Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — Page 2

THE FAMILY STORY

the : Subjugation : of : ah : sing.

A woman may be mistress of herself niiilltn i liliu f>lli T ° '””***'*" Bmlt, beyond which no conception of heroism teaches. The model woman screams at * spider, and discusses the merits of ' wlml sleeves serenely while a priceless ▼noe goes crashing to the floor. Such is the standard of feminine courage, the iMt-rate by which a woman may be pleasured. Yet when not one piece of <Aiap but two pieces, and three, ahd four, fall, the standard becomes useieea. A woman is not epected to bear r® more came. There was a fifth crash In the kitchen. Mrs. Melville «6ppe4«te-thejnidst of telling Ritchie -of the Sirtb— tbatifiiehoTy paste, was i be struck off the Commissary list; she flapped and looked appealingly at Aleb .Ole. “Austin, can’t yon do something?" Austin gathered up his napkin, put bis hand on the table, and started to push back his chajr; then he sank down ‘again amd restored his napkin to its place ttn his knee. “If Igo in there aud be gets Impertinent. I’ll break his head —which would be bad for his head and, IncSdentally, for my official neck." “But it’s head or china.” “Well, there is plenty more china — and when that gives out the quartermaster has a new invoice of tinware." “But, seriously, Austin, there won t be a thing left for the general to eat off of. What are we going to do about itr T think the epidemic is over. There baa not been a dish broken that 1 know of In live minutes. You must be reasonable, and make due allowances for him, jCstty. It’s hot out there. It’s hot here, too. It’s hotter than blazes everywhere.” “1 think, my dear, you are bordering on profanity. Of course it’s hot. Within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, it baa never been even cool in Arizona in July. You really can’t expect the inspector general to bring ice. Mr. Ritchie, don't you think he ought to do something?” “I must respectfully decline to enter Into a family difference. You and Melville must settle the question between yourselves. Only let me suggest that If It comes to the actual breaking of beads. I'd take it out on Sing, and not ou one another.” • “There: Austin,” fairly screamed Mrs. Melville, jumping up, “there goes another: and yet you sit and laugh. Oh, how horrid you can be!” , “Sit down, Matty, and talk sense. Pappose I should go out there and attempt to reason with Sing. In the natural sequence of events it would come to pass that in his present humor he would be so ugly that I should feel obliged, as I aaid. to break his head. Apart from the distant consequences of that act, you can see that the near ones would be pretty bad. .You’d have to wash the breakfast dishes, and do the housework, hud also cook and serve the general's dinner. Therefore, the inadvisability of my reducing Sing’s head to. splinters is obvious, isn’t it?”

“I suppose so; but I do wish to goodness Mrg. Lawrence’s cook hadn’t got married.” . “So does she—the cook. I mean—since O’Haßeran came home drunk two nights ago. and thrashed her . He's been In Uie guard-house ever since, and I’m oat a good man. Shows what marriage loea. Before he was married, he didn’t heat his wife. However, it wouldn’t have made the slightest difference wbethershe had committed matrimony or not; the Lawrences would never kave had the general new: even a single member of the staff to dinner. She’s ■ever dined the paymaster, you know.” “I think it's top bad a. first lieutenant’s wife has to do it, and all the rest of the entertaining for the post.” “You are also the adjutant's wife, remember.” “Yes, of course. I wonder wliat's the matter with Sing, anyway ?” “That'sobvious—approaching guests,” obaefved Ritchie, stroking and curling kis unduly military mustachios, the mnstachios that have entwined and ensnared so many hearts in their silken meshes since then, in the whirl of Washington society. Ritchie was Mel■vUle’s second lieutenant at that time, and as ite wdfe not married, aud didn’t Dke the bachelor mess, he messed with kis senior and that young officer’s wife. “Why didn’t his cousin die, then?" "Perhaps he realizes that the dead -cousins funeral is a-title worn as a i. ethod of obtaining a leave.”

