Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 32, Number 44, Jasper, Dubois County, 18 July 1890 — Page 3

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INDIANA.

IF I WERE THE CZAR. It I we tns Ohw,

LerJ. MM I WMtbt S4 WlMM I thought Mr

didn't itadlaek tbe Umm at my beat Ma at

wrier.

iw wmi U death, mm! pet aM men m fat-

ind i wtifctat ride awmad in a imwder'iweec

tr It! WW tH CMV If l win tke Caar, mMild raW mi bentamly pmi wnmMU U "Why, you're

nty!" r '4 drive nit the bu wko sajr.la Ht wmUwt ; I, tbifi hut maukr In Um rtw uaprtker; kaJ I'd !t Umhm k1 o white I sAfcted: "Ha, Jul" If 1 wets the Caar. If I Kr th Caar, vld role arbitrary.

lmI Imp My commands bjxmi Tom, D4ok and

llrrr.

fould lrlv a krp, altek and idaaaterMg

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light tkrotigh tke left ear of my Nuto-Myis-

mil tlw earry h sealp m My triumphal ear, If I went tn Caar. If I were Um Caar nd I wanted U snore, ,nil my nv o'ckMc neighbor i oat his lawaad wt-nt rattling araaad white ab neighbors wen" felwcpiBf, d -,-Ivc him rig at a to wyeoosUbW keening, ml toll nun U bruise him, and baaiah him far; If I were U Caar. If I were theCaar, " would make people like me, ad not lo- to mf, and lap aal strike me; ut the fatally et l.toW-y-(M lfllow, i rm throiigk a wringer aatU ae wa mallow, ad send him Wtfk home, C, O. I)., te kU ma, If I were Ums Ctar. If I were the Csar, dswljudstf, wilfc good reaMa, llaicn kUo talk tariff a guilty of treason,

fid tbiil cruel MUMcal MaWr, the Xevo, l bo vibblM "MeGlaty" should fellow

.c should tewa aad down where tke white UiTwaid art, If I wr ta Ccar. S. W. FW, ia Vaakoe Dlade.

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SPRIGGS' INVENTIONS.

ow SuooMfl Oama from an Un expeotsd Quarter.

work now on something

they say," remarked cuv-a frh fuid of to-

h ntnth machine he's

can think of. to aar

:lointr n4 hos-rskb

an' xhm 4umd wajfOH-

wafc Haas eottf h to Mi. 1 Intn't ha4 any

na aiaoa then, I can

'Spriffa

tos, ai

'TJiat

jvntcd that

k moat of 4 him won

h in is

you."

' l WMnat tncK ot inr uu an

,T ng-jou in the law a oTa it got !ittjc (Hit X order kilted tVt," rethe eeera keeper. ,,He ought ' she'll mw te kty damage; fur putT t! o tbaWi Um markid An' thit

vder

-jt-tilkl Tbey en talk Vigjra inveaitlTawai i;' it'my opinion 'an timtni ape his Um fur twenty over UiingM that rer bring

, m a emt ain't any 4re or leas

a crank." f

taataw," aanted Mlha In the

' v 1. reeolleetions of the rnbous timea

t"y, m, Had heea Victims of

0' '" kntrwittTeneaa" Jrfding em

"nK ue, eieetV,Pd In

M believed

lien he wa hi,

MjTfc'V father

d truant from

i) in tne snop and

t vumnvanoes or w

'4 iwt'nhit in tne

k. wwnU. Bl' .UL Wear-

lee, eted in tl: farthest

roused u to shake1'

odenoe thtS all th

xa and rat-trap ia

t unaetila. Hele

invvvnttona. Hm Jtvs

. - ,T "

m tlbm iIim lkAi.liv:

"-'w- vvw rf-

man lev John

Jobn himself

oel i stay all

j wonder-

wlrr. He with the

fill''

inv in

aLd

V

5

jfon-jack. and cut tar and kicked with

fun; he had given ten ha' rat-tran. and uJ

can

new kind

miUm lor

the alntw

till It burst; but his faith in

suwwws never wavered. The

J " mount to somethln' ylt," he mnt-

v, ifvuitg m hi pocket for the oM j pipe. He'll make hia way in the

rid. '

'twill l Polly that pints

i iiirntm," grunted Jim limim.

