The St. Landry Clarion."HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND U 1NBRIBED BY GAIN."

VOL. VI.-NO. 5. OPELOUSAS, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 1895. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.

YESTERDAY. VWhy should ye troop

About my way,Ohl pallid ghosts tO0 yesterday?

Why wake meFrom my fitful sleep,

To think of sorrowsPast, though deep

Shine, brightly shine, aFair morning sun, a

And gild my darknessAs I run.

Bloom, sweetly bloom, cYe flowers of May,

Above the gravesOf yesterday.

We williot wasteLife's precious time.

In chanting sorrow's tMournful rhyme;

But, as we watch,And as we pray,

We'll heed the lessonOf to-dasy

...MiAL A. Kidder, in N. Y. Weekly.

APICKANINNY PREACHER

Wonderful Doings of a Little

Negro Girl Evangelist.

A South Carolina Squire's Story of theChild Who Is Preaching t&eGospel

with Such Power to and i

Sand Whlte

About a dozen prominent membersof the southern colony in New Yorkmet in the lobby of a down-town hotelthe other evening to talk over oldtimes with a genuine old South Caro-lina "squire," who is spending a fewdays in the city, says the New YorkSun. This gentleman of the old schoolacquired the title of squire in the old

days, when it was a little above thatof "judge," and far above that of"colonel," as a mark of popularity anddignity, and he wears it gracefullystill

"Squire, suppose we all take some-thing," suggested the big colonel fromKentucky.

"I can't do it, boys," responded thesquire, and a far-away look came intohiskindly eyes. "You see, I've stopped."

"Wh-e-w,' whistled the colonel, witha long-drawn-out sound like a fall

wind. "I can hardly believe you." And

every man in the party looked as if hewas thinkingthe same thing, but nonemade any comment.

"How did such a misfortune comeupon you?" finally ventured a Virgin-ian, after the -first great wave of sur-prise had subsided, for they all knewthat for nearly forty years the squirehad taken his toddy three times dailyafter meals to aid his digestion.

"Well, boys, it was this way," hesaid. "The little nigger girl preacherconverted me, and I've dropped a goodmany of my old ways, such as cussin',swearin', and drinkin'. I reckon youmaybe all read that little editorialabout her in the Sunday's Sun suggest-ing that she should come to New York

and preach in Madison Square garden.Well, all I've got to say is, if she comes

you must all go to hear her, and if hersermon don't touch your hearts morethan all the Parkhurstian bombs andTalmagic Roman candles that you'velistened to since you moved to this dis-trict, then I'11 go back to my wickedways,"

"Who'd ever have thought that whata durned little pickaninny had to say

( would" influence a man of your com-mon sense, squire?" spoke up the old-est man in the crowd, testily. "Iwouldn't have believed it of you. Whatmanner of child is she, anyway, andwhere did she come from?"

"I don't know a great deal about herpast history, which is a very short one,as she is only nine years .old," com-mencedc the squire, as he took a longdraw at a corn-cob pipe, "but she wasborn near Washington, somewhere inVirginia, I think, in the fall of 'f5. Herdaddy was a preacher, and died threeor four years ago. This child, whose

--- full name is Claretta Nora Avery, hasalways eagerly attended religious serv-ses and taken a great interest in therpiritual welfare:of hen people. She:says that the love of God entered he'heart when she was a year and a halfold, and has never left it, but of courseyou all won't believe that, for no

genuuie darky has any idea of time.I d been hearing and reading a gooddeal about her, and not believing much,and when business carried me to asmall town in the lower part of thestate, where she waaiholding a meet-

ing, I decided to go around to thechurch to hear her. Itwas quite late,and 1 got there just in time to catchthe last sentence of her sermon.

"I'm going to stay in the field hereuntil I die, and when death comes,some time, 'way over yonder, where

my Jesus ls, I'll live there too, singingalways that new song with Him in

glory.'"Her voiie had a mournful ringin it,

and the little creature made a mastrpathetle picture as her head bobbed uptfrom behind the pulpit and her great

eyes roved over the congregation in anappealing way. She looked about herwearily and sadly for a moment, butsoon a radiant light fell upon her face,for her sermon had struck home, andshe knew it; the entire congregationbegan to sing, #nd the queer part of itall was, they began to sing the samething. Soon some began to chant,while others cried aloud, moaning andbewailing their sins. You talk aboutyour paid choirs. There isn't enoughmoney in New York to buy suchmusic as I heard that night. Thevoiroes were rich and full and sweet,and a minor chord that touched one's

very soul was the predominating

"5e1rrons and music have a -mostelectrifying effect upon a colored cpn-gregation, and this one was soonwrought up to the highest pitch of

,religious excitement. Some of theSmo'ners prostrated themselves on their

acs,. beating the bare floor with theirhands until they were worn out, whenthey wo'ld lie in what is termed atrance. Others crawled on their kneesto the pulpit. Manpy of them sat in thel.ds of this up oar and appeared

'etth r to see nqr heQr, so intent wereth aey ,t working out their own salva-tf m. In the meantime the old saes,

who were sure of Heaven, kept onsinging to keep things going. TheLeader that night was a regular old-time, befo'-the-war mammy, and good-ness fairly beamed from her counte-nance.

