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JIHWWI COTTAGE AT FORMHAM, (' ,. *raoHNB. BO4*b the »onl ench&nixid lly melody of Koug; 'i|, ' Bore dwelt tho spirit haunfii - %f "> ,£ ^ Byademoniac throng: & .••f;'-'- f ' Hers Mactibn lips elated, ..v.., •".*• •• /••• Here grief and (tenth wore **ted Here loved and here umnated Was he, ao frail, so strong. Here wintry winds and cheerless Tho dying firelight blew While he whoso song WHS peerloBS T Dreamed the drenr midnight And from dull fialiera ohillfcg Crept sVimlonw darkly lining Tbe silent t>lace. anil thrilling 3U fancy as they grew. Hero, with Jjrow bored to HUtfaa, In starry night be stood, , With the lost star of seven Feeling 8Rd HrotherbOvMl. Heri iu the Bobbing showers Of dark :i;ituinn:il hours Be heard suspected powers Shriek through; t he stormy wooi Prom visions of kpolio And of Astarte's bliss, He gaged into the hollow And hopeless vale of Pis ; And though earth were surrounded By Heaven, itstill was mounded With gravo*. His sonl had sounded The dolorous abyss. Proud, mad, bnt act defiant. He touclicil at Heaven andfaeU, Fate found » rare soul plinnfiL * ~ >* A»d rung her changes we"" Alternately his lyre. Stranded with strings of fir*. - Iiedeartn'e most happy eholfet Or flashed with iErofeL • H•' No singer of old story ' Luting accustomed lays, No baiter for new glory. **• >fo menu iron t for praise, He struck high chords and Wherein was fiercely blend . Tones that unfinished ended; With his unfinished day B. /•• j Here through this lowly r°*|pk2 Made sacred by hi* name, ;• Unheralded imniortal . lie mortal went and ca.m#f And fate that then denied hial, ": And envy that descried him, " And malice that belied him, Have cenotaphed his fame. --BcstOn Transcript. <fe- '$ WHEN LOVE IS STKONG" |-U ,_ . ---------- i. £ $ ' 4 ' • BT M.6t, • •' -- rtAnfl you iiiarrfed me." hertiusband »id quietly--s.> quietly that Eliza- ||;t beth was startled. i ' . She treated his v.o x.s as * qttes- ifcion. - - -f - " "I don't know why! I was wretch- Sr ed--I wanted to leave home--to see - the sights, new faces. I wanted some npne to help me forget that Phad *5* piven my heart to a man who did not •»', tare for it." - "And so you married juc," Mark - fevelyn said again. ; gr Six hours before they had stood H , tide by side; vowing to cleave to each m%t' bther while their lives lasted. Their ^nig had been a noted one. Mark i yn was the 4'catch" of the sea- j Elizabeth Oilman was much j d when her engagement was an- j 'ed. She had no great gift of B- - ̂ beauty or talent--she was not in her ' , first youth--had been "out!' for Ave | .jfrears. But Mark loved her from the Elizabeth was fond of flowers. Mark brought her fresh ones every day. Ha never bored her with his society, and yet he never left her too much alone. Everyday Elizabeth had some/now thing to be grateful for. -- Mark never approached her with one lover-like attention. He was her friend, and appeared satisfied with things as they were. j One day in her husband's abscae® Elizabeth went into his chamber-- their bed-rooms Were on either side of their parlor. She found there a photo­ graph of Herself; the following- ^ua^i was pasted on the back of it:^7,; •*Oh, lore is weak . , Whieh counts the answer and the galB% Weighs all tho losses and the pHiua, £ltar And eagerly each fond word drains "A joy to seek. When love is strong It never tarries to take hoed. Or know if its return exceed Its gift; in its sweet haste no greed, Wo strife belong. It hardly asks If it l>e loved at all 1 . To take So barren sums, wbea it can malt® . Such bliss for the beloved sake Of bitter tasks t" , " Elizabeth cried bitterly as sh*r*ad. Yes. Mark's was the strong love, and she was not worth it. Why could she not love him? She did. dearly, after a fashion; she revered him, and was grateful for his goodness to her. But the old passion for the one who had not cared for her was still alive. She could not pretend what she did *not feel. •s ishe felt very humble. If she could only do something for him! In the beginning, when she. first realized how he intended to treat her, she had begged him to be less kind--to put her away from him. She never for­ got his reply.-- "If you could be happier away from me, you should be free. You say he does not want your love. I want at* least your friendship, your comrade­ ship.;' * # * * * * * The Opera House was packed. Bernhardt was giving a performance of Cleopatra. In one of the boxes sat Mr. and Mrs. Evelyn, and many were the opera glasses directed toward them. Elizabeth was lost in the play. She listened breathlessly to the passionate words of the queen. It was thus she could love. At that moment her eyes wandered from the stage and fell upon the upturned face of the man for whose sake she had made kind Mark's life so barren. ••Are you ill, dear?" whispered her husband--he was quick to note every change in her. ' They left the theater. The next dav Elizabeth was able to control herself when Mark said.-- "There is a Mr. Hugh Whittill here from your old home; he has asked my permission to call." How could she tell her husbanci "What is it, dear?" said Mark, eagerly. * / "I want you, Mark--I love you!" Aud without Waiting tor him to come to her, she ran and threw her arms around his neck.--WavtPfly Magazine. ACCOUNT STOCK. FIGURES THAT t>BAL IN PACTS AMD NOT 8KNTIMBNT.