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EVERY DAY . ¦ AmH the tumult of the street And ceaseless tread of restless feet; , What varied human forms we meet; ¦ Every day. \ Some b o rdenel with unwhispsred wo& ; Sad secrets God alone can know; We see them wandering to and fro , Everyday. Some seared by lame ' s decay or bli g ht ; With furrowed brow and fading si g ht , Who haunt our feeet from morn till ni g ht , Every day. Some swayed b _y passion deep and strong, Enkindled by some burning \ wrong. Unheeded by the listless throng, Every day. The Just of power , the greed for gain , Twin tyrants of the heart and brain; We see the rain of their reign , Every day. The crafty ghouls that throng the street ^ Wearing the garments of deceit , Who breathe to lie and live to cheat s Every day. And some aspiring to b s great , With beaming eye and heart elate , Scorning the thorny thrusts of fate , Every day. The youth enthralled b y some food dream , Or borne along on fancy ' s stream , Believing all thin g s what they seezn , Every day. The aged tottering toward tbe tomb , 2fo light to lift their rayless g loom , If or hope their weary way illume , Every day. The rich and poor , tha old and young, With silent li p or fluent tongu? , And griefs untold or joys unsung 1 , Every day. ; Thus in the drama of the town gome bear a cross or i rear a crown Until death rings the curtain down , Every day. —D. B. Sickles Vi g ilante Ven g eance. A T JSITED STATES SENATOR ' S STOR Y. f a ^ . ENA.TOR SAN- ( ders , of M ontana , \ * ) is one of the m o st ^® entertaining talk- 3— f ~ * ers i- the Senate. { ' « | \ A group of ge ntle- T~ ^ __ J men were sitting in _/- 4\ 7J )5 v his committee room - ^ —— . f a e ^ Jlf one ^ ^ stei \ n g J^ Sf J iM to his tales of the /y / ^^M WT * J history of y p£ J- - ^ 53 * ^ Montana, whe n the J / nmA } mining fever was at y T a ^^ l *^^ its hei g ht. The <ltn- \ d \ / tal lt turne * on ^ e M 9 w $ - L J g U> ^^ ereu ' doings of ^ liy p iil M the \ ^ s 3 8 11188 * of ^^^^ p- \f| II w hi ch Senator San- \ ^^^^ fe r V ® ders was leader. \Yes , \ said the Senat or , retrospectivel y, \I have assisted m a good many send- off s where a robber or murderer was launche d into another world without the be nefit of the clergy. \ \Were you present at the execution of tbe not orious Sl ade?\ asked one of the gentlemen. \Yes , '' rep lied the Montana Senator , \ and I could tell you a story about that execution. Th at wa3 the one instance ¦wh ere the gentleman whom we assisted in making his exit was neither thief nor murd erer—or , at least , that was not the crime for which he was hung. \ \What was his crim e!\ ajain j asked the g e nt ' e nan . \We executed 7 dx. Slade for treason —hig h treason again st the Territory of Montan a , \ rep lied Sauder ' s , thoug ht- full y, \ and thereb y hangs a tale. \A s you kno w , I was e lf -f of the Vi g i lance C o mm i ttee , an d we had suc- cessfully eng ineered about forty or fifty hang ings , when we became im b ued with the idea that a little more lawful form of gover nment would be to the better in- terest s of our camp, Virginia City, then having about 10 , 000 population. So , one evening, we gathered together on tbe outskir ts of the town in an informal mass meeting, and proceeded to choose fiom among 1 ourselves officers for our local government. Our organization was the simp lest thing in the world. We would turn to one of our members and say, 'You are a prett y square sort of fellow , and we know you to be as straig ht as a string, so you shall be our J a j J ggf ' an d to another , 'You are a heavy built chap and have p lenty of g rit , and you shall be Marshal. ' I w as Dis- trict Attorney because I had a smatter- ing of l aw , and it was upon my affida- vits that all warrants were issued. It seems str ange in these days to think of constitut ing a court in such an off- handed way and w ithout the sli g htest . - ves tige of Federal authority ; but we did it , and our court was respected by all the citizens of Virg inia City, Montana. That i3 , most of t hem all. For a time all went well , bu t after a while , when they we were not h ang i ng so frequentl y as before , the lawless element grew bold- er and more , aggressive. \The lea der of this tDug h part of our populat i on was M r. Slade. I had known him for a long time and we were the best of friends. He was warm-hearted an d a power ful friend to those he liked , but a per fect devil to those who had incurred his disp leasure. I have seen him come into a sal oon where perhaps fifty men were eng aged in p lay ing billiards , cards , etc , an d insist that everything sh o uld ' %, stop at once and that they all drink with him. He would line them all up to the bar and generally had me next to- him. H e . would raise his g lass with the rest of them , would wait until they had finished , when he would bring his g lass on a level with his eye , and about a foot from it , and stare , stare , stare at it with tenable intentness for t wo or three minutes. Then suddenl y he wou l d r a ise the g las3 , dash it from him with terrific force ' at the mirror , tbe floor , the bar k eeper , or any thing that seemed to strike his fancy, and 3 »w his revolver and begin shoot- ing indiscriminately. I would say to Mm , 'SUule , g iv e me that pistol , 1 and in • minute h e would haad me his gun and f»sS down , \I suppose I have done that same thing ten or a dozen times. I never c ould understand him at such times. He