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The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-03-03
MA, THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1892.
Cost of Living Under Protection.

New York Press.
Free traders are forced to admit the
difference between the wages paid to
labor in the United States and in Eu>
rope; but they try to evade the effect OF
this admission by asserting that the
European workingman, owing to greater
cheapness, is able to buy as much of the
necessaries of life with his low wagesuas
the American workingman is able to buy
with his high wages. The entire free
trade case rests upon this assertion. De-
stroy it and you annihilate the sole basis
for argument on the part of advocates
tariff reform"
The annual report of the National
Commissioner of Labor is justly consid-
cred a public document of high value.
1t is absolutely non partizan, and it's
statistics, collected and verified by skilled
and painstaking investigators, are au-
thoritative on the subjects of which they
treat The sixth Labor Report devotes
a considerable amount of space to the
comparative cost of living in Europe
and the United States. The iron and
steel Industries, in which, under protec>
tion, we have outstripped Great Britain,
were selected as subjects for special re-
search in this regard. The results of the
Investigation ought to be published in
every protection newspaper in America.
They show that while the we'll paid
American iron worker expends on an
average $s43 annually for food for his
family, the foreign iron worker, receiv-
ing only about one-half the wages, ex-
ponds and average of 1922 for the same
purpose. The following table shows the
difference in the amount and quality of
the food annually consumed per indi-
vidual:
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-03-03
He HAD PLrNr : OF MONEY.

Another account statas that when Mr..
Lidderdala let limin>tet he took with
him fl, o. drawn from his private ac>
count in the bank for wedding expenses.
On his arrival at Paddington he paid a
visit in that neighbo hoo |, aud that is
the las that was heard or seen of him.
On leaving Ilminster he said that he in
tended to go to Australia to buy some
properly iheta. but the voyage was we'll
understood to be his wedding trip.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-03-03
A BANKER ABDUCTED.

Stole by a Woman Who Loved Him
A London dispatch says Banker w. r.
Lidderdale, aged thirty, of minister,
Somersetshise, who mysteriously disap-
peared ON the eve OF his intended we'd
ding to young countess, early in Jan>
uary, is now thought to have been either
kidnapped or murdered. Most curious
of all, the kidnapper or murderer is sus-
pected to be a woman.
| Lidderdale was ministers most prom
inent banker, a citizen of high repute,
and nobody can believe him to have been
guilty of deserving his fiancee. Yet his
bride waited in vain at the altar and has
! not received a word from him since the
day of his vanishing. At first it was
whispered about that there had been
misrepresentation of funds intrusted
his care. Accounts soon exploded this
theory
A MYSTERIOUS DEATH NOTICE.
While in their quandary his bride and
relatives were startled on February loaf
beholding in the Times this surprising
death notice.
"On the 30th of January, ON Miss B. A.
H. Winnings yacht Foresight, William
Robertson Lidderdale, of minister, re-
suit of accident on Sth January, alight-
ing from carriage when in notion"
The whereabouts of the yacht and the
place of the accident were thus unknown.
This led to the insertion, three days
later, of the following:
miss B. A. Fl. Vining is urgently re-
quested to communicate details of the
death of Mr.. W. r. Lidderdale as an
nounced in the Times of the 10th inst,
on board her yacht Foresight, to his
relatives or to Messrs Pritchard g.
Marshall No. 81 Grace Church street,
London"
No response being elieited, Messrs.
Pritchard & Marshall, Undertakes So
licitors advertised in the Times on the
10Th, offering f25 reward for any infor-
nation. Still there was no resi- onse and
the mystery deepened by the discovery,
on searching through all the British and
foreign lists, that there was no such
yacht as the Foresight.
INFATUATED WITH THE BANKER
A Miss B, A. Fl. Vining, an American
lady, residing in the Westminster build
ings, who ha / been a close intimate of
the banker, was also found to have dis
appeared search for persons named
Vining, revealed many, but none of them
could be tracei to Queen Anne Man-
sions, London, where the particular Vim
ing is said to have lived. She is declared
to be wealthy and to have come from
New YORK.
Threatening letters from Miss Vining
have nowcome to light among the miss
ing bankers papers. The writer appears
to have been thoroughly infatuated with
him and Infatuated at his approachiag
marriage She swears that he cannot
thus cast her off. and I'll at she will never
allow him to wed her rival, rather than
which she will kill him.
The dread now is that she has fulfilled
her threat, or TO 'cibly run off with the
object of her desperate love, and adver-
tisements are out Offering large reward
for inform ion a to whether he is living
or dead
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-03-03

with train robbers on record. They had
rliled an express car on the Union Pacific
and were in the mountains not far from
Uyalde, Tex, when they were overtaken
by the Texas Rangers. Thirteen of the
fifteen bandits were killed and the other
two badly hurt. Of the Rangers eight
were wounded and two killed, as was
fully reported in the Press at the time.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-03-03