" '1 bin a II-ar so long, so long-So long, so long;

I bin a li-sr so long,'she chanted in a weird, pathetic voice,and every person in the congregationwho was able to lift his or her voicechanted the refrain at the end of everythree lines:

''Gin me a little time ter pray.'"Every one was in motion. Some

swayed their bodies backward and for-ward, some shuffled their feet in timeto the music, and the very happy onesclapped their hands and shouted:'Glory, my Lawdl' This kept up forhours Several prostrate forms werecarried out, and a number were left inthe church, where they lay until nextday. When I got tired and went awaythat night the little preacher, utterlyworn out, had curled herself up in asplint-bottom chair, and was enjoyingthe sleep of innocent childhood. Icould hardly sleep that night for think-ing about that meeting. I tell you,boys, I was impressed."

"I always thought you were abovesuch superstition, squire," remarkedsome one, as the squire stopped to refillhis pipe.

"Well, anyway, 1 went back the nextnight," resumed the squire, "and forthe first time got a good view of thelittle preacher. She is a perfect childin looks and ways. Her complexion isabout the color of an old mustardground ginger cake, her teeth whiteand even, the whites of her large,mournful eyes prominent, and shedoesn't weigh more than sixty or seven-ty pounds There were a lot of whitepeople in the congregation, but shetook no notice of them. Curiosityprompted me to go to listen to her, butinterest held me there. She spokeright opt in the mqst earnest way, asif her only thought was preaching theGospeL Her delivery and gestureswere easy, and, in fact, what she saidand the way she said it beat nine-tenths of the preachers-especiallythese evangelists-white or black.

"She opened service with avery goodprayer, and read, or rather recited, achapter from the Bible, which did notbear on the seemon in the least. Herone thought seems to be to prepare forthe Great Beyond, which she desig-nates as 'way over yonder.' She talksabout the hereafter in a most pathetteway, and 1 remember on that particu-lar night her text was: 'Business inHeaven.'

"'I'11 meet you there, sinner,' she |fsaid, 'for I got business with Capt. y4Jesus. I must 'tend to it. I must go a,where partin' is no mo'. I got to put ,on a long white robe, a starry crown,silver slippers, and sit at my Master's efeet. I'll meet you ov6r yonder, way a3over yonder, for we all got to cross cJordan stream dry shod and go over h

yonder. I'll meet you there, sad- thearted mothers. I'll meet you there, tiwicked fathers. I'm going to get In- tside those pearly gates. Are you? Are q

you? Sinner, you must get right,Learn it now. Now is the time. Way aover yonder may be too late-for- you,' band so on. Night after night I went,and each time she had a new sermon, Aeach one containing a sad strain.

"She made a pathetic figure,,always nclad in deepest black 'without theslightest touch of color, that childrenlove so well, or the faintest suggestionof an ornament. When occasion de-manded she rebuked thoughtless per-sons for bad behavior in a few clear-cut, kind sentences, and went right onwith her sermon. If the Gospel grind-ers would only learn that it isn't thesestaggering truths, which cannot )e -grasped by the average mind, but adoctrine of simple, earnest faith that tarouses people to .better living. But tthey never will, Now it was the sin-cerity of the little nigger, and theearnestness of her followers, that im-pressed me, and, while I can't say thatshe converted me, she certainly set meto thinking, and : Iconciuded to leaveoff doing certain things.

"I wanted to give her something, andcouldn't make up my mind what tobuy her. She reads poorly, and canscarcely write at all, but somehowshe didn't seem like a child that wouldcare for toys. Finally, in a sort of

desperation, I settled on a la•gewaxdoll with highly colored cheeks aad amass of yellow hair., If. your couldhave seen her antics o• delight whenshe found that it was all her own. She

clasped it to her as if she would neverlet it go, and then she told me that sheused always to-preach sermons to herdolls, and that the people who over-heard her persuaded her to preach to

people, which was the very thing shehad always longed to do.

