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Jfffl-MSBWW "' 011.,yc11 Calmidnu fftmrcl. VOLUME XXVIII.-NUMBER.16. COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA. WEDNESDAY. JULY 28, 1897. WHOLE NUMBER 1,420. a - " - - v v K h I . I , A TS A 'I V I K M W1WT yuiiuix ii.j-vfj.xAit.xjxii. i By Anna Shields. m WO figure, stood under the shade of a huge tree in a lit tle garden, one strong, erect, defi ant; the other drooping, timid and pleading. It was a repetition of the old story of lovers torn asunder by a cruel fate, a parting and tows of constancy ind faithful love. The man, Rodney Kirke, was a fine boking young fellow of twenty-eight, v:bo had been from infancy the ward and darling of his uncle, James Kirke, .'-elieving himself always to be the cer tain heir of that gentleman and ever his dutiful nephew from true, earnest love and gratitude. His life had been a shadowed one, having little bright jcss, for his uncle for thirty years had .een. an invalid sometimes well enough to move about in his own ex tensive grounds, but often, for months together, confined to his room and bed, i-affering intensely. When Rodney left school and would have studied a profession or entered upon some business career, his uncle kept him bound to his chair, letting all the management of his large estate fall gradually into his hands, and taking intinito comfort from his gentle care when he was suffering. It was a strange, gray life for ycuth. end Rodney fretted sometimes at merg ing his own existence into that of the invalid, but the argument his uncle used at such times was a powerful one. "When I die this whole property will no yours, and you must care for it and control It. It will never be necessary for yen to undertake any other busi ness." He was content, therefore, to let his life narrow to the limits his uncle dic tated, until, about two years before the date when this story opens, Mr. Kirke being ordered to the seaside, there met Mrs. Olney. n widow with one son very nearly Rodney's age. Looking back, it was all like a whirling dream to the young man to recall how the handsome widow took possession of his uncle, flattered him, petted him, coaxed him and married him. Tho return to Ferndale. James Ksrke's home, was a wedding trip, and from that hour every effort was made liv the bride to thrust Rodney out of !;te place in his uncle's heart and home. Misrepresentations were made u: first in vain; afterward with more uTc-f. Keeping him out of his uncle's rooi!!. Mrs. Kirke made the old gentle wan beiieve his absence was from vol untary neglect. At last a tangible cauje of complaint was found, when Jicdnoy, lonely and miserable, fell in lo-.e with Bella Green, whose father Jirrror of horrors! kept a small drink ing saloon, and whose mother was vul Kanty personified. The girl herself had been educated in a good seminary, and came home to find ail her sur roundings revolting to a delicate, sen sitive nature, refined oy study and as fociations with companions above her hi the social scale. Siie was wonderfully pretty, consid ering what her parents were, and Rodney's deepest sympathies were roused by her miserable home life. That he met her in the shady lanes ltd woods was from no desire for con cealment, but simply because her home va.- so noisy, ill-ordered and vulgar tost there was no place for quiet or conversation. The story of this "low association" was so told to James Kirke that he was furious with anger, and this, add ed to the other sins attributed to Rod ney, so roused him that the young man had put before him the choice of giv ing up his love at once and forever or leaving his home. All the chivalry of a sensitive heart, which a life of seclu sion had made still more romantic.was aroused, and Rodney refused obedience to his uncle for the first time. And so, under the great tree in Sam Green's garden, he was taking leave of the girl for whose sake he was leaving luxury and hope, to face a world whose bitterness he had never tasted. "You will be true to me. Bella?" he said, as he pressed a final kiss upon her tear-stained face. "I will wait for you if it is for twen ty years." she said, clinging to him. And, keeping that promise for com fort, Rodney Kirke left Ferndale to try to find employment In L , a large manufacturing town ten miles distant, where his uncle owned property. And every face that had smiled upon him for years was turned away; every door that had opened to him was closed. His uncle's influence, wielded by his wire, kept him from even the lowest position, and he suffered from positive hunger more than once in the first three months of his exile. The bitter regrets for the easy obedience to his uncle which had made him neglect all preparation for a life of self-support, wire unavailing, and there came a winter night when he stood