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Pl!K blue oy od n uuth. the dryad of I In) year, Muy, palpable, hulfvlslblo, In hero! Sho lives, encom passed by her leafy screen, T o p ecu wit h hlUChlllK 'VI', herself unseen. i,lir 1 n r in tho lanes or ferny wood Jir wi . ri' itio meadows bloom in Hulltmle, Or ! i - h !"' i tho river's sedtf y brink To t; .-lnil emu: f bor own bobolink. jl, r - .v if t foot pauses where the rasnrn wnvo jt,,v. -mme half-foii;otten soldier's uravo. Si,. H'twVH above war desolated spots tVM forgiveness with forceWno.uots, Ax, t writes with mosses on tbo rruinblhu; it. 'lie Ihr. ..i tun' recalled by her alone 0 M.iv so prodigal In memories' l(,,st thou forgot the buttles on tbo seas? Ha' thou foruot the Heamen that went down ViTl"it a fear to blaneh the eheot: of brown? H v:let or prlmroso ever rests Iii t) ttetl 1chch ti)Hri tlie.se warrior-breasts, N., friendly hand has decked their ocean grave ,'ur Hfirrow'H tribute reached them through the ave. I'cr nance tho drifting seaweed drop a spray In if.' unfolded arm, then lloats away; IVri banco those crystal corridors below Are lighted by a faint and Hhlftlng glow W'.ere parsing birds, with Hüft and sheeny whirs, Shd fleams of glory in their wanderings! Not for their ago alone tho brave old ships e t thundering trumpots to their Iron lips' They poured that awful eloquence of tiro To right the wrong, and lift tho right still higher. The ocean or tho shipyard claims tho wrecks, Ar, shadowy crews Invest tho rotting decks. A ft.oitly canvas flutters to tho breeze. Ha.t thou no garlands, May, for such ns these? llr.r.c thy deep urn tilled with n nation's tears; fc.n,,- thy sweet psalm nprung from our happier vears. An ' where a warship moulders on oti' shore, irr like a grandslro whnsa long work is o'er, V-1 m whose rough cheek baby lingers stray, O vo the grltn past the blooms of to-day! - Curtis May. in Youth's Companion. 1 N T D n uS I h h A," shouted two bright young voices in concert, "teacher says we are to ride in tho procession Decoration day and carry flowers to the soldiers' graves." Aunt Drusilla looked up from her sewing, pave a scarcely audiblo sich and said nothing. Tod much excited to notice this apparent lack of interest on the part of her aunt, the elder child continued tho fascinating description of the event in which she hoped to play fio prominent a part. In a breathless tone, wherein was just a suspicion of an undercurrent, of pride, sho proceeded eagerly: "And I am to walk first, teacher says and wo nro to wear white dresses with bright sashes it will be lovelj-, 1" "It won't be quite so lovely if we haven't any whito dresses to wear," interrupted her little sister Myra, who was of a practical turn of mind. Mvrtlc'a faco fell somewhat at this, nnd a moment or two of thoughtful silence followed. Quickly rallying, however, she turned to her aunt a to a person of inexhaustible resources, saying confidently: "Aunt Drusilla will fix us some, I know she w$lL" "No yon don't, Myrtle, Aunt Drusilla hasn't said she would." "Von will, won't you, aunt?" said Myrtle, coaxingly. "You must wait until I think it over, children you know I am not made of money." As this was a somewhat comtnou expression with Aunt Drusilla when extra drains wero made on her pocketbook, nnd often resulted favorably, the little girls felt no serious misgivings with rcferenco to their white dresses. Left onco moro to herself Drusilla continued her work with thoughts which wandered far from Iter present surroundings. Timojiad flown by, carrying with it ono by one of her old associates, cither on the matrimonial wave, or to the shore where there is "neither marrying nor giving in marriage," and still she, Drusilla Dexter, remained with an uneventful, past and an apparently joyless future. I said "uneventful;" in that, perhaps I erred taking tho general opinion of the few who thought they know Drusilla's liistory from beginning to end as a criterion for the preciso truth. The wise man has truly said: "Every heart knowcth its own bitterness nnd i stranger intermeddloth no. with its joys," and ho might havo addod its own secret hopes. fsomo fifteen years before the date of my story, while in her father's homo, llrusilln cherished, and foil asleep many a night to dream of, an ideal of a n inly type, Xo ono suspected it naturally reserved, she said but little of what touched her in the tenderest spots. H'iffh Manning, their neighbor's son, was a big boy when fiho first started fr school. His was tho friendly hand Pon which sho had relied in all her cmlnish troubles, and out of tho abundance of u large-hearted nature ho never refused to help the shy little maiden whoso thanks wero often only an appointive smile. Years passed in mis way until Hugh was a man Indeed J"jd Drhsilla a sweet-faced maiden, rho neighborly companionship continued and Drusilla cared for none thcr. To sco him oace in a few days, on, ikatisüed her.

