Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 July 1897 — Page 6

BECOMING GENEBAL Under Hie Assiduous Laborsof the Agitators. JSare Siam Coulag Oat Emy Day Aaf U Karljr HMUcawiI of tho Great Strike Hoped for—No Scarcity of Coal Salt Anywhere.

~Prran*UBGH, Pa., Julj 17.—Dullness at miners’ headquarters and in all th< * tminaa in the Pittsburgh district and 'unusual activity in the coal rnarkel characterized the features of the strike yesterday. For a strike so general it causes the least excitement; peace seems to prevail everywhere, but how long this state of affairs will continue to exist cannot be even guessed. The •miners are apparently willing to be idle, and as yet no suffering of consequence has beeu reported at district -headquarters. The miners’ officials were very much elated over news from West Virginia. (Several telegrams from organizers iu that auction of an encouraging nature were received. “There is nothing startling to report from any of the districts,” said President Dolan. “The men, with the exception of a very few, are out and w« are satisfied with the situation.” Coal took another tumble in price yesterday. K sold for $1.35 at the mine, a drop of 25 cents from the day previous. A tour among the operators demonstrated that there was plenty ol -coal on hand. It was learned that the Pennsylvania Gas Coal Go., Westmore--land Oas Coal Ox, Manor Shaft, Key* atone Coal Co., Washington Ran Goal Co., the Boon and Allison mines were furnishing considerable coal. It was estimated that the mines east of Pittsburgh are furnishing 150 cars a day. Nearly all the empty eoal cars in the Pittsburgh district are finding their 'way to the West Virginia coal fields. The Baltimore A Ohio took several trains of them yesterday. It was also learned that 250 cars a day were going from the Pocahontas field iu West Virginia into Cleveland. The records show* that a cargo of 2,000 tons was loaded Wednesday, a similar one on Thursday and the North Wing was loaded yesterday with the same amount. Another cargo will be loaded to-day. The price is 92.30 alongside or free on board the vessel. It was learned last night that the programme of the imuers' officials is to bring out all the men possible in the West Virginia field and then bring all the organizers to Pittsburgh. It is expected that the terms will be made herd? as" the district is looked upon as ' the most interesting point after West Virginia has been disposed <*f. - ’The miners’ hopes are high and they are confident that there will be a good story to tell from West Virginia Monday morning. The lukewarmuess of National President Hatch ford and the belittling attitude of District President Dolan has put somewhat of a damper on the true uuiformity plan, but President Dolan says nutwith standing his private opinion concerning Mr. DeArmitt, he has been and will continue doing everything iu his power to further the the scheme. Gen. Little and Mr. DeArmitt left last evening at 8 o’clock for Philadelphia to consult with officials of the Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, Keystone and other coal companies along •the line of the Pennsylvania railroad -with the end in view of securing their 'OO-pperatiou in the uniformity plan. All of the arbitration board, except B. Frank Schmid, of Indiana, are now out of the city. Edward Ridglev aud Horace Calef arc in Chicago, aud L. P. McCormack at Itidinuapolis for the purpose of interesting operators iu these states in the proposition for a settlement of the strike. They exgiect to have a general meeting of tlit .operators of the five states iu Pittsburgh next Monday or Tuesday, when the commissioners believe au amicable settlement will be reached.

JAPAN AND SPAIN. ttM Incident I'poit W hich the Story of no Alliance was 1‘ruhaMy ltascd. vLosikjn'. July 17.—The Madrid correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette says: ••The must notable event thus far of the Spanish court season at San Sebastian has been the visit of Prince Takefaeito, Japan's ambassador extraordinary, who was sent to invest King Allonao with the Japanese Imperial Order of the Chrysanthemum. The visit is considered of peculiar importance. The envoy was received with extreme cordiality by the queen and the government. Prince Takeixeito, who was accompanied by the Marquis I to, was received in full state by the duke of Tetuan, Spanish . minister of foreign affairs, and all the •court functionaries. The streets were linfd with troops. The distinguished visitors were conducted to the palaee where the queen and a brilliant retinue welcomed them vwith high honors. Banquets, balls and xiUwr marked compliments followed, and the war ships in the bay were decorated with flags and bunting. The duke of Tetuan has gone out o! his way to protest that the mission is purely complimentary and without ^political significance although a Japanese legation -nay be established at Madrid. •*It is said that the occurrence xs being carefmiy observed in the United Stales. FELTS’ FLIGHT. .(^apteod %crt*. Itn,test I‘b*'; l fe l uUwvi‘11 sp.-it.c»-Couiuau Sric.Nus. c'oi.. July 17.— The announcement is made authoritatively that Wm. l>. Felts Will make an aerial excursion from the summit of Tike's Peak to Colorado Springs, a distance of ten miles in an airline and a drop of 8,000 feet, la making the flight Mr. Fella will use a series of rigid aeroplanes, modeled after the wings of a •condor, the great South American bird. The body of the voyager will han| suspended from an easy harness.