' y wa John Sprlggs' daughter.

. m me vernacular of the village.

mmon sense enough fur her an' n both." Sflrogsville was proud cf

ny. Not only wa she the liandsom

gri around, the smartest and the

t eix,tt but she was city educated.

ne nau spent six months at

titmit; of her uncle in New York, and

amounted to the same thing, m; had been fabulous stories of Pol-

succw in society during that stay 'M metroiwlls; and though some of

wore skeptical in Scrogaville af

atsJieiiof on the subject of her

g introduced to the mayor and partwtlng in the charity ball, It was the olJettlon of the season in New York, n more than her black eyes and ng ways, that inspired the neigh- ' With pride and admiration. nl wa4n t for B8r other's being is, and every dollar she earns (f to help him along, 1 wouldn't say against Charlie's taking such a V to her," declared Mrs. Smith that Rlg, when her husband recounted Conversation at the store. "Hut 'ver marries her will have to marry too; an' tke way things are" the good woman ended her senHit sigh and 8rmly resolved to have Polly stay at her house even if she never had any sewing Mrs. Smith was not the only fwl mother who had deemed it ft to resort te this' extreme meas- ; 4 it is highly probablo she ' have held to the resolution had been for the unexpected arrival hashing afternoon a few weeks 7 Mrs. Latham and Mrs.

Jittl.firl. Mm. Latha

" BKtltk's eottsln and Uveal in the Mty, Her huaband was foraman in a shop, and Mr. Smith had planned to

hive baked chicken and oreaut plea ami

tae :.-oai parlor open every day when

they owme to via it her. X wonder that

wow, with both vUitora to enterUiia

lanil eoming on a !str train and

eake and biacult is be baked fwtiu

Mm. Smith foxgot her fear lest "Charlie

sneuM make a fool of himself" and sent

uewn for Polly Kprlgga. Though I

ton t know what you'll think of my wanting you to do housework," she said, nnxioualy, upon that young lady's arrival, "and if you're going to take it

anna just wu me; out with that ehild.

" " wiiuukh mi wry ute pauenee of a

saint unleas she's changed from what

she was 1m t time, and her mother so

easy ahe'd let her burn the house down

without saying a Vord, I don't oe what

I can da" Polly bad takeH off her hat

"i nau as soon io housework as to

sew,' she replied, cheerfully, "And

us only two o'clock now; plenty of

time to put things in ordur and have

omclhliig baked for tea. . You taj in th other room. Mr. Htaitli, and leave

the kitchen work for me."

And Mrs. Hmtyh left the kitchen with

u serene consciouaneas that the bis

cuiw would bo as light, aad the tea-

cakes as delicately flavored, as if she herself had made them. Ho heartfelt was h?r gratitude, that half an hour

later, when they had exhausted the sub

ject of city life, the neighbors and piec

ing wa-quuts, sne surprised her cousin by waxing eloquent over Polly, Polly's

father and Polly's wrongs. It took near

ly an hour to UjII the story, allowing for the interruptions occasioned by little Kftte, who was of an inquiring dis

position; but .Mrs. Latham was Inter

esUHi, and listened delightedly.

"Ana wouldn't itbe asurprise toevery body if her father's inventions did turn

out u be worth something, after alir she exclaimed. "Thin like that have

happened. I read of a man of that kind

getting twenty-Hve thousand dollars for

a patent once."

"He won't," declared Mrs. Smith.

shortly. "We used to think about it at

first (look out, child, don't drop that

vae): but there's be'n more than a doc

en tome to look at his inventions, dif

ferent time, and they all agreed they

wa n t worth the stuff that was put in

mem."

. . i i .

i suppose toey ougm vo Know." re

luctantly admitted Daniel's wife.

("Lffle, dear, don't cut boles in the sofa. I'm afraid Cousin Ann won't like IU

And Ufinlel say that there isn't one thing out of a thousand like that that

pay. Hut I always think of what might

nappon. And you know there is a

chance."