was not after any one with deadly intent. H e simp ly seemed to b e seized with a mad passion , which he could not con- trol. He was the recognize d leader of the toug hs , and had ab out a dozen satel- lites always on hand to do his bidding. A favorite diversion of theirs was to dash down the mountainside from their cabin homes , load up at the first convenient saloon , and proceed to some house of p leasure , all th e time getting drunker and drunker. In the mo rning, when the peaceful citizens got up, - they would see a p ile of logs , not one left standing, and a group o f shivering and crying women . This scheme of demolishing h o uses w a s the princi pal pastime of this lawless crowd. \One morning, after we had organ- ized our court , news came that Mr. Slade and his chosen friends had spent a ni ght at a disre p ut ab le hous e , and in the morning destroyed it as usual. We sent our Marshal with instructions to ar- rest Slade and bring him to court. In due time they both appeared. Slade peaceable enoug h , and very gentlemanly. After hearing the case , the Court im- posed a fine of $25 , which was cheer- fu ll y paid by the defendant , and he de- parted , inviting us all to come and have a drink. Not long after that Slade was again before us , charged with the same offence. This time the fine was doubled and paid with the same degree of alac- rity which had marked the previous payme nt. Slade did not seem to profit by these lessons , for he was frequentl y befoie us , and was each time fined a sum double that of the preceding levy. \On one occasion when the fine had reached the sum of $400 , Mr. Slade said he had not that amount with him , but would bring it in the next time he came to town. He acknowled ged our power , and didn 't care for money, as he was a man who made it easily. Well , he came to town several times alter that , but did not offer to pay §400. It was not in his nature to long remain quiet , and soon he was again in trouble for a like offence. Our Marshal broug ht him to the court room , which was a portion of a grocer y store , with barrels of flour and grain around the floor and bacon and hams sus- pended from rafters. We used soap boxes instead of chairs , and were not a very imposing assemblage. Mr. Slade came in peaceabl y enoug h , and stood quietly while the Court directed the Mar- shal to read the warrant. As the Mar- shal pulled out the document Slade , quick as a Sash , sprang at him and jerked it o u t of his hands , at the same time level- ling a revolver at the heart of his Honor , ft was all done in a second , and the six or ei g ht henchmen of the toug h had also drawn their p istols at the same time. * 2 T ow , ' said Mr. Slade , 'l am about tired of this business. I am not going to be drained any more , and I a m not going to recognize your authority, nor shall * I pay that $400. I shall hold you per- sonall y responsible for my personal safety, and it any of your committee attempts to touch me I will blo w your heart out. ' \While he wa3 speaking I was think- iag, and , before he had concluded , quietl y turned and walked out , as if thinking of something else. I walked out on the street , and the first man I met was a member of our Vig ilan s e Com- mittee. I explained the situation to him , and asked him to get on his horse and ride to a camp about two miles away and tell the boys we needed them. He set off in post haste , and I turned back toward the court room. Just as I turned around I came face to face with Slade and his followers , who had walked boldl y out oi court soon after I came away. 'Come in and have something, Sanders , ' called the irrepressible. I said to him , 'Slade , get on your hor3e , and go home as fast as you can. ' \ 'What do you mean? Wh y do you tell me that?' demanded Slade. \ 'Ifever mind what I mean?' I re- p lied; ' get on your hcr s e and g o home. ' \He didn 't get on his horse and go home , but he got on bis horse and rode all throug h town , bringing up at last at the court room. He was inclined to be very proud of ^- hi s . defiance of the orders of the Court , and was insulting to his H onor , who was still there. He was swaggering around the store ,, when I happened to look out of the window and saw that the hou3e was surrounded by armed men. The next minute they were in the room , and one of them was say* ing: ^ We want you j Mr. Slade. ' He turned pale and weakened at once. . A crowd of his . captors surrounded him , and I left him safe in their keeping. I went home , and was not there five min- ut es when one-of the ^ vi g ilantes \ came up and said : 'Mr. Sander s , the boys have about concluded that they won 't be bothered with . Mr. Slade any longer , and as there i3 no p lace to keep him safely, they are going to hang Mai whether the Court wills it or not. ' I hurried to the court room and saw the Jud ge. and the Marshal and several others , and after a conference we agreed that as Slade was bound to hang whether by our wishes or not , it was better to have him executed b y order of the Court , and thus preserve our hold on the com- munity. We sentenced him to death for hi g h treason for inciting others to re- bellion and for himself seeking to over- throw our form of government. When Slade heard of this he sent a messenger for me to come to him at on ce and make a speech ' in his behalf. I knew that it would be worse than useless for me to do so , and refused to go on a fool' s errand. Theu he sent me to our Jud ge w i th a similar request , but the Jud ge , knowing that he was powerless to prevent the execution , declined to see him. So Mr. Slade was taken to a hill overlooking a gulch , and a noose from a gallows (used to slaughter sheep) sli pped around his neck and a barrel placed under him. Just as he was about to be swung off , the noise of a horse ' s hoofs was heard and a mounted woman appeared in the dis- tance coming at a breakneck speed. It was Slade ' s wife ; but by the tune she arrived upon the scene , around which two thousand peop le were gathered ^ the - i . - ^r ~ -f z ~ - , - , ' » \ i ' i ^f- ? - 2 £ i X ^ .i ' ' ' S ^ V ^ Si7 ^ % As f n v barrel had been kicked from under him , and Mr. Slade was no more. \That is the story of the execution , and a singular one it was. \ Duri ng the recital of these stirring event s Senator Sanders seemed to forget hi s surroundings and to be living over again t he scenes which he was dep icting to hi s interested listeners. —Commercial Gazette. A friend. A London paper off ered a prize for the b est definition of a friend. This defini- ti o n gai n ed the prize : The first person wh o come3 in when tbe whol e worl d goe s out. Th e following are some of the best definitions submitted : A ban k of credit on which we can draw supplies of condolence , counsel , sympath y, hel p and love. One who considers my need before my deservings. Tkc Triple Alliance of the three great powers , Love , Sympathy and Hel p. One who understands our silence. A jew e l , wh o se l u s t e r the str o ng acids of poverty and misfortune cannot dim. One who smiles on our fortunes , frowns o n our f aults , sympathizes with our sorrows , weeps at our bereavements and i s a safe fortress at all times of trouble. One who , h aving gained the top of the ladder , won ' t forget you if you remai n at the bottom. On e who in prosperity does not toad y you , in adversity assists you , in sickness nurses you and after your death marries your widow and provides for your chil- dien. The holl y of l ife , whose qualities are overshadowed in the snimxer of pros- perity, but blossom forth in the winter of adv ersity. He who does not adhere to the say ing that No. 1 should c ome first. A watch which beats true for all time and never \ runs down . \ An insurance against misanthropy. An earthl y minister of heavenl y hap- p iness. A friend is like ivy—-the greater the ruin , th e closer he clings. One who to himself is true and there- fore must be true to you. The same t o-day, th e same to-mor- row , eith er in prosperit y, a d vers i ty or sorrow. One who com bines for you alike the p leasures and benefits of s ociety and soli- tude. One who acts as a balance in the see- saw of life. One who guards another ' s interest a * sacredl y as his own and neither flatters nor deceives. A nin eteenth century rarity. One who will tell you of your fault s and follie3 in prosperity and assist you with his hand and h eart in adversity. One truer to me than I am to myself. Color in the Human Voice. A novel entertainment was held at th ft Drexel Institute , Philadel p hia , a few evenings since for the benefit of the children ' s fresh air fund. Professor D. S. Holman delivereda lecture on \Some Effect s of Li g ht a nd Sound Wave3 , \ demonstrating with the aid of an instru- ment known a3 t he p honei d osc o p e the lig hts and shadows of mu sical sounds , assisted by the vocal talent of Miss M. Virg inia Peck , Miss Charlotte Mawson , M i ss Kate Sheain , A. H. Darby and C harles Graffe. Professor Holman pre- faced his lecture with the state ment that color exists alone in the eye of the 3eer. After a few exper iments in chang- ing the colors of objects under a power- ful li g ht composed of carbonate of soda , Professor Holmaa started in to prove , with the aid of the p honeidoscope , that the sound waves pr o duced b y the voice possess motion and color. When this announcement was made the audieace held its breath in ex pectation . A sheet similar to that U3ed in stere- optic on entertainments was stretched across the stage , and what Professor Holman termed the mirror , upon which the effects of the voice were p ictured , was adjusted in the instrument and mag- nified upon the sheet. In color it was a dull , leaden gray, s how i ng in bold re- lief upon the white canvas. Then four of th e voices struck up a quarte t , while Miss Sheain p laced he r pr e tt y li pi to a mouth piece and sang through what looked very much like a speaking tube. The other end of the tube was connected with the p honeidoscope , and her voice , coming in contact with the mirrors , was t ra nsmitted to the canvas , forming into the most delicate shapes imag inable , at the same time taking all the variegated tints of the rainbow. As her voice rose or sank in volume the waves ri pp led acros3 th e surface of the mirror in the molt as- tonishing manner , while the audience app lauded to the echo. This was re- peated several times. After the lecture Professor Holman exp lained to a Record reporter the ap- parent miracle b y say ing that the so- called mirror was merely a film composed of soa p s uds. The voice , coming ia contact with this surface , caused it to vibrate , while the variegated co lors were formed by the decomposition of the soap film. : The \Sew Quarter Counterfeited. A dangerou s counterfeit silver quartet of the \ vintage \ o f 1892 has made its appearance. T be coin is in imitation of o ne ma d e at the New Orlean s Mint thi a year , and the onl y difference is