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THE TWO GIANTS.
i mighty giant once there was,
A gentle giant he,
Whom all men loved where’er he went, „
And none was known to flee.
He lived within a castle fair,
And great as he was strong ;•
And those who passed when he was there
Could hear a happy song.
His heart was kind, his band was free,]
His soul was set to mirth.
And all men said: “^Tis joy to live
With him upon the earth.”
His face was bright with pleasant smiles,
His laugh was good to hear.
While round about him everywhere
’Twas summer all the year.
Swift flow the time ; the giant grew
Full old and weak of frame;
One day unto the castle fair
Another giant came.
And as the gentle giant waned
The other waxed in might;
A man of solemn mien was he,
Nor glad unto the sight.
The castle old grew silent, cold,
Nor any mirth came eftit,
And where the summer long had smiled
The winter stalked about.
And all men passed another way •
Whenever that they could ;
They dreaded him as they had loved
The merry giant good.
No song was ever on his lips,
His eyes were hollow lights ;
The castle seemed a haunted pile,
And dark and chill o’ nights.
And round about it rose the wave,
And lo I an island where
The gloomy giant dwelt alone,
The picture of despair.
And those who knew the giants twain
The truth with tears confess ;
“They brothers were—and one was Grief
And the other was Happiness.”
—Chicago Record.
AN EARLY CALL.
iE proposed to her
ll in the conserva¬
tory after s u p -
I per; he did not
II j go knees down on declare his
% that life or would be
nothing to him
without her, but
he told her, simp¬
ly and earnestly,
that she was very
U. dear to him; that
he had al w ays
loved her, and that
1 ft as his wife i t
' would be his care
to guard her from
the world’s rude
bufletings. “I
think I could make you happy,” he
said. “I am not as clever as some of
the men you know, but I love you.”
“Yes,” she murmured, “I know yon
love me—you have always been good
to me; you must know—you must
feel that I appreciate it. It touches
me to have you care for me—1 wish
I could make you understand that I
am gratefnl. ” why should
“Grateful? But you
be? Could I help loving you ? Could
I know you and not care for yon ? You
are bo unlike other women, so free
from envy and petty malice. I have
watched you with your girl friends—I
have seen .you do many a kindness
that you thought nobody knew any¬
thing about*. I think it was your
goodness that charmed me first.”
She looked up—was he really in
earnest?
“Don’t praise me,” she said; “com¬
pliments from other men are well
enough, but not from you.”
“Is it a compliment to tell you
what I think? And it seems to me I
have said so little. Ah! if you could
know what is in my heart—but no
doubt,” as she made an impatient
movement, “you have heard all this
before— a twice-told story wearies.
What can I say to win you—you who
are so used to being loved? To
another woman I might speak of my
wealth, of all that I could give her,
but not to you.” well of me,” she
“You think too
broke in.
“No, Edith—I understand you—and
that is why I want you all for mine,to
have and to hold, to love and to
cherish ;■ say that you like me a little,
will be my wife. ”
you toward him, the words
She leaned
that would send him from her, and
end forever the friendship that had
become a part of her life were tremb¬
ling on her lips, when he, guessing
her intention, perhaps, said hurriedly:
“Some one is coming—your German
partner, I think. Don’t answer me
now; later on will do as welL ”
She breathed freely. It was natural
for her to postpone unpleasant things
to put off the evil day as long as pos¬
sible.
“As yon wish, then; will you call
to-morrow. ”
“Ye*, in the morning, at II.” He
bowed and withdrew just aa her next
partner came harrying up.
“Hie cotillon is about to begin,
Hiss Alton,” he said, taking Manning’s
chair, “bat I think we have time for
a short ehal Yon don’t mind talking
to me for a few minutes, do yon?”
“Why, no,” she answered, for she
liked the lad not only for his own sake,
bat because of his friendship with that
other, whose image was never long ab¬
sent from her mind. „ *
“By the way,” “I he said, aa if reading
her thoughts. got a le tt er from
Agaev to-day. I thought yon might
care to hear from him ; yen always
frienda.”
“Yea,” she responded, idly. “How
ishs?”
