A CLOTHESLINE GEM

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, October 24, 1890.

TOWN REPORTS.

HARFORD MILLS.

   Our wise brothers, who have made our laws since the dawn of civilization, have very graciously conceded to petticoats the right to vote at school meetings. [The New York State legislature in 1880 allowed women to vote for school commissioners and school board members, and compete with men for elected school offices—CC editor.] Thank you, gentlemen, for this consideration.

   You can foist upon us for school commissioner any political puppet who will allow you to pull the wires for his jumping Jack contortions, and we are dumb. [Political parties consisting of men nominated school commissioners—CC editor.] The drunkest slum foreigner, who cannot even read the name of the candidate upon the ballot that partisans thrust into his voting, filth-smeared hand, reels up to the polls, and decides this matter for us, and we are told to vote through our influence at home. Our dainty fingers must not be soiled in the pool of politics, and as this is Monday and my dainty fingers have done a washing for a family of ten, six of whom are voters and had overalls and pantaloons covered with what they termed political mire, though I shouldn't have known it from common ditch mud and vomit, but the thought struck me while washing it, that I was an ingrate not to acknowledge their courtesy in keeping me from the drudgery of lifting a ballot.

   Then too, when I was wading about in the rain hanging up those garments, my heated brow became sufficiently cooled by the torrent of rain that was pouring from the blackened depths of equinoctial clouds, to cogitate with clearness, and I henceforth lift my hat and bow my head to every male voter. Engrossed in patriotic thought, I caught myself gracefully bowing to the breeches on the line; for surely this is the signet of voting power.

   O, how my patriotism exulted at the thought, when shuffling across the lawn I beheld a voter; unmistakably a voter, clad in the unmistakable habiliments of a voter, viz: breeches, minus coat, hat and vest, who began eloquently haranguing the two-legged garments frantically kicking in the wind.

   Evidently the fellow was a politician of no mean calibre and the burden of his soul was school commissioners, and warning those pants not to risk the young idea learning how to shoot under a young inexperienced school commissioner—too young to know how to help book agents to saddle a set of text books upon the overburdened tax paying school patrons; text books whose only merit is to differ sufficiently from those already provided, to render it impossible to use the two; too young to know that the criterion of qualification for teachers should not be how competent; but where, where were you educated—for surely the Normal school should fling its protecting banner over all its fledglings, and that boyish Democratic nominee would know no more than to license according to qualification and a pretty muddle he would have of it. A dozen teachers haggling for the same school and instead of being able to demand ten dollars per week for 25 hours' labor in rural districts that average from three to five scholars, teachers might be obliged to content themselves with the same stipend counted into the honorable toiling hand of the hired girl as compensation for 100 hours hard labor by the week. I tell you, tax payers, your money has been poured out like water to educate these teachers at your free schools, and to give them free education at the Normal, and now will you withdraw your protection from them by saying through your ballot: you shall no longer thrust your grasping hands into our pockets and take therefrom ten dollars per week for teaching three seven year old babies.

   Exhausted by this flow of eloquence the voter reeled and fell; and at the present writing lies under the clothes line while the pantaloons wave like blackened banners above his slumbering form, while I, convinced by his logic, take up the burden where he lays it down, to say to the voters of Cortland county, beware how you vote for Charley Osborne for school commissioner. I have known him from childhood and can tell you he does not possess the first attribute of a politician, never having been drunk in his life, never patronized a liquor saloon nor a gambling hell; quiet, scholarly, select, by dint of his own efforts he has outstripped hundreds less intrepid and persevering; he stands outlined in the clear sunlight of honest, worthy, young manhood, an honor to the party who has made this wise selection, and a credit to the ticket that bears his name.

   THAT HEN. [pen name of correspondent.]

SCOTT.

   Mr. Kellogg, son of Theron Kellogg, is in town visiting relatives.

   Wallace Picket goes to New York city to see the sights this week.

   Edna Barber has commenced work in the woolen factory in Homer.

   A very little girl has come to winter with Mr. and Mrs. Paren Anthony.

   We learn that Eugene Camp, of New Hope, has come to grief from selling liquor illegally.

   Frank Jenks has returned from Ohio, where he has been for several mouths past dispensing music from the violin at a lively rate.

   Will J. Cottrell found an extra boy upon his premises recently. It resembled the rest of the children so much that he has concluded to bring it up as his own.

