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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-09

and noticed a queerly shaped bag lying
upon the table. He went nearer to IN
vestigate, and found bag of lovely
fresh biscuit-at least two pounds!
Here was treasure indeed.
.Aha!r cried Mr.. Rat, smacking his
lips, II shall not go down to the kitch-
en- for supper tonight"
He reflected upon what he had bet
ter do. He could not carry the whole
bag up stairs. If he took the biscuits
up one ut time, he would not be able
to secure all of them before he was dis
covered Must he lose this feast, and
be content with the two or three he
could eat before morning?
He looked about tho room, and his
eyes fell upon the open CRATE, bare and
fireless. 1t was only used in the cold
est weather.
Just the thing" said the wise rat
With biscuit in his mouth he ran up
the fue, and found there a splendid
hiding place. The chimney was filled
with a bag of straw, and behind it he
secreted the biscuits, making many
journeys, aud leaving only enough in
the bag to provide a hearty supper for
the young rats after his exertions.
The next morning there was a great
cutlery among the children. Some one
had eaten the sweet biscuits! The bag
was empty!
"Micew declared Aubrey.
| NNnpsanSap' o,.io1 ,n,ca ttNp tpouca
| mo, nor ten mice-could cat all these
biscuits in one night"
But nobody solved the riddle. Tine
rat family lived high for week, and
Mr.. Rat grew fat from finding contin-
ual suppers at such short range.
At the end the week there came a
big snow-storm, and then hard frost.
The house was very cold. Mamma de-
creed extra fires, and Nancy came up
stairs to build fire in the sitting-room
CRATE.
Don't forget the straw bag, Nancy"
said nurse Its put into the chimney
to keep out the wind, but you must
take it down before you start the fire. "
Nancy put her arm up the chimney
to pull down the straw bag. One end
seemed quite loose, but the other was
wedged in tight. She gave hard tug,
and the bag came away so suddenly
that she tumbled over backward.
my goodness" cried Nancy.
l For after the straw bag followed a
shower of SCOT, and then shower OF
curiously shaped objects, which had
once been white, but had grown gray
and then black in their hiding place.
But the parties feasting upon them had
never hesitated on that account.
When she had examined them, Nancy
called nurse, who was duly surprised
and then she called the children, who
added ''Ohsv' and "Ahs!' to suit suit
the occasion.
''It's them lost biscuits, to be surep
pronounced nurse. "And it's that ole
garnet rat that's done 1.-THE wretch!
hear him come thinkin' down then
garnet steps every night"
Presently the fire blazed and roaret
up the chimney, and threw flashes o
light into the farthest corners. Tha
night when the old garnet rat cam,
aQMA.z1pd saw it, his heart sank dow
into his toes. He knew he would hav,
to go all the way down to the kitchen
again to find a supper. His royal tim
was over,-Eva L. Carson, in Harper
Young People.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-09
A REDUCTION OF THE TARIFF.

~Reformer" Mills Gives His Opinion as to
Its Enect--it would Increase Imports to
an Enormots Extent without any Cor
responding Increase In Exports he Re-
suit Would BE a General Reduction of
Wages and Hard Times.
That great free trade 'reformer," Mr..
Roger q. Mills, of Texas, speaking of
the issues of the day in recent inter
view, was asked his opinion as to the
effect of reduction of the tariff. In
answer, Mr.. Mills said
A reduction OF the tariff to 25 per cent above
revenue basis would increase our imports
s3OO,0 900, and that amount of exports would
have TO go out to pay for the imports.
This estimate of the effect of tariff
reduction, coming from a man of Mr
Mills prominence as ''reformer," may
be accepted as fairly accurate one.
We shall, therefore, assume his figures
TO be correct. That reduction of the
tariff would result in large increase
in the amount of our importations is
self-evident. According to Mr.. Mills
this increase would be about $500, 900, 900
year. Now, what does this mean?
Why, simply that if we consume $780,
O0O 900 worth more of imported articles
per year, we will consume $500, 900, 600
worth less of our own manufactured
articles. In other words. our
home manufactures would be de-
creased by that amount The suf-
hot foil &c
almost incalculable. All the work
ingmen that are at present engaged in
producing these $500, 900, 900 worth of
manufactured articles would be thrown
out of employment, and being drug
on the labor market wages would fall
throughout the whole country. This
would mean diminished purchasing
power on the part of the laboring popu-
lation, resulting smaller demand for
the goods of producers of every class,
and consequent industrial stagnation
and hard times.
But" says Mr.. Mills, voicing the
same old free trade theory this would
not be so" for 'that amount of exports
would have to go out to pay for the i'm
ports" Is this so? Time and time
again we have shown that the amount
of exports has no connection at all with
the amount of imports The following
table of our exports and imports since
1880 proves that an increase in exports
does not necessitate a corresponding in
crease in imports, but that often an in.
crease in exports is accompanied by a
decrease in imnOrts.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-09
WAIT FOR NO ONE.
With the Capital Supplied Us by God We
should All succeed.

