Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — Page 5

RECIPROCITY FRAUD.

LOSS TO COMMERCE UNDER REPUBLICAN RULE. Our Protective Tariff I» a Proclamation to All Nations that the American Manufacturers Cannot Compete on Equal Terms with the Manufacturers of Europe. Delusion and Snare. In August, 1890, Mr. Blaine, recognizing that there was a growing demand for larger markets, suggested “reciprocity” as a palliative of the evils of protection. In a speech delivered at Waterville, Me., August 29, 1890, Mr. Blaine said: “I am here to speak of an expansion of our foreign trade.” Comparing the returns for 1889, he declared that with the countries to the south of us we had by commerce “lost” $142,000,000 in one year. With Cuba we “lost,” according to Mr. Blaine, $41,000,000, as we imported $52,000,000 and exported only $11,000,000. With Brazil we “lost” $01,000,000, importing $60,000,000 and exporting $9,000,000. With Mexico we “lost” $10,000,000, buying $21,000,000 and selling $11,000,000. That was Mr. Blaine’s idea of commerce; that was his plea for ‘.‘reciprocity.” Turning now to the record of 1892, under reciprocity we find an alarming condition infinitely worse, according to Mr. Blaine’s philosophy, than in 1889. In 1892 we “lost” with Cuba $60,000,000, as against $40,000,000 in 1889, importing $78,000,000 and exporting only $18,000,000. With Brazil our “losses” in 1892 were $104,341,731, as against $51,052,723 in the “dark year” of 1890. In 1892 we imported $118,633,604 and exported only $41,240,009. With Mexico our “losses” in 1892 were $13,813,526, against $9,766,705 in 1889, our imports being $28,107,525, our exports only $13,696,531. Throughout the record is the same. The discrepancy between imports and exports is growing at an enormous rate, and if this discrepancy represents a “loss," as Mr. Blaine contends, then we are rushing headlong to ruin. That there should be some increase in our exports was inevitable. Every obstruction, natural or artificial, lessens commerce: every removal of an obstruction increases the volume of commerce. The relaxing of the protective principle led to an increase .in exchanges, but absolute free trade' would have led to a fair exchange and to larger exports. Of course this discrepany between imports and exports is in no sense a “loss,” but it has its ‘lesson. Brazil, Cuba and Mexico offer us their products at prices we are willing to pay, and so they sell to us in great quantities. We offer to Mexico, Brazil and Cuba products of our mills at prices greater than those named by Germany, France and England, our neighbors send their orders across the water. Commerce will continue to run in these channels until we revise our tariff for our own benefit; until we relieve our own people, manufacturers and consumers of outrageous burdens and enter competitive markets on equal terms with other nations. What we need is not reciprocity, but free trade. We must be able to show all nations that our manufacturers do not need “protection;” that they are able to hold their home markets against all comers and are ready to undersell Europe in any American market.. Our protective tariff is a proclamation to all nations that the American manufacturers cannot compete on equal terms with the manufacturers of Europe. What would be thought of a city merchant who advertised that he could not sell goods at prices named by his competitors;' That is what America does with its protective tariff and its alleged treaties of reciprocity. For these reasons we should abandon the hypocritical .pretense of reciprocity and substitute for it the offer of Jefferson’s “free commerce with all nations.” —Louisville Courier-Journal.

Why We Need Protection. According to the catalogue of the German Section of the Chicago Exhibition nine-tenths of all the articles of coloring matter of the world are now produced in Germany. In 1891 German exports of aniline colors amounted to nearly $15,000,000, a largo proportion being sent to the East Indies to displace coloring matter of native origin. These facts indicate the close alliance between German manufacturers and men of science. A recent article in Nature gives an account of the research laboratory attached to a manufactory of dye-stuffs in Elberfeld. In it no less than twenty-six skilled chemists are constantly in the service of the company, while as many more are employed in other departments. An even larger number is employed at the works in Baden, seventyeight chemists, of whom fifty-six have the Ph. D. decree, being there engaged in investigations in the services of a •Jingle firm. Here we get a glimpse of the real “pauper labor” of Europe against which our manufacturers cannot compete. Instead of encouraging the yoking of science and industry, the discovery of new methods and machinery, and perfection in technical education, the true American policy is to tax foreign products out of the country, and enable manufacturers who are behind the times to make a living. —N. Y. Evening Post.

