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obmhu Momml f t VOL. XVUX-NO. 43. COLUMBTTS, NEB., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1888. WHOLE NO. 927. m Y- e fe f BPpf7 fir COLUMBUS STATE BAM. COLUMBUS, NEB. Cash Capital $75,000. DIRECTORS: LHANDER GERHARD, Pres't. GEO. W. HULST, Vice PreVt. JULIUS A. HEED. K. II. HENRY. J. E. TASKKK. Caahifrr. Bask of Depowlt, IMacemssI amd Exrlinttge. CllectleMM Promptly Mnde oi All PoImtM. Py latereMt en TIbh Ie It. 274 OK columbus, neb; CAPITAL STOCK, $50,01)0. OFFICERS O. H. SHELDON. Pres't. V. A. loLLISTER. Vice Pr- ROBERT UHLIO. Cashier. DANIEL SCHHAM. Am'i Cash. DIRECTORS: J. f. BECKER. H. P. II. OEHLHICH, JONAS WELCH, CAUL REi.NKE, II. M. WINSLOW. Tl.U Hank transact a rular BanlcinK Busi-ii-m!, will allow interest on time deists, make collections, buy or sell exchange on United State tuid Etirii, nml buy andjwll mailable wuritiet. o We ahull be ple.c-d to receive yor business. V M.licit jour patronage. We jjuarantee satis faction inull husiun-s intrutel in our cure. .lec-JS-bi FOR THE CALL OS- A.&M.TURNER Or . W. KIRI.ER, Traveling; Halenaiaa. DfcrThefo organs nre first-cliu in every par ticular, and no jftiaranteod. SCH1FFR0TH & PL1TH, UE.II.EHS IN WIND MILLS, AND PUMPS. Buckeye Mower, combined, Self Binder, wire or twine. Flaps Repaired on skert tie CPOne door west of Heintz's Drag Store, 11th etrret, Columbus, Neb. lnov!J-tf HENRY G-ASS. UNDEETAKEB ! COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES XXV DKALKRIX Furniture, Chairs, Bedstead, Bu reaus. Tables, Safes. Xtoanges,. Ac, Picture Frames and Mouldings. jWRepairing of all kinds of Uphol etery Goods. -tf COLUMBUS. NEBRASKA. PATENTS Caveats and Trade Marks obtained, and all Pat ent boaine conducted for MODERATE FEE. OUB OFFICE IS OPPOSITE U. 8. PATES! OFFICE. We have no sub-agencies, all rjosiness direct, hence ire can transact patent business in lees time and at LESS COST than those remote from Washington. Bobs' aaodeT, drawing, or photo, with descrip tion. We advise if patentable or not, free of chaise: Our fee not lue till patent is second. A book, "How to Obtain Patents," with refer ences to actual 'clients in yoar state, county or tows, sent free. Address C. A. SHOW Jfc CO, Opposite Patent umce, wasmngion, u. v.. COMMERCIAL BANE TEl MAGE ORGAN jMjflP!??Tiv - FALSTAFFANDTHE MERRY WIVES OF WASHINGTON. From Our Own Eattioa of Shakespeare. Falstaff (who baa been caught making love to two women; Ob, I love you both I lore you both; but for pity's sake get me out of this tariff scrape. They put him into the dirty linen basket and dump hitninto the ditch (in the play). Judge. THE BRITISH FARMER RUINED. Ant) the City Laborer Not BeaeBted by Free Trade. The decrease in the total number of per sons employed in agriculture in the decade ending 18S1 was nearly 1G per cent., while the total decrease in 1661 and 1881 was 31 per cent. Thus, while there are nearly one-third less persons cultivating the soil twenty years ago, England is becoming more and more dependent upon foreign countries for its food. The rapid dwindling of tho agricultural population of England may well be looked upon with alarm. In 181J1 the agricultural population of the kingdom comprised 30.8 per cent, of the total population. In 1871 it amounted to only 15.7 per cent., and in 1881 it had fallen to 12.4 per cent. The above start ling facts on the decadence of the agricult ural population of the kingdom will effectually dispose, of Mr. Bright's rant regarding the improvement of the agricult ural classes in England, and the benefits or free trade to British agriculture. Facts show that the condition of the English laborer has not greatly improved of late years. The same terrible condi tions of life may be found in the large cities as were found in 1840, and the same conditions muy be found in the rural dis tricts. Tlte great daily journals ignore these facts. '-What is the use?" they say; no good can come of publishing them." And so matters grow from bad to worse. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain not loig since exposed the terrible condition of the agri cultural laborer, and asked how he could live and maintain his family on ten shil lings a week ($3.40), 7 1-2 per cent, of which amount (according to the above named gentleman) is taken from him by the existing unfair system of taxation. Admit All the evils claimed to exist by free traders, and protection does not bear as heavily as thi upon the poor of this countrv. New York Press. Reduce Their Representation. It is high time that the honesty and love of fair play which at heart characterize the American people were allowed free expression on the subject of the colored vote in the black district of the south, without exciting the mocking and sense less cry of "bloody shirt," It is not a "bloody" question; it is not a military question; it is simply a question of politi cal honor and justice, -whether the mod ern amendments to the constitution of the United States shall be respected and enforced or not. That the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments are disregarded in a way and to an extent which is dishonorable alike to south and to north, to Democrats and to Republicans, is demonstrated anew in the contest of ex-Congressman Robert Smalls, of South Carolina, for