The gentle seals are being hunted down, massacred, slaughtered and are upon the point of joining the mastodon and dodo in the rank of extinct animals. The American and British taxpayers have paid their money for the two commissions and may take their choice of the reports. ; Give a stupid person the benefit of a doubt. We cannot all of us roar like lions, and yet in the great orchestra of nature the katydid has its place as well as the king of beasts. Because some “little ones” sit, goggleeyed and silent, in the midst of so much mighty roaring, do not doubt that when their opportunity comes they can chirp up like good fellows. Give them a chance, then, and even if they do not improve it, hesitate before you call them uninteresting and stupid. Katydids were not made to sing by lamplight and in crowds. When the noises lull and the lights go out their disputations begin and last, while sweeter singers are locked in slumber. In company, then, don’t put down all the silent people as fools; yield them the deference due to those who merely await ,their opportunity. Those who believe in the existence of such a disease as hydrophobia will be interested in the minute directions of its treatment which are given in a recent number of a Chinese medical journal. “The presence of the disease having been ascertained,” the authority in question observes, “the next step to be taken, and one which is of prime importance, is to search the hair of the patient. There will certainly be found one hair of the color of vermilion, rather stronger and coarser than the ordinary hairs. This must be entirely pulled out, not even the smallest part of the root to be left, since otherwise the disease cannot be cured. ” If it could be firmly fixed in the minds of people in general that if the vermilion hair aforesaid were not to be found it may be safely taken for granted that the disease is not hydrophobia, it would be an excellent thing. Death has been so busy among the leading politicians of Great Britain and Ireland that it may precipitate a general election. Indeed, there will be a general election in miniature as a consequence of the taking-off of so many notable men. The death of Postmaster. General Raikes, Lord Justice Glencorse, of Scotland, and Lord Portsmouth recently has led to half a dozen Parliamentary vacancies in Great Britain, and Parliamentary contests are now being waged in Northeast Manchester, Buteshire, the Thanet division of Kent, South Buckingham, and North Devonshire. In all those places the Liberals are trying to win seats which the Tories have held until a month ago. The death of Mr. Smith and the ministerial changes consequent thereon will create another half dozen of vacancies and there will be a number of contests as a consequence. The death of Mr. Parnell, of course, will lead to a fight in Cork between the moderate Nationalists and the Fenians, or Hillside men, while there may be another ugly fight in Kilkenny to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Sir John Pope Hennessy, who inflicted the first defeat on Parnell after the decree of the divorce court. The next three months will, in fact, witness from twenty to thirty elections in Great Britain and Ireland, and the results will be a fair expression of the sentiment of the country. The Star Jokers. A button on your shirt is worth two down the back of your neck.— Richmond Recorder. The poet says “The stars are peeping. ” They are probably sizing up the audience through a slit in the curtain. —Binghamton Leader. A dog out in Idaho turned into bone and died. He died hard.—Yonkers Statesman. The author who is seriously depressed by unfavorable notices of his work may be said to be critically ill. —Lowell Courier. An “intemperate home” is probably one that is always full.—Boston Transcript. Banks of elouds are often broken by heavy drafts of wind.—Baltimore American. . There are compensations for the want of riches. When a man is obliged to be his own valet it is his own fault if he hasn’t the services of a gentleman.—Cape Cod Item. A “tough” tender: The offer of a •lugger’s hand in marriage.—Boston Courier.

