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. ... , . ' SPRINGS EQUAL AHD EXACT JC8TICZ TO "' VOL. I. NO. 35. RED SPRINGS, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3. 1892. .Jtr;y 11 authorities have de-' tSsi ?Lyitersare not real estate, but tn BBSS) r. ty itacjisttoaa that 10,. rf Qua Victoria! subject ia I31 i r.'vrr know wh.lt it is to get f5rJh to ra. T..r:'in tourists who, according to ib n'ly publUhe British aa1 Con ,,v r- i take into Italy, ail volun tin'v iif! there the eior-noui sum of in m '," every year, ara likely ,eR..for-r ii t involuntarily devote a atill l4rJrni') to the nnintensnce of the paliin. Tor not since thirty years or KOr hm brigandage beeo so rsmpact irj , universal a at the present It tan volcano of Awu that ne ,r,t; I h m'lrcla of people ia the iilinl ( f (,-m- Stair by ooe of it terrific out t in'.i r"-"itly. After the greit erup tion of A v j in 1711 a Urge lake forme! ii tn f ifT, and natives of tho official txt wri permitted, oace ia- thre or (nr m'-ntlis to visit the crater for tho jtrp-,.- -of testing the water. If the miu:t ai" hot enough to cook rice, aa M:.'i'rj expected. Ia 183J the mua f d' lake began to boil, bunt i ! ,r In ik an 1 rath dowa the mountain. Mnv ' the people, taking warning from th" nTwiDg temperature of the water, rnp'5 1, b'U hundreds were killed. Ac tor i.n.' fo dispitchcs which hare reached lb" II "J , about 2)00 people fell vic tim t fh" latest eruption. Most of the t r'nn 'wo Milays, about 12,000 of h ) u hvr on tho island. rvn'l w) ;jrow Kangaroos in this coun fry. j rif thm Boston Cultivator. ''Thoie fiiui'm with th habits aaH barliness of t!ii ..limi! tt press no doubt that we can if n to do ao. They are still y n iti t in Australia, an 1 in some Io m'i'i nr! re'arJe 1 as a uutsance as in-irr.'-rm,' with sheep pasturage. That Ui' -li )'il l settle the matter. If sheep I i) K'-ttrr thtu kangaroo), let us stick in j breediug, and leave' to Auttra livi. tli' kind ol stock that nature orig iinHv provided for thorn, aid which is pros hly lnt adapted to their needs. Hi? ' rruny uics luvo bcei f o iad for thr 'ki,n, fur and desh of kangaroos that thru i "ntiuued propagation soaiewhcro i rr m ,b!y certain. They are a rather niy tir.jte in a fight, ripoin;? open the bwU of any antagonist with their Ion? iU their strong hind foet. Thit is snotliT reason against naturalizing thii oiinI -ii a part ot Americio firm stock." A roimpicuo-n London t newspaper f"r- : 1 1 s nrri''H financial disstter in Eo;! i I. It point to the failure of tin HjTinv; , two years ao, as the visible iTsin hh; of trouble, and asserts that rrt-r Mil .Mint fsilur "artificial ellorts lisv.' l ecn made to postpone the iuevit i'V ."( Such a result would not be sur n,', :iy tho New York News. r.'i;!i-h t ijiinlits have' within the last frv been lured into the wildest rhvn"., involving enormous invest nn'. The Knlish syndicste'" busi. (m l"oa worked by American and vi ' promoters'' to the extent of mt'":i. million upon millions of dol-Hr- :n in v. .tricj'.s that are more than h'M'I'i. h South Americs we fin1 lh i ;;. K-i,'lih syndicate fever launch i" r" . n all s rts of colossal specula t! -.. in Argentina that the n' -!; unk a l.ir,n part of their f 1 "il r ipital, and it is known that bis-.t ..'.i. r Kn;lish banker are flouu !,r i the Mm- mire, birely ablo to, ''.ivr wrs above th surface. 1' Au.ttnlian bubmen who were ":y l-roiih? to San Hrancieo to - A-nfriisu th marvel of b.x-m-thru- iis; are uaable to stani "the i r' "'i rinnitr of California," and the It .ri'i.in fommiioner lecided to i- n back to the antipode. They t 'rmeaihorc and shivered all i the leck of the steamer oa 'i''V arrived. One of them, who Kn:!ih a little, said ''We shall 1 r' . . I to :o home. We would die I i to cold. The people are or people. We would die." V ' i want to o ashore and ce f" L wa askeJ. The bush " hi heal violently. "Why l. fi'tl tir a'w.r tb,. The houses are too nigh. We ttie tun." These ionoceut " ic fru.ided to ship for vii;'ry by a showman whf C'-or;v 1 on tnsking a fortane . He faile I to supply thj:o "' after their comfort, and. r ' f r themselves one of the F'"i.. r- to'il them of tU harJ fate of "1 li-M ) who wr. broil ht over o -it v ay by the Hue man and ' 'i 'cr riiuiio themselves in a ! r..;. :;, , ' . S.lOT L, 't j.en whoe cu-tonis ao I i ntre not theirs. Learn . the H ieens!andir, the Lonmii 'j?rs refused to mil to ta'it them oil the ""' r lio. Jin that thev were t'ra ilr under the law. HUTOOKS THE VOW. Not onrt the vowt of such a pUgbt Thair troth la may weather, While learn r gren an 4 skiM are bright,) To walk en flewtra together. Bat w hart loved as those who tread The thorny path sorrow. With clouds above, and cans to dreai Yes deeper gloom to-morrow. Tbat thorny path, thos tortny skies. Have draws ouK spirits nearer. And rendered ns by sorrow's tie. Each to the other dearer. 