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■ If * CHAPTER XXXIV. Mr». Dm arrived two days later, and found everythng in her bouae far luxurious and home like than the expe» ed She had brought only a few of her foods and chattda with her. intending to rough It for a month or so, but the Comtniaaionrr. among whose faults inhospitality was not. had decreed otherwiae. and bad made the place no coay in the limited time, that even Jane, who had been backward and forward many time*, scarcely recognized it when she paid her teat visit. Alipore seemed very little altered. It struck Mrv Dene that Jane, who waa seated opposite to her in sympathetic silence, was the most changed of all. She thought of her as she remembered her nt first, a shy. pretty child, slowly developing into the coquettish beauty, the acknowledged Simla belle. She was lovely still, lovelier than ever, she was fain to | confess, but it »u such a pale, weary fate that owed nothing of its beauty to happiness or animation. Among the first who called on Mrs. Dene was Major Larron, but, though his ■ manner was very gentle and sympatbising to herself, she could not fail to see that the real object of his visit was Jane. , His gaze rested on her all the while, , eager to forestall every wish, to lose no movement of the white fingers which twined so restlessly one with the other, aor a glam-e of the sorrowful hazel eyes which warn as they would, never met his own. His suit had not made much progress. It was very seldom that he could see her, and whea be did happen by sheer perseverance to come in her presence, her thoughts were evidently so far away that be knew it would be of no avail to push his own cause. Mrs. Dene could not help feeling sorry for him, he seemed so terribly in earnest -besides, long ago. she had promised him her aid. “Come and see my flowers," she said, presently, when the conversation began to languish. “I have snch a capital garden. I suppose the Commissioner's mollies have kept it in good order. At Hattiabad I had nothing but a bare expanse of kunkur. and a well." Major rose to follow her. and artfully addressed a remark to Jane at the moment, so that the common civility obliged her to follow them; and once in the garden Mrs. Dene soon made an excuse to leave them. “Mrs. Dene is not looking well,” lie began awkwardly, when that lady was out of hearing. “She is not well. She came here for a change of air, you know." “Ah, yes! I understood so. of course. And yourself, I wish I could see you looking better," he went on. "There I think your kindness misleads you. Major Larron. I am in perfect i health"—a little stiffly. She walked away a few paces, less with the intention of avoiding him than to calm her own agitation. She did not ’ love him; sometimes she even regarded ’ him with an instinctive dislike, even fear; yet for a moment she was carried away by the passion in his tones. “Am I so distasteful to you that yon will not stay beside me?” he asked her sadly, standing still a little way apart. “It is not that," she murmured. “Thon listen to me, Jane; yet what is It after al! that I can say! I have so little to offer you—nothing except wealth and rank which seem such worth- . less things now that I have to stake my , all upon them. I am too old for you; I ■older than the Colonel by some years.” | He stopped abruptly. Fool that he \ was to mention the very name that ! should have been avoided! He saw at I once how Jane's face, which, touched by his self-depreciation and humility, grew softer and kindlier as he spoke, now suddenly hardened into stone. “If you had every advantage it were possible for man to have, it would mnko no difference," she said, quickly. “I •hall never marry!" “Never marry me; but there is some other " "There is no other," she declared, with quiet sadness. She had moved on and Major Larron was walking beside her. Now, she spoke, a sudden turn brought them face to face with Mrs. Dene, who was coming in their direction with Colonel Prinsep. An impulse, of which she rep n nted the next instant, caused Jane to turn round shandy and go down another path, and naturally Major Larron accompanied her. “Oh. bow stnpid of me! What will they think? I-et us go back," exclaimed the girl, excitedly. “Not yet, Jane—not yet. I have something to say still. This is no time for make believe of any sort, and I will not pretend to be blind to the fact that there is another who is my rival, and that other—Colonel Prinsep. I also know that you will never marry him." "Never, never!" ejaculated Jane. "Yet you will pass most of your life in his near neighborhood, and the next two years nt least will be lived where Ja<-ob Lynn died." lie w. < pinyin;} his Inst card, and playing it knowing well that it was no legitimate game, yet his voice never faltered. Ho would have betrayed his dearest friend to have won that, upon which his heart was set. She shuddered. He knew his shaft had gone home, and hastily followed up bis success. “Bo my wife, Jane, and leave the past behind you. I will take you where nothing shall remind you of it. I will surround you with a love that nothing harmful shall be able to penetrate. My whole life shall he spent in making yours happy. Yon do not love me now. but you will; -such love as mine begets love. I worship

