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- ■ A TRAGEDY. at BIU MXM. -Oat where the blue waves come and go, Out where the sephyrs kiss the strand. Down where the damp Udes ebb and flow. Where the ocean uionkevs with the send, William, the hungry, rustics for his meal, SUm William, die eel I st, gathers the eel. On whore the johnny jump-ups smile, ” Op where the green hills meat tue sky. Where, out from her window for many a mH*, Bbe watebeg the blue sea dimpling lie, The wife of the eelist, with visage grim, ■Ms in the gloaming and watches for him. Down In the moist and moaning sea, Down where the day can never come. With staring eyes that can never sea And bps that will ever continue bumb, Wtthtoela in his breast, tn a large wet ware, William is filling a watery grave. Op where the catnip Is breathing hard. Up where the tansy is flecked with dew, Where the vesper soft atehe onion peels Wakens the echoes the twilight through, The new-made widow still watches the shore And s ts there and waits, as I said before. Thor come and tell her the pitiful tale, With trembling voice and tear-dimmed eye They watch her cheek grow slightly pale, Yet wonder at the calm rt ply: “AH our tears are but idle. gentlemen, Co bring in the eels and ret him r.gaihf • —Boston Globs. ■■ ■ - -

MISS KATHARINE LATHAM.

BY ABBY D. BOBBIS.

CHAPTER I. It was just at sunset, s sunset amongst the many one sees through life, that is re■kembered as a peep of glory. Ab they walked together on the beach, each noticed the tropical beauty of the heavens, not with an artist’s eye, btjt as a vivid contrast to the gloom in their hearts. The engagement between them had to be broken. Each knew it, and the silence as they walked along on the golden sands was KcUiug to be felt. She, wontan-like, was hoping he would btenk the spell, and he, ■nan-like, was waiting lor her. At last Kathie Raymond spoke, and he started at the sound of her familiar voice, as one might start when suddenly accosted in a foreign land. “It appears, John, our friendship is to cease. “Don’t say that, Knthie," he replied. “I always want to be numbered amongst ycur friends." Her heart gave a great thump. She had hoped some way, somehow, that it was a mistake, that he did love her; but in that <mc brief, pointed sentence he conveyed all, ■ad she thought he never could have loved her or he would not have spoken in that heartless way. “I don't know as I will need von as a friend, John, but you are kind to offer.” "Was there the slightest tinge of sarcasm in her voice? John wondered, and then thought not. Kathie was not in the habit of using sarcasm. “I am sony. Kathie, your father does not approve of our morn ing.” “Yes,” she replied, calmly, “I small he IftsTeft. and be feels a double claim upon me, and it is his wish that we should part. Hone is the ring yon gave me, John; don't aefaxe to lake it, J cannot keep it. It is getting late; why, see, the sun is out of sight, •nd father will be expecting me.” “Won't you keep thering for the sake of *Anld lang syne?' ” he asked in a low voice. "No; don’t ask me to. Iliad much rather there were no ‘Auld lang syne.’ ” “Don’t talk that way, Kathie. please,” he interrupted, “or I shall blame myself. God knows I do.\ Remember this—it is" your father that' separates us. Were it not for him yon should be mine forever.” 'Yes, 1 will remember,” she said, her voice trembling a little. How fast can a person’s mind travel? Are there not occasional cyclones of the mind, when a dozen thoughts are as one? it seemed to the girl walking on the beach that during the iast five minutes a lifetime full of hid swept through her brain. How she had met him, where she bad met h>m, and the consequences, which could be summed up in the word separation. They had reached the gate of her Jillle home. "I can't ask you in, John, and we had better part here. Me have made a mistake, that is all. You must wed a societybelle instead of bumble Kathie Raymond. I have my father's declining years to brighten, and in our own separate ways we shall both be happy.” It seemed to Kathie that she could not say another word, and yet she dreaded a •ilence. If it came she felt as if she must throw herself at his feetmnd beg for a word of love. But he, too, dreaded another pause, and to ward against it hastened lytr leave-taking. ■' / * “I don’t want you to feel badly over this, Kathie; leave that for me. I will do it for us both. It seems fate or your father is against us. Forget me if you can; it would be best thus'and if another one day wins your heart 1 only' hope he will be to you one-half as much as I thought I should be, and you will be happy.” He reached over ihe gate, and pressing a light kiss on her forehead, turned hastily without another word and left her standing there, “with pleading face turned upward, wild with a great alarm”—and ere daylight had wiped •way night’s dewy tears, John Hasbrouck was in his city home.

