Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1888 — Page 2

Aptir'AiJSil■' " f? ’V 7 ’ SPRING FASHIONS. They wy bright red and purple will be the '•latest thiof." ~ And went hy all the tulips in garden-hsd* this •Wind. • The hySciutba and crocuses prefer muehrpeler shades; The daffodils weir jellow—the color seldom fades. Of course, for small field-blooming the styles fare not so bright. The daisies still continue to drees In simple white; And clovers wear last season’s shades —all honor to their pluck— With now and then an extra leaf to bring the finder lock. St. Nicholas.

COUSIN DOLBY’S MISTAKE

“It’s this making a fellow marry in spite of himself that I don't like. Vi hy the deuce couldn’t I be allowed the privilege of choosing for- myself? Uncle George saying, she might fancy me is sheer nonsense. / ~ ‘ : “Oh, dear, t know I'll V gobbled up! What are you laughing at, Lu?’“Did I laugh? I beg pardon, then, Cousin Dolby. I really wasn’t aware of it. I’m such a giggler, you know.” “You say she was as homely as a stone wall the last time you saw her?” “Yes, but that was when we left school, nearly four years ago. She may have grown handsome since then.” “Not likely. I wish George would marry her himself, as he feels so deeply interested in the young orphan, as he calls her. He is only eight years my senior, but to hear him advise me one would take him to l>e my grandfather.” “You"are forgetting yourself, my dear Dolby. What do you suppose would ever beeome of you if Uncle George married? Fancy those shapely, delicate hands earning your daily bread and butter, or the bread without — “For heaven’s sake Lu, do hush!” and Mr. Adolphus Ilaughton sank back quite overcome {ri the bare idea of earning his own bread and butter. There was a merry twinkle in Lu Linden’s clear, blue eyes, as she pretended not to notice the look of dismay that settled on the face of her elegant, easy, conceited cousin; and she continued: “I often wonder, though, why George doesn’t marry. He is so handsome, so charming; but, I suppose, like all you spoiled, curly-headed darlings, he is too hard to be suited. Eh, Dolby? “No, we are not hard to be suited, my dear Lu; but we are compassionate. It is nothing more nor less than our tenderheartedness that prevents our marrying.” “Tender-heartedness!” and Lu opened her eyes as big as two saucers. “Of course, my dear, that is the word. Now, suppose I was brute enough to marry—even the frightful Miss Neville —what would the rest ot your sex do? Poor dears—there isn’t one of them, if their secret thoughts were made known, but expects to write herself Mrs. Adolphus Haughton some day. So you see, my little coz, your spoiled darlings have too much heart to disappoint so many for the sake of one." “Well, upon my word! Did you say all that yourself, Dolby, or have my ears deceived me? I think, sir, if you had left your conceit in the city there would be nothing here of you to present to Miss Neville to-day.” “Miss Neville be hanged! Always Miss Neville!” and Adolphus started up -from hiseasy poatiettr— u Do you reahythinh she ls comihg t6-day, Lu?’ ’ “Easy, my dear cousin; so much force is not beeoming. You’ll spoil vour style if you are not careful. Bertha is surely coming to-day. She ought to have been here two hours ago —we expected her bv the early train.” '“Oh, how I shall suffer!” “Don’t be alarmed, Dolby; I really believe she won’t have you.” ' “Now, Lu, don’t be putting false hopes into my head. I know there is no such blessing in store for me. By Jove! if I wasn’t afraid of offending George I wouldn’t see her at all. I’m his heir, you know, and bv the wav, Lu, it would be a deucedly bad job for me if lie took it into his head to get married. There’s no danger, though—not the the slightest. Ge&rge is just like me,"too sensible to be caught by the thousand-and-one of your sex. Bus, oh, how I hate your homely-as-stone-wall women! Why,even your pink and white face is preferable to that sort of thing, Lu.” “You good-for-nothing ” “Quarreling again, for recreation’s sake, I suppose,” interrupted the pleasant voice of George Haughton, Dolby’s handsome young uncle, as he stepped out on followed hy a tall, graceful figure. “Oh, Bertha!” exclaimed Lu, and the next moment the graceful figure was clasped in Lu’s embrace. YV,'.’. 7 : “Oh, you darling! When did you arrive?—Why didn’t you tell me you were here?” exclaimed Lu in a breath. “I arrived about an hour since; you had just gone for a walk, so I thought I would surprise you, dear.” “Miss Neville,” said George Haughton as soon as the hugging process was over, “allow me to present to your notice and favor my nephew, Mr. Adolphus Haughton.” month pßased away,-and for the life of him Dolby could not, in all that time, - recover his easy, flippant airthat deserted him so shamefully when he first laid eyes on Miss Neville. Gj He is sitting in his old position on the balcony and has juit Thrown away huT Dolby can’t smoke. In fact, Dolby

