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PENSION PROSPECTS.

The sudden and unexpected death of Sem
ator Beck, OF Kentucky, has interfered with
prompt action on the Morrill, Service PEN
sion bill 1t will be remembered that the
Senate referred the bill, when it came from
the House. TO its Pension Committee. The
committee meets regularly on Tuesday, and
would have taken up the bill at its meeting
on Tuesday, the 9th inst, but the Senate
adjourned over, out Of respect to the mem
DRY of the Kentucky Senator, and so the
committee did not meet. It's next meeting
occurred last Tuesday, when the bill was
taken up, discussed, and reported back TO
the Senate, with request for Committee
on Conference. This will undoubtedly be
granted and the matter DO brought to a
speedy conclusion.
The Prisoners Of War bill win now have
TO wait till the close of the tariff discussion
before being brought before the House for
consideration and passage. That is, unless
Maj. Morrill, can find some unexpected
opportunity earlier to call it up. He ia
thoroughly in earnest about procuring its
speedy passage, and will allow no chance
for this to pass unimproved
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

THE rapid disappearance of the native
born Englishman from the crews of the
British naval and merchant ships is beginning
to arouse the attention of thinking English
men, as the scarcity of native Americans
from our ships alarms our people. The
reason is the same in both cases. COMPETE
ton with the cheaper laborers of Norway,
Sweden, Spain, Portugal Italy and China
has reduced seafariDg wages much below
those paid on shore Lord Brassey, who has
been studying the matter very closely,
writes in the Nineteenth Century that the
average pay of an able British seaman is
from Go to G3 los. ($l5 to $3.50 month
If dos. month is added TO this for board
and lodging, it makes the average earnings
of the sailor about eco, or $500 year. The
average earnings of English artisans on
shore is ESQ, or $500 year. so that the
mechanic makes about 33 per cent. more,
and has better time, with less danger. In
American shipping the disparity is much
greater, because the wages of American
mechanics are much higher than the English,
while our sailors on the high seas must come
down TO the same wages that Norwegians,
Swedes, Danes, Spanish, Portuguese and
italian sailors can be hired for
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

A MAN who ought 10 be the editor of the
Chicago Netes or some other soldier hating
paper, lives near Lewiston, Me. He had
one son, who was drafted and killed during
the war. The father said recently:
" ] was short-sighted in not paying $500
for asubstitute, for have been forced to hire
men ever since to help carry on the farm,
and ii has cost me thousands above the price
of substitute. Besides, he was master
hand 10 work, and the smallest eater ever
sawD
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

THE american ITaeiite urges the Jews to
turn their attention TO agriculture, and
thus in a few generations restore the race
to its pristine character" There is much in
this. The jews were for centuries q purely
agricultural and pastoral people. Judging
from their history in the Bible, there was
but a small portion of them that followed
any other pursuits Flocks, herds, wool,
wine and cloth constituted their main
wealth. They only lost their agricultural
character and became traders after their
captivities, dispersions and prosecutions de-
priyed them Of country, or secur. home
anywhere
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

BR. PETERS, Of Kansas, gave most sat
islac,ory reiutal Of the latest cry Of the Free
Traders-that American farming machinery
il solo abroad for less than it can be pur-
chased at home. Ir. Peters showed that
only antquated farm machinery was sold
abroad at reduced rates, such as progressive
American farmers would not have. The
latest type Of a sell-bindeT, for instance. was
sold in this country for $50, while older
Style, that our farmers refused, were worked
Of on the Scotch for Sl20.
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