"Everybody agrees that she is a won-der, and I tell you she is. Many whitet people think her inspired, and theblacks believe that she is sent directlyt from God as a warning, and -that thej judgment day is coming soon. I don't

know, because I've never thought aI great deal about such things. But I

do think she is entirely different fromI any little child that I've ever seen, and

i I shall never, never forget her, witht her solemn ways and her unceasing

Swarinings about what we must do andmust not do 'if we want to meet eachI other when we get home, way overt yonder."'"

5 There was a great shuffling of feet,I coughing and clearing of throatsa among the squire's visitors as he eon-, cluded, and the blustering gentleman

a from Kentucky began to denounce theg exci*e law in loud tones. But thesquire looked at th rr ge ofsmoke as,Slhe'blew them upward fr~m his cSirn-

b- cob pipe, and liad little to say the rest,a. of the evening. - -

e -Condemn noman fLt not thinkingr as you think. Let everyone enjoy ther full and free liberty of thinking forn himself. Let every man use his owna judgment, since every man must give'

s an account of himself to God. If youe cannot persuade a man into the truth,

d never attempt to force him into it .Ifa love will not compel him to come, lave

e- him to G.od, th. jde of a-l.-J. hns, Westev.

OUR POOR ROADS.

America Behind in Ber Methods of Im-provement.

Some .time ago, in speaking of thewidening use of electric cars, we

pointed out that in the cities they have n

largely supplanted the horse as an n

agent of transportation. It may be 'a

well to say a word now concerning thestate of. our country highways, onwhich as yet the horse has no rival, 1except, perhaps, the bicycle. Thegrowth of our railways, steam and bhelectric, is no excuse for the neglect of bhour common roads.

If anyone doubts that we have neg-lected them most culpably, let himlook into the volume of consular re- L

ports on foreign streets and high-ways, issued in 1891 by the govern- tment at Washington. From these re-

ports it appears that no other countryin Christendom, with the possible ex-ception of Russia, has been so neghl- gent,

In France, for instance, the high-

ways approach perfection-a fact towhich the prosperity of the Frenchpeasantry is generally attributed.The first Napoleon, in the intervals ofhis many wars, laid the foundations ofthe system. Napoleon III. completed tit. The result is a network of admir-able roads stretching out over thewhole country, under the constant in-

spection and care of specially trained Iengineers.

Germany- is not far behind. GreatBritain learned her lesson a century aago from the celebrated Mr. Macadam,and has never forgotten it. The coun-tries of southern Europe have profitedrichly by their legacy from the Ro-

mans, the great road buil'ders of an-

tiquity. Hardly anywhere on the con-tinent, in fact, would the mud and rats

of our American roads be tolerated.Our backwardness may be attributed

to the newness of the country and the

rapidity with which it has been set-tled; but a more abiding cause is foundin the nature of our constitution, andin the strong instinct of local self-gov-ernment among our people. Since the Iabandonment of the Cumberland roadin 1838, the national government hasdone practically nothing. The stateshave for the most part confined them-selves to general and merely permis-sive legislation on the subject. Every-where the highways have been left to

the local authorities,I The result has been the wildest diver-

s sity of plan and methods. In some seo-tions the work is done mainly by con-I victs. In others, any citizen is liable

to be called out to work on the roadsfor a certain number of days in the

year. In certain counties of Virginia,and elsewhere, the toll system is still

prevalent.The practical advantages of a more tb

centralized system, like that of France,are manifest. Frequently towns and ia

counties through which important fi

highways pass are too poor to maid- a

tain them properly. Important ques- q

tions of routes, topography and ma- aterials constantly arising, which re- i

quire investigation on a wide scale. b

Scientific training is needed to fit atman for the difficult work of road- b

building, and this is certainly not com- n

mon among town and county officers. tAn authority on the subject declares t

that the present haphazard system has a

not produced fifty competent high-

way engineers throughout the UnitedStates.

It has been demonstrated by( actual .tests that the force required to draw a

ton on a muddy earth road iscsufficientto draw four tons on a hard macada-mized road. When we remember thatnearly all agriculturalproducts, not to

speak of other commodities, must behauled at least two or three miles inwagons before the railroads can touchthem, it is apparent what an advan-

tage the European has over the Amer-ican farmer in this respect.

Multiply by three or four the cost ofhauling to the stations the total of the

crops which the railroads handle every

year, and you have a rough estimate of

the annual saving to the farmers alone

which would result from a system of

properly constructed highways. In the

long run other classes would derive al-

most an equal benefit from the change.Even if we concede that the aban-

doning of road-building by the nation-

al government is final, there seems to

be no reason why the states shouldfollow the example. Some of the older

states have recently awakened to the

importance of the subject. Certainlyit is hard to find a better investmentfor the public money than the better-ment of the common roada.-Youth'sCompanion.

