Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 37, Number 4, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 October 1894 — Page 3

"WEEKLY COURIER.

C. DOVJS'K, T?ubUsher. .JAGPEE. INDIANA. A SECRET. feilt! be like praHlniHimi when lam eld? stall I vrar such a queer litt! bonnet No feathers, bo posies, but Just a pldu foU " with a Utile w bite edging upon lt ciull I lt in an easy-chair 11 the day Ion. With a gn-t ball of wool and a stocking? Sbai; 1 think It quite dreadful for folk to do wrong. And dirt sail disorder o shocking? hall I "wcir 3 white cap fall of dear little And a row of white curU on my forehead? I Iteep niy face clean, aud take carts of my clothes, And never 1 snappish and horrid! Shall I think that tho lllble' the nicest of books. AnJ rcmeml'er tbo sermon on Sunday. Andwt think how stupid the minister looki. And wtb it would only be Monday? Juit alt till I tell you what grandata ooco said 1 hope rou woa'' think me craiy. j. tppfned one day when they .sent me to bed For being 111-tewpcrcd and lazy, s-ae tame und sat by me. and tutted my hand. And told me: "There's no uc la cryina; Jt'i by stumbling, my pet, that we learn how lo stand. Asd w- aiways grow better by trying." Was anyone ever so wicked as me J" I askt-d her tetweeu ny sobbing. Then grandmamma laughed just as bard u OOOlil '. And her little white carl went bobbing. -Vj anyone ever o naughty a. you? I'm -are thut I know of one other." -Who was 111" tasked. "Oh, please tell me; do." ate whljcred: "Your oa grandmother." 7ow ssn : it strange' But of course It U true. 1 ran tell you just one thing about itshe d not tell a story, whatever he'd do. And we d only be Uly to doubt It Um I owuise I feel certain you never will tell. For ho perfectly dreailful 'twould be To su e inrople know, who all love her so well, Ttut grandma was ever like ma. Mar. E Vandyue, la Harper Young PeopleA BIT OF SEVKES. fcA Foolish Fancy That Brought About a Wedding. Miss Van Tooker sat in the parlor. It was a cos room, suggestive both of comfort and elegance; but Van Tooker mere, recalling- its former glories and keenly conscious of each worn thread in the carpet, the frayed .satin in the furniture - covering and darns In the lace curtains, .shook her head and sighed plaintively. Speculation, a panic and grief from the consequent failure hail carried away Vu:i Tooker pore. His thoughtfulness left them the old home and a .slight income upon which his widow and her daughters. Elinor and Content, contrived to live presentably, no one knew how. That is, no one except Elinor, for Elinor had the Van Tooker nose and had inherited along with it those qualities which not only command suwess but deserve it No one but Elinor knew how tho shabby old gowns were rejuvenated, the hats made pood as new and the cast-off finery of her mother and aunts transformed into bewitching party gowns, "Just as they are in stories," exclaimed Content, in ecstasies after each new achievement of Elinor's. Ordinarily when given to meditation Miss Van Tooker sat in the library. Kor it was aristocratic even in its decline, and together with her Van Tooker noso Miss Elinor had inherited aristocratic tastes. Her grcat-great-cratidfather a Copley hung on the wall; the old books svere handsomely bound; and, thank Heaven, the floor was of polished wood and could never show such unmistakable signs of shabbines as the orstwhile beautiful carpets were doing. Thon Miss Van Too!,cr was intellectual, and meditation in the Horary was therefore more appropriate. When she sat there Saturday night summing up her week's occupations the account ran something1 like this: Moi'dny night, acting- Lady Teazle before the Comedy club, acting it welL too. and thereby consuming the hnfflense amount of nervous energy relaired to act Sheridan; Tuesday afternoon, leading a conversation on socialism at the Once-a-Week club; Wednesday, giving a little talk before the roisMonary society on practical ways oi raising a fund; between times reading up for her paper for the Every Friday club. Added to this were the various social functions in which she had taken part: the teas at which she had "poured;" the receptions at which she hail helped to receive: the German