w »• 'W S> ’ you, 1 adore yon—to It such a hard matter to consent to be adored?” As she hesitated, meaning to say "yes," and *i escape from all that bad t*een troubling her of late, now half held back by the knowledge that all her future hung upon the word that she might utter—she beard Stephen Prinsep s;e-aking as he walked with Mrs. Dene a iittls distance off. At the sound of the low. musical tones her half-formed resolution faltered. How '-ould she promise to let another love her, to be another's wife, in the close vicinity of the man to whom she had avowed all these things before, within hearing even of the voice by which she had been—ah, so willingly!—wooed? “Do not press me. I cannot answer now.” she said, hastily, a piteous expression coming over her upturned face. Turning, ahe walked toward the house and overtook Mrs. Itene, who looked at her scrutinisingly as she came up. Had she or had she not accepted Major lairmn? Colonel Prinsep too looked keenly, wistfully into her face. Surely it was not possible that she bad forgotten what had l>een between them. She loved him | —him only—he could not doubt that, ' since he had surprised her in his bungalow kissing the words he had written. I The reason of that stealthy visit he had failed to discover, nor could be guess what the barrier was that she had decided must divide them, but surely there was nothing that need drive her so into the arms of another. Mrs. Dene had been addressing herself to Major Larron, and kept up a brisk conversation with him. under cover of which the silence of the other two remained unnoticed, and it happened that as they went into the house for a moment the Colonel and Jane were left alone. Jane looked up quickly. In her eyes then Stephen Prinsep saw only doubt and distress—not love for one lover, nor regret for the other. “Colonel Prinsep, they are making fresh inquiries about Jacob Lynn's dewth. They are going to send the case to the High Court; Mr. Knollys told me so!” she exclaimed in an excited undertone. "And then?" he asked, with what she considered gn almost shameless calmness. "The murderer will be found out; they know so much already, and more will be discovered then.” "And you don’t wish that the criminal -supposing it to be a criminal case—should be brought to justice"—with a curious look into her troubled face. “Oh, no—no! How can you ask it?”— in an anguished whisper. He was silent for a moment, pulling his fair mustache with a puzzled air as of one who finds himself in a difficulty and knows not how to extricate himself. Then he asked her in a voice as low as her own: "Tell me, what is it you wish me to do?” “Go away from here. Leave the place before it is too late. It is the only i chance!” And so saying she swept past him into the house. He stood looking after her | until she had disapeared through a door at the other end of the hall; and then he ■ too went in. and entering the drawing room stayed some time talking to Mrs. Dene, perhai>s in the hope that Jane might return. But she did not CHAPTER XXXV. Mr. Graeme had always been a favorite of Mrs. Dene, so it happened that, coming often to the bouse, bis former friendly relations with Jane were insensibly renewed. She forgot that once she hud been so hurt at bis having made her the subject of a bet, and he that unexplained meeting at the gates of Colonel Prinsep's bouse. Mrs. Dene encouraged his visits, not only for her own sake, but because she thought that perhaps something might come of this friendship with Jane, The girl was looking so unhappy now, so unlike what she had always been liefore; ami, woman-like, Mrs. Dene had a vague idea that matrimony was a remedy for all ills. Although she had promised her support to Major Larron, she would have been infinitely better pleased to see her protege engaged to Valentine Graeme. “I wonder you never fell in love with Jenny," Mrs. Dene said to Graeme, after they had been sitting some time together. “How do you know I never did?” he retorted quickly. "I am not sure myself. I know I like her better than any girl I ever met." “Then why have you never tried to win her?" "A foolish bet I made about her with Larron. Then—it has been a whole chapter of accidents —something occurred which put me off again.” “What was it?" asked Mrs. Dene. “Something which made her appear less simple; not—not so perfect as I had always thought her." “She is as good as gold!” ejaculated the young widow, warmly. “I used to think so; but then no one is faultless, and in this ease she may not have been so much to blnme ns it appeared. Only I was disappointed and chilled. Y’ou see we like our wives to be as Caesar's wife was—above suspicion.” “As she is—take my word for that. Valentine. She is in some secret trouble now. and it may be something in connection with that which gave you cause to doubt." “I wish I could tell you all and let you judge, but 1 promised I would not.” "And nothing you could say would shake my faith. Ilers is one of the sweetest, and at the same time noblest, characters I have ever known. If you love her, really love her, Valentine, don't let any suspicion of her come between you. Take my advice, tell her about your bet with Major Larron, and for the rest trust implicitly that whatever she did was done for the best.” “You are a very loyal friend”—smiling. “And you are a very cold lover. I be-