the seat of William Elliott, the alleged sitting mem ber for the seventh district of that state. At the last congressional apportionment of South Carolina the Seventh district was conceded to the Republicans, being fash ioned on the usual gerrymandering plan of bunching all the Republican counties in the state together. Smalls had carried it in 18S4 by a vote of 8,081 to 4,580, but Elliott was returned as elected In 1886 by a vote of 6,493 to 5,961 for Smalls. This was a sample of the voting done on the day when the total congressional vote polled in the state was 89,072. ns against 90,689 votes in 1884 and 121,399 votes in 1882. The rapid dwindling of the total vote and this Democratization of an over whelmingly colored and Republican dis trict can mean only one thing, namely, that the colored vote is suppressed. There is just one remedy for this sort of thing, and it would bring the southern brethren around to a recognition of the rights of the colored voter quicker than anything else. It is a reduction of their representa tion in congress in a direct ratio to the shrinkage of the total' vote cast in con gressional elections. No honest citizen of the south could object to the application of this remedy. The southern Democrats cannot eat their cake and have their penny, too. If it is necessary to good local government as they claim when they privately admit the facts that the negro vote should be "pre vented" before it can be cast, or "cured" afterward, then it is only fair to the rest of the Union that the "best citizens" of the bouth should be content with the representation to which their own votes entitle them. New York Press. The Fraudulent British Article. From 1638 to 1859 inclusive, England "derived over 90 per cent, of her customs revenue from duties on sixteen articles. These, in the order of their productive ness, were: "Sugar, tea, tobacco, spirits, wines, timber, coffee, corn, silk, currants, fruit, molasses, butter, tallow, cheese and seeds. From all other articles subject to duty she received less than 9 per cent." Now, let us see how the amounts of the customs duties collected on Imports into the United Kingdom stood at the begin ning and ending ol the two decades inter vening between 1839 and 1830: Net amount Net amount of duty col lected In of duty col lected in year end ingDec.31, $li2S,S95 ,(C6,195 3,05073 HG.TM.OGO isa.iao Class of Imports. year end- lnJan.3. Articles in raw state 310.510.115 Articles partially maauTd 3,00,795 Articles wholly inanuTd. 2.3G6,'200 Articles of food 9I,MS,793 Articles other than above ttO.TBS Totals ..S110,M,7fi0 $131522,635 The above gives a fair synopsis of the character and effects of the so called "free trade" legislation of Great Britain up to the time of the outbreak of our civil war. Dry Goals Chronicle. "Four Thousand Articles." It is about time to dispose of one Dem ocratic stock cry that duties are collected upon 4,000 different articles under the existing tariff. Democratic orators and editors are fond of this, because, they want to give the impression that this "iniqui tous" tariff reaches out its arms in every direction and lays all forms of industry under tribute. Now the fact is, as the inquiring reader may find by a reference to the commerce and navigation report for 1886, the latest detailed figures yet available, that the articles upon which duties were collected during that year numbered only 983, or less than one-fourth ol the number claimed,, This is a most yg,,v significant showing. une number of arti cles on the free list was increased by the tariff of 1883, a Republican measure, to more than 30f or almost exactly one-third tie number of articles hhat paid duty in 1886; and this latter number does not vary materially from year to year. New York Tribune. They Don't Bit. Neither the worleingmen nor manufact urers are being lured into the free raw material trap of Mr. Cleveland and the free trade Democracy. The woolen manu facturers are standing resolutely by the wool growers to prevent the repeal of duties on foreign wooL The steel industry stands by the iron industry. And so on through the list. It will be found that the president's free raw material game is fully understood. And likewise the work lngmen are standing by American pro ducers and manufacturers. As an in stance, the Central Labor union of New York even refused to pass a resolution favoring the placing of coal on the free list in the hope of Injuring the odious com bination of companies which are extorting tribute from all anthracite coal consumers. Why this mutual regard of laborer, manufacturer and producer? Because they realize that the protective tariff is a complete thing and is intended to serve a definite purpose, which is the protection of American labor and capital against the competition of cheap foreign wages and capital; the preservation of the vast home market to Americans; the complete indus trial independence of the United States. The tariff is not a local issue. Neither is it the plan of selfish interests. It is as broad and as long as the United States. It places a duty on every foreign product which can be produced in the United States in sufficient quantity to meet the domestic demand. The protective tariff must stand or fall as a whole. The free raw material pillars cannot be withdrawn