CHAPTER 11. ‘Have you met the new heiress. Miss Latham,* Jonathan? She is actually enchanting. lam head over ears in love with her; but don’t suppose she would have a poor dog on a salary when she can probably get you or any other millionaire’s son she happens to smile on.” “Hold. Stanley,” interrupted John Hasbrouck, “don’t be so rapid in your. conversation. The question is. who is Miss La'.ham? I have not heard of her, and probably shall not marry her.” - . d.. : *Th is is what you miss by being out of town a couple of years,” replied Stanley Van Cott, who had to earn Lis good times, and enjoyed them with a wholesale vigor, “fihe is Judge Bandon's niece, is an orphan, *nd has a pile. You will probably meet her if you attend Mrs. Worthington’s‘reception’ this evening. I have already told Hiss Latham of you and she seemed to evince quite a languid interest in your affairs, even went so far as to ask if you were not married yet, so she heard of you in vour infancy when life Was but a dream, etc." “I did not intend going this evening.” «ajd Mr. John Hasbrouck, helping himself to his friend’s mantel-shelf for his feet: “it is getting to be a horrid bore, but if there is to be seen somebody new and actually worth seeing, I will get Patrick to brash the dust off my dress coat and appear OUt,” . - - - - r --.

Mrs. Worthington’s mansion shone brilliautly. and for a block beyond the electric light at the carriage-steps threw a daylight brightness. Friends and acquaintances who were so fortunate as to have had an invitation availed themselves of the opportunity to enjoy Mrs. Worthington’s elegaut hospitality, and get a peep at the new Why is there such a peculiar charm about looking upon one reported marvelously wealthy? If one did not know they would very much resemble Other "people, but cne •most always does know, their moneyed fame is very apt to precede their arrival. Miss Latham not having chosen to be fashionably Ute, was there early. Why it should be considered the thing

to arrive an hopr w two after the time set 1 cannot conceive, unless it be that eocieiy people generally are satiated with gailiea,. and ton I v appear at all out of deference to society’s mandate. “My dear Mias Latham,” Mrs. Worthington spoke affectionately, one is very apt to to an heiress, “I want to introduce you to the son of one of our oldeat and most aristocratic families: his father is a millionaire, anji he is considered the great catch. All the debutants for the past five years have smiled on> him, but be is apparently proof against beauty -and money, but yon, my deaf, have such a large share of both; surely-I may introduce you?" Mias Latham smiled as she answered-, “Yon overestimate my charms. Mrs. Worthington. However, I shall be pleased to meet your friend," That was all Mrs. Worthington wanted at present—her consent to meet Mr. Hasbrouck. It would be so good feeling to have the match made nt her house, and if there was one thing Mi-s. Worthington liked better than another it was to make a match. So moving majestically across the room to where the young man spoken of was standing, she was again quite affectionate in manner. “My dear Mr. Hasbrouck, how very kind you are to favor me with your society this evening. You go out so seldom nowadays, I quite appreciate it I assure you, and as a rewatd I want to introduce you to a most charming young lady, Judge Barston’s niece. She is the one in wine velvet on the other side of the room. Will you come?” “Certainly, Mrs. Worthington, with pleasure,” he replied, bowing low, then glancing across the room where Mrs. Worthington had designated, saw what even to his eyes was a strikingly lovely girl, the old gold satin draperies behind her were n perfect back-ground for the richness of her costume and her almost oriental beauty. His heart stood still a moment as they approacned her. Surely lie had seen that face before, yet he would certainly have rememb?red meeting such a distinguished beauty and heiress. “Miss Latbnm, let me make you acquainted with Mr. Hasbrouck, and pray excused me, I see some new arrivals. They both bowed and Mrs. Worthington left them.

Miss Latham thought she noticed a puzzled expression on Mr. Hasbrouck’s face as she spoke to him. “You have been abroad I hear, Mr. Hasbrouck. Did you enjoy your trip sufficiently to recommend another to take it?” Her voice sounded strangely familiar, but he could not place it. “I scarcely tbiuk it would do for me to say anything contrary to yes,”*Jie replied, but the coming home was the nest part of it. Shall we promenade?” It seemed to John Hasbrouck that he could not remain still until he had fathomed where he had met or seen this beautiful girl. They reached the conservatory almost in silence, and the cool splashing of the fountain seemed a happy change from the “bang bang” of the musicians they had just left. “This is a charming spot, the favorite in The house To me,” "Mr. Hasbrouck remarked as they seated themselves on a little rustic tete-teto by the fountain. “I don’t want to appear rude, Miss Latham, but your face is very familiar to me; one minute it seems as if I had met you before, and yet I certainly have not. I must have seen you somewhere. You see what it is to have a face that leaves an impression.”

She smiled as she answered: “I hope the impression is a good one; it would be so unfortunate to leave any other. Probably in your travels you have seen innumerable young Indies with brown eyes and black hair that have blended mto a commonplace face like mine.” “Alas, no!” he replied; “perhaps it would have been better for me if I had.” He was silept a moment and then asked abruptly: “Would you mind hearing a little of the life of a society young man, Miss Latham? I feel as if somehow yon were not an rrtter stranger to me, as if somehow, somewhere, I had known you before. Am I too presuming to think my past life would be of interest to you?” “A real true story would interest me verymuch,” she replied. “Shall ( promise to ‘cross my heart and never tell,’ as the children say?” “That will hnrdly be necessary,” he said, smiling; "but. Miss Latham, there must be something in human electricity that causes me to want to speak to you of myself. Perhaps I think you could give me some good advice, and perhaps you will when you hear my story; but am I not keeping you from dancing?” “I never dance,” she replied, “and it is quite fortunate that I find some one good enough to amuse me and prevent such a catastrophe as another wall-flower added to the list.”