Custom House Comic Opera. If anybody has doubted the necessity of a radical reform in the Appraiser’s office a reading of the last two days’ testimony before the Fairchild Commission must have convinced him. Assistant Appraiser Goode, for example, testified that his only qualification for appraising cotton, linen and rubber goods and laces was drawn from his experience as a plasterer. He admitted that he has not yet learned or tried to learn anything about the market value of the goods he appraises or about the distinctions between different goods of the same class. In brief, he swears that he brings only ignorance and guesswork to a task which requires expert knowledge and skilled judgment for its performance. Then came J. Stanley Isaacs, who testified yesterday that he knows very little about the market price of goods in his own division and that he is accustomed to sign invoices for other assistants, not only without knowing anything about their correctness, but without troubling himself even to look at them and find out what they contain. The whole thing would be as amusing as comic opera were it not that all this is done to the commerce of the country and the revenues of the nation—not only the ignorant guessing, but the abominable frauds to which, it gives free license. — New York World. McKinleyism. ‘•Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad" applies with full force to the Republican party. In 1890 it went into the campaign for the election of Congressmen with the McKinley bill as its chief war cry. It learned nothing by its defeat of that year, but again declared for McKinleyism in the Presidential campaign of last year and again went down to defeat. Unable to find an} - thing else around which to gather its scattered and defeated following, it

again opens up the campaign in Ohio with McKinley as its standard bearer and high protection as its war cry. It is well. When the old Whig party turned its back on the masses of the people and made high protection its sole issue it went down to an inglorious defeat, never to be heard From again. History repeats itself, and the Republican party is following the same road to ruin. It reached its high tide with the election of Harrison and has lost steadily in every election since. New issue and new measures are crowding to the front and demanding recognition. Free trade no longer scares the farmer and the laboring man laughs to scorn the threadbare argument that protection makes high wages. The country has moved away from the Republican party. It has performed its mission and over its tombstone can be written the epitaph, died of too much protection.—Kansas Democrat.

Our Exports to Australia. The Iron Age of June 22 says: “Statistics of imports into New South Wales for 1891 show that in agricultural implements the United States shipped to that colony $33,467 worth. She also supplied hardware to the extent of $502,747. Other American goods furnished in quantities were gas fittings, furniture, wearing apparel, canned goods, kerosene and oils, and lamps, of which the large bulk Of the imports in that line were furnished by the United States. Most of the light buggies used in New South Wales are of American manufacture.” Such being the case why are our manufacturers of these articles protected from competition at home by high tariff duties? There is but one answer—to enable them to charge higher prices to home consumers. And this is exactly What we see done. In some cases this is just what our laws expect. The manufacturers are compelled to pay a duty on their raw materials, with the understanding that the duty will be refunded if the materials are" exported in the form of finished products. This is done to allow our manufacturers to compete abroad, and is an admission that protective duties enhance prices and tax the consumer. The Government, however, being inclined to favor foreign rather than our own consumers, passes a,“drawback” law which exempts foreigners from all burdens due to our protection laws. Certainly the foreigner Ought not to swear at this generous treatment. But there are other cases, and they are far more numerous and comprise practically all of the articles exported to New South Wales, where the raw materials are not imported and where manufacturers who sell abroad at lower prices than at home—as they often do in the cases of agricultural implements', hardware, etc.—need a duty, and use it, as the New York Tribune says, ’only as an “instrument of extortion.’' To do this they must combine into unlawful monopolies, which prevent that natural competition that would give our consumers the benefits of low prices. The tariff system is the supporter of trusts and of high prices—at home. Abolish protection and home-made goods will be sold as cheaply to us as to foreigners. And would this.be asking too much of our manufacturers? The people have answered “No,” and now expect Congress to pass a tariff bill which shall not put Americans at a disadvantage in their own markets. ■ Custom House Exists l'or Manufacturers. Is it really indecent for the manufacturers to assume that the custom house is run for their own private benefit, when the law evidently endeavors to put duties above the importing point in order to surround the work of importation with such vexations, hardships and uncertainties as greatly to hamper business, and when every possible doubt in regard to the rate of duty on any manufactured article is always settled against the importer, even though the chances are strong that money is being illegally collected which will have to be refunded afterwards? What other inference should a manufacturer draw? As a gentleman connected with a highly protected interest said to an Economist man, in talking over the inconvenience of the numerous refunds of illegally collected duties, the necessity for which is now bothering our depleted National Treasury: “Well, we don’t care much about that; the collection of the higher duty served its purpose in keeping prices up higher; and the goods having now. been all sold we don’t care what duties are refunded.” Is it not a fair assumption that the custom house is largely run for the private benefit of our manufacturers, and is it not so boldly claimed and acknowledged by the putative father of our present customs legislation?—Dry Goods Economist.