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penetrated the little western village where they lived, and women's hearts failed them, knowing that the call for their loved ones would surely ootue. Then Dnihillr.ttwoUo from the blissful dream in which she hud indulged to the reality of a heartache and a startling consciousness of the fact which is either fraught with much joy or sorrow to a woman, viz., that her heart was no longer in her own keeping irrevocably given to another. Tho call for men came oven sooner than was anticipated, and Hugh was one of tho first to offer himselt. Notwithstanding her grief Drusilla would not have had it otherwise. Her ideal was a brave man, htahvart and fearless--but oh, the misery of it! Her father and young brother were likewise going; tho one on the extreme limit of age permissible, and j the other almost too young for service, but they were ready nnd willing, and the women wen- too loyal to their country to say them nay, The last night before the men started, the two families of the Mannings and Dexters met at the hitter's house for a farewell supper. IScucnth the pleasant, flow of genial neighborly chat there lay tho deep current of turbulent thought and sad forebodings to which none would give voice lest the others should be disheartened. Drusilla waited on the table with a white face and u compressed look about her mouth, telling of a speechless grief harder to bear because it must not find voice. It was an evening in June. The roses were in full bloom and filled tho air with their sweetness. Tho scent of roses reminded Drusilla of that evening for many years after. Weary of the strain of keeping up appearances the girl went for a breath of air down the garden path between the rose bushes. A sense of desolation, too undefined for language, lay like a heavy burden on her heart Hearing a footstep on the walk she hastily turned, dreading the interruption to these few stolen moments of freedom from restraint A glance at the supposed intruder sulliccd to bring the color to her white lips. "What did you run away for, Drusilla'.'" said Hugh, cheerily. "Why, you surely are not crying because we go to fight our country's battles and, please God, to return with honor to our friends. You must exercise faith and courage, Drusilla, it is tho only way to endure these separations." "I caunot, Hugh. It is far easier for you to go than for us who remain to stay at home and weep." replied the girl, tearfully. "How do you know that, Drusilla. I" There was no opportunity for further speech, tho rest of the family joined them and tho conversation became gen eral. The summons came earlier than was expected in the morning and leavetakings were of necessity brief. Faith and courage those two words burned themselves, as it were, iuto Drusilla's 2"'' 9 STKITEl) up TO very soul. Faith first in her God and then in Hugh, and courage to take up boldly tho duties of each lonir sad day, and to wait for the tidings of loved ones that might never come. Somo time after tho departure of the men from heigh Valley a distant relatlvo visited the family and brought for Drusilla, as a present, a beautiful white dress. In an instant the thought occurred to her that it might servo as a wedding dress if Hugh should return and ask her to bo his wife. "Ho meant to do so that night, I am sure," sho frequently said to herself. "Oh, If ho had only spoken, it would havo been easier to bear now." Troubles camo thickly to the Dexter family after tho first year of absence. Occasionally lottcrs from the field told of wounds and suffering, and finally they ceased altogether. From Hugh there wero two or three communications to ids family, and theh ho too was silent At tho closo of the war the father and brother returned. Careful nursing restored the latter, but no loving enro could bring health to tho shattered constitution of the former, and in a few months he was laid to rest in a soldier's grave. Hugh's whereabouts wns a mystery. Ho was heard of as wounded and a prisoner, and the opinion of his relatives was that he too had