I can’t do anything when alone hut sit ! listening for the sound of a gentle foot-j ! »tep. - .'■v-'*. ' I A little hand is laid upon his shoulder.] He looke up, but lo! instanter his beamj ing countenance is black as midnight. Instead of the bewitching face of I Bertha Neville he encounters the fair ] face and laughing blue eyes of his cousin Lu. . Adolphus pulled his blode moustache savagely. Somehow, of late, he would j rather stand face to face with his Satanic j majesty than his unmerciful cousin, j- - -“Stop tliat, tlris instant, sir! t)o you I t hink I can stand here and see you pluck the best feature from your face? Why, mv dear Dolby, if you keep on with that spasmodic twitch much longer we will have to get a microscope to ascertain if ever you cultivated any hair on vour upper lip.” x “I)o go avvav, Lu, or you’ll drive me crazy.” “Now, Dolby, that is very unkind. I came out here to do you a service. I have a secret to tell you.” “Keep your secrets to yourself, Lu; I don’t want to hear them. Where’s Miss Neville?” “I’m not Miss Neville’s keeper, sir; but if you want to know where she is so badly, I’ll tell you. She has gone out on particular business with George. I really believe the girl is half in love with him. How would' Bertha do for aunt, Dolby? But the secret —I was nearly •forgetting it. Do you remember the morning of Bertha’s arrival? We Were sitting out here just as we are now.” “Yes, I remember.” “Well, what do you think, Dolby. She was in the parlor alt the time we were talking, and overheard every word we said?” —— - “You don’t mean it, Lu?” “I do mean it, Dolby. She told me all about it the other day, and told me not to mention it. I wouldn’t, either, but for the cousinly interest I take in you. I thought it no more than right to tell you the way you could remove the bad impression you made. Only for George Bhe would have gone home at once. It was dreadful, when you. come to think of it. You remember you said ‘Miss Neville be hanged!’ and all that sort of thing.” “No wonder I did, Lu. What made you tell me she was as homely as a stone wall?” “Well, how did I know you admired a complexion couleur de creme and snapping eyes?” -“How you talk, Lu! You imagine your pink and white beauty cannot be surpassed. - In comparison, my dear, you are to Miss Neville as a tallow candle is to the sun. “She is the most perfectly beautiful woman I have ever seen, and I don’t mind telling you, that I am in lovehead and heels in love, as you express it—and, to show you I am in downright earnest, I will propose to Bertha Neville to-night and introduce you to your intended cousin-in-law in the morning.” “But supposing she wouldn’t have you, Dolby?” said Lu, looking the picture of innocence. “We will suppose nothing of the kind, Miss Linden. You are forgetting that Bertha Neville lias been in my society for the past month, and I have yet to know the woman who could refuse me after making mvself agreeable that length of time,” and Adolphus elevated his feet upon the railing, leaned back in hia chair, and twirled his mustache in a manner that even the fastidious Lu could find no fault with. “Ah, here 4hey come now!” said Lu, as the handsome carriage- rolled up the avenue. - ■ Handsome George Haughton stepped out and assisted Bertha, looking radiant and happy, to alight. She took his arm and they ascended the steps ■■ Dolby, like a dutiful nephew, scowled at his uncle. “My dear nephew and niece—come here this instant, Lu. What are you running away for? Allow me me to introduce to you your new aunt, Mrs, George Haughton.” *

Worry, not Work.

