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CLEVELAND ON WOOL. trying to hedce from his attack on farmers. Oh! now Different It Would lie If I'hero Wm a Wool Trust—His Third Message Paralleled with the Wilson Letter. • President Cleveland's record on the Question of free wool shows that he advocated it in his third annual message to congress, Dec. (i, 1887, be cause “a large proportion of the sheen owned by the farmers throughout the country were found in small flocks numbering from twenty-five to fifty.” l.<e inference to be drawn there from is that free wool would never have been thought of by President Cleveland or his party if the flocks of the l nited States had been large ones concentrated among a few owners, or, in fact, if there had been a sheep trust, a wool trust, or both. Such a trust could have dictated its own terms, but the unfortunate 830,900 separate farmers who owned sheep weie selected as victims to free trade. President Cleveland has evidently seen the necessity for correcting these views, and he tried to do so in his ad The Tariff Burglars, il. . . 11'I I C^s dress to congress, sent from behind the back of Congressman Wilson. We quote, side by side,these remarks that he made last month together with those made in his message of 188T. President Cleveland’s Third Annual Mes sage to Congress, Dec. 6, 1SS7. 1 think it may be fairly assumed that a large proportion of the sheep owned by the farmers through out the country are found in small flocks numbering from twenty-five to fifty. . . . When the number of farmers engaged in wool rais ing is compared with all the farmers in tbe country and the small proportion they bear to our population is considered; when it is made apparent that, in the case of a large part of those who own sheep, the beuefit of the present tariff on wool is Illusory, etc. PresidentCleveland's letter to Hon. Will iam L. Wilson, July 2. 189*. It may well excite ourwonder that dem ocrsts are willing to depart from this (free raw material), the most democratic of all tariff principles, and that the incon sistent absurdity of such a proposed de parture should be emphasized by the suggestion that the wool of the farmers be put on the free list, and the protec tion of tariff taxa tion be placed around the iron ore and coal of corporations and capitalists. in tne course ot tne same message of 1SS7 Mr. Cleveland argued that a tariff upon wool “becomes a burden upon those with moderate means and the poor, the employed and unem ployed, the sick and well, the young and old. ” In his later message of last month, whi'e trying to hedge on the ground of his opposition to a tariff upon wool because it protected the interests of a large number of farmers, and while endeavoring to show that he is opposed to a tariff upon the “iron ore and coal of corporations and capitalists,” he plunges boldly to the protection of the sugar trust, advocat ing a tariff upon sugar,of which it may indeed be truly said that it “becomes a burden upon those with moderate means and the poor, the employed and the unemployed, the sick and well, and the young and old,” while at the same time he continues to ad vocate the destruction of the sheep farming industry upon which the farmers depend. May not “the incon sistent absurdity of such a proposed departure” be calculated to “well ex cite our wonder?” The only conclusion that may be drawn from President Cleveland’s “Tariff Reform.99 THE HONEST AMERICAN REDUCED TO BEGGARY. contrary courses is his desire to strengthen the belief that he has com pletely sold himself to the interests of the sugar trusts and to the coal barons who propose to develop foreign pro perties in Canada. Effect of Free WooL If wool be put on the free list, the American wool grower will have to submit to the disadvantages of raising wool m this climate on even terms with his foreign rivals, who do not have snch difficulties to contend with, and so without adequate protection must necessarily be driven out of the business. Our seventh largest agri cultural industry, producing annually $66,000,000 worth of wool and repre senting an investment of $100,000,000 in sheep, will be destroyed by free trade. Sheep will be fattened and will then be sent to market as food, and flocks will disappear forever Our food supply will in time thus be de creased and our manufacturers event ually will be driven to buy their wool Stronger Plankt Needed Here. thus be sent out of the country again, increasing the harmful influences that must follow with the balance of trade permanently against us The wool growers would be forced into some other industry. They would probably plow up their present sheep pastures when the land is suitable and raise wheat, of which we already have an overproduction and a surplus. . It is to the interest of American farmers to diversify their industries and to pro duce such articles will find a mar ket at home instead of abroad. The present administration favors a glut of a few products with their conse quent cheapness to the producers Presidential Prevarication. President Cleve land's Message to Congress, Dec ember 4, lo93. A measure has been prepared by the appropriate congressional com mittee embodying tariff reform on the lines herein suggested. It is the result of much patriotic and un selfish work. The committee have wisely em braced in their plans a few addi tional internal revenue taxes, in cluding a small tax upon incomes derived from cer tain corporate in vestments. President Cleve land’s letter to Hon. William H. Wilson, July 2, . 