Mrs. bmlth tiptoed to the kitchen

door. ,

Tolly's a good girl to work, if noth

ing else," she declared, coming back w'll pleased with the look of the creamy

custard ami nicely-browned biscuit

"She's as quick as a flash of lightning."

i os, and so handsome," chirruped

Mrs. uathnm. "ii she was only as rich

as some of the girls that"

"Jfa-mn-aV" It was a wild shriek of ft-ad la Ur aadeavor

tofcMaMtvflMfi Um m4km mmL hd

aikWg hae ale)ae te) tthe smjn flMMdMe. it i .. . .

wiw wwn ma sim apron was in a

Wane:

"Help! Save her! Water! Where's the water? Oh. my baby, my baby!"

shrieked the frantic mother, at that in

stant hardly less insane than the child,

who was running wildly about the room. Mrs. Smith rushed Into the kitchen, screaming a she. went: "Fire!

Help! Fire! She's burning to death!"

"WhoT gasped Polly, dropping her armful of wood with a crash. The next

instant, before Mrs. Smith had time to realise her purpose, she had rushed into

the other room, caught the frantic child,

and wrapped hdr In her woolen drees

skirt It was only for one minute. In

the next Mrs. Smith had deluged them

with water, Polly was ruefully regard

ingher burned hands, and the Are was

out But that minute made the inventor's daughter the heroine of Scrogs ville.

They talked about It at the store, and

the sewing society, and on their way to

church. The weekly paper devoted half

a column to a description of the incl-

unt, ana me n. c. Association pre

sented her with a copy of "Les Miera-

hies" as a testimonial of her valor and

urage. As for Elite's father "I'm not a rich man," the big, broad-shouldered

mechanic declared, when his wife, with

the tears running down her cheeks, told him the story "but some way or other

I'll try to make up to that rlrl for what

sue done for us. If there's anv thin

in ner latuers inventing that anv

amount of my work can fix Into paying

mm orumary uay wages for the time he

spent on it I'll find It And what's

more, he wen't have to reckon with any 4 1.1 . ....

tiling um, me (truss proceeus. me ex

penses I'll pay out of my own pocket"

And that wan how the Investication

commenced. From the first Scrors-

. .

viae people Uidnot put much faith in it

It. was a very thorough one. All John

Spriggs' inventions, brought from gar

ret, store-room and barn, were exam

meu, taKen to pieties, studied, put to

gether again, turned this way and that

and experimented with In every possl-

eu com lunation. Hut the more Mr.

Latham worked the less hopeful he be

came. And after a week of patient labor

i was forced to agree with the others

who had tried, that "the inventions

wa'n't worth the stuff they were made

of." He came Into the Spriggses' kitchen that day, looking rather crestfallen.

"No; there's nothing in them," he

said, in answer to Polly's inquiring

glance. "Nothing that I can And, and

used to call myself a good hand at that

sort of thing. It can't be helped. Hut I wish I hadn't said any thing about it now."

John Spriggs looked tip from his

work with a reassuring sscile. He had been the least interested of any one in

the investigation. "Oh. you needn't be," he responded cheerfully. "It was very kind of you, very kind of you; but

t's hardly to be expected you'll And

any thing of consequence In those old

contrivances of mine. Now, this weav

ing maehine when I get the idea warktd eat Mr. Latham, I wouldn't!

it if hi Spriggs to call

POCAHONTAS NO. 2.

She Was n

Md Kuwi

It is generally known that in 1614

Captain John Smith, of Pocahontas fane, made, a trip to what is now Gardiner, Me., but there was an inci

dent that occurred during that visit

that is known by very few people. The

incident in question resembles very

closely that of the Indian maiden Pooohontas that has been handed down te

posterity.

At the time of Smith's visit here the

valley of the Cobbosece-eontee stream.

which at this point joins its water with

the Kennebec river, was inhabited by a

powerful and Intelligent branch of In

disss called Cabassag, belonging to the

Kennebec clan, which was in turn one of

the tribe of Abenakies. The Cabaeees were presided over by a chief, having

headquarters at what is now Gardiner,

known as Cabassa, who had a daughter named Seboois, famed among her tribe

for her beauty and grace. She was, un

fortunately, smitten at onee with the

gallant Captain, who was. by the way, the first white man to visit these parts,

and who was received with great cordiality. Smith had with him a Lieu

tenant named Hunt who wa of rather

n quarrelsome disposition and prone to mutiny.

hen the time came for the party of

whitest to depart Hunt's mutinous spirit

showed iteelf, and with a small party of

follower; he left hmith, going in an op

posite direction. His party took with

them as captives several of the tribe of

The chief considering the whites one

party, by a great mistake followed Captain Smith's loyal band, which camped

that night about four miles from the prcaent location of Gardiner, in an east

erly direction. Schools thinking to

warn the Captain hurried on lrafore the

party of enraged Indians, but arrived too late, for as she arrived at the camp the nrst volley of arrows was delivered.