“You quite encourage me, I assure you. A little over two years ago I spent a few weeks at L. Beach, and I suppose one of the consequences that I might have expected I fell in love; not with a society belle, but with a pretty, dark-eyed girl who lived quietly with her father, m a little vine-covered cottage. She returned my love and we" were happy, and silly, I suppose, for a couple of weeks, when one Saturday a friend came down from the city to spend Sunday with me. I had been so wrapped up in this girl that 1 had scarcely made an acquaintance in the hotel. My friend and I were walking on the beach just at dusk, when he asked me if there were any pretty girls there. I replied: ‘None worth knowing.’ I heard a grunt, and turning, saw my sweetheart’s father walking off. He had heard what I had said, and although I had intended no insult to his daughter, he would look at it in no other light. I told him afterward I was afraid my friend would cut me out and did not want him to see Kathie, for that was her name; but he never forgave me, and told me I 'had no business anyway making love to his daughter when my parents would expect me to look higher.’ I was so annoyed at the time to think he would misunderstand me that I replied: ‘Very likely they would.’ I did not feel hard toward Kathie, but somehow I was less infatuated and thought r her father was too particular for a man in his circumstances. Weil, Kathie and I parted, it did not seem so hard at the time; but she has been in my mind ever since. Six months afterward I went back to tell her I still loved her and wanted to marry her. I found her father had died and she had left with relatives, no one knew where. I went abroad and tried to forget her; but I can’t, and this is the first time I have ever told my story.”

Miss Latham had fainted. He tried to call some one but the musicians were makingdoud as well as merry music? and his voice was not heard. Beaching down he filled one of the shells that surrounded the basin of the fountain with water and dashed* few drops on her pale face. As he supported her slight form it again seemed she was not unknown to him. Could it be Kathie? No, and yet, his heart almost ceased to beat at the thought. Upon opening her eyes the first thing Miss Latham said was “where am I, John?" Then he knew it was Kathie Raymond. The lost color came back in great, waves as she realized what she had said. He , would not have minded prolonging the time that his strong arm was her support; but in a moment she was herself. “I see, John, you have discovered who I am, and I suppose wonder how I bear the name of Latham. A wealthy and eccentric

{ uncle of that name died and left me his property on condition I should take diis name. How could I refaee when my poor father scarcely left enough to keep me ! above want? I deliberated bnt a short time and for the past year I have been the wealthy Miss Latham. Finding I was rich another nncle adopted me and this is my ; story since we parted; but, John, you almost broke my heart when you bode iho i good-bye at the gate, but hearts are sometimes mended.” ~■> ; I “Oh, Kathie, forgive and-.teust me now. I tbiuk you jban “1 will,” she repjied, with downcast face. A* 3he dancers had begun to miss the heirdlss, find soon discovered her tetc-tete with John Hasbrouck, and smiled amongst themselves. Surely John Hasbrouck was not in love at last? Miss Latham >oon pleaded fatigue and her hostess, was most affectionate as che bade her good evening, and followed her to the door, loath to see her depart, forgetting to ask her bow she liked the great catch. What was the astonishment of all the society people the next week when they save printed in the social columns of the Chicago tribune the announcement. “The engagement of Miss Katharine Latham, neice of Judge Bars ton, with Mr. John Hasbrouck, well known in the social circles of this city, is announced.

The Untamed Wolf.

Probably no animal on the hemisphere, with the exception of the temperance orator, has sb much noise about it as the ordinary thirty-pound wolf that frequents the great West, where hen-coops are thickest. When it lifts up its voice and expresses its emotions, it makes the welkin ring until it can’t rest; a voice that starts out in good shape with a plaintive wail, and gradually expands until at the end it sounds like a wild-west show on payday, and you involuntarily look at the brute to see if it hasn’t blown out a lung or two.

Its voice is only equal to its appetite; in fact, it is merely an unhappy combination of noise and hunger. It can eat a supper that would give a rhinoceros the colic,and then sit out on the hill-top and howl for more, in a voice that makes the windows rattle from Dan to Bersheba and all way-stations. It can tackle a sheep that outweighs itself by thirty pounds, eat it in ten minutes, wool and all, and then howl in an agony of hunger.

The color is a soft yellow—the color of English whiskers— and it has a languid, musky smell about it that’s also quite English, ye know. It can also eat eggs with a capacity for gross at a meal, which likewise reminds me of an ancient British custom. The wolf is the most elusive oi beasts as .well, and knows more about a shot-gun than half of us know about the New Testament. You can aim at him until you know you can’t miss, and when you have fired, and the s'lhoke has cleared away, and you look around to see if the wolf is ready to attend its own funeral, you find it sitting far of! in the bright summer sun, spinning off a ten-foot installment of a derisive howl, which has such a strong under-current of sarcasm in it that you feel like taking a brace of pills to get the taste out of your mouth. A wolf can't be shot. The happiest ipoment of its long and eventful life is when somebody is wasting good powder attempting* to perforate it, for then it can look at Kim with a calm and steadfast eye and issue a holiday edition of yells. The only way to triumph over.it_and see the film of death gather in its eyes is to so.p,k some fowl in muriatic acid and leave it where the wolf will find it.