Some people get through an enormous amount of work, and seem all tjie-better for it. We know a doctor seldom gets more than four hours sleep out of twenty-four. He says that it is not tliat he couldn’t do with more, but it is as much as he can get. Many busy men are constantly at work of some kind or the other from eight in the morning till past twelve at night. Some, of course, break down, but others can do this year after year, apparently without any detriment to their health. Instances are known of professional men who have not slept for five days together, and who have not been in bed. for three weeks at a time. These sound almost like travelers’ tales, but they are true, although, of course, they are exceptional cases. It is’ astonishing what interest and energy will do in enabling a man to dispense with rest It has been said that the twenty-four hours might be advantageously divided into three equal parts—eight hours for sleep, eight for meals, exercise, recreation, etc.,' and eight hours for mental work. lew men really require more than .eight hams! sleep, but the majority of us have to do considerably more than eight hours’ work in the day. It not so much that a man wishes' for thelPSlfk as that it is forced upon him. He perhaps is the only person who can perform a certain duty, and

i when, as is often the cake, it is a question of life and death, it is almost impossible to refuse. Many peome can never force themselves to do more than a certain j amount of mental work; they get nervous and headachy, and then it is all over j with them. Forced work, as a role, i tells on a man much more rapidly than purely voluntary work, for in the former case it is usually associated with j anxiety. Real, overwork gives rise to ' loss of memory; a sense of fatigue, and particularly about-the head, poorness of appetite, lowness of spirits, and other sunilar symptoms. It is worry that injures more than real work, care killed the cat.

School Teaching in Georgia.

Charleston News anfi Courier. The applicant was a man of about 40,, with a cheap cast of features and a body half as broad as long. He said he didn't claim to know all—wasn’tagraduate,etc., but he did know enough to teach them heathens down at Shake Rag, ’cause he’d teached tliar four years, and they didn’t know nuthin’ yit. The official saijl he’d ask a few primary questions, and' began with: “What is a letter?” “A thing crooked sometimes and sometimes ’tain’t.” • “What is a syllable?” “Hit’s a word split in two.” “How many parts of. speech?” “Three—coarse, fine and superfine.”

“What’s a verb?” “Hit’s suthin’ that tackles onto suthin’, or shows that suthin’ tackles onto hit.” “What is reading?” “Hit’s talking from a book.” “How do you teach reading?” “Sometimes by coaxin’ and sometimes by a hoard.” “What is geography?” “Hain’t no classes in that.” “But yon might have. How would you teach it?” - “By askin’ ’em questions.” , “What are the fundamental rules of arithmetic?” “Funda what?” “Fundamental rules.” “Don’t know him.” “I had no reference to an individual. I meant the principal rules of arithmetic.” “You mean the way how?” “Yes.” “Can’t jis’ remember.”

This, of course, is an exceptional subject of ignorance, but the public school ■teachers in the Georgia backwoods are not proverbial for very much learning. I n OVA oi*A PAtnA OfAAn Ar\ ICI fl AitJL 1 it? 11? ill L otjHlc ' gyUtt SLui/viSj UU \\ C \ clj and this county has two or three of a higher grade.

Miss Willard's Eloquence.

Indianapolis News, The speaker of the evening who was to receive the greatest ovation and to deliver the most noteworthy address at the Prohibition convention’s memorial meeting of the “Blue and Gray,” was introduced in the person of Miss "Willard. “Our platform in a nutshell’ she said, “is no saloon in politics or law; no sectionalism in law or politics; no sex in citizenship. There are two other parties; big*but not great; multitudinous, not masterful. Their tissue is adipose not mascular; the issues of the one are made literally ‘out of whole cloth,’ of all wool tarifl warranted to wash in yet one more campaign, and the ensanguined shirt warranted never to be washed at all. Those of the other are spoils and Bourbonism. -They will soon rally their respective claims to their stereotyped, old-fashioned conventions in Chicago and St. Louis, prepared to fight, bleed antFdie for their country—and its offices —once more. Not a woman will be in their delegation. Oh, no!. They might displace some man. The women, who uniformed their sons in Southern gray, and said, like the Spartan mother of old Come ye as conquerors, 'or come ye no more,’ are here to-night with those other women, who belted Northern swords upon their boys in blue, with swords as prtt iTesS aiid brave. The women who" embroidered stars and stripes upon the blessed flag that symbolized their love and their faith, to-day have only gentle words for those who decked their “bonny flag of stars and bars” with tenderness as true arid faith as fervent. The greatest party seats these women side by side to-night, and we all wear our sunny badge of peace above the hearts that hate no more, while we clasp hands in a compact, never to be broken, and solemnly declare, before high Heaveri, onr equal hatred of the rum power and our equal loyalty to God and home and native land.”

