Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — Page 5

SOMEWHAT STRANGE.

ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. Qu»»r Facts and Thrilling Adventures Which Show that Truth is Stranger than Fiction. A big wolf which has terrorised the people of the Bumpas Cave region, in North Carolina, for the last two or three years, recently entered the cabin of a mountaineer named Brown during the temporary absence of the housewife, and, seizing the only occupant, an infant six months old, by the clothing in the region of the chest, lifted it from the rude cradle and bore it away into the mountains. When the mother returned to the house and missed the baby she rushed io the door in time to see the wolf and its precious burden disappear into the neighboring woods. The distracted woman began to scream. This brought the husband, who was chopping wood not far away, to the scene in a high state of excitement. The story from the lips of the hysterical mother almost drove the brave fellow daft, but he seized his axe, called his dog, and started in hot pursuit. There was about two inches of snow on the ground, and it providentially enabled the desperate father of the kidnapped infant to strike the trail of the wolf immediately after leaving his door-yard. Once upon the track of the beast he rushed to the mountains with a speed born of distraction. About two miles from his cabin the tracks of the wolf led the pursuer under a long shelf of rock, protruding from the side of a mountain. There was no snow here and the father lost the trail, but he now urged his dog, which up to this time he had compelled to remain with him. The dog took the lead and the man followed, fully expecting to find the entrance to the wolf’s den, from which he could hardly hope to get the baby alive. But his fears were groundless; he soon came upon his faithful dog wagging his tail and looking down at a little white bundle at his feet. It was the baby, sound asleep and almost frozen, apparently unhurt otherwise. Brown took off his coat, and, wrapping the infant snugly in it, started hastily for home. He soon met his wife and two or three of the neighbors to whom she had given the alarm. It was a most remarkable rescue. The mountaineers say that it was only a freak of the “mad” wolf, but the little one no doubt owes its life to a drenching of petroleum given it for some cutaneous affection by its mother just before it was carried away. The odor of the oil was too much for his wolfship. He probably sniffed about the child after laying it down under the rocks and preparing to make a meal, and then left in disgust.

A singular illustration of the degree of credulity that is so characteristic of the Mohammedans has been bought to the notice of the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. A native of Afghanistan, son of a noble, being reduced to penury, prayed to the prophet to relieve his distress. His prayer, he says, was answered by Mohammed appearing to him in the moon and pointing out a spot, close to where the devotee was praying, where wealth could be obtained. The Afghan proceeded to the place and found a curious-looking stone, which he picked up with full faith that he had a treasure to dispose of. London was, in his opinion, the city where he could best effect a sale, and to this city he has journed, undergoing many hardships, and working his passage from Bombay as a ship’s steward. A few days since he presented himself at the British Museum with his treasure, which, alas! on close examination by the experts, turns out to be only a worthless piece of quartz pebble. Wheather this poor fellow was convinced of the truth or not my informant was not able to say, but there is no doubt that he is in destitute circumstances. He is an excellent linguist, speaking no fewer than seven languages. A remarkable case of precocity and unnatural development in a child is reported near Warren, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Brandon are the parents of a four-year-old boy, who, of course, has never attended school, and the parents have never attempted to impart the knowledge of learning to the youngster. One day recently the mother was reading aloud from the family Bible while the child was busy playing about the room. Suddenly the child exclaimed: “Oh. mamma, I can read like you.” The mother paid no attention, but the child continued talking, repeating the assertion several times. Finally, to please the young one, the mother took him in her lap and opened the book before him. Without the least hesitation, and to the utter surprise and amazement of the parents, the child began to read, and read passage after passage without difficulty, pro* nouncing the most difficult of biblical names with apparent ease. Up to that time the child was not considered a very bright youngster and had not shopped his baby talk. The amazed parents did not know what to make of the suddenly developed talent and called in a physician, who was as much puzzled as they. “Idiots are sometimes wonderful in their genius,” said Professor 0. L. Milliken, of Chicago. “Of course the case of ‘Blind Tom,’ the remarkable musical prodigy, is well-known, but the person of whom I was thinking never became so famous, although well-known in the region about where he lived, in Eastern Ohio. When I was a boy I lived.in Harrison County, Ohio, and in an adjoining county, Tuscarawas. I think, there was an idiot boy about twelve years old. He could neither read nor write and was incapable of learning, but could instinctively give the true answer to any problem involving figures only. He could not penetrate the mysteries of algebra, geometry or calculus, but no combination of figures could confuse him. He had no rules and could not explain his methods, but his answers were given at once, and always correctly. He was exhibited throughout that section of the • country, and I remember that the theory advanced by physicians was that every other faculty of his brain had been ab-

