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sARALYzsp INDUSTRIES.
The Terrible Effects Of the Mills n II ON
American Business Interests.

The Terrible Effects 81 the Mills ~ II ON
American Business Interests.
We hear on good authority, that
Signor and Signora Tomatocanno, the
well-known garbage inspectors OF
Newark, N. j., have signiiied their In
tention of giving up business. in con-
sequence Of the prevailing uncertainty
concerning the tariff. Any reduction
OF the duty on foreign rags, the Signor
says. will "hurta very mucha" that
particular branch of American industry
to which the Signora and himself have
so assiduously devoted their time and
their talents. Sgr. Tomatocanro's bag
and poker will be idle; but IL is useless
10 hope that even this will have any
effect on the free-trade politicians, who
seem bent at all hazards on destroying
our industry, for the sole benefit Of
European capitalists.
The American Doll-Stay-and- Boot
Lace Mandatory, which for two years
has carried on business in back room
on the seventh floor Of the McRookery
fiat, shut down yesterday, owing to the
agitation OF the Mills bill, and the dis
turbing OF such measure on the COM
MERGE OF the country. The wages paid
in Europe are very much lower than
those paid by the American Doll-Stay-
and Boot-Lace Company, so that the
latter feel no encouragement to go on
with the business, and consequently
their staff of employees, consisting OF
two old women and boy, will be
thrown out OF employment So much
indignation has been aroused in the
neighborhood over tho causes which
have led TO the abandonment of this
important industry, that the residents
of the McRookery fiat have organized
themselves into a Harrison and Morton
Club They will be heard from in
November.
The United States Wooden Tooth
pick Manufacturing Association at
Mosquitoville, Wayback County, will
close their establishment tomorrow.
The trade has been in depressed con-
dition since the Presidents message.
Mosquitoville Is q village OF twenty
inhabitants, and seven OF these at least
are employed by the United States
Wooden Toothpick Association. It
will not surprise any one TO learn that
there Is very strong protectionist
feeling among the people OF this inn
portant community, which viii add
tremendously TO the wave Of popular
indignation when 1t sweeps the country
next November.
The rat-catching industry OF Catnip
Creek Valley, which was carried on by
old Mike Sloan and his two dogs. has
been abandoned in consequence Of i'm
pending changes in the tariff. 1t will
be evident that no self-respec,iag
American rat-catcher will consent To
put his labor in competition with the
pauper labor OF Europe, and this
would certainly be the case II foreign
rat-skins were admitted duty free. Mr..
Sloan has therefore retired from the
profession in disgust The rat-catch-
ing industry of Catnip Creek Valley Is
therefore paralyzed- rat-catcher
himself, very often-a most deplorable
state OF things, and the natural result
of the disastrous policy pursued by
the present Free-Trade Administration
Puck
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A LOOK BACKWARD.
The Close Intimacy Between High Take
and Hard Times.

The Close Intimacy Between High Taxes
and Hard Times.
Let us turn over few pages In this
book and see. In 1908 tariff duties
were made prohibitory and commerce
with the world was shut off, just as
the Chicago platform contemplates.
There was financial and commercial
collapse; there were ruin and disaster
everywhere. In 1909 the prohibitory
tariff was repealed, and tariff about
one-fifth as high as we have at present
was enacted. What followed
You may tell mo.
The Nation again moved of on n
career of prosperity. In 1912 the tariff
OF 1909 was doubled and the war cut
of importations and expectations; we
had "a home market" as in lS0S.
What was the RESULT
! never read that part of history
Hard times prevailed. banks sus-
pended and there was distress every
where. In 1916 the protection doctors
took hand and undertook to cure the
patient by framing the first protect
i've tariff" raising the taxes some
what higher than in 1872. What do
you suppose followeda
Better times.
They grew worse: there was still
greater depression OF trade. In 1912
the doctors gave the patient another
dose Of protection" increased the
tariff tax all around. and what then?
am sure do not know.
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The FARMER's TRIBUTE.
How the Agricultural Glass Is Robbed by
the Existing Tariff.