Bustle Physiology.Old Farmer Reed was driving some

of the boarders over the beautiful New

Hampshire hills, where the windingroads are either uphill or downhill, anda level space is not found in manymiles. As he urged the strong, wiryhorses up one of the steep ascents,'he worked out the following line of

argument: "Neaw, I s'pose you cityfolks think it kinder tough to makethe critters pull up these bills, but'taint so mean as you think. It's a big

sight meaner to rnnt 'em downhill, andI'll tell yer why. Now, when a hoesruns uphill, his vitals presses on his in-nards, but when you run him down-

hill, his innards presses on his vitals.An' that's a sight wuss, now ain't it?.-Youth's Companion.

Women Shoplifters

According to a French writer, nofewer than four thousand women are,daught every yega stealing` duringtheir shopping expeditions. The num-ber of titled ladies seized with thisstrange malady is, he tells us, almostincredible. Among the most recent

culprits were a Russian princess, aFrench countess,,• an English lady oftitle and the daughter of a reigningsovereign. As a rule, these more die-

tinguished offendersare let off on pay-|ment of a round sum for the relief of

the poor, which," when the shoplifteris -known to be rich, sometimes rises1 to as much as ten thousand frsnoc(feimi hgIo d pmii4 s er)a.- '

'ROTEOTED BY MOSQUITOES.

Sold in a South American River That Ca-Tnot Be Mined.

Gold in plenty may be found in thesands of the Volador river, a stream ofnoderate volume that falls fromn the nsnow line of the Sterra de Santa Martsa :in South America, but though the low- u

land region and the river bed wherethe precious metal abounds in fabu- tlous quantities 'are easily accessible, fthe mosquitoes are so thick and ter- vrible there that all attempts to riflethe sands of their gold have so far ttailed.

Elisee Reclus, the celebrated Frenchgeographer, was the first to explorethe plain about the Volador's mouth.He had thought of establishing anagricultural colony ip the fertile low-Lands, but found the plague of insect. Iso unbearable that he was forced tobeat a retreat and abandon his proj-ect.

He was the discoverer of this won-serful stream, whose waters sweepover sands which are literally golden.He told the news to the French viceLonsul at Rio Hacha, and this official Iobtained the concession of this Eldo-rado. The dangers he was to en-counter he knew perfectly well Hetook with him when he set out an in-

geniously constructed gauze tent oflarge dimensions.

For two days he tried to live underits shelter and watch the operationsof his workmen, who toiled in thet stifling heat, clothed in thick gar-ments, and protected by heavy boots,gloves and veils. At the end of thesecond day, however, both employerand employes gave up the struggle'nd retreated.

The next to try to wring fortune"rom these auriferous sands was an

Italian, who obtained permission fromthe vice consuL The Italian laughed

d at the idea of mosquitoes driving any-e one away from a place where gold

Sould be picked up almost by the hand-d ful. He started out with a party of

d six, who shared with him his belief,- and so they took along no special pro-

* tection against the insects. They en-d lured for less than half an hour the( awful torture, and then left. Theyas found their way back to Rio Hacha

with difficulty, for the eyes of five wereso badly swollen that they were blind.

F- Yet there are human beings who cano venture with impunity into this gold

mine whose guardian demons are mos-r- quitoes, and these are some of the sav-

0- age natives of the mountains froma- whose rocky steeps the river falls.Ie These savages, who are mosquitoIs proof, are rendered so by their bodies1e being covered with the scales of lep-a, rosy. Strange to say, the mosquitoesill will not touch them. EButneither gold

nor the fascination of civilization willre tempt them to labor.

e, It is an old and-true saying that oneid might as well try to get along withoutat furs in the Arctic regions as without

i- mosquito nets in the tropics. Mos-

s~ quito nets seem to have been of littlea- avail, however, in the instances re-:e- Lated. The insects are said to have

been most unusually venomous anda they come in such myraids that theyA- have the appearance of a mist hangingm- over the waters of the river. The in-rs. tense pain and action of the poison on

es the system speedily drive the strbngest-. ,..A -_Pc•-•-nn"' Weekly.

FAMOUS MUFFLERS.

they Were Provided for the London

Cabby by an English Peeress.