she bad led and the calls she had managed to pay and receive between times. It was a long list, but it was Saturday and she had Sunday to rest in when the memory of the week's occupations aiadc her weary. Tills was Monday, however. She hud been dusting, för their one maid was busy in the launshy, and moreover hlinor did not dare trust her among the bric-a-brac That bric-a-brac! This was the reason the sat down, duster in hand, to i'diate. Van Tooker mere had adorned her parlor, as was the fashion at the time uf its adorning, with stately brouzes, Hohemian jrlass and alabaster, and hud filled her china closet with the wares of Worchester. Dresden and "Nfvres. Therefore when Elinor covered a tiny table with a lim-n cloth whose original design was lost in the nbroidery and drawn work with which it was ornamented, .set it in the oruer between the window and the pate and placed the reon six of her evre tups and saucer. .Mrs. Van tester was properly incensed. Her "Jigtiatlon increased when she dls--wvered Content balancing a bread Plate of rare design upon a wite easel j ornament the mantel, stripped of r bronzes. The etagere, too, bore trace, of the dining room robberv. nr tho fact that indignation as well a Mtrrow rendered Van Tooker mere Peechless saved the girls from a ecre reprimand. 'My dears. I have always found our -4lna closet sufficiently roomy," b

fcald with dignity when she again recovered voice. "Hut, mamma, everybody elso has teacups and things in their parlors now, ready to pour tea and chocolate, you know." "When do you expect to pour tea and chocolate. Elinor?" "Mamma, dear, y uu know it Is a Khame to have this beautiful china hidden away, and nobody ever sees our dining-room." "What will you do when we have company?" "Mamma, darling, you are too ridiculous. You know very well we are perfectly safe on that score, and tve might as well have one room look pretty." Mamma was silent if not convinced, but Harold l'helpi remained an agnostic Not that he had any Idea that the splendor of the parlor decorations re suited from the plundering of the china closet. The purchase of the ".stun," as he called it, was but another hit of girlish extravagance. "i thought better of you, Elinor," he faul, viewing the table with evident disgust. "Nobody knows what I have sutlered in other people's parlors littered with dining-room trash. Positively, when I .see one of those everlasting little tables with its four or six or twelve cups I am tempted to become profane or to stealthily tip it over. I know 1 shall do so some time. What will people drag into their parlors next? I had hoped one spot might remain unprofancd by the rage for china." Elinor's scarlet lip curled, but she kept silence. Had she spoken she would have been rude, something unpardonable in a Van Tooker. Harold Phelps had laughed at her Theosophical society, he had doubted the infallibility of Ibsen, he had publicly declared that he didn't care, and worst of all. he hail intimated that if Mamma Van Tooker's French had not leen that of Stratford atte Howe she would have hustled out of the house unceremoniously certain volumes which littered the library table. Still, Elinor credited all thi.s to the fact that young men do not like intellectual young women, and that ho thus covered his humtlation at having fallen in love with her. Hut to llout her cherished china was an unpardonable offense. That Harold and she had been sweethearts since he wore knickerbockers and her dusky hair fell in ripples over her shoulders Miss Van Tooker detested curl.s did not. as might be sujposed. facilitate the course of true love. Xeither did Harold's bank account, for she. foolish girl, had .scruples and feared people would say she bartered the Van Tooker claims of long descent for mere money. The perfection of Harold's attire did not win Iter heart, for being intellectual she rather admired the Ill-fitting coats and lavish display of throat affected by the professors "ho addressed her various societies, "o when ha ventured to offer her his heart and hand on the very evening he laughed at her china, her sharp No!" proclaimed so clearly the cause of his discomfiture that he smiled to himself in spite of his disappointment. Of