With the Capital Supplied Us by God We
Should All succeed.
If young man starts from good,
honest, industrious mother, he gradu-
ates from university better than that
of Berlin or Edinburgh, with diploma
in each hand. Every sound man starts
life with capital of at least one hun
bred thousand dollars--I say every
man. You tell me to prove it, l will
prove it. Your right arm-will you
take five thousand dollars and have it
cut off? mo" you say. Then GER
tainly it is worth five thousand dollars,
and your left arm is worth as much,
and your right foot as much, and your
left foot as much. Twenty thousand
dollars of capital to start with.
Your mind-for how much would
you go up and spend your life in Bloom
ingdale asylum? Twenty thousand dol
lars for your intellect. You would re-
fuse it. 1t is worth that, anyhow; forty
thousand dollars of equipment. Then
you have an immortal soul; for how
much would you sell it? For sixty
thousand dollars? mo" you say, with
indignation. Then certainly it is worth
that much. And there are your one
hundred thousand dollars, the magnifi-
cent outfit with which the Lord started
every one of you. And yet there are
young men who are waiting for Others
to come and make them; waiting for
institutions to make them; waiting for
circumstances to make them. Fool! &c
and make ourself.-Talmage, in N. Y.
| OhSaruar
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-09
"PIGGiES' RACE"
What Happened When Ida and Jennie Dis
obeyed Their Papa.

What Happened when Ida and Jennie Dis
obeyed Their Papa.
Ida and Jennie were two little girls
who lived near the city. The electric
cars passed by their home, and they
often rode in them.
The little girls papa was farmer,
and Ida and Jennie used to think it lots
of fun to go to the big barn and feed
the horses, cows and pigs. In the back
part of the barn there was pen of ten
little pigs about three months old.
One day, when their papa had gone
to Boston, Ida and Jennie ran out to
the barn and opened the door of the
piggies' pen.
Oh! what squealing and jumping
about those little pigs had.
The girls thought it was great fun.
But when they tried to get the pigs
back into their pen, the piggies would
not go. Then Ida and Jennie began to
cry. They knew that their papa would
be angry, for he told them never to
open the door of the pig-pen.
All at. once the pigs ran out of the
barn into the road as fast as their legs
could carry them. An electric car was
coming up the street and the pigs were
frolicking on the track in front of it.
They will get killed. cried Ida.
"What shall we do?" said little Jen-
ME.
And then the little girls stopped cry
| ing and began to laugh. For there, in
front of them was the funniest sight
| they had ever seen.
The pigs had formed in a line, in
double file, in front of the car, and
were running ahead of it. Such antics
as those pigs cut up. Everybody in
the car was laughing.
Ida says she thinks the pigs were
playing horse" and thought that they
were drawing the car
BY and by the conductor of the cal
tired of the fun. So he rang the bell
and the car stopped. Then he and the
driver helped the little girls to get the
pigs back in their pen.
Ida and Jennie thanked the kind
| hearted carmen for helping them, anC
the car started on its way again.
When their papa came home thai
night they told him all about it. HI
did not scold, and laughed very mucf
at what he called the ''piggies' race
But Ida and Jennie never disobeyeo
again, and the pigs did not get another
chance to play horse with an electri,
car.-Prince Tannatt Woods, in Ou
| I;ttla Onas
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-09
Facts That Are Golden.

