Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 33, Number 40, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 June 1891 — Page 3

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WEEKLY COURIER. C. DOAKJC, FvMWiw.

INDIANA. BETTY AND THE 1A1Y. u.tomr m deserted. I a taedssa, rl all Ue of Unas I wh k 04. b ebeerful, I full to bt KM. Siore lkUT Wl i ilt In the room tM I read sad I writ. j mine t to Joyfully dream every Rt-M OfJJetty, wUo'm Kfl with tUe baby. u seems that a wotbsr'H sweet f aes I aa sae A i candle the baby ia Joy w my Use. ot no man was ever wore loamMHsw than w Since Hetty's kom with the baby. rue hotif) HtHre ef stienee and gloom, jU I walk through lis halls that are ttUli u a yite T'craty man. silently searching Mich rooa, . . j-or Betty, who's goe with the baby. She ha "gone to see ma," and It's assay a ETfry day that she stays wens a terrible wlillo, Ani I'll never be happy er to smile, Until Hetty comes bvne with the baby. Twill 1 Joy to my boart when the mesaage ..hall come Tbat the hen and our chicken so longer will roam. (ke! won't this old rooster orow loudly at horn Woeo Hetty gets back with the baby? Will S. Hays, in Louisville Times, KATE'S HUSBAND. Loaeon of Duty and Was Learned. How It "It docs seem to me that these children will drive mo crazy," said Kate Harland. petulantly, as she ran Into the sitting-room and drew her lwby from under a chair which it had pulled over upon Itself. "Patience, Kate, patience," said her husband, who sat by the window reading the morning paper; "you are too easily excited, my dear, you should learn to take things more coolly." "You don't know what you are talkIn? about, Carl," said Kate, in a peevish TOice; "you tell me to be patient, calm and cool and accuse me of being Irritable. Perhaps I ant irritable, and I think you would be if you had to livewith two mischievous children day in and out the year round. When you talk about a woman being patient and cool and calm under such circumstances, 1 I say you uon't Know wnat, you are iaiKJnjr about" Kate spoke excitedly and -ave her husband a look of severity kit wna wastoil. for Carl Harland did m lift his eyes from the paper that he a reading'. 'You are just like all the others of hur sex. Kate." he replied, shifting veyet sloyVly to the top of another a I i nevaer yet anew a woaaava wn ft apeacM a rood share of her time iJrWof her let im Ufa. leant W Yea always hare let VJiam t,rork worry vou ever ainee alii h-.f t ueen ouiikcu w uo iv. u i 4 4 J . - 1- T T tford to employ a girl to assist N ttir d vou could tret time to read ami nt aml ransack the dry goods store : have a good time generally, you r . , r OU1U uc viuiujiiirsbiTeij jimny. x van4 .ffnnlr 4 ik fiivni'li ultlt an 4.nf H eA.mv,e 4r wit (liut. It ttt r . . t. 1- . 1. 1. u.!il,n,.4 4 4 J 4 .44 hll V4. f" vt."..v u 1 . . . . . 4 4 4 1 my dear," I do the best that I can, Carl," said Kate, "but I cannot help worrying ami finding fanlt with the children sometimes when I am tired." "I can't see what there is about your work that should tire you, as you say it does," said Carl, laying dowa his paper and turning to Kate, who w sweep ing; "if you had the respoafibility of supporting the family and had to work from morning till night as I do, then jou might worry and complain of get ting tired You have mevcr hcaul me ioniplain, have you?" "I don't know that I ever have, Carl," said Kate, meekly, as she swung the broom over the carpet unable to see the dust through the mist that was in her eyes. "You were a spoiled girl, Kate," con tinued her husband, "ami I suspect that it would have been much Ixuter for us both if we had never met, but we are married and must make the best of the tituation, and I sincerely hope that you will refrain from letting-' your temper pet the best of you when I am m the house. If I had no more to do and no more to worry mc than you have. I should consider myself an extremely fortunate person." Carl had risen and putting on his hat ho left the room, closing" the doorlwtlnd him with emphasis which indicated that he had allowed Am temper to rise above the point of moderation. When the door closed upon the form of her husband, Kate sank Into a chair nd