Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1893 — Page 5

LOOKING BACKWARD.

SOCIETY ORGANIZED TO DELVE INTO THE MUSTY PAST. An Attempt tn 1920 to Study the Strange Economic Belief of a Peculiar Sect Known u McKlnleyltee—A Pew Tips for the Society. "The McKinley Historical Society.” Id about the year 1920 will be formed the “McKinley Historical Society,” the object of which will ,be to delve into the mysteries of McKinleyism, that absurd economic belief that obtained sway in the United States about 1870 and culminated in 1890 in that monstrosity—the McKinley tariff bilL To study the causes and the effects of the growth of the idea that a nation can “protect* itself by making laws in the interests of a few, and can tax itself into prosperity by constructing artificial barriers across nature’s highway of commerce and civilization; and to record and preserve in the public archives, alongside of the history of witchcraft and otherstrange ideas that have fascinated men’s minds in this country, the history of the delusive teaching of McKinleyism and the dime museum features of the tariff act of 1890. Here are a few “tips” that may serve ajs a starter for the McKinley Historical Society. First, on the BIBE OF “PROTECTION. ” The Walker tariff of 1846 and the “Free Trade” tariff of 1857 had given such general satisfaction that no party advocated, or would have advocated, higher duties had not the necessities of a civil war turned the attention of Congress to this stealthy way of raising a big revenue. The high duties levied gave great protection to the manufacturers of such goods as competed with those imported, and when, after the war, the country began to try to get relief from the exceedingly heavy burdens of taxation, these home manufacturers were willing to have dutleslowered on all non-competing, but not at all on competing imports. They knew full well that if they based their claims entirely upon selfish motives the country would not allow them. Hence they set to work to invent terms and catch phrases to conceal their selfishness and to appeal to the prejudices of the unthinking voters. Their success was unparalleled and must have astonished even themselves. To be sure, they had to modify and shift their terms between Presidential elections and to invent new phrases when they and their political allies were being hard pressed, but for twenty-five years they held sway and dictated the financial policy of “their” country, until fully half of the property had been taxed out of the 65,000,000 inhabitants and into the safes and vaults of a few thousand manufacturers and monopolists. The rapidly accumulating wealth of the manufacturers gave them increasing importance and powers, and made it easier for them to hoodwink the masses of povertyites into believing that black is white. From the hundreds of unsound and sophistical economic ideas promulgated by the manufacturers and their set we make the following selections: protectionists’ unsound theories.

1. Protective duties on imports will protect manufacturers by taxing their raw materials, increasing home competition, lowering prices and profits, and by keeping wages high. 2. If a manufacturer is protected and can afford to pay higher wages he always does so; he thus turns over to his employes nearly all that he gets from tariff duties. 3. Manufacturers organize themselves into trusts and combines so that they can raise wages and lower prices without opposition. 4. If free trade would compel the manufacturers to pay high wages they would favor free trade. 5. Protected manufacturers 6ell goods cheaper to foreign than to home consumers, so that they can have plenty of work for their employes at high wages. 6. Competition will work swifter and lower prices faster when restricted to one country than when spread out over the world. 7. Free trade between states will benefit all; but free trade between countries, even if no larger than states, will ruin all. By annexation or division and a slight change of names these effects may be reversed. 8. Both parties are benefited by a trade if they live in the same country; otherwise at least one will get fleeced, and the trade should be prohibited by law. 9. Countries where wages are low—like Germany, Spain, Italy, or China —need protection against countries where wages are high, like England and the United States. Some highwage countries also need protection against low-wage countries, as the United States against the pauper labor of Europe. 10. High duties on tin plate, pearl buttons, and manufactured products will lower prices in the interest of commerce; but high duties on wool, barley, eggs, and farm products will raise prices in the interest of the producers. 11. A duty on sugar is a tax upon the consumer, but duties upon tin plates, clothing, and glassware are taxes upon foreigners. 12. “A cheap coat makes a cheap man.” Protection is to avoid the curse of cheapness and to overcome the evils of machinery, railroads, and steamships in tending to make things cheaper. 13. “American Wages for American Workmen” is secured by high duties on the necessaries of life—what the workmen have to buy, and by free trade in labor—wbat the workmen have to sell. This is obvious to all who never stop to think. 14. “American Markets for American People” are had by high duties on what they must take in exchange for their surplus agricultural products, which must be sold in foreign markets at free trade prices. 15. “Protection for American Homes” is also to be had by taxing the house, furniture, utensils, clothing, and everything else needed by a newly married couple This is axiomatic and needs no demonstration. 16. Free trade will ruin countries unless they tie a string to it and call it “reciprocity.” 17. All of the prosperity, including