When you are rejoicing in the Lord
the devil is afraid of you.
When you are earnestly seeking light
from God you will be sure to find it.
When you go away from home re-
member that God is everywhere.
When you neglect to get strength
from God the devil will overcome you.
When you become impatient you are
in danger of becoming rebellions.
When you do not do all that God tells
YOU to do you will find your load very
heavy.
When you are willing and obedient
you can be happy anywhere.
When YOU are helping those who need
help youarc doing the very thing Christ
wants you to do.-Ram's Horn.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-09
FOR SUNDAY READING.
TO HIM THAT OvERCOMETH.


Now all is over; we have laid
Our dead friend in his quiet bed;
Octoberis leaves, that flush and fade,
Fall in their dying DER the dead.
Above the freshly cover'd mound
The autumn sky in silence weeps,
And clinging mists encurtain round
The place where his worn body sleeps
Now all Is over; yet we frame
Our secret thoughts about him still,
And in our prayers his well-loved name
Glides in without our conscious will
Our wistful eyes where'er they roam
Find traces of his presence yet;
The empty room, the silent home,
Can speak, and bid us not forget.
In hushd remembrance, not in grief,
We think upon our friend at rest
Expected as the great relief,
Death was TO him welcome guest.
The roughend way the weary strife,
Forced from his lips bitter cry,
And loosen'd all his hold on life
Before he laid him down to die.
A preacher of the heavenly truth
In this discordant jarring time,
The fire and passion of his youth,
The strength and vigor of his prime,
His hope and health, his day and night
His time, his toll, himself he gave,
To change mems darkness into light,
To help and cheer, to bless and save.
Strange seemd the hidden ways of God,
When, toiling soon and watching late,
An anxious way his servant trod,
l. L
Twas his to cherish brightest hope,
And see that hope grow slowly pale;
Twas his with mighty foes to cope,
To work. to fight, and then to fail.
For this we praise him, that through days
OF doubt, distrust, suspicion, wrong,
In patient faith, with heavenly gaze,
He labord steadfast, calm and strong;
Unmoved by failure or Distress
By haunting foe or tickle friend,
Uncheerd by promise of success,
He pray'd and trusted to the end.
That end has come; he knows the rest;
The sure repose, the great reward
The blessedness of servants blest,
Beloved and honor'd by their Lord;
And his that crown of glowing light
Kept for the man who must prevail.
Who does not only dare to fight,
But for his Master dares to fail.
Leisure Hour
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-09
CHOICE EXTRACTS.

Spiritual dyspepsia is great deal
harder to cure than the other kind
Rams Horn.
Perfect peace must have the infinite
and the Interchangeable as its basis. This
is found only in God. United Presby-
terrain.
There are those whose one mission
in the world seems to be fault-fnding
They spend their days in hunting for
something to chew up; goats browsing
on morning glories. -Talmage, in N. Y.
Observer.
Some of us have fits of goodness,
which begin and end abruptly, and even
though in the intervals the life be no.
bad, it is less good, it is on a lowes'
plane, and mars the symmetry of the
character.-Christian Union.
What mere dwarfs are we h, the
ways of God, swimming upon the SUR
face of religion, when It is our priv
ilege to sink into all the depths of hum
BILE love, and rise into all the life OF
God. all the heights of Christian conf
dence.-Lady Maxwell
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-09
Roth sides of the Line.

The positiveness of negative sin is
commonly overlooked Many congrat-
ulate themselves that they have not
been positive transgressors. Confess
ing that some things have not been
done which should have been done,
they shield themselves under the
thought that they have not done any
wrong, but simply failed to do what
would have been right. But sin lies
on both sides of the line of right We
sin as truly and as positively when we
fail to do our duty, as when we do
what we know is wrong. Not to warn
the man in danger, not to help the poor
and needy, not to render unto God that
which is His due, not to love Him who
first loved us, is positive sin. The con-
domination of the world is that it does
not believe on the name of the Son OF
God. United Presbyterian.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-09
Garfield on Patri otism.