these things Elinor was thinking when the bell tinkled and Christine, appearing from the laundry, ushered into the room a young lady whose fur wrapping and a fluff of yellow hair ahone brightly. "Nell, you darling how ar you?" Elinore emerged from the sealskin embrace and held her friend at arm's length while she inspected her. "Elizabeth Ware, I wrote you a letter last night addressed to Riverside, CaL. and now you walk into our parlor as calmly as though you had announced your arrival weeks ago." "1 came hurriedly. We are on our way to New York to meet Harry. Isn't it too lovely? I've volumes to tell you and I know I'll never get through in three hours. Mamma was driving out this way, and I begged her to drop me here for lunch and meet me downtown later on." Another ring at the bell. The long suffering Christine again discarded her apron, rolled down her sleeves and this time ushered in Harold Phelps. "Miss Ware, to speak poetically, I've been following a tress of your yellowhair all morning. Irwin Itrown told me you were in town, but I doubt whether instinct would have led me here when I missed j'ou at the hotel if I hadn't caught a glimpse of your hair in a carriage coming this way. I thong-ht I couldn't be mistaken, so here I am in pursuit of information." "Harold, I find you are as cruel as

ever; at your old tricks of raising mhopes only to let them fall again. First, yon have been in pursuit of me: I'm immensely flattered. Next, it's only for what I know; I'm of secondary importance." "First, always, because without you I could not obtain my information, and if Julia did not learn the name of 'that perfectly delightful boarding place with those 'elegant people you described in your last letter before she starts out west to-mo-row she would never forgive me. Hcsides. I assure you, I really wanted to see for myself the wonderful effect upon you of our Italy." "Then yon must stay for lunch: can't he. Nell? There isn't time to sec Julia, and It will take hours to tell It. Nobody understands going west until she has tried it. so I shall begin at the vcrv Hrst. When she goes to buy her ticket" Elinor arose with an assumed calm which would have been awful had her guests understood it. "Certainly; I shall be delighted to have you stay. Mr. Phelps. I must tell Content that you are here, Hessie. So on with your instructions to Mr. Phelps; I will return in a moment." "Klinor Van Tooker," moaned Content, "what In the world do you mean'.' Company to lunch. Christine washing, anil nothing to eatt You have lost your senses." "Use yours then, Content. She inTttcd herself and of coui-se I am very glad to see her. but Kessle has always bad everything and can't understand. Aad that dreadful girl invited Harold

Phelps. I am not responsible for that." "We can take our dinner for lunch and go without that meal if you don't think they will proloug their visit," "She is going on to New York this afternoon, so shu can't. Come on down. Content, ami do act hospitable. Don't worry mamma, we'll attend to it all." Iu the hall Content turned on her sister, impressively: "Now, Elinor Van Tooker, you've got to use your brains to get those dishes out of the parlor. We will have to make up for lack of eatables soma way, and tho bread plate and fruit dlshs we can't possibly do without." "What will mamma say?" "Never mind mamma. You just manage to got those people out of the parlor ami keep them until I come in and ask Harold when Julia is going. Then you will know that everything is all right." The Van Tooker nose was all that saved Klinor on this occasion. After Content's effusive greeting she called Harold and Kessle to the library to show the latter some etchings that had been sent her, and then led the way to the music room to get Kessie's approval of some casts Content had recently mounted. Her sister did not follow and to Elinor's acute ear the click of china was painfully audible. Content fully earned her right to the Van Tooker name by the luncheon. Tho darns on tho state tablecloth were covered with scattered blossoms and leaves gleaned from their few house plants; the beautiful china set off the table; aud if the menu was not elaborate, people need not expect much