A QUEER RACE.
A STORY Or A STRANGE FIOFLE
ST WILLIAM WI8TALL.
CHAPTER II.—YELLOW JACK.
Like a good many other men, Peyton did
not like to own. even to himself, that he
had made a mistake; and as I could well
see, he was continually casting about in
his mind for reasons that might justify
him for taking the “Lady Jane” in tow,
in forgetfulness of the French saying, Qui
w’excuse, s’accrue. His very anxiety to
clear himself from charges which, as yet,
nobody had made, showed that he was
conscious of having committed a grievous
“I am very sorry about poor Bailey,” he
said. “Yet, after all, it la no more than
was to be expected.”
“I don’t quite see—”
“Don’t you remember him handllngthat
iody on the ‘Lady Janet’ It must have
ien then he caught the fever.”
“But that is two days since. He was
thoroughly disinfected; and if he had
ught the fever then it would have shown
tself much sooner. I have always under
itood that yellow feveris exceedingly rapid
its action.”
“Generally; but there are exceptions. He
oust have caught it that time on the ‘Lady
'ane.’ and would have died just the same
rhether we had taken the ship in tow or
iot. How else could he have caught it?”
“The rats. Bolsover tells me that they
ctually swarm about the water-casks; and
■ou know what that means.”
“Curse the rats!” Peyton exclaimed, pas
lonately. “It’s rats, rats, all day long! 1
ink you have all got rats on the brain,
re you quite sure, now, you did see them,
nitng across the hawsers?”
“Quite. Besides, if they are not from
ie ‘Lady Jane,’ how did they get on
ard?”
“Anyhow, it is not the rats that gave
r Bailey the fever; he got it in the'Lady
ane,’ and nobody can blame me for that.
iio could tell beforehand that she was a
lever ship?”
To this query I made no answer. I knew
hat he was driving at. In the event of
ihe fever spreading, he wanted to make
>ut that it bad been brought on board by
alley; that the rats had nothing to do
ith it. I felt annoyed that he should
bus try to wrigclo out of the responsibility
e had incurred by taking the “Lady
ane” in tow, and only the fact of my be
g his guest prevented me from saying so.
he had been less obstinate, he would
ave cast her oil at once, for besides taking
out of our course, she was greatly im
:ling our progress; and with fever on
ard our own vessel, and a fever ship in
w, no port in that part of the world
■ould receive us; what he would do with
e “Lady Jane” in such circumstances as
ese was a mystery.
Bailey’s death naturally caused great
larm, both among the passengers and
w. The captain tried to persuade them
at it was merely an isolated case, and
at he had adopted such precautions as
uhl prevent the pest from spreading. I
n’t think, though, that anybody believed
Im. I know I did not. The rats, I felt
re, would infect the whole ship, and it
as quite possible that the fate of the
.arty Jane’s” crew would be our—and
line—for the more imminent grew the
langer the less confident I felt in my sup
ised immunity.
We dined at half past five on board the
Diana.” The party generally consisted
if the seven passengers, the captain (who
ireSided) and sometimes the first or second
ifflcer. The bell rang fifteen minutes be
fore the time, and again at the half hour,
hen. as a rule, we were all in our places,
cept Bulnois who was in the habit of
induly prolonging his afternoon nap, and
bout evepy other day hod to be wakened
ip by a special messenger.
This happened on the day Bailey was bur
d, and the conversation with the captain
hlch I have just described took place.
Where is Mr. Bulnois?” asked Peyton,
hen we were all seated. Asleep, as usual,
suppose. Steward, send a boy to rouse
im up, and say that dinner is on the ta
le."
Just as we were beginning with onrsonp
e boy came back to say that Mr. Bulnois
as very ill—had a bad headache, was very
ick, and could not come to dinner.
We all looked at each other. My com
lanions turned pale, and I have no doubt I
lid; for the same thought passed through
ery mind—Bulnois had got yellow fever,
it was like the handwriting on the wall at
elshazzer’s feast. The foe was inside the
litadel, and each of us was mentally ask
g himself whose turn it would be next.
