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ffim ■ wommit uatetde. % Thu average area of woodland of the United States is one per cent, of the whole. Owing to the cost of transportation of ootton seed often a million or two tons are no) hauled to market. The greatest trouble in the Korean war is likely to arise from a super¬ abundance of umpires, the Washing¬ ton Star predicts. The German Government has issued an edict that the names for new babies must be taken only from tbe Bible, and tbe roll of Princes and National heroes. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court haa confirmed the decree of the lower court that School Boards have tbe right to exclude from the public schools children who have not been vaccinated. W. T. Stead says that founding uni¬ versities was a favorite pastime of American millionsires, and Goldwin Smith replies that such a pastime is not easily to be distinguished from public spirit and munificence. On account of the income tax in Germany the waiter employed at the resorts has to keep book of the amount of tips taken in by him. Not only hie salary, but his doaoers, too, mast be accounted for to the commissioners. Until some forty years ago it was customary among the Japanese to vao cinate on the tip of the nose. This rendered a written certificate a super¬ fluity. The proof of vaccination was always in evidence, though whether the praotioe enhanood facial beauty is questionable. Ib Switzerland and on the Rhine kite recent adoption of standard Cen krai Swope time has seriously af facted the reoeipta of the gas com¬ panies. The time ranges from half an how to nearly an hour earlier than tha local time, and the people bare inunodated their habits to the change in the clocks. If miners can be enabled to live three hours after the damp strikes working plaoes, predict* Every¬ the renown of Sir Humphry will be eclipsed. An English* whose name will become familiar he is right, olsims to have oon* e steel oese which, with oom mid oxygen Mid s respirator, will The introduction of the trolley cars Philadelphia, wbioh provide not a means of transportation but an 1 eajoyabls ride, has given to “trolley ear parties,” states New York Advertiser. The Tenth Eleven th street eompeny, in has arranged ao that a eaa ha ehartered for a round trip •$, and all the passengers that can toeommodetod ere allowed to vide. stops are made and the ears go along at a delightful pace. lag upon the faot that > an American lady, has ten doctor of sciences n correspondent ia ___ that her oommends ! to all who question woman'* fit¬ ter scientific research. Among via people there is go such qu t But there is a very serious i to to whether it would be e ing for the human race for any of women to de throe to purely nervous ork, that is, which must tea* Hite, who has just re hem the exploration of Lahra - t “There ia ao population of the few fisher* but in a an fifty men. An I ■ X' 4 MAN'S HBR1TAOX Ms teyacr heritage, children of light, The goodliest heritage under the son i Courage to stand in the thick ot tbe fight, The grave to give shelter, life’s battle won. This is your Skrftage, children of God, The holiest heritage, gift of the sab! ; Faith lo uplift from the clutch ot the clod, Love to infold and make perfectly whole. —William Hale, ta the Independent. * THE SHASTA LILY. BY BTTIB B. THOMPSON. Tvrr TNE3, , tall and state ly, repeated in thrilling tones the strange rhythmic lore revealed to them by breezes —?. from land and sea afar. Cottonwoods bent gracefully to view their fair re flections in placid pools by the Sacra mento’sedge. Birds, in their green shelter, twittered their joyous rnatiDB. Bee* hummed about the wild azaleas whose sweetness drifted out through highway and byway mingling with the pungent scent of pine and fir. In the distance rose Shasta, pure, majestic, glorious in the morning light. The Castle Peaks thrust sharp, gray crags upwards again.