   Rev. F. H. Dickerson, of Union Valley, preached his first discourse at the M. E. church here last Sunday. We think he is well received. He will move his wife and other household goods this week.

   Election is near at hand but that does not cause all the excitement that exists. Some say that the women can vote for School Commissioner. Perhaps Mr. Crofoot had that idea and that might have been the reason of his interviewing so many of the women of our town. We cannot commend these interviews for they sometimes cause trouble.

FREETOWN.

   Singing school on Saturday night.

   Mr. George Hammond, of McGrawville, called on friends in town the past week.

   The W. C. T. U. will meet at Mrs. Joseph Underwood's on Saturday of the present week, to hear the report of the delegate who attended the State convention at Elmira.

   Again death has entered our community and an aged mother has passed away. Mrs. Harvey Bean, about eighty years old, has gone to her reward. The funeral will be held at East Freetown to-morrow at 12 o'clock. It can be truly said our loss is her eternal gain.

SOLON.

   When a couple returning home from a party wish to stop their horse and go to sleep, they should do so somewhere else except here in town.

   We will have a few street lamps in town. Two being placed in front of Miss Hathaway's and on the corner at the store which will be a great benefit these dark nights.

EAST HOMER.

   The board of registry was in session at Bennett Hall Saturday and 196 names were registered.

   Mr. John Beattie is on the sick list. Dr. Higgins, of Cortland, has been called to attend him.

   The great political meeting held here Tuesday evening of last week and addressed by the irrepressible Peck turned out to be a very slim affair, there being just 43 persons present by actual count. Mr. Peck in a laborious speech of over an hour told the faithful what legislation he had been the prime factor in accomplishing in the interest of the tax payers of the state and how much more he thought he would be able to do if he was returned to Albany this fall. There was no interest manifested during the speech and all seemed relieved at the close and thus endeth the first lesson.

   UNCLE SI. [pen name of correspondent.]

FRANK'S CORNERS.

   Voters have you registered?

   Will Cole, of Cortland, visited his parents on Sunday last.

   Dell Dann has commenced his school in the Ball district.

   Bouton Glazier, who has been critically ill with typhoid fever, is convalescent.

   The bridge that was washed away near Geo. Dane's is being replaced by a new iron one.

   Mrs. Susan Gee, who has been visiting relatives in Cortland for a few days, returned home on Monday.

   Charles Osborn, nominee for school commissioner, called on some of his political friends in this place one day last week.

   There is a positive law in this state compelling children to attend school. This law is violated in every school district. Parents and guardians look after this matter.

   The teachers' association convened at the Baptist church, Virgil, Saturday last. It was pronounced a grand success. The programme consisted of essays, orations, dialogues, discussions on school management, and principals of teaching. The officers elected for the ensuing year are, Bertha Givens, president; Geo. Munson, vice-president; Louise Ryan, secretary.

   UNCLE DICK. [pen name of correspondent.]

Recommended: Matilda Joslyn Gage and Women's Rights. http://www.matildajoslyngage.org/gage-home/womens-rights-room/

http://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2011/09/matilda-joslyn-gage.html

 

DESTROYING THE FOREST

Clear-cut pine and spruce.

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, October 24, 1890.

DESTROYING THE FOREST.

The Ravages of Lumbermen and Pulp Mills in the Adirondacks.

(From the Albany Times.)

   Chief Warden Garmon of the State Forest Commission has just returned from a tour through the Adirondack region. He says that he never saw such activity among the lumbermen in the forest before. The pulp mills are also showing remarkable activity. The proposition to make a state reservation of the region may have something to do with this. Near Tupper lake a new pulp mill has just been put up which has a capacity of 30,500 feet of logs per diem. All the old mills are either enlarging or pushing on the work by the aid of an additional force of workmen. The timber used in the manufacture of pulp is mainly spruce. The only large spruce tree district in the whole country that amounts to anything is right up there among the Adirondack mountains of New York state.

   Mr. Garmon says the destruction these pulp mills are making in the forests is frightful. One tract of 33,000 acres and another of 17,000 acres up in the St. Regis country in less than three years have been denuded, actually stripped of all trees, spruce and hard timber, big and little. Besides these large tracts there are enough small ones stripped to make the total cleared fully 200,000 acres. The bulk of this went beneath the stones of the pulp mill. But spruce timber is also in great demand among builders for floorings to dwellings. It is much lighter and tougher than pine and commands a higher price. If the inroads of the pulp mills are continued for five years, with the corresponding increase in productive power each year that has characterized this year, it will result in the cutting of about every stick of spruce timber on the mountains except where the state owns the lands.

