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#hat would once more stifle thought azd memory. Then Easter would eome to us in all its glory, Easter with its lilies and holy thoughts. S ~ Im the great fashionable church, w tiere sanlight filters through beautiinl stained glass windows, and heaveniy music peals from organ and surpliced ghoir; where hundreds of snowy lilies would lift their heads like censers unto Heaven; the rminister, as fashionable as his church, in’ burning, eloquent w9r¢s, would tell of that day so long agn, when the angel at the open arpuleher proclaimed a risen Christ. How many of us would regret the year of frivolity behind us, in which ‘we had zrushed every thought of God and His people from our hearts, and in which we had filled oyr minds and lives with vanity and folly? Easter would make zn excuse for the wonderful display of beantiful eostumes, of jewels, flowers, lilks§ and laees which would fill the thurr:h. What a farce it would all be; znd [-—had I any right to sit in judgment; did I not fill my life as did they? My beautiful home on Fifth avenue, with its white and gold drawing rooms, its priceless pictures and bric-a-brac, Hbraries, —musie-rooms, servants and #mipages, what woman would not envy me, and yet the Dead sea fruit tarned to ashes at my touch. Up in the nursery were my two beautiful sbildren with their governess ‘and murse, toys and books enough for fifty shildren; but they scarcely knew their mother. To be sure when I stopped: in Ibe nursery for a moment they held up ¥heir rosy lips for my kiss, smoothed she glimmering folds of my gown with thweir little hands, and called me their *“pooful mamma;”’ but their little sorms'_*md griefs, pains and aches they mever thought of bringing to .me; it was murse who comforted them—‘mamma had no time for that.’ & And my husband—people said it had Been g love match; to be sure we were Bboth rich, but' any woman could afford 10 love Robert Morton for himself alone. Bmdéome, aristocratic, wealthy, a cualtirated gentleman in every sense of the wmdniii_)d’ yet we had drifted apart; aml now we seldom saw each other exsept when we entertained at home. Business on Wall street and his club Beld him. fast, and I—did slave ever serve master more faithfully than 1 served society. I had noticed of late 4hat Robert looked a little wern and #red, but he was always well. -

Never mind, through Lent I would try to get acquainted with my children and win Robert back to my side; and with a sigh I left the conservatory, where the Easter lilies, just budding, had started this train of thought, and went slowly up the broad stairs to my boudoir. My maid was waiting to dress me for the Van Tassel ball. 1 ~ As I stood before the pier glass, that stretched from floor to ceiling, I'looked with curiosity at the figure before me. The green and pink brocade of my court train lay in shimmering folds far behind me; priceless Duchesse lace draped the front of the gown, and was caught here and there by a diamond star. The .shoulders and -arms were quite bare but for the diamond necklace that clasped the rounded throat. The proudly poised head, with dark, satiny braids,and the face, with its soft black eyes, were very beautiful,they told me; but I saw the discontented droop of the scarlet lips, and the reckless, disappointed glancé from the eyes; and, I wished, as 1 stood there, that I might change places with any woman who had lived a good,- true and useful life. I was so tired of this endless round of pleasure for pleasure’s sake; but who would have believed me if I had told them? In the eyes of the world 1 was one of the favored few. 5 The ball was a brilliant affair; all the highest beauty and wealth of the city were there. Jewels worth a king’s ransom, gowns from Worth and Felix that had cost a small: fortune, light, music, gayety everywhere, and still 1 was wretched. " 3 . _

- It was growing late, and I stood fora moment in the conservatory, waiting for my escort to bring an ice, while two gentlemen on the other side of the palms were talking in low tones. “‘Well, it’s all up with Morton. . He’s lost every dollar!” “Yes, so they say. I pity him; a fine fellow, young, too; and it will go hard with him.” .

