Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 35, Number 39, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 June 1893 — Page 7
WEEKLY COUltlKü. C. DOAN1S, PiibllHlun-. JASPER INDIANA
A TAILOlt'S SON. Do You Think His Ambition Was a. Solüsh Ono? YoniifT Engfer remembered quite distinctly that morning seven years ago, when Miss Sturgis had come with her mother to his father's shop to be measured for a riding habit. Me remembered the frock of large plaid that alio wore, all green and blue and black, and be remembered her blue felt hat with its ostrich feathers; but what had made a still deeper impression upon Ins boyi,h mind was her pretty pink-aiid-whito
face, her great hazel eyes and lier sunny curls, which, after being caught at the nape of her ncelc with a dark blue ribbon, went rippling down over her rough brown coat nearly to her waist. He had stood at the little desk In the corner making out bills for it was a Saturday, and, there not being any school, he was engaged at his usual holiday occupation. ile was sixteen then, and he fancied that she was a year or two younger; for lie had overheard her mother say that it was hor first riding habit, and that they did not care for mi expensive one because she would outgrow iL He refilled that she had blushed at this, as though it were a crime to be young and growing, and that a feeling of resentment had come into his heart against hernnther for subjecting her to such an embarrassment. Seven years had wrought a great many changes, but the shop was in the samt old place there on Sixth avenue, under the shadow of the Jefferson .Marlret police court's brick walls, and with
the elevated railroad trains rumbling past the windows of the upper room
where he studied and where he slept. Kuri Kn-'fer. the tailor's son, however,
was no longer a schoolboy, looking
after his father's books and making out
bills on holidays. He was now a sttt1im at the general theological seminary
a Protestant Episcopal clergyman in embryo and he wore somber blaek garments of a somewhat clerical cut to
indicate hisehosen profession, Just why he had gone Into the church be liardlv dared to confess, even to him
self, because he was really a conscientious young fellow at heart, and he be
lieved that there was such a thing as a
divine call to the nriesthood. In his
Jim he doubted if the call was divine,
The orthodox teachings of a maiden lady who presided over a class in the mission Sunday school that he attended on Carmine street had not been without their effect. He had accepted the Scriptures as truth, he had been baptised and lie bad been confirmed, but the Impulse to go forth and preach the Gospel had come rather from a wish to elevate himself above the level of the surroundings in which he had been born and raised than from any burning desire to lift his fellow-man from the Slough of Despond. Young Engfer now and then indicted upon himself a sort of moral tlagellalion. At. such times he opened his heart to his own honest gaze, and he invariably found there a deeper underlying motive for his course, of which he was half ashamed. It was nothing more nor less than an ambition to gain a position from which he might aspire in the love of the little maid in the
nluid frock who had ordered her first
riding-habit from his father on that
Saturday seven years ago. It would not have been an unworthy ambition, he told himself, under other circumstances. If it were only a sec
ondary consideration! If lie had given himself to the church first, and this de
sire had come afterward, he could have pacified his chiding conscience with the assurance that a wife such as Madeline Sturgis would make him would be of hiealeiilub e assistance to him in his
name binl work: but now he felt that he
was using his holy calling as a means
to accomplish an end that was distinctly selfish, and as such hypocritically base.
