Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1896 — Page 5

POLITICS OF THE DAY

tXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES. The returns, bow almost complete, of the exports of manufactures for the last fiscal year give further evidence of the process which has been going on for some time, and under which the value of this class of exports has been steadily increasing. As recently as 1880 the proportion of the exports of manufactured goods to the total amount was only 12*4 per cent.; this year it promises to be at least 25 per cent. It is true that the value of these exports In 1880 was below the average of the quinquennial period of which It marked the close, and that the total exports of the last fiscal year show a gain in value of 25 per cent, over the average of that period. But, except iu 1877, the value of domestic manufactures exported never exceeded $125,000,000, while for the year ending with last June they will probably turn out to be $224,000,000. Taking the Increase for the last ten years only, the figures are sufficiently striking. In that time there has been a gain of $88,000,000 in annual value, and an advance from 19*4 to 25 per cent, in the proportion which this class of exj»orts bears to the whole. While of the gain of last year over threat- preceding is due to a considerable increase in the value of mineral oil, the value of the exports under that head for last year is barely $4,000,000 in excess of that of ten years ago. The items that go to make up the Increase of $88,000,000 are drawn from articles into which industrial processes enter more largely. For example, leather and its manufactures, which accounted iu 1886 for some $8,750,000 of our exports, stand now for $19,750,000; Aacliinery, which in 1886 accounted for $3,680,000, has risen to $14,500,000, and agricultural implements, which were $2,360,000 ten years ago, are now about $5,000,000. Cotton goods show little or no Increase, because of the heavy fall in price—a characteristic which our exports of this class share with those of Great Britain, which were less in value last year than they were ten years ago. Of copper in ingots, bars, sheets, etc., there has been an increase from $2,600,000 to $17,600,000, and in scientific and electrical apparatus from $480,000 to $2,500,000. The export of locomotive engines ten years ago kept well within $400,000, while for last year the value will reach $2,600,000. Of locks, hinges and other

builders’ hardware the export has risen from $1,280,000 to nearly $5,500,000. This increase in the value of the exports of our domestic manufactures is the more remarkable that it has occurred during a period in which the value of the same class of exports by the chief commercial nations has shown a decrease. The value of the ten chief articles of British exports declined from $725,000,000 in 1884 to $705,000,000 in 1894. The value of the foreign trade of Prance was 9 per cent., and that of Germany 27 per cent, less in 1894 than in 1884, and it is mainly due to the increased value of domestic manufactures 6old abroad that our exports of all classes of merchandise have, in spite of the dcreased valbe of the products of agriculture, so well held their own. It is significant of the place that the United States is destined to take in the world’s supply of mechanical equip-

HOW CAN THEY EXPECT TO WIN WITH SUCH A MACHINE?

meet that the total exports of the manufactures of iron and steel have increased from $312500,000 In the fiscal year 1895 to over $40,000,000 la the fiscal year 1896.—Boston Herald. Mr. Hobart and Hia Friends. According to the news columns of Mr. Hobart’s leading local organ, the “coal syndicate has started out on a regular system of advances and we are to have another 25-cent increase In September, with another of the same amount by January, making an advance of $1 a ton within six months.” As pool arbitrator for roads engaged in the coal syndicate Mr. Hobart has

THE SILVERY WAVES ARE CROWDING THE CANTON NAPOLEON INTO CLOSE QUARTERS.

had full opportunities to inform himself intimately concerning the operation of the “regular system” through which these unnatural profits are extorted. When he takes the field he will not be able to find a topic in whicli the public is more interested, nor will he find any other way in - which he can do his party greater service than by convincing the public that his own connection with trusts, pools and monopolies has not rendered him unfit for the Vice Presidency. And when he does take the stump Mr. Hobart ought to tell as soon as possible to what extent he thinks the Anti-

THE NEW PAUL REVERE ROUSING THE COUNTRY.