*“And that wife of his is nothing but a butterfly. Itell you a man has my sympathies, who goes down like that, with such a wife. She will be a hindrance, a burden, rather than a helpmeet.” - ‘ ‘‘She is beautiful, but a soulless doll, as anyone can see.” : b The ‘‘soulless doll” stood as if turned to stone, while all my utter selfishness rushed over me. My husband, whom I had promised to love and honor, had been struggling with this trouble alone, and I had seen nothing of it! What was I but a butterfly? Ah, ’tis well sometimes to ‘‘see ourselves as others see us.” Iwent blindly up to the dress-ing-room without waiting to see my hostess, and in a few moments was rolling toward my home. ' In the library a dim light was burning. Robert -was at home then. Going softly upstairs I found my maid dozing before the fire.. She sprang up as I came in. “‘O, you are ill, madam!” ‘No, only tired;” and soon I was clothed in my dressing-gown, and went down to the library. There, seated by the table, his head resting on his arms, was my husband. Going to him, 1 laid my hand on the bowed head.

*‘Robert, you are in trouble; let 'me help you.” He sprang up, his face haggard and drawn.

“Margaret, have you heard? I am ruined—ruained.” - :

“Yes, I know; but we have each other.” AL He did not seem to understand.

. “It is not for myself 1 care.. When I first knew-all was gone there was a sense of relief. The strain had been so great; the sleepless nights, -the terrible struggle, had worn me out. But then came the thought of you and the childrén. All is gone; do you un.derstand, Margaret, your money, too? There is nothing but your jewels and the little house your grandmother left you.’! . ) “Robert,” 1 said, putting my arms around him, “I know, but I have you. I have been a wicked, selfish woman; but if - God will forgive me I will be a better wife and mother now.” ‘ln a moment I.was clasped in his arms, happier than 1 had been in years. : Lent passed very differently than I had expected. Every moment was filled to overflowing, but I sang gayly over my work, and Robert and I felt as if we were living our honeymoon over again. 2 Of course there were many annoyances, direct cuts from people who had been glad to be entertained by us in our prosperity, and, harder still- to bear, patronage from persons Whof‘}ha,d been only acquaintances, not friends. Yet there was the happiness of finding we had made real friends; thoughtful kindness that touched our hearts. For if adversity shows us our enemies, it also shows us our friends. ‘ ~ We had decided to leave New York, go to the pretty town of Rushford and ! live in the little eottage that was left us. Robert would start in business with the money my diamonds had brought. It was ‘almost. without a pang that I'saw my beautiful . home dismantled, and the week before Easter | found us safe in our new habitation.” |° Some of our plainest furniture was l brought from our city home, and never did a room look prettier to me than did | my tiny parlor with its gray carpet and ‘d_ot,ted muslin curtains, and when iy godfather sent me as a present the little piano that had stood in my boudoir, I believe it made me happier than anything that had ever been given me.

Easter proved a beautiful day, so Robert and I, with our two little ones, went to the quaint old church. How different it all seemed. The bright sunlight streaming through the windows, and the only deeoration was the bunch of violets on thedesk. The con-~ gregation of true and earnest people sang as- if their hearts were in the hymn; the minister prayed as if lg were having a talk with a loved friend, and the sermon was the plain and sizeple gospel of the Christ who is indead risen. e

As my little girl crept close to e and laid her golden head, with a cot:fiding gesture, against! my arm, my heart overflowed - with thankfulness that at last I knew the joys of wife and motherhood, and was no longer *“a soulless doll.”

That evening, as we sat around our cheerful hearth, my husband, bending to kiss me, said:

‘‘Ah, Margaret, this Easter, although without lilies, has been the truest Sabbath of our lives!”—Agnes W. McClelland, in Good Housekeeping. #

, EASTER EGGS. One of the Customs of Olden Times— Easter Cards. - Of the old Easter customs, that of coloring eggs and making presents of them is the principal one that survives, although on the western slope of the Alps a curious fashion still prevails which was alluded toin a very old chromnicle of central France. On Easter day a hundred eggs—not boiled ones—are distributed over a level space covered with sand, and a young man and young woman execute a country dance around these eggs! The rule is that if they succeed in finishing this ‘dance without breaking a single egg they will become affianced. There is a charming story told of the handsome duke of Savoy and the lovely gouvernante of Flanders who became affianced after this fashion and were happily married. This is not a custom that is likely to spread, however, as civilization advances. _ . i