that the eag le , etc., on the reverse is a little too clearly outlined. The wei ghts of the two coins , the genuine and the spurious , are the same. The only flaw is in the ring of the coin when it is dropped. \It is the most dangerous counterfeit I have come across in ail my experience , \ said a business man. . \Its face is absolutel y perfect , and the reverse is nearl y so; the wei g ht i s ju s t r i g ht , and so is the size. In fact , t h e onl y flaw-is the ring, and the milling is slightly defective. \ —Port- land (Me. ) Argus. The duty on raw sugar in Germany ha s been Temoved and will now be levied on the sugar as it le a ves the fac- to ry. •• , _ - ~ ( j y . ^ .4. *¦ _ ^ r ^ - r~ ¦* \\ J i PECO DIME THE DEMOCRATIC NEW 70BK IjABOH COM- MISSIONER ' S KEPO B T HAS BROKE N THE FREE-TKA.DER8 * CLAIMS INTO FBAGMENTS—PBESS COMMENTS. ._ It is probable that Mr. Charl es F. Peck , the Commissioner of the J few York Bureau of L abor Statistics , has n ever mad e an official report of greater interest to the public than the one which has just appeared from his bureau. It will create great excitement among his Democratic associates , and - the y ,, are already loud?voiced and .passionate , - as well a s utte r l y unreason ing, in their charges of treachery; to the party because he has seen fit to print the results ' .of. an investi gation by his bureau which do not accor d , a s he freel y states; with the declarations of the .Democratic National p latform , or with the arguments con- stantl y offered b y Democratic speakers and journ als. The subject for the investi gation this ye ar was chosen by Mr. Peck with much good sense an d entire fidelit y t o the true intcresi s of tbe working peop le , whom he is expected in a measure to represent , if n&t very shrewdly for the interests of tha Democratic Party. No doubt Mr. Peck expected , as i ndeed he frankly says , that an inves ti gation of the course o f wages and the increase or decrease of production in manufacturing in this State woul d show , in accordanc e with the theories of his party, a depression of i n dustries , resulting from the enactment o f the McKMey tariff. He states that he determined upon tbe investi gation more than a year ago , when the new t ariff had been passed , but had not gone into effect as yet , and that he believed i ts results w o uld b e in harmony wi t h D emocraitc convictions. When the returns had been received and com- p iled , he disc o vered , much to his aston- ishment , that the results were by no means favorable to Democratic theories ; but he has , nevertheless , published his annual report , giving the fi gures as he finds them , without regard to the politi- cal effect. The Democratic politicians who a re now denouncing h im , doubtless expected that h e would find it conveni- ent to omit altogether this year the an- nual r e p o rt r e quired by law , because the material collected for it did not happen to suit the interests of his party. Coming from such a source , this report must be accepted as exceeding ly strong testimony. It shows the progress of manu facturing industries in the greatest State in the Union during ' the first ye ar after the passage of the Mc- Kinley act , in comparison with the last year prior to its enactment. This com parison shows an increase in value of products amounting to $31 , 315 , 130 in a sing le year , which is in itself a remarkable evidence of the increased prosperit y re- sulti n g from the new law. The value of pro d ucts , however , is not b y any means the most important gain with respect to th e interests of the wage-earn- ers. The report of the Comm issioner goes furthur , and compaie3 the rate of wages in sixty-ei g ht industries for the two years. The resu lt shows an increase in fi fty-one industries , averag ing $43.96 for each , while the decrease i a others was so far un important that the total average increase in yearl y carniugs of the employes in all the industries in- cluded in th e inve s ti g ation was $23.11 for each person. The official statement shows that no less than 285 , 000 emp loyes are direc tl y embraced in the statistics presen te d , ' and that there were no less than 89 , 717 instances of individual in- cioase o f wages during the year in the industries reported to the bureau. This i s an official answer , and from a Democratic l a bo j bureau , to the ques- tion asked so frequentl y by Democratio journals not long ago , whether any in- crease in wages had followed the enact- m ent of the new tariff in any depart- ment of industry. It is not denied by advocates of the protective policy that under its operation fluctuations occur in different indu stries in both directions , for in some a chan ge of the popular de- mand or in the conditions of production may caus e geueral depression for the time , and t hus compel a reduction of wages even while the conditions in a far greater number ot industries warrant in- creased production and an advance ia w ages. The evidence submitted by the Commissioner establishes the fact that in this State the number of industries in which an adv ance in wages has been realized is far greater than the number in which wages have remained un- changed or have declined , and that the net result has been equivalent to a gain o f §23.11 for each one of more than s quarter of a . million wage-earners. I> will n ot be an easy matter for Democratic orators to meet these disclosures in a i o ffici a l report by a ^B emocrat so weli known , and