“I should think so; one died when the paymaster was coming to dinner the time before last, and another when the Indian agent waa here, and he polished off two In anticipation of the paymaster's last trip.” “That's not all, Austin,” pursued Mrs. Melville “Generally be* only slams when he has lost at faro the night before." In pursuance of his method of warfare, Sing precipitated a chopping-bowl hod knife to the floor, with a resulting N*lae that only the falling of those two homely utensils could possibly accomMelville bit his upper lip and clenched his flat. L. “I wonder if It would do any good for me to go out and speak him quietly?" suggested his wife. “Suppose you try it If he takes a carving-knife to you, call out and we'll come to your rescue; but unless it’s an Actual carving-knife, don’t get us mixed ■pin any domestic brawL" iMra, Melville patted her lnce-and-rlb-toaa breakfast-cap down securely, took a long breath, arose, walked resolntely to the kitchen door, opened it, passed Oreogh. and closed It behind her.

Mfrfrllle and Ritchie listened. MelrUte leaned back In Us pine Q. M. chair, >wUh his ear bent toward the kitchen; int ° u s r s Roar the droning-of Um. Melville's voice, then a pausk She commenced •nd paused again, and yet* thted time, fcer voice rising a little higher at the

last But Sing was worshiping the god of silence.

After the third venture Mrs. Melville came reluctantly out and. resumed her seat < “Well?” “Wen, I told him.” “Yes, we heard you. But what did be do?” "He didn’t do» anything—much. He just didn’t answer.” “Did lie turn his back on you?” “Well—yes.” “In short, he didn’t pay any attention to you?” “I suppose he didn’t” » Melvilie took a biscuit, and passed the on to Ritchie. “What the dickens is one going to do about It?” he asked of the opposite wall. “If we were only nearer some town or the railroad, we might get some one else But if fye let Sing go, it may be months before we can get anybody else. I wouldn’t mind cooking for you and Mr. Ritchie so much, though it’s pretty hard work, blit I actually can’t get up a dinner for the inspector-general and his staff, and serve the dinner, too.” A pan went clashing and clattering along the kitchen floor. Mrs. Melville sighed, Melville grew fiercer, and Ritchie devoted himself to the mackerel. The shattering of a china dish broke the stillness. ’That’s six,” breathed Mrs. Melville. This time Melville bit his under lip as he put his. napkin on the table beside Ids plate and pushed away his chair. - "Oh. Austin, you’d better not go,” venture!! liis wife, mildly. He made no answer, but strode to the door and passed through. Ritchie resumed the salt scraping, and Mrs. Melville grasped both arms of her chair and held her breath. At first there was only the rolling of Melville’s deep voice, then the sound of a sudden scuffle. Mrs. Melville gave a smothered scream and started up, “Sit down,” commanded Ritchie, pushing back his own chair, but keeping his seat. Mrs, Melville sat down. There whs only a momentary scraping of boots and Chinese slippers in the kitchen, then a series of thumps down the back steps and the scratching of gravel, also a low, broken murmur from the yard. k “I guess,” remarked Ritchie, calmly, “that I’ll go and see who’s underneath.”

Mrs. Melville did not atempt to move again, but she watched the second lieutenant anxiously. He strolled to the window and stood there, one hand in his trousers pocket, the other stroking the mustachios. “Well?” ventured the young woman, finallyRitdiie turned around and came back to his ehair. “I guess Melville’s doing about what he said he would—breaking Sing's head.” Weak cries like those of a litle child came up from the back-yard. "Is that Sing?” asked the lady of the house. "It doesn’t sound anwh like Melville.” At-the end of a couple of minutes Melville went past the window and in at the side door, and a litle later he came into the dining-room by the front entrance and resumed his seat The shuffle of Sing’s slippers could be heard in the kitchen. The adjutant, despite his smoothed hair and newly brushed coat, looked so ruffled as to temper that fils wife wisely refrained from speech. Ritchie was bolder. “Has the police party got to come around and pick up the pieces?” “No;.l gtteSs tie’s whole.” “Is he,a little more reasonable?” “Oh, he’s doing the lamb act now.” “Tell us about it, Austin,” begged Mrs. Melville. “I just told, him he'd got to stop his nonsense and behave himself. Of course I didn’t want to say anything ugly to mnke*him madder. He muttered that he’d go, or something like that, and he flung the dish-towel in my face. I was a tittle riled at that, but I dou’t think I’d have done anything except kick him out, if I hadn’t remembered the dinner. I knew he had to be pounded into staying. So I pounded. That’s all.” Mrs. Melville flew into the sittingroom a few hours later. “Austin, he’s vamoosed!” Melville stood up, put down his newspaper, and knocked the ashes from his cigur. "I'll get him back,” he said. “How?” “Send a deaehment out for him and bring him back.”