The captain was the first to break the
“A trifling indisposition, I expect,” he
aid, with an affected nonchalance which
latched ill with his anxious face. “Bui
ois is subject to headaches, I think. I
till go and see him presently, and give
iim something that will do him good,
tery likely an attack of indigestion.”
The captain looked round as if to invite
in expression of opinion in accordance
rith his own; but nobody answered a word,
,nd the dinner was finished hurriedly, and
a deep, almost solemn silence. But when
’eyton left us to see poor Bulnois, every
ongue was loosened.
"He is among us now, and no mistake,”
d Robinson.
"Who?”
"Yellow Jack. Yon must have brought
im when you went aboard the ‘Lady
ane’ the other day, Erie.”
“That is impossible. I was not there two
linutes, an .; I catne back as naked as I
rent. Besides, if I had brought it, 1 should
ave been the first victim.”
"Well, how is it, then? I can under
hand that quarter-master getting it. But
'ulnois never went near him, and nt lunch
>n he seemed quite well, and ate with
od appetite.”
“I’ll tell yon what it is,” put in Saun
ers, the bank clerk, a quiet, observant
ittle fellow. "It’s those rats.”
“Rats! What the deuce have rats to do
rith it?”
“Everything. I can see it all now. There
ras not a rat on board before Tuesday. I
iave Inquired among the men, and I can
iot find anybody who saw a single speci
men until Wednesday, and now they sim
ly swarm; and was it not on Wednesday
orning that the captain had those guards
at on the hawsers to prevent rats running
ver them from the 'Lady Jane.' Depend
ipon it, he knows, only it does not suit bis
urpose to say so. Have you not noticed
iow he fires up when anything is said
bout rats?”
“By Jove! I do believe yon are right,
nd it all comes of taking that cursed fever
dp in tow. Peyton deserves to be thrown
rerboard.”
“Mo, no,” I said; “Peyton is one of the
sst fellows in the world. He acted tor the
Mt> and took every precaution. Who
could foresee that rats would come aboard
by a hawserf”
“He had ro business to run the risk—a
risk that involved others as well as himself
—of taking a fever ship in tow; and what
makes it worse, he did It for his own pro
fit. We have no interest in the salvage.”
After this I thought it discreet to let the
subject drop, for in truth my friend's con
duct was almost, if not altogether inde
fensible.
“Never mind about the captain,” inter
posed somebody. "What are we to dof
that is the question.”
“What can we do but grin and ahidef”
I answered. “There is no possibility of
running away.”
“But cannot we take something—brandy
or quinine; or do something with carbollo
“Carbolic is merely a disinfectant; It is
being used all orer the ship already;
brandy, 1 should think, Is about the worst
thing you could take, and quinine about
the best. A manual of medicine I was
looking at yesterday, in the captain’s cabin,
recommends strong doses of quinine as a
prophylactic.”
“Let us have some!”—“Where can we
get itf”—“Has the captain anyf”—“How
much should we take?” shouted the five
passengers.
I Bald that I believed the captain had
some; and when he returnod from seeking
Bulnois they asked him for quinine even
before they inquired after theirsick friend.
He had some, though not very much,
and gave each man a small dose forthwith.
Bulnois was very ill; Peyton could not
deny that his symptoms were those of yel
low fever; and if he had denied it I should
have known that he was wrong, for I had
been reading the subject up. I had seen
Bailey, and the moment X saw poor Bui
nois (none of the other fellows would go
near him) I recognized all the signs of the
dread disease in its incipient stage—the
shivering, the hot skin, the suffused eye
balls, the drunken-like aspect of the eyes,
and the flushed zone that encircled them.
Poor fellow! wo could do nothing fo!
him; I doubt whether the ablest physician
in England could have done anything for
him. He died delirious on the second day.
In the meantime three of the crew had
fallen ill, and they, too, died; and after
that there were several deaths every day;
within a week of the outbreak of the fever,
the forty-six souls whom the “Diana” had
on board when she sailed from Liverpool
were reduced to twenty-live. Yet the
virulence of the plague did not abate. It
seemed as if we should all perish, and I do
not think there were more than two men
aboard who believed they would escape.
