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and at the same moment I gave a yell like a wild Indian. \What' s this?\ said I. \I s it alive?\ Tri ppy nearl y doubled up -with laug h- ing. \Oh , Sam !\ said she; \ you 'll be the death of me! Don 't look so fri g htened —don 't! It ' s onl y a lay figure!\ \And what is a lay fi gure?\ said I , keep ing as far away as possible from the queer looking, lanky thing, with its head hang ing over on one side , as if its jieck was broken , and its hands os oop ing strai g ht down. \I t' s what J fiss Gertrude dresses up to paint p ictures from , \ said she , when she could get breath enough to . answer me. \ You don ' t mean to say that you never saw one before?' 1 \JNeverl\ said I , keeping as-far away as possible , fop-it teemed as if it might come alive any minute , and * made me think of the spooks old Granny Magil- ton used to talk about. \And does Miss Gertrude paint real pictures!\ \The prettiest you ever set eyes on , \ said Tri ppy. \If only her sp irit was equal to it , and she wasn 't bad gered about that old Darwin fud ge , I' m dead sure she \d be a g rea t artist !11 But , now that it' s all ov er , I don 't mi nd say ing that I was glad to carry the draperies out to the back lawn , where they were to be dusted , and so get rid of the si g ht of that lay fi gure. It was spook y, no mistake about it. The next day there was a great rum- pus at the Hall. Somehow the major had contrived to get hold of one of Mr. Frank' s love letters. \So he ' s hang ing about the premises , is he? The shiftless , good-for-nothing young vagabond!\ said he. \But I'll settle his business for him ! Tri ppy, pack your young lad y ' s things at once. Fll take her to Saratoga , where Doctor Darwin is drinking the waters for the benefit of his liver. She shall be mar- ried out of hand!\ \Pa pa!\ shrieked Miss Gertrude , turning as pale as ashes. \l mean it!\ said the major , stamp- ing around in a fury. \Lose no time. The stage comes past the gate at nine o ' clock to-nig ht. We can get the sleep- er at Callentown and be in Saratoga to- morrow morning, and you shall be Mrs. Doctor Darwin in less than twenty-four hours! I won 't be circumvented like thi s—I won 't be defied—I won ' t b e set at naug ht b y any one alive!\ Miss Gertrude burst out into tears and sobs that mig ht have melted a heart of stone. Tri ppy wrung her hands. \But see how it ' s raining, w r , \ said she. \Hy young lady isa ' t fit to— \ \She ' s n either suga r nor salt!\ inter- rupted the major , still sp inning around like an elderl y peg top. \Pack up, I say, and lose no time. \ Of course , this was very hard. Even old Mrs. Mobbs owned as much as that. Trippy went about , looking as if she 'd lost her best friend , and I gathere d a double lot of water lillies when I went out on the lake to catch fish for dinner. \It 'll be the last she 'll get , \ said I. \And onl y to think , she 'll never see the fox go throug h the tricks I' m teaching him. \ \W hat ' s that you ' re bring ing here , Sam?\ the major thundered , as he met me face to face on the garret stairs. I nearly dropped my load in my consternation. \It' s Tri ppy ' s trunk , sir , \ I st ammered. \Take it back again/\ roared the major. \She wont need it. \ \Sir!\ gasped I. \Take— it—back—ag ain !\ said he. . \ Ain 't I going, sir , \ cried Trippy, who was waiting at the foot of the stairs. \No , you ' re not!\ said the major. \Who ' s to take care of her , sir?\ per s isted Tri ppy. \She 11 hav e a husband to look after her soon , said the major , smiling a grim smile. \Until then I' m quite capable of caring for her. \ I took the trunk back , but as I re- turned along the hali , I could hear Miss Gertrude sobbing, and Tri ppy, poor soul , trying to comfort her. And all of a sudden the p itiful sounds stopped. \She mu3t be feeling better , poor young lady !\ thoug ht I. \I onl y wish we could get word to Mr. Frank!\ I don 't know that I ever was out in a worse thunder storm than when the stage coach stopped at the gates of Jug- g leford Hall that ni ght. It was dark as p itch , and the wind blowing so that my stable lantern wasn 't a bit of use. The major went first with a valise in each hand and a bi g Mackintosh that few open like the sails of a shi p. I fol- lowed after with the trunks on a barrow , and Miss Gertrude came last , with T ri p- py almost carry ing her along. \I' m afraid your new traveling dre s 3 will be clean spoiled , miss , \ said Tri p- py. \Hang the traveling d ress!\ said the major , stepp ing p lump into a puddle of water , for the gravel walk was like a lake. \Come on , Gertrude! What are you waiting for? Don ' t you sec tnat the s tage is here?\ \Look alive!\ bawled the stage driver. And between them , he and Trippy got Miss Gertrude into the back seat. Th ere was just room for one passenger inside , and the major was to go oa the box , storm and all. \If it was raining pitchfork3 and pork barrels I'd go all the same!\ said the major. \ I caa ' t afford to run any more fisks—eh? Are we all ready? Are j> ou comfortable , my de.i r?\ But Miss Gertrude never answered him a word. She sat silent and drooping. \Are you crowd °d there?\ pursued he. \Time ' s up, sr I\ said the stage-driver , looking at his bi g silver watch . \Sulking eh?' 5 said the major. Well , keep on if it amuses you ! Yes , coach y, I' m all ri g ht!