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ginning to feel small, but the party IL
self feels smaller. Four years more of
Grover and search warrant would be-
necessary to scare up Democratic rally.
Adams Freeman.
Not long ago Leominister, Mass,
woman thought she would relieve the
monotony of the hour by ransacking an
old secretary in her attic, in which were
old papers which had been undisturbed
many years. Among the effects pOred
over was one document of exceptional
interest, which was in decidedly pecu-
liar handwriting, and tod the story that
several generations ago the course of
true love did not run smooth. The writ
er was the great-grandmother of the
woman who found the time-stained and
age-wOrn epistle. 1t read as follows
Dear, good JOhn-We shall have to put
off our marriage, mother is making such
an awful fuss about it. | don't want to
bit, now we are published, but | have
to. She says you amt old enough and L
don't know anything, and then there is
so much expense about it. Now, John,
just think of it! My dress will be only
nine shillIngs, and my new Calfskin
shoes would do. She says you shan't
marry me until you can keep two COWS
of your own. Father is willing, and says
he will give us the sheep, but mother
says he shan't, and you know she always
carries the day. Dam it! | wish she
could never have got married herself.
Now, John, let us stick to each other.
shall be 1G in 10 months more. Now
you will hold on, won't you, John?
Come Sunday night with the gray horse
and shay, and we will ride out and talk
it over. Good night. MARY"
1t has taken Canada 80 years to ar
rive at her present growth of manufact-
ures. That is to say that 20 years ago
Canada manufactured comparatively
very little of the goods she needed and
paid money to foreign merchants and
dealers to possess. A protective tariff
was placed on the goods required and
manufactures sprang up Immediately,
until now she has many of the finest es-
adjustments on the continent, employ
ing numerous workers and sustaining n
large number of families. Canada shows
a cOmmendable degree of common sense
in adopting that policy that will keep her
people at work and make industrial COM
munities prosperous and happy.-Mid-
dlebury Register.
General Alexander McCook, the last
of the lighting McCooks," has been
placed on the army retired list, and for
the first tine in nearly half century
there is not a single member of the fam
lily on the active roll of the army. Few
families have produced SO many good
soldiers, and it is noteworthy fact that
the father and nine sons were all fight
ing for their country at one time. Four
of the sons attained the rank of general,
and all did gallant service for the cause
of the Union.
The totals of our imports of foreign
goods up to February 2Sth, show that We
have bought nearly 2G,0OO,0OO yards of
bleached and dyed cotton cloths during
the first six months of the new tariff,
being at the rate of over 20,0CO,OO0 yards
year more than we bought during the
corresponding half year before the tariff
went into effect. OF wooden cloths we
bought over 10000 pounds, an increase at
the rate of nearly 100000 pounds
year. We also purchased nearly 6,000,-
600 pounds of foreign dress goods more
than usual and larger quantities of car
pets and carpetings that represent an in
crease of nearly 100000 square yards a
year. If business is revived to such an
extent that we can consume all these
larger imports of foreign goods in addl-
ton to the entire output of our own fac
tories, then no harm can be done. If, on
the other hand, these goods or imports
take the place of our own goods in our
own market, then both our manufac-
turers and our wage-eaIners must ulti-
mately be the sufferers.
Ambassador Runvon displays good
sense in preferring to remain at Berlin,
rather than coming home to run as the
Democratic candidate for governor of
New Jersey. Shrewd Democrats are
holding hard on to what they have got
just at present, and are not sighing for
new fields to conquer, in view of the rO-
bustitude of the enemy.
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