Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 September 1895 — Page 3

€bt § ifcr County gjrmofrat -£ 1L MeC. 8TOOP8, Editor and Proprietor, PETERSBURG. - • • INDIANA. A HEABTLESS WOMAN. BY ESTHER MI LEER.

H E news was co mmunicated by “Our Special Correspondent’* in London. It figured, an im- . portant i t e m, in the (Jape Times, lilaiiche

’Bouverie. the talented authoress of “The Blue Sunflower,” was"to arrive in the Drummond Castle. Ostensibly a desire to acquire “local color" for her next book was the object of her visit to the Cape—an object that furnished • an admirable excuse for refusing the proffered hospitality of her colonial admirers. “You would spoil me. and make me see everythiusr eoulenr de rose, and I want to know the seamy as wt>ll as the sunny side of South African life," she said, with a yraeious smile whieh forbade offense. So she abode at: a hotel a few miles from town, where the air was scented with pines, ftud vistas of purple yrapes showed through the yaps in4 the cactus hadyes. In reality, perhaps, restlessness and love of ehanye as much as anythiny else induce ! her to spend Christmas far from home; bu. t she hated liviny at other folks' houses; it reminded lief of the d^ys before she married Mr. liouverie, before she became a widow and discovered she had a temperament, when she was a yirl at Miss \Vest‘s academy and could eat boiled nmttonJ and rice puddiny at one o'clock. Needless to say, this woman of moods and tenses was erratic as Kuylish weather. Ere the voyaye was half over she had asked herself seriously why she had embarked. Eighteen days of inter

miitent mal-de-mer ami amateur theatricals, and an inconveniently hot climate at the end of it. She might just as well have located her novel'in London or in Paris. In view of the Scottish villages, Italian sunsets and Indian palms that had flooded the literary market of late, commonplace life in a commonplace city known of everybody would have been quite refreshing. Hut this bitterness had been largely the result of perturbed motion on the part of the Drummond Castle. In optimistic moments ^jwhen the terrors of the Bay of Biscay were over and the decks level—she had congratulated herself on her enterprise, and resigned herself cheerfully to a tolerable week, a a endurable month and then boredom in the cause of art. “At any rate I have my return ticket,” she thought, finding comfort thereby. “1 wonder if I am goi^ig to be very dull?” Perhaps it was with the intention of ■securing herself as much as pos-ible against such an undesirable condition that she by and by recognized the presence, abashed and dazzled, of iier right-hand neighbor, Mr, Jack Foiiiot. Masculine twenty-two failed to delight her as a rule, but all the other boarders at Van Rhvn’s were merely impossible. At any rate he could 1 .'.ten intelligently—the capacity appealed favorablj- to a woman who professed to gain ideas from hearing herself talk. And Jack was really a nice boy; delightfully ingenuous and big—she liked big men—and handsome. With her wonted coolness she told him so ere their acquaintance had extended over twenty-four hours. lie blushed with delight, and the same evening he announced in the smoking-room that she was the wittiest, cleverest, most fascinating woman he had ever met. Still he evinced an unaccountable tendency to tight shy of the charming Blanche—to shirk the tete-a-tetes for which many a man-about-town would have giveu his ears. It almost seemed as though he were afraid of her. At first she disbelieved the evidence of her own senses, but doubt was dispelled one afternoon when she asked him to cseort her on a mountain ramble. “I should be delighted—flattered,” he stammered, flushing; “but the fact is 1 have premised to take tea with my Cousin Joyce. We—we are engaged, yon know. It is a sort of family ar

\-I WAS HAPPY ’TILL SHE CAME.”

