Democratic Press, Volume 2, Number 67, Decatur, Adams County, 23 January 1896 — Page 2

WfIATITWOII.It MEAN WAR WOULD PRACTICALLY STOP FOREIGN TRADE. Tlr» Closing of th* Market* to <»wr Frod**t# Wosld NessH—Gov. Me* Kialer** View of (be liingter Tariff Bill-Waal VbeaiKr Coal. Tbe WeKiat*rlt*s’ MsaL The suggestion that tb* United State* tnsy find it necessary to go to war over th* VesrxU'-laD boundary dispute, h*» brought forcibly before tb* people tb* condition <>f affair* which would follow a tb* l»rat.on of war with England. The certainty that thia country would ultimately triumph has not prevented a considers *k»a of tbe trcmendon* Jowra to all daaaea-farmers, worker*. manufacturers and traders—re*ultta< front the temporary at of, page of foreign comaaenv and the rksilng of the brat mar ket* for our surplus product* Os ail our export*, valued last year at JTWL--392/>’.4» Great Britain and her d-pen den- :■« parchased S4»<4J*I!L7BH worth, or n-ariy du per cent Ot thia large amount about 70 per cent, was tbpro! txt of American farmer*. who find in England and her colonies their principal market for rotton. wheat pork, beef and Sheep. Hbould our sales of tboe staple* be cut off by war the re suit would be a great fall in prices, and total inability to dl*i*-w of hundreds of million* of farmers with useless crop* on their hands. Without market* In which tn *»H they could not buy tbe produces of our fa -torie*. and idle work ' m*n wouid rapidly increase. With mill* | closing and consumption decreasing. ■ our merchant*. hank* and transportation companies would all be involved *n { general rain, panic and bankruptcy. This is no fancy picture, but the most i assured fact*. Against the possibility ! of such ootdlt lona the bus's'** int-res’s ' of the country are loudly protesting ■ And yet the obj< ts of the Republic, u ■ party, as expressed in Its platform and - in the tariff bill which has just been . rushed through the House of Beprescn ■ tatire*, are practk-ally to put this country Into the sama relations with the rest of the world, as would exist under . a state of war. The declared policy of the high protectionists Is to shut out I foreign goods with a prohibitory tariff and they insiet that a similar system would be best for all the countries of ■ the earth. This would simply mean that international trade would cease, ■ and each country depend on Its own markets. Is not this equivalent to a | cessation of commerce through war? ■ And should not the business men wbo Are trying to avoid war, by securing th* settlement of foreign disputes by the pea'-eful methods of arbitration, protest Just as strongly against the war tariff which the McKlnb-yite* In Congress are trying to thrust tn this rottntry? Peace with honor; prosperity; equal- | ity of rights before the law; no unjust taxation or dan* legislation, and the frowst possible freedom of trade are what the masses of the American pro- < pie moot deeire. And the party which stands la tbeir way win receive little i favor as *oou as the public sentiment finds an opportuafty for expression at j Lower L>n’y: Cheaper Coal. The Democratic roa-'-ntion that if th* I du»y of 75 cents per ton on bituminon* ' coal was reduced the price of coal would fall is now admitted by so em- ! tovt: a protectionist as the Hon. William Lamb, Republican national com- I E-’t-eman from Virginia. In a letter ' written to Senator Daniel. Mr. Lamb refers to the increased importation* of coal fT'/tn Nova fbotia. under the Wil son tariff, and says; "’After the reduc- , Eon of the duty on coal from 75 cents i to P< cents the price of coal bad to be correspondingly reduced in those market* where H was consumed." And as a remedy for the lower price* he urge# : Senator Daniel to In-At that the duty be laen-ased to «7% cents per ton. It will be remembered that when the j Wilson tariff was before the House It ! put coal nu the free list. In response to : a general demand from the New En ! gland State* for cheaper fuel for their Iron works and factories. The aboil- I tion of the duty was opposed by the ! Bepubikans in Congress, who claimed that In the first place the Nova Scotia coal which was kept out by the tariff was no good. and wouid not be used if allowed to come in free, and in the second place that even if the foreign coal did coroe in it would lie no cheaper than under the 75 cent* per ton duty. Both of these