flevs yen would as soon marry Diana as Jans!" "Why do you always bring up Miss Knollys* asms?" exclaimed Vai, pstutoute ly. rising from bis scat to poke ths firs vigorously. “And why do you always resent it so, If indeed she is no more to you than any ano also?" asked Mrs Dene, maliciously. “Make up your mind which you prefer, ami—" Hbs stopped short, and in her embarrassment knocked down a small vase that stood on a table at her elbow. Both girls had come In from the veranda and stood side by side, as though purposely affording an opportunity for choiceDiana, her head as usual held daintily high, her lovely figure almost defiantly erect: and Jane, eyes cast down, blushing violently at the words they bad both overheard and suspected might have reference to themselves. So he had made his cbolcn, thought I Miss Knollys. Ah, well. It was best so; I fur even If he had lorcd her, as she w ith j out doubt loved him. she could never have overenma her pride sufficiently to hare married him! She whose family was one I of the oldest in England, to stoop to bear i a name which was only celebrated in the | particular line of business his relations ; had selected! Yet why did she fi-el such a dull aching pain in her heart, if indeed she would not have it otherwise than 4t waa? "Do not go. Miss Knox. I have some thing to say to you." Valentine began, and she looked up in such evident dismay, that he added hastily, “It is only s confession I have to make. "Confession always obtains absolution. Say on. I am sure it is nothing very dreadful." "It was a foolish bet that I made shout you some weeks ago, that you would marry Mr. Blount. Don't look so hurt. Miss Knox; indeed. I hardly thought It possible. I only made the bet in the hope that I might lose it. I am such an unlucky fellow that I always lose my bets—and, indeed, I should not have accepted the proposition, only 1 was feeling wretched. so-so " “Who proposed it?" asked Jane. “Ah. that of course I cannot tell you! | I only want to win your forgiveness for , myself, not to shift the blame upon an- , other. Tell me, are you very, very angry Y' "I knew it before”—quietly. “And that is why you sje.ke so coldly to me for some time afterward. I wish i I had made a clean breast of it before. I I wanted to, but—who told you. Mias Knox?” “That is my secret. Tell me with whom the bet was made.” “I cannot—you know I cannot," said Valentine, distressed. “Well, I will be less punctilious. It was Major Larron who told me on the night of the —th Hussars' dance." "Major Larron! Why, it was he—l mean " "I can guess what you mean, Mr. | Graeme. It was Major Larron who sug- I gested the bet. and it was he who basten- ' ed to inform me of what you had done | without mentioning his own share in thv | transaction.” "He shall answer for it to me!” cried ' Valentine. “No, to me. Please let me tax him with his treachery to you, and his implied un- ’ truthfulness to me." Such a determined expression made firm her mobile lips that Mr. Graeme said no more. Perhaps, too, he was glad to I* relieved from the awkwardness of | such an explanation with his senior officer. Yet his indignation in nowise abated, and he was resolved never to meet Barry Larron in friendship again. "Ix*t us go in,” said Jane, presently. “Mrs, Dene will be wondering where we i are.” Diana and Mr. Graeme left early in 1 the evening; and just as Mrs. Dene and Jane were speculating as to whether it would lie too late to go out themselves, Mrs. Knox drove up. tTo be continued.) Agassiz's Test. It Is said that however widely Pro- I lessor Agassiz, the famous zoologist, might differ in his opinions from an- ■ other scientist, he never undervalued 1 any contribution which a scientific op- I ponent made to zoology. He extended the fame of Owen, the eminent English zoologist, in this coun- ! try, by enthusiastically pointing out to all questioners his grounds for a sin- ; cere admiration of that scientist, and it was only by chance that his auditors learned how widely Agassiz's opinions differed from Owen's on certain much dlsputi.'j questions. But for amateurs who took facts at second-hand, and built up systems by combining the discoveries of various specialists in science, he had a some- • w hat contemptuous indifference. One j of his friends asked him on one occa- j sion how he felt about the attack which ! had been made on his scientific post- j tion by a certain accomplished scholar who had studied the different theories I advanced by eminent zoologists, and 1 had decided that Agassiz must be ranked in the second class. To the amazement of his friend, who regarded the attack as a matter of considerable seriousness, Agassiz burs' forth into a roar of laughter. “Why, Just think of It!” he cried. “The man undertakes to fix my place among zoologists, and he is not himself a zoologist!” And then seeing that his friend did not apparently appreciate the joke of the affair, he added, with evident enjoyment, "Why, don’t you know that he has never been an ob server?” With him "observation” meant no: only the training of the eye itself, but the cultivation and exertion of all the faculties behind the eye. He once said in reply to a friend who asked him, after he had been fifteen years in this country, what he considered the l>est result of his teaching. "I have educated five observers. One of them, to be sure, lias turned out to lx- my deadliest personal enemy; but I still affirm that he is a good observer, and that is the best compliment I could pay him were he my dearest friend.” Os Course. Undoubtedly there is something in the theory that disease germs are transmitted by kisses. The wind, for example, is forever kissing the cheek* of lovely damsels; and the air, you know, to full of microbes. That's how they get there, of course.—Boston Transcript.