1 Love, born In hoars of Joy and mirth. With mirth aod Joy may perish; That to which darker boors gav birth Still more and more we cherish. It looka beyond tLe clouds of Hm, And through death's shadowy portal; Msde by adrrity nblime; By faith and hope immortal. THE KAFFIR'S BEQUEST BV n ARRY W. FRENCH. We were encamped for the night on the" rugged hills above Dongola, looking down upon the distant Nile. Some time before, while I was in Routh Africa, the largest diamond taken from the mines for years was stolen right be fore the open eyes of the officials. Who took it I Some one who wis In Africa at the time. Whero did he go with it? To Europe, Asia or America, perhai, or he may have remained in Africa. It w as astonishing, but that was the sum and substance of the informa tion which the officials possessed. The gem was of fabulous ' value, and every possible effort was made to find it. Agents were sent to every point where it might be offend for sal, and large re wards sere set upoa its retovcry. Chancing to be at the mines at th time of the robbery, I imbibed, tempor. rily, a little of the intense excitement. It soon wore away, however, on a jour ney through the wilderness, where I was out of the way of hearing anything what ever concerning it; and before we en camped upo.i the rocka above Dongoln, looking down upon the Nile, the whol event was fo far forgotten that it would have required something decided to call it to mind nt all. So glorious was the night thut it seemed a pity to sleep under a goat's hair tent, but we were to start agnin early in the morning, and after watching the aun,Muk into the distant desert, autl the moon rise out of the nearer Nile, I reluctantly drew the coarse curtain and closed my eyes. Surely I had not been slrening long. The mooji was still over th Nile; but I woke uith' a start, wide awake in an in stant, itivc that something serious was, in the wind, and thoroughly on the alert to find out what. My shelter v,as only a small desert tent, and my bed a mat upon the ground was directlv in the centre as a matter of invariable precaution; for many a rob lery, and sometimes a murder, is com mitted on the desert and the Nile, by hands that are simply thrust under tho tent-cloth from the outside. A narrow line of moonlight, coming through a cruck in the tent, gave me the jHjsition of the moon an 1 light enough to be ositive that no one was with mo. in the tent. Some one was somcwhero close at hand, however, and intent upon, mischief. I was as sure of it as though ray eyes were resting upon him at that moment. I lay intently listening, but all was still, except for the invariable noises of a night upon the Nile, and in proximity to a sleeping caravan. Here and there a scavenger was barking. An Arab was snoring not far away, and now and then a camel sighed. I tried to convince myself that some dream had roused me, and against ray best judgment was forcing myself asleep sain when a faint grating in the sand outside the tent attracted my attention. In an instant my ears and eyes were fixed upon the. sjot, and slowly, very slowly, I saw the tent-cloth move. It rose a little from the sand, and a darker object appeared in the narrow space be low. It was not light enough to dis tinguish nore, but I knew very well that a man was lying on the ground outside, jeering under the cloth to discover my whereabouts. "Ah, ray dear fellow," I said to my self, "you see I know your tricks. I'm sorry to trouble you, luit you'll have to come inside before you get at me," and I breathed heavily and regularly to as sure him that I was asleep. The tent-cloth fell again and I heard the hand grating once more as he rose to his feet. He w as '.disappointed, poor fellow, and if he was only one plthenot of co srdly sneak thieves of the Nile he would doubtless give it up and go away after disturbing my sleep all for noth ing. If he was more than that, and thor oughly in earnest for any cauae what ever, he would prtVcntly come creeping under the curtain at the door. He proved to be very decidedly in earnest, and leas of a coward than I sup posed was to be found on 'the Nile, In no more time than it took him to walk to the entrance the curtain was cautious ly drawn back for an instant. A stal wart figure stepped noiselessly into the tent and the curtain fell again. One glimpe was all that I obtained, but that one was full of suggestion. He was no coward. He stood as erect as it was possible io my tent door; but he was a giant. He was force! to stoop to enter, and his huge black outline stood out, for an instant, against the sky. There were broad and heavy shoulders, a massive neck, and the arm which lifted the cur tain was seamed and bulging with the muacles of Hercules. s One instant the moonlight had dis closed this