r
Faces have increased un
■ DER THE M’KINLEY bill.
Id
■Mu
St it!
Huci
FIGURES NEVER LIE.
»d Still Thej Continue to Rise—The
lufwnmp New York Times Called to
Task for Its Assertions—The Repub
lican Side*
it has beep asserted and reiterated
er and over again that wages have
lien since the McKinley tariff was
cted. It is the one single survivor
| the multitude of falsehoods sent
road during the campaign of lying
11890. It survives, not that it was
pre fit than the others—“McKinley
Ices,” for example—but from the
leulty of securing labor statistics
iplete enough to obliterate it.
IcKinley prices” were disproved by
iply comparing the market reports
[published before and after the new
took effect. But there are no regu
reports published on rates of wages,
tns of thousands of changes are an
ially made in this country, some in
^lving increased, others decreased
ages or hours of labor. They have
bcurred, do occur and will occur inde
mdently of any tariff in response to
le varying conditions of industry. If
rders for goods come flowing in, the
ibor in the industry which makes the
aods will be fully employed and wage
eductions will be impossible. But if
lort crops curtail the purchasing
awer of consumers, or the demand be
Jmes inadequate to the supply because
overproduction, or a change in fash
>n even, or for any other cause, labor
the industries concerned will be in
lriously affected, and if the unfavor
able conditions continue, wages will
ill. The law of supply and demand
fill continue to operate inside, and, so
ir, independently, of any tariff law
Ihat can be framed. Thousands of
khanges in wage rates, both up and
Number of employes, prices and
products in the coal mines of Illinois:
Year.
1882.,
1883
1884.,
188
1888..
1887.,
1888.,
1889.,
1890.
1891.,
Price per
ion.
....$1.51
.... 1.48
... 1.80
... 1.17
.... 1.10
.... 1.08
.... 1.12
.... 1.07
.... 1.01
— 1.00
Employes.
Waff os per day:
2a 930
25.575
25,446
25,846
26,804
29,410
30,076
28,574
32,951
Product,
tons
11,017,069
12,123,456
12,208,075
11,834,459
11,175.241
12,423,066
14,328,181
14,017,298
15,274,727
15 660,698
U nil a single exooption, and that
the most unimportant, wages were
higher in 1891 than in any of the three
other years considered. These are tho
results arrived at hy scientific investi
gation. Similar results would appear
in every State from similar investiga
tions. Wages are going up under the
new tariff.—American Economist.
A Farmer’s Tariff Talk.
A Missouri farmer, Mr. W.H. Pitten
ger of Hickman Mills, in a letter to
the Protective Tariff league, shows
the falsity of the free trade claim that
farmers are naturally free traders by
giving these solid reasons for being a
protectionist:
“I am a protectionist.
“Because self preservation or protec
tion is, and of right should be, the
first law of nature.
“Because history proves beyond con
troversy that it was only by and
through this system that it was made
possible for the United States of Amer
ica to lead the world to-day in intelli
gence and prosperity,
“Because I am a farmer and believe
that there can never be permanent
prosperity among us as a class so long
—i^—^—
It was at his behest that the honest
convictions of Democrats in the House
on the silver question were strangled
in order to give Cleveland a chance to
grind away on the only string he can
ploy—the free trade string. This is an
assertion that the Republican party
has already solved the money question
and that it is not an issue.
"Agin' the ConitItoothun.”
Democratic editors ought to be at
work showing why no measures should
bo taken against the introduction of
cholera. Such steps can tie shown to be
“agin’ the coustitooshun.” Besides it
interferes with natural law to set up
quarantine stations against the impor
tation of this cheap foreign product.
If we are going to have free trade let
us be consistent.—Ex.
The Lonely Mugwump.
Mugwump newspapers are pointing
with assumed sorrow to some of Presi
dent Harrison's appointments, whose
wickedness, in the Mugwump view,
consists in the fact that they have
done good work for the Republican
party. Why do not the Mugwumps
look up the list of convicted criminals
appointed to office by President Cleve
land?
A Tariff Picture.
Republican reciprocity with Cuba
went into effect on September 1, 1801.
During the seven months beginning
with September 1, 1890, our exports of
domestic merchandise to Cuba were
87.081,888.