Insulting Popular Intelligence. Was there ever anything like the contempt for the intelligence of the American people shown by such thick and thin partisan organs of the Republican party as the New York Press? Says the Press: “The platform on which Grover Cleveland was elected was a protest against progress and a declaration of war 'upon prosperity. The return of the Democratic party to complete control of the Government, unless the solemn declaration of principles put forth by the Chicago convention was a tissue of deliberate falsehoods, meant ruin for American industries and debasement for American currency.” Leaving the “solid South” entirely out of the account, Cleveland received pluralities in the States of Connecticut, New York, New Jersev, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Caliiornia. In other words, a plurality of the voters in these great Northern States indorsed “a protest against progress and a declaration of war upon prosperity,” and voted in favor of “rum for American industries and debasement for American currency.” A more contemptuous estimate of popular intelligence in this republic could not be imagined.—New York Evening Post. Depends Upon Their Politics. Whatever may be the uncertainty as regards changes in the tariff, it does not seem to be so great as to prevent the starting of factories here by firms who up to the present have imported all their gloves. One large importing firm has already started making gloves in this country, with the intention of enlarging later. On the other hand, a domestic manufacturer of gloves which compete with the imported goods has stopped production until the tariff question shall have been decided. — Dry-Goods Economist. No part of the speech of the Hon. Wm. J. Bryan last night was so much applauded as that in which he advoeated an income tax. The demand for this tax is growing. The press is taking it up, and all sections of the people are talking the matter over. The average citizen cannot understand why incomes should not be taxed when so many of the necessaries of life are sul> ject to tribute. An income tax of the right sort and properly graded would be the easiest of all taxes and as just as any that could be laid. The income tax idea is marching on.—Atlanta Journal. Soft hands indicate a character lacking energy and force.

WHAT WOMEN WEAR.

STYLES FOR THOSE WHO WANT, TO LOOK PRETTY. Picturesque Toilets for Wear at the Sea-shore-Fresh and Handsome Gowns for Bummer Weather and How to Make Them Up Materials and Colors. Gotham Fashion Gossip. New York correspondence:

distracting -m is the appearance of the new Embath suits. They fit perfectly the bust, in--1 ‘7=~ l 'deed, are worn I\|i over a little f- boned bodice •[j which fits the Oil bust perfectly, I and has a belt 1 an inch below the bust line, but 111 no further. The ! presenoe of this ji boned waist need not be suspected. ,/J i The suit is in two Jr * pieces. The upper has a deep

collar, that is a modification of the usual sailor and which stands full on the shoulders and shows the throat to a point pretty well down in front. The suit fits closely as far as the little boned waist goes. There it is finished by a band of braid to match what is on the collar. A skirt fastened to this band falls to just above the knee. It is a little longer on one side than on the other, and that side is looped up. The effect is quite classic, especially if you sacrifice to beauty and let the draping be really classic, that is, have the skirt come well below the knee on one tide and be draped well above the other. Under all you wear knit tights, the same color as the body of the

NEGLIGE WITH LACE VEST

suit. These tights are a full suit and cover the whole body. If you want to protect the throat, the tigiits can be finished off with a close collar and have an anchor embroidered on the chest. In that case the collar of the outside piece can turn away very low. The tights in this case should contrast with the rest of the suit. A rich brown over, and a clear cream for the tights is daring, but if you are well made it will be a thing of beauty. Of course, if you are a little stout, better select a dark color all through, letting the tights have no ornamenting except the anchor or device on -the breast, and a band or so about the collar. The over part of the suit is to be of the same color as the tights, only elaborately treated with braid of the same bright shade. By the way, a gold braid is shown —pretty expensive —that will not tarnish in the ivater. Used sparingly it has a good effect, but, in spite of it 3 durability, it does not look as if it were meant for bath suit use and so misses the charm of “suitability.” An Empire model for wear on high and dry land is the pretty reception dress of the initial picture. It is made of corn-colored broche silk, having a design in lavender and blue flowerets, while the ribbon and surah employed in trimming it are corn-colored, like the ground of the silk. The circular bell skirt is lined with silk or satin, is tight-fitting’ over the hips, and the fullness is laid in pleats in the back. The inside of the skirt has a flounce of silk, edged with lace. The bodice fastens in back, and the mode of closing is hidden by an arrangement of lace. The large collar of corn-colored surah is turned in on one side, and the other over and fastens to the