■ ■m-m.ei ■ mss-msii WHO PAYS THE TARIFF? IT IS NOT PAID BY THB FOREIONBRS. Tho X>*ssom taught by the Duties on Window Glass—Complete Refutation of MoKinley’s Assertion that the Foreigner Pays the Tariff Tax. . In a recent speech, in which he attempted to justify his tariff, Major McKinley said: “Don’t you believe those wicked Democrats when they tel! you that the tariff Is a tax. The foreigner pays it; you don’t ” The times have passed when mere assertions like the above carry conviction, especially since they are contrary to experience. Such cteims as this must be accompanied by facts and figure* to prove their validity, or they will fall flat Last week we showed who pays the tariff on pottery, which McKinley claims as his special hobby. McKinley ought also to be familiar with window g ass, since the windowglass combi nation has many, factories in the district which McKinley represented in Congress. The working of this window-glass combination is a good illustration of the way in which trusts protected by the tariff take full advantage of the tariff to restrict production and keep up prices. No article is more highly protected by the McKinley tariff than window-glass, as the following figures show. The ad va'orem equivalents of specific duties are based upon the importations of 189 ft . » Duty . Ad valorem Specific, equivalent, Sizes. per lb. per cent. Not above 1 xls «q. inches . .l?£c 68 10x15 to 16x24 square inches. .V-ic 115 16x24 to 24x30 square inches.. 2%c 199 24x30 to 24x36 square inches..2?io 139 Above24x36 square inches...3Ho .... In spite of these duties, averaging over 100 per cent, we still import about 30 per cent of the window glass we use each year. The reason why we continue to do so is because the glass trust finds that it can make more money by producing a small amount of glass and selling it at high prices, equal to the foreign price of glass plus the duty, than it could were it to make all the glass used for home consumption. But Major McKinley says that the foreign manufacturer pays the duty, and not the home consumer. How absurd this is, is shown by the figures of the cost of the foreign glass imported in 1890 and the amount of duties levied. In 1890 we imported 81,402,796 of winlow glass, on which 81.538,228 were paid in duties. Does McKinley mean when he says that the foreigner pays the tariff tax that the Belgians presented us with $1,402,796 worth of window glass and gave us $135,432 besides for taking it as a gift? How the window glass trust takes advantage of the tariff to charge consumers all the bonus that the tariff allows is shown in the following table, which gives the present wholesale prices in Belgium, from which all our imports ’come, and the United States for second* quality single thick glass. These prices are absolutely correct: U. S. price Belgiaff U. & Duties Sizes in per price higher per inchee box per box per box box 6xß to 10x15..8 1.84 $0.89% 7I '2 11x14 to 16x24 2.18 1.01 Ja 1.16 .97 '•_> 18x22 to 20x«0. 2.82 1.38 1.44 1.24 1*5x36 to 94x30. 2.9014 1.68 1.41)4 1.24 16x28 to 24x3H. 3.33 3-5 1.58 1.753-5 1.50 26x36 to 76x44. 3 M'j 1.79 1.71Jj 1.62 26x46 to 30x50. 893 221 1.73 1.62 80x52 to 30x54. 4.10 241 9.34 1.76 2-5 1.62 30x56 to 34x56. 4.36 2.53 1.83 1.69 Total 9 boxes various sizes 529.06V1 815.31 813.75-y 812.15 This shows clearly that the glass trust charges all that the tariff will allow. What, in view of tnis, becomes of McKinley’s mere assertion that the “foreigner pax s the tax, you don’t? England formerly levied an Internal tax upon house windows, but every part of the receipts went into the national exchequer. To-day, under the McKinley tariff, we, in effect do the same, but how differently do we dispose of the receipts under our system—not the treasury but the window-glass trust pockets the money. This is the system which McKinley says is for the best interests of the country, the system which the late Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, in the Topeka case, characterized as robbery as follows: “To lay with one hand the power of the Government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. ” A Story of Tintin Two Chapters. CHAPTER L —THE ASSERTION. [From the speech of William McKinley, Jr., at Xenia, 0., on Monday, Oct. 5.] They talk about the tin plate tax. [Laughter.] Suppose we don’t make a pound of tin plate. The duty on it has been increased from 1 cent to 2.2 cents, but you’re not paying a cent more for your tin than you did before. The old tariff on tin brought seven millions into the Treasury. The new one will' bring in sixteen millions. Supposing we continue to import it all. We’ve a clear gain of nine millions, and your tin isn’t costing you a cent more. CHAPTER II.