fallen a victim to tho horrors of tho war. "Faith and courago, oh for it!" prayed Drusilla many times a, day; "not my will, but Thine be done," sho murmured from the depths of her stricken soul. Her mother died, and then sho went to a distant town to live with her brother, who had married and settled down. As the patient aunt of his llttlo girls, and tho mainstay of the church to which alio belonged, sho did not lead an unhappy life, although on abiding sorrow was her portion. Tho mystery attending Hugh's fate rotnnined unsolved. Other troubles, however, followed Her brother and his wife were both taken, and ue was left sole

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guardian to tho little girls, Myrtle nnd Myra. Hearing of another town in which she could get suitable employment so as to eke out the small income at her disposal, she took tho children with her and settled down as a dressmaker, "Faith and courage,'' oh, how sho needed them now; alone with two little ones depending on her. Hay by day, with a steady purpose of doing faithfully thu work coming to her, she worked and won victory after victory over discouragement and occasional seeming defeivb These decoration days were seasons requiring more fuilh and courage than at times she felt sho possessed. If. like tho soldiers' widows, she could have laid ilowers on the grave of her loved one, nnd thoutrht of him in

the rest of Heaven, her burden would J to Myrtle, who happened to be forehave grown light in comparison, but 1 most, saying, with a smile in which

this was not to be wherefore she knew not. Thu problem of tho children's white dresses, on the day on which our story opened, occupied Iter mind some time after their departure. Money was scarce with her just now, sickness had thrown her behind, and for awhile rigid economy had tobe exercised. "Why not give them your whito dress; you will never have it made up for yourself," whispered common sense. Now this white dress was tho only tangible thing poor Drusilla felt she had to look at connected with the ono romance in her life. As such sho prized it, and had kept it wrapped up in blue paper to preserve its color. "Yes," she said to herself, "it will make them two beautiful dresses, and as soldier children they will decorate the graves." Myrtle and Myra wero in transports of joy over the prospect of their new whito dresses. Mj'rtlo was especially jubilant, too much so to notice her aunt's face as she folded the goods and put them away. Myra, however, whom little escaped, observed it, and told Myrtle .she was sure something was troubling Aunt Drusilla. "What can it be?" said Myrtle, coming down at once from her excitement. "I don't know, Myrtle, but I believe it is about Decoration day. Aunt looked as though she cried last year, I remem ber." It rained the day beforo Decoration day, aud many were tho fears expressed by tho children lest it would be too wet to wear their new white drcsss. Myrtle, who resembled her aunt, with fair hair and blue eyes, looked at herself with great satisfaction in the looking glass. The sunshine threw strealcs of gold on her hair and a rosy tint on iter checks. "Won't you come to the cemetery anil see us. aunt?" asked Myra, holding up her face for a good -by kiss. "No, dear, I think not. You can tell me all about it when you come home. He good children, and be careful not to spoil your dresses. Good-by!" ','Faith and courage," whispered the lonely woman to herself, when the TUR I.KADKIt. sound of their footsteps had died away in the distance. "I need them as much as ever. Will it ever ceaso to bo a struggle to keep them up? So far I havo had sustaining grace, but how about tho long future?" "As thi day so shall thy strength be," camo to her cheerily, and she resumed her sowing with peace, yes, aud with a positive joy in her heart Meanwhilo tho children were having a grand time. The weather was perfect, and the arrangements all which could bo desired. The 0. A. It. men were drawn up in line at the entrance of the cemetery while tho children marched past them, Myrtlo heading