1804. You know how much I deprecated the incorporation in the proposed biil of the income tax feature If “I deprecated the incorpr -ition” in the Wilson bill “of the income tax feature,” why was it necessary to say that the ways and means committee “wisely embraced" it? If the income tax were “wisely em “Tariff JKeform.” WALK UP AND PAY YOUR TAX TO TUB TRUSTS. braced” by the ways and means com mittee “on the lines herein suggested” —in “my message”—on what grounds can it be claimed ‘ ‘how much I depre cated it? VVhich is “the result of much patri otic and unselfish work?” “Democratic Principle and Policy.” Letter to Mr. Wil son, July 2, 1894. While no tender ness should be en tertained lor trusts, and while I am decidedly op posed to granting them, under the guise of tariff tax ation, any oppor tunity to further their pe culiar methods Isnggest that we ought not to be driven away from the democrat ic principle and policy which lead to the taxation of sugar. Statement in the World, July 28, 1894. Mr. Cleveland stated to members of the house that if a concession to the refining inter ests were found to be unavoidable in order to pass a tariff bill this con cession should be put in such form as to make it abso lutely certain what it means. Sugar Economically Studied. Continuing the economic study of the sugar question, ou the basis of a 40 per cent ad valorem rate of duty, a 45 per cent rate and a 40 per cent rate on raw, plus 36 cent differential rate on refined sugar, we attain the follow ing results: Average value of sugar. 236 cents per pound. Duty in cents At 40 per cent ad valorem. 1.10 At 45 per cent ad valorem. 1.2375 At 40 per cent ad valorem and 36 ■cant differential. 1.225 j Benefit to refiners at 40 per cent and 36 cent above 45 per cent rate_ 0.0125 Total benefit to refiners on 4.420, 000,000 pounds sugar at 0.0125 cent.$552,500 It is bat a trifle of half a million dollars, but every little helps. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. WHAT A BIG PERFORMING BLACK BEAR DID. The Wonderful Story of Hanno and Han nibal—The Lilac — Some Information About Mummies — President Carnot and Young: America. Along the dusty road, on a hot day, trudged Hanno and Hannibal, a queer couple. Hanno was a little French man and Hannibal was a big, shaggy bear, a tame bear, by whose tricks Hanno hoped to earn enough to go back some day and buy a little farm. Hanno was tired and cross; Hanni bal was more tired and cross, and re membered his cool, dark den in the mountains with as homesick a feeling as Hanno ever knew. A big farm wagon rattled by, full of young peo ple. As soon as they saw the bear, they stopped, and begged to see him dance. “More money for the farm!” thought Hanno; so he blew away on a cheap harp a little out of tune. Hannibal danced reluctantly and awkwardly, but every new shuffle brought,peals of laughter from the young people. When he stopped they cried, “Go on, go on!” and Hanno lifted his stick by way of a hint. This was too much for Hannibal. With a short growl he boxed llanno head over heels into the ditch and made for the woods at a long, swinging trot, shaking his chain as he went. Hanno was too much stunned at first to lead a pursuit and Hannibal was soon out of sight. A little boy lived in the great gabled house across the woods who was a great lover of bears. He was always begging for bear stories, and his usual cry when in trouble was: “Oh, mammy, dere's a big black bear on my back.” This evening he was play ing with imaginary bears in the hall, running in now and then to tell his mother that there was a polar bear in the china-closet, or a "big, big bear” up the stove pipe. His father had just come in and set tled himself comfortably by the fire, when in ran Fred, his eyes and mouth wide open and his face white with alarm. “Oh, mother, there's a bear on the supper table.” “Frederick,” said his father, “no more of this nonsense.” At tms moment came a curious rat tle, a crash of china, and Mr. Byrne hurried to the dining-room to find a shaggy black creature just escaping through the low window, after upset sing the honey-pot and cream-jug and leaving their contents in a long trail on the table. Ned, the negro waiter, was hastening his departure by an at tack in the rear with a broom. On the next farm lived an old lady, known to all the neighborhood as “Cousin Judy.” She was very me thodical in her habits. Every night at 9 “Black Judy,” her maid, barred the doors and fastened the shutters; at 10 all the household were in bed. As the hands of the clock pointed to five min utes of 9 that night a frightened cry was heard from the lawn: “Miss Judy, Miss Judy, don't shut de door!” Hastening to the window the mis tress saw on the open lawn a strange chase. “Clarissy,” a little negro girl, 12 years old, was scudding with ter ror-winged feet to the house for ref uge, and close behind followed a great, dark, shaggy figure, and after it, though at a prudent distance, all the dogs on the plantation, black, tan and spotted, yelping and growl ing. Miss Judys first impulse was to lock the door, and her maid actually had her hand on the key, when Miss Judy stopped her that the frightened child might get in. Poor “Clarissy” stumbled and fell across the door way, giving herself up for lost, but Miss Judy gallantly ran out and res cued her, though the bear ’was close upon them. At this critical moment, when the bear had entered the hall, Hanno ap peared upon the scene and called out gaily: “Dance, Hannibal, dance!” at the same time striking up a squeaky, thin little tune on his harp. Never was there a quicker trans formation. The snarling and savage looking brute rose on his hind legs and, turning to the frightened women, he made a clumsy bow and began to go through the figures of a dance, shuffling and nodding to keep time. Habit was stronger than nature and a possible tragedy was averted.