assertion* have since been proved untrue. Although the Senate left a duty of 40 cents per ton on coal the importation of bituminous coni from Nov* Scotia has been largely lnwwl. it has been thoroughly tested by a number of large manufacturing concern* and gas companies, and has proved blghlv satisfactory. The Maine Central, Boston and Maine, and Fitchberg Railroad* have been using large quantities of Imported coal, and will thia year increase their, orders. That the lower duty has reduced prices I* frankly admitted by the Republicans, by whom this fact is made the basis for a demand for higher duties. This is a poor time of the year to talk of raising tile price ofcoai. The Republican* would have wune excuse If th -y tried to take ;><■ off the free list In order to »hnt out the foreign pauper Icebergs whk'h are sending cold breeze* down ’fr' r.-.-ii Bet the eisty five mil Hon ?• ■ e. ho . int to keep svatia during the winter months are not anxious to see coal dearer merely to benefit a few millionaire coal tnlnc--awueis in Pennsylvania and Virginia. A Tariff on Wool Is n Great Fraud. A Wlscontdn wool grower who ba* had thirty years of experience in the business has the common w-nv view «f the w'xd situation In bls statement that a tariff on wool is a fraud of the first magnitude, a* “it burden* consumption, fetters manufacturers and

hinder* pri<re«*." Voder every tariff . act ervatlng a tax on wool# price* of wool have de. lined. To return to ' the McKinley wbedule by a rvotoratfou i of the McKinley duties on raw wool mean* *n Imwease by one-quarter of j the prieeo of wo>l»n wear and of ear-|m-u and blanket*. The wooiea ladus try was never more prospvruu# than It is now. under free raw material, an ! manufacturers ar* filing no prates’* against the Wilson bill. The speculai tors are another matter. Philadelphia ! Time*. McKinley oa Ibe tMostey Tariff RIIL tlov. McKinley, with bl# usual mode*. \ ty. has consented to give hl* bumble I opinion on ibe tariff bill passed by the > House of Representatives. In an lateri view to which be rwognlaes that a , waiting norid 1# listening for the great and only Ulgh-tariff oracle's views, be | I saya: "The uriff bill paused by th* j [ House is a suitable answer to the President's appeal for relief for th* treasury. It will be observe.! that the bill Is only ’ an emergency measure. I'nder the i present circumstance* it would be folly j i to enact a substantial protective tariff | From tbts can easily be seen wbat the I Republicans wbo follow McKinley real- I !y want Tbe Dingley bill, with It* restoration of duties on lumber, wool! and other materials now free, and It* I increase of duty 15 per cent, above th* i present rate*. Is only a temporary expedient, wmethitg which fail* far ah -rt of the high tariff which would be enacted if tbe Republican* had full control of the Government. An advance of 15 jier tent, tn duties already too high i# considered by tbe patron saint of tbe protectionists as merely a moderate m<-a*ur*. which a Democratic Pr>-sidont should have no objection to . Gov. McKinley doubtless represents the sentiment of tbe orthodox bigb-tar-' iffites. In hl* statement that the Ding- ■ ley bill does not go far enough In tbe dl- j rection of restricting trade. But be neglected to state bow a higher tariff, by I shutting out foreign goods, could possi- : bly help tbe treasury by yielding more , revenue. Tbe Republicans in Congress ‘ pretend that their bid would greatly Increase the customs revenues. But I they forget to explain bow a law which ■ largely prohibits Importations can pos ‘ sibly give more revenue from duties ■ on imports. Gov. McKinley is also silent on this important point Perbatsi i he remembered that under hl* famous 1 high-taxation Jaw tbe revenue* fell off untd in the last fiscal year in which ( it was in operation the custom* receipts were only Jl.7LSlS.s3fi, and the | total receipt* left a deficit of $70,000,-1 000. Vn warned by his experience in 18801 and 18t*2. wh n on the sole issue of a i high-tariff versus tariff reform tbe Re-1 publican majority In Congress was overthrown, and a Democratic President elected by an overwhelming majority, Gov. MeKinley talk* of still higher tariff* if be or some other protectionist shall be elected President this , year. In thus pla.nly stating his po*i ■ tion be gives every encouragement to' tbe Democrat*, who know that they ; beat the