It is in Paris that Paschal eggs are to be seen in .the greatest plenty. They are painted in all sorts of colors and transformed into mauny pretty and useful articles, and old women go about the streets with whole barrow-loads of them piled in separate ,heaps of white and colored eggs. In this country the dainty Easter cards seem to have taken the place of the eggs used in other lands; and, after all, is it not more sensible, as well as more truly Christian, to send as an Easter remembrance a suggestive and exquisite little picture with just a verse which shall remind the recipient of that greatest day in the history of the universe—the day when ‘‘Christ is risen?"’—Helen M. Winslow, in N. W. Christian Advocate.

AN ANCIENT CUSTOM.

The Giving of Colored Eggs Among the Early Peoples. y

Eleanor A. Burnet asked. awhile ago why eggs are used at Easter time. The fact is, the custom dates so far back that I think nobody knows just how or when or where it originated. We are told that the Jews always used eggs at the Passover feast, so they were called Pasch eggs; and as our Easter corresponds with the Jewish Passover the practice was continued. It is said that ‘the Persians, also, when they keep the festival of the solar new year, in March, present each other with colored eggs; and so the pretty custom has been handed down and passed oan to our day; and we give to our friends all sorts of beautiful colored eggs. and dainty devices in the shape of eggs for Easter gifts, hardly knowing why. With us the Easter egg has come to be a symbol of life from the dead. As life springs from the apparently lifeless egg, and as now nature wakes from a sleep that has seemad all winter like death, so we may know that when our bodies are laid away in the grave there is just as surely a resurrection for us as there was for the body of our Saviour when He broke the bonds of the tomb upon that glorious Easter day so many years ago. Let us all keep that thought with us as we prepare our little Easter tokens, and see how much sweeter and gladder it will make the day.—Phebe Bird, in. Chicago Advance.

A WHITE MILESTONE. ’ Glad Eastertide Heralds the Resurrection of All Life. g We have come again to one of the white milestones of the year, Eastertide, and we look beyond it for the April softness creeping over the land. For there is a sweet prophecy of balmy winds, and the soft, restful green of the tender grass along the hedges, and the violets are peeping from their frozen beds, . . ' * Emblems of our own great resurrection, : Emblems of the bright and better land.” And the blush of the apple blossom is in the ringing of the Easter bells. Our ‘eyes have long been dazzled by the snows of winter, or blinded and weary with the fog and mist, but the air will soon be full of the perfume of spring flowers and the song of birds. Such is to be our portion, for the anniversary of His resurrection is at hand and Nature clothes herself in the most delicate and beautiful of garments in honor of our risean Lord. . How hope comes again to the invalid 'with Easter day. and how it brings a renewal of'it to the weak and weary Christian, for the remembrance of this day warms the heart into new resolves, new love for others, into broader charities and greater sacrifices for those who stand and wait. For, ‘‘as Christ was raised up from the dead, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”—Banner of Gold. .

An Easter Soug. . Sing a song of Easter, g . A’song of happy hours, _ Of dashing spray, and shadow play, And lovely springing tlowers, Of birds come home again to build Beside the cottage eaves, 3 Of waking buds, and rushing floods, And dance of rustling leaves. . ' Sifg a song of Easter, A song that means a prayer, Of want and love to One above Who keeps His world in care; A song for all on this green earth, . For dear ones passed away, Sing clear and strong the joyful song, The song of Easter day. g Sing a song of Easter, ' : A song of pure delight, - A song that starts in merry hearts, And swells from morn, till night; An Easter song that children lifs, 3 : Witheut a jarring chord, . i That thrills afar from star ta star, _ To praise the children’'s Lord. . —Harper’s YOung People. ‘—Mary Wortley Mentague was al eivays myek- 'a‘finoflgd ‘by -her large size and masculine voice. She often expressw& wish thntt she was small.

THE DOGS OF WAR.

They Appear to Have Been Chained at Denver,

Pending Proposed Action by the Supreme Court on the Cause of the Trouble ' —The Sanity of Gov. Waite ' Is in Question.