These moods, as nil tritt be supposed,
morbidly denressinir. All the
afternoon he had been lighting over again in his heart the same old battle between the righ t and the wrong of St; mid timv. f ired out bv the struirule, he
had come down from his little upper
room into the tailor shop on me grounu ilnor. mid whs staudintr looking out
through the glass door at the passing throngs on the avenue. Worltinir men and workingwomen
were hurrying home from their day's toll; the surface cars were crowded, m.l :it sluiri Intervals lonir. heavy trains
thundered by on the elevated road overbend. Thelnirrv-sktirrv of the scene
diverted him for the moment, and he would probably have been lifted completely out of his doli' rums, had not that one name, spoken by his father's voice, at that instant fallen upon his ear. The old man was evidently In trouble. He had spoken, somewhat graciously, to his cutter, who was busy chalking out a pair of trousers, which were for
Herr Flelschman, the walking gentleman at Amberg's theater, and which must be finished In time for the premier of the new comedy on the following evening. His question was as to who could curry home a certain riding habit fr "Mees Sturgis." The errand boy was out. Karl knew that it was the busiest season of the year with his father, and that Gottlieb, the cutter, could not be spared for outdoor service. Hut the garment was promised and must be sent. Karl turned a way front the door. "Let me take It, father," ho said. "It's only a step down to Washington phu e, and I don't mind." The old German protested, but Karl persisted, and eventually the father relUCtlltltlv onunlltml In lllldlV his SOU. of
Wimm hit wtiu turn thrill lll'llllll. Iltld fol'
whom he had ambitions that towered to a bishopric, to deliver the parcel. U any American city other than New
York the Knee Inda nf srniintf man on
well dressed carrying large bundle on a crowded thoroughfare would huve attracted attention, but in the metropolis people are more apt to mind their own business than are the people elsewhere, and no it happened that as Karl made his way down Sixth avenue, with tho riding-habit wrapped in brown paper under his arm, scarcely a head was turned to look after him. Had It been otherwise, however, it is doubtful whether the young theologlcul student would have observed it. He was plunged deeply in thought, and as his feet traversed the six or seven blocks that lay between his father's shop and the Sturgis residence his mind traveled once again over the seven years that had intervened since that eventful day when Madeline Sturgis had come into Iiis life. As he looked back at the boy that he was then he wondered how he had ventured to let the seed of hope take root In his heart. The son of a cheap Ger
man tailor: his companions, like him
self, the children of poor tradesmen it
was certainly a wild notion that pos
sessed him to woo and win this aristo
cratic little maiden, whose people were not onlv rieh enoutrh to buv and sell
him and his father a thousand times
over but were of a social stratum far
above that in which the Engfer.s lived
and moved and had their being. He remembered how he had carried
home the first riding-habit when it was finished, and how he had been asked to wait in the dlniiiL'-room until Miss Star-
gis could try it on and ascertain whether it was entirely satisfactory; and he
recalled how he had sat there in that
basement 'apartment with its extension-
table and its leather-covered chairs;
how he had looked with admiration
unon the entrraviturs in walnut frames
that huntr unon the walls, and how he
had hoped all the time that there might
bo some complaint, so that the little lady would come down to show him just what was wrontr and he could tret an
other glimpse of her. Hut his father
was a good workman. 1 he hauit was all that could be desired, and he had returned home disappointed. The days when he saw Madeline he Called his red-letter days, and for a time they wore fewer than those that arc indicated in the printed calendars. One January afternoon, however, Mrs. Sturgis had come into the shop and had asked his father if Karl would not like to go to the mission Sunday-school on Carmine street, in which she was
very much interested, and his lather, who would have gone through fire and Hood to nlease a customer, so fearful
was he of losing a dollar's worth of
trade, had said that Karl would certain lv be there on the following Sunday.
From that time on he saw her more
frequently, and his infatuation increased in proportion. She taught a
eluss of small boys across the aisle
from where he usually sat, and on
more than one occasion the maiden
In de who nreslded over the irroun of
larger boys, of which he was one, was
compelled to demand with some cnt-
nhasis his return to the business of the
hour, his gaze having a way of wander
ing repeatedly from his catechism or
his llible to the face of the pretty little
teacher in the opposite pew.
One incident that lie recalled with
some pleasure had occurred on a Sun-
diiv afternoon in early sprintr. He had
noticed that Mrs. Sturgis was not
present in the chapel; that .Madeline bad come alone! and he had wondered
nil tbroiiL'li the lesson whether it
--0
would seem rude on his part, after the
close of the session, to otier to wane
home with her. If he only could, he
thought, it would be the happiest day of his life; but he feared that she might think him impudent and presuming, und. when the school was dismissed,
and the scholars and teachers tiled out into the street, he lacked the courage to
tro forward and sneak to her.
r
Hut his happiness had come, nevertheless; for, in following her at what he considered a most respectful dis-
stance, his eyes never once leaving her
the vomit? f cure, clad in a weii-nuing
spring jacket that his father had (jut
with his own nano, ne nan mi-u nvi rudely jostled by a drunken man, and bad dashed to her aid almost before he
realized what he was doing. The rec
ollection of her gratitude was one oi his most cherished memories; and now, as he turned into Washington place, he
was thinking of how, on that occasion, lu.r manner was so cordial and so com
pletely lacking in any indication that she recognized any difference whatever in their social station.
