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IN BLACKLIST AFRICA.
SANKEY'S Expedition to
Enain'S Province.
A Thrilling Story of Daily Travel
and Startling Adventure in the
Unknown Forest Wilderness Among
wild Men and Wild Beasts.
by WARREN HERBERT,
zone OF the party.l

The world is now looking toward Africa
Ii fills the place in the mind Of the adven-
furers Of the world that America occupied
two centuries ago.
As announced by us we have received the
most interesting and valuable contribution
70 knowledge Of the Dark Continent yet
offered 10 American readers
It is a faithful and exciting narrative of
stanley's last journey. written by one of the
party who was with the Explorer daily, and
who writes in a style of matchless purity
and force.
TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is always at the
front in behalf Of its readers, and this enter
prise is in the same line.
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ton book which can contain nothing Of
value that our narrative does not give.
Moral: Renew your subscriptions to TIE
EATIoSAL TRIBUNE, and get it all for 81.
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Comrades should insist on Congress maxi
ing some effective provision in the way of
additional clerks TO relieve the blockade in
the Office of the Second Auditor of the Treas
ury. There is where all the claims for adj
ditional bounty, back pay, etc, are settled,
and the ofliceis now behind nearly two years
with its business No blame attaches to the
efficient Second Auditor Gen. j. N. Patter-
son. He is doing all that is possible with the
force at his command but this is wholly in
adequate to the demands upon it, and should
be greatly increased at once, if the soldiers
are TO receive what is due them while they
ere still alive.
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WASHINGTON Co. THURSDAY IT,

SECRETARY BLAINEshas written letter
to Senator Frye filled with solid chunks of
sense on the tariff question. lie points out
that regardless of our being nearly the sole
customer that Cuba has for her sugar, the
duty ON American flour has been raised
until it is about 81 more than the shipping
price of the -four in New York Spain does
this to prevent anything but Spanish flour
being sold in Havana. Our commercial
relations with South American countries
are nearly as bad. All the favors come from
us; none from them. With regard to
Brazil he says:
Since repealed the duty coffee In 1872 we.
have imported the products of Brazil To the extent
of 1921 06 000 and have sold 10 her only S56 $4,000
of our own products. The dfference-s665 GIL COO
we have paid in gold or its equivalent, and Brazil
has expended the vast sum in the markets of
Europe. You readily how different the
result would have been if in return for the free
admission of Brazilian coffee in markets,
had exacted the free admission of certain products
of the United States in the Brazilian market. To
repeat this error with sugar TO an amount three
times as large ms with coffee) will close all oppor-
tupity TO establish reciprocity of trade with Latin
America.
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THE RIGHT DOCTRINE.