in his party so influential , as Mr. Peck. And he is quite ri g ht iD say ing, -in answer to charges of infidelity fo his party, that the Lab or Bureau has no business to modif y, shade , twist o i suppress the results of au investi gation because they do not prove hel p ful to a political parry. His official duty is ta tell the truth as he finds it. -—New Tori maustne9 ia New Torlc makes it the State wherein such study could be made with most comp l ete results and where the conclusions reached would be most absolute. There , could he no appeal from undeniable fi gures g iven. Facts have been ever stubborn things , and the peop le of the United States are as intelli gent as any in the world . They cannot but comprehena the figures brought to li g ht an d to dra w the lesson from them v The results of . the actua l , practical workings of the tariff law have b een shown in a manner from which there is no a ppeal and upon which there can be no argument. There are the crowded manufactories. There i s the great increase of the total sum paid out as i yages. There is the decrease in the number of strikes an d labor difficulties. And there stand the 89 , 717 people who in a sing le State in 1891 had their wage * increased 1 The p olicy of the Republi- can Pa r ty has been vindicated splendid- ly, triump hantl y and telliag l y. —Chi- ca go Journal. FOB -WOBKINGMEN TO PONDEB. The statistics collated aad published by the New York Bureau of Statistics of Labor furnish the strongest possible proo f that the McKinley tariff is pre- eminently what we have before descri bed it , a wage-earners ' tariff , That is to say, it is a tariff in which the interests of American wage-earners were steadily kept in mind , and which , in its practical work j n g s , has promoted those in terests. The New York Bureau ia in Democratic hands , the investi g ation which it has conducted has been in progress for many months , and its presentation o f re s u l ts cannot be impunged on the ground ot partisanshi p or of any sinister motive. We invite to these fi gures the special atte ntion of workingmeu. It is the sys- tem wh ich has made such results as these possibl e which the National Democratic p latform declares unconstitutional and a fraud. It is against the protected in- dustries which, y ield to those employed in them such comfortable living that the Democratic Party, in the words of one of its ablest leaders , has declared <l a fi g ht of extermination . \ The adoption of free trade means the overwhelming of Amer ican industries under a flood of unre s tricted f o re i gn competition. It mea ns tbe closing oi factories , a dimi nished demand for labor and the re- duct ion of American wages to the European level. To this ruinous policy, the carry ing out of which would preci p itate the most disastrous up heaval this country has ever known , the Demo- cratic Party, by its p l atform aad its candidates , is ple d ged. Every working- man who votes , with the Democratic Party next November votes against his own dearest int erests. —B oston Journal. THE SEKATE REPORT CONFIRMED. Th ese returns for the State of New York supp lement and more than con- firm the carefull y prepared st atistics gathered by the Senate Committee as to the effect of the McKinley tariff on manufactures , la bor and wages. The cumulative effect of the evidence on thia point is alread y conclusive and con- vincing. The New York report is all the more si gnificant in t hat it is made by a Democratic State officer, —Buffalo (N. Y.) Commercial. ' . The force Bill\ Soaraorow , Chairman Harrity is sending out what a Democratic organ calls a \ concise state' ment of the provisions of the Force bill , \ f or use in Connecticut , Indiana and Now Jersey. This precious document beg ins thus : \The Force bill gives to Republican federal officers the control of all elec- tions. It t akes from the States the sub- stance of the ri g ht reserved in the C on- stitution to determine and judge of the qualifications of voters. Tae assertion t hat it is to secure full and free elections is mere pretence. \ Let it be understoo d , in the first p lace , that the so called \Force bill 1 ' of the Fift y-first Congress does not enter as aa issue in this campai gn at all. Th e Ee - pu blica n platform does not indorse it. The demand for honest elections con- tained in that platform is p lainl y framed to encourage the different States to take the lead ia enactin g effective legislation for carry ing out the great Eepublican doctrine o f a free ballot and ft fair count ' . This much promised , it may be said further; that there is \ probably not one Democ r at i n a. hun d re d thousand who has ever read the so called \Force bi ll. \ The Democratic-lead ers have created the impression among their , i gnorant follow- ers that the Elections bill of the Fifty V first Congress gave to federal supervisors the control of all elections , National , State , count y and municipal. -Jhtelli- gent men , however , are perfectl y ! aware that th at bill applied only to elections for Representative s in Congress and elect- ors of Presi dent and Vice President. It did not effect \home rule , \ municipal , county or State , in -the sli g htest degree. But Democratic politicians have no re- gard for facts. , Afiaid , to - discuss tha tariff or the financial situation , they have fallen back , as.a last- desperate resource , upon this galvanized specter of a \Force bill\ th at does not exist. • ' ¦ ¦¦ toil have Dot , so f ar , been able to do this , althou g h there is hope for a better day in both France and Germany. Here , we are a famil y of workingmen , our in- terests are identical , and we \ stand by each oth er. '\ In Europe the privileged classes ara the l aw makers , and they make l aws for themselves. Here the workin£[men aro the privileged clas s and dictate the laws . So that , even thoug h they do have pro- tection in Germany, iheir wage earners h ave no redress such as our ¦workingmen have when they are unj ustl y treated. Protection , dou btless , puts it in the power of European employers to pay hi g her wages ; but it doe3 not compel them to do so. Neither floe3 at operate in that way in this country—but the ballot does. If protection enfranchised the workingman , or if it were claimed that it did bo , then the/e would be g round for finding fault with its opera- tions in certain European States. But nobody claim3 that it does any such thin g. —New York Advertiser. Cleveland and the Old Soldiers, The Baltimore Sun expresses th e opin- ion that unfriendliness to the old soldiers and opposition t o a liberal administra- tion of t he pension system, are subjects \ upon which it is best to let Sir. Cleve- land speak for himself. \ Mr. Cleveland has alread7 spoken for himself , and , what is more to the pu ' r po3e , has acted for himsel f on these subjects. What is the result? The result is that the soldiers are arrayed against him. Speaking on this point at the Chicago convention Bou r ke C o ckr a n used thia language : \I b elieve it was the distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts , General Collins , who declar ed there was no Dem- ocrat in this Unioa th at would vote a gainst that ticket , but there are behind him two heroes whose deeds have not escaped the attentioa of history, two heroes who have led the Uaiou. armies to victory, and who have never made faces at the vanquished foe , and they will tell you here , comrades who fought with them , heroes who sustained them and heroes who fell by their side , they will tell you that tbe soldier vote of New York—of whom there are 25 , 000 at least Democrat ic—will not support the nom- ination of Mr. Cleveland and did not support him in 1888. \ 173 bushels of w heat. \We exported in a s ingle year under protection , that of 1877 , 72 , 000 , 000 of wheat , or 6 , 000 , 000 more than the aggregate of the entire fifteen years uader a revenue tariff , and in '80 , '81 , '82 , '85 , '87 , '91 , we export- ed more wheat in each of these sev eral years than w e sold abroad in all of the years from '46 to '61 under the Walker free-trade tariff of 1846. We expor t now iu a single yeav more wheat than was exported from 1790 to 1861 , a period ot seventy-two years. More wheat in a sing le year than in all of the years from Washington to Lincoln. Can the farmer justl y comp lain of this showing, and does the tariff reformer extract any com- fort from it ?—G overnor McKinley. U akl Soh .urz is an adept at the piano. Frederick Douglass p lays th ' e fiddle. Gladstone is the only Englishman who has held the office of Jfremier four times. The Turkis h Sultan ' s , daug hters take a daily music te s s bn ' from ' their father , who is an acco tu p lished p ianist. . . M . ; E . Gallada.y , o f HoldeD , Mo., is proud o f the tact that he is the lineal de- scen dant of the or i girial . Mother Goose. A Democra tic nominee for Congress in - T e xas , Jud ge Pascal , has a moustache that , measures s ixteen, inclies from end to end. . Labor GoM J iissroNER Peck , ofc New Yor k , has held office for nine years , hav i ng been appointe d in 1883 by. Grover Cleve- lan d. . . ¦ . - , ' , ' ¦ ¦ \ . - ' ' ' ¦ . ; The Queen- Re gent, of -Spain refuses to touch a penny ot the §106 ^ 003 a year to which , as the wi dow of the late King, she is entitled . ¦ ., ;. - \ ¦; : ¦ - : ¦; > ' \ : - . ' ¦ ' ¦ - . ' . ' . \ Bismah o k used to spell ; his name \ wit hout the a- The p r esent spelling does away with monetary significace of the hanies Bis - mark —two mark. ¦ : ' ' : _ ¦ ¦ ¦ The mother of Rev. Eobert Fulton Crary, of Poughkee psie/ 5 . Y. y is the / . only surviv- ing child of Robert Fulton , the inventor o£ the . steamboat. - ' • ¦ • ¦ \ ' . •• .- v ^ ' : ;: . • Eev.; Db. v Milbukn , the blind preacher an d ex-Cbap l ain of the House of Repre- sentatives , . h as comp leted a ; work on the early.: history :o f the;Mississippi,Valley. Mrs . A. E.N. Rober tson/ o£ : :Muscogee , Indian Territory, has been made a doctor ot ph i losop hy. by t U e University of Ohio for tran s lating the New Testament out of ,the Greek into the language o f the Creek -: \T Ja- dianr. ¦ . ' ¦ . :¦ ¦ .: ¦ ' ¦ ¦:: • ¦ . . . . ¦ . John I. Blair , ;the \ railroad magnate , whose first sale was ' -a muskra t skhi , and who now . is .a very, : many millionaire , re- cently celebrated his ninetieth birthday at his home at Blairstown , N . J. ' His most recent enterprise is the Wall street banking house of Blair & Co. • • . ; - - ;. v \ : > OSSIFIED MiF DEM); ; The Process Reached the Ue .i rt of One of the Greatest Freaks. The famous ossified man , J onathan P. Bass , who has bean the wonder of almost every dime museum in this country, • died a few . days ago , at his home at Lewiston , N . Y M the ossi Q cation having reached his heart, Bass had been-on a shbwing > tour and the h s ide mng of his flesh grew!very rap idly. • He was probably. the;. -mosfc widely-adver- tised freak m ' the wprld aud one . . of the best