Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 36, Number 29, Jasper, Dubois County, 30 March 1894 — Page 3
WEEKLY COURIER. C. DOANK. PubllHher.
INDIANA.
AN ARIZONA. TRAGEDY.
p0w Hawkins Met Hia Death In riy Trap Gulob.
It air strange, it air," he was sayInß s 1 opened the door of the room ...i...... nur social little semi-literary so-
clety met; "but I could tell you queerer things than that 'er almighty queer .i.w..,..t Ynn can't learn everything
out of books, sire, nohow. You nee, it Uli mi'ii as can strin? KnirlUh to-
mil - evther and as has had good cddlcatlons S - i . t I
as iiiuls tnemseives in inu juc.-i jnuuc.-. j ve been in. They're mostly rough men. sirs, us can scarce speak aright, far less tell with pun and ink the things they've seen: but if they could they'd inaice some of your Kuropian's hair ri with astonishment They would, sirs yi u bot'." His nntnu was Jefferson Adams, I beiseve; I know his initials weru J. A., for you may seo them yet deeply whittled on the right hand upper panel of nur smoking-room door. He loft us this
legacy, and also some artistic patterns d.nc in tobacco juice, on our Turkey carpet: but beyond these reminiscences our American story teller has vanished from our ken. Ho gleamed across our ordinarily quiet conviviality like some brilliant meteor, und then was lost in the outer darkness. That night, however, our New Mexican friend was in full swing; and 1 quietly lit my pipe and dropped into the nearest chair, anxious not to interrupt his story. . Mind you," he continued, "I ham t got no grudge against your men of Mvence. 1 Hues and respects a chap as can match every beast and plant, from a huckleberry to a grizzly, with a jawbreakin name; but if you wants real intorfstin' facts something a hit juicy
-you go to your whalers and your
froutieratneu, ami your scouis ami
Hudson hay men, chaps wno tnosuj
L'-.m .scarce sign their names.
There was a pause here, as Mr. Jefferson Adams produced a long cheroot
nnd lit it- e presorveu a strict siin the room, for we had already
hvtrtied that on the slightest intcrrup-
ti.m our Yankee drew himself into his
:i"-am. Ho danced round with a
j,elf-satisfied smile as he remarked our
xpectant looks, aud continued through li'iln nf smoke:
"Now, which of you gentlemen has . all .
ever been in Arizona? JNone, in wariMt. Anil o f all English or Americans
as can put pen to paper, how many has t,....i tn Arizona? Precious few. 1
cstVlate. I've been there, sirs-lived there for years; and when I think what I've seen there, why, I can scarce
"-t invsoU to believe in it now.
Ah. there's a country! I was one
of Walkers filibusters, as they chose t.. fn'.l iir and after we'd busted up,
and the chief was shot, some of us
tn,lr. t melts and located down there.
flish and American col-
.fr o------ony we was, with our wives and chil
dren all complete. I recltou meres some of the old folks there yet. and
that they hain't forgotten wnai l m agoln' to tell you. No, 1 warrant they hain't, never on this skia of the grave,
sirs.!
I ivni talkinir about the country.
though; and I guess I could astonish ,.., ,.iuU..mWn if I snoko of noth
ing else. To think of such a land being tit fnr Ü few 'Greasers' and half
breeds! It's a misusing of the gifts of Providence, that's what I call it. Grass as hung over a chap's head as he rode through it, and trees so thick that you .i.in't ..nteh n elimnsoof blue sky for
a leatrucs. ami orchids like
umbrellas'. Maybe some on you has
seen a plant as they calls the 'Uycaicn it in some narts of the states?"
Mi.minHA museinula." murmured
Dawson, our scientific man par excel
"U. Mie near a municipal,' that's
him'. You'll seo a lly stand on that 'ere plant, and then you'll see twosides of a leaf snap up together and catch it between them, and grind it up and mash lot, f.ir nil the world like some
trreat sea squid with its beak; and hours
after, if you open tne icai, you i m.-c fli.. Umlv leint half digested and In
bits. Well. I've seen those lly-traps in itli If.ives eitrht ar.d ten feet
long, und thorns or teeth a foot or
more. Why, they eouiu- om, uaru u, I'm "oiiiir too fast!
