THE NORTHWESTERN.
BENSCIinTF.lt a GlltSON. Edi »ni) Toi**
LOUP CITY, * • NEB
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A passenger on a street railway In
Vienna claimed damages, which were
awarded him. for a shock to his nerves
caused by the conductor shouting out
to the passengers to jump off the car,
as he feared a collision.
Cremation has just been made legal
in Spain, where hitherto it has been
prohibited as incompatible with the
religion of the country. The reform
is based upon sanitation. In the de
cree just issued by the Queen Regent
sanctioning the erection of a crema
torium in Madrid, it is stated that this
departure from traditional modes of
burial are actuated by hygienic con
siderations which can no longer be
waived or neglected.
Juliet’s “What's In a name?’’ might
be asked regarding the vessels of the
British navy which have borne the
names ct reptiles. It is said that four
Vipers bar*, been wrecked, the last ol
the name but recently, and a Cobra
still more lately has broken in two and
gone to the bottoms with officers and
men. Also four Serpents, three Liz
ards, two Snakes, one Alligator, ere
Crocodile, one Rattlesnake, one lia
silisk, and two Dragons—which are
not reptiles—have at various times met
with disaster. British tars, it is said
have a superstitious feeling of dislike
against sailing in vessels bearing such
names. Lucky or unlucky, the names
are needlessly disagreeable.
Italy and Austria have just agreed
to take a step unprecedented in mod
ern history. At the end of August the
pope promulgated a Bull transferring
from the administration of the Dal
matians to that of the Croatians the
charitable institutions known as St.
Jerome’s, which has a capital of £80,
000. The institution had belonged to
the Dalmatians for five centuries.
Much bitterness was created, and sev
eral serious conflicts occurred between
people of the two nationalities. The
question has now. happily, been .solv
ed, the twro governments having
agreed, after cordial negotiations, to
establish the previous condition of af
fairs and consider the papal bull as
non-existent.
President Harper, of the University
of Chicago, recently received the fol
lowing letter from a prospective girl
student at Pecatonica, 111.: “Dear Mr.
Harper—I know you will be plea-sed to
learn that I have decided to attend the
university school of education this fall.
I am going to Chicago next Saturday
on the morning train, and as I have
never been in the city before I would
be glad if yot* would meet me at the
station. 1 am five feet four Inches tall,
have light hair and eyes and a pleasing
appearance. I shall wear a dark brown
traveling skirt and a blue waist, with
TQite yoke. I think I shall know you
from your pictures, but for fear I make
a mistake will you please wear youi
card In your hat?”
The United States of America, the
United States of Brazil, the United
States of Mexico and the United
Setates of Venezuela appear among
the names of the countries represent
ed at the Pan-American congress in
Mexico. This shows how widely our
federal plan of government as well
as our style of uaming it has been
adopted in the New World. The use of
the word "state” in this way has
often been regarded as slightly in
accurate. The word ctafc originally
p'gnified a body of people united under
one government, whereas we use the
term to describe one of the divisions
of our country; hut whatever rhetori
cal inaccuracy we may have commit
ted has evidently been overwcighel, in
«he minds of our imitators, by the sue
cess of our "great experiment” Per
haps now that England has designated
as “states” the several parts of the
Australian commonwealth, the “Am
ericanism” has become good English.
In Mayor Hart's Inaugr.ru! address 0;
January, 1900, "the most important re
quirement. for the Boston public
schools was pronounced to be that ol
"additional school accommodations.'
Since that time a special “Boston
school house commission” has beet
created, with authority to spend $1,
000,000 for new school houses the pres
ent year and $3,000,000 more within
the next few years. The commission
proposes to spend this money for "the
best sanitary buildings that Bkill can
devise,” hut as a means of providing
temporary relief it has built forty
three portable school houses of a type
experimented with last year. These
buildings are of wood and can be taken
to pieces easily and moved. They art
properly warmed, well lighted, and are
often located in the yards of crowded
school buildings, the sanitary arrange
ments of which are then available
They have not entirely displaced rent
ed rooms, but they are regarded ar
generally superior to the latter both
from the standpoint of economy and
of accommodations.