good crops, in a protection country, is due to high tariffs; and all of the poverty and misery of free trade countries is the direct result of low tariffs. This rule does not apply to any countries of the world exoept England and the United States. Some other time I will record some more tips for the McKinley Society in regard to the curious things actually accomplished by the McKinley bill. Only a few of these can bo briefly mentioned now. M’KINLEY BILL TRICKB. While pretending to lower the duty on borax, McKinley raised the duty on boracic acid, the thing actually Imported, from 4 to 5 cents per pound; and the Borax Trust raised prices accordingly. By McKinley construction genuine “American” tin plates are made from imported steel sheets, coated by imported tin with the use of imported olive oil and imported machinery, all carried on by imported workmen. Aided by the political shepherds, McKinley fixed his bill so that goat hair costing two or three cents per pound became wool, and was dutiable at twelve cents per pound. By changing “goods" to “fabrics” (a change not noticed by most Congressmen who voted for the bill), “knit goods” became “ready-made clothing,” and dutiable at much higher rates. By juggling with phrases McKinley took sago-flour, which competes with dextrine, out of the free list and put a duty of 2 cents per pound on it to the advantage of the Starch Trust, which soon advanced the .price of dextrine. To benefit a few manufacturers who sew together rufflings and other trimmings, the duty was increased 50 per cent, on the hundred or more articles that compose the biggest schedule under cotton goods. According to McKinley, “felts not woven” are “ready-made clothing,” dutiable at nearly 100 per cent., instead of 60 per cent, as formerly. By inserting a little clause five pages from the paragraphs it was intended to modify, the duty on fine wire was raised from 80 to 280 per cent, contrary to the expectations of nearly ev&ry one responsible for the McKinley bill. Dozensof other apparently unimportant clauses raised the duties on flint and window glass, sanitary ware, linseed oil, lead ores, cutlery, etc. Somehow these hidden clauses always, raised duties and somehow there was always a trust to take advantage of higher duties. The McKinley bill has also done many other curious things, such as taxing the ends of cables between this country and Canada, where they protrude out of the water; and calves dropped on foreign soil by stray American cows. But there is no end to the absurd and wicked features of the McKinley bill, and the historical society will have its hands full for several years.—Byron W. Holt.

Full of Trap Doors.

The McKinley tariff bill is a marvel of bad legislation. It contains many suggestions of McKinley’s impractical methods of doing business. It is as full of tricky clauses and tariff jobs as an egg is of meat. No schedule can stand honest criticism. Hundreds of jobs have already been exposed by the courts and by Treasury officials, and new ones are constantly brought to light—cases where the bill did not behave as was expected by McKinley, or at least by the most of his associates who framed and voted for it Here is one just exposed by the Dry Goods Economist, of Feb. 25, 1893: Section 373, schedule J, of the McKinley tariff specifies the duty on this class of cotton fabrics, which are the articles manufactured of.cotton that are most largely imported into this country, and describes the goods as follows: “Laces, edgings, embroideries, insertings, neck rufflings, ruchlngs, trimmings, tuckings, lace window curtains, and other similar tamboured articles, and articles‘embroidered by hand or machinery, embroidered and hem-stitched handkerchiefs, and articles made wholly or in part of lace, rufflings. tuckings, or ruchlngs, all of the above named articles composed of flax, jute, cotton, or other vegetable fiber, or of which these substances, or either of them, or a mixture of any of them, is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this act, 60 per centum ad valorem. ” The duty on these fabrics according to the tariff of 1883 was from 30 to 40 per cent. Why was it increased by the McKinley tariff? Because certain American manufacturers of ruchlngs and rufflings, who found themselves in competition with European makers of these trimmings, brought pressure to bear in the right quarter in order to have the duty increased t on these particular articles, not desiring by any means to increase the duty on the other items classified in this section. By negligence, apparently, the duty was increased, however, on the whole section. Thus, for the sake of benefiting the whole manufacturers, who sew together into rufflings, ruchlngs and other trimmings some of the fabrics classified in this section, a decided change was made in the trade on lace curtains, in particular, and the consumer of laces and embroideries was called upon to pay a tax of at least 20 per cent, more than previously. The increase in the duty on lace curtains has benefited not one single domestic manufacturer of those goods. On the contrary, all such manufacturers would be glad to see the tariff put back to its old figure.