RALLY OF ROBBERS. HIGH-TARIFF CLAN IN CONGRESS ACTIVE. Renton McMillin of Tennrenoe Bs« poses the Fsies Philosophy of the Dingley Will -Not Frsmed for Revenue, but to Enrich Mauulacturere Would Make Clothinn Dearer. When the Dingley bill was being rushed through the House of Repru sentatlves the lion. Benton McMillin, of Tennessee, vigorously attacked the unjust and fraudulent measure advocated by the Republican majority. Speaking of the proposed Increase of duties on wool and woolens he said: "But, sir, leet It should be supposed there to any benefit to come to the people from this bill. I want to call your attention briefly to the fact that when this bill shall have passed the House for It will never liecome a law—when it shall have passed the House. It wd! have fixed on certain classes of woo, en goods from to' per cent to 144 per cent.; on a very largo portion of them from 75 to 100 per cent.; and all this to done under the pretext of the exigencies of the treasury. Mr. Speaker. 1 will ask the House to go with me for a few momeuts Into an examination of details of the high taxes again Imposed on woolen goods by this bill. I have before me samples of woolen goods out of which our clothes are made, and will give the rates on some of them. These and their cost are furnished by a merchant of Intelligence. Integrity and experience, the

ALLISON, THE LIGHTNING CHANGE STATESMAN. — -MVriOTTO Tqlf /|A /mt. Z‘3 -rtf / V* ll ' '/Vzsnl K [if' 111 Ir rF filJl 1 Si j 111 ii il i ydSosi ® / It l| f■P JI Awtjfl Iff <|L | 11 ■ 17 J L i; If r I i \ \ JI I 1 j lowa's contribution to the list of Presidential possibilities—Chicago Chronicle.

correctness of whose statements cannot be questioned: No. 1. Sample of English beaver for overcoating, weighing 2d ounces to the running yard, on which the present duty to 40 per cent,, to Increased by the proposed addition of 00 per cent, of the McKinley specific rate to 144 per cent, duty. No. 2. Another sample of cloth for overcoating, weighing 27 ounces to the running yard, which now pays 40 per cent., must under this bill pay 119 per cent. No. 3. Sample of English clay worsted, weighing 16 ounces to the running yard, which now pays 50 per cent, duty, will, when it has passed under the fostering hands of this body, pay a duty of 94 per cenL No. 4 to a sample of English clay worsted, weighing 18 ounces to the running yard. The present duty to 50 per cent., yet this reckless majority proposes to almost double this duty by making it 85 per cent. No. 5 is a sample of 32-inch serge coat lining made of cotton warp and worsted weft—one-third of the value and weight in the cotton, weighing 4 1-10 ounces to the yard. The present duty. 40 per cent., is under this bill increased to lid, which is absolutely prohibitory. No. 8. A sample of English chinchilla for overcoats. The present duty of 4<> per cent, is made 128. and the farmer who wears it is to console himself with the thought that while more than 200 per cent, has been added to this coat, which he must pay, 15 per cent, has been added to his corn and wheat, which he can never get. Knit goods under 30 cents a pound, which are 35 per cent, under the present law, will be Increased to 119 per cent, by this bill. Unenumerated manufactures not above 30 cents a pound in value, whlcn are now 40 per cent., will be raised to 116 per cent., or nearly trebled. Other woolen goods unenumerated, worth from 30 to 40 cents, will be Increased from 40 per cent to 104. Cloths not over 30 cents a pound In value, which are under the present tow taxed only 40 per cent., will be taxed 116 per cent, by this measure. Those from 30 to 40 cents per pound in value will be Increased from 40 per cent, to 108 per cent. These are only samples, nnd not the most flagrant ones. Where the goods are less valuable, in many instances the rates are even higher than these. The old rule, so dear to the other side of the House—that the coarse goods used by the poor and humble should be taxed higher than the finer goods—has been most sedulously observed by them. All are taxed too much, but coarse goods are taxed most Now, what is the result of these grent Increases in practical affairs? The man who buys a suit of clothes bearing this 100 per rent, rate would, if he paid for it with labor, have to work ten hours for the manufacturer or to pay the import duty for every ten hours it took hltn to work out the Intrinsic value of the goods. The woman who buys a shawl bearing the 00 per cent, rate would, If paying for It by sewing with

