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EX TARIFF MAKER EXPOSES THE
DINGLEY BILL
Says It 3s the Most Ultra Protective
Tarlflf Ever Proposed--Makes Sonic
Serious Reflections Upon the McKin
ley Bill as a Revenue Producer
Will Kncnurase Trusts
Ex Postmaster General William L
Wilson is credited with the authorship
of the tariff bill now in force His
hands were tied so that ho could not
make the bill nearly as good as he de
sired to make it and the bill as finally
passed was not nearly as good as when
it first passed tho house It was how
ever a great improvement upon tho Mc
Kinley bill and is a model as compared
with the Dingley monstrosity Wo
quote the following from Mr Wilsons
criticism of tho McKinley and Dingley
bills in a recent number of tho New
York Herald
bills are so nearly identical in
general structure and particular items
excepting as to the sugar schedule that
it may bo well to consider the effect of
tho fiiM bill on the revenue of the coun
try Bath bills arc vast and voluminous
echpmos of class taxation the production
of public revenue being an incident and
ntirdy subordinate to the purpose of
taxinjttSrtU the American people for the
benefit of a small part of the people
The protectionist has but one remedy
which he applies whether the revenue
be redundant or deficient If times are
prosperous and more money than is
needed pours into the ho in
creases taxes by a scheme that turns
the larger part of their avails into pri
vate pockets and this reduces public
revenue If times are depressed and less
money than is needed pours into tho
treasury ho seizes the pretext of in
creasing public revenues by adding
enormously to tho amount of private ex
action
The act of 1890 whatever its other
effects did reduce revenue From a
large surplus it swept us headlong to a
deficiency although it weighted the
people with heavier taxes and although
another law passed in July 1890
turned into the treasury as a part of the
general assets to be used for paying ex
penditures a trust fund of more than
54000000 which belonged to the na
tional banks and had always been held
for the redemption of their notes
Even before the Harrison administra
tion ended we should have been con
fronted with a large deficiency but for
the ue of this trust fund and the fur
ther fact that Secretary Foster by a
change of bookkeeping added to the
treasury balance 20000000 of token
and subsidiary coin not before treated
as a trcaury asset With these extraor
dinary additions even we wound up the
fiscal year June 30 1S93 with a sur
plus ot only 2341074 as against a
surplus for tho fiscal year June 30
iwbvc trt
over S5000000 before tho
rust fund and subsidiary coin
were touched And during the fiscal
year ended Juno 30 1S94 through all
of winch the McKinley bill was in force
expenditures exceeded tho revenues to
the amount of G9S032G0 notwith
standing the fact that the expenditures
of the government were 15952674
less thdii in the preceding year
This statement shows how absurd and
groundless is the claim constantly made
by the- protectionists that recent deficits
in revenue are duo to the substitution
of the existing tariff for the McKinley
bill Nothing is more certain than that
if the bill had been in force during the
last three years the annual deficit would
have been immensely swollen while the
people in a season of depression and
hard times would have staggered under
much heavier burdens of taxation Even
in this disastrous period customs duties
under the existing law have increased
from less than 132000000 in 1894
the latt year of the McKinley bill to
9veu 152000000 in 1895 and to over
160000000 in 1S9G
tho sugar schedule alone the bal
ance in favor of the existing law is
about 55000000 The customs reve
nue reached nearly 40000000 scarce
ly any of which would have been re
ceivable under the McKinley bill
That the Dingley bill present condi
tions considered is the most ultra pro
tective tariff ever proposed to be enact
ed in this country plainly appears from
Chairman Dingleys statement that if
levied on the importations of the last
fiscal year it would have increased the
revenue 112000000 that is to say it
Iwould have gathered from an impoi ta
ction of 775724204 of imported mer
chandise the enormous sum of 272
000000 which is nearly 50000000
more than any customs revenue ever
collected in one year in this country in
the past And to say that its rates will
probably check dutiable imports to the
extent of reducing the estimate to 70
000000 is only another way of saying
that to that extent such rates are pro
hibitory
American consumers are shut in the
home market to be preyed upon by com
binations and trusts without possibili
ty of relief from outside competition
Such combinations by joining to keep
up prices and to curtail production
wage more merciless war against the
employment the opportunities and the
compensation of American labor than
any possible competition from abroad
could do
The falling off of importations under
the -present law dispels the illusion
that the American laborer is anywhere
deprived of employment by the impor
tation of foreign products The gratify
ing increase in our exports of manufac
tures is equally strong proof that those
laws are helping us to enter and com
mand new markets which means not
only larger employment for our arti