OF PLAID SILK, WITH LARGE REVERS.

bodice beneath a bias fold. The lace collar is open in the back, and hooks with tiny hooks and eyes after the bodice is closed. Around the waist there is a corn-colored faille ribbon belt, which fastens in the back beneath a bow. The sleeves are full and puffed over a tight lining, and are trimmed with lace. The materials required are seven to eight yards of crepe broche, three-quarters of a yard of surah and two yards of ribbon. In the first full column picture there is shown a lovely neglige jacket of paleblue cashmere trimmed with a wide vest of lace ruffles and pale-blue ribbon. It is lined with batiste and is close-fitting in.the back, but the fronts are loose. The vest is sewed to the right front and hooks over, and the ribbon is fastened to the fronts, thus keeping them in Four ruffles of lace, each ten inches in width, are required for the vest. The standing oollar is finished with lace and there is a small sailor collar of cashmere, as shown in the illustration. The sleeves are gathered at the wrist and finished with a lace frill. Following there is a pretty plaid silk blouse. It is made over a tight lining and the fronts are very long, overlap each other, besides being turned back to form revere. They meet in back in a rosette, making the whole blouse of a very airy and youthful appearance. There »re puffed sleeves, with a long

cuff, and a fold of tulle or lace is worn about the neck. If in your wardrobe you have an oldfashioned yoke oollar of “Irish lace” now is the time to use it with advantage. Lay it on either chiffon or silk, though the former is a little cooler. If the lace is very yellow, select a delicate shade of rose or green, since white will make the lace seem only soiled and yellow will not match the old oolor of the mesh. These collars come usually with only a cord at the neck. Supply the necessary choker effect with folded chiffon or with a band of ribbon to match the chiffon used. The collar was meant in the old days to open in front, but you will have it open in the back. Now add all around its edge a series of ruffles of chiffon, to make the collar as much of a cape as you like. The ruffles must be either selvage edge or double. The selvage edge in some goods is very pretty, but if it isn’t in yours, run very narrow ribbon along it for a finish. This rib-

VARIED DECORATIVELY.

bon can match or contrast with the chiffon. At that part of the collar that is at the shoulder you may elabor>ate your effect by special fullness of the outlining ruffle 3. Indeed, even a small collar of good heavy lace may be made the foundation for quite an elaborate shoulder affair, and you may be sure one that will at the first look prove itself not “bought.” Ready made things are so varied and so beautiful that it Is difficult to get up something still more dainty, and which shall bear the mark of being better than ready made. But this little affair will, if nicely managed. Girls are seen in twos a good deal this year. That is partly because the girls are chums, which they are chiefly became their styles suit each other. They really hate each other, but that has nothing to do with it. If two girls really understand each other they make a very good partnership, and hating or not is a mere detail. The one awful catastrophe to happen to a girl socially is to be left alone. Now it is only in books that a girl has always a host of men at her call, and the average girl has to scheme many times. If two girls can keep up an appearance of being fond of each other, and goinp to a great many places because they like it, it makes things easier. If, besides, they are decorative in combination, they are actually in demand. To have two very pretty girls in your who look well "together, and are not making an awful fuss grabbing the men, is worth while, and to have two girls who know enough to get to each other, and look pleased whether they aro or not when they get left to themselves, is much preferable to the girl who is fairly popular, and who in Bimir

ANOTHER COUPLE.