A PRINCELY SWINDLER.

I uraadua, and Than HiflhwaNd at a •*»»" Shop-Jiaarl; Fuartwo TUna—4 Doltan Tim <4amrtii Baton Ha Wai Dataotad. New York, July 19.—W'm- A. Bellfood, % well-known dealer in antique books and rare jewelry, at No. 1332 Walnut street, Philadelphia, who rents an expensive suite of rooms at the 1 Plaza hotel here, is under arrest at police headquarters charged with haring swindled Marcus A Co., jewelers, of thlif city, out of jewelry valued at many thousands of dollars. The arrest was made on Saturday, and in a police court yesterday the prisoner was remanded to the custody of the central office detectives. A small portion of the jewelry has been recovered, and pawn tickets for a large part of the remainder have been found. The detectives say Bellwood has confessed to his dealings with Marcus A Co., but denies that he has swindled other firms. Bellwood is a Frenchman of good address and refined manners. He began his dealings with Marcus A Co., about a year ago. He frequently bought goods from the firm on memorandum. and so far as the police know his dealings were for a long time legitimate. Recently Marcus A Co. learned that Bellwood was seen frequently at the race tracks, where he was reported to have been a heavy looser. Last Friday Bellwood appeared at the store of Marcus A Co., and called for a diamond necklace, which, he said, he wanted for a lady customer. He selected one, valued at $7,400, and left the store. He was followed by an employe of the firm, and was seen to go into a Bowery pawnshop, where he pledged a piece of jewelry, believed to hare been the necklace, which he had just received on memorandum. It was decided to arrest Bellwood, and on Saturday he was taken into custodr on Broadway. , On his person was fouud the costly necklace, together with a bundle of pawn tickets on which he had received $i\960. Of this amount $7,400 had been obtained on jewelry received from Marcus. A Co., and $5,560 on jewelry which he claimed to own him- ] self. The total uuinber of pawn tickets recovered was 42. and 1*2 of them | represented the Marcus goods. Bellwood admitted his guilt as far as the jewelry which he had received I from Marcus A Co., was concerned and said that his downfall was due to i gambling on the race tracks. Yesterday the prisoner's wife suri rendered a beautiful necklace, composed of pearls, amethysts' and crys- ! tals. valued at Si.000. a finger riug and ; an autique brooch, set with a topaz iu | the center, and pear-shaped gems of every description in three rows with three pendant pearls. Mrs. Bellwood, who speaks uo English, claimed that the jewelry is her own private property. •THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER." Death of the lAtty who Suggested the Theme Of Tout Moore’* Beautiful Song. New York, July 19.—Mrs. Amelia Kohler died yesterday at Mount Verj non. Had it not beeu for Mrs. Kohlet Tom Moore might never have written i "The Last Rose of Summer.” The poem was of her suggestion, and the first liue was from her lips. She was, early iu the century, a close friend of Moore’s sister, who kept a : private school in Loudon. While j w alking in the garden with the poet j one day Mrs. Kohler, so the story runs, plucked a rose, remarking: “ 'Tis the last rose of summer; why not w rite about it, Mr. Moore?” The incident suggested the thought that was afterward so beautifully woven iuto verse, and the poem was dedicated by the poet to "Amelia.’ which is Mrs. Kohler’s first name. Mrs. Kohler’s life was of interest in more ways than this, however. S1k was 92 years old when she died, and for 20 years had lived with her daughter. Mrs. F. N. Saunders, in Mount Vernon. Her maiden name was Arne- | lia Offergeld and her father was an j officer under Gen. Blucher. The family home was iu Aix-la-Chapelle. Mrs. Kohler frequently spoke of having seen Napoleon iu her girlhood.

