St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 43, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 12 May 1894 — Page 2

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Mh 0 f CHAI’TER Vin—Continued. ■—S l ®.^ f h ® . hous s ,^ hcn Constance P'., ^‘' n t-h uh >.... . I tion, caring very uumu JA «»me direoupon this particular afternoon. Ino f Lady's Mile was thronged with carriages, and there was a block at the corner when Gillert took his place listlessly among tie loungers who were lolling over the rails. He nodded to the men he knew, and answered briefly enough to some friendly inquiries about his luck in Yorkshire. “The filly ran well enough,” he said, “but 1 doubt if she's got stay enough for the ( hosier.” , “Oh, of course you want to keep her dark, Sinclair. I heard she was a flier, though.” Mr. Sinclair did n>t pursue the conversation. The carriages moved ; on for a few paces, at the instigation of । a pompous mounted ) oliceman, and * then stopped again, leaving a quite ! little brougham exactly in front of Gilbert Sinclair. The occupant of the brougham was Mrs. Walsingham. The ■ stoppage brought her so close to Gilbert that it was impossible to avoid some kind of greeting. The widow s handsome face paled as she re ’ognbe 1 Gilbert. It was the first time they had met since that unpleasant interview in Half-Moon street. The opportunity was very gratifying to Mrs. Walsingham. She ha I most ardently desired to see how Gilbert supp >rted his new position, to see for herself howfar Mr. Wyatt's account of him might be credited. She put on the propitiatory manner of a woman who lias forgiven all past wrongs. “Why do you never come to see me?" she asked. “I scarcely thought you would care > to receive me, after what you said when we last met,” he replied, rather emba rassed by her easy way of treating the situation. “Let that be forgotten. It is not fair to remember what a woman says when she is in a passion. I think you expressed a wish that we might be friends after your marriage, and I was too angry’ to accept that proof of your regard a4 I should have done. I have grown wiser with the passage of time, and, believe me, I am still your friend.” There was a softness in her tjpe which flattered and touched Gilbert Sinclair. It contrasted so sharply with the cool contempt he had of late suffered at the hands of his wife. He remembered how this woman had loved him: and he asked himself what good he had gained by his marriage with Constance Clanyarde, except the empty triumph of an alliance with a family of superior rank to his own, and the vain delight of marrying an acknowledged beauty. Before Mrs. Walsingham's brougham ha i moved on, ho had promised t > look in upon her that evening, and at 10 o clock he was seated in the familiar drawing-room, telling her his domestic wrongs, and freely confessing that his marriage had been a failure. Little by little she beguiled him into t .filing her these things, and played her part of adviser and consoler with exquisite tact, not once allowing him to perceive the pleasure his confe sion afforded hor. He spoke of his child without the faintest expression of affection, and laughed bitterly as he described his wife’s devotion to her infant. “I thought as a woman of fashion she W’ould have given herself very little trouble about the baby," he said, “but she continues to find time for maternal rapture in spite of her incessant visiting. I have told her that she is killing herself, and the doctors tell her pretty much the same: but she will have her own way.” “She would suffer frightfully if the