He remembered that it was on that
day that his determination to study for the ministry was formed, and that it rrtw out of her telllntr him that the
assistant minister at the mission had
dined with them on the evening before. The ilnv will come." he had thoutrht,
'when I, too, may be asked there to dine." And now he was thinking that day
might not be so far distant; for, was he
not going to the mission, the wcck ioiWvini. to take the place, temporarily,
of that very same assistant minister,
Uev. Mr. David, who, he had ncaro, was to be married and go to Europe for
a three months' honeymoon tour Vi.. it was true, as Lord Hoacons
Held had said: "Any man may be what
h.. niiibcs no his mind to be.
- .. . , . .
Jly the time young r.ngier reacneu - . . . . i , i
the Sturgis residence ne nan wbikcu ,.,1 tluinrrht himself OUt of tllC trloOHl
of his blues and his self-chidings into
the radiant sunshine of a nopedcicrreu i,nt -im on the vertre of realization,
and he whistled softly a merrier air
than was to be found in the hymnal as he tripped lightly down the stone steps of the area way and rang the bell. it was his intention to hand in the i,,n. htiil o make off as nulckly as
M,.unib. 11 had uo notion of being
recognized, and above all he wished to avoid the possibility of a request to alt. In the dlnlnir-room, as he had of
yore, the verdict as to fit. In making
these plans ho bad counted upon me lw.11 beintr answered bv a housemaid,
and when, instead of a servant, the door was opened by Miss Sturgis herself, his mode of procedure was, of necessity, somewhat altered. To csi cape recognition was out of the ques
I ilon, and, as be reamed taai ih an m
fort to serve the woman he most Cve4
to nlease be bad nut himself ill a POM
I ... -- m tion that was likely to lower him in her
estimation, he blushed to the roots or
Ids flaxen hair.
''Why. Mr. Knirfer." she exclaimed,
"I am so sorry von went to this
trouble!"
"Well, von see I that is. father." ho
stammered, "thought that possibly you
were exnectlnt? it. and--"
Yes. I was expecting it," Mw
Stunrls iiu. in: "in fact I was very
niixiiins for lt. I cnuldnt Walt lor
Delia to tret to the door: but 1 had no
idea that you would have to bring It."
"I was coming this way." Karl pre
varicated, "ami I offered"
Won't you come in?" the young
woman interrupted again. "You can
. ... . . ..
snare a moment, can t vou? Vt e sna n I
treat vou as an errand bov. you Know
and she. luut?hcd In a way that made
young Kngfer hesitate between embar
rassment and pleasure.
"I'm afraid." he began to protest,
that I, can't stop this evening. I,
have"
"Justa minute." Miss Sturgis pleaded.
"Yon must let me thank vou for your
trouble; and then, I waut to congratu
late you, too." "Sit down." she said, and she drew
chair out for him and another for her
self. "Now. Mr. Kngfer." she went on,
"1 am awfully obliged to you for having
brought nie inv habit."
As the voting man looked at her in
the soft light cast by the pink shades
that adorned the candles m the candel
abra he thought he never before real
ized how beautiful she was. She was
so briirht this evening, too so cheer
ing and, what was dearer to him than
all else, she was really almost familiar.
The chasm which had ouec seemed so
wide between them was growing
narrower and narrower. There was no
doubt of that. Once he was ordained
the breach might easily be closed en
tirelv
"And now," she went on, "I want to
offer von mv congratulations upon tho
good news I beard to-day; that you are
coming to the mission to tal:e .ur.
David's place."