“Very well; bat growing homesick.
Think of HI He has been away six
- t»
“No doubt he W enjoying himself.”
“Oh, Carl will get the best out of
life; that’s his way, you know.”
“Yes, I know.” The answer was
given so carelessly, with such appar¬
ent indifference, that he was about to
speak, -to tell her the tidings that
his * letter contained, and "Which
so far some instinct had made
him withhold, when his hostess ap¬
peared in the doorway.
“Come, you two,” she called; “the
others are waiting for you.”
“Dear Mrs. Danton,” said the girl,
rising. “Mr. Lane and I are such
old'friends that we sometimes forget
how time fliesl”
“You young dissembler,” laughed
the older woman; “you know Her¬
bert Manning was in the conservatory
with you.”
A sudden blush stained* Edith’s
cheek—she hated herself for it, it
was so apt to mislead—but Mrs. Dan
ton seemed in no way surprised.
“There, child ; don’t look so fright¬
ened,” she said. “No one wishes you
happiness more than I. ”
“But, Mrs. Danton—”
“Really, Miss Edith,” put in Lane,
who had been a puzzed 5 and uncom¬
fortable listener, “Idon’tlike to hurry
you, but we shall surely be late.”
She turned away; after all, what
did it matter; by to-morrow the world
would know the truth, Manning’s face
would tell the story of his rejection,
and a few hours’ misconstruction
could harm no one. But late that
night, when she stood in her own
pretty room, she felt vaguely dissatis¬
fied with herself; she could not put
the feeling from her.
“I have not acted honestly,” she
said aloud. “I should have answered
him ; it was not kind to put him off,
it may lead him to hope, he may have
misunderstood me.” She was silent a
moment, then went on still contritely:
“And 1 do like him. He is the kind¬
est, .truest friend, but love—’’ She
arose and crossed the room.
When she came back she carried a
photograph, a man’s cold, clever face
—the face of one who knew the world,
and was perhaps not on the best of
terms with it.
“But for you,” she said, gazing in¬
to the unresponsive eyes, “I had
loved that other man ; if you*had not
shown me so clearly that I was dear to
you, I might still care for him, for he
loves me dearly? but it is too late
now—too late to talk of what might
have been.” She stopped and laid
her lips on the picture’s.
The next morning she was idling
over her fire, when the maid brought
up a bunch of heartsease and a card:
“Mr. Manning’s compliments, ma’am,
and will you see him?”
“Yes; say to him that 1 will be
down in a moment.”
When the door closed she lifted the
heartsease tenderly; a mute appeal,
they seemed to her, from the giver.
“Poor fellow,” she thought regret¬
fully. “I should have told him; how¬
ever, there is no use keeping him
waiting. I might as well get through
with it at once.”
She pinned the heartsease in the
lace at her throat, cast a parting glance
at the mirror and started down the
stairs.
As she reached the lower hall the
front door opened and a servant ad¬
mitted a girl in gray with a bunch of
roses thrust into her muff.
“Why, Edith,” she said rapidly, “I
never thought to find you down so
early. If you are going out don’t let
me keep you. ”
“I am not going out; come into the
sitting room and get warm.”
“No, I won’t sit down. I only want
to see you a moment. I came to ask
you to join our house party—there
will only be eight of us, the same old
crowd had last year. ”
we
“The same crowd? How delight¬
ful 1”
“The same, and not the same. I
won’t invite Mr. Agnew now.”
“And what has poor Mr. Agnew
done?”
“What has he done? Ob, nothing
unusual; they all do it sooner or
later; but au engaged man is de trop
at an affair of this kind. r ’No girf
wants him for a partner, and, really,
one can’t blame them.”
“An engaged man!” For one hor¬
rible moment Edith Alton thought she
was about to faint; the next, however,
the table chairs righted them¬
selves, her \ffWtor’s face ceased its
grotesque gyrations and she was con¬
scious that she was speaking.
“Sol Where did you hear, that
pleasant bit of new*?” she asked, seat¬
ing herself on the arm of a chair.
“Why, last night; Mr. Lane told
me ooming home. Strange he never
mentioned it to you. I am horribly
disappointed. She’s a Boston girl.