Among the many philanthropies of thelate Lady Charlotte Schrieber, of Eng-land, was the providing of comfortersor mufflers for cabmen. Her interest inthe London "cabby" was unflagging,and she secured several important ben-efits for him, but her comforters havecome to be traditional. They were al-ways of scarlet wool and were knit ofuniform size and style. The Queen re-cently printed the directions for theirmaking, which were sent by LadyCharlotte's daughter:

Double fleecy wool Cast on twenty- Ifour stitches on needles No. 4 on thebell gauge. Knit one plain row-firstrow. Knit two, slip one, putting thewool forward as if to purl, knft one,slip one, knit one, etc., until you cometo the last two, which must always beslipped, as the first two of every rowmust always be knitted--second row.Knit the first stitch in the usual way;the second and other knitted stitchesare to be knitted with the wool twicearound the needle; these stitches inthe following rows are just -to beslipped off and not made into twostitches; the only reason for twistingtwice is that the stitches may belonger. You continue this until youhave knitted a piece two yards long.Then you do one row the same as thefirst row, without putting the wooltwice around the needle, and then castSoff. A fringe should be put at eachend. This is double knitting, and carer should be taken not to join it in anyway, particularly by slipping in thef plain instead of the purl way.

These warm neck and shoulder cov-erings were supplied by the score tob the fraternity of hansom and four-; wheeler drivers, the kind-hearted peer-

i ess keeping her stock always equal toa the often serious demands upon it. -N.Y. Times.

Shot the eer in Sel-Defense.The defense of the man who-was

caught killing a neighbor's sheep,that he acted in self-defense, fearingthat the animal would bite him, is re-called occasionally- by some of thestories invented to evade our Mainegame laws. From them we are led tog believe that deer are naturally fero-cious to a degree, with largely carniv-! oreas instinets Two Parkhurst youngt seed are reported not long ago to have

Lt been "attacked'. by a large male deer.a By that singular "good luck" thatf eemns,in some mysterious way, to be-Sfriend the people who meet with such

eneounters "one. of the boys happenedto have a loaded Wlnchester rife, and

Sthe .. other a large btcher knife.'n' Whkat rare good fortune! Ater all, it

'not suritistaig to learn that "theSdear got the worst of i."-Augustp

UNGAINLY ARMOR. T

That Which Is Worn by the Players of SiFootball

As baseball goes out football comesin. It is an interesting game, and an- t1nually attracts increasing crowds of i1spectators, but it can never be so pop- lular as baseball fpr several reasons. ti

The football season is very short, Iitwo months as the best, as before Oc- ntober the weather is too warm for such oviolent exertion, and after the close of eNovember, although not too cold for f

playing, the weather is too frigid to apermit any but the most ardent enthu-siast to sit for two or three hours twatching the sport.

For another reason, football is the cmost violent exercise known under the I

name of sport, and it would be abso- Ilutely impossible for a team to playday Iafter day like a professional club playsbaseball. Then again, it is dangeroussport. It is all-very wel te"saystJ it itmakes a boy manly, or to taunt pru-dent boys with being cowardly, be-cause they shrink from the rough-and-tumble encounter, but no amount of

public praise can make amends for acracked head, dislocated collar-bone, Ibroken leg or even a fractured rib. Soit is no wonder that the vast majorityof boys and young men-even col-legians - content themselves withlooking on and cheering their side tovictory.

That football is a rough and dan-gerous pastime is recognized by the

numerous devices which have fromtime to time been brought into use tosoften if not prevent the injuries whichr the football player has come to regardas a matter of course.

Nowadays" the player i almost en-eased in armor. First came the rubbermouthpiece, which gives the playersomething to bite and clench his teethd upon to save his tongue and -the break-r- ing of his teeth by the shock of beingd suddenly downed.I- Next a nose mask was worn-a stout

f rubber cover for the nasal appendage,[, held in place by a strap around the

. forehead. Then came the padded.guards for the ears, which seemed to

e suffer a good deal in the rushes. Final-

y ly the mouthpiece, nose guard and ear

a guards were combined into a piecee called a head harness.

QL uilted canvas knickerbockers pro-

a tect the thighs and a quilted canvas

Ld jacket encases the body, while the shinss. are protected by a combination of can-- vas and whalebone.m For the protection of the abdomen

an ingenious arrangement of wire, cot-

to ton and chamois skin fills 1111a long-felt

as want. Of minor protectors there may.be mentioned elastic caps and support-

as ers for shoulders, elbows, forearms,Id kneecaps, ankles and wrists.

11 A team equipped with these contriv-ances is a laughter-provoking sight,

se and suggests that a game which needs

at all these precautions seems to requireut considerable modification of its rulesIs- As played now it is more dangerousi-. than nrize fohting.

-Even with all these protectors every

game of football is productive of a

score of injuries, the majority trifling,of course, but enough are serious to I

give rise to the apprehension that anyminute may produce a fatality.