An Alabama delegate who died sud
denly while in attendance upon the
Methodist Ecumenical Conference in
London was at one time a director in
a Selma bank. The bank failed. There
upon he disposed of all his property,
devoted the proceeds, so far as they
would go, toward paying off the hank’s
Indebtedness—and died poor. There is
no doubt about the religion of a man
like that, and it was eminently fitting
that he should represent his church at
a gathering where its great men met
The Diamond Bracelet
By MRS. HENRY WOOD.
Author of East Lynne, Etc.
(CHAPTER IV.—Continued.)
"It cannot be lost," returned Lady
Sarah. "You are sure you put it out,
Alice?"
"I am quite sure of that. It was
lying first in the case, and—"
"Yes, it was,” interrupted Hughes.
“That was its place.”
“And consequently the first that I
took out,” continued Alice. "I put it
on the table; and the others around
It, near to me. Why, as a proof that
it lay there-”
What was Alice going to add? Was
sbe going to adduce as a proof that
Gerard Hope had taken it up, and it
had been a subject of conversation be
tween them? If so, recollection came
to her in time, and she faltered and
abruptly broke off. But a faint, hor
rible dread, to which she would not
give shape, catne stealing over her,
end her face turn d wli te, and she
sank on a chair trembling visibly.
"Now look at Alice!” uttered Fran
ces Chenevix; "she is goiug into ono
of her agitation fits.”
"Don’t allow you s If to b’ agi
tated. Alice.” cried Lady Sarah; "that
will do no good. Besides, I feel sure
the bracelet is all safe in the ease;
where else can it be? Fetch the case,
Hughes, and I will look for it myself.
Hughes whisked out of the room, in
wardly resenting the doubt cast upon
her eyesight.
"It is so strange,” mused Alice,
"that you did not 3je the bracelet
when you came up.”
“It was certainly not there," re
sumed Lady Sarah.
“Perhaps you will look for yourself
now. my lady,” cried Hughes, return
ing with the jewel box in her hands.
The box was well searched. The
bracelet was not there.
“This Is very strange, Hughes," ut
tered Lady baran.
"It’s very ugly, as well, my lady,"
answered Hughes, in a lofty tone,
"and I’m thankful to the presiding
geniuses which rule such 'things that
l was not in charge when it never
would have taken place, for I can give
a guess how it was.”
‘ Then you had better," said her
ladyship, curtly.
“If I do," returned Hughes, “I shall
offend Miss Seaton.”
“No you wUl not, Hughes,” cried
Alice. “Say what you please; I have
need to wish this cleared up.”
“Then, miss, if I may speak my
thoughts, I think you must have left
the key about. And there are strange
servants in the house, you know, iny
lady; there’s that kitchen’s maid only
came in it when we did, and there's
the new under butler.”
“Hughes, you are wrong,” interrupt
ed Alice. “The servants could not
have touched the box. for the key nev
er was out of my possession, and you
know the lock is a Bramah. I locked
the box last night in Lady Sarah's
presence, and the key was not out of
my pocket afterwards until you took
it from thence this morning."
“The key seems to have had nothing
to do with it,” interposed Frances
Chenevix. “Alice says she put the dia
mond bracelet on the table with the
rest; Lady Sarah says when she went
to the table after dinner it was not
there; so it must have been in the
Intervening period that the—the—dis
appearance took place.”
"And only a few minutes to do it
! in!” ejaculated Lady Sarah.- “What
a mystery'.”
"It beats conjuring, my lady.” said
Hughes. “Could any visitor have come
upstairs?”
“1 did hear a vi t n’s k lock while
j we were at dinner.” said Lviv Sarah.
I Don’t you ivin mirr, F nay? You
looked up os if you noticed it.”