Trust law should be enforced against all who violate it, more especially against those who out of the proceeds of the violation contribute to his campaign fund.—New York‘World. Should Vote Against McKinley. At least 200,000 voters are riding bicycles which cost from 20 to 30 per cent, more than they ought to, on account of the tariff on foreign bicycles and on the various materials which go to make up the finished wheel. This does not mean that bicycles can be made cheaper abroad than in this country. On the contrary, they can be made here at a lower cost and of a better quality than in any other part of the world. But the duty prevents foreign manufacturers sending their wheels here, and taking advantage of this restriction on competition the bicycle trusts keeps prices far above the real value of

THE RACERS.

ON ST. HELENA’S ROCK-BOUND COAST.

the machines. This is shown by the fact that during the past few years American bicycles have been largely exported to Europe, Africa and Australia, where they are sold cheaper than in this country In free competition with European wheels. The bicycle manufacturers are not wholly to blame for the higher prices which they charge American purchasers. Their raw materials—steel filings, wire spokes, cranks, handle bars, and all other parts •f the finished wheel are heavily taxed. These taxes have to be shifted to the consumer and therefore the price is higher than if raw material were free. If McKinley is elected the duties on bicycles and all their component parts, will be greatly increased, if the Republican threat of higher tariff taxes is carried out. This will make bicycles cost more. All wheelmen who want high-class machines at low prices should vote against McKinley and dearer bicycles. Traveling Under False Colors. On behalf of the friends of McKinley

and those who wish to return to the workjflgs of the iniquitous McKinley law, ii is claimed that what the country needs is mere revenue. It may be of interest to this class of politicians to remember that the McKinley law was entitled: “An act to reduce the revenues, and equalize the duties on imports and for other purposes.”—Grand Rapids Democrat. Decide on a Wise Policy. The wisest thing that the Republican candidates have so far agreed to i* that they will make no speaking campaign. Hobart cannot make a speech, and it

would be impossible for McKinley to answer some of the questions that would be thrust at him without hurt, ing.—Peoria Herald. Small Shot. True to his name, Garret A. Hobart wants to preside over the upper house. A man who stampedes a national convention may also stampede the people next November. It was “from California to Maine” this time. Burke of the California delegation is the man who placed Sewall’s name before the convention. Candidate Hobart rises to remark that protection and not finance is the leading political issue this year. Hanna must have told him. McKinley’s pastor preached Sunday from the Bible text “make your election sure.” He failed, however, to give the Republican nominee pointers on how to cinch the game. Mark Hanna says he is “entirely satisfied and pleased with the work of the Chicago convention.” Dave Hill and Bill Whitney ought to fall into line now and make the matter unanimous. It is probably unnecessary to call the attention of the Republican party individually and collectively to the fact that four of its United States Senators have everlastingly drifted from their moorings. If every man votes for McKinley whose wages were raised during the existence of the McKinley act, and everyone votes against him whose wages were lowered, he will not carry a single one of the manufacturing States. McKinley says he has not promised a place to any applicant for office, nor wil he do so until after the election. By that time, perhaps, somebody else may have in charge the dispensation of alms at the administration pie counter. There is a significant contrast between the action of Senator Teller, who has severed his relation with his party because he could not agree with its position on the silver question, and with that of Mr. McKinley, who accepted the nomination for the Presidency on a platform which he sought to defeat.

FLAGS IN OUR NAVY.