burylnjj her face hi her hands gave herself up to tears. Harold, the eldest T tugged at his mother's elbow, wJiile the baby sat in the middle of the floor and looked inquiringly at her toother through her blue eyes as if Pondering that any other being om earth, but herself, should have cause for indulging in such an exhibition of prief. Kate had been Carl Harland's wife fie years. They had known each other ht a few months before they were Carried. They believed that they loved each other, and as Carl was a prosperoa merchant ia a thriving western wn there seemed to be no reason for rtponlug the day when they should CCmne one, sc they weie married and Kte bade adieu to ptreats and friend go to the house that her husbaad wl prepared for her is the far couHtry. n the second year of their married ,"V ooy was bora to taern; a golden "aired, brown-eyed fellow, the Image f his faib.t- 4i r..r. i.t.p MUii ifirl with Ut. taauUr blue eves aad

t faea oi War mother. Carl Harlaad and his wife were Mtpremely Happy in the pofcMttwlon of their houte awl their ch.ldrea. Their love for enek other iHreH4d with the years ami they seemed riti)HMl to pas through life muter a cloudless sky. One sight, during a great storm, the water came dowa from the mountains ami swept through the valley destroying many thousand of dollars' worth of H-oper ty. Carl Harland' place of business was wrecked; the building was tors timber from timber ami its contents earrled away by the Hood. The property was not insured against damage by water, and Carl awoke one morning to find himself penniless. This misfortune had a marked effect umh Kate's husband, lie lost his cheerfulness. Uo became irritable ami critical in his manner towards his wife, who tried to be bravo and encourage her husband by word and deed to re new Ids efforts to rebuild the business of which he had been so ruthlessly robbed. The indifference with which her efforts in this direction were received bad at last deadened the ambition in Kate's heart, and she had begun to enfold heraelf in the skirts of the gloomy mantle that her husband had wrapped alout himself. She grew despondent and peevish, irritable and careless, and the last year of the marriedjife of Carl Harland and his wife haloecn marked by many unpleasant scenes In which harsh words very frequently prevailed. It was late in the afternoon when Carl came home, on the day that he left his wife with the unpleasant words quoted above, and he found Kate lying upon the sofa suffering with a severe headache. "More worry," he thought, as he sat down to a cold lunch alone; "well, I think after all, that if she is bound to

worry, the best thing to do is to refrain from showing her sympathy. If she thinks that she is treating mc and the children right by acting in this manner, I think I shall let her get all the satis faction that she possibly can out of her headaches." Carl passed the evening in silence. He gave some attention to his children, but he was indifferent to his wife. Kate's head pained her so severely that she made no especial note of her hus band's treatment of her. The next morning her head was no better and she was so weak as to be unable to leave her bed. Carl did not think that she was really as ill as she said she was. but he en couraged her ''whim" and insisted upon her remaining in bed. "I have no work to-day," he thought, "and this will be a splendid opportunity for me to show Kate how easily the housework can be done, if a person goes about it calmly and takes some interest in it. It may teach her a lesson." He was kind to Kate that morning, for he wanted his every act to impress her. He dressed the children and set about preparing breakfast, while he was arranging the dishes oa the table Grace, the youngest child, crept tap to tbeeoal hod aad tipped it over upoa hewhL The coal dasi filled her aaoatk aad eyes aad aoOed her elethee. Gad, giad of aa uppaitaaity to aha w his wMa howealmhe eoald be under trying- ctrcu instances, gathered the erring child in hie arms and talked eoaxingiy to her while he bathed her face and hands and changed her dress. He had got the dress partly oa when the oatmeal boiled over. Carl sat the baby down on the floor and stepped to the