JAPANS DESIGN, Notwlthitanitlnc the Denial* of Ho*hi Toro saint. 1* the Conquest or HawalL Colorado Sr king si, CoL, July 1U.—11. I*. Ldllibridge. who was consul-gen-eral from Hawaii to Japau during the reign of Kiug Kal&kaua. has written a 1 letter to Senator llanna, in which he i says: •'Please say to both McKinley and Sheruien that I know whereof 1 speak i when 1 tell yon the designs of J apan j on Hawaii are exactly as iutimated in the editorials of the Japan Herald, notwithstanding all the denials that Hoshi Toru Sami can make. Ever since Ja- * pan captured the Lu Kiu islands, in { 1S75, the bee of conquest has ' been buzzing in her headgear. Her more recent success in Corea and < China and her acquisition of Formosa as well as the submissive, undignified, weak vis-a-vis which our government ; of political joblots present to them and Spain, furnish all the incentive and encouragement necessary to justify Japan's idea that Hawaii will be an easier conquest than any that have i gone before if site moves quickly. * INDORSED BY BANKERS. Arttoaof the Mlnnwt* l!nenlvt Pardons In the Vo>a(«r Case. Dt/LCTH, Minn.. July 19.-—The Minnesota hankers in convention here adopted the following resolution in regard to the action taken by the board of pardons in the Youngers' case. Bt a Rtmdnd. by the Minnesota Bankers S-MxnsUoo. That the action of the board of pardons in refusing the petition of the Younger brothers meets with our hearty approval and adds new assurance of the majesty of our laws an t a tenting of security anting rural hankers, thst would have been iargeiv dissipated had the pardon been ershtal

THE TARIFF BILL

Democratic Conferees Analyse the Measure. Tk»j Ancmm tial It Mott r*l1 of Ita Ova Valght-Mot OMlgnad to B*Im Kevcuue Bat to Protect Tracts. _■.# Washington, July IL—The republican senators made no* less than 871 amendments to the tariff bill as it came from them to the republican house. In other words, the Dingley bill, upon which the gag of Tom Reed prevented democratic debate in the house, could not secure the vote of a republican senate without 871 changes being made in its provisions. The democratic representatives were allowed but a few hours in which to express their opposition to the measure. They were denied debate and the right of proposing amendments. The bill was railroaded through the house by order for the previous question, upon the passage of the bill as a whole; and this in. spite of the mandate of the constitution that bills for the raising of revenue shall originate in the house of representatives— and, presumably, shall be debated therein. As the bill is now, and as it will t finally go upon* the statute books, it is the work of the republican party. Whatever changes may be made in conferJ ence will be entirely the work of the | republican conferees. The democratic | conferees have been notified that they j will be sent for if they are needed. | The rule that important legislation ! is the result of some degree of compromise therefore finds no example in the ! pending tariff. It is the work of trusts > and of manufacturing combines, with j no opportunity given the representaj ti ves of the people in the lower house to modify or reduce the burdens imposed upon the people at their demand. The tariff bill has to a remarkable J degree solidified the democrats in both ! houses. The democratic expression { is unanimous that the new tariff is by J far the worst the country has ever ; been afflicted with. The correspondi ent has talked with democratic leaders in congress and their views ! will be found of interest. They voice j but one belief—that experience will ! prove that the new tariff is nothing | short of a public calamity. WORSE THAN THE MCKINLEY BILL. Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia? | who was chairman of the Democratic national congressional committee in j the last campaign, said: "The Dingley bill may be said to be even a departure from the principles of protection j maintained by the republican party. It does Snot stop at seeking to compensate for thedifI terence in the cost of material or labor in articles with which our manufacturers corns into j competition (which has heretofore been the j principle publicly advocated by republicans), I but it goes far beyond this, and tixes the rates | of duty with a view to excluding all but the ’ higher grade of Roods from foreign countries, j to that the American manufacturer may inj crease the price abnormally and beyond ail reaj con on his manufactured product. The average j ad valorem rate of the McKinley bill was 49 percent: of the Wilson bill, 39; of the present 1 bill, as it passed the house, about 58 As it | passed the senate it is admitted that it will be } at least M per cent, and many experts believe it j will reach 38. when the republicans have finj Ished tinkering with it in conference. ! "This enormous increase of taxation over | that imposed during the civil war and the sucI ceeding years can And no excuse or justifiesj tiou whatever. Every article of prime necesI aity to the people has been studiously selected t as the one upon which to put hitch rates. The ! bill will be known in history as the second bill of j abominations passed by an American congress, j Every trust and great combination of capital has ! been singled out ae an especial favorite in the ; framing of the schedules, from the great Sugar ' trust, that controls almost all the product of S refined sugar in this country (an articlewhich j foes upon the table of every family), to the I Lead trust, whose product is used by every householder. To these monopolies the people are made to pay a tribute in excess of anything known in the history of the oouatry. "This tariff bill must fall of its own weight. Public sentiment will rebel against its exactions; and although the currency question will necessarily, in the present and in the I future campaigns, be the dominant issue, hun- | dreds of thousands of voters will express their ; condemnation of such taxation by voting for the party that represents the greatest good to ! the greatest number and whose organization ! Is not subservient to the wishes of a favored