The latter, having a bad sense of taste, will eat the fowl and never know that it is adulterated, until cold,'clammy pains begin to chase each other through its system, and the perspiration gathers on its brow, and its pelvic bone sticks out of its ears, and then it sees that it’s a victim of man’s duplicity; it’s tail droop's low; it casts a" despairing glance behind it, and then seeks some shady spot, gives one farewell howl that makes the welkin tired, and dies.

Hereditary Friendship.

Senator Butler, of South Carolina, and Senator’Don Cameron arte very close personal friends. The friendship is hereditary, descending from Bptier’s uncle and Cameron’s father, who were both United States Senators. SimonCameron’s election was contested on one occasion, and it was likely to be invalidated but for the efforts and the vote of Uncle Butler, who Was then a member of the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Simon Cameron never forgot the service then done, and longed in some way to repay it. One day Sir. Butler (the pfesent Senator ) happened to be at the Capitol on a little matter of business, when he chanced to run across old Senator Cameron. “Butler, Butler,” the Senator repeated, “are you any relative to Senator Butler, of South Carolina?” “A nephew, sir.” “A nephew of Senator Butler! Well, can I do anything for you, my boy 9 ” “The House,” said the young man. “has just cast an adverse vote on a bill to remove some political disabilities under which I am at present laboring. You could not do anything better than make the House reverse its vote. ” Mr. Butler had no idea that such a thing could be done, but in less than live minutes the House had reversed its \iote, and by the exertion of Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, the political disabilities of the present Senator from South Carolina were removed.—JPashing ton Post.

No Change in the Violin.

It is remarkable that while the piano has arrived at itspresent stage of perfection through evolution, like man from a very inferior creation, as Darwin believed, the violin in its earliest stages was at its best, and the- efforts of all fiddle makers to-day • are directed towards imitating, as far as possible? the early models. They don’t dare to chapge a curve or a swell, nor vary in the slightest manner those queer fshaped openings. The young man who plays the fiddle may come and go, but the same fiddle remains forever.— Texas Siftings. “

Strike a man, use him with violence, . and the memory of that blow, be it in act or word, will engender feelings ol hatred in him against you so long as his life

NATIONAL FINANCES.

The Annual Report of the Secretary of the TreasZ ur yDiscontinuance of the - Purchase of Silver Strongly Recommended. ' The Question of Reducing the Surplus—The Tax of Raw Materials to Be Reduced. The annual report of the Hon. Daniel Manning, Secretary of the Treasurv, is a heavy document of nearly twenty-four thousand words. The main features of the report are as follows : Careful perusal of the instructive debates at the last session of Congress leads mo to review tbe four policies which then received marked attention: 1. Free coinage of silver. 2. Conferences. 3. Continued purchases of silver. 4. Stopping purchases of silver. First—The free-silver coinage prescription for the monetary dislocation satisfies but one of several indispensable conditions. While it is an indispensable condition of permanent restoration that the free monetization of silver shall be equally complete as of gold, yet were it now given to silver in this actual moment of dislocation the practical result would be to withdraw the same from gold. That would be a change without ad vantage in any respect, and in every respect witn disadvantage. In the first place it would bring us to the Asiatic Silver basis. This has been commenced in some quarters. There is, however, no such public desire. Second—More conferences, further diplomatic correspondence are proposed. I venture to think, with all due deference to those who are responsible foi a decision, that the time for another conference has not arrived, and that the moment for diplomatic interference is not perfectly felicitous. The Continental Powers await the action of Great Britain, whose reluctance defeated the object of both conferences called at the instance of the United States, and to whom again, almost within a twelvemonth, she has turned a deaf ear. If it suited the dignity of the United States again to besiege the attention of European states, or again to make ad vances where they have been so lately repulsed, it would not suit our interests so to do when it is certain that the inquiry upon which Great Britain has suddenly entered at the instance and insistence of her great dependency, India, and of her own accord, is entered upon with an exclusive regard to her own interest. And of Great Britain’s interests the United States have no call to become advisers or guardians. Third—To go on as we are is the least creditable of al! the courses open to our choice. The Treasury silver purchase is defended by nobody, approved by nobody ; even every vote for the free coinage'of silver is a vote that the Treasury silver purchase shall cease, an assertion that it ought to cease. Fourth—To stop the purchase of silver is our only choice, our duty, and our interest. It will stop a wasteful and injurious expense, and the taxation which defrays it. It will commence and promote reform in the sum and the methods of Federal taxation. It will recover to the United States an equality of position (noncoinage) with foreign powers which will give us due influence in negotiation. It will induce negotiation, and negotiation to the end of relief, not for the purpose of delay. If the law were repeated which makes compulsory Treasury purchases of silver, and if that repeal were accompanied by the declaration of Congress that the United States now holds itself in readiness to unite with France, Germany, and Great Britain in opening their mints to the free coinage of silver and gold at a ratio fixed by international agreement, it is the deliberate lodgment of the undersigned that before the expiration of another fiscal year this international monetary dislocation might be corrected by such an international concurrence; the two monetary metals restored to their old and universal function as the one standard measure of prices for the world’s commodities, the depression of trade and industry relieved, and a general prosperity renewed. I respectfully recommend to the wisdom of Congress the unconditional reiwal of the.act.of Feb. 28j 1878, accompanied by such a declaration.