Under a 20 Per Cent. Duty.

Fired with a burning zeal for combination, the makers of sole leather have set about organizing a huge monopoly in the manufacture of that necessary article. The tanners' plants are to be bought out with stock of the proposed sole-leather trust, and the former owners are then to be hired as superintendents and managers. It will require from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000 to carry out this ambitious scheme, yet no difficulty is anticipated in raising the money. The people of the United States, who spend in each year over $200,000,000 for shoes, will note with interest this new project to bring their footwear under syndicate control.—Philadelphia Record.

CRINOLINE HAS COME.

SKIRTS HAVE A VERY DISTINCT SPREAD AT THE BOTTOM. Whether or Not This Spread Will Increase Until Ite Exaggeration Brings About Its Dtemtaeal Is • Question —Style* for Early Spring. Gotham Fashion Gossip. New York correspondence:

more promptly set aside than they formerly were, and, therefore, are now likely to be given tip before they become monstrous. This fact Is developing a class that will make few radical changes In their wear, no matter how fashions rise and fall. This is going to bring about a state of things where there are no extremists: but that blessed time Is not yet, and our cheeks blanch and our hearts begin to quake with fear when we see so many signs of approaching general use of these dreadful things. All the examples shown in the spring gowqs show skirts with a distinct spread at the bottom. Some of them stand out from the waist smooth and stiff, like an Inverted funnel. Others spread from the waist in a series of foldß, the front breadth being fiat and forming an Inclined plane from the waist to the edge. Then there is a fold that sets out straight to the sides, with no tendonoy to draw towards the back. The side breadths then incline outward to the ground. About three folds, one to each side of the back and one straight

FUR-TRIMMED HOUSE DRESS.

out at the back, constitutes the fullness. A skirt of this kind is extreme and lacks all grace. Others set smoothly out, without folds or fullness, all around to where the back slant comes. Then the material lies in a series of folds, or flutes, arranged with much regularity, and stiffened to keep their places. This skirt is rather pretty. At least it seems to have some motive, and the general tendency of the fullness to the back gives some grace. Occasional examples of these are already seen, out doors, and they do look “floppy,” but thoy will Improve in appearance as the number of them increases. The white crepe de chine robe of the initial has a hand-painted front, which is finished at the top with yellow velvet ribbons. The sleeves are of yellow velvet. It is made over an ordinary princess dress. The back of the over dress has no seam, and is sewed to the lining on one side and fastens invisibly with small hooks on the shoulder and underneath the band. The outside material, as is shown in the picture, is gathered Into folds In the front, which extend to the back, where they are laid In one large hollow pleat, hanging loose from the dress. The bottom of the skirt is edged with a double ruffle. In the front there is a jabot arrangement of pleated material, and around the neck is a pleated ruche. The straight velvet sleeves are very wide and finished with cuffs of the pleated crepe, over whioh fall flounoes of the same. The second illustration shows a dainty princess costume of bengaline in a dell-

A JACKET EFFECT.

cate gray tint and velvet, somewhat darker. In making it the under dress of bengaline must be fitted perfectly, or the velvet will show creases. The front is cut from one piece, the bengaline being taken crosswise, and the side front seams are so curved as to do away with darts. The sides are joined to the front and are slightly gored, while the back has one seam in the center, which is very bias, to form the bell skirt. The sleeves are tight as far as the elbow, and then form a puff. The upper dress of velvet is perfectly tightfitting, and, like the under dress, closes in the back. It is also 11m d with silk and formß a kind of peasant bodice at the top. It is desirable to cut the upper dress from one piece and then fit it over the hips and in the waist. The standing collar is of bengaline and a second, cape-like, of pleated bengaline. The cuffs, collar and the hem of the silk dress, as well as the top and bottom of the velvet overdress, are trimmed with narrow bands of fur. The surplice is jretty, and the kerchief our grandmothers used to wear looks pretty in the pictures, but, eome-