Women are Growing Larger.

A New York dressmaker gave some interesting data the other day in support of the theorv that American women are growing larger and better formed. The proof came from the order book kept by her mother and herself, and covering a period of some forty years, in which the height and form of women were duly tabulated as to the fraction of an inch. According to these veracious statistics, the most a girl’s waist used to ) measure in 1859 was twenty inches, the average being eighteen, and bust and shoulder measures were to match. Now girl’s of the same age and height as then will average twentv-three Inches at least around the waist, while taller girls, say five feet seven inches, will measure up to twenty-five and twenty-six inch waists, -andihere are plentynorallasliamedof waists much larger, while height and other measurements are in proportion

FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

Mr. Cnrtia S*lf-Conclemned, N. V. Tribune. Mr. Curtis ought to realize how his fine oration at Gettysburg condemns his conduct. He knows, it appears, however, how vital and how terrible is the danger that respect and love for free institutions may be undermined by that “systematic,fraud or violation or suppression of votes” winch elected the candidate supported by Mr. Curtis in 1884, and upon which that candidate, still supported by Mr. Curtis, now entirely relics lor success this year; It is not possible for the orator to plead ignorance. He knows that Mr. Cleveland’s supporters count upon the electoral votes of every Southern State, and mean to carry part of them by the crimes which he condemns. He knows that the selection of Mr. Barnum, as manager of Mr. Cleveland’s campaign, means deliberate resort to crime and corruption in order to secure the votes of the Southern States. He cannot pretend that ahy hope of Mr. Cleveland’s election, animates him any longer for he has sadly confessed that the wholesale disregard for the law; has brought it into contempt, and that the President himself, finding his party opposed to reform, has not resisted the party. But one exeure is left for supporting the candidate of those who suppress votes and stuff ballot-boxes and forgiet returns. Mr. Curtis is willing to aid these infamous crimes solely for the purpose of promoting free trade. It is not for others, but for Mr. Curtis himself guided by his own conscience,to determine whether he has any right to seek an economic change which he desires at such cost. To others it seems that a thoroughly loyal citizen of a free country ought to* declare that he would have no part in obtaining a fraudulent and crime-stained victory for a change of tariff, however much that change may seem to him desirable. Genuine loyalty might say, “no honest decision of the people, in favor of a great change of National policy, can be reached so long as the votes of* several great States are turned by crimes against free suffrage. No decision that is not honest, no decision that is not regarded by the people as honest, can command respect or prove lasting. Better defeat to-dav, even for the cause of free trade, than triumph by fraud and crime, which will inevitably brand the cause itself with the infamy of the fraud and crimes perpetrated for its sake.” Rightly Mr. Curtis says this is not a local question. Rightly he declares that Pennsylvania and New York must have a deep and intense interest in the freedom and integrity of the suffrage in other States, when crime threatens to make laws for the whole Union. Eloquently he urges that public opinion in other States must make itself felt in the States where crime and suppression of free suffrage exist. But in no other way can public opinion elsewhere make itself felt effectively except by defeating the party and the candidate supported by fraud and crime. Mr. Curtis, instead of doing what he ean to make Democratic criminals feel the disapproval of decent citizens, proposes to help the party of crime, to aid the party which relies upon Higgins and Thomas, Gorman and Barnum, for its success, and to re-elect the President who succeeded four years ago by crimes against free suffrage. His practice and his eloquent professions —what a contrast! . Ah, Mr. Curtis, your voice rises to a tone ol manhood worthy of your better self only when you condemn the systemactic practices of the party you support. In helping that party Mr. Curtis buries all that is noblest and worthiest in his own history and in his manhood. He tears up and tramples upon his own best and worthiest addresses, and even his Gettysburg oration is trodden into the mire by the feet of the orator who supports Grover Cleveland, the candidate of organized fraud. Tarlff KedUces Cost. Wnn p a, Kaanedg. But the question is often scornfully asked, “If a tariff reduces the prices of commodities why do our home manufacturers always favor a tariff? Do they not favor protection oh the theory that it enables them to sell for higher prices?” Not at all. Manufacturers learn all about the effect of the. tariff quite as quickly as any other class of people. They know that a tariff.will, in the end, result in cheapening their products; but they know, too, that what they lose by lower prices they make up, and more than make up, by increased sales when foreign importations are' retarded or shut out, and they have a steady and reliable demand for their goods. They have learned that low prices increases consumption and bring many customers. The furnace oWner has learned that lie can sell more iron when it is cheap, and that he can make more by selling 100,000 tons of iron at a profit of $1 per ton lhan he can by selling 25,000 tons at a profit of $3 per ton. It is not so much a big price the American manufacturer wants as a steady and reliable market,in which he can sell for a small profit, and this the tariff gives him. At any rate our manufacturers have learned from experience that they can buy commodities for less under a protective than under’a free trade policy; and if the home manufacturer and the consumer are both benefitted by the tariff who can be damaged by it but the foreign manufacturer?