The Supreme Court Of grand, loyal Michi-
gan-the State that sent stalwart fighting
man to the front for every eight men, women
and children in her boundaries-has elo-
quently expounded the true doctrine of the
duty of the people toward those who stood
between them and danger in the day of
need. The occasion was the decision in
favor of the soldiers in the bounty case.
The Court said:
Plighted faith between States and its soldiers,
who in the hour of their country peril enlisted in
the defense of the Nation, md went forth to do
battle for the honor of the flag and the preserva-
ton of our free institutions, impered by the civil
war, who suffered untold hnrdships and who NIL
risSed life, and many FELL md others wounded
on the field of battle, will not permit the plea of
the statute of limitations TO bar sacred promise
made 10 her soldiers, matter how long time
has elapsed between the promise and the failure to
fulfil the obligation according TO the terms in which
it was made. We cannot conceive That great
Commonwealth like Michigan which looks with
pride and gratitude upon tho honorable record of
its soldiers in the war, could be guilty of such
ingrntitude as TO say TO them: ut is true we
offered you bounty of 500 If you would enlist
and IL Is true that have not paid II TO you, but
IL is now more than "a years since the war in which
you fought successfully terminated, and you
have grown old, and gray, and needy. and mean
while the State has doubled her wealth yet,
you have not called for IL for SO long time, / will
not pay You" We do not understand the plea TO
voice the position Of the Legislature the will of
the people.
What an Indictment this is of those ig-
noble souls who want the Nation to evade
payment of its just debts to the veterans
by the dishonest plea of limitations in the
matter of bounties, arrears of pensions and
other sacred obligations.
This decision gives bounty of $50 to
all Michigan soldiers who enlisted, or re-
enlisted, between March 6, 1868, and Feb. A,
1864; 500 to those who enlisted between
Feb a, 1864, and Feb. 4, 1865; and from
$3.50 to $3.50 to those who enlisted after Feb.
4, 1865.
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The above Is fair estimate Of the cost Of raising
an Of corn in Cass County aud the yield given
IL n good one In order 10 come out without any
loss, the expense must be reduced s. IS per acre.
aud II cannot be done. But on that same corn,
which the farmer loses in unrocorn penscd labor
nearly five cents per bushei. the railroad makes
net gain Of 81 cents per bashsI.
II seems TO us that the strongest lesson TO
be deduced from this is AS to pre-eminent
value of home markets According TO this
showing, the farmer pays an annual tax of
S62.33 an acre, because he is 30 FAR from
market, and the railroads, commission men,
etc, between him and his 1000. mles-away
customer, eat up all his profits and leave him
out Of pocket. If be raises 100 acres of corn, he
pays total penalty every year OF 1928 for
being so far from his customers The theory
Of protection is that be had much better
spend portion of this in building up home
markets, which will, in a short time, take
him from under the heavy hand of the rail-
roads and the middle men.
In our present position 1t is economically
wrong for us TO export bushel Of grain or
pound of meat, for the reason that these
are products upon which we make little or
no profit The expenses Of transportation
are, and always must be- enormous, and we
must sell those products almost in compe.
titi0n with the same things raised on cheap
farming lands by the pOorest-paid labor in
the world.
Our supreme economic need is to have AT
home artizans enough to manufacture all the
goods we now buy abroad, and consume all
the brcadBtulls and meat we now sell
abroad.
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IT seems that they still have hired girls"
in iowa. for they have formed Union to Sc
cure higher wages, less work and more liber-
ties Hired girls " have generally disap-
peared from view outside of Iowa. Ia the East
they are Servants" or cooks" chamber
maids" housekeepers," etc. In the country
districts of the interior they are, as they have
been for a halfcentury, digniGed into help"
A distinction can be made here Every help
is really hired girl. but not every hired girl is
really help. We wish the Hired Girls Union
success. If it leads, as all industrial unions
should, TO a higher standard of efficiency
among its members, as well rs better wages
and clearer defined rights, it will do much good
ItshOuld aim 10 make service in the kitchen OF
the mbers justas respectable, socially, az any
other form of labor. There is no reason why
Jane Jones, who works in Mrs Browns
kitchen, should not be as high in the social
scale as her brother, John Jones. who works in
Mr. Browns mill or factory. If Mrs. Browns
household is properly managed, Jane will ac-
quire knowledge and training which win
make her a much better woman, wife and
mother than she would be without Just as her
brother is made better citizen. husband and
father by his service in Mr.. Browns we'll
managed establishment.
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- Eow oYER srANLEY.

To 3 man up tree, that Is, this side the
ocean, the row over Stanley is vastly funny.
Tie English insist that he is one Of the
greatest explorers that ever lived, If not the
very greatest next TO Columbus, and that,
il the spirit Of the largest humanity and
most Christian selEabnegation, he has con-
ferred inuumerable benefits on mankind.
Therefore, they feast and fete and make
more Of him than they have Of any man
fOr a quarter OF century. The Germans,
on the other hand, assert that he is blum
deriBg marplot, who cannot be compared, as
81 explorer or ciyilizer, 10 Emin Bey, and
score Of other Germans whose names are
associated with the Dark Continent The
French stand OF, and sDeer at both. The
cold truth is, all three are playing their own
selfish games. The English manufacturers
and merchants, and the Government which
represents their wishes, are building up
Stanley all they know how, because he is
the agency by which they are gaining a
large proportion Of the 200 100000 people Of
Africa a. customers for their trade " guns,
cloth, whisky, beads, knives, and other arii-
cles Of barter. The Germans hate him,
because. under his leadership, the English
merchants are getting the upper hand o. the
Germans In Africa. His so-called "rescue y
Of Emin Bey was virtually an expulsion o.
hisriyal from Central Africa, and a damaging
blow to German influence in that region
Or The other hand, the French, who ar,
being squeezed out between their two pow
erfuI competitors, hate both cordially. Thu
It is always Three Of trade can neYe
aQreaD
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TIE PosTAIAsTER-GES AND THE
VETERANS

