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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-06-12

Emperor, and her sister, age 13. as his first
concubine. The wedding came of in March, and
il cost S100G0,0O0, aud it is now said that the
Emperor is not at all satisfied with his wife.
He is raising considerable trouble with the old
Empress Dowager, and these love quarres
promise TO involve the whole Chinese Empire.
II is not known just how many ladies there are
in the Chinese royal harem. The law gives
the Emperor seven legal coucubInes. aud
great number Of illegal ones Every third year
there is a review at the Palace of the daughters
Of all the noble Manchu officers from II years
Of age. The Emperor looks over tho lot and
picks out such he wants, aud sends the rest
back home He kcc - them in the Palace until
they are - years old. when, IL they have not
borne him any children, they may be dis.
charged. These Palaces Of the Emperor of
China are never seen by foreigners, aud they
are esteemed holy by the Chinese The extent
OF them may be understood when il Is known
that it takes 1900 eunuchs 10 guard them, and
even the preachers and priests who hold rcligi-
Gus exercises in them must be cnnuchs.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-06-12

on business irrespective of their husbands. The
girls squat cross legged on tho floor with their
goods about them. smoking cigars rs big around
as the thumb at the joint. They arc travelling
statesmen, and they are smarter than the YAM
kee who peddlcd out wooden nutmegs. In
Siam the women do great deal of business.
They sell in the markets, and they 60 about
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-06-12

Women are bought and sold all over China,
and girl babies are a drug IN the market. A
good looking woman - years old will bring
ali the way from 80 upward, and IL il the Gus
tom in many parts OF the country for brides 10
be sold to their husbands. ! beard woman
making a great fuss ia one Of the Chinese
courts because some mandarin had bought her
daughter of her for $50. and then had skipped
of % FOrnosa with the girl without paying
the contract price. Women are sold in Siam,
and IL Is not uncommon for father TO sell his
daughter as a slave This sale Of women goes
on 20 a certain extent IN COrca, aud in Japan
girls are frequently hired out aud sold. IL is
no disgrace for a woman 20 be thus hired, and
after her term OF service Il over she moves in
good society. ! do not think that tho japanese
are any less immoral than American women,
aud though they do things which would ostra-
else an American girl, custom makes them not
ashamed Of IT, aud they make, / ann told, ex-
celleBt wives.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-06-12

re- Pimpes blackhcads, chapped and oily skin "a %
En- prevented by CUffcUHA sOAP "Bu
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-06-12
Save Gardens. Homes, Ire

Mention The Nation nal TFipunA
, 1890-02-04

The cows Of the Alps are generally
very large and fine, Of a dark mouse
color, growing white at the muzzle,
writes a correspondent of The Chicago
journal. Each one has a name and a
bell around her neck, and as the herd
er must be with them all day, they
are so accustomed to being with ha-
man kind that they really seem to
have human intelligence. Several
mornings when staying in the homes
of the m~ountaineers l have got up at
daybreak to see them milk and care
for their herds, and as / saw how gen
thy they handled them, and the trust
full way the COWS would lay their heady
against the keepers, as if trying in
their dumb way TO express their affeo
ton, it added to my regard for the
sturdy fellows, who looked as if they
might be as rough as bears.
One COW, who leads the herd, has q
much larger bell than the others, and
as she starts off the rest follow along
the narrow path up the mountain side,
the different bells tinkling like chimes
in the early morning air and forming
a very romantic pastoral scene.
, 1890-02-04