You remember her little creature
who visited the Mores. Wealthy, of
course—trust Charlie for that—but
obi so plain.” of be¬
“Beauty is in the eye the
holder,” quoted Edith, lightly. She
felt a longing to cry out, to bury her
face somewhere, instead of which the
must smile and look unconcerned and
.jitfiiu this love affair with the indif¬
ference of a mere acquaintance. “If
I remember rightly she was a nice lit¬
tle thing.” Fancy Charlie's
“Nice? Heavens 1
coming to that—actually to marrying
a ‘nice’ girl! His best enemy couldn’t
wish him worse luck. He hit* disap¬
pointed me dreadfully. I thought,”
significantly, “he fancied some one
else, somebody nearer home.”
“Somebody nearer home?—oh, do
you mean Why,’ myaelf? How awfully
fanny! we are very good
friends; we have always been friends;
but I—” a rapid flash of thought;
then, with rising color, “I am going
to marry another man.”
Her visitor’s face expressed intense
“Going to be married,”
l; “I had not heard—”
“Be baa heard,” said the other
with km, “and, by tbe way,
waiting for me is the
library. I must ask you to exousa
me.
“Mr. Manning?” I thought
“Did you not guess? Don’t oi
course you would. speak of it,
Janet, I only told you because
(slowlv) you are such a good friend of
mine.”
“And I appreciate happiness—she it accordingly.
I wish you ✓every laid
her hand lightly on Edith's arm—you
know that, don’t you?” wished
“Why, yes—you have always
me well, haven’t you? See how po¬
tent your wishes have been ! But to
return to our first subject, I shall be
glad to go with you to Arley. Lyst
year’s visit was a dream. ”
“Then I shall count ou you. Gome,
you Will have to let me out; I am not
au fait with J'our latch.” - ,
“What a strong wind there is—draw
up your wraps. Goodbv, and again
thank yon for thinking of me.”
The front door slammed and Edith
stood a moment in the hall, gathering
courage for what was to come ; then
she turned iiml went into ttfe library.
Manning, who was standing at a dis¬
tant window, came forward at her en¬
trance.
“I afraid I kept you,” she said,
giving him a trembling hand, t> u t I
was detained by an ‘early call from a
‘ An early i call, ri „ u e repea a e i. iu!
,
what do yon t in o me.
I told that , .
Ah, but you to come ; is
altogether different.. I wanted you.
You wanted me. he cried eager
ly; my darling, may I enterpret that
after my own fasmon? Do you really
care for me a little.
She could not speak, but for answer
she came to him, laying her beauti ul
head on his breast.
Love she whispered, .
me, passion- a
ately; only love me, and you c
make of me what you will.
“Do you know,” he said to her,
about an hour later, “at first you
frightened me, but when you didn’t
say ‘No’ at once, I began to hope. I
knew it wasn’t like you to keep me in
suspense—you*are too true of heart
for that.”
“Too true,” she thought, remorse
fully. “Oh, Herbert, Herbert!”
But aloud she said, smiling half sad
ly into his loving eyes: “To think of
your being afraid of me—of poor little
me—who am not half worthy of you!”
—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Hunting Sea Lions.
At the close of the fur-seal-killing
season, the natives proceed to lay in
their winter’s supply of meat. Annm
ber of.picked men go to Northeast
Point, steal down to the shore in the
dead of night, and crawl along at the
water’s edge until a line of men is dis
posed between the eleeping herd and
the water. At a given,signal the men
all spring to theiafeet, yell, discharge
pistols, and terribly frighten the sleep
ingsea lions. Those that lie with their
heads toward the water plunge for
ward and quickly disappear, but those
headed landward naturally enough
start forward away from the uproar.
Being continually urged ou, they soon
find themselves fairly inland, with all
chances of escape cut off.
The groups of from twenty to fifty
caught thus each night are driven up
on to the level ground, and held until
from three to five hundred have been
taken, when the grand drive begins.
Then the whole herd is actual!v driven
ten miles overland to the village. Ac
cording to the condition of the weather,
the drive requires from six days to
three weeks, but in the end every sea
lion who does not die of heat or ex
haustiou on the road actually carries
his own carcass to market.