draw j ng cards any .inuseuih : ever;vJbad. He made monsy a' nd ' saved V 'i t and oy?ne d a ve ry : pretty p lace ^ at fc e ' wistdn; ' - : ; \ iJ i v ^ fe 'v y - ' A Bass began ' -: to ' ossify, ' when j hft ^ iyas ; yeiyr - young, and for; ^ n ^; yearshas ;iiot ' rap r e ^ ajnuscl e excepKthose of :his :head. ^ Hewas; | ; & . ' solid mass of ^ bony f fl e sh r^ His ^ le ^ SncljBo d V; wei ' e rol4't9 'tbe touc£ ai &^^ flea** - - , „ ft m i t ii if i i saj i M ii ii It is a \ con fession of the -weakness of their cause , and -an atikemp t to evade all t he real issues of the campai gn. It may su c ceed in T e xas and Florida , but to ' sup- pose that it can succeed in Connecticut , New Jersey and. Indiana is to . insult the intelligence of the peop le of those States. —New York Press . : When Mr. Cockran had concluded this utterance General Danie l E. Sickles rose in his p lace in the JSew York delegatioa and exclaimed : \No no , never!\ — ^ mean- ing that he and the soldiers for whom he spoke woul d \ never , no , neve r , \ cast, a ba llot for .Mr. Cleveland. —New York Tribune. Farming U nder Proteotion and Free Trade, It is maintained by the Demo cratic leaders , but rests -wholly in assumption , that the farmer would be benefited b y a revenue tariff , that his export trade in agricultural products would be increased. Let us refer again, to our own history. From '46 to '64 , during the entire rev- enu e t a riff period , we exported 65 , 440 , - PBOMINENT PEOPLE Prote ction and Wages, Wages in England are hi g her than . in some Continental States having protec t tion , and free traders think that this cir 1 - cumstance proves that protection does not hel p the laboring, peop le. They for- get that workingmen in those lands have n o power to compel their emp loyers to deal justl y. They have no part m the making of the laws. In this countiy workingmen are voters , and elect m e n * , or help to elect men , to State L e g is- latu res or to Congress , who enact l aws protecting the wage earners and enabling t hem to secure their rig hts. - ' * * la Continental I g uro p e tbe c eooleVho Tribune THE 3 I EINKEY BILL VINDICATED. Scarcely do the echoes of the words of Adlai E. Stevenson at Bloomington die away when there comes such reply ta them from an authoritative source that the Dem ocratic candidate for the Yite- ; Presidenc y must himself regret the blunder o f his misstatements. Labor Commissioner Peck , of New York , a Democrat appointed .ori ginally by , Gov- ernor Hill , has issued , his annual report , and in it not onl y admits but reiterates with earnestness and force that the Mc- Kinley bill has proved of vast benefit to the woTKin gmen of/the greatest State in the Union—that w 1 creasing theii wag w i condit ion generallyi o f the Labor CommisJ to the tariff law and ^ that was the matter the. workingmen , T has resulted in in. and bettering their The inve s t i gation sioner was devote d its effect , becaus e most important to 3xq great- range of f . ' - ' ~ W -5 - v ^' fefe l ' ^ &i ^^ >« NEW TORE STATE NEWS; Hi l ¦ Real Estate Valuation. , / \^ fetf l The Board of Equalization adopted the & M report submitted by the State ; AssessOTs ^ f Ky l without changing a fi gure , and thereby re r l r ' £ % * duced the amount added to New York' s real:; : ; t if estate valuation fromth a 8116 , 000 , 000 pf last;v;f 3 year to $80 , 000 , 000, ' . . ' ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ - •; ;. ? -U ; ;;C0 ^ The fi gures for New York- County ! are:v-6i | Equalized value of real estate , 9USiS , ^ rf i ' ^ 710 ; amount added to valuation of local : A s- ; ;jS|gf sessors by State Ass e ssors , $80 , 997 , 890 ; ^ Sj; ^ as sessed value of personal property, . - . fiJ 43 fc££ S §j 631, 008. . This is a; decrease of ^e . OOO . OOO ^g l from the equalized real estate val u ation \ for||| ^ New York County for last year . and \ a corr; 1 ; ^^^ responding increase in the valuations . - for $# lt the counties outside o£ New York.: : i: ; ^§ S ^ | ' The following changes in the equalizedvi iS ^ values .of realty were made : ; New ; Yor ^Sf | i| Countyy increased : t S0.997 , S90 ; ' ¦ \ King 0^ Count y , decreased $19 , 237 , o i9; . Queens; ^ | g County, - increased $14 , 041 , 441;. ^ Suffolfc? |& | j County, ¦ increased §989 , 352 ; R ichmond Jj | ?f| County, increased $321 , 999. : ^ ' S l ^ Tne State Board Acfc a . > :>e ^t S ¦ A- special meeting of the State Board of ' -^ £ 5 Health was held a few days ago at the Murr - . ' . 3 ^ - ; ray Hill Hotel , New York Ciby. ' : : ^ - ^^ ., The meeting was called for the con ' sidera > ; ' ¦ ¦ & § t i on of the cholera situation , espe c ially ' with v i£! reference to danger of the introduction u o f i \ ' *(& }. the disease by the way of Canada. The ^^ Board adopted the following res : - ¦ ioas: ^ . : j;i 0 S Resolved , T hat the Health p mc ersj6fvtihe ^p | various Boards of Heatth under the juras S ic ^ T ^ : tion of the St ate Boar d be directe d -t q re ^ r ; \ ; 0 port to the Secretary of the State Board as ; -^ \ i to what preparations hav s h een- made t y- }¦:;:; them to prevent the importation of: cholera ; ? into the country, and what preparations ^ have been made to care for the sick, j \:>fj ¦ ' ¦ - . Tbe Secretary is instructed to formulate . ¦; and issue suitable instructions relating to \ the treatment and disinfection; of cholera :: patients and ali other articles liable to pro- ¦ pagate the disease. • .: /- : : ¦ - Resolved , That immediate steps