—THE FACT. [From actual price lists furnished by Charlee B. French & Co., tin-plate and metal brokers, of No. 54 Cliff street, New York.] ic 14x29 COKB TIN. 1885.1886. 1887. 1888.1689. 1860.1801. Highest prioeß4.6o 84.4034.8554.70 8455 85.2685.80 Lowest price 4.25 4.15 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.30 5.15 Average price 4.42 4.27 4.35 4.42 4.84 4.71 5.40 Sample Niedringhaus tin, 6 cents per pound. But not for sale, 86.48 per box. ic chabcoad tin. Highest price 5.00 4.80 5.05 5.05 5.20 5.80 5.95 Lowest price 4.65 4.50 4.52 4.50 4.55 4.70 5.70 Average price 4.79 4.65 4.65 4.75 4.74 6.19 5.85 Present import price, 5j.93. IC 20x22—ROOFING 1 HADE—DEAN GRADE. Highest price 9.20 8.93 8.99 8.7 > 9.8010.1010.40 Lowest price 8,70 8.40 8.35 8.50 8.40 9.00 9.90 Average price 8L» 8.60 8.55 8.60 8.00 9.4010.20 Laufman's American roofing tin, 816.50.- New York World. Carnegie Bros.* Latest Move. The last number of the Iron Age, the high tariff organ es the iron and steel monopolies, says: “On Thursday, the 15th, a conference was held between Chas. M. Schwab, general manager of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, of Carnegie Bros. & Co. (limited), Bessemer, Pa., and a committee of workmen of the converting .department of the plant The conference was for the purporse of arranging the scale of wages to be paid the men in that department, to go into effect on Jan. 1 of the coining year. The scale now in force expires on the last day of this year. “The conference lasted all day, and > scale of wages was agreed upon, bnt was not made public. From some of the workmen, however, information was obtained that some very heavy reductions have been made. Under the old scale the steel melters were paid $1.06 per lOOAons: life new scale, as first submitted by the firm, asked them to accept 63cents per 100 tons, or nearly 50 per cent, of a reduction. The men compromised by accepting 65 cents per 100 tons. The vessel repairers were reduced from 37 cents to 36 cents par 100 tons. It is stated that the vessel men will suffer the greatest reduction, the new scale reducing their wages about 50 per cent, “On Saturday, the 7th Inst, the scale for the blooming mill was arranged. It to stated that the ladlemen have bean reduced from sl.lO to $9 canto par 100 tone Other departments have been raducad’in proportion. It to probable that

daring this week the scale for ths rail department trill be taken up, and will probably be adjusted to the satisfaction of both sides ” Only a short time ago the members of the steel-rail trust met in Philadelphia to consult Everything went smoothly, says the Phllade'phia Press- This to one resalt of that consultation: The trust is preparing, as it did in 1886 and 1887, to foreclose Its tariff mortgage on the coming boom in railway construction predicted by the Iron Age. How many more lessons like the above win be necessary to convince the workmen whose wages bre reduced that not they but the men who are in the trust hold this tariff mortgage? WHAT FLANNEL SHIRTS COST. How the Tariff Put* All-Wool Clothes Ont of the Reach of the Poor, Under the McKinley bill a i plain ordinary flannel shirt sells at the cheapest retail stores in St Louis for $2,150. This shirt is all wool, well made and warm, such a garment as every working man exposed to the weather in this climate ought to wear. The full suit of this flannel, shirt and drawers costs $5. A shirt; shoddy and cotton mixed, with the wool predominating, and^having the appearance of an all-wool garment, can be had for $2, or $4 the suit For $1.25 for the shirt or $3.50 for the suit, wool and shoddy mixture or cotton warp is offered, and this, no doubt, will be taken by most people of limited income. It Is not so bad but that it might be a great deal worse, as may be seen by comparing it with cheaper Imitations of flannel. It takes the place of the wool and camel’s-hair mixtures sold in 1888 and 1889 at 82 and $2.50 the suit, the suit