McKinley Idea twice before, a&d they can do it again. A union of ail | tbe people who prefer low to high taxes I will defeat Ail the powers of protected 1 monop>dy and tariff-created wealth. A Temporarr Tariff Job. No one is likely to be deceived with the ruse of the tariff tinkers in framing a two-year limit to their horizontal bill i as a temporary measure of "revenue only." The ft publican* are confident.. of course, of electing their candidate for , tbe Presidency n. xt year; they will ( have control of the Senate, and they ha re little fear that their overwhelm- i ing majority in the House will be sue- j ceed■•d by a Democratic majority in the ; Fifty-fifth Congresa In these conditions the temporary tariff bill “for rev- i enue" would remain a permanent tariff ! for protection, unless in the triumph of ' victory tbe duties should be screwed up i still higher for the sake of more “rev-' enue." At any rate, tbe pleasing pros-1 pect I* afforded the manufacturer*, workingmen and merchants of the! country of a renewal of tariff agitation I In Congress at the end of two years,! no matter what might be tbe result of | the election*. The Republicans are; pledged by the terms of their bill to go, I at least, through the motions of revis- i Ing the tariff when the limit fixed in I this bill suall have expired. The Dem ocrat*, at the same time, will not cease j to protest against a measure to crude ■ and Iniquitous in most of its features, ! Should the Republicans elect two Houses of Representatives In succession It would be a rare phenomenon In the recent history of their party. Since 1872 they have secured a majority In only three Houses—namely, in 1880, in 1888 and in 18IM. They were turned out in ISB4 because of their tariff of 188.1 la tbe Kelfer Congress; they were turn- i ed out in 1892 on acount of their Me- ■ Kinley tariff; and who shall say that they are not preparing for a like fate in 1896, with this new tariff menace as a warning to the people of what may 1 be expected from Republican success? As If the authors of this now tariff job bad themselves a misgiving in re- I gard to Its political effect, they seek to conciliate public opinion with the false pretense that It is a temporary roeas uro, made necessary by the embarrass ne nt* of the treasury. But. no matte; what may be the result of the election; for the next House and for President, the : - in th i-tire pT."-.s!on of Hie senate the assurance that their tern j.oiuiy job would be a permanent feature if it could bo passed in the guise of a measure for revenue. The artifice Is too shallow and transparent to deceive any but those who are willing to be duped. H Is said that hypocrisy li the hemage which vice pay* to virtue This high tariff bill. In the guise of a temporary measure for “revenue only," Is the reluctatit homage which tbe vota ries of protective spoliation pay to the genius of free trade.—Philadelphia Record.

IT GOES TO CHICAGO. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION TO MEET JULY 7. World’s Fair CH» Win# on the Twrn-tr-ninth Bnllot-fiL Lon in Defentrd hr Two Voteo-Ootbasn Givso the Lake Cltr Ker Strength. Location I# Aassed. The Detnxratrc a*t»**J cwt ent->n wtl; be held ia Che sge J«!y 7. TTu* eonclosten trn* mnebed by tbe ceotatKtee ta *ee«k>a st Washington after twenty am* i ballot# bad been Uk»n sad the straggle h.d to oe on ant'd well toward tatdttigbt. Starting ia with bat *.* votes. Chicago 1 steadily gamed is fsver until she won | tbe prise. At ot»e fist* the aussWr es I voce* cast for her waa bat four. Nevertheir** her fita>-»# in atxm wo* flax fight for her. “It wa* # pare qneetx-a ' of gsograpby." »atd one of tbe moot proai-1 meat Eastern Ix-m<* rata and a member I 1 1 " — I of the committee. There wa* no kaster. > no baneombe speech -ma king, no noise of | say sort in favor of Oiragw. say# a | Wasbmctoa correspondeat. She won the fight purely upon her merits, and after the .nd>ridaai prejudice# of the member# ia favor of other ritlas bad given way. The detailed vote on tbe final baltot by ■■ State# waa: Chicago—Cwnecticut. Florida, Idaho. I Ilhaoia, Indiana. lows. Kentucky. Maine. ' Maryland. • Miwarbiuetu, Muthigan. I Minnesota, Nebraska, New HampeLr-. ; New York, North Carolina, Oregor Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. South Da kata. Tetne-ssee, Vermon’. West V!r g.nm. Wisconsin, District of Columbia I Alaaka.