a machine, have te work ten horirs f»r the goods and then work nine hours to pay this legislative bonus to the manufacturer of the goods or’ o I’"Y the duty at the custom bouse, if Imported. We say and the Demo, ratlc party ■ays that no American citizen should pay 100. DO. or KO per eent import duty or protection on any necessary of nr* and that no citizeu of this country shall pay that rate. To Work for High Duties. The National Association of Manufacturers. an organization of protectionists who are engaged In manufacturing industries, held Its second annual convention in Chl<ugo recently. The meeting was noticeable for the frankness with which the various speakers declared their Intention to agitate for higher duties; and for the evident purpose of the association to combine all the protected interests m> as to use their Influence In favor of more protection. Practically, no othet question was .-onsidered but that of se- . urlng legislation by t'ongr.-ss which would increase the profits of manufacturers. and. as the members of the association are all McKlnleylt.*. their convention was simply a Republican side show, which had no other purpose than perfecting plans for raising corruption funds. On the question as to the methods of advancing the interests of the men who want protection, there was no pretense of concealment. It was openly advised that the association "should at once undertake to obtain as speedily as possible such changes In the tariff as will permit all domestic manufacturers to earn reasonable profits for

themselves;” reasonable profits being whatever amounts additional tariff taxes would enable the protected manufacturer to wring from the consumers. And the result of the convention was that arrangements were made for raising a fund, rumored to be $260,000, to be used for political purposes during the coming campaign. In view of this action of representatives of the interests which bought and paid for the favors of the McKinley bill, there can be no doubt but that the one gn«t issue in the Presidential contest will be the restoration of high protection. It is evident that the country to to be plunged at once into an agitation for increased duties, and that all the power which the great protected trusts and monopolies can exert will be brought to bear on behalf of the Republican candidates. Nor is it to Im merely an educational campaign. Wealthy manufacturers do not contribute large sums merely to pay for high tariff literature and orators. They may spend a little on those things as a blind, but the men who are furnishing the fat for political purposes know ’ that the groat bulk of their money will go into the corruption funds for use in | doubtful States. And it is for that pur|w>se that the .National Manufacturers' Association is now preparing to put up i its share of the public plunder which enane through protection, and will be repaid a thousand fold if the McKinley law is restored. Against this threat of the organized forces of high tariff robbery, the Democrats must be prepared to fight. They cannot meet corruptios with money, but they can show the masses that such ! movements as this of the Manufacturers’ Association ore not in the Interests of the people. All the faots and logic are on the side of the Democratic I>ollcy. and no amount of protectionist "education” can make sensible voters Iwlleve timt the McKinley doctrine, which was condemned in 1892, to any better now. If the friends of tariff reform will but do their whole duty, all tlie corruption funds will be powerless to defeat the candidate who stands for low taxes, high wages, and Democratic good times. The Average Is 41.78 Per Cent. At an annual meeting of manufacturers In Chicago, on Tuesday, there was much talk n!x»ut the present tariff and the tariff of McKinley. We learn from the distmtehes which briefly report the proceedings that nt a meeting of one section of the association there were adopted resolutions denouncing "British free trade" (tbetse words referring to the present sriieme of duties) and calling for a protective tariff. How many of these gentlemen know wliat the average ad valorem rate of dirties to under the tariff now In force? The Government's reports Sl»w that it was 41.75 per cent, last year upon the goods actually Imported. The same reports show that the ad valorem rate for the four years of the McKinley tariff (annual average), was 48.65 per cent. If 48.65 per eent. was protection, to 41.75 per cent "British free trade?”