*t the serene blue of the sky. .Just visible through leafy vistas tbq gables of the “Tavern bore suffi dent evidence of hospitable habita tion. Numbers of the guests had enrolled down to the station to greet thefQMnijg passengers, The train proved to be late, ami nothing loth, we had chosen to await its arrival; so loitering on the bridge, leaning over the rail to watch tbe glistening fish as they darted in spot* of silver along the swift waters or lounging on pile* of sweet-smelling lumber, one and all found the sun tbme a«4|yagrttnce for happy indolence. aud beauty ample excuse Wbik watching the rows of curious faces at the car windows, a complain ing voice nearby recalled my stray- J ing attention “There are the Blanks 1 Ob, why couldn’t they stay at home? There isn’t a girl at the Tavern, not even the very prettiest one, who can shine with the least little glimmer when Mrs. Blank is in sight," and with a pathetic sigh, a very attractive girl hastened off to condole with her fellow •aflerers be‘sure, To there was Mrs. Blank, and as I looked I felt that I had neve, before fully realized her loveliness, She seemed to have gained a ne* charm ;.only an expression, puz^ed perhaps, bat whatever the cause, it me. Walking slowly up through the pin. grove, she now and then passed a caressing hand across the rough tranks which lined the path, an while others hastened to the hotel ah. lingered along the way a. if the pirn carpet were a inxury U> her feet. Once she paused for a glimpse o the Castle Peaks, and a. she gazed a, the great crags and domes a wonder ful light came into her face, and, turning, she looked full into the eve. ofjher husband, who had been eagerly noting every change in her conn tenance loves “It is inspiration,” mountains, and I said. “She the the pines, and-her husband. ” As 1 sat on the west veranda that srsnjrssrFszsrs Casti rock. they sharply a. rose above tbe dark pines which seemed atming with ever hopeless emleavoi to xeaoh the summit, the Blank. **4iow nassed near me glad 1 am to breathe the old that she waa the one fair and gracion being for him in all the world. Just then one of a group of men called to him: “Wo wdht to climb the peeks to-morrow. You know the trail. Will with us?” * you afaall go “Certainly; I enjoy tbe trip;” but a gentle lJlk pressure on bis arm caused him fo down into a rerv white face and eyas which showed ab}e«i terror. With a sudden exclamation he said, turuimz irtio to tbe men. l4 Oo eec ond ctmemTlTm thought*, 1 must beg you to ex «irry. but I can give won 7 all neceesarT direotiona” That evening, afters stroll up the logging road, we gathered For awhile on our fa Torile veranda wo were client, absorbed in the moon-traced beauty of the night The great crags vere tipped with broad innumerable band softest silver epirea light and stretched a the of meadow. was serosa below. No breese stirred the firagraat air. Only the murmurs of the stream "Si •aid: “Now iid°Oaitie ^n« is the twt tim tu&gto d? r piu, 5hT! #• an woaderiul to-uight, M >’• lew. Erf^sTS^bri^ of • ***T - "t ■ »*• nsjz. All iowoomer* heard at once of Mary Dean. The stage driver him* self condescended with a pompons proprietary flourish of hi* whip to point ont to bis passengers the hnmble roof which sheltered her, and would expatiate garrulously concerning her loveliness. Her parents proudly ac cepted the fact that she was tbe belle of several counties and added their share to the universal admiration. * From a certain charming pose of har pretty head and slender, graceful throat some one of her more imagina tive admirers had suggested a like ness to the exquisite Shasta Hlv, and from that moment the appellation had c lnng persistentiv to this fair o{ go fai * a flower. On tbe December night of mv storv a ball was iiyprogress at the old stage Nation which then stood on the very sde now occupied by the tavern, From tbe w i ndowg and doors lights Bbone out upbn tbe gombre back gronnd 0 f pi ue a. Strains of the <<fi dd i e >» mingled with sounds of gay volceg and restless feet. Above all, keeping time with the music, rose the 8 hrill calls: “For’d gents,” “Swing yer par dners,” followed by the serane, gcrape SC rape of the advancing and reC eding roughly-clad feet. a motley crowd there as ^njhled. Red shirts, blue shirts and << b >ji ed shirts” were