for luncheon, especially on Monday and among women whose appetites are naturally delicate from lack of exercise. The few dishes were carefully prepared, Christine as a waiter was perfection, and Mamma Tooker's table talk had always been a matter of pride with the family, so all was going merry as a marriage bell when Ke.ssie's eyes fell upon the empty bread plate which Christine had set before her. "What a beautiful plate!" she exclaimed. "Do look at this, Harold. Isn't the decoration unique? Mamma has often told me. Mrs. Van Tooker. of your exquisite china. Where have I seen a plate like this before?" continued Hessie, not heeding- the silence which fell upon the company. "Not long ago, surely; the design seems familiar. Wouldn't you like to know. Mrs. Van Tooker, who has its mate? It must have been in somebody's parlor; that's just like some people, you know. They're so afraid people won't know they have anything if it isn't kept on exhibition. There was a family just next door to us in California parvenues, of courso who decorated to death in the china line; parlors, library and all filled with beautiful dishes. We were madly envious until one day, don't you know, somebody dined there and told somebody else so we all heard it, that they ate off the coarsest kind of dishes every day and had to carry the pretty ones out of the parlor to eat on when they had company!" The expression of Mrs. Van Tooker'a face was edifying. Elinor did not try tosmiie.but Content's hysterical giggle helped out Kessie's hearty laugh. Neither did Harold Phelps smile when his eyes met Elinor's as they rose from the table. On the contrary, his face expressed a resolution not unlike that

which Content s had worn earlier In the day, as he spoke: "Content, I shall never rest satisfied until you prove to Miss Ware that I was correct about that air front 'Cavalleria Kusticana.' over which we were disputing when we first came out to lunch. You have the score; take her to the music room and convince her. Mrs. Van Tooker is going to let me smoke a cigarette out here before I follow you." Quick to catch the meaning. Content lovingly eucircled Kessie's waist with her arm and drew her into the music room. As soon as they disappeared he carefully brushed the crumbs from the offending plate, and before Elinor and her mother could remonstrate carried it to Its former place on the parlor mantel. Christine took her cue and quickly emptied tho remaining dishes, which were as raply transferred to their places. As they set the last dish in order ami stood before the fire, Content's soft alto floating out to them from the music room, the Van Tooker countenance was so thoroughly softened and penitent that Harold ventured to return to an old subject, "The house is already furnished,"he said, "and I have decided to yield to you. You shall have all the china you want in the parlor." "I think I have lost my taste for china," she replied, "and I too will make a concession. 1 believe you are right about some things, Harold dear, but we must ask for mamma's bread plate for a souvenir." ICate Field'? Washington. A I.rgt'iitl of thr 1'Ktity. A pretty fable about the pansv in current among French and tJerman children. The flower has five petals and five sepals. In most pansios, especially of the earlier and less highly developed varieties, two of the petals are plain In color, and three are gay. I'l... ,tnftt Tuttnlc Imvit n vtnfrt j sepal, two of the gay petals have a I sepal each, and the third, which is tho ! largest of all, has two sepals. Tho i fable is that the pansy represents a j family, consisting of hlisband and wife and four daughters, two of tho ' hitter being step-children of the wife. 1 The plain petals are the step-children. with oulv one chair; the two small, gay petals are the daughters, with a chair each, and the large gay petal Is the wife, with two chairs. To tind tho father one must strip away the petals until the stnmens and pistils are bare. They liave a fanciful resemblance to nn old man with a llnnnel wrap about his neck, his shoulders upraised and his feet in a bath-tub. The -story is probably of French origin, because the French call the pansy the tep mother. Household Uagaziue.