This animal yields abont the same
clans of products as does the walrus;
and its flesh forms the principal food
of all the natives of the fur-seal islands.
The skin is thickly covered withdoarse
stiff hair of a brownish-yellow color,
but it is destitute of “fur,” and hence
is of no value in our market.
8teller’s sea lion is about twice the
size of the fur seal, the old male being
from ten to eleven feet jn total length,
from eight to nine feet in girth, and
it weighs on an average abojnt 1200
pound*. The females are not quite
half as large, iu actual bulk, as tha,
males. Although cowardly in their
disposition toward man, the males are
among themselves the fiercest fighters
in the world. It is bard to obtain an
old specimen whose neck is not cris
crossed all over by long, deep powerful gashes,
or old scars, made by the Nicholas,
teeth of jealous rivals*—St.
BargUrs snd Ckierelens.
Burglars sometimes chloroform
their victims in tbe hope that their
work will be the more easily and ef
factually done. As the plan is to ad*
minister the anaesthetic while the
patient sleeps it is no wonder that
failure attends the effort. Happily
it is one of the most diSenlt feats to
accomplish, requiring the greatest ears
snd tbe highest degree of skilL By
many good observers it is claimed to
be impossible. The latter y be
looked upon as the rule, especially
with novice*. Before primary insensi¬
bility is obtained • the victim awakes
from tha irritation of the inhaled
vapor, whence force is necessary for
the completion of the purpose. In
the meantime aa alarm may be given,
and the assailants may be captured.
Fortunately the chances are always
against the latter, as lus victim, facing
the horror of strangulation, is in¬
stantly and almost instinctively
roused to desperate r esist an c e. Tak¬
ing all the chances, however, chloro¬
form in the hands of a burglar should
be considered as dangerous to his vic¬
tim aa a dab, an ax or a bullet, and its
administration should be
to that extreme limit of penalty
which is dae to tbe *
other
Record.
PRATCTrTrnV 1 Liu l Jkul lUili
•OLD RATTLETRAPS” INSTEAD o-i
WELL EQUIPPED MILLS.
Protection Pauperizes and Prostl
tutes Our Industries—Olass and
Woolen Industries Are Object
Lessons—A Terrible Indictment
of tbe Protective Systeln.
Does protection foster industries
and make them strong, healthy and
independent? It does in the same
wav that saloons stimulate boys and
make them vigorous, self-reliant and
prosperous men. Protection duties
make bums and paupers amongst in
dustrious as aleoholio stimulants make
bums and paupers amongst men. Nat
ural foes and normal conditions are
best in either case. Protection pros
titntes industries by removing them
from their free and unrestricted com
petition, which is the best guarantee
of a healthy growth and of independ
ence. When foreign competition is
cut off or restricted by tariff duties, a
home industry can retain our “home
markets” without any attempt to keep
pace with improvements abroad,
Hence it often happens ^ that our pro
te{jted mannfftctnr B continue to use
machinery and methods long since
discarded abroad. In case our manu
facturers use the most modern ma
chinerf they have only to band them
selves together into trusts and com
bine8 to ]imit prodnc tion and sustain
•
pricpR Iu either oase oontmmerB are
deprived o1 tbe cbeap pro aucts that
result from free competition. Pro
teotion pomps bi(?h) but W0 hay0 had
^ hftye it fpx thirt years _ a i eft8t so
said a majority ^ of our voters.
Aq instanc or two wi u 8erve as
object lessons as to the prostituting
effect! of protection. During the past
three years both the National Glass
Budget and the Commoner and Glass
Worker—the chief organs of the glass
-workers of the oountry—have several
times admitted editorially that but for
protection our glass interests would
now be independent and fearless.