from the edifice without causing a collapse. That is the reason why our workiugmen, producers and manufacturers are not deceived by the "free raw material" taffy. Albany Journal. The Tariff Not a Tax. No greater error can possibly exist thau that which assumes that duty raised on imported merchandise constitute a tax on the people of the country. The proper designation is that of u restriction on the admission to our markets of the products whose makers or owners have no share in the support or direction of our govern ment. The producers of this merchandise are members of another commonwealth, and give their support to the government to which they owe allegiance. This is the duty of every citizen to the government that protects him, and no one man or body of men can have any claim to the privileges of citizenship here without be coming a citizen in fact. It is a fallacy above all other fallacies to claim the right of free entry into our territory, to sell here without payment for the privilege and to carry off from us great sums of money paid to these aliens for such merchandise as they may choose to bring here. This government would fail to discharge the first and primary duty growing out of its simple existence if it admitted aliens to its territory and its markets on conditions more favorable thau those granted to its own loyal citi zens. Philadelphia Call. Mr. Blaine Also Is Interested. The alleged confidences that are daily published about his (Mr. Blaine's) inten tions constitute as chaotic and contradict ory a mess of nonsense as can be dished up. It is quite probable that Mr. Blaine has a course marked out for the future, but it is just as probable that the course will depend altogether upon circumstances which belong to the future. There Is no question but that he can get the Repub lican nondnation if ho wants it, but there is not tlte slightest fear that he will accept it if he thinks there is any danger of de feat. Upon this point it is fair to con elude that he will be more solicitous than any one else. The Republicans who pro fess to be alarmed at the prospect that his selection will defeat the party will display some sense by remembering that -Mr. Blaine is also interested in the matter to some extent, and that there is not the slightest chance that he will take the nomination unless he is sure he can win. Omaha Republican. Cleveland's Queer Remedy. Presideut Cleveland appears to believe that, when a man rises with a headache, in consequence of too much wine the night before, the sensible remedy is to go off and get drunk. That Is his way of curing the prostration of the wool grow ing and wool manufacturing industries. Because the manufacturer got wool last year 14 cents per pound cheaper than under the last revenue tariff, he proposes to take off the duty which "makes wool dearer." Because hundreds of woolen mills are closed already by a small reduc tion of duty, he proposes to cut down the duty far more, in order to relieve them from "oppressive taxation." New York Tribune. Soft Coal Duties and Hard Coal Strikes Will the organs take notice that no duty whatever is collected on anthracite coal? That article has been on the free list for a great many years. So the tariff has no part in this controversy, and the anthra cite "coal barons" and the foreign miners receive no protection from its provisions. There is a duty of seventy-five cents a ton on bituminous coal, of thirty cents on slock or culm and 20 per cent, on coke. The strikes which have occurred relate almost wholly to anthracite coal, and the free traders can find no comfort for their theories and schemes in these misfortunes. Utica Herald. That's the Slse of It. Mr. Garrett Roach, the ship builder, hits the nail on the head when he re marks that the lowering of a protective duty means either lower wages or the abandonment of the injured industry. Both of these horns of the dilemma gore the workingman. In one event he gets less, and iu another he gets nothing until he takes his labor into the market and in creases the supply. Then again he will get less. Mr. Roach has stated the case admirably. New York Press. Would Reduce the Demand for Labor. The Troy Times shows that if free trade should reduce wages in that city to the rates in Londonderry, Ireland, the Troy pay roll of shirt makers and laundry workers would at once drop from $8,000, 000 to f 7SO,000. Is it not passing strange that a single American workman, whose labor would bo immediately affected by the adoption of free trade, can have any patience with the advocates of that heresy? Elmira Advertiser. Correct! The free trader cannot name a single ar ticle of domestic manufacture which is the result of well established industry, which cannot be purchased today cheaper under the protective tariff than in the days of free trade. And there is not an article in the farmer's home or on his farm upon which a duty is imposed that is not furnished to him cheaper than it would be furnished under free trade. Congress man Burrows, of Michigan. They Fear the Ballet. A Georgia Democratic paper says the negroes, to a very great extent, have with drawn frnm nnlltiM Ttil. !. . -. 