"It's about the death of Joe Hawkins I vvas going to tell you 'bout as queer ti.i,. ,r 1 reuknn. as ever you heard
tell on. There wasn't nobody in Arizona or New Mexico as didn't know of Alabama' due. us he
I Wi ivj - - ' t!..,l then;. A reg'lar out-and
outer he was; 'bout the hardest case as flmit eves on. He was a good
.hup enough, as long as you stroked him the right way; but rile him anyhow, and ho were worse nor a blizzard. I've seen him empty a six-shooter into :i crowd as chanced to jostle him a-going into Simpson's bar, where there was a dunce on; and he bowled Tom Hooper 'cause he spilt his liquor over hi wesuit by mistake. No, he didn't stick at mu'-der, Joe didn't; and he weren't a n.aii to be trusted when ho had the devil's drops in him. r t t Iii time I tell on. when Joe
Ilawkim was .swaggering about the town and layin' down by-laws with his
shootin' irons, there was an rmgusnmau f the name of Scott Tom Scott.
if I ree'lects aright This chap Scott was a Hritlshcr to his boot heels, and v.. i. .IM.' freeze, much to the British
set there, or they didn't freeze much to him. He was a quiet, simple man, Scott was -rather tot) quiet for a rough in... i.t. uiwnlfin' thev called him,
but he weren't that. He kept hissclf mostly apart, an' didn't interfere with i.,.iuwi,. i.,,f dh he were left alone.
Slllllll et'itwl tt twiw he'd been kinder ill-
treated at home been a Chartist, or
something compustlblc, aud had to up
ma git; but he apofcte oi
nevr eomplalned. Had look or good, that man kept a stiff Hp on him.
"This Scott was a sort o' butt umontr
the Bien about Arizona, for he was so
quiet un fciiiiple-liue. 'liiere was no party, either, to take up his grievances;
for, as I've been saying, mo nriiisners hanllv counted him as one of thetn. and
many a rough joke thoy played on him,
lie nover cut up rougn. um was eivu w all hlsself. I think the boys got to think he hadn't much grit in him till he showed 'cm their mistake. "It was in Sitnpsoii'a bar as the row got up, an' that led to the queer thing I was going to tell you of. Alabama Joe and one or two other rowdies were dead on the llrltlshers in those days, an' they spoke their opinions pretty free, though I warned them as there'd tin fin nlmiirhtv muss. That nartie'lar
night Joe was fighting drunk, and he swaggered about the town with his hlx-.shooter, lookin' out for a chance. Then he turned into the bar, where he know'd he'd find some o" the English as ready as he was hinself. Sure enough," there was half a dozen loungiuir about, an' Tom Scott standin' alone
before the stove. Joe sat down by the
table, and nut his revolver and bowie
down in front of him. 'Them's my argiinonts, Jeu.' he says to me. 'if any
white Hvered llritisher dares give me the lie. I tried to stop him, sirs; hut he weren't a man as you could easily . !
torn, an' lie becran to sneait in a way
as no chap could stand. -Why, even a
'Greaser' would Hare up U you saui as
iihw i at (ironsflnnil! 'liiere was a
commotion at the bar, an' every man
lniil his hmiilsnn his wenins: but afon
----- - - - - - -
they could draw we heard a quiei voice from the stove: 'Say your prayers, .Joe, Hawkins: for vou're a dead man!'
Joe turned round, and looked like
D-rammi' at his iron. Hut It weren't no
manner of use. Tom Scott was stand
liur un. coverlntr him with his Der
ringer; a smile on his white face, but the very devil shining in his eye. 'It ain't that the old country has used mo over-well.' he says, 'but no man shall Insult itafore me and live!' For a second
his finger tightened round the trigger, an' then he gave a laugh, an' threw the nistnl on the iloor. 'No.' he says; 'I
ivin't shoot a half-drunk man! Take
I your dirty life, Joe, an' use it ocuer
nor you have done!' He swung contemptuously round, and relit his half-
c.n.ildxl nine from the stove: while
wa fruit A liii.rti'nli tn lu mil nlfis.il tiV
this sort of scum'." 1 1 was the quickest . . ... , !. .. l-
uung us ever i seen, i neru was a rwsu an' a crack; Zebb was down with
Scott's hall in his thigh, aud Scott h Issel f was on the uround with a
dozen men holding him. There weren't
no tue, struggling, sq he lay quiet They seemed a bit uncertain what to do with him at first, hut then one of
Alabama's special chums put then, up to it. 'Joe's gone,' he said; 'nothiu' ain't Kiiri r than that! an' there lies the
man as killed him. Some on you knows
as Joe went on business to tue guten In ulirlit. Hi- net-fr eauie back. That
'ere llritisher passed through after he'd .7 I I I
gone. They u a row screams is ucaru 'inong the great flytraps. 1 say again, he
has played poor Joe some o ins Knr.ikin' tricks, an' thrown him into
the swamp. It ain't no wonder as the
body Is gone, Jmt air we to sian- uy and see English mnrderln' our own chums? I guess not Let J udge Lvuch tre him: that's what I sav.' 'Lynch him!'
shouted a hundred angry voicesfor
all the rag-tag an' bobtail o- ine settlement was round us by this time. 'Here, lmvH fftnh r rune, an' swinif him Uli!