No sort Of savings banks seem to exactly
meet all requirements. Ten years ago Wo All
Wo, prosperous Chinese laundryman in New
York, having q distrust of cashiers, tellers,
presidents, burglar-proof safes, and other ma
ehinery of the savings banks of the metropolis,
invested $3.50 of his savings in that common
ornament Of q irst-class Chinese gentleman, 3
jade bracelet, and then 81 900 more in diamond
bracelets, all of which he put on his left wrist
Ho had them made to 1t very snug, so that
they could not DO removed by robber He
had no occasion to use his money till recently,
when he was in great need of ready cash, but
to his dismay. he found that he had grown so
fat that he could not get his jade bracelet from
his wrist without saving 1.-THE bracelet-in
two, which would destroy its-the bracelets
value. AS the diamond bracelets are above the
jade ho finds his wealth pretty securely locked
up. The only practicable way of getting at it
is BY reducing his style of living until his
diminished size permits the removal of the
bracelets the way they went on.
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

How Germany manages to maintain q
standing army of ass, 900 on total expendi-
ture of $186,O0O,0OO, where our little army
of $4,000 costs about s25,000,00O, is one of
the things that puzzles an American; but a
study of the pay-table will help explain it,
Contrast the following monthly pay-tables
of the German and American armies.
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

ENGLISH syndicates are gobbling up the
sugar plantations in the Hawaiian Islands,
and consolidating them into large holdings.
A general effort seems to be making to re-
duce the people of the whole world to tribu-
taries to English capital.
The National tribune., 1890-05-15
ierman and American armies

The German private soldier has many
stoppages against his pay which the Ameri-
can knows nothing of His rations are also
so scanty that he spends much of his meager
pay for what is considered in this country
necessary food.
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

Hare you asked all your acquaintanees 10
subscribe for THE M TTONAL TRIBUNEP
II not, do so ut once, TO gire the paper more
pOicer IN ehampioninq Tie cause Of The reterans
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

THE Acknowledgement of Michigan has
made a construction of the State bounty
law which will give 500 each to about
1900 veterans who enlisted in Michigan
regiments after Feb 5, 1864
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TRIBUNETS.
THE books SHAKESPEARE found in running
brooks were probably current literature.

PITTsBURa Judge has decided that man
must drink at least six glasses of beer a day
before he can BIO considered incorporate. He
may not be Incorporate on five glasses, but he
is laying the foundations for a good-sized pod
The National tribune., 1890-05-15
"wHosE WIFE SHALL SHE BE IN THE REsUR.
RECTIoN2"


One of the hard problems with which the
Sadducees attempted to wreck Jesus Christ's
theory of n future life was. that of woman
who had had seven husbands-" Therefore in
the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the
sevenp For they all had her" woman in
Lapcer, Mich, has "gone ono better" than the
Sadducee dame, fer she has just married her
eighth husband. Forty-one years ago Miss
Martha Cutler began her yariegated matrimo-
nial career in Derbyshire. England, by giving
her maiden heart and hand to Mr.. Van Bib
Der, whose happiness proved too much for him.
for he died a few weeks later Two years later
she married MIR. Brown, who ill-treated her
so badly that she soon procured divorce from
him, and married Mr.. Lidstone. Apparently
she thought they had better try to change their
luck by emigration, but the vessel on which
they sailed was wrecked, and she was again
widow, her husband being drowned. She thon
married Mr. Carter whom she claims was
Colonel of the 18th Ill. Cav, aud was killed
In battle; but this must be mistake, as no
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

EUcrg man sChO Uore the blue. and erery
friend Of he, should take THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE. II giUes more and GetteY matter
than any other family areekiy paper, and costs
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The National tribune., 1890-05-15

THE purchase of large tracts of land by
syndicates, and especially by foreign syndi-
Gates, should be peremptorily stopt by law.
No permanent danger can come from allow
ing individuals to buy as much land as they
please, because individuals die, and their
estates are divided, so that the land is again
placed in the reach of all. But corporations
rarely die, if they own anything worth own
ing, and the land in their possession is def
nitely removed from the common stock.
The people should insist on Congress taking
hold of this evil now, before it gets to the
stage when it viii be difficult, probably
dangerous, TO deal with it.
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