So Mrs. Melville watched and waited for half an hour, and at the end of that time heard the shuffle of feet and the tramping of boots on the perch. Sing glided into the room, followed by his master. There was a guard at the door. "Here he is. Try the force of gentle persuasion, Matty.” Mrs. Melville was a coaxing little body; she could have moved any one but a Chinaman. Sing remained obdurate. "No,” he grunted; “me no come back.”' “Just to get dinner. Sing; you can go afterward.” “No.” She looked appealingly at her husband. ‘Then you won’t Come back and got dinner to-night, Sing?” asked Melville. “No.” “Guard, take this man and put him to chopping wood In the sun.” It was rather a stretch of official and military authority, but even the commanding officer, who was to dine with the general, realized the urgency Of the case.

An hour Of wood-chopping under guard, under all the untamotj, glory of an Arizona sun, brought Sing into subjection. He appeared, downcast, perspiring, gasping, and penitent, at the door of Melville’s quarters. “Missa Melville. Me wantee alee MW Melville.” "No; you can’t see her; she’s lying down.” “Yes. Me wantee alee Mis’ Meltlile. Me tellee MW Melville me come back.” “She no want you back. Sing.” I “Oh! sou go tellea.” ->

“All right. I goJtellee her.. She no come, I think.” Melville disappeared and brought back his wife. Her face was contorted Into an unrelenting frown. “Well, Sing?” she demanded, severely. “Mis’ Melville; me, come back.” “No. Ino want you come back.” •“Me eookee good dinner. Alice samee heap good. Sun heap hot, makee my .head hutft,” moaned the child of the Orient. “No breakee plates njMpMre.” “All right,” she confessed, reluctantly, “I keep you to-day, maybe.” “Really, Mrs. Melville,” said the grizzled iqspector-general, as he sat beside his brilliant little hostess at the table, and looked its length at the goodly ar ray of yet unbroken dishes. "I eau’t see what you, all make such a fuss about these Western stations for. Of epurse they’re a little far from the railroad, but you have pretty good society, you dress—well, exactly as they do in Washington, so far as my masculine eyes can tell; you five on the fat of the land, to Judge ffom what l see before ipetafi£ you certainly have excellent domestic service.” Mrs, Melville blessed the happy thought which had made her place the general so that he could not see the guard standing over the Celestial cook out in the kitchen, as the door swung to and fro. “Yes,”'she assented, “still there are some inconveniences.” * “You seem to have overcome them.” “We have I —temporarily,” she answered.—Gwendolen Overtoil, in San Francisco Argonaut.

BITS OF KNOWLEDGE.

Woolen manufacture employs 220,000 Americans. The man who will not improve hia chance is bound'to lose if, no matter whether It has to do with seeking salvation or making a fortune. A 634 carat diamond, the finest ever found in Africa, was discovered at Jaggersfontein, in the Transvaal, 'on the day after Christmas. When cut it is expected that it will be worth £300,000. - Charlemagne possessed a tablecloth woven from asbestos. He used to astonish his guests a’fter dinner by gathering it up and throwing it into the fire, from whence he drew it cleansed from gravy and other grease. New Hampshire has reason to be proud of her free public library system. Splendid work has been accomplished since 1892, and of the 233 cities and towns in the State there are now not more than fifty that have no free public library. Negotiations are in progress . by which the Art Institute of Chicago may become the possessor of the sixtyfour paintings by Gustave Dore which for the past few years have been exhibited in this country. The price is said to be $1,000,000. A cave alleged to rival in extent and grandeur the great Mammoth Cave has been discovered in Edmonson County, Kentucky, in which Mammoth Cave is situated. The newspapers of that region tell many stories of the remarkable character of the new cave. In commemoration of the victories ■won by the Japanese troops in China, the Buddhists of Kioto, Japan, will erect a gigantic bronze statue of Buddha in that city. It will be 120 feet in height, and the cannon captured by the Japanese during the war fire to be used in making the image.