INC EAnunk Ahriu'
Some time ago Senator James X.
Jones asked Hon. G. X. Breckenridge,
of the House Ways and Means Conn
mittee, to prepare for Hon. w. L.
Terry, OF Little Rock. statement OF
the amount OF tariff on bill of goods
bought by a representative farmer. In
reply, Mr.. Breckenridge furnished an
exhibit based on actual transactions
between Mr.. II. NJ. Knox, merchant OF
Pine Bluff, Ark, and Mr.. DIV. Branch.
farmer, who bought the goods Mr..
Breckenridge explains that "this Is
calculated upon the basis Of copy from
the books OF Mr. Knox. and upon tho
rate OF taxes actually paid upon COM
peting articles az, the ports as
provided by law" We subjoin the
bill rs appearing on Mr.. Knox's
books;
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CoLoRs FOR AUTUMN.
New Shades OF Green, Red and Gray Most
Favored by Fashion.

NoW Snaues OF Oreen, Red and Gray Most
Favored by Fashion.
Green. red and gray are the trio OF
absolute colors most favored by fashion
for autumn, but it is not so easy to
state which shade or even which of the
combinations will achieve most popu-
larity. Every shade OF green fiourishes,
from the vivid, rich smeraude-a deem
emerald green-to MI. or Nile green,
a light water-color. Scarabee is o
dark yellowish green. and couroucou
and peupiier are lighter shades of the
same color.
The brighter reds are coqEeiicot, or
poppy-red, cardinal and Boulanger, a
bright, vivid blood-red; and the eve
has become so accustomed to these
glowing colors in the stylish costumes
worn at the seaside and other summer
resorts, that the combination must be
startling, indeed, that will dazzle.
BoutOa dor, or buttercup yellow, OF
the beautiful golden tint of those we'll.
known field-fiowers, and maize color
are exquisite in soft silken fabrics, and
will very likely be combined with
white, black. or deep browns for rich
evening toilets In silk materials.
The new shades of brown are alezan
dark reddish brown. and paetole, a
light, golden brown; and between these
Is symphony of shades In every con-
ceivable tint that could by any stretch
OF imagination be called brown.
In blues, ocean-blue and luctole. IN,
latter a shade between gendarn,e anf
ocean. are the favorites. -DemOresc
M0Hthlg.s
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In this industry:

The figures presented, and they are
authentic, prove that during the ten
years between 1870 and 1880 nine hun
dred of the former factory owners
have been crowded out of the ranks of
the self-employed into the ranks of
wage-workers, or hirelings, and the
employed capital has decreased by
two and three-quarter millions OF dol
lars. During this same period the
population of the country increased %
per cent, while the number of hands
employed only increased per cent
The number OF spindles have decreased
by more than one million and the
wages have decreased $38 per year
per person employed.
In 1870 $26, S77, 675 were paid in wages
to SOC operatives; but in 1880, Just
ten years later. Sc. 504 operatives were
obliged TO be content with but $25, $780,
1872 In wages-more than one million
dollars less, while the number OF ,oper-
atives had been increased by more
than 6,000--and at the same time the
value OF this product had increased
one million dollars. That Is to say,
while the manufacturers received as a
result Of the tariff one million dollars
more tor the product of their mills,
the operatives OF the looms and spind-
lers have had their wages reduced
more than million dollars in the ag-
gregate, or about &SS per head. Who
in this case is protected by the tariff
--Milscdukec Labor ReUieW
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WHO IS PRoIEcTEp2


Figures showing That Protection Does
Not PrOteet Labor.
Charles Newburgh, whose address
Is 81 Defrres street, Washington, ID.
G.. and who is evidently interested in
the tariff question, in letter in which
he comments on the arguments adj
vanced by Messrs. Z. P. Allis and
John Jarrett in support of high tariff,
asks: Twill those gentlemen not
merely assert but prove TO us that a
protective tariff protects the working
men?" He holds that protection does
not protect labor and he draws his
conclusions In this matter from facts
and figures presented by the census re-
ports compiled carefully by the Gov
ernment-
He presents the following table
which shows that Notwithstanding the
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fact that the laboring men and women
employed in the manufacture of wooden
clothes are protected (O by an aver
age tariff Of 66 per cent. there has been
a constant falling off in the number of
wooden mills and the amount of capt.
tai invested in this Industry:
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With an unalterahle hatred Of
all such schemes (trusts) we count tho
checking OF their baleful operations
among the good results promised ~
pavanaa rAfar<. -. s.-as,ss fv.,s.slsssl.s
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-06-20

NoTEExibftors blooded horses viii be reu.tfFe "a,
the secretary an autheptie Pedigee OF
VIII pc Teqnird by the Board OF Directors
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-I--
Best sucking colt get Black jim rs prein Ss NJ
second premium. ..-........... %
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pEPARTMENT d.