The financial situation, scanned at large and as a whole, .plainly indicates our best policy. We should reduce taxation immediately to an annual revenue sufficient to pay our annual expenditure; including the sinking fund and excluding the silver purchase ; pay our unfunded debt of $316,681,016 with the present surplus and the surplus which will accrue before the whole reduction of taxation can be made to take effect, and while no more funded debt can be maid except at a premium during the five years ’’from now until 1891.

I therefore respectfully recommend : 1. Kejieal of the clause in the act of Feb. 28, 1878, making compulsory Treasury purchases of silver, and for the reasons heretofore given in order to reduce surplus and unnecessary taxation $14,000,000 a year. 2. Further reduction of surplus taxation, beginning in a manner which will be suggested below, close down to the necessities of the Government economically administered. 3 Repeal of the act of May 31, 1878, making compulsory post-redemption issues and reissues of United States legal-tender notes, thus facilitating— 4. Gradual purchase and payment of $346,681,016 outstanding promissory notes of the United States with present and accruing Treasury surplus, issuing silver certificates in their room, and gold certificates if need be, without contraction of the present circulating volume of the currency, these notes (called greenbacks) being now the only debt due and payable before 1891 except the 3 per cent, bonds, which are probably all to be called and paid early in the ensuing fiscal year. REDUCTION OF SURPLUS TAXATION. It remains to consider the reduction of taxation to the needs of the Government economically administered. What surplus we expend in paving off the greenback dhbt will diminish bv so much the immediate reduction of our tariff taxation; for, while the funded debt stands, certainly it is not wise to discard the taxes on wl;is 4v, tobacco, and beer. Indced.it is my own belief that whenever we begin taxing off the shackles of war-tariff taxes on raw materials such .increased prosperity will follow to the employers who dread it, and such larger and steadier employin'! nt to the wage-earners who need it, by increasing the sales abroad of our own manufactures, and by whipping our foreign competitors in our own markets, that we shall see our income from imported manufactures dwindle so fast as not only to comp; 1 the retention of these most fit items of revenue—whisky, tobacco, and beer—but. perhaps, to drive us back to getting ten millions of revenue from two cents a pound tax on coffee and half as much from tea. It is the reduction of war tariff taxation which we have to consider. Under our system of government bv partv. and the rule of the majority, Ido not think it unbecoming even in a public officer at this time to recall certain responsible and specific pledges in respect to the sum and methods of Fedei al taxation, subject to which the people of the United States, in the exercise of a lawful election, took away the administration of this Government from the party entrusted there with for a quarter of a century, and lodged it in other hands. Public life will cease to be the ambition of honorable and worthy men if the deliberate pledges and professed principles of political parties are not a law for their leaders. Discharging, if I might, whatever hostility of tone, now irrelevant, it contains, I desire to refer to the record of one public obligation thus assumed, and thus accepted, and made binding by the last general popular vote. These pledges I can never be fulfilled without a reform in the sum and methods of Federal taxation. Nor can our country ever profit fully by its incomparable advantages among the nations of the earth in population, peace, land, and liberty, so long as ■ we go on pleading infancy, and swaddle, in mediteval rags, its victorious energies. It is these which need release and liberty. All our requisite taxation may be made an easy garment. We have made a prison of it, plastered stiff with obsolete contentions about protection and free trade. It is actually the war Aa.tes of the war tariff of the last generation under which we are now living, for the undebatod, unsifted law of 1883, made by a conference committee, did but keep alive the body of the tariff of 1864. The average percentage of the taxes to the values of imported commodities has been as follows : . Per • cent. Morrill tariff of 1859-61 (before the war) wa5.......18.84 War tariff of 1862-64 (in 1866 was highest) was■48.35 Present prolonged war tariff (was in 1885). .46.07 KXFIRTS AND THE TARIFF ON RAW MATERIALS. The total value of our domestic exports for the last fiscal year was almost exactly s>i67,000,000, of which 86 per cent were the products fir our fields, forests, fisheries, and mines, and 16 per cent, only were the sum total of manufactured products in which American labor was inwrought. In the last quarter of a century progress in telegraphs, transportation, labor-saving inventions, and the mechanic arts has reduced the profits of capital and the rate es interest by