* V ? Uiacnveryof VrliMH, Wine is reputed to have been dis­ covered by Jemsheed, the founder of PenSei>olis, the faiuous capital of ancient Persea. He was a great lover of grapes, and in order to have them all the year ipund, had large quanti­ ties, packed away in enormous eartheW jars. After standing for some tinie, one of the jars was opened and the grapes were found in a state of fer­ mentation. Jemsheed imagined that the Re­ sultant liquid was poisonous, and ac­ cordingly had it placed in other jars which were labeled "Poison" and con­ veyed to his bed-chamber. One of the ladies of the harem hap­ pened one day to be suffering from a severe headache. t So great was the pain that she was driven to the verge of distraction, and. spying one of tho vessels containing the grape juicc, immediately opened it and took s copious draught of the supposed po!- son. The wine mounted to her head, overpowered her senses and she sank into a profound sleep from which she awoke greatly refreshed. The remedy proved so enticing that she indulged in it whenever an opportunity pre­ sented, until at last the jars #erc emptied. Soon after the King being^desifous of examining his '-'poison" uTas duni- founded at its sudden disappearance nuinber in_business was smaller last anri immnriiofnhr inctitnt^ on ii, year than at any time since 188o. Last and immediately .instituted an in- £ear there was 1 failure to every 102 in quiry as to who had the audacity, not business; in 1S90 it was 1 to 93; in 188;) to say foolhardiness, to tamper with it was 1 to 97; in 1888 it was 1 to 98; in DUPrrevce Bttw*«u ths Two Utieal Parties--TIow Proteetloa Is In­ trenched--A Kai<t From the South-- that Stand for Soasothlag. * ' Am Aceoant of Stoek. v Tt is always interesting to read reli­ able figures that tell of the country's prosperity. They are devoid of senti­ ment, and appeal fo the business sense and intelligence of the people. There is nodemagogism &>out them, no partisan clap-trap, nothing to create prejudice. Figures that give solid information, and deal in facta of a ; pradical sort, should be printed in all public journals, no matter what their politics, that every­ body who reads and wants to keep post­ ed m regard the progress of the nation might know how things are running--for instance, under the tariff law of 1890. During 1890, every Democrat who could sneak or write spoke and wrote against the McKinlev bill. It was predicted by the enemies ot the bill that it would lead to more financial failures than were ever before known. Probably they didn't believe this, but they preached it, nevertheless, and now let us see how thinga stand alter an ac­ count Of stock has been taken. The Commercial and Financial Chron­ icle, of New York, is a paper which deals iu coid-blooded figures. It does not deal in guess-work, but prints fig­ ures that pass current everywhere. A few days airo this paper printed some statistics that have merit and interest, about them. Here is the record of fail­ ures: The proportion of failures to the number in business ^ibeginniug of their acquaintance, and 1 that this man was his rival? So Mark rejoiced when she proiiiiseJ to be his wife " i tf; Mark Evelyn's nature was a noble j one; selfishness "had not the slightest; '•» place in 'lv Heretofore lie had de-1 ^served little credit for this; the best | things in life had always come to | :!:him; he had never been disappointed, j Was an adored son and brother, a gen- j „' . pral favorite in society. Without be- j limning in the least conceited, he knew | *his power and worth. And now this j *4^ • woman he adored--his wife--had told i .^hitn that she did not love him! ' Elizabeth sat miseraldy before her Y-t husband. He noted everything about ^ " her--the way her soft wrapper clung to her form--just how she held her hands--clutched, not clasped. The little pain lines about her mouth gj|v , hurt him so! Her eyes were cast V\ • down--her face looked dead. Mark felt sure that her heart was saying; , "Life is all over for me." 4fl , - "Elizabeth," he said slowly and kindly, "you have done yourself a Sreat wrong. You should have told me all this yesterday." c f v . " Y o u d i d n o t a s k m e i f 1 l o v e d % ' you," began his wife, half defiantly. "I did not think it necessary, t dear," he answered. "I believed you W v; incapable of marrying one you did not care for." Elizabeth shivered. She felt that she deserved this, and more. But Mark never, reproached her again. "A few hours ago you promi« id to "honor and obey me," he continued after a while. "Will you let me * shape your future? You married me « , to enable you to forget. May I help you? Do not tell me that man's name--it will not mend matters. 1^ 'You wanted to leave home--to make 1 a new life for yourself--you shall do so. We will stay in California--I \ t have Interests there. If I thought you would be happier away from me, . I would leave you. But I know you would not. Our seperation mjght H y; % .give rise to scandal--you would have I^V ^ to bear the burden of blame. I |will gfty , be your husband only in the eyes of ; : the world--but I can protect vou'and 2k: be your friend. I have the right to !i% " atek what I please of you, Elizabeth, 61 * and I ask this." Thus was formed a strange friend­ ship. A vfear later, Mr. and Mrs. Evelyn occupied a suite of rooms in a San Francisco hotel. They were a model pair--quite the talk of the house. After a whole year of married life, brought temptation into his wife's life. Hugh Whittill was not a villain in the usual sense of the word. He had admired Elizabeth Gilman, but could not afford to love, much less marry, a poor girl. She had not hidden her liking for him. He was not above flirting; there would be no danger to himself now--she was a married wo­ man. Mark treated Whittill cordially, in­ viting him often to drive and dine with them. .Elizabeth observed to­ ward him a co(il politeness. This course of conduct caused Hugh Whittill to think that he had loved her