I In with 1dm over Simnson's door!' 'Seo
here, though,' says another, coming forrards; 'let's hang him by tho great
lly trap in the gulch. Let Joe see as he's revenged, if so be as he's buried 'bout there!' There was a shout for this, an' away they went, with Scott tied on his mustang in the middle, and a mounted guard, with cocked revolvers, round him; for we knew as thorn was a score or so llritishers about
as didn't seem to know any jedge of
Alabama slunk out o' the bar, with
th IüiktIih f the llritisher ringing in
... ......
Iiis ears. I saw his lace as ne passeu mo. and on it I saw murder, sirs mur
der, as plain as ever 1 seed anything in
my life!
"I staved in the bar after the row,
and watched Tom Scott as he snooK
tmtulx with the men about. It seemed
kinder queer to mo to see him smilin'
ami eheerrul llKe lor i Knew iu .
t,lw1t1iirvt.v mind, and that the Eng
lishman had small chance of ever see
intr tin. moriiinir. He lived in an out-
of-the-way sort of place, you see. clean
off the trail, and had to pass turuuu
III J .- - - - - rfrill (Ii w:is II marshy, irloomy place.
Lmflv omin-'li durintr the day even xor
it were always a creepy sort o' thing to a 1
see tho great eight aud ten-ioot leaves .riMtinintr nn if nil cht touched them;
""M'l"" . " ,
i ;,rit iiior.. ivas never a um
..!ir. Some narts of the marsh, too,
were soft and deep, and a body thrown It, wniild be rone by the morning. I
inn Alabama Joe crouchin' uudcr
the leaves of tho gret flytrap in the
darkest part of the guicn. wuu ascowi
on his face and a revolver in his u.
I could see it, sirs, as plain as with my
two eve.
"Hout midnight Simpson shut up
i.io inr sn out we had to go. loin
j..r.t vtnrti.il off for his three-mile
-..ii, nt .n slashing nace. I just droppeo.
hi.Ti a hint a he assed me, for I kinder
- ,
liked the chap. "Keep your irrm'
nbnnt it. ' I savs. "lorvou iuiithi.
..tum, to need it' He looks round at
me with Iiis quiet smile, and then l lost nt him in the eloom. I never
a,H" . . , l..U..
.i,,,iit in sfo him acain. nc " '
n.ni,n"nfnri. Siinnsoii come up to me and
" ..... ... ..i.i : .. i... Irl...
savs: '1 here u oc om j
trap gulch to-nigiu, .icn. a no uu. sav that Hawkins started half an hour
it for Scott anil shoot him on
.w--.- ....
coroner 'ii oc
, (
l.rht. I calc'late the
"rl""
wanted to-morrow. . . .i , i.
What passed m tue. gmcu
..:..!.. it was a ouestion as
lllVilb. - - ' ' " .
that
were
filf.-d nrettv free next morntn
t.tf.t..n.i H-ni in Foriruson s store
Hill L IM ' ' . . .
after daybreak, and he said as he d
chancet' to be near tne guicn wuv u o'clock in the morning. It warn t easy to get at his story, as ho seemed
so uncoinmou scared; out ne iom u. last, as he'd heard the fenrfulest
screams in the stillness ox tne niou There werou't no shots, he said, but scream after scream, kinder inufiled,
like a man with a serape over ins neun,
an' in immortal pain. Abner lhaudon
and me, and a few more, was m m store at the time; so we mounted aud
rode out to Scott's house, 1b""K
through the gulch on the way. mere were nothiu' particular to bu seen there no blood nor marks of a fight .-xftililn'ftnil when we gets up to
Scott's house, out he comes to meet us
as a lark, 'lluuo, .ieu; saja
he; 'no need for the pistols, after all!
Come in an' have a cocittan.