Thinking to save Smith, she fled to

him, threw her arms a Irani his neck.

and in that position received an arrow

in the breast that oaused Instant death.

Tho chief was palsied at the accident

ami ordered hostilities to eeaee. This allowed Smith an opportunity to explain that it was the other party that had perpetrated the kidnapping.

After a sorrowful return and the

burial of Sebools near the Randolph

ohureh, opposite this city, the party of red men went In search of Hunt Me

was overtaken near Norridgewoek aad

his band exterminated to a man.

Captain Smith had the martyred Schools to thank for his life, for the arrow that reached her heart was meant for him. The grave of Sebools is unmarked; in faet its ?xat leeatMa H Saknewa. Rotten Globe.

twanty-ave ihoasamt soILmm m

the patent " Haaiei rubbed his head. "I s'p'oae aot, air. You you won't miad acceptlug a little money from me. Mis I'oHy, for the Um you eerkdn't work oa account of your hands? Jut I'm sorry what are you doing?" Polly was unfastening a jar of pieklea. She turned around. "It la a eover father fixed for me heaauso it waa such bard work W unscrew the others. You pra ow this spring, you see, and it slips right off. It's ever so much eair than tho old way. Why, what' tba matter?" She waa hardly prepared for tho excitement with which Mr. Latham sprang to his feet "My land! my land!" he exclaimed. "Here you and your father have been puttering along for months, not knowing from on day to another where the next meal was te couie from, and right here using an invention worth a whole fortune In itself. Heavens and earth! wa'n't thera any body to tell you about it?" Mr. Spriggs laid down the wrench he had leen using. "Do you moan tho can

cover?" he asked, calmly. 'I did think of it but itwouldVtbe xcod for any thig you wanted to keep air Ught

Yo " "Air tight?" interrupted the me-

chanio. "Air tiirbt? And do vou mean

to say a man who's got such a taste for

inventing machines with one thousand ' five hundred parts to them didn't know t

enottgh to put a rubber around and

make it air tight That's tho invention. 1

Mias Polly, and I bet my bottom dollar it makes your fortune."

Waal. It does beat all what luck

some people have," observed Jim Bate to theuual audience at fhe store, a few months later. "Now. there's John Spriggs, be'n workin' fur years at sewing-machines, an' cyclometers an' half

a dozen other inventions that ntver

brought him in a cent and when he hit

on a can cover, that any of us could hava

fixed if we'd only thought on't, he's

offered six thousand dollars fur the

patent the first thing, Six thousand

dollars! I wouldn't believe

hadn't told me so himself.

Patent Cans' they're going

them.

"Polly's Patent Cans, Hought to be,"

piped the storekeeper. They say h"'d

never done a thing about it if it hadn't

be'n fur Latham's thinking of the rubber, an' if it hadn't be'n fur Polly he'd never hov concerned himself with Spriggs' inventions, or Spriggs either.

They're going into partnership now, be

an Latham, an' cackelato to make a mint o' money, ltut 'twas Polly started

itja the first place."

An' it s my opinion Polly had the

biggest Interest In it" grinned the postmaster. "Her father's pervided fur

now, an' nothtn' to hinder her marrvin'

when she wants to; an' you can't make

me believe they're movin' into the city

jest to be near Dan'l Latham. Not so

long' as Polly's be'n writin' letters to

George Kemington, New York City,'

over sinoe she como from there in the

spring. Wa-al,"' reflectively-, "it ain't much to invent a ean cover, any wav:

bit I guess what credit there is to it be

longs more to Polly than it does to

tpriggs."