in the streets, homeless and penniless and battling the temptation to defy even his Creator by suicide. Suddenly he roused himself from such bitter reverie and walked rapid ly until he reached a handsome house, where a tin sign announced to ail com ers that "Dr. Bedlowe" lived within. He was in his office when Rodney Kirke entered, and rose at once to give him a most cordial greeting. "You give me courage for asking a favor," the young man said, graieiui ly. "Old friends have not cared to see me of late." n "Anything I can do for you is done, said the doctor, cordially. "I think. Rodney, your old friends do not un derstand, as I do, how foully yon have been wronged. Knowing everything, 1 have exerted all my influence with jvur uncle in vour favor, but so far In vain. Now tell me, what can I do for you?" "Doctor, I am starving! I will not 1R. I can not work without some ex perience, but there is one position 1 am fit for. Long training." he saw, wy bitterly, "has made me a gooi nurse. Will you give me a nurses place and a nurse's wages in the L. hospital?" "You!" the doctor cried, and then tried to move Rodney from this reso lution, offering him opportunities to MtMb&mk 'WYYll 381Ill oM. y true study moAMna i , . - - """is ui money any- ..6 me truest friendship could sug- must . t.Tu " . "e ttattleBrg" sitlon to make the position a stepping stono for the study of medicine and surgery. It were far too long a story to record all the trials of the next two years. Faithful in the discharge of every duty, the nurse found time for study under Dr. Bedlowe's advice, and put in every dollar not needed for ac tual existence toward the expense of a medical education. He was amazed himself at the enthusiasm his study roused, and the doctor encouraged him warmly, seeing clearly how ho would be fitted for his profession. But over the new hopes there hung a heavy cloud. Six months after he left Fern dale, his letters to Bella remained un answered so long that he went to seek her, to find the store in new hands and the family gone. Shocked, anxious and bewildered as he was, he did not lose his faith. When he could offer her a home he would seek Bella and find her true to him. News from home came to him from Dr. Bedlowe. He was kept informed of the rapid changes the first that Ralph Olney had taken his place in his uncle's affections and was a most devoted stepson. Later, Mrs. Kirke died, but Rodney's letters to his uncle were returned, and he was informed in a curt note that Ralph Olney would bo his uncle's heir, as he was his "de voted son." "Your uncle Is completely under that young man's control," Dr. Bedlowe said, "and the mention of your name excites him to a perfect fury of rage. Trust me to do all I can for you!" And having already given up all hope of reconciliation, Rodney only studied more diligently, and gave more faith ful attention to every opportunity to advance his practical knowledge. He was in his own room, a tiny cell of a place at the end of his ward, bus ied with preparations for the day.when a stroke upon the bell over his head warned him that an accident case was on the way to his care. Instantly he was on tho alert, and moved to the va cant bed that mnst receive the new pa tient. Cool, self-possessed, but tender for all suffering, he helped to lift the injured man from the stretcher to the bed, but his very heart seemed to cease its beating as his eyes fell upon the pallid face of Ralph Olney. "Run over!" the men said who had carried him. "Ain't moved nor spoke since we picked him up. Not dead, is he?" No! He was not dead, but fright fully injured, and the doctors who clus tered about the bed shook their heads ominously. It was strongly impressed upon Rodney that the life of the pa tient hung upon a thread, the strands of which were largely composed of his watchfulness and strict obedience to orders, and then he was left to watch. Under Providence he held in his hands the life of his enemy of the man who had supplanted him, maligned him, in jured him in every way. He had thought the worst shock was over, un til, an hour later, one of the physicians not Dr. Bedlowe entered the room, followed by a shrieking, sobbing wom an, who sank upon her knees beside the patient, whispering: "Oh, Ralph, speak to me! My hus band, my dear husband!" And tho weeping wife was Bella. Was it strange that Rodney Kirke asked himself if he was in a dream some hideous nightmare pressing upon his brain? He moved to leave them together, but Bella caught his hand, and in broken, sobbing sentences im plored him to forgive her to be kind to Ralph and save his life for her sake "RUN OVER." and her child. It was pitiful to see her, to hear the story of the web of deceit woven about James Kirke, who was ignorant of the marriage of his stepson. But at last, when the night