Karl could not believe that he heard
aritfht. Could It be that she was acta
ally pleased that Mr. David was going aw'av.' Atone time during the latter
part of his attendance at the mission Sunday-school he had thought that she
eared something for the young divine,
and he had really been a little jealous
of him.
"You are very kind, Miss Sturgis," he
said, "very kind. Do you take as much
interest in the mission as formerly?
Oh. dear. ves. More than ever:
"Then I suppose I shall see a good
deal of you there?"
l0f me?'' she asked, surprised.
'Oh. vou don't know, then! Why, I
thought everyone knew. Haven't you
heard whom Mr. David is going to
marry?"
A sharp pain as from a knife-thrust
shot through Karl's heart. He seemed
suddenly unable to breathe, inert!
was a rumbling, rushing sound in
his head and a swaying, darkening
cloud before his eyes. He was con
scious of a tingling chilliness, and then
of a numbness, in his hands, his Icct,
and his legs from the knees down. Ho
made an effort to pull himself together
to hide his feelings but he failed.
He felt that be was stilling; that he must get into the fresh air, at any cost: and he heard himself mumbling something, he scarcely knew what, his voice seemed
so strange and unnatural.
The next moment he was stumbling
tin the area steps on to the sidewalk;
and an instant later he had come into
collision with some one who was about
to mount the stoop.
MM,,, vlinnlr .t-u1ied him. He started
to apologize, but the words died on his tongue. The light of a street-lamp
across the way had revealed to him tho
face which he had suddenly come to ab
horthe face of the one man In all tho world whom he hated; the face of tho thief who had robbed him of a hope
that fur seven years had been to nun more than life itself, and of an ambi
tion that had raised him from the level of his own people to a place of which
he might well have been proud.
Instinctively he clinched his fists and
fire came into his eyes. Then, suddenh grew dizzv again. Iron fingers
seemed to be pressing upon his temples
with the terrible clutch or. aeam, ami he staggered away like a drunken man.
II wandered the streets for hours: a
whirl of memories in his brain, a leaden
ivoio-ht unon his heart up one thor
oughfare and down another, through
by-wavs, in and out of blind alleys, seeing noUiing, caring for nothing but to escape from himself and the torture
that was within him.
Presently he became conscious of a
sound of lapping waves the murmur of waters and a chill in the air
hut niereed him to the marrow. He-
called thus to a realization of his physical being, he glanced down, to see that
he was standing at the extreme enu oi a long pier, with tho dark river flowing below. A keen wind was blowing in his face; a thousand lights glittered on
the opposite shore.
"Another step." he niurmureo, ami I Miould have been out of it all. Why
.li.l l not take that one as I tooK tno
others? And oh, I must huve taken so
many to-night! How tired I am.
n.. wtnol for n moment m hesitation.
Something was whispering to him to
take that one step more, it uasior
her. tit told hint, that he had adopted
the church as his calling. Of what use
was he to the world now, or It to nun."
Of what use was all his learnmg-his
Greek and Latin and Hebrew, his knowledge of the Hible, his knowledge
of theology? What good could he do.'
Then another voice, lower, sweeter, more tender in Its pleading. hpoke to him. It seemed borne on the wind,
which had suddenly died to a zepnyr.
It answered the questions, one and an. H breathed encouragement. It bada him look up. He raised his eyes heavenward. Across the river, above the roofs and
chimneys and spires of the sleeping cnj
was a faint but ever-increasing nam. v
it..i. a imiv day was dawning.
Chnries S. Wayne, ia Lwlit' Newspa
per
PLAYING "TAG" AT THE FAIR. I
il.wy" l'r ! m Tik nt Hit World'
Kalr CJIothlUK no I't inn. vm-iipcr in
Kuropr-Tr-irlifrouTrit i.imim-u.