What the Tariff Ha* Done, Hon. P. S. Kennedy. In spite of strikes and an occasional glut in the markets our manufacturing industries have made very rapid advancement in the last twenty years. We are now the foremost maunfacturing nation of the earth, and through the help of Protection we intend to remain such. In 1880 we produced and sold $850,000,000 more of manufactures than England herself, a nation which only a few vears ago affected a contempt for our competition. We not only excel Great Britain in the amount of manufactures but many of our goods are now sent to the very'doors of the English manufacturers and sold in competition with manufactures there. In 1885 we sent abroad and sold over $117,000,000 worth of manufactures, 27 per cent, of which, or ow fSt.fiOOyOOO- worth,-. were sold in England and Ireland. These facts are sadlv out of harmony with Mr. Carlisle’s statement that on account of -theJtariff we are not able to compete with British nf the world. If we can go into the cities of that country and sell $31,000,000

worth of good in one year it certainly shows that we are not only able to compete with her in some branches of manufactures in the general markets of the world but in her own home markets. It is a well-known fact that our manufacturers of edge tools find a market for many of their products in all the principal cities of England, and that our foreign sales of manufactures are, year by year, rapidly increasing.

Increase Under Protection. Hon.,P. 8. Kennedy, The increase in Indiana corn from 1850 to 1800 was, in round numbers, two hundred and forty-six million bushels, whereas the increase from 1870 to 1880 was more than nine*hundred and nine-ty-three million bushels. The increase in the number of bushels of wheat from 1850 to 1860 Was seventytwo million, whereas the increase from 1870 to 1880 was nearly one hundred and seventy-two million bushels. The increase in the number of pounds of wool from 1850 to 1860 was nearly eighty million, whereas the increase from 1870 to 1880 was more than fifty-five million pounds. The increase in hay from 1850 to 1860 was a little more than five million tons, whereas the increase from 1870 to 1880 was nearly eight million tons. The increase in the number of horses from 1850 to 1860 was less than two million, whereas the increase from 1870 to 1880 was more than three million. The increase in the number of milch cows from 1850 to 1860 was a little over two million, whereas the increase from 1870 to 1880 was something over three million five hundred thousand. The increase in the number of cattle from 1850 to 1860 was five million, whereas the increase from 1870 to 1880 was nearly nine million. The increase in the number of sheep from 1850 to 1860 was three million, whereas the increase from 1870 to 1880 was nearly seven million. The increase in the number of hogs from 1850 to 1860 was three million, whereas theincrease from 1870 to 1880 was over twenty-two million. The increase in the number of pounds of butter from 1850 to 1860 was one hundred and forty-three million, whereas the increase from 1870 to 1880 was more than two hundred and sixty three millions ■.. . . ■ - .■