“DRESSING" A WARSHIP IN THE NATIONAL COLORS. Every Day Costume and Holiday Schemes in Vogue and ths Flag Symbols UsedPennants and the “Rainbow." That fashion decrees what woman shall wear everybody knows; but that custom, equally Inexorable, prescribes how a ship shall “dress” herself under alt circumstances few are aware. Woman “rigs” herself out in silks, satins, velvets, and all the gay concoctions of the loom, but the “dressing” of a United States man-of-war is confined to the colors in “Old Glory,” for Uncle Sam decks out his ships with buuting only —the red, the white and the blue. Indeed, dressing one of the modern battle ships or cruisers is not nearly so effective now, says the New York Herald, as in the days of the line-of-battle ships, frigates, corvettes, etc., with their tall, raking spars. Military masts do not yield the same opportunities. All these bits of buuting have a practical use; nothing is ever kept on board a man-of-war without there being a special reason for it. The number of peunauts, flags, ensigns, etc., that an American naval vessel carries runs into the hundreds. She must la? provided for international and domestic signaling with flags of every nation In the world, with all the bunting needed, not only for every day duty, but for every emergency that is likely to occur. The sigunl quartermaster is the custodian of all the flags and banners on board a man-of-war, and It is to him that his commanding officer looks for the good condition of ills ship’s bunting. The largest flag used by the American navy is 36 feet long by 19 feet hoist—this latter very expressive word meaning the width of tlie flag. In a flag of these dimensions the “union” is 14.4 feet by 10.2 feet. Tills flag flies only in fine weather and is the banner which holds the place of honor over all national flags in the ship’s outfit. Especially is it flown upon Muster Sunday, when, if the weather is tine, the ship is expected to be iu her liest trim. When it rains or snows or blows “half a gale” a smaller flag is flown. Ensign No. 2 is 27.19 feet by 14.35 feet, and the union is 10.88 by 7.73. Numbers 3,4, and 5 are still smaller, the latter being the storm flag. It measures only 9.75 feet by 5.4 feet, and the union is 3.9 feet by 2.76. It flies in wind and rain or sleet, and endures nil the rough weather that the ship it floats over chances to encounter. Number 6, which is tin* smallest ensign In common use, is tlie boat flag; this measures 5.5 feet by 2.9 feet. When there Is a man-of-war in the harbor this is tlie flag seen floating over the gig, or steam cutter, taking tlie officers ashore or carrying boat loads of fair visitors to the polished decks of the New York, Philadelphia, Sail Francisco, Baltimore or Charleston, as the case may be. Tlie United States Navy does not the cloth and makes it up into ensigns, manufacture its own bunting, lint buys pennants and flags at what landsmen call the Brooklyn Navy Yard; tlie sailor knows It only as tin* New York Navy Yard. The bunting is thoroughly tested for color by well-established methods, and the tensile strength tried by special machinery, but, ns all bunting varies unavoidably iu quality, 6ome ensigns wear much better than others, although exposed to no harder usage. One cardinal rule of navy discipline is never to let Jack be Idle; and whenever rent or tear is discovered in the ship’s dress Jack “squats” on deck and darns away at his sweetheart’s finery ns deftly as any housewife works at hers. The pennant is the personal flag of the ship’s commanding officer, Indicating his rank. The pennant of an officer below the rank of commodore Is known in the navy as the “coachwhip.” It is a long, narrow, triangular banner,made up of a solid blue field with thirteen white stars, ending in two triangular stripes, one red and the other blue. The home bound pennant, with which United States ships sometimes come into this harbor, is from two hundred to three hundred feet long, flying out over the masts and riding the water like a bladder, so as not to trail in the sea. The etiquette of tin; pennant Is ns rigid as any right of precedence at court; whenever an oilieer superior in rank to the commanding officer boards a man-of-war, down comes the captain’s pennant and up goes tlie visitor’s iu its place, and there it remains until the ranking officer takes his leave.

If there are several officers of the same rank in port with their ships, the ranking officer flies a blue pennant, the next in rank red and the junior white. The commodore’s pennant is known as the “swallow-tail” (a nickname which describes its shape), and has one white star. It is in common use as the house flag of yacht clubs. The rear admiral’s pennant is of the same shape, but with two stars. The Secretary of the Navy’s flag has a blue field with two white crossed anchors and the Assistant Secretary of the Navy’s is the same, with the colors reversed. These pennants fly night and day in all w'eathers, the night pennant, which goes up at sunset, being the same as the one used during the day, except that it is somewhat smaller. There used to be pennants for the rank of admiral and vice-admiral, but as these grades no longer exist in our navy the flags are out of use. All these banners give way before the President’s flag, the Stars and Stripes afloat at the main. When a man-of-war is on a foreign station and special honor is intended to the power whose guest the vessel is, the ship is dressed in what the sailor calls the “rainbow,” which is a continuous line of flags going over all the masts and descending to the water’s edge at bow and stern. The Stars and StrijK-s float from each masthead except the main, where the ship displays the flag of the Country to which it is intended to show respect.

