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_ /m-X* >' •*'*?> *^f v • '. -^A^P?»"e$'-*S>1-WI' 1 ^ -sew. j*-~V* f'.'- , S«"*l" ~ THE FIELD OF POLITICS.' TARIFF TREATED IN ALL v" VARIOUS PHASES. ITS A Short Tariff Talk Wkl«h Means thing-Tfce PMTI Button IadMtr; (J K»« TkrHT-Tfa natetiMMd Itw- * nt^Pout Grorer. S00 Tariff Questions Amw«rr4> •QnoKlon No. 26, Cannot Americans aik* u Cwd steel u .English? Better. For example, the Amorican •fjms used Jin the recent armor tests proved far superior to the best gang of foreign make, while the armor plates; made from American steel were dem­ onstrated to he the best in the w^rld': Ater thorough tests side by side with' English and other European plates. - ' Question No. 37. Why U it that American abibping interests have declined daring the tp#rtoii «f protective uijiiT? Of course the question refers to ship-" *ring in the foreign trade. It has de­ clined because it has been the single one among all our varied industries which has received no protection. The branch of our shipping which has been protected, that employed in the coast­ ing trade, has flourished and flourishes to-day equally with our other protected industries. Ko, as, Ifihe tiuir <n not an<i«d to *ae coat wherein does the* tariff benefit the tanner in the sale of hU production!.' By creating a market for him to sell > hi* products in, and by restricting do­ mestic production and foreign imports, While continually increasingtbe demand lor what he ha* to fell. Question So, 2a Why the abandonment of Bajitem Juir.i* with protected lubor in the usifh> borinu factories? Because there is so much better and <sb(a'f>o t iniiu oat West. Eastern farm. «Ml prospered before Western farms were discovered. After that event the Eastern farmers found it to their advan­ tage to ' go West," where they could get «ny quantity of the best land for the asking. But, as a matter of fact, the de­ serted New England farms are few. For let it not be forgotten that many of the rocky hills of New England are more profitable to the cultivator than the fertile fields of the West. Why? Because of those same factories with their protected army of consumers with­ in easy reach. _ Question No. 80. If it la the object of the tariff •0 protect labor, could th3 tnr<tf ba greatly re- aucea ana still afford protection? In some instances, yes. But what benefit would he derived through such reduction9 Take wire nails, for in­ stance. The duty on them is 2 cents a pound. It is obviously higher than need be at present, because the nails are actually selling for 1| cents a pound. What harm does the duty do? If abol­ ished probably not a nail would be im­ ported. Why not abolish it? Probably because no one ever thought it worth while to ask for its abolition. Congress did not act without a reason in framing the present tariff. Every change of any importance was made at the suggestion of some person or persons, after argu­ ments pro and con had been heard. No one asked for the removal of the duty on wire nails, for the same reason, per­ haps, that no one asked fur a law •gainst spots on the sun. No good could possibly result in either case. Question No. HI. Does not the rebate clnase t, In the McKinley law allow our mauufacturera to sell cheaper to foreign customers than American, when the raw mtfterial 1m imported ? Yes; and thereby enables them some­ times to finda market in a foreign coun­ try which they otherwise could not find. That is to say, it is the means of bring­ ing additional employment to American tabor in waking the goods to go abroad, and brings back to the country the money paid for them by the foreigner, while not a hair of anyone fs head in this country is harmed by the transac­ tion. It gives our manufacturers prac­ tically all the benefits of free raw ma­ terials, and bids them capture the world's markets if they can, while it Keeps the bars good ana high around onr own markets in order to hold them surely for our own people anyhow. Question Ko. Si With a bounty of 2 cents a pound on sugar, which must be paid out ot the > united States Treasury, where does the Baring to the consumer come In through tree sugar? It comes in this way: The revenue from the duty on sugar and molasses •mounted to about $55,000,000 a year, which was all paid by the consumer. The bounty paid on sugar amounts to $7,000,000 a year. The difference, $48,- 000,000, is the saving to the consumer. Question I-o. S3. Ha« the McKinley tariff earned the price of cotton to be low? No. No more than it has caused the O'rice of Shakespeare's autographs to be high. There ar® very few of the auto­ graphs of .Shakespeare in existence; hence they cost a great deal. There is more cotton in the United States than there is a demand for throughout the whole world; consequently the price of cotton is low. The McKinley law had ntt more to do with that than it had with the color of the moon. Question No. S5. What has been the direct benefit to the American farmer by the placing •f the duty on eggs? What would De the re­ sult if the duty were abolished? In 1890 we imported 11,962,752 dozen eggs, valued at $1,584,089; in 1891 we imported 4,26a,375 dozen eggs, valued at $533,497. The difference between the •mounts imported in these two years-- 7,869,377 dozen--measures the larger ncarket for eggs which has been fur­ nished to the American farmer; and the difference between the values of the gigs imported in these two years-- ,050,o;t2--measures roughly the value of that market to him. The direct re­ sult of the McKinley duty on eggs has thus been to put $1,050,592 more into the pockets of the farmer than he re­ ceived the preceding year. If the duty were abolished; by that sum