sans but more home consumers for our
armers
Fast Asrainst the West
The number of sheep in the United
States east of the Mississippi declined
from 21179000 in 1S70 to 1151G4G7 in
1897 in spite of the fact that the Mc
Kinley tariff added one cent a pound to
the 1SS3 tariff on clothing wool West
of the Mississippi the flocks increased
from 7299000 to 2o30217G in the same
period The flocks of Montana are now
a million head larger than those of
Ohio though when the tariff of 1883
was enacted Ohio had 500541 head
and Montana but 40o000 Wool how
ever declined after the McKinley bill
became a law It is not surprising in
view of these facts that the East cares
little for the tariff on wool since its
flocks will dwindle anyhow It does
care a great deal for the chance of ex
ports that free wool gives and the at
tempt of the West to levy an excessive
duty will be bitterly fought
Blaino Opposed a Duty on Hides
The following letter from Secretary
of State James G Blaine in 1890 is
supposed to have had great weight with
the ways and means committee
Washington April 10 1890
Dkaii Mil McKiNrEY It is a great mistake
to take hides from tho free list where they
have been for so many years It is a slap in
the face to the South Americans with whom
we are trying to enlarge our trade It will
benefit the farmer by adding 5 to 8 per cent to
the price of his childrens shoes It will yield
a profit to the butcher only the last man that
needs it The movement is injudicious from
beginning to end in every form and phase
Pray stop it before it sees light Such move
ments as this for protection will protect the
Republican party into a speedy retirement
Yours hastily James G Blaine
Hon William McKinley Chairman Ways and
Means
Where is the Blaino this year who
can head off tho westerners who want
their share of protection and foolishly
imagine that they can get it by a duty
on hides It is perfectly consistent with
the protection system to tax hides es
pecially as tho bulk of the tax would
probably go to a few monopoly butch
ers and ranchmen But observe some of
tho effects upon our industries
The importations of untaxed hides
and skins last year were valued at 20
216528 The goatskins were valued at
10303359 The former were mostly
converted into sole leather beltings
and such like heavy material for which
our native hides are not thick enough
The goatskins are not produced in this
country
From this raw material we not only
manufacture boots shoes and leather
goods for our own people cheaper and
better than they are made elsewhere in
the world but we exported finished
products of the value of 2024275G
Without free and cheap raw material
this export trade would have been im
possible and our own people as Mr
Blaine pointed out would be compelled
to pay more for their footwear Tho
wages paid to our workers in leather
last year amounted to 25542 1GG
Protecting the Few Woolijrowers
Suppose the Dingley duties on wool
would give the woolgrowers all the
protection claimed and that the price
of wool would actually go up the full
amount of the duty which of course
is absurd What would be the effect up
on the country at large
Mr Edward Atkinson statistician
estimates the annual wool product at
55000000 out of a total of 13200
000000 produced by all the workers of
the country and the persons dependent
on the wool industry at 300000 out of
a total population of 73000000 The
wool duty then means that out of every
240 persons 239 are to be held up for
the benefit of the ether one This is a
sample of what protection does Of
course more than 300000 persons may
sometimes raise a few sheep but the
interests of these others are more those
of the consumer than of the sheep raiser
and they would lose more because of in
creased cost of woolens than they would
gain by the increased price of wool
The protective tariff system is a farce
when considered in connection with the
farmer or the workingmau Will they
ever fully appreciate it
An Odious Tax
The tin plate makers wish to boom
their business by increasing the duty
on imported tin plate to tho injury of
the canning industry and other indus
tries that flourish by reason of cheap
tin plate Another blow is struck at
business by abolishing the rebate on ex
ported tin cans Now canned goods ex
ported in cans made of imported tin are
allowed a drawback of the duty paid
and thus an export business has been
built up in canned fruits oysters vege
tables petroleum etc Over 4000000
tin cans are sent abroad annually con
taining oil which competes with that of
J Russia When Russia can buy tin plate
at 2 70 a box while we have to pay
3 50 for it it is evident that our com
petition will be rendered difficult Mr
Dingley robs Peter to pay Paul Balti
more Sun
Why Wo Shiver
It is true that woolen clothing un
derwear and blankets will be out of the
reach of people of moderate means when
Dingley has his way but just think
how sweet it is to suffer for ones coun
try and to shiver in order that the rob
ber barons may continue to wax fat
and contribute to the legitimate ex
penses of the g o p Louisville Post
Product of McKinley ism
A legislative committee which has
been investigating the condition of the
coal miners in the Pittsburg district
has revealed a shocking state of affairs
The operators themselves were put up
on the stand but they disagreed so
radically in their testimony that they