much. The next he vu ia the tent with me, and all was dark. In that instant, however, two other inci dents caught my eye. In his hand he held a gleaming South-African dirk, aod aa the light crossed his cheek I noticed a peculiarly savage curve to the lower jaw, ending abruptly under ao ear where tho large silver ear-ring was farther in front than usual, owing to the fact that a form er ring had been torn away at some time, taking the lobe of the ear with it It U ajwrnva MtoaiahlA. srhan brought Jo notice, what sua amount of thinking the mind can do in an emergency. Be fore the fellow had time to take a single etep from the curtain I knew that he, vu t Kafir; tint he hid no more to do vith the region of the Nile thin I ; that lie had come a long way f rr a purpoae ; Ihat the purpose was to kill me unless be was making a, mistake in identity, Sand that we sd met before. I could no hink how crwhere, but as plainly as nemory ever reproduced anything, it re jproduced that savage jaw and lobeleas 'ear tomewhrre in the bright sunshine. hlso realized that he was much more than V match for me in strength; that I had bo weapon which could be made to aertf Wore he reached me; that I was on my ack while he was on his feet; that mj tonly chance was to do something noex pected that would take him off hit guard, and that he had but five feet ot jpace to cross before he reached me. I I almost closed my eyes lest he should be able to see that I was awake, breathed deep and loud, inviting him to be at easi nd take his time, and narrowly watched the dim shadow stealthily moving toward kne. t He stood beside me, paused for a mo fuent, muttering a native prayer, then) slowly bent over me. That was the last ceremony. I knew the end was near, but fought myself in vain for some sug- rstion of self-defense. , He sank upon oce knee, and his broad fboulders came between me and the nar row line of moonlight. I heard hlru breathe with that hard, guttural rasp which with the half-civilized ia always judicative of desperate earnestness. I tven felt his breath against my face as he ent lower over it, piercing the shadows with eyra that glistened even in the dark ness, to assure himself that there was no mistake. Life may be short enough at some times, but a moment like that seems like eternity. There was light enough it the tent to see the shimmer of the polished Made he held, aud I fixed ray eyes upon It and watched it as I never watched any thing before or since. Slowly it went up, up, up, into the darknes.. It could not go very high, foi he was kneeling. It would fall like lightning when it turned, and he was planning carefully toaccomplish his work without rousing a soul in the sleeping caravan. The blade seemed to glow w ith a pale, electric light as it rose over me. There were faithful servants sleeping not fifteen feet away. Kven at that moment, I heard one of them muttering in his dreams; but a cry for-help would only cause that blade to fall the q iicker. Inch by inch I saw the blue sheen ris ing, and in imagination saw, too, the 6ullcn set of that savage jaw with its lobelesi ear, and the tightened muscles of the arm that held the knife. He was niovinjrplowly, for he projosed to be accurate M let thtt one blow do it all; another instant and it would be too late. I saw the blade give a little shiver in the air ns though he were chang ing his grip. I knew that every faculty he possessed wns centred in that arm and tipon my throat, and quick as thought lrew up my feet, caught him in the ab domen and gave one kick, for life or death, at th same instant throwing my tiead awny from him. With a savage yell the knife crime down. 1 1 'found it afterward, buried to the hilt kin my sleeping mat, just below hi j pillow. II is aim was excellent, only lhat I did not ehance to be there when it fell. At that moment, however, I was touch more interested in the result of my life savinc exieriment; for lefore the iell had died away a bright light flashed fa my fare. For an instant it dazzled rne. The next I saw the blue black sky, the flashing stars and the clear, white moon, and realized that with the strength f a last extremity I had thrown the huge Kaffir off with such violence that he had. taken the tent and all with him. I sprang to my feet to take advantage of what I had gained. The tent lay in a pile a few few feet away. Several sleepy Arabs were thmting their heads out of their blankets ; a camel opened his drowsy eyes and looked o.