HILL ON THE TARIFF. Thi New York KtatrnHian Kouailly ltoala til MrKlnlr) Law. Senator David lt. Hill was warmly received at the New York state democratic convention at Saratoga on Monday, September 24, by a host of democrats. He was elected temporary chairman, and, on taking his seat, said; "The unterrltled democracy of tho Km pirn tavj assemble here to-day. undliuittytt at th premature boatttH and usmm.Hl eonSdenco of our adversaries. Wo are not unaccustomed to their annual and moss-covered Käme of political bluff, although rtaewed this year with extraordinary vehemence and unbluhlni; effrontery If vain boasts alone could brlnir victory their battle 1 Indeed won before It is actually commenced, but wu be to remind them that there has not been a campaign in thit .state during the last twolve years whea they did not assume la August or September that they had carried It. when in truth and in fact during that wholo period, with a slnjflo exception, victory has perched upon our banners the first Tuesday in November in each year. We win our victories election days and not by exuberant hravudo In convention hall Itepuhllcati lli'iuU Turned Uy Victory. "Tho unexpected victory of our opponents last fall has turned their heads and rendered them arnvant and optnlonatett They fall tc recall the fact that tho total vote polled was nearly three hundrod thousand short of thi full vote of the state, a victory which they themselves did not anticipate and which their hurprlsed and astuto leaders the next day after election humorously attributed to Divine Providence and not to republican strength. With a united battery and a united vote New York Is still a democratic state, and If we aro trua to ourselves will this year resume her place la the democratic column. "Our opponents, by the vigorous heatlni; of political tom-toms and the intiitence upoa petty and misleading local iisues, se)k to divert the public attention from the unenviable record thoy made during their recent four years control of the federal uoverntuunt- The people, however, have not foruoiton the fact that It was a republican administration which In that Ill-fated year of IojO saddled the country with unwlsu and vicious legislation which has since crippled Its prosperity, endangered Its finances and augmented its public burdens. People remember that the Sherman bullion purchase law was the product of republican statesmanship, against the enactment of which every democrat In congress voted. It should bo borne In mind that the nnanclal panic was a republican panic In Its Inception, contlnuanco and disastrous effect. It was under a national democratic administration that the Sherman and federal election laws were repealed. Within the 11 rM year of our administration and at the ensuing congressional elo:tlo.n the spectacle will be witnessed for the Hrst tlms In twenty-four years of state elections conducted as they ought to be without federal Interference, dictation or intimidation. Score the McKinley Turin". "The enactment of the McKinley tarl Z law was the culminating atrocity of republican recklessness In legislation. It was tho very personification of protectionism run mad. it was the Inauguration of a huse scheme of governmental partisanship with private business interests. The reaction which followed in tho elections in the elections in the fall of lsVfl, und was reiterated in the election of was the natural and legitimate expression of the popular indignation at the party which had basely surrendered to the mercenaries within its own ranks and had barterod away the public good for seltlsa (rreed. We promised the people that If Intrusted with power this vicious, un-American and objectionable law should be repealed, and we rejoice to-day la the fulfilment of that pledge Tho McKinley law has gone where the woodbine twlneth 1,-one to stay never to be rceaacted acaln by any political party. "Without retracting a single word which I uttered in the senate in criticism of the measure while engaged In the effort to perfect It and render it more acceptable now that It has been passed and become a law It must be considered as a whole, treated larif ely as a party measure and contrasted with the McKinley law. Uninfluenced by any personal disappointments or any pride of opinion I may bo permitted to speak of tho measure as It Is nothing extenuate nor set down aught In malice. Of Its strictly tariff features It may truthfully be argued that It is a vast Improvement over tho McKinley law, and win clearly demonstrate lift superiority as time rolls on and the business in this country shall adjust Itself to Its provisions. It recognizes In part.