The question having been raised in
1851, the Duke of Wellington asked
Lord Stanhope, then war minister, as
TO when the English army first wore
red, he was told that the custom dated
from the time of Charles IL The duke
thought it was earlier, and Lord Ma
caulay said that he was right, and that
the Commonwealth army wore red.
This was, however, not exactly the
case, and the statement was wrong in
more than n respect Maj. Hon.
Harold Dillon, in an article in Col
burns United Service Magazine, shows
when this color was first adopted.
As early as the campaign in Spain
in 1867 in support of Peter the Cruel,
and also in the following reign Of
Richard II, the English soldier APP
pears to have been in white with a red
cross of ST. George on his breast and
back. AT Agincourt, in 1415, the Eng
lish archers are mentioned as mostly
wearing no armor and some only
doublets, and with their hose loose,
evidently to give them greater free
dom of action. Caps Of boiled leather
and wicker work crossed with bands
of iron constituted their best head
pieces. 1t was only after a long cam
paign, or series OF campaigns, that the
ordinary soldier could provide him
self with portions of defensive armor.
During the Wars Of the Roses the
badges Of the respective leaders would
be the chief distinctions in the ar
mics, all speaking one tongue and be-
ing Of m race. However, in 1461
there is evidence of red being adopted,
for a small number Of men at least,
when a contingent for the army Of the
king maker, the Earl of Warwick,
was SEN from Rye dressed in red
coats. In 1470, a detachment of hf-
teen men sent from Canterbury for the
Calais garrison, and others for Lon
don were supplied with red ''jakettis"
of cloth at three shillings a yard, hay
ing on them roses of white karsey"
as badges. Henry VII, in 1885, insti-
tuted the Yeomen of the Guard as a
kind of body guard, and they may be
taken as the nucleus of the present
standing army Of England. They con-
sisted Of picked men, and were armed
one-half with bows, the other half
with hand guns. Their dress, as it
still continues, was red. - Once a
Week.
, 1890-02-04

Few things are more important in a
home than is conversation, yet there
are fewer things to which less deliber-
ate thought is given. We take great
pains to have our houses well furnish
ed. We select u carpets and our pic
lures with the utmost care. We send
u children TO school that they may
become intelligent. We strive to bring
into our homes the best conditions of
happiness. But how often is the spsech
of our household left unframed and
undisciplInedi The good we might
do in u homes with our tongues, if
we would use them to tho limits Of
their capacity of cheer and helpful
ness, it is SIMPLY impossible to state.
Why should so much power for bless
ing be wasted7 Especially why should
we even pervert the gift and use OF our
tongues TO do evil, to give pain, to
scatter seeds of bitterness2 1t is a sad
thing when a child is born dumb, but
it were better to be born dumb and
never have the gift of speech than,
having the gift, to employ it in speak
ing only sharp, unloving or angry
words.-New York Press.
, 1890-02-04
lOO TIDE.

The tide came up as the sun went down.
And the river was fun to It's very brtm,
And a little boat crept up to the town
On the muddy wave, in the morning dim
But that little boat with Its reed like oar
Brought news to the town that made It weep,
And the people were never so gay as before
And they never slept so sound a sleep
News OF q wreck that the boatman had seen,
on in the bay, In a fierce, wild gale;
Common enough, such things, ! ween,
Yet the women cIIsd and the men were pale.
Strange that n little boat could bring
Tfdings to plunge a town in tears;
Strange how often some small thing
May shatter and SILVER the hope OF years
Oh, none but the angel with silver wings,
That broods DER the river and guards the
town,
Heeds half Of the woe each evening brings
As the tide comes up and the sun goes down
Arthur W. II. Eaton
, 1890-02-04

For SALE-Old papers. LEADER Office
, 1890-02-04

Latest Styles ia sffT hats,
neckaUear and Gents fur
HiShtngs.
RACKET STORE.
, 1890-02-04

courtesy of Hyo. Archives & His+ori =
, 1890-02-04

Document in poor Photographic condition..
, 1890-02-04

1t is dangerous to make a confession
unless one really means it, and we
may add that it is sometimes danger,
Gus to take a confession as honestly
meant.
A husband and wife, between whom
a little unpleasant passage had &C.
CURED, had made the matter up, and
the wife said, as if to clear her con.
science:
"Oh, well, l suppose l have my
faults"
Yes, my dear, said the husband.
"What2'
II simply said yes"
THAT / have my faultsl" exclaimed
the wife, Indignantly. What are
they, l should like to knowH"
well, to begin With
mo. l don't want to hear
Youths COMPANION.
, 1890-02-04

7 le largest stock OF fine brandies. old
whiskies. choice hqueurs and superfne
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
, 1890-02-04

