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r THE J ESI IP SENTI NEL.
Established 1866.
VOL. XXXIII.
LABOR ANI) LNDUSTIiY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN,
About EnglUb I.ttbor Men—Labor Say
In® .Wartime* -Lazarets and the Hlch
tan The Ft).it inn of the Matorinau
General Notes.
The Eternity of Nature,
coming and the going of tho light.
pure suirs shining, wheeling through
the night,
1 • a rouging and the onset of the storm
ve’s hippy voices when the days ar
warm.
he cull of flocks, the humming of the
bee.
Tha lay and leafage of the greenwood
; tree,
Tho long melodious sorrowing of the
hill,
-’ha fall of dream when all the world is
smi¬
JVhal Charms these ever had, they have
It now:
Nature, eternal youth is on her brow.
Beauty Is here, forever round her way.
Not hers, hut ours, the roses of a day,
' —John V. Cheney.
ftaffUiili F. ibor Mem
Among the passengers who arrived
°o tbe Gtoamship. Ca inpan it the
day were Messrs. William Inskip and
'•Villiam Thorne, the two fraternal
delegates to the annual convention of
the American Federation of ’Labor, to
be held in Kansas City, Me., beginning
next Tuesday. Mr. In skip is a justice
of the peace and is secretary of the
National Union of Root and Shoe Op
orators In Leicester. Mr, Thorne is
a member of the town council of
Mentham, a London suburb. Both
were elected by the British Trades
Congress at its meeting in Bristol in
August. They represent nearly 2,000,
000 of British workingmen. Mr. Thorne
is secretary of the Gas Workers’ As
sot iation, one of the most powerful
labor organizations in the British
kingdom. The English visitors- were
'met at the pier by Samuel Compere
»nd other labor leaders, and fittingly
received and entertained. “Trade In
Gtot Britain,’’ Mr, Thorne said, “is
gelpcrany good, although there are
many idle men. We have come here
to learn more about the success of
American labor organizations, which
are fir better than ours. There is
little,"nse'in us coming to America ana
Americans coming to us, unless we can
combine our forces. We want an in
t<? to at tonal federation that: will lake
in all the countries, in the world, so
tfiat all laboring men can stand to
gether .for' mutual protection. With
this- federation we would aid each
other fft strikes. First we must fed
crate our labor unions in England.
There is a movement on in England
for that purpose now and a special con
fere nee will be held the last week in
January. We will be able to assist
each other in strikes by such a com
bination--give each other financial and
moral aid. Wages In England have
been increased .all around within the
last two years. Just before wo left
London 10,000 gas workers there got
an increase of two shillings to half
a crown a week. Since the great engl
neers’ lockout ended their wages have
gone up from 18 pence to two shillings
a week. In some branches of trade
things are dull, but the iron and ship
building trades are increasing rapidly
fn England, The last great strike we
had was the Welsh coal strike, and
the men were defeated. The hand of
-the government was mainly respons
ible, for it fell hard upon u'a. In pol
Dies the workingman of Great Britain
has made much progress. In the last
election In mv district -.be working
men won 15 scats Thev elected 10
out of 12 councilman, arid of the six
aldermen selected five were working
men.;'
T.silmr Saving Manlitnu*.
• A modern spinning machine can be
bandied by a child, and will turn out
more and better work than 45,000spin
riusg wheels such as our grand moth
ers used to make clothes with.
soes the doliar-of-our-daddles idiot
wlsii to go back and re-introduce his
grandmother and her wheel to society
fts creators of wealth?
One boy attends enough stocking
knitting machines to turn out 5,000
pairs a week.
It would give constant employment
to LOCO of our grandmothers to turn
om this number of socks. Shall we
use the machine or resurrect our
grandmothers?
The pneufhatic atomized enables one
unskilled laborer to paint more freight
pars than can 15 skilled hands.
Will more money knock to atoms the
atomizer or the goUT-spangled dollars
fill the stomachs of the 14 Idle?
! verify.feu,, out of 25 men have been
n t,le ,ualul f ac ttite of mnsic-.
a ,
. i Use musical jingle
> of the silver
doLar conjure up jobs for the 24 outs?
t? new machinery for handling
j fm rf,m ,,lpr f !o 'cssels doe* what it
ormeriy required thousands of men to
l 0, nnd 1 H ‘ 8teara siloTcl mines and
. wWf h
iS or! ’ ’ formerly was handled
a , an ( ° st of ton
re f -
MoadRny „ kind of monetary or tar
in legislation knack these machines
“‘n-oJ*? 1 t lf ? Wor1 now ‘ to Diamond han,i labOT? match ma
chines 300 girls can turn out as many
•matches as 8,000 workmen by former
.• mot hod^
' ,, an yon match this result
with logis
!hr " s,!,; ' Vf! ihe machine to re
-
main pm-ate property, yet give era
piovnieni to the 7.800 unemployed?