* E may make as muoh of a fao3 as w e choose, but they are here. The crinolines have come, and the question Is will they get werse and worse, orwill they stay where they are now in the fashionable windows and modistes' parlors? Experience warns us that a fashion never stays where it starts, but 11 goes on and on till 11 s exaggeration brings about its dismissal. But fashions are now

cuff formed by turning back the edge of the same piece of material whioh makes the rovers. The revers and cuffs are ornamented with two rows of braid about an inch and a half apart, the space between being filled with a lat-tioe-work of narrow white cord. In this dress the material of the dress was dark-blue oloth, with braid of the same shade, but the costume would look equally well in almost any shade of blue or brown. A pretty and becoming blouse can be made at home by almost anyone, of any light-colored silk or suruh, and will be very nice to wear with a dark skirt. The material used in the example pictured is old rose surah, trimmed with fine white lace. It has a slightly pointed yoke of the Bilk, with three insertions of lace. The front and back are cut rather full, but the side forms and back are tight-fitting. The sleeve is a tight ouff as far as the elbow and from there forms a large wide puff. The waist is finished with a belt of surah and the yoke is trimmed with a ruffle of narrow laoe, while a ruffle of very wide laoe forms the epaulette on the shoulder. The standing collar Is also covered with white laoe. The book of the blouse is the same as the front. It closes in front with Invisible hooks and eyes. Even though you do not Intend to adopt crinoline, you should have your skirts a little wider. They need not be stiffened or wired, nor. indeed be a great deal wider. Almost any last year’s skirt will do If the fullness at the back be distributed all round for greater width. Two entirely moderate and correct examples are sketched. They are both of the silks with narrow stripes of color brightly contrasting with the ground, whioh are so muon worn, as Indeed they were last season. Such a dress, having had the skirt remodeled as suggested, may be further

moderoized by cutting down the bodice and putting in a yoke to match one of the stripes. The stuff out out can go to making a rover or soft drapery to outline the yoke, and add elaborateness to the front, A wide bodice belt could be added to match the ybke and the bodice should be worn under the skirt to give the round effect of this season. If the puffs of the sleeves incline too much to perpendicular fullness, that is obviated by taking them out of the armholes and distributing the fullness, with most of it at the sides of the arm. All sorts of materials may be used in combination this season. One dress showed the skirt of India silk with a lattice-work prttera. The wide bodice belt is of brocade with yet another pattern, and the bodloe showing above the wide belt is again of India silk, but not the pattern" of the skirt. It looks all right, but dressmakers do things with an air that is conv scing. It is safe to remember that the extreme of fashion need not be plunged into at all. The styles for spring seem to admit of no transition from the old modes to the new, but lots of conservative people will adopt cautiously, before they take up any of the startling novelties. If you want to use yards and yards of astrakhan fur for your spring dress you may cover the front of the bodice with a series of horizontal ruffles, each edged with fur, about four in all. Then the top of the collar is edged. The sleeves are a series of flounces, three, that come to the elbow. A tight sleeve fitting under from the shoulder to the wrist. The skirt is made double, the top fitting over the hips and flaring slightly to half way to the knee, here it is edged with fur, and three ruffles are set cn, one below, the other to about the knee. Then the under part of the skirt appears, plain to half way to the hem, and then finished with three ruffles. All the raffles are finished with fur, and since the whole dress flares from hips to hem, you can make use of a quantity of fur. Incidentally you will have a lot of fur on hand for making over next winter. If the style suits you especially, as it will if you are thin and tall, you oan carry it out with silk and lace-edged organdie ruffles. Copyright, 1833.