stove to remove the kettle. Meantime Grace was frantically trying to extricate herself from the folds of the dress her father had left enveloping her head. Carl picked her up and said "peek-a-boo'' when her head popped from the interior of the dress, but the tone la which he said it was not altogether cheerful, and when he buttoned her dress he drew it together with so much force that the scam at the shoulder was widely ripped. At this Carl's teeth bore together harder than usual: that was all. After breakfast he prepared some toast and tea for Kate, and accepted her praise with a triumphant sialic After the dishes were washed and set away, he began to sweep the carpet. He had scarcely begun this work wliea he found an annoyance in the person, of the baby, who insisted upon gather ing up the dirt in her tiny hands and scattering it on the carpet which had just been swept After several vain attempts to get Grace interested in some other dircctloa, he finally picked her up and tith a muttered: "There, sitnv tlii4r will VOU?" sat the mischiev- . ous elf in her high chair with rather more force than was absolutely neeos- ! sary. Grace was not pleased with this arrangement, and began kicking and screaming and rocking to and fro. She swayed her body so wildly that she Anally went over with a crash, and Curl, dropping the broom in the midst of the room, exerted himself to quiet the screeching child. He had succeed ed In this when It suddenly occurred to him that he had not noticed Harold since breakfast, and as the outside door had been left open on account of t;s heat, it was probable that he had gone out, and he might have fallen into fue stream that ran through the field near the house. Hatless, with his sleeve. rolled up, and one of Kate's aprons fastened to him, Carl rushed out In search of his boy. He finally found him in the chlckcn-housc, breaking the china nest eggs with a hatchet which he had picked up near the wood pile. Carl was disposed to give his son a thrashing, but, remembering that it was the day of all days in which he must be calm, he took up the child and carried him into the house, where he found Grace busily engaged i creep - Ing through the dirt that he had swept up, aad scattering it broadcast over the room. At the sight of this, Carl's nerves quivered, and he gave the broom a kick that sent it lying across the room, and the handle, coming in contact with an earthera caspldore, chipped a piece out of the rim. "What waa that, Carl?" asked Kate from the bedroom feebly. 'Oh nothing at all," answered Carl, I raining down hi wrath; "yea He still aad don't werry about m. Vm

tiag akmg splendidly," Peking up the broom he swung it over the earpet a few times, and gathering up the dirt, he eoncluikHl that that was good enough to suit him, and if other people didn't like It, they could do it over. It wa an hour before lunch time, and Carl sat down to go through the morning paper. He mentally assured himself that he had not found It very tiresome to do the morning work. He had read alsmt a half how when Kate disturbed him by asking what the children were doing. He had not thought of the children since he began reading. I in found them la the kitchen. Somehow Harold had got a bottle of mucilage, and he was .engaged in "polishing" his sUter's sltoes with its contents when their father came upon them. Carl smiled in a weak, spiritless way, and removing Om baby's shoes, set them aside "to be cleaned by Kate." After luncheon, when Carl came to wash the dishes, he found that the novelty of the situation had. worn off, and he did not move about the room as actively as he hail in the forenoon. The children were peevish and mischievous. They wanted their afternoon nap, and once, when Carl had stepped into the dinlng-rooin, Harold climbed up into a chair, and leaning on the kitchen table, tipped until the pan of dish water slipped off and spilled over tins floor. Hy the time Carl had reached the kitchen, Grace had erept into the pool of water and her clothe were saturated. Carl's calmness was seriously disturbed, and closing the kitchen door, he punished Harold severely. Grace did not relish this treatment of her brother and the howling of the two

