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FOR SALE
By John t. BambIeton & Co.

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House 4 rooms on Nebraska street;
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Several fine pieces of improved property
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Two-story frame house; two large lots
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Seven-room house on Tobin Hill at a
bargain.
Several well improved places on San
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Neat cottage, with large lot, on Mar
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Two-story brick house. with all modern
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Poor old mani l could trace the prog
ress of his disappointment, and his final
fall into that miserable superstition. He
had been a free thinker; never indus.
trious or self possessed enough to be-
come a fundamental thinker. No man
can stand long on ~nothing-he must
think out a religion or accept a the
ology. Now that busy days were over,
and careless youth gone by, Mr.. Clithe-
roe began to be uneasy and was ready
to listen to any scheme which promised
peace. If a Jesuit had happened to find
him at this period, Rome would have got
a recruit without difficulty.
Instead of Jesuit SizZum arrived.
Sizzum was far ADLER than any of his
Mormon compeers. He was PROSECUTING
about Clitheroe, where he found it not
difficult to persuade the poor slaves up
in the mill and down in the mine to &C.
cept a faith that offered at once a broad
range on earth and, in good time, a high
seat in heaven.
Sizzum was the guest of the discon-
tented and decayed gentleman. He saw
the opportunity. There was in old name
and a man of gentle birth to rally fol-
lowers about. 1t would be a triumph
for the Latter-day Saints to march away
from Clitheroe. a thousand strong, head
ed by the representative of the family
who named the place and had once been
in parliament for it. Here was a prose
lyte in a class which no Mormon had
dreamed of approaching. Here, too, was
was some little property. And here was
a beautiful daughter.
/ could divine the astute Sizzum's
method and success with his victim, en-
feebled>in body and spirit.
By the light of that afternoons scene,
over the tea, l could comprehend the
close of Mr.. Clitheroe's dreary story and
see how at last Sizzum had got him in
his grippe, property, person and soul.
Did he wish to escape?
No. On! onl he must go on. Only
some force without himself, i~nterposed,
could turn him aside.
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She sobbed q little. I still held her hand.
Two long hours l had kept Mr.. Clith-
ero in talk. For my friends sake /
would have prolonged the interview in
definitely. For my own too. He was a
new character to me, this gentle soul, so
sadly astray. My flial feeling for him
differed momently. And as my pity
grew more exquisitely painful, l shrank
still from quitting him, and so acknowl-
edging that the pity was hopeless.
We approached the fort. The fddlers
three were dragging their last grum-
bling notes out of drowsy strings. The
saints began to stream by toward their
wagons. We turned away to avoid rec
ognition.
Miss Clitheroe and Brent Joined us-a
sadder pair than we. The stars showed
me the glimmer of tears in her eyes.
But her look was brave and steady. She
left my friend, and laid her hand on her
fathers arm. A marked likeness, and
yet a contrast more marked, between
these two. A more vigorous being had
mingled its life with hers. Or perhaps
the stern history of her early days had
taught her to forge the armor of self
protection. She seemed to have all her
fathers refinement, but she used it to
surround and seclude herself, not to
change and glorify others. Godiva was
not more delicately hidden from the
vulgar world by the mantle of her w
golden hair than this sweet lady by her
veil of gentle breeding.
AS she took her fathers arm to lead
him away to the camp, l could read in
her look that there were no illusions for
her. But she clave to her father-the
binder and more hopelessly Grant he
might be, the closer she clave. He might
reject her guidance; she still stood by to
protect him, to sweeten his life, and
when the darkness came, which she
could not but foresee. to be q Hight to
him. However adversely had thus far
failed to teach him self possession, it had
made her a heroine and a martyr-a no
BILE and unselish soul, such as, enc
among the myriads, God educates to
shame the base and the trifing, and to
hearten and inspire the true.
"Now, dear father" she said. 1--WE
must bid these kind friends good night.
We start early. We need rest"
She held out her hand TO me.
"Dear lady" said /, taking her aside
moment while Brent spoke to Mr.. Cith-
sroe, "we are acquaintance of today;
but campaigners must despise ceremony.
To be Continued.