1 u* 8 riboye arts, but A few instances
■
the many of the effects of machine
erv M’iii we learn a lesson from
them Riehraand tVa Justice.
T h«n« KxpoMd
Mayor McGuire of Syracuse, N.
is urging the common council of
city to pnss an ordinance demanding
protection to the Rapid Transit motor
men. In a letter to the council he
says;
The approach of Winter again brings
to our minds the suffering which the
motormen are ohligcd to undergo
through severe weather. A man has
} only to stand on the front platform of
an electric car on a cold day or night,
with the wind or siect and snow blow¬
ing in his face, to slightly appreciate
the hardships which the motormen are
obliged to endure through the failure
J j of their the railroad It is companies only humane, to protect but
cars. pot.
| would seem absolutely necessary for
the preservation of life, to say nothing
of comfort, if the cars were restibuled
in severe weather. I have noticed that
| subject a number and of cities have have forced taken induced up th e
or
the railroad companies to provide ves¬
tibule protection fur thedr men during
the winter months. I would respect¬
fully suggest that this communication
be referred to the committee on ordi¬
nances, with the hope that the commit¬
tee will prepared some ordinance that
Will require the railroad companies to
provide these vestibules immediately?
Sheep in Nebr-aska,
Mr. Robert Taylor, who has estab
lished a sheep ranch of 10,000' acres
seven miles northwest of Grand island,
is said to own more sheep than any
other man in the United States. He
has established large breeding ranches
in Wyoming, and now owns 90.000
head of sheep, most of them thorough
breds. His ranch in Nebraska county
Is fitted to handle 20,000 head of sheep
most of which are now m, hand,. To
get this ranch in shape to handle such
an Immense business, Mr. Taylor has
Just expended $30,000 in buildings and
incidentals for the business. This In
eludes a feeding shed of 120x280 feet.
and another G8xl2 feet, with numerous
small buildings; a double crib, 84x280
fret, with a capacity of 40,000 bushels
Of corn; a storage house of 34x200 feet,
with a full-sized basement,"which he
will fill with beets for the sheep, and
a number of other storage houses of
less Importance. Besides these there
are large houses, water tanks, dipping
tanks, and conveniences, constituting
one of the most complete sheep farms
in the world. Certainly there has been
nothing attempted in the West on such
a scale. All the buildings are as light
and airy as their substantial nature
will permit. Forty men arc employed
on the ranch, and a large number of
miich cows and many horses and hogs
ap C incidental to the care of the sheep,
The intention of the owner is to seed
the entire 10,000 acres in alfalfa, and
about 10,000 tons of the season's cut
is stowed for winter use,
A feature of the business which Is
also new to the Western sheep Indus
try is the insurance of the whole plant
and contents. The policy was Written
by a big Eastern company for $80.000.,
a premium of $1,300 being paid. This
is believed to be the largest premium
of the kind ever paid,
Just across the line In Buffalo coun
ty is another ranch, where a large
number of sheep were fed last year,
Now arrangements are being made to
purchase 150,000 head from the further
Western range for feeding there this
winter. The net profit on a transaction
0 f this sort 'is figured at 40 cents a
head for the season, which lasts five
months.
I.:t/.aru« aiul the Rich Man
*>u see, it . was dis ,, way,” said the
, farkey preacher, giving his version
’ e Lazarus and the rich
“ an ’ I ere was a rich man named
Dt? « rees ' cn ltkewise a »° raan mm**
Aherns. WeJ1 . Latherus come Tong
’ bout Chrils’mus, and bein’ all stove up
Wlth lhe rheumatlz en’ threaten wid
the smallpox, he set down fer ter res’
hisself Tongsi.de de rich man’s gate;
en' Latherus bein' hungry, holler out:
‘Chris’mus gif’!’ But the rich man tell
him; ‘Go ’way furn heah, man! I
ain’t got ez much cz a crumb fer yon!’
En den de dogs come out en chase him
off. But see de prewention er provi¬
denoe. De rich man overeat hisself,,
en wake up stone dead, cn hotter’n de
sun in Angus’. En he look ’round en
say; ‘Where Is 1?’ En, de debil an
swer: ‘You Is in de fire department.