THE CHICAGO COLISEUM. ,■ Ml w -ri-- :: "5 v,; r' A'HFR" NATIONAL LF’ G- RATIC CONVENTION WILL EE HELD JI’LY 7.

St- Loai*—Alabama. Arkanras, Oahfortrla, Colorado. Delaware, Georgia, Kan'aas. Lomais’i*. Miss salppi. Missouri. Meatans. Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Carolina, Texas. Utah, Virginia, Washington. Wyoming. Arizona, New Mezar o, Oklahoma, Indian I territory. Ciarinnatie-Ohio. Chicago wa* vot*d for on the final , round by all th* distinguished Democrat* upon the coenmittee. Clark Howell, Senator Gorman, Joaiab Qn.ncy of Jltiachu»etta. William F. Sheehan of New York, William F. Harrity of I’enn»ylva nia, Bradley B Smalley of Vermont, E C. Wall of Wizconain and other# prominent in national or State affairs, all voted i for Chicago. The understanding ia that the Chicago j delegation will be expected to have acer tifi*<J check for $40,000 ready for the executive committee when it arrive* In Chicago three weeks hence. This will be turned over to th* committee, with the key* to th* convention hall, and then the Chicago delegation wifi step down and out and leave the entire mansg*tn*nt of th* convention in th* hand# of th* national committee. There ia to be no appointing of ser-geant-*t-anna or other officer# by th* Chicago people, a&d no claim for large numbers of tickets with which the convention ball can be packed. Everything is to be let: absolutely to the national committee. It is expected that that committee will allot a certain number of tickets to the Chicago people, but how many or upon what term* baa not been decided. The Chicago delegation waa quit* willing to leave that matter in tbe bands of the national committee, content with getting the national convention and preferring to place the responsibility for its management in the hand* of that organization, and thus avoid any rritiriwm #« to mix- ' management, such as ba* been made with reference to a former Democratic convention held in that city. After <h* location bud been decided 1 upon the committee promptly took up the question of the date for holding the coni vention, and th* issue was soon sharply I defined by two motion*, one to hold ft 1 June 2 and another that it lie held July 7 1 The vote resulted 32 to 18 in favor of July 7. Can Handle the Crowd. Chicagoans claim that no other dty ; n the country can furninh anything like the facilities for handling the crowds that acotnpany a national convention as well ias can Chicago. To obtain hotel accomI mndations it will not be necessary for ■ visitor* to sleep on cots in hallways nor in chairs in reading and smoking rooms, and th* transportation facilities from the ( center of the city to the likely convention hall are ample. According to tho following table forty-three hotels are ready to accommodate over 15,000 guests, besides taking care of their regular patron#: | Alabama Hotel 150 ; Atlantic 500 Ashland 100 Auditorium 1,000 I Brevoort 500

Rrd»» *„ CMcage View W Oty Hotel Chfwn •*’ Colnsnhu Coagreta *•'?” Gsxlt **' Grace iGntMda *•*' tWeet Neribera. B*#=*'-.-* , ■••• • Del Brads ISO I Imperial Lt Grand o®, ♦' Metropole I® Normandie Worth M> Hyde Park » Krobah's 1«! Kuhns *> Lakota »*» Ixvand 730, MitebeH Oakland I Oatarin l‘*> i’a:m*r J lUmier •* Rever* W RiriwßM 3» Marat-vga LOW 8 . Charles »» Tremont *» Victoria «» WriEng-na *® 1 Wladermer* Total 13 79C ENGLAND WILL YIELD. Graccfttl Backdown Prejncted ia the Vennueka Matter. A» > fr .. u* • • ? m-iaoer a wharh the Ve&exoecaa oxnsLjam » ar* tn ate ita wark, there are j ntht r *aj* a W&ahjiftaa cor* | that tbe a4s.x.>:ra:-va hi* I br*tytne <-var*Jsc**j that azjra«J bod/! boun’aFy it caa&ot • i*e stated that th*a haand ratireiji’ mans aayt flpacMbe iv|NStls| .f”!tA Al .**■;<. r Hazard the **.b- • j’-t *. yet .1 /X’Mia ta beT*-T<& a».-xe aewuranrea of * anLafaetory hare ‘ ftxae to tbe State Departs:? at that tbs I matter win be term.nated shortly, probably within two ax-urn# or before a report ran reasonably be expected from th* Venrxue-an commission, and upon hoe* that will be unobjectionable to our govrnuueßt. While d*t# :» of th* arrangement ar* not obtainable, and perhaps b*v* not yet be-ra fixed, it ia believed the boat# of it w ill be arbitration as proposed originally by the (Waited States, but with a limitstion that will suffice at leas: to save British pride and appear to maintain Br ■ •