We. are missing one of the great les
sons that the world's fair could teach
nk. l-i .t nor tint fuir commissioners
decided that foreign exhibitors would
be )ermltted to place tags on their ex
hibits showing the foreign prices oi tuiferetit articles. We should not only permit, but should request the use of
these tags. Suppose all articles on exhibition were tugged at the prices at
which each Is sohl in dilierent countries. What a "give away" these tags would be, not only for McKinley prom m
tectlonists but also tor many oi our trust that are selling at protection and
trust prices here but are tniung wnai
thev can get it other countries, .nisi
to see how they would look suppose we place tags tin a few articles:
.III ITICM I'l iiif Xaturat L'ndrru-tur.
lAvi-rniri! ftizes.) ArwlvrJt Loudon.
Ladles' light welarJit. 3; lbs. to dor, ih.t garment, J'itX) ll.OJ Mer's Held eliht shirt, 1 llx. I oz to do iS I' Men's shirts, II lb to dos .. 4.75 1.9S
Men' shirts, medium wciijut.
imibstouoz .
Vmltrtrtar
Mtn's Kurier & Huttr.ua
lilrt nrr tr.irmpitt ....... 3.1VJ l.-J
Men's Furier & Huttr.im
Mhirts. nr ramieiH "W ,vi
l-.'-llirea J Merino shirt, 1(5 lu.
to doz retail wtt0.iMs.iws--. Ladies' Merino shirt. Cart-
v rieht .V Warner, or hur
ley Si lluttratn. retail -VJMi'iTJ Ll8
LadiUf.' Merino Gat men t. re
tail -' J-W5
ChiMrrn's Merino shirt, retall 1. . Children's Merino sulrt, ro
tail -s ,wttJ-vo
Itnsinm
Woolen stockings psr pair.. M .CO
Woolen, men s hall mm, Kt n. (A
juir " '- t'ltlmUttru Co id:
Pnmmnn läc? curLllnH. ECf
pair Clotri favcrace size.).
Mun's Fowne's Craven Taa, per pair .S5 Men's Dent's Craven Tan,
per pair . (France.)
Men's Perrin's pique, per
pair - " Linen Co tit
n'hesu nrices are wholesale.)
Cheap trash towelinj, per
yard. - Huckaback towels, per doz.. 1.73 .77 Glass toweling.. 11 inch, all
linen, per yard. .i'i .vo M'holttare pi tel. Cutleru. tc. Utii'.td .iUitt. I'.urope.
l.blade jick knife.
Ifood En3lisuiiuaittv ilOdoz. ! Pädoz.
i-biadc jack "knife,
ltv 4.03 " 10) "
t-blade jack knife.
Jo Hoger maKe -OJ " l.blade lick knife.
Jo. Kopers' mafco 3.07 ' " Carvers,7-ln. Holers' make S3 pair ..', pair. Carver. Ma, " I. " .73 " Table knives and forks. Ilozers'.... .'.00 gross 13.2, gross IJutcber l;nives.-ln. Hozers'make iS7 " 1-3 " Razors, com. Ivory handle, full hollow pround, Hodsers' maki! 11.53 M CO) "
Erasers, HodgeTa' tHist W.75 4.W " llrccch-loadlui: un. cheapest made. .. 7.5) each 4.0) each Good breech-loader for ecn.'lemcn taO) - 23 73 " Tin l'latt. L C. Uessemer steel coke finish, pr box 3.61 2 9 Wimtovi Gttus ir.'ittttntf jirkt ptr box Stiff in 7. iiH-A. f.". S. Hclg turn Gxs to 10x53 il.Sl i llxU tolflx'-'t - 13 l-ui H 18x22 to 23x3 1. -'J: l.SS 15x31 to 21x.D iirjvf l.M 2SXIS to2xM 3 33 3-3 1.W 6x2öto2Cxll rt.VH. l.71 Mini tn3.iV) &9I 2 20
drills, bolt, augurs and hits. "nails and
tacks, screws ami rlveUs, gasKeis, cartridges, tvpe-wrlters, sewing machines, blcyclcs,shovcls, plows, cultivators and most kinds of implements. It will be renieinlHsrcd that when E. W. Stout, a farmer from near Trenton, N. .1., returned from a visit to lib father in England last fall he brought with him a manlier of plows, rakes, cultivators, etc He found that hi4 could, after paying all charges, save from 10 to '-.' per cent by purchasing these im,.i..,. .Mt; nil Ainerican made in En
gland. The cordage trust, which Is now in such Ill-repute the world over, never did a meaner thing than when It K'gan a few months ago to sell cordago
In London much lower titan It soul it w the people who taxed themselves to support this Industry. The tags on tho
