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an, Fonnosa, and .souie parte of China and the PhiHppi:ies. Secretary Wilson, the head of the Department of Agricultura, proposes tp give the citizens of theGulf States an opportiinity to experiment in this line. He is preparing to distribuye eamphor-tree slips to that section, and is thus likely to add another important industi'y lo thü?e of tbe agrieultural element. NOW that the soft-coal strike has been praetically settled without bloodshed, it is proper to cali attention of those who are Bcolding about the interforenca of the couris in matters of tb is sort to the fact that the use of the injuoction has doubtless been very valuable in preventing distarbances. It h is savcd the effuuion of a great deal of blood by preventiag the eougregatton of thoae whose assemblage would have worked them into a eondition almost certaiu to result in violence. "What astrikiúg rosotablance there is between 1895 and 1807 and the years ofour Lord 1878 and 1879! Iu 1878 the air was resonant with denunoiations of the vvicked men who would not issue all the greenbaeks which a suffering people demanded. JohQ Sherman was denounced on all hands, Samuel J. Tilden deelared that only a vast central reservoir of coin could protect us against the failure of the prcposed return to specie pftjmeate ín 1879. The farmer was at hia worst, ruined, Btroyed, caten up by laxes and nsury. Down almost to the vei-y day of resumption the croakin: tamo with dismal and damnable iteration. When the lst of January carne no prowds tlinmged the Sub-Ti-easury corridors. Hardly a greenbaek was prescnted aad we got back to tbe ourrenoy of tlio world without á movement or a jir. From that moment prospeiity began."- Speaker Reed in New York World, September 12. The Diagiey Tariff has made a marked cüange ia the gun trade by placing sucli a high duty on guns tbat the heapcr gi-ades have increased in price to a considerable extent. A serviceable gun can ie bought abroad for $5.BÜ, but the Diugley Tar. ! ttï of $4.84 oach m.ikes these guns cost I $10.44, exclusivo of freightage, and jvhere before the passage oi the bill e-ach a gun cuuld bo sold for $8, it ir 111 now cost muoli higher. This wiil créate a deniand for a cheap, homemade gun, which heretofore has not Jjeen manufactured. because the home cotnpanies could not compete in prices the lower jri-adfcs. Amcricans hereiofore. if they made cheap guna had peculiar eonditiors against ihem. Ir. Bclgium, where roost of the inexpcnsive sliotguns come írom, the gun-makera do their work at home. Orders for skillcd work are distributed in the jn'cvinces where the gun-makers have few expenses. American gunsmiths saw that the cheap shotgun could not pay them a profit: they refuscd to rnake them, therefore, and turi.ed their attention to the ufactui-o of high-grade firoarin3. . I-u rillo inakiag Americaas havo beaten uil natioas. Wheii VV. Asten1 Cliaadler wsut iato the foresta of A[rica not Ion? agro ho took both Americau and Europcan rilles; but ho found that a firat-rate Winchester, or Remington, or Marlin, was flrst-rale againgt, aüinst any oompelitor. Last year our ituporiatiun of breechloaJ'n;g ohotguns umounted in value to 506,000. [o 1803 it amouated to oaly $108,000. The increase wns not due to the McKinley Tuiitf, as would seom, but peculiarly in -pite of it. The MoKvriley til! imponed an enorraous duty ; on imported lircarins. But no gpecification was made about parta of lirearms. Importers took advantage of thij eareless tramiug of tbc law, and had iheir foreign guus sent heve pieeemeal, to be put togethor on thcir an-i val.