lar circumstances seeks her chaperon and sulks. To be decorative in combination the girls should contrast in color, and be almost of a height. A very popular and beautiful pair this season are excellently set off one by the other. They are of an age, or they look so. One is a chestnut brunette, ‘with luscious color and full lips and drooping eyes, this with a fine tall figure and languid manners. The other is a pale blonde, with clean-cut features, cold, bright blue eyes, a “chiseled” mouth, and a swift and slightly cruel wit. You see, these girls could never interfere with each other, and they actually set each other off. Rumor says they hate each other, but they know enough to stay chums, though. The second couple, in the last illustration, wear each a pretty model of a round waist. The first is made of canary-colored India silk, and trimmed with bands and ruffles of the same material embroidered with vari-colored silks. The front has a large plastron, trimmed with three rows of embroidered silk and finished with wide ruffles that are round in back but form points in front, the right side lapping over. The waist is tight-fitting and fastens in the center, the plastron hooking over. The sleeves are very full at the top and are garnished witn embroidered silk. The belt is loosely folded silk. The other waist is in pale pink surah, garnished with ruffles of the same piped with red. The fullness is laid in pleats in front and back at the waist. Around the top are three ruffles, each six inches wide, overlapping each other. The sleeves have a large puff finished with two ruffles and a very long, tight cuff. The waist hooks at the left side. The belt is pink surah, also piped with red. Copyright, 1893.

"Dead Finger” Bottles.

The pearl hunters of Borneo and adjacent islands have a peculiar superstition. When they open shells in search of pearls, they take every ninth find, whether it be large or small, and Eut it into a bottle with a dead man’s nger. ■ These am kept and are known as “seed pearls,” or “breeding pearls,* the natives of the islands, firmly believing that they have the powers of reproducing their kind. For every pearl put into the phial, two grains of ripe are thrown in for the pearls to “feed* upon. Some of the white gem hunters of Borneo believe in the superstition as firmly as the natives do. It is said that nearly every hut along the coast has its “dead finger” bottle.

Probably Our Richest Chinaman.

Wee Hun Penk is the rlcnest Chinaman in Arizona, if not in America. Ha was cook in a mining camp three years ago. Now he owns the Salt bacon Mine and a half interest In the Pail of Soup lead. He is said to be worth $300,000,

FARM & GARDEN

SOWS KXLUNQ THEIR PIGS. Some sows are are naturally given to killing and eating their pigs, and it it believed by swine experts that it it due to the want of some needed nutriment. The hog is a flesh eater, living on Bmall animals and insects when in a state of nature, and if it is not supplied with this needed food it becomes ravenous at the smell of the young pigs and devours them. It is an exactly parallel cause to that of hens eating their eggs.—New York Times. A RECIPE FOR HARNESS DRESSING. Any one can make an excellent harness dressing, as follows: One gallon Of neat’s-foot oil, two pounds of bayberry tallow, two pounds beeswax, two pounds beef tallow. Put the above in a kettle over a moderate .fire. When thoroughly dissolved add two quarts of castor oil, then while on the fire stir in one ounce of fine lampblack. Mix thoroughly while warm, and strain through a cloth to remove any coarse particles and the sediment. When cool it will be ready for use, and you will have as good if not a better article of harness dressing than you can purchase. Besides, the castor oil in it will prevent rats and mioe gnawing the harness.—New York Sun. CONFINING COWS TO THE STABI.E. Some things are necessary for the welfare of an animal besides food. Certain wastes are to be provided for. All that an animal needs to sustain life and make a certain growth is not sufficient for health. The digestive organs cannot work healthfully without a surplus that must be ejected as waste. No one can make a ration that will keep an animal living without allowing for the wastes. And there must be a certain waste of heat, and this is got rid of by exercise. Heat confined to the system is as injurious and as productive of disease, as food confined in the bowels. Thus cold is refreshing to every animal to a certain extent, and to keep a cow shut up in a warm stable, while it may save food, or increase the yield of milk, will inevitably, in the end, be productive of disease in some form or other. And with this comes the equivalent of the food saved, which is inevitable loss. All the skill of man cannot get over a natural law, the violation of which brings its recompense in time. —American Agriculturist.