THE SITUATION STILL CRITICAL.

DENVER, Col., March 19.—Gov. Waite went home Friday mnight, having promised a delegation of citizens, headed by I. N. Stevens, that he would give a definite reply to the arbitration proposition, and it was more than likely that he would agree and withdraw the militia from further service. The proposition is to submit to the supreme court the question as to who are the legal members of the fire -and police board. *This was strongly urged by the attorneys who had been employed by the new members, seeking through Gov. Waite’s military prowess to get the coveted seats. They sent an ultimatum in the afternoon that they would withdraw from the ‘case unless Gov. Waite gave up his ill-advised action in calling out the militia. There hasyet been no apparent movementon the partof the governor to again order out the militia, but Game Warden Callicott swore in 150 deputies, who, under the state law, have the powers of deputy sheriffs, to guard the governor and do his bidding. :

When a committee waited on Gen. McCook Friday afternoon to inquire as to his plans he told them that the regulars would remain indefinitely until peace was declared by the governor and the city hall factions and there was no turther evidence of insurrection or riotous conduet. The men have rations for ten days. e ' Gov. Waite was indignant at the stand taken by Gen. McCook. He says some one told him that the troops would assist him to maintain the law, which, defined by the governor, meant to assist him in capturing the well-de-fended city hall.. Whenhe found that the course to be- taken by = Gen. McCook was to keep . the peace and prevent bloodshed he felt that he had ©been Tbasely Dbe-. trayed by some one. He talked the matter over with the experienced warrior Friday morning and came away satisfied that the general’s stand was legally a righteous: one, but decidedly humiliating to him, the commander in chief of the national guards. He was not pleased to find that MecCook would not agree to the proposition to assist the militia, and did not enjoy having the chief of police assured that the troops would aid that side also to keep the streets from running deep with gore. - The official correspondence is published showing that Gen. McCook had already stated fhis position Thursday night. Friday morning, after the conference, Gov. Waite officially withdrew his request for troops. ‘‘Now,” said he, ‘‘the troops may do as they like. I shall pay no further attention to them.” .

A meeting of prominent citizens was held in Judge Yeamans’ office Friday night, at which the question of the governor’s sanity was seriously discussed. At 11:30 the meeting adjourned until morning. If it is decided to procure a lunacy inquiry. affidavies will be filed with Judge Le Fevre of the county court, who will issue an order and it 'will become the duty of the sheriff to arrest the governor and hold him for a jury trial. The governor's office is guarded by personal friends, heavily armed, and his house is similarly watched at night. He repeats that he expects -to be assassinated, and his doings during the last few days have been extremely erratic.- He has issued orders and changed them, and made promises apnd ' broke them in the most extraordinary way, and even his closest friends are ‘n ignorance of what can be looked for next. At least twenty people have calléd on the district attorney and urged him to have the governor tried as to his sanity. It is said that Drs. Eskridge, Pfeifer and H. E. Lemmon are willing to swear that he is insane, = ;

Up to this morning Gen. McCook says he is without orders from Washington. . Gen. .McCook says there is no doubt that had a gun been fired Thursday theé governor would have been lynched withiu half an hour, to the state’s lasting disgrace. Gen. MecCook says he has the United States troops here only to protect public property, and they will remain*in town until the excitement is over, especially sigce there is a Jlarge number of desperate men in town ready to foment riot so as to make robbery possible. The governor has not ordered the outside militia to come to Denver, but they are under orders and drawing pay. He has instructed livery stable men to have 100 horses ready for his use. This strange order has added to the general uneasiness. The old board holding the city hall says it will defy the whole state militia, which cannot muster much over 800 men. :

The state trcops at Durango, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Grand Junction and other centers have been uniformed and under arms all day, ready to teke special trains to Denver, and the state troops in this city have been on call. Exciting reports have been flying all over the state. Many people regard the governor’s military demonstration as a big bluff to show his contempt for Judge Graham’s injunction and compel the judge, if possible, to arrest him.

PLANT CURIOSITIES.