shadows were falling, Rodney Kirke was free to collect his thoughts to try to make some coherent story in his be wildered brain. His love betrayed, he felt with a strange wonder no pain in the fact. The contempt for the deceit that had left him so easily and taken the new heir in his place had struck his love dead. Even anger was with ered by the scorn he felt. But there opened before his mind at once the power of revenge in his hands. : ..imi'c lif denended on his skill and his inheritance upon his science. His uncle had written to him that this man would be his heir; probably he had long before made his will and car ried out his threat. Yet, if he died. Rodney was his heir at law, and Bella's falsehood removed the only cause of difference between himself and his un- clc Days passed, and as if he had been his treasured friend, Rodney Kirke nursed Ralph Olney back to life. He had fought hack all selfish considera tion, and left the results to the future " ', - nnrsp his patient Mis amy . - . . faithfully, constantly, and he exceeded his duty, only leaving him where Bella was allowed to sit beside him. A deep nity for the woman he had loved filled his heart. It xas evident that her in fidelity was the yielding of a weak na ture to a strong one. and that she feared her husband as much as she loved him. When consciousness re turned to the invalid it became evident that the mind was seriously impaired, and a gentleness, evidently new to her. greeted Bella's timid ministrations Dr. Bedlowe, watching all. urged up on Rodney the duty of seeking recon ciliation with his uncle but the young man absolutely refused to make any ad"You1ay you have told him of Ralph Olnly'siage." he told his old friend, "andif he wants me he ust send for But tho invalid, too, was obstinate, and while Ralph was still in the hos pital James Kirke was found dead in his bed heart disease having followed a train of other ailments. The will that made his step-son-his heir was found, and, with a bitterness like death, Rodney one morning assist ed In dressing his patient for the last time, and saw him drive away, with his wife and baby boy, to take posses sion of the home he had regarded as his own for tho greater part of his life. Ten years later Dr. Kirke, a man al ready known in his profession, was sit ting In his. office alone, when his old friend. Dr. Bedlowe, came in, bi3 face full of pleasure. "At last!" he said. "At last. I may congratulate you. But I must tell my story first. Before your uncle died, Rodney, he gave me his solemn prom ise to right the wrong he had done you. Ralph Olney was not a poor man, hav ing inherited a fair income from his father, but he was grasping, selfish and deceitful until the accident that threw him into your care, and that left him crippled and imbecile. When your un cle died I thought the will that he had promised to make in your favor was one of the unaccomplished acts dying men so often leave until too late. But to-day, only to-day. Mrs. Olney came to my office with the will, which she found a week ago, quite by accident. Rodney, you must pity and forgive her. Such a heart-broken face I have never seen. Five children lie in little graves, and her husband is only a wearing source of grief and care. In this last week she has removed all their per sonal possessions from Ferndale, and she asks of you only that you will not seek to find her in her new home or to thank her. She was fearful that pride or some mistaken chivalry might lead ycu to refuse what she called her atone ment, and so brought the will to me. Your old home awaits you! May you be very happy there!" Good Enough for the Price, Mrs. Goregular (to lady friend): I was very much disappointed with the sermon very. Little Willie (who had had his eye on the plate): Yes, mater, but what can you expect for a penny? Tit-Bits. Just the Thins Lea (sadly) "I don't know what to do with that boy of mine. He's been two years at the medical college and still keeps at the foot of his class." Perrins (promptly) "Make a chiropo dist of him." Tit-Bits. In tho Counting Room. "Spilkins seems like a nice, quiet fel low." "Spilkins? That man's a regular dictator." "To his wife?" "No, to his typewriter." Cleveland Plain Dealer. SCRAPS. The agricultural department of a Texas newspaper is conducted by Green Meadows Brown. Transportation of soft-shell crabs alive from the east to Portland, Ore., has just been successfully accomplished for the first time. The distance from St Petersburg to the Pacific terminus of the Siberian railway is about twice as great as that from New York to San Francisco. Alexandria, Va., has raised the ban which from the early days of the set tlement made it unlawful to bring in oysters between April and September. The West Sullivan (Me.) base bail nine sawed a pile of wood for a resi dent of