-er his shoulder, won dering what had occurred to disturb his sleep, but the Kaffir was nowhere to be seen. He could not possibly hare gone far, but there w as not a sign of him anywhere. It would not do to try to sleep again while he was in the neighborhood, but while I revolved the curious situation in ry mind, wondering who he was, where had seen him, and what possible motive he could have for killing me, I directed an Arab who had gained his feet to help me straighten out my tent. . Wc took up the loose ropes that were dragged from the sand and began to pull. Was it caught upon somethiog? I tooped to investigate and started back. The unconscious body of the giant Kaffir was still rolled, in the tent-cloth. He was toofowerful a man to allow us to run any ys. and before I investigat ed to see" how budly he was hurt we bouud him Kind and foot. He revived during the operation, but with the dogged resignation to the inex orable which is always so well developed In the barbarian, be realized that be was trapped and offered no resistance. When he was well secured I sat down oa the ground lieside him and tried to talk, but be was sullen. Indeed, I was tot sure that he understood what I said, for I siioke in Arabic, knowing very little of any Swth-African language. At sunrise, however, when I placed a rup of coffee to bis lipa he looked up ullenly, and in excellent Arabic asked: "Is it poicneir' I laughed, drank a little, and he drank the rest. "You had Utter kill me," he muttered. 'It is all you will ever get from me." " "I'm not sure that I care to take the trouble, 1 replied, "till I know why you tried to kill me. jou doLOtknowme, Jo you?" A savage fire gleamed in his eye for a moment, aa he answered : "You are AM el Ardavan. Oh, yea, I know you. "You evidently know my name, I re plied, "but what do you know that should tempt you to kill me? Why, there are cot Kaffir enough in all Africa to injure a hair on the bead of Abd el Ar davan. If you know me you must have known that, too." ?uih a at-nteocc dura cut bristle with tonccit when spoken in Arabic ft it does whan out Uia Kaluk. It U aa OrUataJ custom to blow one's own horn fa that fashion, and there was a look of real penest admiration in the African's eye ts he replied : ' "I heard it long a 0, but I did not believe. Now I know that It b true." - I had a mind to ent the ropee ar d set htm free for that compliment ; but curios ity prevailed and I said again : "Listen to me. ' If yon will simply tell me why you wanted to kill me I will set you free and give you another change." "I have had my chknee and failed, he muttered. "I shairnerer have another. Go on, and put an end to Oangrrak. "Gungerakl GungerakP I repeated, looking at that jaw and lobeleas ear. Then suddenly it all came back. to me; the face I had seen and all its surround ings. No wonder.it had puzzled me, for I had only seen it once, and that for a moment. He was chief of a savage tribe of Kaffirs working in the diamond mines when I visited them. ! Well, you are a good way from home, Gungerak," I added. 'lt you mean to My that you came all thia distance to murder me I don't wooderyou are disap pointed. I have not ao much energy. It ts more trouble than it is worth to try to punish you, and I am going to set jou free. But before we part" I waa un binding him "you might at least have the generositv to tell roe why you want to kill me."' He did not move, even when his limbs were free, but lay looking into my face. "When they suspected that Gungerak itole the great diamond," he said, "and when they paid one half its value to Abd el Ardavan as the only man wbodared to follow him and bring him back, thould Gungerak not find cause to use the dirkr I Uughed outright, and throwing my self upon the grass, exclaimed: "Gun gerak, you are a fool! Somebody has been cheating you. I neither know not care who stole the great diamond. I do hot know tbat anyone is suspected. There is not wealth enough ia all Africa to hire me to follow a thief a mile, unlets he has stolen something from me. So get up, now, and go about your business; but oiind jou tic vet disturb my sleep gain, for it makes me ugly and I am apt to kick." "Hy the head of your dearest child, is what "you say the truth!" the savage chief akf-d, solemnly. I was too curious to see what was com ing to jot with him, and in true Orientil solemnity I took the Kaffir's roost sacred oath, and swore that what I had told him wa-. the truth. "Then listen," he said, placing his owcrful hand upon bis alnlomen, a lit tle to the left. "The great diamond is here. For months I have carried it in my mouth." The Kaffir's invariablo afcty deposit is a curious vault which he forms almost at the root of his tongue. "Ln-st night I swallowed it. I shall die, but the great diamond is here. Take it, when I am dead. It is my just punish ment and your just. reward." I tried hard to save the man, but there were no ready means at hand, and he tVas so sure thnt he hould die that I think he would have accomplished it at all events. I became very fond of him h the few days that he lived, and learned from him many an interesting secret. It was a difficult tak to bring myself .'o recover the diamond after he