coils of rojH! and bunnies oi iwiue mmcate that the cordage is one of the raoit villainous and treacherous of our many wicked trusts. llyron V. Holt LET IT STOP. Stop th x.-Klleil Itnlibery, and Stop It Oulrkly. The last national democratic platform declares that protection is "a robbery of a great majority of the Ainerican people." That declaration Is the plain truth. It is nlsn true that a iust troverntnent
never has very much business that Is more importa'nt than preventing rob-
lory. , It is also true that "protection" robbers should not he permitted to keep on robbing for fear that stopping them will reduce the national revenue a little. It is true that the national government is now in the hands of men who call themselves democrats. It is also true that men who will not stop a roblfcry of the people and stop it quick when it is in their power to do so, are no democrats at all. It is also true that it is about time for the men who now control matters to U'gin to prove their democracy by their works instead of their words. It is also true (what irood democrat
doubts it) that our president will do all in his power to stop this robbery and stop it promptly. It is also true (what good democrat doubts it) that every man that (.rover Cleveland has associated with himself In his present administration will without an exception, perhaps, zealously assist him in this good work. It "is also true that in the next congress a large majority of those called democrats will do just about as little
as they possibly can do to stop tnisroo-lierv.
It is also true that politicians seldom do any more for the people than the people make them do. It is also true that democratic citizens arc in no mood to quietly wait a whole year for congress to fool over a new tariff law. We eare little about a new law; we want laws repealed rather than laws enacted, and it doesn't take a long time to do that We want the robbery taken out of the present law, and we want it done quick; this rest assured, (irovcr Cleveland will give congress a good chance tti do at the earliest practical time.
It is also true that il congress win not, when given the opportunity, make prompt and short work with protection robbery, there will speedily come to our politicians such a day of reckoning as for righteous judgment and swift execution has never yet been experienced by menials of plutocracy upon American soil. A. G. lleecher, in Xew Crusade.
THE DIFFERENCE.
a)x52 tox3l.
30x5(5 to 31x30
4.10: 4 31
2.31 2 53
Total 9 boxes. 29 0!'i IIS.SI irrfiiV firv ptr foot rolhhttl riute Ohm. V S. Franct 21x11 to :)xisl in 27.12 40 nitiO In inn mvr 3)41 73
lloinehohUCrufkny. il lni'Mie rrtct,
(White Granite Ware) A.'n?. U.S. 1 dozen bakers i . H.40
1 bowls 4
2 covered butters. 2S .4. 1 dozen Individual butters Oi .15 1 ' hand'd ccflee cup .41 .W ' covered dishes Mi 1.83 H " ordinary dlsht-s 2.1 .4) 2 creams .2) 1 dozen iiat plates .,a 1 " deep plates -3i M 1 ' fruit saucers H -23 2 sugars "I -3J 1 dozen handled tea cups 37 .07 : tea pot 12 -23 A set of crokcry as above costing ?.".10 in England costs f $.71 in United States, the United States price being $:.H higher. The duties on the ware alone amount to ?'2.S1. Duty at the rate of 5. per cent is also levied on the packages in which the ware is packed, and the other extK'tises of purchase, which, added to S'-i.ül. makes the whole duty equal to the dillerence between the En
glish and the American price. In nearly every cast; the American price can be found approximately by adding to the foreign price the duty and the cost of transportation. These are si great object Icsmmi to our "protected" workinginen. Would McKinley dare stand up in the presence of these tags and tell the throngs of voters present that "the foreigners pay the tax?" Hut we have not yet noticed the worst "give away." .lust step in the domestic department of the great manufacturers building and see the
tags on some of the articles exhibited by our protected trusts. Whittttalt Vrittl.