LAST CAPTURED SLAVER.

Her Captain Said to Have Been Hanged on Bedlow’s Island. The only Captain of a slave vessel who Suffered the death penalty in America was captured by a crew of

which one of the members is now ft citizen of Cleveland, the engineer of the People's Gaslight and Coke Company. “The slave ship was the Erie, and it was the last American slaver captured,”* said Mr. Matthews in talking about the historical event. “She was taken off the mouth of the Congo in the spring of 1861 by the United States sloop-of-war Mohican. I was captain of the foretop and of the starboard watch. The capture was accidental. The vessels dealing in slaves would slip out in the intervals betweeu the patrol beats of the men-of-war, and they knew pretty well Our habits. But this time the Mohican was delayed two days in waiting for mail, and going from the island of Fernandixo we sighted a vessel making from the mouth of the Congo. We were flying a French flag, and the stranger floated an American flag. We signalled for her to heave to, but this request not being regarded, a shot was fired. Then she hove to without offering resistance, and a party being sent aboard found every one dressed alike. It was thus some days before we discovered who was the eoptain. She was manned by fifteen men, and had on board 800 slaves and three slave agents. The slaves were landed, and the slave agents and five Spaniards, who did not wish to claim American citizenship, were sent away in a trade boat. Eight of the slave’s crew were shipi*>d on the Mohican, aud the officers and two of the crew were brought to America. The slave ship was taken'to Liberia. "The captain of the slaver was Nathaniel Gordon, and a year after his capture he was swung oil Bedlow’s Island, where the Statue of Liberty now stands. The first mnte was sentenced to ten years’ Imprisonment, the second mate received a five years’ sentence, and the two men were each given a year. “The severe dealing with the officers was due to the intense feeling on the slavery question, as the war had just broken out. The second mate and the two men volunteered to enter the army and were allowed to go free. Our lieutenant, Dunnington. went into the Confederate navy after bringing Gordon back. “About three months before the experlenee with the Erie a slaver escaped us by being disguised ns a whaler. The simulation was very perfect, and on the decks we could see even the boiling vats. The captain showed papers which disarmed suspicion, and when the ‘whaler* put up for the night at the mouth of the Congo our captain Informed him that next morning he would come around on a visit. “In the morning he was gone, having taken 1,300 slaves altoard. We slglUed n vessel in the distance, which we pursued, and found to be an English man-of-war also trying to catch the ‘whaler.’ ’’—Cleveland Leader.

WAITING FOR VICTIMS.

How Texans Made Money Out of a Poor Road. I remember traveling once in one of the counties north of here, ft week or two after a somewhat protracted spell of hot weather. The country was rolling prairie and the rouds were beautiful except at the small wet weather streams in a few of the larger hollows, and these were only from ten to thirty feet in width and could have been bridged for about $25 apiece. Yet I found a team bogged up In almoct every other one in a whole day’s drive. They seemed to be almost bottomless, und, although I hud u good, strong puir of ponies and a very light buggy, It was with the greatest difficulty that I got through several of them myself. In one of the worst of the boggy holes I found a wagon containing a woman, four or five children and a few light household goods aud with four very good horses attached. The owner of the team had waded across and stood, the very personification of dejection, on the other side. On a hill about 300 yards distant stood a Hue farm house and one of lesser pretentious on the opposite side of the road. The ownerof the team told me that the owner of the former house who was working on a fence near by had offered to pull him out for sl, but when told he had no dollar, was coldly told that he would have to get one before he got out of that hole. “I have got just $3,” suid the poor fellow, “but I have over 150 miles to go uml am out of provisions.” I had two long stake ropes and by hitching them to the end of the wagon tongue, getting the poor horses out on solid ground and hitching my team in the lead we got the wagon out. I stopped and tried for a subscription from the man at the fence who had cooly watched the whole proceedings, but of couse didn’t get it. A little further on I learned that he was a road overseer and that he andhlsson, who lived opposite, took turns day about keeping a yoke of oxen in the lot ready to pull teams out of that hole at $1 apiece, and that made from $3 to $5 per day for from one to three weeks after every wet spell.—San Antonio (Texas) Express.