was dead, tut I did it at last, and returned it to the ftirials of the min. It wa many years ago, and to-day I fancy that some juecn of wealth and leauty, adorning some grand palace of ihe Occident, when decked io her gor geous array, outshines her rivals and uaz tles her admirers with the lustre of that brilliant gem; the last bequest of the dy ing K iffir, on the hillside above Dongola, looking down upon the distant Nile. Frank Leslie's. He Never Stopped Counting. Itobcrt Simson, Professor of Mathe matics at the Univen-ity of Glasgow, was ene of tho odd geuiases who do so much for the amusement of humanity. It was one of his peculiarities always to count his Meps when h stirred away from his bachelor quarters. Even if a friend accosted him, he did not lose his reckoning. To prevent such a catastrophe he kept repeating the number of the last step taken. Once, while the Professor was on his way to some gathering, a gentleman. who Lnew bim by siht, but was unaware of the habit above mentioned, stopped him. The worthy geometrician had just taken bis five hundred and seventy-third step. "I beg your pardon, Professor," said !he gentleman; "one word with you, if vou please." "Most happy STS," was the answer. "Oh, no," aaid the inquirer, sur prised, but courteous; "merely one ques tion." "Well," added the Pro feasor "373." "You are really too polite," aaid the itranger: "but knowing your acquain tance with the late Dr. B.. and for the purpose of fcettling a dispute, I have uken the liberty of inquiring whether I im right in saying that he left VX) to each of his nieces." "Preciselv," replied the Professor 3:3." "And there were four nieces, were there aotf" "Exactly! 3T3." The atra'nger stared at the Profeaaor, as if he thought him mad, muttered sar castically "573 T .nade a hasty bow and parsed on. Profesaor Siraon aw the man'a mis take, or thought be did, and cried after him, taking another step at the same in stant, "No, sir: only four 571. "Poor fellow! thought the inquirer, s he turned away, "he certainly has gone crazy." Tit-Bit's. "RapfcU An tiiK-t-mmonly interesting and valu able mt4rrial, familiar to the florist, though little known to others ia raphia,' a fibre made from the inner bark of Japanese tree.' and uaed ia long ah reds for tying delicate plants. It comet io long plaits like horsehair, is a light brownish yellow in color, and whea twisted makes a lizbt, strong twine. Large quantities of raphia are imported for the use of florists and gardeners. It ia found cheaper than man of actured twine, and. by traar ofjs pliabry and r-fines, is more suiublT to the use te which it is put. WILSON'S YIEWS. m ent it west rtftocru luoer's Lzasox rnoie ntrroaT raorrc Tioxisra arrsuLTo mm m'mst- LZJ miX WORSE TniX THE TUUrT OF ABO3CISlTI0CI. . The strongest appeal which the pro tectionist organs and speakers make is to the fears of the manufacturers and the laborers in so-called protectel industries. They frequently succeed ia convincing them that Democratic policies would oh-, literate our manufacturing Industrie, sod send us all back to the tillage of the soil, making us abject dependents upoa other Nations for all but the product of ikriculture. This is so unspeakably absurd, when we consider the advantages we Lave as a naaufacturing people, in our cheaper ood, more Intelligent and better paid -abor, our enterprise and our leadership n the invention and use of labor saving nachinery, that one must constantly marvel at its acceptance by intelligent men. But those who cannot or will qot see its absurdity as an argument may be con vinced if they will study, a little, oar history and experience in dealing with protective tariffs. We began to make protective tariffs in 1816, and it was not the wiser among our manufacturers thtt called for such legislation. Mr. Everett, io a Fourth of July ora tion, delivered at Lowell, Mats., many years ago, said, in the presence of the very men who had built updhat roanu f icturing town, that the sagacious men who established the manufactures of New England were never friends of a high tariff policy. Hon. Anua Walker, at one time a member of Congress from Massachusetts, and a well-known writer oa economic subject!, said that it was within his personal knowledge that when our fir it protective tarin was proposed in 1815 the leading manufacturers of Rhode Island, including Mr. Slater, the father of cotton spanning in the country, after deliberate consultation in the counting room of one of their number, came ts the unanimous conclusion that they had 'rather be let alone." Their industries bad grown up naturally and succeeded well, and they desired no interference from the Government. But aa u'usl the clamor of less far sighted men aod the desire of politicians to become a special providence, super ceding God's owo providence, pre vailed. Projection