Job Printing neatly executed at the
Leader Job Printing Rooms.
, 1890-02-04

Prof. E Clarke, the world famous taxi
dermist and %furrier, has Just received the
last of the electrical machinery for the
mounting Of animals, birds etc which
will give him results never before attained
in taxidermy. All persons having ami
mails, animal heads or birds to mount
send them OF call and see it go through
the machine. Office and laboratory SIT
West Sixteenth street and don't you for
get the electrical process.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-12-04
From a Democratic View

Democratic Congressman elect Bush
nell has been doing some letter writing
and like all men whose heads are turned
by Office is very completely putting his
foot in it. As rule dem ocratic lead
ers have been too anxious to declare the
war over, and good fellowship reigning
supreme. yet Mr.. Bushnell say in
speaking of the republican position on
the election They cannot understand
the real fight was the same as the great
rebellion, with their party on the wrong
side" This will be surprise, to most
people. but there need be no alarm
as he says the battle is one of ballots.
But Mr.. Bushnell is true democrat
in not being consistent. After imper-
tinently quoting Abraham Lincoln to
sustain his position he. with unblushing
effrontry implies for his party the hon.
or of suppressing the rebellion in these
words: Eternal Vigilence, ETERNAL
VIOLENCE. ETERNAL VIOLENCE is
the price Of liberty. 1t took four years
of the woes of war to purify our nation
al atmosphere of the taints of black
slavery. The victory of the war is not
won to transfer the yoke. in whole
or in part, to white necks. The battle
against such permanent transfer is now
on 1t will be an unfortunate day for
the American people when they give
their allegiance to the democratic par.
ty for political or any other kind of lib.
erty. The history being made by that
party every day in their treatment Of
the southern negroes makes such state
ments worse than rubbish except the
eternal vigilence part" for the south,
ern committees certainly never allow s
word of that to escape.
Mr.. Bushnell's letter was nearly {
column in length and was sent to 10,
LITIGATION meeting at Mineral Point t
| explain his absence, and was Published
in the Democrat. The remainder o
the letter was taken up with the unusa
TRADE on the tariff, only more so. HI
complains of the reduction on suga
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-12-04

apology. As it comes into use COM
merce will adjust itself to it. and by the
time business feels its legitimate infu-
ence, the universal verdict will be COM
mandatory. The republican party has
faith in the Mckinley bill and knows 1t
will work ont their justification.
Then again the republican party does
not scare. II has been too long before
the people as a champion OF right; Its
policy has been again and again sus-
tanned by the masses, and it knows that
whatever reflections may be caused by
external influences will right themselves
upon calm consideration. Experience
has proven The party sound in pnnci-
pie. American in all things and emf
nentlY just. No legislation is allowed to
remain imperfect when practical appli-
cation shows its defects. When right it
''hewes to the line, let the chips fall
where they may
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-12-04
Uncandid Free Traders

Opposition to the new tariff bill by no
means ceased when that measure be-
came the law of the land. Although a
vastly greater reduction of revenue is
insured than was provided for in the
much Wanted Mills bill, the demands of
free-trade attorneys are still unsatished.
Orators and editors purposely misrepre-
scented the terms of the law in their at
tempt to create prejudice among voters
for effect of the approaching election.
The hoodoo of high prices is invoked to
brighten voters into electing Con-
gress that will, so far as possible,
minimize the beneticient effects Of the
measure BY holding over all protected
industries the threat of repeal.
Affecting to believe, what every in
telligent voter knows to be false, that
the amount of duty is added to the
price of all competing articles, these
leaders in the conspiracy to open Amer
lean markets to I 1restrained European
competition. not only predicted that
proposed changes in the tariff would
enhance prices, but most of them are
now insisting that the threatened adj
vance has actually been made. 1t is,
however, most significant fact that
while finding time and space for such
allegations. they have invariably omitted
to give facts by way Of substantiating
them, and have quite as uniformly
avoided printing former and existing
schedules of duties by way of compar
ison. Had this been done, it would
have shown that reductions largely
overbalance the increase of duties in
the majority of schedules. the most
notable exception being that for the
protection of agricultural products, in
which increase was accorded in re-
Spouse u quite general demand from
the National Grange and other orga-
nizations of farmers and livestock
raisers. The necessity for a readjust-
ment of duties on farm products be-
came apparent TO every patriotic OBJ
server when it was seen that of the last
fiscal years importations 1921. 947, 351
(nearly one-third of the entire amount)
consisted of articles of food and live
animals" Assuredly the farmers of
the United States should have the first
opportunity. as they had the best right.
to supply their neighbors with these
products of agriculture. This the new
tariff law will permit them to do with
out forcing their labor to level with
the low standard of other countries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-12-04
Catarrh Can't be Cured.

