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h-——-——ﬂ——‘-—_—- . s ERGEANT B 7N A D g =2 CRessu = A -, By Capr, Gharegs Kine, USA. : Copyright, 1893, by J. B. Lippinbott Co._ .. CHAPTER IV.—CONTINIED. “Whiere was it taken? lie asked,” rather abruptly, feeling that he must say something. » | ~ “Mr. Thornton says an itinerant artist drove out from town and met them at the first camp and took quite # number and some groups. He had two of them . taken just like this, to send home, and dropped the odd one in here, saying it was a philopcena and a bribe.” : ' “Bribe? For what?” demanded Morgan. ‘‘Why should he bribe my little girl?” “Oh, there was noneed,” she laughed, blithely. ‘‘He—they all, he. said, wanted something your Connie was only toco glad to get and give. . Now you must read it and see for yourself, papa"7’ : P & e Buthe would not. He wasashamed of the fear that fora moment had possessed him, that she had consented to a correspondence with Thornton without asking her father’s counsel—she, his little Connie, his ‘first-born. True, she was older at fifteen than many town-bred irls at twenty, for her childhood had %{x nipped in the bud, and since those slender shoulders had borne the care and -burden of woman for two long years, was it to be forbidden her to know aught of woman’s glory? Only, had he been blind all the time? Day “after day had Thornton been their visitor, yet never in all that time had the father seen or suspected in the young officer any more interest in Constance ‘than he displayed in Lot or Billy. True, she was almost always a silent attendant at their daily game, or an absorbed listener to their talk, rarely leaving them except to go into the other room to moderate the clamor of the youngsters, who, being burly and aggressive, were too often involved in a game of give and take in which they were fairly matched. But Thornton’s manner to her, which was at first simply kindly and jovial, as it was to the other children, had certainly changed to greater deference as the winter wore on. Little by little he saw how her father leaned upon the girl, how thoughtful, how- devoted she was. - He had 'been reared a gentleman. He had a mother and sister whom he dearly loved, aind from earliest boyhood he had| been taught by his soldier father the lesson of gentleness, courtesy, and consideration. From the other officersin the regiment, most of whom had known her in pinafores, her'greeting was simply ‘‘Hello, Con!” or ‘“Morning, Connie; how’s dad today?’ Thornton’s impulse from .the first when he met this tall slip of a girl in splemn black was to call her ‘‘Miss Morgan,” which made her blush furiousty. Later on, laughed at by the veteran sub., he had compromised on ‘‘Miss Connie,” but not until he had been a daily visitor for several months had it come to ‘“Connie.” Morgan never knew how she had fled to her room and nearly cried her eyes out the morning the battalion marched away. It wasafter breakfast that Mrs. Woods had comé for her and, with other ladies, had driven out to the butte south of the post, from whose side the Mini Ska could be traced for miles, but to whose summit Connie alone had been bold and active enough to climb. | All he saw and realized now was that his cdarling had been pale and languid, plainly drooping for awhile, and then all on a sudden, at the coming of that little note, sunshine, gladness, gratitude, joy, all had beamed from her speatﬂng eyes; had bubbled from her .girlish heart in song. He had mourned the mother’s loss before, but it was as nothing compared with the helpless yearning that possessed him noew. Who was there to counsel, who was there to take his beloved child to her heart, and with mother love and sympathy, with mother kiss and clasping arms, in the sure haven of mother’s changeless love win from the virgin soul its cherished secret, then guide and guard and .counsel as only mothers ean? ' Poor Morgan! He would not read thetboy’s frank letter. That might imply doubt of his little girl. He could not consult ‘such friends as Mrs. Freeman; she had taken her babies and flitted away to the seashore for the summer. Mrs. Stannard, once his wife’s kind friend and adviser, had gone long months before, when the major went ‘to his new station. There were loving women, kind women, motherly women at the post, yet not those to whom he could speak of anything so sacred. Neither could he bring himself to the faintest reference to the matter in talking with his child. There was simply one thing which he could do, thought Morgan. All the winter he had been growing fond and fonder 6f the brightfaced, glad-voiced, soldierly young fellow; but now, now, if it should transpire that all this time Thornton had been laying siege to Connie’s innocent heart, he could hate him and in time crush and punish. ;