at least, the democratic doctrine or free raw raw materials. "p. maj be safely asserted that tho now law will not cripple nnr embarrass a single industry ft the Und. nor throw out of employment a single worklnrtnan. nor unduly stimulate overproduction on tho one hand or exorbitant Importations on tho other "Fellow democrats of the Empire state and of the country, tae duty of the hour Is not harsh criticism of democratic leaders or democratic measures, sot mutual recriminations or conflicting councils but it is a time for conciliation, for unity of purpose, for cggressiva action. Tho control of both lerislative departments of the government is at stake in tho coming election, lnterparty strife must now ceae and our attacks be reserved for the foes who are already forming their lines of haul against us. Democratic national and state administrations must alike be loyally supported 1'raU fur Cleveland's Administration. "The administration of President Cleveland has been clean-handed, economical, painstaking and patriotic. The various departments of the national government bate been conducted with success, and the democratic party as a whole is entitled to the confidence of tho masses of the people, whose interests it endeavors faithfully to serve The democratic party stands In this State, as It has ever stood, for that religious liberty which ts guaranteed them by our constitution, and 1 arraign tho republican party for its covert sympathy with und encouragement of the prescriptive spirit which attempts toset up a religious text as a qualification for official preferment in this land of the free, and which is propagated by a certain political organization which deserves execration at the hands of every falruilnded man, but which the republican stato convention last week distinctly refused, though earnestly urged, to condemn." Very Trying. There are cases in which a correct musical ear causes its possessor a good deal of discomfort. "I suppose you heard Squire Sampcon's daughter's voice pretty loud in the hymns, my dear?" said Parson Fawcett, inquiringly, to his little wife at the close o! the morning service. "I used to think when she lived here before her marriage that her voice was very strong, but not er not exactly reliable, perhaps, as to pitch." "Mr. Fawcett," replied the minister's wife, while a flush rose to her thin cheeks, "I suppose she that was Arabella Sampson thinks she is praising the Lord when she sings; nnd far be it from me to say that she doesn't; but I must say that it's all 1 can do to praise Him at the same time!" Youth's Companion OUR PUBLIC SERVANTS. Senator .Ioiin Sukiiman has kept all his letters since he was fifteen years oldSttNAToit Dos.ru. of Oregon, has never been seen to smile in tho whole course of Iiis service in the senate. Sr.N uoit Hnicr., some time ago. walled up the front door in his house so ns to have nothing but a carriage entrance. x ls3l President Andrew Jackson appointed Mr. W. H. Wallace to tho post oillce at Jefferson. 0. Though eighty-four yca-s old, tho postmaster til) holds the ofilcc.

SAVINGS, DEBTS AND WEALTH. t'riisu risnri- Tlmt Speak In Thunderous Tours-Tin- l!lrlng of I'rotrrtlmi. Toe Amerieiii Economist, the organ of the Protective Tai-ltf league, always credits any kind of prosperity to protection and any kind of adversity to free trade. On Augnst '1 It said: "During thirty-three years of i-VQ ction lsi to lS'.r -the savings of tho people in the I'nP.ed States increased from SI.7." to $-,'0.0:s for every man, woman and child in the country. Is not this individual gain of S'.'l.o in savings a satisfactory proof that protection is a good thing for the country?" Undoubtedly the per capita amount

of savings deposited in savings banks has greatly increased since ISM. Kut in lsY0 it was not customary, as It is now. for laborers ami farmers to deposit savings in savings banks. Stockings, bureau drawers and old clocks then performed, in part, the functions of savings banks. The actual savings of the jieople either then or now cannot be disclosed by .statistics. A large proportion of the present savings is simply deposited in banks until the time of payment of principal or interest of mortgages on homes or farms has become due. All of the deposits in savings banks would not now pay onethird of our mortgage indebtedness on lots and acres. This in ISSt amounted to S'.tii jwr capita. The mortgage indebtedness incurred in lssO was 1-H.."3 percent, greater