bVtaken ' . ' to provide sufficient funds to meet 'demands ' for tho necessary arrangements to protect: the State against cholera; also ^ that the;; Secretary be authorized to appoint medical . - ' ? >> inspectors for the northern border , to fix V; ^ ? their compensation and instruct them in vxSJS t heir duties. .:. ; / X ;- K Kesolved , That the drainage of tho Hoosic J ' £ Falls be looked after ab on o e , as it is ab pres- : ' ^ Ji $ ent inariunhealtby condition. :-! * '' _ . \ S i S ; Dr. Thomas S. Dawes , of Saugerties . said 'v l S after the me et ing th at the water at' Hoosic : ,: ^| Balls was badl y contaminated , and: should . ^ ue a ttended to without delay. ;.. ' ' . :¦ • . ' :• - - -£ < £ State Taxes for 1S92 . ' - \ . . \ . ^ft^ The State Comptroller , has fi gure d the ta X^- f p of 1.98 imposed by the last L a gisla i ure ^ ipbnj ; S| | the equalized values adopted by the ' . State d ^ £0 Boar iJ bf Equalization for 189 3 as . foUows: i ; % i|S Ninety-eighth One ' . : - . ~; ¦ . ; ' \ '* : \K:<i £s Hundredth MUls One 3im . '^ - - s StateTax. School Tax. - S iv: Albany. ? 88 , 404 £90 , 208 ;>v. ~ Allegany , 13 , 953 . . —14, 2 37 ^ ,; Broome . . ............. 27 , 027 27 , 573 -# e :J C attaraugus;... ..... 15 , 340 ' ^ o, R 53 ^ ; ^ Cayuga 29 , 593 : 31 200. W^ , C hautauqua.......... 26 , 865 - : ' • 27 , 413 rK s Chemung 20 , 70!) . 21 , 122 ; ^ Chenango 16 , 047 - : , ;16 . 3?3:5 ^ Clinton? 7 , 655 • » . ^ :7 , 81t ps g Columbia............ 27 , 023 ' , > - : ; 27 , 5SOj p0 Cortland . 9 , 844 -5 . 10 , 0 45- ^ 5 ^ Delaware...... \ 13 , 923, ¦ > \ . ¦ 13 , 1S7 S^ Dutchess 43 ,321 44 , 2Q/t ? * g £ Erie................. 200 , 315 204 , 301: - ^ E ssex.... . ' - ¦ 13 , 318 13 , 590 ' ^ m Franklin............. 7.928 ' 8 , 090 ^M Pulton.. ,. 10 . 756 - ; 10 , 975 ^ CFenesee ;... 20 , 579 - . -20 , 999 ; v :Mj Greene. ; ... 12 , 5S(5 ¦ ' . ,12 , 843,V ^ Hamilton... - 1 , 279 - ^ 305 K^ Her ki mer 2 O , 1S<5 : ; 20 , 533 ^ /? ^ Jefferson :...,... 25 , 625 - V: 26 , 14 8:;::Uj Kings 452 , 901 \ 463 , 144 i^ s Le wis . . 7 , 791 ' : : : . :7 , 95f) si # 5 Livingston........... . 25 , 823 .: . 26 , 355; ; ?: ^ Madison.............. 19 , 018 : - ' 1 9 ;403 >g | | Monroe.............. 118 , 634- —i- l Z l J ff i l ] ^ Montgomery . 24 , 253 Wfl New T or k . l , 753 , 0 S 9 3 , 78S , 8 fi6 *B | Niagara. . . ¦ 3S , 3 0l> ,- 28 . S34 ? M Oneida 51 , 566 / 52 , 618 -ff g f Onondaga......... .. 71 , 457 .73 , 915 ; \ j g Ontario!. 28 , 5 03- -y . 2 » , 09a .M . Oran ge...... ...... .. , 42. 997 , . ¦43 , 374 ' ^ Orleans...... 14 ,5 36: . 14 ,833 ^ | j Oswe go.. 23 , 247 \ 23 , 721 ^^ 11 O bsego., .r..... .. 20 , 48 8¦ . ¦ ' ¦ . ^ 2O , 998 ^§ Futaam... - ....:...... 6 , 835 . . ;, ^.p HU Queens... 60 , 155 . 61 , 383 ^^ Ee nsselaer., .......... 61 , 956 ¦ - ¦ ' . - «tf«p ^ Richmond.. 13 ,503 : , , 13;p ; : ^ Rocblaud 13 , 034 :; ;13 , S?0 ^j i Sarato ga............. 23 , 056 • - ? . - ; > ? 3 , 526 | ^ Schnectady..........: lo , 24lV „ 13 ;5ia ^ Schoharie \ ......... .. 10 , lfi 3 , , , , - iP. 37pgi Schuyler............. V< v K 5 ; - /^. f bSi ^ Seneca/... ..... ...... 14 , 639 . , 14 .929:3 ^ St. Lawrence;.,...... 26 , 614 ;;• : 2 «K | S Steuben.............. ¦ 25 , 8d8 - . . : 2488n a^ Suffolk....;.......... i9 , 3i7 ^ ¦ w^ mm Su llivan. . .....;.... , . : 5,146 - -^^p^ Tio\a 11 , 669 . / • / lVJO Vfe l l To m pkinsV.:\ , ...... . - ¦ 12 ,£ O : ;: « p S Ulster n ....,V ; .,..... : > ; 25 , 038:. .. ,. ^ 5« ^ g Warren............v £ 393;; ^$«£ Mi W eitchester . ^ ' . ' ¦ • y &-^^ J } - W ^?^$ M Wy oming.;...*...... MM: ¦ . - r ^T . ¦lo; 72Q4 M m Yates.. .v \ .>. » . ; .. • ¦ ¦: ^ J ^ \r ££g%^ . T otals . ............ «8 , 8HI , H» ? ; ;;W X?^^ .The total of the State and school jtax wM iJ Sgsg amount to ¦ $7 , 784 , 84 7. v : .. - : '/. v - : ' ' y f i / fi ^^^ m The State ;Sena;t tf s Birthday ^s^^S The il5th: ahniversarj- of ^^ the formati pn . ^^^ the . Seriate ; of ' New York State ^ was: ; c ' ele S ; i^J brated the other afternoon ott ^ 9 . , s pa; ^ 6 ra | ^^ lawn surrounding t he old Senate Ho ^ e - ' aib S^^ K ingston. • ¦/ . . ; - .\. ¦ ¦v ^ ' .; ' ' : ;;; ;;: - ? ! S^ l ^ S The first S tat e S enate was 1>r g aniz 3 d th \ ei»: ||| ^ September 10 , 1777. . The; session ^ laste ii u ig^ S til April 20 of that year , whfch ' was Sunday; } ^^ When the ' Sfete Constitution ' was ' signej . ^^ two days later it was proclaimed rrom \ the ;| ^§ court houseiteps. within a ' stbhe ' s throw i /pf rf ; : ^ .® ¦where the celebration took pjae ' e ^ : ^ ^ -?|fii|i The ' . obseryance of : the annjyersarir| y as | ^^ under the : auspices of ; «i a local ctap ^ r ^ j ^M the Daughters- of the; Re s olution. ;: Maybr ' | ^ S Kennedy presided. ' ; ' ; ; ; - ^ X ' ^ lf|| |§i . The exercises consisted o t a prayerVby [ tli | 5^^ Rev. Ric har d Lalor Burt s ell . D. Di . fprm ^^g of t he-Church of the Epi pft a ny of Ne f Yra ^^ CityV addresses by Augustas ;Sch6Qnmal;?r 5^^ ; es-Con gr essm t n: Loun sb ery, the i President ^^^ of the Senate House Association, and; Judge ^^ l A. T. C learwater; a ppemih ^ Hehry,.Abb ^ and a patriotic recitation by Miss El S af et & | ; Eopsa.; ;;; :: - V ;.;; . : p^ ; ^ :@.i « Letters of regret were re w ' frbm ( ^ vernp ra ¦ I36wer > ^ B ^ ltpiiv J^ VEre ^ S ^ f ^^ ^ w;Y ^^ p e^^ )i ^^ ( ^ mn ^^^ ^ o ^w^^^^ M W ' dW 0 9^ M mm mwmm imm S ji v ^ : ; :jibN U MENt. ¦ - , over ^ .the; ; -fe ra ye . -Q t jj mrae ^ \ Ketehe r ^ a i yet ^ n 4# ;:th ^^ -unv eiiea i a i iewia ay B ^ ug yt v- y^^ v ^ i ^w* miM