child were to die,” said Mrs. Walsingham. "Suffer' Yes, I was thinking of that this asterno I >>.wb uuuol; out 1 believe ttrtf loss of that । child would kill her." ... , , s Long after Gilbert Sinclair had left , her that night Clara \Valsingb»”' “-v i brooding over all that he had told hei , upon the subject of his domestic life . i “And so he lias found out what it is to haw- a wife who does not care tor ' him” she sa'd to herself. Hehas gratified his fancy for a ’’ 1 and is paying a heavy cn e t And lam to leave all m> hopes of - revenge to James Wyatt, and am to reward his services by marrying him. No no, Mr. Wvatt; it was all very weh to ’promise that in the day of my despair. I seo my way to something better than th at now. Ihe loss of her child would kill her, would it/ And her death would bring Gilbert back to me. I think. His loveless marriage has taught him the value of a woman s affection.” CHARTER IX. the beginning of soubow. Sir Cvprian did not again cal! at the house in Park I ane. He had heard of (’onstam e < lanyarde s marriage dm mg his African travels, and had come back to England resolved to avoid her as far as it was possible for him to do so. Time and absence bad done little to lessen his love, but he resigned himself to her marriage with another as an inevitable tact, only regretting she had married a man of whom he had .» no means an exalted opinion. James Wyatt was one of the first persons I e vJited on his arrival w London, and

liKhlin hlmo7th ls Jo on- = the girl ho h-m • 1 found ; formed into a o’s 10Vcd tron ^ ! world; andhe em dru woma . n of the from her carol™? d a Y no lnference except that Jam ° E manner than was jusH ed bVn U - ad Said mor ° of the ea e. bj the cil 'cumstances j sqbio ut kwrnaXt’'' Bi ° n ° f I,is tom umb r which hL • norvou S BVSimticnt labored I 1 , posed Schoenesthal in the nlaci^Wßßl est, he-ca ight at the idea. “Nothing would bo better fi r Mrs. . Sinclair and the baby,” he said, “ai d you'll be near Baden-13aden if you want 5 gayety." ( “I don't care for brass bands and a 1 lot of people,” answered Gilbert: "1 i can shoot capercailzies. 1 shall get on . 1 well enough fora month or so.” Consume ■ had no ob ect ion to offer . t< this plan. Sho cased very little • where hor life wa-spent, so long a she had her child with hor. AcharmI in r vil a had b -en found half hidden i among pine trees, an I hero Mr. Sin- , I clairestablished hi- wife, with a mix-d household of English and foreign >»rvI ants. She was very glad to b■soO' m- ' pletelv withdrawn from the obligat om lof society, and t • l»e able t > demote ■ herself alm >st entirely t » t ie little I uirl. who was, of course, a pm agon <>f infantine grace and intelligence in the । eye -of mother an i nurse. The nur-e was a young woman b nri ng* to t c village near Marshbmok. one of th ■ pupils of the Sunday school, whom Constance had known from childhood. The nurse-maid who shared her duties in London had not Iw-en brought to Schoenesthal, but in her e Mr-. Sinclair engaged a French girl, with sharp dark eyes and a very intelligent manner, Martha Briggs, the nur e, was rather more renowned for honesty and good temper than for int dlectu J qualifications, and sho seemed unusually slow- and stolid in comparison with the vivacious Ereneh girl. This girl had come to Baden with a Pari inn family, and hud been dismissed with an excellent character upon the family's departure f r Vienna with a re- ’ ' duced staff. Her name was Melanie t Duport, and she contrived very raj idly > to ingratiate hers If with her mistress, ; as she had done with the isd^prb'-t of the little church she hu^Bßended during her residence at Baden, who was delighted with her artless fervor and unvarying piety. Poor Martha Briggs was rather inclined to be jealous or this new rival in her mistress' favor, and derived considerable com- i fort from the fact that the baby did not ' take to Melanie. If the baby preferred hor English nurse to Melanie, the little Ereneh girl, for her part, seemed passionately devoted to the baby. She was always . eager to carry the child w hen the two nurses were out together, and resented Martha's determination to deprive ■ her of this pleasure. One day when the two were disputing together upon 1 this subje -t, Martha bawlipg at the 1 Ereneh girl under the peculiar idea . that she would make herself understood if she only talked loud enough, ' Melanie repeating her few words of i broken English with many emphatic '.shrugs ami frowns and nods, a lady stopped to listen to them and admire - the baby. She spoke in Ereneh to Melanie, and did not address Martha at all, much to the young i evson's im- ' dignation, she asked Mi lani ■t > whom - । the child Delonged, and how long she 1 hid been with it. and whether sho was ’ I accustomed to nursing children. ; adding, with a smile, that sho looked ’ । rather too lady-like for a nurse-maid. ; ; Melanie was quite subdued by this 1 compliment. She t<»ld the iaiythat 1 this was the first time rhe ha 1 I een ' ; nurse-maid. She had been lady’s-maid ’ : in her last situation, and had preferred the place very much to her present po- *■ sition. She told this strange lady | nothing ab ut that lapturous affection i for the babv which she was in the I

