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-irr • X, mm ^ciknuD fg Iaindealri I. VAN SLYKE, Editor wd l*Misl«r.J ^ McHENRT, iLLIlfOIS. A GARDEN TI?ILOLOpy. a?V _* ' BT MBS. JAMES W. BOOKBS. i THB IitliT. In a garden OU, deserted. walled about, and lty-groiHi Stood a statue. . . "w»c« a fountain, whence the waters long bad {!• flOWU. ' Some niastor-hand invoked the marble, Cbise]o<t out the bns-relief; Left (he impress of his gynitis Oil that Niolie of grief. Noisome woeds, tieroe. Bristling nettle* h!1 atliirst, tfco waters drank; Rude Usurers Of the basin, where the lilies used to bank. Quite departed whs their scepter, Save a remnant of their power. Strangely throned in lonely grandeur-- One fair, peerless lotus flower. tbk Bir,r>. "Mid the tree tops OtMMUvhing. sang a bird the libels 4*#4$ng. * Iiscenso breatning Stood the flower listen!if ever to tiipso&g. A matin trilled he, piped a verier, Filled with melody the air- Lived for love, »ud knew it rapture. Till an arrow found him there. ' From the larches v: ' ' ' i • 1 Swocming dropped he. nil the melody tbhusht; . K Droipt upon tha " J? • , I/Otus' !»ot^in, and tb<> fragile bloesctt^rnohed. §«a£ I)ew-tiropK from her heart di*t filing. 3%<- 'i Falling tialni-like on the wound, < 5>*s •> • Colled to life ng«hi tlie song binl, Sj", - IJPWto tow pecais stnwjfd tb* gro«n<i:- "/ % * """-V/.." !' • .*• tboLein<.' • . •• v •• »„ » * •!; RevKifled. fr " The bird looked on tito bruised.' di6tuantled ' totem; * ' Kioto's form v- ' +*y 1 Then peTcbed him on. and moaned a requiem; • All tored anew his rapturous voice , To notes of plaintive «Mp." p."-*' - Ijore's last bequest. pouredkforth upon gjj.' The lotus lying low,. Anaagel-wiug ~ Tboae petals stirred, their pathos thrilled to <• • buss; # Renewed the cup, ' A chalice pure, for sacrificial kiss. ; A bird sang on bis threnody ; Tjwij'Ci/ A flower sighed--then smiled :. ,, The bitterness of death was not-- They"two wore reconciled. P-? I --KateField's Washington. \ THE BOGUS SIR HENRY. 1 Of course young Lockwood had no P", , ' business to fall in love with her, but • ,he really couldn't help it. She was very tall and very pretty, I" ' and very pleasant to talk to, and be- jjff i. lore he went home that night from the assembly he was head over heels 2 in love. . Sr/.1*-, At• alV events, he went away from *"f- the assembly resolving to see more of • Miss Van Zandt. „j This was not a very difficult rnat- |fe--ter. He had found that she was staying with the AspiriWall-Joneses. £ and she had been good enough to say ||C - he might call if he liked. Lockwood was not exactly on inti- mate terms with the Aspinwall- ^ Joneses, and since a certain episode S last summer, in which he thought S.i't' one of his friends had not been treat- ed quite right, his relation with Mrs. Aspinwall-Joues had been rather strained. However, was not call­ ing on the whole famihv and he strolled down the road after a late _ , breakfast in a rather happy frame of |gt<! mind. ' • i. lie really ought to do something. Although he was* callecl ••young-' Lockwood, thirty was not very far -off, and he really should get married. 'He thought of. this in connection P, ' "-with Miss Van Zandt, and the U' ;thought was very agreeable to him, &X.. -for he knew Miss Van Zandt was a - very rich girl. , i?-* ^ If he married her, it wouldn't "be |!% ( "for money, of coupe: but then, you * know, money is very convenient, and t®* 'not t0 |jC dispised. He found Miss Van Zandt on a piazza, and she was very glad to see him, at least she said so, and she smiled in a way that led him to be- § . lieve that she meant it. > "It's so vet-y good of you, Mr. Lock- ^ wootl, I'm sure, to come down and - 'see me," she sjjid. <1YOUJMIO# it is your own fault.*' Lockwood smiled back, seating him­ self in a steamer chair, "for if you give people invitations vou must know they sometimes accept." Lockwood said a good many things, but he didn't seem to care much about talking. He lay back in his chair and watched the girl's animated face as she talked and saw the clear bright­ ness of her brown eyes and the turn j of her neck as she moved her head. | Her voice was very odd, with pleasant j modulations and droll inflections, and Jher smile was sunny and cordial. Lockwood wondered whether she was patronizing or not, for she said to him: "I am almost certain I saw you last year in London. I know you must be an Englishman." Which was very reasonable,as Lock- wood was very large, with a great deal of color in his face, and he had blue eyes and very blonde hair. "Really, you are very compliment­ ary, but I have nerer been abroad," he said. •'« She seemed so anxious to please him and find subjects that he liked to talk about that Lockwood put her down either for a giri who had been in so­ ciety very little, and had her head turned by the attention she received, or else a girl who merely made a busi­ ness of flirting. But he found out a good deal more about her before the summer was over.Miss Aspinwall-Jonos. Who by the way, differed from her mother in more ways than one, found it easy to ttirow them together. It was not a difficult thing to do at all, and so, after a german which they had danced •<3ut I'm arrfully sori$,w "Yes?" . And it happened that af^iaya after Miss Aswinwall-Jones looked very tearfully at her friend, and they l*>th smiled as-they agreed that men were perfectly horrid. ' There was not very much ^joking Mibout it, oven if the men concerned were.only Archie Lelayd and Corliss iTuckermann; but .young Lockwood Svas an altogether different sort of a man, and lie moped about the Casino at Newport and smokeit numberless cigarettes in rnqody-^nliemplation of the world. v ?.