"That s so," assented the erowd. Hut

Jerry ToUes, seated in the corner, paid

no attention to these derogatory oom-

mentr, "1 alters said the boy would

'mount to some thin' jit" be chuckled,

tumbling for his pipe. Leslie s Illus

tratod Newspaper.

AND EVEN PHILADELPHIA.

ltweC XMNap la Mm Qaattor OHy to

Mr MWI HhmiMs

at Wotatww.n L'ulta la L'tWiH a Mlkr frt. aambMt It

it uwm mHMcaM-.rrM Maw Material

Pennsylvania Is tho great stronghold

at protection la toe Unitod States.

miiaaeiphla is its chief city, aad has

lor years been the citadel of protection in high tariff Pennsylvania. For year Philadelphia has rolled protection as a

sweet monel Under Ita tongue.

Jiut now times are changing, and ftew Philadelphia's sweet morsel is

turning to gall In her mouth. Her

working in en have been dtlirentlv

fwhoolod in the doctrine that wages are

aepenaent on protection that without

(buwuuii, m iact, mere eouiu oe no

wages worth having. Hut all the same.

and notwithstanding the present high

protection that Ph.ladelphia has and

the prospects of still higher In the fu

ture, her workingmen have seen their

wages falling lower and lower, and

many of them are out of employment

uireugn mo closing down of the mills

in which thsy work. The Philadelphia

Times recently said that "nearly seventy

lauures or woolen mills and dealers have occurred in this oity and vicinity

since toe election of lss. when the

tariff question was proclaimed as set

tled, and each failure told the same

story, via.; that the cost of raw mate

rials drove our woolen Industries into

bankruptcy

Thus it is not Philadelphia's workingmen alone who are tasting the tariff

gall her manufacturers also are weary of the bitter draught WRen both the

manuiiMjiureni ana tncir men leei so strongly the evil that protection is do

ing lor them, it Is no wonder that thev

should make themselves heard in oppo

sition to ttieaiclvlnley bill, which would

only aggravate their troubles,

And they have made themselves

heard.

Philadelphia has just held two meet

ings in the same nay one for the mar u

facturors and merchants and one for the workingmen, and these meetings re

sembled in their attendance and en

thuctiasm the great gatherings just bo-

iore a t'lruaenttai election.

The meeting of the business men was

held in the afternoon In the Walnut

Street Theater, which was flllwl to

overflowing with the substantial mer

chants and manufacturers of the city,

representing many million dollars of

capital. Of the fifty vice-presidents of the meeting about half were Repub

lican, wnicn snows that tbetppositlon to the McKlnloy bill in Philadelphia is

by no means confined to one party, and that this opposition is based on the

simple and solid fact of business in

teres t The

m is tho rosuU of tfc effort of favoead ladividuals aad later U making MM) logislatio of the country bend to thair private ad. Hush arsons as contributed expressly for o lection expM two year ago have a 1 -nd on the high protection party which is now uotng discharged la the form of laws for thair Private interest. The various schedules of tho Tariff bill are written into it by interested parties. No Congressman

ean understand any considerable part of

a larirr uui; and so the man who do understand it and who want to get the full benefit of it write into it about what they want and the MeKialey majority

indorses it and than tha debate is

choked off and the iniquities of the hill

can not be shown up in discussion; it is rushed through in haste as if tha country were in eager waiting for it Ia opposition to McKinley's policy of ex

clusion it was asserted that honest trade

must lie promoted: for honest trade

means the brotherhood of man, The afternoon meeting was a great

success; but the evening meeting ot

workingmen was a still s-reater one.

There were, in fact four meetlnff in

the evening the great gathering at the Kensington Textile Hall, an overflow

meeting in an adjacent hall and two

street meetinits outside the Textile

Hall. In all these meetings there were

some 30,000 workingmen. There was also a large torchlight nroeesaion. in

which transparencies denouncing the

McKjnley bill were carried.

The large meeting in Textile Hall was

addressed by Congressmen lirockinrldge, Hynum and McAdoo, and a stirrinir let

ter was read from ex-President Cleve

land.