at least would he be the loser. fsul Button Industry Under the Hew TarlflC The Dry Goods Economist, which has always been a free trade paper and largely representing the interests of importers, tries hard to be honest in 2noting prices and giving the true situa-on of affairs, and it succeeds very well. Recently, in discussing the pearl button industry it said: Whatever difference of opinion there may be about many sections of the tariff act of lSyO, and about its benefits to certain in­ dustries, the manufacture of pearl buttons is not one of tlosj that can be cited ad­ versely. Before the tariff went into effect there werarf»t two makers of pearl but­ tons in the of Newark. N. J., and these produced principally articles of pearl such as knife handles, inlaid work and orna­ ments, arsd a very few of the larger sizes in dress and cloak buttons. Even the few bands employed were not always busy. At the present time there are twelve con­ cerns erisaged in the industry in NewarK, employing all the way from 20 hands to 100 cach. Waires of the button turners range from S18 to 828 per week, and boys and girls employed in fin­ ishing tne goods are paid from SO to$10 per week. Over JiOO persons are obtaining a livelihood in the city of Newark. N. ,J.. to­ day, where formerly twenty found it hard to live. The same or similar results have been secured in other cities of the United States. Providence. R. 1.. Springfield, Mass., Philadelphia. New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, and several other cities now have their factories for the manufacture of pearl buttons, furnishing work lor upwards of f>,000 people at wages on which they can live decently and in comfort None of these factories existed before the tariff of 1890 was imposed, as the American workman could not compete against wages of $3 and $3.50 a week earned by Austrian pearl button makers in Vienna. In a report oy Cuiisui-Generai Julian Goldschmidt, dated December 18, , 1889. be makes the following statement in reference to the pearl button workers of Austria: -At a meeting recenUy held (is Vienna) they declared that they would i'i" THE GREAT ACT OF A ONCE GREAT PARTY. The Democratic party is trying to kick the sheep out of this country, but the break in the wall through which they must pass will extend to the foundations of the mills as well. From 1864 to 1884, under adequate protection, the quantity of wool grown in this country increased from 142,000,000 pounds to 308,000,000 pounds. If the rate of increase had been kept np, the product this year would; be 414,400,0'10 pounds. But in 1883 protection was lessened, and the wool product declined until last when it ^?as only 296.5p3.20R Bosiids. The passage of the McKinley bill, however, has caused an increase in one year of 9,947,711 pounds, in spite of foreign competition,, that has doubled in twenty yeata. The domestic product is new 70 percent, of the need of the present domestic manufacture. Preserve protection, and, judging by the past, the home supply ^ill soon overtake the home demand. rather starve to death with their wives and children than suffer the yoke tbey had •join6 SO lOiiK, ami bu!>liiiv tu uie uiisciauiv wages heretofore paid them, an able- tXHUcii. iimusiiious muii receiving uuiy S3 to 83.50 a week. This is bad enough, but out of this he has to furnish his own light aiul tools, while many good workmen earn even less than this." Bad as this condition of the Vienna labor market is shown to be by this report, still lower prices were paid in Bohemia and Moravia, so that the German government found it necessary to raise a protective bar­ rier in the shape of high duties or be driv­ en from the trade. Birmingham. Knciand, was for more than a century a great pearl button center, and would have continued so to this day had not Austrian and Bohemian competi­ tion obliterated the business in that city. Many of the best wnr!-.™?r. o! "!rm!ujrham have now left that city and come to the United States. The result of the tariff has been to re­ duce the imports of pearl buttons in 1891 to aoout £200,090, sgasnst an amount of $8,500,000 in 1890. and while these figures should be read in the light of the over-im- portations previous to the passage of the new tariff act, they sufficiently evidence the rapid growth of the domestic industry. To this may be added that just before the passage of the McKinley bill there were only 17 pearl button factories in the United Mates, and now there are 77. A tariff which increases a domestic industry more than 530 per cent, the first year, and gives the country a better article without any permanent advance in price, must surely commend itsclt'jto every person who prefers his own country to some other. I'oor Graver, No tinuil tu Inn l>wmocreejr. Grover Cleveland was made Presi­ dent and for four years administered the government. The independent presB, like the Evening Post and New York Times, from which some papers are so fond of quoting, stood by him, every one. At the end of his term he was beaten, woiuily beaten, in the two great Northern Democratic states. He was not only beaten himself, but he dragged his patty down with him in the congressional districts and turned the government over to the enemy in every department. He left the Whit© House and both branches of Congress to the spoilers of the South, and the first work they undertook was to pass the force bill. The only hope of tbe Democrats to avert that calamity, for the danger of which Grover Cleveland was responsi­ ble, was bv shoving in a silver bill ahead of it. Did he help to avert the wrong he had made possible? No. In the very midst of the fight he wrote his let­ ter against silver, seeking to turn aside the only weapon pointed at the enemy of the South. Is that the sort of man we want ? David Bennett Hill, as governor of New York, made his party stronger M'ith every recurring election, and final­ ly drove the Republicans from their last unconstitutional entrenchment. How? By means which the state su- Ere me court declared to be legal and iwful but which every Cleveland paper, in New York denounces. ' Nominate him and he will carry New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Indi­ ana, Montana, half of Michigan, and the solia South. Nominate Cleveland and Vilas will pledge him Wisconsin, Wiped-off-the earth Campbell will pledge him Ohio, Tom will pledge him Minnesota, Dick will pledge him Iowa, and Harry will pledge him the devil knows what. In November he will get New Jersey and the solid South, minus West Virginia.