•rangement projected when we were both youngsters. She’s only seventeen now.* There's some beastly money depending on it—not that I care a hang •about that.” “Oh, so you are engaged!” she said, with animation; “and to an ingenue of -seventeen. How charming! 1 can see you together—fiances out of a fairy tale—kissing among the roses in the back garden. I congratulate you.” She beamed sunnily,and from that moment life possessed a new zest for her. In ordinary course he would have ceased to interest her in a day or two; she •soon tired of her playthings. But forbidden fruit had ever been a temptation to her, hence his subjugation became a necessity of her existence. Of

course, his fate was sealed; it was merely a question of time. The path wound like a ribbon through the dense undergrowth of the upland forest. Now and then a flock of blackwinged canaries chattered shrilly among the leaves, or a humming bird darted into the glare of sunlight, its tiny body lustrous in green and purple and gold. Above the tree tops veiled here and there with filmy cloud, the Devil’s peak pierced the deep blue of the South African sky. Mrs. Bouverie would have appreciated the scenery more had she not been lost The solitude of nature has drawbacks when one has a particular destination j and knows not if it be north, south, east or west She had reached a bisecting path, and w&s hesitating as to the' next step, when a girl appeared carrying a fancy straw basket She was very young, a lovely child, with a peach-like face and auburn locks, straight-limbed, serious-ej’ed — infinitely picturesque in her cotton gown. The artistic soul of Mrs. Bouverie instantly responded to the girl’s aspect and she Wgged with the friendliest smile in the world to be directed to the gamed Fern glen. It happened that the girl was bound for the same place. So they strolled together and filled the basket with spoils gathered by the way. Presently they rested side by side on a fallen tree and the shyness of the child soon disappeared under the fascination of the woman who invariably took as much trouble to attract her own sex as she did to attract men. From platitudes the conversation gradually became personal— young girls are easily induced by sympathy to talk about themselves. And the romantic environment allured to confidences. The steam gurgled over its rocky bed. and a warm breeze, red- i olent of narcissus, stirred maiden- j hair fronds and lily heads. It was a pathetic story she was tell- j ing. common,"may be, yet it must have j interested the author of “The Blue ! Sunflower.” who sat quiet and still. k “1 was happj- till she came. And now! j How could she steal his love from me i

UK WAS UN U1S KNEES BESIDE HER.

like that? She has so muck—wealth,* talent,-fame—I have only him. I have read of such women, but I did not believe they could live.” _ Mrs. liouverie absently outstretched her arm to pluck a lily from its stem. “Don't you think she must be a very heartless woman?” continued the girl, her lashes glistening'. “It is not as ii she valued his love. She is merely playing with him for a pastime; every bod}* says so, everybody sees it but ; himself. " When she is tired, she will : just go away and forget, but 1—I shall have lost him for ever. Why did she come here to break my heart?” The young voice died in a sort of wail. A little silence followed. Mrs. liouverie was staring vacantly at the rushing water, and the flower lay in shreds on her lap. She roused herself as from a dream, and brushed off the vestige bf the blossom. “I fear I must be going,” she said, rising. “Instinct tells me it will soon be luncheon time.” With a sudden graceful gesUire she touched her companion’s cheek, “(lood-by, dear, don’t fret too much. Perhaps your lover will see the error of his ways; perhaps your poor little heart won’t be broken after all.” It was by the light at the stars and fireflies the final act was played. “I never knew >jhat love meant till 3’ou taught me,” he said. “I was a boy and How l am a man. Jo3’ce will release me; she must when she knows. Mrs. liouverie—lilanche, for pit3-’s sake!” Sudden^* he was on his knees beside her, kissing her hands, his lips parched, his voice trembling, his eyes aglow. “Does that mean you really waut to marry me?”

“Blanche, you cannot but know!” For a moment she permitted his caresses and it seemed as though the reflex of his emotion was paling her face and heaving her breast; then she laughed as naturally as she had ever laughed in. her life and told him some half truths that made him gulp and whiten and shrink from her as though contamination were in her touch. “And have you been making a fool of me all along?” he demanded, with youth’s tragedy air. “Have you deliberately won my love for a jest?” ‘Just so. since you choose to put it with stich indecent directness,” she rejoined. “My dear boy, I am three years older than you and you haven’t a shilling. You must think me a madwoman or an angel. And I was merely dull;'yes, I assure you, that is all. But to-morrow I shall be sailing for England. Don’t bear malice. Jack. Remember, you have me to thank for many pleasant hours.” But he neglected her proffered hand, and, hauuted by the reproach and anguish of his face, she sought her room and watered the grave of a curious episode with tears more bitter than she had shed for jpany a day. Of course, nobody suspected an inner meaning in an apparently obvious affair. In a calmer moment she thought the incident behind the scenes would make a pretty Rtory. But she could not bring herself to work out the idea, so she gave it to a friend.—Black and White.