At noon the sergeant came to say the stores were boxed and ready for shipment. Would the lieutenant sign the invoices? Over at the adjutant’s office the infantry bugler had just sounded _mess and orderly call. The companies were going in to dinner, the noise and bustle around the barracks contrasting strongly with the silence and desertion over there across the parade where Btood the cavalry quarters. As Morgan came forth into the bright sunshine of the first June day, he noted how the -snow-belt on the distant peak had lifted higher in the last forty-eight hours, and thought, with a heavy sigh, how care and trouble had sunk so much deeper around his_heart. Maj. Rhett, of the infantry, temporary commander of the post, was standing by the sundial as Morgan and his sergeant came trudging along. One or two officers werewith him. A telegraph message was in his hand, and he was looking strungely worried. All of the group eeased their talk and glanced at Morgan as he neared them. . ‘“The ordnance stores are ready for shipment, major,” said he.' **The colonel will kave a couple of wagons at Alkali v‘%téa.tidh, to meet the freight to-night. We have billed it there.” = - 5 . “How far were they camped from Alkali last night, Mr. Morgan?”’ 1 ~ “How far, sir? Well, they were on ‘, M}mﬂ?mbublr miles norf ,tj

' *Yes, [ know,” interrnpted the commander. ‘‘and it was at Willow Springs Maj. Graves was to meet and pay them, I believe?” g “So I heard, sir. Though at first 1 rather imagined they wouldn’t be paid -now until affer next muster.” ‘““Well, they won’t. Graves was robbed at Minden station, early this morning, of évery dollar, and the rob-~ bers wore ca7alry uniforms.” : CHAPTER. V. o oOld Curran, the sutler—for sutler he was long yeats before his designation was changed to post trader, and longer still before his occupation was wiped out entirely by the civilizing process which made bartenders of ‘‘blue-coats” —Old Curran had been losing money all winter, and was. growling about it. He looked to the payment following ‘the April muster to recoup him for his losses, as many a good soldier was deep in his books. The payment should have been made in May, but for some reason it was postponed, possibly in order that the paymaster might make the circuit of the cordon of posts in the bright weather of early June; but a pack of young rascals and malcontents at the Indian reservation had been turbulent all spring, and no sconer ‘was the snow out of the Mini Ska valley than the cattle came after the budding grass and the Sioux came after the cattle. They were hungry, no doubt—the Sioux sometimes are, despite the fact that they are excellent providers and know how to take care of themselves, and the difference between them and certain tractable and therefore systematically ill-treatsd tribes is, that when they are not given what they want they take it. Heaven helps those who help themselves, and in their dealings with the wards of the nation ¥he United States of America have this resemblance to heaven. The Sioux helped themselves so liberally to cattle—and herders—this particular spring that Tintop, with six troops of his devoted regiment, was hurried forth to brush them out of the Mini Ska, and then to go on and help some comrades {cl)lur hundred miles away who were too few in number for the work. in hand. To Curran’s dis-. gust, the battalion marched out leaving its score at the shop unsettled. Not that the soldiers could help it at all, but because they themselves were creditors whao couldn’t collect. Then, to Curran’s delight, it was announced that Maj. Graves was sent out by rail to pay them before they got too far away. Curran rejoicingly set forth to meet him and be present at the ceremony, and thereby, doubtless, collect a large portion of the dollars due him. Curran thoughtfully, too, loaded up a couple of wagons with pies, cakes, cheese, pickles, crackers, canned fruits, bottled beer, whisky and tobacco, lest, the boys shouldn’t know what to do with what remained of their money. This load he pushedforward on the heels of the command. Then his own fine team and spring wagon were sent down the .valley -‘to Alkali station, whither he proposed to follow by rail and meet the paymaster on his arrival, and to entertain him royally on the drive out to the Springs. It was estimated that the battalion, breaking camp on Bear Fork at 5:30 a. m., could unsaddle and pitchrits tents at Willow Springs by noon. It was estimated that leaving Alkali, say six a. m., after a , hearty breakfast, the paymaster would be trundled away up the valley of the Dry Fork and be landed at the Springs, twenty-five miles north of the railway, in plenty of time tomeet them,