-- BirmingJmm Age-Herald (Dem.) .Vhallht rut Nine Months Us*t'Oes« for Tin Pint*. In regard to tin plate and the McKin- ley law, the American Manufacturer, of Pittsburg, gives the following facts: Tho heavy imports of tin plate in tbe few months prior to July 1,1991, when the tin plate_clause of the McKinley bill went into eiiect. are matters of history. The following tuble shows how greatly theseii in ports increased: LURCMRS OF TIN TLATE INTO TITS VN'ITED STATES, 1M0 TO 1892, BY MONTHS, 18ML Tons. 2,010 lbs. .. -J7.4<U ... i-T.oas .. 24,80} :. 26.3S# .. 23.4$t .. 87, m .. 36.954 82. i: January February^..... March May J utre July ......... AUgUSt^MMM... September. H4.942 October S7,47« ^November. 29,537 December 3t07* Total. ...86S.M* 18'Jl, un Tons. Tons. 2,000 !b«. 3,000 tbp. 25.891 15.X0G as.s-s i 21.169 50.5S7 46.391 60,721 |||||utt 06.797 <>,231 , 1 , , _j 0,997 8, "SI St....... 10,013 lo,5al £57.837 From this table it appears that while the imports for the first six mouths .of 1891 were much above the normal amount those of the last six/months of the year were so much below the cus­ tomary figures that the imports for 1891 were actually ICBS than 1890, though 1890 was the year of the failure of the fruit crop of this country. It is but fair to remember, however, that imports of tin plate in the closing six months of 1890 were also in excess of the normal rate. While imports are increasing in 1892 as compared with the last six moQts of 1891 they are not yet up to the rate of 1890, nor indeed up to that of 1889, the imports of January. 1889, be­ ing 26,701 net tons, and for February of the same year 29,934. The imports of January and February for each year of the last four years is as follows: lttPOBTS OF TIK PLATE FOR JANUARY AJT» FBI KLABV 1SS3 TO 181TJ, TOSS 2,000 POUNDS. IPSft.... 56,691 1*9U. 5).4X3 18S1 5\ 773 18*4. _ »ti.47o The imports for these months for 1892 are nearly 40 per cent, less than the average for the same period during each of tbe three previous ye^rs. In view of these facts it IB no wonder that a number of the mills of South Wales and Monmouthshire are idle, and that, in the language of the Iron and Steel Trades Journal, "It will probably be a long time before the works are again in full work." To what is this due ? First, no doubt, to the excessive importations of the last six nioatoi oi 1390 and the first six months of 1.901, though the total lm ports for each of the years 1890 and 1891 did not equal 1889, Second, to the Fact that a great deal of &beet iron Muttaned, made in this country, has taken the place of imported iia sad terne plates. For example, sheet iron roofing, paint­ ed, has been substituted for terne plates, and untinnea sheets for stamping in place of thinly tinned sheets. Glass jars nave been subs^iinted for tin and with the prices that have been put up­ on tin by the holders old tinware is used a little longer and the sale of new tin goods decreased. To say that Welsh tin-makers are sorely disappointed is to put it mildly. They will be more so in the future. * # * As to the building of American tin plate works. It is useless for those op* posed to the tariff on tin plate to deny longer that American tin plate works that will both make the black plate and tin it are in course of construction, and some s.rc is operation. There are also others that only tin black plates. Some of these make tin plates, some terne, but the law covers not onlv tin, but terne plates as well, and our imports all along have been both tin ana terne plates. And if it is asserted, as it often is, with an air of "now-you-are-caught," that we are making terne plate, isn't Wales doing it also? But we are mak­ ing tin plate, too, and before snow dies the croakers will be surprised at what is being done. Aj rolling mill to make black plates is not built in a day, but several mills aie/ln course bf construc­ tion. As we stated in our Tin Plate Supplement, works with a weekly Capacity of 50,000 bo$es are built or building, and othere contemplated, that will probably be built in the near future, will bring the total up to 75,000 boxes. The tin plate industry is devel­ oping much faster than the steel rail in­ dustry did. . . A. Shert Tariff Talk Which Means BSMS • few days before the election ia Rbede Island, Melville D. Landon ("Eli Perkins") addressed a talk to the workxngmen of that state. What he said is so timely and interesting that it is reproduced in these columns,, al­ though the election in Little Bhoay is past: . To Rhode Island Worklngmen: 1 want to talK with you a moment about your coming election. Mr. Cleveland and ex-Governor Camubcll told you on Satur­ day that the tariff is a tax. ft is in En­ gland, for there they put a tariff on neces­ sities; here it is on luxuries. They do it to raise moagy to supporfthe government, liere in Amcrica these necessities are all free. While in Brussels, Belgium, last summer I saw somo skilled laborers making spiral car springs, such as we use on our freight cars. They received 60 cents per day, while our blacksmiths receive $2 for the same work. 1 asked the Belgiau proprie­ tor why he didn't pay more. lie said: "I am handicapped. W hen I get @100 worth8 of car springs into New Vork harbor--fori sell my car springs in America--1 have to salute your Yankee ilag and give up $50." "Where does that $50 come from V" I asked. "It comes off my men's wages ?" he said. "But suppose America had tree trade?" "Free trade," he exclaimed. "Why, I would llood the Yankees with car springs. I would treble my works to-morrow." "but wouldn't that break our steel car spring makers up ?" 