For the first seven months under rec
iprocity they were 811.007,488.
Women In the Coal Pit.
“It is significant of the abject condi
tion of labor in free trade Belgium,”
says the New York Press, “that a
number of women perished in the dis
aster at the Anderlues colliery. Among
the victims was a girl 14 years of age,'
n* POLITIC^
IV
CLEVELAND’S DOUBLE ROLE—To Get the Nomination He Bows Before the Goddess; to
Get Elected He Bows Before the Tammany Tough..
■•down, were made in the most prosper
ous years this country ever knew; they
■are made now under the McKinley
; tariff, and will be made unless Edward
Bellamy or Henry George succeeds in
revolutionizing the existing industrial
system.
As a rule, changes in rates of wages
do not get into the public press beyond
| the local papers. A reduction in wages,
i being more unusual in this country
K than an advance, is more likely to be
1 chronicled. Ever since the McKinley
I law passed, the free-trade papers all
| over the country have watched like
I vultures for instances of wage reduc
| tions, and gloated over these misfor
| tunes of the working people like birds
i of prey. The New York Times in par
■ ticular has been on the alert to record
and exult over every reduction of
wages, in order to ascribe it to the Mc
Kinley law. Reading its editorials on
this subject one would get the impres
sion that a five or ten per cent, de
crease in wages was an unknown oc
currence before the McKinley act
passed. We have before pointed out
its shallow dishonesty in this respect.
It collects ten or a dozen or a score of
cases of reduced wages, and proclaims
that wages generally are falling. It
heeds not the thousands of cases of in
creased pay which have occurred under
the new law.
Only after a painstaking canvass of
all the industries of the country, and
of the wage changes occurring in them,
can any one form an intelligent opin
ion as to whether the general course of
wages is up or down. But your zealous
free-trade ‘‘reformer” does not care
for that. He is bent on making out a
case against protection, and, in his
1 desperation at the lack of favoring
evidence, does not hesitate to manu
In this connection we have already
called attention to the fact that the
annual report of the Bureau of Statis
tics of Labor of New York State for
1891 chronicles 1941 cases of increased
■wages, 2083 cases of decrease in the
lours of labor—virtually increase of
wages also—and only 441 cases of re
duced wages. Yet all that year the
New York Times was loudly proclaim
ing that wages were generally falling.
No less instructive is the record of
the State Bureau of Labor Statistics
of Illinois, which has issued a report
on coal statistics for that State. Not
only has more coal been mined in the
first year of the new tariff and more
men been employed than ever before,
bet wages have averaged higher,
while coal has been cheaper, as will
appear in the following figures from
the report:
as our markets are made 5,000 miles
from our farms; hence the need of di
versification of American industries
until our markets are made at home or
by us. Protection and only protection
makes this possible.”
Expressions like these from the peo
ple show that the cause of protection
is making headway in the homes of
the nation.—X. Y. Press.
Danger of Forcing Education.
Perhaps the stress is applied too early
to our little ones. I throw out this
word of caution to our good lady
friends here who have them in charge.
Some years ago I was passing down a
street in Indianapolis from my resi
dence to my office, and on the wa\
there was one of our public schools.
The children were just gathering ii
the morning. As I came near the coi
ner two sweet little girls, evidently
chums, approached from different
directions, and, meeting at the
crossing, soon had their heads close to
gether, but not so close but that I
caught the conversation. One said to
the other: ‘‘Oh, I had such an awful
dream last night.”
| Her sympathizing little fellow put
her head still closer and said: “What
was it?”
“Oh,” said the trembling little one,
“I dreamed I did not pass.”
It is safer to such little ones to dream,
as in my careless country boyhood I
was wont to do, about bears.—Presi
, dent Harrison at Saratoga.
Strike* Not Due to Tariff.
