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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
publican protective tariff now in force

Salt, per barrel. so 81
These are all articles protected by g
high tariff tax. The same difference in
prices, to the advantage of consumers
applies to clothing, to many or almost
all articles of iron manufacture, to silk
and worsted goods of home production
to mechanics tools, and to books, car
pets, furniture and other comforts O.
American homes.
Edward Atkinson, the distinguished
Boston statistician and writer, has re
Gently published a scale of wages fo
men under various classes of employ
ment, and of the daily cost of living as
compared between 1880 and 1888. Hi!
calculations occupy great space III {
popular magazine (Ihe FOrunl), and it !.
difficult to state their purport without
the use Of many figures. But the sun
of the whole is obvious.
''The specially skilled" in the mechan
ic arts in 1850 earned on an average 50. 4;
a day, or $735 year. Ii 1888 the sam,
class earn 81. Il day, or $1,24s year
In 1850 average mechanics were paiC
$1.55 a day. or 1858 wear. In 1888, they
are paid $40 day, or S720 year.
Inferior grades Of operatives, includ
ing females and minors, were paid 81. 3;
a day, or 1899 year in 1860. In 1888
the same class are paid $3.50 day, @
$40 year.
Laborers (not miscellaneous but count
ed as common labor in manufacturing
establishments earned $1.0O a day O
$500 a year in 1860. In 1888 their wage
average $1.40 a day, or 1920 year.
These figures show the wages, on al
average, of all classes of employees, com
pairing 1860 with 1888. Mr.. Atkinson
understanding, Of course, that they
would be of no value unless the sam,
comparison extended to the cost of fool
and clothing at the two periods named
obtained by the same methods of inquiry
and calculation the facts as to the cos
of living respectively in 1860 and in 1880
This table is instructive in the highes
sense. He found that the average cost
of living to thelaboring classes, to whom
the above average of wages related, was
81 cents a day each in 1850 and % cents
a day each in 1888. In other words,
wages Of labor in the United States are
on an average at least rs per cent. higher
than in 1860, while the cost of most of
the necessaries of life is at least 10 per
cent. less. These general figures may
have exceptions; but they are correct as
a rule, and are supported by the highest
authorities, such as Mr.. Atkinson, who
write without regard to partisanship, or
to the effect of their arguments on po-
litical results
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04

The French citizens of Glens Falls. N.
Y, have organized Harrison and Nor
ton club. The roll contains the names
of fifteen Democrats who voted for
Cleveland.
1t is claimed that Washington Terr1-
tory has gained 10000 by immigration
the past year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
NO VIOLENT. QUARREL.
The Empress Frederick and William on Good
Terms

BERLIN. Sept. 29.-Stories published in
French papers of violent quarrel be-
tween Empress Frederick and Emperor
William and that the former fears spies
are set on her movements are certainly
false. 1t is officially announced to-
night that she will shortly pro-
coed to Kiel where she will remain
fortnight, and on October Is she will lay
the foundation stone of Emperor Fred
erick's mausoleum. She will afterwards
go on visit to Scotland, and will be ac-
com panied by the princesses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
KILLED BY THE INDIANS.
a White Man Riddied With Bullets.

FLORENCE, Ari., Sept. 29.-News was
received here today of another Apache
killing, near Dudleyville, on the San
Pedro river, fifty miles east of this place,
last Wednesday. A man named Jones
rode to the camp of Chief Patchula's
band, and while talking with Patchula,
five Indians came up and riddled Jones
with bullets. The murderers escaped
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
THEN AND NOW.
Difference in Prices and Wages Under
Democratic Free Trade and Re-
publican Protective Tariff.