You jlned las’ night.' Den de rich
man say: ‘I wish you, please suh, tell
Kurnel Latherus to turn on de hose
on me, kase dis heah’a de hot stuff!’
But de debil make answer: *Yo’ fr’eri’
Latherus’* up yonder spend in’ Chris'
mns wid Mister Abraham; en he done
sent word dat he ain’t got time to fool
w; d you. Yon’s my meat now, en t
gwine to br’iie yer till yer plumb
brown!’ ’’--Facts from Denver,
T-abor Nolen,
The queen’s footmen wear wigs
which have eight rows of curls, where
as those or the prince of Wales are al
lowed seven rows and those of the lord
mayor of London are given six rows.
The workingman builds houses, and
lives out. of doors. He feeds the world
and goes hungry; makes the clothes,
and wears rags; builds the fires, and
shivers in the cold; erects colleges,
and remains in ignorance; supports
and defends the government, and is
oppressed bv It.— -Commonwealth.
There is no despair so deep as the
despair of a homeless man or woman.
To roam the roads of the country or
the streets of the city, to feel that
there i s no rood of ground on which.
the feet can rest, to halt weary ana
hungry outside lighted windows and
hear laughter and song wlthin—these
are the rebellions that drive men to
crime and women to shame,—Hamlin
Garland
She (having nothing else to say).—
It’s funny how wc ever came to think
-
so much of each othfer. He—Funny?
U’a positively ridiculous, — Boston
:
“WE APPLAUD THE RIGHT AND CONDEMN THE WRONG.”
.7 MS UP. GA„ THURSDAY. JANUARY 5. 18011.
UAGEON BANK NOTES.
HIS POSITION LIKE THAT OF
THE BANKERS’ AGENT.
Viloato Over Great IlniilliiK* of DnponlAt
in ISunk# - Good Times WouM Scud
These Deposits Into Circul uio;i—The
Ileal t’oiat of Danger.
Secretary Gage’s argument for “cur¬
rency reform” will, of course, be ac¬
cepted as remarkably clear and forci¬
ble by those who share in his ideas,
mu if one will stop to analyze his
propositions they will not be so for¬
cible. Unquestionably the plans pro¬
posed ail give hanks power to issue
notes to an extent exceeding the vol¬
ume of the present paper currency,and
undoubtediy the banks will issue their
notes up to the limit when they could
tio so with safety and profit to them
selves. But the question of advantage
to the business world does not de
pend on the existence of ruch a power
but on the exercise of it at times when
business called for it. The experience
of this country has shown an aiterna
tion of money stringencies and money
eongestions, and presumably we shall
have similar experiences 'in - the future,
At present, the country is enjoying a
money congestion. There is more
money than there is any use for, and
this appears to be general throughout
the country, Although the national
treasury holds more money than af
any time since the war the banks are
overcrowded with deposits Two weeks
ago the Indianapolis Sentinel publish¬
ed the statement of the four national
banks at this point, showing cash
items of $7,393,304.07.or practically the
same as last year—about $$ 0,009 less—
and loans and discounts show about
an; equal gain. These banks would,
of course, not make any issue of notes
under such conditions. There is no
caii for it, in fact, the deposits show
an increase of nearly $3,300,000 in one j
year, which demonstrates that people
have less use for money than one j
year ago. The evident trouble now
is that there is lack of opportunity for
profitable use of money, or people are
afraid, to invest because af falling
prices. The tendency under such a
condition would be for hanks to eon
tract the currency to prevent, a fail of
interest stringency rates. But The suppose a time then of j
occurs. pressure
would be on the banks to issue more
notes and they would unquestionably
do so, but the embarrassment that
would then arise would he from the |
wosmtMlm or these ttotes (or ,► ! ■
demotion. Mr. Gaee otUnlu that even
Sion under ordinary woS5 L conditions the sav£g =ueh nre -en ' i
rule I
“Tho desire to obtain legal monev
in their place would cause the banks
receiving them to push them home for
redemption in legal money, but the
general effort In this direction would
neutralize, to a large degree, the ef
ted desired. Bank A sending home
the notes of Bank B would be met. not
by a payment in legal money, but as
an offset by the presentation of the
notes of Bank A. There would he a ]
mutual retirement of their respective :
ban k note IfaMIlties/' !