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is blood or constitutional dis
ease. and in order to cure it you have
to take internal remedies. Halls Ca
tarrh cure is taken internally, and acts
directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces. Halls Catarrh Cure is no quack
medicine. 1t was prescribed by one of
the best physicians in this country for
years. and is regular prescription. 1t
is composed of the best tonics known,
combined with the best blood purifiers,
acting directly on the mucous surfaces.
The perfect combination of the two IT,
gradients is what produces such won-
derful results in curing catarrh. Send
for testimonials free
FL. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo
10. Sold by druggists, price 75c. 40-4;
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-12-04
No Repeal Necessary.

Some half hearted republican papers
are trying to raise the question whether
the party ought not to repeal the Nc
Kinley bill since the democratic victory.
BY no means. 1t is not the policy of
the grand old party to frame measure
and then kick II to pieces, without q
thorough test simply because some
people use it. The party would
not be wo. Y of its name were it to fly
around wi. the wind and try to fit
itself 70 eve )carping criticism. The
Mckinley bin US not the outcome of a
momentary il Tatiou; its provisions
had been care, " studied, outlined,
analyzed, reconl Ncted and fitted to
meet the most net 1 requirements that
experience and al Vy could suggest.
To kill it in its infancy would be to ac-
knowledge the party did not know what
IL was about, and was unworthy of con-
fidence. Like an individual Eighty
purposelesspess would show inesponsi-
bility.
The Mckinley bill dees no; need an
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-12-04

and says: Under the false pretence of
giving us free sugar, they take from the
treasury many millions annually. and
give them to the sugar trust, which has
been paying 40 and so per cent. divi-
dends yearly, to its many times million
aire members" This is certainly
strange arguments for a free trader.
If the tariff is a tax and it imposition a
burden to the people they ought to re-
joice over its being partly removed
But this does not seem to be what is the
matter with the democrats, and it is
doubtful if they know themselves. They
rail at protective tariff as tax, and
then complain if it is removed; they say
one benefits the mOnOpolists and that
the other he.ps them still more. Both
cannot be right, and the most conserv-
alive will have to admit that buncome
is being used to mislead, and used very
lavishly too.
After the price of sugar drops from 2
to q cents per pound under the iDflu-
ence of the new law ii will not take the
people long to decide between a party
of action and party of words.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-12-04
A Few Figures.
From Mineral Point Tribune.

lie (BushnelD says, "High protective
tariffs last year cost the five counties of
this district nearly two and a quarter
millions of dollars" If this be true.
then there was consumed by the 165, 900
people of this district last year eleUen
million, eight hundred and ttCelUe h0uS-
and and fire hundred ($l1, 812, 500) dol
lars north Of imported goods-over sew
enty-two dollars worth for every man.
woman and child, or more than three
hundred and sixty dollars worth to each
wage Garner. estimating one wage
Garner to five of population. Business
men agree that fifty per cent. for profit,
transportation and other expenses be-
tween importer, jobber and Wisconsin
retailer of imported goods, may be fair
ly estimated. Starting with that basis
a mathematical calculation to arrive at
the final cost of imported goods to Wis
consin consumers, paying tariff of
%. $50, O00( assuming the average rate to
be forty per cent? results as follows:
Cost at sea BOARD in Europe. 5,625, 600
Add duty Of forty per cent. 2,250,0OO
Cost tariff paid. ...................s 100000
Ad fifty per cent for profit and trauspor-
tatIon.. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ....S 393StO
Cost to consumer in Wisconsin. sl1,Sl2,500
These figures uncontestibly Prove that
the tariff could not have cost the people
of this district two and a quarter mil
lions last year, except they consumed
S11,812,5 800 worth of dutiable goods,
which is beyond belief by any one not
crazed on the subject of the tariff.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-12-04

