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* * , - 0 * 4 * ; 4jIff(Y» #"^4 »i J 1 ^ * . ' FACTS FORCIBLY STATED. fRKMSCTSOF OUR TARIFF CLBAR- I - fcY PORTRAYED. £©»• Hnadrtd Question* AM*«nd Im Plain Gn|1iik--Sointthin; About Beet fjf),*;,." Root Sugar and Rinding Twine. vtV' On* HonilrCd Qnemion* and Auwtn. tk , , Question No. 8. The Wbrld of February 15 Wf ""ieays that the price of American wool has de- "Clined "sjucti more than that of the foreign ar­ ticle." is it so? No; it is not so, though about as near 'the truth as the World ever gets in talking about the tariff. Against iLa un­ supported assertion that domestic wools 'Lave fallen morfe than foreign wools, <we place the following facta and figures: London is the great world's market for foreign wools. We took from the Xondon Economist of January 4,1890, itlie complete list of English antl coloni- jal wools, regularly quoted from week to -week in its columns, with the annexed .prices for that date of each designated ibrand. Then we took the correspond­ ing list and prices as gi^en in the same journal on February G. 1892. We com- pared the two lists of prices, with the jfollowjng results: \ t " ^FALL IN FOREIGN WOOL PRICES FBO!t JAXCARY , ,»« 4, 1880,. TO FEBRUARY 6, 189H. 0 \ jEngllsh Wools: Fleeces a. Da bggs Half-bred hggs Half-bred wethers Kent iieec.es ,• 6th. I>owu ewes aud weihers ;..... Leicester cfwea nod -wethers. <f56lonlal Wools: Victoria--FleecS super.. (Scoured average Greasy average to mtr N. 8. Wales--Scoured av­ erage Greasy average -South Australia -- Greasy average Mew Zealand -- Scoureti -average Greasy overage... •Cape--bcoured super Fleece average Greasy avemge Natal--Scoured average... Greasy average Crosshreas--Greasy Vic. good to super Crossbreds-- New Zealand, line Kew Zealand, medium New Zealand, coarse... Jmi. 4 'fcO. Cts. per lb. iFeb. 6 i'U2. Cts. ;per lb. t-- "*? 2^> £. xtt- 22(326 22 (9)26 22(3)24 20 0->i 20 19 @20 22@2? 21 @26 2: @23 is' @19 17 ' ^ fer® Ts 86 J. £«53 27 1 «> 8 20 (ui2<J 20 40® 41 28 (cam 37 21 @22 14 016 27 " 18® 19 12 @13 SV* SO ©31 291* 12(3:44 ©31 21(g) ^2 15 @16 27 45(§)47 i'.2 @84 28 2K@'i4 ic (a IT 29 1«@18 11 @12 »8 y3 27 @28 2) 17 (ail8 IS <8>W 28 2S@30 26 @28 fiK 2S@30 @28 fiK 24 @21 11 26(328 22wi24 19 12 M lU(a 20 17 @18 10 An average fall on all these foreign wools oi *9 per cent It will be observed that not a single item out of those given shows an ad vance in price between these dates, while only one shows no decrease, anci in some cases the fall amounts to over 430 per cent. For prices of American wools we took the complete wool price list of the Boston wool market (which for wool is to America what the London market is to the rest of the world) for January 4, -1890, and February G, 1892, as pub­ lished in the Bulletin of National Asso­ ciation of Wool Manufacturers and in the Boston Commercial Bulletin. It will be observed that both dates and methods of comparison are exactly identical for both countries. Below is the comparison: PLIXTI ATIONS IN PRICES OF AMKRICAN WOOL FJiOM JAM. AHY 4, 185)0. TO FEBRUARY 6.1892. Jan. 4. '»o Feb. 6, '92 Fall or Cents j Cents I rise, per lb. j per lb. jPer ct. S7X 84(d)ii5 S2@3K IfeCASg :;4 ^ 21(928 2c.@2t> 82® 81 2ii@80 .S.Xa)SS K8;a34 2i)@21 23@24 9 14 12 8 k 41® 42 88 9M 87#38 86®37 85 S8^®84* s 7 29®»1 8b 21@23 2S@24 2f.®27 S4@H5 32(d>83 1»««20 21(g) 22 18 13 8 S9@40 86@... 10 84 ©3d S4@... 32@i>2H 3 " 7 29®8U 27(328 24 29@80 27(323 20®U3 27® 28 26<a27}j 280f... 27@28 2.r>(a) 26 23(g)... 4 7 7» 5?®G0 «o«» VA* 53®55 65@57 55057 6S@... 7 50^52 4H(UuV) 45® 17 51®53 60053 45048 2* 6* 6f>«G0 58060 0 5S@55 55 (a,58 55@57 S6@58 4* 1* 63(355 48&50 88(^40 50@53 45@60 85^)40 4 8 • «• 5-® 58 &4(a5G 6S($6i) 64^)5G 50(300 6S@... Ot) 50(g)... v/S 0 •X 10 60®fi2 6KA6O 65(^50 «i®r,2 b7®58 ...@58 0 8 W 1 57@fi0 f>f>'a,57 . 53@6o 6"®60 65®57 50052 r 18«:4 ll@16 1»@... 15016 25 8* 27®28 2T @28 0 6S(V) 57 40 (Si 46 40@I3 65® 58 4d@50 20(«iK> C0@B2 50i'o 55 •430*8 40@4:> ... dO'.i 53 0'@.ri5 40(345 'zQ(a>2~> 1'^ 0 - 9 5 6 8 Ohio. I'cniisivania and West Virginia XXX, and Pick- LoCk XX X No. 1 . N©. 2 Fine unwashed..... Unmerc ha n table.. Ohio--Combing No. 1, Jt, and blood.. Combing INO. 2, % blood Delaine. Michigan^New York and New England Xand above.... No. 1 No. 2... Fine unwashed.... Unmerchantable. Michigan -- Comb­ ing No.1,% and ]4 blood IlichiKHD -- Comb­ ing No. 2% blood.. Michigan-- Delaine Kentucky. Indiana and Missouri. Combing. % blood Combing, % blood Combing, braid... Clothing, % blood -Clothing, Vj blood 'Clothing, coarse. ' jfexas. (Scoured basis.) "1 Spring, line, 12 3 months........ 1 Spring. tine, «i to 8 * months .. « Spring, medium, 12 months...... .. Spring, medium, 6 to 8 mouths Fall, fine Fall, medium California. (Scoured basis.) "» Spring, Northern, tree, 12 months. Spring, Northern. free, 6 to 8 mths. Southern,12 mttas. Southern, 6 to 8 months 1... Fall, free....: Fall defective Oregon. (f-coured basis.) Eastern, No. 1 Eastern, No. U Valley, No. 1 Valley, Nc, 2 .. Montana. (Scoured basis.) Fine Fine medium Medium Wyoming and I'tah. (Scoured basis) Jine Fine medium Medium Colorado and New Mexico- Improved Coarse and carpet. Georgia and bouth- trn fulie d v*. o o 1«. (Scoured basis.) Extra..... „ A, Super B. Super Combing Fine combing.... Western, extra .. Western, super Western, low An average fall on all domestic grades of 4V£ per cent. »Advunce. Here are thirteen items out of the fif­ ty-seven given which show7 a positive ad­ vance in price since January, 1890, nine .months before the passage of the Mc- Kinley tariff, and five items which have 4»ot changed, while on those that have fallen the decrease is inconsiderable •compared to the fall in London. The fall in wool prices is due to a •downward movement throughout the world, caused by immensely increased •production in nearly all wooLgrowing countries. So far from the McKinley few's being