fell out and passed the lie between
them It was proved that the miners
worked three days a week all last win
ter for 3 and 50 cents a day and that
even at these pauper wages they were
cheated by the operators enlarging the
screens and using false weights They
were charged exorbitant rents for the
shanties they occupied and cheated at
every turn The mine workers in Penn
sylvania have passed through a winter
of starvation With the earth beneath
their feet teeming with coal they have
been forced to the verge of starvation
by the operators who control both out
put and wage scale Not content with
this the operators cheat their misera
ble employes by the basest means And
these are the men who demand and
receive a 75 per cent tariff to protect
their men from the pauper labor of
Europe
Urge Moderation
Some of the severest criticisms not
only of special duties and clauses but
o the whole accursed protective sys
tem come from the protected manufac
turers themselves in their struggle with
opposing interests Mr S N D North
secretary of the Woolen Manufacturers
association is now and always has been
a stanch protectionist As such he be
lieves that the 70000000 consumers of
this country are legitimate subjects for
plunder and that the manufacturers
are the proper persons to enjoy the pro
tection plunder
The free wool experiment which we
have been trying for three years besides
being an object lesson in the way cf
cheap woolens has taught tho woolen
manufacturers that they can make as
much or more profit with free wool and
moderate protection which permits peo
ple of moderate means to wear real
woolen goods than with high duties on
both wool and woolens which restricts
the use of woolens to people in good cir
cumstances The manufacturers there
fore display more than their usual mod
esty and patriotism in the advice which
they are giving to congress Mr North
is in Washington to voice the manufac
turers patriotism Here is part of his
advice as taken from the Washington
correspondence of The Dry Goods Econ
omist
1 am free to say the bill is far from satisfac
tory to the woolen manufacturers Tho chief
fault is to be found with the raw wool duties
which are so high that our manufacturers will
find themselves sorely embarrassed It is true
the committee lias provided compensatory
duties which are probably sufficient to offset
the duties on raw wool but the difficulty will
be in my opinion that tho very considerable
increase in price which must be made to cover
the additional cost of raw material will have
the effect of cutting down consumption to an
extent that will be disastrous to the manufac
turers I do not contend that the rates on
woolen manufactures in the bill are not suffi
cient to protect us against too severe foreign
competition but the limit of the consumers
purchasing power must control him in buying
woolen manufactures and I fear the rates of
the new bill will very materially restrict con
sumption
This is practically saying to Dingley
Aldrich and the other servants of tho
protected manufacturers at Washington
Go slow with your high duties and
dont try to protect too many If you
let everybody into the protection ring
there will be nobody outside to prey
upon and we will have to prey upon
each other Dont make the mistake of
taxing raw materials too high Wo
wouldnt mind it if we could sell our
goods and charge the tax over to the
consumer But when tho tax is so high
that we have to make our prices almost
out of sight we have found that we can
not sell so many goods because the peo
ple cant afford to wear clothes that
is woolen clothes which are the only
ones worth considering because they are
tho only ones which we manufacture
Our solicitude for the dear American
consumer is such that we do not wish
to compel him to clothe himself in the
sssrS5
skins of beasts which are neither fash
ionable nor healthful Let us not tax
him to death Let us be reasonable and
encourage him to live and to wear
clothes By so doing we can keep our
mills running and give employment to
American workingmen at American
wages which after all is the chief ob
ject aimed at by us protected manufac
turers Byron W Holt
Political Notes
For what shall it profit a Kentuckian
to be a Hunter if he bag nothing but
an indictment
The report that Russell Sage has
come out in a new 075 spring suit in
dicates that we are over the worst of
the hard times Philadelphia Bulletin
A large majority of the Republican
patriots in Washington are now ad
vocating the free and unlimited coin
age of appointments
Wage earners do not wish to see it
or believe it but it is so wages must
go down says Senator Elkins Mr
Elkins should have been honest enough
to say this before the election St
Louis Tost Dispatch
The sugar trust has not been as po
lite to the Government as it might have
been but the Department of Agricul
ture is magnanimously planting tons
of beet seed where it will do the most
good and by and by when the har
vest shall be ready the trust will be
on hand to take the bulk of it Phila
delphia Record
Russia wants more armor plate from
the Carnegie trust and will probably
be able to get it at the old price of 225
per ton The Czar has a most favored
nation treaty with the trust and has
made money by it As a buyer of
American armor plate it would be cash
in Uncle Sams pocket to go to Europe