Surely there' must be some way ofmaking football an interesting and ex-citing game, and yet leave it compara-tively harmless. Until this is done itcan never be really popular, and willbe confined to colleges where transientfame is regarded as far superior to the

danger of a broken neck.-Golden Days.

AFRICAN. PALM OIL.

An Important Articee of Commerce inEngland.

The palm' oil which is the stapleprodnct of the Lower Niger, as of thewest coast generally, is obtained froma wild palm. The natives use it bothfor cooking, for burning and for smear-

ing their bodies with. It is to them,indeed, ,a great deal more than ghee

is to the Hindu. The fruit of the tree

grgWs in large prickly clusters, and its

skln is of a bright red or orange color,turning to yellow when ripe. Thepulp

• is rather bitter' in taste and isreddish.white in color. With the fruitis a stone or kernel about the size of a

libert. The natives, gathering thefruit when ripe, bruise it gently in a,wooden mortar, and then boil it inwater in large caldrons; while simmer-big, it is stirred with a stick, to sepa-rate the puilp from the kernels, whichsink to the bottom and are reservedfor other uses. The oil which floats onthe: suirace of the water as the boilingr proceeds, is skimmed off and placed inearthenware vessels.

The Niger affords two kinds of palmoil. The one is of the consistency ofbutter, and is called "hard" oil, andfor this the only market is England.

t he other is liquid and is called "soft

11i," and for this the highest frice isobtained in all the European marketsThere is hardly any difference in the

e quality, but only in the method' of

preparation. The buying price on theriver ranges from five pounds to six

a pounds ten shillings per -cask of

two hundred gallons, and it is.calclated that'"about eight thou-sand tons are ;as~iaily exportedfrom, the Niger to Europe, whereit is employed in making can-

dles, soap, railway grease, etc. Boththe trading and the transport to the`'factories" is carried chiefly by wom-en, after the manner of the noble Sav-

Sage; and the strings of females, eachwith a pot of palm oil on her head anda baby on her back, are among thee sveryday sights of the country. Atthe factories the oil is. carefully meis-o ered.by the agents, and is paid for inSsalt or ctton cloth.. Then it is casked

iand stored in the station, waiting fortransport down the river, to be put onr board the ocean steamersat Akassa.-SChrambers .JournaL

--That Terrible..Oy. Awful Child-Mh +amma. said you were pretty old."

Visdtor- "Well?" Awful Child -is"You're old, but not pretty."•-Detro• t

.-Ott o IL of Germany was The ERoon ascount of the color of his hair sad

W*it 9 ea of ahisoosapletiai.

THE REPUBLICAN PROGRAMME.

scheme of the P•romeettosts for sa lsin I

the Reveawua

The Washington correspondent of

the Chicago Tribune is authority for dthe announcement that the.republican o:leaders have practically agreed upon ntheir financial programme for the com- ti

ing session of congress. "The idea of timore revenue through a revenue tariff o

on wool, with the Allison notes for t]

emergencies, will be the republicanfinancial scheme," says this corre- gspondent. I

Whether he has learned this directly Ifrom the republicans or by making a, tsurvey of the situation on bis own aco.count, very lijkely he is right. The c

republican leaders maiy not have come dto a distinct understanding yet, ,butlogically they cannot vote to increase 1the revenue without at the same time evoting to protect somebody. Just nowthe, w pl.giowers are the moSt.aisn-orous of all the late republican pro-teges, and. naturally their demandswill be the first considered. Other

producers of raw materials, such ascoal and iron, ore, are still protected tosome extent, and there will be a cer-tain degree of plausibility in the claim t

that the farmers who grow wool are asmuch entitled to protection as the capitalists who are concerned in the pro- 1duction of other raw materials.

But the republicans cannot wellvote to increase the duties on woolwithout at the same time voting to in-

crease the duties .on woolen goods.The woolen manufacturers must havemore protection if the price of theirraw material is to be increased by pro-tective duties. The republicans al-

ways have legislated upon this prin-

ciple and they always must adhere toit, not only for the sake of consistency,but also in order to retain the supportof their most valuable allies, the manu-facturers.

When they increase the duties on

manufactures of wool in order to com-pensate for the duties imposed on theraw material they will admit that theeffect of a duty, or, at least, the in-

tended effect, is to raise the price ofthe article on which it is laid. They

admit that a duty on wool is intendedto raise the price of wooL They must,

then, admit that an increase in theduties on woolen goods is intended toincrease the price of those goods..Otherwise raising those duties wouldnot compensate at all for the dutieslaid on woo. Are the republicans pre-I pared to admit that th~ey wish to in-crease the prices of all woolen goods?] What do they think consumers willhave to say to that? They must make

| the admission, and the democrats areSwilling that they should.