How to Live to Great Age.

The latest fad In England Is to Insure longevity through the use of a special diet. The promise is held out to those who Implicitly follow out the prescribed regiment that they may attain to the age of 110 years. This, among the most melancholy people of the globe, and to whom one would fancy that life were the less worth living, has aroused considerable enthusiasm. Cooks and kitchens are to abolished, meat, bread, and vegetables are forbidden; existence is to maintained exclusively upon nuts and bananas. If we compare this with the dietary system of Dickens, which represents that of his period, his comparatively early decease will excite no surprise. According to English standards, he was an accomplished gastronome. Beefsteak pudding was his ideal, a horrible concoction only fit for a crude or debased palate. His highest conception of a dinner was a baked leg of mutton with tlie bone removed and the cavity filled with a stuffing of oysters and veal. This was accompanied with gin punch, in the making of which Dickens took especial pride. It was made ns follows: A brass kettle of water was heated over a spirit lamp. When the water came to a boil it was poured into a jug, with a bottle of old gin, lumps of sugar, and chips of lemon peel. The mouth of the jug was then closed with a napkin, and the mixture allowed to brew for a certain number of minutes

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

No fewer than five systems of law are in use in Germany. In moving from one place to another tourists are often greatly puzzled when they find that an act perfectly allowable in one State is a crime in another. A still greater confusion often results when the right of property is considered. The professors of agriculture in French colleges throughout the country are being put to practical use by the government, in consequence of the failure of the hay crop. M. Mt-llne has ordered them to proceed to the rural districts, where they will try (o |>ercuade the farmers to sow vetches, corn, and other fodder to make up for the hay, and to make use of oil-cake, straw, bran, and corn. This is an extraordinary flag year, says The Philadelphia Record. Since March 1 flag factories all over the country have been running on double time. The pattern of the flag Includes oue new star—for Utah—aud by an old law of Congress the star of a new state can only bo added to the flag on the Fourth of July following Its admission. Theat* new flags have lx*en distributed to every Government building in the Nation, to the warships, the military posts, and they will first see the light of day on Saturday next. The new regulation Government flag Is 5 feet 0 Inches loug by 4 feet 4 Inches wide. The field Is 2 feet 6 Inches long by 2 feet Ruches wide. We have all heard of the bicycle face, anil now It Is said there Is a new ailment resulting from devotion to the silent steed. This Is known os the bicycle eye, and the oculists ure rubbing tbelr hands lu glee at the prospect of a rich harvest lu fees. The “scorcher” who humps himself, with spinal eolumu elevated and nose down at the handle-bars, naturally has to use his eyes, as well as the rider who sits straight In his saddle. In order to accomplish this feat a severe strain Is placed upon the optic nerves, and nu unnatural condition of the eye ensues. Experts claim that It fakes about two yeurs to develop n case of bloyle eye, and the disease* Is rapidly Increasing, Cecil Rhodes und Barney Barnato, the South African mining kings, are said to have turned their attention to the newly discovered gold fields lu the region lying west aud southwest of Lake Kootenai, In British Columbia, Just north of the International boundary line. They have sent experts to Investigate the prospects. These experts declare the richness of the Ilossland and Trail Creek mountain regions far surpasses anything South Africa ever dreamed of. This report, it Is thought, will be followed by the Investment of a large amount of capital In that sectlou by those mining magnates and other wealthy Englishmen who follow their lead lu such enterprises. Gnme is to be preserved lu central Africa. Major von Wlssmnu has set aside a portion of German East Africa, within which no shooting will bo allowed without u license from the Governor of tin* colony., A license to shoot elephant or rhinoceros costs S(H) rupees a year for a native; females and young elephants with tusks weighing less than six pounds must not lm shat ut all. White men will pay 100 rupees for the first clephunt shot und 250 rupees for every other, 50 rupees for the first two rhinoceroses, and 150 rupees for all ufter them. Monkeys, beasts of prey, boars, and birds, except ostriches and secretary birds, may be killed without a license.

