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••v.. .V- . III llrium of rage and killed them both, &nd> for a time he believed my story. He' •aid be bad an indistinct recollect km of having done a good deal of fighting. We found that his shot had plowed through the muscles of the female tig­ er's left shoulder, only slightly wound­ ing her, but probably paralyzing her left fore leg. i • "When the old shekarry came up with his crowd oft beaters he was at first much disappointed that we had killed no deer or wild pigs. 'Alas, sahibs,' ,cried he, 'no meat--no meat!' He, how­ ever, soon cheered up and took great credit to himselfjfor having said there were tigers in the jungle. After the tigers were skinned we went down to the river and killed for the old fellow quite a lot of pigs. We were well satis­ fied with our prizes, the skins of tihe two tigers. The male measured, asfhe lay on the ground, eleven feet two inches from tip to tip and the female ten feet four inches. "They were unusually large hill tig­ ers, wnich are of heavier build than the tigers of the valleys, but ayerago less in length. To kill tigers with a pits- tol was a feat before unheard of on the frontier, and obtained, for us great credit for nerve, but give a tiger a square shot in the head and lie will go down like a bullock. Many tigers are killed by single shots from rifles, but the man who goes after tigers on foot must have a considerable amount Of nerve. I could always bet on the nerve of Brother Bob." . . DEMOCRATIC DELAY, THE COLLAPSE HAS COME. TARIFF BILL PASSES. IT HAS COST THE COUNTRY MANY MILLIONS. SENATE APPROVES THE DINGLEY" MEASURE. • ' i ••.••• i Final Ballot Shows Thirty-eight Aye* and Twenty-Eight Noes -- ^t Now Goes to the House for Further Con­ sideration. -- -- . i j Bill Goes Thronch. By the decisive vote of 38 to 28 the tariff bill was passed in the United States Senate shortly before 5 o'clock Wednes­ day. The culmination of the long and ar­ duous struggle had excited the keenest interest, and the floor and the galleries of the Senate chamber were crowded by those an.^ieus to witness the closing.scene. Speaker Reed, Chairman Dingley and many of the members of the House of Representatives were in the rear area, while every aeat in the galleries save these reserved for foreign representatives was occupied. The niain interest centered in the final vote, and aside from this there was lit­ tle of a dramatic character in the debate. The early part of the day was spent on amendments of comparatively minor im­ portance, the debate branching into financial and anti-trust channels. By .4 o'clock the Seuators began riianifesting their impatience by ealJs for "vote," "vote," and soon. thereafter the last amendment was disposed of and the final vote began. There were ..many"interrupt tions jis pairs were arranged, and then at 4:55 o'clock the Vice President arose and announced the passage of the bill-- yeas, 38; nays, 28. There was no dem­ onstration, but a few scattered hand­ claps vvere given as the crowds dispersed. Following is the vote cast: ' Y E A S " Allison, McMillan, Baker, Mantle, Burrows, Mason, Carter, • Morrill, Clark, Nelson, Cullom, Penrose, Davis, Perkins, Dehoe, Piatt (Conn.), Elktns, Piatt (N. Y.), Fairbanks, Pritchard, Foraker, Proctor, Gallinger, Quay, Hale, Sewell, Ha una, Shoup, Hawley, Spooner, .Tones (Xev.), Wnrren, Lodge, Wellington, McBride, Wetmore, McEnery, Wilson--38. NAYS. - Bacon, Mallory, Bate, Martin, Berry, M I I I b , Caffery, Mitchell, Cannon, Morgan, Chilton. Pasco, Clay, Pettus, Cockrell, Rawlins, .Faulkner, Roach, Gray, Turner, t Harris (Kan.), Turple, Jones (Ark.), Vest, Kenny, Walthall, Lindsay, White--28. The fcllowing pairs were announced, the first named would have voted for the bill and the last named against it: Aldrlch.and Murphy, Chandler and Mc- Lauriu, Frye and Gorman, Gear and Smith, Hansbrougli and Daniel. Hoar and Harris (Tenn.), Thurston and Tillman, Wolcott and George. < An analysis of the final vote shows that; the affirmative was cast by 35 Republi­ cans, 2 silver Republicans, Jones (Nev.), and Mantle, and 1 Democrat, McEnery. The negative vote was cast by 25 Dem­ ocrats, 2 Populists, Harris (Ivan.), and Turner, and 1 silver Republican, Cannon. Eight Republicans were paired for the bill and eight Democrats against it. The Senators present and not voting were: Populists, 5, viz., Allen, Butler, Heitfeld, Ivyle and Stewart; silver Republicans, 2, viz., Teller and Pettigrew. Following the passage,of the bill a reso­ lution was agreed