Thus it appears that the American Ia
borer, with an expenditure less than 10
per cent. greater than that of the Euro>
pean, consumes almost four times as
much sugar, almost twice as much but
ter, more than double the quantity of
meat, nearly so per cent. more flour, and
over twice as much coffee. The report
| shows that while one American iron
worker in five owns the house he lives
in, only one in twenty-five of European
| families in the same industry own their
homes; and in this connection it should
be remembered that the American home
is vastly the more comfortable OF the
two A further comparison is made of
the Incidental expenditures of iron
workers families in the United States
and Great Britain. Where the Ameri-
can is able to pay $s1 yearly for life in
surance the poorly paid British worker
can afford but $9.49. The American
pays $6OS for insurance on property;
the Britain pays $2.38. The American
family is able to expend $11.99 for relig-
family pays $706. The single item in
which the British family expends more
than the American is in intoxicating
liquors.
The facts thus stated are beyond dis
pute. They demonstrate the utter falsity
of the free trade pretense that the pur-
chasing power of the European workers
wages is equal to that of the American
workers wages. These tables show that
the American workingman under pro-
lection is able to buy better and more
nourishing food for the same money than
the European; that his family is much
better housed; and that he can afford to
spend, and does spend. far more in in
cidental expenses than the British work
man under free trade. The free trade
assumption that the foreigner lives just
as we'll as the American is shown to be
utterly unfounded. The whole free
trade position is rendered untenable,
and the sprotectionist argument is tri-
unphantly vindicated.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-03-03

The Salvation Army is rigidly boy
cotted in Finland. No mention of it Of
any kind may appear in public print,
and the law is strictly enforced, even as
regards advertisements.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1892-03-03

Young Cynic "You know, they have
fine idea in China; they kill all the
girl babies and give them to the pigs.n
She; All And here the girls are
not given to the hogs till they have
GROWN I'M III ire
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-04-01
PACIFIC COAST.
Petrifled Forest Found
in California.
NATURAL GAS NEAR OGDEN.
San Francisco Capitalists Purchase .
Mexican Gold Mine---Rate
War Begun
NATURAL GAS NEAR OGDEN.

II is estimated that something like
20, 900 rabbits were slain near Fresno In
the recent drive. Five thousand people
took part.
A petri6ed forest has been discovered
in Mendocino county, Cal. ,on the Reeves
ranch, about six miles north OF the town
OF Willets.
| The question OF retaliation by the
United States against Canadian goods is
causing some excitement among business
men OF Vancouver, B. 9.
General Eli II. Murray has begun a
suit at San Diego against the Mexican
Land and Colonization Company for
500, 900 damages tor an alleged breach
OF contract.
I'll Peono mine In Sonora, Mexico, an
excellent gold property, has been sold TO
San Francisco capitalists for 5000, 900.
They will erect large smelling and mill
ing plant on the property.
G. A. Warren, owEer Of the Butte
(Mont.) Inter Mountain, has just won
his suit in the United States supreme
Court for the possession OF the Comanche
mine In Anaconda, valued at $1,000, 600.
The transfer OF the Seattle, Lake Shore
and Eastern railroad To the Northern
Pacific has been completed. A new
Board OF Directors was chosen, and Jas.
b. Williams OF New York was elected
President.
Work is going ahead vigorously on the
new road known as the Santa Fe, ires-
cott and Phoenix, which starts from the
little town Of Ashfork ON the Atlantic
and Pacific and runs little west and
south through the best portion OF Ari-
zona.
! The rate war between the Union Pa
cific and this opposition steamboat lines
on the Portland and Astoria route has
been formally begun. The reduction OF
the passenger fare by the Union Pacific
water-lines Office TO 81 was promptly met
by the steamers Telephone and Aatorian.
Natural gas has been found near 0g-
den. After boring six days and attain
ing 200 feet six-foot flow OF perfectly
odorless gas WAS struck. Ogden believes
she 10 in the center OF large gas region.
Salt Lake and Ogden will be lighted with
natural gas from the wells south OF Salt
Lake by September /.
Resident sealers at Vancouver, b. O.,
are determined to take advantage OF the
refusal Of the British government TO re-.
new the modus yivendi, and are fitting
all the available vessels for Behring Sea.
Seven new boats have been purchased
recently, and will be made ready for
service without delay.
The majority OF the inhabitants OF
Fallbrook, San Diego county, CAL, have
voted upon IL, 300 acres oi land bonded
indebtedness OF 100000, which with
the interest will llamount In twenty years,
during which full payment has to be
made, to the confecating sum Of $780,
900 or about $84 per acre.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-04-01
PERSONAL MENTION.
King of Greece Threatened for Dis
missing His Ministry-Ages Of
Presidential Candidates.