on a plane of e q Ua iitv. The fun and excitement increased, an< i the scraping of heavy boots grew into a scuffle as each dancer made an effort to eclipse his neighbor in the «< gw j n g > »» The fiddler marked time w jth head and feet, participating vig oronsly in the reigning enjoyment. Mary Dean was, as usual, the chief ^traction. Tall, fair and graceful, she wag pre-eminent among her compan } ong , . ... added flourish and a ak of tbe fld dle, the danc J,”* • j \f. Thef£3ofKfrom rv move l toward the r ithj tb m fliamined her slight dehcat ^ ? ao f the likeness to the graceful hlv -*nd creating a picture to charm even the most indifferent. Not so to be classed however, were two young men * ho ’ h 7 tbe dark D f“« bad b8en watch,ng the merry s dancers, rhey gazed steadxaatlv at this lovely g»rl a n<l then turned fierce eyes upon *»° h ?*)»"• Evidently no neighborly ^lendshjp existed between them. Not f word was spoken, but volumes might reA< * m sefc “P 8 ftDl * lowering bro W8 ‘ A* though impelled by one f ttt,m t / bt the - v 8 te PP ed ^^uttaneously toward the window , where Mary leaned P« a «vely against the Irarne. *»“• troab ?f d th ^ a « ht fetlrred be r traa ‘l u,1 ««U“tenanees as, with h * *1” ’ 8ba V«eeived their approach ° Qe of .i h ?, ? °* ag m f“ w “ 8 w « 1 . , with “city 4 plainly , . discernible r m «‘‘ s * yle ° P ot The °taer, thouzh not . careless , in at „ *}"’ ^ ere the customary rongn garo ° f tho #turdy , mmor8 of thls Jl I . . bra and hl8 ." maDaers were ^ a6 took oa eTeQ a 8twaer accant ,!\„ nsQa „'. “Mary," he said . , aburptly, , ., “words ,, , ar8U8ele f 8 - Yon ka °\ and / ou hav * P ro f‘ M(i *° «• to-night. We wiU bear trifling no longer." This wooing was like himself, bluff and straightforward, but probably oot M wortby m .* “ aidea 8 °P 1 ?‘ 0U Teh8 eat Protestations . of de M “ ore “ demand, with ^ «• ‘ter*! serene eyes ook f d upward to tne sharp crags out l>ued against thestarsetssy Then she gazed intently at the face eaob ^ OTer < but still her thoughts S? Inea ‘ ‘ Yea, I _ will give . my answer. Some where near the end of the trail, at the summit of the peaks, you will find a gloves like this, I left them there last week. He who will first plecoone^of them in my h-nd may me -" . Like e thunderbolt fell this decision a P° a of the listeners. The lee* vai • trifle to accompiith, bat ooald it be possible for love cered to dictate each If she for either, “I 8“ l ** wilUn « 1#a v« her fate .abject to such doubtful order mg? Heavy powerful hearts and were winsome. theirs, Mary but love waa Bean was the prise. Without e word or gUnce Uw two men vanished into the eight, and Muf turned with a «*»»• W “J‘ significant of relief, re¬ °f g»tified vanity? I® thmk of ^Ung homeward, they discovered, to their dmmay, that el ?® d * ^ gathered over the pur-d So®* the storm was oa tkeaa im ia ter* ”wnSSJtorrents of rain, o tew s pt by the fury of the •oed to wrest the very from (Bant trees were hurled from the mighty eraga. the of the i wSTthe assess mfcMLedoae * With • taeeng ■wms e« * great log, rolling and plunging as it ws* borne down by the funoru stream, mendons a track force, the wrenching bridge it ^with from tre- its supports, remained, held by Yet still it some obstruction which surely could not withstand the slightest added strain, At that moment Mary’s eager eyes es* pied" a dark figure on the opposite bank slowly battling away toward the bridge-crossing. Some instinct caused her to glanee backward, and there, close at hand, washer other lover, with a triumphant suule, waving a flimsy glove as a symbol of his victory. In a few seconds that glove would be in her hand and she must abide by her promise. Then it was when love asserted control. Doubts disappeared, Was there no escape? Ob. if she were only on the other bank! But the bridge—ah! she can reach it she will! and with a bound she sprang to tne log, then fo the bridge. The spec tutors were horror-stricken as they saw the slight figure of the girl in that perilous position in midstream, on that swaying bridge, and scarcely able to withstand the violence of the ^lorm. dared