e & (17 £3) 2, ./-‘ y » ‘! = “ 5 f 3 §‘,’(,{/./;/ [ ‘ [} | /[ [« f ( f,‘;"f'!'/"f/-l.f W R i ~ ( |~ o mlg 1Q ( l‘ : 2 =5, il . -?‘-/’ Q@ ‘BRIBE FOR WHAT?” and Tintop was ordered to detach a sergeant and ten men to ride over to Alkali from their camp on Bear Fork to bivouac at the station over night gnd'escort the paymaster up the next ay. ) Graves left department headquarters on the west-bound express, his clerk, his valise full of funds necessary for the payment of the battalion, and he himself, all comfortably ensconced in the Pullman car. They were due at Alkali at four a. m. They could retire early, have a good night’s rest, and be called by the porter in plenty of time to be up and dressed and -to enjoy a camp breakfast with their escort at the little station—a mere siding with some cattle chutes and-pens—before starting on their drive. Standing where Constance had stood on the summit of the high, precipitous butte that lay southwest of the fort, one could see the valley of the Mini Ska stretching away to the eastward a distance of nearly fifty miles. Then the stream seemed to bring up suddenly against a line of bluffs that turned it off the northeast, dnd this general direction it followed another fifty miles. The land was low and undulating along the left bank, while on the right, between the stream and the bold line of bluffs’ to the south, there was barely room for the railway. Fordable here near the fort, the Mini Ska speedily deepened and widened and became sluggish in flow as it rolled out ‘dinto the lowlands after its tumbling rush through the mountain-chain at the west. Every year since its establish‘ment had a cavalry column marghed away from Fort Ransom to straighten out matters between the Sioux and the settlers who were venturing too elose to the reservation. The first year or two the trail led along theé west bank, ‘huggitzg‘ the stream, but, as it ‘was found that this was the I¢nger, hotter, and dustier way, a new route was decided on, cutting across the big bend and winding along over the foothills of the range, from which several streams of clear, cool water came pouring forth, speedily to become murky and turbid on reaching the broad plain below. The first day’s march lay almost due 'cast from Ransom and par allel with the Mini Ska, the next veered around toward the tnorthe&ﬁt.;‘cgd camp was always made at Bear Fork. Not until the foarth camp at Paisted sodge did the -trail J the steam i W e vet ruidina-aronnd of Kis restisns :&"’ bt BB S hedu s ol g et

‘‘yonng men,” the two were never far apart. West of Painted Lodge the Sioux did not often venture, though the broad bottom-land within this eibow of the Ska was a fine grazing-ground. The railway, coming up from the southeast and over a high plateau, dropped down to the valley by means of a long, winding ravine scooped out for it by the Antelope, a little tributary that joined the Mini Ska just at the elbow, and here, at the point where the rail and the river after running parallel for eighty miles suddenly quit company, the liue shooting eastward, the stream northeast—here stood Alkali station. Cattlemen had built a low bridge over the stream at this point, with the intention of making Alkali the shipping station for their beeves, and from this place a sandy road ran down the left bank to Painted Lodge Butte and away to the agencies. Once upon a time mails were carried that way, ;and a stage ran twice a week between Alkali and the reservation, but when a rival railway sent a line across the Missouri and tapped the lands of the Dakotas far up to the northeast, the agency freight, mail, and passengers were sent around that way, and P = TSPLL 7 @ : ‘&\a ? Jf'fg\ N N 5 ' qd - i ehs ) . A TS ) : K. oy .0e = : l L\ \L/ A S & N § A Db ) =t A al Gy @ *‘GRAVES WAS ROBBED AT MINDEN STAe * TION.” ‘

Alkali became a_- deserted village. There stood the old stagehouse, tha cattle chutes, and\the rickety depot, but no trains stopped there now except on signal, and ‘the telegraph instrument and operator had been moved to Minden, some twenty-five miles farther west. Here, too, was a bridge over the Mini Ska and a cattleshipping point. Here the ranchmen who did not care to take the extra twenty-five-mile gallop to Butteville had all their mail addressed,and Minden speedily assumed the mild and modest importance which Alkali had lost.

And it was at Minden, said Maj. Rhett, that the paymaster was robbed that morning soon after dawn, and robbed by men in cavalry overcoats. Morgan listened a moment, simply stunned. : '

“When did the news come lin, sir?” asked he of the major. : “Ten minutes ago, as soon as they could repair the wires which were cut. The sheriff ison his way out here now.” ‘““Where is the paymaster?” ‘ ‘“They’re coming up on a freight from Minden this afternoon, he and his clerk.” : . 3

“But—l don’t understand,” sald Morgan; ‘‘how on earth did he get 1o Minden? Why did he come so far west? The escort was to meet him at Alkali, so I was told.” I

“That’s just what nobody undersfands, and what he’ll explain later, I presumse.” ° : An orderly hastily came from the direction of the office, and, halting, saluted the post commander. - ‘“The sergeant major says they were assigned to C Company, sir, for rations.”