LVI Li LU LUIUJ WHICH V> (13 ill 111 U habit of expressing* in Mrs. Sinclair’s I presence, she only told talking to Meluniej 1 for some little time, “and should like to see you if ycu can ffnd time to call vp; ™ ™ you in‘finding a ' new situat on when your present mistress leaves tl-.c neighborhood I Melanic courtesied. and r< pa -d t.'.nt sho w mid make a point of waiting upon the lady, and the two nm< t I on with their little charge. Ma tha lacked Melanie what the foreign lady hal been saving, and the trench girl replied ear. iessly that she had only | been praising the baby. I “And well she may. answered Mds ; Briggs, rather snappishly, “for she s < the^weetest child that ever lived: . but, for my own } art, I don't like for- j cigners, or any of their nasty, deceit- , fui ways.” This rather invidious remark was lost upon Mlle. Duport. who only understood a few words of English, and who cared very little for her fellowservant’s opinion upon any subject. In spite of Gilbert Sinclair's protestation of indifference to the attrac- • tions of brass bands and crowded as- : semblies, he contrived to spend the ; i greater part of his time at Baden, where the Goddess of < hance slid ) worshiped in the brilliant Kursaal, - while his wife was left to drink her fill s of forest beauty and that distant glory 3 of inaccessible hills which the sun dved rosy red in the quiet even tide. s “in theie tranquil days, while her 3 husband was waiting the turn of lor--1 tnno’s wheel in the golden salon, or

! y a "nlng over mg-room. Constant's the read * nearer happiness thm v came <ar dared to hope b: w^L t h ° had perjury at God's altar h°' ne ' after hor Many a time, while yearß a "°- he e butterflv life in th ? f! Was leadin S of fashion, inakin" tli J low T r -irarden for p’easure, sho h?d d tolu Pa | ° Q u a " d some gloomy hour of rXknTh I And® th?n hTbJb^h a believe? Aftui tluit t.nie Gilbert had changed Sinv a Tiom^’ and tbo Whad b?S avo Ban 8 ant O to C le er eo "‘ 1 ' [eo,lsI y Perfo'rara", ate apt to leave ugly scars. ohlnf ? 0 "’ - fat ’ away from all h er frivous a< quaintar.ee, free fre in the allengrossmg dut es of a tine h dy£ existence. Mie put all evil thoughts out of » mini, Gilbert among them, and abandoned herself wholly! :o the deiglit ot the pine forest and! 'aby. She was very gracious to Gilber “ when he chose to spend an hour or tv [° at home or to drive with hor in thi pretty litt e pen/ carriage in whicn^ ®h® ma Io most of her explorations- tjfd she made no complaint, she expres&m' Q 0 curiosity as to the manner O- which he •unused himself or the II an Gilbert was not an p: nio:i at this time. suppre-sed r sentment --wx’ ■, like ranc;>roos lago'^^HJ^^' did “gnaw him inward." ’W^^REhougli his old nassionate love stillßremained, it was curiously interwok-en with hatred. I < >nce when husband anaß^fo wore seato I epno'ite cacii other,«n the Septembm- twilight after one ojtheir rare tetc-a-teto dinners, Gonstwce looked up -uidcnl, and caug™ Gilberts ! rooding eye fixed qn her kce with an expression which made hewshiver. • If pm ookat me like twt. Gilbert," -ho -aid. with a nervous lafch, "I shall be a raid tod ink this gla^of Marcobrunner von \ * just poure^KHit for me. Th re niight Nj poi-on l®it. I hope Eve done nothing to de such an angrv look. < Hhello tnuß"«*ve looked -om-‘thing like that, I sMuld think, when he asked 1> ' IcmOa f‘r the -1 r.iwl>erry-'pot ted handily chief. “Wh. di i vou niarsw ne. Con->tam-e‘” a kef SinclairJ^n iring his w i <• s speech -A There was someth ngpiteous । in this question, wranO*T° la a tn*® who loved honestly, to his lights, and who e leve^p* turned to l ancor b. the knowled^V i^at it ha : won no return I “What a