Not one of all those brave men to venture to her rescue, for anv added weight upon those unstable timbers meant new peril for the girl whose life was so precious to them. Their com mands to retrace her steps were nn heeded. Yonder another log came sweeping onward, propelled by the united forces of wind and stream, There was no hope for Mary Dean un less she reached the opposite bank be fore the log could strike tbe bridge. With suspended breath they watched her progress. She neared the end. Their hearts seemed to cease beating as the log turned in the rapid stream, and with a terrible crash the bridge at last gave way. Bat Mary Dean was 8afe - She haci K a » ne( ] tne land, and after the first foment of silent thanksgiving cheer on cheer rang above the storm as Mary was clasped in the arms of her chosen lover. He had brought the second glove and thus provedliis allegiance, glistened Many a tear of sympathy in the eyes of those, strong men, for the mountain wooer had won their dar¬ ling, and they had little pity for the city man who bad sought tbe prize. Stella’s voice ceases, and a spell seemed to rest upon us as we gazed at the Crags, so calmly beautiful in the transforming radiance of the peaceful moon. “Wasn’t that a gloriously brave act?” murmured the heiress, “and all for love. ” “Yes,” added Stella, “it was grand. The story was related to me two years ago while I was staying at the old log house. * It impressed me so strongly that I have evei since had an intense longing to see the original. I would go far to see such a real heroine os that.” f “I wonder what I should have done had I been in her plaoe,”said frivolous Nell. “I think it was wicked in ber to send them off as she did. Yes, absolutely wicked.” “Oh, not wioked>" cried a passion¬ ate voice, “I entreat you; only thoughtless,” and we all turned to¬ ward Mrs. Blank, who had risen, and with flashing eyes, >n which the tears still shown, confronted our astonished faoes. One hand was outstretched as if pleading for leniency of judgment toward our heroine. Then, as some sudden consciousness overcame her impulse, she added, “i beg yoar par¬ don, but I was much affected by vonr anecdote,” and with a low “good night,” she left ns. The next evening at sunset we went down the road for a view of glorified Shasta. The warm air, balmy with aroma of pine and aweetness of wild blooms, the hum and buzz of insects, and the incessant murmur of the Sacramento, ell lulled ms into day dreams. I could see the graceful figure of the slender mountain maid as she passed amid her native forests surrounded by all this wealth of nature. - I could hear the rambling of wheels and the snap of the flourishing whip announced the approach of the stage as it dashed down this very road only tp disappear m a cloud of dust. X -Could hear the words of the driver— but no. Whose voice was it thns sud¬ denly recalling me to consciousness of my surroundings ? Wc have reached the river aud there, near the rains of an old bridge, stood the B lan k s. It was the husband’s voice that had intruded upon my reverie. And the wife replied: “When I come here I live over again all the suspense and dread of those terrible hours I thought I bad over* come sueh weakness, but when you promised yesterday to go op tae cliff* it was more than 1 ooald bear, and yet I am ever grateful tor the test which taoght me to read my own heart ^ aember the fearless .Wr heart that led my &*j™}** prompted her to brave -dad then I realised that this brilliant, cultured, altogether abNh -ng other than the dearly beloved “Shasta Idly.” “Ah! look at Shasta,” be said. • me __With tenJr im '* tew| ** * Ft i re m % wed. A FEW FAIR QUESTIONS. LET PB0TECTI0NIST3 AN¬ SWER THEM IF THEY CAN. They Are Queries That Republican Kditors Always Kvade In Their Columus. and Republican Orators Invariably Dodge on the Platform, The followingquestious, prepared by D. Webster Groh, are printed in the St Louis Conner. They are plain, sim pie, fair and honest questions, yet they will not permit of rational an swers consistent with the protective theory: article, 1. Can tariff cheapen an yet simultaneously raise its producer’s wages? protectionists 2. Would shrewd (like Carnegie) de-ire a sell—goods— tariff if it cheapened what they buy— and made dearer what they labor? 