1 asked. "Ves, for a while." "How Ions ?" "Why. till your men worked for 60 cents per day, as our men do." The proprietor of a factory in America makes little more than the proprietor of a factory in Europe, but his men earn twice as much. This is caused by a protective tariff, which keeps this cheap foreign la­ bor out of our country. The freight from England to America as only 10 cents per 100 pounds ! If there wero no other pro­ tection than this freight then the stuff that yon make would be worth just 10 cents per ioo more than the stuff that they make. Now, workmen, use your brains in this election. Don't let those educated idiots fool you. Tin, nails, cotton etoth. silks and carpets are cheaper now than before the McKinley bill passed. Why? lecause we are mak­ ing more of them here. If we sent all our money to Europe tor these things who would pay wages here ? Th» cloth for a plain suit of clothes does not cost a dollar more here than it does in Ensrland. That suit is made up for $3 in Germany, here the workmen who make it receive about $8. This is tbe "lobbcr tariff." Protection will not raise your wages, but it will keep them where they are. A lower tariff will drop your wages, and the free trade of Mills will make you asapoor as the foreign workman. ilow many times in England last sum-« mer did 1 see ihe carpenier. mason, har­ ness and wagon maker, the blacksmith and the locomotive engineer, work.ijg tit £1.50 per day, and eating bread and cheese, while you, Rhode Islanders, are getting $2.50 to 8:150 for the same work and eating roast beef and pie. In writing from England last summer my copy was set up by printers for 14 cents per thousand, while the typesetters who set up this little talk for th*» Press get 50 cents per thousand in protected Atner- ica. MEI.VILI.K D. L.A_NIX». 208 West End Avenue, N. I. M'KEE'S GOAT. 9AID TO BE A VICIOUS THOU- ^ "OUCHBRED. What » Democratic Pmpmr Think* of the Democratic Majority in Cougreaa. The Springfield Union has a not alto­ gether unfair hit at the Herald for re­ joicing over the election of a tariff re­ form Congress a year ago, and now looking with composure at its defeat in treating some other measure. The truth is that we are in this respect in something of the condition of the fann­ er -who prayed for rain, and when he found it coming down in floods was in­ clined to think that Providence was overdoing the business in its answer to prayer. We have had more Democracy in the present Congress than we ex­ pected or ever ssked for. If fortune had sent not more than half the major­ ity that there is in that body, we should have been better gratified, especially if it was to come in the quality that has poured in from some of the Southern and Western states.--Bonon Herald. A BILL entitled "It shall be unlawful to hire any red-headed female to play base ball," was recently introduced in the Albany, N. Y., legislature. rhe PrMl'destt finwidnaa Kxpreaee* a Leoglac Dealrn for » 14ttl« Red Wagon sAsit Animal ot tbm 6«al KM-ISBS. Serial Fighter*. • •'«>T;{i4soth» Resignation Rumor. AS HI NGTON correspond - ence: Another resignation rumor is abroad this time which seems to be founded upon fact. It does not involve either Mr. Blaine or the President, but instead a member of the official family .whose f u n o t i ons, though ornamental, are quite indis­ pensable to the President. This time it is the Presi- - dent's squint-eyed • coaohman, "Willis," and it was all brought about because ot a Harlem goat which Baby McKee ac­ quired recently. A week ugo Baby McKee suddenly iorjiied an idea fb»t he wanted to drive out on his own account, and concluded that a bearded goat and a red waeon would be about the proper soit of turn­ out. When he suggested the scheme to his illustrious giandfather, the latter ve­ toed it, but there went up such a wail at once that Baby McKee--who, by tho way, is an infant industry old enough to be spanked instead ot encourage d--was given his way, and one of the liveried servants of the executive mansion was sent out into the hedges and the high­ ways, commissioned to acquire a sad- oyed William goat with unimpaired di­ gestion, a creditable Imperial, and which would drive well hitched to a red wagon. Such a goat was found to be a commodity only in the Harlem market, and one was bought and installed, a day or so ago, in the Presidential stable at the dictation of the grandson. It is believed that the purchase of the goat In New York was a shrewd politi­ cal move to strengthen the administra­ tion. It is said on the authority of a gentleman who is quite near to the Ad­ ministration--being a doorkeeper--that the purchase of the goat was discussed in a Cabinet meeting. Secretary Traey proposed a Brooklyn goat and said that very vivacious and intelligent goats abounded in Brooklyn. Postmaster-General Wanamaker pro­ posed an Angora goat. President Har­ rison objected that it would be unpat- triottc