   Another fact which the warden dwells upon as a reason why the state should speedily acquire possession of the bulk of the Adirondacks is the private ownership of nearly every lake in the whole region. Individuals and clubs, he says, are all the time getting possession of lakes, big and little, and when this was not done, all the eligible sites for building were gobbled up. Building sites in the Adirondacks, he thought, would soon command prices now paid for New York city lots. Already $6,000, $8,000, and $10,000 had been paid by individuals for small parcels of land upon which they desired to erect a cottage or a small hotel.
Recommended: New York State Forest Rangers

Frederic Harrison, British author.

FREDERICK HARRISON ON EDUCATION.

(Forum for October.)

   Neither at school nor at college was I ever put through the mill. I read the classics with delight, so as to enjoy them for themselves, without ever grinding them up into verbal exercises. In history, I believe I had the very best of teaching; for which I am ever grateful. And in philosophy, we were taught to use our own common sense, and not to repeat tags of windy systems. I managed to satisfy our tutors; but they taught me to read for my mind's sake, and not for the sake of "the school's." I always felt complete indifference to prizewinning in all its forms, and I was happy enough not to be pressed into that silly waste of time by parents, tutors or friends.

   I read what I enjoyed, and I enjoyed what I read. I have now an experience of some forty years as student, teacher and examiner; and it forces on me a profound conviction that our modern education is hardening into a narrow and debasing mill. Education is over-driven, over-systematized, monotonous, mechanical. At school and at college, lads and girls are being drilled like German recruits—forced into a regulation style of learning, of thinking and even of writing. They all think the same thing, and it is artificial in all. The round of endless examinations reduces education to a professional "cram," where the repetition of given formulas passes for knowledge, and where the actuate memory of some teacher's "tips" takes the place of thought.

   Education ought to be the art of using the mind and of arranging knowledge. It is becoming the art of swallowing pellets of special information. The professor mashes up a kind of mental "pemmican," which he rams into the learner's gullet. When the pupil vomits up these pellets, it is called "passing his examination with honors." Teachers and pupils cease to think, to learn, to enjoy, to feel. They become cogs in a huge revolving mill-wheel; which never ceases to grind and yet never grinds out anything but the dust of chaff. In thirty years the academic mill, which runs now at high pressure like a Cunard liner racing home, has never turned out one single fresh mind or fertile idea. From this curse of modern pedantry, my companions and I were happily saved."

Recommended: Frederic Harrison

NEIGHBORING COUNTIES.

   CHENANGO.—Mrs. James A. Kinney, of Afton, suicided by jumping into the river at that place, Tuesday.

   Chenango County Democrats have nominated A. B. Robinson for the Assembly, H. T. Owen for Treasurer, Dudley Breed for Superintendent of the Poor, R. A. Thompson for Coroner, W. T. Priest for Justice of Sessions, E. A. Kinney for School Commissioner in the 1st District and A. B. Merriam in the 2d District.

   On Saturday, October 4th, 1890, Alfred Bentley, while plowing on the old Hartwell farm at Sherburne, Four Corners, found within three feet of one another, eight brown flint arrow heads, well finished but of different sizes. On the previous day he found a stone pestle on the same lot. A few years ago near the same place was found a circular wall of stones in the ground enclosing some coals. It had doubtless been used for cooking in some former age, and the coals had been preserved from that time. The eight arrow heads then were probably the equivalent of forty rounds in our days. The place where the relics were found is near the east line of lot No. 20 in North Norwich.

   MADISON.—Lenox town auditors audited bills amounting to $4,600 for rebuilding bridges swept away by the June floods.

   The Canastota Match Company has been gobbled by the Diamond Match Trust, which now owns thirty match factories and controls the entire make. The machinery has been moved from Canastota to Frankfort, and the building is now empty.

   Thaddeus Case, a resident of Weedsport, who has been staying with his brother, Lorenzo Case, at Chittenango, during the past year, hung himself with a vest on Tuesday last, by placing one arm hole over a door and protruding his head through the other. He had in his pocket when found $300, and it has since been learned that previous to doing the deed he contracted for a minister, hired a grave dug and paid for a headstone and coffin.