Hid vc see or hear nothing as yo come
i : i.i ..tht-r savs I. 'No.' says
. . I .. ..!
i.. ..ll iviis rut tut CIinuiTli. nn ..
hi.-, .... i . i. !...i..- ..winiiin' in He Flvtran gulch
that was all. Come, jump oil ami nae .. i..- Tlmiilt ve.' savs Abner. So
ii i;ii.. ........ - ... off we gets, and Tom Scott rode into
the settlement with us wnen we
l.....b
.n.. nii...t ...inimotion was on in
t( Ktriet as we rode into iu
M erica n party seemed to have gone in owned. Alabama Joe was gone
.... .. .U.umI nnrtioln nf lllm left
o! l. ,vont nut to l Iß CUICIl "aii
eye had seen him. As we got off our horses there was a considerable crowd in front of Simpson's, and some ugly looks at Tom Scott, I can tell you. There was n clickln' of pistols and I saw as Scott had his hand in his bosotn, too. There weren't b single hnglish face about 'Stand aside, Jeff Adamsl says Zebb Humphrey, as great a scoundrel as ever lived; 'you haln t got o band in this irame Sav. boys, are
that nartie'lar name
"I went out with them, my near? hleedin for Scott, though he didn't
cn..m a oi.nt nut out. he didn't Ho
were game to the bacKbonc. seems
kinder queer, sirs, hangin' a man to a flytrap; but our'n were a reg'lar tree and the leaves like a brace of boats
with a hinge between 'cm and thorns
at the bottom.
V nassoil down the cnlch to the
place where the great one grows, and
there we seed it with the leaves, soma open, some shut Hut wo seed some
thing worse nor that ötanuin' rounu
the tree was some twenty men lintfull tktC nil n' nrmril to the teeth. They
were waiting for us, evidently, an nan a business-like look and meant to have it There was the raw about 'em, as if
they'd come for something material there for about as warm a scrimmage as ever I seed.
A we rode un. a ereat red-bearded
Scotchman Cameron were his name-
stood out afore the rest, his revolver
cocked in his hand. 'See here, boys, he savs. 'you've got no call to hurt a hair of that man's head. You hain't proved as Joe is dead yet; and if you I . . . . 111 - .1
had, 3ou hain't proved mat acou kiucu Kirn An hnw. it were in self-defense.
for you all know as lie was lying lr wait
for Scott toshoot him on sight bo l say agin, you hain't got no eall to hurt j
that man; and. what's more, i vc gov twenty six-barreled arguments against
your doin' it' 'It's an interesting
pint and worth arguin out, satu mo man as was Alabama Joe's special chum. There was a clickin' o' pistols
nn.l a looseniu' of knives, aud the two
parties began to draw up to one an
other, an' it loolteu hko a rise tu i.m
mortality of Arizona. colt was sianu-
lug behind with a pistol at his ear ii ne stirred, lookin' quiet and composed as having no money on the table, when
suddenly he gives a start anu a snout, a rang in our cars like a trumpet
'Joe!' he cried, 'Joe: Look at nun; in ., ovtmn!' We nil turned an' ooked
where he was pointin'. Jerusalem! I think we won't get that pictcr out of our minds agin. One of the great leaves of the flytrap, that had been shut and
touchin' the ground as tt lay, wassiowlv rolling back upou its hinges. There, . . . . . ? A . 1. .1 1 a..nu
lying like an oyster in ius ivu, a Alabama Joe, in the hollow of the leafl The great thorns had been slowly
driven through his heart as it cmseu upou him! We could see as he'd tried
to cut his wav out, ior mere vw slit iu the thick fleshy leaf, an' his bowie was in his hand; but it had smothered him first He'd lain down on it likely to keep the damp off while
he were awaitin' for 5eott, ana tv nan closed on him as you've seen your little hothouse ones do on a fly; and there
ho were, as we found turn, torn ami smashed, and crushed into pulp by tho
great jagged teeth of the man eaim
plant There, sirs, i mm jou u that as a curious story."
"And what became ol ocoit.' asiicu
Jack Sinclair .
Why. we carried him bacic on oui cVim.litors. we did. to Simpson's bar.
i t... ..,v,i c linmirs round. Made a
unit i . ,. , !
speech, too. -a darned line speecu-j
from the counterl somemin
Hritish lion an' the 'Mcncan oagm walkin' arm-in-arm for ever an' a day. And now, sirs, that yarn was long, ami
my cheroot's out, so i recsou i tt tracks afore it's later;" and with a
Oood night!" he left the room.
A most extraordinary narru-.
said Dawson. "Who would avo
thought a Diauoca had such powers
Deuced rum yarn!" saut young Sin
clair.
Evidently a matter-ol-laci, truuuut
man," said the doctor.
Or the most original uar muv
lived!" said I. . .