more than one-half; has Increased the wages of labor throughout the World ; has augmented by at least a third the surplus which our manufacturers can produce beyond domestic needs for sale abroad. Prolonging without necessity Our war-tariff taxes on raw materials, we have been undersold and excluded from foreign markets by nations not taxing raw materials; Despite their low-j riced, inferior labor andthe high percentage of labor-cost therefore included in their product, our taxed raw materials an.dl their free raw mate- ■ rials -have protected the so-called “pauper labor" of Europe against American competition. | Our increasing capacity to produce an indusI trial surplusage has'been accompanied by war taxation exactly suited to prevent the stile of that surplusage in foreign markets. Out oi our actual abundance this war taxation has forged the instrument of our industrial and commercial mutilation. Defeating our manufacturers in their endeavor to compete abroad with the manufacturers of untaxed raw materials, it has set them on a ferocious competition at cutthroat prices in our own home market, to which they qre shut up, and for which their producing powers are increasing superabundantly. Long periods of glut aud so-called overproduction have alternated with brief periods of I renewed activity and transient prosperity like tbe present. These prolonged war-tariff taxes, incompetent and brutal as a scheme ot revenue, fatal to the existence of our foreign market, and disorderly to our domestic trade, have in the last resort acted and reacted with most ruinous injury upon our wage-earners. As the most numerous part of our population, our wage-earners are, of course, the first, the last, and the most to bo affected by injurious laws. Every Government, by true statesmanship, will Watchfully regard their condition und interests. TAXES TO RETAIN.

Another proposal is to reduce taxation by cutting down the tax on wisky, tobacco, and beers, and removing the duty on sugar. Nobody pays a tax on tobacco except the consumers of tobacco. They are willing to pay for the luxury, and they ask no relief. Any probable reduction ot the tux on whisky would be more likely to increase the revenue than to diminish it. The price of sugar has fallen toon exceedingly cheap rate. Our own sugar crop Is so very small a part of the total amount of sugar we consume thatsugar ranks next to articles wholly produced abroad, like tea and coffee, in suitability for taxation, on the ground that its consumption is universal, that the tax is easily and cheaply collected, that the increased price p lid by tbe consumers is an unconsidered trifle, and that what is taken from the taxpayers goes into the taxpayers’ treasury, not into a few private bank accounts. •; Like the casting away of the revenue from coffee and tea in 1872, the removal of the tax on sugar, which gives us our easiest and next to largest single item of revenue ($’>1,778,948), at an annual cost of less than ninety cents per head, is ■now-pressed forward to avert tire-repeal of other taxes which are desired to operate an incidental and private benefit by enhanced prices to the domestic consumers of a large domestic product. These incidental and private benefits in fact are subject to all the deductions I have already mentioned, und are subject to the chief deduction that the endeavor to make our tax laws exclude foreign competition in our home markets promotes the success of that competition, besides effectually preventing the sale of our surplus product, our. labor product, in foreign markets. But the incidental benefit of the sugar tax to our cane-sugar producers, who are under the harrow of, bCet-sugar competition and German bounties, which have driven them to improved processes and already lowered the price of sugar more than the removal of the whole tax, is not got by excluding foreign sugar, for the groat bulk of our sweetening comes from climates more tropical than ours. Nor does it prevent our sales in foreign markets of imported sugars refined and increased in value by the process of American labor. DUTIES BE REMITTED.The taxes to be first remitted are those which prevent or hinder the sale of our surplus products in foreign markets. Their removal will set capital in‘motion by the promise of better returns, enlarge the steady employment and increase the annual income of many thousand wage-earners, whose prosperity will diffuse prosperity. These taxes are the duties on raw materials, and the most widely injurious of them is tbe tax upon raw wool. Hut the income of all the wage-earners in the United States can be at once enlarged effectively, certainly, permanently, by reducing the cost to them of the great necessities of life. Our wartariff taxes increase needlessly the cost of clothing, shelter, food to every family. Every wage-earner’s expense, every taxpayer’s expense, for the clothing of himself and his family is nearly doubted, at least in the Northern, Middle, and Western States, by taxation which can now be remitted, yet leave the Treasury a sufficient revenue. The duty on raw wool procured for the Treasury last year only $5,126,108. The cost of woolen clothing lor our 59,000,030 people was thereby and otherwise enhanced many times more than 90 cents a head, the only cost of our $51,778,948 revenue from sugar. Moreover, any tax on raw wool imported will always make domestic woolraising a bad business ; for. in our dry climates, some varieties of weol required by the manufacturer are not produced. The tax prevents our manufacturers from competing in foreign markets with all manufacturers who can Luy untaxed wool. The tax prevents our manufacture and exjiort of competing woolens that require the use or admixture of non-American wools, and so restricts the home demand, and the growth of the home demand, for domestic wool —thus making the export of our domestic woolens iuil>ossible, yet involving the enhanced price of .foreign and domestic woolens. This pettv tax of 8-,126,108 on raw wool assists in nearly doubling the actual cost of their clothing to the’ American people, with no real and no incidental benefit to anybody except the foreign manufacturer. WOOL SHOULD BE ON THE FREE LIST,