qm-sti n afUM*” “ ’ 3 ' u arried life! Why didW® ft "y you' Boca ise vou wished mJH^ :arr y y° u : an I because i bolleved^r w °“‘ d mak e me a good husbMld, G«f er V and l>e ' can e 1 had firmly rosL'cd to make vou a gi o i wife." ’ , Sho said this earDddl ® baking at him through unshed lews ^tnee btfr own life had booome sdr “ happier, since hor baby caresses a^Keoed tare, she ha on go<xi termsY^T^SG^d' * would have taken bit® ’ i some sacrifice of hor P r * d, ‘ win him back to that stntf’d mind she remembe^olßl^ , ^neir hoitym on. jj “I've vromi-ed to M a p bQ I Kursaal this evening, "■ aid Sinaair, , looking at his watch r kora the table, and withot J <ae siigitest i notice of his wife's rep' * . „ “Is Mr. Wyatt at Ba< , I “Yes: he has come o ^ r , ^ or 3 htt;o , amus ment at the tab! deuced lucky । dog always contrives r° h?aye off a winn r. One A th< r cool-headed fellows who know the tK n ®\ tn».i tivlo. , You've noob ection to | l9 there, I suppi se?" ■ 4 v ! “I wish vou and t? u ere not such fast friends, Gilbert. ^ r - yatt is nr favorite of mine.” .TO BE COXT SUMU '‘ STENOGRAPHERS BILLS. They ire Hard to Collet- to Get a Ke med® These are bitter # ’ for stenographers. Then-is juA^ rau ch work now a- ever before,Put collections are slow and uncertabl One of them told me the other day fat he had been doing sl.itn worth offfUch for every 'loo he had received luring the last vear. A movement isw° w on f°°t to raise a fund to send a ^mpetent lawve“ before the Supreme ourt and argue against the cel-bated Bonynge decision. This is the A a p who sent in a bill of *12,U0) to Twe^ lawyers for his work on the Tweedw > ’"v<;ther with the transcri t- of Cstimuny <w-

\\ ini me u uiibci i i - ui . a f • dered. The la V ^rs r C f —theysor 1 '-iHuiers k.fr appeal m NTT, |il their laware compelled t> wait clients, and vers collect their fee- fthe stenogif there, are no collectmrt, on jy rapier s bill is h, '‘"’’?^tcn contract bXtLTawyerhimsclf^ be personall >• responsible for thephUi but few court stenographers carle to risk loss of friends and patronage by insisting o-'L .is precaution. Os .course, great la Hirms in this city and elsewhere pay their stenographers promptly as they would pay anyothef employe, and ; do not ask them to share? their risks in I business. But the greajt majority of ; small firmsand individuals in bad times ■ take advantage of the law and stenographois have to sufi'oE —New York I Press. । Our Scandinavian (ionlingent. No country contributes so many immigrants to the United States in proportion to population as Norway. It is chiefly the rural Norse that come to America, and the immigrants are for the most part under ;J) years of age. ! The Norse are good farmers and thrifty . citizens. They, as well as their neigh- । bors, the Swedes, have a strong desire . to make homes for themselves and to have land and the conveniences of life. They frequently return to visit their native country, but they become permanent citizens of the United States. Most of those who come are of marked peasant type.

: CHANGES IN TARIFFS ■ MANY ALTERATIONS HAVE BEEN i made in the bill. L .. — liesuit of the Compromise Between the «>. mocrats in ihe Senate-Duties Are In-creascd-Schedules in the Measure Which Suit the Majority. Mutilate Wilson’s Measure. During the executive session Mon--lay Senator Jones presented the amendments to the tariff bill, which h av « been considered ana agreed to by the Democratic Senators, known as the compromise committee. Thore are oyer 400 of them, and it makes a new b 11, or a mo is uro greatly di Jo ring from the M ilson bill and from the Senate bill in any form in which it has jeon presented. The amendments eretoforo presented by Senator Vest and reported from the Finance Committee are indo sed by the compromise committee. Thore is a general increase in the bill, and in some scl eiules tho it.creases are very marked. The new sugar schedule provides: Ou and after Jan. 1, 1595, there shall bo levied. Collected and paid on all sugars not above No. 16 Dutch standard In c..l r j and on all tim'< button,., -.imp. or cane juice or or juice, ineladn, coucentrnted luelnda. concrete and concentrated mola^et a duty of 40 । er centum ad valosugars above No 10 > TTtf'ti’T! TfFimanM In color Uwv .sutad j yjKjd. entlnctod nnn tune a“ TiTtv or oneand all sugars, tank bottotns.''siPuns"' ;r 1 eenirX Or >^ ! oetjuk '°‘ nielnda, conentrated meluda. concrete or coneenor'ar.' thr ' 7 “ r 0 ‘"‘Portei from or are the product of any country which at the time the same arc oxpotted therefrom pays, directly or Indirectly, a bounty <n the export thereof, shall pay a duiv o's 1 the - °r" th t° f ' Per pound *" a 'hl>’lo 'to I the .