The following interesting table of
wages paid for free-trade labor in Eng
land and for protected labor in the
United States is taken from official
sources, and is indisputably correct.
The years referred to are 1880, as to
England, and 1886 as to New York,
though wages have declined IS per cent.
in England since the schedule for that
country was r1raparad.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04

CHIEF ARTHUR, who is ct the head of the
has again expressed his approval of Gen
eral Rsrrison's course in the labor riots
and on labor questions. Soon after Gen
eral Harrison was nominated, Mr.. Arthur
said that he saw nothing in his record
which should prevent any workingman
from voting for him. He has recently
reiterated that opinion, AID IN referring
TO the labor disturbances at Indianapolis
IN 1877, ne says as to General Harrison's
utterances there, that in his opinion Gen
eral Harrison said nothing which any
honesG man might not have said.-Iowa
State Register. (Rep.)
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
Another Mysterious Murder.

LONDON, Sept. 29.-Another mysterious
murder has occurred in White Chapel.
The body of a woman of the town, mntil-
ated as in the previous cases, was foun
IN Mitre square tonight. Il is also re
ported that another woman has been
murdered In the same vicinity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
A Horse Thief Jumps into Eternity Through
Car Window.

Chi oAGo, Sept. 29.-Anton Cleaner, a
horse thief, while on train en- route for
the state penitentiary at Joliet this morn
ing jumped through the window while
the train was NOV ing rapidly an was SO
badly INJURED that he died thee hours
later.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
National Liberals and Conservatives to

National Liberals and Conservatives to Fuse.
BEELrN, Sept. 29.-In the coming land
tag elections the national liberals and
conservatives in Berlin and other popu-
lous centres will unite in support of the
common candidates. The national Hber-
ais are confident of increasing the mum.
Der of their members from "a to 80.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
A Scnllin0 Match ARRANGED

SIDNEY, N. S. W., Sept. pa sculling
match has been arranged between Kemp
and Searle, the Australian oarsmen. The
race will DE rowed October 81.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04

The loud Remuneration of Hill By the
Mugwump papers of New York is not
without q motive. The Post, Times, Har-
per's AID the others see the handwriting
on the wall. They know Cleveland IL
going to be beaten, &C they are preparing
a hole to crawl out of. When the morn
ing of the 9TH of November arrives, they
will all sing in concert, Hill and IT."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04

After he and his wife have made their
purchases he finds he has balance left
from the sales of his produce Of 1858. 30
instead of $50 So, as IN 1853, and he eA-
claims to his wife: ''B'gosh, who'd a
thought that farm truck'd brought in so
much money!" and he goes and buys a
two-seat buggy for family use, for 1898,
and nice top buggy for the Oldest I'M
married son for $125, and still has $685.
20 left to pay harvest hands.
Mr.. Andersen, you don't want to talk
to Farmer Brown about Democratic free
trade being better thing for him and
his family than Republican tariff. He
doesn't want to know anything about
your theory. because he knows from ex-
perience the condition of things in 1858
under free trade and in 1888 under pro-
lection. When that difference amounts
to $206.65 in the same kind and amount
of produce he sells, and to $7S.9 in the
same kind and amount of articles he
buys, he knows he is just $2S5.55 ahead
by living in the Republican protective
tariff times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
LOOKED LIKE TASCOTT,

But There Were No Grounds for OBTAINING
Carter.
DENVER, Col, Sept. 29.-Sheriff Weber
at noon released Carter, the man arrested
yesterday on the supposition of his be-
ing VIM. B. Tascott, having satisfied
himself that there were no grounds for
OBTAINING him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04

The above are prices paid by J. G..
Watkins, Stephen Field, Samuel Rupe,
William Hoke, and other ST. Joseph
County farmers for produce during the
month Of June, 1858, as the Tribune can
show by day books in its possession, and
the above are prices paid by them and
other farmers for goods they bought.
Farmer Brown and his wife find, after
making these purchases, that he has
$50. 60 left to pay his harvest hands, and
much as he would like to crafty his
wife and daughter with a two-seat
buggy, he has to forego that luxury
which would cost him $3.50. Free trade
will not permit it.
In June, 1888, under the terrible Re-
publican protective tariff which Mr..
Anderson says robs the farmers as well
as the workingmen, Farmer Brown
finds the harvest coming on, and gets
ready for it. He happens to need new
wagon and exactly the same groceries
and goods that he bought in June, 1853,
and, by coincidence. sends to South
Bend the same kinds and amounts Of
produce he sold thirty years before, for
which ba ontS tina foIIOwino rricne.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04
THIRTY YEARS AGO,
The Difference in Results to Farmers Be
tween a Protective Tariff and Demo-
cratic Free Trade.