This is very true, and so far ns a j
bank could not offset demands for re-
1 H* C ,f 0tUcr j
banks auks, it would wn, have to do so , by . pay
Sag out legal tenders, and therefore,
in time of stringency the bank that
issued notes most freely would be call
ed on most freely for redemption of
the notes, and that is the very thing i
all Prudent hankers would desire to !
avoid. If liberal note Issues were in- !
dulged in at a time of stringency and
panic, when depositors were with
drawing money from banks, the inevi- i
redemption, table result would be a suspension of j
and the country would he ! j
put on a basis of dishonored bank pa
per. This is the very condition in
which the greatest strain has been put
on the national treasury to maintain
the paper currency, and is the point of
danger which “currency reform” is
expected to relieve. The question ia ■
simply whether under the same pres- ;
sure the banks could or would resort
to the heroic measures to support a
specie basis which the government did. :
They could not issue bonds without a 1
money sacrifice, or without calling at- .
tention to a lack of funds which would
increase the panic, even if they could
find is a market for their bonds. There j j
every probability that they would
do as in former panics-—suspend j
money payments altogether—or refuse 1
to redeem and let the country use j
hank notes or nothing.—Indianapolis
Sentinel.
’A DUMPING GROUND FOR ;
SILVER.’
When other things fail, the advo
cates of the gold standard and dear
money ask; "Do you want to make
the United States the dumping ground j
for ail the silver of the world?" Weil,
we lot them dump everything else
here, and why not silver? Nobody is j
afraid of their dumping too much j
gold here, or too much sugar, tea cof- j
fee, or anything else. Silver seems
to be the only thing we are afraid of;
and can any one tell why? We have
to pay for what gold we get. We get
no mure goods than we are willing to
pay for in other goods or in money, i
Are we likely to get more silver than :
we are willing to pay for? Is anybody ;
really afraid other countries will give |
us silver—force it on us for nothing?
Who ever heard fesfore of a country 1
being hurt by an inflow of the precious j
metals? Such talk is foolish. The i
simple truth Is we would get, under ;
free coinage, as much as we are, will- j
ing to exchange goods for. and no \
more. Nobody will he compelled to
exchange gold for silver, if* silver be- 1
tame abundant,• more of it would have i
to be given out for goods; fewer goods i
for the silver Can’t our people be ,
trusted any longer In s ,:eh a trade?
or of India, would not come here be¬
cause it is worth more in gold at home
Gian It would under free coinage here
The ratio of coined silver to gold in
Europe is 15»i to 1, in India 15 to 1;
While our ratio is 16 to 1.
Hence the loss, Including 103 s in
weight of coins, and cost of sending
coins here, would be not less than 4
rev cent on European coins, and 8 per
cent on Indian rupees. Instead, there
of merchants sending foreign sil
ver coins, here, if we had free coin¬
age, any one having such coins in this
country would make a saving by send¬
ing them home rather than taking
them to our mint to be melted into
bullion. Moreover it would be sim¬
ply impossible to withdraw these coins
from the circulation of the countries
wher , f the >’ are now in use as the clr
Delating medium,
Their withdrawal would so revolvi¬
Uonlze prices as to convulse all Eu
r 0 P°- We have only to consider, there
forc . silver in the form of bullion, and
»« there is never any large amount
°f this metal carried in stock as bul
Ron. the question is practically limited
to the annual production. If we as
sume that annual production will rise
again to $160,000,000, from this must
first be deducted what is consumed in
the arts and for subsidiary coinage,
not less than 160,000,000 for both,
Then there would he left $100,000,000
for money, for the United States and
the silver countries of the world, with
population of 900,000,000 of people,
and with the trade land with it the
demand for silver) of South America,
Africa, Asia constantly increasing. Is
this a threatening prospect?
A« j* Banket Sees It.
A country banker subscribing to the
fund of the ways and means commit*
tee expresses himself as follows; “In
closed please find my subscription.
When the time for action arrives 1
may do more, The cause of bimetal
lism must speedily triumph or the
mass of our population will be reduc¬
ed to a condition little better than the
peasantry of feudal times The Stur
dy manhood of a few decades ago is
giving away rapidly to servility, 1
have been a bimetallist a long time,
notwithstanding that for the last sev¬
enteen years 1 have been a director of
a national bank. Let me make this
L l f“ b T “ It!" “» “*W "° 0 7"
imntv0rB ' v,t ,,, “ J3 > for the reason, that.
lhCy are the custodians of
^ ° T prof '
J Invested. Congestion will even
1 a country Dani{er -
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Ti.a K« P ui>u«an w ny .
From the Chicago Dispatch: Cap
Robley D. Evans has been reliev
of tho command of the battleship
He has been assigned to duty
a member of the naval inspection
and he will assume his new du
after a brief vacation. The next
of the Iowa will be Can V.