These two were Bolsover and myself. I
had gone so much among the sick, expos
ing myself continually to the risk of con
tagion without suffering the least ill ef
fect, that I began to think my immunity
was real, after ull, aud that I ran no more
risk of taking the fever than a man who
has been effectively vaccinated runs of
taking small pox.
The boatswain was like Bonaparte—he
believed in his star.
“I am not afraid, Mr. Erie,” ho said to
me one day; “my time has not come yet.
I am bound to see that treasure-ship before
I die.”
It was about this time that Bucklow
(now first officer, his senior being among
the dead) took mo to the stern, and point
ing to the water, said grimly—
“There they are, waiting for us. They
have been following us these last three
days.”
“They” were five or six huge sharks,
swimming in the wake of the ship. I
looked at them for awhile ns if fascinated,
and then with a shudder turned away. I
never went near the taffrail that I did not
look, and they were always close under the
stern.
As for Peyton, I thought he was going
mad. He attended to his duties as dili
gently as ever, looked after the sick as well
as he could, nnd kept the survivors of his
crew to their duties, took the day’s reckon
ing, and recorded the day’s run; but he
hardly ever spoke, except to give necessary
orders.
For hours together he would pace about
the quarter-deck, mutteriug—“It’s my do
ing! it’s all my doing! We shall all die!
we shall all diet but my time has not come
vet!”
Once, when I ventured to suggest that
he should cast the “Lady Jane” off (at the
instance of some of the meh. who had got
it into their heads that so long as we had
the fever ship in tow the fever would never
leave us) he turned on me almost fiercely.
“No!” he exclaimed; “I shall not cast her
off. Why should 1? What harm has she
done? I am doomed—we are all doomed—
and the salvage will be a provision for my
wife and family. Don’t you understand?
A provision for my wife and family, that’s
why. But it’s useless to discuss the sub
ject or give my reasons. I absolutely re
fuse to cast the ship off; let that suffice.”
I-Ie was doomed, but not to die of yellow
fever.
The very next morning, when 1 went on
deck, Bucklow told me, with a significant
look, that the captain had been taken ill
in the night, and seemed in a very bad way.
I went to him at once. Bucklow spoke
truly. Tbe captain was, in truth, in a very
bad way. He had r11 the symptoms which
l now knew so well. Although the tem
perature of his cabin was nearly eighty,
and his skin hot and dry, he shivered con
tinually. He had a terrible headache, too,
and, albeit still sensible, rambled at times
in his talk, and I doubted not would soon
become quite delirious.
“Yellow Jack has got hold of me now,”
he said, trying to smile. “I thought he
would; but not so soon, not so soon. I was
quite well lost night. What think you
now—is a man safer at sea or ashore? Are
these adventures to your taste, Erie? You
will have more, more, and pleasanter ones,
I hope. Sorry I asked you to come with
me. Turned out badly, hasn’t it? If I had
known what would happen, you may be
sure I would have given that brig a wide
berth. But now it is too late! and the sal
vage, you know, will be a provision for the
wife and children. Poor wife! poor chil
dren! I shall never see them again, Erie—
never again! Give them my love when
you get home, and say I thought about
them to tbe last. I knew your father; he
was a very good friend; yes, a very good
friend. I was second officer of the ‘Or
ontes’ when he and your mother were pas
sengers; you were a passenger, too—a little
chap about two year? old. I remember
you well; used to trot you about on my
shoulder. How did they get to St. Thomas’?
That is where they came on board. Oh, I
remember—in a fulucha from Maracaibo;
yes, that was it—iu a falucha from Mar
acaibo. I say, what do you think I saw in
the night?”—lowering his voice, and look
ing fearfully round. “Rats! Hundreds!
They ran all over the place, and played at
leap-frog on my bed—they did—played at
leap-frog on my bed. And I could neither
touch them nor call out. My arms were
fastened to my aides, and my tcngue re
fused to move. And what do you think?