FbithhNo.
Maliciously false statements have been
published broadcast TO the effect that Post
master-General Wanamaker is opposed to
the appointment Of veterans, and antago-
nizes them at all times and places Also,
that the GAR is strongly resenting this
policy.
Nothing can DO farther from the truth.
during the war, and has strong affection
for the men who went TO the front to fight
the battles Of the country. lie has always
shown them the preference when possible
In the Postoiiice Department proper there
were 16 ex-soldiers in position outside of
the Civil Service when he entered Office and
now there are 30. In the mailbag repair
shop there are "A soldiers, Sons of Veter-
ans, soldiers wives, 10 war widows and Is
soldiers daughters, making 81 in all, or 81
| per cont Of the app0intees to places in the
| gift OF the Postmaster-G General This is of
course, outside Of the regular classified serv-
/ ice of clerks, etc, very large proportion of
| whom are ex-soldiers or soldiers widows.
In the Department no soldier has been dis
| placed except to make room for better SOL
der who was worse of, while great num-
| beers of places held by civilians or ex Con-
| federates have been given veterans.
These are facts which can be verified by
the official records.
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ToLal......................................... on

THE Congressional Committees have
agreed to allow Commissioner Raum 1872
additional clerks This will put the Pension
Bureau in fine shape to transact the vast
amount of business arising under the Dsa-
bility Pension law, and we can rest assured
that Commissioner Raum will make good
use of the force put at his command.
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One of the dull-season sensations is q
story about delegation OF Spaniards being
on their way to this country to negotiate for
the sale of Cuba. Nothing could be more
improbable. Not for any price would the
little cabaI of politicians around the Spanish
throne let go their hold upon that never
failing fountain of their Doodle. 1t would
be just as reasonable to expect Queen Vic
toria to appropriate her $2,500,000 year
salary to the relief of the millions of paupers
in her realm.
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lie had 5000 men. If these statements be
true, then the average strength of the in
fantry divisions in Lees army must have
been about 1000 men, and as there were
nine divisions, Lee must have had $4,000
muskets, besides his artillery, cavalry, etc,
which brought his total strength up to the
figures the Count of Paris gives, that is, about
$4,000 men, of whom 1000 were actually
engaged, against $4,000 actually engaged on
the Union side.
A close, impartial scrutiny of all the
operations of the war will show these unde-
niable truths:
i. That muslSet in the hands Of Union
man was just as deadly as one in the hands
of n rebel.
9. That bullet from one side was just as
fatal rs from the other.
s. That when we stood on the defensive
and they assaulted, their loss was heavier
than ours. That when they were behind
works, and we attacked, we lost more than
they did.
A. That, as rule, neither side assaulted
except with superior numbers. 1t was folly
to do otherwise.
5. That, considering the fact that they put
into the ranks every white man in their
population; that they almost constantly
stood on the defensive, and had the advan-
tage of concentrating quickly by interior
lines, they had relatively as many men in
the field as we did.
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Col. ERHARDT, Collector of the Port Of
New York, has won the public commenda-
tons of Secretary Window by collecting in
duties upon articles brought in the baggage
of passengers from Europe, $6,432 more than
was collected in April and May, CORE
spending months of last year. This is ex-
cellent. The articles of luxury which the
passengers were trying to smuggle into the
country should be made to bear even a
higher taxation than they do. A large por-
tion of them were suits of clothing, which
the too-utterly English dudes must get
made-up in "deah old Lunnun,n and are
produced there by the infamous sweating
system which starves the-zeuis and bodies
of the poor taiiors-men, women and chill
dren. Whitfield, the great philanthropist,
once organized league to abstain from the
use of sugar so long as it was produced by
slave labor. Humanity dictates that we pro-
hibit the importation of English-made cloth
ing so long as it is produced by the shame
ful treatment of men, women and children,
revealed by the Investigations of the Par
lament Sweating Committee.
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from the absurd way in which old Time has
sheared off mine


Mrs. Tiredout: Doctor, / heard you say
that the medicine you give Jabe Grunter made
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CAIIFoRgIA is making a success Of rails
ing cork II there was any enterprise in
the South this would be a great industry
down there. Nothing is rising in price more
rapidly than good corks, for the reason that
the demand for them is increasing, while the
main supply is decreasing, owing TO the
laziness and lack Of enterprise Of the
spaBiards. We have millions Of acres that
could be turned TO good account by planting
them with coTk-oaks France has made a
success of them in Algeria, and we should
do the same in this country.
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OUR leading political economist, Edward
Atkinson, estimates that If all the revenues
Of the General, State County and Municipal
Governments should be derived from a tax
on land, il would make the tax equal TO 10
per cent. Of the assessed value. That IS, the
farmer would have to buy his farm over again
every 10 years This would make the com
petition with the pauper farmers in the rest
OF the world tougher work than ever.
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DIDN'T HAVE TIME.