HlZ't. Home t ritt (hcIu Erjiort Price each. 10 inch It-.") i -9i 18 " 2-W 3J " ' f, l - 421 3i() CroM- Cut Smr. Home Price each. Export Price. Thin back champion, ir foot .9J t.S) Extra thin back champlnn tt r foot .3) .22 Hand Auw. (Apple Handle. No S3 length. Jlomt Price. Exptrt Price. 10 Inches (per doz.) ....tl.va ULM) 24 " ... 21.23 laiX) Wc will not take time to quote tho prices on more tags, but will observe that those on hundreds of other articles show that foreigners can often get our manufactures at prices from 520 to 50 per cent less then we can obtain them. This Is true of scales, rules, levels, planes, screw-drivers, shears, indurated tlber ware, brlt.tnla and plated ware, clothes-wringers and driers, meatc-hop-urs, axww kaxiicers, bracks, wruauhu,
Free Conmifrr! Itctwni Two Coautrte ltrliiRH rrTlty t Itntli. Often the query is heard, "why should we send some, or much, or any of our raw material or partly Ilnished product to other countries, that they may be worked up in finished products, anil then returned to lie used by us in the commodities for which we need them? Ojuld not we work them up, thus keeping capital in the country and giving employment to our own people. The answer invariably is, "because the country to which we send our raw material has letter natural or acquired
facilities for working it up, it is realty chc.pcr and consequently more advantageous for us to send or sell it thither than to work it here. If we should endeavor to do it ourselves we would lose by it. Therefore, what seemed to bo iHinellcial to our workinginen would in reality le hurtful to their interests, as they would lose In
several ways what they scented to gain In one way." No sane capitalist is foolish enough to have a certain thing done at a distanee which he can as cheaply and us well have done, near by. Intercourse and commerce In the loig run always lind those sections, whether near or far, where the largest amount and best quality of products can be produced In the shortest possible time and with the smallest waste of material. That country, therefore, prospers the most which allows its inhabitants most freely to avail themselves of the most favorable opportuni
ties for getting what they need cheap, and getting done most cheaply what
they cannot do ns wen tiicmseivcs. This Is the principal cause of Great Uritain's superior position In commerce as well as in finance, shipping and manufacturing, and of the bighcr wages of the Hritish workman as compared with those In protected countries on the European continent Dingman Vcrstccg. Viiliiiibl Letter. Mr. Thomas G. Shearman's series o.
letters to President Cleveland on "Methods of Revising the Tariff," which have lieen printed in the New York Times and other papers, have been republished by the Keforin club of .VJ William street ns a number of TnrilT Reform. These letters contain many valuable suggestions on the present tariff and financial condition. Mr. Shearman's discussion of the Important difference between tho ad valorem and specific systems of levying duties should be read by all, for all are taxed by one system or the other, and probably twice as much by one as by the other. As tarilT duties probably tax each family an average of more than 50 a year it lehooves all hetuls of fguilKes to study this question.
