Omaha daily bee., 1886-09-12

the brother of her granddaughter, born
of the Princess Alice. Although the AL
manach de Gotha mentions their mother,
Julie, daughter OF the late Maurice
Compile dc Haucke, and titled Princess
f. de Battenberg, it omits
A ROMANTIC STORY.
There once lived in Dresden a certain
Count Bruhl. He organized the museum
there, employing on his staff rs CLERK, a
citizen of Saxonv named Haucke. THIS
clerk wearIed of Dresden china and art
and emigrated to Warsaw. There he be-
came Il Journalistic Haucke had a son,
tall and handsome. As journalist,
Haucke pere gained favor with the Grand
Duke Constantine, the Russian governor
of the city, who has been immortalzed
by kosciusko. This potentate advanced
young Haucke as a soldier very rapidly,
and he became i colonel almost us
quickly us the eldest son of the Prince of
Wales recently became-a "a member of the
Middle Temple as n barrister. Soon
aafterward he got sathe handle to- nhisl
name as mentioned in the Al
manach of ''Comte de.' The
poor favorite did not long enjoy his new
honors, for in the insurrection of the
Poles, in $780, he was killed in the streets
OF Warsaw. He left little daughter,
aged 5 years. She was sent in honor of
her fathers memory by the grand duke to
-
ter of the state at the imperial cost Here
the beautiful, and, as it seems, gifted
maiden made an lmpresson upon the
heart Of Prince Alexander of Hesse,
brother of the late empress of Russia,
and he married her. He was obliged,
however, in consequence OF tins marry
ing beneath him. to give up his Russian
career and return to Germany. In Darn
stadt his wife received the title of Prin-
cess OF Battenburg, and gave birth to
three SONS.
Some time ago Prince Alexander of
Bulgaria proposed Tor the hand of II
princess belonging to one of the great
reigning families. Although the lady
herself was not adverse to the match,
her parents secuted the idea, telling the
suitor he must rise good deal higher be-
fore he would be permitted TO mate with
their daughter. The prince took this re-
buff in good part merely remarking:
VERY WELL then, since you will not ac
cept a mere prince for a son-in-law, |
must try to make myself a king" This
was regarded at the time as mere idle
vaunt, but Prince AleXander's subsequent
enterprise gave the utterance something
OF the character of prophesy.
The Iniquity ofthe Copper Tariff.
st. Paul Pioneer Press: There are
many more disastrous chapters in our
tariff history than that relating to the
copper duties; there is none that exhibits
more directly the essential immortality
and the certain results OF uliro-protcc-
ton There was never, in the first place,
the slightest excuse for a duty on copper.
The sole source of domestic supply, up to
fifteen years ago, was the Lake Superior
mines. These could have been worked
to advantage in free competition with
the world But the owners wanted "A
mn nlu nd yba,, bod Ixy yalpn
having a tariff slice they got theirs.
Still, under the original tariff, Chilan
ore could be imported, ana there were
large smelling works in Boston and Balti-
more. This did not SUIT the mine own
ers at all; and so, regardless of the fact
that the whole country was asked to pay
n tax for their benefit and of the farther
be utterly destroyed, as it was, to
build up the mining industry, they
asked and received in 1869 an increase of
duty about equal ~ that from to 25 per
cent. After this Gopper mining became
close ,corporatfBn. The companies
combined and set an arbitrary price upon
their product. This every American
consumer had topay, at the same time
that these same companies were selling
abroad their surplus product at prices
far below the Anerican market. The
wages paid were those fixed by the com
petition of the market. The profits of
the mining companies were among the
largest known, Tbese enormous profits
together with the discovery of other de.
posits in Montana and Arizona, caused
the mining BUSINESS to be overdone
The price of the metal fell heavily. The
duty was cut down in 1888 from to A
cents per pound But oyerproduction
continued until something had to be
done to restore the magnificent diyi
dends of the past What is the remedy?
Mines are shut down. and hundreds OF
men will be thrown out of employment
until the price has been raised
again to the level of the profit
that the manufacturer requires. When
the market was good, laborers received
the ruling wages, not u penny more, and
the tax levied on every user and manu-
facturer of copper IN the country went
to swell the fortunes of the mine owner
When the scramble for these profits over
does the business ana times become bad,
the labOrer makes the sacrifice by being
deprived of work and cut off from wages
until the monopoly created by the tariff
sees ut to resume business
In the history OF this, perhaps the least