   TOMPKINS—The chorus of the Ithaca Choral Club is about fifty strong.

   The new students at Cornell will number at least five hundred.

   The enrollment of Ithaca public schools is over 1,600. The average attendance last month was 1,470.

   The foot ball game on the Campus, between the University of Rochester and Cornell, was easily won by Cornell.

   In 1834, says the Ithaca Democrat, there were many goats raised in Tompkins county, but few are now found excepting in possession of secret societies. Bibles were also found in the thirties, but the churches and societies of to-day are where the book is most conspicuously seen.

   Girls and young ladies have been repeatedly followed and insulted while walking on State street during the evening hours, One of the despicable offenders was arrested Sunday evening. He does not want his name known to the general public, he says, "because it would make him nervous."

   The Lehigh Valley and Elmira, Cortland & Northern railroad companies are now preparing to erect a union freight depot at Freeville. The building will be located upon the south side of the E. C. & N. track and east of the Lehigh Valley track, and will extend one-hundred feet on both. The five or six foot bank upon the chosen site is now being taken away and the earth distributed along the Lehigh Valley road. The long suffering public will appreciate even a union freight depot but a commodious passenger depot for the use of the two roads would be a still greater blessing.

HERE AND THERE.

   Smoke Manhattan Club cigars.

   Saturday is the second day for [voter] registration. Do not delay.

   The hitching sheds on the First Baptist church property are being repainted which greatly improves the appearance of the same.

   Fruit thieves are about. One night last week the cellar of Mrs. John Fosmer, on Cemetery street, Homer, was relieved of twenty-two cans.

   A meeting of the King's Daughters will be held at the residence of Mrs. George I. Pruden, 15 Maple avenue, Saturday afternoon, at the usual hour.

   Mr. Edwin M. Hulbert, of this place, bought 60 tubs of butter of the East Homer creamery last week, it being the make of the first fifteen days of October.

   Voters who cannot read or write can obtain a paster ballot of one of the Democratic ticket peddlers, and all they have to do is to paste this on either of the three ballots received of the ballot clerks, fold the same, and hand the ballot to the inspectors.

   The cobweb party is the latest social hilarity. A number of strings are wound around piano and chair legs, etc. Each player is given a number and selects a string. The strings all lead to one place, and the first to unwind his or her string gets the prize.

   Doctor C. W. Parker has just removed seven polypi from the nose and throat of Mrs. Clark H. Wadsworth, of Fitz avenue. Mrs. Wadsworth has not breathed through the nose for over two years. After the operation she could breathe very easily, and it afforded her great relief.

   Emerald Hose company are building a new approach to their company quarters, corner of Railroad and Church streets.

   Sunday afternoon the funeral services of Mrs. Jane E. Barber, widow of the late Paris Barber, were conducted from the family residence in Homer, the Rev. Geo. F. Clover officiating.

   The marriage of Mr. Andrew C. Schermerhorn, the popular day operator at the Homer [train] station, to Miss Lottie M. Stone, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon T. Stone, was celebrated on Thursday evening last. They will reside on South Main street, Homer, after returning from their tour.

   At 12:57 Thursday, a call from box 333 caused no small commotion. The companies were not the only ones who got mixed on the number. It appears that workmen had been tearing down an old barn in the rear of No. 21 Groton avenue, and Mrs. Jane Pope, who occupies the house had, during the forenoon, gathered up a quantity of shingles, placing them in the oven to dry. They became ignited and the house immediately filled with dense smoke, causing the sounding of an alarm. The damage was slight. The Excelsior Hook and Ladder company had the misfortune to have the rear end of their truck broken while on duty.

 

ASSEMBLYMAN PECK'S CANADIAN RECORD

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, October 24, 1890.

Peck's Canadian Record.

   In last week's Standard Peck republishes an interview that appeared in the Standard in 1888, in which he endeavors to exculpate himself for remaining abroad during the late civil war. Unfortunately for Mr. Peck, he confesses more than he avoids in the alleged interview. The gravamen of the charge against Mr. Peck is that he remained in Canada during the entire period of the war. This charge he is compelled to confess, but seeks to avoid this humiliating confession by claiming that he still remained an American citizen. He says he went to Canada in 1855, and engaged in teaching.

   No one has questioned his right to go to Canada before the war, either for business or pleasure.