c-:in»i«tepcy. This is likely to b* found in an ag- « m>nt betwe- n Great Britain and Veuexueis d:mtly, brought ab»ut through the good office# of a third party, not neaessarPy or probably the United States, to submit to < joint commisaUvn the question of the title to all territory west of the S- botarburgk line, with a proviso that if tn the cour.v of tbe inquiry of tbe commiarien evidence appear* to touch the British title to th* land* lying to the eastvp ni of that line the body may ext- ml functions to adjudicate such title. This arrangement will meet the British contention that the original arbitration shall be limited to land* to the westward of the line, while still conceding the justice of tbe contention of President Cleveland that th* land* on tbe other side may property be taken into *onsidemtion in fixing the boundary. Possttily a *upplememary arbitration will be left to deal with die question a* to the title of the eastward lands, if the original commission dealing with the matter ahail find that th* title to th* land* i» a fit subject for arbitrillion as snoivn by the evidence produced before it.

I At the Budapest millennial exhibition next year there will be another steel tower like the Eiffel towi-r, but 1,625 feet high, instead of 975. English tradesmen are iadigrrant because the dried potatoes, (•nrrot* and turnip* provided for the Ashantee expedition were ordered by tbe Government in Germany. Count Thun, governor of Bohemia, baa resign'd and his resignation is expected to lord co a healing of th* breach between the Young Czech* and the Germans. Bicyel** bare been admitted into th* grounds of the exclusive botanical garden in Regent's park. T>ey must not, however, be brought near the museum* and conservatories. k nev; knapsack attachment without straps I* being tried on the Gordon Highlanders. The pack is fastened to th# shoulders by metal hooks, and i# prevented from wubbling by a back plate. Foreigners who are not bachelors of art* or science are to be excluded from the Paris medical echools, as ths laboratories are overcrowded, and even enough subjects for dissection cannot lie obtained. In bidding for the new first-class cruisers for the British navy there wns but 1 per cent difference between the bids of tho three competing firm*. About $2,150.000 will be paid for each 11,000-ton vaasel.

LEW WAKLACES story. Th* B»c*b>rtl* KN» Wh*r* Hi* F*"C* Was. ileneral !>w Walllira yraterday ro ' latvd an incident which »h.>w* to a rei oarkable extent the wonderful saga-.-ity and metuory of bb- kblrils “At my home over in Crawfordsville.” said tbe General, "we have a Hrg-- number of tall tree* <o the lawn, and In ronra* of time these tree* became tbe roosting plara at certain time* of tbe y»*r for hundred* of thousands of Ida- kNrds. They came in great black cloud*, and in spite of all that I rouM do they refused to leave. Os course, they wera a great nuisance, and I wa# tn despair as to some means of getting clear of them. I stood for two <lay* with my gun firing Into them of an evening and killing hundreds of them, but the rest did not M-cm to b*sutß- iently struck by fear or grief to want to part company with me and my hospitality. I then devised a new wbrroe. ■'Procuring a number of Roman candle* one evening. I lighted them one by >*Be after dark, when tbe bottgh* of tbe trees twnt low with tbe weigh’ of tbe making bird*, and I poured th< candle* into the tops of the trees at a great rate. The sudden Innovation startled the I4rd* as nothing had eve; d< n* before, and they I iecame panic- I »tri<-kra. That night I was free ot them. "The next evening, however, tlx habit of returning there to roost wastronger than fear, and they bcgui. coming in by thousand* a* the evenin; approached. After dark I N-gan wit! another volley of candies, and tb< birds began to realixe that there was : determined botuisirdment In progn’*'They fied precipitately, and the tbin evening only a few returned. A fee last shots put them to flight, and I wai troubled no more.