For the present the world is divided
into separate nationalities, and that
divine command still applies: "He that
prc,ideth not for his own household
hs,s denied the faith and is worse than
al infidel." And till that era arrives
described by the gentleman from Vir-
ginia, patriotism must supply the place
of universal brotherhood. For the pres
ent Gortschakoff can do more good for
the world by taking care of Russia.
The great Bismarck can accomplish
more for his era by, being, as he is, a
German to the core and promoting the
welfare of the German empire Let
Beaco nsfeld take care of England and
Mcmahon take care of France, and let
Americans devote themselves to the
welfare OF America When each does
his part for his own nation to promote
prosperity, justice and peace, all will
have DINE more for the world than if
all had attempted to DC cosmopolitans
rather than patriots.-James A. Gar
field.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-09
What Mamie Was.

Mamie and Rose are sisters, and with
their parents they attend a Congrega-
tionalist church called the Pilgrim
church. Once, when they were visit
ing some friends in distant city, a
lady asked the children what religious
denomination they belonged.
I'VE are Congregationalists," an.
swered Rose.
Why, Rose Tyler, we are notr cried
Mamie, in establishment.
III am" replied Rose, smiling.
well. ann not" said Mamie. II
am Pilgsim!'-Youth's Companion.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-09
A DISAPPOINTMENT.
What Became of the Old Garrett Rats
Good supper.


Good supper.
There was once an old rat who lived
in garnet. He had begun life there,
and having now Il large family, he
found it inconvenient to move. But
the garnet had one drawback as place
of residence. 1t was a long distance
from the kitchen, and the rat, having
to go so far to forage for food, found it
not always easy to supply the needs of
his growing family.
One night he started down the garrett
stairs to find something for supper.
His tail sounded thump, thump on
every step. Anyone listening could
have heard the patter of his feet
through the hall But everybody was
asleep. The sitting-room door stood
op-n. As the rat passed he glanced in,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-09
CONTROL OUR ONGUES.

Speak Not In Moment Of Anger, Lest We
Commit an Error.
If we could only control our tongues
at the moment of anger or excitement,
how seldom would we wish to recall a
spoken word. 1t is the food breaking
over the dam that causes destruction;
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-09
a Question of Markets.

M. Paul Leroy-Beauleu has pointed ont that,
in adopting higher tariff, as she is about to do,
France incurs a risk of isolation, which may be
particularly detrimental to her commercial in
terests. The population of France does not in
crease, so that II French trade is to develop it
must find foreign markets. This, as M. Leroy
Beaulieu suggests, may be no easy task in the
event Of other nations determining to mete out
to the republic the same fiscal treatment as she
has bestowed upon her neighbors-Lond
Financial Times.
1t might be suggested that trade can
be developed without the aid of foreign
markets. Let us compare the position
in England with that in this country, as
the richest country, and in India as the
poorest country in the world. Mr.
Robert Giftin, the statistician OF the
British boards of trade, estimates the
average yearly income of inhabitants
of the United Kingdom as $3.50,
and the income of inhabitants of the
United States is estimated at 5000,
Mr. Edward Atkinson indorsing
these figures. If England should
raise the wages paid to operators in
that country to the American standard
the average incomes would doubtless
equal the American average This to
her 37,000,O0 inhabitants, would add
81, 900, 900 to the money available for
purchases in England
On the other hand, they have ex-
tended their trade over the whole of In
dia. But it was stated at the last In
dian congress that the purchases of the
average Hindoo from England were
only 1Sd. sterling annually. Allowing
that this was an understatement: that
the trade was worth 2s., or 80 cents per
capita, the purchases of the 260, 600, 900
inhabitants of that country amount to
$3.50, 100000 to Great Britain, or less
than one-fourteenth of the increase to
the home trade that would result from
paying the same rate of wages which is
paid in the United States. But such a
trade, not figuring in the great ex-
changes of the world, would be counted
a loss to Great Britain.
HERE is some more testimony to the
honesty of the free trade walls .'of the
poor oppressed farmer" A Maine
farmer writes as follows to the Oxford
(Me.) Democrat: II have looked over
my Bill Mckinley act and find /
have saved SIS on my sugar bill, got
Sla more for wool sold. and can't find
where have paid over So or 81 by reason
of tariff, although l have expended 5000
TO $500 liz various purchases affected by
legislation. Have been iu active life,
lahoring in the field and otherwheres
forty-tive or more years, aid the calam-
ity's party's predictions never came
.rne, unless they got the reins of gov
nrpment"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-10-22
superstition of Pearl Fishers.