“The Wilson bill during the Inst year comes I within three million dollars of the receipts estli mated for it when it passed. The receipts | under it have grown year by year since its eni aetment. until for the present year there la left I a deficit of but twenty-two million dollars. We | had a surplus in the treasury over and above I thehundred million gold reserve, amounting to ! a hundred and forty-two millions on the .first I day of July. This money should be in circula- | tlon and not hoarded in the treasury. With two | hundred and forty million dollars lying idle ia ! the government vaults, no excuse exists for inI creasing the burden of taxation upon our peo- | pie when business Is prostrated and enterprise ! paralyzed.'’ The democratic conferees of the senate are Messrs* Vest, Jones, of Arkanas, and White. ! These senators followed every detail of the bill | during its tedious discussion in the senate, and ! speak with authority in their estimates of the bill. MtOTECTIOS DECREASES REVENUE. Mr. Vest says: “Whatever may be conjectured In regard to the bill, it seems very certain that there will be no surplus revenue produced by it for the next year at least. The protective system carried to its legitimate result must decrease the revenue of the country. "Whenever you reach the protective point you diminish imports: and when you diminish Imports you decrease revenue. With democrats. who believe that we should impose a ! tariff upon Imports for revenue only, there I ought to be no difficulty in constructing a tariff | measure, but even with those who believe in a i tariff for revenue only there always comes in ! the greed and avarice of local and individual | Interests. When you undertake to reconcile ‘ protection and revenue this evil is immensely ; Increased, because every producer in the ooua- ' try immediately claims that he has the right to i protection, if it Is accorded to anybody else. “Mr. Manning, when secretary of the treasI ary. secured the most eminent statisticians in the United States, without regard to politics, and they made a careful examination as to the ! question of how many of the people of the j United States, with their labor and products, came ia competition directly or indirectly with foreign labor and products They reported with singular unanimity that but five per cent, of the people of the United States, with their labor and .products, came In competition with the labor and products of foreign countries; and yet with that small proportion of the people ef the United States to be protected it is impossible to construct a tariff bill for protection and for revenue without giving a large preponderance to protection. When yon undertake to construct a tariff for protection yon destroy revenue, because, la order to meet the demands of those who seek protection, yon am compelled to put the duties an high as to exclude the fv -ign product and keep it from oomfag into competition with the domestic product