sorbed by this one and his mind was really a great mathematical machine. A most remarkable case of somnambulism is reported from Missouri City. H. C.Calvert is a farmer of that vicinity. He and other members of his family were aroused the other night at 12 o’clock by a crashing noise. An inspection of the room showed that a window pane was broken out. It was also found that his 11-year-old son was missing. The boy had retired to his bed-room as usual. Mr. Calver found tracks in the snow under the window. He felt sure that they were those of his son, but the little fellow’s clothes were in the room. The farmer followed the footprints acoss a field. A quarter of a mile away he met the boy starting back to the house and nearly frozen. He said that he had dreamed that eight Indians appeared before him and said they were going to kill him. He dashed away from them over rocks and ice, and they closely pursued him. Finally he awoke and found himself out in the field. He could not remember anything about jumping through the window, and only bore a few scratches from coming In contact with the glass.

There is on the lands of F. N. Sword, of Chandler, Va., a seedling apple tree, whose circumference, five feet from the ground, is about six and one-third feet, whose height is about thirty-seven feet and whose branches begin seven and one-half feet from the ground and form a very compact top forty-two feet wide. In 1898 the estimated crop borne by this tree was over forty bushels. The apples. begin ripening and falling off in August and so continue until time to gather winter apples, when there is yet on the tree a good crop of winter apples, which keep well; indeed, they keep a good while after being frozen. They are medium sized yellow apples of good flavor and free from rot. The tree begins to bloom early and continues to bloom late, so that young apples and bloom are seen at the same time; indeed, some bloom was found on the tree in August, 1898. The idea of a summer, autumn and winter apple orchard all in one tree is certainly novel. On the banks of the Castleman River, in Pennsylvania, is a sight which is well worth going to see. A short distance from the river, at the foot of the mountain, six poplars are growing, the place inclosed being in the shape of a coffin. For about six feet from the ground the six trees have a common trunk, or rather root, as it seems as if the six trees in the inclosed space had all united solidly, and had grown out of the ground, carrying the earth above' them up along to the height named. Climbing on top of this common trunk, it is found that these poplars must have been planted around a child’s grave. The inclosed space is about four feet long and the green grass is growing in the earth there. On one end is a gravestone with an inscription on it, which, however, is worn by time. It is unknown by whom the grave was made. The advance of surgery can furnish few more singular illustrations than is supplied by an operation in one of the London hospitals whereby the breast of a blackbird was fastened to a woman’s face as a substitute for her nose, which had been so damaged that it had to be removed. The woman, who had been a housemaid in a hotel, had been struck in the face by a descending lift, which caused the injury that led to the operation. The operation has proved perfectly successful, with every appearance of the woman being provided with a useful nasal appendage, though how it will perform its functions when the cure is complete remains to be seen.