TuEe hop grows wild in Europe from Norway to Italy. Tue ‘“four o’clocks” open regularly at four. rain or shine. . . THE roots of a tree are often as extensive as its branches. o MADAGABCAR has a flower that emits the odor of putrid flesh. - o * 'THE common spinach is the only plant that has emigrated from New Zealand., THE watermelon is.indigenous to Afrita, and grows best under the equator. s THE common clove is the flower bud of a plant belonging to the myrtle family. : 'TuE beet is indigenous to the shores of the Mediterfanean, where it still grows wild. ; Toe garden radish is supposed to be a Chinesewplant, which came west by way of India. ! _ : EvVERY tree has ‘‘reserve buds,” which develop at the point where a limb has ‘been cut off. - : : : Tk orange grows wild,all over tropical Asia, and is everywhere regarded as indigenous. . L o AxyßopnY' can be good anid yet be goad for nothing.

HAS NO FEARS.

Gov. McKinley Anticipates No Trouble with Coxey and His Army.

CoruMmBUS, 0., March 00.—Whether Coxey and his army of peace, if one is gathered, cun be legally suppressed as a public menace before they start from, Massillon on the journey to Washington next Sunday is a question on which Gov. McKinley was' induced to talk, though: withi evident reluctance. However, when' seen, Gov. McKinley asked a number of questions about the army scheme. He wanted to know if Gov. Pattison had been appealed to or would take any cognizance of the case. The governor was decidedly loath to talk about the affair. . He said: - “I have heard no fears expressed by anybody. Really Ido not believe there is the least cause for alarm. Surely you do not think that a large number of men will gather and march to Washington? The country would not support them. Besides I can't see what they would accomplish in Washington if they got there. The whole thing is too visionary. If an emergency arose I would meet it promptly.’*

Gov. McKinley intends to go to Minneapolis this week, and will be out of the state when the army begins its march next Sunday. Under the Ohio

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without a request to the governor. It may be added that the members of the" regiment expect to have some work. In the Buckeye state the militia is frequently called out on slighter provoca- . tion than in Pennsylvania. | MASSILLON, 0., March 19.—Comman- | der Coxey and. Lieut. Browne were in ' town Saturday. They had spoken the night before at Trotter’s Hill, a min- ' ing camp which is now sorely racked by a strike. Five hundred miners were at the meeting. With scarcely an exception the men indorsed the commonweal march to Washington and many of them assured the speakers that they | would accompany the expedition. 5 There is grave apprehension that the | army will meet with trouble in Penn-'| sylvania. @The column will move . through one of the most depressed industrial districts in the state, and it is ’ firmly = beliefed] that the army ! will- be joined by thousands of idle men before it reaches Pittsburgh. The mayor. of Beaver ' Falls, a town through which the army is scheduled to pass, has publicly ' declared that e will stop the column the instant it swings into his territory. | He argues that the army will be noth- | ing more nor less than a band of vaga- l bonds, without discipline or con-. science. To. bring such an army | into Beaver .Falls, he .says, would ! be ‘the crowning misfortune of a ! town which has been: paralyzed | for a year or more by industrial’t conflicts. On the other hand the vil- | lage of Economy, a rich communistic! community, through which the army is ' to pass after leaving Beaver Falls, has offered to feed and shelter the com- ! monwealers for a day. The offer ! comes frem one of the wealthiest men ! of the town‘and is indorsed by a score of citizens. fi : l 1t is the belief of the men who look | upon the pilgrimage in a conservative | way that the army will be so unwieldy | after it enters Pennsylvania thatit will | slip away from the control of Comman- , der Coxey and become a noisy, pillag- ! ing mob, preying upon the hencoops and | smokehouses of farmers and inviting‘! and eventually . receiving a stern recep- ' tion from the troops of the state. Numerous applications have been received from enthusiastic women who wish to join the common weal. Gen. Coxey has decided that his army must not entangle itself with women. *lf | iif were an ordinary - military cam- | paign,” he says, ‘‘we might use our i women sympathizers as nurses, but we | expect no bloodshed, and under such | circumstances a nurse would be an expensive luxury.” ; Lowell L. Marvin, of Falmouth, Ky., proposes to join the army with 200 | men, and C. O’Brien, of Lagro, Ind., promises’ to be present with 600 of the l unemployed. Sl Saturday several letters reached ! Coxey .and Browne from various parts & of Pennyslvania saying that Gov. Pattison has ordered Sheriff John Moon, of L Green county, to meet the army on the state line and read the riot act. The general at once wired the governor and received the following reply, which he | regards as highly noncommittal: f

. “The sheriff of Green county knows his duty énd I bave no doubt will fully.perform every requirement of the law.”” | .