the place and put the money received for the work In the treasury. A Kansas City woman who tried in vain to make an honest living gave it up recently and turned fortune teller. Xow she has money to burn. Ex change. Already grasshoppers are hatching in such numbers in tho region of Cakcsdalc, Wash., that the inhabitants are alarmed over the threatened injury to crops. Lightning struck two hoes that a negro was carrying over his shoulder near Millington, Md., and passed through him from his shoulder to his feet, killing him. Mrs. Dahlgren Ah, Mr. Phipps, I saw you in church last Sunday. Mr. Phipps Yes; it rained, you know. Was that the reason you were there, too? Cleveland Leader. There is a family of twenty-six per sons in Strasburg, every one of whom rides a bicycle. The oldest is sixty two, the youngest six months old. Foreign Letter New York Post. Sycamore trees which for several years have flourished where they wen planted in various sections of Port land, Ore., arc dying of some disease which tho citixens do not understand. ABOUT THE BABY. The mouth of the bottle fed baby should be washed out daily with a soft cloth wet in water in which a little borax and soda have been dissolved. Where baby's gums are red and pain ful, they may be gently rubbed with the finger with a little of the follow ing mixture. Nitrate of potass, one scruple; syrup of roses, half an ounce. Let the baby sleep. Xo one has a right to break in upon the reposo or dained by a wise providence for the healthy development of the brain and nervous system of the little one while the miracle of soul wakening goes on. Visitors can admire him sufficiently if his eyes are closed; and if the hour for nursing him passes, it is proof, conclusive, that nature is fully aware of his greatest needs and is respond ing to them. Milk may be tested by a piece of blue litmus paper, which becomes red if placed in anything at all acid. Lit mus paper can be bought at any chem ist's and should be kept in every nurs ery. A small piece is to be torn off. and placed just under the surface of the milk. As milk rapidly takes up any impurities from the air It should be kept in s cool place out of the way of dust and drainage arrangements. Milk may be kept good if there is no refrigerator by turning It out into a large basin and covering this with a thin cloth wrung out In cold water. If an alkali, such as lime water or car bonate of soda, has to be added to the milk in order to prevent acidity in the baby, it should not be added uatil the milk'is required for use, lest by taking away the acid taste or smell it should prevent detection of the fact that tk silk Is not fit for the infant. IT IS A COLD BLUFF. TALK ABOUT FOREIGN RETALI ATION ON OUR TARIFF. it Ha rteca Trial IScfo're IVltlmct Snccrss Sonic of the Kcasom Why It Won't Work Voice or Ki-MuUHcan 1'ress. (Washington Letter.) The last feeble cry of the free tra ders regarding the tariff bill is that it will disturb oar relations with foreign countries. It is a last resort and an unsuccessful one. They have been beaten at every point; have failed in all their arguments and assertions against the bill, so much so that many members of their own party have re fused to vote with them. And now, soeing that this bill is bound to pass, they raise the feeble cry that its pass age will affect our relations with othc countries. But all this talk does HoT worry the experienced statesman or diplomat Similar protests have come to them and to the government time after time in former consideration of tariff measures, and they have been politically received as these are, care fully "filed" in a canvenient pigeon holes and never heard from afterwards, either in the framing of the bill or in their bearing upon future commercial relations of those countries with the United States. This custom of filing protests against pending tariff measures is altogether a one-sided one, as relates to the United States and tho nations which have made these protests. Tariff laws come and go with other nations, and the United States pays not the slightest attention. A prospective system grows apace in Europe and elsewhere, and mch nations as France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Spain and others which arc now scolding about our proposed aew tariff, increase year by year or from period to period their protective tariff rates, but in all these cases the world over.the United States has never entered a protest of general character against anybody's tariff laws or pro posed tariff legislation. There have been occasions in which attention of fcieign governments has been called to certain of their laws or regulations which seemed to bear unjustly upon a single industry in the United States or to discriminate against productions f this country as compared with those of other