Prices of farmers products and of the
merchandise they purchase, being prac-
tically the same in Steuben as it IS in
South Bend, the following from the
South Bend Qnd.) Tribune, IN answer to
a free trader, will be found of especial
interest to our readers in comparing the
present with thirty years ago:
During the month of June, 1858, Far
mer Brown who lives on the Michigan
Road in Center township, begins to
''shin" around to make ready for the
coming harvest. He has to have money
to pay the harvest hands; he must lay
in large stock of groceries to feed
them; some extra dishes are needed and
other necessaries around the house and
farm. He finds also that he has to have
a new wagon. and he would like to buy
anew two-seat buggy for the family to
come to town in instead of always riding
in the lumber wagon. As he had nc
ready money (the free-trade tariff taking
nearly all the money out of the country
to buy Engiish-made goods, he has to
spare what produce he can cut off OF the
farm He sells fha following:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-10-04

Total .s251 05
Farmer Brown and his wife came to
South Bend during the latter part of
June to buy their harvest groceries, etc.,
and get q wagon. Here is what they
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-24

The memorable heights Of Lookout no
longer need t0ilsome climb to reach them.
Everyone familiar with the famous battle
fields about Chattanooga will be interested
in the announcement OF the Queen and
Crescent route Cincinnati Southern rail-
way and associate roads) that on May 27th,
2stb and Goth excursions at the very low
rate of One Cent per mile will be run to
Chattanooga for the opening of the new
standard gauge railroad to the mountain
top. Tickets will be good to return until
June I'd. Arrangements are being perfect
ed for the running Of cars through to the
summit from Cincinnati via Queen and
Crescent route without change. For any
details needed address nearest coupon ticket
agent, or N. C. Kerr, travelling passenger
agent, Cincinnati.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-24
MEN WRITTEN ABOUT.

Lord Shrewsbury has made a big thing
out of his noiseless tire cabs.
Senator Hawley has just patented new
| projectiie for rifled cannon
Frank Leslie, of San Francisco, has worn
a silver windpipe for twenty years.
The Prince of Wales recently appeared
with bright red waistcoat with white spots.
NJ de Lesseps persists in the promise that
the Panama canal will be finished in two
years.
Sir Moren Mackenzie is afflicted with asth-
ma and smokes stramonium cigarettes to OBJ
tain relief therefrom.
A pipe smoked by Gen. jackson while lie
was president has lately been presented to
the New England Historical society.
Shaw Lefevre has introduced bill in the
English parliament to prevent the gathering
of wild flowers
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, will send
to each crowned head of Europe a perfected
phonograph- Such present will speak for
itself.
Mr.. A. W. Longfellow, brother of the poet,
is well known resident of Portland, No
He is nearly 20 years old and bears a strong
resemblance to bis more famous brother.
An early portrait Of the poet Browning,
soon to be published in q collection of his
poems, is said to represent q youngish man,
with dark hair, rather i'll shaped whiskers
and decidedly Hebraic cast of copntenance.
Henry Cary, of Key West, Fla, has a
novel shaped potato. Standing at distance
Of six or seven feet, one could not tell it
from a wild duck which had been deprived
of its body feathers, and to make the deiu-
sion more perfect he had inserted few tail
feathers.
There is sad news from Munich concerning
the POOR young mad King Otto, who wan
ders about his big, lonely palace outside the
city. He has abandoned his last distraction,
that of peeling potatoes, and has no pleasure
left, but spends all his time hiding away in
dark corner, thinking every one wants to
hurt him
Kojiro Matsago, one Of the graduates of
the Yale law school this year, is son of the
Japanese minister of finance and is of royal
blood He has been in America four years,
and speaks English, Latin and German. He
will return to Japan two years hence
Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer, editor and owner Of
The New York World, is blind, and has gone
to Europe in the hope of having his eyesight
restored by rest and expert treatment His
vision is practically gone, for he can only see
confusion of black spots The disease is
complication of myopsis and paresis of the
optic nerves, and it has resisted the efforts
of the best oculists in America, who can
give to him only the faintest confidence of
benefit from foreign trip.
The Prussian officer, Maj Meckel, after
devoting three years TO the reorganization of
the military system in Japan, has suspended
his iabors and returned home, the term of his
contract having expired. In addition to his
regular duties, he made extensive journeys to
all parts Of the realm in company of prince
ly personages and of officers, in order to
make complete survey of the strategic con-
ditions prevailing. The successor of Maj.
Nickel is Maj. Wildenbruch.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-24
The Young Lapp's Snow Cradle.