They say that our natural opportnni
ties f or mR king glass are unrivalled,
and that when nntural gas (the best
fuel for glass purposes) came as a God
send a few years ago, we should have
ga j ne d full control not only of our
oy(n mar k e ts but of many foreign mar
kets. This we would have done but
that our glass industry had been so
long pampered by protection. For
example, our glass manufacturers are
still . pot furnaces, al ... ough ,
using l
has been clearly demonstrate tha
tank furnaces (which have been m use
£? r years in Belgium, Germany an
France) are far superior Protected
*00 per cent, duties from foreign
^ by numerous trusts from internal
competition, they have continued
their old methods. Now, that natura
18 becoming scarce and valuable,
the glass-workers are contemplating,
»» sorrow, the opportunities that pro¬
tection has lost to us. Instead of
and being to able control to make the all^our markets own of glass the
world thus furnishing steady em
Payment for twice our present num
ber ot workers-the window glass
trust is using such antiquated methods
*«d maintaining such high prices that
one-third of our window glass is im
ported in spite of duties that average
er ® en t.
The same ( Sects are seen in tho
woolen industry, the Dext highest pro
| tected of the important industries,
i Protection has been a curse instead of
; ft blessing, boon after tbe election
of 1892 the Wool and Cotton Reporter
of 1‘ebruary 23, 1893, begged that
duties on woolens be lowered gradually
»o as to give the manufacturers time
*° ®d°pt improved machinery. It said
that the forty per cent, duties pro¬
posed by Mills in 1888, might have
given ample protection then, but that
since the manufacturers had grown
careless and slonchy under the extreme
protection of McKinleyism, they could
not stand a sudden reduction if it
should go lower than fifty per cent,
This is a terrible indictment of the
whole protective system. That it is
true is vouched for by another great
authority—the Dry Goods Economist
—which said editorially on October 6:
‘Tn our market report on, woolen
goods this week will be found some
interesting facts showing the effect on
the woolen industry of this country
of the new tariff. Tbe leaven of free
wool has only just begun to work, but
already important changes are becom
ing apparent. Prominent among these
is tbe condition in which the manu¬
facturers using antiquated themselves and waste¬
ful machinery find placed.
Under a tariff ranging at times as high
m 175 per cent, it was possible to use
these old rattletrap at a profit, and
hence factories fitted with machinery
of this olass existed and were operated,
Under the new conditions these
factories will be elosed, oi« if oper
ated, will be fitted with machinery of
the best and newest kind. It is only
such that are now able to enter the
field.
“Those mills which are at present
moet active and leading in the fight
for preservation of the domestic
woolen industry are operated by
enterprising and dear-headed manu¬
facturers, backed by ample capital
and tbe beet apparatus. These will
have their hands fall in competing
#ith the gigantic organizations and but
magnificent plants of Europeans;
the suceaes which has already aooom
pan lea the efforts of those manufac¬
turers who have ceased repining and
ad dr ess ed themselves to making the
beat of the new sitaation should en¬
courage others who wish to stay in
tbe business of manufacturing textile*
to do the
“Manufacturer! who bewail the de¬
struction of the McKinley act are ask
ing whether it is.right to eaact tariff
laws which will only permit manafao
luring plants of the lat es t eonipment
to operate wA
They tearfully inquire, what is to be
come of the factories equipped with
the old-fashioned machines. The an
swer obvious: They must go to the
rear with the stage coach and the pack
horse; the fittest only*,will survive in
thp hot pace of the future, as they
alone deserve to survive,
“The manufacturer who sees profit
; n t he situation and uses his best en
deavor to extract it, is the one who
will prosper in the luture.