Silas TriTy> now {n commanc Nor* ,
receiving ship Franklin at the
navy yard. He will take the ship ’
10 und South ^ n ...i America , , and , over to
ono ’ !i 1! m enmpany with the Oregon,
8ome collier s. Captain Evans is
n ’ j0 ‘:' nu and tnade a brilliant roc
nl , ;it Santiago, but he offended the
prize-money grabber,
by saying that he would not
plunder. Captain Terry is a
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, mU! , Un „ Earoi>e , u lotnpra „
From the New York World- one „f
the stereotyped news i items * e “ a " owada u i y 8
the appo f ntment ' of J“ 1 , ‘ tary g ov
"
crn Xries „ r fo 1 ,
president The di Th*?nit.^
by the ‘ alone ’ J ,le dppomt *
S nu ,„ ( „ /tl T**]Z president
despot" S ''not 1 * 116
urriiecked hv any ]aw a 11 -
swer able to anybody in the world hut
the president. In respect to the new
territories and their 1.2,000.000 of peo
Pie, the president has become an amp¬
po ; , * , e to , no ° !le Not a
-
gle o£ h f . a< “ ts or of the af:t - 8 of
h,s raillta, T *«t>°rd nates is subject to
r< ' ” v ’ 0£ exaiI R na tHm outside of his
°^ n de P arlnlpn t- And this amazing
*’ iange has coaie suddenly yet- silent*
ly.
Competing; with Foreign Traders.
From the Indianapolis News: We
are selling goods abroad as cheaply as
they are being sold by the traders of
any other nation, and are winning iu
dustriai markets all over the world,
We are not dependent on the home
market arid have shown that we need
no tariff protection to enable our
manufacturers to continue in bust
ness. Thus we are rapidly outgrow
ing. if Indeed we have not already out
grown, the supposed need for tariff
protection. And we have found that
trade expansion is not at all depend
ent on territorial expansion.
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PikHo to the Hank and rue.
From the Louisville Courier-Jour
hal; Those officials at Washington
who are talking of resigning in order
to attend to private business are puz
zling the rank and file of officeholders,
who usually seek their appointments
* n order to attend to private business.
“WCSfSS*Ion for McKinley.
From the Kansas City - Times: The
president uttered some beautiful sen
tintents at Atlanta. If he will run
his administration by the spirit of
them he wiii he happier and the peo
pie will like him better.
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John A Logan: “I see the producers
the western states reduced to the
of serfs WHEN THE
GET CONTROL OF THE EN-
MONEY AND MORALS.
AND THEIR INFLUENCE UPON
POLITICAL ISSUES.
The Views of a .Minnesota Man In
farm, Stock amt Home—I'-atW facfory
Politic* of the Present, But Bright
Promises of the Future.
Henry Ward Beecher, once said that
“it siiowed what God thought about
money by the kind of men he gave it
to." The so-called “successful man”
is in most cases nothing more than an
absorber, a human bull-frog—all
mouth and stomach. The influence of
such.people would be evil in any coun¬
try, but in this so-called land of the
free, where gold is not only the stand¬
ard of value, but also the social, liter¬
ary, intellectual, moral and political
standard, the effect is baleful in the
extreme. This evil influence is move
apparent among farmers throe, it is
among any other class of people, be¬
cause it is direct. In the city trie
wealthy men, the schemers and fran¬
chise grabbers have to act through
agents and lick-spittle go-betweens,
but In the country the wealthy farmer
controls tho under strata of the farnv
ng community, and between this up¬
per and nether mill-stone the great
middle estate is almost destroyed.
How are the arguments of people to be
met who say that their sole business
on earth is to make money? If you
cannot show dollar for dollar with
such people, regardless of circum¬
stances, you are ruled out of court,
and the strangest part of matter is
that nine-tenths of the landless and
homeless part of the community will
applaud the verdict.
“Nothing succeeds like success” in
money matter*-, with such people, and
as they measure every man by their
own narrow, selfish standard, their
tape measure being too short to meas¬
ure a real man, they reduce every one’s
motive to its lowest term and stamp
the dollar mark on It. If a person
lifts his voice in behalf of reform he
is simply “a politician out of a job,”
and worthy of nothing hut contempt.