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Gone mad
the person with bad blood who's not
taking DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. You are bereft of judg-
ment and good sense if you allow
your blood to get out of order, your
liver sluggish-life dull, everything
blue, for you may 500 find out that
you're in the grave-or next to it
because you did not procure the
G. NJ. D. soon enough, and some
dread disease, may be influenza
or consumption, may be typhoid
or malarial fever, has taken you.
Consumption is Lung Scrofula. For
Scrofula in. its myriad forms, and
for all Liver, Blood and Lung dis
eases, the discovery" is an I'M
equaled remedy. Everybody, now
and then, feels "run-down ""played-
out,"-with no power to generate
vitality, in fact, just too sick to be
well. That's where the right kind
of medicine comes in, and the "Dis-
covery" does for a dollar what the
doctor wouldn't do for less than FIVE
or ten.
We claim that nothing like it has
been discovered for a blood-purifier.
It's guaranteed by the makers. Your
money is returned if it dosen't bene-
fit or cure you.
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This table shows decline in prices in all
cases varying from 2.S cents per yard to IL. z
cents per yard.
THE senator then pointed out that cot
ton velvets and corduroys had sold very
high previous to 1879, that Americans
then attempted to manufacture them,
when foreign manufacturers at once re-
duced the price so low as to drive the
Americans out of the market, and that,
though the prices have since been raised
and are little higher than when the Nc
Kinley bill passed, they are not yet so high
as in 1857 He presented the proofs and
continued:
Bearing upon the question as to whether
an increase has taken place in the price of
table cutlery, 1 will state, upon the au-
thority of Charles S. Landers, of Landers,
Frary & Clarke, of New Britain, Conn,
large table cutlery manufacturers, that
the prices on the entire line of goods manu-
featured by them are at least ~ per cent
lower now than they were in October,
1890, and that no advance has taken place
since that time. will print Mr.. Landers'
letter in The Record.
In regard to the price of pocket cutlery
/ have received letter from Mr.. W. F.
Rockwell, of Miller Brothers Cutlery
company, which contains the following
statement:
''As to prices on American pocket cut
lery, many patterns have not been adj
vanced at all. Several styles that have
been sold below actual cost have been adj
vanced so they now pay small profit.
"The average advances do not exceed 10
per cent. to the jobbing trade. The mar
gin of profit between the jobber and con-
sumner was sufficient, SO there was no rea-
son or necessity of advancing the price to
the consumer, and it has not been done.
1.-The wage of pocket cutlery workers
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Employees

The number reported in 1890 is 19S, being
more than ten times as many in this single
year as reported by Mr.. Warner for the
eighteen months covered by his statistics
Available statistics show that in Great
Britain, the paradise of tariff reforners,
1874 strikes occurred in 1882 The British
board of trade officially report LOIS strikes
in 1890, with 392 ,9S1 persons involved in 73s
of these.
1t will be seen by comparison of the
relative number and Importance of strikes
in the United States and in Great Britain
for the year 1890 that the number was
much greater in the latter country, and
that the number of persons involved was
more than three times as great in proper
ton to the number of persons engaged in
useful occupations in the respective coun-
tries.
In the recent strike in the Durham eng
lish) district 200 coal miners went out
and remained idle from March IL to June
l, when they accepted a reduction of 10 per
cent. in wages. This strike involved the
closing down of 100 blast furnaces in addi-
ton to tue suspension of mining operations.
The statistics submitted by the senator
from Missouri confirm in striking man
ner the judgment of every intelligent OBJ
server that there has been remarkable
freedom from strikes and labor troubles in
this country since the passage of the tariff
act of 1890. 1t can be said that at no time
in the history of the country has labor been
SO constantly and proftably employed
and at such satisfactory wages as in the
period referred to. No person in the Unit
ed States with the capacity and willing
ness to work is out of employment.
1t is true that reduction of wages has
taken place in limited number of estab-
lishments producing iron and steel: but
the fact should not be overlooked that even
with this reduction the average wages are
still much higher than in any of the other
great industries. The earnings in some
departments are exceptionally high; for
instance, the average net earnings of bar
rollers in all the Pittsburg mills is Sl5.25
per day, and the net earnings in wire rod
Nolling are even higher than this
1t is perhaps proper that 1 should saw
word in regard to the condition and earn
ings of the operatives in Rhode Island
That they do not work for miserable pit
lance is shown by statement which /
submit and will have printed in The Rec
ord of the relative wages paid in cotton
mill in Rhode Island and one in Oldham,
England, showing the much greater wages
in Rhode Island. The mills have each
about $1,000 spindles and make the same
kind of goods.