Taught Him a Lesson.

We may sometimes learnrnore from our failures than from our successes, a truth well illustrated*in the case of a policeman of a Western city, as the story Is told by the Cincinnati Times. It was one of the rainiest night of the season. The chief of police, driving homeward In his buggy, passed an officer who was leaning against the Ipe side of a patrol-box. The chief spoke to him, aud finally invited him to ride. The policeman readily accepted the invitation, climbed into the buggy, and the following dialogue ensued; —“How -long have you been on thia beat, Mr. Officer?” “Only a couple of days. I’m sub, and don’t know much about the business yet.” “How far does your beat extend?” 'To Mohawk Bridge, I think.” “Who is your superintendent of police now?” “Oh, some old German that lives up here on Hamilton Pike. Deit.sell is his name, but I have never seen him.” “What kind of a fellow is this Deitsch? Do you know?” “No, I don’t. I hear a good deal about him from the other policemen, though. Some say he is a strict disciplinarian, some say he is a good fellow, and others say that he is a son-of-a-gun; but I don’t know anything about him. I suppose lie is all three.” Just theu the buggy passed Mohawk Bridge, and the colonel said; “What bridge is this?” “Mohawk Bridge l , 1 think they call it.” “Is it the end of your beat?” “Oh, I guess It is; but that doesn’t make much difference It’s a bad night and nothing’s going on,” chatted the new cop. “Well, aren’t you afraid some of your superiors will find you off your beat?” “Not likely to. The lieutenant won’t go out far to-night, apd the old stiff up the pike has been snoozing for six hours, I guess. He wouldn’t be around In this weather.” Here the buggy pulled up in front of the colonel’s home, and turning to the man, he said: ‘This Is where I live, and I may as well say that I am Colonel Deitsch.” The officer’s eyes bulged out and bis hair stood on end as he gasped, “Then I’m done for!” “Never mind,” said the chief. “Just let this be a lesson to you. Never get in aduuggy With any one, never leave your beat, never go on the beat until you are famlliar»wlth its boundaries, and don’t hulk too Now get back to your post." ™ “And that man,” says Chief Deitsch, “is to-day the besf officer on the force.”

The Meat Bill of London.

The annual meat bill of London is something wonderful. During the year 1896 the butchers of that burg killed and sold tbe flesh of 400,000 cattle, 1,000,000 shepp, 600,000 calves and 700,000 bogs, to sar nothing of the horses and fowls. ■■ There Is nothing In which people are SO inconsistent as'in their economies.

WOMAN AND HER WAYS.

. WEDDED TO A ROYAL RAKE. Few royal personages iu Europe dose rye more sympathy than the queen of the Belgians, whose husband's escapades with stage celebrities and others have nearly' driven his wife insane. King Leopold is /id years of age. but shows little sign of -ffte scan* dalous behavior Vhich has made his name n bywordipr years. At one time

THE QUEES OF BELGIUM.