and be naturalized San Francisco
Chronicle
Judging from the number of distin
guished Republicans who it is said
will be taken care of by the Presi
dent because they failed of re election
to the House of Representatives or
were defeated for some other office it
is quite plain that the present national
administration is regarded in some
quarters as an asylum for decayed pol
iticiansNew Orleans States
EBUCATIONALCOLUMN
NOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND
THEIR MANAGEMENT
Some Provisions of the Indiana Com
pulsory Education Law Devices for
Promotinc Good Order in the School
room Mottoes for Teachers
Compulsory Education
Indiana is to try a compulsory edu
cation law next year The law pro
vides that all able bodied pupils be
tween the ages of 8 and 14 years shall
be required to attend school for the
period of twelve consecutive weeks in
each school year They are not lim
ited to the public schools but may at
tend private or parochial schools
The provision relating to the ap
pointment of the truant officers and
the penalty for not complying with the
law is as follows
It shall be the duty of the County
Superintendent of Schools for township
and of the City Superintendent of
Schools in a city or town together with
the secretary of the State Board of
Charities and one member of the State
Board of Education designated for
such purpose by said board to appoint
one or more truant officers not exceed
ing five in number in any county who
shall be assigned to duty by districts
composed of townships The truant
officer shall see that the provisions of
this act are complied with and when
from personal knowledge or by report
or complaint from any resident of the
township or townships under his su
pervision he believes that any child
subject to the provisions of this act is
habitually absent from school he shall
immediately give written notice to the
parent guardian or custodian of such
child that the attendance of such child
at school is required and if within live
days such parent guardian or custo
dian of child does not comply with the
provisions of this section then the tru
ant officer shall make complaint
against such parent guardian or cus
todian of such child in any court of
record for violation of the provisions
of this act and any such parent guard
ian or custodian of such child who shall
violate the provisions of this act shall
be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined in any sum not less than ten nor
more than fifty dollars to which may
beaddedinthe discretion of the Court
imprisonment in the county jail not
less than two nor more than ninety
days
The law also makes provision for
parents guardians and custodians of
children who are too poor to furnish
their children with books and neces
sary clothing
The school officers may also maintain
a parental home for incorrigible and
truant children Any child not being
12 years old may be compelled to at
tend this home for an indeterminate
time not longer than 120 days
This now law if it can be fully en
forced will add at least 20 per cent to
the enrollment of the schools The
measure is in line with the educational
thought of the day and while it has its
defects it is the general opinion of
officers and teachers that it will have a
good effect upon the State New houses
will have to be built in many places in
order to accommodate the pupils
Teachers and officers are looking for
ward to next years work believing
that much good wrill be accomplished
by the strict enforcement of this new
law Richard Park County Superin
tendent Sullivan County Indiana
Mottoes for Teachers
Things before words
Telling is not teaching
Work with the Individual
Talk with not to the children
Absence of occupation is not rest
Praise the work rather than the child
Be sure the point chosen is the right
one
Let every lesson have a definite or
leading point
Be not simply good be good for
something
Books like friends should be few
and well chosen
Individual recitation is the safeguard
to thoroughness
Blessed is he who lias found his
work let kirn ask no greater blessing
A person is worth in this world the
effects he can produce no more no
less
To become proficient in any profes
sion there are three things necessary
nature study practice
That teacher is most successful oth
er things being equal who hides her
self in her subject that her pupils may
suppose that they find out everything
for themselves A l eliance upon their
own intellectual ability is thus devel
oped
Dlave a purpose in life and having it
throw into your work such strength of
mind and might as God has given you
Boone County Iowa Normal Insti
tute
For Promoting Good Order
Children generally find a good many
questions which they wish to ask their
teacher or their companions in the
school They find it necessary to get a
great many mislaid books pencils etc
there is frequent need to speak or
leave the seat When we taught our
secorid country school a friend gave us
a suggestion as to this matter Accord
ingly we promulgated the rule that no
request for any of these favors must
be made while a recitation was in
progress One who had any want of
the sort was to set a book on end on
his desk and go on with his work At
the end of the recitation we visited
each such desk answered all ques
tions and usually did all the errands