very desperately.in the past,after all. and loved her still. Cliff House. Mark went to order some refreshments; Elizabeth stood on the end of the long galleries, watching the waves. The crowd had dispersed; the last car had departed; she believed herself to be alone. IIow grand the ocean looked! So endless; It reminded her of one thing--Mark's love for herselt. She remembered the poepi on her photo- ill this husband continued to spend his ; delight. She turned to Hugh Whit- the royal stores. This resulted in the discovery of the culprit, who con­ fessed. and after explaining the de­ lightful effect produced by the liquor, was fully forgiven by his majesty. He ordered a generous quantity of wine to be made, and, with his court, reveled in the delights of wine-drink­ ing for many years thereafter. From that time to the present day the Per­ sians call wine Zeher-e-Kooshon, which signifies "delightful poison," thus perpetuating the story of its pe­ culiar origin. Keeping One's Temper. A merchant in Alexandria had a dispute with a "fellah." as a peasant is called, about the settlement of an account. The merchant was deter­ mined to bring the question to the court, to which the fellah objected. ! Desiring to make a last effort the fellah called at the merchant's office | one morning and asked the servant if his master was in. The merchant, hearing the inquiry and knowing who it was, called aloud from the office: I "Tell that rascal I am not in," . | The fellah, looking up toward him, calmly said: * "Well, sahib, God put thee in a bet­ ter mind." The merchant was struck with the meekness of this reply, and havinfe looked more carefully into the mat­ ter he became eonvinccd that the fel­ lah was right and he in the wrong. He sent for the fellah, and, after acknowledging his error, he said: „ ' "I want to ask you one question. How were you able to bear my abuse with such patience?" "Sahib," replied the fellah, "I will tell thee. I was natuhilly as hot and violent as thou art. I knew that to indulge this temper was sinful, and I found that it was imprudent. I ob- i served that men in a passion often Onc^evening the three were at the j speak loud, and I thought that if I _•« "*r~ " could control my voice I should re­ press my passion. I have, therefore, made it a rule never to suffer toy voice to rise above a certain key, and,*, by carefully observing this rule, I have entirely masterd my natural passion. J^lfe-Shorlraiua: Occupations. One of the curious features or modern life is the extent to which the most hazardous trades are over­ run by applicants for work. The electric light companies never find any difficulty in obtaining all the linemen they need, notwithstanding the fact that the dangers of that kind of busi­ ness have been demonstrated times without number. The men work in factories, says the American Medical Journal, where wall paper is made, frequehtly joke one another over the tradition that a man's life is short­ ened ten years. A similar belief is prevalent in factories where leather papers are made, and among men who have to handle them and whose lungs are said to become impeded by in­ haling the dust arising from such papers. In certain other factories where brass ornaments and fittings are made the air is laden with very fine brazen particles which are, when in­ haled, especially irritating to the lungs. But one of the most singular advertised calls for employes th^ was ever printed appeared in a Connecti- .cut newspaper, signed by a firm en­ gaged in the business of building towers. It called applicants only from among those who were young, strong and courageous,°arid closed by saying: "We warn all seekers for this job that it is of the most danger­ ous nature, and that few men con tinue in it more than a few years. graph: "When love Is strong. It never tarries to take heed.* "A beautiful thought," said Hugh Whittill who had approached unob­ served. "You were thinking that i this great, endless looking ocean is ! like a strong love." Elizabeth's heart beat violently. Her cheeks flushed deeply. Hugh noticed this, and went on eagerly,-- "And it is, Elizabeth--like mine for you. Why did you not wait for me? Why did you not know that I loved you?"' The next moment was like a year to Elizabeth. This man had occupied her heart for the last six years; she had believed lie would occupy it for ever; for his sake she had put aside her husband's noble affection, that spent itself so generously upon her-- taking nothing, giving all. After all this weary time of crav­ ing what she had wanted might be hers under altered conditions, and could it be that she did not care be­ cause morally it was out of her reach? She was shocked for a moment, then a prayer of thanksgiving burst from her soul. She, knew what it pieant--she loved her husband! • Her heart grew lighter at each | breath. She felt like laughing in her evenings with his wife. He gave no till, little dinner parties, frequented no clubs, participated in no innocent flirtations--seemed scarcely to be aware of the many beautiful women who were ready to smile upon him anfl his wealth. _ < And the men soon discovered an­ other remarkable circumstance. Mrs. Evelyn paid not the smallest atten­ tion to their admiring glances. The dead look in Elizabeth's face had gone, and so had the pain lines about her mouth. Day after day she acknowledged to herself that she had never been as happy as she was now. There was nothing Mark could do. that he did not do for her. He lavished his wealth upoti her. She had no petty . annoyances, and en­ joyed complete liberty. She had no moods to contend with in her hus­ band. It Mark had faults, he never displayed them