Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-12-31

who, ~ year, ago were slaves, nov po--
ssss 81, pD,DJo worth OF property.
There Il said Ia be 40 opposition % ths
rstnrn Of Senator Allison in lows, ex-
eept such as /. manufactured by news.
papefs thai are hostile to him. Iudiea
lions all poin, to his re- election by th.
solid support Of the Republican, In the
legislature
Marshall l.. " iider learns from hls
London publishers that the copy Of hi.
book. People I've Smiled With" which
WAS presented to the Prince of wales
wac bound In morocco and had the title
aud presentation engraved Ia silver
The cover tips we're also silver. Mr..
Wilder and she Prince are great friends
Hadji iiiAs.cin khooly Khan, late Per
sian minister to thi. country, returned
Ia Jeh.fan with the Shah. The latter
WAS anxioDs 10 have lIassian return To
Washington. bat the sensitive victim Of
American huHor badly refused to obey
the behest Of the King Of kings. This
, country il now pegging along .ithout
Persian minister.
The Manufacturer. Record, Ia its
annual review ~ the industrial progress
Of the southern STATES, shows that Q, l3j
new manufacturing and mining enter
prisss have been organized Ia 1883, a.
against 3,GIs Ia lsSs, J ljO 10 l-s7 and
1873 Ia 1856 The amount of capita
and capital stock OF thes. new enter
prses was s929 s03, 800 In 1889. AS
against slGS SOl 900 Ia lsss. Yet the
Southern States vote for free trade
How long will they continue TO do so
when their prosperity /. assured by
protection
comparison of the apportiounent OF
ehairmen-hip. In the fiftieth and Fifty
Sr.t Congresses shows the following
state OF thiugs
fifthth tfty-hrst
Congress. Congress.
kastern states,
Middle States 10 IL
Southern States, - Z
Western states, II 81
IN" South il noi nov in the saddle. It
will not dominate legislation Ia this
Congress A Democratic speaker from
the old slave state of kentucky no longer
has II in his power to defeat legislation
b. refusing to recognize members.
Thirty tive ~nuth"rners cannot for one
Congress strife hllls in committee. 1t ia
great change, but even the South will
h- ben. iitfd thereby
Mis- N.,kaser Emuns Ditto. whose
ION liflr Injun BOY" made her Ia
mon-, and whose short stories have
made her wealthy, lives lin charming
b 'u-e at Wellesley, Mass. The house,
which she planned, built aud furnished
herself, i gray~touc cottage, one
ani-a-haf stories high, with gable
roof and a turr.t gallery. Al the
doors are ot hardwood. the rooms are
ventilated by large open flreplaces,
AMI by means OF sliding doors the par
lors, library and dining room
van be thrown into IA great ball One
charm of the pretty home is its
abundance of cushioned seats built in
the corridors. single hooks and window
stills Miss Ditto ia a woman OF unusual
height, we'll proportional, excellent
health and fine hearing Her brown
hair, which is just tiuged with gray, is
worn parted down the middle In the
simple, old fashion and coied in knot
at the neck. She isgracious aud cordial
In her manner, her voice il extremely
pleasant aud she has reached that degree
of success where she can write or dream.
according to the mood in which she il
in.
The Home Market Bulletin of Boston
quotes Michael q. Mulhsll's" Dictionary
VI Statistics" as saving that, With the
working classes in the Inited States the
cost OF food Is one third the value of
labor, whereas. In Great Britain ii Is al
no.t half ON the average also accord
ing to Mulhall) the American artisan
gets d 63 for every OIL that the British
artisan receives, and the power OF
this money to purchase food Is 81
SCENTS greater, In other words. protee-
tion against the competition Of foreign
labor makes the American skilled work
man Ia per cent. better of than his
brother In Great Britain. Commenting
on these figures, the Bulletin says
Until recently clothing has been a
little cheaper abroad than it is here Z
Perhaps II is still, but workiugman
who has lived In both countries SAYS Z
that the difference is not more shan s. $ (
year on all that he buys
Now, what makes the wage Garner
so much better "a here than in Great 1
Britain. Chiefly the tariff Take that (
away aud the goods made at lower labor |
cost abroad would dood our market. I
Our manufacturers could not compete |
with them without reducing wages.
Any workingman who knows this aud /
still allows an Old party tie to lead him
to vote for free trade (or tariff reform,
which comes nom the same shop, must
be very strange man"
MAINE GOSSIP.
Its high time that people we're beginning
to think over those good resolutions.
What difference 10 there between bold,
bal man and 4 flannel ahirf The hiffar |