The Lapp baby very often has snow
cradle, for when the indulgent mother
attends church she makes a hole in the
snow outside and deposits tho young lap
lander therein. 1t is no uncommon sight
to see circle of these snow cradles in
front of Lapp chapel; and now and then
lot of fierce looking dogs are on guard
to keep off the wolves that might medi-
tate raid on the baby contingent. The
Lapp cradle in material differs essentially
from that used by the Bushman baby,
whose mother digs hole in the hot sand
and chucks him therein in the shadow of
some lonely bush. Sometimes the cradle
is ready to hand in the shape Of an ostrich
nest, and now and then some feathers left
by the mighty bird help to soften the
nest of the future Bushman warrior
brakes Magazine.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-24
WHEN rbsv Ioays tis,

The exodus of our bodily troubles Is dout.
ly welcome If their departure Is unaceom-
panied by pain. 1t is the fault OF the best
of commendsble cathartics, which act sole
ly upon the bowels, that In operating they
grippe and weaken these organs. Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters produce laxative ef-
feet, but neither cause pain nor weaken
the abdominal region of the stomach. This
is pre-eminentiy the alternative which q
c0nstipated, bilious or dyspeptic person
should use, since a resort TO 1t involves no
bodily discomfort nor produces violent
reaction. The liver is aroused, the stOm-
ach benefited. and the habit OF body
speedily and permanently improved by it.
Fever and ague, rheumatism and kidney
troubles are among the maladies for which
recorded experience has proved II to be
efiicaciOus. 1t is wholesome appetizer
and far more reliable tranquillizer of the
nerves than misunderstanding narcotics
and sedatiyes.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-24
A most interesting and important contri-

A most interesting and important contri-
button TO the history of the late war is
Captain Alfred Z. Lees brochure in which
Is given an accurate and stirring account of
the battle of Gettysburg, in which the
author participated. In the pamphlet
(which lis itself elegantly printed, are
twenty full-page engravings of the nlOnu-
ments erected by the state of Ohio, on the
field of Gettysburg. in memory and honor
of Ohio heroes who tell on that historic
spot. Captain Lee, formerly one of the
editors OF the Ohio State Journal,) was
assistant adjutant general of the first
brigade, third division, eleventh corps,
Army of the Potomac; he was also In the
armies of the Cumberland and Georgia,
and is the secretary of the Gettysburg
Memorial Commission Of Ohio. He Is an
able and strong writer and has brought out
. little book which all Ohio patriots should
buy and keep. 1t is from the press OF
Mr.. A. Il. Smythe, bookseller, Columbus,
Ohio.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-24