“The moderate and conciliatory
spirit of the.new tariff act in extend
ing the exceedingly liberal protective
rate of fifty per cent, on most woolens
should satisfy the manufacturer who
is fully equipped in tnill and brain,
an d the wise man will be that one who
hastens to make the most of it while
the opportunity is offered. ’
The Boston Journal of Commerce
brought the same charges against
American eotton manufacturers. In
telling .them how they might compete
with foreign goods without reducing
wages it said : “Our mill owners at
first should equip their mills with
modern machinery. * * There is
a large amount of lost labor iu our cot
ton mills at the present time. This is
what makes our goods coBt so much
and allows the Englishmen ip come in
here. * * * Our cotton mills are
full of old machinery.’ , ,
rbMwr P ff*
The New York World prints care
fully prepared tables showing the re
ductions in articles of general neces
sity by comparison of wholesale prices
this year and the corresponding time
last year. The World says:
“Tbe tables we present to-day show
that the cost of living under the Demo
cratic tariff is less by from ten to
twenty-five per cent than it was ayear
ago under the McKinley tariff. That the
is to say, a dollar now will buy of
necessaries of, life about as much as
81.10 or 81.25 would buy a year ago,
although at that time hundreds of
merchants were ready to Hell their
goods at a sacrifice to save themselves
from bankruptcy. P"
“It costs less now to build a house
than it did then. It costs less to oar
pet and furnish it. And when you
como to live iu it it costs less to buy
your canned vegetables, fish, fruits
and meats, your kitoheu utensils,your
hardware, your clothing, your tin
ware, your butter,cheese, eggs, shirts,
drawers, sheets, towels, rope, twine,
oils,, paints aud pretty nearly every
thing else that enters into daily use.
The facts and figures are all given in
detail in the tables elsewhere printed,
“Those are the results of tariff re¬
form. They are concessfons wrung
by Democratic legislation from the
trusts whioh had conspired under the
McKinley law to extort as much as
possible from the necessities of the
people. American
“This is ‘protection to
labor’ of a genuine sort. It protects
tlie people from robbery and extor¬
tion at the hands of the conspirators
who dictated the McKinley schedules
for their own benefit,
“Your dollar is worth more now"
than it was a year ago became in the
meantime a Democratic Congress has
repealed a tariff law which made the
trusts masters of our markets and
licensed them to levy tribute upon the
people."
Free Weal Advertisements.
‘ ‘Values knocked sky-high by change
of tariff;” “We have taken advantage
of the low price of woolens;" “The
prices are startling,” and “Every gar¬
ment marked at paralyzing prices,”
the way an enterprising Boston cloth¬
ing company advertises its goods in
the Boston Herald, and at the same
time gives New Englanders a tariff
object lesson by quoting Die lowest
prices ever heard of in Beantown.
Free wool is making millions of
friends in factories an l on the farms.
Before 1893 tbe people will be com¬
pletely weaned from apy desire to
return to McKinleyism. Having
tasted of the benefits of free wool, they
will ask to have mauy other raw mate¬
rials, and perhaps a few manufactured
products, put orftke free list.
United States to Lead the World.
M. Leroy Beaulieu, the brilliant
economic writer and acutq^ observer,
writing in s French paper regarding
the general industrial outlook through¬
out tbe world, advances the opinion
that the United States is on the eve of
an important forward movement in its
industrial expansion. Hrf says that
with the extraordinary energy and
exhaustless ingenuity of Americans,
and the enormous capital at command,
both in this country snd abroad, the
chanoee are greatly in favor of the in¬
dustrial predominance of United States
in. the world’s basin interests,—
Iron Age.
_
Calamity Howler Harrises.
The enemiei of Mr. Harrison, and
they are numerous and potential, need
have no fear that his ambition will be
realized. There is an unwritten law,
distinct and inexorable, which has
never been broken. It is that when
the country is emerging from a cruel
season of industrial paralysis the
who sets np his voice to retard the
progress of relnrning prosperity is a
public enemy, unworthy the confi¬
dence of the people, and that what¬
ever his subsequent aspirations are,
they will be disappointed.— K in sa w
City Times
Mellsley’s
Governor McKinley told the people
of Sisterville, W. Va., that rather
than the greatest monument that
might be reared to his memory he
would prefer the reputation of bill having
been aesociaied with the that
beers his same. Of coarse; tor this
measure is his whole stock is trade,
snd he Hie necessity of putting
his name on it s-frsih since Mr.
Thoasas BL Bead has cast something
of a cloud upon his title to the prop
erty.—Philadelphia BeoortL
THE LATEST BY WIRE
a.
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THM
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
Brief .Mention of Daily Happening*
Throughout the World.
F. H. Matthews, dealer in wools,
Boston, has made an assignment.