Instead of working at starvation
wages" the working people of my state
are enabled from their earnings to live as
well and as comfortably as any similar
Continued on EiOhth page.)
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10 1875 Is
1879 1915 Is
20 % 21N
10 Is Is
25 1884 1874

1t will be noticed that the Farr Alpaca
company of HolyolSe, Mass, quote double
and single warp coat Innings at a lower
rate in July, 1892, than in either of the
previous years. The other quotations sub
mitted by me are the prices at which the
goods manufactured by the five leading
American producers of women's and chill
dren's dress goods sold their product at
the respective dates named. These quota
tions show decline in price in every case
These quotations refer only to domestic
goods; but very large proportion OF the
goods of this class consumed in the United
States is produced by the domestic manu-
facturers, who have practically the con-
troll of the American market.
1t can, however, be conclusively estab-
lished that the cost to import the great
mass of women's and children's dress
goods is less today than it was before the
passage of the act of $780, and it is GER
tainIy true that both foreign and domestic
goods of this character are sold at retail at
lower prices now than they were prior to
October, 1890. ] have been furnished by
Messrs. William H. Burgess & Co., of
Paris and New York, with statement
showing the foreign cost and the cost to
lay down in New York, duty paid, of all
wool cashmeres, standard quality, IL to 10
twill. Other descriptions of all wool dress
goods vary in price with these at fixed
ratio. This statement shows that the cost
to import the goods in question, duty and
other charges paid, in 1887, was 44.2 cents;
in 1888, 42.S cents; in 1889, Ala cents, and
in 1892, 40 cents per yard. This would
seem to clearly establish the fact that for
the great mass of women's and children's
dress goods used in the United States the
cost laid down in New York to the import
er is less today than it was prior to tariff
changes.
In regard to the price of astrakhans there
is very little to be said. The demand for
this fabric is extremely limited. and fuc-
tuations in the price are of very little i'm
portance to the people of the country 1
have, however, been furnished with sam
Piles and price list of astrakhans of do
nestle manufacture by the Goodall Wor-
sted company, of Sanford, Me- This list
shows that tie company referred to sells
G-inch astrakhans, so ounces in weight, at
1888 per yard net to their customers, or at
81 cents per yard less than the cost of i'm
porting similar goods as reported by Mr.
McKeever.
submit table showing the compare
tive prices at which silk sleeve Innings
were sold for consumption prior to Oct
ober, 1890, and in 1892:
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of living in the United States declined for

of living in the United States declined for
the period covered by the investigation of
the financial committee the cost of living
in England increased 1.9 per cent. If the
conditions had been reversed our Demo
cratic friends would have insisted that
this was the direct and logical result of
rival revenue systems. | am curious to
see what explanation they will now make.
The result is unquestionably a very sur
prising one to them and one which they
will have difficulty in explaining away
While the attempt to compare average re-
sail prices in England and the United
Btates is not satisfactory l am convinced
that for family buying the same quantity
and quality of articles at retail in the two
countries the cost of living would not
be higher in America.
AT no time in our history have the earn
ings of the American people been as great
measured by their power to purchase the
comforts and necessaries of life, as they
are today. Measured by the same stand
ard, they are vastly greater than those of
any other people in the world.
THE senator here analysed a table pre-
pared by Mr.. Daniel McKeever, of the
importing firm of H. Herman Sternbach &
w., VI No" ioih, anu previously quooeu
by Senator Vest. He demonstrated that
the astrakhans, velvets and silk Innings
mentioned in the letter are luxuries, and
that the articles of that class in common
use are now cheaper, as shown by the fol-
ling table in the official reportl:
PRICES OF COAT Innings AND woMEN's AND
CHILDREN'S DRESS GOODS.
Coat Innings and Ital- J Ja6SS' J199dhy' y1SSddy'
ian cloth Cant CT. CT.