Faribault, Minn., has a freak of nature in the shape of a young giant. A young couple living in North Faribagjt, named Shook, have a child nine months old that tips the scale at nearly eighty pounds and is over three feet in height. The child has always been healthy and is well developed. His head is well shaped and of fair size, but his limbs and body are exceedingly large for a child of his age. He is handsome, and his features are clear cut and regular. He has six developed toes on each of his feet. Mr. and Mrs. Shook are of medium size. August Boemer and John Pfaff got into a dispute at Columbus, Ohio, the other day as to which had the biggest mouth. They made a bet about it, and Boemer managed to crowd a big orange into his mouth, while Pfaff forced a billiard ball into his. Boemer managed to get his orange oyt again, but the billiard ball was not so yielding, and declined to be removed. Pfaff was nearly choked to death, when a physician managed to extract the ivory sphere from his mouth, but he had to cut it larger to do it. -Worses have often been insured and so, too, have prize cattle and dogs, but the boxing kangaroo at the Westminster Aquarium, in London, is probably the first of its kind in whose name a policy has been taken out. While the directors of that institution offered no objection to the payment of the premium for the kangaroo, they absolutely declined, as a superfluous expense, to defray the cost of insurance upon the lives of the divers who constitute some of the side features of the show.

A twelve-year-old boy fell from the seventh story of the Railroad building, Denver, Col., a few weeks ago. He struck on a number of telegraph wires, bounded into the air, and finally landed on the back of a horse. The animal was killed by the shock, but the boy was only stunned, and soon recovered consciousness. In three minutes he was receiving congratulations on his luck. The Emperor of Austria has gone through the annual performance of washing the feet of twelve old men. The observance is a religious one connected with Maundy-Thursday. Water was poured from a golden ewer upon the feet and then His Majesty dried them with a towel. He grimaced over the unpleasant work. A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOn of A. M. Lassiter, who is well known in Gum County, N. C., has the word “Ameri-

ca” plainly visible in each eye, near the pupil. This is his birthmark. Jesse Spright, a prominent citizen of Green county, says that he has seen and carefully examined the phenomenon.

A FORTY-FOOT SHARK.

Believed to Be the Largest Specimen Ever Captured. A monster basking shark, probably the largest ever captured on this coast, was caught recently near Monterey, Cal., and towed ashore. S. M. Duarte, a fisherman, had set his nets for small fish the night before, and accompanied by his partner set out this morning to take in the catch. Upon their arrival they were somewhat startled and vexed to find that their nets had disappeared from view. Rowing around for a while they at last discovered fragments of the nets, and when they found some of the floats they proceeded to investigate. Slowly they hauled in the lines to which the floats were fastened, and after tugging away for a while up came a long dark object in a tangle of netting. It was the carcass of a basking shark that came to view. There lay the big fish with the waves rippling against its dun sides for a length of forty feet. Then the fishermen began the tedious task of recovering the remains of the nets in which the fish had entangled itself. With much difficulty they accomplished this. A rope was passed through the large fins and the fishermen towed their prize to the Monterey wharf. They made the trip of half a mile in just three hours and thirty-five minutes. It will be remembered that a basking shark was caught between Santa pruz and Monterey some months ago, and it is generally thought that this is its mate. This supposition is believed, as these fish go in pairs. For several years the British Museum has offered a reward of SI,OOO for the skin of a basking shark, as there is no perfect specimen of this fish in existence in the world, unless it is the one which Stanford University bought some months ago, but whether the curing of that specimen was a success is not known. The species is not rare, but they are seldom caught. Old fishermen state that the fish is the most harmless of any fish in existence of its size, and on account of its lazy, sluggish habits it has received the name of “basking shark.” The fishermen also say that the shark is seen to lie for hours in one place basking in the sun and that it will not disappear at the approach of boats, but that it is a dangerous undertaking to attempt a capture of the fish with harpoons, as, unlike the whale, the basking shark does not rise to the surface for air after “sounding,”.but makes desperate resistance underneath the surface of the water, tugging away at the line that is fastened to the harpoon and endangering the lives of the men in the boats. The size of the fish cannot yet be determined, as it is still in the ,water. The length of the one bought by Stanford University was twenty-six feet and it weighed in the neighborhood of 50,000 pounds, but this monster is estimated to weigh about 75,000 pounds and is in the neighborhood of forty feet in length.—[San Francisco Examiner.

MOVED IN THE ICE AGE.