I wonder which he wafrt. nan Doyle, In Pittsburgh Chronicle.
THE POOR SUGAR THUS.
riMM Give It u Hair.Ceat Utttjr-IiMi't
lt It Marr. An hn lumn nlrnadv shown, till) dif
ference between the prices of raw and refined sugars during lbU3 was 1.154 cents per pound. From this must bo deducted the cost of refining. On this point a liberal allowance has" been
made. It was an old and long standing claim that it cost five-eights of a cent to reline each pound of sugar. This mav havo hoi'ii the case twenty or
thirty years ago, but it Is an old and '
exploded fallacy. '1 he actual cost oi refining sugar, which includes all and every expense that a manufacturer estimates even to the loss by dirt is nearer to one-quarter of a cent per pouud than anything else. 1'ut it is intended to deal lilwrally with the sugar refiners, far more liberally than they have dealt with the people, so a pi ice of three-eights of a cent has been taken to represent the cost of refining, aud this is more than the actual cost. Deducting this coit then, .:!7.' of a cent for rcÜtiing, from the difference between tho average net prices of raw and refined sugar during 180;!. 1.154 cents, and the total average profit of -to nf a oont ner notind is arrived at
Applying this profit to the 4.2S",8S0,510 pounds of sugar which the American ' people consumed in IS'M and it is seen
that the total proht of the sugar refining business from this source alona aggregates the neat little sum of t3V ois.ooo. iy. Certainly tho poor starving sugar refiners need protection. They must not be allowed to go hungry. Hut the sugar kings are not content with such a modest prollt as &:;l,013,0U0.1CI in a single year. They can squeeze more out of the people, and they do it There is a grand Held for looting on Use Pacific coast It is a long distance from Washington and what is done there is likely to pass unnoticed. Those estimable authorities, Messrs. "Willctt and Gray, friends of the sugar trust give the total homo
i-iiTisiimntinn of suirar at San 1-rancisco
for ISO!! as l'iS.lT'J tons of 2.2 10 pounds
each, or a total of 2S7,l2'J,oou pounus. Till i tlu sutrar imnorted from the
Hawaiian Islands and the trust buys it
cheap. The trust is the only buyer of win- Mtrrar on the Pacific coast and
tinmns its own nrice. The unfortunate
Hawaiian planters have to submit to the extortion. They deliver their sugar - j .1 it...
in San F ranciseo, but get less man mo
New York market price lor it onequarter of a cent per pound less. This is an extra profit to the refiners, and a quarter of a cent applied to the 2S7,120.W.0 pounds ef Hawaiian sugar imported in 1S'J;J adds $TI7,S02.4l) to the colTers of the sugar trust Haying the raw sugar cheaper for the Pacific coast markets than for the i!iprn markets, it would naturally be
supposed that the price of refined sugar was cheaper to tho consumer out west Hut the trust docs not do business that way. Its refined sugar sells for more money in California than in New York There was last year a difference of more than one and a-half cents per pound in the two prices as onenly quoted on a net cash basis.
That is to say. the sugar trust buys Its raw, sugar for S;n Francisco one-quarter cent below the New York price, without reckoning the freight question from Cuba, but sells its refined sugar all the way from one to two cents above the New York pries. Taking the smaller amount of one cent difference and applying it to SS7.1S0.OÜO pounds of sugar consumed on the Pacific coast and there is still another prollt of 62,S71.2CU 03 to be added to the sugar trust's cotters. Of a truth there is money in sugar, but the, poor refiners must be protected. I Tims an idea of the profits of the su-
thr. United States is
I I iv- ' v. - - - gained as follows: Total Unhed Suite consumpilin . . . ...trwiiAtii rwirifl. at .79
Hawaiian crop of pound i:-., l.in..li at l ccat
hTn 717.S1H0
Paciflc com consumption or inotl innlt. :lt I rrtlt (.'SITA
tarn mhiiiu rmlv 11k ihm "
ttvaa" In the. kenata would become re
publicans If the democratic party wakes income tax laws that will touea their precious proMta. Hat ten times a mane nnnr wafre-earaiB? republican
would become democrats because of the income tax laws. Three-fourths of the voters of either party 1 the eaat, M well as iH the south d west, are la favor of aa income tax and would be glad to vote for it if they had an oppor
tunity to do so, tree irora entangun alliances with other party questions, Let both parties agree to decide thia question by a vote of the people next fall and see what would be the result
Imagine the masses of voters, twentyfive per cent of whose wages are taken In taxes, voting against the propoaitioa to take two percent of tho surplus profts of the rich.in order to relieve the bur
den upon the poor, fcven in 2ew ior city, the home of the millionaire and multi-millionaire, three times as many votes would be cast for as against the income tax. New York's 1.20 million, aires, in control of all but one or two of the leading newspapers there, could not by any form of argument induce the voters to vote against their owa and in favor of the plutocrats' interest. - . . . . . m a . 1 1. . ca
Kducation in mailers oi ihxhwuu a gone too far and the evils of indirect taxation havo become too appareat to
the leaders ol the wormng men.