•. " ̂ . He started very often to write to ber and tell her he was. wrong, but it *as very hard work, and the half- finished notes were consigned to the waste-basket or burned. On the third day he found a note at his place at the table, and he looked at the writing and then thought he recog­ nized it. There was ao mistake; the note was from Miss Aspinwall-Jones. He opened it. read and whistled. "Dear Mr. Lockwood," ran the note, "I don't know what you will think of me for writing in this way, and for Ijoodnej^sake. never tell Adele: but I would like very much to have you come and visit us in disguise. If you can manage it, come and visit us as Lord Fitznoodle or something else. and.vou may appear at our dance on Monday. Come down and see Adcle, and judge for yourself how she takes it--you know ver well what I mean. Please write n it once, and perhaps my innocent . asQuerade will work." Lock' /yd whistled again and took the next train for New York. Of course it was not because Lockwood knew some newspaper people inti­ mately that the following item ap­ peared in two of the New York even­ ing papers: "Sir Henry ilarfordshire, of Lon­ don. arrived yesterday on the Servia, and after a few days' stay a< the Mur­ ray Hill Hotel will proceed immedi­ ately to Lennox, where he will be the guest of Mr. and'""Sirs! Aspinwall- Jones at their charming country house there."' Mrs. Aspinvtall-Jones in particular was delighted with the catch she had made. A real live English baronet, whom her daughter had met in Tuxedo last year, wsffc coming to visit her. It was a feather in her cap. And when • 'Sit' Henry Barfordshire" made h is ap­ pearance one -evening in his traveling suit of tweeds, accompanied by two men Servants and innumerable hat boxes, bundles of very English walk­ ing sticks and two huge dogs, she was graciousness personified. She thought he was awfully nice, and admired his huge pair of reddish brown whiskers, jind wondered if all English baronets wore such huge blue glasses and spoke in such muffled tones. She asked him about it and he remarked: "Aw, yaas, vewy gweat bore, you know, vewy--these glawses! Eyes weak and all that sort o' thing. Amewican railways of yours, you know, vewy twying--dust and all that sort o' thing. Chawming up here, though: awfully pretty place " And the baronet made haste to get up into his room as soon as possible, for he thought a certain girl had eyed-hini rather sharply as he jumped from his trap to the ground and walked up the piazza steps. "Could she have guessed so soon?" he muttered to himself. "Gad! I niusn't overact. But how awfully paie she looked. I was a brute to force her into that quarrel. How Miss Aspinwall-Jones laughed when that infernal pug of hers barked around me and seemed to know me." Lockwood's troubles had only begun though When he went down for dinner that night he found himself | seated next to Adele Van Zandt. "How I love England," she said. "Really,*' he replied in a shaky tone which was muffled and husky. He feared every moment she would recog­ nize his voice. His ey«?!s wandered across the table to Miss Aspinwall- Jones, who was eating her salad com­ posedly and with the most demure air in the world. "I think I saw you there several times, although I didn't meet you." "Yaas?" * ' i "Do vou stay in England very ; much?" she asked. i ••All the time--that is,.you under-1 stand, when I am not away. Gweat I many Amewicans in London when I j left." j ••Did you happen to meet a Mrs. Van Ilensslaer there last year?" "Yaas, -vewy chawming woman, handsome and al! that, don't you know." ••Oh. how very nice' She is Lenox, and you must see her. I'll ask Mrs. Aspinwall-Jones to'have her here for dinner to-morrow. Oh, come to think of it, she will be here to­ night at the dance, and I'll be sure that you see her. How delighted Vou will be-to meet an old friend." Lockwood thought that he would be delighted, but hedidn'tsay so. He knew Mrs. Van Ilensslaer, to be sure, and he knew her for a very clever woman. She had known him ever since he wa^ a small boy. and he could never hope to deceive her so well as these people whom he had just met that summer. And he hastened to say that after all he wasn't quite sure; he met so many Americans he couldn't possibly remember them all, and really he wouldn't care to trouble Miss Van Zandt; he thought he could Angelica's' that she was nearly dead With grief. I wish I were well out of this." He had a suspicion that bne side of his beard was slipping down, and with a flimsy excuse lie left the table hurriedly. "Your Englishman is a greit bear and very rude,*' said Miss Van Zandt to Mrs. Aspinwall-Jones presently. "You mustn't judge him too off hand,'1 was the reply, "I have looked him up in the 'peerage,' and he conies from one of the swellest families ia England. I am very sorry that you do not like him." That evening at the dance it was noticed that Sir Henry was very re­ tiring, and cared very little about meeting people, and when Mrs. Van Zandt brought him up to Mrs. Van Eensslaer and said she would find in him and old friend, she merely laughed and lugged the supposed En­ glishman off into the inclosed piazza. What are you trying to do, you absurd boy?" she said, tugging at his beard. "Don't! Stop! Let me alone! What do-you mean?" Lockwood was horrified. But she said she knew him from the minute he walked across the floor, and she made him tell the whole story and gave him some good advice, which he followed at once, for Miss Van Zandt was soon