Huge Bowlders Carried All the Way From Canada to Kentucky. Professor A. R. Wallace states in the Fortnightly Review that an immense area of the Northeastern States, extending South to New York and then westward in an irregular line to Cincinnati and St. Louis is almost wholly covered with a deposit of drift material, in which rocks of various sizes are imbedded, while other rocks, often of enormous size, lie upon the surface. These blocks have been carefully studied by the American geologists, and they present us with some very interesting facts. Not only are the distances from which they have been transported very great, but in very many cases they are found at greater elevation than the place from which they must have come. Professor G. F. Wright found an enormous accumulation of bowlders on a sandstone plateau in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Many of these bowlders were granite, and must have come either from the Adirondack Mountains, 200 miles north, or from the Canadian Highlands, still further away. This accumulation of bowlders was seventy or eighty feet high, and it extended many miles, descending into a deep valley 1,000 feet below the plateau in a nearly continuous line, forming part of the southern nj’oraine of the great American ice sheet.

On the Kentucky hills, about twelve miles south of Cincinnati, conglomerate bowlders containing pebbles of red jasper can be traced to a limited outcrop of the same rock in Canada to the north of Lake Huron, more than six hundred miles distant, and similar bowlders have been found at intervals over the whole intervening country. In both these cases the blocks must have passed over intervening valleys and hills, the latter as high or nearly as high as the source whence the rocks were derived. Even more remarkable are numerous bowlders of Heldenberg limestone on the summit of the Blue Ridge in Pennsylvania, which must have been brought from ledges at least five hundred feet lower than the places upon which they now lie. The Blue Ridge itself shows remarkable signs of glacial abrasion in a well-defined shoulder marking the southern limit of the ice (as indicated also by heaps of drift and erratics), so that Mr. Wright concludes that several hundred feet of the ridge have been worn away by the ice. The crowning example of bowlder transportation is, however, afforded by the blocks of light gray gneiss discovered by Professor Hitchcock on the summit of Mount Washington, over 6,000 feet above sea level, and identified with Bethlehem gneiss, whose nearest crop, is in Jefferson, several miles to the northwest, an/ 8,000 or 4,000 feet lower than Moun4 Washington.

SOME BITS OF SPRING MILLINERY.

GOWNS AND GOWNING.

WOMEN GIVE MUCH ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY WEAR. Brief Glances at Fancies Feminine, Frivolous, Mayhap, and Yet Offered in the Hope that the Reading May Prove Beetful to Wearied Womankind. Gossip from Gay Gotham. New York correspondence

EVERS of one sort or another are an important feature in spring dresses k and they promise to •continue during the i summer. The most I common sort are i j wildly flaring and y sharp pointed, and ' the outside points often reach nearly to the shoulders. Another and novel sort of waist adorn£ment is shown in /the initial picture. CThis dress is of thin ,) woolen suiting and its gored skirt is lined with silk and around the

bottom. The fullness in back is laid In boxpleats, but the front fits snugly over the hips. The skirt garniture consists of a deep gathered flounce, with sides curving upward, and just touching the boxpleats. The bottom of this flounce is tucked three times. The bodice has fitted lining and a vest of pique or of white watered silk, which is bordered with double bretelles slashed near the shoulders and forming a round collar in back. Plain balloon sleeves and turned down collar finish this dalnty oostume. This vest is one with the collar, but those which are accompanied by shirt-front and tie are for the most part cut high, and show very little of the shirt at the throat. For wear for receptions with brocade coats, the waistcoat is of silk to match the ground of the coat, and the bosom showing above is hardly more than a yoke of very fine mull, fitted to a folded collar of silk like the waistcoat. A fall of real lace is attached to the collar at its lower edge, and covers the mull entirely in its soft folds to the waistcoat top. Waistcoats are fitted in gentlemanly fashion below the waist line in front, they finish at the waist line with a slight point just in frent, or they are made according to the fashion of the couriers of the time of Charles 11., with tabs below the waist, to show in front below the short-cut coat. The earliest prophecies of spring and summer fashions promised that fur would be used for trimming even In the hottest months. This promise has been fulfilled so far, but the fad so

FURRED ROUMD AND ROUND.