Two things were noticeable viz the
reduced amount of business and the
greater quiet with which it could be
done
One o the surest ways of securing
the good will of an idle or mischievous
boy is to get hlni to help you about
something you and he are then in
partnership 3ou are running the ma
chine together It is well to have a
good many committees on which you
may judiciously appoint those whom
you propose to conquer by use There
may be a committee to receive visitors
a committee on ventilation a commit
tee on the adjustment of the shades a
committee on water supply and if a
stove is used to heat the room a com
mittee on stove fuel and temperature
Usually the pupils will feel a degree
of pride in serving on these commit
tees the teacher will be relieved of
some care and work and there will be
a little more of a feeling among all the
pupils of a common interest and com
mon responsibility in all the details of
the school room Exchange
Emery
Emery is one of the few valuable
rocks not yet produced in important
quantities in America Large amounts
are yearly brought from Turkey and
the Greek Islands where it lias been
quarried since history began Its won
derful properties were no secret to the
ancients who used it for cutting and
polishing but their methods of work
ing are not certainly known Curious-
ly modern methods of mining this sub
stance have made no progress and to
this day ledges of emery have been
heated bjr huge fires and the hot rock
cracked by douches of cold water
During the middle ages and for
many years afterward the properties
of emery while not forgotten could
not be utilized The old art of working
was lost and ingenuity was unable to
give useful forms to this intractable
substance It long defied every effort
Slowlj however emery again came in
to use first as a polishing and cutting
powder and later in the form of small
grains was attached to fabrics like a
sandpaper Means were afterward
found to cement and mold its small
particles into wheels Emery wheels
soon came into use their remarkable
cutting properties proving at once the
great industrial importance of the im
vention
Years elapsed however before the
emery millstone could be made but at
length this too was accomplished and
a practical emery stone was brought
out in England Later Yankee ingenu
ity improved upon this and produced
the present successful rock emery mill
stone which is built up of large blocks
of emery set in strong metal
These millstones grind fast because
the emery face is always sharp and
as they are not damaged by heat they
can be run at high speed
Many new uses will doubtless be
found for emery but probably it can
take no more important place than that
of the emery wheel and the emery mill
stone the one cutting and polishing in
the shops the hardest surfaces and the
other grinding the surface to any de
gree of fineness
The Puzzling Apostrophe
A Chicago paper deplores the ignor
ance displayed by painters of the use
of the apostrophe not onlj in the pos
sessive case but in any instance where
it is required Not only is it left out
where it should be used but many of
the painters make a bluff at it by in
serting where it has no call to be seen
Ladies Entrance is seen over tho
back doors of hundreds of saloons in
the city though over some we see the
astonishing variation of Ladies En
trance An entire article could be
filled with these monstrosities of En
glish as she is painted On a trades
mans wagon the following is painted
in rather neat letters Groceries and
Meats The Workingmens Ex
change is located on a prominent
street The funniest sign of all reads
thus Cigars Tobacco and Candies
All the Daily Papers for sale Fossi
bly the guilty painter who has indulged
in these monstrosities does business on
Paulina street because a big sign over
his door reads simply SIGNS It
is certainly strong circumstantial evi
dence
The Isle of Fire
One of the greatest natural phenom
ena in the world is the island of fire
which is situated in the center of the
plains of Grobagana in Java The
island which is about two miles in cir
cumference is really a lake of boiling
mud From its center great columns
of black slime may be seen rising and
falling back again impelled by some
mighty force Huge bubbles of hot
mud which fill up like balloons are
constantly seen on the surface of the
lake and they burst with loud de
tonations Surrounding the lake is a
sea of bright vegetation which when
seen from a distance glows with a sub
dued lurid color giving the whole the
appearance of smoldering fire
Married by Proxy
To this day marriages by proxy are
allowed in Holland and are mostly fa
vored by Dutchmen who have gone
abroad leaving their sweethearts be
hind them and who find it inconve
nient to return home to claim their
brides After certain legal formalities
have been carried out a friend of the
bridegroom goes through the ceremony
for him and then the bride is shipped
to her far away husband
Happened to see j our wife on a
wheel yesterday If I remember I
heard you declare you would never
allow her to ride Yes I know But
she had a chance to trade off her pug
dog for a wheel and I thought I would
choose the least evil Indianapolis
Journal
Mrs McBride Before we were mar
ried you often wished there was some
brave deed you could do for me o
show your love Mr McBride
Yes dear and I would do it now