The R publican Patty and Temperance. By a I’iohibitionist. On the 20th of last December a meeting of leading Republicans from every part of the State was held at Indianapolis, when it was again declared to be the unalterable purpose of the Republican party to oppose the traffic and to favor the passage of laws permitting the people to prohibit the traffic. Such is the attitude of the Republican party in this campaign. Temperance men should study the record well, and then determine whether it is wise to break away from a party that has done so much for the cause of temperance and stands pledged to do still more. It is not necassary in t his connection to argue whether total prohibition could be made effective or not, even if we had a law to that effect. If I you are honestly in favor of prohibition, lean you get it sooner by a third party movement, or by*sustaining the party that has always stood the friend of your cause, although differing as to the methods to be pursued? There are thousands of Republicans who are not prohibitionists. They are just as honest in their convictions as you are in yours. They are willing to lend their aid in throwing around the traffic all the restraints possible short of actual prohibition. Is it not better to unite with them and scotch the serpent if you can not kill it! The time will come when prohibition will be obtained, but it will be through the help of the Republican party. It certainly will not come through the Democrats. They are joined to the traffic bv bands which can not be broken. With the Republicans in power the people have" a solemn pledge and one that will not be broken, that a law shall be enacted giving the people in the several localities the right to pass upon the traffic and forbid it, if they see fit, or hamper it in other ways. This may fall Short of what some desire, but is it not better to take that and then labor for the other than to get nothing? Is not that the part of wisdom? Is it not how you would act in other matters? If your calculations were that it would require ten cords of wood to keep your family warm during the winter, would you refuse to buy any because you were not able to get the whole ten cords at once? Would you not rather buy what you could, and use it as long as it would last, and do your utmost to get the rest? Act in this matter in -the same enlightened spirit^ What the Republican Party Has Done; Hon. Charles L. Holstein. It saved and regenerated the nation. It restored its supremacy and sovereignty iiver every inch of our vast national domain. It lifted our flag from the dust, where treason had trampled it, and taised it high in the heavens, where it floats proudly to-day with no star lost from its azure field, the sign and the symbol of the greatest “and freest nation on earth. In the hot flame and white heat of war it melted the chains and shackles of 4,000,000 of slaves, and made free men of them —every one! In the rich, red blood of its soldiery with sword and bayonet, it wrote in the Constitution of the United States the amendments which made our government for the the first time free in fact as 4Kell as in name—a government wherein, in truth, all men are equal and every man is free. In the direst emergency that ever came upon a people, it bravely faced national bankruptcy, brought upon us by Democratic malfeasance and misfeasance, and with a courage born of and «iistained by the loftiest patriotism, when hope itself seemed dead, it “smote the rock of the national resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. It touched the dead corpse of our pnhlic credit and it sprung upon its feet.”' -3 In the place of a miscellaneous and worthless currency, in the place of shinplasters and wildcat banks." it gave the country a financial system, the best ever vet devised by the wit of man, whereby onr paper money, for the first time in oul BiStory, is as ennent, uniform -anil universal as our language, and passes from Maine to Texas and from the

Atlantic to the Pacific without discount or question. It resumed specie payments and put even- paper dollar, every promise and obligation of the government, on par with gold. It originated and passed our Homestead laws, under whose beneficent provisions more than 1)00,000 freemen have already entered and settled, and now occupy and own upwards of 70,000,000 acres of the public lands, upon which there are to-day, living in their own homes, 3,000,000 of happy people.— Ever mindful and grateful to those who had borne the battle, , and their widows and orphans, it established a pension system, under which it paid out 11,000.000,000 in pensions, while at the same time it has provided magnificent homes for disabled soldiers at a cost of many millions more. By wise legislation it revived our proetrate industries, and has multiplied them an hundred fold. It championed labor and has opened new and innumerable avenues for its employment, and by precept and example, without ceasing, it has preached and taught its gospel according to the true faith, which believes the laborer is worthy of his hire. Under the administration of the Republican party our country has grown great—great in population, great in wealth, great in manufacturing, mining and agricultural industries; great in education and intelligence, and great in all good and great things. Its record is its highest eulogy. It was the boast of Caesar Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble. The Republican party found the Government weak arid falling like a house built upon the sand; it left it strong and enduring like a house built upon a rock. It found the nation in ruins, and left it restored, reconstructed and rebuilt on the true foundations of liberty, fraternity and equality, not for an age, but for all time—the model republic of the world.