began, and, as .it ever does, took away this healthy self-re Hance, and immediately set its benefi ciaries to crying for more help. The protective tariff of 1816 gave way to the higher tariff of 1820; that in turn to the still higher tariff of 1824, and a yet higher one in 1823, growing in its rates and its "aba-nioations" until it embroiled the country almost in civil war. This is tne natural bistory ot a pro tective tariff. Left to its own momen tum, it never stops short of prohibition. Its benificisries, always dis&ppjtntei in its promises, arc cMselcis agitators for its increase. All our history shows that it never his given and never can give stability and contentment. Now let us aee what was the result when, in 1844, we turned in the opposite direction and adopted a Democratic revenue tariff. Every representative ot New Englanl, except one who did not rote, votei against the Walker tariff of 1845, and prophesied disastrous coosequencsi to New England manufacturers from its passage. That tariff was about 23 per cent, on the average of dutiable goods as against quite 6 J per cent, underlie McKinley bilL In 11 years every New England representative voted for a 20 per cent, reduction of the tariff of 1846, and two-thirds of these representative! voted for the tariff of 1837, which made a reduction of 23 per cent-, briogin ! down the average rates to less thai 1 per cent; and so well contented were the manufacturers 01 tbat section wlta those rates that when the Morrill bill or 1861 took the first step bsckward toward protection their representative ia Con gress declared that they asked no in crease of protection. Hon. Alexander Rice, of Massachusetts, ' said In the House: "The manufacturer asks no ad ditional protection." John Sherman, prof easing to urge the bill in the inter est of the farmer, admitted "the maaa fsctarers hare asked over and ortr eiin to be let alone." Mr. Morrill himself haa since said that the tariff of 1861 'waj not asked ani but coldly wel comed by manufacturers." Senator R. M. T. Hunter, o? Virginia, patron of the bill of 1837, said : "Hare any of the maaafactnrers come here to explain or to ask for new d attest Is it not notori ous that, if we were to leave it to the caaanfacturers of New England them selves, to the manafacturers of hard ware, textile fabrics, etc, there would be a large majority against aoy change! Do we not know that the woolen msnu fscinfrdates its revival fnxn the tariff f 4857, which altered the duties on wooir Furthermore, the census of the Uaited States shows thst bth agricuUare and manufactures grew sad prispered duriaz the period from 1845 ta 161 as they never prospered ia aoy tike period ia oar )--? orvr tVri'L. forres the cosniag oa of our Civil War. and tho necessity for aa icreaed rtrnas to be totten quickly, wit boat regard to the fil ed policy by which it was gathered, we should Bsver" have departed from a rive sue iariff system. TTar tariffs followed one another, and, since the return of peace, the old road has been traveled over again. Tne manu facturers who ia 1816 were prosperous by their own efforts and asked nothiag nt Oiv(Tiaemt, having ooc received tfotecuoe, became clamorous for higher aod jet h'gUr tariffs natil they pushed the country to the rtrge of civil commo tion. So, likewise, tho Industries that were content and prosperous under the low reran oa, or, aa they now call It, the free trade Uw of 1837, and asked Both leg, having been protected siiast their wiU, LaaadiaUfj lost all self-reliance and have Taxed our ears ever sine for higher protection. In the one era we went headlong un til the "tarifl of abominations' pro duced its own overthrow and opeoedths way for a more enlightened and just system of taxation. Ia the other era we hare reach si the McElnlty bill, far more a class and no noi ly bill than the "tariff of abomt nations. Out of its enormities we hope to see a rerolatiou la public senti ment that will lead to a saner and j aster scheme of impost duties, under which sgriculture, manufactures and commerce msy all grow with stable and healthy vigor, and the expanding markets for oar prod acts tec are to labor steadier employment, better wages, and, what Is far frreeter. snore personal independence, for it is the chief wrong of protect too thst its aim and Its result are to make the laboring man' a dependent 00 the capitalist. W. L. Wtuox. facts for Worklarsnn to Ceislier . It has been repeatedly pointed out the rate of wages paid to worklegmen does not determine the labar cost of produc tion. Every employer understands this. An active, intelligent and competent mas at high wages is more economical than a stupid buagler. We are iadebtel to ex-Consul Jacob Bcboeohof for aa 11- j lustration of thia fact draws from the figures of Mr. Porter's census of 1899. He points out thst common