At the recent National Council of Congregational Churches it committee was appointed to meet a committee from the National Conference of the Christian denomination und consider the subject of a confederation or union of the two denominations. The feeling betweeu tlie two bodies is very cordial. One of the colleges conducted by the Christian churches, Elou College, of North Carolina, has just conferred the degree of doctor of divinity upon the Rev. Frank H. Child, pustor of the Congregational Church in Fairfield, Conn. This Is a pleasant recognition of the friendliness of relations between Congregutlonalists and Christians. Mr. Child hus spoken on various public occasions In Massachusetts, Virginia and Ohio on the subject of Christian union, Htid lms come Into personal contact with many of tlie loading men lu the Christian denomination.

Punctuality in woman has been attained under hypnotic suggestion, in a remarkable set of experiments recently reported to the Society for Psychical Research. A young person of nineteen, who had never shown any capacity for calculation, and who was in good health at the time, though her nerves had been unstrung for a year before, was hypnotized and directed to do certain simple things at specified times, writing down the time when she thought she did them. The Intervals suggested varied from a few hundred to over 20,000 minutes, und sometimes as many us six suggestions starting at different hours were working on her at once. The experiments read like the painful examples In the mental arithmetic. At 4 o'clock one day she was asked to do something In 10,000 minutes, beginning at 10 the day before. In fifty-five experiments there were only two failures. On awakening the subject had no recollection of the suggestions made to her. A Yucatan' correspondent of The Philadelphia Record describes a large cocoanut plantation of a New England man down there. “On a tract of 1,000 acres (purchased from the government at the rate of four cents per acre) lie has set out 4,000 trees, and expects in due time to make a princely fortune therefrom. It requires six years for the trees to begin to yield returns; and It is estimated that in ten years from the time of planting the grove will be worth at least 51, 000,000, on which it will yield an annual income of 10 per per cent. A full gi*\vu cocoanut tree will mature from 00 to 100 nuts every year. Another American is experimenting in this neighborhood on ramie, or vegetable silk, and declares that its .cultivation is to become an important factor in cloth-making materials. Ramie is a member of the bromella family here known as ‘silk grass,’ and grows wild in the hot sands of the coast. To-day it is worth 35 cents in Manchester, England, where the de-

mand for it is immensely ahead of tb« present supply. A writer in Appleton’s Popular Science Monthly asserts that the exliedition to Jones Sound,, planned fog 1807, is intended to initiate a system of continuous Arctic exploration, irs object is to be the scientific researvh above Indicated. and to this all else will be subordinated. Special attention will lie paid to geology. Disasters having iieen plainly due to lack of a secure and always accessible base, the first object will be the establishment of a base at the mouth of Jones Sound, which Julius von Payer calls ‘The one spot most suitable for such a base.”' Being in assured annual communication tlyough the Scotch and Newfoundland whalers, a well-housed and wellprovisioned party, with some Eskimo families, will be as safe there as anywhere* on earth, ami will have before it n field unequalled in richness and extent. To the north, the west coast of Ellesmere Land and Grlnnell Land are to lie explored; to the northwest, the triangle between those coasts and the Parry Islands is to be rescued from the unknown; to the west, the Interior of North Devon is an Interesting problem; to the southwest. Prince Regent Inlet may present an avenue to the magnetic pole; to tlie south, Baffin Land—with its Eskimo settlements, its herds of reindeer, Its wealth in fishes and birds. itH fossils and minerals—offers a tempting field, larger than the British Isles. Even Greenland may not be beyond tlierapliere of that strategic point.