“Did I?” answered Lady Frances, in
a careless tone.
! And that moment Thomas happened
to enter with a letter, and the ques
tion was put to him. “Who knocked?”
His answer was ready.
"Sir George Danvers, my lady. When
I said the Colonel was at dinner. Sir
George began to apologize for calling,
but I explained that ; ou were dining
earlier than usual because of the
opera.
“Nobody else called?’*
"Nobody knock'd but Sir George,
my lady.’’
“A covert answer,’ thought Alice;
"but I am glad he is true to Gerard.”
"What an untruth!” thought Lady
Frances, as she remembered the visit
of Alice’s sister. Thomas’ memory
must be short.”
All the talk—and It was much pro
longed—did not tend to throw any
light upon the matter, and Alice, un
happy and ill, retired to her own room.
The agitation had brought on a ner
vous and violent headache, and she
sat down in a low chair and bent her
forehed on to her hands. One belief
alone possessed her; that the unfor
tunate Gerard Hope had stolen the
bracelet. Do as she would she could
not put It from her; she kept repeat
ing that he was a gentleman, that he
was honorable, that ho would never
place her in s’ > painful a pcsithn. Com
mon sense replied that the temptation
was laid before him, and he had con
fessed his petuniary difficulties to he
great; nay, had he not wished for this
very bracelet—that he might make
money—
CHAPTER V.
A knock at the door. Alice lifted
Jier sickly countenance and bade the
intruder enter. It was Lady Frances
Chenevix.
‘‘I came to—Alice how wretched you
look? You will torment yourself into
a fever.”
‘‘Can you wonder at my looking
wretched?” returned Alice. ‘‘Place
yourself in my position, Frances; it
must, appear to Lady Sarah as if I—
I had made away with the bracelet.
I am sure Hughes thinks so.”
“Don’t say unorthodox things, Alice.
They would lather th'nk that I had
done it, of the two, for I have more
use for diamond bracelets than you.”
“It is kind of you to try and cheer
me,” sighed Alice.
“Just the thing I came to do. And
to have a bit of a chat with you as
well, if you will let me.”
“Of course, I will let you.”
“I wish to tell you I will not men
tion that your sister was here last
evening. I promise you I will not.”
Alice did not immediately reply.
The words and their hushed tone
caused a new trouble to arise within
her—one which she had not glanced
at. Was it possible that Lady Fran
ces could imagine her sister to be
the
"Lady Frances Chenevix!” burst
forth Alice, "you cannot think it! She!
my sister—guilty of a despicable
theft! Have you forgotten that she
moves in your own position in the
world? that our family is scarcely in
ferior to yours?”
“Alice, I forgive you so misjudging
me, because you are not yourself just
now. Of course, your sister cannot
be suspected; I know that. But as
you did not mention her when they
were talking of who had been here. I
supposed ycu did not wish her name
dragged into so unpleasant an affair,
and I hastened up to say there was no
danger from me that it would be.”
“Believe me, she is not the guilty
party,” returned Alice, “and I have
more cause to say so than you think
for.
“What do you mean by that?” brisk
ly cried Lady Frances. “You surely
have no clue?”
Alice shook her head, and her com
panion’s eagerness was lulled again.
"It is well that Thomas was forget
ful,” remarked Lady Frances. “Was
It really forgetfulness, Alice, or did
you contrive to telegraph him to be
silent?”
“Thomas only spoke the truth. At
least, as regards my sister,” she hastily
added, “for he did not let her in.”
“Then It is all quite easy, and you
and I can keep our own counsel.”
Quite easy, possibly, to the mind of
Frances Chenevix, but anything but
easy to Alice, for the words of Lady
Frances had introduced an idea more
repulsive and terrifying even than the
one which east the guilt to the door
of Gerard Hope. Her sister acknowl
edged that she was in need of money,
"a hundred pounds or so,” and Alice
ha-d seen her coming from the back
room where the Jewels lay. Still—she
take a bracelet! It was preposterous.