his excesses in Loudon landed him in a police court, and Ills—most gracious majesty had considerable difficulty in escaping the punishment so often dealt out to plebeian roystererjp—a month in Jail. His scandalous doings have caused untold grief to his wife, whose tastes and habits are of a domesticated character. Her majesty has made every effort tq wean him from his unseemly Ways, but has met with little or no success. Don’t! for the Summer Girl. Don’t giggle. ~Don’t listen to sea nda I. Don’t defy public opinion. Don’t play on the hotel piano. Don’t believe everything you hear. Don’t sleepall day and dance all night. Don’t form lifelong friendships in three days. Don’t have “heart talks” with every man you know. Don’t read “Harry’s” letters aloud to your girl friends. Don’t go rowing with the young man who tips the boat. Don’t refuse to marry a good man if you get the chance. Don’t tell your admirers all the secrets of your girl friends. Don’t become engaged to more than two men at the same time. Don’t put on Jour bathing suit unless you’re going into the water. Don’t join sailing parties unless you can stand a little rough weather. ' Don’t snub your mother or maiden aunt in public. % It doesn’t look well. Don't try to protect your complexion. Give the sun and fresh air an inning. i Don’t sing, unless nature has given yon a voice which will not cause others pain. Don’t trust the gentleman who has married unhappily and wishes to tell you all about it. i ’ J ' Don’t forget that half an hour of exercise in the open air is worth more than all the nerve tdnies in the market. Don’t forget that' the summer hotel veranda is the happy hunting-ground of the most merciless gossips on earth. Don’t waste tod much sympathy on “poor George, working away in the hot city.” George is getting along very nicely. Don’t make yout willing slaves fasten yonr shoestrings more than seven times in the course of one day. The novelty wears off.—New York World. Parts Her on the Side. Fluffy bangs, nnq even the epquettish waves that so conceal the imperfections an ugly forehead.

LATEST EDICT FOR THE TAILOR-MADE GIRL.

are, as well as the girl that wears them, out of date,. . The, mannish girl Is at the height of tbe fashion, and she Is astounding thousands of her primmer sisters by parting her hair at the side. Absolute severity and simplicity is ; the motto of the new hair-dressing. I Twist or coil or braid or do whatever you will with your back hair, so long as tli# result is modest and inconspicuous, but under no circumstances must you venture to impart a feminine curt to the front locks. Saved Money nod Lost Credit. An amusing incident occurred at a fashionable wedding in this city. One friend, who determined to save her money and credit at the same time, took a broken earring to a famous jeweler of State street ordered tbe little stone to be set as a scarf pin for the groom As she eagerly remarked: "It does me no goqg, and coming from, such a fnmous establishment they are sure to prize It and tjilnk I paid a lot of money." When the package was returned from the shop the wedding guest failed to examine her proposed present and merely ttyspatched It, with her card and compliments. Imagine her disgust when strolling through the

• * ' rooms where the bridal gifts were displayed: to find a dozen people about her offering and each one smiling. For a moment she hesitated, then pressed forward, and lo! there was the precious white satin covered box bearing the prized name, it is true, but, alas! below, “From the repairing department;” and even worse than all, resting on the blue cotton beside the ptn wa* an old broken bit of earring, lelurned b.v the eonscientious firm.—Chicago Chronicle. Monkey Skin Card Ck^aes. Professor Garner is not the only man who has found a new use for the monkey. The up-to-date Jeweler is fully "equal hr this respect; —Thtrjeweierpto be sure, has turned the monkey to decorative rather than philological account. but the service to the world at large is still very grhat. This is at once apparent when it is stated that all the newest card cases are of monkey skin. They are ornamented with an applied decoration of enameled silver, patterned after the early spring flowers. The blooms are life size and as like the original as- possible, both in form and color. The effect is very pretty, as the flowers lie upon their leather background as gracefully as If a careless hand had flung them there. One Multi-Millionaire’s Wife. Mrs. Krueger, -wife of -President Krueger of the Transvaal, who is an extremely homely woman, does nearly all her own housework, cooking meals, making her own bed and always taking a* hand in the family washing. When her husband has “state guests” to dinner the good lady will.trust the task of waiting on the table to no one, and donning a white apron she performs the office of butler. Her husband has a private fortune of $20,000,1)00, buTTFs “Aurify” Krueger's boast that they live on their “coffee money”— a- perquisite of $2,000 a year allowed them by the government. Japs Reform Their Dress. The Empress of Japan has discarded the picturesque costume of her cotmtry. Her majesty’s wardrobe is made in- Paris, and she has a decided preference for tight-fitting, small-waist gowns. The royal example is followed by the ladies of the court, and state functions no longer present their former polychromatic appearance. It is a curious coincidence that the discarded Japanese costume combines all the latest ideas on dress reform embodied by its apostles here and in Europe, Shirt Waist in Name Only.