to asking the House for a conference, and Senators Allison, Al- drich, Piatt (Conn.), Burrows, Jones (Nev.), Vest, Jones (Ark.), and White were named as conferees on the part of the Senate. The tariff debate began May 25, on which day Mr. Aldrich, in behalf of the Finance Committee, made the opening statement. The actual consideration of the bill began the next dayu>and debate has been continuous since then, covering six weeks and one day. It has been nota­ ble in some respects, although it has lack­ ed many of the dramatic and oratorical features marking former debates. From the outset the advocates of the bill re­ frained from set speeches, and the discus­ sion was narrowed to a consideration of rates and schedules, rather than general principles. Mr. Aldrich's illness took him from the. chamber afjter the first day, and since then the bill has been in immediate charge of Mr. Allison. The opposition has been directed in the main by Mr. Jones (Ark.) and Mr. Vest (Mo.), while Senators White, Caffery, Gray and Allen have fre­ quently figured in the debate. The bill as it goes back to the House re-enacts the anti-trust section of the Wilson law, while the reciprocity and retaliatory pro­ visions are substituted for those of the House. One of the most important new provis­ ions added by the Senate is that placing a stamp tax on bonds, debentures and cer­ tificates of stock. Aside from these more important changes the bill as it goes back to the House has 874 amendments, of va­ rious degrees of importance, which must be reconciled between t^e two branches of Congress. _____ Frte'eJT**®® v/e jTfiusT. • iome Plain Facts Abont the Progress of the Tariff Bill-Had Republicans Controlled the Senate It Would Have Passed Long Ago. * Unscrupulous Obstructionists. Washington correspondence: Now that the tariff bill is about to become a law, and now that many feel that there was more time consumed in it than there should have been, it is well enough that the people should un­ derstand just where the delay occurred and what party is responsible for it. The ^act is, first, that the Republi­ cans do not control the Senate, and are not, therefore, responsible foi;' the delay there. While they have, desired to discuss certain features of it, they have omitted to do so whenever possi­ ble, in order to prevent delay. It is the Democrats who have spent the time since it was taken up in the Sen­ ate, and spent it in talk. The pressure on the part of the people for early ac­ tion was so very great that the Re­ publicans were willing to forego, for the present, any attempt to answer the false and unjust charges which are being put upon record and spread be­ fore the public by those Democrats who are attacking the bill, and for po­ litical purposes? The pressure from the people for ac­ tion on the bill is unusually gr6at, more so than has even been seen on : any occasion of this kind. It is not surprising, of course, t$S people who have suffered as ours have, under the depressing and blighting influences of the present tariff law, should be anx­ ious, very anxious, for its instant re­ peal and the substitution of the protec­ tive system under which the country was so prosperous for so many years. But it seenis that they do not l-ealize the embarrassment under which the Republicans in the Senate have been laboring. If they were to stop' a mo­ ment and consider the fact that the Republicans are in an absolute minor­ ity in the Senate, that their hands have been tied, and that it is with the great­ est difficulty and diplomacy that we were able to comamnd or obtain a suffi­ cient number of votes for the protective theory, they would not have been im­ patient, even under the distressing cir­ cumstances with which they are sur­ rounded. It has seldom, if ever, hap­ pened within the history of the coun­ try that a tariff was enacted when the two branches of Congress were not controlled by one party. Yet the Re­ publican party, with only a minority in the Senate, has undertaken to pass a protective tariff bill. No administra­ tion, since Washington, ever saw a tariff bill make such progress or as near completion at this date in its his­ tory as is the case at the present mo­ ment, even under the most favorable circumstances, and now that this has been accomplished, with the Republi­ can party in a minority in the Senate, unable to control that body with its own votes, absolutely unable to hasten action by any of the rules by which debate is controlled in other parliamen­ tary bodies, and simply dependent