Superstition will cause human beings to
do many very absurd things. Perhaps one
of the most peculiar superstitions ever re-
corded exists among the pearl fishers Of
Borneo and the adjacent islands. When
engaged in opening shells in search of
pearls they take every ninth find, whether
it be large or small, and put it into a bot
tie, which is kept tightly corked with q
dead mans finger. The pearls thus kept
are Known as ''seed pearls" or breeding
pearls" the natives of the island firmly
believing that they will reproduce their
kind. For every pearl put In the vial two
grains of rice are put in for the pearls to
"feed" upon. Some whites in Borneo be-
lieve as firmly in the superstition as the
natives do, and almost every hut aloug the
coast has its dead finger" bottle with
from nine to fifty seed pearls" and twice
their number of rice grains carefully and
evenly slowed away among them. Nearly
all the burial places along the coast have
been desecrated by pearl breeders" in
search of corks for their bottles.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-10-22
FOR THE WORLDS FAIR.
a Mammoth Tree from California to Be
Exhibited.

Il E3aElElOth Tree from E3o
Exhibited.
California is to be honored by having
section of one of her famous big trees made
a prominent feature in the Government
building at the Columbian exhibition at
Chicago. The project, the accomplishment
OF which Is fully assured, is unique one.
The section OF the tree will be twenty-three
feet in diameter and thirty feet long. This
will be divided into three parts, and these
will be placed in their natural position,
one above the other, and so arranged as to
form something like two story house.
The contract for the tree was made by II.
A. Taylor, of the department of the in
terior, with the Kings River Lumber COM
pany in the spring of this year, and the
company is now at work getting it outssl
their forest of sequoia gigantea in the
Converse basin on Kings river in Fresno
county.
The contract called for "a tree 90 feet
inches in diameter, but the tree actually
found will be three feet greater in diameter.
There are OF course larger trees in the
forest, but the requirement was that this
section should be perfect in all respects,
cylindrical, straight and without burn
in the bark, and this was the largest found
to fill all these conditions. The tree select
ed, says the San Francisco Chronicle is
one known as the General Noble" 1t
measures thirty-eight feet in diameter near
the ground, but as the object was to have
the section Of the same diameter at both
ends, as nearly as possible, a piece is being
taken out of the tree ut some distance from
the ground. To do this and to preserve
the section from harm by falling, as well
rs to meet other requirements, has proved
to be u work of considerable magnitude.
The idea is not to send solid section but
rather, the rim of the tree followed out
and cut into segments of suitable size and
all to be numbered SO that they can be
erected at Chicago so as to look from the
exterior like the solid section of sequoia
thirty feet in height. The three parts into
which the section is being cut consist OF
xwo parts of fourteen feet each, to be hol-
lowed out, and one two feet thick, which
will serve as floor between the two stories.
as it were.
The work of cutting, lowering and box
ing the segments is being pushed forward
as rapidly us possible, and it is expected
that the tree will all be shipped by the end
of October. TO get the tree to a point
where wagons can reach it required the
building of road two miles long The en-
tire exhibit, including the work, will cost
the government several thousand dollars
The tree when erected at Chicago will stand
directly under the great dome of the Gov
eminent building.
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ana has foundered off Cascaes,
fifteen miles west of Lisbon, on the
Atlantic. All on board were saved.
Col. James II. Rice, ex-Auditor
Of State of Indiana, one of the best
known business men and politicians
of the State, is dead of pneumonia.
Jack Gentry, a notorious outlaw,
has been killed by a Sheriff s
posse in Kentucky. Gentry was
wanted for four murders recently
committed. He was killed for re-
sisting arrest.
In the suit Of Congressman James
Belden against Judge Stevenson
Burke and others, and the Colum-
bus, Toledo and Hooking Valley
Railroad, involving $8,000,000,
Justice Ingraham has given judg-
ment for the defendants, in New
York.
Rev. Father Leander Schneurr
was installed and consecrated as
Arch-Abbot of the Benedictine
Order in the United States, at
Pittsburgh. A large number of
priests, abbots and monks were
present from all over the United
States.
HAVANA, Oct. 1.-The Gaceta
publishes a decree ordering all yes
sells arriving at Cuba from the Uni
ted States ports, including New
York, to be kept under observation
only three days, if no illness has
occurred on the voyage.