The least harmful of these men are
those who satisfy themselves by “add¬
ing house unto house and field unto
field,” for by some kind Ja"w of re¬
compense such men generally have a
Spendthrift family, who squander their
"'J 0 "*" «*“ lh ®
«* “'»»•« tb ™ ««««• ,"
the miserly money grabber enters the
church it Is generally late in life, and
not for lho lovc of Christ or hia peo *
pie, but to exorcise the devil, and as
money is his omnipotent the principle
of life he thinks he has fulfilled the
! -he whole moral duty of man when
throws a dollar into the contribu¬
tion box! Here we have the real rea
son why the Christian church is large
! v a congregation of modern scribes
-
and pharisees, and also an answer to
the repeatedly asked question: “Why
will not the people attend church?”
Spiritual and intellectual life is Im
possible in the presence of “Dives,”
for 5t can neltlier thrive nor live in
lhe money-standard atmosphere that
he takes takes with wun nun him wherever vne,c he goes 6 -
In politics, with very few excep¬
tions, the wealthy farmer goes with
ne ’ m tact without his hi „ afA aid
machine could not be run at all
A Jim Hill only excites his envy and
ad miration, for though he suffers with
the res t of us b Y exorbitant freight
rates - etc - be comforts himself y say
" He is on 1 ? smarter than the
f est of us: we WOu d a ,| as h f d ° as
if we had th ® cbance -’ IIere 58 the
key to the whole political problem. It
answers the puzzling question which
person must have
asked himself time and again: “Why,
in the name, of common sense, do our
peopk m , the haHs of legislation
wbos ® interssts are directly opposite
to their own?” It explains why, with
the rascality and jobbery in the army
and the consequent suffering of our
soldiers, our people in the recent elee
tion gave the powers that were alone
responsible a vote of confidence! The
massacres at Hazleton and Vtrden
taught them nothing, and the people
of our own state answered the cry for
injustice of the Leech Lake Indians,
and endorsed the binding twine steal,
by sending a solid ring delegation to
egress, and an overwhelming dele
gatjon of ringsters to the state legts
’-ature.
Nothing could be falser than Con¬
gressman McClery’s aphorism that
"the political fight is always between
the successful, and the unsuccessful.”
The saying is as devoid of truth as
his currency biii is devoid of sense or
justice. Ail history teaches us that
it is always a fight of right against
wrong, of justice against injustice,
From the time of ancient Nineveh,
with its “six score thousand persons
who could not discern between their
right hand and their left, hand,” down
through the ages to Cromwell and the
flower of the English people, who put
flown the rotten aristocracy and the
ra bble which upheld them, through our
Q wn revolution against their descend
antSf down again through the civil
.
war against, human slavery, to our
p res ent fight against organized greed.
It has always been a fight of intelli¬
gence and’ moral principle against the
froth at the top and the dregs at the
bottom. The election of John Lind for
governor gives ns the “gleams of a
golden morning.” Let us • hope that
1900 will bring us into the full light
of liberty and equal rights before the
law.
SETH BOTTOM LEY.
Martin, Minn.
If two people can live on less than
one it’s because they have to.
Subscription $1.00 Per Year,
Plant System.
PASSENGER SCHEDULES.
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to OSaiia 09p .....
......i...... t-o 50a 2 25pl .. Philadelphia Baltimore .,. ill ‘ 25a 3 50» ; '_____ ..........,
............. ... .... 9 0‘itV 108a 1
30a; 3 46pj .. Washington. .. j 7 41a’ll lOp;..
05a; 7 30p| .. . Richmond ... 1 4 0O»j 6 40;/
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............ 205p 15 p: 6 13a ...Charleston... j 4 89p; G 16a* 13a!............
.....; fiOOa 5_18p. 20a 8 35a; ...Savannah .... ; 12 ISp iia 920a- 7 OOp
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...... 8 I7aj 0 S7p 4 66a to 00a’£*...... Jesup ... ’ I,v Ar. 10 47a-10 36p 7 81a 5 2Gp'......
9 50a 8 05p 6 00;t )0 55u Ar. .... Waycroaa-----Lv 9 50ai 9 30p 6 20a 4 20pi,
...... ......j 10 20p 8 00a>...... 15p|. ,. Brunswick .... ■ 7 45a.; 7 OOp
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2 JOti 2 .....Albany..... i......j 3 Sfip 130a.......
l OOp 6 20pi. k......>10 ,
..........( ....!......‘ .... Columbus------ 00a 5 20p ...... ,
4 15a 4 15j>:. , ......Macon...... 11 20a li 25p
......i 7 85m 7 35pj, >,.....! ......