   To remain absent from his own country during the entire period of a long, bloody and desolating war, is abhorrent to every man imbued with patriotic instincts or who cherishes love of country. In time of peace American citizens are supposed to enjoy the blessings of good government. In time of war they are expected to share the danger and bear some portion of the burden and responsibility. What share of the burden of American citizenship did Mr. Peck bear in the hour of his country's danger? Not the slightest share. Not a citizen in her majesty's dominion did less than Mr. Peck, to put down the rebellion. He tells us he returned in January 1867, (about a year and a half after the war closed).

   If he had returned about the time the "boys in blue were returning from the battle field and prison pen" his reception would have been made far from a pleasant one. Mr. Peck denies that he became a naturalized citizen of the dominion, and says "nor did I take any oath or obligation to prevent my return to the full rights of American citizenship on my return to the United States."

   If Mr. Peck would furnish the "oath or obligation" he did take, instead of giving his conclusion as to what it didn't "prevent," it would be much more satisfactory. This Mr. Peck dare not do. In the interview had in 1888, he claims he has "taken an interest in political matters here (meaning in the United States) for the past twenty-one years." That, as will be seen, was from January 1867 to November 1888.

   Here we have to all intents and purposes, an admission that he had no interest in political matters "here" during the war, or before. He admits he had a "little" interest in Dominion politics, but says "I was not particularly interested in their politics during my earlier years and stay there."

   Voters of Cortland county what do you think of a man who, from 1855 to 1867, took no interest in American politics? Those were years fraught with questions of great moment. Problems were then being solved that interested the whole civilized world. It was during that period of time that the shackles were loosened from 4,000,000 slaves, and billions of money and hundreds of thousands of lives were sacrificed to save the Union and preserve the constitution. During that time occurred two presidential elections and several important and exciting gubernatorial elections. Going away to teach does not lose a residence or the right to vote. If Mr. Peck tells the truth in his interview he was all the time a voter in the town of Solon. Many a man has crossed the ocean rather than lose his vote. Mr. Peck could have left his perch in Canada and been at his polling place in Solon, in fifteen hours. But he did not vote in Solon in 1861, 1862, 1863 and 1864. He would have you believe he did not take any interest in American affairs at that time. His reason if true, shows him to be unpatriotic and unamerican, and that we grant, but he does not give the true reason for not voting and taking an interest in American politics.

   The reason was and is apparent, if he had voted and exercised the rights of citizenship here, he would have shown himself liable to be drafted, and that was just what he wanted to avoid, and, voters, it was just what he did avoid, and now the shameless demagogue is trying in vain to conceal his own tracks.

   In his speech to the veterans at Wells' Hall, Peck said "the one great regret of his life was that he was not one of them, but that he would have been, had he been old enough." The statement made to the veterans was in direct contradiction of his statement made in the interview, so in one instance at least he falsely stated his reason for not taking a hand in the war. The fact is, neither statement was true.

   If Mr. Peck had told the veterans he was twenty-five years old, and in Canada during the war, it might not have aided his political aspirations, but it would have been the truth.

   He might have added as a further reason for not enlisting, that a man with Canadian tastes and instincts, had to be pretty old before he would take a hand in putting down an American rebellion.

   TAXPAYER.

PAGE FOUR/EDITORIALS.

   Last winter Mr. Peck furnished railroad passes to Albany and return for from one to a half dozen republicans in every town in the county. Only those who were supposed to have influence enough to furnish delegates from their towns to renominate Peck were favored with passes. Those republicans who did not receive passes to Albany and return last winter, can attribute the omission to the fact that Peck thought they were of no account any way. The no account republicans in these towns may, and probably will show Peck that they have some influence at the polls on election day.

   If a farmer or laboring man should ask any one of the railroad companies in this state for a free pass to Albany and return, would he get it? Certainly not. Why? Because the farmer or laboring man is in no position to help the railroads and they are not doing business for fun. Whenever they give away passes they expect something of value in return. Now, Mr. Peck will not pretend to say that he paid the railway companies the cash for the two or three hundred passes he distributed to his heelers in this county last winter. Mr. Peck does not distribute his wealth in that way. But he was in a position to do the railroad companies much good. A Member of Assembly can render the railroad companies great service in the legislature by voting as they wish him to vote on all bills concerning railroads. For this reason they grant any number of passes to Members of Assembly and they do it cheerfully. It is a sort of gentlemanly way of purchasing the votes of members. To be sure they do not pay cash for the votes but they furnish him with passes which amounts to the same thing. Peck in turn sent the passes to the parties that he thought could do him the most good, and thus purchased their votes and influence. Those who failed to receive passes virtually had to pay for those that were used by their specially favored neighbors. It is an exceedingly frigid day when the farmer and the laborer don't "pay the freight." Can any one wonder at Mr. Peck's anxiety to have the Erie canal abandoned or sold to the United States? What a good thing it would be for the railroads? With the canals abandoned or managed by the U. S. Government, the railroads would at once raise the tariff on freight and the farmer and laborer would have to pay the difference. Peck wouldn't do it.