before her. Her life was like a beautiful dream. Every little attention was hers--her very wishes were anticipated. Mark studied her tastes, her ideas on every subject. They were en- tlreiy congenial. Both were devoted to music and art. They practiced and sang together. They loved books, ami read the'bewest, and best of litera- 1887 it was 1 to 103; in 188(i it was 1 to 98. The average liabilities of those who failed last year were $lo,471 and for the preceding year $17,400. It is noted, too. that the situation improved steadily during the year. Says the Chronicle review: The year 1891, starting under such con­ ditions, and meetmyr, ns the year pro- tressed, the new trials incident to our large gold exports, presents a record of increased failures, except for the last quarter, when they were comparatively small, because the last quarter of the year alfords almost always the largest totals. Thus in 1891 the liabilities m that (juarter were a little less than 28 per cent of that year's total liabilities; in 1890 they were about 47 per cent., and in 1889 they were * L9>£ per cent.; while the number of failures in the last quarter of 1891 was 28"per cent, of the total number tor the year, against 1!0}£ per cent, in 1890, 27}j per cent, in 1890 and 29>£ per cent, in 188s. Take the record of 1891 as a whole we should say that the results were much leas unfavorable than might have been expected, while the final quarter indicates that the change in the in­ dustrial conditions which has now taken place has proceeded so far as to relieve in a considerable measure the strain under which mercantile classes rested. Not only were there less failures dur­ ing 1891 than for several years, but it was the most prosperous year for farm­ ers and merchants or mechanics that had been known since 1878. Then, another thing which deserves attention; everybody knows who re­ members anything of the campaign of 1890, that the Democrats were loud and bitter in their denunciation of the tarifi law for the alleged reason that it would interfere with our foreign trade. But let us see how we came out in that re­ spect. The official figures are as fol­ lows: Exports. Imports. MM 5850,570,000 JS8.951.000 189a...^» 759,051,000 14,197.000 I889_ 780,205,000 10,700,000 1S8*. 006,003,000 10,054,000 '887- 642,071,000 48.C84.000 1886. 6^7,987,000 29,658,000 Here is a wonderful increase of ex­ ports in 1891--and December iB not in­ cluded, for the official figures are not yet obtained--over the previous year. The increase in imports for 1891 is due to the fact that 122.000,000 was for tin plate imported during the firet six months of the year to escape paying the new duty. It is the last opportunity England will ever have again of im­ porting that much tin to this country in any one year, or in any five years, for in less than two years America will' largely use American tin. Kt To, Brute. Congressman Daniel N. Lockwood, of Buffalo, thinks Hill will have the New York delegation in the Democratic national convention, to which the New ] York Press replies: "Such a thing com- i ing from 'Dan' Lockwood must make | Grover Cleveland see stars. Lockwood t was Cleveland's mascot fo^a time, then j his Nemesis. He is still his Nemesis. ".ynen Lockwood in Erie County 1 Dominated Cleveland successively for i Bberiff, for mayor of Buffalo, and for eovernor of New York, and when he finally raised his clarion voice for ] Cleveland for President in the Demo- | cratic national convention of 1884, the conventions to which he spoke ratified the nomination he proposed. In every instance Cleveland was elected. In 1888 another eloquent voice was raised in the Democratic national convention to advocate the renomination of Presi­ dent Cleveland. It was ' tJfjat of the classic orator, Daniel Dougherty. Mas­ terly and eloquent and dramatic, he be­ longed to the conservative and slow- going element of his party, and the en­ thusiasm which had greeted the efforts of hustling Dan Lockwood on previous occasions in Cleveland's career was not reproduced, but lost. Mr. Cleveland also lost the election. . "Lockwood's present position on the presidential question may well make Cleveland shudder and cry, 'Et tu, Brute.' Bow Protection is Intrenched. Robert Ellis Thompson, one of tbe oldest exponents of the American sys­ tem of protection, writes the following for the IriBh World: "Mr. Crisp'sWec- tion to the speakership is distinctly the jn ! achievement of the taction which is not i beneficial to American labor. It is a ! taiiff which has redveed the cost of liv- ' ing to every American in the whole country, while securing the maximum of employment to labor. It is a tariff whose extension of the free list has re­ duced the import duties so far that for tho present the problem of disposing of a surplus is not an urgent one. It is a tarifi whose reciprocity clauses have secured a great enlargement of our commerce with our immediate neigh­ bors on ©ur own continent, and that in the very articles of farm produce for which we have been looking for an out­ let in the interest of the American farmer. It is a tariff which guards the interests of the farmer as a producer of industrial crops, such as wool, as was not done-by the tariff of 1883. "There is not a point at which our revenue'reformers'can touch this tar­ iff without manifestly injuring some great American interest. And there is not a point at which they can attack any such interest without arousing the unit­ ed opposition of all the rest. The friends of protection were never so united as now. Farmer and manufact­ urer join hands to-day in the bonds of common interest. The bitterness bred hy the inequalities and injustices