\ . Aad he scrambled up to the box- seat with a good deal more A ctivity than I'd supposed him to be capable of. COLUMBIA 'S EMBLEM. B l a so n Columbia ' s emblem , The bounteous golden Corn! Eons ago , of the great sun ' s glow And the f ty of the earth , * t was bora. Prom Superior ' s shore to Chile , Erom the ocean of dawn to the west , With its banners of green and tasseleJ sheen , * It sprang at the sun ' s behest; And bj dew and shower , from its natal hoar , With honey and wine 't was f ed , 1311 the gods were fain to shard with men ; The perfect feast outspread . For the rarest boon to the land they loved Was the Corn so rich ani fair , Sar star nor breeze o ' er the farthest seas Could find its like elsa where. In {heir holiest temp les the Incas Offered the heaven-sent maiz2— Grains wrought of go ld , in a silver fold , For the sun ' s enraptured gaze; And Its harvest cams to the wandering tribes As the gods? own g if t a n d seal ; And Montezuma ' s festal bread Was made of its sacred meal . Harrow their ch e rished fields; but ours Are broad 83 the continent' s breast , And , lavish as leaves a nd flowers , the sheaves Bring p lenty and joy and rest For they strew the p lains and crowd the wains When the reapers meat at morn , _ _ Till blithe cheers ring and west winis sins A song fortha garna - ed Com. The ros s may blo Di n for Enjl o nd , The lily for Francs unfold; Ireland may honor the shamroc k , Scotland her thistle bold: But the shield of the great R a public , The glory of the Wes * Shall bear a stalk of the tas se led Corn , Of all onr wealth th a best. The . arbntn s and the goldenroi The heart of the North may eh s er , Ani the monntaiu- l anr g l for Maryland Its royal dusters rear; And jasmine and magnolia The crest of the Son A adora: But file wid 9 Republic ' s emblem Is th s bounteous , goldea Corn! —Edna Dean , in the Century. . Th e C oachman ' s Sto ry. ¦ ^ssSS J X flf f iri ^ , e. T was my first regu- • ^ mM i * W ]aT plnce ' 8ir ' and ^ n _ * ^^^^ L-P ^ Proud enou K Ql ^ a s . ^ \ ^ Hs i l l s a ' * ir as you may L e \ eve - - ^^^ 1 ^ \ j ^^ I bad hel ped groom ^^^K^^ the horses at Mr. ¦ f i / m zsmz «rJ W <W \ ^ - ^ a t odd jobs around ' ^^ ML ^ Jx fs rrmgton ' s fishing camp, but I never went as regular coachman until old Major Jugg leford engaged me at twent y dollars a month and my board , \with two black livery suits a year thrown IE. You may guess how pleased I was; the first ten-dollar bill I sent to mother up in Toronto , and me onl y two-and T twenty; but I was alwajs old-looking for many years , and had\ a stead y way w ith me. It wasn 't the liveliest p lace -in the •world at the major ' s—Jugg leford Hall , th«y called it—and the only bit ot life about it was Tri ppy, M iss Gertrude ' s maid. \Well , Sam , \ said she , in that pretty, aggravating way of hers , \how do you like your new p lace?\ \It see ms about as wideawake a3 a deaf and dumb asylum , m iss , \ said I. \Do n ' t call me miss , Sam , \ g i gg led she. \Fm only a servant like yourself. \ \Yo u ' re a very good one to look at , \ said I. \Sorry I can ' t return the comp liment , \ said she , her black eye? sparkling. And after that we were very good friends , though old Mre. 3 T obb3 , the housekeeper , was always p lotting and p lanning to keep us apart; and it was throug h Trippy that I first heard of the love story between Mr. Warringtoa and Miss Gertrude. \Do yo » mean to say you never knew it before?\ said Tri ppy. (Her real christened same was \Try- puena. \ ) \Hot a word , \ said I. \Oh , then you ain 't going to hel p as ?\ \Help you do what?\ asked L \Oh , stnp idi\ cried out Tri pp y, with an impatient shake of her curly head. ' *Tffe1p- ^ SHieamvent the old Turk to be sure. Major Juggleford , I mean. For , jou see , he ' s m ade u p his mind that Miss Gertrude shall marry Doctor Dar- win , who ' s old enoug h to be her father , and lie ' s got a wart on the end of bis nose. But he ' s rich , you see , and p oor Mr. Warrington has got nothing but his handsome face and merry black eyes. \ Here was a full-blown love story, to be sure—and I wasn ' t long in giving Tri ppy to understand that I was with her and Miss Gertrude and 3 Ir. Warringtoa , heart an soul! But , after all , what wa3 there that I could do? Major Jugg leford never really trusted me , after he heard that I had lived with Mr. Warrington , und I had no chance at all to show my sym- path y. But I used to gather fresh water- lilies for her every moraing—Tri ppy took these to her room—and I set my- self to work to tame a young fox , that I had caught in a trap, for her. There •wasn 't anything else I could do. - I did' not see Miss Gertrude until I had been nearly a week at Jugg leford Hall . \She ' s delicate , Tri ppy, ain 't she?\ \ said I. \Looks like a flower that has grown in the shade?\ \She ain 't a bi t well , \ Tri ppy an- sw ered. \Nor she won ' t be , as long a3 they torme nt her so. It' s a -burning shame , to ask a g irl to marry an old fogy like Doctor Darwin , while , -all this time , her heart belong3 to Mr. Frank Warriag to a t' 1 \It is t hat!\ saM I , Tra th emp hasis, . \ Oh. do be careful , Sam , \ said Trippy —for I w»s help ing set the \ studio to ri g hts , moving the bi g carved cabinet and taking down the window draperies , that were faded almost white i n the sun , \Good-b y, Miss Gertrude!