responsible for it, thfet meas­ ure has checked the fall in this country 40 that our wool-growers have suffered 4eBS than those of any other country. The fall has been insignificant compared <to what it would have been under a free wool regime. Question No. 9. If under free trade wages •would fall, but prices would also fall corres­ pondingly, would not the workingman be just ; -4s well off as before? Undoubtedly he would. If prices would really fall correspondingly, the Workingman's condition would not be changed for the worse. But this is a supposition which is opposed to all ex­ perience and facts. Let us take an ill us- •tration: When a rich man goes to a shoemaker in this country and has his feet measured for a pair of shoes, which ftre to be made to order and exactly fitted io the peculiar shape of his foot, lie undoubtedly pays more than he irould pay for similar work in England «®r in Europe. Our.shoemaker gets two <i*d tluaa tjmw as mwck as tie shoe­ maker of other countries, and it Is but natural that, even allowing perhaps for his greater skill, the prouuet of his la­ bor should be dearer. But take, on the other hand, a pair of shoes made by the wonderful machines which can be found in any one of our great factories, which cut the leather.- sew the shoes and finish them, almost entirely without the intervention of human hands, one machine turning out hundreds of pairs of shoes daily. Can it be for a moment supposed that the mere fact that the wages of the workingman who tends to such a machine are low­ ered would make any appreciable differ­ ence in the price of one of those hundred pairs of shoes which that ma­ chine turns out? Certainly not. And yet it is just the laboring classes who buv this kind of shoes. That this is so everyone knows. Many a free-trader has unwittingly ad- mitted it, and even that rabid 4*retorm- er," ex-Consul Schcenhof, has given in­ valuable testimony on this point, when he said that all substantial articles of "the wholesale process of manufacture" are cheaper here than in free-trade England, but that things made entirely by hand are dearer in the United States. So we see that while lower w ages would undoubtedly mean lower prices for the splendid raiments and luxuries of the rich, it would not make much differ- once in the prices of machine-made ar­ ticles purchased by our workingmen; and thus lower wages could only mean, diminished purchasing power, fewer comforts, and a lower standard of living. But this is not all. Cannot the work­ ingman see that wages have not the slightest connection with the cost of the hundred and one thincs which iro to make up ftis expenses? Will the thou­ sand dollar mortgage on his home be­ come less than a thousand dollars be­ cause he earns lower wages? Will the debt he owes be smaller because his in­ come is less? Will the 5-cent carfare be redueed, or the price of a newspa­ per, or the admission fee to the lecture or entertainment? No, these things will cost just as much as before, so that lower wages simply mean more labor to purchase a smaller amount of them. The intelligent workingman cannot but see that higher wages, not lower prices, must be the watchword iD the battle to better his condition. AB Wen­ dell Phillips used to say: The maitspring of our progress is high wagss--wages at such u level that tne workingmen can spare his wife to preside over a home, can command leisure, go to lecturcs, tane a newspaper, and lift mm-- self from the deadening level of mere toil. That dollar lett after the bills are paid on .Saturday nicht means education. Inde­ pendence, self-respect, manhood; it in­ creases the value of every acre near by, fills tlie town with dwellings, opens public libraries and crowds them, dots the conti­ nent with cities and cobwebs it with rail­ ways. The one remainina dollar Insures progress and guarantees millions to its owner, better than a score ot statutes. It is worth more than a thousand colleges, and makes armies and police superfluous. Question No. 10. The American Kconomist says that if the tariff on agricultural machin­ ery were abolished to- morrow, none of it would or could be imported. Why then keep a duty on it? This will be recognized as a question answered in these columns before. We pointed out that it was a favorite method of the freetrader when con­ fronted with tke fact that American products are actually cheaper and bet­ ter in many lines than similar products in any other country under the sun, rather than to admit that the wind has let out of his tsrift' tix bub^6 gt least so far as the products in question are concerned, to try to avoid the anni­ hilating conclusion by fallaciously rais­ ing the entirely distinct and indepen­ dent question, Why then is tariff neces­ sary. Before answering this second question, the first, which is one of fact, should be disposed of and the signifi­ cance of its answer clearly grasped. Do agricultural implements sell more cheaply here, quality considered, than in any other county ? No free trader, if he be self-respecting and at all con­ versant with the facts, will deny that they do. What follows? That farm implements are not "tariff-taxed" by single cent; that the keystone of the free trade arch has fallen out. After these admissions are wrenched from the free trader we are in a position to take up the other queston, Why is a tariff kept on these things? As a matter of fact, the tariff law does not say a word about agricultural ma chinery from beginn'ng to end. It does say that-- Manufactures, articles or ware3 not enu me rated or provided for in this act, com­ posed wholly or in pjirt of iron, steel. lead, copper, nickel, pewter, zinc, gold, silver, platinum, aluminum, or any other metal, and whether partly or wholly manufact­ ured -- shall pay a duty of 45 per cent, ad valo­ rem. Farm implements fall under thiB classification, or rather they would if imported. About as