"Now, Senator Aldrich, the most eminent authority oa tariff in the republican party, in inaugurating this debate, lays down the prop* osition that the republican narty. the protection party, to which he belongs, must soon resort to internal revenue taxes, because the protective system destroys revenue upon imports. And so, with a bill that Imposes the most monstrous burdens of taxation in American hiStory, we have an admission that it will not by its customs duties provide the necessary revenue for the country. “In this bill are nearly 190 items in which the rates are much higher than in the McKinley act. A few of its iniquities can be seen from a few illustrations of the tax on articles in common use. The duty on coal is Increased from 40 to67 cants: crockery from 35 to 55 per cent; lead from 1 cent to 2!4 cents; oil doth from 23 and 40 per cent, to 35 to 90; paper bags from 20 to 35; pocket cutlery from 25 and 75 to 100 per cent, and so on down through a long list of articles in daily use by people of moderate means. Sewer pipe, shot and lead, soap, borax,sponges, wall-paper, window-glass, wire, white lead, lumber, shingles, beef and the like are enormously increased and will at once become more expensive to the consumer. That tbe people of the country will repudiate this bill when they have tested its burdens is beyond all doubt." SENATORS JONES AND WHITE.

Senator Jones, of Arkansas: “In the new tariff are so many outrages that it is hard to tell what its worst features are. Perhaps the woolen schedule may be considered the worst. The heavy tax laid on raw wool, with the compensating taxes to the manufacturers, will make the average rate of burden imposed in the woolen schedule enormously high. It will practically prohibit the importation of all classes of goods that are made in the United States. The crockery and glass schedules are equally obnoxious. but the bill is filled with gifts to the trusts and manufacturing rxcnopolies. As it came from the house it carried the highest average of taxation ever imposed. As reported to the senate from the committee it was slightly modified, and in his opening speech Mr. Aldrich said that a bill proposing exoessive burdens was not to be thought of. In the consideration of the measure, however, the republicans systematically abandoned the senate amendments and took the house rates, and in many instances even raised the rates above those proposed by the house.” Senator White: “The tariff bill as it passed the senate is the most dangerous enactment of the kind that has ever emanated from oongress. If the most oppressive trusts and combines in the United States had met in joint convention they could not have produced a measure more satisfactory to themselves and more clearly inimical to the people. From the commencement of the last campaign until the vote was taken upon the bill the representatives of the republican party and of this administration declared that a very moderate revenue enactment would be framed. This bill Is not a revenue measure for it is thronged with prohibitive duties. The sugar schedule has already forced up the price of tha^ article and when the bill becomes a law the consumer will pay #1.35 more for a hundred pounds of that commodity than heretofore, and the trust will reap unprecedented benefits. It is not practicable here to enumerate the articles of necessity upon which increased revenues have been imposed. Before six mouths the consumers of the United States will be very familiar with the Dingley bill and will be quite competent to exdress themselves accordingly at the polls. The average burden of taxation will be more than 56 per cent., at least, as against 49 in the McKinley bill, the burdens of which were thrown off by the American people as soon as they could take action upon it. “I add that it is doubtful whether a majority of the republican members of congress really approve of this biii. They have been compelled to stand by it. and the combines of the United States now exp et to squeeze out of the public a profit on their campaign investmen ts.’ WHAT THE FARMER GETS. The demoerntie conferees on the part of the house are Messrs. Bailey, of Texas; 'McMUlin, of Tennessee, and Wheeler, of Alabama. Mr. McMillin has long been a member of the ways and means committee, and is regarded by both parties as an expert in tariff matters. He is looked upon as being very likely to succeed Senator Harris. He says: “The extra session of congress for the purpose of revising the tariff was entirely unnecessary. With even ordinary economy there would be a surplus in the treasury at the time of the regular meeting in December. “If there Is nothing else to condemn this measure, the fact that it proposes to raise unnecessary and unjust taxes ought to do so. You will search in vaiu for free sugar in this bill, or anything else free that benefits the American people- The republican den agogio cry of a free breakfast table' has been abandoned. “Let us see what they have done for the farmer. Of all th tv futile efforts to delude that 1 have ever seen in a solemn proceee-ling this is the most glaring. A large per cent, of our population are farmers. They are the ones who bear the burdens and get no benefits from protection. The republicans evidently hare underrated their intelligence when proposing an increase of duty of farm products to satisfy them with The enormous rates of duty found in this bill. “We are complaining of hard times, and justly. Farms are selling for; taxes. Ruin is abroad in the land, and is not confined to any particular vocation. The bank doors are closing and bank presidents are going to Canada and the penitentiary. Manufacturing establishments have their repositories filled with manufactured goods, which nobody is able to purchase: and out in the west the bins and reservoirs of industry are burstlhg with the wheat and corn for which there is no market. Yet over all the wreck the republican party is self-confident and happy. I tell them to look out when the day of settlement comes to these taxes. “What have they proposed for the farmers? To tax them more. They realized that when some oae was fleeced someone would complain. More than 50 per cent, of our people are engaged in agriculture and are not benefited by this measure. They raise the taxes on an average higher than they were ever before. They impose taxes that were not dreamed of by any other distinguished statesman who ever broke into oongress. and. realizing that somebody had to be humbugged, what have they done? They said that the tax upon corn and other agricultural products was too low. Corn. meal, oats, wheat, fiour and buckwheat are all taxed 90 per cent, under the existing law. -But,' they said, ‘while we protect the manufacturers, while we take care of the Sugar trust, while we spread our protecting wings over the makers of cutlery, the makers of steel rails and all those who are engage ! in trusts, we would better pretend to do something for the farmer' And what did they do? They taxed corn, instead of 20 per cent-. 15 cents a bushel, which, at the present figures. Is nearly 1W per cent. How much Is that going to yield to the farmers? There was imported last year only I7b4 worth, which will ‘protect' them to the extent of #160.51