THE showing aside of the veterans In Cen
trail New York who are candidates for Offices,
in favor of mere political workers, is stirring
up the comrades there to unite in non-parti-
san organizations to secure the rights which
they earned by their services, and which the
laws intend they shall have. One of the
more fragrant instances of this kind was the
refusal TO appoint Comrade W. Z. Webster
Postmaster ut Auburn. Webster entered
the LIST N. Y. Light Battery in 1861, when
but IL years of age, and served faithfully
through all the battles in which that gallant
organization participated until he was
frightfully wounded ut Cedar Creek. He
was one of five brothers who served through
the war. He received fattering personal
letters from Gems. Sheridan, Hooker, Han
cock and Wright He entered the Auburn
Postoffice rs clerk, and in the course of 19
years faithful and efficient service rose to
the position of Chief Clerk. His candidacy
for the Postmastership was earnestly in
dorsed by the GAR. men of that region, by
the business men of his city, and by num-
Der of prominent public men. He was the
only soldier candidate, but the Representa-
tive wanted the Postmastership for politi-
cal friend, and so Webster's soldiership,
wounds, and faithful services counted for
nothing.
TIE Portland Oregonian struggles to be-
come the champion -hater on the Pa
cific coast Every number issued contains
some mean fling ut pensions and veterans.
1t concludes at the prisoner-of-war pension
bill thus:
This bill ought not 10 pass, because II puts pre-
MUM upon surrender. The soldier who not
captured, did not surrender. ought TO be- rewarded
at least as handsomely those who were made
prisoners. The Nation ought moi to pay soldiers 81
day or moro for being captured for this sputting
premium on prompt surrender rather than on
logged fighting or rcsoluie retreat.
This is ineffable bosh How can pre-
MUM be put now on thing that occurred
% years ago? Then, too, so far from being
premium on cowardice, it is precisely the
opposite, As rule, only fighting men were
taken prisoners-only those who dared go
into the immediate presence of the enemy.
towards, shirks skulllers, etc, very rarely
got near enough the enemy to be taken pris-
oners. This every soldier knows. Only men
like the editor Of the Oregonian, who do not
regard the truth, make such absurd charges
against the men who had the misfortune to
fall into the hands Of the enemy.
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

PEOPLE whose nerves are shaken by the
sight of a snake had better keep away from
the Staked Plains. RattIesnakes grow there
six feet long and 10 inches in girth, with fangs
an inch long and poison-b bags the size Of a
hazelnut. The Apaches are desperately afraid
OF them, but draw from them the poison for
their arrows. They do this generally in the
month of August, when the snakes are the most
venomous, but at the same time bloated and
torpid. The Apache carefully approaches one
OF these monsters with the heart or liver of a
freshly killed deer, which be shoves in front of
the reptiles head with stick. The snake
sinks his fangs into the flesh again and again.
The Indian at last suatches it away from him,
and hangs it up in the sun to putrefy. When
the Apache wants to test its venom he calls
his squaw and makes her cut her arm or leg so
that the blood will flow. He touches the
stream five or six inches from the wound with
a tiny drop Of the poison on a stick. If the
blood instantly coagulates and turns black
he is satisfied. Tho squaw must be exceed
ingly careful to have the flow jet out so
strongly that none of the poison enters her
veins, or she will be past all surgery before her
lord has finished his grunt of satisfaction. Tho
Pi-Ctes mix rattlesnake poison with that OF q
wasp called the tarantula- killer" and test it
in the same way. only the buck usually tries it
on his own blood.
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

SIDE by side with the clamor of the Free
Traders about cheap clothes in England
should be placed the report of the Select
Committee of the House of Lords TO inquire
into the Sweating System" The COM
mittee made an exhaustive investigation,
and received answers TO $4,000 questions
As result the mobile lords" came to the
unhesitating conclusion That the conditions
of large number Of workingmen and
workingwomen are inhumanly oppressive"
OF all the skilled workingmen and work
ingwomen the tai!ors and tailoresses are in
the worst situation, they having to work
every hour that they can snatch from sleep
for wages that are barely enough to keep
soul and body together. If we can have cheap
clothes only by having, as in London, men
and women and their little children toll
from daylight till midnight in nasty, dis
ase-breeding little dens of rooms, freezing
in Winter, sitting in Summer, without half
enough food TO properly nourish their
bodies, then let MS have no cheap clothes
American manhood and womanhood will
not consent TO be clothed in fine raiment Mt
such frightful cost TO fellow human beings.
The National tribune., 1890-05-15
A CIVIL SERVICE RLrFR-