"But what do you think those Mnl did? My dividing fence runs betwe< tbe trees on my property and the tre» on the property of my neighbor, whirl are eqnslly high and i*iual!y suita b! for a home for the blackbird*. Whet the birds were driven from my lot they flew over across the dividin; fence to the trees of my neighbor am settled. There wa* no bomba rdmen over there, and they have stayed ther ever since. "This was a long time ago. but neve since the last Roman candle was Art* into them has one of those birds sot tied on one of my tree*. They an 'tabooed' as effectually as though they were on fire. The great clouds of bin! each morning and evening fly dlrectl; over my trees going and coming, bt: not a bird settles upon a tree that is ot my side of the dividing fence. "Another strange thing i« that if an one of an evening stands in my lawt and makes a slight noise, as slappin his hands, there will be the wilder commotion among the bird* in tb neighlioring tree*. They become res less and almost panic-stricken. 1: however, the same person crosses ti. fence and stands directly under the: and makes twice as much noise the pay no attention whatever to him. H can even shoot up into them with'- 1 .. driving them from their perches. “1 have wondered several times jus wbat impression these birds have < me and my property that they have * decidedly given me the cold shoulde: They know every tree that is on n. T lawn, and will settle within a few fee of the dividing line. Os course, I hnvnot bothered them over there, as the, were not my guests."

A MODERN LABYRINTH. Keeping Track of Trains in a Great Station. “Qui.-k, Jim"' shout* the head man “49. 61. and 72! There comes the Boton express, and the Croton local on!; two minutes behind! Shove ’em it there lively!" “AJI right,” responds Jim. On the instant this lever is down th others snapped up, and the expres: train just out of the tunnel has a cleat clear track into it* haven at Forty second street Three hundred yards lief ore the station is reached the flame throated iron monster, uncoupled frou its burden of cars, darts forward ot a siding like a spirited horse unbat neaaed from its load, while the trait glides forward with Its own momen turn, slowly and more slowly as th' brakes are applied, until It comes t< a stop under the depot shed. Hard)., have tbe passengers poured forth when another train rolls in, ami then another, the pathway in each instance cleared by these keen men at the lever* It: this tower-house of the yards of the Grand Central Station in New York city. For they only know the intric acles of this interesting modem labyrinth, where more iron paths and by paths are to be found, in all probability. than in any other place of the same size in the world. Suppose yon enter this reetangulai house with one of your railroad friends and go up stairs. Here there is a Ung "key lioard.” as the men call it consisting of one hundred and font numbered iron lever*. You see the men in charge grasp lever after lever, apparently at random; you hear the sharp click of these gun like rods ai they move backwards or forwards, and then as you sec a red light flash white or a white red two blocks away you are told I>y one of the men nt the levers, that a path Ims been clean'd for the Stamford local or the Empire State express. If you look in the room underneath ft seems like the interior of a huge piano-board. Here are stiffmoving wires and bars, each one connected above to it* particular Iron key. Beneath they spread out In every direction, like the thread-like logs of a spider, each connected with its special tail or switch or light, and never in Urfering with it* neighbor, so delicate

th* mechanism. A* yon g* -,p »< a second time to bear Mr Andenms. tbe man In charge of tb* greai k.-» board, talk «l«»ut the >on cannot help thinking again ; M1 * like a monster plauo It Is. To be > U rs tbe Iron key* are pushed and instead of gently struck. Over five hundred "pl*m of rolling stock." a* the railroad men sprak of trains and engines, have to U« *. M In and out of the depot and yard in\ day These include nearly thro* dred regular ln<*oniing and outg !1B passenger train*, the “stock" an I b*g. gage trains Which ply betwnrn ther* nod Mott Haven, carrying empty <•#« and station freight, and tbe “mafi*. np" and “nnmad*” trains passing t 0 end fro. Wh. u a through Western or Boston express starts out of the #l3. tion, the arrangement of one or tn* lever* by no tnenna Insnroa It a straight track Into th* tunnel. Oftentlnx-* j combination of ten or fifteen all over tie awitchlKMrd la n--c«-*ary to give tbe train a straight away track, amt you vender, as you b.