PERSONAL AND MPEH8QNAU. A Kitchburg (Wis.) reporter trie to vary his occupation, by engaging in theft. He is now in jail, but coolly declares "there is more money In larceuj than in literature." There is a marked difference between a fort and fortress, according ta the definitions rendered by a llttl schoolgirl iu Washington. She defined a fort to be a "strong place where they put men In," and a fortress a "slmllai place where they put women in." Senator Edwards, of the Chautauqua district, who is a clergyman.offered prayers recently In tho New York senate. It was the first time within the memory of any of the senators, at least, that one of the meinlierh of the senaU had opened the session with prayer. Justice Lamar and Susan II. An thony were warm friends. The justice was in the habit of introducing her to his friends in this fashioif. "Now you must meet Miss Susan 11. Anthony. You will find her one of the most perfect gentlemen in the world." Miss
Anthony regarded this as a complimei.t. Jttdgo R. It. Nelson, of the United States district court of Minnesota.is tha onlv man on the district bench appointed before the civil war. Judge M. P. Dcady, of Oregon, who died a fewdays ago, Was the only other ono. Judge Deady was a territorial judge in Oregon, and on the admission of tho state was made district judge. Clement Scott, the eminent English dramatic critic, has just been making a. tour of Japan, and he bluntly characterizes all of Sir Edwin Arnold's effusions regarding Japanese women as balderdash. Indeed, he says that it U an insult to English or American womanhood to institute any comparison between them and Japanese women. Roswell Beardsley, of North Lansing, N. Y., is enjoying his quadrennial mention as the oldest postmaster. He was appointed June 2S, 182S. Sidney E. Palmer, of Gerry, N. Y., appointed July S, 1811, is second; .To'1! C. Marvel, of liehoboth, Mass., appointed July 12, 1344, Is third; and Warren Cobb, of East Sharon, Mass., appointed in February, 1S40, is fourth. The ex-officeholder ruling doesn't bother them. Sir John Gilbert, president of the
Royal Society of Painters in Water Colors of Great ltritain, has not sold any of his water color or oil paintings for many years past, intending to build a gallery for them and present gallery and pictures to the public He has decided to donate the pictures to existing public art galleries, and two weeks ago announced this intention and offered his valuable collection to be divided among free galleries in the principal cities of the kingdom. One of those hard, practical New England women that occur in magazines oftener than in life, called on an artist in New York city, at his invitation, not many days ago. She looked faithfully over his pictures and studies, though there were many of them, betokening great industry, and after the inspection was finished she said, in a severe tone: "Ycs.lfs very pretty, but I
should think you'd get ireadiuny urea of doing such things. Don't you ever want to go out and work?" A French viscounty who is not so richly endowed as he would like to be, has invented a novel means of feathering his nest. He advertises in the French papers a lottery in which the great prize will be himself and his title. Five thousand tickets arc to be sold at twenty francs each, which will brinff him in over twenty-live thousand dollars. The lady who draws the lucky numlier will have the choice of two alternatives. She may marry the viscount with his fortune or she mayshare this capital sum, but must first forego all right to his hand.
"A LITTLE NONSENSE." "Don't you think it a little dangerous for you to go fishing when you are feeling so badly." "No, the doctor said a stimulant was just what I needed." Inter Ocean. Explained. Chimmie " I wonder whv dent swell dress coats is cut away so in front fer?" Chonny "So's a feller kin gits his hands in his pocket easy, I s'pose." Puck. In Good Time. Old Lady (excitody)"Vhcn Is the train due?" Railway Porter "In two hours and forty minutes." Old Lady (with a sigh of relief) "I am so glad I am not too late!" Marlow "So IJessle has actually allowed herself to marry that old miser, eh?" Ethel (sighing) "Yes; emulating Andromeda, you know." Marlow "How so?" Ethel "She is chained to the rocks." Town Topics. A Wretch. "So you don't think
your husband cares for you, Mrs. Flannagan?" Care for me, ina'mV Shttre he don't Didn't I hear him only yisterday tellin' Pat Harri ty thot he'd hate even to go to me funeril!" Truth. "The shark is the oldest type of fish," said the country school teacher. "Not any older than the sucker, I guess," remarked the boy whose father had signed a llghtnlng-rod contract that afterward turned out to bo a protn-issorj-note. Washington Post The Earlier the Retter. Stuffer "Mr. Von Winner tell me he has given you a new center piece for your diningrom table." Mrs. Winterbloom "Yes; it Is a Iniattty." Stuffer (gallantly) "I hope I shall have an early opportunity to see It" Urooklyn Life. He was a stranger in the city. She was driving him out Forbes street. Just as they reached the top of the hill a converter in one of the mills began sending forth thousands of sparks. "Look!" he cried. "What is that?" "That?" she replied. "Why, that ia one of those reformers at work." Pittsburgh Dispatch. Hobby (at the breakfast-table) "Maud, did, Mr. Jones tnko any of the umbrellas or hats from the hnll last night?" Maud "Why, of course not!
Whv should he?" Hobby " l liars just what I'd like to know. I thought he did, because I heard him say, when li v-.- going out, 'I'm going to steal just onw, nnd Whjr, whatf the matter.
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