countries, but there is ro case on record in which the govern ment of the United States ha offered any protest to a general tariff measure proposed by other countries which would bear with equal weight upon all nations sending their produce to the n arkets of these countries. That any nation should assume to offer a protest against a proposed law by another nation, which law is to bear with equal weight upon the produc tions of all nations, artieln bj- aijorie. reems rather absurd, but that these protests should come from nations which themselves have a high and steadily growing protective tariff adds very much to the interest, not to say the Importance, of such a proposition. It seems a little curious, for instance, to observe that Italy, which collects about five million dollars a year tariff on American petroleum, and equally high rates on many other articles, should be offering a protest, either officially or otherwise, against tariff legis'ation by the United States. Some people might suppose it a trifle inap propriate for Germany, which collects a tariff of $285.60 per hundred kilos on certain grades of clothing and 1,200 marks per hundred kilos on other ar ticles of a simi.'ar character, should be assuming to offer a protest against tariff measures of any other country. There might seem a slight impropriety in a protest from France, which places a duty of f 2S9 50 per hundred kilos on smoking tobacco and 3.G00 francs per hundred Kilos on cigars or cigarettes. So, also, there might appear reason for criticism upon a protest from Spain, which, in her tariff, places a trifling duty of 1,300 pesetas on every four seated coach or calash imported, and 975 pesetas oa each omnibus and dili gence. But there is a practical business side to this question of protests against our Trouble for John Ball. tariff, and especially as to the proba bility of any action following those protests. It is one thing to make a Muff while a measure of this character is under consideration, and quite an other to "call" the tariff and commer cial hand of such a nation as the United States, especially under the cir cumstances existing in our commercial relations with those countries which are reported "as hinting at retaliation in case their protests are not regarded. Among the countries which are report ed as offering objections, either offi cially, unofficially or in publie prints in reference to our new tariff are Ja pan, China, Austria-Hungary. Ger many, Fiance, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Ar gentine, Mexico and Canada, and pos sibly Brazil. Less than half this num ber have filed formal protests at the state department, but there has been Bundry grumblings and mutterings among the others, either in their leg islative bodies, in the individual utter ances of their representatives here and elsewhere, or in the public press. The practical business question with regard to these people and govern ments i whether they can afford to tas.e.any rea'iatory steps against tariff which makes no discrimination as between countries cr which does not discriminate against any one cf thjm Individually. If they wefd to attempt retaliation by advereg legislation which should cre'ude American prod t:cLs from their markets cr discrimi nate against our productions In any way it would be expected, and very popcrly, that the United States would return the compliaient by excluding or discriminating against the products of the country wn'c'a had taken such ac ticn. The practical business results of an oceurrc! C3 cf this kind would be that nearly eveiy one of the countries in question would suffer a greater loss ir the sale of her products than would the United States. Of the fifteen coun tries included in the above list thirteen sell more goods to the United States than they buy from us, and the total sales of the fifteen countries in ques tion to the United States are hundreds of millions of dellars greater than are our4 sales to them. The result would Ik that if they should undertake to ex clude our goods from their ports simi lar action on our part would cut off a much larger market for their pro ducer! than would their action affect the markets of our own producers. An attempt at retaliation by the countries in question, with possibly two excep tions wculd therefore be much more disadvantageous to them than to the United States. Hence the improbabil ity that the nations which are offer ing these protests have the slightest expectation that their action will be anything more than a mere bluff or be followed by any attempt at retaliation by tbem in case their protests are un heeded. A few examples of the commercial iclations existing between some of the natioss in question and the United Slates will be sufficient to thow that there is no probability that they arc going