many free trad­ ers as protectionists can be found among manufacturers of farm im- Elements, conclusive proof that the tariff as nothing to do with fixing prices. If they are mentioned at all, it is doubt ful if they would bear any duty. But no one thought it worth while to ask for the removal of the duty on them, since it injures no one. So it remains 45 per cent., as it stood in the old law. The Mills bill "placed it at 40 per cent It re9ts with the free trader to show cause why plows and mowing machines should be picked out from a thousand other things and made free. Is he will­ ing to base his warfare against protec­ tion on the existence of an inoperative tariff rate which has no more to do with the prices of farm tools than with regu- lat ins the phases of the moon? Question No. 11. Why is the Democratic party soopuo^oil to a I'rotective Tariff? All men and even animals fear and hate whatever they do not understand. A horse ne^ broken to the Dresence of a grist mill, a buzz-saw, a threshing ma­ chine or a locomotive fears and hates it. He will smash everything to which he is attached to get away from it. He does not know that each of these things is doing more rapid and effective worK toward feeding and sheltering him and hie owner than he can possibly do him­ self. The buzz-saw cuts out the boards which make his stable, the locomo­ tive draws to distant markets the crops which he draws only to the depot, the threshing machine sep­ arates the grain he eats from the straw, and the grist mill furnishes bread to those who feed him. All are as bene­ ficent to him as his master's most kind caresses and far more efficiently ser­ viceable. He hates them simply be­ cause he does not understand them and thinks fanciful dangers or cruelties are connected with them._ The restive horse wants the locomotive, the buzz saw, the grist mill and the threshing machine all repealed, because he hears their clatter, but his reason is too sin­ gle and simple to comprehend their utility. As the Democratic party gets broke to the tariff it dislikes it less.-- American Economist. Sharp Answers to AtcMilliu'a Gross Mis­ statement*. The speech of Congressman McMillin, who opened the tariff debate for the Democratic party in the House of Rep­ resentatives last'Wednesday, was a sig­ nal failure. We shall take at random a dozen of the free tra£e orator's asser­ tions, and show their falsity, and then we shall drop Mr. McMillin. The speech began as follows: I. Mr. Chairman, the last Congress im­ posed the highest tariff taxes ever levied n this country. From the last annual report of the chief of the Boreas of Statistics we learn that the average ad valorem rate on dutable imports has exceeded 45} per cent, during ten different rears. The average ad valorem rate on all im- ports under the McKinley law is now about 211 per cent., less than it has been for thirty years, less than it was during ten years of the Walker tariff, lees in fwet than it was under qur firs; tariff of a century aco. In 18<»6 the duty collect­ ed per capita was $4.96. In 1882 it was $4.12. For the four years preceding the passage of the McKinley bill it ex­ ceeded $3.60. During the first twelve months of the new tariff it was less than $3. In 18S2 less than 30 per cent, of our importations came in free. Now 52 per cent, come in free. II. Mr. McMillin says "the tariff law has now been in operation for cne year and five months." Part of it has, but part has not. The most important changes in the bill add­ ed sugar to the free list and increased the duty on tin-plate. The former took effect less than twelve months ago, while the latter has been in operation less than nine months. III. I challenge any representative here to point to a single line oi manufactures in winch the laborer's wages has been in- creased by that law. . How about plush, pearl buttons, lin­ en, c-jtlery and other industries estab­ lished or aided by the new tariff? Free traders collect a dozen instances of re­ duction in wages. They passover everv reported instance of increased employ­ ment and advanced wages directly traceable to the tariff. The last annual report of the Bureau of Statistics of La­ bor' of New \ ork State shows that in 1,941 cases wages were increased, while in 441 cases wages were reduced. It further shows that a reduction in the hours of labor took place in" 2,083 in­ stances, all of which should be counted as increased pay. Could we present the statistics from everv state it would be shown that the McKinlev bili was indeed a laborers' bill. Mr. McMillin does not speak of the present condition of the laborers of free trade England. IV. The laborer has been forced to pav more for the roof that shelters him. for the hat that covers his head, and the woolens that cover his back. He has had to pay more for the linen he wears, the hammer and hoe with which he works. With one exception the price of ev­ erything Mr. McMillin names is lower now than before the bill passed--in fact, is cheaper than^ ever before in our history. Vc The act of 1883 imposed an average rate of 46 per cent The two acts of 1890, which supplanted it, have imposed an average ot nearly 60 per cent The laBt figures at hand bearing on this statement are those ending Sep­ tember 30, 1891. During the twelve months ending on that day our im. ports were valued as follows: Free of duty.... : «U9.