An enterprising dealer in coemetios has asked for space at the World's Fair to exhibit an old woman, one-half of whose face is to be smoothed out with his preparation and the remainder left with its mortal wrinkles until the end of the Fair, when he will smooth out the other half in the presence Of the multitude.

how. It won't stay in place when ft ts worn by to-day’s granddaughter. Make it a permanent part of a dress and your difficulties disappear. Arrange it in the folds you like, and then sew In all down around the armhole, but nowhere else. The point is free in ths back, or, if you like, there Is only the effect for the front. The ends you leave to cross over the breast and around to the back to be tied. The effect Is demure and pretty, and may be carried out on a wash dress with washable stuff or over a plain velvet or silk bodice, In cashmere of a lighter shade. It is a good wav to freshen up the looks of a bodice that has become somewhat worn. Another novel and pretty shoulder ornamentation Is used on the dress of my third ploture. In this case it consists of epaulette-like revere, whioh are a continuation of the material of the sleeve puffs. At the elbow there is a

A HOMEMADE BLOUSE.

MODERATE EXAMPLES.

His Exhibit Would Be Novel.

THE JOKERS BUDGET.

IKST AND YARN BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. An Appeal to Gratitude Cautious Assent—Her Pets—Cue Way to Get a Word In—Etc., Etc. AN APPEAL TO GRATITUDE. Briggs—l have never told you about the smart things my little boy does and says, have I? Braggs—You never havo. Briggs—Then don’t you think you can find it convenient to lend me $25 i—[lndianapolis Journal. CAUTIOUB ASSENT. "Now, for example,” said Miss Wellslong, twirling a corkscrew ringlet in her Ungers, "there is my Cousin Penelope’s little girl Fanny. Thin kof it! Reading Plato, and only eleven years old. It ft so strange and yet so charming—don’t you think so. Mi. Hankinsonf—to see an old head on young shoulders! ” "Y-yes,” said Hankinson, rather dubiously, and moving his chair a little further away.—[Chicago Tribune. HSR PUTS. Little Barbara has been sick, but was convalescing, " Are you my doctor ? ” she said, waking up suddenly and finding a strange lady at her bedside. " No, dear," replied the strange lady. "lam your trained nurse.” " Ah, that's better,” exclaimed the little girl. " I shall like you very much. Trained nurae,” she continued, pointing to a cage hanging near the window, “ let me introduce you to my trained canary.” —[Chicago Tribune. EQUAL TO HER TEST OP TRUE LOVE. " Yes,” she said, " I shall marry Harold, for I know he loves me.” "How ?" " He watched me sharpen a pencil and didn't laugh."—[Washington Star. ONE WAY TO GET A WORD IN. Mrs. McCordlo—lt strikes me that it is awfully disagreeable for you to talk in your sleep every night. McCordle—l agree with you, my dear; but I have to improve my opportunity, you know - -[Puck. REASONING BY ANALOGY. Mr. Bronston—Mr. and Mrs. Upton both had on new suits in church to-uay. Mrs. Upton’s dress was tailor-made. Mrs. Bronston—Huht How do you know it was tailor-made? Mr. Bronston—Because Mr. Upton’s clothes were ready-made.—[Now York Weekly. MOSTLY nOLES. “That’s a pretty big buckwheat cake fora boy of your size,” said papa at breakfast to Jimmie-boy. "It looks big,” said Jimmieboy, "but really it isn’t It’s got lots of porousoe in It."—[Philadelphia Record. CHICAGO STUPIDITY. And then George took courage. Timid Youth—Miss Gracia, perhaps my coming here so often may seem—may seem—to smack of undue persistency. Demure Maiden—George, your coming here has—has never smacked of anything yet. —[Chicago Tribune. INTERESTING, BUT SENSITIVE. •‘What an interesting animal!" exclaimed Fweddy. apprpoohing the cage of the orang-outang. "I wondab, bah Jove, if I'm distantly welated to him— ’’ At this point Fweady was interrupted by a scream from the caged simian, so full of anguish, horror, and suddon, desperate, ungovernable rage, that the entire menagerie was thrown into a state of violent excitement, and the keeper hastily ushered the young man into the apartment where the mummies and stuffed snakes were on exhibition.—[Chicago Tribune.