lasting two years, with wear from September to June lof each year. The imitation flannel, which must now be taken as a substitute, loses most of its wool by washing, only enough remaining withthe cotton to make it hard and stiff. After a few washings there is little warmth left in such goods. Bnt, leaving the imitations of all grades from very bad to very good out of consideration, take the real flannel, the plain, substantial, all-wool shirt at $2.50, or suit at 85. The lowest possible cost here for flannels for the winter for one man is $lO for two suits, or sls for an extra suit, such as every workingman should have against emergencies when dry flannels are needed and his change suit is “in the wash. ” It is clear that under McKinley prices real flaupei Is out of the reach of people who have small incomes. The average wage-earner cannot afford It at all. He must put up with the imitations, for at the average wages of $1 a day he would have to work five days to get a single suit es flannels. VVhe:» it comes to buying for himself, his wife, for the average family of five persons, two or three changes apiece, including underskirts for the females, he can no mpre afford real flannels than he can diamonds and rublev Under the McKinley bill real flannel Is a luxury for those* only whose incomes are much above the average. It wiil often happen that men of family with an income of s,*o or over a week will bo compelled to lay aside reluctantly the real flannels when buying for themselves and take the cotton and shoddy mixtures, which, however skillfully made as imitations, are very far from being flannels Any head of the family who goes to lay in the winter supply of clothing will see at once how greatly the total expense for all-wool and imitation woolen goods has bean increased by this vicious and demoralizing taxation. The best grade of all wool flannel shirts, ready made, would net sell for more than $1.25 were there no tax on the material or the finished goods. The real value of theim- ( itatiou woolen shirts is much less, and without the tax they would sell by their grade or their merit. As It is, the buyer is compelled to take what he can get. The retail seller does the best he can for him, but with double and triple taxation on every article of woolen goods in his w trade, the dealer’s poweir to please his* customers is minimized, and bls trade is minimized with it. For it is not every one who. after paying a real flannel price for an imitation flannel shirt, understands the political economy of it. He finds that he bus been swindled, and he thinks he has been swindled by a dealer who has dohe his best under a law which does its worst. —St Louis Republic. McKinley Prlc w. In a recent speech at Lawrence, Mass., Governor Russell read a list of 123 articles of common use, the duties on which were Increased by the McKinley tariff and the prices raised accordingly. On tho whole, there is an advance of about 20 per cent above the pit ices prevailing in September. 1890, before the McKinley tariff went into effect These lists were prepared tor the Governor by one of the largest retail firms in Boston, and are thoroughly reliable. The following table shews how prices were advanced in consequence of increased duties on glassware and crockery: Retail Duty price advanced. advanced, Glassware. pen cent, per cent Common tumblers 15 12 Common goblets ..15 6 Jelly tumblers, J 4 pint IS 10 Jelly tumblers, H pint .15 15 Whit* hanging-lamp shades. .19 15 PickJs dishes .....YJ..19 10 Bowls 19 16 Water sets .19 8 Two-quart pitchers., 19 14 Four-inch footed preserve dishes 19 7 Four-inch unfooted preserve . dishes „. .15 90 Crockery. Cups and saucers .10 5 to 19 Plates.. .10 5 toI9 Platters „ .10 5 to 12 Vegetable dishes 10 5 to 12 Pitchers... 10 5 to 12 Bowls 10 5 to U Mugs 10 5 to 19 Pickle dishes 10 5 to 12 Gravy dishes _ 10 5 to 19 Soup tureens 10 5 to 19 Salad bowls.. ~.10 5 to 12 Pudding dishes ...A. .10 5 to 19 Sugar bowls .10 5 to 12 Coffeecupsand saucers...... 