out on the piaz­ za in place of Mrs. Van liensslaer. "There were once two people who loved each other very much," he said, "but they had a foolish quar­ rel. at the bottom of which was a scheming woman who wanted to do the man a wr^ug in revenge for a wrong she thoi!ight he had done her. And the girl wasVery angry and lis­ tened to this womam^ and the man went away and resolved to stay away. Now, suppose the man was very sorry, and said so, what do you sup­ pose the girl would say to him?" It was not Sir Henry. Barfordshire speaking now, but young Lockwood, and the English drawl had changed it some way to a voice Adele Van Zandt knew well and had heard be­ fore. "If she was a very nice girl and really loved the matf, I think she would tell him not to go away again --why, what are you doing? What a horrid brown, nasty false beard. Oh, you foolish boy! I ki\ew you all the time." And two items were printed in New York the next day. "Sir Henry Bar­ fordshire has been called back to England by illness in his family," was one of them, and "George Lockwood has returned to Lenox, after a brief stay in Newport," was another. And when Miss Aspinwall-Jones saw them and read them she smiled. A Japanese G*tiie. i tV. '(/• ^etwhi7h^/wie, Tby,th(; : m along vc"r7welT wTrhouV'^ther1- !' ̂ was led bj Archie Leland intr her to hunt nn ruinriio fr>r him t/. and Miss Aspinwall-Jones--Miss Van ! Zandt burst into her friend's room and j began to cry in a very self-satisfied ! . way, and then smile through her tears, j "I had to accept him, my dear." ! And then they embraced a^nd kissed one another and exchanged mutual confidences. But the next day brought compli­ cations. Mrs. Aspinwall-Jones locked the door after the horse was stolen by taking Miss Van Zandt off to Hash- Biah falls on a picnic and leaving Lockwood out. And somehow that started a row between the two, and finally ended in Lockwood's going away to New­ port and Miss Van Zandt's shutting herself up for a day in fier room, from which she emerged presently with suspiciously shining eyes and very red cheeks. "Tell me about it, do?" said Miss Al|>inwall- Jones. ; «4I won't," snapped the other, in f•• anything but an amiable way. ing her to hunt up'people - for him to talk to. His long beard began to trouble him and he had narrow escapes frotu pouring soup down his shirt front in>f^ Mose's'toact stead of his mouth, and the wfres where it was fastened to his face hurt his ears; he was very hot and alto­ gether the dinner was the longest he ever went through. "Oh, Sir Henry," «said*hi8 fair neighbor presently, "what an awful pretty ring," and she looked toward his left hand at a handsome seal. Lockwood thought she lingered on the "Sir Henry" with tantilizitig' em­ phasis; he looked up quickly and then cursed his stupidity for leavlftg^ that ring on, "I had a friend this suwmer who had one exactly like it. How verv odd!" "Very!" commented Lockwood, groaninig inwardly. "The deuce!" he muttered. "She doesn't seem to be feeling very sadly about this matter. One would think from that letter of The most popular of all the in-door pastimes-of the Japanese is a game called "Go." It is the great source of most of the visitors to the hot springs, and is' often played there from morning till night, save for the^ime devoted to bathing and eating. "Go" clubs and professors of the art are found in. all large cities. It is said that "Go" may with justice be considered more difficult than our game of chess. The game was introduced into Japan from China in the early part of the eigth century. "Go" is played on a square wooden board. Nineteen straight lines cross-' ing each other at right angles make crosses (called me) at the points of intersection. These may be oc­ cupied by 180 white and 181 black men. The object of the game is to enclose the crosses, and capture as many of the adversary's men as possible. There are nine posts on the boar$, called seimokee. supposed to represent the chief celestial bodies, while the white and black men represent day" and night, and the number of crosses the 3(>o degrees of latitude, exclusive of the central one, which is called taikyokee: that is. the Primordial Principle of the Universe. In playing, if the combatants are equally matched, they take the white men (called "stones" by the Japanese) alternately: if unequal, the weaker player always takes the black, and odds are also given hitn by allowing him to occupy the spots--that is, to place stones upon thetii at the outset of the game. "Go" is such a complicated game that the personal instruction of a teacher is indispensable to one who wishes to learn it. Even with this help verv few foreigners have suc­ ceeded in getting beyond a rudiment­ ary knowledge of it. It is true, however, that one per­ severing man. a German named Kor- schett, has actually succeeded i n tak­ ing out a diploma which certifies his. proficiency in this interesting but most difficult game. Monti Csm«||o tli« Keitcue. It is not often that the services of an insane man are required to insure his entrance to the asylum, but this was just what happened in the case of Jack Moses, commonly called '.'Judge." When a Deputy Sheriff took him up to Salem the other day the assistant physician in charge at the asylum was puzzled at the seem­ ing irregularity of his commitment. These papers usually emanate, of course, from the County Court, but Moses was ordered to the asylum by Judge Stearns as the natural conclu­ sion from the verdict of the jury which declared him guiltless of forge- rv on the grounc that he was insane. So the physician doubted whether