of the tariff in 1883 is of tne past. The whole country, as was shown by the elections of last month, has wakened up to the true character oT, the McKinlev tariff, and instead of being the most assailable of our tariffs, as it seemed a year aso, it already is established in the confidence of the people, and that all the more for for the Slanders with which it was first assailed and which have been found out." A Katft from the South. The Washington 'correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, writing on the 10th instant, says: "Every Southern Democrat is loaded up with war claims. The like of it has been seen in no previous Congress. In three days Southerners have put in 847 bills for the reimburseipent of their constituents for damages of various kinds sustained during the war. This looks as it 'the Confederacy was in the saddle and pushing things,' as the late Maj. John N. Edwards once said. Throughout they have been, for ap­ pearance's 6ake, a little more discreet. But each Southern congressman seems to have been airaid there wouldn't be anything left m the tieasury if he wait­ ed. These bills are not presented ooen- | ly in the House. They are put into a box. The clerk distributes them to the committees where they belong. The box has been in use only three days, and yet what has it produced? Here are nearly 300 bills a day coming in to pay Southern people for the rail fences burned and the other losses sustained. One Southern mem­ ber has already put in,100 bills of this kind. He is Stone, of Kentucky. Others have presented as many as fifty and sixty apiece, and there is scarcely one Southern Democrat who has not put in some. These bills are of infinite variety. Some of them are sweeping. One in particular will mean millions it' ever becomes a law. It 'authorizes the secretary of war to cause to be in­ vestigated and to provide for the pay­ ment of all claims for the use and occu­ pation of church and school buildings and grounds for government purooses by the United States military authori­ ties during the late war, and all claims for damages resulting from the appro­ priation to government use of any of the furnishings or materials in said class of buildings.' Of all the legisla­ tion yet suggested in the Fifty-second Congress the most startling is this wholesale Southern war claims pay­ ment." . The Difference Between tho Two Great Political Parties. It is good in politics as well as in trade at times^ take a rest, where one can establish a lookout. The reflection is suggested in reading the inaugural of Gov. McKinley, of Ohio. There is a manliness, an uprightness, a fairness and an impartiality in his recommenda­ tion to the legislature to reapportion the congressional and legislative dis­ tricts of Ohio which is as much above the petty, mousing and thieving propo­ sitions of the Democratic leaders in this state when in 1891 they passed their re­ apportionment law as the heaven is above the church. memorably says: Make the districts so fair in their relation to the political divisions of our people that they will stand until a new census shall be taken. Make them so impartial that no future legislature can disturb them until a new census and a new congressional ap­ portionment will make a change impera­ tive. Extreme partisanship in their ar­ rangement should be avoided. There is a sense of fair play among the people which is prompt to condemn a flagrant misuse of )arty advantages at the expense of popu- ar suffrage. We ask the people of our state if Will­ iam F. Vilas or George W. Peck, in their recommendations or their utter­ ances to the Democratic members of the legislature, ever enunciated such a sentiment.? They are of too low a grade of men to be capable bf being perme­ ated with such a sentiment, and there­ fore Vilas and Peck entered into the conspiracy with the other Democratic leaders to carry out a political gerry­ mander in Wisconsin so infamous, so abominable and so villainous that it makes even the worst Democratic poli­ ticians in other states stand aghast at the legislative action as embodied in the law of 1891 of the Vilas-Peck con­ spirators.--Evening Wisconsin. I was thinking of my husband," she said, "His love- for me is like that ocean--only wider and deeper. And mine for him is like it too-- thank God!" When Mark returned she went to his side took his arm, and he won­ dered what had made her so glad. That night, when they reached their sitting-room, Elizabeth went to him. ^Mark," she said, "1 have some­ thing to tell you. Will you help me?" "She put her hand into his. As he clasped it he felt how it trembled. "Do I not always help you, my dear?" he said gently. "Mark, Hugh Whittill was the man I told you about, and he did catre for me, after all." Mark's heart felt dead. This JtheH was what had brought the glaahe-is to her eyes. "I understand," he retttrned." <fYou shall be free." He turned to leave the room. But Elizabeth called to him,-- "Mark! Mark! Don't you see how it is? I don't want to be free! I want----" k But she was sobbing so that she 4 could no longer apeak. fact, it is almost certain death to the workman who follows this occupa­ tion." - flubenstelii'N Circnmvtanees. Mr. Rubenstein the other day paid a flying visit to Paris en route for Milan, where he is now in negotia­ tion, dit-on, for the production of one of his operas at the Scala. Mean­ while a project is on foot in Paris, under the auspices of the Vicomtcsse de Grefulhe and other leaders of so­ ciety, for the production of M. Rubin­ stein's opera, "Le Demon," by a Russian troupe at the Eden Theatre, the vast stage of which would afford a fitting frame for the elaborate mise en scene required by the composition. There is something very pathetic about Rubinstein's present circum­ stances. Latterly the great maestro has entirely given up to his wife and to his two sons his magnificent resi­ dence of Pcterhoff, and has made Dresden his headquarters. There he lives in a modest, almost shabbily furnished, apartment. If eveir he cared for t.hejximp and vanity of the world he haS ceased to do so now. The cataract from which he has long suffered has recently much-increased* and threatens before long to deprive him entirely of his sight.