Nv. wINDos. sgrlra1s.rr.p,s..t.
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KuLrs.
fen eF entrance fee viii be charged on gross amount
OF premiums contended for.
Three 90 enter two 10 CO.
horse dIstancing receive st money onlr
Entries will close trong pacing ygednesday
sePtenttSet 9Th. at II p. NJ.
Running NJ, the day before the
race
Premiums win be payable h1ur closing
the race, provided there objection
Stalls and straw free in speed ring.
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hRIcEs oE AnMlsslon.

For single tickets, admitting one person 25
For children under u years OF age 10
For horse aud rider 80
For single horse vehicle, with driver so
For txo-horse vehicle. with driver 75
For three or fonr-hCrse vehicle, with driver / 90
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All entries this Department must be made WITH S4s
SMITH, Treasurer
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DEPARTMENT c.
G. S. EASTMAN, sunERrsfEsDEsr.

entries this department must be made with w,t.
SMITH, Treasurer.
CLASS I=Short Horn Cattle.
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STATEMENT OF

Receipts ana Expenditures OF the Mason County Arric
tural and Mechanical Association for the year ls7
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FOR THE GET9oF HIGHLAND cITIEF.
2 Best colt under one year roId...... 601
second premium. =. observation-disclosures. 4al
3 Best one two year old ..-.... ....-. s0l
second premium -. ..s..s..... SO
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GLASS xv-sfiscellaneons.

lss Rest and eatest case variety aTticles.-... Dip
81 neatest ease jeNelry Dip
20 neatest case perfnmeries Dip
23s neatest relics Dip
~ display OF dry goods. Dip
IS display Dip
display of Dip
20 display OF books and stationery Dip
~ piano forie.l 10 90
10 reed organ. 2oo
2fs pipe organ. 200
~ fieiodeon. %
rs display stoves md tiiVares 90
246 display of woodenwaTe Dip
~ pound tobacco
liS half dozen corn brooms 50
l49 half split brdolns 50
80 display furiii itlfre 90
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-07-25
The National League.

The following games in the National League
were played yesterday:
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THE TREASURE HUNT.
An Attempt to Find 81 900, 900 in
Coin at the Bottom of the ocean.

WILMINGTON, Del, July 22.-Interest in
the story of the wreck of the English priya-
teer, DE Braack, off Lewes, at the mouth of
Delaware Bay, ON June 10, 1898, has been re-
yived by the fitting out of another expedition
to search for the wreck and the millions of
treasure supposed to have gone down with
her. In 1856 DR.. Seth Pancoast Of Philadel-
phia, who has become interested in the story
started out to locate the wreck, with the
idea OF bringing the sunken treasure to the
surface. He succeeded in finding on the bot
tom OF the ocean, in sixty feet of water, a
mound obout 120 feet long by 50 feet wide.
The mound was of sand, while the natural
bottom of the sea is of blue clay. Pancoast
secured the schooner Orr and the tug Startle.
and on July1, 1881, anchored over the mound.
The two divers were employed and five en-
gines were engaged to furnish air
for the divers ard topump up
brought to the surface. The divers failed to
discover anything of value although pieces
of decayed wood were found in the sand.
The work was continued for about two
months, when the weather became too rough
to continue operation. Pancoast was under
isfed with the divers, believing that they
were not doing honest work. They received
S. a day for every day they worked. and
two trips a day to the bottom. Pancoast.
who expected to spend $4,000 in the search
had some dispute with the divers about
wages after the work stopped and they sued
him.
The expedition, which has lust left for
Lewes to resume Pancost's work has the
steamer City of Long Branch, which is in
command of Capt Chas. A. Adams of the
United States navy and Lieut.. George p
Blow The money is furnished bv a syndi-
cate, who bought shares in the enterprise for
$500 each. They will begin the work at once
and expect to do enough to ploye without
question whether the treasure can be reach
ed.
The people of Lewes have little faith in the
success Of the search, although they do not
believe that the vessel and its treasure has
ever been removed from its resting place he.
meath the water The fact of the wreck il
not disputed, and in the Episcopal bnryinS
ground at Lewes is monument with this
inscription:
Here rest the remains OF Capt. James Draw
who commanded his Britanic Maiesty's slooncf
war De Braak, in which he lost his life when she
foundered at the Capes of Delaware the 10Th ~
June 1898 He was beloved for his virtues and
admired for his bravery. His affectionate Teiict
has erected this monument TO perpetuate his mem
CRY.
Drew was just about entering boat To he
rowed ashore when heavy gust Of wind
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GENERAL NEWS.