\ shrilly called Tri ppy. - . But the wheels and the thunder to- gether mads such a noise that we couldn 't catch the answer. . \Don 't cry, Tri pp y, \ soothed I. \Take my arm back to the house—the lantern has blown out , a u d t h e win d is 1 fit to take you off your feet. Til Ieav a the barrow here until to-morrow morn-; ing. Don 't cry, Tri ppy! It' s a shame , 1 to it is; but— \ She jerked her arm away from me. \Sam , \ she said , in a. choked roice , \ go for the minister at once. \ \The which?\ said I. 1 'The minister , I say 1 Ate you deaf?\ \Who ' s sick?\ sai d I , w i th m y m o uth wide open. \Is it Mrs. Mobbs?\ \Don 't stop to ask idiotic questions!\ said Tri ppy, stamp ing her feet. \Quickl Run! It may be too Mel'' W hen Tri pp p got one of those breezy ways with her , it was no use opposing her will. The onl y thing was to obey ; and I ran down the short-cut throug h the woods as fast as ever I could , after the Beverend Mr. Doty. He was just shutting up bis house for the ni ght , but he put on his water-proof coat and came with me , w hen I repre- sented the urgency of Tri ppy ' s message. \It must be Mrs. Mobbs/' said he. \She has been anxious about her soul this long time. My sermons have done some good , it would appear. Continual dropp ing wears the hardest stone!\ It was rainin g now harder than ever , but we managed to reach the old Hall . Tri ppy was waiting for va at the door. \Come in. '\ she cried. \Quic k J\ \Is it Mrs. Mobbs?\ said the minister. \Is she under conviction?\ The next minute Tri ppy flung open the library door. It was a blaze ot wax- lights there , and the mantle was all dec- orated with my water-lil y buds. There , before our eyes , stood Mis3 Gertrude dressed in white , with M r. Warrington at her side. \We wish to be m arried , sir , \ said he. \Wo are both fully of age , and ther e is no possible objection. Please proceed at once. \ And then and there they were married . Not until they had driven off, in the hack that was waiting afc the back en- trance gate did I collect my Bense3 sufficientl y to ask Trippy : • \But who was it that went in the stage coach with Major Juggleford ? Eh , Tri ppy ?\ \Oh , Sam , you dreadful goose?' . ' said Tri ppy. \It was the lay fi gure 1\ \ What!\ said I. \Di dn 't you see me lifting i t alon g ? Didn 't you suspect auything ? Bam , Sam , I declare you grow more stup id every day. Yes , it was the lay figure in the new traveling suit , and all the time Miss Gertrude was putting cu a white dress and her dear mother ' s own Brus - sels veil at home , bless her heart 1 And what will the maj or say when the stage stops at Callentown , and he goes to hel p the traveler out? And there ' s no return stage till to morrow morning at nine o ' clock. \Trippy \ said I , a fter a long silence. \Well?\ retorted Tri ppy. \I' m almost; sorry, Tri ppy, \ said I , \that while the minister was here , and as it seems so easy to be married , that you and I didn ' t get mar ried too!\ \ Don 't be a fool , Sam!\ said Trippy. But she didn ' t seem so very angry, af- ter all , aud some day—who knows? Yes , sir , that' 3 exactly how it hap- pened. I wasn 't to blame at all; but the Major discharged the whole house- ful of us. Trippy'is with Mh. Warring- ton now , Mrs. Itobbs is matron in a hos- pital , and I' m very well p leased here , sir. Did you say the wagonette , sir , and the dapple gray team?—Saturday Ni g ht. Countless Buffaloes iathe Old Days. Once an inhabitant of this coatiueat from the Arctic slope to Mexico , and from Virg inia to Oregon , and , within the memory of men yet young, roaming the p lains in such numbers that it seemed that it could never bs extermi o * ated , the buffalo has now disappeared as utterly as has the bison from Europe. The early explorers were constantl y astonished by the multitudinous herds which they met with , the regula rity of their movements , and the deep roads which they made in traveling from p lace to p lace. Many of the earlier references are to territory east of the Mississi ppi , but even within the last fifteen years buffalo were to be seen on the Western p lains in numbers so great that an en- tirely sober and tiuthful account seems like fable. Describing the abundance of buffalo in a certain region , an In- dian once said to me , in the expressi ve sign l angu age of -which all old frontiers- men have some knowled ge , \The coun- try was one robe. \ Much has been written abcut their enormous abundan ce in ' the old days , but I have never read anything that I thoug ht an exaggeration of their num- bers as I have seen them. Only oue who has actually spsnt months in travel- ing among them in those old days can credit the storie3 told about them. Once , in the country between the Plaite aud Republican Rive ra , I saw a closely massed herd of Buffalo so vast that I dare not hazard a guess a3 to its num- bers; and in later years I have traveled for weeks at a time , in Northern Mon- ta na , without ever being out of sig ht of buffalo. —Scribner ' s. Tableware. Spo o ns w e re u s e d b y the E gyptians iu the seventeenth century before Christ , and have also been found at Pompeii ; but this utensil was not general ly used in France uutil the close of the fourteenth century. Forks first appeared in the middle ages as a curiosity and were firs t used upon the table b y Henry in. Glasses were in vogue in the fifteenth century, althoug h tin drinking vessels , beautifull y made , continued to be used