"You little rascal !! Gone and fallen into
mudhole have you? And with your now
cloths on, too. What dye mean by acting that
way2"
Please sir, didn't have no time to go
home and change my clothes while l wuz u
fallin' in"
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FoR lack of anything else of moment,
sensational Washington correspondents have
gotten up n scare about Great Britain as
Stunning decidedly hostile attitude with
regard TO the Boring Sea seizures Few
things are more unlikely than any serious
complication over this matter, or that Eng
land should attempt TO billy us about it.
In the first place she has even stronger rea-
sons for desiring the complete protection Of
those fisheries than we have To us their
destruction wonld be no calamity, for we
now expend much more in policing the sea
than we get in revenue from the seal com
pany. But her people have IA very large and
exceedingly profitable business in manu-
featuring the seal skins which can be OBJ
tanned nowhere else in any quantity than on
the islands which we guard We can rest
assured that the substantial interests of her
merchants and manufacturers will count for
much more in her councils than the clamors
of few Canadian seal pirates. Next Brit
ish statesmen are shrewd enough to know
that the worst possible policy to adopt to-
ward this country would be one of bluff.
No party and no Administration could sur
viye month that would not meet the blufl
with still stronger one.
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II Is a duty y0R ore 10 g0uu comrades 10 get at
leasf one subscriber for THE NA7IONAL
TRIBUNE
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Here, Bridget, you let down the folding be d
and then I'll look under it,
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TWENTY-FIVE years ago did IL seem possible that
y'ls90 the country would have paid off two-thrds
of the monslrous debt and reduced tho interest
charge to less than ono.fifth of the amount then
annually due - Troy Press
Neither did II seem possible % years ago that the
increase Of pensions would more than keep pace
with the reduction in the interest charge so that
after paying, more than 81 500 0000O0 upon the
principal of the debt and reducing the yearly In
toreet account si2o,oOO,OOO the expenditures upon
account would now be SO OoO, 600 more than
they were at the end Of the wary T. World
The World is careful not to mention the
well-known fact that it was the veterans
who paid the bulk of the taxes which were
required to meet the enormous disburse-
ments in gold to the bondholders for princi-
pal and interest, and that they periodically
waived their just claims for pensions until
the country had flied the pockets of the
money-lenders The 100000 men who had
fought and won the battle for the Nations
life went back 20 civil life, and became the
backbone of the wealth-producers and tax
payers. For years they struggled under
burden Of taxation that would startle the
present generation. Everything that they
or their families ate, wore or used was taxed
10 the last limit of endurance But they
patriotieally endured all this that the conn
try's financial honor might be maintained
Now they feel that their turn should come
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The following figures taken from advance
sheets of the report of the Commissioner OF
Pensions for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1890, bear splendid testimony to the greatly
efficiency of the Bureau under
Gen. Raum's administration
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"yyuo OWNS THE FARM p"

Discussing Senator Leland Stanford's die
tum in regard to railroads, that the essence
ofownershipis control" the Farmers alliance
figures out that the railroads own the farms
of this country, because they control the
revenues from the same. 1t gives the fol-
lowing account of sales of one acre Of corn:
SALES.
One car corn, GA bush. 80 lbs. at 22l{c per
96
CHARGES.
Freight. $3.50; inspection, doe; commission,
800 o. 81
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Total net product.
IL goes on 10 say:

II will be that the freight on above car OF
corn amounts TO "a little over S. cents per bupbe
This Is the gross share the railroad company gets
It's net share Is about half that amount AZ cents
per bushel. Now. let us see how much tho farmer
gets out OF H. This raised In Cass County,
and is fair to suppose that the land 1t raised
on was worth 500 per acre. 1t was raised in a good
corn year. and 10 is fair To suppose the yield
about 50 bushels per acre The account then would
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sTr7r7 AZ T vasa.sro, 'soO-' Cues usTrs.