children fairly made Carl's teeth chattor. He soon had dry clothes on Grace, and tucking the sobbing children into their crib, he went about his work. "I'll have a little peace," he thought, 'while they're asleep," and he became conscious of a still small voice within him which weakly asserted that after all, Kate had a good many things to contend with of which he had known nothing. Kate's husband was on his knees cleaning the dish water from the floor when there was a knock on the kitchen door and Mrs. Chantler, a near neighbor, walked in. ''Excuse me for coming right in, Mr. Harland," she said. "I didn't know but I might be needed here. I saw you running around the yard this morning with your sleeves rolled up and an apron on, ami I came to the conclusion i that your wife was sick, aad I see I'm right; poor thing, she works herself most to death. I suppose, of course, she's in the bedroom; I'll go in and see If I can do anything for her. If you j have, any trouble :n getting that grease spot out of the floor, Mr. Harland, just try some concentrated lye, then put sawdust on it and let it lie a few days. That'll absorb it, you know. I guess I'll go right in and see Kate; I don't be lieve she'll care if I don't announce myself." Art. unaauer teeppea uno tae amCeH, wHhthe floor eletn In aea aasd a pall tat the other, look! her with aa expreaskm m hia eyes tfcei was really dangerous. "I'll bet my life that she'll wake the ehlldrea with that tongue of hers," he muttered. "She didn't know but she might be needed here, hey? If I was a woman I would see that she didn't leave the house with any doubt in her mind on that point. She has no business to run in here whenever she pleasea," Mrs. Chantler remained with Kate two hours, and with her ceaseless chatter contributed to the pain that racked the poor woman's head. When she departed she cautioned Carl against letting the children make too much noise in the house and suggested that for a day or two it would Ih much better for Kate if none of the neighbor were allowed to see her. It was three o'clock in the afternoon when Carl had finished the work, and had just seated himself for the purpose of resuming his paper when the children awoke. Gritting his teeth almost savagely, Carl threw down the paper and gave his attention to the children. There s one thing that Kate does," he thought, "that I will not do, for I don't think it's right, and that is to sit around the house aud hold the children, when they might just m well be taught to amuse themselves." Placing Grace on the floor and instructing Harold to play with her, Carl took up his paper, children gradually found their The way into the sitting-room. tan was deeply interested in an account oi the discovery of a rieli stiver deposit in Colorado when a crash in the fitting-room brought him to his feet. With a bound ho was at the door and the scattered remains of a costly vase that he had given Kate on the day of their mar- , riage lying on the floor met his eye. 1 , Grace hud caught the covering of tho table upon which it stood and pulled It off. Shivering with fright at the disaster Harold had concealed himself liehind the sofa; while the Imby, unablo to conceive the extent of the damage that she had done, sat in the tnklat of the debris awl looked smilingly up into the white sc of her father. Carl shcok with passion. The shivered vhm' on the floor called to his rnlnd, the day. .year.-, befort. when he hud led Kn.o to the altar and made her his wife mid hhi companion. On that day he hud promised o love and pro tect her ami to give her his. sympathy in the time of trouble. Had lie done this? Had he done his duty. This was the question that arose In Carl's heart, and turning away from " the sight of the vase lie went to the bedside of hia wife ami frankly tout ner how his eyes had been opened to his shortcomings; how selEshness had devoured him, and how blind he had grown to his duties and her wants. "Kate," said he, 'forgive me for all y ill treatment of yon. I have been in the hands of an evil spirit. This day the seal has dropped from my eyes and henceforth I shall endeavor to be to von all that I have promised." And he wa. Thorn B. MeUaaa. U Yankee

THE LUMBER DUTY.