on ordinary occasions. Salt-cellars were known in very ancient times. The castei was entirely unknown to the ancients , and is probabl y no older than the six- teenth century. The first nap kins oi whfch mention is mad e w ere manufac- tu red at Rheinis in the time of Charles TIL—Chicago Times. - A deposit of $20 made in. the New- buryport (Mass.) Institution for savings in 1820 now calls for interest amounting to $898/ No one has ever claimed the ori g inal deposit and no a d dition has ever been made to it , WAGES AND PROTECTION SOTEBISTB1NDENT OF THE CENSUS PORTER SHOWS THAT UNDER A. PROTECTIVE TARIFF WAGES HAVK ADYAKCED. When completed the eleventh census will show the amount of money paid out in wages of all kinds in every industry carried on in the United States during 1890 for each class of emp loyes , men , women and children separately. These reports , says Superintendent Porter 'in the Chicago News Record , should be re- liable because the work in 1300 cities , t owns and manufacturing places was don e b y special agents selec ted for this purpose. These men were b ot appointed for political reasons ^ but because ^ they were in some way sp ecially qualified for the work ; that i s , were the statisticians of the boards of trade or chambers of c o mmerce or were iden t i fied with the statistical departments of newspapers or in some w ay interested in the work. When comp let ed the tabulations of these p laces which w ere taken out of the hands of the ordinary enumerator wil ^ pro b abl y aggregate ei g hty or poss i bly ninety per cent, of all the manufacturing product of th e country. Manufacturing is carried on mostly in large citie s , henc e we find nearl y s ixty-five per cent, of the entire manu factures of the United States in 100 princi pal cities. The oppor- tunities for error , therefore , have been diminished in the eleventh census , be- cause in the tenth census onl y 200 cities and towns were taken out of the ha n cb of the enumerators. It i& a safe pre- sumption in this class of returns that the facts may be a little more than t he amount reported , but crnnot well be less. t igation s . For examp le , I h ave hereto- fore referred to the Senate Finance Com- mittee inquiry which contains the testi- mony presumably impart ially gathered that has not been weakened by con tra- dict o ry facts and figures from the other s ide. Then we have bad Commissio ner Peck ' s report/ From this report it ap- pears that there was a net increase in wages of $6 , 377 , 925.09 in the year 1891 , as compared with the amount paid in 1890 , and a net increa se of produc- tion of $31 , 315 , 130.68 in the year 1891 over that of 1890. A simp le analysis of this table further demonstrates the in- teresting fact that of the sixty-seyeu in- dus tries covered se _ vent y-seven per cent , of them show an increase either of t he wages or product , or both , and th a t there were no less than 89 , 717 instance s of individual increases of wages during the same year. Here we have a witness from the other side , presumably an hone3t man and careful statistician , a p po inted to his present posit ion by the lead ing free trader of the country, ex T Preside n t Cleveland. Not that the census fi gures require Mr. P eck' s indorsement or sup- port. Still it must be reassuring to the doubting Thoma ses that the disclosures of independent statistical bureaus are as starting l y s atis factory as those of the c ensus—at least to protectionists. There has been talk t hat Mr. Peck' s report had some political significance. This is non- sense. The statistician intrusted to col- lect data who would doctor them to fit a theory or for partisan purposes is no bet- ter than the Jud ge who would u se the judicial machinery for the same ends. Such charges cannot be sustained. We may all have our notions , both ic economics and in politics , b ut the facts must remain unchallen g ed. Tbe brigands of Sicily are charge;! with wantonly beheadiu g children , cutting their ' bodies in halves and scattering them, about the countrv for do g s ani ho ^ s to devour. RETURNS ARE RELIABLE. N o d ata are tabulated for which wo have not a schedule collec ted b y a swora officer of the Government and returned on oath b y the individual or firm. There i a no reason wh y the se returns should not be reli able. The chief special agent in charge of this work under General Walker in 1880 was again emp loyed in 1890 and has entire supervision of the work . As far as possible we selected the same expert special ageuts for the s everal branches of manufactures. Ever y precaution h as been taken to make the r eports impartial and accurate . As to w hat the results proved or did not prove no one cared or even inquired. The fi gures are correct and canno t be im- peached by either free traders or pro- tectionists. So far as they console econo- mists of either school and bolst e r up theories , I rejoice if it makes them happy, but so far as - the reverse may be true the census office offer s no apology and ex- ten ds no sympathy. We simply deal in facts. FIGURES ON WAGES. What are the facts? Here I have added up the returns , showing the lum- ber employed and the amount of wages actually paid in the manufacturing in- dustries of thirty-five large cities. These cities are not selected , but are taken in- discriminately in the ' order in which the tabulations were completed. Further reports may make it necessary to add sli g htly to these totals , but nothing will be deducted ; Number of Es- Yea. r tab l lshmeats. l fc90 71 , S9U 1830 Sa , 85 i Increase............................ 