The cotton crop of Egypt is officihl
ly estimated to amount to 1,875,000
bales, exceeding that of 1893 by 3 per'
oent. ' I •
Mr. Justice White, of the supreme
court, and Mrs. Linden Kent, the
widow of a prominent Washington
lawyer, were married at New York
Monday. The ceremony was strictly
private. ^
The United States court of claim*
has outeied up judgments for extra
pay under the eight-hour law for thirty
three letter carriers in Richmond, six
in Pettersburg, Va., and five ih§®oa
noke, Va.
Thirty-four families have left Pull¬
man for Hiawatha, Kan., to join the
new co-operative colony there- They
inoluded a nnmbei of first-class
mechanics, former employes in the
Pullman shops.
William R. Leeds, for nearly thirty
years a prominent figure in Philadel¬
phia, Pennsylvania, and national pol¬
itics, and for nearly quattcr ' of m~.
a
century one of the republican leaders
in the city died Monday morning.
Since Monday night dispatches middle from
all over the north, east, and
western states report that the weather
is growing colder, in most localities
clearing and in some localities witi*
snow, but everywhere a high wind
prevails.
Judge Jenkins, the Northern Pacif¬
ic receivers and the Farmers’ Loam
and Trust Compauy of New York have
concluded that it would be best to
discharge the twenty-two receivers of
the twenty-two branch lines leased and
operated by them iu the interest of
economy.
General Gordon,commanding Unitedl
Confederate Votorans, has appointed
General 8. D. Lee, of Mississippi, to
the command of the department easfc
of the Mississippi, General Gordon^
owing to disagreements, has decided
to withhold the official promulgation Bir¬
of tho constitution adopted at i*
mingham, and the old constitution
still in force.
There was another smallpox scare hr
the interior department Monday when
it was aunonneed that Ballard Morris*
principal examiner in the patent office
has the disease. Morris was on dnty
on Friday. He had been vaccinated
and the virus has taken effect. Yet
the man is quite sick. Commissioner
Seymour ordered tho division in which
Morris worked dosed and sent the em¬
ployes home.
A cut ranging from 20 to 40 per cent
in the wages of all tonnage men em
ployed in the Pennsylvania avenue
plant of the Hainsworth Steel Company*' ordereiit
at Pittsburg, Pa., has been
and accepted. Tbe men ore not organ¬
ized, and the cut, although engender¬
ing dissatisfaction, will not likely re¬
sult in a strike. The Hainsworth Steel
Company is operated by the Oliver
Iron and Steel Company, and is now
in the hands of a receiver.
The general committee of the Freed-.
man’s Aid and Educational Society
the Methodist Episcopal church, be¬
gan its annual session at New Yorit
Monday. Bishop R. S. Foster, of
Boston, prt sided. The object of tho
meeting, which will last two days, to
to review the work accomplished provide dur
ing the last year und to menus
to continue the work. The society
has under its supervision 4G institu¬ snd
tions of learning, 348 teachers
2,525 scholars.
A special from Dallas says: The
ton situation coutinues to favor
biggest crop ever raised in T«
Bottom, middle and top crops are fulL
Many farmers speak of abandoning i i -A
what is left. They say it will scereety
pay the expense of picking, pecking, They
tie* and ginning and marketing.
scarcely know what else to do s til Ml
the price is considerably raised. It is
certain thousands of bales raised i
never be taken from the stalks. J
about now everybody is a
will not plant a seed of eotton
Bongfct bjr a r.
The V ’irgini* state bnildiag at the
world’s fair, which wae.a reproduction St. Y
of George Washington's elf
mansion, has been par ch* s i
now occupied policeman, ss W, a residence McGuire, by a Chi¬ The
cago &
boose cost $17,000, bought
McGuire for $400 sad moved to • fad
on Stony Island avenue, three miles
away, and now a Chicago polioemsm
sleeps in the reproduction of the bed¬
chamber of the father of his country.
Notified ef a Isctles.
Tbe following notice
Thnrsda J morning is the iron
mills at Fall River: : “Notice
by given that a reduction will be
in ot operative*
this corporation to take
November 5th. At the
the partieslan bill, w
be paid for by the pound,
fay the piece."
A Km
Attorney General Qiaey ha* i
* decision is regard to the Ss
authorities seizing lk
srsl ssys that : g Of
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