< redoing rates. Erm ided that nothing I t h o r abroc , V alned l Shall 80 ‘ o ''Sfued a' I Lffe tt> '' ", ■ " auy ,na '' n er ‘'"Pair or I m r ■ al r prov!s ‘he treaty of com- ' ner !al reciprocity .-oncluded 1 o’ween the I Lu dl‘ ‘'‘'r ,!I<l tho k!,,g , f tbe R iwaiian I Blands on Jan. 30, is 7V or the i r „ vlslo aa I of any act of 1 ongress heretofore pas-el । for ti,e execution of the same: that on and i * a " 1 , ’ • “'•'f -hall be loved, di;. L n l ’l U testing 40 tain!,. • >t - ” l ß ’ ll ‘ rl seope and con- ; , ' ' •' r ' '••'uni of moisture, and on i XvT w 7’^ a ’ vo 1 l-.re.-s and nrt above W. de r.- s p , !ari , c p ,. , dutv of 2 I cents jerwllon; ls testing above w, de- i j 1 d "‘y <f ‘ e „t s per < hang. . |„ <»th er -whcdulcs. '•ther changes | n the bill arc: tn l .’ r !‘ rl '. , ‘ Cl 7; . , p ” r Uli valorem: * Senate. . tn Hou>e ' Hi. Ah.v>hoH * perfu n ry, hu'iudjn< Colornt’ I I water and other to! ot w a and | ■ / ! . 1 inP-’un is n t specially provided I ent in a ‘ *' U ° n “' Hi l ” r in, *“ 'a-or.-m senate and House dlls. ~ a gallon an! -. ad valorem. All cot I-tar colors or dyes by whatever nan.c known ir I n ’ ally provided f rln this a t 25 per cent.: Senate and House bills, 2A New paragraph. Inserted as follows: Drugr, such as barks beaus berries, balsam*, buds bulbs, bult -ui roots, et. cre-.-onces. fruits flowers, Uriel fibers dried itise ts grains, gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots and stems, spices, vegetables, seeds aromatic). seeds of tm rbld growth, weeds and ► “O' ■ U 4 spro". '.■ :y, ln^. w: • h . are not edible, advanced In value or conj Union by refining or grinding or by other ! process of manufacture, and not specially 1 tno v Ided for In this act, 10 percent ad valorem In th.? paragraph relating to fish the w< rd •‘prepared" Is strl -ken out and the rate of । 28 per cent a 1 valorem is made to apply to j al! fish oils । Epsom salts are made dutiable at 1-5 of a cent per pound Other changes are: I Morphia or morphine salts thereof, 50 cent-, per ounce. F.axseed and poppy oil, 20 cents per gallon instead of 15 cents in for- ! mer bills. ' On olive oil f>r s ila i purpsses the House rate of 45 cents per gallon is restored, in- ; stead of th Senate c dunilttee rate of 25 ■ per Cent Glass Schedule Changed. A portion of tbe glass schedule is changed ’ so as to read as follows: Green and colored, molded or pressed, and flint and lime glass bottles holding more than one pint and demijohns and carboys,covered cr uncovered, and other molded or pressed green and colored and flint or lime glass b itl.-ware not specially provided for in this act, live-eighths of 1 cent per pound. Green and colored, molded or | pressed and flint and lime glass bottles aud , vials holding not more than one pint and not less than one-quarter of a pint, threefourths of one cent per pound; if holding less than one-fourth of a pint 35 cents per gross, whettier tilled or unfilled, whether their contents bo dutiable or free. The Senate rat? on the above is 4J per cent. : House rate, 3J per cent. Another , change in glass Is as f Alows: j Untollshed cylinder, crown, and cotton i window glass, not exceeding 10 by 15 ' inches square, 1 cent per pound: above tiiat, and not exceeding 16 by 24 inches square, 1’ 4 cents per pound; above that, I and not exceeding 24 by 30 inches square, I 1 \ cents auu