3. Can we protect laborers by mak ing dear (through tariffs) what they buy — goods—and admitting free (through unrestricted immigration) what they sell—labor? 4. If a tariff on products cheapens them, ought it be put on (and cheapen) wieat and other farm products, which form the bulk of our exports? Why cheapen for foreigners that with which we principally pay them? 5. But if the McKinley tariff in¬ creased prices, did it not thereby necessitate a larger volume of money to handle the same products and cor responding!?, , increase . __ the —ji financial . , 8 f Dc IlC ^V e 6. If T« a tariff -a- on articles t- i cheapens u them, ought it not be put lightest on finished proc.ncts and heaviest on th4 raw material (to cheapen it), and thus widen our manufacturers’ margin of profit? Why did the McKinley tariff invert this order? 7. If the tariff is no tax, why refund to exporting manufacturers ninety per cent, of the duty on their imported raw material? Why do so if the for eigner pays it? 8. Unless protective tariff enhances domestic prices, why give sugar pro ducers a bounty in lieu of the removed sugar tariff? 9. Why more laboriously make tin plate itself instead of its cheaper ex changeable desirable than equivalent? its fruits—labor If toilis more pro¬ ducts—why not destroy all labor sav¬ ing tools and machinery? 10. Aside from gifts or plunder, can anything but production or trading lesser labor products for greater ones enrich either an individual, a com mumty or a nation? 11. As trade is mutually beneficial, why (by tariff ) debar men from mu¬ tually increasing wealth and happi ness by trade ? 12. As foreigners expect pay involv ing American labor cost, can imports displace American labor? If they will accept pay involving no labor cost to us* why not trade them as mnoh of this inexpensive, delusive nothingness as wo cau for their substantial goods? 13. If protective tariff is good, would not prohibitive tariff be better still? 14. If international trade is im¬ poverishing, is not interstate trade equally hurtful? 15. Can foreign trade be injurious, yet shipping subsides desirable? 16. Why, with gunboats, blockade onr enemies’ ports to injure them and with tariffs blockade our owuto benefit ourselves? 17. Can “trusts” be injurious, yet the tariff fostering them beneficent? 18. Why are free-trade England’s average wagee higher than- those of protected all Germany, Italy, Rassia and other protected Enropean nations? Where age of oountry, form of gov¬ ernment, density ofpopulation, stand ing armies, exhausted public domain, and all else save tariff are similar, does not free trade give the most fac tories, trade. Wages and general prosperity and protection the least? 19. Why do avowed protectionist editors evade restating and answering such important questions in their own columns, and protectionist orators fail to attempt their elucidation? Smiting the Farmer. “And Joab aaid to A mass, Art thou hand to kiss him. But Amaaa took no u * 0 fl, h t 8W ° r i r’k, w “ l “ ° a ' der the fifth rib. Bible. Joab McKinley is just nonr full ox tender solicitude for the health of his fri ^ n ’ American farmer, , tbe latter an ', 8 18 lng e ? r * with fine stones of what he m to ao tor him. He proposes to put duties UP ^^ ° aad W ?L. h * ?T ” °n t ^-“ i0 \, h ° I * But the honest farmer who has been RU ^ ed ’ n th,s ,Mh beto*. is not reudy to be , thrust under *5* his fifth m, f^“tti^r!