The administration Of General Harrison,
as the neSt president Of the United States,
will. necessarily, be one Of the strongest
this country has ever enjoyed. The presi-
dent himself is q man of moral and mental
strength and long experience In public life.
and there will be gathered about him the
best and strongest men In the nation as his
constitutional advisers. When we use this
phrase will be gathered
about him these advisers-we speak with
due caution. for the president will have very
little to do in the way Of selecting a cabi-
net. In the very nature of the situation, it
may be said that the cabinet will select IL
self. Mr.. Blaine must be secretary Of
state. He can have no option In the mat
ter. Neither can General Harrison. Mr..
Blaine. our representative American, the
man who shakes . continent when he steps
upon it, must be prominent part Of the
next administration. As secretary Of state
he will command the respect of all man.
kind, and the American people will have as
much of his valuable service rs il he were,
himself, president Under Mr.. Blaine's
management of affairs the American citi-
zen sbroad may prance about, in metropo-
lis or jungle, with no man, or beast, or
reptile, to make him afraid. Then it
goes without saying that John Sher-
man. the great master of govern
ment finance, must be secretary Of
the treasury, In which position he
will be able to render to the country quite
as good service as IL be had been more sue
cessful at Chicago. Mr.. Sherman has had
the finances of the country in his strong
fist for quarter Of a century, and now.
after the failure of the present democratic
administration to grapple with the surplus
accumulated through republican legislation.
he must be called to the front to reduce the
surplus in accordance with sound principles
of finance and the needs of the nation.
With these three eemen-Benjamin Harrison.
James G. Blaine and John Sherman-in
power at Washington, we shall enjoy an
administration Of government that cannot
be equalled in intrinsic strength by that Of
any other nation in the civilized world. Il
occurs to us that our Mr.. Shellabarger
would make an attorney general who
would add strength to even such trio as
we have named, but we doubt whether he
could afford to give up . professional in
come of hundred thousand dollars year
for an official salary Of six thousand.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-24
A Good Appetfta

Is essential to good health; but at this sea-
son it is often lost, owing to the poverty or
impurity of the blood, arrangement Of the
digestive organs, and the weakening effect
Of the changing season. Hoods Sarssps-
rilla is a wonderful medicine for creating
an appetite, toning the digestion, and CIV
ing strength to the whole system. Now Is
the time to take it. Be sure to get Hoods
Sarsaparills.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-24
sIrs o. eoopi seAolaa.

Tramps were never so numerous in Cali
fornia as now.
The latest Maxim gun fires three pound
shots at the rate of sixty to the minute.
A jubilee statue of the queen, to be erected
in Bristol, weighs four tons 1t is by Mr..
Boehm-
Ihe attest arrangement in Paris for a
wedding at home is floral umbrella, under
which the happy pair stand.
Four figs taken from a tree in Cherokee.
Cal, weighed one pound seven ounces, one
OF them weighing eight ounces
According TO The Critic, riding by moon
light atop OF herdic is the hot weather di-
version most in favor with Washington
swelldom.
Ihe coins struck at the Berlin mint during
the reign OF the late Emperor Frederick are
already scarce and at a big premium
A Cincinnati druggist has killed a patient
by making mistake in putting up a pre-
scription, the first mistake in eight years
and in $500 prescriptions.
The National Telephone company, of Scot
land, has several submarine cables of seven,
eight and nine miles in length which give
perfect satisfaction.
The prize Of 10000 francs offered by the
city of Paris for the best musical compost
tion was kept back for the reason that none
of the compositions was considered worthy
of it.
Chattanooga, Tenn, is prospecting quietly
for oil and natural gas, and il either is dis
covered hugs herself in the conviction of
becoming new and greater Pittsburg.
bale of Eyvnt;on cotto, ws;oh;no ESQ
pounds and one Of East INDIAN ,rowtb yrs;s,h
ing +09 pounds have attracted attention at
the doorway of the New York Cotton Ex-
change.
A BRIGADE was Divided into two b.++o,,or.
for a sham fgb. q. Aldarshot Jrs. hafors
operations we're IN heoin !, w.s d;s,ora,aJ
that one of the battal;ons had baan snnnI;ed
with hal, ammun;t;on instead ~ hIonL
prov,a.np pI - -.
casting the largest mining nn,nn in tSa ,sorld "a
for the Calumet and Hacis Of Mich;r,, A
single section ~ n has h1.sr cor,rIa.ad .,,.
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mine will be dome soonar thar uas o1nac,aI
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The bad luck OF the English navy never
stops The Benbow. the most powerful ship
yet built, has Just been commissioned. The
coal bunkers were closed during thunder
storm to prevent the ignition OF any foul gas.
After it was over two stokers went to the