'Georgia negroes have a greater fear of the uuuet. uuu i iic j uave joys ior (US Dauot. t-Norristown (Pa.) Herald. A BEAUTIFUL OBJECT LESSON. Mr. Garrett Bosch Shows Why His Work men Are Protectionists. The Roach Brothers, sons and succes sors of the celebrated John Roach, employ in the iron business in this city some 300 or 400 iron workers, and nearly 1,000 artisans are employed by them at the shipyards in Chester, Pa. They have been forced for years past to make the labor question a study. As the tariff question is closely allied to the labor question, of course the opinion of a large labor employer like Mr. Roach will be of interest. "What have I to say about the tariff?" exclaimed Mr. Roach, when approached by a reporter on the subject. "Ob, I don't know that I have anything to say. From my standpoint there doesn't seem to be but one thing to say. The Ameri can system of tariff protection must be supported at all hazards. "I'll tell you," he proceeded; "come out and look at the works and see for yourself. It's more amusing than talking about the tariff." The reporter accom panied him through the shops through rooms resounding with the clatter of gear ing and of the finer machinery, through vaulted places where great sheets and cylinders of iron and steel were being planed and punched and riveted by the heavier tools. The reporter was shown the cylinder that is to go into the new Puritan of the Fall River line, 110 inches in diameter big enough to drive a horse and cart through and said to be the largest one over made. Men were at work away aloft in the sliadows, boring out and planing the inside of this mammoth cylin der to the smoothness and finish of a watch case. "I don't think," commented Mr. Roach, "that many people would seriously oppose the protective system if they would come into shops like this and see what is done here. Ninety per cent, of the value of a steamship is given to it by the labor of these artisans aud their fellows. The protective system, if it means anything, means a resistance to the efforts of foreign employers to decrease the wages of these lalxrers. The most obtuse free trader knows that a lowering of the tariff on any protected article of manufacture mean one of two things the lowering pro tanto of the wages of the artisan, or an abandon ment of that particular industry by the employer. I think even our southern friends, if they would come and sit up with us a while, and see the results of the protective system as exemplified by what you see going on around you now, would before long be weaned from their bad purpose." The reporter asked Mr. Roach if he ever took any pains to influence his workmen in a political way. "Oh, no," he replied. "I doubt whether it would be expedient or proper for me to interfere with my men on so delicate a subject as that of their political opinion. But, bless you, it's not necessary; the men know as well as I where their Inter ests lie, and they are not slow to guess which party Is their friend. You can rest assured that they are pretty solidly Re publican, and I believe they would be just the same if I and my brothers were Democrats. "I think," said Mr. Roach in conclu sion, "that you will find 90 per cent, at least of American artisans on the right side at the next election, and that means victory for the Republican party. The fact is, we have always won whenever there has been a great issue to fight. Thanks to the president and his message we shall have such an issue in the next campaign, and it is a vital one to all Americans who earn their bread by the sweat of their brows. There can be but one result. New York Press. Enforce the Amendments. The rule of reduced representation ought, in common fairness, to be en forced as a matter of course whenever the reduction of the vote calls for it. To de mand its enforcement in the interest of justice should be construed not as evi dence of hatred or bitter feeling, but as the expression of a sense of plain every day honesty. The south cannot afford, more than any other part of the country, to admit that it is specially and unjustly assailed or aggrieved when it is proposed to apply a peaceable and constitutional remedy of a general character to the seat of a grave political evil that affects the comparative representation and rights of every voter in the country. New York Press. The Leopard Has Not Chanced Its Spots. The suppression of the negro vote in the south is in keeping with the action of the southern Democracy whenever it encoun ters obstacles. Fair play is not found in its political lexicon. It should not be for gotten that when the ordinance of seces sion was submitted to the people of Vir ginia, the Democratic newspapers gave warning to those opposed to it that it would be wiser to leave the state than to cast a ballot against secession. This is the sort of fair play that the south be lieved iu then, and it is the sort of of fair play it tolerates now. Albany Journal. If it takes a month to organize a Demo cratic house, how many years will it take for to show some sense? Answer Two years from last December, when it will elect a Republican speaker and put Re publicans in charge of affairs. Iowa Register. . Kentucky hills nre said to be groaning with unmiued coal. If somebody would begin to open mines there, it might result in Americanizing Carlisle and Wattersou. Shenandoah (Pa.) Herald. ' A Hair of the Dojr." From 1859 to 18S2 the mmntitv of trnnl "produced in this