10 5 to 19 The glassware munulaeturers formed a trust, soon after the enactment of the McKinley tariff to take advantage of the increased dutiea At the same time the crockery combinations, after reducing wages, also raised prices. It is strange that so many people express surprise that these things have happened. On the contrary, this is just what those who made the McKinley tariff wanted to bring abUnt Germany and American Pork. In his recent letter to the editor of the Bucyrus (Ohio) Journal, Mr. Blaine said: “Germany, without negotiating a formal treaty, has removed the prohibition on pork, and owir government in consideration thereof, has left her sugar on the free list. This opens tonsan entirely new market, «.nd $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 of American pork will* be consumed per annum, where not a pound has been taken for ten years. • Before Germany prohibited the importation of our pork our exports to that country were as follows: 1880. MM. “sas T0ta1...,. *1,865,858 *1,778,544 Had the prohibition not existed we 1 would have exported to Germany in ten years about as much pork a£Mr. Blaine i claims we shall heresfter export to her each year. It will be noticed that Mr. Blaine for- > got to say anything about the German • tariff on our pork. The rs—sa why he AS J Im * — - /">*». $ RlMn BVw WIMMHiy wlill

a high duty which will keep out our pork about as well as the prohibition of ft has done. In effect there is no difference whether the prohibition Is effected directly or indirectly by high duties. But what becomes of Mr. Blaine’s assertion that the removal by Germany of its prohibition law, was a triumph of reciprocity, when President Harrison declares through his private secretary, “The removal of the pork restriction has nothing to do with any question of reciprocity, but to based upon the acceptance by the German government of the inspection of meats by this government under the law of the last Congress • The Penner Pays the Freight. We will send abroad 250,000,000 bushels of wheat For it we will receive say $250,000,000. This wiil be invested in clothing; in carpets, In linens, in furniture, to chinaware, in tinware, in hardware, etc. When these cargoes reach New York they are seized by Federal officers. They are we’ghed and measured and valued, and the owners are compelled to pay in duties 50 per cent of the value of the cargoes This will be a tax of $125,000,000. In other words the farmers must send abroad three bushels of wheat in order to get in return the exchange value of two. Last year the exports of cotton amounted to 5,800,000 bales. One-third of the return cargoes were confiscated under the plea of protection. Os last year’s cotton crop two-thirds were exported, one-third was consumed at homo. It required all the cotton sold to American mills to pay the duties on the return cargoes taken in exchange for the 5,800,000 bal s sold abroad. Here we have an object lesson illustrating the injustice and the oppression of our whole system, so-called. The farmer, he pays the freight; he pays the tax; he pays the pensions. To do this he has to cultivate three acres in order to have for his own use the product of two. It is the most stupendous system of iniquity and oppression to wh|ch any free people ever submitted, and yet the farmer who works three days for two days* wages is expected to walk up to the polls in Pennsylvania, in Ohio, and in the great Northwest and vote for McKinley and protection. Down with the war tariff!—Louisville Courier-Journal. Tariff* Shot. The tariff on steel rails is kept there solely in the interest of the steel rail trust How this trust makes use of It is shown below. Whenever ah era of railroad building sets in the trust raises the price of rails, and thus forecloses its tariff mortgage. The last foreclosure was in 1886 and 1887. The trust expects to repeat the process next year. Average of new mileage of railroad built in the United States in 1884 and 1885, Average or new mileage in 1886 and 1887, 11,035 miles. Average price of steel rails at mills in 1884 and Average price of steel rails at mills in 1886 and 1887, 885.81 per ton. Tariff Prices for Farmers to Consider. A bushel of wheat in 1855 would buy twenty-one and one-half yards of heavy brown sheeting and shirting. To-day it will buy twelve and one-half yards of the same quality of cloth. Has the farmer profited by “protection”? « e « * In 1855 a bushel of wheat would buy eighteen and three-quarters yards of good calico. To-day it will buy fifteen and one-half yards of calico of the same grade. How much has the farmer profited by “protection? « * * -Thirty-one years ago the farmer exchanged his