The principal, address was made bv

Congressman lireekin ridge, of Ken

tucky. He showed how the tariff de

stroys the equality between man and man by helping the rich at the expense of the poor. He denied that the Government had the right to exact any tax

tieyona the requirements of Its actual needs under an economical policy of ad-

- i -1 .I

ministration.

The McKinley bill gives to working-

men no chance to betuir their condition.

The wool question was dwelt on at considerable length aad the advantage of free wool ejearly pointed out We put 10 cents a pound on wool, and it takes four pounds of this sort to make one

pound of yarn. In this way 40 cents in he cost of this pound of yarn Is simply thrown away. It Is 40 cents

more than the foteian competitor has

HOME HINTS AND HELP.

If tho fat in tho frying kettle is hot bofora you am roady for it put in a dry arust of bread. It will not ham as loaf as it has something to do, only when ft to left Idle. In bottling catsup or pickles, ball tha corks, and while hot you can proas them into the bottles, and whoa cold they are tightly sealed. Use the Ma foil from compressed ysast to cover tha corks. -Pickled Turnips ; Scald enough vinegar to cover them, with soma whole spies, pour it over them, and let them cool before using them; carrots, cauliflower, beets, Jerusalem artichoke.

, cabbage, beans, ia fact nearly all cold. boiled vegetables, can ha made into f pickles in this way; I T keep the bright green color of , Hummer cabbage and some other vega- , tables, boll fast in plenty of wator.-la , which has been dissolved a pieos af ' washing soda the siaeof two peas; cover until the water boils and then take off J the lid. If the steam is shut in, the cabbage will bo yellow and unsightly. A very pretty way of decorating work-bags, shoe-bags, tidies and other articles is to apply sprays, or rather, clusters of flat petaled flowers cut from cloth. The whole flower is cut in one piece; they are then placed on their foundation, whatever that may be, and sewed down by a very small stitch between the petals and at the point of each petal. Thai centers are filled ia with French knots in yellow silk, and stalks are worked In cording stitch with brown stlk,4and leaves In long stitch with three shades of green silk. Yankee lilade. Green Pea Soup: Cut upon quarter of a pound of salt pork, and put It on to boil in about one quart of water, allow the pork to cook until it is very tender, then remove it from the liquor and add half a peek of fresh green peas, two ! sprigs of oelery, cut fine, and water enough to cover well; when the peas I are tender, add one pint of milk, two tablespoon fttla of butter, and salt and ; White pepper, let all boil up once after 1 milk is added; skim out a few of the peas, mash them and turn them into ; the tureen, and pour the hot soup upon t them; serve with toast Boston Her- . aid. - Potted Fish: Salmon is perhaps the 1 nicest fish for this purpose, but any

good-sised kind of firm flesh, such as

paid, and the increased cost of wool t lm0H trut "luensh and the like, will

speaxers at tins meeting were

Congressmen Springer, Iiynum, McAdoo

and . P. C. Breckinridge. Mr. Springer

aiscassed the wool question with special reference to Philadelphia. He showed

teat inttaoeiphia was tho greatest

manufacturing center for woolen goods in the United States, there being 458

establishments in the oity interested in

free wool. These establishments have

a capital of $35,900,000 and turn out $85,-

euO.OOO worth of goods every year.

.Mr. bprinrer said that it was the

States east of the Mississippi which had

clamored for the wool tariff of 1867, aad

it was at their demand that it was

passed. That was twenty years ago,

and these twenty years of protection

had utterly failed in the very States

which demanded it In Pennsylvania there are now only 80 sheep where there were 100 in 1868; in New Jersey the loss

is atmtit the same, and in Ohio there are but 00 where there were 100 then. In the Statos east of the Mississippi there were in 1907 over 37,000,000 sheep; in

1SSS tha number had fallen to 18,000,000.

The tariff had failed to encourare wool

growing: and yet the remedy which has

failed once is now to be applied again In

stronger doses.