to import a foreign goat. All the members of the cabinet then agreed that it w,ould excite tho antagonism of the goat industry of the United States to bring a goat from abroad. Secretary Rusk, speaking for the Agricultural De­ partment, thought it would be wise to get a goat with long whiskers, like Sen- ator Peffer's. Secretary of War Elklns BABY H UI AND HIS DOM proposed to buy a goat in Harlem, which he said would strengthen the Hariem Republican Club and make the administration popular in New York . City. The president and a'l the members of the Cabinet indorsed Secretary Elklns' ideas. A confidential agent of the ad­ ministration was sent to Harlem, and he bought a promising goat of tho owner of a goat farm on the rocks north of Central Park. It happened that when the goat ar­ rived "Willis," the coachman, had taken the President's Cleveland bays and gone out for a drive. By an inad­ vertence of one of the servants the goat was not assigned to any particular suite in the presidential stables, but allowed to ramble around at his Own sweet will and feed on lap-robes, har­ ness and other luxuries which had been denied him in Harlem. When "Willis" returned and opened the barn door the William goat resented his ap­ pearance. He bleated loudly, stood on his head -once or twice and prepared to greet the coachman. When the greet­ ing was over "Willis" was worse for the wear. By the aid of one of his staff he managed finally to look the goat^in an empty stall, and next pro ceeded to take an inventory of the sup­ plies of the stable. He found two or three boxes of tfxle grease gone, the harness chewed up in a frightful man­ ner, and an old mackerel kit, in which he had a stock of linseed oil, had been drained of its contents and upset. "Willis" Instituted an inquiry at once to learn how*the goat happened to be installed in the barn, and when be learned the true cause he went into a caje of sulks and hasn't got over it yet. "Willis" has submitted an ultimatum customary with high officials when they threaten to resign, that the President must either accept tho resignation of his hated rival, tho William goat, or the coachman's. Senatorial frighten. The Northwest has two Senatorial lighters. Theso are men whose lives have been spent in the wildest parts of the frontier and who have grown strong with fighting among the Indians and the desperadoes. I refer to Senator George Shoup of Idaho and Senator Wilbur F. Sanders of Montana. Shoup is a tall, straight, lA'oad-shouldered, blue-eyed man. There ia no hair on the top of his head and he has not even a scalp lock. He lost his hair naturally, however, and he has had a number of scrapes where he might have lost it to tho Indians. Born in the East, he sfarted out for Pike's Peak when he was 22 yeais old, and during the war he was one'of the independent scouts of the Colorado volunteers. A large part of his career during the war was as a scout, and he has known well the Indians and des­ peradoes of the West. Ho is now at the head of the Indian Affairs Commit­ tee, and he ha3 been Governor of Idaho ai5l left the executive chair- to take hia seat in the Senate. Senator Sanders Is noted as having rid Montana of the. noted gang of ruf­ fians which overran the Northwest some years ago. He was at the head of the vigilants and has a number of times looked death in the face. He has made many a speech in his State with his pistol in his pocket, and while he was speaking pistols have come out before his eyes in the hands of his audience. During the rebellion he was in the army as a soldier from Ohio, and it. was through failing health that he had to resign and go West. In the camp where he settled there was a band of Southern sympa­ thizers, and these undertook to haul down the stars and stripes from the flag­ pole in the public square with the idea of raising the stars and bars. As they naught hold of the rope Sanders, who was standing near by, pulled out a re­ volver and said to them: "No one shall haul that flag down while I live." The mob looked at the flag and then at the revolver and into the eyes of the determ­ ined young man who held it, and they decided to let the flag stand. IGaWet net «;o<m1 Ke«<*inraen.tetfeit, •'So you want a position in my es­ tablishment?" said the great mer­ chant with political aspirations. ••Well, there aren't many positions to be filled just now, but 1 might makev use of a good man. What experience have you had?" "Almost no business experience," Replied the young man promptly, "but I tninlc I could be of service to you. You remember when you ran for Congress?" a "Distinctly." "Well, during that campaign 1 H "Stop a minute, young man!" in­ terrupted the merchant. "I haven't done anything since the campaign except to reward men who claim to have worked for me, and I've quit. I don't care if you worked day and night for me." "For you!" exclaimed the young man. "Why, I stumped the district against you!" "You did!" The merchant waa plainly surprised. "Certainly. You recall the expres­ sion, 'Calmitv Cadwallader.'" "Recall it!" roared the merchant. "Why the name sticks to me yet. Some infernal scoundrel made a joke about it that makes people laugh when they see me oh the street now." "I'm the man," said the young man, proudly. 