«:>,489 Dutiable - -- 41S.2ii3.i65 _ 1832,068,C>05 Total duties collected during theue twelve months... »19S,040.020 If Mr. McMillin cares to get at the truth he can divide $193,040,020 by $413,- 203,165, and he will find that instead of our average rfite being 60 per cent, it was only 47, while on the total imports, the honest way of reckoning, it was only 23 per cent., and is still less for the calendar year 1891. VI. It is true that fifty odd millions of dollars was taken off the sugar tax. But this was no free-will offering, tor the same measure provided for the payment of twelve millions to the producers of sugar as bounties. Government estimates are that the amount of bounties for the current year will amniint to 793.000. r.Irr.Gst all of which will go to Southern sugar growers. The McKinley law is not a "sectional law," as every Democratic tariff has been. VII. Again, while the fifty odd millions of tax was taken off sugar, increase of du­ ties, amounting to about sixty-five millions, was put on other things aud generally on the necessaries of life. t The amountof duties collected during the fiscal year preceding the McKinley tariff act was $226,540,037. During the first twelve months of the operation of the new tariff the duties collected amounted to only $193,040,020.40--a de crease of $33,500,017, and this will be much further reduced under a whole year with free sugar. Where is Mr. Mc- Millin's increase of $65,000,000? VIII. When an American citizen huyi here an article manufactured abroad he pays for not only the original cost abtoad but the cost of transportation to this coun try and the duty collected at thfe port of entry, and when he uses and consumes the article lie pays the tax imposed by the gov eminent. Why then have the Chemnitz hosiery makers, the Sheffield cutlery manu­ facturers, the tin plate barons of Wales reduced their prices to meet the in creased duty on their wares? Why does the Canadian sell his barley for less than the New York farmer gets for bis? These people confess and com' plain that they pay the duty. IX. If the foreigner and not our citizen pays the duty, why did we relieve him from paying millions of tax for us on sugar? Why not let him continue to pay tlie fifty odd millions ? Protectionists never claim that the tariff is not a tax on imported articles which we cannot produce in this coun- trp. The tariff on tea or coffee (now taxed in free trade England), and finally on BUgar, was removed, and they were made lree to our people for this reason. X. A rich man going abroad can bring back thousands of dollars' worth of wear­ ing apparel free from taxation. This statement reveals an ignorance which is inexcusable in a member of the ways and means committee, or it is a de­ liberate falsehood, of which we gladly acquit the honorable member. Para­ graph 752 of section 2 of the McKinley law, which enumerates the articles that when imported shall be free of duty, says: 752. Wearing apparel and otber person al effects (not merchandise ) of persons ar­ riving in the United States 1 shall be free), but this exemption shall not be held to in­ clude articles not actually in use and ne­ cessary for the use of such persons. XI. They (the manufacturers) have been forced to use shoddy as a substitute for woolen goods. The rags that had al­ ready fallen from the back of beggars in other countries have been used is a substi­ tute for wool. The quality and value of imports of shoddy, mungo, rags, flocks and waste for 1890 were 4,980,327 pounds, valued at $2,052,078, while for the calendar year 1S91 (under the new tariff) only 215,714 pounds, valued at $58,627, were import­ ed. XII. The value of wool of similar quali­ ty has varied very little in the markets of Boston and London since the duty was imposed. Competing grades of foreign wool cal- aulated on a scoured basis sell in Lon­ don to-day 10, 11, 14 and 18 cents lower than the American price. To make a bakers' dozen of Mr. McMillin's mis­ statements we reprint the following: XIII. The tariff rates levied at the close of the revolutionary war * * • were not one-sixth of those imposed by the present law. Those levied to carry on the war with (ireat Britain in 1S12 * * * were not one-third so great. They are about two and one-half times greater than the rates imposed to carry on the Mexican war, and 60 per cent, higher than the rates imposed to carry on our recent civil war. The average rate on all imports have been as follows in the years named : j~91 ' Percent l«IS^..». si 7^ 1S46......... 25.a5 1861....... -- 26.08 186#.. 41.81 1891 21.50 If Mr. McMillin is the aBlest spokes­ man the Democrats in the House of Representatives have to bring forward, their esse is hopcl< Western States. Last year three flu> tories were successfully operated ia California, turning out over 8,O&0,Q0( pounds of sugar, on which was paid tb€ government bounty of $1(30,000. There are also factories in Utah and in Ne­ braska, with others in contemplation. The American Agriculturist for March has a lengthy article upon this oubject, from which we gather that our tothl annual consumption of sugar amounti to 1,885,994 tons of 2,240 pounds each in ; at.' J^«Y»rwada./mru o." lahhonb ptave opened a real estate office here. There are under consideration a good "m ny deals and transfers. £ Our editor and wife have just returned y!rom Centerville, Iowa, where they were ^ tailed to see a very sick daughter, Mrs: E i,rt. Crego. Their many friend* wish her a jr»peedy recovery. o Richard Seward, son of E. Seward and pi»rother of Dr. Belle Seward, is at the fejanehmann hospital, Chicago, for treat­ ment. He will shortly returned much "benefitted. Had I the time, were this the iplace, I would like to tell how Dr. Sew- frard> by snlf denial and grit, has attained to present success. I am sure it would 'encourage many a young women who is Nspiring to be an M. D. liXAieo. Kiddle, the reader, says the secret bviiliuccess is "to have ability, and then, iaduis the abilitv to know hoiy„io and ?ne which will pay handsome earn­ ings to investors. Enterprise and capi­ tal should not delay in this undertaking. Jf a large area of Western territory be devoted to sugar beet culture, it means a proportionate decrease in other crop products which will accordingly benefit Eastern farmers.