As for the "Allison notes," it will'bev necessary to issue securities of somekind if the government needs thirty

s million dollars more revenue, as the

re republicans claim, and if no moe rev-

A enue is to be provided except fromwool No duties which the republic-ans will dare propose dia wool andwoolens would provide more than halfthat sum.

It is estimated that this republicanprogramme has been agreed upon on othe assumption that ,the administra-tion will not take the responsibility ofrecommending any plan for raisingmOre revease. "The administration."we are told, 'would like the revenuewithout the responsibility." If the re-publican programme is wholly contin-

gent upon this assumption we may restassured that it will never be- enteredupon. President Oleveland has never

yet hesitated to recommend any mes-ure that he deemed necessary or ofgreat importance and there is no reason to think that he is going to show

the political white feather at this lateday. If he thinks there is a real needfor more revenue he will not hesitateto say so or to let Oongress Ikow thatwhat he wants is revenue and enoughof it, and not tariff protectioi for theOhio shepherdas itF ybody else.--Chi-cago COhritonicle.

WHEAT VEPORT$.

Imprwssw Conaitions Uner th Wil sosLaw.

A high taifk contemporary claimsthat Europe bought more 'high-pricedwheat from us untler the McKinleyilaw than low-priced wheat under the

, Wilson law."Yes it did in 1,89 because tof ap

shortages that year and the yearsefore in Europe. Crop daiinagee ware so

Sgreat that some of the European c•un-S.tries upended their duties on grain

i and otherwise. favored by legislationIthe import of 'Amerlcan wheat. Ba•t

Mceinieyism couldn't help odtrfar ersafter that. Not' Only did our wheatt exports fill off in 1893 over •orty mr -i lion bushels, but the price per bashelI fell twenty per en-t.

Instead of recovering theolost d groiidt in the next year of MeKinleylsm,s 'wheat`oontinued to fall in price. otuntil the Wilson bil had taken effectwas any improvement perceptible.f Theaverage export price of 1o 4* redwheat has been higher this year thanat any time snce Europe's crop short-

I age in i89. The laerag••e for the years has also been higher than during thecorresponding period of last year E-& der the McKinlse.bill.

When we compare quantities we findL- that up to the 1st of August abo•t

h two million three hundred thousande bushels more were exported thai dur-'i- uig the corresponding period Of last

r- year. Our crop shortage this year Inh winter wheat out down expqrts consd-d ably until the spring wheat crop was

e harvested, but sincethe middle of LSp-At tember they have ezxeeded lsat ye'd'-

= exports.' We are ahead now .of 184•i and are likely- to, make gains everyd week for uentral medtlIsdrer the yearr 1893 as well as last year. Wheat is,n higher now tha t was ayear , ago aud

-as high ais it was tflOctober, 18, lThere is ths, diwirenie, hdwever

While the teidenofno the market twoyears ago wae downward it ih ow iup-ward.--fLt. Louis Repblb .

it :_ -.e ivreomp1 • s•arso .during the spaia ySr ad the osre toims

4 oewf insp l it e th-rs'e nwo ofa

ianyoe who. s is ts e~ si ..= -jhei CputiJw'Sa

NOT SO RUIN• OUS.ballacious kedIetto• Jat epubli .n

garding the Iron Trade.

The prediction of the ruin of our in-dustries that was to follo the passageof the Wilson bill are still fresh in the

minds of the people. Even their au-

thors have not forgotten them, thoughthey are praying for some "sweetoblivious antidote" that will remove

them flm the memory of othersThe iron trade has long been re-

garded as a sort of barometer indicat-

ing the state of general business. It'

furnishes the implements of produo-tion to such an extent that it must be

4 rtuallyaiffeeted by ettthe an inqreaseor decrease of activity in productive in-dustries. The statistics of the busth

ness are carefully collected and pub-lished, the irion Age beind Wa g aluthbriyauthority.

On March 1, 1892; the Iron Age re-

ported the weekly production •ofAmeridan furnaces to be 194,903 tons,of iron. This Was the largest produc-tion. ever attained up to that date. Itwas high-water mark under the-MoeKinley bill or any previous tariff bill.

It was never equaled in any subse-

quent week before the repeal of the

McKinley act.On August 1, 1894, the beginning of

the last month of the life of the "bill

of abomination," the weekly produo-

tion of the furnaces was l15,113 tons.On August 28 the new tariff bill be-came a law. On September 1, 1894, theweekly capacity of the furnaces had

risen to 151,118 tons. A year later, on

September 1, 1895, the weekly outputhad risen to 194,029.