But don’t tell anybody. A great yellow
one—twice as big as any of the others--a
great yellow one, with black whiskers, and t
white teeth, and fierce red eyes, came and |
eat on my chest and spat at me. It gave
me the fever, cnrse it! Get doge and cats;
set traps; lay poison. Kill it! kill ttl Kill
that cnrsed yellow rat, or you will all die. j
A little more of that eau-de-Cologne,
please; on my eyeballs this time. Thanks.
And now I will drink again. This thirst,
Is terrible. I am very 111, Erie.” j
I remained with him an hoar or more,
laving his head with eau-de-Cologne and
- giving him some drink, and then, leaving
him with his boy for awhile, I went outside
to get a breath of fresh air, the oabln be
ing both close and hot I
Bucklow was still on deck.
"How long will he last, do yon thlnkf”
"Perhaps until to-morrow,” I answered,
gloomily. "They hare all gone on the
second day, or sooner, so far; and Peyton
has it very badly. I am afraid he will be
wildly delirious. Somebody should be
with him continually.”
"You have left the boy, I suppose?”
“Yes; and I shall go back in a few min
utes.”
"How long will this lost, I wonder? It’s
belli I’ll tell you what, Erie. I have a
great mind to cast that cursed brig off on
my own authority. We have had no luck
since we saw her. I am In command now.
Do you think I might?"
"Certainly. Cast her off, by all means,
and let us make all the unste we can for
Montevideo, while there’s somebody to
navigate and sail the ship; and If—"
“Rats! Ratsl Rats! There’s that great
yellow one with the rod eyes! I’ll catch
him, if I die for itl Ah! he Is making for
the ‘Lady Jane,’ Is he—I”
“My God! what is that?” exclaimed
Bucklow, ns we both turned from the taff
rail, over which we had been leaning.
It was the captain running across the
deck in his shirt, and at the same instant,
and before either of U3 could raise a hand
to stop him, he sprung on the bulwark and
jumped into the sen.
The mate, with ready presence of mind,
threw a buoy after him, at the same time
ordering the ship to bo brought to and a
boat to be lowered.
My first impulse was to follow Peyton
and try to save him.
“Don'tl” said Bucklow, laying his hand
on my shoulder. "He can swim better
than you can. And, see, it would be cer
tain death.”
The captnin was swimming with power
ful strokes toward the "Lady Jane,” in
the very midst of a shoal of sharks. They
were all rouud him, and even before he
reached the brig one of the creatures turn
ed on its back for the fatal bite. An ago
nized scream, a piteous look from a fever
stricken face, a swirl of the waters as the
wild beasts of the sen fought with each
other for their prey, and all was over.
It seemed too terriblo to bo real. My
brain was in n whirl; I felt sick and giddy:
and had not Bucklow put his arm around
me, I should have fallen on the deck.
"Don’t give way,” ho said, kindly. "Hor
rid sight us it was, it is perhaps better so.
Poor Peyton has been spared a long agony.
It was not three minutes from the time of
his jumping overboard to his death. I’d
rather die like that than as some of our
poor fellows have died. Just one crunch,
and it’s over. Come! I am going to cast
the brig off. 1 cannot bear the sight of
her.”
“Sink her, and so prevent the disasters
that have befallen us from befalling oth
ers.”
"We cannot. She is timber laden.”
"Burn her, then.”
“I did not think of that. Yes, we will
burn her; and those cursed rats with her,
if there are any left. Will you come with
me? and we will set her on Are, and bring
those two fellows off. How they have es
caped, Heaven only knows.”
“With all my heart.”
The dingey was lowered at once, and
taking with us matches, axes, and a car
boy of turpentine, we went on board th«
“Lady Jane.”
TO BE CONTINUED.
Why Envelopes are Redeemed.
Some peonlo have an idea that the
Government redeems postage stamps
when from any cause they become un
fit for use or are difficult to use. Fre
quently sheets of stamps are stuck
together, or are torn or injured. The
loss, if any, falls upon the owner, as
the Goverment refuses to assume any
responsibility of stamps when onoe
sold. The agents of the Government,
the Postmasters, can redeem stamps
which they have for sale, if through
any accident they become untitforuse.