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AFViaSe'. ................. SJ.0O
The finance committee also investigated
for the same period the course of whole
sale prices at the great distributing CEN
tiers. While this Investigation disclosed
greater fluctuations in price of the articles
selected, the general result was the same,
the fall in wholesale prices running sub
stantlally parallel with that Of retail prices
1t will be observed that the greater per-
centages of decline are in he groups of
manufactured articles, where it was
claimed the greatest advance had taken
place.
In addition to the inquiry stated above
the committee caused retail prices of the
different articles included in these lists to
be taken on May |, 1892, at three of the
points at which the original inquiry was
made-namely, Fall River, Mass, Chicago
and Dubuque, la. The result of this latter
inquiry shows that still further decline
in prices and in the cost of living had
taken place between Sept. 1, 1891, and May
l, 1892, clearly establishing continuance
of the tendency to lower prices and lower
cost of living
1t is shown as net result of the investi-
cation that prices and the cost of living,
based on the expenditures of family in
Observation-Disclosures, ndu declined "a
per cent. in May, 1892, as compared with
the period prior to the adoption of the
tariff act of 1890
1t is difficult to see how the results of
this thoroughly exhaustive inquiry could
be surprise to any one, unless he should
be professional tariff reformer. The de-
cline in the cost of living was, as shown,
81 The advance in wages, as shown bv
the same report, was rs of per cent This
makes IN average advance in the purchas-
ing power of wages of AIS 49, cent AS
Stunning 5000 as the average income of the
families of the country, tn would be
equivalent to, say, So per f aily, or an
aggregate saving for IL o00,0C@ miles of
S325, O00,O 600 for each year.
The addition of this vast sun annually
to the national earnings and wealth is an
s.c.- ;cVement which spe;i IS with a more
eloquent voice thsn / can command in be-
half of "a policy under which such results
are possible.
1t is very significant that while the cost
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Farr Alpaca Co., Hol-
yoke, Mass:
Double warp coat lin
ings, 81 inches. 49,.
Single warp coat lin
ings, 81 inches. 800.
Dress goods
Manchester mills, Man.
chester, n. H.:
"Sl3" cashmere, IS
inches.
Arlington mills, Law
renee, Mass:
Cotton warp CASH
mere, No. 100, "a to
35 inches.
Cotton warp CASH
mere, No. 200, 35 to
30 inches. ...........
Atlantic mills, Provi-
dence:
Atlantic's Fs, 35
inches. ..,...........
A I'll a n t les FFs, IS
inches.
Hamilton Wooden Co.,
Southbridge, Mass:
Cashmere, q inches.
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Mr.. PREsIDENT-It is evident that the
tariff question is to become, by common
consent, the leading issue in the approach
ing presidential campaign In his speech
of June %, the senator from Missouri (Mr.
Vest) makes this unequivocal statement:
II am prepared to show that the McKin-
ley act has had the effect of increasing
prices upon the necessaries of life to the
people of this country, and that the state
ment in his resolution referring to the
senator from Maine] that an era of cheap
ness in the necessaries of life is being
brought to the people of the United States
is absolutely and Internationally false"
One of the principal purposes of the tariff
inquiry ordered by the senate resolution of
March 3, 1891, was to ascertain whether
this claim of the opponents Of protection
was justified. An investigation much
more extensive and thorough than ever
before attempted was instituted. The
committee determined to ascertain the
prices paid for all articles of general con-
sumption at retail in every part of the
United States on the first of each month
from June, 1889, to September, 1891,
period of seventeen months prior to the
passage of the act of 1890 and eleven
months subsequent. The quotations were
places at which quotations were obtained
were selected with the view of covering the
entire country geographically, and in
cluded typical commercial, manufacturing
and agricultural communities. The prices
were secured BY the trained experts Of the
department of labor with the greatest care
The list of 2l5 articles was carefully Sc
lected by the unanimous action of the com
mittee, with Il view of covering every pos
sible expenditure of a family in the average
condition of life-that is, with an income
of $500 to 81, 900 per annum.
The results of this comprehensive and
exhaustive inquiry are contained in the
report recently made by the finance COM
mittee This report covers 1880 printed
pages and contains more than Zoo, 900 diff
ferent quotations.
This investigation clearly establishes the
fact that decline instead of an advance
has taken place in the prices of the neces-
saries of life and the resulting cost of liv-
ing since the adoption of the act of 1890
The articles were divided into the follow
ing groups:
First-Food.