--Neio England Farmer. Dead, »ntl Pua't Know It, This is a rather entertaining spectacle now on view before the American peo­ ple. Two quite conspicuous persons are engaged--in different ways--each in his own--in a desperate Btruggle for a nomination out of the reach of either, id LIFE AT THE CAPITAL. HOW THE PRESIDENT SPENDS SUNDAY. W7- •" H 4 < 1 to*• Church cfflM Covenant sad Its Pastor --A Brief Aeoount of What Occupies a Congressman's Working- Hoars -- Some Things His Constituents Desire to Know. Washington Letter. ASHINGTON correspond­ ence: The Pres­ ident's church" is always center of attention in Washington Sunday mornings, and the President at church is the center of at­ tention within its walls. The Presi­ dent is a regular churchgoer. By this it is not meant that he is every Sunday in his pew at the Church of the Cov- Ylenant. Sometimes I "he goes to other churches, some­ times he does not but as a rule he is in Wedl Jo Nund on bu Mr cotu-g.. ,«>r*Tui, his pew before the organ sounds at the Church of tho Covenant on Sunday mornings. Often the Sunday , school children get a glimpse of him just as the exercises are closing and they are ready to pas3 out, for the Sunday school services are now held iii iiie body of the church since the injury to the chapel by fire some weeks ago. The President goes to chUroh very much as other people do. About 10:45 the carriage from the White House stables puts in an appearance at the en­ trance of the Executive Mansion, the door-keeper notifies tho President and which, if it should fall to either, would , family that the carriage is ready, and be a hollow mockery, leading only to ] they take their seats behind the pair cf defeat. Neither of them seems to be spanking bays, with driver and footman aware that his only claim to be includ­ ed in the census of political possibili­ ties is the fact that he reuiains un- buried. Both are politically dead. Compared with Dav'd B. Hill or Grovei Cleveland, the late William M. Tweed is on deck in his shirt-sleeves, and the late Julius C.-esar is in a state of boister­ ous activity getting ready to make a home-run in the Olympian games amid the enthusiastic plaudits of the Roman populace. Still "they keep right on, running against each other just ae though there was something at the end of it and it would be worth anything ii they got it. It all comes of their not be­ ing sufficiently alive to what is going on around them to know that as a matter of fact they are dead as a doornail, both of them; counted out of the presiden­ tial race by all intelligent observers ol current politics. Mr. Hill has been dead for at le'ast three months, and Grover Cleveland nearly four years. Big-head killed them b'eth. One got fat and forgot his friends; the other got saucy and did too much for them. Mr. Hill goes prancing through the localities in the South made "historic" by what he calls "disturbances," de­ claiming loose incoherencies about the great Democratic party and state rights, Force bills and the day of deliverance: calling upon Democrats to "unite" and "organize" in the only section of the countrv whprfi they f.rs srs thoroughly organized and solidly united that no opposition is permitted; aud he evi­ dently thinks he is making great prog­ ress in scooping in delegates. In none of his speeches has he Baid anything worthy, we will not say of a statesman, but of a fourth-class political stump ora­ tor. His eloquence has consisted in­ state repetitions of the moet flatulent phrases of forgotten Campaigns; his vi­ tuperation ofjjolitical opponents has been borrowed from the vocabulary of the dead and gone fire-eaters, and re­ hashed to inspire their descendants. By what the Evening Post describes as "a happy coincidence," simultane­ ously with this irruption of Hill into historic places with his mouth open, Grover Cleveland appears on the scene. Not abruptly or intrusively, but coyly and with apparent diffidence, as if he had responded with reluctance to the call of duty, reinforced by the tumult­ uous summons of an oppressed people who would not be denied. As a matter of prosaic fact, the call came from hie old friend, Gen. Bragg, who "loves him for the enemies he has made," and was not at all tumultuous. Bragg, being an old chum of Cleveland's and apparent­ ly as unconscious that he had been po­ litically dead for nearly four years as Cleveland was himself, wrote him an urgent letter asking him to save the country from going to the everlasting bow-wows through the operation of the iniquitous McKinley bill. Cleveland responded with uncommon prompt­ ness that it was an awful re­ sponsibility, and something that even if he wanted it he should not push a self-seeking canvass for, but on the whole, as Bragg seemed so much in earnest about it, he would leave him­ self in the hands of his friends. Which, freely translated, means he thinks he is very much alive and may get there. The reading between th« lines in the allusion to self-seeking is that Hill is do­ ing that sort of thing, and by that token exhibiting himself as a blooming idiot. He tells Bragg in closing that "this is a time for Democratic thoughtfulness and deliberation." Well, he can bet it is. And he can make up his mind to another tbing, that Democrats have al­ ready thought and deliberated enough to reach the conclusion that neither he nor Hill has the ghost of a show for the nomination. They haye killed each other. By-and-by Mr. Gorman, of Maryland, will step up to these deluded shades and say: "Now, gentlemen, your part of the show being over, will you kindly take away your remains and let us pro­ ceed to business?"