he had a right to receive the patient un­ der the unusual papers. It was time He was not to be deprived of the realization of the cas­ tle in the air he had been building about the comfortable home he was to have in the asylum. He called for the statutes, and turning at onco to the provisions covering his case he expounded the law to the official in SUPPOSITION fACT. HOW PROTECTION STIMULATES INDUSTRIES* FrslM for A merle** Cbmmerel*l Dt» plom*cy--Perkins hst Van With * D*m- •er»tle Kdltor--Senator Hals to S«*»lor Bill--Current Items of Interest. € • Prstn* for AmericMn I>lplom»oy. Intermingled with the quiet peace celebration of Central Europe we hear triumphant shouts of victory coming from the United States, our trans-Atlan­ tic rival. After a year of painful labor and negotiations, the nations of Central Europe have succeedod in negotiating treaties which at least are but a mosaic composed of thousands of compro­ mises. Every advantage yielded by a neighbor had to be compensated by a corresponding advantage granted to him--it is but an honest reciprocal ex­ change, item for item. However, the documents signed at Saratov by the German and American representatives, which we publish this morning, represent a great victory for the American Union, a " victory which costs the victor nothing, a conquest witnout a blow. It is an ex­ pression of the superior natural condi­ tions of national life and of the superior commercial diplomacy of the trans- Atlantic state of the future oyer "effete Europe." poor alike in blood and thought. To-day let us only look at the American policy of commercial negotiations and compare it with the system introduced by Bismarck. Bis­ marck's idea was: In order to obtain good commercial treaties it is necessary first to establish a high tariff and then to offer and make reductions from this tariff in consideration of corresponding favors. Under tl^&^system the planters and manufacturers oiscame accustomed to the unusual rate of protection ac­ corded them and most Vehemently op­ posed any reduction therefrom. The government was at tneAnercy of these classes, and has since 1879 been forced to a policy of inactivity in the field of commercial negotiations. * The new (Caprivi) government partly abandons this fallacious system-- though France seems disposed to con­ tinue it--and its new treaties grant nu­ merous reductions ,in return for like favors. The commercial ideas of the Ameri­ can secretary of Btate, Mr. Blaine, are entirely difierent. They are contained in Art. III. of the famous McKinley tariff. Wnether this tariff as a whole will prove useful to the United States remains to be shown; to-day we con­ sider only Art. III. This article was inserted by Mr. Blaine, a friendly opponent of Mr. Mc­ Kinley, and has in the latest commer­ cial negotiations proven its eminent wisdom most brilliantly. Mr. Blaine's idea differs materially from Bismarck's. It is as follows: In order to obtain favorable treaties the duty on certain important articles such as sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, hides, etc., was greatly reduced or abol­ ished with conditions* that it might be re-established after January 1,1892, in case nations profiting by it did not make corresponding concessions. ® While according to Bismarck's system, domestic interested parties became used special nigh duties and formed a sol­ id phalanx against any reduction or concessions, Mr. Blaine's system causes the foreign exporter to profit by the re­ duction, and makes of him a powerful ally to force his (the foreign) govern­ ment to make concessions to prevent tne re-establishment of the American duties. This principle' is likewise contained in the new meat inspection bill, whose threats of tariff war and prohibition have induced European countries to raise their prohibition on American meats. Mr. Blaine's idea has been suc­ cessful in both cases. It has secured for the United States treaties with Bra­ zil, Cuba, and with other of the South American states, and thus brings Mr. Blaine's great Pan-American scheme nearer realization, at the Bgme time damaging European exporters in all American markets. Mr. Blaine's idea has already forced Gerjnany, Denmark, Austria and France to repeal their prohibitions of American meat, and Italy is on the point of doing the same. But the doc­ uments we reprint to-day constitute Blaine's masterpiece. The central Eu­ ropean tariff union has been rendered ineffective with reference to the United States. The German tariff on agricultur­ al products was to be reduced only in favor of Italy and Austria, ano to be re­ tained against Russia and America be­ cause the latter nations do not enjo/ 'the most favored nations privileges. This would have been profitable only to German and Austrian farmers, and not to the people, because these two nations, not raising enough grain for themselves, the price would have been fixed, not by Hungarian grain at 3.50 marks, but by American and Russian grain at 5 marks, as heretofore. Mr. Blaine, however, has completely upset these calculations and made the. new tariff on agricultural products apply to the United SUtes as well, the reduc­ tion of which the United States will profit as follows: Old Tariff Marks. 5 b 2 » 20 20 ;o.5o These reductions will greatly reduce the cost of provisions and food, and the victory of the United States is, there­ fore, the victory of the poor man. But no considerations for the poor have in­ duced the German government to make these concessions. They have merely considered the wishos of the sugar mill­ ionaires, whose exports to the United States were $24,000,000 in 1889 and $68,- 000,000 in 1S90. This under the old tariff. Now, the McKinley tariff greatly re­ duces the tariff on sugar, and in order to benefit by this reduction Germany has been forced to make the treaty, as France, Austria, and other sugar-pro­ ducing countries will have to do very soon.