HARD OH THOMPSON. Small Boy—Maw, can't I go skatin' today? Nervous Mother—l’m so afraid you will fall in and get drowned. Small BoJ —Naw, I won’t. Besides we are going to take Fatty Thompson along to try the ice for us.—[lndianapolis Journal. THE HUMAN PARADOX. Senior Partner—Brownett’s bill has been running a little too long, I think. Junior Partner—Guess we’ll have to get after him. Brownctt never settles except when he is stirred up.—[lndianapolis Journal. ROOM POR DOUBT. Experienced Servant—Gentlemen wants to see you, sir. Mr. Rlchmann—Who is he?

Experienced servant—-I couldn’t find out, sir; but, Judgin’ by his clothes, he’B either a beggar or a millionaire, sir. A PLUNDER. Senior Partner—Send for an expert and have our cashier's books examined at once. Junior Partner—Bless us! What’s happened. Senior Partner—He asked for a day off to take his girl out sleighing.—[New York Weekly. WHAT SHALL THE HARVEST BR? Minister—Your wife takes a great interest in our church, Mr. Layman. I should like to. see her for a few moments. Mr. Layman—She’s out at the sewing circle to-day, sir. M.—What are they sewing to-day, sir? Mr. L. —Sewing scandal, I guess.— [NeN York Press. A KKSAMIC AFFLICTION. Flora—Why does Mrs. Minton Worcester invariably wear white this season? Dora—-Oh, hadn’t you heard that her three thousand dollar vase was broken? And white, vou know, is the mourning color —for China.—[Vogu-‘. A SMALL boy’s FUN. Jimmy—Why don’t you come over here and skate ? The ice is a heap slicker. Tommy—They’s more fun here. If I was to break through here I’d likely drown, an’ over there the water ain’t a foot deep.—[lndianapolis Journal. HERB AND THERE. Watts—Berlin must be a queer plstee. You can’t hire a servant without going to the police. Potts —And hero you bare to call in the police when you wish to get rid of her. At least I did.—[lndianapolis Journal. THE COMPANY’S FAULT. Disgusted Passenger—lt is nothing but an outrage the way these cars are packed and jammed every evening! Conductor —I know it is, but you see the company won't let us tako the seats out. If the seats was only took out there would be plenty o’ room to stand.—[lndianapolis Journal.

THE BEAR. Exchange of confidences. Mrs. Goircquent —My husband is a bear on 'Change. Mrs. Flyabout —So is mine— never gives me a cent. [Chicago Tribune. THE REASON. Mamma—lsn’t that a nice piece of B[>onge-cake. Rupert? Rupert—First-rate; but it is not as good as raisin-cake. • Mamma—Why not? Rupert—Why, beoause it hasn’t any raisins in it.—[Harper’s Young People. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. Charley—Did you kiss that Boston girl you were making such desperate love to a moment ago? Charley—Can’t you see the frost on my mustache?. —Chicago News Record. reelected glory. ' Teacher—What is a hero? Tommy—The man who marries a heroine. PUT ORE VENGEANCE. “You’ll be sorry for this some day,’ howled the son and hoir as his fathei released him from the position which he had ocoupied across the paternal knee. "I’ll be sorry? When?” "When I get to be a man!” “You’ll take revengo by whipping your father when you are big and strong and I am old and feeble, will you, Tommy?" "No, sir," blubbered Tommy, rubbing himself, “bnt I’ll spank your grandchildren till they can’t restl” —[Chicago Tribune. FOLLOW ANYTHING. Old Gentleman —Nice little dog you have. Isn't he a hunting dog? Small Boy—l don't know what that is. Old Gentleman—Will he follow a scont? Small Boy—Yes, indeody. Jus’ roll one. A GENEROUS OFFER. " Bliffkins must be a very generous man. 1 heard him say lust night that he would lend a friend his last dollar." "I know it," was the reply, “ but he’s so rich he never gots down to that." AT tub zoo. “That was a great race yesterday," said the elephant to the tiger. “Yes; 1 understand the giraffe beat tho zebra.” "He did; badly.” "How badly?" "By a neck.”—[Harper’s Young Folks. THE INEXPRESSIVE SHE. Mr. N. E. Verylate— Have you ceased to care for me, Adelo? 1 camo eurlior this afternoon, and you do not even look glad to see me. Miss Adele Sartcnn.—lndeed, I am glad to soo you I Hut this is my hour for resting my features from all expression.—[Vogue.

The Waste at Panama.