"Magnitleent benefaction, glorious statesmanship. that protects a million farmers by distributing among them 918&M. “They came to the rescue of the miller, and the millers' benefaction i« surpassed -only by the benefaction to the com grower. The importations last year paid a duty of I Hi. 26 oa cornmeal •'Oats come next They are taxed only 20 per eent They raise this to 15 cents a bushel. Under this new rate the increased duty on oats will be er». “Wheat comes next. The duty oa wheat imported last year was U31 They propose, for the benefit of ail -the wheat growers of the United States, to distribute IM6 la the way of increased dutiea In election times they propone to stand back and look at It In bulk, and ■ay: ‘Behold how we hare protected the fkrm“I could go on enumerating the shams and the thefts in this bill Indefinitely. It Is the most outrageous tariff bill ever constructed. I denominated it correctly in the housadurlng the brief rim* allowed far democratic expression than, and I stand by tbs designation and say U is tbs hot-bed for tbs propogaUan of trusts

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Champ Clark said: “When the McKinly bill was pnaaed ft vox thought by many persons that surely that was as far as seen the greedy tariff pap-suckers would dare to go In plundering the people; but Aldrich, Dtngley a Co. hare raised the major at his own game. The outrages It -perpetrates on the taxpayers are so numerous that it is difficult to say which overtops the others in iniquity. “Perhaps the most obnoxious feature is the sugar schedue, which after providing for about 100,000,000 of taxes annually to be paid into the treasury, makes a present of about £0,000.00* every year to the Sugar trust, whose members ex-Senator John James Ingalls pronounces to be the most conscienceless marauders that ever went unhung. “The republican chieftains promised that they would raise sufficient revenue by laying high takes on the luxuries and low taxes or none at all on the. necessaries. To show how false this is, take carpets and matting. Only few very rich people can afford to use Aubusson, Axminsters. Moquettes and Chenille carpets, on which the rates are comparatively low; but ou common carpets and matting, which the mass of people must use, or use none, *11 the rates are prohibitive. “The rates on these latter are as follows: Not costing over 15 cents per square yard. 5 cents per square yard (specitic duty), and 35 per cent ad valorem. “In this schedule, %e in many others, the authors of the bill skillfully mingle specific and ad valorem taxes for the purpose of preventing people from finding out how much they are gouged. “Take the above achedule, for example. The # per bent, ad valorem on a 15-cent carpet or matting is 525 cents, which, added to the 3 cents specific tax, makes 1(1.35 cents tax a yard to be paid for a 15-cent carpet or mattingmaking its cost 25.25 cents. In other words, the whole tax is 88(4 per cent. “If the carpet or matting is worth only 10 oents a yard the tax is 84 cents—5 specific and 34 »d valorem—or 85 per cent., and costs the consumer 184 cents a yard. “Such rates will prevent millions of people from having any carpet at all; and yet the authors of this bill expect those millions to kneel on oold bare floors and pray for -the success of Mark Hanna anti his gang of buccaneers. “They have placed a tariff on. hides, ostensible to protect the farmer. Since the day that bill passed the senate the beef packers put up the price on hides 20 per cent, and put down the price of cattle ten per cent. That's a beautiful way of helping the farmers. “Blaine once prevented a tariff on hides by writing Mai. McKinley and telling him that all the effect a tariff on hides would have on the farmer was that he would have to pay a few cents more per pair for his children’s shoes, j and then he added the prophecy that such proj tection would protect the republican party out of existence. God grant that his letter of prediction will be fulfilled!’* > Profit In Hogs. 1 The extraordinarily high prices ob- ! tained for brood sows and boars at a I number of the recent sales of Foland j China hogs in Illinois. Iowa and Missouri, show that the hog as a source of profit on the farm is duly appreciated in some sectious. At a late sale m | Iowa, one boar was sold for 54,000. 1 Many others have ranged in price from $1,000 to 53,000. It seems like a very ; difficult, if not impossible thing, ever j to get back such large sums out of a | single hog. but as the buyers at such j fancy prices were successful breeders, who know their business, they were i no doubt worth the prices paid. It is not so much that prices of hogs' are very high either, when sold on the I market, that makes breeding stock | high, for as compared with prices in 1503 they are very low, but partly be- | cause they make a better profit than I any other brauch of farming in the | corn belt, and partly because there is [ relatively a scarcity of hogs. In 1 $93, according to the agricultural department. there were in this country about 52,500.000 hogs, while at the present the estimated number is only something over 40,000,000. This is a smaller number than at any time since 1$S1. Of course it is easy to increase the number of hogs in the country very quickly. In two years' time the loss of 50 per eent. could be regain'd, blit the great losses by death fr *m cholera which are constantly suffered in the corn belt, has a tendency to prevent efforts to greatly increase the size of herds in the principal corn states. So there is no probability that the price of meat will be lower any time soon than at present. At present prices of bacon, as sold in the south, it is certainly the true policy for southern farmers to grow their own meat, and since it is just s cheap as it will get to be, ever cotton grower or other farmer who does not raise his own meat supply ought to begin just as soon as pos-sible.—Tri-State Farmer.