GEESE AND DUCKS ON THE FARM Are not very largely bred upon farms in comparison with the number of our land poultry, and yet they are both profitable and a delight to the eye. While liberal water privileges are useful where geese and Mucks are kept, they are by no means essential, as these birds will do well with no more than enough water for drinking purposes. Plenty of grass and good pasture are, however, very needful, as geese,arc as truly grazing stock as horses, sheoif or cattle. When clover and other nutritious fodder abound little or no grain is required, and geese may be reared very cheaply. The duck is a heavy feeder, but not overparticular, so that almost any farm waste may be used. Tabm leavings, small potatoes, beet and turnip leaves —in short, anything and everything at all eatable the duck will consumo and make return for same in a goodly number of large, rich eggs. It is quite remarkable how a duck will lay. She begins as early as February and lays every day for three or four months with few respites. Toulouse and Embden are by far the best breeds of geese, and the Pekin is queen of ducks. Hatch both geese and duck eggs under hens, as the geese make clumsy mothers and the ducks cannot be relied on for hatching.—Country Gentleman.

SECOND CBOr POTATOES FOB SEEO. The growth of small potatoes from tubers left in the ground in warm climates during August and September, probably suggested the idea that a second crop could be grown in the fall. E. A. Popenoe and S. C. Mason, of the Kansas Station, have found that the use of these second crop potatoes for seed the following spring has given much better returns than planting the regular crop. By the early planting of early varieties seed may be dug in July ripe enough to jtow a second crop that summer. Even under the most favorable conditions this second crop will be comparatively light, often small, but firm and of fine quality. These potatoes keep during the winter and until planting time in sound condition, being firm and nearly free from sprouts, when, the first crop would be much sprouted and shriveled. Two years’ trial shows an average gain of 48} per cent, in yield from second seed. • The much larger tope and more numerous flowers seem to indicate greater vigor and vitality, and they resist drouth better. These advantages are probably due to the seed not having sprouted in storage, which would have impaired the vitality. In Kansas potatoes can be planted in March. After the first crop is ripe, there are one or two months of warm weather, during which it is a question whether potatoes are better oft left in the ground or stored in the warm cellars which the climate affords. Hence the bulk of the potatoes are marketed early. It is believed that the use of firm second crop seed will obviate some of the difficulties. —American Agriculturist. now TO BAISE TOBKETB. Young turkey hens lay as well as any', but the gobblers should be two or three years old and of a different breed. If you intend to set the eggs under a hen do so as soon as you have nine or ten of them, not more than ten. When the turkey gets ready to sit break her up and she will lay another dozen eggs. Sprinkle sulphur in the nests and on the hen every week to kill lice and nits. During the last week of sitting sprinkle the eggs three times with warm water. When the turkeys are twenty-four or thirty-six hours old £ut them under a large coop on the dry grass. Make a pen of three ten or twelve-foot boards so that it

can easily be moved, wmen should be done every morning, unless tin; ground is wet. I lay a wide board where I want to put the coop next time, and then the ground is always dry. Wet places, dirty coops and lice are death to turkeys. Feed the young ones \yith chopped hard-boiled eggs and bread and milk for a few days, then with sour milk curd mixed with wheat middling. Never use corumeal. Three times a week crumble a handful of eggshells to keep the crop from getting hard. Whon they are six or eight weeks old give some pounded earthen ware or oystershelle regularly. The*c take the place of gravel, which they don’t like, and should be fed every other day. If the crops get hard, give eggshells and lard at once or they will die. If any begin to dump around, give one part, black pepper and three parts lard three or four times a day.—, Farm and Home.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Speed still commands good prices. Too much mulch about fi uit trees is Injurious. A horse suffering from colic should be kept quiet. As trainers of trotting horses, Americans beat the world. Don’t let the colts lose flesh when first turned to pasture. Corn should not be made the only food for horses in summer. Horses will not drink too much water if they are given it frequently. Scatter the grain well so that the fowls will have to sets to h to get it. Whitewash the inside of the house well once every three or four weeks. Hens relish peppur. Mix a little with some soft feed and see how they go for it. Do not overfeed; hens when fat «i<> not lay as well as when in prime condition. If the milk of the mare is mouffioient, the young colt should be fed milk warm from the cow.