Cheap Rate for Vetérans. NEw Yogrk, March 20.—Eastern roads have anuotneced. a rate of a cent a mile for the Grand Army encampment at Pittsburgh in September. : BOMR-THROWERS INSURED. London Anarchists Secure £B,OOO for the L Death of Vaillant. : PARis, March 20.—The Gaulois says that the anarchists in London have been paid £B,OOO insurance on the death of Vaillant, the anarchist who was executed for throwing a bomb into the chamber of deputies. The Gaulois adds that the life of Pauwels, the anarchist killed: by the premature explosion of a bomb in the Church of ‘La Madeleine, was insured. Henry, the anarchist who threw the bomb into the cafe underneath the Hotel Terminus, is also insured. Death of an Ex-Congressman, WESTCHESTER, Pa., March 28 —ExCongressman Washington Townsend died at his residence in this place Sunday afternoon of paralysis of the brain, aged 82 years. He was elected to congress from this district in 1868 after a bitter fight, in which the present minister to Italy, Wayne MacVeagh, was his opponent, and served eight years. ~ ' = Prinee of Wales Wins $40,000. PARis; March 20.-It is réported that the prince of Wales won $40,000 at ‘Monte Catlo tliis week and gave theentire sum to the poor of Monaco.

THE 'INCOME TAX £ah The Millionaires Opposed to It of Course—s . —But the People Favor It. =~ - Under the heading ‘‘A Tidal Wave of Disgust,” the New York Sun says: “If the democrats put through the income tax, call me a republican.” “That is what thousands of men in this town and elsewhere, solid citizens, life-long democrats, the backbone of the party in every political igontestk are saying every day. They afe saying it aloud. 4 . :

*“When the federal tax hunter begins to thumb their private ledgers for them, their remarks concerning democracy will be even more vigorous and impressive.” : . - This “Tidal Wave of Disgust” is confined not entirely but almost entirely, to rich citizens who would be called upon to pay income taxes—a 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 much as they please on theirfown aecount but they should not presume to speak for‘the masses. - . e Undoubtedly some democrats—those for revenue only like the ‘‘conservatives” in the senate—would become republicans if the democratic party makes income tax laws that will touch their precious profits. But ten timesas many poor wage-earning republicans would become democrats because of the income tax laws. Three-fourths of the voters of either party in. the :east, as well as in the south and west, are in favor of an income tax.and would be glad to vote for it if they had an oppor‘tunity to do so, free from entangling alliances with other party questions. Let both -parties agree to decide this 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 w(l&ose wages are taken in taxés, voting against the proposition to take two per cent. of the surplus profts of the rich,in order to relieve the burden upon the poor. Even in New York 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 1,200 millionaires, in control of all but one or two of the leading newspapers there, couid not, by any form of argument, induce the voters to vote against their own and in favor of the plutocrats’ interests. Education in matters of taxation has gone too far and the evils of indirect taxation have become too apparent to the leaders of the working men. . Another great mistake made by these same wealthy classes—and many editors of so-called democratic papers are included—consists; in supposing -that the masses prefer a tax of one cent per pound or more on sugar, to absolutely free and cheap sugar. The lesson of cheaper sugar with lower duty converted many a wage-earner to the democratic position on the tariff; the lesson of dearer sugar, with higher duty, wonld convert some of them back to the republican party, and others to some third party that would agree always to reform the tariff downwards. Free sugar and an income tax are two of the most popular measures proposed by either 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 upon defeat next fall. Refuse to pass both and defeat is almost certain, not only in 1894, but in 1896; and perhaps before 1896 we may even see tariff measures passed over the president’s vetoes. Let any democratic senator or editor, who believes to the contrary and who thinks that the average voter will not object to a few °dollars’ sugar tax each year, visit the homes of the wage-earners and discuss this question at the breakfast table.—B. W. %I :