--New York Tribune. sitting high in front, and are whirled away down Connecticut avenue past the Russian, Italian and British legations to the door of the church. The President and his family always enter at the side door. The main en­ trance of the church fronts on Connec­ ticut avenue, but tho entrance to the chapel is on N street. This is a little more retired. There are less gaping crowds and the presidential carriage al­ ways turns quietly in on N street and the family utilize this entrance, as in­ deed, do many other pew holders, whose seats are well at that epd of the church. WHERE THE PRKFIDEXT WORSHIPS. There is usually a little crowd of peoplo who know thfis habit of the President's, about the -N street entranoe when he drives up. They are few, however, and very respectful. Usually the President is accompanied by his wife, sometimes by Mrs. McKee, sometimes by Dr. Scott, tho venerable father of Mrs. Harrison-- sometimes Dy both. The entrance to the church is ^usually so quietly made that few people are aware of it until the family are safely ensconced in their pew. Dr. Hamline, who is the pastor of the President's church, is a comparatively young man, a. graduate of one of tho great educational institutions of the country, a close student and a l^ard worker. His sermons are all carefully prepared, and delivered froni manu­ script,' but so well delivered that the listener seldom thinks of tho fact that they are being read. Dn Hamline does not allow tho fact that ho has a Presi­ dent and many other people of social and official distinction in his congrega­ tion to tone down his presentation of gospel truths. The income of the Church of the Covenant is a very handsome sum. The pews bring a rental of from $23 to $40 per annum for each person occupying them, and the morning collection runs pretty well up to a $100 a Sabbath. Dr. Hamline receives a Balary of $6,000 a year, and has often been offered more than that to go elsewhere. It is stated that he recently received an offer of $12,000 from a Western city, but pre­ ferred to remain in Washington. He has also had flattering offers from New York, and has persistently, but grace­ fully declined anything looking to take him away from his charge here, to which he is greatly devoted, -new xvii* i rtws. An Knconracing In tin airy. The development of the beet-sugar industry Is rapidly progressing in the facts About Binding Twine. A prominent feature of the Demo­ cratic attack on sections of the McKinley tarifi'is the proposed repeal of the dutv on binding twine. The price of binding twine has decreased under protection, but even if the duty weie added to the cost the difference to the farrr^ would only amount to 1 cent on an acre of gram. In India binding twine is made by natives who live on rice and are paid $5 per month. If the Democrats had the power they would take the $2,000,- 000 of wages which binding twine dis­ tributes yearly in the United States and hand it over to the employers of cheap foreign labor K Hint for Housekeepers, There's a new idea in industrial pur- suite. A Columbus Avenue lodger was awakened yesterday morning by lyi awful yell. Even his urban and ac­ climated ears, attuned to every variety of the street vender's howl, could not decide it to mean old "rags," "bottles," or "umbrellas to mend," or "nice sweet oranges," even though he followed scriptural advice and stood erect. So be listened. Nearer and nearer came the yell, and following it, there came up one of the 6ide streets a man bearing a water pail, a brush and sponges ana a quanti­ ty of white rags; and this is a translation of what he said: Windows washed for anybody! Five centB a window, in and out! Windows washed! Here's your nice clean windows washed "'--Boston Her­ ald. THERE are hundreds of women yet to learn the art of gracefully waltzing wi*b a trained skirt A Congressman's Day. One day taken apart from all the rest in the existence of a Congressman is not apt to be marked by great adventures or enlivened by an exciting incident. Most days of tho average member of the House are repetitions each of the other. A review of the twenty-four hours made by a member before closing his eyes for a night's rest puts him to sleep with the thought that the lot of a legislator is not always a happy one, and that statesman­ ship is the least of things that enter in his day's toil. Your correspondent asked one of the oldest members of the House to keep a record for him of one day of Congres­ sional life. This is it in brief: Eight o'clock, breakfast; 8:30, opened mail and laid aside all newspapers with marked articles for future examination. Read upward of ninety letters on all sorts of subjects, of which the following are twenty examples: One is from a veteran asking for Information about his pen- s'on. Ho gives no postofflce address, add I am oliged to write a letter to the Pension Office to securo his address. Another correspondent wants a number of old volumes of geological survey, which, upon investigation, I find are not to be had. A veteran writes that he communicated with tho Pension Office December 7, 1891, and got a com­ munication--from them nearly a month later which made no reference to his letter. Wants me to go to the office to see if his communication was received. Another letter requires me to go to the pension office to ascertain what there is defective in the application of the writer for a pension. A gentleman from the Agricultural Department requests me to accompany him to my home, where he is to deliver a lecture to some of my con­ stituents. Anothet wants the Con­ gressional Record sent to him. An ap- {jlicant for pension wants to know where lis papers are. One of my constituent's writes for me to secure him a place in the Government departments. Another wants his pension matters looked up, but does not give the number of his case. Another wants a position in the Govern­ ment printing office. In another letter the gentleman gives an aceountof trouble he is having over the exaction of duties from him for goods bipught to the cus­ tom house. This requires investigation at the customs ̂ division, Treasury De­ partment, and an examination of the law, which shows the duties were prop­ erly collected. The pension office noti­ fies me of the allowance of a pension. The office also wants to