--Translated from the Frankfort Zei- tung. The way that would have done credit to Chief Justice Fuller. His triumph was complete, and he was accorded entrance. Moses told his friends be­ fore he went up that h$ was glad to go and was going to do all he could to help those .in charge of him. The first call upon his servicesgives ground for hope that his professional ability may serve the authorities there in good stead.--Portland Oregonian. Wheat Rye.... Brau Hops Butter Heat. Flour .'.... ...."to.... New Tariff. Per 100 kits. 8.50 5S.50 .60 14.00 16.00 i.\oo 7.S0 kept thto wire naU* out of this country. Well, what is the history of the wiro nail industry? When the tariff law of 1883 got in operation, wire rittil factories were established in the UnitedAStates, and within a°few months the price began to decline so that in 1890 they werp sold for 2| cents a pound, and the heme manufacture of the nail was so stimulated by the pro­ tective duty that the product of that year reached 8,155,9Q0 kegs. The Mc­ Kinley bill decreased the duty to 2 cents a pound and the prices are now below the duty! But there is another point in the his­ tory of the nail industry which wrecks the supposition of the Boston Herald. The duty on wire nails not only did not kee.p that article out of the country, but it lowered the price of the cut nails, making them cheaper and cheap­ er every year, the process of decline being illustrated by the following: ,, , Price per Year. s . lb. Cents. 1886......... 2.17 1!5. ....1.90 188 9 -- j.ujj 189 0 ; 1 99 189 1 70 These facts may confound the Herald and other free traders, but they illus­ trate the foolishness of so muc| the­ orizing in regard to the effect of a pro­ tective tariff, when the facts of history are constantly demolishing the theory that protection is "robbery," in that it makes the article protected dearer. The South and Protection. Some time ago the Charleston News Snd Courier, commenting on the prog­ ress and development of the cotton in­ dustry of the South, made this state­ ment: There is one class of stock that has not been in the least affected by the financial troubles of the past summer, and that is the stock of Southern cotton factories. The New York brokers are anxious to gobble up alt the stock in the leading Southern mills that they can lay their hands on. No class of investments has paid heeter returns or heen less influenced by the general stagnation of business. All tne South Carolina stocks are in active de­ mand at good figures above par. There is a good deal of significance in that paragraph. Without the upbuilding influence of protection does the News and Courier suppose for a moment that the industries of the South would have been in SHch a prosperous condition ? The cotton mills of the South iiave been established under protection, and not under free trade. During all the years of free trade the manufacturing indus­ tries of the South slumbered and slept. It took protection to bring them into activity; and so successful has their progress been that the News and Cour­ ier in September last stated that during the business year then closed the num­ ber of manufacturing enterprises in Charleston had increased from 360 to 393. Bit Sports with s l>eraonr*tlc Editor. Eli Perkins went South to lecture a short time ^go. While in Nashville he waB interviewed by the Nashville American, and related the following in­ cident: "Well, the best political joke of the season happened at Charleston. I found Mr. Hemphill, the brilliant free trade editor of the old tree trade News and Courier, writing editorials in favor of a protective tariff on rice and sea island cotton. " 'Why,' said he, *'the Egyptians shipped 40,000 bales of long staple cot­ ton over here last year and sold it for 12 cents a pound. Thev knocked down the price of our South Carolina long staple cotton. And those cheap-labor Chinese sent thousands of bushels of rice, made hy low-priced 5 cents per day labor, to break down our well-paid labor in South Carolina. Now,' continued Mr. Hemphill, 'you Yankees have a tariff against corn, wool, rye, barley and wheat coming from Canada, and wby can't we Rebs have a tariff against the Egyptians and Chinese ?" ^ Being a high protective tariff man myself 1 felt like hugging Mr. Hendphill. 'At last,' I said, 'the protective tariff Yank and the free trade Reb stand on the same platform. Arise and sing.' " To show how the protection leaven is doing its perfect work in the iSouth, the following comfhent on the Eli Perkins interview, made by the Augusta (Ga.j Chronicle, a Democratic paper, will make it very clear: Had this story been told a year or so ago Editor llemphill would no doubt have ap­ pealed to the reputation which the genial Eli enjoys for unacquaintance with the truth as his surest defence, but he will not do so now. Editor llemphill has taken the practical view that while protection is the policy of the country he had better try to get some of the benefits of it for his sec­ tion and people. He wants to investigate In a practical way the question: "Does Protection Protect ?" THK man who claimed that the world owed him a living is slowly collecting the debt He is a tramp. Difference lletween • Supposition »n<t Fact. Suppose that cut nails were made exclu­ sively here, and wire nails were only pro­ duced abroad. Then, according to the fashionable tariff ideas, the proper action to take would be to put a heavy duty on wire nails, thus keeping them out of the American market, that the American in­ dustry might be saved from destruction. The essence of protection, as at present in­ terpreted, is to take business out of its natural channels and compel it to be carried on in channels prescribed by the government.