ONE YEAR OF DEMOCRACY. Mills Hanning Doable Time rad Wages Increasing. Inc Wilson tariff law has been in force one year. When it took effect commercial conditions in the United States were more distressing, more disastrous than they ever had been since the time of lilack Friday. A iter one year's operation of democratic legislation there appears striking revival in business, marked increase in wages, a healthier tone in every market. The triumph of the measure, to which the democracy in congress lent its most intelligent energies. has been complete. A N<?w York paper signalized the anniversary of the Wilson law by the publication of an itemized statement, showing the experience of one year under the McKinley law nn.l one year under the Wilson law. The statement, which was gaiherei from the most j trustworthy sources of information, j demonstrates that within a year after the enactment of the McKinley law wages had been reduced in an immense number of establishments; factorie*. had mills were closed down and the whole tendency of the manufacturing interests in the Unit vl States was toward disaster. On the other hand, the year which has passed under the Wilson law has seen mills reopening, running at double time, and a voluntary" increase of wages by a host of manufacturing corporations. It is further demonstrated by these statistics that while wages have risen prices have decreased. It is shown that not only has the wage worker profited by democratic legislation, but the consumer as welt More is put into the pockets of the people. Less is taken out. Postmaster General Wilson himself, author of the law, writing to the World in comment upon its statistics, reduces the whole theory and pratiee of tariff legislation to an axiom when he says; “There is no way to protect American industry except by relieving it from burdens upon the materials with which it works; no way to insure %good wages and steady employment to

home labor except by freeing it from the shackleawhich have conlined it to a glutted homo, market and prevented from seeking its customers all over the world.” sr Freedom after all is the only stimulant far the industrial world as for the individual. Take off t.he shackles in each case. Let every man be as free as every other man to do what he will. Let him enjoy with every other man access to all natural opportunities. Let the nation, likrc the individual, be free—free from limitations imposed under the guise of protection. This done, justice will be secured in the case of individual and of nation, and he is but a poor American who does not believe that with absolute justice, with equality of opportunity, the American as an individual or the American as a race can hold his own against any people of the earth.—Chicago Chronicle. THE BEST PROTECTION. American Industries Flourishing Under Democratic Itute. y Another discouragement for the MeKinleyites conies out of Pennsylvania, where the differences between coal miners and their employers have been adjusted upon the basis of an advance in wages. Advances in wages under a democratic tariff are never acceptable to republicans on the eve of a campaign in which it is proposed to make the reopening of the tariff question the “overshadowing issue.” but they are occurring with a degree of regularity to make the republican outlook anything but bright or promising. This advance, like that recently made* to the employes of the Carnegie and other iron and steel manufacturing concerns in Pennsylvania, is an advance over the old McKinley prices. It is an advance, in other words, over the price of labor paid under high protection. Settlements of strikes on sueh a basis were of rare occurrence under the republican tariff law. Their frequent occurrence under the present law does not encourage the threat made by republican leaders that when their party comes into full control of the government it will revise the tariff on lines of higher protection “to American industry and American labor.” both American industry and American labor are in the enjoyment of more and better protection now .than they received under the highest tariff ever laid in this country, if we consider the term protection in its proper meaning as a fostering and encouragement of both labor and capital. Ilepublican politicians succeeded during the years of their control of the government in giving the word a signification which never properly -belonged to it.— 5?t. Louis Republic.