know how an applicant for pension in my district spells his name. Another correspondent wants information as to the foreign in­ surance companies doing business at the national capital. A pension appli­ cant wants to know all about the surgi­ cal report in his case. Another wants* me to have a medical examination as to his condition made at his home, because he is unable to travel. Another letter is on the subject of river and harbor im­ provements. Another gentleman wants me to ascertain what action has been taken in Bome laud case he has before the Government. These are examples of requests con­ tained in nearly a hundred letters. Each one requires a reply and most of them involve writing letters to the. de­ partments or making personal visits. Many require long personal examina­ tions of department records and an un­ winding of lots of red tape. Most of tho matters are such as must be looked into before going to the Capitol. After -tiiis I go to the committee work. There is a different committee for every day In the week, with subcommittee work besides, and on Saturday, besides several subcommittees to look after, I have various departments to visit. At 12 o'clock I entered the House, introduced bills, chased around after the Speak­ er's eye, listened to debates, toak part in general legislation, answering let­ ters between times, answered roll calls and received visits from a large number of constituents and other per­ sons who called me out by card. Five minutes is allowed for lunch meanwhile, and at 6 o'clock I dine. At 7 I again turn to my mall and to the newspapers and to pamphlets and a world of other printed matter. This occupies me until 11 o'clock, when, for the first time dur­ ing the day, I get a chance for general reading and for study, which occupies me for an hour or more, until drowsi­ ness compels retirement. This is the average humdrum day with a Congressman, which is repeated every twenty-four hours, and involves an im­ mense amount of labor without interest. Karthquake-l'rctof. In all countries where earthquakes are of common occurrence the ait of constructing buildings in such a way as to resist the effect of the shocks has been studied, and, as always hap­ pens, experience has proved the best teacher. An extraordinary opportu­ nity to compare the strength of build­ ings thus made with others built after the ordinary European fashion was furnished by the terrible earthquake in Japan last October. Professor John Milne, one of the foremost authorities on the subject of earthquakes, studied the effects""* this great shock, which deS * over 40,000 houses, and repoj "in many places so-called buildings of brick and stone, u edly put up in the flimsiest mani lie as heaps of ruin between Japanese buildings ve!stand!ncr." Some of the Japanese castles and temples escaped, though situate:) within the district where the shock was most destructive. Professor Milne attributes this in the case of the castles to their pyramidal form and to the moats that surround them, and in the case of the temples to the multiplicity of joints between tho roof and the supporting columns, the effect of which was to produce a "bas­ ket-like yielding" when the temples were shaken by the earthquake, thus preventing the breaking of the walls* In some of the Western States where tornadoes occur a similar prob­ lem is presented, but so far no method of constructing a house that will en­ able it to resist the tornado's fury has been invented, and the only alterna­ tive lias been to dig underground chambers near the houses, into which families can flee for safety. Probably a Japanese would con­ sider one of our tornadoes as a thing far more to be dreaded thau the earth­ quake of his native country. ;, • ILLINOIS INCIDENTS. SOBER OR STARTLING, FAlT?t« FULLY RECORDED. The Antl-Truck Law Tel^l--A. Blows His Head Off-ClayUm*» Piilwwl People RceoTtr-ChlMivn Poisoned Ay Anenic in Candy. From Far aml Nnir. FRANJK. j. WoitMAH died at Effingham, aged 30. THREE children of Ernst Wambold, a Chicago photographer, Were poisoned by eating candy colored by. arsenical prep- • arations. It is doubtful; if any of them recover. JOHN OCHRE, a farmer living eight miles north of Carlyle, committed sui­ cide by placing the muzzle of a shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger with a string. He killed himself on account of ill-health. HARRY SAGE was commissioned as manager and captain of the base-ball! club that Rock Island and Moline will i put into the Illinois-Iowa League, and : will commence signing players at once. The club starts out in good financial trim. . " ^ ; MB. AND MRS. RieHABDsoir AND Dr. 1 and Mrs. Miller, of Clayton, 111., who v.-f re dangerously ill for some days from drinking poisoned milk, are recovering. A sample of the milk has been sent to Professor Shammel.atAnn Arbor, Mich., for chemical analysis. , A jVANGEHors counterfeit half-dollar which the secret-si rvice agents believed had been taken out of circulaticn years ago has reappeared and the sub-treas­ ury, at Chicago, has received many of the bogus coins lately. They are made of brass, well coated with silver, and dated 1876. No one but an expert can tell them from the genuine. The gang which manufactured these eoins had its rendez­ vous in Northern Indiana and was under the leadership of a notorious character named "Bill" Allen. He and his crowd were captured and it was believed all of their bogus coin was gathered in. The reappearance of some of the coins has caused considerable speculation as to where it came from. It is believed that some of the coin was buried and recently unearthed. OIL is to be used as fuel, instead of eoal, in all the big furnaces at the World's Fair grounds. A contract was practically made with the Standard Oil : Company for furnishing the entire sup­ ply. The Standard Oil Company sent in a bid that made the •* oal dealers who were after the