to endanger their own business and the markets for their own pro ducers by any steps which might pos sibly clcse the ports of the United States against their productions. la the statements which follow a ten years' period has been covered in showing the commercial relations be tween the United States and the coun tries, in question, in order to give a fair average showing of tho sales of those countries to people of the United States and the return sales of our products to these countries. Jt will be observed in the statements which fol low that in practically every case the countries now suggesting retaliation which would affect commercial rela tions have sold us very much more of their productions than we have sold to them, and therefore any action on their part disturbing or closing these relations would cut off a larger mar ket for themselves than they would de stroy for us. Japan has sold to us in the past de cade $212,790,200 worth of goods and bought from us $45,007,117 worth of our productions. China's sales to 113 in the past ten years are $1S9,24G.S49 and her pur chases from us ?54,219,710. Austria-Hungary's sales to us in the past ten years are $S3.301,4S1 and her purchases from us $10,993,224. The total sales to us of the fifteen countries which are reported as com plaining, formally or otherwise, of our tariff, have ben in the past ten years $1,843,943,523, while the purchases from us in the sane length of time have been only $3,059,220,782. Thus they have sold us in the past decade $1, 784,722.841 worth of goods in excess of what they have bought from us, or an average of $17S, 172,284 per annum. The following table shows our pur chases from and sales to each of the countries in question during the past decade: Imports Into U. Exports from S. (1886-96) U. S. (1S8G-'9G) from protest- to protest ing countries, ing countries. Gieece $ 10,184.600 $ 1.512.5S4 Turkey ... 46.978.714 1,762,337 Argentine . 57,903,788 57,235,505 Austria-H . S3.301.481 10,993,221 Switzer'd . 13S.919.678 2C2.482 China 1S9.246.849 54.219.710 Italy 207.592.143 143,397.604 Neth'lds .. 212,743,794 313,708,200 Japan 212.790,200 45,007,117 Mexico .... 230,772,832 13S.162.178 Canada ... 3S6.006.478 463,071,742 France .... G93.428.892 5S6,509,3S6 Brazil 733,723,990 120,677,691 Spain .... 753,660.426 290.335.33S Germany . 868,766,566 S32.455.664 Total ...$4,S43,943,523 $3,059,220,7S2 Including colonies. G. H. WILLIAMS. Ilulnrs Improvement. Information from manufacturers of agricultural implements shows a very marked improvement in business con ditions. The outlook for the farmers is better, and the manufacturing indus tries, which furnish improved machin ery for the farmer, are feeling the im petus. This is one very gratifying evi dence of growing good times. Others are appearing on every hand. Good times are coming, and coming as quick ly as they can come safely. Of course the political calamity howl ers will continue to talk, but the force of their complaint Is rtain to be broken ere long. The Republican par ty in power could not accomplish ev erything in three or four months, but the evidence accumulates that confi dence is returning, that times arc be coming better, and that business is beginning to move steadily upward to the broad plane of prosperity occupied by this country prior to the election of Grover Cleveland in November, 1892. Ohio State Journal. Should Slake Our Own. The United States are, of course, the best customer we have for our linens. Out of the 1895 export America took 126,672,400 yards, or considerably more than one-half of the total.and 41,930,700 yards more than she took in 1894, when her proportion was still more than one half of the whole. The bulk of the ship ments goes from Belfast, as the prin cipal center of the industry, but Barns ley, Dundee, and a few other centers contribute to the total. John S. Brown & Sons, Belfast, Ireland. The Deljr of Democracy. Every day's delay in the passage of the new tariff has been due to needless discussions on the part of Democratic senators The Fact ilS On fiMflsed Export- The ccld facts as to the cartse f tuc increase in exportatiens of luaau'iatf tured gosds fsom the United S-a'ej dur ing the existence of the bcoa law arc beginning to come to the surface. Evei Democratic papers are now admitting that this abnormal Increase In exporta tiotis is due to the fact that manufac turers Were either compelled to sell their goods abroad at any price they could get of close their establishments because of the business depression at home arid the fact that the home mar ket was filled with foreign manufac tures. The Memphis Scimitar (Demo cratic), discussing this subject, says: "There is every reason to attribute this rapid expansion of this part of our ex port trade during the last few years to the fact that the