Mrs McBride Then love go down
into the kitchen and discharge Brid
get Boston Courier
CTY OF GOOD MANNERS
Politeness a General Characteristic
of the Inhabitants of Florence
Tf I wished to teach an awkward
child youth or girl good manners by
example I should send him or her to
Florence There may be ill mannered
persons there but I never saw one
Poor people behave with the suave dig
nity vshich used in England to stamp
the lady or gentleman Most persons
are brainy but cleverness is not eager
to shine It is very subdued and more
oily than corrosive The charm of
Florence steals on one like the wit of
its clever inhabitants The senses are
soothed in all directions bj harmonious
manners and objects Architects un
derstood chiaroscuro not less than the
great painters and sculptors One never
wearies of the streets and public build
ings their aspects constantly and
strongly vary according to the course
of the sun Lights and shades at 10 in
the forenoon are wholly different from
what they will be at 4 in the afternoon
The Florentine women have interest
ing though not beautiful faces But
one has only to walk into the market
to see country girls who would have
done for models of Raphaels virgin
mothers One is struck in the galleries
with the nice judgment with which the
pictures are hung What more lofty in
sentiment than the tomb of Lorenzo
De Medici Loftiness is an attribute
of Florence architecture palathd or
domestic The doors of private houses
might pass in England for portals One
feels them to be great facts in their
way
Talking of harmonious things re
minds me of the Boboli gardens Is
there a spot in England the land of
stately and lovely seats that at all ap
proaches them In situation and tran
quil generous loveliness I win only
think of one the Duke of Northumber
lands terraced gardens at his place in
Surrey The Boboli Eden where tho
Prince and Princess of Naples still
court seclusion has the advantage over
the Surrey paradise of being under a
revealing sky Every shade of green
ery every floral hue is well brought
out One sees the faultless texture of
statues and fountains mellowed by
time In so strong a light a well-ordered
design is required and one has
it the marbles are the climax They
are to the horticultural beauties as bril
liants to the lace and satin of a fine
womans dress
Florence is not what it was in the
grand ducal days Still it retains the
air of a capital with a long and illus
trious history The ladies dresses are
only provincial when measured by the
Paris standard to which Italian wom
en above the peasant class generally
submit m ores the pity Paris fashions
only suit French women unless ap
plied by French hairdressers and fem
mes de chambre An English or a Ger
man face under a Paris hat or bonnet
is at a dreadful disadvantage if the
hair has not been first dressed by a
French artiste capillaire He places
the hat through the medium of the
hair in harmonious relation with the
face I fancy these French coiffeurs
are not much emplojed by Italian
ladies London Truth
Picking Up a Cable End
A novel method of lifting a buoyed
cable end is described by a writer in a
London paper He states that this
method has the important advantage of
being free from all usual risks to boat
and boats crew and wassuccessfully
adopted on a recent important cable
laying expedition when the weather
was too rough to even allow of a boat
being lowered without danger to the
men On this occasion the modus op
erandi was as follows The ship a ves
sel of some 3500 tons gross paid out
200 fathoms of buoy rope with a cen
tipede grapnel attached to the end of
it the depth of water being 2800 fath
oms and steamed around the buoy at
a distance of about fifty fathoms until
the centipede and rope became entan
gled as they very soon did with the
buoy moorings which were then haul
ed into the bight and the buo3 then
cleared from the bow baulks By this
means not only was the end of the
cable readily brought on board with
out risk and with very little trouble
but several days of valuable time
which would otherwise have been lost
in waiting for the weather to moderate
sufficiently were saved and the cable
was successfully completed With ves
sels of smaller dimensions such as
those usually employed for cable repairs
this operation would no doubt be still
more easily effected A French tele
graph engineer has the credit of being
the first to suggest and practically ap
ply this ingenious and novel idea
which is to be commended to the notice
of those who are engaged more partic
ularly in submarine cable laying and
pairing work
True to His Art
Why are you here asked the miu v
sionary
Fer tryin to pick a womans pocic
et answered the sequestered gentle-
man
Now my good man you see what
greed has brought you to
It wasnt greed at all I knowed in
the first place that there wouldnt be
nothing worth taking but I jist want
ed to see if I could do it
One on His Sister
Little Brother Say Liz mamma
thinks Mr Huggard is a ghost doesnt
she
Elder Sister Why no of course not
Little Brother Then what made her
say that he fairly haunted this house
New York Journal
Why Should It
Counseling Father But you must re
member my son that one swallow
doesnt make a spring
Young Hopeless Why should it
when it has wings New York Trib
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