the. procession. One of the men started vioiently on seeing her, and could hardly forbear breaking from the ranks and hastening to overtake her. When tho graves wero all decorated and tho chlldron wero marching back to the coneynnces at the cemetery gates, tlic man left his comrades and stepped up to tho leader. In the few minutes intervening betvrcen their arrival ana tauing tueir seats in tho cnrnagcsiio contrived to ask her if her name was Dexter, or if she had relatives ofthat name? "Yes, Myra and I are called Dexter, nnd so is our aunt, Miss Drusilla. Do you know her?" asked tho child, looking curiously at tho gray-haired, G. A. IL "Yes, that is, I used to. Where do you live?" "With Aunt Drusilla, in a small whito homo with green blinds, on Spencer street Good-by, sir, I must ; get in now. Come, Myra." On the children's arrival at homo I they found their aunt engaged with a j customer, so that tlicro was no chance j to tell her of tho afl er noon's per form nnco for quite a llttlo while, .lust as ' they were about to do so there was a ring at tho doorbell, and as their aunt ( was assisting them to take off their ' finery neither of them could go to the door. . 'I wonder if It's that roan?" said

Myra. "He has had about time to

here." "Hush, Myra, don't you hear aunt crying? What can be thu matter?" A strange stillness had fallen over tho occupants of tho sitting-room after that ono loud sob of sorrow or rather joy. The l'ttlo girls waited in vain for their aunt to come and finish their toilets, so they concluded to wait upon each other, as they usually did, and then go and see what ailed their aunt This was soon executed, so eager were they.to solve tho mysterious coining of this stranger. On entering tins room they found tho ü. A. It man occupying a seat very near their aunt, who appeared to be in too happy a state of mind to warrant that sob. On seeing tho children Drusilla held out her howl there was a mingling of various emo tions "These nro poor Heber's children, Hugh. They are all that is left of my old home." "This little lady's likeness toj-ou was the means of my finding you, Drusilla, after my long search. I only intended remaining hero a week, so that my chances were small of meeting with you." A few words will sufllco to explain Hugh's silence and long absence. He had written to Drusilla, asking her to be his wife, soon after wishing her good-by, but unfortunately the letter was lost He was injured in tho head during ono of the first engagements. On his apparent recovery from the wound it was discovered that his memory was a blank, and without being exactly insane, he came very near it For several years he continued in this condition. Finally, however, he recovered under skillful treatment, nnd then set on a ques,t for his loved ones No one in Ids native village knew Drusilla's latest move, and the searcli seemed hopeless. Hy the will of his father, who had died recently, he had cotno into considerable property, and, as he told Drusilla, there would be no further need for her to be a breadwinner. "lain afraid, Hugh," sho nnswered, with a loving smile, "that with so much happiness in prospect I shall be tempted to folget my daily prayer for faith and courage!" r Sirs. W. L. Sanders, in Chicago, Standard. HER OPINION OF IT. A Curious Couple and tho Ciingremman from Tlit'tr DUtrlrt. "Once when I was in ono of my baclc counties," said a Tennessee congressman, "I stopped at afcinall hotel whero I was an object of curiosity to u couple of natives, evidently man and wife- I was sitting out on a little porclt in front of the house reading a newspaper, and thev were watching me as if I were some kind of a new creation, but I tried to remain unconscious of it, behind my paper. Finally they began to talk. " 'Who d' you reckon ho is?' queried the woman in a half whisper. " 'Dunno; sposin I ax him?' ho ven tured, quite as curious as she was. " 'lou dasn't' she saitt in a tono im plying that she hoped he would, and he did, and I told him, I was the con pressman from that district He went back to her smiling. " 'Guess who?' he