There was an awkward silence a moment. Then the commander wheeled on Morgan: _ : ‘“You’ve known those couriers some time, haven’t you, Mr. Morgan? What is their reputation?” “‘Our men, sir? Schultz and Schramm, do you mean? Why, major, the sergeant is one of our veteransea man we all trust. Schramm is not a ‘year with us yet, but he’s as good as they make ’em, I think, in Germany. Surely they are not suspected? They came in with orders and dispatches.” ; ‘“Very true, but they passed within sight of Minden if they came back by the trail, and through it if they followed the stage road. They may have seen or heard something. At all events, I wish to question them,” was the major’s answer. ‘‘What time did they reach the post, Mr. Adjutant?” ““Just at guard mounting, sir.” . ‘

. Rhett pondered a moment. ‘The colonel’s note says he was aroused at midnight by couriers from the agency who had had a hard ride and could go no farther. But for his orders to meet the paymaster at Willow Springs today, he says, he would have pushed on to Painted Lodge—made a forty-mile march. It really looks very threatening down the valley, and now that the money’s gone and the paymaster can’t reach him I'm in hopes he will push ahead. Already people are wiring out here from town, asking whether the Indian rumors are true. They’ve got a story there that ten people were killed yesterday.” ;

“Yes, sir,” put in the adjutant; ‘“‘our market-man brought it out here an hour ago. It's going all over the post. They say in town one reason there’s no chance of catching these robbers is that the cavalry has been ordered %o come on with all speed, and that a courier rode out to them from Minden before daybreak this gnornirfg. Dispatches were sent them before the line was cut.”

Away on the winding road to the southwest towards the distant frontier town a couple of wagons could be seen slowly moving towards the post. Beyond them little dust-clouds, rapidly sailing over the plain, told where fleeter hosremen were speeding. The men coming out from their dinner were gathering in groups on the verandas, chatting in low tones and watching the group of officers. Presently the orderly came hurrying back alone. ' “What orders did you give those couriers, Mr, Wood?” - ; :

‘‘Nothing especial, sir. Schultzasked if they were at liberty to start back as soon as they wished, and I said yes.” “Then they must be taking anap,” said the major. *What with being up most of last night and having to ride all to-night, they need it. Thair consciences are clear if they can kleep all the morning.” : ~ The orderly reached them as the majox concluded, halted half a dozen paces away, and reported: =

‘““Sergeant Shea says the couriers left nearly an hour ago, sir,” ~ “Left an hour ago!: Which way?” “He doesn’t kngiv, sir. Private Burns says he saw them ride away after the quartermaster’s corral at 11:30,~going ww.rd"m-” £37 SX ey W 2 ; }'?" {7O BE CONTINUED]

'~ MATCH TRUST PROFITS. Conflicting Statements of the Trust’s Of s ficers—Enormous Profits. . The match trust (Diamond Match Co.) has a capital of ‘B9,ooo,ooo—about one-half water. Its. annual report. made public on February 6th, shows $1,373,084 prafits for 1894. In 1893, this same trust declared regular and special’ dividends amounting to $1,612,500. Within a few weeks it has increased its capital to $11,000,000. This is the third or fourth increase since 1888 when the trust was incorporated with $6,000,000 capital. ae ] These enormous profits have been made, in spite of the fact' that the trust closed all but about 13 of its 31 mills in 1888 and has since been buying competing plants at high prices, the most of which it promptly closes. MeKinley encouraged this trust with a duty which equaled 34per cent. The Wilson bill left only 30 per cent. It should have removed all because our exports in 1893 amounted to $67,974. When O. C. Barber, president of the trust in September 1893, was pleading for the retention of the duty of 10 cents per gross on matches ‘‘to keep up the rate of wages we are now paying,” his company was exporting matches to 33 foreign countries and selling there on a free trade basis.. While the Wilson bill was pending the Chicago spokesman of the trust said in an interview printed in the Milwaukee Journal: ‘‘We ask no protection of congress, because we do not need it. Matches are, made so cheap in this country that foreign goods ¢annot be sold in competition with us. True there has been a duty on matches for several years but it has not been kept at our request. There may have been a time when such a protective duty was necessary to develop the industry in this country, but that day has passed a long time ago. It will probably surprise a great many people to know that less than $lOO,OOO worth of foreign matches are sold annually in the United States. These are chiefly fancy brands put up in odd and attractive packages. The fact is, matches cannot be made in Europe as cheaply as we make them here. In Sweden neatrly all the work is done by hand, while in America machines are used almost "exclusively. We have one machine, for illuStration, which takes a piece of straw board and forms 165 perfect boxes of it every minute. The cheapest hand. labor on earth cannot compete with a machine like that.” | g :