   Last fall 600 Democrats in Cortland county remained away from the polls.

One hundred of these would have been sufficient to elect Mr. Knox to the office of County Judge. Let every Democrat in the county cast his vote for Judge Knox [for Assembly] on next election day. If every Democrat in the county casts his vote for him his election is assured.

   A report comes to us from some of the out towns that Mr. Peck is engaged in trying to hire Democrats to stay away from the polls on election day. If this is true, it looks very bad for the Republican candidate, and it is a crime against the law of the state. A man who helped to make the laws of a state ought not to be the first to break them. We sincerely hope that the report is not true.

   One of the burning questions of the hour is the following: Why did R. T. Peck resign the nomination for School Commissioner in 1875, just before election, after making an expensive canvass to secure the same? We don't much expect the question will ever be answered but the people would like to know why. Perhaps the Cortland Standard can fish up an old interview that will serve in the place of something better. Give us something on the subject please, even if it contains no more truth than the interview published last week.

   The Cortland Standard denies that Peck said in his speech before the Veterans Association at Floral Trout Park in this place, that "the one great regret of his life was that he was not one of them, but that he would have been had he been old enough." We didn't suppose when we made the charge, that the exact locality where he made the speech was especially material although we intended to be correct even upon this unimportant point. We find however, upon investigation, that the words were used in a speech delivered at a camp fire held in Wells' Hall in this place a few months since. We can, if necessary, prove the fact by affidavits from any number of highly respectable residents of this place who were present. The where is not of very much consequence but the fact that he did say it, is important because it proves him to be a demagogue of the first water.

   The only excuse thus far offered for Mr. Peck's remaining in Canada during the late unpleasantness, was that he went there to educate himself and to teach. That, while there, he got married and built him a house. Mr. Peck will need, and we cheerfully accord to him, any explanation tending to relieve him from the charge of being unpatriotic and unamerican in the hour of his country's peril. It must be confessed, that the discordant notes of the fife and drum, would be calculated to distract the attention of a mind deeply absorbed in philosophic research. The steady tramping of the "boys in blue" might have interfered with the hope of scholastic renown with which his young and ardent heart was then imbued. So firm was his purpose, so indomitable his will, that he was willing to brave the rigors of a Canadian winter to secure the accomplishment of the ends he had in view.

   At the Republican County Convention held in this place, the Republicans of Cortland under the leadership of Hon. R. T. Peck took all the offices and magnanimously gave Homer the resolutions. One of the Homer delegates claims that C. O. Newton, Esq., was selected to present the resolutions, but that gentleman denies the impeachment and we believe the question of veracity thus raised has not yet been satisfactorily disposed of. It is quite certain that the resolutions were not presented and Homer lost the only sop that Peck was willing she should have. Homer had the honors of the convention, and failed to take advantage of her opportunity. Meanwhile Cortland ran off with the offices and the salaries thereto attached. Homer Republicans asked for bread and Cortland Republicans gave them a stone, as usual. They are bound to follow scriptural precepts, and Homer Republicans must be satisfied. The generosity of Cortland Republicans, in dealing with the faithful of other towns, is proverbial.

The Duty on Frogs.

   An omission has been discovered in the McKinley bill. It made no provision for the duty on dead frogs. The collector at Detroit has a good many of these to deal with. They come down the lakes from Canada, to feed the epicures of Detroit. When the first load came the collector sent to Washington for instructions and was informed that dead frogs would be dutiable at 35 per cent, under the head of "prepared meats." But there was an objection. The frogs were not "prepared." Finally, after looking all through the new tariff bill, the collector put the frogs in under section 2513 at 10 per cent, ad valorem, under the heading "unmanufactured raw material." What must the live frogs think when they hear that?