--Boston Herald. How would it suit tne Herald to take a few facts in regard to the nail industry of this country? It is not difficult to interpret the history of the tariff as it affects the manufacture and price of wire nails during the past eight or nine years. There is much,in the brief his­ tory of that industry to interest the general reader, and there should be enough in it to show a free trader how little profit and satisfaction there is in mere suppositions. %. There were practically no wire nails made in the United States prior to They were an expensive nail, the price wu 8 cents, or a little over, in that year. When the tariff was revised in 1883, a duty of 4 cents was pat on wire nails, or according to tne Herald, or the free trade theory, or "•apposition," this duty would nave Senator ffale's rtmstfo reference to hii villainy. In your rage, Senator Hill, you may be tempted to answer Senator Hale. l»on t. Considering who and what you *v-e'i. k®8' card ** silence.--New York Tribune. fnprRadioed fsrslfs Vlmw* of ths ' ( • Tariff. This is English, and from the Shef- £ ? " T h e p r o m o t e r s o f t h e McKinloy tariff meant it to push for­ ward the policy of America for the Americans. One method of realizing it was to keep all work within their own dominions. The country was to be made self-supplying; what could be produced at home was not to be bought abroad. That was the keynote of the McKinley scheme, and it is working out the l^ea of its designers with the precision and effectiveness of g ma­ chine. " * % This is German, and from the Frank­ fort Zeitung: "We hear triumphant shouts coming from the United States, our trans-Atlantic rival. The documents signed at Saratoga by the German and American representatives, which we publish this morning, represent a great victory for the American Union, a vic­ tory which costs the victor nothing, a conquest without a blow. It is an ex­ pression of the superior natural condi­ tions of natural life and of the superior commercial diplomacy of the trans- Atlantic state of the future over effete Europe, poor alike ib blood and thought." The Sheffield paper, is emi­ nently right in Suggesting that the Mc­ Kinley tariff means the pushing for­ ward the policy of America for Ameri­ cans. That is -what makes America strong, and it is this that makes Ameri­ can working people the most prosper­ ous of any people in the world. Cnrrent Items of Interest. Iowa Republicans have decided to make their campaign on national is­ sues alone this year. This means an old-time Iowa Republican majority. If, aB the Democratic organs claim, reciprocity is free trade in Bpots, is not Mr. Springer's tariff policy protection in patches ?-- Washington Post. During eleven months in 1891 we ex­ ported to China 76,000,000 yards of cot­ ton cloth. In the corresponding period in 1890 China took only 27,000,000 yards, it the tariff is ruining our industries, how is it tihat we have well nigh over­ come the competition of free trade En­ gland in this open market of the world? "Pull down the tariff walls and let Southern cotton growers have the mar­ kets of the world.!" cries the Richmond, (Va.) Dispatch. And yet in eleven months of 1890 we imported $29,963,387 have made in this conntry. In the same months of 1891 we imported only cotton McKinley law had in one year added 16,191,942 worth of cotton manufacturing to the home market of the American cotton planter. And Adam Smith, the author of the free trade Bible, says that the home market is best for the farnier. The McKinley law will do much better than that for the Southern cotton planters if they will make their repre­ sentatives in Congress let it alone. Consul John Jarrett, our diplomatic representative at Birmingham, Eug'and, reports that the pearl button industry of that city has been practically removed to the United States by the McKinley law. The declared value of Birming­ ham's pearl button exports for the quarter ended June 30,1890, was 163,414.07 Senator Hale V> Senator Hill. If David B. Hill would, withdraw his gaze for a few minutes from his presi­ dential boom he might find aipassage in the r«fentspecch of Senator Hale which is calculated to interest him. To inter­ est but not to please him. This is the passage: Evidences appeared showing clearly that the leaders of the Democratic party had become alarmed at the growing popularity with the people of the reciprocity plan, born of distinguished Republican parent­ age, and adopted, at last, by the lie pub­ lican party in general, and were deter­ mined to belittle it and deride and to drive it from its lodgment in the u;ood will of the people. Democratic newspapers de­ nounced it everywhere as an impracticable sham, and wiierever Democratic authority was heard from it carried with it a sneer against the measure. The Senator from New«York; who has lately entered this chamber as a mem­ ber of this body, ahd who has brought to his party as his credential of leader­ ship upon the other side the trophy of a great state, chained and gagged and despoiled of her political rights, paused for a moment in his work of spoliation to declare in the Democratic