After the passage of the bill leaving 20 per cent. duty on matches Wood and Willow Ware said: ‘The Diamond Match Ca. was able té induce the managers of the Gorman tariff law of the last congress to leave it 20 per cent. protection in spite of the fact that officers of theé company had been talking about putting up a factory in Liverpool, to compete with foreign manufacturers. Now it is announced that plans have been completed for the factory, and that O. C. Barber, president of the company, will soon leave for Liverpool to put the plans into effect. - Evidently the only reason for the 20 per cent. tariff on matchesds to enable the socalled trust to make its prices in this country that much higher—providing domestic competition does not compel them to be reduced.” g

Protection to the match industry (as to all other industries) is a great big swindle on the American people. But the people don’t seem to mind it and the manufacturers are not asking congress to give the country Yree trade and thereby stop the swindle, which puts millions into their pockets each year. As long as everybody issatisfied the swindle will be continued—and not much longer. : 3

THE FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Its Record Better Than That of the Fifty- | first Congress—Read It. r - Many things expected of the Fiftythird cohgress have not been accomplished. I[ts record has not been.such as to make all true democrats rejoice and it has been called ‘‘incompetent” by not a few prominent democrats and democratic newspapers. Many of its most severe. critics, however, recognize that, as compared with the Fifty-first, or McKinley congress of 1890, the record of the last congressis excellent. It is mot disputed that the McKinley congress was more effective in that it did more of what it was planned to do. But that is just why the record is so bad—it planned nothing .for the good of the country at large. It accomplished nothing, .aside from making ordinary appropriations, for the masses; all was in the interest of the classes—protected manufacturers, mine owners, bounty grabbers and subsidy hunters. e

It greatly increased the protection to the mill owners but left labor unprotected, to .compete, on a free trade basis, with the Italians and Huns imported by the mill owner to beat wages down. It added considerably to the sawdust protection given to farmers and attempted the new bunco game called’ reciprocity, which was to open up great markets for our farm products in South America—as if the great desire of South Americans was to exchange their wheat and pork for our pork and wheat. It threw bounties and subsidies in all directions, so that, by March, 1893, the $100,000,000 surplus left by Cleveland in 1890 was entirely exhaustied and the treasury was on the verge of bankruptey. o ‘ The Fifty-third congress has accomplished a great deal. First, It undid the Sherman silver purchase act of 1890 which, with republican extravagance, was responsible for the panic and depression which had already begun before-Harrison left the white house. Second, It repealed the federal election laws which no leading republican, except Senator Force-Bill Lodge, would ‘now rehabilitate. ¢« Third, It gave us free wool and reduced tariff duties generally about as much as MeKinley increased them. Fourth, It gave us the income tax which, though it is not perfect, is yet a great improvement on any tariff system of taxation. It is noticeable that the republicans are not advocating the repeal of this tax. Fifth, It abolished' the payment of bounties to sugar producers. Sixth, It lessened the net protection to the sugar trust, but, unfortunately, increased the duty on refined sugar about one cent per pound. But for two or three traitors in their ranks—*‘senators from Havemeyer’—the demoorats would have given us free sugar | and left no protection to the trust. It is noticeable that the most that the Fifty-third congress did, or attempted to do, was to undo the work of the regublican congress of 1890.. So far as it has succeeded it has done excellent work. Practically all fdﬁn‘the Fifty-first congress did was bad, and

done is good. And yet the democratic congress recefves kicks and cuffs from al] sides, because it could not, in two years, undo all of the evil legislation that republicans have, for thirty vears, been fastening upon thi§ country. The democrats have partially failed because they, undertook too big a contract. What they have done will remain forever a permanent benefit'to this country. Not even the republicans will dare "to advocate many of their old laws which the democrats have repealed. Byrox W. HoLT. “CHEAP WOOLEN GOODS.” What We Need Is Less Shoddy and More Woolens by Means of Free Wool and Reduced Duties. 3 il The American Economist, the great McKinley organ, on I'ebruary 15, contained an editorial entitled ‘‘Cheap Woolen Goods.” This editorial declares, first, that. ‘‘prices for woolen goods are extremely low;” second, ‘‘the consumption of wool has greatly increased since the wool schedule of the new tariff came into effect;” third, “imports and re-imports coming must, of course, curtail the output of American woolen mills;” fourth, ‘‘still lower prices must mean lower wages for the people who are working in the American woolen factories.” Cheaper woolens and more of them will not scare us. With the thermometer below zero as it has been much of the time during this cold winter, there are worse bugaboos to think of than plenty of cheap, warm wool clothing. In fact, this is what the people voted for in 1890 and 1892. It shows that the democrats were right when they promised to give us less shoddy and more woolens by means of free wool and reduced duties.