depression of the home market forced American manu facturers to seek other and foreign fields. The Boston "Journal" also pub lishes a letter from a prominent busi ness man of that city.who says: "There is not a shadow of doubt thaLthe. larg increase of exports has resulted from the ruinously low prices which have prevailed, caused by stagnation of busi ness and resultant poverty of the peo ple. This was brought about by the practical working of a tariff designed to favor free trade ideas." Vnclo Sam's IIcuvt Load. Tar I IT for Revenue Only. The Democratic party in 1S92 de clared in national convention for a "tariff for revenue only." In 1891 the Wilson-Gorman tariff became a law, founded on this Democratic precept. How this has operated can best be told by comparing the customs receipts of the Wilson law and the McKinley law for the first thirty-three months of both: Customs Keceipts Customs Receipts lirst 33 months Mc- first 33 months Wil Kinley Law. son Law. October ....$2I.!C1.11I Sopfber ....5 l.VW.OM Xov'ber ... iri.2.7.Ml October ll.ycj.HS December . lt;.10l,."33!Xovemlcr . 10,2i.'":J ISM lM.i'.l.XH December . 11.203.W3 12 1U1.737.936.IS:.-, ir,U.-.2.U27 1S93. IW, H.v2VJ January .. 21,102.47; 1SU7. February . li.93:.29j'Januarv ... 11.2TI.S7t March lit.tiCi.STTuK'ebruary .. ll.S7.2 April 1.VHS.K3S .March 22.S33.S.V5 May l.VI21.Srl April CI.tS4.312 June 14.90I.39I .May li;.SS-,012 Total ....?.r.33.7trv7l Total ....$H.VJft'.ll The decrease under the Wilson bill was only $87,862,219. Kalamazoo Tel egraph. Hard for the Clevclunditca. Democrats who have borne the bur den and heat of political battles since long before Mr. Bryan was born will find the following catechism, which was posted in a conspicuous place on the walls of Mr. Bryan's New York ho tel, during his recent visit there, pleas ing reading: Q. What is the standard of Democ racy? A. The Chicago platform. Q. Do all Democrats profess alle giance to that platform? A. Necessa rily. Q. Are there any other Democrats? A. No. Q. Are persons who repudiated that platform and voted against the candi date of the party entitled to member ship in, or recognition by, Democratic organizations? A. No. Q. What are such persons? A. Bolt ers and traitors. Q. Should they be tolerated in the party organization? A. No. Cotton Grower Protected. When the Dingley tariff bill reaches the white house, and when it receives the President's signature, it will em body a duty upon all foreign cotton imported into the United States. The south demands protection for cotton as well as for rice and sugar. When we state that our imports of cotton have increased from le?s than -1,000.-009 pounds in the 1SS7 fiscal year, up to 55,350,320 pounds in the lSS'I fiscal year, we believe that it will be con coded by all friends of protection that tlcre should be a check put to raw (otJon imports which nave increased at the annual rate of 138.400 bales (of 400 pounds each) within a decade. If foreign cotton is to be imported and take the place cf American CDtton, then let it pay a duty. A tariff of 20 per cent ad valorem upon the last fis cil year's imports would have added upwaid of $1,300,000 to the revnue. We need revenue, and southern cotton growers need protection. Krvrnne and Protection. Now is the time to icaugurate the policy of protection fo? our skipping in the foreign trade, to whlah the country gave its approval at the last election. There is neither wisdom nor patriotism in deferring the settlement of this matter until another time. The government needs revenue and our wage-earners need the opportunity to build our own ships. Intrrcfttinc Comparison. It will afford interesting reading to compare the recent tariff talk of Sena tor Vest, Senator Jones of Arkansas, and other Democratic statesmen, with their remarks in 1894 when they Toted against free trade schedules. Thank Goodae! We are another week nearer to the restoration of the policy of protection, and Its twin, prosperity. A FAMOUS MONY LENDER. Story or a Haa Who W CievlM Fame la Call'orala. In the passing of Asa Fisk drop put from California life an Individuality i so marked that It was proverbial in the community, says the San Francisco Chronicle. Asa Fisk -gave a name to methods in finance as Machiavelli gave a name to methods in politics. The common remark of those who knew him only by repute is " Cent per C.nt. Cent per Cent, the money lender is j dead." Zealous for his farthing Asa Fisk may have been, and in a grasping posture was he photographed in the opinion of hi3 fcliows generally, but in this lender's natnre was a kindly, even a generous phase, and there arc tears that he is dead. For Aa Fisk was a loving man to his own, a liberal parent and husband, and, in stealth, he made charitable gifts that might astonish those who were cilled upon to pay to the last