Royal Wheelwomcni Nearly all the members of the royal family of England are cyclists. Princess Victoria of Wales, the Duchess of Fife, Princess Louise, the Marchioness of Lorne and Princess Henry of Battenberg all ride and are enthusiasts. The Queen of Italy had her first bicycle lessons last summer, but is already an expert. She required only twelve lessons to become proficient.

What Women Are Doing.

During the absence of three months of Rev. Mr. Cochrane of the Uhitarian Church at Bar Harbor, Maine, his wife will attend to all his ministerial duties. Mrs. America Louisa Joslin of South Greenfield. Mo., was admitted to the Dade County, Missouri, bar, after passing a highly creditable examination. She is 35 years, old. Three different books have recently been devoted to Joan of Arc and a fourth is coming. Mrs. Oliphant is writing a history of the maid for “The Heroes of the Nations” series. Mrs. Prances Eleanor Trollope has just published the life and letters of Mrs. Prances Trollope, her mother-in-law, who wrote a book On American customs and manners that gave great offense. Ml.sk. Gladstone, daughter of the exprdemler, who has recently accepted the presidency of the Cambridge Women’s Liberal Club, made her first appearance recently at a largely attended meeting. There is a woman dentist in New y ork who is fast attaining popularity and fortune. She is a German by birth, and has a large clientele among the singers and other musicians of her own nationality in the city. _i , l.ate Spring Costume,

DEMS IN THE DUMPS.

SPLIT PREDICTED IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. T Chicago Convention Promises to Be the HotTeet Sfrice IB6o—Free Silver Men Declure They Will Bolt a Gold Standard Platform. A Red-Hot Convention. ! The •.lines- 1 are certainly cast ftfr the hottest Convention at Chicago that the Democracy haa seen since 1800. The followers of Cleveland and Carlisle have about given up all hope of stemming the free silver tide, and are now discussing the chances of a bolt. Mr. Cleveland is quoted as saying that he considers the platform of more importance than the man that shall be* named to stand upon it. It lias loug been the talk that the free silver faction would walk out of the convention -fiFdheir demands were not accepted, but there is no longer i|iore than a possible contingency that they will not be aide to dictate both the candidate and platfonii. The Washington Cor-” respondent'of the New York Evening Post, who is generally accredited as the nearest to the Cleveland throne of all newspaper representatives there, says that several cabinet officers have declared their intention to at least bolt the ticket in the event of the Cleveland policy being turned down. Beyond that, calculations are being made as to the advisability of going still further. The New York’ Herald leads off in the suggestion that “true'’’ Democrats stirinld lea ve the‘Convention and nominate a gold man on a solid gold platform, and accompanies the advice .with tlie prediction that “the people, irrespective of party liues,” would rally to its support with invincible force. Whitney, who some time ago pro-’ dieted a split, is of the opinion that the failure to control the convention should lie followed by a caH for another, in the nante of “the sound money Democracy,” but Hewitt lias a still niniwromprehensive plan. Bhoulrt the St. Louis convention fair to pronounce flat-footed for a single gold standard, he would have a convention of ••business men” of Tiot'i parries and' a campaign that would carry the election of President, into the House of -Representatives:

A hot convention at Chicago is assured. There may be g. bolt, and there may not lie: hut no amount of lighting or boiting wlil mfcke it possible to draw Republican votes to a ticket manufac-tured-by the leaders of free trade Democracy. Nor will any such allurement as that implied in the proposal of Abram 8. Hewitt swerve the Republican convention into an abandonment of the pa rty’s~ "established principles and settled policies. Democracy will have to settle its own quarrels in its own way. They have pome about as a natural result of incompetency in government. The party has demonstrated its unfitness for public trust, and tlio leaders who have dictated the policies which have brought about its downfall will not be boosicd back to a position of influence' and power by Republican, strength. Protect Our Hay Crops, Farmers sire appealing to Congress for increased protection for their hay. Thousands of petitions have been in circulai.ou in the country in the past few weeks, signed by hundreds of thousands of farmers, asking Congress to increase the duty on hay. because of -ttiQ aiinrmniig tnerpnap In tlio Itrlftnrth- . tions of hay, mostly from Canada, since Die repeal of the McKinley law. The rate of duty on hay under tlie, McKinley tariff was four dollars per ton. In the year following the enactment of that taw the importations of hay from 125,000 tons to 29,000 tons. The Wilson law reduced the duty to $2 per ton, and the result lms beefl an enormous, increase in the importations of hay. ; ’ • ■ —— The amount of hay brought into the country since the enactment of the Wilson la WTui s lieeu mofFThfln double what it was in the corresponding-length of time under the McKinley law. The official figures for the first seventeen months of the Wilson law show a total Importation of :S7S.B(iO tons of lmy. against 140,083 tons in the last seventeen months of the McKinley law. This is an increase of 233.773 tons. It will thus be seen that the Importations under the iipjv law. by reason of the reduction in the tariff rates, have increased more than 150 per cent., and that nearly two million dollars, which would otherwise have gone to the farmers of the •United States, have left the country for the benefit of foreign farmers. London Notes Our Wool Market, Messrs. Helmutli Schwartze & Co., of London, comment upon the fact so well known here, that the United States in 1895, In addition to the unprecedented imports of raw wool, also Imported “manufactures of wool lo the extent of over sixty million dotlars ($<!0,000,000) as against less than seventeen million dollars ($17,000,000) lor the preceding year,”

This increase in the American imports of woolen goods is roughly calculated as equal to 130 million pounds of raw wool, which, is exactly the amount of the increase in the world’s supply of the year 1890. If American wool luifl been used to manufacture the increased amount of Imported woolens, more than one-lialf of the entire American clip would have been consumed in their production. The increase in the imports of wool, including that used in the manufacture of woolens imported in 1895, over the average of the previous four years was over 257 million pounds (a quantity within 3 i million pounds of the American wool production for 1895), an increase of about 114 per cent. The effect of tills extraordinary increase in imports upon American prices in now being very seriously felt. Great "Revival” in Business. -Total bank clearing* aggregate JU2U,0041,000 tills week, thus continuing to reflect the slacking off In business which lias been so conspicuous. The decrease ns compared with last wodft is 2.ti per cent., and as compared with th” week one year ngdTnearly 3 per cent, The corresponding week in 1894 was one of extreme depression, and this week's total cleurings show an incrppfle compared with it of 7 per cent. But when comparisons are made with like weeks in preceding years, continuous decreases are shown, 23.5 Der

cent, as contrasted with 1593, nearly ?4 per cent, with 1892, and 12 per cent, as compared with the week in 1891. Bradstreet’s. “ ; ..... x ■ /i- ’ _ Reed Reviews ConUitions. v - We a?e npminally 70,000,000 people. That is what we are in mere numbers. But as a market for manufactures and choice’ foods we are potentially 175,000.000 as compared with the next best nation on the globe. Nor is this difficult to prove. .Whenever an Englishman earns one dollar an American earns a dollar and sixty cents. I speak within bounds. Both can get the food that keeps body and soul together and the sltllter which-the body must ha,ve foY GO cents. Take sixty cents from a dollar and you have 40 cents left., Take that Same 60 cents from the dollar and sixty and you have a dollar left, just two and a half times as much. That surplus can be spent in choice foods, in house furnishings, in line clothes and all the comforts of life —in a word, in the products of our manufactures. That makes.our population as consumers of products, as compared with,the English population. _ 175,000,000. Their population is 37,000,006 as consumers of products which one century ago were pure luxuries, while , bur population is equivalent to 175,000,* 000.—Hon. Tliqs. B. Reed. Argument for Protection. The closing down of the print works in tills city means a good deal to a considerable number of the inhabitants of Lowell, and-taken in connection, with the fact that the duty on print cloths was reduced moYe than 25 per cent, by the Democratic tariff it makes a very tangible argument in. favor of just protectiqiL.to^_mOTrajL_!!??^^r nobody can fail to understand. Lowell is not alone in suffering for the folly of the national Democratic party, for the, same condition prevails wherever there are industries which could be -reached by the mischievous tinkering of the tariff reformers in the Fiftythird Congress.—Lpwell, Mass., Mail. Hurts American Labor. There was imported, during the month of February, $5,352,410 wo ft h of lnanufactafCd’* \Vdttlens; * -This ,is * more than double the imports of woolen goods dining the corresponding month of 1892 under the McKinley tariff. More Reciprocity Wanted. The Isaac Harter Milling Company or Kostoria. yhlo, said: “Since reclprocity has been repealed we have practically lost all our Cuban trade, which amounted to about 75,000 barrels per year to this flour mill alone,”