Democratic demagogues are attribut
ing the labor riots at Homestead to
the “increased tariff” of the McKinley
law and drawing the conclusion that
increase of tariff means decrease of
wages. As a matter of fact, the cause of
reduction of wages at Homestead was
due to increase of competition in the
business and consequent reduction of
the price of the product to American
consumers. The following shows the
tariff on the product of the Homestead
mills under both the old and the new
laws:
New tariff
Old tariff (McKinley)
Beams, girders.
channels, etc. I'.c 9-IOc
Plates.1-..C 8-10c
Billets.45 per cent, about 6-t0c 4-10c
Steel Ingots.. .45 per cent, about tMOc 410c
Pig metal.3-10o 8-IOc
Kails.117 or about 8-10c 6-10c
Wire nails.4c 2c
Rods.6-10 6-10c
Spliced bars... 1 1 o
Round Iron....1 2-10c 1 1-I0c
Bar iron.S-lOo 8-lOc
Wire.l»e 1*0
Cleveland Is Democracy.
Cleveland is the Democratic party.
while children cried around the mouth
of the pit for their mothers entombed
below. In the United States, happily,
there is no need of women going intc
coal mines for a living.”
Tlie Democratic Rooster.
Dana—Good Lord, I wish I was a
rooster.
Tammany—Why, brother?
Dana—Because the rooster doesn’t
have to eat his crow.
Democratic Hopes.
The Democrats' only hope of carry,
ing the election is by either carrying
New York or Indiana. Yet they hissed
i ml hooted New York's candidate for
President and spurned Indiana’s candi'
late for Vice-President.
Drace l j> There, Dave.
I-o, ancient tim s
To modern times have lent
A Croat Ac-Hill-es,
Sulking in his tent.
What He Meant.
Johnnie—Papa, what did Gov. Hill
mean when he said he was a Democrat?
Papa—He meant to get the Presiden
tial nomination, but he missed it.
Political Pointert*.
Democratic editors are apparently
unwilling to fight the coining battle on
the tariff issue. They are attempting
to counter on the ‘-force bill” issue.
There is no ‘-force bill” and there
never will be.
Exports of domestic merchandise for
the tiseal year 1892 were $1,015,789,607.
This is the first year they ever attained
the sum of a billion dollars. This is a
billion dollar country.
The Democrats are now discussing
the possibility of carrying the election
without New- York. This means they
have no hope of carrying New York.
Cleveland knows his danger from
Tarnany. The people should know
what consideration he is willing to
offer for its support.
President Harrison has furnished a
polished epigram on almost every topic
of public interest.
Military Wheelmen.
The first military company of the
United States to adopt the bicycle as
part of the service is the Toledo cadets.
An application has been submitted to
the Adjutant-General and permission
granted by him for the company to use
the bicycle in their drill. It is not in
tended the two wheels shall succeed
the horse, but this company intends to
give some cavalry maneuvers at the
world's fair on wheels. It will be a
novel sight. One of the conditions is
that the members buy their own
wheels, to which all gladly assented.
A QUEER RACE.
A ITOITtOf A STRANGS FIOK.I,
ST WllXIAM WMTALU
CHAPTER Till.—CONTINUED.
“Didn’t I tall you?” said Peyton, turning
to m« with • smile. “All right, lads I But
I only want two; cannot spare more, and
two will be quite enough. We must draw
lots. Mr. pucklow, write down the name
of every man who is willing to undertake
the job on a slip of paper, put the slips in
to a hat, and then Mr. Krle will perhaps
oblige us by drawing two at random, and
the names on them will be those of the two
lucky ones.”
I.uoky ones, Indeed!
The names were written. I drew two
slips, and announced, amid the breathless
attention of the crew, that the winners
were Harry Smithers and Jack McKean.
Both threw up their caps with delight; the
others looked bitterly disappointed: and
the curses thoy vented on their ill-luck
were louu ana deep.
After this a couple of hawsers were pass
ed from the stern of the "Diana” to the
bows of tho “Lady .fane," the forlorn hope
(very forlorn, I feared), amply provided
with water and provisions, went on board
the derelict, and the fover ship was taken
In tow.
I have already mentioned that the "Di
ana” had an auxiliary screw. It was,
however, very small, aud seldom used—
only. In fact, when thero was a dead calm
or exceptionally bad weather. 80 far, it
had not been used at all, and our coal sup
ply being unusually low (owing to our
carrying a full cargo of merchandise), l’ey
tou would probably not have put the "Di
ana” under steam at all had wo not fallen
in with the fever ship. But as It is ex
tremely difficult for a vessel under anil to
tow another, ho ordered the screw to be
slipped and steam to be got up. It wus,
however, quite evident that our progress
in any circumstances would bo slow, and
that if a gale of wind sprung up we should
have to abandon our prize. Nobody knew
this better than Peyton.