sxceedtaij 28 by 30 inches square. 1^ cents I < crown, and window glass, imported in I . -boil contu n fifty -miare^feet. as , There is a change ot sizes as w.-u , r rates, and comparisons cannot be made. Plate-glass, 21 by 36 inches, is taxed 23 cents per square foil; Senate and House bills, 20 cents; all plate-glass above these dimensions, 38 cents per square foot; Senate an 1 House bills, 36 cents. Lookingglass plates are added to glasses, dutiable at 10 per cent, ad valorem, in addition to other rates chargeable thereon. < Ranges in Iron Duties. The pig-iron paragraph is amended to read as follows: Iron in pigs, iron Kentledge, Spiegeleisen, ferromanganese, ferro-silicon. wrought and cast scrap-ir, n and scrap steel, ?4 per ton; but nothing shall be deemed scrapiron or scrap steel except waste or refuse iron or steel, fit only to bo manufactured. Beams, girders, joists, angles, channels, car-truck channels, “T” columns or posts, or parts or sections of columns or posts, deck and bulb beams and building f rms, together with all other structural shapes : of iron or steel, whether plain or punc- 1 tured or fitted for use, 6-10 of a cent a j pound. Senate bill 35, House bill 30 per । cent. Railway bars, made of iron or steel, or i railway bars made in part of steel, “T” ■ rails a<l punched iron or steel fiat rails, T-SOofweont a pound. Senate bill 228 per cent, ad valorem, House bill 20 per cent. | Tin plate 1 1-5 cents a pound, restoring the House rate; Senate bill 1 per cent. 1 Cutlery Schedule. The cutlery schedule is changed to read as follows: 1 fen-knives, pocket-knives or erasers of all kinds, valued at not more than 30 cents

per dozen. 25 per cent ad valorem; valued roJ'i? re «n an conts Per dozen aud not exceeding 50 cents per dozen, 12 cents per dozen; valued at more than 50 cents per I ° XCeed,ng ?1 P° r dozen, 25 I cents per dozen; valued at more than en r 4 d ocen| i - Ud T exceedlng 31.50 per doz- ” „L * ” Per do s cn: valued at more than SLSO per dozen aud not exceeding $3 rer Sn'Wldo' 113 valued\t more ( than S 3 a dozen, .>0 per cent, au valorem ■ vafuLd t lOn * t n e, ■ etO, On all tbe abov e valued at more than 30 cents a dozen "5 1 h?ind? nt Hd valore,n: provided that blades of ?he arum " y ° ther ? aftS Or an r or e,ther of the articles named in this paragraph bW O i r n e n ß ln v n < y ° ther nlanne r than assemeL .‘T!’ )' eS ' ^dket-knives or erasers, siia:! be subject to no less duty than lerein provided for pen-knives, pocketi knives or erasers valued at more than 30 cents a dozen. The Senate and House bills 15 cents. Tobacco Schedule. Wrapper tobacco, unstemmed. Imported in any bale, box or package, or In bulk, $1.50 per pound; if stemmed. $2.25 per pound. House and Senate bills $1 and $1.23 respectively on above articles. Snutr and snuff flour manufneturod of tobacco, ground, dry, or dump und x>lckled. scented or otherwise, of all descriptions, 50 cents a pound; Senate and House bills 40 cents. The cigar j aragraph is amende 1 to read as follows: Cigars, cigarettes, cheroots of all kinds, a pound and 25 per cent ad valorem; and paper clears and cigarettes, including wrappers, shall bo subject to the same dut es as are herein <>» The duty on <'U«r4 tn the House and bills is per pound and 25 jor Dairy anil Farm Froducts. Butter and substitutes therefor, 4 cents ! per pound, which Is the House rate; Sen- / ate bill, 20 per cent. Chee-se, 4 cents per pound; Fenate and Home b.lla, 25 per cent. \ frcsh - 3 cents per gallon; Senate I Hius^biUsrfrea" 0 lUr tO “ : Senato aud i HOUSES f^e Ce, ‘ tS tenate and H^iVXl per dozen: Feuate and I Hay. 52 rer ton, tho Hou,o rate; Senate i -0 : er cent ’ Honey, 10 cents per gallon, tho House । rate: Senate bill, 2o per cent. l llop4. - cents per pound, the House rate; j renate bill, 20 per cent. On ons 20 rents per bushel, the House ■ rate; Senate bill. 20 per cent. 1 Ihe House rates in the paragraph devot- | ed to peas are restored so that the para- ! graph reads as follows: Peas, dried, 20 | een - per bushel: spilt peas. 50 cents’per ' bushel of sixty pounds, and peas tn cari tons, papers or other small packages, 1 . een' per poun 1; Senate. 20 j er cent. : I‘otitoes. 15 cents per bushel; Senate I bll:, 30 per cent: H use bill. 10 cents per , bushel. Meats of all kinds, prepared or preserved, not specially provided for In this act, 20 per cent. Lard, I cent per pound: taken from free list. Poultry. House rates in >t dressed. 2 cents jH-r pound; dressed. 