Crossing a thoroughbred sire with a hackney gives a horse Unit combines courage and style. Those varieties of cabbage having firm, close heads are least affected by the cabbage worm. Feed your refuse meat to liens and you will be surprised at the increased production of eggs. Lime is. death to lice. Air-slacked lime placed in the nest, boxes is excellent to rid the hens of lice. There is now a saddle-horse register, and a breed of horses especially for tliu saddle is being established. Keep the hen-house cleaned out well, for there is where disease is sure to breed unless properly cared for. If farmers would remember that the exhaustion of their fruit trees comes from maturing the seed, they would thin their fruit. The remainder would be better, and better prices would result. Professor Beach reports that experiments show that timely and thorough applications of the copper compounds or Bordeaux mixture are effective with the common plant diseases except fire blight. Fungi develop most readily in wet seasons, so most spraying should be done then. The first spraying of Bordeaux mixture should be made when the leaf buds first open. Paris green may be used here for the bud moth ; Bordeaux mixture alone just before the buds open. A combination just after the blossoms fall, to be repeated at intervals or about ten days. To protect young trees from rabbits it is recommended to “take a bucket with two gallons of water, put in two pounds of flour of sulphur, add one pound of wheat or rye flour, Btii thoroughly; apply with a whitewash brush. This is said to be good for the trees, and the rain will not wash it oil for several weeks. There are many diseases to which hogs are heir, and no doubt great suffering is experienced by porkers when thoso who have charge of them have not the remotest idea of their affliction. The best and most successful swine men are cognizant of this fuel, and means and measures for warding off or curing these diseases are carefully looked after. The National Provisioner says that abnormally fat hogs are fast becoming a drug in the market, and no wonder. Some farmers seem to think leanne:-J in hogs is undesirable and hence their aim is to put as many pounds of fat on their stock as possible. The result is that they do not reap nearly as much profit as they would if the lean und fat were properly intermingled.

Dunning a Man-o’-War.

Strange scenes marked the weighing of the anchor of a man-of-war belonging to a South American Government at Toulon the other night. It is said that the officers had contracted debts amounting to about S6OOO in the southern naval seaport. Accordingly the vessel before leaving the roadstead was surrounded by boatloads of excited and clamoring creditors, who made attempts to get on board, but were threatened by the crow of the man-of-war. Both officers and men, according to the report, said that they would prevent anybody from entering the ship at the point of the sword. The French cooks and who had been hired for the messroom of the foreign man-of-war then left the vessel, as they were afraid they might receive bad treatment during the voyage. As the creditors were unable to get on board they had themselves rowed back to shore and lodged a complaint with the Justice of the Peace. A “writter” was soon dispatched out to the foreign vessel, but the captain refused to see him. Soon afterward the man-of-war stood out to sea, and the creditors, finding that the naval prefect of the nort could do nothing for them, resolved to bring their grievances to the notice of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. —London Telegraph.

Pride of the Fair.

The Transportation Building at the World’s Fair is one of the most ornate and imposing of all the fine structures and it is the only one which is not white. Standing where it does,on the western border or the park and contiguous to the vast network of railway tracks so that its exhibits in the line of railways are rolled directly into the building on the rail, while it has its water front on one of the lagoons, it is yet out of the main system of the “White City,” and its magnificent mass, painted in the richest possible scheme of colors, forma a strong background to the view from many points, and its “golden door" is not matohed for splendor of effect outside of Hindustan. This door, in fact, is Oriental in its form and structure, although its detail of ornament is quite Occidental, beingtle voted to the scientific and mechanical advance of our' own and the Western world. It has been interesting to watch the progress of the decoration by the use of silver leaf and gold wash in the windy days, and to see the ideas of the artists in their carvings and bas-reliefs taking color and lifo. The general architectural plan is Homanesquo, but great freedom has been exercised in the details. At each end of the building the entrance is surmounted by an entrance to the gallery or entresol, flanked by a stairway on either bund, along whose balustrade are grouped statues of those who have hail to do with the advance of transportation facilities; for example, at the north end a brukeman represents land ncl a man at the wheel represents water, Wuile statues of Stephonson, Watt, Fulton and,others, standing for invention and advance, rise between these two symbolic figures. Theseflgures are painted green,like bronze of that putino, which against the deep red back-ground of the building produces fine complementary effect. The effect of this rich mass of color is enhanced by contrast with the “Whits City,” and was most fortunately devised to give promiuence and forco to a building placed somewhat down hill from the rest.—[Springfield Republican.

Europe’s Ominous Outlook.