38 , 744 - Hands Em- Year. - ployed. 189 0 1 , 138 , «6S 1880 666 , 730 Increase 472 , 232 Yean Total Wages. 1890 .$850 , 155 , 158 1880 » 265 , 800 ,145 : In crease , .$ 384 , 349 , 013 Average Annual Year. Wages per Hand. 18 90 .; #570 .8:1 1 S30 398.67 Increase $17 3.15 Percenta ge of increase in average an- • nual wa ges per haud . .43. 18 EXPLAINING THE INCREASE. Taking without explanation such an increase would almost be beyond be- lief. Such progress is ind eed marvelous. Here we have i n thirt y-fiv e princi pal cities doubl e the number ' o f establish- ment s , an increase of 472 , 232 in tbe number of hands emp loyed , with an ac- tual increase of $384 , 000 , 000 paid in . wage s. The system that makes this po3- Bi ble in ten years or makes , half of this possib le oug ht not to be abolished or tampered with. This is said in all seri- ousness to free traders and revenue re- formers. ' To wage-earners and bread- win ners of all shades of political fai t h , however , the story that these simp le tables unfold is of far greater signifi- can ce. Mark this ! In 1880 these industries in these thirty-five cities emp loyed 666 , - 736 p ersons. , According to reports re- ceived in answer to precisely similar q uestions to those -as ked in 1890 these arti sans took home during the year 1880 in wages e x a ctl y $265 , 806 , 145. And now as to 1890. Instead, of something over half a million men and women and youths emp loyed we find O7cr a million , or 1 , 138 , 968 , and instead of taking $265 , 000 , 000 home as wages , this in- dustrial army received the sum of $650 , - 155 , 158. An increase o f $384, 000 , 000 —more than dou ble. In other words , : the artisans thus emp lo yed in 1890 , ac- tually took home $175.15 a year more per individual than they did in 1880. Now I don 't sa y all this is due to the tari ff. Several importan t facts must be considere d: . TH INGS TO BE REMEMBE RED. 1. The methods of the eleventhi cen - sus were in a d vance of . those . o f the tenth and the work has been done more thoroughly. ; ; / 2. . Th ere has been a great industrial , advance in the decade , and pur fact o ries , mills and w orkshpps ' are turning but t a hi g her class of' commodities and as a con : sequence employing hi gher-paid labor. ' 3. Whole industries pay ing hi g h rate a of wa<*ea , have mis d ated troui foreign i ~ v - - * * f & * * \ /* * ^ y— K *\ *- > , >* y \\ councnes ana estaonsnea tnemseives on American soil. 4. The establishmen t of new industries , such as th ose relative to all branches of electricity, the hi g her grades of shi p- building, eng ineering, etc. 5. The activity of trad es unions and labor organiz ations has stiffened wages in every direction and g iven a larger share to the laborers . • - . ¦ ' GIVING PROTEC TION ITS DDE, I h ave shown an increase here in wages per capita actuall y paid in the ten years of 43.18 per cent. in . all industries , in- cluding, oi cour s e , some industries that may not be a f fect e d exce p t in a g ene r a l way by th e tariff. The question which , now piesent s itself is: How much of the incre ase may be fairly , attri b ute d t o our protective policy? I have a lread y show n in this series of articles that iu 1883 what was called the tariff commission bill passed. In many industries this bill strengthened the rates of duty, if not by actuall y increasing the rate by substitut- ing speci fic for ad valorem and thereby insuring the collection of duties. Under a perio d , therefore , of legislation friendly to protection and culminating with prob- abl y the wisest and most far-reaching p iece o f fiscal legislation of the century, wo find that wages have not onl y actua l ly but relativel y increased and hundreds of thousands of additional pers ons have been given employment. With such fac ts staring him in the face it will indeed be a bold free trader who will undertake to exp lain these incontrovertible facts with- out acknowled g ing tnafc under this system the Nation has prospered as in no other period of its history. HALF THE INCREASE FROM THE TARIFF. A conservative estimate would indicate that at lea st half of the 43 per cent, in- crease in the wage3 of these 1 , 138 , 963 persons is due to the tariff. Had the p o licy advocated b y the Democratic Party pre va iled in 1888 many of these industries would have beeu rent in twain , wa s es would have tumbled , forei gn goods would have delii g s d our mar k ets , a nd hundreds of thousands of our own la borers would have been standing idle in the streets of these great cen tres of industrial energy. No unprejudiced man can stud y these returns and < k ay that the condition of the wage earner has improved. Especially is this true when a stud y of price lists reveals that in t his period all articles of general con- sumption have decreased in cost. And the reason for b elieving that wages in m a n ufacturing have actuall y increased something over 20 per cent, in ten yea w is tbe fact that iu industries in which complete returns can be o b t a i n ed an d in which comparisons may safely be made between 188 0 and 1890 the increase averages about 20 to 25 per cent. Take , for instance , the wool , t he cotton and the silk industries. Both the tenth aud eleventh censuses emp loyed experts for these industries , and no change was ma de in the collection of the items here- with given : . IN WOOLEN , COTTON A H D SH/K MILLS. For examp l e , here is a table showing the total wages paid in 1880 and in 1880 in the woolen , cotton and s ilk industries: Tota l wages Total Waged Manufactures of— paid 1890. paid 1880. W oolens §76 , 660 , 742 $ 47 , 339 , U87 Cotton 66 , 024 , 538 42 , 040 , 510 S ilk ..... 