“What will you do with tho ‘Lady Jane’
When you get her to Nassau?” I asked.
"Batten down tho hutches and fumigate
her with sulphur; then put a crew uboard,
bend fresh sails to her, and send her homo
under charge of Mr. Bucklow. If there
should be any fever-germs left—and I don’t
believe there will be—the cold will soon
kill them.”
Had I been unduly alarmed, after all?
There was no communication between the
two ships; it was hardly possible for the
infection to fly across the streak of water
that separated them; and yellow fever be
ing generally conflnod to certain localities,
the sea must necessarily be unfavorable to
its development.
When two days passed and nobody
seemed any tho worse—not even Bill
Bailey, who had handled the dead body—I
began to think that I had been unduly
alarmed: my spirits revived, and nlbelt
none of us passengers (nor probably any of
the crew) particularly liked the proximity
of the fever ship, we soon ceased to trou
ble about her, and our lives went on os us
ual.
In the meanwhile, the wind had fallen,
and though every stitch of canvas was
Bpread, we could not make more than four
knots an hour, even with the help of our
tiny screw, much to Peyton’s annoyance.
"At this rate,” he said, “we shall not
reach the Bermudas for two or three
weeks. However, it might be worse. If
it had come on to blow, we should have
had to cast the ‘Lady Jane’ off; and if we
were quite becalmed, we should soon be
without coal. I wish Nassau was a few
hundred miles nearer. It is a good stretch
out of our way.”
The responsibility he had incurred by
deviating from his course was evidently
preying on his mind. If nil wont on
smoothly, if he got safely to Nassau and
disposed of the “Lady Jane” to advantage,
or sent her home, good and well—his co
owners would be more than satisfied, and
praise his enterprise and pluck, and he
I would put money in their pockets and his
own. But if, after prolonging his voyage
two or three weeks, he bad to abandon his
prize, they would probably have something
, to say that he might not quite like.
I *So far as I was personally concerned, I
had no objection in tho world to make a
call at the Bermudas. Not knowing when
I —if ever—I should be able to make unother
long voyage, I wanted to see all I could. •
I ■ One of my greatest pleasures was an
early walk round the “Diana's" deck.
There being none of the fair sex on board,
we had no need to study propriety; and I
generally rose with the sun, slipped on a
pair of pyjamas, and paddled about the
deck with naked feet. As often as not I
appeared even without the pyjamas, and
jumping overboard at the bows, swam to
j the stern and climbed up the ship’s side by
a rone.
I Rather a ticklish operation: for if you
I don’t seize the rope at the right. moment
' you may be left behind, and swimming af
ter the ship under sail is by no means easy
and may be dangerous. Before she could
be brought to and a boat lowered, you
I might easily be drowned or gobbled up by
. n shark.
| Captain Peyton several times warned me
of the risk I ran by this proceeding.
1 “You will be missing your tip one of
these days,” he said, “and then look out!
If the ship has much way on her, it may
be half an hour or more before you get
help.”
I But as I never missed my tip, I thought
I never should: and with practice the feat
became so easy that I grew conthlent and
careless, although I did not end, as Pey
ton said I should, by "missing my tip.”
| One morning, shortly after we had dis
covered the “Lady Jane,” I rose, if any
thing, a little earlier than usual, was on
deck, just as the sun began to rise, and
diving over the bows as usual, struck out
[ leisurely for the stern, which, as the ship
and myself were moving in opposite direc
tions, I reached in a few seconds. Raislug
my head, I prepared to make a dash at the
rope.
I It was not there! I had forgotten to or
der one to-be thrown out, and I was not
sure that anybody had seen me go into the
j water. I shouted to the man at the wheel
' but he did not hear, ami the next moment
the ship hail forged ahead. There was
nothing for it but to climb up the bows of
the “Lady Jane.” Better risk taking tbo
fever than be drowned.