lacks in reasonableness that it is not surprising to see it take on odd and grotesque expressions, as it frequently does. Here in the second picture is an example which shows plainly how desperate is the search for novelty. The dress is qI a very dark-brown cloth and the spiral trimming black fur. The deep basque is in fluted pleats, and a very high collar tops it. Now that so many fancy waists are required, it is as well to learn a few tricks of transformation. Be wise and have two or three waists made quite plain, about hips, throat, and shoulders. Let the sleeves be of gigot pattern, full at the top and close below the elbow. Employ only one material in the construction of these waists, then consider them as foundations merely, and plan a lot. of accessories to use at your pleasure with the foundation waists, and you will drive your neighbor friends mad with the idea that you have several dozen fancy bodices. You will have a foundation waist of black, one of white, one of your pet color, and possibly one of flowered silk. A finish for the black will be thus arranged: arm straps cf ribbon velvet to set over the shoulder are connected by a piece of velvet to cross the chest and one to cross thp shoulder at the back. To the edge of the front piece run very fall a piece of black net that shall at the corners reach the bust line and slope to the waist line in front 1 Applique on the lower edge of the net a finish of cream guipure, and spray applique guipure flowers, circles or crescents all over it. Patterns cut out of cheap lace applique with excellent effect To the shoulder straps fasten squares of net embellished in the same and edged on three sides with the

guipure. At the back comes a piece to correspond with the front. At one side where the shoulder piece and the cross piece of velvet meet, there should be a bow of ribbon velvet, finished at the ends with guipure edge and with a row or so of guipure above. A yoke of guipure lace may be set in the open square, the collar of the same being a wide ruffle of guipure, held high and close about the throat by a tie of velvet ribbon, fastened at the side and furnished with ends to match the sidebow below. This yoke should be made adjustable, and the ribbon at the throat should not lie fastened to the lace, for you will want the same yoke with vbjt® satin ribbon for use with the white waist In the dress of the third picture there is shown a handsome style of trimming, which consists, for the skirt, of a band of changeable watered ribbon edged on both sides with a fancy border and drawn through buckles in front and back as shown. The jacket bodice has a fitted vest hooking in front which is covered with a gathered plastron of a contrasting shade of silk, either open in the center or lapping over, and edged with darker velvet whose ends lap over in the waist and form a belt. The basoue is pleated and garnished down the edges of the fronts with narrower ribbon than that on the skirt The Duffed sleeves are also

A SKIRT TRIMMED ON ONE SIDE.

banded with ribbon near the wrist. The dress goods is a changeable silk showing mode and garnet A pretty house gown is made perfectly plain with big sleeves and ribbon belt. For wear over it there is an adorable lamp-shade yoke-cape, which extends in a deep point way out over the full sleeves, so far that, with the arm akimbo, the elbow is reached. The line of the cape is prettily sloped up a little and then down to the point at the belt. It is edged with a flounce of lace that narrows slightly towards the front and back points. The cape is set on a throat yoke, formed of rows of shirring, the yoke and high collar being one. When made in a dainty light wash goods nothing could be more distracting for a little bride than such a breakfast gown, aud if she wants to take a look into her kitchen before breakfast, the lamp-shade cape can be removed and she is in the trimmest possible work dress. Two house dresses are presented in the next illustration, that at the left being a very pretty example of the erstwhile tea gown. Its material is yellow surah and it has a round yoke to which the straight breadths are gathered. The yoke is made of Valenciennes insertion and strips of silk, and the collar is entirely of lace insertion. The collarette that finishes the yoke is a deep frill of Valenciennes lace, bordered with a surah puffing. The sleeves are not lined, and are made o 1 lace and silk insertion to match the yoke and are also trimmed with deep lace frills. The gown hooks in front and a yellow satin ribbon belt ties around the waist. The right-hand costume is composed of a new elastic woolen suiting, striped with red and white. The bodice lining is separate, boned and hooks in front, and the drees itself is cut princess. Attached to the lining bodice is a full skirt of red silk. The dress hooks at the side and the front laps over as far as the side back seam, where it is slightly draped and fastened. Owing to the looping this side is rather shorter. At the top is a round yoke of white satin

FOR HOME WEAR.

covered with shirred crepe lisse, and the decollete is bordered with a red vehet puff. The standing collar is also covered with crepe lisse and the long cuffs of the sleeves are shirred white satin, while the upper parts are double puffs of suiting. Copyright, ism.