But when the citizen buys a stamp he
either uses it in the legitimate way or
else he is out the value of the stamp.
The Government, however, redeems
stamped envelopes. If one should
happen to be misdirected or should
become blotted, or for auy reason a
person should wish to tear open a
stamped envelope after he had sealed
it for mailing, he can bring it to the
Post Office and get a brand new
envelope in its place. The reason for
this difference in the treatment of the
adhesive stamp and the stamped
envelope is that the adhesive stamp can
be used and then washed and uassed
ns good, unless a careful scrutiny is
made. If the Government should be
gin the practice of redeeming ndhesive
stamps, the opportunities for fraud
would be increased. Then the adhesive
stamps are manufactured at a cost to
the Government, which the stamped
envelope is not. The stamps are fur
nished to the public at the face value,
and out of this has to come the cost of
manufacture but iu the case of stamped
envelopes they are sold at their face
value, plus the cost of manufacture.
Crumbling to Pieces.
The British parliament houses are
crumbling to pieces so fast that there
is constant danger of some portion of
the buildiugs toppling down upon the
members. Parts of the front of St.
Stephen’s have had to be entirely re
faced because of the wearing away of
the soft stouo. Only a week or two
ago a heavy piece of a stone heraldic
animal suddenly fell close to the en
trance of Westminster hall in Old Pal
ace yard—a means of entrance to the
house which is largely favored. But a
few days before a portion of the orna
mental stone work fell close to the
member's entrance itself, and another
heavy piece fell upon the pavement of
New Palace yard not a month ago.
An official estimate sets down the
number of wolves in Russia at 170,000;
it is further stated that the loss caused
by the destruction aft sheep and swine
by wolves is so r*»*t that it caasot
be even approxim *9 estimated.
HOMESTEAD WAGES
ALMOST CAUSE DEMOCRATS TO
LEAVE CONORESS.
Mr. Bjrnnm Would Like to llavo a Job—
Soma Thing* That Surprised Demo
cratic Congressional Investigator*—
Protection Strengthen* Labor.
The Democratic House sent a com
mittee to Homestead with the hope of
making a showing of distress and pov
erty among the laborers In protected
Industries. They hoped to show that
workmen in protected Industries get no
benefit from a protective tariff. Hut
they will not show that.
What they found was workmen get
ting from $1.40 a day (the lowest rate,
and that only a few) up to as high as
$10 per day. There were men off eves l
$1,000, $2,BOO, $3,000 and even $3,000 per
annum, and working about 870 days In
the year—and yet they had learned to
feel and believe, under the experience
of a protective tariff, that they ought
to have more. No wonder Congress
man Bynum, Democrat, of Indiuna and
a member of the committee, inquired
with some show of eagerness whether
there was a chance for him to secure a
position In the works.
When Hugh O’Donnell, the leader of
the strikers was on the stand, Mr.
Boatner (Democrat, of Louisiana)asked
him:
“You are one of the skilled work
men, are you not?”
“Yes, sir.”
“About what were your wages?”
“About $144 per month.”
John McLuclcle, a member of the
Amalgamated association and a bur
gess of Homestead, complained to the
committee that the McKinley law re
duced the tariff on steel billets, ami
that wages, therefore, began to go
down with the price of steel billets
after its passage. He advanced tho
condition of laboring men In Europe
and Ureat Britain la proved not to be
true out of the mouths of the strikers
and the Democrats themselves.
ON THE OTHER SIDE.
The Free Tra<le Pnrtjr Endorsed bv Bn*
Sllsh ropers.
Senator Hale.—The fight will be
fought out by the llcpubllcan party as
an American fight. The policy of the
Democratic party, as shown by the
tariff plank, Is British and not Ameri
can. Tariff for revenue only, with
protection denounced as robbery and
fraud, is British doctrine,and it is with
no wonder that I rend from the London
Graphic, in its issue of June 23, the fol*
Imvlnrr*
Englishmen will watch Mr. Cleve
land's campaign with cordial sympathy,
for not only is his tariff policy in ac
cord with the orthodox economic school
of England, but his party platform
wisely condemned the arrogant and
irritating foreign policy of its oppo
nents.