than that incurred in Jssi). it is probable that in 1S0O the deposits in savings banks would more than have paid our then mortgage indebtedness. The statistics of savings and deposits seem to show that wliile some have been growing richer many have been growing poorer under "protection." The truth of this statement is shown in a startling way by the statistics of wealth in isTiO and 1SS0. There has been practically no change in the per capita wealth since IStiO. It was then alout S'.f.i3. (corrected estimate) against S1.03i in lstH). Kut what about the division of wealth? Are the actual producers enjoying more of their product now than in 1S0Q? Kefore slavery was alK)lished the south was rapidly gaining in wealth, but were the slaves any better off? Is the modern industrial worker improving his financial condition? According to statistics in 00 per cent, of our population owned about t0 per cent, of our wealth. In 1300, 0 percent, of our population owned SI per cent, of our wealth. In only about : per cent, were practically paupers, while in IsOO over SO per cent, are living from hand to mouth or depend entirely upon charity. The American Economist should put these facts before its readers and then try to tell them of the blessings of protection. Let it also tell them that during the "free trade" period, from lS.IO to 1M. loth the total and the per capita wealth were more than double, and see what conclusion its readers will draw. A LONG WAY OFF. The Amrrlran Tropin Will Not Soon Itrturn to MrKlnlryUm. The speech of Jov. McKinley and all republican talk of the same nature cannot possibly do any good aud may do the country serious harm. If the American people ever go back to McKinleyism it will not be until after the year 197. And their action on the tariff at that time will be decided by the facts of experience, and not by the froth of declamation. If the placing of wool, flax and hemp, lumber, salt and copper on the free list works as well for the advantage of manufacturing and the relief of the people as the untaxing of hides, silk and other articles heretofore has done, there will be no party crazy enough to propose relaxing them in ls'.Kl. If the lowering of duties in the woolen and other schedules operates equally well, as there is every indication that it will, the threat to restore the outrageously high McKinley duties on clothing and other necessaries of tho people will hardly be a popular one two years hence. With the conditions thus fixed for tho next three years, and the change in duties, whether up or down, to be decided by the facts of experience during this time, what good purpose can be subserved by threshing over the old theoretical straw and continuing a futile and possibly disturbing agitation? The country needs and is entitled to a rest. And the prophets and promoters of calamity will gain nothing in the long run by their present desperate adventure for party capital. N. Y. World. PRICES FOR EXPORT. Thr I.rndlng CnniniiTrlal Nrwspsprr of ThU Country Kxpor thr Mnnntrnus I'niud of :-prrlitl IMsronnt for Kxport AstonUlilne IliMrUtlons-ln It a C'rlmr to lie mi AiiHTlrmi? The Journal of Commerce and Comnu trial Hulletin of New York is publlshing a series of articles on "Export nnd Home Prices." Although this question has been agitated for several years, but few yet realize the extent to which foreigners are favored by our protected manufacturers. To most people it is incomprehensible that our manufacturers, enjoying the benefits of our protective tariff laws, should think of selling cheaper to foreigners than to Americans. Yet there is no lack of evidence as to the enormity of this fraud perpetrated upon our hardworking, law-abiding people. Nobody engaged in the exjort trade will deny that many articles are sold cheaper to foreigners: and some exporters will tell you, confidentially, that nearly every manufactured article is sohl cheaper for export. One big exporter in New York, who has been many years in tltc business, offers to bet a good hat that a manufactured article cannot be named that is not Mild at a lower price for exjMirt than in the home market. It is not . so strange that this should be the case. ! was the evident intention of protectionists that the foreigner should Ik a preferred customer for our manufactured products. Else why should drawback duties be paid to our manufacturers when they export products containing raw materials on which hnt-ort duties have been tNtid?