Another great mistake made oy tnese name wealthy classes and many editors of so-called democratic papers are included consists in supposing that
the masses preler a lax oi one cent. ii pound or more on sugar, to absolutely
free and cheap sugar, vine lesson ut .hnnr suirar with lower duty con
verted many a wage-earner to the dem- . . . n At
ocratic position on the tarin; tne lesson of dearer sugar, with higher duty, would convert some of them back to
h roniihlican nartv. and others to
some third party that would agree
always to reiorm the tarin uownwaru.
Free sugar and an income tax are two of the most popular measures proposed by cither party. Pass both and the democratic party may save itself, even at this late date. Refuse to pass one of them and the democrats may count uoon defeat next falL Refuse to pass both nnd defeat is almost certain, not only in 1S04, but in 1890; and perhaps before 1800 we may evea seo tariff measures passed over the president's vetoes. Let any democratic senator or editor, who believes to tho contrary
and who thinks that the average voter will not object to a few dollars' sugar tax each year, visit the homes of tho wage-earners and discuss this question at the breakfast table. W. II.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Tni.il rentier's nrnfln 3.l!.tiril
From the miscellaneous tables of fn.i.'n commerce, finance, etc., of the
rn1tf.il States, for the .same years that
the sugar business has been under re
view, the figures of the interest on me
nitinnnl ilobt are nrocurod as follows:
Total inttrf, J'er capita
,tai f.7..iir.irA3r w.-tf
1 la" "- .... Lr!iii4ct
2i;0l.t4 .?3 0.3 ISA!.. .. .. ". .
Acrare ts:.0a-At f'f With this exhibit can be placed side by side the following: Ytfir. Rrfintri projllt. Ptr capita jg3 The facts speak for themselves. Hepublican senators may naturally be expected to vote for further protection to the sugar refiners, but what democratic senators of the. United States will dare to do so'.'X. Y. World. THE INCOME TAX.
AN OBSCURE MORAL. Aa Ohio McKinley Journal 0t Heme what MUnl. The leading McKinley journal of Ohio recently protested philanthropically against the enactmcdt of the Wilsen bill upon the ground that it would reduce the wages of workmen in Europe. This was an unexpected argument, but there is something still more surprising in the estimate of the. New York Tribnne.of Tuesday last, that the enactment of the bill will cause a def about about 30 per cent id
. a 1 1
the value of goods ltnporicu. uui
neighbor goes on to say: "If 30 per
cent be taken from the importations - - a 1 1 A .1 t-
on which duties were caiciuaicu
Mr. Wilson's committee, the loss oi
MVnnnn mild lie 630.000.000. This m
effect would make a shrinkage of 6111,-
000,000 in revenue from customs, tno it una non liinr added to the $75,00!.
000 which won hi be taken from th
revenue according to tho W ilson com
mittee's estimate. Our neighbor ano all other republican journals have con tended heretofore that the reduction of duties bv the Wilson bill must large-
ly increase importations, nvcryuouy has heard a hundred times the prediction that the country will be "flooded"
with foreign goods. Aow tne cniei organ of the party estimates that the im
ports will be reduced nearly one-miru; There seems to be a sharp turn heie, and we direct the attention of the fol
lowers of McKinley to the new doctrine. We may add that our neighbor's estimate is based upon the assumption that tho American consumers will not be able to buy so many goods because their wages will be reduced by the incoming "Hood" of foreign products; but this also is rather puzzling, for we don't sec how there is to be such a flood if the imports are to be reduced by 30 per cent Our neighbor's new
argument appears to be so lnvoivecj that the moral is rather obscure. -N
Y. Tunes. .
SuinmarltlnS IVrtlrW Omlltloii. At night the weary old doctor sat t ...! a usual, the condition
of his patients: The ragman, pick tig j
up; the editor, rapjiuy uccnniB, dentist, may pnll through; the postmaster, must go; the deaf mute, still complaining tho painter, more bad signs; the miser, barely living; the major, rallying; the cashier, gone; the ac-
tor, on the. last stage; m u ........ fat on bones; the cobbler,. pending; tho jail prisoner, will soon be out; the lawyer, speechless; the two grocers, on the, Verge of dissolution; the musician, tonitig up; the carpenter. Improving; Jones boy. bad and growing worse; the barber, saved by a close shave; t hoi banker falling; the bootmaKer, will notlast lonr. the pugilist, striking improv meat. St Nicholas.