up­ on the wliims and political wishes of those who are opposed to it for permis­ sion to proceed at all, it seems that the people should realize that the Repub­ licans are doing all that is possible to hasten action, and should place the blame for the delay where it belongs-- tipon the Democrats. (, It is the Democratic party and its leaders who are responsible for delay in action upon the tariff bill in the Sen­ ate. Had not the hands of the Re­ publicans in the Senate been tied ab­ solutely, the bill would have been upon the statute books long before now. The Republicans have worked in season and out of season to hasten-action on this bill. They have laid ££ide every other consideration. They, considered the various items in the bill,,schedule by schedule, and paragrapli,;by:.para­ graph, in conference and caucus, and before the Finance Committee day by day, outside of the regular hours of the session, and during hours of the ses­ sion, depriving themselves of the op­ portunity to answer the criticisms made upon the bill and upon the party, simply for the purpose of gaining time and hastening final action. They sat in their seats, quietly, in response to the demand of the people that nothing should interfere with prompt action by the Senate, knowing that there was no other way by which ethey could hasten the final vote. The Democratic mem­ bers, recognizing the fact that the Re­ publicans, in their anxiety to hasten the passage of the bill, were omitting to answer the false charges made I against the bill and the party, proceed­ ed to pile up groundlss attacks and charges, setting up straw men and fighting them for the purpose of mak- I ing cheap political capital, and the Re­ publicans listelied silently to these false charges made simply because of loyalty to those who were demanding prompt action. The fault of delay is not with the Republican party, which I does not, and can not, control the Sen­ ate, but is with the Democratic leaders I and party, who are persistently and I unnecessarily and maliciously delaying this beneficent measure, in order to permit their allies, the importers, to fill the country with foreign goods, and I at the same time to embarrass and pile up false charges against the Republi- I can party, and reduce the prospects of I revenue during the first live months of the operations of the new law. ! A. B. CARSON. favorable crop prospects. The factor 000,000 a year, and, as the new steam- of abundant money has been preseixt er line is sure to be in connection with for some time. Loans have been easy the Canadian Pacific and the British to obtain on good names or collateral, line to Australia, the,Post figures "it and at remarkably low rates of inter- is evident that Canada may find that est; but borrowers have been rather her prosperity will not be altogether scarce, not choosing to increase their blighted by the shadow of the tariff liabilities until' they could see some wall that we are building against her." prospect of safe investment. But the This great good to Canada is to be bank statements of the past few weeks accomplished by what the Post calls a have shown a gratifying expansion of "subsidy" of £154,500,a year. Possibly loans, indicating that the money is go- that paper can explain why a subsidiz­ ing into active use. The New York ed steaifier line should prevent the statement of Saturday shows an ex- blight of Canadian prosperity and be pansion in loans of over $3,000,000; at so bad for the interests of the United the same time the deposits increased States. But it probably will not. $4,560,000, and the reserve is nearly $50,000,000 in excess of the legal re­ quirements. It is this plethora of funds that deprives the gold exports of their former terror. There is a cheerful indifference to the outward flow of the yellow metal, because the bankers and financiers know that we have enough and to spare, and that we shall get it all back again in the fall, when the crop movement is fairly un­ der way. This crop movement will soon start the flow of money from New York and other seaboard centers to the interior, and any local stringency that may exist will be abated--While Eu­ rope, owing to short stocks and abund­ ant supplies, is sure to want a. large percentage of our bountiful crops. Thus there is a prospect of easy money for the balance of the year.