1 She was rather low in the water, or I do
not think I should have managed it, and I
was greatly helped by the loose end of a
bolt-rope which hung down from the bow
sprit. As I struggled up, knocking myself
about a good deal in the effort, I happened
to cast an eye on tho hawser nearest to
me, and fancied I saw something black
moving along it toward the “Diana.”
'•What on earth—t” I could not spars a
l and to rub my eyes, so I shut and opened
them by way of squeezing out the water, I
and looked again.
There could be no mistake about It The
black thins was a rat, and It was followed
by a lot more rats. They were running
along the rope In regular procession—
scores of them—and when 1 got over the
bulwark 1 found ever so many more, wait
ing for their turns. When the hideous
things saw me they ran away squeaking.
I shuddered, for I knew what they had
been feeding on; but my mind was just
then too much occupied with my own con
cerns to take In the full significance of tlio
incident. I felt rather foolish standing
stark naked lu the bows of the “Lady
Jane,” and did not want to add to the ab
surdity of my position by hailing the
“Diana" and asking for a boat. Why
shonld I not Imitate the rats, and use one
of the hawsers as a bridge?
No sooner thought than dono. I am a
pretty fulr gymnast, and seizing the haw
ser with both hands, and letting myself
down, I moved them alternately forward
until 1 reached my destination. It was
still gray dawn; nobody had seen me, and
I crept, unpercetvcd over the tafTrall. Bill
Bailey was at the wheel, and Bucklow the
second mute, and Tom Bolsover were near
the binnacle, deep In conversation.
"Good-morning!” I said. In a hollow
voice, for I was breathless from exertion.
“Lord help usl One of them chaps from
the ‘Lndy Jane!”’ shouted Bailey, and
without more ado left the wheel to Itself,
ana ran lorwnru as lust ns it our ghostly
foe had been at. his heels. Ills exclamat ion
and my appearance so scared Bolsovcr,
that he jumped round, slipped on the wet
deck (It had just been washed), and clutch
ing at. the mate In a frantic effort to buvo
himself, both went down together, and the
ship broaching to at the same moment,
they rolled, ono ovor the other, Into the
scupper.
"it Is only me—-nothing to be alarmed
about. Just come ubonrd,” I said, burst
ing with laughter, as I run below to dry
and dress myself.
When I looked Into my glass and sup
reyed my body, I was not surprised at the
scare I had caused. My hands and legs
were covered with tar from the bows of
the “Lady Jane;” some of tbo stuff had got
on my face, and as my long and rutlier red
hair was matted on my forehead and bung j
over my eyes, and my skin was very white,
I looked dechlodly queer and slightly dia
bolicnl, if not very ghost-like. |
So soon as I had made myself presenta
ble I went on deck. There had been a t
great to-do. When tho ship bronched to,
the captain enmo out of his cabin in great
wrath, and wanted to know what—tho I
something or other—was up. llucklow
was excessively riled at being rolled into
the scupper, and called tho boatswain a ,
darnatlon old woman, to Tom's great dis
gust; nml Bill Bailey received a severe rep
rimand for deserting Ills post and letting
the ship broach to. |
“I thought it was one of them chnps
from tho ‘Lady Jane’ come to life, or may
be Yellow .lack himself," pleaded tho
quarter-master. I
“And if It had been, that was no reason
for lotting the ship broach to,” said tho
captain, severely; but when his momentary
fit of anger was over, he laughed us heart
ily ns the other; nml for tho rest of the day
all were enjoying the joke, and talking
about the apparition of Yellow Jack.
Ah, met It was the Inst bit of fun we
had on board the “Diana.”
| In talking the nlTalr over with Peyton, I
mentioned the portentous sight I had just
seen. He seemed much disquieted. I
“Rats!” he exclaimed. “Rats running
along tho hawsers? Are you quite Bure?”
“Quite; and tho procession continued
until I got on board and disturbed them.”
“This may huvebeen golngon nil night,”
lie said, uneasily. “It must be stopped. I
want nothing from the ‘Lady June’ on
board this ship, least of all rats.”