In confirmation of the privato account of tho doserted Panama Canal works, published by us the other day, a different correspondent Bonds us this oxtruot from another private letter: " While in Colon last voyage I made a careful tour of the Punama bogie, and the Btores, engine sheds, rolling and floating stock. Words cannot paint my astonishment at the sight. 1 never saw anything so sinful in my life ns to see all that stuff going to raok and ruin. I went through one ‘store’—of these there are six in all, at different places—bigger than any shipyard on Clyde could boast,; all tba thingi just as they came from tho makers. Files never unpacked; every englneer’i tool you can think of—English, French, American—was there—Whitworth stocks, dies and taps, about twenty cases comflete, good as when they left tho shop. walked for a mile over tho only road way passable along the canal side, vzi., the top of a train of eight-wheel bogie freight wagons, all sinking in, the wheels disappeared in tropical undergrowth. “ All around ft swampy ground, and all these wagons are rotting beneath that blazing sun. Engine steam-sheds, full ol fine, powerful engines, the sheds overrut and inhabited now by snakes and theli prey, the lizards, while tho six-foot it full of land crab holes. I saw eight fine, large marine boilers, just as they had been discharged from the R M. oarge boat that brought them over, and tne complete part of a set of a big compomartne engine, about 1,000 horse-powsr, lying on the shore; never been used; never fitted in. I saw dry-docks, splendidly built and equipped with fine, expensive pumping plant. And why say more ? Poor old Do Lesseps’s bouse od the point looks very melancholy.'*— [London News.

A Well-Traveled Letter.

A Rockville man about nino month! ago received a letter from his brother, employed on a steamship running out ol Bombay, India, asking him to send o United States $3 gold piece, which h< wanted to wear as a watch charm. Ht obtained the coin, enclosed it between two pieces of heavy cardboard, put it in a letter and registered it. Lust May thf letter started on its way, and Friday it returned to the Rockville office. Th< envelope presented a remarkable appearance, and is a great curiosity, having traveled over 50,000 miles. The lettei went to the dead letter office at Bombay, and the coin had disappeared, having probably worn its way out of the letter. The letter went to various points in thi East, as well as England and the Con tinent, in search of the person to whom it was addressed. Every stoppage it res stored on the letter, which is covered with marks and waitings in all colors. The letter was returned by Postmastei Randall to the man who sent it, and although the coin is missing, be considers the letter of more value than when he sent it.—[Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin.

A New Lifeboat for the Navy.

Captain Schemmerhorn, of New York, has invented a new style of lifeboat of the folding fashion, which he hopes to have adopted by the Navy Department for use on board our war ships. The captain baa called at the department and explained his invention to the bureau chiefs, who are much impressed with his boat, and will consider its good points again with a view to determining its fitness for the naval service. The boat can be easily stored away on shipboard, os it folds up after the fashion of a steamer chair, and can be quickly made ready for launching in an emergency. The navy has yet been unable to discover a lifeboat that quite fills the bill.—[Atlantic Journal. Thirteen million children are being taught scientific temperance in too schools of forty-four States of tho Union at present.

THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH.