How Farmers Have Been Helped toy Protection. Boston Journal. In an interesting letter published in the New York Herald in 1882, respecting the stock-raising of the country, the author introduced for comparison the following prices of farm produce and stock as found in a paper published in the interior of the State of New York in 1816 and the prices of the same at the present time: ~ Products. j 18 L6i 1882 Wheat was then from. . 25cto4;e (1 41 C0rn..;. 4., tOc Oats 15< 60c Eirgs', per dozen 5e 15c Barley, per bushel.. 2 t 800 Butter, per pound 5c to 12c 40c Obee e, per pound 3c to 6c 13c Cows, per head sl6 to S2O S2O to 3 00 Cattle, pert oke 125 to $45 JHO to |2f 0 Hay, per ton $3 10 *5 810 to S2O Straw, per ton 82 to $4 8 to sl6 Carriage bo'ses,ner span 8150 to S2OO 1500 tosl2oo cheep, per bead * 5c to 75< 81.50 10 250 Farm labor per month... $3 to ;8 sl2 to 825 Formerly, and, indeed, nearly to the date that American manufactures assumed an importance, the farmer was obliged to exchange his produce for store goods at very high prices, cash being almost out of the question. The follow* ing prices in 1816 and 1882 for a few manufactured goods and other merchandise purchased by the farmer indicate the great change in favor of the agricultural classes and other consumers during the interval. Articles. 1816. 1881 Cost of steel per pound < 17c 10c Sivw plate, per pound...- 40c 26c Nails, per potted ,».... 12%c 4c Broadcloth, per yard 816 84 Wool blankets, per pair *lO to 82c ?! to *lO Cotton cloth,per yard.... 30c to 50c 4c to 12c Calico,per yard 25c to 75e 4ctol6c Salt, per bushel...— That is to say, the average increase in the price of farm produce during the last sixty-six years has been from 300 to 400 per cent., while the average decrease of the price of manufactured goods during the same period has been from 20 to 90 per cent. All of which is due .to the introduction of diversified industries engaged in manufactures and fostered by a Protective tariff.

A Curious Custom at St. Ives.

New York Sun. One of the most curious customs ever heard of was that which was observed on Thursday in the parish church of St. Ives, Hants. On a table in the church at the chancel steps were placed six Bibles, and near them a box and three dice. Six boys and six girls, solemnly watched over by t£e vicar,the Rev.E. Tottenham, and a crowd of parishioriers, threw dice three times to see which shold have the Bibl e. Three went to the boys and three to the girls. The highest throw was made by the smallest girl, 37. This remarkable custom dates from 1678, when Dr. Robert Wylde bequeathed £so’ of which yearly Interest was to be' spent in buying' six' Bibles, not to cost more than seven shilling six pence each,to be cast for by dice on the communion table every year by six boys and six girls of the town. A piece of ground was bought with the money, and is now known as Bible Orchard. The legacy also provided for the payment of ten shillings each year to the vicar, not a very high price, for preaching a sermon commending the excellency, perfection, and divine authority of the Holy Scriptures. The will of the eccentric Doctor was exactly observed, and for more than two hundred years dice were regularly cast upon the (fommunion table. Lately a table erected on the chancel steps was substituted, the bishop of the diocese •having considered that the communion table was not for throwing dice. The vicar’s sermon this year was based upon the words: “From a child thou has known the Holy Scriptures.’”

They Were Very, Very Happy.

Bangor Commercial. - ~- They were lovers, and as they strolled through the park the future looked very-, bright and pleasant to them. “That is a dogwood tree, my love.” he said, touching it lightly with his aUajjb--—j “How do you know that is a dogwood tree. George, dear?” “I can tell by Its bark, my darling.” T Carl Schurz has planned to spend the summer in Germany, at the Villa Foresteck, with his two daughters, where he intends to revise his memoirs.