Law Kxpwrta tr I,mImt atf Small lw i Mri-sMiiHrrH rm Lmmomm- m tll rmri nl tUf H'rMCMH4H u a KIvhI , Ammmic Prima t Um VrpttUH uprSome people fancy that we need a duty on lumber ami timber to protect owr ferehts from the pauper-grown foreeta of Canada and other countries; but a staff correspondent of the high tariff New York Tribune, who has been traveling in the south, writes to that journal from PeasaeMa, Fla., to show that Florida pine is shipped to Europe la large quantities ai.d hi very popular there for ship building as well as for ether purposes. This correiondcat states that the Florida yellow pine was largely used in the Portsmouth, England, deck yards before the present custom of making rhips' hulls ami musts out of iron was adopted. "At the French navy yards at Chcrltourg, Hrest and Koehefort," he says, "It was largely used. For deckplanking it is unexcelled, and to this .lay the Cnnarder' passenger perform Uieir endless promenades on plaaks shipped from Peusacola. The llarbary coast men use it, and so do the shipbuilders at Venice and at Fiume, the greatest timber exporting town on the Adriatic " The changes ia the method of shipbuilding, however, have not hurt the export of Florida lumber and timler. 'Large shipments of the big logs are sent annually to France and Belgium for railroad piers and bridges. Some of them are cut up and made into freight cars. Other cargoes have been unloaded at Rotterdam and towed all the way up the Rhine to Mayence, passing on the way the German rafts bound for the sea". In Germany they use the wood for flooring and housebuilding, and so they do In Switzerland. Java, .la nan and Cape Town use it for docks and harbors. Australia has taken many shiploads; and only a year ago a cargo went to London, was transferred there to a steamer bound through the Suez canal, and finally unloaded at Calcutta, the entire cost having been less than the current "through freight from Pensacola direct The shipments every year are enormous, one Pensacola firm alone having exported 100,000,000 feet In one year." If anyone will examine the reports of our foreign commerce for the fiscal year 18W), he will find that our exports of lumber and timber amounted to nearly $22,000,000, against imports of only about 88,750,00. Ily far the larger part of our exports went out from southern ports like Newport News, Va.; Brunswick, Ga.; Pensacola, Fla; Mobile, Ala, and New Orleans. But our exports to Canada were very respectable, reaching nearly 82, 000, 000. Some of the figures of our lumber and timber exports from points along our northern border give rise to amus ing reflections concerning the protection superstition. The lumbermen of Miehhraa were before McKinley's commit tee last year to oppose any reduction of the duty oa lumber; yet last year's exports from the two Michigan porta of Detroit aad Fort Huron mto leaeaed about S7M.MQ worth. Three rears ao rtala etttawM of aad Taeoma, Weak, aeat euraeg aceiaet lowerhag the duty. Their of distress was atiagled with pathetie references to the Chinese coolie labor employed in the foreats of British Co lutnbia. Yet the fear and trembling of these good people was. but the effect of the protection superstition, ihe treas rr reports show that the exports of lumber from Paget Sound in 18W) were upwards of 1 1, 350.000. Afraid of foreign competition and yet able to export nd sell In foreign markets; such is ever the amazing folly of the protection mind. The duty on lumber should be re pealed; not one vestige of it should be left. It is not needed to protect the American lumber industry, as it was testified by a Michigan lumberman that the cost of making lumber was about as much in Canada as in 'Michigan, and that if there was any difference at all the cost would be found a little greater in Canada. The duty, then, can serve only to give American producers and dealers the opportunity t- combine aud maintain prices. So recently as the sec ond week in March there was a. report that a consolidation of practically all the lumber dealers of the west had been effected. CATCHING A TARTAR. Tbe Home .Market CIhIi