Preposterous or not, Alice’s torment
was doubled. Which of the two had
been the black sheep? One of them it
must have been. Instinct, sisterly re
lationship, reason and common Bense,
all combined to turn the scale against
Gerard. But that there should be a
doubt at all was not pleasant, and
Alice started up impulsively and put
her bonnet on.
“Where now?" cried Lady Frances.
"I will go to my sister's and ask her
—and ask her—if—she saw any stran
ger here—any suspicious person in the
tall, or on the stairs,” stammered
Alice, making the best excuse she
could.
“But you know you were in the
drawing rooms all the time, and no
one came into them, suspicious or un
suspicious; s i hew wl 1 that aid you?”
“True,” murmured Alice, "but it
will be a relief to go somewhere or do
something.”
Alice found her sister at home. The
latter instantly detected that some
thing was wrong, for her suspense, ill
ness and agitation had taken every
vestige of color from her cheeks and
ups.
“Whatever is the matter, Alice?"
was her greeting, “yen look just like a
walking ghost."
“I felt that I did.” breathed poor
Alice, "and I kept my veil down In the
street, lest I might be taken for one
and scare the people. A great mis
fortune has befallen upon me. You
saw those bracelets last night spread
out on the table?"
“Yes."
“They were in my charge, and one
of them has been abstracted. It was
of great value; gold links holding dia
monds."
“Abstracted!" uttered the eldest
sister lr both concern and surprise,
but certainly without the smallest in
dications of a guilty know ledge.
"How?"
“It Ip a mystery. I only left the
room when I met you on the stair
case, and when I went upstairs to
fetch the letter for you. Directly after
you left Lady Sarah came up from
dinner, and the bracelet was not
there.”
"It is incredible, Alice. And no
one else entered the room at all, you
say? No servants? no——”
“Not any one.” interrupted Alice,
determined not to speak of Gerard
Hope.
“Then, child, it is simply impossi
ble," was the calm rejoinder. “It
' must have fallen on the ground or
1 been mislaid In some way.”
*Tt fs hopplersly goes. Do you re
member seeing it?”
"I do remember seeing amidst the
rest a bracelet set with diamonds; but
only on the clasp, I think. It-”
“That was another; that Is all safa.
This was of fine gold links. Inter
spersed with brilliants. Did you see
it?”
“Not that I remember. I was there
scarcely a minute, for I had only
strolled into the back room Just be
fore you cajne down. To tell you the
truth, Alice, my mind was too fuilv
occupied with other things to take
much notice even of Jewels. Do not
look so perplexed; It will be all right.
Only you and I were in the room, you
say, and we couid not take it.”
“Oh!” exclaimed Alice, clasping her
hands and lifting her white, beseech
ing face to her sister's, “did you take
it? In—sport; or in—oh, surely you
were not tempted to take it for any
thing else? You said you had need
of money.”
“Alice, are we going to have one of
your old scenes of excitement? Strive
for calmness. I am sure you do not
know what you are implying. My
poor child, I would rather help you to
jewels than take them from you.”
“But look at the mystery.”
“It does appear to be a mystery, b-f.
it will no doubt he cleared up. Alif>,
what could you have been dreaming of
to suspect me? Have we not grown
up together in our honorable home?
You ought to know me if any one
does.”
“And you really know nothing of
it?” moaned Alice, with a sobbing
catching of the breath.
“Indeed I do not. In truth I do not.
If I could help you out of your per
plexity I would thankfully do it. Shall
I return wdth you and assist you to
search for the bracelet?”
“No thank you. Every search hati
been made.”
Not only was the denial of her sis
ter fervent and calm hut her manner
and countenance conveyed the im
pression of truth. Alice left her in
expressibly relieved, hut the convic
tion that it must have been Gerard
returned to her in full force.
*'I wish I could see him!” was her
mental exclamation.