General l*ro'sperltj. Gold exportation continues, but the lyudieate is carrying1 out its agreement to protect the treasury, and the reserve continues well above the one hundred million dollar lino. The treasury deficit, which was eight million dollars in July, will not, the government officials predict, go mueh above five million dollars in August. The treasury situation is the only speck in the business sky, but here, t°%kft° early improvement is looked for With the growth in trade and the general increase in the country’s prosperity. Bank clearances maintain their long lead over last year’s figures, and railroad earnings, which were slow in responding to the general business improvement, have recently been nearing the highest level of. the past. In all the great productive industries the activity is fully up to the figures of normal years. Commercial failures are decreasing coincidently with the great increase m commerce. More business is done at present throughout the country than was done at any previous time since 1S92, and it is carried on under sounder and safer conditions.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Sop.). _ ——That big corn crop may as well select its seconds. McKinley is la a fighting mood. —Albany Argus.

THE SENATE OUTLOOK. XVmnI of Hearty and United Action Amoaf Democrat . The democrats of New York should do something' to help assure a democratic majority in the United States senate. When that bolv meets in December it rriil be made up of fortythree republicans, thirty-eight democrats and seven democratic and republican populists. The condition of parties may remain until 1397, when the successors to twenty-nine senators will be chosen. Of these twenty-nine twelve are now republicans, fourteen are democrats and three are populists. It is safe to assume *:.hat ten of the states now represented by republicans will be held for that party, and that they may gain three senators from states now held by populists and one from the democrats. That will give them fourteen of the new senators. On the other hand, should the demo- 1 crats secure the Utah senators and ! hold New York and Ohio they would j have sixteen of the new senator* ia 1SD7. If Nevada remained a strict silver state an l its now senator insisted upon standing out with Stewart, tha i p->pulistiiv the sen'ate would be but three in number—Allen, of Nebraska; Stewart and Jones—if Jone* insisted upon returning fr.)m Nevada. It appears to be possible that in 1 SOT the senate may stand fortj -five domoorats, forty-one republicans and three independents. If New York state is thrown away to the repubhea* s, the chance of making the aboee showing better will be gone. It is for the democrats of Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Utah to work out the advantage of the party in those states. New York democrats who can appreciate the importance of having control of the senate of the United States, particularly in the possible event of a change of administration, will need but little urging to impress upon them the supreme i need of united and hearty action this j year and next.—N. Y. Times. THE GOLD RESERVE.

A Protectionist Method of Increasing tta* Revenue. - Certain republican leaders who are lookin'? forward to tampering with the tariff during the coming session of congress are endeavoring to revive the theory that an increase of revenue is all that is needed to maintain the gold reserve. This is a fallacy unless wo assume that the increase is so great as to carry with it till tho dangers ota large surplus. Tho revenue from the customs and internal receipts is now, coming into the treasury at a rate j which if maintained throughout the year will leave but a trifling deficit on June 30, 1800, but it will require an enormous increase of taxation to pile up a surplus sufficient to protect the treasury from any possible demand for gold. It will be necessary in order to put off this demand to lock up tho entire volume of legal tender paper which has been issued by the government, and which amounts to four hundred million dollars, or about three hundred and fifteen million dollars in excess of the present treasury balance. The cash now on hand is ample for the ordinary purposes of the treasury and will not bo materially reduced during the present year. The receipts since July 1 have averaged a million dollars a day, including Sundays and holidays, or at the rate ox three hundred and sixtyfive millions per annum. This will more than cover the ordinary expenditures and would be ample to protect the treasury but for tho “endless chain” of greenbacks which draws out tho gold. Protectionist leaders can hardly hope, however, that the people can be induced to look with favor upon a prop- j osition to increase the taxes to a point | high enough to accumulate a four hvm- • dred million, dollar surplus as tho best 1 possible means ox solving the currency problem.—Detroit Free Press. PRESS OPINIONS. -Ill fares the land, to thi-eatening ills a prey, where wealth wins victories for men like Quay.—Chicago Tribune (Rep.). -Mr. Cleveland, it will be noticed, is net declining a third term before anybody with the authority to do so j has offered it to him.—Chicago Record ! (Ind.). -Democratic newspapers sympa- ! thize with their republican contem- J poraries in the sorrow they manifest i over the faet that the hard times did j not last another jear.—Des Moines ! Leader.