19 , 643 , 249 9 , 146 , 703 Totals $162 , 328 , 529 $98 , 576 , 302 MORE 1 EOPLB GIVEN WORK. Now , what are the facts here? Sim- p l y this: Under a protective tariff the emp loyes in these three importan t in- dustries are receiving about 162 , 750 , 009 per annum more wages tha u iu 1880., But , says the free tra der: ''There are more persons emp loyed. \ That is true. In 188 0 these industries employed 365 , - 438 persons , aud in 1890 they emp lo yed 488 , 804 persons. Thu s we see t hat ia the decade the pr otective policy which the Democratic platform pronounces \ a fraud , and robbery \ has g iven emp loy- ment , in only three industries , to 123 , 366 additional emp loyes. RELATIVE INCREASE IN VT AGES. Turning again to the wage table the results are still more satisfactory. Not only have wages incressed actually, but rel atively. That - ' is , the $162 , 000 , 000 received in 1890 was 23.11 per cent , more wages per cap ita than the $98 , - 000 , 000 received in 1880. The percent- age ot increase in annual wages per cap ita has been 19.26 per cent, iu the woolen industry, 23.80 per cent, in the cotton industry, and 32.49 per cent, in the silk industry. These are facts that cannot be discounted to any great extent by the explanations g iven above. Some- thing should undoubtedl y be allowed foi the hig her grade of workmanshi p, but this will not hel p the free trader much. The methods in gathering the statistics of textile industries in 1890 were identi- ca l with thoHe of 1880. Practically the same men did the work. No change in classification , admitting more industries , as in some other branches of manufac- turing, was made. THE WAGES OF MINERS. Few peop le realize that what is true in respect o f m a nu fac turing i s equa l ly true of the mining industries. The num- ber of persons emp loyed in all the min- eral industries in 1880 was 231 , 709; ia 1890 this number had reached 636 , 419 , an incre a se ' of 175 per cent. How a bout the : . miners ' wages ? If our fiscal system admitted of this increase in numbers emp l oyed w e o ug ht to ' be thankful. Wages , however , have increased at a still greater rate , uam e l y, 235 p er cent. Instead of $342 per hand emp loyed , old and young, a s in 1880 , the eleventh , census will sh ow that in 1890 this greatly increased number of employes each and every one Wok home with tnem Saturday nig ht as their .week' s earnings tweuty- two per cent, more cash for their six day ' s labor. \ It Js , indeed , micr o scopic work to hunt around for- arguments to weaken these ' facts. To the unbiased mind they come with, great force a a d will p lay q o inconsiderable part in the campai gn.;; . ^ . • . ; ' MU CH CORROBORATED EVIDENCE. Nor \ will it do to question the general tendency to an increase of wages when sustained fry so many in d ependen t in v e s - \ THE MAK ^ ETS. Late Wholesale Prices of Country Produce Quoted, in New York. 40 BEANS AND PEAS. Beans—Marrow , 1S91 , choiceS2 20 @$1 25 Medium , 1891. choice.... 195 @ — Pea , 1891 , choice 195 @ 2 00 Rerl kidney, 1S01 , choice. — @ 2 75 Red kidney, poor to fair 1 75 @ 2 60 Lima , CaJ.. per bush.... — @, 200 Green peas , 1 892 , per bbl 180 @ 1 So BCTTER. Creamery—St. fc Penn , extra 24J ^^ S3 H t < fe Pen u .. firsts 22 @ m% Western , firsts 22 @ 23J 4 W es t ern , seconds 20 @ 2L Western , thirds 18 @ 19 State dairy—half tubs , and pails , extras.; — (< & 2* . . . . . . Half tubs and pails , Ist s. 2-1 @ 23 ¦ • ' ' * ¦ • Half tubs and patfs , 2ds. 18 @ 19 Welsh- tubs , extras 22 ® — Welsh tubs , Ists.. 20 @ 21 • Welsh tubs, 2ds. 18 @ 19 Western—Ini . creamery, Ists 19 @ 20 W. Itn. creamery, 3ds... 1(5 (5) 18 . W . Im. creamery, 31s. . 15 <S) 15 ^ Western Factory, fresh , firsts 16 @ W % \W. Factory, seco nds.... — fy 15 W ¦W .PactoryaDd dairy, 3Js U)i% 15 CHEE SE. State factory—Full craam , white , fancy... 10 @ ' — . Fu ll cream , co1ored , fa ucy 10 @ 10 ^ Full cream , good to pri me 9> g a) 9> £ Part skims , choice (5 ^ @ 7 Part skims , good to prime 5 l 4@ C Part skim? , c ommon.... 3 @ Z X A Full skims 1 @ 2 . . EGGS . State and Penn—Fresh S2 ^ @ 23) 4 Western— Fresh , fancy 21 %a ' 22 Fresb , prime 21>i@ 21 ^ FRUITS AKD BERRIES—FRESH . App les—Red sorts, b b l ..:;... 2 00 @ 2 75 Green sorts, p er bbl 150 @ 2 00 Sweet varieties , per bbl.. l ot) ® 2Qd Pears , Bartlett , par keg.: \ ;.. 150 @ 3 0) Seckel , per bbl... . ..... 2 00 @40 1 Common cooking, per bbl 1 59 @ 2 25 Brapes , up river , DsJ ., p9r lb. 5 @ 7 U p river , Niagara ,por 1b. S @ 4 U p river , Concord , lb.. 2 @ 2!- £ Peaches, Jersey, extra , basket. 125 @ 1 50 ' \ Poor to. fair 69 @ 1 0D Plums , up river , per crate , . 75 @ 125 - State , 10 1b basket...... 41 @ 70 Cranberries , Cap e C od , bbl. 5 00- \@ 6 35 HOPS. State—1892 , fair to choice... 21 @ 22 1891 , prime — @ 22 189 1 , common to good.. 17 @ 21 Old oddsw...; , 0 @ 8 UVE POUMflP * . Fowls-Jersey, State , Penn. -14 @ U % Western , .perlb... 