country, If the census of 1860 is accepted, increased nearly fivefold, from 60,000,000 to 290,000,000 pounds. In 1860 the production was less than two pounds for each inhabitant; in 1882 it was 5.4 pounds for each inhabitant. Nothing can be clearer than that wool growing was btimulated greatly, and yet the price av eraged, according to Mauger & Avery's tables, 48.4 cents per pound in 1859 and I860, against 41.5 cents in 1881 and 1882. There is no paradox or bepuzzlement about this; without making wool cost more than before, and thus without making clothes fabricated from the wool cost more, the grow ers were so far encouraged that they produced vastly more wool; the manufact ure was so stimulated that it produced goods worth about 1280,000,000 in 1882, against $81,000,000 in 1860; and mean while the value of woolen goods imported for consumption increased from $37,936, 943 in 1860 to $42,553,456 in the fiscal year 1883 relatively to population a great decrease. In 1860 the woolen goods im ported averaged $1.20 for each inhabitant; in 188b they averaged only 77 cents for each inhabitant. Yet in 1860 the value of goods produced by home manufacture averaged $2.57 for each inhabitant, and in 1882 the value averaged $5.09 for each inhabitant. Is it possible for any free trader to deny that this is the record of a grand and beneficent development? With wool actu ally cheaper than In 1860, because its pro duction has been encouraged and in creased from 2 to 5.4 pounds per capita, and with goods actually cheaper than in 1860, because their production had been stimulated from $2.57 to $5.09 for each inhabitant, there was also the magnificent prosperity of all industries which enabled the people to consume more than $5.86 worth of domestic and foreign woolen goodj In 1888, against only $3.77 worth of I more costly woolen gooas netore tne pro J tective tariff was enacted. New York Good Protection Talk. "I believe that a protective tax is for the best interest of nil the people, and I am unalterably opposed to free trade for this country. The highest prosperity of the agriculturist demands a protective tax. What the farmer wants is a market for his surplus products. It is for his ad vantage to have that market as near his farm as possible, and such a market is secured only by building up diversified industries to consume the farmer's sur plus product If we were purely an agri cultural people we would be the poorest country on the globe. A protective tariff builds up these diversified indus tries, and to such an extent that the far mer to-day, leaving out cotton and to bacco, sells 93 per cent of his surplus product to onr own people. Any policy which would disturb our manufactures and thus drive the consumers to the farm and make them producers would be injuri ous to the agricultural interests. Then o. the farmer the homo market is a steady oue on which he can rely from year to year, so that when he sows he knows when he may sell, while if he relied on the foreign market his surplus would be taken one year and left on his hands the next. Congressman Burrows, of Michi gan, Gem. Grant on Tobaeea. It was at the tail end of a rather long interview I had with Gen. Grant in the olUce of the Mexican International Rail way company, of which he was then pres ident, that tobacco became the subject of the conversation. Gen. Grant hod been sitting in his favorite fashion, tilted back in an oak arm chair, with his feet resting on the table. He was smoking an im mense cigar, the fellow of which he handed to me. It was somo time before Gen. Grant's troubles began with the in jury to his leg as he was leaving his car riage, and he was in good spirits. Ex actly the words that he used I cannot reproduce here, but in effect Gen. Grant said this: "You are are a very young man and I am old enough to give yon advice, and I snppcse I ought to tell you not to smoke. But looking back at the comfort and refreshment which a cigar has given me through a pretty mixed career mostly of hard knocks I have not the face to advise any one to abhor tobacco. It would be ingratitude in me to do so. And I am free to say that even if I knew tobacco was shortening my life, it would take more than my personal desire to live to induce me to throw away my good friend here forever." Pittsburg Dispatch. A Charitable Act. "I saw an action the other day worthy of Stephen Girard," said a caller. "A little shaver, with a skin as black as night, was carrying a large bucket of cot tage cheese on his head and steadying it by a rope tied around the outside. It slipped and down came the bucket wrong side up. Every effort of the little fellow to right the bucket only spread more of its contents over the pavement. A num ber of people were standing around at the time smiling at the little fellow's misfor tune, but none eadeavored to help him until an old gentleman came up, appreci ated the situation, and sending the boy for a light board, slid the latter under the bucket and saved the greater part of its contents. That wasn't all he did. either, for after seeing the little shaver safely off he told iu pretty strong language what he thought of men standing around making Sort of what seemed to the boy a large lump of hard luck." Philadelphia CalL Jlovr He Saved the Scene. An ambitious and prosperous actor, whose home