TRAITORS TO PARTY.

SEVERE ARRAIGNMENT OF DEMOCRATIC SENATORS. Brice, HUt, Murphy, McPherson. Smith, Gorman, Qlbaon. Camden, Caffrey, White, Morgan, and Pugh “Wear the Mask of Democrat*” Would Betray the Canas. Probably the moot remarkable political address of the year is that issued by the Democratic leaders of Minnesota through the State Democratic Association. It says: It is useless to disguise the fact that our party la confronted with serious peril It Is time for plain words; silence now is disloyalty to our party and Its causa In less than two yean after winning the moat complete victory any party ever won, while in full possession of the powen then given us. *e present the appearance of a defeated party, while our opponents, routed In the battle wear all the airs of victory. What has brought this astonishing change? Whence comes this peril? Not from our opponents; not from the brawling horde of protectionists whom we mot and overthrew in 1893. but from malignant and treacherous influences, allied with weakness or cowardice, within our own ranks The danger that observant men saw when the election of 1892 put upon our party the responsibility of directing national affairs and the duty of redeeming the pledges of tax reform made to and accepted by the poop Is and then a cloud no larger then a man’s hand, has overspread the whole sky. What was our promise to the people, and what has been, so far, our performance? We denounced protection as “a fraud and a robbery of the masses for the benefit of a few;” and »e promised that taxes on imports should be laid with a sole view to affording revenue. Our first disappointment was In the departure from the declared policy ot the party In the undue and needless measure of protection granted by the House bill, but, mindful of the extent to which contact with and sharing In the extortions of protection had demoralised representstlves In our ranks, we accepted it as the best now attalnabla and looked to Its free listing of coal, iron ore, wool, and lumber as the entering wedge to be driven home by later aud harder blows The House added sugar to the free list and sent the bill to the Kenata Here the error of the House bill became quite apparent. 't he compromise of principle there, mads more nlenteous fruit in the Senate The concessions made lu the House only whetted the appetite and fired the audacity ot the protected Interests With renewed energy they concentrated their efforts on the smaller body, further removed from the people, less responsible to them, and more impervious to public opinion. To our shame and dismay they found Senators representing Democratic constituencies, that had denounced protection and demanded Its obliteration from our taxing policies, willing to aid them. In the secrecy of the committee rooms these Senators browbeat the sub-committee with threats of open opposition to the bill unless the special Industries they represented were also granted protection or given increase ot IL There was a weak surrender to the demands of these attorneys of the trusts, and a bill was reported In whlqh the one redeeming feature of the House bill, Its one distinctively Democratic feature, was eliminated, and the bill made hardly distinguishable from the one It proposes to dlsplaca