Thu following statistics furnished by Jacques St. Cere to the N. Y. Herald w|ll give some idea of what the various European nntinns have been doing during the past twenty-three years in the wav of warlike preparations. The first table shows the armies of Europe ou a war footing in 18G0 and 1802: 1860. 1893. France 1,350.000 4,350,000 lie. many 1,300,000 5,000,000 ItiiHHin 1,100,000 4,000,000 Anstiia 750,000 1,000,000 Italy 670,000 3,380,000 England 460,000 802,000 Hilda 450,000 HDO.OOO Turkey 820,000 1,150,000 Hwitz Hand 150.0(H) 480,000 Hwodun-Norway 130,000 3IM.00) 11. Igiuin 93,000 3 8,0 10 P. rtngal 70,000* 164,000 Denmark 45,000 01,000 mil and 46,000 185,000 Montenegro 40,000 55,000 (h coco 85,000 180 000 ltonin n a 88,000 280,000 Hirvia 25,000 180,000 Totals 8,058,000 22,248,000 It will be seen that Europe has now more than throe times as many a. Idler as in 18011. And the following table shows that the military budgets have almost kept pace with the increase in armament, the estimate being in franos: 1889. 1892. Russia 492,000,000 091,000,000 Franco 471,000,000 691 030,000 Ell'-' I.nd 484,0 0.000 (103,0 0,000 , tiermauy 221,000,000 661,000,000 Austria 1*2,000,000 314,900,000 Ituly 141,000,01(0 281,000,000 Spain 100,000,000 143,000,000 Holland.,. 41,000,000 59,000,000 Belgium 29,000,000 40,000,000 Switzerland 2,000,(HK) 38.000.000 Portugal 22,000,000 85,000,000 Sweden 18,000,0(H) 45 000,000 Homnmiu 14.000,000 30,000,000 Denmark • 14,0(H), 0(H) 29.000,000 Greece 2,000.000 19 000,000 B,rvU 12,000,000 29,000,000 Totals 2,228,000 000 4,000,090,000 The Continent is now one vast nrmod uimp. All Europo is under arms No nation dares to call a halt to its military preparations, although to go on means for all financial and industrial ruin. War may bo averted temporarily, but sooner or later the crash is bound to come.

Vermont Farms and Homes.

The census bureau reports 32,673 farm families in Vermont, of which 20,835 own their farms and 5,738 hire them; 14,035 of the families owning farms have them free from encumbrance, and 11,900 have them encumbered, the encumbrance amounting to $11,052,490, or a little over SI,OOO each; 8,883 per cent, of this encumbrance is at the legal rate of six per cent.; 8,371 per cent, was incurred for the purpose of buying real estate, or making real estate improvements. The average value of the encumbered farm is $2,405, subject to an average debt of $!,004. The number of families not on farms aro 43,290, of which 23,517 hife their homes, and 19,749 own them, 12,4GI having them free of encumbrance, and 7,585 having them encumbered to the amount of $5,490,170 or $754 each. The average amount of interest paid .is on farms that are encumbered, 5.88 per cent., or sl4l each; on homes not farms, 5.04 per cent., or $l2O each, the average value of the latter being $3,026. —[Boston Cultivator.

What Poets Need.

A whimsical letter written by W. S. Gilbert notes “a great want" among poets. “1 should like to suggest,” he says, ‘ ‘that any inventor who is in need of a name for his invention would confer a a boon on all rhymesters and at the same time insure himself tunny gratuitous advertisements if he were to select a word that rhymes to one of the many words in common use that have very few rhymes, or none at all. A few more words rhyming to ‘love’ are greatly wanted. ‘Revenge’ and ‘avenge’ have no rhyme but ‘Penge’ and ‘Stonehenge;’ ‘coif’has no rhyme at ail; ‘Starve’has no rhyme except (oh irony!) ‘carve.’ ‘Scarf’ has no rhyme, though I fully expect to be told that ‘laugh.’ ‘calf’ and ‘half’ are admissible, vyhich they certainly are not.”

Average Human Growth Per Year.

The average growth of the human species per year varies at different ages. According to a table prepared recently by a French scientist the growth during the year following birth averages seven and one-half inches; from 2 to 3, it is four or five inches; from 3to 4, it is one and one-half inches; from 4to 6, about two and one-fourth annually; from 7 to 8, two and one-half inches; from 8 tola, two inches yearly; from 12 to 13, one aad eight-tenths; from 13 to 14, two aad one-fourth inches; from 15 to 16, tw. inches; from 16 to 17, nearly two inches After this, although growth continues until sometimes late in the 20’s, it rapidly diminishes.