--Minneapolii- Tribune. Sixteen to One Dent1. "For one, I do not believe it possible to succeed upon a platform that de­ mands the unqualified free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 with gold. We have fought that battle and it h lost. We can never light it over under circumstances more favorable to our­ selves. If we hope to succeed, we must abandon this extreme demand." «- In these words, Horace Boies, former Governor of Iowa, and erstwhile Dem­ ocratic Presidential aspirant, addresses the voters of the United States who demand the free coinage of silver. He does it through the medium of a letter to Col. D. M. Fox, of Des Moines. "The friends of silver, although once defeated, are not yet demoralized. This will not be true after a second defeat," he warningly says. "In our next battle we must win or our case is lost." Although Mr. Boies has in private frequently expressed hostility to the 16 to 1 plank of the Chicago platform, this is the first authoritative declara­ tion from him to that effect. In pub­ licly declaring it to be a dead issue he gives at length his reasons for assert­ ing it to be such. He says the voters buried it under the belief that it meant silver monometallism, pure and sim­ ple, which would increase instead of diminish the misfortunes attributed to the single standard. "It matters not," he says, "how we convince the people the gold standard is wrong unless we convince them that what we offer in its place is better in­ stead of worse." By the adoption of the 16 to 1 plank he declares the delegates to the Chi­ cago convention forced the silver forces to assume the defensive for their new creed. When Mr. Boies was questioned con­ cerning the latter, he said: "My letter to Col. Fox I knew to be contrary to the views of the radical sil­ ver men, but it is in line with my for­ mer position on this question, and in writing it I did so with the hope that the two wings of the Democratic party might see in the plan outlined some method by which they could get togeth­ er on the money question." Interests of the Consumers. At no time have the interests of the consumers been considered. They con­ stitute the greater portion of those af­ fected by a tariff, but their welfare does not enter into the delusive schemes of the protective tariff theory. --Easton (Pa.) Argus. Oh, yes; they have been considered! Who are the consumers but our great army of workers? A protective tariff .is enacted in order that our masses may have work, may earn wages, may spend their money, and may "consume" what they buy. Without the work they cannot earn, they cannot spend money, they cannot buy, and they can­ not consume. A protective tariff is de­ signed to serve the best interests of the millions of our "consumers." Surplus and No Surplus. There is a surplus in the treasury which, though it was placed there by the sale of bonds of the.United States to help out the deficiency caused by the failure of Democratic revenue legisla­ tion to provide the necessary revenues, still the surplus is there. This makes the question of necessary national rev­ enue less important for the moment in comparison with the question of promptly excluding foreign importa­ tions in tli£ Interests of protection. There is a surplus in the treasury, but there is no surplus in the pockets of the American workingmen who want em­ ployment. The Service of a Subsidy. d Writing of the new line of steamers between Canada and England, with which the British are fighting the American line between New' York and Southampton, the Evening Post of New i York calls attention to the fact that i Australian commerce amounts to $550,- STEAM AS A MOTIVE POWER The First Vessel So Propelled Was I Invented by a Spaniard. | The application of steam as a moving power is claimed by various nations, but for the first extensive employment of it the world indisputably owes the English and the Americans. As early as 1543 a Spanish captain named Blas- co De Garay Showed in the harbor of Barcelona a steamboat of his own in­ vention. The preacher Mathesius, in his sermon to miners in Nnreimburg in 1502, prays for the man who "raises water from fire and air," showing tihe early application of steam power in Germany. An Italian engineer, G. Be- anca, invented in 1629 a sort Off steam windmill. In England among the first notices of steam power is one contained in a small volume published in 1647, enititled "The Art of Gunnery," by Nat Nye, in which he proposes to "charge a piece of ordnance without gunpow­ der" by putting in water instead of powder, ramming down an air-tight plug and then the shot, and applying a lire to the breach "till It burst out sud- I denly." But the first successful effort was that of the Marquis