wool for cloth, and had a home factory. To-day he exchanges more wool for the same quantity of cioth—but how about the cloth? Thirty-five years ago a bushel- of wheat would pay taxes on 820 ft In 1891 it takes three bushels and a half of wheat to pay taxes on S2OO. Then one bushel paid taxes on ten acres of average land; now one bushel pays on but little over two acres. What does the fartoer think of this method of “progressing?” —Rockville (Ind ) Tribune. Mr. Giffadab. “Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith, ” said Doctor Holmes of one of his well-known classmates. Fate made one men too conspicuous, it seems, by such a name, and the owner had to invent a worse one to protect himself. There is a quaint old man in Manchester, England, who goes by the name of Gagadig Gigadab Hie original name, so the story goes, was John but many years ago he began to brood over the possibilities of mistaken identity involved in such a common name. The name figured frequently in the criminal records, and he became abnormally apprehensive lest he might be confused with some of these bad John Smiths. At last what he feared so much actually happened. One morning the papers recorded the capture of an accountant in a bank for embezzlement, and through some blunder jot the reporter the identity of the embezzler was confused with the subject of this paragraph, who was also a bank accountant. Then and there he determined to assume a name like unto no other ever borne by mortal man. And in Gagadig Gigadab most people will\agree that he has done sa In Water and Yet Dry. Into a basin of water throw a piece of money, a ring, or any other object, and propore to take it out without wetting your hands. All that you have to do is to sprinkle the surface of the liquid with a powder that has no cohesion with the water, and consequently that the water does not wet Lycopodium powder, which may be found in any drug store, has this property. After having thrown a little of this Kwder on the water, plunge your hand svely to the bottom and take out the ring, and show to the audience that your hand is perfectly dry. The reason of this is-that the lycopodium has formed a perfect glove on your hand, thus preventing any contact with the liquid, the same as, for instance, ducks plunge their bodies into the water and come out perfectly dry on account of the oil which Is sbcreted in their featbera. The Ohio Decennial State Board of Equalization find that the value of Ohio farms has decreased in ten years from $684,836,516 to $576,183,975, a lOM of $108,643,541 In a period during which the Federal on all farm supplies have bems increased from 15 to 30 per cent. This is another point on which the McKinley stampers appreciate the beauties of Quay’s maxim, “Don’t talk. * A tonic which Is said to be very efficacious In arresting the falling out of the hair is as follows: Bay. rum, 1 quart; table salt, half teacupful; castor oil, 1 ! drachm; tincture of cantharldes, 1 drachm. A raw mode of furnishing power to motor engines by mixing steam with hot gases Is .creating a great deal of Internet i In English clrctea

A YOUTHFUL AGNOSTIC. ■e Had Very Serious Doubts About too GoodueM of God. There were eight of the young' Daers, and my friend Robbie was. number six. He is a sturdy little I fellow, with faded flaxen hair—-he won’t wear a hat—and a very pink face liberally spattered with big brown freckles. It has been the business of Robbie’s life to “tend the baby,” and what a relentless tyrant that baby seemed to be. All day long Robbie played with it and waited upon it and pushed it around in the rickety perambulator which had been occupied successively by all the Daer infants. One hour, and only one, in the day was he free; that was during the baby’s nap. Then how Bobble gloried in his emancipation! Into that brief hour he tried to compress all the fun that other small boys spread over the whole twenty-four. It was exhilarating to watch him enjoy himself. “When the baby’s bigger,” Robbie told me one day, “then I’ll go to school ’n’ learn to count, like Bert; ’n’ I’ll have a coat with pockets, like Jo’s; ’n’ I’ll sell papers ’n’ make money same as Fred does. But I has stay at home ’n’ tend the baby now cos toother’s too busy. After the baby’s bigger I’ll get to go ’n’ play all Saturdays, ’n’ I’m go’n to buy me a hat like