13J ^@ 14 ' Spring Chickens , local , lb.... 12' ^ @. 13 ^ Southern per l b 12 (ft 12 ^ Rooster* , old , per lb ....... . 8 ^ @ 9 Turkeys , p er lb......;.. 11 @ 13 Ducks- tf . jr ., N. Y., Penn., . per pair......; 65 @ 90 Southern , per pair ' 50 @ (5'J Geese , Western , per pair .... 137 @ 1 0i Southern , pe r pair...... 125 @ 137 . Pi geons , per pair............ 30' ® 4'J DRESSED POULTRY—FRESH KILLED , Turkeys—Young, per lb,.;. 10 @ 14 Old mixed weights 14 @ 1H - Toms , fair to prime..,.. — @ — Chickens—Phila., per ib..... 15 @ 19 L. I. broilers.... . — @ ' — . Fowls—St. - arid\ Penn., per lb 12> £ @ 13 Western , per lb.. 12 @ 13 Duck ' s—Western , per lb ...; 9 @ \ 12 ; Eastern ^ perlb ... ...... 16 @ 17 Spring, L. I., per lb.... 17 @ IS . Geese—Spring E as t ern , per lb 18 @ 19 Squabs—Dark ; per doz..... 20) <§ . — Li g ht , p er doz 3 0 ( J <a j — , VEGETABLE S; . \ ' \ - Potatoes—State ,p er bbl ..1#. 1 50 @175 - Jersey, prime , per bbl... 187 @ 2 00 Jersey, inferior , per bbl . 159 @ 175 • ¦ • ¦ ¦ L. I., in bulk , per bbl.. 203 @ 2 25 - Cabbage , L. I., per 100 ...... 46 1 :@ 50J Onions—E ^ stern . yellow , bbl . 2 25 @ W Eastern , red , per bbi.... 2 0. ' % 2 25 State; per bbl -r % 225 Squash—Marrow ,per barrel , 100 @ 125 Cucumbers , pickles , per 1000 100 % 3 50 ¦ . Long Island , per 1 000.... 4 00 @ 5 00 \ ¦ Tomatoes , pe r crate ...:. ¦ 20 . < £ 30 Lima beans . fairto prime , bag 150 - @ 2 09 Egg pla nt , Jersey, per bbl.. 75 @ 125 . - . Sweet potatoes , Va.,. per bbl. 15) .«$ 175 . South Jers ey, per bbl..... 17a @ 2 50 Celery, near by i doz.bu ndles \5 @ 100 ¦ • ¦ - GRAIN , ETC. ' Flour—City -Mill . Extra;,.,. 425 @435 P atents:..;..;......... 4 25 ' @ $ 85. ' Wheat-No. 2 Red........;. 80 ^^ 80 % R ye-St ate. . - .....;.......... 61 @ 69 . Barl e y- r- Two-rowe a State... \ — @ — Corn—Ungraded Mixed..... 53 & . # ' 61 Oats—No. 2 White.. . ........ 8S> $ @ 39 Mixed .. Western....,. - ... S8 ^ @ 39) i Hay—G \j o.i , to Choice......% 65 @ 93 - Straw—Long Rye........:.. 6> @ ' - 70: . Lard-City - Steam . .. ' ' . J .... . 7.20c @ , 7.25c . . ' . . \ ; ' . - \ :; • ¦ ' ¦ : • ¦ /;' LIVE STOCK. , . ? ¦:/: ' ¦ - : v <:-;. - . Beeves. City - dres sad. S . ; 1 .f. : ^ - 6 ' @ ; - 8%; Atilch Cows , com;to gpOd;;i ' . 2 O 00 - @45 . Gq; ¦ ¦ - . • Calves, -City dressed,... ' / ; ;. . ,:-;. - S:; ! @ ' 13> f Sheep. - per 100 } bs;.:. .V.. Vi vi ) 4 O fe @ 5 1)0- > • -Lambs; per -l b. ' .;. :.;...;;.;; ' ; 8 ' - * & A 1U % , - flogs—Live , ' per 100 lbs 5 bO @ 5 . 85:- - . I rtV Dress e4' M...,...fMf \u 7> * @ > 1^ ' 14 ^ ^i^ k ^&^dM^ M ^k TEAMPLED TO DEATH GE N ERAL JOH N POPE Four Women Killed in a Mad Stam- pede in New York City, . v Four women were trampled to death and many persons injured in a Hebrew synago- gue at No ^ 27 Ludlow street . New York City, as the result of a panic created by a cry of fire during services . An altar took fire from a candle burning upon it. Some one screa med and raised the warning alarm. Mn an instant there was a rush for the doors by nearly 2500 persons. The stairways were narrow. Many fell. Others tumbled over the prostrate forms. . Half of taem. got out to the street safel r , but a woman who wei g hed 3J0 -pounds fell at the foot of the last flight and those behind i ier p iled on her. . - : ¦ ;¦ ' ¦ '' . : - ¦- ' * . ¦ . The house where the panic and fatalities occurred is six stories high , and has an or- nate facade and fire eacapes. There are six synagogues in the building, one on each b£ the six floors. They were crowded with wor- shipers celebrating the Hebrew New Year. Most \ of them were -women . The panic occurred at twenty minutes to to 10 o ' clock , a. m. When the cry was heard from the synagogue on the third floor , where the altar caught on fire , the greatest excit e ment prevailed. The cry was taken up by the congregations in the syna- gogues on the other flo ors. They also made a rusn for tbe stairs , and in less time than it takes to tell it the narrow stairs and hall were filled with a struggling, sur g ing mass of persons. ' AH would have gone well but for the viry stout woman already spoken of who fell in the middle of the lower fli g ht of stairs , rolled to the bottom and barred the escape of all who were behind her. In thirty seconds over 150 persons had fallen over her , blocking the lo t yer . fli g ht of stairs to within two steps of the landing of the second floor , and those who had not been caug ht in this human jam began to appre- ciate the folly of acting like lunatics and did what they ought to have done at the start , and sprang to balconies of 29 Ludlow street , got down the fire escapes of the synagogue building, or discovered that th s lire scare was a false alarm and waited upstairs ' . All tnis pandemonium reigned in barely three minutes , the time necessary to senl out calls for ambulances and a fire alarm. \ The firemen lecoiled at the si g hts that were presented . There was a slanting pillar of over 150 men and women packed four deep to the second floor , and from the pillar were thrust appealing hands and arms and each throat was yelling, screaming or- . - im- ploring succor. ; \To break the jam , \ said Captain Riordan afterward , \from the bottom was impossi- ble. Such- an effort would have resulted in the loss of many more lives _ and vrou i d have taken an hour. We ran up ladders to. the second floor , sent in the fire companies and