1 "Quite a masterly stroke-----" • ' • "You! You!" The business man nearly exploded with Wrath. "And vou dare mine here!" "Of course. I suppose you remem­ ber the story of the election of a bag of gold to the House and its record there? How it sat on a desk in solemn state and was worshiped because it was good for champagne suppers and swell entertainments?" "It did more to defeat me than any other one thing!" exclaimed the mer­ chant. "Exactly," replied the young man. "It was my story." The merchant paced excitedly up and down the oRice. "And you come to me with such a recommendation! To me!" he ex? claimed. Then he stopped, thought a moment, and said: "Young man, I'll give vou a position if its only to keep you off the stump. When I think over your recommendations I am satisfied they are the best ever offered me. I--well, I'd rather have you out of politics than in it."--- Chicago Tribune. some Morse »ea«e. When the horse comes in from his work rub him all over from his ears to liis tail, says the liider and Driver, and down to his knees, with wash as near the temperature of his body as possible. To make this wash take one part alcohol, two parts pure witch hazel, and three or four times as much soft water as the combined quantity of aicohol and witch hazel. Every muscle should be rubbed thoroughly. Throw a medium-weight blanket ove^ the horse now and let him stand un­ til you have put the bandages on. Use the same wash for the legs as for the body, but have it cold. After putting the wash on the legs rub them well with the palm of the hand, al­ ways rubbftig down, -never up. Put the bandages on immediately after the rubbing. Rub all his heels per­ fectly dry with clean, dry rags. Care should be taken in this, as cracked heels are very stubborn and often lay a horse up for the season. Throw the blanket back from tbe head and scrape out all wash that remains; most of it will have entered the pores of the body; cover up his shoulders and scrape the rest of the body; take clean, dry rag and rub him all over lightly, always rubbing with the hair as much as possible; now put a light hood on him and an extra blanket over his loins, and after looking at his heels again walk him out for about five minutes; then bring him in, and should he have broken out while walking scrape him again lightly, after which give him another light rubbing for say four or five minutes, when he should again be walked for about ten minutes, and again taken in and rubbed slightly, after which put on lighter blankets arid continue to reduce the weight as tho heat leaves the Body. (•enutaace la Hae*boe«t "Such fine, manly fellows!" has been said of mauy of those whose constant habit was to give up duty for pleasure. But the heathen moral­ ist called this effeminacy. Others are made popular heroes be­ cause of their self-assertion and de­ fiance of all proper restraint. That, said the heathen moralists agains is not manliness, but braggadocio. Manliness means self-respect and resistance. The first element we do not so much need to dwell on. But the word resist--why, Dean Stanley ascd to say it was the backbone of ihe world. Resist the insolent thing which sometimes christens itself "public opinion," and which has often sanc­ tioned the most atrocious crimes. Resist self, its evil passions, and stride through difficulty as men do through gossamer threads upon the grass on a summer morn. ; -' Have a moral as well as a physical courage. Let us strive fpr an as­ sertive truthfulness and an in^»etuou9 honor. A coarse toast was once proposed /it Eton College, and all but one sprang up to drink it. Amid the jeers of his companions that young man remained seated, his glass up­ side down. His name was W. Ewart Gladstone. Such men enrich their day and gen­ eration beyond measure. This is manliness.--New York Ledger. , . Value or Mineral l*fo>ilucta. The total value of the mineral products of the United States in 1890, according to the Chief of Mining Statistics, was $652,099,216. In 1880 the production wys 8369,319,000. The chief gains were in the two important products of pig iron aud coal. The output of the former increased from 3.37.», 912 tons in 1880, worth 389,- 315.5G9, to 9,202,703 in 1890, valued at 8151,200,410. The value of tbjs coal products, anthracite and biti* nvinous, increased from $93,640,396 in 1880 to $m,8(:6,484in 1890. Among the other important metallic mineral products are, gold $32,865,000. silvei *70,464,645, copper $30,848,797, and lead $14,266,703. The value of the non-metallic products is estimated at $344,765,011. REPRbACH TO m£N. Kewfaete v - • V i the VletM Can ' Alone After Oath. Think for a moment what is im­ plied in the single fact that in no part of the world is it deemed safe for a woman to go alone after dark, nor in many localities, by day even, writes Oscar Fay Adams Jn the North American Review. It is not enough to reply that woman must have a trustworthy'masculine escort because she is timid. Why should she be timid? Under similar circumstances a man may fear the personal violence of an. enemy or the loss of his money and valuables. A woman has to dread man's "wildness and the chances of the dark." In plain words, she fears that, if unattended, some man will seek to rob her of her honor. And is not this fear of hers an arraignment of civilization itself? How much better does civilized man show above his savage brother in re­ lation to this matter. It may be urged that it is unfair to hold all men responsible for the lawlessness of a minority; but what is this but to confess that the majority are powerless to restrain the minority, o? to say that improvement in this re­ gard is impossible? If in the vicin­ ity of every large town in the United States there lurked a dozen or more fierce wolves that, after nightfall, went into the town and banqueted on such of the citizens as they could secure, we may without much doubb assert that such a state of things, when once found to exist, wonld come to a speedy termination, for every man would feel that the com­ mon safety of all demanded the exer­ tion of Jils strength in the contest with the