state con­ vention of New York, which assembled in Saratoga on the 16th of September last to do his will and to register his de­ cree, that the Democratic party of the state of New York, in convention as­ sembled, renews the pledges of its fidel­ ity to Democratic faith, and to denounce iii terms (I give the words of the plat­ form) "the Blaine reciprocity humbug." There you have it, Senator Hill. T»je senator from Maine appreciates you; he knows just what style of a "states­ man" you are; he places the proper value upon your credentials of leader­ ship. In fact, Senator Hill, you have rarely been so hard hit by a passing reference. Don't you wish that Brother Hale had Btuck closer to his reciprocity text and let you alone ? "Chained and gagged and despoiled of her political rights" that is the way Senator Hale speaks of the great Btate of New York. The language is strong, but not too strong. For the outrage which jpnk inflicted upon government of the people when such indecent interlopers as Osborne, Walker and Nichols were awarded seats lin the Senate cannot be depicted in terms unduly severe. It was an out­ rage subversive of our form of govern­ ment. If the will of the majority plain­ ly declared at the ballot-box is to be overriden, then obviously our repub­ lican system is a failure. Every intelli­ gent man knows this, and every Ameri­ can who has a drc/p of patriotic blood in his veins cannot but execrate David B. Hill, who organized and pushed to its, consummation the seat-stealing in­ famy. Perhaps the Senator, when not thinking of his boom, has been flatter­ ing himself that the thing was going to blow over, that getting to Washingtop he would get out of the range of criti­ cism. If so, he will find he is mistaken when turning from his boom he reads and for the quarter ended June i>0, 1891, $3,378.93 How does Mr. Jarrett know that this reduction meant an increase in the vol­ ume of the American industry ? By the exports of the shells which are its raw material. They increased from $2,401.09 in the second quarter of 1890 to ^2^01^52 in the second quarter of 1891. Mr. Cleveland is not a sagacious politi­ cian. He is not a wise and well instructed statesman. Nobody pretends that he pos­ sesses these indispensable qualities. lie may happen to stand by a good cause, but he is notoriously incapable of making friends for any cause or policy he takes in hand.--New York Herald. What has come over the dreams of the Mugwump, when he can give expression to such sentiments? Mr. Cleveland not a statesman ! This is treason to mug- wumpery, and treason of the worst kind. And it comes from a Mugwump of Mug­ wumps. The Republican who expressed such sentiments four years ago was pro­ nounced incapable oi rising above the politician to appreciate statesmanship. President Cleveland sent, a free-trade message to Congress and destroyed all hope of his re-election. That was not political sagacity, but the free traders in­ sisted that it was statesmanship of the highest order. It is sad, indeed, that Mr. Cleveland should now find that not only Democrats but Mugwumps should have come to adopt the Republican esti­ mate of his services to the country.-- Chicago Inter- Ocean. One on Judge Brady. Many think that Recorder Smyth is as severe off the bench as he is when he has a hardened criminal to sentence. v iiotciviDi ao ivnuj ^vumi| anu iuuoa story well. Here in one he relates about the late Judge Bradly: One summer the Judgtt had a great deal of business to at­ tend to, and decided to come back to his city residence for a few days. He reached New York early iU the morning and went to his house, sending his trunk up by an expressman. When he reached bis house he found it closed up, and. thinking that the ^brvants were still in bed, decided to sit on the stoop until they got up. While waiting the expressman drove up with ttee^ trunk. He took it out of the wagon and carried it up the stoop. There was no response to" his ring at the bell. "I'm Judge Bradly," said the Judge. You can leave the trunk with me. I u take care of it. The servants are not up yet." "Oh, no," replied the ex­ pressman, "I've met you people be­ fore." He put the trunk in the wagon and drove off, leaving the Judge me­ ditating.--New York Morning Advertiser. Has All the Symptong. A Minneapolis doctor has a young woman patient who has made all ar­ rangements * whereby she will know when she reaches the grippe or whenit reaches her. has been studying up the syinptons, and these she has writ­ ten out and hung in her room. The list is as follows: Heahache, as if you had been out all night. All the bones ache. You can't see. You can't smell any­ thing. Your eyes run water. So does your nose. Ditto, your mouth. Don't care for anybody on earth. Nobody seems to care for you. You are {glad of it. All these are the grippe. Every day that young woman examines her­ self, and if she has any of the symp- tons set down in the foregoing list she checks off the ^ same and then her mpther sends for the dogtor. "I AM sure George is fond of me. He said he loved the ground I walked on." "No doubt he meant it," re» turned ; her experienced confidanta "tYou knoar, dear, you own thai ground."