Cheaper woolens would be a blessing ! to over 60,009,000 people, even if there- | by some of our woolen mills had to} close and if wages of a few thousand weavers were reduced. 'But the Economist is greatly mistaken on both-of these points. If it will consult the files of the American Wool and Cotton Reporter since wool became free, last August, it will find that-more new' mills have been built and planned, more old ones have been enlarged, and more closed mills have been started up than during any six months of the whole McKinley period. Moreover, the- decline of wages, which has been going on for ten or twelve years in the textile industries, has been so checked that for the first time in five years many mills have been compelled to advance wages to get workers. Scarcely a week passes that in which wages areadvanced in some big mill. Thus on the same day that these editorials appeared in the Economist, the Wool and Cotton Reporter said that the Johnson Woolen Co., in North Adams, Mass., had voluntarily raised the wages of its fancy weavers 12 per cent. On the same day it mentioned that the woolen.mills in Rockville, Conn., were_in operation much more generally than last year; that the Mohawk knitting mill-was running over time four nights in the week; and that a woolen mill in Maine is,r&nning over time. Of the blanket trade it said that while there are no indications of a boom ‘‘there is every reason for believing that a steady, healthy demand will be enjoyed.”

It’s a shame that the Economist can’t be accommodated by either closed mills or lower wages, but it has to confront facts—free wool facts—now, and its theories are proven to be false and worthless. : B. W. H.

ITS EFFECT. e N The Predictions of Free Wool Men Thor=- ‘ oughly Sustained.

Abraham Mills, the well-known wool merchant, prepared: for the New York chamber of commerce the following review of the wool trade of America for the year 1894: | The passage of the free-wool tariff bill by congress in August, 1894, constitutes dn epochal event in the history of the wool trade, not only of this country but of the whole world. It is no small event when seventy million of pre-eminently industrial people abandon the policy of a generation, after long discussion and against the bitter opposition of classes greatly concerned in the maintenance of a condition of things in which their interests were heavily involved, and in which they were intrenched by years of favorable legislation. The culmination of protection came with the McKinley bill of 1890, and its repeal quickly followed. Since last autumn, therefore, we have had to face the novel experiment of free wool and moderate duties upon goods, and to discover whether those who have struggled during a business lifetime for this position are right or wrong. The result of the six months past seems to be in favor of the contention that free wool is of immense advantage to the AmericanJnanufacturer and to that greatest of all classes,, the American consumer. With an almost prohibitory duty upon foreign wool, the American article was alone freely available to our manufacturers, and had to be made the best of, even when unsuitable for desired, results. Foreign manufacturers were thus left free to select the most suitable wools for every purpose, and at abnormally low prices, owing to the absence of American competition. This condition enabled them to fight successfully a high tariff upon goods, and to pour them into our markets unchecked by even the McKinley bill This is no longer the case. Our manufacturers have now free choice of the wools of the world and of its by-prod-ucts, and they can at length secure the identical cheap raw material which formerly their foreign competitors so successfully used against them. The course of the trade since the new tariff has thoroughly sustained the prediction of the free wool men. No mills have been closed, but more machinery has been started up, and the natural apprehension of our mill owners has given way to great confidence as to the future. They do not claim that profits are larger or even reasonable, but they do maintain they can hold their own, and do more, when they have had time to better adapt themselves to the novel conditions, and when the country resumes its normal prosperity.

The Mainspring of Life.

Exchange of products between different localities and different countries is the mainspring of civilization and progress. All legislation which prevents or tends to prevent the exchange of products is an obstacle to progress and prosperity. All tariff duties, whether on imports or exports, are barriers to trade and an injury not only to the conntry levying them, but, in some degree, to all the rest of the world. » o