Who are these men, Democrats In name, protectionists In fact who have thus brought dishonor and shame on our great party? Who are they who have betrayed the great loyal host who gave them the power thus to deliver us Into the hands of the enemy? Who are they who have thus made certain the apprehensions of our President expressed in his inaugural, and given to his thought the effect of a prophecy? Said hes “Even if Insuperable obstacles and opposition prevent the consummation of our tusk we shall hardly be excused; and if failure can be traced to our ftfult or neglect we may be sure the people will hold us to a swift and exacting responsibility.’* Who are these men who have interposed, “Insuperable obstacles and opposition," and made a failure due to our fault and neglect? These are the men. names fit to stand alone alongside of Benedict Arnold in the annals of our country: Senators Calvin 8. Brice of Ohio, David B. Bill and Edward Murphy, Jr,, of New York, John R. McPherson and James 'Smith. Jr., of New Jersey, Arthur P. Gorman and Charles H. Gibson of Maryland, Johnson N. Camden of West Virginia, Donelson Caffrey and Edward D White of Louisiana, John J. Morgan and James L. Pugh of Alabama These sre the men who wear the mask ot Democrats that they may the better betray our cause; these are thoy who have wrought this marvelous change, putting our party In the attitude ot defeat and giving to our opponents that of victory. But, Democrats, be not discouraged nor disheartened. The heart of the great mass of our party beats as true as ever. Remember that every great cause has had Its traitors; every great struggle for greater freedom has had its checks from the treachery of men whom it trusted, and be strengthened for the greater struggle before us by the Inspiring thought that, In the struggles of the masses tor freedom against privileged intrenched power the right has ever come uppermost Reflect that all the freedom we have to-day wo enjoy because our ancestors have risen from defeatsand have survived the treachery of comrades, and through all have “kept the rudder true”; and let the thought nerve you to further effort that you may give your children an increased measure of liberty. A few traitors In the councils cannot defeat the cause for which wo have fought for yean, aud In which we won the victory Of 1882. Chagrined, we are undismayed; betrayed, we are not disheartened; checked, we will not surrender. Nowhere let there be flagging or faltering. Everywhere let Democrats determine and proclaim that this, freedom’s battle, once begun, “shall not end until every cltlsen of our Republic shall be secure In the untrammeled right to buy what be will, where he will, and of whom he will; exchanging, without let or hindrance, the products of his labor for those of his fellow-laborers anywhere In the wide world. ” The address was Issued by the association through Its Executive Committea It Is signed by a M. Foote, President, of Minneapolis, and P. J. Smalley, Secretary, ot St. Paul. The membership of the association is 1.600 and includes all the Democrats of prominence in the State

The Hypocritical Treat. The sugar trust objects to the duty on its raw material That is natural. But its statement that the duty on raw sugar will be paid by the poor man in the increased price of his low-grade sugar is not true. The only onslaught on the poor man is made in the interest of the trust. The bill as it stands is so drawn that sugars of a saccharine strength that ordinarily would admit them at a low tax, by the application of the color test must pay the nigh tax that will exclude them. The poor man is to be forbidden in this way to buy good, cheap white sugars that are not granulated—that is, that are not made by the trust. The trust’s objection to the tax is not directed against the duty on the raw sugars, but against the decrease of duty on the refined sugars that come in competition with its own product. It now enjoys a protection of one-half of a cent a pound. The Senate will reduce the bounty to one-sixth of a cent. Hence the tears. The trust has been able to squeeze out of the poor man whom it pretends to pity a tax greater than the interest on the national debt. It pays large dividends on stock watered to five times the value of its property. It enjoys a monopoly that enriches it It owns Senators and Representatives. It maintains a costly lobby. It has refused to obey the law and report the statistics of its business to the Census Bureau. It conceals its

enormous profits in defiance of th® power of the Federal Government But it hires its labor in the cheapest markets in the world, and abuses its workmen with a crue.ty unknown even fan the iron regionq of Pennsylvania. It® outcry for the poor man u false pretense and hypocrisy. Its concern i® not for poverty but for its own abnormal profits.—New York World. Canada Ready for Free Trade. There is every encouragement for our legislators to move along the line® of greater freedom and Interchange of products along our Canadian border in the speech of the Governor, at th® opening of the Canadian Parliament last week. It is apparent that Canada has not only checked all desire to go further on the baneful rood of protection, but is already preparing to retrace her steps. “The amendments to the tariff laws which will be offered for your consideration are designed to simplify the operation and to lessen, as far as can be aone consistently, the imposts which are now in force. These are encouraging words, especially in view of the markets from which the imports, in the absence or reduction of duties, would go—our own. It is flying in the face of Providence to shut out the mutual advantages which each of these two countries can bestow upon the other. In some things w® can supply Canada over the land border to its great advantage; in other® Canada can deliver on both our Atlantic and Pacific seaboards to our advantage; and yet the legislators of each keep watch and ward to prevent th® good. They fine the Americans 75 cents for buying a ton of Canadian coal, while the Canadian is mulct 60 cents if he does the same. In other words, the Almighty has showered his blessings gratis on each country, and man, wiser than his Maker, stations the customs officer to impound, them.—American Industries