contract shake in their boots. The lowest bia for coal was $2.44 per ton. From that figure the bids ranged all tho way to $3.95 per ton. The Standard Oil Company's bid was 70 cents for a barrel of forty-two gallons of oil, and 72J cents a barrel during 1893. Agents of the company said that three barrels of oil would produce as . . piueh heat as a ton of coal. That meant " J saving of about 14 per cent, on the «'ifi est bid for coal, and a committee de- / -d [ded in favor of oil, 011 one condition. r i 'he Exposition Company will pay 70 ;<'A eo TJ"" and tbon . •• 'fS' •• -v« Now is time to take advantage the extreme iow prices on cclour. {^"Remember we carry toillsbury'g Besl, Honeet Abe, suid other choice brands at the • ' * jjiwesfc prices. ^ New England Bear Htutting-. - "Charles Smith, the Jackson bfear hunter," said a trapper, "followed a track through the snow some winters ago and Anally it disappeared in a ledge. He was bound not to give it up that way so he made him a torch, and taking it in one hand and his single-shot rifle in the otber, he en­ tered the den. lie'wasn't long in spotting a pair of eyes in advance of him, and he fired. Retreating until he was satisfied the bear must be dead he again entered, but there the eyes were, apparently as before. Again he fired and when he next entered the cave he found ^hat he had killed two bears, and both big ones. The most bear I ever got in one day was when I went to visit one of my trap? and found 3J3 (Jd she b?ar in th§ trap ah3 Iwo cubs sleeping by her side. In' less than three minutes I had three dead bears, and if those two^cubs, killed cold, weren't juicy eating 1*11 miss my guess. I got $5^1 out of that morning's work. You see it makes quite a difference in the profits of bear hunting whether we kill our game in, Jfew Hampshire or Maine. Here the bounty is only $5, while over the line it is $10. So, unlike Saw- telle, we are anxious to prove that we do our killing in New Hampshire. For instance, if I trap a bear in Maine, I try to get him across the line before knocking him in the head. 6ne I loaded into a cart and drove up into the dooryard of one of the selectmen of a neighboring town just across the border, and there dis­ patched my bear and called for and received my order, making $5 in a few hours by so doing."--Lewiston (Me.) Journal. \\ est 43 Deaths from Hydrophobia. A notable decrease in the number of deaths from hydrophobia is ob­ served by the Registrar-General of London. The deaths fVom this dis­ ease had been thirty in 1869, and had averaged twenty-four annually in three years, 187-1888-1889, but there were only eight in 1890 and fewer than in any year since 1868. COL. J. SUMNER ROGERS, of the Michigan Military. Academy, writes from Orchard Lake, Mioh.: "In firing an eight-inch mortar recently we were successful in making an instan­ taneous photograph of the same, catching the shell about twelve feet from the mouth of the mortar." The view of the cannon-ball is clear. . "JAKET, my son, dake longer stebs und you von't veax out your shoes so quiok." A -var^mnttl boys followed liim, picking up the pack- VM ages from doorsteps. Seven of the boys took large numbers of the pills, and all were violently sick frOni strychnia ' ̂ , }*' poisoning. Wiliie Schuyler, it is feared, ,, -;V"' will not recover. Miss ANNIE L. GREGORY called at the | J rectory of the Jacksonville Episcopal J- Church and asked for a letter of dis- ' missal from the church. The redor de- clined to grant it, byt the young lady set * out for Chicago, there to become in- structed in the pecul:ar tenets of ihe . « Jewish reiigion vfnde.r .the guidance of , 7 ' the Rev. Dr. Moses, rabbi of the Thirty- fifth Street Synagogue. She takes this '*V;pf| step in order to become tho wife of Meier Weil, a well-known youag cloth­ ing merchant of Jacksonville. The yoting man is wealthy and highly con- 4 n -ctedj while his prospective wife is the : daughter of a poor but respectable, widow. ... - THE Hard Road Convention opened at Springfield. It is a State convention of all classes of hard road agitators, held under a call issued by the Permanent State ltbad Association, of which Carter ? H. Harrison of Chicago is PreiAdent and > Phocion Howard, Secretary. The recom­ mendations of this association are for State aid to the several counties con- •- tingent upon a like appropriation by the county; a State board of practical engi­ neers and contractors; convict labor to be used exclusively for preparing road material; all contracts to be awarded by : the State board in conjunction with the : county board; contracts to be awarded at the April meeting of the county Loard ; each year, so that the work may be done timely. AT Alton, while crossing the Bluff Line Railway track, J. G. MeXelly, aged twenty-nine, was struck by a backing train and ground to pieees. He leaves a widow and three children. HENRY SEFKLD, a Washington County farmer, and a neighbor hfc>t FayettevWe,, late Saturday with two wagon loads of corn, both being slightly intoxicated. ' His companion reached home safely, but Sefeld's hotly was found almost buried' in mud under his overturned wagon. The position of the body and his torn clothes showed plainly that he made a desperate struggle for life. MRS, JOSEPH BRESHAHN, the wife of a prominent citizen of Fayetteville, . jumped into a deep well. Her mind has been deranged. The water in the well was four feet deep. The woman was rescued after an hour's time, and shows no ill effects from her terrible plunge. CI RTIS VAVOHX, the 8-year-old son of William Vaughn, was shot and in­ stantly killed while out hunting near Muuiiosu with his Jtather and a visiting friend from Indiana named Smith. Mr. Vaughn had missed his shot at a bird, and called to Smith to fire. Smith ac­ cordingly fired, and at the same moment the boy jumped up directly in front of him and received the charge full la breast. . :W