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. ~ “F | DIDN'T FORGET.” If I didn’t forget how old I was, S ke Do you think I'd act like I often does? !/ i Do you think I'd swing on the front-yard gate, If I could remember that I was eight? U If I didn't forget how soon I'd grow - - i To be a big man like Unocle Jos, Do you think my pa would have to scold. : *Cuz I didn’t do what I was told?. : Do you think I'd set my ma so wild, : An’ act so much like a little child, e If I didn’t forget I was half-past eight? An’' would Miss Brown have to keep me late?: Miss Browﬁ said I was “a little flend,” . i ‘An’ I didn't know what the old thing meaned; But she said 'twas becuz I played so rough, An’ it made my ma just cry—sure 'nough. - Ir I didn't forget, do you s'pose that I g; ‘Would ever act so’s to make Aer cry? - = And don't you s'vose I'd behave just fine, If I didn’t forget I was going-on-nine? T If I could remember, do you suppose 1 I wouldn’t take care of my Sunday clo'es? An’ would I get mad at my cousin Benr ~ - . ‘Without getting right away good again? . . Pa says he believes I was justdorn bad, = . An’ Uncle Joe says that I'm “like my dad,” S An’ Aunt Lou says ske don't suppose - I'll ever be better, but ma—she knows, - An’ she hugs me close with a kiss;becuz - She says *'l forgot how old I was.” ; ~—J. Edmund V. Cooke, in Youth's Companion. - MUST LEARN TO KNEEL. How the Arab Children Help to Tame the Little Camslg, e In Arabia the camel is the “beast of burden.” Bus this uscful animal is known by another name as well. Can you tell me what it is? The camel is ““the ship of the desert.” . - 7 " Arabia is about one-third the size of the United States, and about one-third: of Arabia is covered by deserts. : This broad belt of deserts surrounds the valleys that are a part of the great plateau which occupies the interior of the country. And across these-go ‘“‘the ships of the desert.” ey - These ‘‘ships of the desert” carry the goods of merchants from -one city to another. There is no water on the

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The Arabian children make much of it. While the little dromedaries are being trained for beasts of burden; they and the children learn to like: each other. The first thing the little camel is taught to do is to kneel down. A camel is so tall it must kneel down to be loaded. So when the dromedary. is two months old it is made ‘to kneel down for several hours every day. A rug is thrown over it, and heavy weights are placed all along- the edge of this covering to prevent it from getting up. ol

When it is four months old it is put into an inclosure with other animals. The Arab children feed them with camel’s milk and water twice a-day. After each meal they touch their legs with a little switch. This means: “Kueel dowh,” and the camels mind what the switch says. In a little-while they learn to drop on théir knees as soon-as the stick is lifted. , = .

The camel is easily trained; because it is obedient. And I have heéard the patience of the camel talked about when some children were mentioned.— Greta Bryar, in Our Little Ones." ‘

PATRIOTIC PIGEON. ; After Four Years of Captivity in Berlin It Returns to France. ; Many instances are on record ~of tenacity of memory on the part of carrier pigeons, who are said never to forget their first cote. None of these instances are more remarkable, probably, than that recorded of one of the birds employed to: carry messages into Paris during- the: siege. These birds, domiciled in. Paris, were taken out by balloons, and afier being laden with tidings from without, were liberated, and made their way back to their homes. : it - 1 . One day a pigeon from one of these balloons was captured by a German soldier of the besieging army. Ile gave it to his officer, who. presented ' it in turn to his commander, Prince Frederick Charles. The prince sent it as a gift to his mother in Germany, who happened to be somewhat of a pigeon fancier. e

The princess, delighted with the gift, blaced the captive in a great dovecote, where it was surrounded with every luxury-that the most exacting bird could ask for, but whenee it could not escape. : ATy

. Here the French pigeon lived, appé.rently happy enough, for four long years. But it did not forget its fatherland. i : i S

One day a door of the great dove cote was left carelessly open. The French pigeon flew out. It was never seen by its German hosts; but ten days later it was beating its wings against the doors of its old cote in the Boulevard de Clichy, Paris. It was recoghized by its old keeper, and received the welcome due to a patriot returned from a long captivity. e it : She Did Not Think So. = - Nora was in her little night dress. = Mrs. Strong, having given hera goodnight kiss, reminded her gently, as usual, not to forget her prayer to God that she be made a good little girl. “Must I ask Him that every night, mamma?” Nora asked, gravely. =~ . “Yes, little one,” her mother replied. Nora was thoughtful for a moment. “Mamma,” she said, in an injured tone, ‘s I such a dreffully bad little girl as all that?”—Judge. e S . A Little Girls Reason. ‘ . “I'm glad I don’t own all the dolls in the world,” said Mabel; “‘becanse, you know, if I conldn’t possibly have another.”—Harper's Young People.

- TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR DIALS. In Italy All Kinds of Timepieces Are Sup—- ; . plied with Them. v - A movement was started ip this country several years ago to substitute a 24-hour dial for the one at present in, use—that is, a dial in which the hours should run from 1 up to 24, instead of from midnight up to 12noon, and then, beginning again, up to 12 midnight. The idea did not meet with much favor. A few clocks were made on this plan, but they were regardedmerely as curiosities. In the Dominion of Canada they were taken up by one or two railways, and are still used. : In Ttaly this dial has been adopted by law of parliament as the official way of marking time in thas kingdom. A session of parliament is reported to have 5 % : . r—o % V‘! f )\ A o \) e Ny Y i N » e Y wES @6‘! 81 $§ " ' ‘AN ITALIAN WATCH DIAL. opened at Rome, on the 23d day of December, at 15120, and closed at 17:40. That is to say, in terms of the ordimnary dial, the session opened at ten rninutes before four in the afternoon, or 8:50 p.m., and closed at twenty minutes-of six, or 5:40. .