is Dotrolt, was playing a summer tour in the smaller towns of Michigan a few years ago. One particu larly sweltering night he put on "Riche lieu." His Baradas was a large, fat man, and by the time they reached that unpre cedented climax of the fourth act, Baradas' face had assumed tho hue of a boiled lob ster. When Richelieu turned upon him to deliver the line, "Ha! ha! how pale he looks," he saw how absurdly the roast ing wretch's appearance belied the speech; but being a quick witted chap, he drew himself up and spoko tho speech: "Ha! ha! See with what shame he colors! God save my country." Under his breath he added: "And I have saved the bceue." Detroit Free Presc I-.xperlment with Itobnrlte. Roburite promises to displace all other explosives now used in coal mines. Tho experiments made are highly satisfactory. "In what is usually an explosive mixture of air and firedamp we understand there was no ignition. Underground, both in coal and stone, it gave results equal in power to ordinary blasting gelatine, while there was not so much small coal as with gelatiuo and dynamite. Probably it is not widely known that roburite is an inven tion due partially to the action of the Austrian government, which in 1883 ' offered prizes for the safest mining explo sives. Roburite, carbonito and securite were three out of twenty which were favorably reported upon, and the former appears to bo the most satisfactory." Industries. Railroads In China. A. Chinese missionary says he thinks that it will be many years before rail roads can be built in China because of the superstition of the people. China, he says, is one vast graveyard. On every side there are to lxs found the mounds of those who have died. The Chinese will not allow these mounds to be disturbed under any circumstances. Their superstition forbids the removal of a body or tho interference with tho grave of any person once buried with the proper ceremonies. Twice a year they visit the graves of their ancestors, in the spring with offerings of the fir&l fruits of the season, aud in the fall they repair to tho graves and burn incense. If a rail road should attempt to enter the country some of these mounds would have to be removed or else the rails would have to wind in and out among them. Chicago News. Only More Open Than Vsaal. It is not likely that even Senator Col quitt will deny that the negro vote is sup pressed in portions of the south after lie bears from tho Jackson outrage, which is about to be investigated by a senate com mittee. But the facts, as already admitted by Democrats themselves, show that the constitutional guarantees were entirely disregarded on that occasion, as they have been on a hundred others, .with this differ ence, that they did not attract so much notice. Norristown (Pa.) Herald. Alaska's Mosquitoes. Speaking of Alaska, in a recent lecture in Washington, Professor J. W. dicker ing said that the great obstacle to enjoy ing a summer there is the vast number of large and bloodthirsty mosquitoes. Dogs are killed by them, and men preserve their lives only by covering their faces with thick cloths and wearing gloves. New York Sun. The main difference in the argument put forward by the protectionist and that of the free trader is that the former gives facts aud figures to support his position, while the latter presents a beautiful theory and a picture of what might or ought to be. Elraira Advertiser. Deadivood, D. T., has an anti-fat so ciety, the members of which pledge them selves to abstain from eating anything that will add to their corpulency. A FAMOUS WAR CUTTER. The Career of the Famous Harriet Lane. Wrecked In the Caribbean Sea. From her deck was tired the first shotted guu from any vessel in the civil war, the report of which mingled with the distant roar of the lotteries engaged in reducing Sumter. She witnessed the evacuation of that fortress and returned north as escort to Old Ironsides. On the Nanse mond river the Confederate) battery at Pig Point was silenced and destroyed by the guns of the jaunty revenue cutter. Conveying troops, transports and sup plies, speeding with important dispatches from point to point, the Harriet Lane had but few leisure hours. On the 17th of September, 1S61, she was permanently transferred to the navy and turned over by Capt. Faunce to the com mandant of the Brooklyn navy yard. In 1862 the present admiral of the navy went out in her to take command of the mortar llotilla at Key West. Tho vessel run the batteries on the Potomac, was struck in several places and had her port wheel cut In two. In tho battle with the forts be low Now Orleans she bore bravely the division flag of tho illustrious sailor who succeeded Farragut as the head of tho navy. She led the mortar flotilla steam ers into action with tho water batteries of Fort Jackson, and the first two men killed iu the battle with tho forts were on board the Harriet Lane. She afterward went to Ship island with the mortar llo tilla, and thence to Pensacoln, taking pos session of tho place when evacuated by Gen. Bragg. She towed the mortar schooners to Vicksburg for bombardment of that stronghold on Farragnt's first at tack. She, with the other mortar flotilla steamers, covered Admiral Farragut with her guns as he passed tho batteries of Vicksburg, when the ships of his squadron had