Gets Maine In formation AmerlcBH Good Cheaper For Forelgnera Than For American What a Great .Manufaetarrr Sara-How Froteetlon Hurta. The famous Home Market club of Hostoti has been investigating the charge that our manufacturers sell their frods cheaper to foreigners than in the protected home market, and the club has certainly brought out more infor mation than it wanted. In the course of his investigation Col Clarke, the secretary of the club, sent the following letter to Mr. A. II. Farqu har, the great agricultural implement manufacturer of ork, Pa.: Thk Homk Mahkkt rr.ua ) No. ia ItKiiroan stukkt. Boston. .m.. M y is, mi ) Mr, A. 1. Famahar.of A. B. V.& CO., Limited Ye,rk Fa. liniKMKt Having recently een a state meiit attributed to ymt that vonr arm sella goods tn the I. it In countries south of us and hi )Hutli Afr.ea at pnc from 8 to 10 per cent li s than they are sold for In thlseoun trv, and tint "the manufacturer who i able to export hia goods can have no use for pro tectum except to enable him. to extort more money from home producers than he la able to get from those abroad," I desire to know a Utile more about the facts pertaining to tliU business. Will vou kindly Inform me 1. What percentage of your geods Is sold ahioitd? 1, Whether er ant yeu sell dIreeMy to houses In the countries named or to par chasers lit this country for shipment thence? X. What Is the reason that yen do net get m kooU nrlcea there as Merer t Iio voh sell any uoods In Knglaad Franon and Germany, and If so, how do tke tirleea commtre with Amerfean prices? t, What la the value of the raw material entering into a plow compared with the An latied product? i. IH you think the duty ea aneh Imple meats hi yea manufacture Is relatively blither tnaa that anon Roods in other lines of wood and Iron aad of the varies elaaaes mt textile? 7. Tnutd yen f aver a reduetle w repeal

ttt i So duty an twenmaewa need 4 trril h Ki yum lwltv that Amt-riesa hhwiu-

Ueturt-rs i wnrllr weald be able mII aiaay mhh-m u nd Mlrwad inaa h-w U thry fcd trwa raw material, ssd if in. nIhmU wbat 1 bt elwa more tbsH nun I Uvor frw raw HrlMiit and oui d set. I ft hi dlroa of eMamiaa mucit Ikut upon turn kubj et wa teJMtt mw tUedlaWrnt InlustrbM la din rat part ( tse eoustnr. You will oonfwr a favr'b-amtwttrlHK the above 4uttutii at your earl.att eeuvwa imnvrn liMir truly. Alskst Ciuhkk. Sferptary. Now Mr. Karqwhnr, although former ly a staunch protectionist, has learned through his business experience that he has no need whatever for protection, and that the so-called protection of the American industry is but another waj of saying higher prices to Ameri can consumers. Accordingly ne sent the following reply to Col. Clarke: Yonx, fa., May W. Mr. All-rt Clarke, seretary Home Market C lib, KotoH,MHti. Dkas Sik In reply to your favor of May 4 baveto Mckaowle le It lutiuitf true that our liritiaetta implement and Hiarh liter ytbroufrb Mexico, South America ami Africa "at privee from 5 to 10 per ent. tea tumi they are cold fer in till country." Ia adding that "the manufaeturer who la able teexportMaffooUs cm it liuvtt no uae for protection ttaveept to enable III in to extort worn money from home purchsMura than he la able to at Iroin those abroad," I was only Mating a fact that I bellpved Kwii-rvlunnt. It ia Inconceivable that the "tune rival manufacturer with whom we uoc!fully coniptfte on equal terms In forelan market ean b tlioiiKht eapableof drlvIn us from the market at our own doora. Oh that ilnt4HioiK intelligent men, no argument la tiftHled Now, as to your iuetton. I will aaawet Iii-iii aeriatlm: First We Bend upon an averaae about one half of our manufacture abroad ; aouiethlns leas Juat now, owing; to the trouble lit Argentine and Chill, where we uaually And our best tnaTVHt, Second In both ways. We nell to the for-la-" house directly and nlo through eumml,on merchants In NVw York. Third The reaon we dn not set ai tcood nrfeea abroad a at home ia that we have to compete wlthcountrlea having the great ad - vantage of free raw material la their manufacture and the further advantage of better transportation