No wonder he felt uneasy. Tho rnts I
saw had been living for days on the bodies
—now thrown overboard—which wo hnd
seen on tho “Lady Jane's” deck, and now
they were among us, running round the
ship, nibbling at our food, senmperlug
over the water-casks. If it were possible
to convey the infection, they would surely
convey .t—had, perhaps, conveyed it al
ready 1 I
The ;aptain asked mo to keepwlint Hind
seen to myself—he feared It might alarm
the craw—and the carpenter received or
ders to fix on each of the hawsers a round
board, studded with nails, to prevent au
invasion of rats from the “Lady June.” !
“I have heard of rats running along
ropei, before now,” he snhl to the carpen
ter, “tind it is just as well to be on the safe
nl.ln Hi I
I made no further remark, but I much
feared that It would prove nnother case of
shutting the stable door when the steed
was stolen. My worst forobodlng revived,
and i turned in that night with a heavy
heart. After lying awake several hours, I
sunk Into a dream-haunted sleep. My
dreams were all about rats, I saw the
procession over again; saw the little black
demons crawl along the hawser and sweep
in thousands over the deck: saw the watch
fighting with them; and Peyton, coming
oi^'if his cabin to see what was the mat
ter; the creatures fell fiercely upon him,
and In a few minutes there was nothing
left but a skeleton.
When 1 awoke the sun was shining, and
a huge rat sat on the side of my bunk. For
a moment I thought that I still dreamed,
but as I moved and stirred the bedclothes
ft jumped on the floor with a squeak and
scurried out of my sight.
The first rat I had seen on board the
“Diana,” and no doubt one of the horde
from the fever-ship. As likely as not, it
had been playing ubont my bunk aud run
aing over my bed all night.
My fellow-passengers were all early ris
ers, though not quite so early ns myself,
and I found them t breakfast, Peyton, us
nsual, at the head of the tuble.
“Ilalloo!” cried Bulnols, the young fel
fow who was voyaging In search of health.
“I hope you are not out of sorts. I never
knew you lata for breakfast before. You
are not an early bird this morning, and if
you had beeu you would not have picked
up a worm. No worms on board the •Di
ana,' only rats aud apparitions of Yellow
Jack—ha, ha!”
"Kata! rats! What do you' meats, Bul
nois?”
“You have not seen any, then* We
have—lots—except the captain here; he has
not.”
I glanced at Peyton, and felt sure, from
bis uneasy, anxious look, that, despite his
denial, he, too, had been visited by one or
more of our unwelcome guests.
“I saw one as I turned in last night,”
went on Buluois, ‘‘and there were two
whoppers on the floor this morning: and
Robinson found one in his shoe, did yqu
not. Robinsou?”
"Rather! And it gave me a scare, too.
I was putting on my boot when I- felt
something soft; but it bit hard, I can tell
you.”
“Got bold, did it’” I said, with assumed
carelessness
"Rather! Stuck its sharp teeth Into mj
Mg toe. But I hud my revenge. I kicked
the beggar off, and then knocked It on the
head with my other boot. Where did they
all come from, Captain Peyton t There did
not need to be any on board; you said so
yourself.”
"I did not think there were; bnt rats ar
▼ery unaccountable creatures. You o
never tell. Two or three pairs may have
come aboard at Liverpool, and been In
creasing and multiplying down In the
hold. You have no idea how fast they
breed.”
"GadI If two or three pairs have Increas
ed Into two or three hundred since we loft
Liverpool, they do breed fast, and no mis
take,” returned llulnols, dryly.
“Two or three hundredl Nonsensel I
don’t believe there are two or three dozens.”
"Aren’t there, though! Why, they are
all over the ship; and if some are so bold
as to come Into our bunks and crawl Into
our boots, just think how many must there
be down In the hold. I hope they won’t
cat through the sides and sink us, that’s
all.”
At this point Peyton (whom the conver
sation evidently annoyed) remembered that
his presence was required on deck, and
left us to ourselves, on which we had a
loud talk and many storlos about rats; but
I mado no mention ot the strango sight I
had seen on the occasion of my late Invol
untary visit to the "Lady Jane.”
The captain afterwnrd told me “on the
quiet" that (ns I suspected) he had seen
several rats in his cabin, only It would not
do for him to admit the fact.
“We must make the best of It," he said;
“no use crying over tiplllad milk, you
know. If we were to cast off the 'Lady
Jane’ we would not get rid of the rats; and
It tuny bo a false ntnrm, after all. I really
don't see what harm they can do."