~ The railway train indicators now mark ‘the. arrival and departure of trains from 0 o’clock to 24 o'clock. A train starts from Rome, for instance, at 8:10, passes Genoa at 18:48, Vintimiglia: 28:35, and reathes Nice at o:s2—that is to say; at 8:10 a. m., 6:48 p. m., 11:35 p. m, and 12:562a. m.' e

" The watchmakezs and jewelers are everywhere selling clocks and watches, and refitting old timepieces, with dials which mark the hours for the first half ,of the day with the old Roman numerals from Ito XII, and the second half: of the day with the figures from 13 to 24, directly under the Roman numerals.’ This system obviates the necessity of ‘changing the works of the timepieces, ‘The person "who uses one of these watches or clocks is supposed to know which half of the day he isin. Both watches and clocks are being prepared, however, which are provided with dials ‘divided into twenty-four equal parts, rand works adapted to this system. Although this system in Italy marks an official change, it is by no means a new system in that ecountry, but rather a return to an old one.” It was the custom in. Italy, up to a periodabout one bundred years ago, to divide the day into twenty-four successive hours. In many parts of the country the peasants tell the: traveler that they sup at eighteen, nineteen or twenty o’clock, as the case may be. : s

Italian letters of the seventeenth and eighteenth -centuries always speak of ‘“fourteen o'clock” for two in the afternoon, or ‘twenty-four and a half” for half-past” twelve in the morning. A familiar Italian proverb speaks of him who'is ‘’looking. for mnoon at fourteen o’¢lock,” and by this is meant the.person who is always behind. time—the hopelessly lazy one. — Youth’s Comganhions: L oonEEy e e

g CATCHING TURTLES. Peculiar Method in Vogue in the Neighe e sborhood of Cuba. ! In the neighborhood of Cuba, saysa recent visitor tothatisland, a most peculiar method of securing turtles is pursued. They train, or at least take advantage of the instincts of a certain species: of fish, called by the Spanish, reve (meaning reversed), because its back is usually taken for its stomach. ) '~ It has an oval plate attached to its head, the service of which is traversed by parallel ridges. . By this plate it can firmly adhere to any solid body it may choose. The boats which go in quest of the turtles each carry a tub containing a number of these reves.-- - | "When the sleeping turtle are seen they are approached, and as soon as they are judged near enough a reve is thrown into the sea. Upon perceiving the turtlé, its instinct teache§® it to swim right towards it and fix itself firmly upon. the" creature by means of its disk. Sooner would the reve allow itself to be pulled to pieces than give up its grip. : ' A ring, which is attached to the tail of the fish,in which a stringisfastened, allows the fisherman to pull in his prize. By a peculidr manipulation the reve is pulled off and returned to the tub, to be ready for use the next time a turtle is sighted. .

A Wildeat’s Fight for Life.

-While four section men were repairing the track :of a Florida railway, a large wildcat sprang from the adjoining woods with all-fours upon the back of one of the men. The other men rushed to their companion’s assistance, and then it required a dozen blows with the pike-maul to make the beast loose his hold. When the cat finally ran away, the exasperated men followed it up the track, and were sorry for it, because the cat turned on them. IFor five minutes he sprang from one to the other, biting and clawing, until felled with a blow from a crowbar. Then they finished it, and the men adjourned to dress their wounds. ;

L BDold Canine Conspiracy. . A dog had been worried by _another dog of greater size and strength, and when he returned home it was observed that he abstained from half the proportion of his.allotted food,and formed a kind of store of his savings. After some days he went out and brought several dogs of the vicinity back, and feasted them upon his hoard. | This singular proceeding attracted the attemtion of his master, who observed that all the dogs went out together. Following them, he found they proceeded to the outskirts of the town, where the leader singled out a large dog which . was. immediately assailed by all the guest dogs, and severely punished. - McSWattersﬁrmg&Skiply isgoing to settle in New York? =~ . . e R e tled here first.—Syracyse . T;.f‘fi e ﬂm The bride invites, on nuptial tribute denty 80 long as thiey prosent thelr presents duly, L