T respectfully recommend to Congress that they confer upon the wage-earners of the United States the boon of untaxed clothing, and in order thereto, the immediate passage of an act simply and solely placing raw wool upon the free list. Of course, a repeal of the duty on raw wool should be followed by, but need not wait for, a compensating adjustment of the duties on manufactured woolens, whilst our manufacturers are learning the lesson that, with the highest paid and most efficient labor in the world, with the most skilled management and the best inventiVe appliances, they need fear no competition from any rivals in the world, in home or foreign markets, so long as they can buy their wools free, of every kind. But the common da ly clothing of the American people need not be taxed ; therefore, it ought not to be taxed : to free th; ir c.othing of taxes will finally reduce, by half, their -expense for one of the three great necessities of life, and thus enlarge honestly and justly the income of every wageearner in the United States. But this reduction of unnecessary and injurious taxation is not enough, and will operate siowly in diminishing revenue. Last year’s import tax on raw wo >1 is little more than the mere gowth last year of our taxes from whisky, tobacco and beer. To make wool free of tax may actually work a larger loss of revenue by enabling our woolen manufacturers to undersell at a profit the foreign imjxnters who brought in last year $40,536,509 worth of manufactures of wool, from which we got a tax of $27,278,528. To say nothing of other taxes upen raw materials, there are several hundred aiticles among the 4,1 2 articles that we tax which ought at once to be swept off the tax list into the free list—petty, vexatious, needless taxes, mdeh enlarging the cost of collecting the revenues from imports. I shall at an early day prepare and sunmit to Congress a supplementary report on the collection of duties. Daniel Manning, - Secretary of the Treasury.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

Recommendations of Attorney General Garland In HU Annual Report. The annual r» port of Attorney General Garland contains a detailed statement of the busineee of the Department of Just ce for the last fiscal year, together with statistics of crime against the United States. The Attorney General brieflv urges the importance of legislation on the following maters, the necessity for which was pointed out in his last annual report : Fees for marshals in territories, pay of deputy marshals, revision of the feeb Jl. substitution of I seal for calendar year, chief supervisors of elections, protection to civil officers and witnes.-es, fees of witnesses and jurors in territories, and a reorganization of the jury systsem in the District of Columbia. He devotes a chapter to the subject of Unitea States prisoners and the general question of Convict labor, and advocates the building of a government penitentiary and reformatory at B an earl v day, and recommends the appointment of a commission to inquire into the matter. He also renews the recommendation that authority be given the Judges of United States Courts to sentence in their discretion prisoners convicted of first offenses to such reformatories or graded prisons as the Attorney General may select. He also urges the necessity of additional United States jails, and mentions Atlanta, Ga., and Louisville, Ky., as cities where 'such buildings are much needed. The number of United States prisoners in custody June 30, ISSG, was 5,929. Supplementary legislation respecting the restoration of court records is strongly urged by the Attorney General as necessary for the preservation of records of great value. 'lt is impossible, he says, to overestimate the necessity that exists for a change in the judicial system to meet the constantly increasing business of the country, and he urges that something be done to remedy the evils complained of on all sides.

THE TREASURY.

Business of the United States Treasurer’s Office During the Last Fiscal Year. From the annual report of tbe United States Treasurer it appears that tbe net receipts ot the Government during the year ended ijune 30' were $336,439,727, and the net expenditures 9242,483,138. The excess of revenue over expenditure was $93,956,589. The net receipts for the last fiscal year over those of 18S5 are $30,492,817. Tbe receipts on account ot the Postotlipe Department, not included in the above statement, amounted to $52,997,135, an increase of $5,687,399 over those of tbe preceding year; the expenditures iucreased from $50,326,314 in 1885 to $50,682,585 in Jaß<>, or $356,271. Bonds of the United States amounting to $44,531,350 were redeemed and applied to tbe sinking fund. Coupons from bonds of the United States amounting t057,557,412 were paid by the assistant treasurers. Interest amounting to $42,498,687 was paid on registered bonds of the United States, including the bonds issued to the various Pacific railroad companies. Coui>ons from 3,65 per cent, bonds of the District of Columbia'amounting to $105,441 and registered interest amounting to $416,448 were paid. Of bonds held in trust for national banks $61,012,400 were withdrawn, of which amount $56,925,310 was held to secure circulation, and 5',117,100 was Lol l ns security for deposits ot public moneys. The bondsdejiosited to replace those withdrawn on account of circulation amounted to $20,754,900, and on account ot deposits to $6,170,000, a total decrease of $34,117,500. The total movement of bonds held for national banks was $87,'»67,300. Worn and mutilated United States notes amounting to $61,000,000 were redeemed during tbe year. The issue of silver certificates was $4,800,000, and $28,523,971 were redeemed. Gold certificates amounting to $10,183,895 were redeemed. The unavailable funds of the Treasury June 30,1886, were $29,521,397, a decrease of $3,946 from last year. The balance in the Treasury nt the close of the year ended Sept. 30, 1386, was $100,055,775, an increase over that of 188.5 of $16,815,636. The available balance was $72,913,141, against $58,922 191 last year, an increase of $13,91,0,919. The Treasurer suggests that tho large sums held by mints and assay offices be placed in the actual custody ot the Treasury, and the duties of the mint officers be confined to tbe assaying and coinage of the bullion placed in their charge. On the subject of altering tbe present SubTreasury system, as rendered necessary by the financial changes in the country, the Treasurer says : “With the extinction of 3 per cent, bonds which must take place during tbe ensuing fiscal year, the only bonds available for tbe purposes of tbe sinking fund will be 4'._. and 4 per cent, bonds. These are now selling at a price which averages very little more than 2 per cent, per annum to the purchaser upon the cost, and it may fairly be assumed that the'rate of 2 per cent, is the maximum rate to be earned during the life of these bonds. At tbe present cost of tbe collection of the revenue of tbe country, say $3.70 per SIOO, the loss on the existing sinking fund, say $45,000,000 per annum, will be $765,000 annually, assuming 2 per cent, as the best rate which the bonds can earn. “Without discussing the consequent possible derangement of our existing financial system, if the purchases for the sinking fund are to be maintained at their present "figures, it will be found to be impracticable to make these purchases at such times and in such manner us to relieve the money market in times of financial distress. As these derangements happen almost invariably at the time of the moving ol the crops of the country, this statement is equivalent to saying that every productive interest in the country must pay toll to foreign buyers, through the lower range of prices which obtain at such times, because of the fact ;bal our arrangements for collecting and disbursirij our revenues are so defective as to need an artificial and violent remedy in order to place ir active circulation the moneys withdrawn from the business of the country.’’ The total amount of United States notes outstanding is $346,681,016. The amount of silvei certificates nominally outstanding at the close of the fiscal year was $115,977,675, of whict amount the Treasury held $27,831,450, lenviiij $88,116,225 in actual circulation, a decrease o: $13,114,7-21 during the year. This amount hai since been added to by the demands of busi ness, so that the amount in circulation Nov. 31 was $105,519,817. There is now in circulatior $61,761,448 in silver dollars.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