Minnesota’s Good Example. The Democratic leaders in Minnesota have addressed their party in terms of the most outspoken protest against th® disloyal behavior of the McKinleyDemocratic Senators at Washington. They have set an example that should be followed in every State in the Union. The Democratic party can compel the obedience of its servants a* Washington, if its commands are now repeated in tones stern enough and loud enough to reach the dull Senatorial ear. In truth, this command ha® been too long delayed. The rebellion would never have spread as it baa spread if Democratic organizations all over the country had spoken out at once in denuuolation of the earlier acta of treachery. There are some Democratic Senators mentioned in the Minnesota address who would not venture to disregard direct and numerous expressions of the will of their party, and. if such expressions were generally made none of them would dare disobey. Democratic State committees ought tobe heard from at once, and Chauncey F. Black's Democratic clubs and all Democratic and tariff reform organisations should speak out.—New York. Times. The Power of Plutocracy. It is better not to conceal thft true character of the obstacle placed in the way of the Wilson bill in the Senate. The plea that a revision of the free list and of the rates of duties on manufactured articles is being attempted in the interest of American industries and for the benefit of labor will not hold , water a moment The only labor that is being considered by the Senatorial emasculators of tariff reform is the labor of the lobby. The danger foreseen by the earliest and purest of American statesmen, feared by Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin, and thundered against by Jackson—the danger that special legislation might create' privileged classes that would at length prove stronger than the Government, and conquor it by corrupting it—is now distinctly in sight

Democracy Denned. The Democratic doctrine is the saving common sense of human government. It aims at laws which shall favor none and oppress none. It proposes to leave the individual, the unit of society and every system of government free and untrammeled so long aa he makes no attempt to interfere with the rights of others. It does not look upon a government as a guardian or the people as its v ards. It would restrict. as far as possible, and when practicable destroy, the organization of militia. In all tnete points it differentiates from both the Republican and Populist parties. They believe in the elevation of the government and the degradation of the citizen. It believes in the elevation of the citizen and the restriction of th® government—St Louis Republic.. Protective Mad. St Louis water is vile since thespring floods set in. But it is an admirable protection for the home industries occupied in the manufacture of. filters and bier. From the filter and beer industrieswe look for petitions against any effort, of Water Commissioner Holman toward separation of the mud from the water.. With the example of Pennsylvania iron manufacturers before them we do not see how the flltermakers and brewers can tamely submit to an attack on their busines?. River mud and a protective tariff ar® alike In so many respects that the filtermakers and brewers must se® their opportunities to push the consumers aside.—St. Louis Republic.

Placing the Blame. t The responsibility for causing thebusiness troubles of the country lies a*, the door of the Republican party. Unrighteous taxation, unsafe finance and< unlimited expenditure are a trinity of Solitical evils sufficient to pull dow* le richest and strongest of the nations. But the responsibility of continuing the unsett ement and uncertainty that beset all forms of business undertaking now rests upon the Democratic party. It has the power to put an end to the suspense which hang* like a cloud over the whole laud. — Philadelphia Record. Not a Weathercock. A contemporary observes that theHerald will keep right on doing all it can for tariff reform, notwithstanding that the drift is with the Republican* in the elections. Correct. The Her* aid is not a weathercock. It stands by its principles, and it expects to see them win in the long run. It will tell, the truth all the year round. —Boston. Herald. The Entire Argument. A high tariff corrupts elections, makes employers greedy, gluts homemarkets, creates trusts, closes mills and factories, cuts off our foreign markets, crowds the labor market, bring* on strikes, overtaxes the poor and deadens the moral sense of the nation. Why stop to debate such a monstrosity?—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Tariff Prevent' Trade. For every dollar's worth of? thing* the foreigner sends us a dollar’s worth of our goods must be sent in return, and the whole swapping business consists in giving that which we get by little labor for something which cost us more. Trading makes uS richer. Tariffs prevent trade.—Th* Courier.