People often forget the manifold benefits to be derived from baths. Turkish baths are good for rheumatism, malaria, indigestion and a bad circulation. Cold water baths are good for nervous troubles and a torpid liver, and both baths are good for every pain and ache that flesh is heir to, from toothache to heartache, because they are sleep-producing. Boothing and grateful to tired bodies and nerve 9. Handy Household Remedy.—lt ft very vexing and annoying, indeed, to have one’s lip break out with cold sores, but like the measles it ft far better to strike out than to strike in. A drop of warm mutton suet applied to the sores at night just before retiring will soon cause them to disappear. This ft also an excellent remedy for parched lips and chapped hands. It should be applied at night in a liquid state and well rubbed in before a brisk fire, which often causes a smarting sensation, but the roughest of hands by this treatment will often be restored to their natural condition by one application. If every one could but know the healing properties of so simple a thing as a little mutton suet no housekeeper would ever be without it. Get a little from your butcher, fry it out yourself, run into small cakes and Eut it away ready for use. For cuts and ruises it ft almost indispensable, and where there arc children there are always plenty of cuts and bruises. Many a deep gash that would have frightened most women into sending for a physician at once I have healed with no other remedies Gian a little mutton suet and plenty of good castile soap. A wound should always be kept clean and the bandages changed every day or every other day. A drenching of warm soapsuds from the purest soap that can be obtained is not only cleansing but healing; then cover the surface of the wound with a bit of old white muslin dipped into mutton suet. Renew the drenching and the suet every time tho bandages are ohanged, and you will be astonished to see now rapidly the ugliest wound will heal. Tu* Age at wnicH to Marry.—The right ago at which men and women should marry is a question whioh has been agitating the Statistical Department at Buaa-Posth. Tho result of its investigations ft hore given. For the past ten years the head of the department has tnado it his business, whenever the death of a child was registered, to obtain, in addition to the usual particulars of age and cause of death, the ages of the parents. In this way he has noted 20,818 deaths. Those he divides into two groups, ono containing all deaths caused uy herldltary disease, of which the germ was contracted before birth; the other where death was due to some disease contracted after birth. He finds that tho ago of the mother is more determining in its results on tho infant than the father’s age, though the latter is by no means unimportant. Mothers under twenty must frequently give birth to weak children, who die soon after birth. Tho following table speaks for itself: Percentage of Ago of Mothers. Deaths. Under 20 years 22.81 2u to 80 years 14.81 80 to 35) oars 12.85 Over 86 years 18.45 For men tho minimum age for marriage is fixed a little higher, as they are slower in developing than women. Fathers under twenty-five stand at about tho same level in these tables as mothers under twenty, and the healthiest children are born to fathers whose ages range from thirty to forty. The following tables show tho result of the "age combination,” as the statisitcian expresses it: Percentage of Deaths Age ot Ago of Among Fathers. Mothers. Children. 8U to 40 80 to 83 12.02 20 to 80 80 to 85 12 80 Overs) ..over 85 12.68 39 tu 40 over 85 12.81 30 to 49 20 to 8) 18.24 40 to 60 over 35 18.89 .0 to 80 25 to 80 15.86 40 to 60 80 to 05 15.40 Over 50 30 to 85 17.54 40 to 50 20 to 80 18.51 iO to 81 over 85 18.89 OverSO 20 to 80 21.21 20tt80 under 20 21.71 30 to 40 under 20 27-88 This table brings before us three important points—first that man should not marry before the age of thirty-five if they wish to have strong and healthy children; second, women between the ages of thirty and thirty-five—end, this applies with still greater emphasis to the women under thirty years of age—should not contract marriages with men who have passed the age of fifty; third, that it is not wise for women over thirty-five years of age to marry men under thirty years of age.

Bottle Blowing by Machinery,

At the present time the eyes of the bottle-making world are also turned toward New Jersey for another reason. Their glance centers upon Woodbury, for in that quiet village the destiny of bottle-blower may be said to be on trial. The Ashley bottle-making machine has been set in operation to see if it cannot do the work of human hands and lungs, and do it better and more economically. The machine was described before the British Association in 1880, when it was stated that bottles had been made by the machine, quite complete, which had successfully been subjected to an internal pressure of three hundred pounds to the square inch. The career of the machine in England, we believe, has been most unfortunate, but this docs not at all diminish the interest which its introduction into America has excited. The advantages to be gained by the use of such a machine are much too solid to permit small obstacles to hinder its success. The trial run at Woodbury has been fairly successful. The automatic principle has not been developed to the full extent in these machines, but it has been carried so far that one man and three boys—none of them necesssarily skilled glass-blowers—can operate two machines, each of which is capable of turning out two bottles a minute. The machine does not gather the glass. One of the boys, the “gatherer,” Is .specially detailed for that service. He feeds the molten “metal” to the machine, in which it is mechanically moulded, the neck and mouth formed, the interior blown by means of compressed air, and the finished bottle automatically delivered to a carrier which takes it to the annealing oven. There is undoubted room for improvement both in the performance and capacity of the machines. But the important step has been taken, and bottles have really been made in this country by machinery.—fPoDular Science Monthly.

OLLA PODRIDA.

During 1892, 21,231 horses. 975 donkeys and 51 mules were eaten by the Parisians. Kaiser William has sat for bis photograph 150 times since he ascended the throne.