facilities. Great Britain, tn pursuance of her free trade policy, baa fer yonrs becMHXtendliia'littr foreign commerce; while we, pursuing an oppoalte policy, have left litr In full poaasalon, The Clyde shipyard are open to everv Kuropean investor who wishes to start a line of ateamera, while we must aatlafy ourselves with vessels beltt at a dozen disadvantage. Kourtli Y', we sell a few goods In Kngland, France and Germany, but they are mad especially for those uiarketa, aad It would be rather hard to compare the prices with the American. They undoubtedly average lower for goods of similar con struction. Fifth The value of the raw material in a plow certalnlv average more than half Its total eMt. Wo manufacture Minus nds of fHr-liorsc plows, for insianea, for the African m.irket, weighing, "fiill-t-linsied. wtth draft-rod, wheel, cutter, two extra shares," hoxt-d, about two hundred pounds eaeh. Tltla plow la delivered on board vaaels In New York for than nvw dellan about the coat f the material la It if purckated at ri tall prices. Handles and beani , Jl.ee tee! and iron.,, ,. zee Hosing, freight, ete. M Total M. leaving about one dollar for eot of hbor and proAt Sixth The duty on ear impwae-aa aM maehmery Is net relatively htamn- than ap. on etnerawanfaetarea. I need n enlarge urKMi tnl. but may reeneetfalty refer yea at tae "tariff ch4ak of MM." venta- I weuM aalieiWailnaii awar a JMMFfa) tlaVS aaa Maee a tenet and It a treat Km oanreriag ear good ai to M4. Eighth I do beUf that AuMtieaa nwau faelurera genera ly would bo able to svell many moro goods abroad than now It they had free raw material. The importation of this material would of itself stimulate a dein ti nd for American products abroad. It la d Jthult to nstlinata the percentage, but I a ,oHld expect an Increase of at least Ji per eent. Very respectfully, A. R. FahquhaU. WHEAT DUTIES ABROAD. Merlin Want the Cithuh Tax Removed From American Wheat. The news comes from Germany that at a meeting of the stadtrath, or board of aldermen of Berlin, they voted to ask the government to repeal the duty on grain, in consequence ox me poor prospects on the new crop. Ihe vote stood seventy-three in favor to are against it. The present German duty on wheat is thirty-two cents a bushel, and if it is removed our farmers may expect a large increase in the foreign demand for their wheat. The present heavy duty was put on several years ago, the previous duty having been about nine teen cents a bushel. Since the increase of duty our exports to 'Germany have sunk to very small proportions. The crop prospects in Germany this year are not origin; ami me Jteriia aldermen, being sure that the tariff is a tax, want to provide a way by which the poor may still continue to have cheap breatl. In France, too, there is the prospect of a very poor yield of wheat; and even the high pr teetioaists of that country have deckled to lower the duty on wheat for one year. The Germans and French do not seem to have any confidence at all in the theory that the foreigner that is, In this ease, the American fanner will pay the tax. Even those protectionist nations are not deceived by the silly notion, so often heard among American protectionists, that the tariff is not hurtle n, is not a tax, and is a good thing for the nation at large. Will It He a Trust? McKlnley said in his tariff speech year ago, in defending the tin plate tax, that the foreign manufacturers had trust and combine; we propose by this duty to break ami destroy it." . If he does break and destroy it. will le only to deliver us, bound hand and foot, to a borne market American trust Already the men who say they are going to manufacture tin plate have met in iNuw iork ami effected an or raniKation. A second meeting waa appointed for an early day at Inttsbargh. There little doubt that when the Ameriean tin plate industry gets on its feet prices will be controlled by a combine, a hi tit case with nine-tenths of our existing industries. Whether there U any ehoice between a heme market treat and a foreign one is a thing for the MeKiaieyites to titt hie.

PCRfONAl A MO LITERARY.