-When -anybody suggests that Harrison ought not to be nominated because one term as president is ail any man should have, the sonorous voice of McKinley can be distinctly heard coming from the *-amen”"corner. —Madison (Wis.) Journal. -Benjamin Harrison says that he does not think ‘‘he is the man to lead the republican party next year.” lleed, McKinley cud Allison are in full accord with this opinion—the first time either of them ever was in agreement with Harrison.—Chicago Chronicle. -When the present tariff bill was adopted the republican prophets predicted the utter ruin of the country. Now that the wages of fully one million workers have been raised under it, and prosperity is steadily reviving, they resort to the falsehood that it is all due to the fact that the Wilson bill was modified.—Nashville American. -The American Protective Tariff league has been engaged in inquiry about wages to secure evidence that the Wilson tariff law is injuring the country. It is getting replies that do not give much encouragement to the agents of protected interests. Here is a reply from the Doe river woolen mills at Elizabeth, Tenn., which the proprietors send to a New York newspaper, so that the information may not be suppressed from the public. It is as follows: “Gsntx.S3IEn: la answer to your circular and cards, will say we are paying the same price to the same amount of hands that we did in 18W— that is in dollars and cents—and at the same time our hands are baying forty per cent, more with thesams money than they did in 183a We have all the protection we want in free wool." —Utica (N. Y.) Observer.

EXPORT TRADE. Tariff* yrm ramtoh a Forelffu Market for Amertem Maakfactartti One of the features of the complete returns of American export trade for the fiscal year 1895 which should at* tract attention is the large proportion of exports of manufactured articles. The month of June, which closed the year, showed that manufactures constituted 31.214 percent, of the entire exports for the month, and were valued at $16,840,753. The figures for the entire year are significant, and their relation to the entire volume of American exports for a series of years can best be judged by the following table: Total Export• Mannfaatartr*. Tear of XtrrckanditA Valun For Cent. 180). • 3lS.J4J.4i3 • 4U.3I.V982 12.74 1870. 453.208.341 48.2T9 7M 1VC0 1873.. 339.237.438 92.478.814 1437 1880. K3.94S.Si* 10C.8 4013 12.46 1885. 72S.4K.9tS 147.1872427 8425 1884. 88V 984, '29 134311.9% 2450 1887. 703.1122.923 1347iVlO» 1445 1888.. f83.8K.M4 130.300.087 19.05 1889 . 730.282.J09 1S8.475.507 18.99 1860.. .... 8I3.293.K8 151.1*2.374 17.87 1891. 89.VTi.28l 188.927.313 19.37 189*. l.»l^<2.'lt 1 8,310.93: 15.61 1-9.3. 63ro:if>,7-* > 1'8.023.118 19.02 1894.. .... 8C9.J0i.9l7 183.718,181 21.14 14)5 . 792.397J9) 1-3.9>.7U 23.14 The fiscal year 1*94. beginning on July 1, 1S93, covered almost exactly the period of greatest depression, and _the presumption might have been that the restoration of business activity would increase prices and reduce exports. This may have been the fact to some extent in the volume of exports, but the money received has been substantially the same, which would indicate a larger cash return to American manufacturers for a smaller output of labor and capital than in 1894. The fact that the _$gauiS*for 1893 are higher than for any year prior to 1894, intruding several years of prosperity, would seem to indicate that the market which has been created for American manufactures from time to time has been successfully maintained. Evidently our manufacturers are coming nearer an export basis. Some of the changes in the value of manufactured articles exported in 1S94 and 1893 may be seen from the following table:

Artclet. 1S94. 1S96 Agricultural implements* 5.957.915 i 3,413,075 Books, maps, etc... 3,650.043 Carriages cars, etc. 3.349.675 Casings for sausages. 1.30,514 Chemicals ami dyes....... 7.4i*>.93> Cotton goods. 14.310,333 Fertilizers. 3.038,44' Gun p'wder and expi’slves 1.003.118 Rubber goods.. 1.461.313 Scientific Instruments— 1.3S4.257 Fire arms... 633,631 Machinery an 1 engines... 13161^11 Iron and steel wire. 1.071.913 Leather and manufacture* 14.533.459 1.906.634 1.0041300 385.373 444.448 6.773.731 3,316.317 3.383.714 1.481.894 8,189.145 43.789.S1) 3.741.363 1.377.381 1.303.143 1.915.771 786.903 11,178.333, 1.377.479 13.614.407 2.18.109 1.180.699 3)3.939 0)1.910 6.349.807 Manufactures of paper. .. Cigarettos.... Varnish..... Wine... Manufactures of wood... The falling off in the value of carriages and cars appears to be due to a demand for freight ears rather than passenger coaches, as the decline in the, number exported is much less than the decline in value. The decline in cotton goods is chiefly in the exports to British North America, which dropped from §987,837 to £387,160; and to China, from $2,846,230 to SI,703.033. There is an increase in the the quantity of exports of cotton cloth to Great Britain and to Germany, but the values show a slight falling off. The significant increa^b in scientific and electrical apparatus, in fire arms and in machinery, rnav be regarded as indicating the channels along which American enterprise can successfully move, as these articles are novelties in many eases and have the benefit in a peculiar degree of American skill and inventive genius. The export of scientific and electrical apparatus was only SI.345,651 in 18.»3. indicating an advance of about 40 per cent, in two years.—N. Y. Journal of Commerce. IT HURTS THEM. Returning Prosperity Amoving to Howling Protectionist*. Certain organs of McKinlevism are still culling for a revival of the tariff issue at the coming session of congress. “It must be reopened then,” they say, although they know, of course, that if a republican house should pasi a revision bill, the bill could not. become a law. The effect of a tariff debate in congress would be a disturbance of business and industr}’, and the remarkable and cheering recovery which has restored confidence throughout the land and is still in progress might be checked. It would be impossible to revise the tariff,but the couutry might suffer. f

Do these organs desire to cnees the progress of this recover^ in order that partisan ends thereby may be served'? We believe that this is the motive of some of the advocates of this policy of futile but disturbing revision. The return of prosperity, the great activity of producing plants, the increase of wages affecting three-quarters of a million workmen, have deprived them of their specious tariff arguments and promise to make their tariff issue worthless us a political asset llut if this for ward movement in business and manufactures could be checked by fresh tariff agitation, that Issue might be revived for use in the campaign next year. There is too much prosperity now for the republican party. Would these McKinley organs like to see this prosperity displaced by adversity and depression? This great upward movement not only lays their tariff issue on the shelf, but it also convicts them of ignorance or misrepresentation. Unless depression and hard times shall come again, the people will regard them as false prophets, deceptive advisers and misleading guides. What did Senator Lexow, one of the foremost republicans of this state, say a few days ago in his Tribune interview? “This matter of reported increase of wages in various directions is a temporary thing. If it is otherwise, we are all wrong and h^ve been in the wrong all the time.” * Mr. Lexpw and other more discreet republicans who are in agreement with him do not like to have it shown to the people by current events that they “are all wrong” about the tariff and “have been in the wrong all the time.” Would they prefer a return of depression that would check this upward