The MHUonnlr Oppnwl to It f Cotiwe i;t the- Prople I'ltrnr It. Under the heading "A Tidal Wave of nic..if ' the New York Sun says:
'If the democrats put through the income tax. call me a republican." "That is what thousands of men in
41.1. tmvn and elsewhere, solid citizens.
life-long democrats, the hack bona of j
the partv in every poiuiuni cuu!h u faying every day. They are saying it aloud. When the federal tax hunter begins to thumb their private ledgers for them, their remarks concerning democracy will be even more vigorous and lm ,. vvtrr "
This "Tidal Wave of Disgust" is confined not entirely but almost entirely, to rich citizens who would be called upon to pay income taxes r class of citizens upon whom the tariff burden rests lightly and who manage to escape the greater share of their just property taxes. Millionaire senators and rich manufacturers, merchants and editors know but little about the sentiment of the people on this question. These plutocrats may kick as ....I. 4li- nliase on their own ac
count hut they should not presume to lr fnr f hn ItllMM.
Caulodbtcdly um democrats th oat
No Objection to free Ow. t mnet no. wVinri American inter
ests are said to lie threatened by for
eign production on account ol tno stnauncss of wages abroad, an investigation proves that there is little or no basis
for alarm. Iu spite or me reuueuon in the cost of iron mining in the Lake Superior region, there have been apprehensions that if the duty on ore should be removed the ore from Cuban mines, owned by three American rolling mills, would be hfaght in here to an extent that would prove disastrous to the Lake Superior Interests. For the purpose of ascertaining In just ...1...4 .hinrntr thnRtt interests were. Mr.
A. .1. Trimbull, of West Superior, Wis., visited Cuba to make an investigation.
A recent dispatch from est superior says that Mr. Trimbull found that Cabnn ore cost $1.02 a ton on board the vessel, and freight to Philadelphia was ?t.7. making the cost of the ore in Philadelphia, duty free, ?3.37. Lake Superior ore is now selling in Cleveland for '2.i0 to S3. 75. No Cuban mine ii .,ruptr1 nt. nrnsen t. and the Maryland
Steel Co.'s worlts. which were erected
exclusively to use Cuban ores, are Idle.
Journal of Commerce anu wonuncrem. llulletin.
"ThowMiltof thel'ennsylvaniaolcc-
Hon." says the San Francisco Examiner . a a f?
(lern.), "should warn tiiesenuie huhuto committee of the danger of delay. As
long as uncertainty prevails anu ousiness is consequently stagnant, the democracy must expect to fight with its hands tied. Hefore it can recover its normal strength, the new tariff must have been ia operation long enough to produoa a ravlral of Inda, try." Post.
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a-lt, te-sa. i UpertaUy Amae4 from Frtwef Netea I 1 GouH Tsxt.-I will aet tot laee . taeaf taou Af aw. Oea. Ä:Ä , ; Tma-Tte twenty or fecti rears ol JM'a MeelBtetMetoLaBU'. Tae mmbsm mkoalag fro Gee :3M1, awkee Me aeriea teat years Bat Dr. Keaatoetl talaki that tae) tweatjr rear anaUeaM la tae two venee are; aet tea eaeae years; eat taat the verte tHeaUt reset "Oae tweety ytar I ta wlta thee (I e., aktac ere ef thy atoek. lT to use): aaether tweaty 7a I wae' for aayeelf la lay kouae, terviwt thee feerteea yr for Ay twe 4UugB(tn.aelals years for thy eattto." Tai would make bto auy wltk Ubaa forty yaaaa The twcBty year Delea. either here er feeii.. ula at ilia blrthriffht Sad luhettow-
al on Jacob, so that the errwat eate to tae eaaw by elfter asod of reekoala. Date. n. C 17 or 174 Tweaty or forty years after the vtoloa at Sethel, our test reaptaea. Pealel or Peaael (the faeeofOea). ob tlio aorta bak of the stream Jabfeok, which eaten the Jordan frota the eeet, about halt way betweca the Deaa sea aa4 the Sea of Galilee. Pealel waa at the foram. probably aoeae arten or twenty mil eat of ibe Jordaa Jacob to bow alaety-Mvea yeara eld. He has twelve cblldrcn. fio has become rkher taea his uncle Lsbea, .aad to ea hto way baek toj Palestine. , Isaac 1b atill llvtof (:). a Wtad.feeWe ansa one hundred sad of ty six yeara old. It to generally thought that Rebekaa m not living (compare 21:1 with 36:8). Rcbckah'a aurse-