The American ship Henry b. HYDE. which
arrived in New York from San francisco
yesterday. made the trip in SS days. This is
IH SIle second pest eastward passage from the
Golden Gate on record.
An intimate friend says Jay Gould is slow
y, dying from a complication of diseases.
Ihe probability is that he won't live three
months. His affairs are being straightened
out preparatory to making his final will.
Owen 0'Brien of Dover, N. H., hop beer
maker, while crazed by drink last night, fired
at several persons with revolver. Woundinc
his nephew in the leg. He was finally ar.
rested.
The entire business portion of Rosslvn.
Washington Territory, was burned Sunday
!; 4 ne tOtal loss reached about S400,000 with
Ignt insurance. Over 150 families are left
without homes, food or clothing.
Capt. Lew M. Clark, of the excursion
steamer Mayfiower, of Pittsburg, and a well
known steamboat man, was convicted of
selling liquor on his boat without a license.
ana sentenced to pay fine of 500 and un-
dergo five months imprisonment in jail.
AT meeting of the Republican State Gen.
@ tral Committee yesterday in Boston, it was
Temple, Sept. 18th. Hon. John ID. Long of
bingham will preside. Hon. Charles III. AL
len of Lowell was chosen chairman Of the
committee on resolutions.
A strange disease, resembling diphther ia.
10 epiuemlc among the negroes in Crittenden
county, Ark. The victims throat swells
and contracts the air passages until death
ensues from strangulatfon. So far none of
those attacked have recovered. The disease
is confined to the negroes.
The Joint meeting of engineers, fremen
and switchmen to consider the Burlington
strike, began in st. Joseph, Mo-, Yesterday.
a stenographer, supposed to have been hired
by the Plnkertons, was found secreted in the
attic OF the hall, and taken to the police sta
tion. 80
A sensation has been created in San Fran
cisco Dy the final report of a grand Jury. The
jury, was composed of 10 representative men
Oh the city, and had been in session nearly
seven weeks. Most of the departments Of
the city government the jury criticizes Sc
verely, and says that the municipal elections
are largely controlled by the criminal classes.
About week ago. man named Lund, his
orotner and four others left San Pedro, Cali
Iornia, In an open boat for a trip around the
catalina Islands. Monday the boat was
found bottom up on an island. Several fish
ermen who arrived at San Pedro, Sunday,
reported seing a boat, containing five or six
persons, capsized during a gale, but were
unable to rescue the occupants.
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The Youngest Soldier.
[Boston Transcript.