Col. W. II. Webster Chief Examiner of the
Civil Service Commission, tells a good story
about certain Representative who was very
anxious to have one of his constituents, doc
tor, appointed TO place in the Pension
Bureau. He came up for examination, and
among the other plumbers that he made it was
found that the doses he would give would kill
any man, no matter how strong his constitu-
ton. Still the Representative persevered.
Finally the Civil Service people said to him:
Well tell you what we'll do. Let him pre-
pare one of the pills according to the prescrip-
ton he made out and you take it. If you
come around here afterward and ask for his
appointment it shall be given you"
The Representative has not been heard from
since.
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

For one set of canting hypocrites we have
nothing but unmitigated contempt. 1t is
those men who are always prating of their
appreciation Of genuine soldiers" but who
the moment any practical pension measure
is proposed, begin to froth at the mouth
over the number of deadbeats, shirks and
bounty-jumpers 1t will benefit A good.
square, open enemy is much preferable TO
these hypocrites.
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

THE eight-hour day for workingmen seems
bound to come, and it is right that it should.
The National tribune., 1890-05-15

No man in the country knows more about
wheat than..C A. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis,
and he gives the farmers comfort in the as
suTance that the bottom of the market has
been reached, and that steady rise is prob
able for years TO come. He bases his belief
upon the assumption that we have passed
the era Of enormous development Of the
wheat-raising area in this country, and that
in future the increase in the acreage devoted
to wheat will be comparatively slow, while
the increase in the consumption of the grain
will be rapid. People are everywhere de-
manding the best bread. All over Europe
the common black bread is giving way to
wheat-bread, the poorest classes requiring
the better variety. Our wheat acreage in
this country increased IA per cent in the
five years ending with 1890, and but 4 per
cent. in the next four years, while il fell off
three-quarters Of one per cent in 1889. Nor,
he says, il the worlds acreage of wheat
increasing anywhere but in Russia. We
wish that We could accept Mr.. Pillsbury's
cheerful view of the matter, but we are
fearful of the effect upon our farmers of the
building of new railroads. in Russia and India,
and the development of cheaper transporta-
ton between Europe and Australia and
South America. The countries named can
easily raise all the wheat the world needs
their lands are limitless in extent, and
infinitely cheap, and labor can be secured
at beggarly figures. Wheat can be raised
there at much lower cost than anywhere
in the United States where lands are high
and labor dear, and if cheap transporta-
ton can be secured, they can always under
sell us. The only hope for our farmers are
home markets, which will save us trans
portation charges and give constant demand
for all our products at living prices.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

GEaMANY's bakers average $3.50 per
week.
The lace makers strike at Calais, France,
has ended.
ST. PAUL (Minn) city laborers get Sl.N
for eight hours.
DUNDEE Scotland boat builders get four
teen cents per hour.
In Berlin 800 salesgirls get medical care
for ten cents week.
THE Sen Francisco (Cal) union will estab-
iish cooperative shoe factory.
IT is estimated that there are now about
5000 women typewriters in the United
States.
A New YORK teer-drivers' union suspend
ed a member for neglecting his duties to bis
employer.
Or the 100000 wage-workers in the
United States 100000 belong to labor or
ganizations.
INDIANAPOLIS (Ind.) girls won a strike
against entering and leaving the store by the
hack entrance.
In Italy 100000 people live in cellars.
Many laborers there average only twenty
FIVE cents day.
CANADIAN seal.hunters have formed a
uIllOU dUu ueulduueu 81 IOk CoSA oSs>1 NAAAeN'
They received S1.5Q.
FURNITURE-woRKERsm met at Indianapolis,
Ind, recently. This union won thlrty-one
demands without strike.
The Vandalia Railroad has advanced the
pay of its train dispatchers to S11Oper month,
eight hours Fer day service.
JOHN BURNS, the labor leader of London,
is a lover and student Of books. He IS In
that respects worthy example for all work
men.
The architects of Quebec, Canada, have
organized an association to protect them
selves against the competition of American
architects.
AN association of housekeepers in Phila.
delphia formed some months ago to deal with
the servant-girl question now has GOO men,
bers and expects to have $500 in two months.
JOHN ADAMS, q Chicago car driver, Is
worth s25 900. He has been working for the
same company-the North Side-about If
teen years and is said by the company to be
as honest as the day is long. He is unmar-
ried.
The numerical strength Of the different
railroad organizations is estimated as fol-
lows: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
90, COO; Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
1s,COO Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen,
1900; Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association,
6OCO Brotherhood Of Railroad Conductors,
20GD
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Washington.