Synopsis of the Annual Report o) Secretary Lamar. The annual report of the Secretary of the Interior commences with a resume of operations in the Indian Bureau. Out of an estimated Indian population of 260,003, less than JOO have been in revolt during the year; the average school attendance is about sixteen hundred greater than ever before, and there bus been a general improvement in their moral and industrial condition. The Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation, in the Indian Territory, furnishes a striking illustration of this improvement. Of these Indians Secretary Lamar says: “There has been an increase of over 1,500 acres in cultivation ; farms have been fenced by Indians. who have built for this purpose 106 miles of fencing. Tlmy Have cut andput trp tor winter use more than 400 tons of hay ; have hauled -over 1,(100,000 pounds of freight from the railroad to the agency, and have over 15(1 more of their children in schools. Nearly all of the ‘ squaw men ’ on this reservation have become legally married to their Indian wives, in conformity to the requirements of this department. " The report says that, while the work of elevating the race is bearing fruit, there must be radical changes ig our Im ian policy’ before they can bo incorporated into our political and social systems as citizens In tins' connection the Secretary reconmi elide passage of the bill for the appointment of a commission to inspect and report on Indian affairs, which is now before Congress. During the year about eight hundred Indians have received title to laud allotments, and a number have taken up homesteads. Congress is asked to pass a geueral law regulating the allotment in severalty of lands to Indians. The Secretary also recommends that the army appropriation act be mortified so that army officers may purchase grain, hay, and other produce from Indians near the posts. The Secretary considers it desirable that a law be enacted authorizing Indians to pasture cattle on their reservations at a reasonable compensation for the benefit of the trib?. Of the Indian Territory the Secretary Bays: “It is certainly of the greatest importance, and no less for the interest of the Indians themselves than for the people of the adjoining States, that the vast area of country should have extended over it, as early as may be practicable, the universal laws of the land, and its large population and immense property interests be brought under the influence and oplßration of those laws as administered by the judicial establishment of our country, so that lawlessness may be punished, and peace and good arder preserved through and by the courts of justice, and not by the agency of the executive departments, aided by the military force of the Government ” - ’ - ■ Secretary Lamar recommends that the salary of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs be increased from 84,009 to $5,000 per year. The expenses of tire Indian Bureau-tor the fiscal year were $5,190,751. i The total area of public lands disposed of during the year was 21,614,419 acres, for which $9,031,081 was received. The Secretary renews his recommendation that the minimum price lor sales of land at private cash entry be increased, in order to prevent the increase of large tracts in the hands of a few individuals. Me also recommends the establishment of a date after which claims founded on alleged Mexican land grants be barred from presentation. The recommendations contained in the last report, that the desert-laud laws be modified, and that the timber-culture act be repealed, are renewed. Legislation for husbanding the timber resources of the country is urged. Considerable space is given to the nn, lawful inclosure of public lands by cattle-men. The Secretary says in this connection : “Whatever appliances, however, the law has placed in the hands of the executive will hereafter be invoked, it necessary, to put a final end to thia enormous plundering of the public domain.*

No Loss Without Some Gain.

“Doctah, are cigarettes injurious?” asked a dudelet of a gruff old doctor. “To whom, the smoker or the community, sir?” ~ “I don’t—ah—see the distinction.” “Yon don’t! Well, so long as they are smoked only by such, effeminate whippersnappers as yourself, while they may be suicidal to the smoker, perhaps it may be an open question whether they are injurious to the commqnitv at large. ” : “Um—ah! Good-day, Doctah.”— Chicago Ledger. Closing words—“ Shut up.”