....I i ......Atlanta...... 7 50ai 7 50p......
jio 25pj STOflj'rOOpf . ."Jacksouvffie 8 00a f 7" J
. -.;......>10 30a i SOp'j.. St, Augustine. .. s’lSai MM
..I....., 12 22p! 4 3 40pi 15p: ... Gatne.avOle... 3
2 lOp, ...... Ocala. ..... 1 35a 1
« 6 05p; 7 G5p! ..... Tampa..... 7 87p 10
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fe* *0 *c 12 56p .... Valdosta SSlri 4 OSai.
^ .t#w. o O' ss- 2 9 30p 20 up .. Montgomery Thomasvillo .. 10 5 lOp| 2 50a!.
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.... . .)....>.i, 7 O ot ss ...... 4 OBp .. . Cinci nnati _.. ......I 4 05p. il 00p!.
All trains except Nos. 23, S2, 35 and 78 make all local stops.
Pullman buffet sleeping ears are operated as follows: Nog. 35 and 32 between New
York and Jacksonville. Now York and Port Tampa via West Coast, Mayoress and Cin¬
cinnati via Montgomery. Nos. 23 and 78 between New York and Jacksonville. No.
21 Savannah and Montgomery, and oonnee.ta at Waycreas with sleepers to At. Louis via
Montgomery; to Nashvilie via Atlanta, and Port Tampa via Jacksonville and Hanford
No. 24 Montgomery and- Savannah.
,steamships leave Port Tampa for Key West and Havana 9 p. in. Monday* »r«d
Thursdays, arrive Key West 3 p. in. Tuesdays and Fridays, arrive Havana 6 a. m
Wednesdays and Saturdays. Returning leave Havana 12:30 noon Wednesday* and Satur¬
days, leave Key West 7 p. m.'samu days, arrive at Port Tampa 2 p. m. Thursdays and
Sundays. Close connection made by train 35 tor Key West and Havana,
For further information apply to Agent.
B. W. WB.ENN, Passenger Traffic Manager.
H, C. MeFADDJJN, Assistant General Passenger Agent.
Sava xxxn, (}*,
SLAVES IN ANCIENT GREECE.
Alexander Sold All the inhabitants of Thebes
in lo Slavery.
In the second installment of Prof.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler’9 "Life of Alex¬
ander the Great,’’ in the Century
Professor Wheeler writes of Alexan¬
der’s efforts In subduing the rebellion
Shat followed tiie assassination of
Philip. Professor Wheeler says:
At last, after much long suffering,
flic strong hand of the Macedonian
power, contrary to all its purposes
and policy, had laid itself with vio¬
lence upon one of the great Greek
cities. Once and again it iuui forgiv¬
en, but Thebes had transgressed the
bounds of endurance and could ex¬
pect no mercy. She obtained nouo.
Tim city was razed to the ground,
only the house of Pindar being spared;
the territory was distributed, among
tile .allies, and the inhabitants who
survived, some thirty thousand In
number, excepting only the priest and
tin: priestess, the descendants of Pin¬
dar, and the guests, friends of Philip
and Alexander, were sold into 'slavery,
making a slave market so vast that,
as we hear, the standard price of
slaves in the market of the Aegean
was seriously depressed in conse¬
quence.
Tho ordinary price for a slave was
from twenty to thirty-five dollars.
Abundant supply kept the price low.
Society was built on slavery. Slaves,
or. as in Sparta and Crete, serfs
attached to the soil, were the farm
laborers: in manufactories they took
the place of machinery; they were a
form of investment, being often rent
ed out in gangs, as for work in the
mines; large numbers were - used, too,
for domestic service, seven being an
average number for an ordinary house.
Coiintii is said to have had 460,000
slaves. .Vagina 470,000, and a census
of the year 30b B. C. showed 400,000
in Attica. These figures have some¬
times been doubled, but other known
facts go to confirm them. Most of
tile slaves 'apparently came from out
side Greece, as from Lydia. Syria,
ltithynia. Thrace, and Illyria, but
there were aiso among them Italians,
Egypt Ians, and Jews. The supply
from outside was maintained by the
slave-traders, who obtained them
either in barter or i>y robbery along
■the coasts <>f Aegean and the Maxine.
The slave-market was a feature of
every city agora, and especially of
the temple fairs. Captives in war
were, like the rest, of the booty, treated
as merchandise. They were disposed
of chiefly by professional traders and
sold mostly abroad. Thus men of cul¬
ture and education often appeared in
the condition of slaves. Employed as
teachers, readers, secretaries, musi¬
cians, they often served the purpose
of spreading the knowledge of art.
manners, and life among other peoples,
and aided hi mixing the soils and for¬
warding the interests of cosmopolitan¬
ism.