Hut tills was ull make-believe—whistling
to koeD his courage up. I knew that In his
heart Peyton thought Just as 1 did, and
feared tho worst.
When I went on deck next morning I
missed Hill Dailey, and asked Bucklow
whut had become of him,
"On the sick-list.”
“Whut Ih the matter?"
“I don’t know; but 1 believe he is very
sick. Tho captain has Been him; he will
tell you.”
We hnd no surgeon on board, and the
captain, In addition to his other functions,
acted as doctor. When I saw him, 1 asked
whnt was wrong with Bulley—If it was any
thing serious.
"Very serious," was the answer,
“It surely D not—”
“I am sorry to suy It Is."
"But Is it not possible you may be mis
taken? Are you certain that your diag
nosis is correct?"
"Do I know a case of yellow fever when
I see It, you mean? I ought. When I was
second officer of tho ‘Neva,’ one of the
ltoyal Mall steamers, you know, we once
hnd seventy deaths from yellow fever
within a week of leaving St. Thomas’.
Yes, Bailey bus got It; ami 1 fear It will go
hard with him, poor fellow.”
It did go hard with him. Forty-eight
hours Inter the quarter-master’s body was
stitched up In his hammock and committed
to the deep, ami at the captain's request I
rend the funeral service over the poor fel
low’s watery grave.
"The first victim," I thought. "Who
will be the next?”
TO BE CONTINUED.
Struggle of the Races.
South Africa is tho only country
where, in n temperate climate and
tinder climate conditions admirably
suited to both, the European and the
negro are engaged in a struggle for
mastery and for occupation of the land,
not by force of arms, but by tho silent
process of natural selecting, which, il
it docs its work with less noise, is far
more effectual. The conflict is going
on, and civilization or barbarism de
pends on the result, which is not quite
so certain as those who belong to the
superior race could wish it to be.
Jn the West Indies the negro has won,
but thcro the climate was against the
Kiirooenns. ■
In the southern states of America
the same battle is going on, but there
60.000.000 of Europeans surround 7,
000,000 of negroes, and yet even under
these conditions the question is full of
difficulty and danger. >
In south Africa the proportion is re
versed, says the Eortnigklly Review,
half a million of Europeans live in the
piidst of 8,000,000 black folks, who are
backed up by a great reservoir of bar
barism, from which re-enforcements in
the shape of laborers are constantly be
ing pushed down to the south to share
the means of subsistence with the black,
white and brown races already on the
soil. The natives, under the peace
kept by the Europeans, increase, apart
from the immigration mentioned above,
according to the evidence of statistics,
far more rapidly than does the white
population. They drift into and till up
the country iu a silent way that can
only be compared to the flowing of the
tide. Fifty years ago Natal and the
territory now known as the Transvaal
Republic were wilderness, depopulated
by the Zulus, who had swept off aud
destroyed man. woman aud child in
their ruthless forays. Now there are
400,000 natives in Natal, and at least a
million in the Transvaal, outnumber*
iug the whites bv ten to oue.
How to Keep Ice.
There are three or four things that
will help to keep the precious nugget
of ice from melting awav if tho house
keeper will only remember them. Ona
is that to keep ice warm is the way to
keep it cold. A piece of ice in a pitcher,
with a pail over the pitcher and a rug
over the pail, will keep all night. A
piece of ice in a refrigerator, covered
with a snug white blauket win cheat
the greedy ice-man every day, and
snap saucy lingers at the milk that
does not dare to get sour or the beef
steak that dares not fail. These things
are admirable in their way and should
be in every hatband, but*the greatest
trick of all is newspapers. With pleuty
of newspapers nbove, below aud on
every side the way a piece of ice will
keep is a joke.
The First Sewing-Machine.
It is strange how badly we get im
portant matters of history mixed. Ask
any well-informed person who invent
ed the sewing-machine and tho reply
will be Elias Ilowe. which is far from
t'ne truth in the case. The tirst sewing
machine was patented in England by
Thos. Saint in 1760, sixty years before
llowe was born. One of* Saint's old
machines is now on exhibition iu the
Royal Agricultural hall. Islington,
England.—St. Louis Republic.