passed on and left him to go by alone. On Jan. 1, 1863, the Harriet Lane was captured by a superior force of the enemy under Magruder, after bloody and desper ate resistance, resulting in the death of her commander, who, standing in the companionway lending to his cabin, fought, revolvers iu hand, until ho fell, pierced by a dozen bullets. She was then fitted out as a privateer, loaded with cot ton and successfully eluded the Union fleet, reaching her port of destination in 1 safety, aud at the close of the war she was detained by theSpauiMi authority, who found her lying nt Havana shorn of her glory, rusty, broken down and deserted. It was a fitting compliment to Capt. Faunce that he should be ordered to pro ceed with a full crew to Cuba and recoivo from the hands of the captain general tho once proud and shapely craft, whose decks hail been graced by royalty, statesmen and beauty. It is said when Capt. Faunce stepped on board his old command he shed tears at tho waste and wanton destruction that had virtually destroyed the Harriet Laue's usefulness as a government cruiser. She was then sold out of the service, transformed into a bark, rechrlsteued the Elliott Ritchie, placed in the lumber trade and after a brief term in the merchant service appropriately closed ler strangely varied career by succumbing to a violent gale of wind, finding 'neath the blue waters of the Caribbean sea rest, refugo and oblivion. Philadelphia Times. Tenement House Reform. President Bayles, of the New York board of health, who is an expert sanitary engineer, and who'has written a number of works upon sanitary subjects, has pre sented to Mayor Hewitt and the tenement house commission, of which he and the mayor are members, a lengthy report upon the condition of the tenement houses in the metropolis. In this report lie makes a numlier of valuable suggestions about the improvement of the sanitary condition of tenements. Within the past few years tenement house reform has rece. .-til a great deal of attention. A tenement houue building company, of which Professor Felix Adler is the chief promoter, was organized in New York city, having for its object the building of a number of apartment houses for poor families. The first one of these houses has just lieen completed, and possesses many ad vantages. The building presents an agree able outward appearance. It is con structed of brick, and has a wide and airy court in the rear, thus insuring to every apartment plenty of light and ventilation, and in other ways the utmost care has been taken to secure gocd sanitary con ditions. The interior arrangement is ex cellent, being in suits of three rwm, to that light and air are equally dictribr.ted. There are 101 of these suits, and each is furnished with washtubs and running water. On every floor there are three large bathrooms. In the cellar is a lwiler room, from which hot water is distributed throughout the building. Besides this, two of the rooms of this largo building nre set apart for a kindergarten school, where poor women who nre compelled to work out can leave their children, aud they will be taken care of and given an education. This school will be under the direction of Professor Adler. The evils of the typical tenement are not to be found here. Those who are interested in this humanitarian movement nre Joseph W. Drexcl, Oswald Ottendorfer, Jacob Scholle and Edward R. A- Seligman. The object is not so much to reap any benefit from the money invested as to provide comfoi t nblo homes for people of restricted means. If this house meets with success more will be built, and such houses are greatly needed in all of our large cities. Demo rest's Monthly. The Epitaph Society. One of the guests was artificially hila rious and sarcastic, and asked a Hebrew drummer what business he was a ruunin'. "My frent," said he, "I am de sheneral agent for de great North American Epi taph and Burial association. 1 am can vassing dis country for members and vill take anypody who Is liable to die r-ome time or udder. Ven a man shoins oar komp'ny his pones vill not pleach upon de hills nor tnolder iu de valleys. Oirr komp'ny perries all dere dend and writes dere epitaphs. Vo keeps epitaphs on hand shoost like ve keeps coffins. Yen you die ve perry you low in de ground vcrc de dogs cannot scratch yon up norde doctors exhume you for a skeleton. If A. T. Stewart had pelong to onr kompany it would have save his wife 25,000. No madder vere you die vedder on tie Shirn borazo mountains or in de dark valley of Jehosaphat ve perry you. And den ve writes such pootirul epitaphs dt make you feel as goot after you pe dead. I hav known men to read over our list of epi taphs aud den go off and commit suicide shoost to get one of dem on dere tomb stone. Say, my frent, shall I put yonr namo down? It is only $1." Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. Phil Armour's Colored Protege. Phil Armour has a negro student at Oberlin whom he is educating, and the story goes that be met him on a palace car during on eastern trip. He noted that the colored boy spent his spare time in working away at a well thumbed reader, and it was such hard work that Armour offered him $25 if he could spell out ten lines before the train got to New York. The boy succeeded in the task and got the money. He got Armour's friendship as well, and he has since blossomed out into quite a college-student. He has been orator of his class, and he can write as good a hand better I doubt not than Phil Armour himself. Armour is a man who Is very charitable to his employes and delights in helping them. If he sees a man trying to get along he promotes Urn. and be induces his men wherever possible to buy bomea and to strike for as high a mark in life as possible. He takes good care of his servants, too, and one of his former cooks has now a restaurant aud a little house of her own from a start which Armour gave her. Frank G. Car penter in New York Mail aud Express. Pith and Point eff FollMea. A quarrel of large and symmetrical di mensions has sprung up between Gover nor Hill and Lieutenant Governor Jones, of Now York. It seems that Jones will no longer pay the freight on Mr. Hill's boom. New York Press. EjT-Naturally, the free traders hold -'the tariff responsible for the western bliz zards. They attribute cases of sunstroke in the summer to the same cause. Now York Press. Jorgejones and Jorgowilliamcurtis con-, tinue to lick tho hands and the boots of the assassins of civil service. Bingham ton (N. Y.) Republican. The Pennsylvania Democracy might Just as well form itself into a trust and appoint William L. Scott trustee. He owns a controlling interest In the property already. New York Press. Lamar has donned the judicial robes. If any man calls Jeff Davis a traitor in his hearing, he will stand committed for con tempt of court. Blnghamton (N. Y.) Re publican. "Kill your sheep and sell 'em for mut ton," says the free traders to tho farmers. That is tho free trade policy throughout. "Kill" American Industries and their products for tho benefit of the foreigners. But the American people will not do it. Chicago JonrnaL Mary had a Uttlo lamb. Its fleoco was nhito as snow. But Mary was In crave doubts ax to whether sho'd better send It to the butcher at once or keep it for Its wool, the question of tariff enter ing largely into her meditations. Chicago MaiL Free trade newspapers are gloating over what they call the "overthrow of Ran dall." Don't be too sure about Randall. He may make it lively for the free traders yet. New York Press. Democratic Pretenses. How fine it is to hear Messrs. Scott, Coxe and other Pennsylvania millionaires connected with great corporations, in resolutions which they adopt as members of the Democratic state committee, com mending the president and their party for devoted service to the cause of the people against rich corporations. Tho dullest creature in the world must be moved to Homeric inextinguishable laughter by the absurd audacity of such praise from such men. .Inst at this time it happens that the Knights of Labor adopt resolutions concerning Mr. Scott, whoso long fight with hi3 employes is not forgotten, and Mr. Coxe, one of tho operators whose barges the men refused to unload, thus precipitating the great Reading strike. If these men remain on the Democratic state committee, the Knights resolve that they will not vote the Democratic ticket. But if they do not remain, the large contribu tions expected from these two millionaires and others to tho Democratic campaign fund will be withheld, and a Democratic dispatch affirms that Mr. Scott gave $25,000 to aid the election of Mr. Cleve land. Tho incident illustrates certain differ ences between the two great parties which go very deep. For years it has been tho constant pretense of the Democratic part- that it especially represented the poor people, and wa especially anxious to serve their interests. It professes hos tility to capitalists and corporations, nd denounces the Republican party as the party or capitalists and corporations. Then the party of labor votes to take away the protection of American labor; the party of the workers against the employers gives Messrs. Scott and Coxe control of its state committee; the party of the people against corporations puts Mr. Lamar on the supreme bench. The thoughtful workingman sees that one of two conclusions is inevitable. Either the party is dishonest in professing to represent the workingmen and the people at all, or it has sold them out for the influence and the pecuniary contribu tions of the corporations and tho million aires. In either case its dishonesty de prives the party of confidence. That it does, in fact, servo the interest of rich im porters, foreign agents and foreign manu facturers in the tariff matter, against the interests of American laborers, begins to be understood by Knights of Labor and others who are studying tho subject, and who see that a British policy and British interests are not for the benefit of Ameri can labor. New York Tribune An Actor' Desperation. Edwin Booth's devotion to tragedy Is such that even off the stage he carries a sedate and almost severe look. When he smiles, however, his entire faco seems to take part in tho revelry. He has said that tho strain lie is under in rendering his roles night after night is sometimes almost intolerable, and in moments of desperation on the stage he has turned his faco away from the nudictiro and made the ugliest grimaces imaginable to give himself momentary relief. New York Press. Syriiji of K'gs Is Nature's own true laxative. 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