Cent VY. If. P. Hsiao of the otiaaa ship JCtruria has just eoatpletesl hie Wist voyage aeroes the AUaatle. He Irst went to sea as an appeentios ha IWHi. and got his irst command of a Cuaard steamer in 184. John Stephenson, who built the fret Ameriean horse ear, k more than eighty years old, but still vigorous aad energetic. His mind is yet busy who htventkms, and he ean accomplish aa much work in a day aa a wan many years his junior. Hundreds of strangers apply fer permits to go through the Kdkoa laboratory at Orange and many seek fat terviews with the great electrkeea. Very few have their wihes gratified. A notice is pouted in the little ok at the entrance to the effect that Mr. Batcon is always exceedingly busy andean see no one, All callers are referred te Mr. Tate, his business manager, aad permits to inspect the works are alateet invariably refused. While Queen Victoria was in west ern France returning from Graace, re cently, a telegram awaited her at one of the stations where a halt was made. The postmistress refused to give it into anybody's hands but the righful recip ient, and all the diplomacy of tlte royal train was put ia action to induce this jealous functionary to waive rules and regulations In favor of the queen of England. Madame only yielded to the pressing solicitations of Gen. Ponsouhy and a secretary of the British embassy. The editor of one of the leading magazines says in Current Literature' "We print twelve numbers in each year, Ia each number we print on an average ay twelve or fifteen articles. Suppose we nay that in the course of a year we print 100 articles or so. Now, how many manuscripts do you suppose are offered us in the course of a year? Something over 4,000. If we chose to make up the entire magazine front year's beginning to year's end oat of the voluntary contributions, we should still perforce have to reject about 3,80 or S.9O0 articles." James Whitcomb Riley, havmg been asked what he did to warm up am rreeponsive audience when he waa lecturing, answered: "I do not try. out my glasses I'm not worth a straw. ell, when I see 1 have a cold aad critical audience, I just take off my glaaees and lay them in the desk. Then the house may be just aa uneasy as it likes, for 1 can't see a tning. Tae whole house might get up and leave and I'd never know it It doean't pay for an audience of mine to be cold, fer I let them do all the freezing. "Edward Eggleetoa, the author, says Harpers weekly, "resMea away up in northwestern Vermont, la the midst of tlte primeval woodland, and far removed from any railway, ia a rambling old hotnesteadl rejoicing fam the quaint designation of 'Owl's Neat.' Hia versatility ia as aiaainy as hia te wlsaaM He has hem a a poet, a joanuutet. a newel let, aad hi bow hhfexriaW. Tmwmrm order to write a Mlsteryef the Thirteen Colonies." HUMOROUS. Give a fisherman an inch worm he'll take an eel. Itingha niton Republican. A Simple Request She (answering knock) "Oh my, George." He (a dis appointed suitor.) " on't yon omit the comma?" Yankee Blade. "What are you studying?" "Metaphysics." "Ami what is that?" "I don't know any better than yea. I only study it for pleasure." FHogeada Klaettcr. "I thought you made Brigga -clothes?" "I do," replied the tailor. "Then why did he cat yoa, just now? Have you had any trouble with him?" "No. He paid his bill yesterday." N. Y. Recorder. Crawling Out of It Teeeher "Tommy, you surely know better than to state that the deer belongs to the carnivorous animals." Tommy "He does if they catch him, ma'am." Indianapolis Journal. Reason Enough. Minister (on Sunday, to Tommy, who is about te go a-fishing) "Why are yoa digging worms to-day, my son?" Tommy " 'Cause yer can't get many 'thoat yer do dig;" Boston Herald. Poet (to his practical friend) "la there anything more leautiful than te see those magnificent swans float upon the lake's silver surface"? How I would love to 1ms like them!" "What! Ga around with one's stomach in that cold water all the dnyl Not for me, thank, yon." Fliegende Illaetter. Got His .Money's Worth. "Doea de coh't tax mc ft be dollahs far hltin' ob Sam Stoper?' asked the defendant "Five dollars fine Is the penalty," replied the judge, with a tinge of imimticnce in his voice. "Well, jedge, I doesn't want er git tie bos' ob noliody, and 1 tells yer. hones' 'twas wuf mob's dat." Washington Post. Husband "I won enough money last night at poker to get yoa a new dress.'' Wife (sobbing) "I think you might stop playing those horrid cards, John. You know what it may lead to in the end, and to think that I should ever be the wife of a gambler. This hi t-t-too much. What kind of a drees shall I gct?"-Cioak Review. All Over Vith.-"And is this yor final deciskm?" mattered the young man hoarsely, an he gathered up hia eoat and hat and prepared to depart. "It is," replied the beautiful ores tare as she sank btek listlessly into the Turkish divan which her father, who waa a well-known humorist, had placed at her disposal. "Then farewell," he hieeed, and as he stood on the steps om side a moment later and took a last look at the stately mansion he murmured. "And this kt all A aires salt two Rights a week for three atonme at three dollars a sight, and nothing te fer lt"-CialaiUr

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