began to break the j am from the top. As a ' * man or woman was pulled off the writhing heap he or she was passed up the stairs , ' and ii able to walk hurried to the uppar pare of the building. Those in jured so as to ba un- able to move were passed into the front and rear synagogue on the second floor , and two dead women were carried out of the jam in this way. When \ the bottom of the pile was reached the stout womaa , whose fall caused the - jam , was p icked up black and disfigured , ¦ and a young woman of t wenty-five or thirty, who app e ared to be b reathing, v?as carried to a drug store , but she died on tha w ay. / T T\ In all four women were crushed to deathr - - and ten persons seriously injured. A score . - ¦ - more were slightly hurt. ' - - s He Dies Suddenly at the Ohio Sol- diers' Home . General John Po p e , of t h e Umt a d States Arm y, died a few days ago at the Soldiers ' Home , Sandu a ky, Ohio. The body, after lying in stats in the hall of the AdminiE- ¦ , trafcion - Building at the Ho ^ ne , w hera it was viewed by many people , was taken to St. Louis for interment , M ajor-General John Pope was born in Louisville , Ky. t in 1822 , and was gr a duateJ from West Point at tho age of twenty, ie- ceiving a commission as Brovet Second Lieufcenani; of Topographical Engineers. He served in Florida in 184244 , and a few years later he assisted ia the survey of the north- eastern boundary between tho British p ro- vinces and the.United States, ihe same year he joined the ' staff of General Taylor iu the Mexican War and -was breveted twico for gallant and n i eri- ^^ t&rious conduct. In 1849 . Captain 3 ta ? s 2 ?^ had char g e of the exploring e s pedit i on- i hto - , Northern Minnesota. At the outbreak of. • \ •- the war he was made Brigadier-General jot . ¦Volunteers by President Lincoln , and was assigned to the commaud ot the District of Northern Missouri. Later, for s a veral month? , he had comman d of the - Array ot \ the Mississippi and captured New Madrid. For this victory he was made Ma i or-General * of Volunteers , and in July, 1863 , was created Bri gadier-General of the regular army ani - ^ was ordered to the command of the Army of Virginia , from which he retired after the ^ battle of Manassas , or the Second Bull Run , bis defeat being attributed at tbe time to the conduct of General Fitsw T ohn Portev and leading to the court martial of that offi- cer. Then General Pope was placed in corn- — mand of the Department of tha Northwest and conducted a succsseful campaign , - against , the Sioux. In November , 1864 , General Grant asko r l him to take command of the ' army operating befcw s en Savannah and Cape Fear , but he refused. In March , 1885 , he was . made a Brevet . Major-General in the regular army for gallant conduct i tf the capture of Island No. 10 , and m April , 1867 , he was placed in charge of the Third Military District , .which included tho States ^ of Alabama , Florida and Georg i a. After leaving the South General Pope was placsd r^ g? in command of the'Department of Missour ^ where he remained until 1883 , when he tooK . *• command of the Department of tho Pacific , ^ having obtained in the meanwhile the ran * * * of Majbr- G eneral j to whicn ho w.s gc- J~ ' j e tted . October 26 , 1883. He retired from active, r servicei March 16 , 1586 , having w reached the age limit of sixty-?our . * . £\ £ wmm m£m age ticket: - k \ ^ ¦ ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ ' : ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' v : v - \' : ——— - - — ; For; President , - Victoria \Woodhnll * Martini Vice-President , Mrs. fe towe. ' . In the parlors of the Willard Hotel , a f - - ~ Washington , under the call of April £ 6tb , a ^ * National-Convention of woman suffragists \i was held , under the direction of Jele g atc S ,5 from Victoria ^ ' ¦ Leagues : ot the different . \ - States. Mrs. Anna M. Parker , of Bt. Louis , v > ^ M o., was called to the chair, and Elizabeth ^ \ Powers , of Providence. R, I . acted as Sec- s reta - ry. Tw ij uty-ei ghu . States v i s r a r a pre- ^ s ented by fift y d elegates . _ j j . On motion of Mrs. . Windisb , of New Yor ' ; v , > City, Mrs. v ictoria Wopdhull Martin , ot r New York and London , was nominated for p Presiden t of- tue United States , and Mrs. ^ MarrL. tStowo , ot Calif orni ' a , wasno minated j ~ y for Vice-President. The platform 1 eads as ^ \ ^ follo w s : . - - . ¦ - . - . ' •• . ' . - . l \ - & r l ¦ Whereas , Under the fourteenth amend - ?^ meint no pitiz s n is deprived of the franchiS 3 ' - \ ^ through*law , but by- custom aud habit; ^ \^ therefore , be ic : ¦ • . - . : W — v ^ J Resolved , That we , the representative j-~ . s g - -women of Americ3 , asktne officersin cbarge f%& of the election precincts through thaUnitcd»j%5|| St a te ' s in the x oming campaig n to giv a u a , ^ the ¦ opportunity to castiou r ballo ts on tha -f i gl first Tuesday in November , 1893 , for our candidates. : ' ;•• ¦ kT1 ! | . Resolved v That , by the ( united efforts ot f f £ i the: women ypters o f \- this}Nation we ~ * wu l * i^ S drive anarchy, crime , insanity and>3runkenv« $ || ness \ from our midst by; our huraanltarian j^ s efforts . , backed by } to j6allot. , v< ^?^ . ' ^ The i President of the Live . Stock Co m mfe -V f|||l sion of Kansas estimates tie valu» oE cattle; # sl|i an d hpjSB , there to be w wfe f ^ OOO j O W , \ ^^ S gm