--Pall Mall , Gazette afraid of free silver, but is afraid of free trade. I wish I could say that its fear of free trade is a fear for {he coun­ try; but it is not so. It is only a fear for the party. If it were not that they see the presidential election ahead, and remember how that issue affected the •ote of 1888, they probably would not be a whit behind Mr. Mills and Mr. Cleveland in their readiness to plunge the country into an experiment of that kind. But they have wit to see that their party might just as well commit suicide at once as announce boldlv what it would like to do with the tarifr, and act upon the avowal. So they will at­ tack the tariff piecemeal, as the old lady shortened her dog's tail--by cut­ ting off jtn inch a fortnight lest it would hurt him too much to have it all taken off at once ! They will masquerade as 'revenue reformers,' under the badly- worn mask Mr. Mills had the couage to throw off in his St. Paul speech, when he declared he was for free trade with­ out any qualifications. "They will not find this policy so easy •8 they did in recent years. Hereto­ fore they were able to take refuge be­ hind the admitted defects and inconsis­ tencies of the tariff, which even protec­ tionists proposed to have revised out of it. Now they have to face a tariff which the friends of protection thoroughly be­ lieve ia, and which is all of a piece. It is a tariff which has enlarged our free list, by taking the duties off all articles which, on protection principles, ought to come in free. It is a tariff which oontaias not a single duty that is not G(jv. Mckinley condition of tilings under the Repub* Mean tariff "robbery." The state augi* tor of Iowa, and he happens to be a Democrat, has issued his report , and it shows that during the past year the hanks in that state, not including na­ tional banks, increased in number 75 and increased in deposits 918,300.000. Iowa's agricultural products were or the value of &).8Cmb0.000- » But, more T^an that, Gov. Boies now says that the people of Iowa are blessed with more general prosperity than at any previous time in their historv; that the agricultural lands of the Btate have advanced in value; that an impetus has been given to tbe upbuilding of cities and towns, and that an era of prosper­ ity has come to the manufacturing and mining industries. It will strike an observing person that Gov. Boies is very much of a dema­ gogue. In his two campaigns for gov­ ernor he was very bitter in the war he waged against the Republican tariff law. He went up and down the state pro­ claiming that the people were bankrupt, that agriculture was depressed beyond everything ever before known, anu that no relief could come until the tariff curse was removed. Now that he is in office, and there is no more use of dem­ agogic speenhfis. he is honest enough to give tne truth, and it must bother the Governor not a little to confess that all this prosperity of which he now so loudly boasts was achieved under the law which he and his party vigorously denounced as a piece of robbery. Facts that Stand lor Something. Tin plate facts will not down to please calamity liars. On the contrary, they insist on hopping up. The Loch laird Estate and Mining Company, the James River Steel and Iron Company and the Cash Tin Mining Company of Virginia have organized a company with $2,000,- 000 capital, partly represented by 4,000 acres of tin ore land and 4;000 acres of iron ore land, to build a tin plate mill in that state that ^vill turn out 600 hoxes daily and employ 600 hands. We are going to make our own tin plate in this country if the workingmen will say by their voice and vote that the Democrats must keep their hands off. . AKRON, Col., Jan. 11.--I have never seen any mention made of the Colorado windmill in any of the newspapers. They are very common here, most all farmers have them, which they made' themselves at a cost of not more than; ?12. They make no noise, have great power, will pump the deepest well, and will last longer than any mill we ever had in this section; in fact, everybody! here thinks they are the beet wind cn-1 gine made. Tbe man who invented the mill gave it to the Agricultural Society' and the society had diagrams printed, showing the different parts with exact measurements and directions, so any­ one can make a mill and they give them free to anyone addressing the secretary1 Agricultural Society, Akron, Col. E very; person can have a mill when he can make it himself, and as most farmers are not aware that a mill can be had sol cheaply I thought I would give the in­ formation so all might be benefited. JOHN CALDOR. While our population was increasing from 50,155,783 in 1880 to 62,480,540 in 1890, our mining products, lor whicl Erotection has largely made the mar-et, increased from $380,000,000 to nearly Free Trader David A. Wells says that the American people use IOBS wool every year on accouni of protection. In 1870 we consumed 7.94 pounds OUQQS ounds Mr. Blaine's Kight to Be a Candidate. The remark is often heard that "Mr. Blaine ought not to be a candidate while secretary of state under President