Jlesldes this failure to enoourage the production of wool, what has been the

state of things in the wool manufactur

ing industry? The manufacturers them

selves have made the admission in their

Bulletin the ofitcltl organ of their as

sociation that "since 1883 nearly onethird of the woolen machinery of this

country has been idle, and the other

two-thirds has been run with lit

tle or no profit" And yet the cry is for more protection. The average duty yald last year on all the

first and second class wool imported was 48.18 per cent According to the

McKinley bill this average will be 57.34 per cent. On third class wools carpet

wools, which are not grown la thiscoun

try the increase is still greater,

amounting to 40 per cant oa the im ports of lW. . . .

un wooien manuiaoiures there is a

still more striking increase. For example: Vrmmt Avrrage avt-riHte MrK-atsy etty. toider Woolen and wnrted cloths, knit gwMld, etc. 07.71 MUi KlHuketn, wool hat, Hhm hc'h, tc... ....,..... SS.7S Womea's ami chlldrea's dreM Mood Ot 88.117 Mr. Springer predicted that If the Mc

Kinley hill were passed half of the

woolen mills of Philadelphia would be

driven to the wall in ten years.

Mr. McAdoo, of New Jersey, pointed out some ot the Inconsistencies of the

bill. He pointed out the effect of put

ting a tax of 9i and 93.75 on Sumatra

leaf tobacco, whbh is used ae wrappers la making cigars out of native Ameri

can tobacco. Coverings of the grade re

quired can not be grown here, and for

this reason the wrappers are all brought

from tha island of Sumatra. The result

will lie to raise the price of the poor

man s cigars and to make him smoke

fewer of them. The absurdity of the

bill in putting straw on the tariff list

was pointed out whereas the farmers in

Indiana burn their straw to get rid of it

Ami se with earn. In Kansas it is burned for fuel; but it goes upon Mc

Kinley's tariff list far a higher duty all the same.

Mr. Itynum pointed out the necessity

hi promoting manufacture by putting free raw materials within their reach, Mr. Kroefcenridge made a very forcible

saseea aaowiag that the arseeat

makes it necessary to have a larger capital, and the Increase is shifted finally back upon the consumer.

This wool tax Is levied, of course, ia

the Interest of the grower of sheep; but

it has not worked in that way. for the

wool which cost 0 cents a pound in 1S60 can now lie had for 84 cents. Seven

bushels of wheat brought SIO in 1800, but now it requires fourteen bushels to

get 10, and that S10 will not buy as good a suit of clothes now as it did la

1S0O, for all cheap clothing is now made

largely of shoddy.

Mr. lirccklnrldgs continued for aa

hour to knock holes in the McKinlav

bill, and then Mr. Bynum was intro

duced.

He attacked the "home market"

theory and showed that if a "home

market" were a good thing for a nation, then it must be also for a State; and if for a State, then for a county, and for a township, and finally for an individual.

In this way the protective system would become a wheel within a wheel. Our

commerce must be so regulated as to stinulate production and consumption at

nome; but this can be done, not by ex

cluding the world, but by taking the

raw materials the world can send us

cheaper than we can produce them ourselves.

In his letter to the meeting ex-Presi

dent Cleveland said:

"I know that with the feeling now abroad

In our land, and with the Intense exhttenea

and activity of auea elub as yours the

claim presumptuously made that tke people at the last election Anally paed upon th subject of tariff adjustment will beemphat leally tfenlrd; and that our workingmen aad fnrmrn will continue to agitate this aad all other questions involving their welfare with laereased seal and In the light r,f lneisd knowledge and experience until they are

determined anally aad In accordance with the American sentiment of fair play,"

Meetings like these are of the very

deepest signifloenoe in a city like Phila

delphia. They show that manufactur

ers and workingmen alike are turninr

from protection to a wise system. Ia

ting, the

non-

political paper, has these forcible words:

"$neh demonstrations aa these, held la

any part of the country, would surely efteet public opinion, even though they made so impression on the dominant party In Con

gress. Hem In I'hlladelplila they have aa exceptional slgitltlcHnce. They mean noth

ing less than that the nrefe-ct ve nrlaelnle m

becoming dlscrellted nmnng the very class for whom It waa specially designed, aad

even among a section of tha' class which has

hitherto lieen above all others perllent la Its support; and they eoually demonstrate

that ttte workmen are opening their eyes te the deception of attlNelal wages."