—Phila delphia Times. Carnot’. Amiable Traits. One of M. Carnot’s most amiable traits, says the London Figaro, and one which he shared with Mr. Glad stone, was a habit of “tipping” school boys on almost every available occa sion. A friend of mine once saw him in the waiting-room of a French rail way station carrying on an amusing conversation with a small American boy whom he had casually met there, who was minding his sisters' luggage. The boy, after the manner of Ameri can youths, was charmingly candid in his remarks, and informed M. Presi dent that he didn't care for the Frenchmen, adding, “They want the earth,” an American colloquialism which convulsed M. Carnot When they parted he patted the boy on the head and gave him a gold coin, which the young American accepted with the remark that he “guessed he would go and make himself miser able,” thus giving the president further food for merriment. She Smiled. It is said that Mrs. Siddons smiled only once in the course of her life, so far as her friends observed, “and then she laughed aloud.” She was visiting a house where wine was offered her at the table. She declined it, adding, “But I should like a little porter.” A boy was at once sent out with the lit eral direction to “bring in a little porter.” He was gone a long time, and when he returned was accom panied by a little man with straps and badge all complete. “Here, sir,” the boy panted, is the smallest porter I could find!” And Mrs. Siddons laughed.—Harper's Young 1-eople. What Id a Mummy? When a member of an Egyptian family died all the family put on mourning and abstained from baths, wine and delicacies of all kinds from forty to sixty days, according to the rank of the person deceased. Death in one respect put an end to all dis tinctions that had prevailed in life, and king and slave were subject to the same law. The record of the life of the deceased had to be examined by a tribunal of forty-two judges before he could be given burial with his ancestors. If the deeds of his life proved that he was worthy of burial his body was carried across the sacred lake, of which each province had one, and was there permitted to rest. If the judges found him unworthy, even though he belonged to the highest rank, he could not be buried with his ancestors; his body was returned to his relatives, and was buried on the side of the lake opposite to the burial-place of the just. The belief of the Egyptians in a future state of existence gave rise to the practice of embalming the dead. They wished to carefully preserve the body, so that the soul, upon its return to its former abode at the end of all things, might find it ready for its reception. Bodies were embalmed in three different ways. The most expensive and magnificent method was used upon the bodies of kings and other persons of distinguished rank, the cost amounting to a talent of silver, or six hundred and ten dollars. A number o f persons were em ployed in the procress of embalmin'’, and they were treated with great respect. They filled the cavities of the body with myrrh, cinuamon, spices and many kinds of sweet smelling drugs. After a certain time had elapsed the body was swathed in lawn fillets, which was glued together with a kind of thin gum, and then crusted over with costly perfumes. By this mode of embalming the shape of the body, the lineaments of the face, the eye brows and eyelashes were preserved in their natural perfection. Bodies thus embalmed are what we now call Egyptian mummies. The Lilac. The lilac stood close to Elizabeth’s window, All purple with bloom, while the little maid spun: Her stint was a Ion? one and she was aweary. [ And moaned that she never could get It done. But the wind set stirring the Iliac blossoms. And a wonderful sweetness came floatin'in, And Elizabeth felt, though she could not have said it That a Iriend had c:me to her to help her spin. And after that she kept on at her spinning, Gay as a bird: for the world had be uu To seem such a pleasant, good place for work ing, That she was amazed when her stint was done. And the pale-brown little New England maiden. Outside of her lessons, had learned that day That the sweetness araund us will sweeten labor. If we will but let it have its way. —Mary E. Wilken; in St Nicholas. Turtles as Pets. Fresh water turtles make interest ing pets. They live in marshy ground and lie dormant in winter to avoid cold, but summer vacation is a good time to find them. If kept in a warm place a turtle will remain lively all winter. Partly fill a tank with fresh water for the turtle to live in making some sort of an island for him to rest on. Spile of tiles or bits of marble will do, or better still a brick that just comes above the water. On one end fasten a sponge, sown with bird seed, grass seed or whatever will sprout in a damp place. Part of the sponge must touch the water to keep it moist. Cover the rest of the brick with moss, and have one or two water plants growing beside it if you want it pretty. A flower pot piled round with stones and filled with earth, in which seeds arc sown, makes anothe r good island. Feed a turtle every day, not once in awhile, whenever you think of it— even if he can go a long time without eating. He will like live flies, worms and little fish. Raw meat cut in bits makes a substitute for them. Vege tables and bread are also good for him, if he will eat them. Supply fresh water to the tank by taking out a cupful each day, putting more in. Unless something dies in the tank all the water will not need changing at once. A turtle will learn to come up for food at the sound of taps on the glass, and will snap at it if waved before him on a brown straw when he is on his island.—St. Louis Star-Sayings. How It Lost Its Name. Botanists tell us that the plant, which everybody calls nasturtium is not really one at all. 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