Sea Otters.

The dexterity of sea otters in turning and doubling upon Their pursuers is due to the strength of _ their hilld paws, which’ ‘have five webbed fingers or toes, the center one being shortest, like those of a seal. Their tails are used as rudders, but are not so long as those of the common otter. Their love of lifd, their harmlessness, their innojcence, their beauty, and their tender, tireless care of their babies also, should make man tlicir friend and admirer. Perhaps he would be if love of money were not his supreme- passiqn. COminon otters have short, webbed front paws that are used ns deftly ns hands by men, fins by flsh, or feet by land quadrupeds; their hind legs are short, and are set well back for paddling swiftly. Their muscular tails serve as tillers, and are important parts of a machinery that overcomes distance with incredible rapidity. They are able to make abrupt turns and a thousand swift and graceful maneuvers when seeking their finny food or escaping from their natural enemies. They are said to be so untiring in the sea that fish never escape them. Of course, it Is only in zoological gnr- ’ dens that the shy and crafty habits of otters can be closely studied. In tanks of water they sometimes deftly catch and hold several flsh as once, and ofteli kill many more than they cap eat,, as ’ if the mere occupation of fishing wore a distinct pleasure and the destruction of their prey a keen satisfaction; so that their sportsmanlike.tastes are near a kill" to those of men. Sewing on Eyebrows. It is said that a certain perfumer has found a new way of fixing eyelashes and eyebrows. Instead of painting them In the usual vulgar old style, he puts the genuine article there. Tlie operator takes a hair from the head of the beauty—for ladles are his chief customer—or, if she does not.dike precisely the color of her own hair, he takes one of any other color that shelikes, threads an extremely fine needle with the hair, runs It along inside the .'’kin of the eyelid, sewing sailmakoi’s fiisnion, but leaving the loops sufficiently long to enable him to cut them afterward, so that they will form a range of beautiful fringe and look perfectly natural. The operation is extremely delicate, but painful. For eyebrows he does the same tiling; hut the eyebrow operation is, of course, less delicate. Arched eyebrows, bushy eyebrows, straight eyebrows, crooked eyebrows—all sorts of eyebrows, in any color or shade or form, this perfumer makes; and it is said that ids success lfl astonishing.

Discovery of Mahogany.

In the researches he made while gathering statistics for his book on colonial furniture the late Dr. Lyon came across a curious legend about the introduction of mahogany into England. It seems that a Dr. Gibbon, who was ft London physician early in the seventeenth century, had some mahogany planks imported from the West Indl(‘s, with., the Idea of grinding them up for use hs a substitute for Peruvian bark, which was Just gaining vogue ns a medicine. Finding the wood unserviceable as medicine, he had a cnblnetinaker construct a box of one of the planks, and the beautiful grain of the wood pleased him so that lie had A bureau made ofthe same material. All London flocked to see it, nnd the wood came Into immediate use among furniture makers.

Barre’s Best Busts.

M. Barre, the sculptor and engraver, who died recently in Paris at the age of 85, designed the coins issued by Napoleon 111. iu 1852. His best busts are those of Pius IX., Napoleon 111., and members of the Bonaparte family. One of hJs latest busts was that of Mine. Jane Hading. The old sculptor .was a great raconteur. .- *. " i I I . i’' i ■ Doing good will be found more profitable In the end than digging gold.