said. " 'Some kinder drummer er other, she replied, peeping at me cautiously. "The man shook his head. " 'He ain't no preacher, I'm shore,' she said, 'but he might be a sowin ma chine agent' " 'No. he ain't said the man, 'he's tho congressman frum this deestrick; that's what he is.' " 'Did he tell you so?' she asked, in credulously. " 'In course " 'Jlv.' sho exclaimed, 'I wouldn't a' thought it It's bad enough to be one without goin' 'round tellin' every body. ' " SURE THEY WOULDN'T FIT. Tbl l'redlcament of Lady Ilortor Who Vas riillanthroplcrtlly Inclined. The other evening Mrs. Dr. Myra Knox heard a violent ring at her door bell. She answered it in person. Through tho dim light, and directly under the swinging sign which informs tho multitude that "Dr. Knox" may bo found within, stood one of tho hungry unemployed Tho doctor has a large heart whicn responds quickly to all forms of human distress, and sho became interested at once. "My good man," she asked, "what can I do for you?" "Please, ma'am," came the meek answer, "would you be so kind as to give mo a pair of tho doctor's old pants? I'm nearly naked, as you can see." Mrs. Knox did not laugh. She never laughs at human misery, no matter how its laughable features may bo presented to her. Hut sho said, solemnly: "My poor man, I would willingly j corapiy with your request, but I know tjic (iocior's pants would not fit you. j Apply to Dr. ltuckcl, next door." ow r)P. Uuckcl disposed of tho needy j fellow has not been divulged In fact, , tne htory stops riff,t here. Dr. Huckcl's i first namo s Annette San Francisco Wafc (Srowtlt of the IVmrl Oyiiter. It has been found by Saville-Kent that thu pearl oyster renches maturity in a shorter time than formerly supIKjscd. He thinks that under favorable conditions a period not exceeding three years suffices for tho shell to attain to the marketablu size of eigltt or nine incHbs in diameter, and that heavy shells of flvo pounds or six pounds weight per pair may be the product of five years growth. In Ills N'utlto Klrment. Attendant Prof. Pithon, tho nat uralist, has got the d. t's to-night Imagines bo's surrounded by all sorts of queer snakes. Head Physician Is he greatly terrified? Attendant Not at all; he's sitting there with a sweot smile on his face, classifying them. Puck.

ENGLAND. Vrvn Wool In Very l.lkrly to Ailvanet I'rlt't-K. The political wool growers who still proclaim that higher duties on wool are needed to bring back higher prices will hereafter produce but little etleet upon the common sense real wool grower. In addition to the fact that lower prices have followed higher duties we have, at last, under tho high ly protective McKinley duties, legtm to export wool in considerable quantities showing that tho prices of our wools are now not only us low, but a little lower, than prices of similar foreign wools. On April S, tho following report was sent out from Washington: "The American consul at Hradford, England, reports to tho department of state that an endless amount of gossip lias been caused there during tho last nix weeks by the offering for sale of largo quan tities of American wool. Suveral lots of Ohio wool, aggregating r0,000 pounds wero reported among the purchases. One Hradford firm, which bought 5,000 pounds, paying for the various grades from '2'i$ to Hfl cents per pound, said tho wool gave perfect satis faction, so much so, m fact, that it was holding it for higher prices. "The purchaser explained to the con sul that the American skin wools wero especially adapted for hosiery yarns and were equal to tho finest English crossbreds, the only thing that has kept their price down being, in his opinion, the fact that American manufacturers have not fully mastered the manipulation of the skin or pulled wools which are taken from the .sheep after death. As a general thing, the prices of American wools of all grades are now practically the same as those of the similar English grades. "The manufacturers in Hradford assert that the moment the tariff bill becomes a law the prices of American wools will revive, and several