And for once fortune favored her
wish. As she was dragging her weary
limbs along he came right upon he?
at the corner of a street. In her eager
ness she clasped his arms with both
her hands.
“I am so thankful,” she uttered. “I
wanted to see you.”
“I think you most wanted to see
a doctor, Alice. How ill you look!”
“I have cause,” she returned. “That
bracelet, the diamond that you were
admiring last evening—It has been
stolen; it was taken from the room.”
“Taken when?” echoed Mr. Hope,
looking her full in the face—as a guil
ty man would scarcely dare to look.
“Then, or within a few minutes.
When Lady Sarah came up from din
ner it was not there.”
“Who took it?” he repeated, not yet
recovering his surprise.
“I don’t know,” she faintly said.
“It was under my charge. N'o one
else wag there.”
"You do not wish me to understand
that you are suspected?" he burst
forth with genuine feeling. “Their
unjust meanness cannot have gone to
that length!”
(To be continued.)
A STRONG PEOPLE.
Innnlta of Alaiikn Are Classed Amoxs
Very Kiigged People.
It now seems probable that not all
the Innults of Alaska are so smalll as
has been supposed. Indeed, if one is
to believe the talcs of travelers who
visited an island south of Bering Sea,
these Indians must be classed among
the tallest people in the world. Tha
travelers’ story is given in Popular
Science News: On King's Island In
dians were found who by their phys
ical characteristics belong to the In
nult or Eskimo family, having small
black eyes, high cheek-bones and full
brown beards which conceal their lips.
The majority of the men are over sis
feet high and the women are usuallly
as tall as and often taller than the
men. These women are ano wonder
fully strong. One of them carried off
in her birch bark canoe an eight-hun
dred pound stone, for use as an an
chor to a whale boat When it reached
the deck of the vessel it required two
strong men to lift it, but the Innuit
woman had managed it alone. An
other woman carried on her head a
box containing two hundred and
eighty pounds of lead. t3oth men and
women are also endowed with re
markable agility. They will outrun
and outjump competitors of any other
race who may be pitted against them.
Their strength is gained from very
poor food, and they frequently travel
thirty or forty miles v. it.'iout eating
anything. They live on carrion flsh
and sea oil. The flsh, generally sal
mon, are buried when caught, to be
kept through the winter and dug up
as consumption requires. When
brought to the air they have the ap
pearance of sound flsh, but the stench
from them is unbearable. In the mat
ter of dwellings these Eskimos are pe
culiar. Their houses are excavated
in the sides of a bill, the chambers be
i Ing pierced some feet into the rise,
and walled up with stones on three
sides. Across the top of the stone
walls poles of driftwood are laid and
covered with hides and grass and last
ly with a layer of earth. These odd
dwellings rise one above another, the
highest overlooking perhaps forty low
er ones. Two hundred people live in
the village.
Forget the good thou hast done, and
do better.
He who lnsurs no anvy possesses
no happiness.
| A TRUST CONSPIRACY.
I
HAVEMEYER STRIKES A BLOW AT
DOMESTIC SUGAR.
I Trn*t Ala gnat 9'* Recent Put In Trice*
an Evidence of III* Determination to
Destroy, if Possible, an Agrlcultura
Industry of Great Magnitude.
For the avowed purpose of injuring
and if possible destroying the beet su
gar industry in the United States Mr.
H. 0. Havemeyer, president of the Su
gar tru.>t, has ordered a big reduction
in the selling price of refined cane
sugar. The reduction thu3 arbitrarily
put in force for an avowed sinister ob
ject is from £5.03 cents to 3‘^ cents per
pound for granulated sugar. As stated
by the New York Journal of Com
rnerce:
“The reduction is a blow aimed di
rectly at the beet sugar Interests of the
country. It applies only to such sec
tions of the country in which beet su
gar competes and is so important that
it means that most of the beet facto
ries will be compelled to market their
product at a loss if they live up to the
contracts they have recently made.