would not probably Have icu aor B3iuxa) while she wi UvIb to Jota Jacob's faaUly. LESSON NOTES. Life at Padan-Aram. After his vision at Bethel. Jaeoh continued hie long" journey to Mesopotamia. As he approached tho town o Haran, he found, his cousin Rachel caring for her father'a sheep. Kachel was probably twelve or thirteen years old at this time (see Condor's Tent Life In Palestine). Thia would make her nineteen or twenty at the time of her marriage. Thus introduced, he enters the service of Laban,, marries his cousins Leah and Itachelt and in course of time becomes th
father of eleven sons. Let us glanceat some of the helpful thoughts suggested by thi a period of Jacob's life. Tho Expulsive Power of a Supreme. Affection. Jacob's seven years' service for Rachel "seemed to him bat a few days for tho love he had! to her.'" This is the secret of, happy service everywhere. It is loval that makes life flow smoothly andj happilj. It is equally true of our servicei of God; it ia blessed when lore to Him i deep and strong. Goethe's dyiBg word were: "More light." Our words of lifoj arc: "More love." Returning Home. In some way God spoke to Jacob, and' summoned him to return home (31:3). His present life,
was but an episode, a preparation. Ula true position was that of heir of the, promises, tho inheritor of tho promised! land, the channel for tho kingdom o God. He must not stay too long away.? Ho may become perverted tn his relirious life. He had learned aU be eonld here. "Jacob was becoming too contented in that strange land. Like Ulysses and his crew, he was in danger of forgetting tho land of his birth, aud the promises of which he waa j,ujr."jleyer. Circumstances pointed in the same direction. Life with La-
ban's family was becoming a scrioua trial. He could no longer live in peace with him. Tho Value of Change. For mos peoplo somo declsivo change of life, some breaking away from old sccnea and habits and associations, as by marriage, change of location or business, often begins an era of enlargement and development.
The Hour of Need. Jacou leit iban at Haran, and with his wives, children, and wealth and flocks, sent oat en his long journey of four hundred and fifty miles. He had many reason for anxiety. (1) no left Laban secret ly, fearing that ho would refuse to let Rachel and Leah go with him, and that his flocks and herds would be detained. Ho knows that Laban haa been dishonest with him, has "changed1 his wages ten times," and that alone' would make Laban dislike him. We do not like those we have wrongcd.( Then he had indulged in many sharp a evt . A 1
practices toward laoan. xnat ai would mako Laban hostile to him., Laban pursued after him, but finally they made a covenant of peace, and' that danger was over. (3) His next trouble was from his brother Esau, who had become a wealthy chieftain, and whose territory lay between Jacob and his home. As he drew near Palestine, on his way to the fords of the Jordan, he sent messengers to his brother; but no answer was returned save that Esau was coming to meet him with four hundred trained sol-,iUt-Hr. was xeediatrlv afraid and
distressed. His family and flocks had no defense against such an attack. "A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city." Esaa in his wild life may have been one of those "who have broken all the commandments and have been almost sorry there were not more commandments to break." (3) Remorse and guilt intensified his anxiety and fear. He knew ho had wronged his broti er, and even forty years of absence could not wash the fact away. Many of his past transactions came before him and J'eat heavy upon his soul." 1'ItACTlCAI BÜOOE8TIOSS. The stains and effects of sin are not hr Time, nor forgctful-
ncss, nor ail of .them even by forgiveness. God leads us on to earnestness in order that we may bo prepared to receive better blessings. Tho best things of God arc given in vain till wo hunger and thirst after God. Times of need, of temptation, of doubt, of sorrow, of conviction of Bin, the crises in our lives, lead us to God and teach us to pray. True pravcr works as well as prays. The earnest f-oul prays with the whole naturewords, acts, life, spirit. mi... l. :!,,. lilissiiifrs come only
from wrestling importunity, thatwi.l not let God go till He blesses us. Tho answer to prayer is often different from that which wo first ask for.
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' üUVKH)inufcu- " - acntimcnUl valentine ia verso from Louise Chandler Moulton. Old age ka set without its consolation.