His Record Kept Clran. A few »i±ys ago a tramp called at a well-known home in the city at about breakfast time and asked for something to eat. The gentleman of thf house informed the tramp that there was a pile of wood in his back vard. and that if he would saw up a quantity of it he would give him a breakfast. The tramp agreed, and the gentleman of the house forthwith conducted him to the pile of wood and, after pointing out to him the saw. retired into the house. A short time thereafter,, wishing to see how the tramp was progressing, he went out into the yard. The tramp had disappeared and pot a log of wood had been sawed. As : he approached the pile of wood he no* ticed a piece of paper fastened to the saw, and on it were were written these words: Just tell them that you saw me. But you never saw me saw. —Lynchburg (Va.) News. A Sure Remedy. A sad-looking man went into a druggist's. “Can you give me." he asked, “something that will drive from ray mind the thought of sorrow and bitter recollection?’' And the druggist nodded, and put him up a little dose of quinine and wormwood, and rhubarb and e]»som salts, and a dash of castor oil. and gave it to him; and for six months the mas could not think of anything in the world except new schemes for getting the tastes out of his mouth.—London Tid-Bits, Xu Place Like Home. A little girl in the primary depart ment of one of the public schools took great interest in what her teacher said in relation to the animal culm in water one day. When she reached home in the afternoon she was very thirsty and her mother asked her the cause. “Our teacher," said the child, “says the '■'ater at the school is full of worms »ud bogs, so I waited to drink until I got hoana.’v-Leisure Boors.

= “I am ntually rated as a clever perform«r, modestly remarked the well-known prestidigitator. “The press and public accord me a grat ifyingly high standing, and my fellow artists are pleased to look upon my work as being skillful beyond that of my comKtitors; I have always regarded myself as ing a past master in the art and science of legerdemain. But yesterday I met a gentleman who is so clearly my superior that now I know myself to be but the merest tyro, struggling with the rudiments of my profession. I can cause a small flowering plant or shrub to grow from the seed in a few' moments in full view of the astonished audience, but the man of whom I am speaking has created an enormous family tree, hundreds of years old, in a few hours.”—N. Y. World.

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