IL was happy thought on the part of
somebody when he conceived the idea Of
tracing out the identity of the youngest sol
dier OF the Rebellion, for, as is well known,
in every other department of biographical
tracing 1t is the Oldest that is sought and
held up to universal admiration. Hence it
is that we hold in the highest esteem the un-
known friend Of humanity who broke the
monotony in this line of industry by substi-
tuting the callow for the tough. But alas!
his good intentions may not fruetify as they
should, and already there are indications
that In process Of time the youngest soldier
OF the Rebellion will be equally prevalent
with his elderly companion-in-arms. For
many years, Johnny Glenn, "the Drummer
Boy of Shiloh, who volunteered at the inn
mature age of nine, has held, unchallenged,
the honor, fame or notoriety of being the
youngest OF the brave, and until few days
ago 1t seemed probable that he would contin-
ne to hold 1t against all eomers forever. But
that's where those who have pinned their
faith on Johnny made their mistake. for
there now comes to the fore another young
est soldier, in the person Of Rev Albert C.
White, pastor of the Universalist church at
AmesDury, Mass, who says that he was not
nine years by month when he volunteered.
and only nine years and twenty-nine days
when he enlisted, his company being ID Of
the Sixty-fourth Ohio, whereas Glen (hither-
TO the y. S. OF the r. was fully nine years old
when he volunteered and twelve when he
enlisted. Mr.. White says that he was sworn
In as being eighteen to conform to the law that
he was enrolled Dec. IA. 1861, and discharged
for disability April 20, 1862, and that ne =
now in his thirty-sixth year, haNlns peIn
born Nov. Is, 1852. Mr.. White was knight
of the drumstick, but he lays no claim 70 oe
ing 'the Indiana boy whom tradition makes
but eight years old when ne was aa uluii,her a
dT1mmer dow" at the age stated by him. Mr..
White IL a candidate for the chaplaincy Of
the National EncamPment of the Grand
Army, and will probably DC heard from from fire.
% on Bring out the youngest soldier,
Everybody, If you have to rob the cradle 10
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Is list, among them hemlock and Pearl. rec

his list, among them hemlock and Pearl, rec
ord 223a.
Mr.. Fowler Of this city expects to send his
Gen. Stark to Lewiston for training in the
course of a week or ten days. Gen. Stark
won the reputation of a srotter at Lewiston
and Fryeburg this season, and he viii be
heard from again this fall, very likely as
winner
There's some sort of telegraphlc COM
munication between a horses mouth and his
drivers hands," said an old horseman the
other day, "and the best place to prove 1t is
in front Of putting locomotive. I've seen a
horse that would prance and rear little
when the engine approached, but quiet down
In very few moments. I've seen that same
horse, with another driver, get perfectly
frantic-scared to death, you might say-and
kick everything into kindling wood. under
exactly similar circumstances. The same
thing has happened too often TO be a mere
coincidence. Why Is 1t that two men Of
equal, or nearly equal, strength have an en-
tirely different effect on horse when hold
ing the lines? There Is certainly something
in the touch Of one man that isn't in the
touch Of the other. Confidence is inspired
in one case, fear in the other. How Is that
feeling put in the horses head unless It Is
teiepranaa.od from the drivers hands S'-New
York World.
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How the Mortgage Was Raised.

bar Harbor Correspondence Of the Boston
Globe.l
Austin Flint Of Boston, who has built
pretty cottage close to the waters edge at
Winter Harbor, related many amusing sto-
ries about the early history Of these shores.
Perhaps II is not generally known that near
ly 100000 acres of land upon Mt Desert
Island and GOuldsbOrO were purchased In
the last century by the Binghams OF Eng
land. AT this period Maine was not state
but part Of the Massachusetts colony.
Singular as ID NAV seem, the last Of this
Bingham purchase was sold BY those heirs
some few years ago 10 two we'll known Bar
Harbor lawyers, and was part Of point Of
land bordering on the bay and main ocean
In the town of G0uldsbor0.
a good story Is also told by Mr.. Flint OF a
native OF the latter named town. who bought
OF those heirs, through their attorney I'M
fhliadelphia, a small farm and house Of
louest dimensions. The place was paid for,
Ohe-thlrd down and the remainder on a mort
gage, Interest to be paid annually.
One year when the collector Of interest
came around he found the farmers wife
rocking the cradle, In which slept her twen-
ty-second child. There was some 5000 mort
gage on the farm at the time, and the col
lector told the woman If she would make nm
tine even two dozen, whenever that might
occur, he would lift the mortgage and Give
them an unincumbered title to the pisce
The next year he was on hand promptIv tc
collect the interest due, when 10 ( In the same
cradle lay fine pair Of twins, which made
up the two dozen; and, Of course. there voas
nothing 10 do but to free the proud parents
from debt. Whether any Of these n cbiI.
dren were ever heard from In the halls ~
congress or as lights In the mercantile world
Mr.. Flint did not enlighten me but il is safe
TO conclude that some Of their number made
at least brave sailors and useful citizens. IN
they possessed half the enterprise Of their
parents.