dollar the debts they incurred When in strcs3. Indeed, in such contradiction were the aspects of thi3 man that one cannot bring them Into harmony uales3 he applies one lens to his business life and an other to his domestic life. Asa Fisk was one man to his debtors and an other man to his family. His character is to be read from his ancestry and the struggles of his early life. He was a farmer's boy in New England, born on Christmas day, ISIS, at the town of Holliston, Mats., and until 14 years of age he lived and worked on his father';? farm. Then he made his way to Bos- j ton, and for a wage of $3 a week worked in a grocery store. With thrif thaf showed higher development in hi& later years, Fisk bought board and lodging and cicthing from his meager compensation. Seeking advancement, he sought and obtained employment with the firm of Daniel Kimball & &. dealers in tailors' goods and supplier His imomc at first was $100 a year His industry and intelligence caused his salary In b? advanced and his res ponsibilities to he increased. He moved steadily forward and before he was ?.C years of age was a partner. Subse quently Fisk became the sole owner ol the business. His fortune developing ha turned to railroads and politics building the East Boston & Suffolk railroad and serving a term in the state senate of Massachusetts. In 1S5C he camt to California for his health That visit determined the location of his residence. Returning to Boston h sold out his business interests, and with a pile of ready maney. amount ing to about $75,000. he came, in 1S69. , to San Francisco to live. He started in business as a money lender, by his methods gained the notoriety thai gave an unpleasant attachment to 1i:f name. He announced the rate of inter est upon which he would lend money 3 per cent a month, or 3 per C3Rt v week, according to the applicant or Fisk's judgment of him, but always compounded. The applicant might take the money or leave it, as he chose, but usually he took It, for few went to Asa Fisk's dingy office on Montgomery street cjcpt in dire need. As a credi tor he was relentless. He rigorously fulfilled every engagement he made, and he cxpcc'cd every other man to do likewise. If a debt of $150 grew to $15,000 by the increment of compound interest he used every means known to the law to collect the last cent. Withal he loaned money to distressed applicants when none others would listen to their requests. A clerical coat on a borrower was always deemed sufficient "security for a loan of course, at the usual rate of interest and several young lawyers might have gone hungry if Asa Fisk had not re garded their pride as collateral for an advance. Asa Fisk gained a large for tune, amounting probably to about $500,000.- Most of his money was care fully invested in productive real es tate and all or nearly all of this real estate he transferred to his wife by deed. In the probate court the estate of Asa Fisk, decaased, will appear of small measure. A Forestry Policy. In the selection of these lands for forest reserves. President Cleveland Mas guided by tha recommendations of a committee appointed for the purpose by the National Academy of Sciences at the request of the secretary of the interior. This committee has recent ly made a detailed report, which the President has transmitted to congress, looking to the adoption of a definite forestry poliry. The committee rec ommends the establishment of a per manent bureau of publ'c forests, and the appointment of a beard to deter mine what lam's shall be set apart as forest reservations. It suggests that all public lands which are more valu able for timber than for agriculture or raining should he withdrawn from salf r.ml settlement; and it recommends that regular trcops be detailed to pro tect the public forests until a perma nent bureau is established. The Fret Iteerves. There has been a long contest be tween the two houses cf congress over an amendment which the senate add ed to the sundry civil appropriation bill to abrogate President Cleveland's orders of Feb. 22, establishing thirteen new forest reserves. The two reserva tions in California were excluded from the operation of the senate amendment, but as to the other eleven the amendment would have restored them all to the public domain for sale and Fettlement. The house wculd cot agree to this, and a compromise was reached, under which the orders were suspended until March 1, 189S. After that date such lands as arc not disposed of are to come under the or ders, or such modifications of them as the Perseidcnt may make. One Not Knnagh. The Minister "My good man, do you believe in a hereafter?" Shot well "A hereafter? Sh'Id shay I did. I'm married to a new woman. I b'leve in shevera! hereaffers." Cleveland Leader. 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