Is there any other country | a (h worltf where an elaborate and (Uted scheme of custoina duties OnelnX Ing many wl*l<-h are so high that t !w . are prohibitory), yielding 1147,t0ji •>« in customs tajtsn in a year, at age rate of 41.75 per cent., upon Itnpon. valued az »a.M.271.Mt0. would n« u gnnled by all intelligent im-n a. a protertlve tariff?—New York Time,. Tariffs Dmtsms Traer, Arguing in favor of the enacts* into law of the Dingley tariff bill lllt New York Tribune says: “With a tariff passed which would add a | arw percentage to duties un nearly all i m . js.rted goods, and esiwciaUy un » lw i woolens ami lumber, better prices uui larger transactions would be encour. uged." By "better prices” the Tribune means higher prices, for in the same dltorlal it complains that prices of goods are now too low. The plain people of the country, wbe have at times become .■onfuaed by hightariff jugglery with facts and statistics, whereby it has been asserted that every good thing owes its existence to the effects of protection, and that were higher and prices lower beans* of heavy import duties, will find In thl» utterance of a representative Republican journal a test of the main principle on which the McKlnieyite theory it based. If It be true that the increased duties of the Dingley bill would result lu higher prices, the Democratic claim that protection makes goods dearer cannot be denied, if goods will cost more under a higher tariff than under the present law, It follows that an Increase in tariff taxes means increased prl.'es to the consumers of goods. Tbers can be no escape from this conclusion. Either it to true that the advance In duties proposed by the Dingley bill would, as the Tribune says, raise prices, or It to not true. If not true, then It would not benefit in the least degree the producers in whose interests It Is claimed it was passed by the House. A second protectionist error is reI>eated by the Tribune in its absurd claim that larger business transactions would lie encouraged by a law which increased prices. Put in Its simplest form this is equal to saying that if things can only be made to cost more people Will buy more of them. And this argument to put forward seriously as a reason why the country should abandon its low-tariff policy and return to McKlnleylsm. Does anyone actually believe that higher prices a fact that except for the brief time during which merchants were laying in stocks of goods in anticipation of a rise, increased cost has always meant diminished sales? The experience of every man who has anything to sell, or who buys goods, flatly contradicts the Tribune's claim. People do not hasten to buy things because they are dearer, but just the reverse. If a protectionist merchant were to advertise: “Great advance in prices." or “Large stock of dearer goods now opening.” would there be a rush to his store? Evidently not. Buyers go where they can get goods cheapest, and the lower prices fall, the greater the amount of things sold. Any advance in cost of an article, no matter how small it may be. inevitably operates to check sales. Nothing is more certain titan that every reduction in price has been followed by increased consumption. This is a point which the masses of the people can settle for themselves. They have only to suppose a general increase in the cost of the staple articles they use, and then as “would I be able to buy as much goods if prices were 15 or 20 per cent, higher than they are now?" There is only one answer possible, and it will show the absurdity of the pretense that a scheme to make goods dearer, even if called “better prices," would encourage trade. As every sensible consumer knows, increasing the cost of goods by high tariff taxes, would certainly result in greatly lessening consumption. This, of course, would injure production; and so In the long run would not only hurt the people in their capacity of consumers, but as producers ns well. The best Interests of the whole people are served by a policy which enables them tn get as much as possible of all the kinds of wealth they need. Any plat: to increase sales by raising prices is ridiculous and a fraud. Protectionist Louie. The wholesale dry gqeds lions.- of 11. B. Claflin & Co., of New York City, on# of the largest institutions of its kind in the country, rwcntly published its balance sheet for 1595. The net profits for the year were MU.'t.'."-!'. ns .s.mpot' d with >4.N5,312 in ISM. an.l only Jo- : in ISU3. After stating that busineM had been remarkably good throughout the year, up to the time of the \ ene■nelan war scare in December, the report continued: “The adoption of the tariff bill now before Congress will result in an Increase of profitable trade. This is a choice sample of true protectionist logic. On its own showing the company made nearly twice as much money in 1805 under the Wilson tariff as In 1803, when the McKinley law was in force. Yet in spite of this fact, which should be enough to convince any intelligent business man that a period of high protection does not mean prosperity, and that trade maj be profitable under a low tariff, the partisan Repubican manager of the company claims that if the tariff Is increased business will Improve! Perhaps lie prefers the experience of 1893 to that of last year. But how about the interests of the stockholders. Do they waut higher tariff duties and smaller profits. Some farmers In Massachusetts returned to the census enumerator four bushels of flaxseed ns the yield of thin State; New Jersey did four bushels be • ter, raising In nil eight bushels; wl" ' Arkansas claimed twelve bushels nu 2tl pounds of fiber.