This is not a large increase over the

greatest previous product n, but it is

an increase. It is a- neo gh-watermark, established under a tariff lawwhich, however imperfect from' the

-ltandpoint 'of tar iff -eform, .was con-

demned everywhere , in, protectioncircles as a free trade measure and as

certain to ruin our industries. Againstthese reckless and unfounded predic-

tions, which we denounced at the time

they were made, we have the satisfac-i

tion of setting the testimhnony

of a pro-

r tection author that the "barometer bfi trade" now registers a higher dgure

than it ever did- before-.-LouisvilleSCourier-Journal.

SADtDENED BY PRUttIrtn nV..

Repubile•aM Distressed 1

y Improved us•-ness Conditions.

T' he improvement n the fpan•es of

the country: and in the general eondi-.

tion of business has disclosed the ex-istence of a painful state of mind

among the editors of certain republic-an papers. The announcements-thatthe receipts of the treasury for themonth will exceed the disbursementscauses them deep distress. ,The esti-mate that the continuous deficit of the

past two years will hereafter be re-placed by a steadily increasing sur-

plus is received by them with everyindication of genuine sorrow. They

try not to believe it.They even go ; so far as to argg e

that it must be a mistake. They ac-cuse the treasury department of with-

,holding payments, of starving thegovernment service. of juggling withthe. transactlon.of public, business,; ofseeking to force a balance for the phit-pose of influencing the electiois.

What kind of Americans are thee :whose hearts are saddened at the evi*denoes of their country's prosperity? :What kind of patriotism i• it'whic

h

carries partisanship to such en en--treme? Above all, :where •is~the iatel-ligence in acting the part.•of .•amecalamity howler- ea country in• w.ite .

prosperity is inevitablet?-N. Y. Worid.::

POINTED, PARAGRAPH1 .

In the languaisge o the y$etiSmen the McKinley boom .hows signsof-bnekling--,Chicgo oi

I :-r. Reedt sn't been eonsaltimkthe proposed withdrawal of Rasl*son n "avor of McKinley-1it. P!auGloms.

.If this tide of prosperity heepue -i risingwhstwill oar repuibli• anf•piu :

ethave to talk cot in tnt onsigofr 1689-Philadelphia Record.

lateit rett*nt Tro the st'loueSbenibhare to the efect that Gen. i'

ri,: f , ts htill- on thile dodooi t. tha

mgreat p.ergeney." U -r sa ape a id

-eThe repebl. i+a couild SibCta la good deal motre •sestraee of i, •beauties tof re-.-to t. Y.KI3W1 ;Swere ; ot .sauh a... eembrs -tg •+ .Indianiposr News.t -A f6w republieanam ettrib~a return of p peity to th repub li4$acog*t ds that has tn't eytet Nt( ` ,ot- der the ihatic srylre asete tcrowde.

1 rAndersooa (bn4.) Dem•6 ; rat, -.

-=Now that Tom Reed has had •d engine company in SntOcky inam" after him, it isatie for S %t. HerrisoiIt and Maj. McKinley ,to. ddo dtcm nftJa noticeable quick.- Boston Globe. ,• .

th-Mr. lHarrison w•shes it cdsti ;et''understood that while the-i not andwill not be scsandidate for the prMI-orBeney, he must not be undehDa

r recommending either M•r. -McKinle?.;.SBrcr Reed.-N. Y. JournalL

-With .he new tariff law .pro•A fag euticent reivetonue, itlooks asif ;tbe

sietr exepublican congress will 'notbe "Stroubled with the question tbhat seemedSto worry Senator Shermnan the. other

i day about the ireliet of the UniutesStates treasnry.-Otibia Q Y)O-server. ,

-- The south' is iu ;lover: Cottfraand tobacco arebringlng higher pisl:eesSthan for yarse. Correspondingly iedemand for free coinage is abating. it.;will get so low aftet awhile thatorReed and Napoleanr McKinley mstay beiable to"muaste? courage to-tell how

d they standE- PittabargRtPdst-- The riepubiicaiationiiSt comit-

.teeiasahy forty thousand dollars and wilra locate the convention in the oily ,thiat

Ssubecribes the amisount That schemefailing, possibly Andrewa Carnesgie orsouse othler manaufarturer whoa bat-

e made millions out of the protectionat policy of the repubican party and isas pltmnig to tanke mo- n the evesnt ofif the return of M Cinleyis might be

a. linduced to pu? it u shaM. Q5tStea f;t~~