^?tori^v^iLoI his -ffist (likewise H-). «P~ <m ta-da, „„ free), on hi. carpets, felt all aorta, tin tin * £ sxpsstjd r he. nr ji by rs | twe ««** A " Some Facts tor Sr. Harrison. Mr. Cleveland’s Administration which preceded Mr. Harrison’s, left him a surplus of $103,000,000. i n the first year of his own Administra¬ tion the but pins was reduced to $2 - 342,000. Asrainst this was a charge of about $40,000,000 for the sinking fund, besides other unpaid obliga tions. At the end of his term there was an impending deficiency. When Mr. Cleveland’s term came to an end the net gold in the Treasury was $172,000,000; at the end of Mr. Harrison’s it was $103,000,000. Be¬ sides this, Treasury notes to a large amount had been issued under the Sherman law which Mr. Harrison signed. These were also a charge on the gold in the Treasury, and so threatened the Nation’s finances as to cause the panic of 1893 and demand a special session of Congress for the repeal of the law. By the operation of the McKinley act, which a Republican Congress passed and Mr. Harrison signed, the receipts of tbe Government for the fiscal year 1893 feli short of the ex¬ penditures by $72,000,000. Mr. Harrison attempts to explain the dissipation of the snrplns by say¬ ing that bis Administration' nsed the excessive revenues in paying the pub¬ lic debt. In Mr. Cleveland’s term bonds were redeemed to the amount of $182,000,000; in Mr. Harrison’s term the redemptions amounted to $147,000,000. In Mr. Cleveland’s term the public debt decreased $236, 000,000; in Mr. Harrison’s only $43,000,000. If Mr. Harrison can explain F how ^ fi(?nre8 and {&cU ^ c ompatible with the statement that a Republican f AdmiD , gtrfttion is better for the coantry tfaan Democratic Adminis . tration he will Bhow himself to be a stateman of wonderful powers and re¬ sources.—New York World. A Lively Democrat. Mr. John K. Go wen is the success ful Democratic candidate for Congress in the Fourth District of Maryland. He is a sterling Democrat and an ardent tariff reformer. He made a vigorous and almost unique campaign, and bis good-natured but powerful attacks on protection drew crowds to hear him. He defined words and terms that there might be no tnis understanding. After analyzing “pro¬ tection” this is the way he attacked it: “What is protection? It is tbe use of the cnetom-honse—I use the term custom-house instead of tax—it is the use of the cusiom-house to obstruct trade so'as to let some other fallow— that the people who are thus using the custom-house think ought to have the opportunity—tax you for his benefit. The theory is, if you will just let him tax you long enough he will start a good business; he will give employment to labor and make it happy all around. “As an individual, I am frank enough to say, if the Government were to say to me: *Yon just take twenty-five cents a ton on coal that is mined up in the Allegheny region or in the United States, make those fel lows pay tweDty-five cents a ton and pot it in your pocket,’ I don’t say I would not take it. But would not they be great fools if the 65,000,000 people of the United States were to stand by and see me do that thing? “The theory would be that I, of course, kind-hearted and philanthropic gentleman that I am, would spend my money that I thus got, you know, not as Mr. Carnegie does in going through Europe with a coach and four, not as some other gentlemen do, bnt I would lavish it around among the boys and we would have a good time generally, That ia the theory of protection.” Free Agricultural Implements. Dnring the debate in Congress on the Wilson bill, when it was proposed that agricultural machine implement* should be pot on the free list, leading Republican journals made a great out cry, saying that the removal of the duties would cause the importation of agricultural machinery from Canada, “flood” the American market with the products of Canadian factories, and bring tbe domestic manufacturers to ruin The new tariff does pat on the free lint plows, harrows, harvester*, reapers, drills, planters, mowers, a coa atry which imposes duties on similar goods from the United States. Bat no " the Canadian manufacturer, want to move into this country. The Mamey-Hams Company, a web-known iiinery Toronto agricultural mac at and Brantford, announces its determination to booaxje set up . fjM5torj ia the United State* it iu buai . »•»" » satisfied that tto condi tions affecting the manufacture of such nonary axe mnoh more favorable bero than in Canada. The chief of flcer of the company in his published exnlanation asserted that “ d *ia—«***• to take this atop. Es- imuorSfiSTSoTSkm onJln IJES ^ fo to “7