of them are so strong in this belief that they have made largo investments in wool now held in Philadelphia and I Jost on. They insist that tho new impetus given to manufactures by free raw material will cause larger quantities of the L'nited .States grown article to be mixed with fine foreign wools, and that tho demand for American wools for hosiery purposes will, immediately set in on tho English market It is already proposed by wool dealers in England to exchange the grades of wool moro suitable for dr ss goods and cloths for the American wool adapted for liosierv and other purposes. They argue that this will at once bring about renewed activity in the trade and raise prices. Over J.'iO.OOO pounds of American wools are now offered in tho Hradford market at prices which caunot be accepted until there is a prospect for disposing readily of tho manufactured product." TARIFF ROBBERY. f hit Tlilnf Tht Fllrhr from One Man Knrlcli Another. to Indirect taxation is the greatest and meanest thief on earth. This thie takes little at a time, but he takes that little from each person .lOT days out of every year. No civilized person on this globe is exempt from ins ravages. He has tho authority of tho government to plunder its citizens. Hie government knows that the thief is cautious, judi cious and sly and that he has had experience in tho art of extracting money from the pockets of the people for revenue and "other purposes," as tho .Mc Kinley bill puts it. The thief turns j over to tho government about one-third of the swag nnd gives the other twothirds to his real employers the manufacturers and monopolists. Thus the thief pilfers from us each year over f:?00, 000,000 for our government und probably ftIOO.000,000 more for the monopolists and trusts an average of nearly 7. a year from each family, $50 of which goes to a favored few. With such a magnificent thief abroad in our land it is no wonder that we have produced over 4,000 millionaires since 1 SfiO who, according to the census of IS!10. own one-fifth of all our went til. it, is no wonuor mat v per cent- of our population own over 70 per cent of our wealth, leaving 01 per cent, practically paupers, living from hand to month. This condition of affairs is a reversal of the condition in lbOO, when t0 per cent- of our population owned over 70 per cent of our wealth. A thief that has in thirty years transferred nearly ?.7i), 000,000,000 from the pockets of the masses to the pockets of the classes is certainly the greatest of all thieves. He is also the meatiest, for, unlike most thieves who operate mainly upon tho rieh his victims arc the hard working people. He stealthily lays hold of ev ery fifth dollar of the poor and carries it exultingly to the vaults of tho rich. Shame on tho senator who is such a traitor to tho people or who is so gross ly Ignorant of the character of indi rcct taxation that he will rise in his place in the senate to champion the interests of the greatest and meanest of thieves. A. W. II. UNSCIENTIFIC ECONOMICS. Hattvunrn Who llfdlnv In I.onffltadlnal Free frntln and Latitudinal l'rotectlon, Some people entertain tho delusion that, although the laws of mathematics nnd the physical sciences are applicable to all counties, yot the same indexible quality docs not belong to the laws of moral science, lhey believe that these can bo changed according to tho whim of legislatures, and the exigencies of climate and geography, lhey think that the principles of free trade may be philosophical aud wise in ono eountry, nnd tho reverse in another; that "in fancy" is :i good plea in behalf of pro tection in a now country, but not in an old ono; that agriculture ought to be protected at tljo expense of manufactures hi, Knghind nnd manufactures protected nt the expense of agriculture in America. We havo statesmen in congress who believe in longitudinal free trade and latitudinal protection; who think that free trade would bo ficicntitlu and valuable between us and the nations to tho north and south of as, but mischievous and unwiso bciwmcn us aud th nations cast and wast.