Second-Cloths and clothing
Third-Fuel and lighting
Fourth-Housefurnis goods.
Fifth-Drugs and chemicals
SiXtn-Metals and implements.
Seventh-Lumber and building mate
rails.
The percentage of decline in the various
groups embraced in the schedule is shown
by the following table, prices for June,
July and August, 1889, being taken as a
basis for comparison and represented by
the number 100, changes being shown by
percentages of that number:
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PROTECTION DEFENDED
Senator Aldrich Strikes the
Keynote of the Campaign.
EFFECTS OF THE M'KINLEY LAW.

Facts and Figures Collected by Official
Experts Pursuant to Senate Resolu-
tion of March 3, 1891, Show the Cost
Labor Increased-The Farmers Especi-
ally Benefited.
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Continued on Fifth Page.)
, 1892-10-01
WHERE no wORsHIP.
Time of Services at the Various
Churches Tomorrow.

/ ST. JoHN's EPISCOPAL = Washington
street, near Ninth, =-, rector; resi-
dence, corner Washington and Ninth. Sun.
day serYices-11 am. and 7: 80 p.m. Sun
day school at 1890 pm; Ladies' guild
meets Wednesday afternoon of each week
at 80 O'Clock; st. Johns Church Workers,
Saturday afternoon at / O'Clock.
Rev. e. G. Knight, of Tacoma, will preach.
Morning Subiect-"L Lessons From Ma
ture.
Evening subject-"A Great Man in the
Sight of God"
Scandinavian Lutheran services at 4 pm.
in basement, by 1. Skrondal.
CoNGREGATIoNAL-T and Main, Rev.
O. l.. Diven, pastor; residence, Tenth near
church. Seryices-Preaching, Sunday at IL
am. and 1880 pm. Sunday school at 12;
prayer meeting, Thursday night at 1880
o'clock. Young Peoples Society Of Chris
tian Endeavor, Sunday at 6 80 pm.
Evening Subject -" Religion and the
Public Schools"
ST. MICHAEL's-Low mass will be cele-
brated at am, high mass at 10:30; cat
echism at pm. and vespers at pm. Fa-
ther Claessens.
The mission OF the Redemptorist Fa.
theirs will begin tomorrow.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH-Corner Adams
and Eighth streets; Rev. W. E. Prichard,
pastor; residence Fifteenth street, between
Main and Jefferson. Regular services Sun
day morning at II o'clock and 1880 pm.
Sunday school at 1915 am; prayer meet
ing Thursday evening at 1880 O'Clock.
Evening Subject-"The objectionable
SIM"
FIRST Corner of Union and
Adams; Rev. J. S. McCallum, pastor; resi-
dence, Adams near church. Services -
Sunday School, 10 am. preaching, IL am.
and 7:3O pm. prayer meeting, Thursday
night at 1880.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN II Corner of Sixth
and Franklin streets; Rev. II. j. Lamont,
pastor; residence, COS Franklin street; reg
ular services at IL am. and 1880 pm. Young
Peoples meeting, $3.50 pm. Sunday school
at 1920 PIN; prayer meeting Thursday,
1880 pm.
TEMPLE BAPTIsT-Tenth between Main
and Washington. Rev. w. II. Shearman,
pastor; residence, Tenth and Washington.
Sunday services-Preaching IL am. and
7:30 pm; Sunday school at II O'Clock.
Young peoples meeting at $3.50 pm.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL Corner Fifth and
Adams streets. Rev. S. AlonzO Bright, ID. D.,
pastor, residence on Tenth, two doors west
of Main. Glass meeting at 10 a. m. preach
ing at III am. Sunday school Immediately
following. Epworth League at 6:3O p. m.
preaching at 1880 pm. Seats free.
Morning Subiect-"Why Do We Have
Four Gospels p"
Evening Subject-Total Depravity."
UNITARIAN Corner Ninth and Franklin
streets. Napoleon Hoagland, minister.
Services Sunday at IL am. Sunday school
at 12:15 pm.
Morning Subiect-"The Sunday School;
Its Worth or Worthlessness."
A feature Of the Sunday school will be a
temperance service of songs and responsive
readings.
In the evening Mr.. Hoagland will conduct
services at the South Bay school house.