wild beasts. But let it be understood that the honor of every women is endangered when she goes from place to place alone at night, and we accept the fact as no reproach on our common manhood, but merely fancy that all requirements of duty are satisfied if wc provide defense^ew women with a responsible escort. Meat h-Dealing. As would be inferred from its tem­ perature, the desert is a land of fear­ ful winds. When that volume of hot air rises by its own lightness, other air from the surrounding world must rush in to take its place; and as the new ocean of atmosphere, greater than the Mediterranean, pours in enormous waves into its desert bed, such winds result as few in fertile lands ever dreamed of. The Arabian simoom is not deadlier than the sand­ storm of the Colorado Desert (as the lower half of this region is generally called.) Express trains cannot make head against it--nay, sometimes they arc even blown from the track! Upon the crests of some of the ranges are hundreds at acres buried deep in the thie, white sand that those fearful gales scooped up by carloads from the plain and lift on high to fling upon the scowling peaks thousands of feet above. There are no snow-drifts to blockade trains there; but it is fre­ quently necessary to shovel through more troublesome drifts of sand. Mao or beast caught in one of those sand- laden tempests has little chance of escape. The man who will lie with his head tightly wrapped in coat or blanket and stifle there until the fury of the storm is spent, ,may survive; but woe to the poor brute whose swift feet cannot bear it betimes to a place of reruge. There is no facing or breathing that atmosphere of alkaline sand, whose lightest whiff inflames eyes, nose, and throat almost past en­ durance. --St. yicholas. Creede Is a Tough Plaee. "I have just come from Creede," said George Baker of Memphis, Tenn., at the Southern, "and mark my prediction; God Almighty will lose patience before long,open the flood gates of the mountain torrents, and sweep the festering mass of humanity now jammed,un in that gulch from the face of the earth. Instead of the morals of the camp getting better they are growing worse. The popu­ lation has not materially increased for, two months, but all sorts of vice and wickedness have multiplied. Where sixty days ago there was only one variety show there are now two, and every saloon has increased its ca­ pacity for wicked deeds by the addi­ tion of a dance -house. The thieves and thugs have grown so bold and au­ dacious that they enact their rascality in broad daylight on the open streets. The night before I left a young fellow came into the hotel office sans socks and sans shoes. In this condition he had truged nearly a mile through the snow and slush from Upper Creede. He explained that while returning to the hotel he was held up by two foot footpads, who, on discovering that he had no moncv, made him give up his boots and socks. It's only a wonder to me that the scoundrels didn't also take his breeches and coat. There is yet not A semblance of law in the camp, and the toughs are run­ ning things with a high hand. Thefe is some calk of incorporation into a city of the second class, but the proposition will be overwhelmingly defeated if submitted to a vote."--- Globe-Democrat. AROUND A GREAT ST ATIC BRIEF COMPILATKWI Ql* ttJLfc* 1 pctts N&ws, The QaMHoM ef Coavle* lifter ConJby < ••/ Not Qet '4tm Money -- Kx-Sfcirrltf Ulggina Is Hh--> •l.TOO. A Clev«r Horse. This story shows the intelligence of a Kentucky roan, who was left in an open paddock fastened t»y means of a wooden hasp. This he learned in a few days to take out with his teeth and drop on the ground, only to have it carefully replaced by the sta­ ble boy, who displayed a wonderful intuition about discovering it Final­ ly, when it became plain to his horse-4 ish understanding that there was nothing to be gained by such a ; per­ formance ne tried the experiment of carryingtit over to the other side of the fence and letting it fall into a neighboring yard. Now it so happened that his owner caught him iu the act and relent­ lessly went and fastened him in again; then from a distance he watched to see what would come next. As he had expected, the horse diligently loosened the stick again, but--now comes the queer part of it --instead of putting it in any of the old places he gave one defiant snort and laboriously set to Work to eat it up. If his objew was the total anni­ hilation of the hasp there is no doubt he accomplished it fully. All of which goes to prove what a splendid I From Far and Near. YAjrDAl,iA was visited by a hsilttom of mrasua! character, the stonea being; of large si^e and falling to a depth off two inches. AN examination of cx-Sherlff Higgfna* books at Olney showed- him to be in* debt to the cownty^iBh^the^suin of $1,- 685.22. Mr. Higgfnh is in England. ' W. L. GBIBBI*E, while en route front Cincinnati, <)., to his home at Macomb, died from heart-disease on the train between Bluffs City and Versailles. AUTHORITY has been issued E. B. McGuire, William J. Brown and A. L. Wilson to organize the Merchants' ex­ change- Bank, with a capital stock of $25,000, at Sparta. CAPT. H. B. BSED, the welJ-fcnowB custodian of Memorial hail, in the Illi­ nois State House, who was stricken blind with rheumatism eorae weeks ago, •iiifierrrcst sr. operation wliica wa» suc­ cessful. W. C. FLEMING, of Waverly, waa^ar­ rested charged with arson. Some aaii ago the business portion of Waverty was consumed ly fir®, and suspicion, pointed strongly toward Fleming. He was placed under $500 bond. THE, will of the LATE SET. Bernanl Kosmooller, of Fayetteville. whereby he left upward of $JOrOOO to Miss