3 cents per pound) are j restored; Senate bill. 20 percent. < hang.-s In Cotton x lwdule. Paragraph 253. relating to cotton cloth. is st: .-ken out an 1 the following inserted: tott n not bleached, dyed, colored, I stained, painted or printed exceeding fifty j an l 10 threads to t lie square inch, count- : lag tbe warped filling, anil not exceeding I six square yards to the pound, 1' 4 cents a I square yard; exceeding six and not ex- ; < e» Ing nine square yards to tbe pouad, | I’, cents a square yard; exceeding nine i square yards to the pound. 1’ 4 cents a I -quareyard; If bleached and not exceed- : ing six square yards to the pound !' , cents a yard; exceeding six and not exceeding nine - juure yards to the pound 1 cents a . square yard; exceeding nine square y»nl‘ to the I ound 2 J , cents a M|u.in> yards; If dyed, colored, stained, painted or printed and not exceeding sixsquare yards to the pound. 2’ 4 cents to the square yard; exceeding six and not exceeding nine square yards to tbe pound. 3' 4 cents to the square yard; exceeding nine square i yards to the pound, 3'i cents per square yard: provided, that on all cotton cloth not exceeding 100 threads to the square Inch, counting the warp and filling, not bleached, dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over 7 cents per square yard, 25 per centum ad valorem; bleached, valued at over 0 cents per square yard, 25 per centum ad valorem; and dyed, colored, stained, painted, or printed, valued at over 12 cents per square yard, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty ot 30 per cent, ad valorem. Duti«'S on Woolen Goods. On blankets, wool and flannels for underwear and felts for paper-makers’ use and printing machines, composed wholly or in part of wool, tho hair of the camel, goat or alpaca, or other animals, value 1 at not more than 30 cents per pound, the duty will be 25 per centum ad valorem; i valued at more than 30 “and not more than 40 cents” per pound, 30. per centum ad I valorem: “valued at more than 40 cents • per pound, 35 per centum ad valorem;” I the change consisting In restoring the I quoted words in the House bilk On women’s and children’s dross goods, • coat linings, Italian cloth, bunting or • goods of similar description or character : “or all manufactures, including such as I have any rubber as a component material,” ; composed wholly or in part of wool I worsted, the hair of the camel, goat, j alpaca or other animal, and not specially • provided for in this act, the House rate of I 4 J per cent, is restored. Senate bill, 35 per i cent, and the following words added: i Valued at pot over $1 a pound. 4 I per ■X jaMAk Uu V iuul e maU t ixunta arm nnf tn nr A than >1 n nnnnH

cents ana not more than 91 a pound, 45 ; per cent, ad valorem; and all of the fore- I ' bnreaA'f-W«TR^ y I ..ve-im thmed materials the Th use rate of 4> I<T rent is restored. Senate bill, sa I>re.»ol tur :>le<<s SII n",1’,.»• •> > •»— i». «= I in the manufactures or — . Molasses testing not above su J polariscope test and containing 20 per I centum of moisture. Opium, crude or manufactured and not adulterated, containing 9 per centum and over of morphia. En Fieurage, pomades. In the free list, after the words “petroleum, crude or refined,” is inserted the following: Provided, that if petroleum, crude or refined, is Imported from any country which imposes a duty on the same exported from the l ulled States, then there shall be levied, paid and collected upon such pretroleum, crude or refined, the rate of duty existing prior to the passage of this act. The following is added to the paragraph in the free list relating to agricultural implemen ts: Provided, that all articles mentioned in this paragraph, if imported from a country which lays an import duty on like articles imported from the United States, shall lie subject to the duties existing prior to the passage of this act Gold leaf, when beaten, into a sheet of the th’ckness of but one two-hun-dred-and-fifty-thousandth of an inch, appears to I e of a, beautiful green when held up to the light. Such sheets are really semi-transparent. A Persian carpet has been in use for 200 years in the main hall of the Shah's “palace in Teheran.