The Standard Oil Co. can sell oil cheaper to foreigners because th LTnited State pays It over SI.IWO.OOO, a yea- in drawback duties on the tiu used la the cans in which goods nre ex-

ported. Why should Uncle Sam bo so partial to foreigners? There are but two explanations, and, bo it said to Mr. McKlnley's credit, they arc both entirely consistent with modern protectionist theories. If the foreigner pays our tariff taxes, of course he should be favored, if there is any favoritism, as to prices, McKinley himself would readily concede that If we paid our own tariff taxes we should be the first to enjoy the special favors conferred by the protected manufacturers. Then, again, cheap goods uro abhorrent to protectionists. President Harrison told us that a cheap coat makes a cheap man. McKinley says: "Cheap! I never liked the wonl. Cheap and 'nasty' go togetlr. Cheap merchandise means cheap men aud cheap men mean a cheap country!" Our manufacturers may dump eheap goods at the door of the economic foreigner, but they should not ask any selfrespecting American to degrade himself by purchasing the same goods at the same prices paid by foreigners. Henry Calot Lodge settled this ixint forever when he said, in lsl'0: "The cry for cheapness is un-Ainerican." Kut, to return to the article in question. The Journal of Commerce and Commercial Hulletin prints the figures of an actual bill of sale of a typewriter sent to Mcdlendo, Peru. This machine was sold for S7S. IS, although the reporter who visited the typewriter headquarters, in New York, could not purchase a similar one for less than SlOS.fiu although he was prepared to pay cash. It is stated on good authority that the cost to manufacture these typewriters is but SIS toS'.'O. The reporter mentions another case "even more glaring than in the case of typewriters." He was told the following by a commission merchant on the west side: "My wife recently purchased a sewing machine for $50. It was a good, machine, and wc did not complain of the price: but shortly after a friend of ours who lives in San Domingo came to visit us, and seeing my wife's machine concluded to get one like it. I went to the salesrooms with him and was surprised to find that lie could purchase a machine similar to my wife's for S22.50. The seller would not deliver the machine to us, but had it boxed, addressed and shipped on board the steamer. This, 1 understood, was done to prevent Americans from coming to the store, buying machines at the export discount, on the explanation that they were foreigners, and then keeping the machines for use in this country. The reporter adds that: "At onetime it was quite a common practice to purchase machines, box them and take them to the dock of a steamer about to sail for some foreign country, and then send a dray around to unload and carry the machines back to the city just before sailing. In thi.s way the export price could be obtained and the machines be used in this country. It is understood, however, that at present manufacturers and sellers have made arrangements to effectually put a stop to this practice." Dozens of other articles arc mentioned and the prices stated at which each is sold in our own and in foreign markets. Saws, shovels, cultivators and nearly all kinds of tools and implements are sold at from 15 to 50 per cent, less to foreigners. A cheap typewriter fold for S15 in New York Is exported to South America at 85. Safes are exported at about half what they can be had for in our own markets. One sold here for S30 can be had on board an outgoing foreign steamer at SU. A one-column article in the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Hulletin was devoted to the export prices of coal. Pennsylvania coal sold for export to the West Indies and Mexico for SI. 00 per ton, is sool in New York at the monopoly price of S3. It makes one feel "as if it were a crime to le an American," as one of the victims of this monstrous fraud expressed himself to the reporter. If even one-tenth of the 0, 000,000 victims of protection could have personal experience with the "special discounts for export" Melvinley's hopes would not only vanish Immediately, but a war on trusts would be begun that would soon annihilate the worst offenders In the pernicious business. The putting of agricultural implements nnd machinery on the free list and the reductions of many duties in the new tariff bill will undoubtedly stop entirely, or greatly lessen, the evils of the system; but much remains, to be done. All duties that foster mo- , nopolies must be entirely abolished. Kvitox V. Iloivr. A Kn of l'rosperitjr. Mr. Chauncey M. Depcw is one of tho most prominent republicans in tho country. As the president of the New York Central Railroad Co., he is in intimate touch with business affairs. What he says canuot be put down aa political vaporing. In his late Ham- f, burg interview he deelares that "the settlement of the tariff question is the beginning of a new era of prosperity!" that "confidence is restored, and that means everything to us;" that "the industrial energy of the 70.000,000 people In the country, not yet fully developed, Is resistless when credit and stability are assured; the consuming and purchasing powers of the homogeneous jKipulation make prosperity for every business regardless of foreign demands." Philadelphiv Record. Krrr Wool. Free wool was to destroy the American sheep, and yet the price of wool is already stiffening, the woolen mills are getting ready for a largely increased business, and here is the Wool and Cotton Keportor asserting that our manufacturers are going to make as eheap and good goods as can be made anywhere else in the world. If this thing keeps up, even the Ohio Wool (? rowers' association will lo so busy with its own affairs that it will have no time tn continue running tho gorcrnmentof the United States of Ataer lea. Lou Isville Courier-Journal.