movement and cause reductions of1 wage*, in order that their reputation for sagacity and pood judgment might thereby be saved? A long and acrimonious tariff debate at the coming session of congress might thus be useful to them and to their party. As one of Mr. Lexow's associates said to a Tribune reporter, they see “danger in an overflowing prosperity, wherein the issue born of the last two years may be forgotten.” and they may desire to avert this “danger," even at the cost of a restoration of hard times. The weekly organ of the Philadelphia Manufacturers' club, a high tariff association, is one of the papers which cry loudly that the tariff issue must be taken up at the coming session. We invite the attention of those who ara familiar with the extraordinary upward movement of the last four months to the following remarks in the latest issue of this organ: “The tariff of 1894 has done, and is doing, the country shameful injury. Its effect has been to lower wages, to depress and discourage enterprise, to shorten production and to render the country increasingly, the slave of Europe. Whoever is responsible for the surrender of the national prosperity into the hands of foreign capital, foreign employers and foreign tradesmen is guilty of treason as distinctly as if he had taken the bribe given to ; Benedict Arnold. The tariff will be reconsidered." ^ The return of prosperity, with increased wages and increased prices, strikes this Philadelphia paper with the force and cutting power of a twoedged sword. Consequently it insists upoii the speedy revival of tariff agitation, knowing that no revision bill can become a law during the life of the new congress, but perceiviffg, we presume, that such -agitation would not exert a favorable influence upon the indttstrtes of the country, and that its tariff policy with respect to wool, if adopted by the republican party i® congress and supported as an issue next year, might prevent dangerous “overflowingprosperity” in the woolen industry at least—an industry in which

, seventy-six concerns have recently increase wages, and in which the num- ' ber of cards, looms, and knitting1 maI chines now in operation considerably exceeds the number in operation under the McKinley tariff several months I before the beginning of the panic and [ before the elections of November. 1892. A large majority of the people will eoiUe to understand in the near future i the real attitude of prominent republican politicians and organs toward this annoying • prosperity.—N. Y. Times. > ■ ~__ THE WOOL INDUSTRY. A False Prophecy by Protectionists—What Free Wool Has Done. The i protectionists prophesied that free wool would bring ruin to American sheep owners, and that the reduction of duties on woolen goods would wreck one of the greatestof oar industries. This conviction was so firmly fixed in the minds of the calamity prophets that they made no allowance for a possible failure of their prediction. Consequently the increase in the priee of wool since the removal of the duty and the remarkable activity ia the manufacture of woolen gu*j-.s hare fairly bewildered th6m. In their confusion they have disregarded* facts,, and have frantically persisted that the reported activity in the woolen industry does not exist. But now there comes an authoritative statement of the situation the truth of whi^h the doubters cannot deny. Somebody recently asked the editor of the American Wool and Cotton Reporter to estimate the quantity of woolen machinery in operation now, and also “at the racist favorable time hitherto.” In reply to this inquirer the editor of the Reporter imparted the following information: “It is estimated that in May, 1892, there were in operation 7,734 sets of cards, woolen and worsted; 71,000 woolen and worsted looms; and 43,601 knitting machines. About June 1*' 1S95, there were in operation 8,456 sets of cards, woolen and worsted; 77; 100 looms on Woolen and worsted goods, and 04.230 knitting machines; this probably must be increased at date in every particular, as there is a most imposing list of enlargements of woolen niHls and installations of new ma- * chlnery since January 1, 1895, exclusive' of thirty-eight brand new enterprises (woolen mills) and a large number of new knitting plants.” The significance of these figures is not to be mistaken bv any reader of intelligence. Add to this proof of activity the general increase in wages during the past two months, and it will l>e seen how utterly the dismal Dredictions of the protectionists have failed of realization.—Philadelphia Record. __

VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS. How to Extend Oar Export Trade— Amort* can Manufactures. v In discussing1 the important question of Ending- foreign markets for American manufactured goods, the trade journal. Shoe and Leather Facts, makes, in its current issue, some valuable suggestions. It says: “While little success is likely to attend an attempt to obtain a footing in foreign markets -by seeking to force the goods upon the inhabitants, suflb' cient has been learned to demonstrate that where the proper effort is made to ascertain the peculiarities of the trade and cater to it, the results are highly satisfactory. Much of the success of the English and German manufacturers in extending their foreign trade has been owing to their readiness to meet even the most trifling conditions which buyers impose as to the style and character , of the goods desired.” Americans are apt to argue that if foreigners ate not satisfied with our goods it is because they are lacking in good judgment—a method of argument which, says the trade journal, “may be good logic, but is poor business ■, policy.” The necessities of the case: demand that American manufacturers \ now spare no paiqs to increase their export trade, adapting thei* products to the tastes and harmless whims of foreign consumers.—N. Y. Herald.