The cut in price affects only such
sugar as is shipped to Missouri river
points, the eastern price remaining un
changed. The blow is aimed at the beet
sugar refiners of Utah, Colorado, Cali
fornia and Nebraska, where nineteen
twentieths of the entire beet sugar
product of »hd United States is manu
factured. It is the practice of these
producers to contract for the sale of
their entire output at a discount of 10
points fiom the Sugar trust's figures,
and at this discount the beet sugar
makers have been able to easily mar
ket all their sugar. If compelled to go
10 points below the trust’s cut price of
3Va cents the beet sugar refineries
would be subjected to a heavy loss and
would probably be forced to close their
refineries and cease production. Inci
dentally, of course, the market for su
gar beets would be destroyed, involv
ing tremendous losses to the farmers,
who have undertaken beet culture on
a large scale.
The complete destruction of an In
dustry which with a fair chance is cer
tain to supply the entire amount of
sugar required for consumption in the
United States, in value something over
$100,000,000 a year, is aimed at by
Havemeyer. The Sugar King is alarm
ed at the prospective competition of
millions of acres devoted to the grow
ing of beets of high saccharine content
and of hundreds of beet sugar refin
eries scattered all over the country. So
he decrees a 30 per cent reduction in
the price of cane sugar, hoping thereby
to crush cut this young industry before
it has the chance to grow to formid
able proportions. For the same pur
pose Havemeyer and his lobby are
working tooth and nail to induce con
gress to place raw sugar on the free
list. He will not succeed in either
scheme. The American people will not
permit the destruction of the beet su
gar industry.
The ease of domestic beet sugar ia
ably and convincingly presented in a
recent issue of the Oil, Paint and Drug
Reporter, in an interesting contribu
tion from the pen of Prof. Ernest Mas.
one of the foremost chemists and
chemical engineers of the world, as
follows:
‘‘Real American sugar is not cane
sugar, and a great deal less giucose,
that clandestine concoction of sulphur
ic acid and starch which might pos
sibly, and with academic assistance, be
a sugar in theory—like, for instance,
certain derivatives of toluene, a con
stituent of coal tar, but is not and
never was sugar to the palate, in spite
of its being called ‘grape sugar.' Real
American sugar ia not potato sugar;
not even the line saccharine product
found in sweet potatoes deserves that
denomination. The real American su
gar, the coming sugar, which‘is fast
dethroning them all, is beet sugar.
The manufacturing process is so sim
ple, the sugar beet so rich in saccha
rine matter nearly 15 per cent—and
the finished product so free from the
objectionable features of so-called
‘grape sugar,' that it is only a question
of a few years when nearly every west
ern state from Michigan to California
will have its quota of refineries.
The changed conditions due to our
war with Spain will ultimately and
most fortunately cause us to grow our
own sugar, save us $100,000,000 a year
which we now spend abroad, give us
wholesome syrups and develop a home
industry equal to the requirements of
home consumption. This, of course,
providing that no congressional inter
ference should prevent a development
so desirable. Let the sugar tariff stand
as it is for several years, and while
this may not exactly meet the views
of Mr. H. O. Havemeyer. it will surely
have for tational sequence, permanent,
cheap and wholesome sugar, home
grown and home-made sugar, beyond
the control of dictation of the mvtar
trust or its affiliations.
Mr. Havemeyer may embarrass the
domestic, beet sugar industry by his
resort to arbitrary cuts in price and
to other unscrupulous methods hut he
cannot destroy it. Home-made beet
suga* is here to stay, and its triumph
will involve the downfall of one of the
most obnoxious of all trusts—a trust
which, curiously in contradiction of
Mr. Havemeyer himself, is in no sense
the offspring of a protective tariff, but
which, on the contrary, clamors for the
removal of the tarifT In order that it
may the more effectively Injure and
destroy domestic competition Its days
are numbered.
A CRUSHING INDICTMENT.