The London Star of .Tuno 34 declares:
Mr. Cleveland is the best typo of the
American statesman, and if he does not
win it will bo because ho is too sound
a reformer.
The London Post declares that:
A Republican victory nt tho polls in
November would bo a blow to the free
trade party in the States, and would
retard, for a considerable period, the
progress of thoso sound commercial
and economic doctrines which underlie
British commercial greatness and alono
maintain British commercial ascen
dency.
Tho great London journal, Engin
eering, says that:
There is a somewhat general idea in
this country that tho McKinley tariff
bill will bo repealed beforo long, or, at
all events, be so much modified that tho
sting will bo taken out of those clauses
most objectionable to British manufac
turers; and it is for this reason that the
gross tons. In the same time them hat
been an average decrease In the ooat ol
mining of SO cents a ton, an average
decrease in the valne at the mines oi
nil cents a ton, and an average Increase
in a mining operative’s earnings of.
more than $100 per annum. Consider*
ing the depressing effects of the “rob*
her tariff" this is quite a remarkable
record. _
The Teacher's Fairer.
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It is quite as appropriate, I think, .;■*£
that the President of the United States
should review the teaeliers of the land
ns that ho should review its army or its , • 4
militia. [Applause.] For, after all
the strength and defense of our instltu
lions, not only in peace but in war, is
to be found in the young of the land
who have received from the lips of
patriotic teachers the story of the sso*
rlfico which our fathers recordod to es
tnbllsli our civil institutions, and which
their sons have repeated on hundreds
of battle fields.—President Harrison to
National Educational Association.
A Tariff Picture.
As the iron industries of the United
States have developed under protection
the wages of iron workers have ad*
vanced. In 1800 puddlers got
83. IV i per ton.
In 1800 they got
8r>.r>o per ton.
A Pertinent Inquiry.
Mr. l'lorco portlnontly Inquires of his
Democratic colleagues In the House
what they are shooting thVough their
pop-gun tnrlff bills for under suspen
sion of the rules if their objection to
the silver bill Is that it would be ap>,
proved by tlio 1’rcsldcnt. *
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The Mother's Doubt.
Mother—I hope, ray son, if you go
into politics you will bo honest and re*
spectuble.
Son—(Ireat Scott, mother, you talk
us though you thought I might become
a Democrat.
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CONFRONTED BY A CONDITION—Grover Cleveland Finds the Task of Writing a Third Letter
ot Acceptance to Be a Rather Difficult One.
somewhat extraordinary opinion
that the securing1 of the reduction
of tariff on steel billets was part of
a conspiracy to reduce the wages of
workingmen. He also charged that
the company “shortly converted the
Duquesne works into a billet plant, in
creased the production, flooded the
country so that prices may be reduced,
and thus effect our wages. The Du
quesne produces large amount of bil
lits.”.
This would seem to account better
for the reduction in the price of steel
billets than the removal of the tariff.
Representative Oates of Alabama, the
Democratic chairman of the Democratic
committee of investigation, was inter
viewed after he returned from Home
stead, and said: “That the workmen
at Homestead were far above the aver
age in intelligence and seemed to be
fairly prosperous, living in good, com
fortable houses. He saw none of the
poverty common in great manufactur
ing centers. Many of the men, partic
ularly the skilled workmen, made good
wages, some of them as high as $',’75
per month. Others made only .$.">0 per
month. The common laborers earned
from 81 to *1.50 a dav.
“As Mr. Frick had positively declined
to disclose to the committee the cost
per ton of producing steel billets at the
Homestead mills, Mr. Oates could not
say whether the contention of the men
that the company was making a great
deal of money at the present prices was
trne or not. He was satisfied, how
ever, that the allegation of the men
that the company had purposely pro
duced an overstock of steel billets in
order to reduce the scale of wages of
the workmen was untrue.”