FLATHEAD VALLEY. A PICTURESQUE AND DECIDEDLY FERTILE REGION. Rich Farming Rands—ExceUent Timb<»Varied Mineral Wealth — Large Rivers and Lakes—Mild and Healthful Climate— A Faradise for Sportsmen. Garden of the Northwest. Kalispell, Mont , correspondence: In only two localities in the United States can the Rocky Mountains be seen from a steamboat, and both of these are in Montana; first on the Mis--1 souri River at Foi t Bent >n, east of tho | range, and then on the Flathead river ■ and lake, west of it. Surpri-es await tho tourist wl>o descends into the m >un-tuin-gli ted valley of the I lathead, where he finds everything of a magnitude in keeping with the general features of Western Montana, where N»i tore has create 1 rivers, lakes, forests, prairies, and valleys upon a large scale. The Flathead, instead of being a shallow rivulet da hing down the mountain ’ sides, is a majestic stream larger than ' tbe Mississippi at St. Raul. E lathead I Lake is the .argest body of fresh water I we t of tho great lakes, and is but one of I anumbor of pretty bodies of water scat- । terod over the valley. Situated upon / the I’acitic -ide of tho continent, the I climate ghes mild winters and ii/e summers, much in contrast with the I seasons in the same parallel on tha At- , lantic coast. There are no blizzards I and cyclones. The liberal rainfall has I nurtured forests of pine and other-trees, ' not < nly on the mountain sides, but in the valley itself, the timber being interlac ’d with prairies which give tne country a park-like appearance resembling the oak openings of Michigan. Ohio, and New York. Unlike the soil where pine grows in other localities, here it is rich loam and makes the best kind of agricultural land when cleared. "Seeing is keheving” is an a age as old as it is true, and there are those so incredulous that only with reluctance will they accept any but this kind of proof. To all such a visit to this valley is a source of delight, and the common admission is that “the half has never been told.” N\ hat a change, too, after the magnificent trip through the Rockies, over which the railway has conquered a path, solid and safe, to pass down among peaceful and attractive prairies with cultivated fields and gardens, and see busy towns with hundreds of people engaged in the pursuits of peace and home-seeking, where only a short time ago a few Indians roamed in search of game and fish. A few years and thousands more whites । will be here sharing the plenty indusS try is certain to give all willing to woo ; the earth with its treasures of field, . I mine, forest and water. Flathead County, formed by the last Legislature, has an area of 7,100 square miles, a ter. itory larger than the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. The Great Northern Railway fr m its first station in the county । I on the east to its last on the west runs a distance of Hh miles. The Flathead ' River and tributaries, with 1 gging I waters aggregating GO ) miles in length, couvorgr at Kali-nell, and the manufacture of lumber and shingles is becoming an important industry. The principal forest trees are the cedar, fir, birch, pine, and tamarack, the latter often attaining a diameter of six feet, instead of being a mere telegraph pole as in the east. It makes fine furniture, samples of which were seen in the Montana Building at the World’s Fair. There is much that is attractive from a health-giving, scenic and sporting standpoint in this region. Snow peaks are in view all the year round, and the winters are seldom cold enough to close the streams to navigation. Lake McDonald. near by, is becoming a noted resort. Among the visitors last s immer were Bishop Whipple, of Minnej sota, and Vice Pre. ilent Webb, of the i New Y’ork Central Railroad. 1 akes i and streams abound with trout and the I hunter has chances to look along his j gun barrel at deer and grouse, l-’arm- ; ers di: tant from town are said to build ’ high fences around their gardens to ! keep the deer out. Skins to be seen af> I stores show that bear are still to be found. The mountains in all directions conj tain precious and base metals, anl in the northern part of the county large beds of coal and petroleum springs exist. Railway surveyors have been over a route to this sec i n and also on a line south to Anaconda and Butte. Ne\v souries of wealth making are being constantly brou jht to light as set--1 ' tlement progresses from the common ■ ! centers along the railway, which gives I connections between St. Paul, Minne- ’ apoEs and Puget Sound. Much of the , . Cuuut^ and

valuable tracts ot timber ana land can be taken up under the home- ' n “..'.m houses aud e xcei j Northern Haiiw A\ n 7 n , Columbia Ea'ls, I’leasant x aH. nings, Troy and Libby Creek, the latter being a prominent p lint in the Kootenai mining district. Jennings a steamer point f. r the Fort Steele gold district in British Columbia. Kalispell is county seat and division point of the Great Northern Kailway, with a two-story brick passenger depot and office building. The writer is under obligations t > C. E. Conrad, President of the Conrad National Bank, Kalis >r printed matter and other information. All applicants ’ and inquirers will get prompt attention from the same gentleman. John Harrington. “Mint Mark” means the letter or mark on the coin designating the mint at which it was struck, as “S.” for Sau I- rancisco; “C. C. ” for Carson City; “O ” for Now Orleans. The coins struck at the parent mint in Philadelphia bear no mint mark. The Suez Canal is eighty-cight miles long, and reduces the distance from Engmnd to India nearly four thousand miles for ships. Good manners are a part of good mora.s, and it is as much your duty as ' your interest to practice both.—Hunter.