laborers la coal mining get $1.26 in Tennessee, 11.47 in West Virginia, f 1.16 in Ken tucky, $1.63 ia Illinois and $1.77 In Ohio per dsy. But the cost of labor per ton is almost ia aa inverse ratio, being lowest where the -day rates rank the highest : For Tennessee, 83 cents ; West Virginis, 80 cents; Kentucky, 70 cents; t wjinoia, 69-cente, and Ohio, 9 cents. Tbis is in harmony with the results of his own observation and investigation on cotton manufacturing covering a period of ten years, and extending to Germany, England and the United States. He sari American weavers operate six to eight looms each, while the number operated in Eoglsnd ia three to four, and In Ger many but two or three. American work men turn out more product of whatevei they Lave in hand than any others in the world. We also have the testimony of James G. Blaine to the same effect. Id his report on the cotton industry in 1831. The Americsn workmsn is paid most because he ia more efficient. The Eng lish workmsn is paid next best, because he comes second ia efficiency. The German is third, and the Fiji Islander is last of al. Protection in Germany does not make wages lower than io Eoglsnd any more than it makes wages In America higher than in England. Our products arc manufactured at a cheaper labor cost, notwithstaoging the hijh rate of wages, than they can be produced for in aoy other country in the world. Our man ufactbrers go into the markets of th world and sell goods lower than En glish or German msnufacturen, anl they make a profit too. They hire tbe.r workmen as cheaply as they can io oInetnioe cases out of 101). They do not give the workiogmen the difference between what they would sell goods for in sn open msrket and what tbey get for them in a protected msrket: When two men are looking for one job, other things being equal, the man who will work for the 1ot-st wa?es gets the job. When two employers are looking for one workingman, the "employer offering tbe highest wages get the man." This Is truism so simple that all csn under stand it. There is free trade ia labor. The only persons excluded are Chitese, and they come from tbe tnott highly pro tected country in the world. These are plain fscta thst ought to be carefully considered by ever working man who haa been Is boring under the delusion that protection will iocrease bis wages. The man who controls the sale of the product reaps the reward. Th workman offers his labor I a competition with all the world but China. The manufacturer offers his product io a market from which competitioa has been excluded for his benefit. Who has the best of itf Who can command the benefits of McKIaleyismf Working men, can yoof Utlea (X. T.) Observer. The Loss U the rarsser. The exports of faro prod acts costinus to fall off, notwithstanding the Mc Kin ley law, and it would be gratifying if the statesmen who have been "pointing out" to the fanner tbe value to hloa of reciprocity should undertake the ex planation of the present condition of thin. The following table shows tbe export f agricultural articles for SeptemVr, 1891, compared with September, 192: AiuciML im. i- Com (boa.). ......... 1,J0,I f,c9.l Oats (bsna.1 I04.OIS Srt.a Oafsaaal (powdw.... m.U l.X.V-2 HTefbo.) 171.147 i.m.m Wheat ibnen.l. . ..10,ti.erjo l,49V'f This falliag off is very serious. It means, so fsr as tbe farmers are con cerned, that Republican reciprocity is the merest ahasn. The decline has been so great thai the total exports of so-ne articles for three snonths ending Septem ber 30th hare been decreased as follows: 1st UOI. Com iboasj ) 4AMI I.Wl.&it UaU(bosk) M 431.177 U9li Oaf Ml (poMxM. .. SSLS4I S.MV,7 Rye flank.)..., 49t,eS v.snu,2K Wheat rbsnaj SO,414.rs 'The value of the total exports of all breadstuffs was only half as great ia ep trmber this year as la the same mocth last year, while for the three snoatbs ending Septesnber 30th the rslues were more than $26,000,000 leas in 1822 thae la 1891. Besides exporttag leaa the farmer re reive) la for what be sets Is abroal. as is shown by the folleaiag table of Sep tsaabee rrieea 1 ametoa. Cora itsua.).. ...vO. Oata rbtua.1 n.o 0tmeJ rpoaaoat... OOJ Bye (bnafe.).... , ... OTO Wheat UusM 0.W aoM OiS 00s t4 ICS This shows partly what the McCinlsy law la doing for the fsrraer. It also adds to his cost of living. If he likes it he will rote for Harrison; otherwise he will rote for Cleveland. Nsw York World. 