-ar this, how tbe men ever learn the varying cotnblna•|<>n* of keya The train-d*r-pat<-her ,n til* depot notifies tbe men in the towerouse on which each arriving and h l-artlng train Is—whether New York f'entraL Harlem River, or New Hav<-s and they instantly know tbe answer •o the problem. THEIR ORIGIN. Where Important Plant* Were First CuL vat*d. Among the more lni]H>rLvnt plants hat were under cultivation at th* lawn of history, more than 4.OUU year* .ro. says un exchange, are: . Apples.—Still found wild over ex- ■ sive r< - lons of tbe North T» r:: • <one. First cultivated in South-east-■rn Europe of W.-stcrn Asia. Barley.—Among the most ancient : cultivated plants. The common or »ur-rowed barley, a* also tbe six-row--1 kind, probably origi&ated from the <»-rowed. which appears to have <en the kind earliest cultivated. It is native of Western Asia. Cabbage.--Still found wild in many ■arts of Europe, where it has been culivated from the earii.wt times. < 'ucumlxT.— The original wild spee- * from which tbe cultivated vin* -arne is *uppp«»*ed to tie one found -<ill at the foot of the Himalayas and n other parts of northern India. < inion.—First cultivated in Southwes■m Asia, where the orig.nals of th* uitivated specie* are still to be found, leld sacred and worshipped in Egypt u very early times. reach —De Candolle has no hesitan »• in assigning the origin of the fruit » China, though other eminent botan•ts believe it to have been cultivated I Persia and elsewhere at an equally •arly date Pear.—First cultivated in the temper•to portions of Europe and Asia, where still flourishes in tbe wild state. Rice.—First cultivated in Southern linn or India. Not native in EgypL tough it has through the greater part t historic time been extensively culvated there. Tex—Chinese records are quoted to -rove that tea was cultivated in that •untry at least 2.700 years before brist. and it is generally conceded ■at its use orlginat- d in that region. Turnips.—The several -species all • qiear to have crigiuat -<l in Europe, ut to have early spread under cul- : atloh into Siberia and other part* »f Asia. They are still found in their Hginal wild state in many parts of Northern Europe. Watermelons. - Formerly supposed > have been natives of Southern Italy, •ut later investigations have trad'd heir origin to Africa. They are ceralnly indigenous to the “dark cent!■nt,” and are still found wild in the topical regions on both sides of the eqlator. Wheat.—The extreme antiquity and •vide area of the cultivation of wheat ave rendered it difficult to ascertain iust where it actually originated. It vas well known in the earliest times of . hich any records are to be found, all I.rough the temperate regions of Asia, Europe and Africa, from China to th* "auary Islands. It has been discover•d in the bricks of the pyramid of Dasur, Egypt, t<> which 1* gfvun a data .ore than 3350 B.C. Tin- latest re- - arebes assign its origin to the region ■f the Euphrates, where it still exist* wild. If anywhere. Found a Petrified Pony. II Clay Emmet, a young cowboy wh* passed through Belton. Texas, reports ,i singular find made by him during « •ittle hunting raid recently. The find was nothing more nor less than a petrified pony, standing erect and complete In all Its parts. Emmet says that lie and his partner. B. C. Woodville, were riding across the prnlric kite on* afternoon, when their tired ponira neighed am! whinnied ns if they were aware of the presence of another animal. Looking around, they iliseovered vhat they thought was a broncho tethered to a mesquite which crowned th* summit of a little knoll to the northward. They found that the horse wa# fastened by a chain, but stood so rigidly still, and seemed altogether so my* ’erious, that their own horses rerf'd and plunged ns If in fright. Finally il.ey dismounted, and found that the ony was petrified, not a hair nor a hoof amiss. Emmet says that some ranchman years ago must have chained th* poor horse there, leaving film to starve upon the plains. As the ribs of the anlmnl are plainly visible In the petrification, and he seems to have been otherwise much emaciated, this I* most probably the case. Emmet will arrange to have the strange find •*" l.lbiled in some museum.