Ba1eAp1ER GENERAL THOMAS 81. ROGER,
commanding the Department OF Dakota, has
submitted to the War Department his an
nual report upon the condition Of military
affairs in that department..
THE Secretary of the Navy has awarded
to Harrison Loring, Of Boston, Mass, the
contract for supplying three seagoing steel
tugboats for the Navy at cost of s97, S14 IN
all.
JAMES B. PEAKE, clerk in the Treasury
Department, committed suicide at his home
in Washington City by swallowing carbolic
acid and laudanum. He was about forty
five years old, and leaves wife and four
children. He had been in financial difficulty
for some time past
EDWARD o. LEEcH, the Director Of the
Mint, has submitted to the Secretary of the
Treasury report of the operations OF the
mints and assay Offices for the fiscal year
ending June 90, 1890
SECRETARY TRACY ordered the payment
Of the reserve funds withheld up to date on
the cruiser San Francisco. The Secretary
also authorized the payment Of the reserve
vius, built by Cramp g. Co., OF Phladel-
rEia.
TIE bishops Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, while ip semi-annual session at
Washington, occupied the pulpits Of the
various, local Methodist churches OF tho
city. Large congregations attended the
services.
THE President and Attorney-General
Miller voted in Indianapolis, after which
they returned to Washington.
SUPERVISOR KENNY refused to comply
with Secretary Mobiles request to surrender
the books of the police census of New York
City.
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THE COMPLETE CENSUS.
There Are 60, 1SO,54O of Us in This
Great Country.

The Census Bureau at Washington has
officially announced the population Of the
United States, as shown by the first count of
persons and families, exclusive of white per-
sons in Iudian Territory, Indians on reserva-
ton and Alaska, to be 62,4S0 $40. In
1880 the population was 81, l55, S12.
The absolute increase of the population in
the ten years Intervening was u, 324, 757, and
the percentage Of increase was 24.57. InlSIO
the population was stated as s., ,55S 37l. Ac-
cording to these figures the absolute increase
in the decade between 1870 and 1880 was H..
597, ,412 and the percentage of increase was
3O.OS.
Upon their face these figures show that the
population has inceased, between 1850 and
1880, only 727, 424 more than between 1850
and 1890: only 727,2+5 more than between
1870 and 1880, while the rate Of increase has
apparently diminished from 3O.Cs to 24,oI per
cent.
The bulletin contains a statement showing
the relative rank Of States and Territories IN
population. AS in 1880, New York still leads
the list and is followed by Pennsylvania. Ohio
and Illinois have exchanged places. or the
other changes in the list the most marked are
those of Texas. which rises from II to-; Ken
lucky, which drops from to II, Minnesota,
which rises from % to 20; Nebraska, which
rises from 30 to %; Maryland. which drops
from 80 to %; Colorado, which rises from 81
to 81; Vermont, which drops from 81 to 80;
Washington, which rises from ~ to st; Della
ware, which drops from 43 to 49, and Ari-
zona, which drops from A to IS. The aver
age change in rank Is % places