Har- riBon." This, when examined, is a somewhat absurd view. If the people desire a man it makes no^difference what station in life he is holding. They have the right to ask him to serve them. If a member of the cabinet should be a candidate it will be purely a personal question between him and the Presi­ dent whether he should remain in office or resign. The question does not in the least affect his right to candidacy. It is one to be settled by the President alone or by the President and himself. In 1852, when Mr. Webster was sec­ retary of statt under President Fill­ more, both gentlemen were candidates before the national Whig convention at Baltimore, and had a very stubborn contest. In the end, after a great num­ ber of ballots, Gen. Scott watf nomi­ nated. Mr. Filimore, receiving many more votes than Mr. Webster, was seri­ ously weakened in hiB contest by Mr. Webster's candidacy. But Mr. Web­ ster continued Secretary of state under Mr. Fillmore, and, so tar as the public knew, with cordial relations, until his death, five months afterward. After the citation of this precedent nothing should be heard of the impro­ priety of a member of the cabinet run­ ning for the presidency. We have no knowledge as to whether Mr. Blaine intents to be a candidate or to with­ draw. His perfect right under the cir­ cumstances to do either must be con­ ceded. His continued retention of the State Department is another matter, and is purely to be settled by the Presi­ dent, or by his own resignation if he finds himself in any wise embarrassed by remaining secretary of state--New York Tribune. GOT. Boies Whistling Another Tano. When Boies, of Iowa, first ran for governor the burden of his Speech was that the farmers were being loaded Tuj^jh taxation thst ths industrisi of the state were languishing in conse­ quence of a prohibitory tariff, and that under the influence of this "robbery" Iowa was growing poorer instead of richer. In his campaign last fall the Governor still lamented the ruinous per capita; in 1880 per capitis; and-in 1890. per capita. Our per capita consumption of wool is annually increasing under protection. That's what the facts have to say on the subject. The South mined 6,500,000 tons of coal in 1882; last year South in appreciable quantities, these figures speak of manufacturing deve op- ment rather than increased domestic consumption, fs it not strange that Southern congressmen lead in the at­ tacks on the protective duties that are doing so much to develop tbe South? Experts Beaten by Their Own Test. Last Tuesday a delegation of three prominent gentlemen came to the city from Butte, Mont., to consult Congress­ man Dixon in regard to a compromise in the famous Davis will case, involving $10,000,000, says a Washington corre» spondent of the St. Louis Globe-Demo­ crat. The contest turned upon the al­ legation that the will was a forgery. The evidence introduced was designed to prove that the document was written in nigrosin ink which was invented in 1886, some time after the signature was affixed. After a ten days' trial, twelve experts, headed by Carvolho, were in­ troduced to make the final test. Cary- oiho will be remembered as the leadfffr expert in the Murchison letter. TBey asserted that the ink was nigrosin ink. With the acid they produced in court, they said, when applied to the written part of the document, the ink would turn a vivid blue. If it was not nigros­ in ink it would turn red. The test was made by Prof. Hodges, the leading chemist of Harvard. In breathless suspense the contending counsel and the Court looked on as the experiment went forward, upon whose result so much depended. As the acid touched the writing the signature turned a flaming red, alone surpassed by the color in tne faces of the experts as they slunk crestfallen out of the court-room. A New Arctic Travel Scheme. There is a young man in Truckee, Cal., who thinks ne has solved the problem of Arctic travel, and brought the North Pole within the pale of civili­ zation. The machine he has invented a sort of steam-motor sleigh. He has been using the first machine which he constructed--a small one run by hand power--for snow and ice travel among the mountains during the last two years with entire success. He is now having made at the iron works a large one to be run by steam power. If no Arctic explorer takes advantage of this new means of reaching the North Pole by express he will use it for haul­ ing passengers and towing logs and car­ rying freight in the high Sierras, and will have it on hand for transferring passengers over snow blockades on the Central Pacific. He might find a field for his invention if he would join the proposed Perry relief expedition. Fresh Salmon for Europe. An experiment is being made in ship­ ping fresh salmon from the Pacific coast to Europe. If it be successful fresh salmon will be shipped hereaftei instead of canned salmon. Thirt> thousand pounds of fresh salmon was shipped in a car from Frazer River last week, going by way of the Canadian Pa­ cific to New York", and thence in the cold storage room of a German steam­ ship to Hamburg. "FARMER'S BOY--"There's goin' to be a minstrel show, in Pinkintown next week. Can I " Old Hayseed-- "Gee wbittaker! It ain't a month eenBe you went to th' top of th* hill to see thf 'clipse of the moon. P'yuh wanter be always on th' go?"