THE PIONEER.

Peculiarities of the Early Settlers in the West. Theodore Roosevelt emphasizes the* fact that the movement of imputation to the West from New Eugland did not begin to be appreciable until after tlie War of 1812. A famous settlement, like that of Marietta, only proves the rule, lu the earlier period the settlers were from the Southern States—not from, the prosperous class of lowland planters, hut from the hardy men of the hills and mountains who hud renlly been pioneers all their lives ns thels fathers had been before them. lu blood and in beliefs these people were more nearly allied to the Northerners than they were to tlie Southern planters. The people of the Northern and Eastern Stnies who went West in those days were ns likely to settle in Keiitueky ns In Ohio, and they migrated as readily "to Tennessee and Mississippi iih to Indiana." Thus It came about that “In Kentucky and Tennessee, In Indiana aud Mississippi, tlie settlers were of the same quality. They possessed of (lie same virtues and the same shortcomings, tlie same ideals and tlie same practices.” The Investigator who desires to know what the average was in pioneer life—Mr. Roosevelt does not say tills, lint It Is true—need only make a tour among the mountains from tlie Potomac to the southernmost foothills of the AUeghanies and the Blue Ridge. He will find there the words and phrases still In use which mude tlie speech of early Kentucky and Ohio luteresting, before ilie West, ns well as tin* East, fell to the dead level of the school-hook dialect. There are places where these peculiarities linger even yet, Just ns there are bils of oak and beech forest more than usually expansive where a few years ago, even lu Central Ohio, a cabin could be found newly built, the ends of tlie logs shining witli the* polish glvcu them by n sharp axe, and tlie earth floor within, more primitive than tlie puncheon, beaten down to the consistency of pressed brick. It is the fashion with politicians aud novel writers of the present dny to depredate these mountaineers. They settle their feuds with the rifle, they make Illicit whiskey, aud lu spite of their Hcotch-Irish Presbyterian origin they lire addicted to a very picturesque profanity. But they are to this day aud they always will he—subject to the rivalry of the Rocky* Mountains in centuries to come—the source of the healthiest humanity in North America. It will take a generation, sometimes two generations, to tame them down to ordinary life, but they will always be found where the peril is greatest, Just us Longstreet’s veterans, mostly these very mountaineers, ure said to have kept on charging even when their feet were shot off und they had to crawl on their hands aud knees.—Now York Tribune.

A Smooth Swindler.

One of the most daring operations oil Francis J. Alvany, the ex-convlct, who has Just finished serving the legal part of a nine years’ sentence lu the Maryland penitentiary, was his swindling of the late Hon. Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania, Mr. Randall was sitting In the room of the Ways and Means Committee in the national Capitol one morning—so the story goes—when a “Mr. George YV. Childs Drexel” was announced. Mr. Itandall told the attendant to show in the son of his old friend, the Philadelphia banker, at once. “Why, how do you do, my boy?” said Mr. Randall as a young man entered the room. “How do you do, Mr. Randall? I’m awfully glad to see you, but I don’t believe I’d have had time to come to see you had I not wanted something. I only stopped over in Washington to attend to some business for father on my way South. I sturted to leave and I found that I didn't have any money. I’ve got a check, but I need to be identified. Will you identify me?” “Why, certainly,” was the reply, “but I'm very busy here and I hate to leave. Won’t my cheek do as well? You can get that cashes] at my hotel. How much do you want? “One thousand dollars will do,” wasp the answer. The great Pensylvanian drew his cheek, gave it to the young man, and the latter went out. Not until the next day did Mr. Randall know that he’d been swindled by “Hungry Joe.” Then the real George W. Childs Drexel called and was promptly shown the door. The mistake was finally explained, and Mr. Randall said that he was not sure that it wasn’t worth what it cost to know how easily lie could be swindled. Ho said Alvuny's make-up was perfect. Consider the glorious possibilities og a man with such attainments.—Philadelphia Times. Stick to the sheep If wool is low. The sheep will come out on top yet