43eor1 tUiU TV rt , 4 On the Ith of October, 1S59, ia tbe Opera House at Utlca, with President Cleveland's record fresh la his and in tbe public mind, Geoeral Daniel E. Sic- , kles spoke the brave and just words of the candidate of his party for Presides 1 1 "Now aa to President Cleveland's record la behalf of the soldiers. They charge that be has vetoed a goo J msn, pension bills. So he hss. 1 have reed his views. Iirni soldier. I hve a? soldiers. Had 1 beeo President and a Congress had passed such bills for say soldiers, I should hsve vetoed erery one of them, too. They were mostly all frsuds sod shams, sad I had do frsuds under me. . Any rlghtmindsd mat, sworn to discharge his duty, won! J hive signed these vetoes as President Cleve land did." General Sickles, continuing, gave President Cleveland's record regarding peoslon bills and said "I thiak the Re publicans should hssg their hssds la shame la the rreeeoce of such a record. What that record ts the World has shown. Under Clsvrlsnd's adnlnutra tion there were 192,070 pension claims allowed, aa excess of 64,6IS over the sllonanc.es under the Republican admin titration. During General Black's administra tion of tne Pension Bureau under Cleve Isnd there was disbursed for pensions $2S 4,738,000, sn sxcees of $62,113,000 over tbe pajments during the Garfield Arthur administration. President Cleveland signed more pri tttf pension bills than wen ipprond during sixteen proceeding years of Re publican adminUtraiioa. Mr. Cleveland had neither said nor done anything, since General BIckles's just eulogy of htm four years ago, to earn tie disfavor of any soldier. The Ifsne of Principle. Judge Gresbsm has made a concise and comprehensive definition of the dif ference of principle between himself and tho Hsrrisou IUJicsli. The power of the Government to collect revenue to de fray its expenses is sovereign snd abso lute,' be said 00 tbe 20ih of last month while trying a case in the United Statss -Circuit Court at Chicago. It Can take any man's property without process, but it ought to tske 00 more thao enough to defrsy tbe expenses of the Government. This is not tbe view of Harrison, who holds thst after the Government hss taken 30 per cent, for its own revs sues it should take from SO to 100 per cent, more for the benefit of those strugglleg , 'wrsk, infant corporations which con tribute to Herrieoocsmpalgn funds. Mr. Gresbsm recognltce the property right of tbe Individual. Harrison does not. A. tax of 100 per cent, of value ts the denial of all property rights, for It asserts the right of thi Government to take the whole value to confiscate.- Ia this system of confiscation Harrison be Iievos while Gtcsbem does sot. Oresham believes with the Democrats that tsxes should be levied for revenue only, and every honest men must Indorse tbat principle. When Government taken from the earner propiriy it ia not obliged to use for Gosernment purposes. It robs him under the communistic principle that, through law, the earnings of eacn should be mads subject to the demands of all. In tbat communism Harrison be lieves as far as it can be eppUed to bene fit the trusts aod other combinations of corportions; but Oresham ill n t al mit that it is just to take awsy the pe j erty of the humblest by force of tew unless Government absolutely re-fiWes U for Its own purposes. St. Louis Kepub- .1. tea lsitiuiiS ! a ea a fttta A leading Psris par, tbe Eclslr, !i fftrieg a cold -medal as a prire to the lorst writer, without distinction of istiooslity, writes a correspondent. It e not literary merit that Is wanted, as he above, announcement would lead one 0 suppose. Tbe prize giving edltw eerely wests to know how msoy words an be written on a piece of paper. Ra llies hsve already been sent in. A Bel (Ian officer baa accomplished tbe feel f rutting 2187 words on a post card. 1 Marseilles gentleman has distanced tun, having crowded oa a card ef the eras size. 2660 words, repreaenUaf aa rticle of f. Sfarcey aed a poem of De inly Clovis Hughes, both leglbts with eat a nagaifyieg though not, I tnsgine, without a god pair of eyes, rbc above feats are nothing beside thst f aeottxr competitor for tbe gold nedsl, a Govcrrmentelerk.Tsf. Purvigny, Lo tea oa a post csrd written out sa ffficiel diiectory, from the President sad tU household dowa to the members of le Paris Municipal Couoeil altogether MKW words. He spt twetty eight , lours over this st leisure momest. snd a-crked with the naked eye. B-jt he Is aprTCf Ertieait Lethorel, recretary f the I27ib lofaatry, ho stwounces hst he wll shortly produce a posv ardvitb a r ltectoo of article a-n-ssouot : n ; to 1 1 ,0a) w ord . Assa.art rraall wr.tin? Las been killed by pootorspby. Mierjscopie dhotojrsphy wss simp' iavsluable te Prance dun eg tbe eeige f Psris, whse tarrVr pigs'ooa were daily seat owt wit a l$,000 private letters pbotogTspt.?! o s pellicle two ieebea squsre rolled op ! a qaill. There ere still, bowever, p rsty of statU urs, some of thev ditioguhe sad esea Illustrious. 1 may mention, for tattaace, Alphocse Deader, who kas eftea out of f aa written origiasl aewa paper coUrens ea a leaf of cigarette 4,4shi4 etijM vl bees eoetaJe 1233 imtsts. - - 1
The Comet (Red Springs, N.C.)
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