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not 1h bent to suit the differences of latitude and longitude.' Tho freeoVxn of trade that beaefU England Would benefit tho United States. Commercial principles caunot vary between IivcrjMxiland New York, nor between Hos ten and Montreal. It is very curious that, while the citizens of London were petitioning their parliament for commercial freedom, thu citizens of lloston were asking ongress for the saino right It gives a rude shock to the vanity of an American ruvemra re former of the present day to nnd that his arguments wero anticipated by his countrymen sixty-live years ago. In Ibi", when our "infaut industries were much moru iniantuo man uiey are now, a committee of the citiKens of lloston thus protested against the in justice of n protective tariff. They de clared it false to say that "dear goods made at home are better than cleap ones made abroad: that capital and labor cannot be employed in this coutHry without protective duties; that it is patriotic to tax the many for the benefit of the few; that it is" just to aid by legislation manufactures that do not succeed without it; that wo ought to sell to other nations, but never buy from them." They go on to say: "These are, we have long since known, fundamental principles among the advocates of tho American system. It is, however, extraordinary that these ancient and memorable maxims, sprung from the darkest ages of ignorance and barbarism, should take their last refuge here." M. M. Trumbull, in Cjo Free Trade Struggle in England. QUAY ON THE TARIFF. The I'riiuiylTniila Sruntor Should Keaa I'll a I. title. The best proof of the success of tho tariff of 1S40, which Senator Quay lias made the latest attempt to arraign, lies in the simple fact that from the day of Us enactment till li: noserious effort was made by any party in congress to change it except in tho direction of lower duties. In IStS the whigs elected their candidate for president, with a majority in congress, through a disunion of tho democratic party on the shivery question, but they found the tariff by that time so acceptable to the country that they did not undertake to disturb it Gen. Taylor was elected president, not because he was opposed to the tariff of 1840, but bocause he was a popular soldier of the war with Mexico, The whig platform of 1S4S was comprised pretty much in the refrain of the campaign song: We'll put old Zach In thJ White house, boys, And Whiter in the White house stable. In 1S.VJ the party opposud to the tariff of 1840 was so completely broken down that its candidate for president Gen. Winlield Scott, received the electoral votes of only four states of tho union, namely, Kentucky, Tennessee, Massachusetts and Khodo Island. Soon after this the whig party dissolved, aud its political assigns and successors, tho republicans and know-nothings, made no issue on the tariff. With tho fall of the whig party, its high protective tariff creed was eliminated from political controversj. As a crowning proof of tho popularity and success of the tariff of 1840, ia 1857, after an experience of eleven years, leading republicans in congress including William H. Seward, Henry Wilson, afterwards vice president, and Lafayette S. Foster, in the senate, and many republicans in tho house, including most of the New England members, aided in still farther reducing tho duties on imports. From an average of 'St per cent the duties' were lowered 1)3 republican votes to an average of ID per cent It is too late n the day to seek to open the judg ment pronounced by the founders of the republican party in favor of th tariff of 1840. Philadelphia Record Italnncn of Normen. The "balance of trade" In ottr favor for the past eight months of panic and distress is $'218,000,000. Similes of Illaine and substance of Melvinley, where is that balance? We know, for thev havo told us, that such balances nre always "paid over," and in "gold" That some $200,000,000 was paid over in 1S90, McKinley asserted on his sacred honor, though how it slipped in and who had got it he firmly refused to say. Anyhow it was a great triumph of protection and a crowning proof o'f the prosperity of the country, showing liow exceeding clever we had been to have sold the deluded foreigners ?200. 000,000 more than we had bought of them. Hut now it seems that hard times arw ... . . - V! even netter tuan protection w uriogabout that blessed crippling of our pur chasing power, 'loa mind like Mchiuley's tills must be "suggestive of much," though to the ordinary mind its principle suggestion will ho that the balance of trade is, as commonly understood, nothing bat the balance of nonsense. N. Y. Post rig- Iron to Knjrland. Several days ago there were shipped to England from llirmingham, Ala., two hundred tons of pig iron. This shipment follows one that was made a few weeks ngo, and it is admitted that arrangements have been made for cxportations hereafter. If the iror. makers of the llirininghaia district can sell their iron profitably in tho English market after paying the lnnd and ocean transportation charges, why do thc3 need to be protected hero at homo against competitive sales of imported English iron and against Cuban iron oro by the tariff duties which they havo demanded and which they, with the assistance of others, have induced the senate committee ta impose in tho pending- hill? N. Y. Times. fiirontrioii Humor. The tariff debute in tho senate nas lacked the element of humor until now. Tha omission has now been supplied by Senator Quay, who pleads that the tariff question lw taken out of politics and considered purely as a buslncvs question. To anyone nt all familiar with the part performed by Senator Quay in the national compalgn of 1SSS. this plea will at onco appear us the very quintessence of humor, And tho best part of it Is that it seems to he of the unconscious sort-Boston Herald