THE POOR SUGAR 'TRUST. Please Give It a Half-Cent Duty—Don't : Let It Starve. « ' As has been already shown, the difference between the prices of raw and refined sugars during 1893 was 1.154 cents per pound. From this must be deducted the cost of refining. On this point a liberal allowance has been made. It was an ddd and long standing claim that it cost five-eights of a cent to refine each-pound of- sugar. This may have been the case twenty or thirty years ago, but it is an old and exploded fallacy. The actual -eost of 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 pound than anything else. But itis intended to deal liberally with the sugar refiners, far more liberally than they have dealt with the people, so a price of three-eights of a cent has been taken to represent the cost of refining, and this is more than the actual cost. : . Deduecting this cost, then, .375 of. a cent for refining, from the difference between the average net prices of raw and refined sugar during 1803, %154 cents, and the total average profit of .779 of a cent per pound is arrived at. Applying this profit to the 4,237,850,540 pounds of sugar which the 'America,n people consumed in 1893 and it is seen that the total profit of the sugar refining business from this source alone aggregates the neat little sum of $33,013,090.19. . . :

Certainly the poor starving sugar refiners need protection. Théy must not be allowed to go hungry. o But the sugar kings are not content with such a modest profit as $33,013,090.19 in a single year.. They ecan squeeze more out of the people, and they do it. There is a grand field for looting on the Pacific coast. It is a long distance from Washington and what is done there is likely to pass unnoticed. Those estimable authorities, Messrs. Willett and Gray, friends of the sugar trust, give the total home vonsumption of sugar at San Francisco for 1893 as 128,179 tons of 2,240 pounds each, or a total of 287,120,660° pounds. This is the sugar imported from the Hawaiian Islands and the trust buys it cheap. The trustis the only buyer of raw sugar on the Pacific coast and names its own price. The unfortunate Hawaiian planters have to submit to the extortion. They deliver their sugar in San Francisco, but get less than the New York market price for it-—one-quarter of a cent per pound less. This is an extra profit to the refiners, and a quarter of a cent applied to the 287,120,900 pounds ef Hawaiian sugar imported in 1893 adds $717,802.40 to the coffers of the sugar trust. g Buying the gaw sugar cheaper for the Pacific coast markets than for ‘e" eastern markets it:weuld n"sturalk;ge | supposed that, the price.of refined sugar was cheaper to the econsumer out west. But the trust does not do busi-

ness that way. ‘lts 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 openly quoted on a net cash basis.. That is to say, the sugar trust buys its raw sugar for San Francisco one-quar-ter 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 price. Taking the smaller amount of one cent difference and applying it to 287,120,960 pounds of sugar consumed on the Pacific coast and there is still another profit of $2,871,209.60 to be added to the sugar trust’s coffers. Of a truth there is money in sugar, but the poor refiners must be protected. ‘ . Thus an idea of the profits of the sugar refineries of the United States is gained as follows: Total United States. consumption { 5 of = 4,237,830,610 pounds, at .779 ¢ cent. profit. . ... 0 000 el $88,018,090. 19 Hawaiian crop of 237,120,900 pounds ¢ ..at. San Francisco, at 3 cent : rebate s e e T 908 40 Paeific coast'consumption of 237,-° 1 120,050 .pounds, at 1 cent extra : CPrOALL G Vv s e B ROO R 0 Total refiner’s profits...... ........§36,602,102 1¢ From the miscellaneous tables_ of foreign commerce, finance, ete., of the United States, for the same years that the sugar business has been under review, the ficures of the interest on the national debt are procured as follows: Year. T'otal interest. ~Per, capita. 1801 Lo oo D 0 8T 947,186, 07 0.7 1802, il s 2808 1B S 0.34 18930 Dolol i 22761,640.58 0.34 Average..............527,89563).53 80.35 With this exhibit can be placed side by side the following: : < Xear. : . Rejiners' profits. Per capita. 1818 voi i L 896,812,102°10 §0.54 The facts sge,ak for themselves. Republican senators may mnaturally be expected to vote for further protection to the sugar refiners, but*what democratic senators ‘'of the United States will dare to do'so?—N. Y. World. '/

AN OBSCURE MORAL.