answer. Kemove the backbone and out

the fish in pieces convenient for laying in a stone pot or jar. To each two pounds of fish take two tablespoonfule each of cloves and allspice. Salt the fish as for frying and lay the pieces ia a jar, sprinkle over them the spices ia layers, cover with the best cider vinegar, tie two thicknesses of heavy brown paper on the top and set ia a moderate oven to bake. It will, be done in three or four hour. When cool it is ready te serve. This is nice for tea or luneheoa for those who are fond of sour dishes. It will keep tar some time. Oraage Judd Farmer. HAWK AND RODENTf.

mm. jr w w-w wv mm CT W SSS an editorial article on this meeting, New York Commercial Hulletln, a :

We bought last year from New Zea

land $1,618,530 worth of goode. Of this

sum Kauri gum furnished fl,087,0s5; gold, )9,465; spices, I50,00. New Zealand produces the finest kind ot

clothing wool, which we need and that country would like to sell us. A New Zealand paper says: "The United States are still closed agaiant us as a

market for the chief article we desired

to export thither wool the value of that taken in l&S having been only

fl&O."

The McKinley hill continues to re

ceive the most deadly stabs in the

House of its friends. The Minneapolis

Journal, which Is a Republican paper,

talks out in this frank fashion: "That McKinley bill Is too hard to defend, aad the party doesn't want certainly, to he forced into the field perpetually ex

plaining and apologizing for its owa acts."

Wherein does a protective tariff

benefit the Western farmer? Does It

increase the price of his corn, his wheat, his oats, rye or any other crop? Not at all. Oa the contrary, it iaofeases the

cost ef hU farm machinery, his plows and every thing used mi predaeiaf thiet

A Preaatery Mrd Ctam Parmer

wka'a Mara f Vermin. Farmer lease N. Itsldwin, of Elk Hill, Susquehanna County, found a large hen-hawk in his cellar one mora ing in April. It had entered through a narrow window on the back side of tha

: house, and it was perched on an applerack when Farmer Baldwin first saw it In one ot its talons the big bird was holding a large rat with a firm grip. The rat was squealing hard, and tha hawk had Its neck curved and was eyeing the struggling creature with evident satisfaction. Pretty soon the rat stopped squealing, aad the hawk then grasped it with its other claw and tore the rat ia two parts. It then made a breakfast of the rat and when it had finished Mr. Baldwin walked toward it Tha hawk flew over to a potato-bin and alighted on the edge of it but it didn't attempt to sail out of the window, aad Mr. Baldwin, imagining that the bird would just as soon stay there as not closed the window up tight Rats were thick in the cellar, aad for three weeks the hawk slaughtered them at a rapid rate. Every day Mr. Baldwin put a panful of fresh water ia tha eellar for tha hawk to driak, and tha bird thrived and appeared to be entirely contented. Mr. Baldwin's folks aad the neighbors frequently went dewa eellar to see the hawk catch rats, aad after awhile it got so used to toeing them there that it didn't seem to miad them at all. After the hawk had been there three or so the rats became scarce. Then Mr. Baldwin set a wire trap la hie granary and caught an old settler. It was a big and a vloious old rat and it bit the wires of the trap and squealed hard to get out Mr. Baldwin carried the trap into the cellar, intending to liberate the rat and let the hawk ro

for it When he got there the hawk waa perched oa the apple-rack, apparently half asleep. He held the trap up toward the hungry bird, the rat squealed with terror at sight of the hawk, and the hawk waked right up aad was ready

for business. Going to a corner ef the cellar fifteen feet from the hawk, Mr. Baldwin raised the trap to a level with his shoulder, and get ready to lift the lid. With its neck stretched out at full length, the eager hawk watched every movement ef tha squealing rat from its perch. It was prepared to spring at aa instant's notice, and Mr. Baldwin quickly opened the trap. Tha rat made a jump for freedom, and the hawk darted at it Ilka a flash and caught it before it touched the floor. For a moment the rat squealed louder than 'ever, and tried to bite the hawk, hut the bird handled it as though it was a plaything, flying up toitsperOh before the rat was dead. Several mere rate were caught In tha hara aad let loose in the name way, and not once did the hawk fall to grab one before it had reached the cellar bottom. After a spall the fun got to he stale, aad a few days ago Mr. Baldwin killed tha

hawk with chloroform, and is having a

scrantoa taxidermist stuff its

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