--Good News. MR. AND MRS. GLADSTONE have gone from Pau to Toulouse. Thence they •will go to Carcassonne and Nimes. A DISTRESSING HABIT. VIM fnhnlor of Tobaeeo Cannot Bn r»i It is inhalation of tobacco smokfc Our readers may not agree that, it it new, but in the sense that it has be­ come of late years enormously preva­ lent, and a peril that now first con­ fronts society, it may be so consid­ ered. Ten years ago only about 400,- 000,000 cigarettes were manufactured in this country yearly; now the num­ ber reaches into the billions. The <4. garette habit has extended and ajg. fected all ages; even the boys smolipl more than ever, despite legislation. It is not, however, the cigarette smoked in the ordinary fashion that does harm; it is in the inhalation* of the smoke. This introduces quickly and delightfully a narcotic poison, into the system, and awakens in the habitue a sensation as delightful as that produced by opium. The old cigarette-smoker would not exchange a few deep whiffs of his cheap cigar­ ette for the finest Havana that could be bought with gold. It is an intoxi­ cation in which he revels aud to which he has become a slave. He a "cigarette fiend." He admits and smiles over it for a time. The seriousness of the cigarette to inhalation lies not alone in the facjt that it involves a steady absorption of poison, but in the utter hqpelessiiete / of the habit, and the entire ipiibtli^p of the indulger to give it up, OnCe 'a cigarette inhaler, always one., fh this respect it resembles with painful similarity the.opium habit; to whidh it has many points of resemblancfe* One may stop the use of the pipe or cigar, or the use of tea or beer or whisky, but the morphine and tobac­ co inhalation habit, if well estab­ lished, are practically incurable. The patient may stop for months or even years, but he invariably returns to his old love. Such is the experience of the writer, corroborated by the tes­ timony of other physicians. Tobacco smoke contains aqueous vapor, carbon soot, nicotine, traces of certain organic acids and of such hy­ drocarbons as creosote, and of pro­ ducts of the aniline series, such a» pyroline. It is the nicotine, however,- which probably docs the harm.--Medi­ cal Record. Burdette on Poopio. I have traveled a great deal, and travel? as every one knows, corrects one's judgment, enlarges one's views, and broadens one intellectually, writes Robert J. Burdette in his new department in the Ladies' Home Journal. People who travel always say that to people who stay at home; then they quote a remark about pa­ gan Rome from the guide book, and look "broad." and stand quite still to let you admire their breadtht which is sometimes a breadth that would look better turned, and would be broader measured leiigthwise. But I have been about agoodish bit--doesn't that sound English and traveled? Well, it is; it has been around the world and back several times before I got hold of it I have traveled con­ siderably, and ought to know, and really do know, a great deal; I am afraid to tell you how much, lest you should feel too keenly your own naif-' row limitations. I have been to Kickapoo Town and II:--icer's Cor­ ners; once I drove to Toulon, Stark County, and in all these countries .1 found Scarcely a living human being except people. People! why, they're common as grass. Peoria County' used to be full of them when I was a boy. I've seen hundreds of them; I suppose that is one reason why they never awe me any more. Great peo­ ple--that is, people who look wise and talk bass, and lift their eyebrows, and say "Ah!" except at other times when they say "Ah?" with a circum­ flex that fairly runs up and down your back; people who are afraid to walk very near the edge of the earth . lest they should tip it over and slide off. ; I used to be afraid of these people, and take off my hat and say "Sir," and "Ma'am," to them. But soon I» observed that they were the same kind of people I had always known. Just like the man who kept store in Moss* ville, and the woman who run the church fairs out on Orange Prairie, and the girl who taught school at Ilichwoods. . What Stout Women Should Know. That they have no business to wear tailor made dresses. Such close fit­ ting costumes bring'into prominence every pound of aurperfluous flesh they have. , 4 That their arms must never be un­ covered above the elbow, no matter what the fashion be. It is no reason because one has a pair of hams for shoulders that all the world should know it. That ruching about the neck or flowers and ribbons at the waist in­ crease a diameter where it is already too large; therefore such things ctre not wanted. ' That necklaces, particularly big pearls, and heavy earrings should be dispensed with, no matter how fine their quality, and only a few rings be worn in the way of jewels. That a pair of-fat«hands do not look any the better for being squeezed into gloves which are too small. But the contrary. That short basques make them ridiculous. That the best thing they can do with their hair is to cress it on the' top of the head, because a low coiffure is invariably unbecoming. In short, that there is no sense in a jellyfish trying to wear what is be­ coming to a lean and hungry" mack­ erel.--Now York Herald. Human Magnets. The human frame is an excellent magnet. A man will carry a watch or years and be proud of its accuracy; then he will fall sick, the waitch will lie on the mantel or on the dresser, and will develop great inaccuracy and unreliability. No explanation is forthcoming except the one that the absence of magnetism upsets the time announcer, and the best proof of this is that when the man gets around igain and carries his watch it sooil ?ets all right. No two meri appear to have the same magnetism in their frames, and it is seldom that two individuals can Use the same watch satisfactorily. THE statesman that wants TU feather his nest has got to take carfe >f the geese that-furnish the feathers. •~;s- . ; " / ZaM:A. m \ c:.. * JK-a ' t. '4., *