Hungarian kings Scattered Bone*.
The lot of the Kings of Hungary
was doubtless happier during their
checkered lifetime than after their de
aiisc. It was only a year ago that the
bones of a 'score of them were found
lying, about a lumber-room in Stub!
welsenbnrg. They had been removed,
nobody knows when and why, front
their original resting place, and the
story goes that a student with less
reverence un i patriotism limn medics!
zeal bribed the keeper to commit his sev- j
era! of the unique skeletons to pro
fe.-do&al cure. Where they are now
is a point which snii remains unde
elded. Some time ago these relics;
were duly numbered; labelled and cat
alofiued, and there fi« no doubt that in j
time they will be accorded a fitting re- f
burial. ;
In the mean, time the remain* of J
King Bvia Hi have been claimed for j
ttm Ghiuth of St. Mathias on thei
heights of Hilda. A shrine is to he;
eivetcd !ti the church to receive his
bones, and also those of his first wife, j
Anna, Duchess of Antioch. For the
present the' remains have been given
temporary burial in a glass coffin -
amid the rites of the Roman Catholic -
NO. 2.
Church Thfi ceremony, which has
just been conducted by Cardinal Vas
zary, was attended by court digni¬
taries and several of the Ministers.
The Hungarians bold Boiu Ill iu al¬
most equal esteem with the great St.
Stefan. He reigned in the twelfth
century, was brought up in Greece,
and accustomed the people to dwelling
In houses instead of tents,-Vienna
correspondence of The London Dost.
French Rule a Success in Tunis.
France. Las bad possession of Tunis
eighteen years, and under Us mim
agem-ent the country has reached a
state of chilUttion and order which it,
had not before known since the Ro¬
man dominion, and, perhaps rut then,
it was bankrupt when the Frenph oc¬
cupancy began; it is now solvent, and
its yearly receipts regulate Its yearly
expenditures-. In 1880 it had not a fur¬
long of decently made road; now fair¬
ly good ones connect all the principal
towns, ami the work is improved and
extended year by year;-a prosperous
railway system has been Introduced;
the harbor channels have been deep¬
ened to admit the largest, ships to the*
wharves of the city; forty lighthouses,
small and large, have been built; wells
have been sunk all over the country,
a steady supply of water being one of
the most urgent needs; domestic in¬
dustries of ail kinds have been en¬
couraged and promoted, and the safety
of life and property i» almost as wed
assured there as in Aquitaine or BH
tauy, France may point with pride to
this prosperous and orderly North
African possession as an illustration
of her capacity iu the way of colonial
management which site s® so anxious
to try on a larger scale.
Destroycrs Not bp to the Mark.
The failure of some of the new tor¬
pedo boat destroyers to attain any
tiring like the speed recorded of them
while on their contraetor’s trials is
engaging the serious attention of the
admirably and of naval engineers.
The difficulty has existed ever since
the adoption of the 30-knot destroyers,
but it has been especially noticeable
iu the eases of the Earnest and Grif¬
fon, which only a few months ago,
white undergoing their contractor’s
trials on the Clyde, exceeded a '.wan
speed of thirty knots on a continuous
three hours’ run, the engines in each
ease, working at 6,000 horse power.
Since they have been at lmrcnport
completing for sea they have been
subjected to no work whatever, yet
on a two hours’ trial, with the en¬
gines working at an even greater
rate than when on the Clyde, they
barely exceeded twenty-six knots.
Such a great reduction of speed in
new Vessels is regarded as surprising
and even alarming, and it Is likely to
form the subject of close inquiry.—
Washington Dost.
She Drove Sixty Miles to Vote,
An illustration of the determination
of Idaho women who have a voice in
the result of elections is afforded by
the record made by Airs. B. F. Jeffers
of Hailey. She has a ranch at Soldier,
thirty miles from' Hailey, arid regis
tried in that precinct. Later she re
moved to Halley.and took a transfer
to that pla.ee, but neglected• to• record
it. At noon on election day ahe found
could not vote at Hailey, and at
secured -a team and started for
Soldier. It was cold on that high
but the courageous woman
the wind and urged the team
in order to reach the voting
before the polls closed, This
accomplished and she voted.
several men insisted she had
os * per right to vote there. Mrs.
then drove back to Hailey tho
night, the total distance covered
sixty miles.-St. Louis Globe
steamship * Values,
How rapidly steamship yalnes de
is illustrated in the .difficulty the
finds in getting iMMan for
prize steamship. Adma, which hr
nine yars old, and winch cost $i.>i,
Scotland, when she was