Bert’s. Oh, I’ll have lots of fun, after the baby’s bigger!” But one afternoon while the baby took his nap Robbie failed to devote himself to enjoyment with his usual fervor. I saw him sitting on the porch steps all alone, with a wrinkled brow and eyes ilxed upon the ground. “What’s the matter, Robbie?” I asked. ‘‘Why aren’t you playing?” “Oh—cos!” “Are you sick?” “Nome.” “Have you been bad?” “Nome.” “Come, tell me what’s the trouble.” Robbie rose slowly, still frowning, and thrust his hands deep into his knickerbockers—he had no pockets, poor boy! As he approached me I could see that he was trying hard not to cry. “Say,” said he at last, with great solemnity, “do you love God? Mother does.” “Every one loves God, Robbie, except wicked people and the heathen.” “What’s heathen?” I explained. “Do you think God’s smart?” His eyes were fixed on the ground as he asked. “Why, Robbie!” He looked up, with desperation on his T&cc v “Well, I don’t!” he exclaimed. “Guess I’M has to go ’n’ toe a heathen. God’s sent us another baby —’n’ I’m disgusted with Him!”— Kate Field’s Washington. Proflt-Bb*ring. In England twenty firms adopted profit-sharing in 1890, bringing tne total number in which profit-sharing, pure and simple, is practiced, up to forty-seven.-, The South Metropolitan Gas Company of London is one of the largest firms to adopt it. In the winter the company employs 3,500 men, and 2,000 in the summer. The system was begun by a present from the company to every man who had Ijeen in its employ June 30, 1889, and would sign an agreement not to leave for three months. This gift varied with each man’s term of previous service. The amount was credited on the company’s books to each workman, to draw 4 per cent, interest for five years. In June, 1890, about fifteen hundred men were entitled to share in the scheme, and the sum they received reached about $25,000. Already a great improvement is seen in the men’s work. They are more diligent, and see and suggest ways of saving expense. * In other English firms the results are equally good. In France, where the movement began, it continues to grow rapidly. Wherever it is fairly tried,- •whether through cash payments, credit in provident; funds or presents from the company’s stock, the outlook is nearly sure to be encouraging. A system under which the humblest? toiler, in just measure with the man of more brains or skill, sees his work recognized, and knows that, good or bad, it affects the total result, must be better than old methods. A man’s ambition dannot last long when its bounds, in wages and narrow opportunities, shut him and his family in on every side. If it can be quickened by profit-sharing or any other just plan, by all means let the plan be tried.—Youth’s Companion. Th* Darinff Zm*l JaJnred. The daring trapeze performer, Zazel, whose “leap-for-life” .act made her famous, was injured the otber day at Las Vegas, N. M. Os this feat she was tbe originator, and she practiced it from her sixth year. There was never a more fearless woman gymnast than tbls Zazel, whom New York firemen will remember as jumping nonchalantly from a fourth story window into a net to illustrate the possibilities of the net aS a means of saving life. It was Zazel, too, who was tucked away inside of a cannon, all but the top of her curly head, to be flrod out again sixty feet down into a net below. It was Zazel who vaulted from the proscenium arch of a theater ninety feet into the pit below and came up smiling to kiss her hands to the wondering people. Fear to her is an unknown quantity. Bats* City** PMt. To think of the free and open West suffering frpm a London fog! Yet that affliction is weighing so heavily upon Butte City, Montana, that the corporation has sent its medical officer in quest of a remedy. “It is calculated,” said this gentleman, Dr. Bobarts, in the course of an interview at Montreal, “that our silver and copper smelting furnaces emit as much as 250 tons of sulphur dally out of their smoke stacks! Our city is situated on the slope of the Rockies, and Is unfortunately subject at times to absolute calms. At such times the i air becomes so charged with sulphur that you can hardly see your band before you. It is as bad as a London fog, and affects tbe health of our pie, especially those inclined to pneumonia.”

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