EUw* Loesche, a school teacher, has bean superseded by another will drawn recently in Germany. The new will m on the way here now. Its contents ar* unknown. THE subject of convict labor will he one of the most important to engage the attention of the next Legislature. Tim adoption of the constitutional amend­ ment In 1886, abolishing the contract system in the employment of the State's convicts, and the further fact that all existing contracts in thnt connection see soon to expire, will make it imperative on the Oeneral Assembly which is to ba chosen this year to make some other disposition of the labor of tho peniten­ tiary's inmates. Another subject that is likely to demand a good deal of at­ tention from the legislators is that of as improvement in country roads. The co­ incidence with respect to thes» two urgent matters may prove to be an ad­ vantage instead of an embarrassment. The disposition of the one may go a considerable way toward disposing of the other. As the law forbida the employment of convicts out­ side the walls of the penitentiary for any except public purposes, that fact may also be ip the nature of a benefit. It has been often sug­ gested that thtf convicts could be profit­ ably and satisfactorily employed in im­ proving the roads of the State. One proposition worthy of serious consider­ ation is to utilize the convict labor in the manufacture of drain tile. It to claimed that the use of this tile at tile aides of a roadbed meets every require­ ment for drainage purposes. It would keep the convicts busy for many yearn to manufacture sufficient drain tile to supply all the roads in the State. The tiling of the roads would undoubtedly greatly improve their condition or ren­ der it more susceptible of improve­ ment. After an effective drainage sys­ tem had been established the grading could be done with whatever material is most convenient. The friends of the movement for better country roads can­ not do more effective work than by push­ ing that movement prominently to the front and compelling its consideration by the Legislature, which will be called on to settle the convict labor question. NEAR Beecher City, Miss OraybiU, while lighting a lamp, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Two THOUSAND acres are submerged near Whitehall, and further damage is threatened. Boads and bridges at Ramsey have suffered, and serious damage is reported from Jerseyville. CitiT FLEMING, who is charged with starting the fire which burned down part of the town of Waverly, was ar­ raigned in Jacksonville. Evidence against him was circumstantial, but ha was held for trial. He furnished $1,000 bail. PETE BOOARDUS, son of Captain A. H. Bogardus, the champion wing shot, was badly injured by a powder explosion at his shooting gallery in Lincoln. The sight of one, if not both of his eyes, was de­ stroyed. The explosion was caused by a spark from a cigarette falling into a powder can. CHARLES AARON, of Cliola Township, near Quincy, was brutally murdered Tuesday morning by a negro doctor named Smith, alias Jamison, who had been attending Aaron's mother for can­ cer. Aaron had agreed to give the negro $300 for curing his no'her. Jamison " demanded his money. Aaron refused, saying his Mother was not yet cured. Jamison pulled a 44-caliber Colt revol­ ver and shot Aaron in the head. His victim died within a few momenta. Jamison then { o'nted the revolver at Aaron's father and made him sign a check for $300. Then he grabbed hia valise and started down the railroad track for Quincy. The neighbors were called, and in a ft-w mo­ ments a half-dozen were following the negro down the track with shotguns. Jamison fired at them steadily and with the utmost coolness. When his revolver was emptiod he would sit down on the bank and deliberately reload ft, thus keeping his pursuers at a distance. Two trains, a passenger and a freight, came along, going toward Quincy. Janjis^n tried to flag them with his red handker­ chief. The conductors saw the armed men after him and refused to stop. After he had gone three miles a deputy sheriff appeared with a Winchester liSe and shot the murderer in the hip and through the Angers of his left hand, and Jamison threw away his weapon and surrendered. He waa, taken to the Quincy jail. GERRT YAK FRANK, formerly, in the ice business at Quincy, and a farm hand named Leidlg were drowned In the Fabius River, in Marion County, Mia- siourl, Saturday night, while attempting to cross the swollen stream. BUCK DICKEKSOS and Tom I>avi% the two negroes on trial for tho muidaff of Marcus I>eitseh, a Russian peddler, at Kichview, on Dec. 26 last, weMT found guilty of murder in the first de^ gree. Since tlio - verdict has been known undoubted < videuce has been made public that the nogroes would have been lynched had the verdict bean other than it is. ! . . THE corner-stone of a new Cathojfel church was laid at Lebanon. The Bt> Kev. Bishop Jansen conducted the services. He was assisted by fifteen priests. The church will be of brick, «r.<l will 4'ost $15,000. Ax Springfield, Joseph J. Yaseoa- cellos, a well-known conductor on the Wabash Railroad, and B. S. Palmer, who had formerly been a train dia- n»toh»-r en the same road, had a des­ perate tight in the dark, iu the course of which a pistol, in the hands of Vascon- was three times discharged. . . : i-iSi . .j "^1 isregard of splinters and a little iu- I vf* " '*** genuity-can accomplish. * mer's lungs, another into Vasotmcelles* | leg, and the th:r.l hit neither of thenk ' Ya&concviio* found Palmer in his kciih - ....... . .. . : . /-C" , V f 'J*' • t ̂ J. ~fWJ- -= J* a* t * ̂ ̂ • sisi *... v;. . . ... --r. xsi J *. ._ T ^ . > • . .sit S2M < •> » w ,k ' a i