-- Washington ista*. j ^ SOMETHING ABOUT 1CB. J Ones It Vas • Utsst Luxury, '5s» It Common MMUMIIJ, At one time in the world's history ice was considered a great luxury, and only the rich could enjoy what is now looked upon as an absolute necessity. In ancient days snow was used as i substitute. It was brought from the mountains and stored away in pits dug In the earth, and was covered with straw or other substances that proved non-conductors of heat and also protected it from the air. Mention of this fact is made in tljia Proverbs of Solomon, and it is fre­ quently alluded to in the writings ot. the ancient Greeks and Romans. It is still in vogue in Italy, where snow gathered in the appenines is brought by peasants to the principal cities and stored in cellars made especially for the purpose. In many parts of France and England the wealthy, have ice-houses built on their estates, and fill them with ice from the neigh­ boring lakes and streams. It was not until 1845 that ice was publicly sold in London then only in very small quantities. • | In America ice-houses have belli J known for at least 200 years. They Were at first verv primitive affairs, being nothing mote than deep cellars, the flooring made of befards or stonje, ' Upon which was placed a layer bf * straw t>r sawdust. The sides were lined with boards set about a foot from the wall, and this spacc was filled in with sawdust, tanbark, or stfaw. A rough, thatched roof completed the structure, which was then filled with ice, between the layers of which tanbark or Sawdust was strewed. As a matter of «9ursej the supply of cut ice was vfery limited for a long time, and it was not until about fifty years ago that it became a com mo? dit.y, admitting of purchase by persoris of moderate means. In New York City alone, at the present dayf* the yearly consumption of ice amounts to about one million tons. In addition to its employment for cooling water and other beverages, in the course of time its value as an agent for preserving meats, fruit, etc., was recognized, and as a conse­ quence the demand for it was greatly Increased. Trustworthy authorities state that the use of ice for preventing the de­ composition of dead bodies was known in very early days, as there was a tribe in Finland which, during the latter part of the seventh century, preserved the bodies of their dead for many months without embalming them, using either snow or ice for the purpose. The first person to attempt to ex­ port ice from this country # to foreign lands was an American named Tudor, and although his first shipment, in 160o, met with poor success, he at last established the business on a firm basis. NowUt is shipped to tropical climes .and proves a paying industry. In many war|p countries, however, the sole supply of ice depends upon its artificial manufacture, as it wodld be impossible »to export it without absolute loss. Of late years thfe manufacture of artiflcial ice has as­ sumed large proportions in the UnitM States, the high price and scarcity at> times of the natural article requiring the employment of cheaper means of production.--Detroit Free Press. Points on tho Telephone. Telephone users might acquire much useful information if they would in some leisure half-hour visit the headquarters of the company in Cortlandt street, a standing invita­ tion being open to them to do so, says the New York Times. The manner in which the girls talk in the instru­ ment would certainly be a revelation to the average subscriber. The trans­ mitters are suspended from the ceil­ ing by two wires, and each is so ad± justed that it hangs on a level with the mouth of the young woman who is seated at the table. It is natural to suppose that in a room where at least 150 young women are talking over telephones the clatter would make ordinary conversation impossi-" ble. But such is not the case. The buzz of conversation is not soJoud by any means as that in an ordinary Sunday- school room. There is ascertain amount of affec­ tion in the gentle way in which a girl handles a transmitter. Holding it lightly in the fingers of one hand, the elbow of the arm resting on the table in front of her, the young wo­ man brings it close to her lips, in many instances permitting it to touch them lightly, and speaks into it with a subdued and gentle voice as cooingly musical as ever tickled the ear of ardent wooer. When the user remembers that, no matter what diffi­ culty he may experience In under­ standing others on the wire, he can always hear what "Miss Central" ha»s to say, this explanation of how tho laHer talks should be useful not only to himself but to his telephonic cor­ respondents. Furthermore, users bf the instru­ ment should know that tho vicious ring of the impatient subscriber has no tcrrofr in it for the girl, for there are no bells corresponding to those on the telephone in her vicinity. He may therefore better possess his soul in patience, as the clatter of his beil deafens only those in his 'own office. The first half turn of the crank on the box causes a small disk to drop for­ ward on the table of the operator, exposing the number -of the calling subscriber. It makes no more noise in dropping than the click of a clock, so that whatever impatience the su|>- scriber may indulge in is absorbed in the wooden box in front of him. V' .. In Iv«rythlnf OlTe Thauka, Bidding good-by to some friends who had accompanied him on a fish­ ing expedition, Izaak Walton thuf spoke, and the words showed that he had imbibed the spirit of those who from fishers of fish became fishers bf men: "Let not the blessings we re­ ceive daily from God make us not to value, or not to praise Him, because they be so common; let us not forget to praise Him for the innocent mirth and pleasure we have met with since we met ti^ether. What would a blind man givd to see the pleasant rivers and meadows, and flowers and fountains, that we hara met with since vt* met together!" i# RELIGION does not compel a person to submit to attempted insults.