An Ohio McKinley Journal Gets Somewhat N Mixed.

- The leading McKinley journal of Ohio recently protested philanthropieally against the enactmedt of the Wil‘sen 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 Tribune,of Tuésday last, that the enactmént of the bill will cause a decrease of ‘about about 30 per cent. in the valie of goods imported.® Our neighbor goes on-to say: “If 80 per cent. be taken from the importations on. which duties were calculated by Mr. Wilson’s committee, the loss of revenue would be $36,000.000. This in effect would make a shrinkage of $lll,000,000 in revenue from customs,” the £36,000,000 being added to the $75,000,000 which would be taken frem the revenue according to the Wilson committee’s “‘estimate. Our neighbor and all other republican journals have contended heretofore that the reduction of duties by the Wilson bill must largely increase importations. Everybody has heard a. hundred times the prediection that the country will be “flooded” with foreign goods. ' Now the chief organ of the party estimates that the imports will be reduced nearly ohe-third! There seems to be a sharp turn here, and we-direct the attention of the followers of MeKinley tothe new doctrine. We may add that our neighbor’s estimate is° based upon' the assumption that the American consumers will not be able to buy so many goods because their wages will be reduced by the incoming ‘‘flood” of foreign products; ‘but this also is rather puzzling, for we ‘don’t see how there is to be such a flood if the imports are to be reduced by 30 per cent. Our meighbor’s new argument appears to be so involved that the moral is rather obscure.—N. Y. Times.. = :

; Unshackle Our Shipping. - One thing which democratic control of national‘legislation ought to accomplish before -the opportunity has been thrown awdy. is the emancipation of. Americanshipping from the antiquated laws that have strangled the life out of it. No single thing would do so much for the recovery of a fair share in the ocean carrying trade and even for the promotion of American ship“building in the course of time, as the ‘untaxed admission to American ownership and American registry of readymade ships, no matter where they may - have been made. There is a bill pendin the house which fully provides for this, and there is another which half way provides for it by allowing anybody to buy foreign-built vessels, provided he will have an equal tonnage of vessels built in +this country. Half a loaf may be better than no bread, but we see nQ, reason why in this case we should 'mot have the whole loaf, especially as the offering of a half may ot result in getting any at all. A ball on one foot may deter one from entering a race as -effectually as a ball on both feet. At all events, it will insure defeat when the competitor is entirely free-footed.—N. Y. Times. ' , No Objection to Free Ore. - In most cases where American interests are said. to. be threatened by foreign production on acecount of the small-ness-of wages abroad, an investigation proves that there is little or no basis for alarm. In spite of the reduction 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 mijlls, would be brought in here to an extent that would prove disastrous to the Lake Superior interests. For the purpose: of ascertaining in just. . what danger these interests were, Mr. A.-J. Trimbull, of West Superior, Wis., visited Cuba to make an investigation. A recent dispatch from West Superior says that Mr. Trimbull found that . ‘Cuban ore cost $1.62 a ton on board the ‘vessel, and freight to Philadelphia was $1.75, making the cost of the ore in Philadelphia, duty free, $3.87. ' Lake. Superior ore is now selling in Cleveland for $2.50 to $2.75. No Cuban mine is operated at present, and the Maryland Steel Co.’s works, which were erected exclusively to use Cuban ores, are idle. —Journal of Commerce and Commerecial Bullétin: . e v ' —**Theresultof the Pennsylvaniaelection,” says the San Francisco Examiner (dem.), “'should warn ghesenate finance committee of the danger of delay. As long as uncertainty prevails and busi‘ness is - consequently stagnant, the democraey must expect to fight with its hands tied. Before it can regover its normal strength, the new tagiff must have ‘been in :operation ldng enough to produce a revival of indus-