The development of the beet sugar
Industry has been so rapid that we
! are near to the* time when the whole
of the hundred million dollars we used f
to spend abroad for sugar will go Into
the pockets of our own people. This
nation consumes at least one-fourth
of the world's total product, and of
the world's product two thirds are
made from beets and only one-third
from cane. If the counsel and the
protests of American Free-Traders
had been heeded we should now not
grow a pound of sugar outside the
cane fields of Louisiana. Because the
Protectionist principle was received
and approved by the people we are
about to become independent of out
side sources for a necessity of exist
ence and to keep huge profits at home.
We made the machinery for the sugar
mills from iron from our own fur
naces; we have diverted from excess
ive cereal production land and human
being to a more profitable occupation,
and we have moved this nation one
huge step further toward industrial
independence. It would be difficult to
frame an indictment against the
American Free-Trade propagandists
more crushing than to quote their own
declarations and arguments against
the tin plate duties and the beet sugar
bounties.—-The Manufacturer.
AN “UNHOLY ALLIANCE.”
In view of the intention of Con
gressman Babcock to force his Tariff
repeal bill through the Committee on
Ways and Means by the aid of the
Democratic minority of that commit
tee and to work for its passage the
Kansas City Journal says:
“It may be that under existing ar
rangements this is possible, for there
are ten Republicans and seven Demo
crats on the committee. A change of
two votes, which is one in addition to
his own, would enable the Democrats
on the committee to report the bill.
Speaker Henderson will be re-elected
speaker, and there will be very few
changes either in committee or em
ployes, but the speaker should reduce
the number of Democrats on tlie Com
mittee on Ways and Means. The Dem
ocrats cannot object to this because
they increased the Democratic mem
bership of the committees the last
time they had control of the House,
if this committee had twelve Repub
licans and five democrats it would be
more difficult to form an nnlioly alli
ance.”
There is a much simpler and more
direct way to prevent an “unholy alli
ance” between the Democratic Free
Traders and wavering Republicans of
the Ways and Means Committee. That
is for the speaker of the Fifty-seventh
house to reconstruct that committee
on safe Republican lines by dropping
off the waverers and filling their
places with positive men. The ma
jority side of the Ways and Means
Committee L no place for waverers.
Out with them!
THE BELT KEEPS THE MILL GOING.
JOLLYING THE FARMERS.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says
that the Protective Tariff has been
used to “jolly” the farmer. That is
exactly where the Courier-Journal is
right. If the farmers of this country
have ever h id occasion to feel jolly, It
is now. when, under Dingily law Pro
I lection, money has tome rolling in to
| pay off mortgages, to buy new equip
ment, including the latest and most
! improved brands of agricultural ma
! chincry, and to roll up the account at
the savings bank. Yes the farmers of
the country, as a general thing, feel
pretty jolly Just now, nnd it is the
Protective Tariff which is responsible
for It. There Is no doubt about that. \
And the best of It Is that the farmers
are not the only people who are feel
ing jolly, but the jolly effects of Pro
tection prosperity have been felt by
people In all walks of life everywhere
throughout the country. As a pro
ducer of jollity the Protective Tariff
has few, if any, equals, and we are
glad to see that the Loulsvillle Cour
ier-Journal Is at last beginlng to rec
ognize the fact.
“Sound.”
The Boston Herald speaks approv
ingly of the Portland Oregonian as "a
Republican newspaper that has al
ways had sound ideas upon the tariff ”
and then goes on to quote the Ore
gonian as saying that “enough has
been done for the manufacturers and
wholesome reform would consider the
interests of the consumers, especially
those of the farming class.” It will
| now be in order for the Herald to
refer to Tom Paine as “a distinguished
exponent of orthodox Christianity!”
Helping the Mmim.
When factories are prosperous, farm
ers are equally so. This i8 what is
now so materially aiding the tillers of
the soil in the west, and especially in
Iowa, where a surplus is produced
The policies of the Republican party -V
are helping the masses.—Davennort
(Iowa) Republican.