of Worcester. In his "Century of Inventions," in 1655, he describes a steam apparatus by which he raised a column of water to the height otf forty feet. This, under the name of "fire water work," was actually at work at Vauxhall in 1656. j The first patent for the application of steam power to various kinds of ma­ chines was taken out in 1698 by Capt. Sayery. In 1699 he exhibited before the Royal Society a working model of his Invention. His engines were the first used to any extent in industrial operations. In all the attempts at j pumping engines hitherto made, includ- I ing Savery's, the steam acted directly upon the water to be moved, without any intervening part To Dr. Papon, a celebrated Frenchman, is due the idea of the piston. It was first used by him in 1690. The next step in appliance was made in 1705, in the "atmospheric engine" conjointly invented by New- coine<n, Ctewley and Savery. This ma­ chine held its own for nearly seventy years, and was very largely applied to mines. The next essential Improve­ ments on the steam engine were those of Walt, which began a new era in the history of steam power. His first im­ provement was the separate condenser, patented in 1769. The principal Im- I provements that have been made 6ince Watt's time have been either in mat­ ters relating to the boiler, in details of construction consequent upon our in­ creased facilities, improved machinery and greater knowledge of the strength I of materials, in the enlarged applica-j tion of his principle of expansive work­ ing, or in the application of the steam engine to the propulsion of carriages J and vessels. j Falling Walls at Fires j Mr. Charles T. Hill contributes to St.! Nicholas an article on "The Perils of- a Fireman's Life," in the course of which he says: • j There are several kinds of falling. walls, and the fireman of experience I knows them well, and what to expect from each. There Is one kind thaj breaks first at the bottom and comes down almost straight, somewhat like a curtain. This makes a big noise, but Is not very much to be dreaded. Then there is another that bulges or Vbuc- I kles" in the middle at first, and makes a sort of curve as it descends. This is a little more serious than the first, and 1 has caused many fatalities. Then there J is one that breaks at the bottom and comes straight out, reaching clear across the street, and remaining almost solid until It strikes; and, as an old- 1 time fireman once remarked: "That's the kind you want to dodge." j I This kind of "falling wall" has caus-* ed more deaths In the department than any other danger the firemen have to contend with. It has killed horses as , well as men, and destroyed apparatus; , and it is so rapid in its descent, andi . covers so much space, that to escape It • the men have to be quick indeed. 1 I Eighteen Miles in Three Days. ' I A drug firm of Bazhon Kan., a sta- 1 tion on the Kansas City & Northwest-i 1 em railroad, demands of the Kansas " I State Board of Railroad Com minis- sioners that an order be made requlr-1 Business and Wheat. Ming that railroads give its customers I The keynote of the business situation I j better train facilities. The station is I is increasing confidence. This is shown 3 18 miles from Leavenworth, but It not only in the stock market, where an 3 I takes three days for freight to be de-1 old-fashioned bull movement has been '• Uvered at Bazhon and two days are in progress for about a month, but in II consumed by passengers in making the I lines of legitimate trade as well. Dun's 11 round trip. The same slow time is weekly review says0: "There is no ^ made to and from Kansas City. It is step backward In business, although a averred that the road Is to run to the season of midsummer quiet is near. fl freeze out the merchants and to favor I The improvement continues, gradual, e the Missouri Pacific. The complaint I and prudently cautious as before, and a closes with the declaration that the in many branches evident where no ^ I superintended^ of the road "lacks, the signs of it appeared a few weeks ago." a I mental ability to make a section I It is further stated that business men 16 I hand."