Blatant demagogues have spread
many lying reports of the misery, pov
erty and degradation of the workmen
at Homestead, and Democratic politi
cians have been quick to take up these
reports and glory in them as showing
the calamity of a protective tariff. But
the day has gone by when lies of this
sort can befool the people. The coun
try is not prepared to judge finally on
the merits of the strikers' quarrel at
Homestead. But that the wages they
have been getting and the wages they
are offered are such as would leave
them in the helpless and poorly paid
hopes of the Democrats for the ap
proaching1 Presidential election are so
largely shared in this country.
Prices of Domestic Products.
It is desirable that the prices of do
mestic products should remain uni
form, and that they should be so high
as not to justify a feeling of unrest in
the operatives, or a fear of impending
disaster in the investors of any voca
tion. Such an industrial adjustment
should be secured as would equalize
the surplus annual product of all voca
tions. That is to say, the ordi
nary demand for - their con
sumption should exhaust the products
of all vocations as nearly as possible in
equal times. .Such a condition of in
dustrial and financial equipoise can
never be attained while our markets
are exposed to the disturbing effects of
an alien competition, or while the in
terests of our producers are exposed to
the vicious assaults of the whims and
the sophistries of our non-producing
free-trade politicians.
TUn Pacllio Slope.
Judge M. M. Esteeof California,who
was chairman of the Republican Na
tional convention of 1888, said recently:
“I regard the administration of Pres
ident Harrison as having been wise,
prudent and judicious, lie can carry
California by a sound majority. The
prosperity of California in the last year
has been marvelous. We produced
wheat, raisins, prunes and wine in un
precedented quantities. The McKinley
tariff law is popular with us, because
it protects our products. The duty on
prunes is an example. It is two cents,
yet prunes are cheaper in New York
and over the country to-day than when
the law went into effect. The same
thing is true as to raisins, on which the
duty imposed is two and one-half
cents.”
Iron lire Industry.
The iron ore industry of the United
States has shown since 1880 one of the
most remarkable strides ever recorded
of any industry in any country. The
census figures have just been tabulated,
and it appears that the increase of pro
duction in ten years has been over 100
per tent., from 7,000,000 to 14,000,000
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Political Pointer#. f ...
Tammany never bolts. It knifes.
The campaign song to the tune of
Boom-tarra-ra-boom-de-ay is in full
blossom.
Speaker Crisp has declined to enter
tain a “dilatory motion,” and Tom
Reed smole a bland smile.
The Democrats are likely to lose '
North Carolina if they pass a free lum
ber bill through the House. The word
is therefore passed around, “Wait until
after election.”
It is not an issue in the campaign
that W. J. Campbell does law business
for Armour, any more than is the fact
that O. Cleveland is the paid attorney
of a soulless street-car corporation.
Union miners are killing non-union
miners in Idaho with bullets and dyna
mite because they take the lowered
wages which the union men had re
fused. Yet there is free trade in the
product of Idaho mines.
There is a just mean, I think—that
between a system of intellectual com
petition which destroys the body and
a system of physical training that
eliminates the mind.—President Har*
rison at Saratoga.
Famous Old Oak*. ^
The largest oak now standing in
England is the “Cowthorpie,” whick
measures seventy-eight feet in circum
ference at the ground. At one time
this tree and its branches covered more
than an acre of space. The gigantio
old “Parliamentary Oak,” in Clipstone
park, London, is believed to be 1,500
years old. The tallest oak on the Brit
ish Isles is called the Duke’s Walking j .
Stick. It is higher than the spire of
Westminster Abby. The oak of
Oelemos, which was felled in 1810,
realized 94,350 for its owner. The
bark was sold for $1,000 and the trunk
and branches for $3,350 more.
Big Work for On* Bird.
A resident of Columbus, Ind., has a
gamecock which was recently attacked
by a bull, but in a very few minutes
the bull was minus an eye. About a >
year ago the gamecock killed in one
day seven geese, eleven turkeys and , \
three roosters.