will pass the appropriation ibills. the
apportlonment bill, the circuit court
bill. which relieves the Supreme court,
and which has come back TO the House
where it originated after being amended
by the Senate, and a shipping bill.
have no information as to what the
Senate will do with the election bill, but
| assume 1t viii pass it. / do not be-
lieve any general pension bills will be
passed, but the Union prisoners of war
bill, which is meritorious, and one or
two other measures for the benefits of
deserving classes of pensioners may be-
come laws"
Senator Edmunds. who never speaks
lightly on any subject, says the Senate
will pass the Federal Election bill.
The political sensation of the week is
the open Senatorial revolt against MIR.
Cleveland as the fore-ordained nominee
Of the democratic party in 1892. 1t is
headed by Senators German of Mary
land, and Daniels and Barbour, of Vir-
ginia. 1t is the sll-absorbing topic of
conversation among democrats. and it
has caused a goodly number of them to
straddle.the fence, so far as the Presl-
Dental nomination is concerned The
Hill democrats are fairly shouting with
glee, but they had better curb their en-
thusiasm. Senator German himself
has aspirations, and Mr. Barbour is be-
lieved to favor a western candidate, so
that even if Cleveland is knocked out it
by no means follows that Hill can get
the nomination.
1t is hardly probable that any silver
legislation can be secured this winter,
Notwithstanding the large number of
Influential republicans that stand ready
to support free coinage bill if the OPP
portunity should present itself. The
majority of the party leaders are of the
opinion that the silver law enacted at
the last session has not been sufficiently
tried to enable even those opposed to it
to say that it mas not, or will not &C
conplish its purpose. The silver men
have not, however, given up hopes of
securing free coinage.
Mr.. Harrison yesterday enjoyed
quiet Thanksgiving dinner at the White
House, and tonight for the first time
the newly decorated Blue Room is to
be thrown open and reception, which
will inaugurate the official social season.
given to the Brazilian Naval officers
who have come to present this Govern
ment with magnificent gold medal for
It's early action in recognizing the Bra
lillian republic.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-12-04
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. ID. c.. Nov. %. 1890.

(From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. ID. c.. Nov %. $780,
The President having finished his
annual message to Congress is now de-
voting the greater part Of his time to
comforting with prominent republicans
on the legislation of the session OF Con-
gress that will open next Monday
Speaker Read. Representatives McKin-
ley and Cannon, the republican MEM
bers of the House committee on rules,
which has direct charge of the business
to come before the House, are oil here,
and have taken conspicuous parts in
these conferences. They think with the
President that every republican Repre-
sentative should be in his seat next
Monday, and should remain here until
tie end of the session in order that the
large amount of business mapped out
to be transacted shall not be DISTRACTED
by the democrats through lack of a
quorum OF republicans. So plain is this
duty that no special methods have been
thought necessary by the party leaders
to impress it upon the minds of the
individual republican Representatives.
But so slow are the arrivals of re-
publican representatives that to-day
some uneasiness is being felt in regard
to there being a quorum of republicans
present when the House is called to
order at noon next Monday. and the
democrats are already gloating over
even the prospective lack of repub-
lican quorum, and are openly prophecy
ing that they will be able to block all
legislation that does not meet with their
approval.
The republicans already here are
loath to believe that any member of the
party can so far forget his duty both to
his party and his constituents as to re-
main away except in case of absolute
necessity during any part of what is to
] ShOII
sessions of Congress ever held, and il
any one of them should prove derelict
they will never be forgiven for if, and
they shouldn't be either.
1t must be set down as positive fact
on the authority of Speaker Reed, Rep
resentative Mckinley, and dozen other
big republicans in the House. that not
an ~ will be dotted or 81 crossed
in the body of the Mckinley tariff law
during this session of Congress. Thi:
is authoritive. The only legislation
effecting the law in the remotest manner
viii be the enactment of an amendment
to the internal revenue section t.
remedy the error which effects the re-
bate on tobacco.
If MIR. Mckinley is a Trustworthy
prophet, and am inclined to think h,
is, the following, in his own words
. covers the republican programme: "W,