--Kansas City Star. I of the highest standing In all parts of n . ---- V • I the country have perceived the rising We have noticed that married women J tide and are making their plans for the e- who are kept occupied don't excite as I future with a confidence unknown a ns much sympathy as the Idle ones, for J short time ago. Id the reason that they don't have tlm« I The main factors in the improved e- to pine, and do jusue* to it, J feeling are the rapid progress of the tariff bill towards completion and the The Return of Prosperity. No business man who has closely watched the progress of affairs during the past three months need be told that in his particular line Of trade, and in the particular section of the country in which he resides; there is a distinct up­ ward movement.which augurs a speedy return of, prosperity. The collected views of these business men from ev­ ery section of the country indicate the feeling of the nation, and from these we may judge accurately whether or not the promised return of prosperity is near at hand. No one is in a better position thus to feel the pulse of the nation than the Secretary of the Treas­ ury, who is thrown in direct contact, daily with the leading business and financial men, and as Secretary Gage has again reiterated his belief that bet­ ter times are coming, we may give his statement more than usual credence. The Secretary bases his statement upon reports which have been received from all sections of the country, and he makes it with complete confidence. We cannot, as he says, expect good times all at oihee. The" country has passed through ji period <pf depression the effects of which will outlive the century. An Immediate' revival of the prosperity we opee enjoyed would therefore, be impossible, but the times can become much better than they have been--much better than they are now--and when Secretary Gage states that there are already marked signs of a revival, those who have been anx­ iously watching for a return of good times will agree with him that there are not wanting those indications which bespeak great improvement in the business situation in the near fu- ture. What is needed most is public confi­ dence. Without that there can be n prosperity. When people begin to be­ lieve that good times are at hand, the battle against depression has been more than half won. Flood of Foreijrn Goods. The following statements show the increases in exports of foreign goods from certain American consulates dur­ ing the months of March, April and May this year, as compared with the corresponding months in 1896. No fur­ ther argument was needed to show why the Dingley tariff should have been promptly passed by Congress: March to May, Inclusive. In- Consulate. 1800. 1897. crease. St. (5a 11 $1,035,839 $1,400,753 ? 370,914 Manchester . 2,809,535 3,880,380 1,070,845 V-radford 5,910,318 Karnsley 45,811 I.eeds 584,800 1,213,585 028,785 Nottingham . 735,734 1,156,900 421,226 Kuddersfleld . 037,125 1,691,700 1,054,575 THiistall 1,038,016 1,607,543 029,527 Sheffield 632,960 790,493 157,.>33 I.'urth 354,247 687,903 333,716 Swansea 899.069 1,152.611 253,543 St. Helens... 253,916 425,371 171,454 Glasgow .... 706,792 907,979 201,187 A Shot at Grover. There are some individuals so con­ stituted that they would rather shuffle off this) mortal coil than admit that they could be mistaken.--Binghamton (N. Y.) Herald. Is this a slap at the ex-President? Protcct American Shipping. J. H. R. Molson, a wealthy banker of Montreal, has given $155,000 to Canadian charities. The Crown Princess of Sweden has tak­ en to bicycle riding for her health, and has already found the exercise beneficial. The French ambassador to Great Brit­ ain is the best paid ambassador in the world, his yearly salary being $60,000. Peter L. Hoist of Chicago, a native of Norway, is the oldest man to apply for naturalization in this country. He is 92 years old. The llev. Henry Rupp, now in his 93d year, is the oldest preacher in Illinois, and still preaches every Sunday, being strong and vigorous. Gen. Benjamin Prentiss, the "hero of Sliiloh," at one time one of the wealthiest men in I llinois, . is said to be in meager circumstances. A report that Ruskin's mind is becom­ ing feeble is denied. He is thoughtful and quiet, it is said, but his intelligence is not at all Impaired. The will of Mrs. Sarah Withers of Bloomin^on, Ind., bequeaths $40,000 to found a library in Nicholasville, Ky., wliere she was born. • Dr. Kruma Wakefield, who has just suc­ cessfully passed an examination, is the first colored woman to be licensed to prac­ tice medicine in Louisiana. . Rev. O. W. -Hutchinson of Watertown, Mass.. lias declined the presidency of Grant University, Chattanooga, Tenn.-, to which he was recently elected. , J.. S. Cathon, of 126 Superior street, Cleveland, Ohio, was killed at Denver by falling from the observatory of the Equit­ able Building, a distance of 125 feet.