Baroness Burdett-C Coutfs believes that
sapphire blue velvet the proper mourn
ing color.
General Palmeg, lice many other big
men, has a little wife. Mrs. Palmer Is
described as . /" mite Of i woman
Brother Joseph Cock intimates that
Sunday newspapers are published To
mako money. Well, what IL e Monday
lectureship for, anyhow
Coils P. Huntington thinks wood ss
ing the best exercise for young m
Not that he used TO think 90 II the
when he sawed wood himself.
And now the King Of Greece Ii thseass,
|ened in nenscins letters for his conrg
in diminishing the Ministry. The Z
buainess," as "A. Ward called IL, il
ting decidedly uncomfortable.
Mr.. Cleveland IN 5b, Senator
SO, Senator Allison 63, Senate
50 and Senator Carlisle Sc, VIII
Gray and Sherman Rre pest mil
Grant, who was inaugnfates w
said to have been the ennI II
dent.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-04-01
HAS THREE TIMES THE CIRcUi AIlvn
OF ANY PAPER IN THE COUNTY.
ADVERTISING RATES.

business locals Will be charged at 10 cents per
line for first Insertion and cents per line there
after.
Legal advertisements win In all cases b.
charged TO the party ordering them, at legal
rates, and paid for before affidavit Ia fnrnished
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-04-01
Gillian County.
Condor Precinct.
Union Pacific Railway Time Card.

Taking effect January / lS92. trains will arrive
and leave Arlington as follows via.
KSsr-BouND.
rt.in Ne. 2, fast mai, caves Arlington daily
ct 2s24As NJ
No. !, Pacific express. leaves Arlington daily
at 3.t0PsM
wEsr-BoUND
Train No. l, fast mail, leaves Arlington daily
at :b3 a. NJ
No. Z Pacific express. leaves Arlington daily
at 1854 r. ".
HEPPSER BRANCH TRAINS.
Train No. 81 arrives from Heppner daily. ew-
cept Sunday at II IAN
40. 81 leaves tor HeFpner daily, except San
day, at 1854 r. NJ.
Tar sugh II kets sold and baggage checked
through 10 all points In the United states ana
Canada s. COLLINS, Ticket Agent,
Arlington, or.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-08-04
Higher Education OF Women.

The ghost which questions whether
woman will not lose her wompnly qualities
in the process OF higher education will not
down. writes Mrs. Lyman Abbott in the
August Ladies' Home Journal. II appears
not only in the quiet and shade OF mid,
night. when ghosts have right to appear,
but 1t stalks abroad IN open daylight. The
innocent have always borne the penalty OF
the gnilty. and the clamorous women who
parade on public platforms, and who make
themselves obnoXio.s 10 public COZ yeysni
oes. who give their families peace at home
bv going abroad with their debates, these
are they who throw discredil on their Inno
cent sisters. ! wish might picture the
homes 10 which ] am so happy as TO be
welcome guest, where highest education
for man and woman com bine 10 make high
est happiness and highest usefulness.
Woman may dwarf her best power by cult
tivsting only her emotions, she may do II
by cultivating only her body. and, OF
course. she may do II by cuI,ivating only
her mind but that is not higher education
and whenever young woman has fonnd 3
place where she may obtain knowledge.
and also the ther fruits which perfected
character should bear, she cannot be hurt
by that purenit
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-08-04

Ispent long time 10 wandering about
the Manufactures building. II 10 the big'
gest building ever planned, and II will
have ons roof covering thirty acres. Sem
ator Ingalls, came out and looked u IL the
other day, and as be gszed. sstoundsd At
its immepsity. he said: II is 90 exhsla,ion |
Yesterday 1t WAS not, today II is and to-
morrow it will have passed away. ! can see
how you can fence it 10. but the roof is all
most surpasses human conceptionl Think
OF putting massive glass and iron
roof over thirty acre field That is what
the men are doing here today, and saw
them at work pnttiug up the great iron
trusses which will support this roof.
You cannot conceive the size OF this
structure without seeing it. Three hnni
dred thousand people could be seated on
the floor and in the galleries and 80, 900
could be seated on the floor alone. The
Coliseum at Rome. with sll its galleries.
could only seat 81 900 people. and II was
never roofed except with canvas. You can
put four colisenms on that floor. and two
pyramids as big as Cheops would cit upon
II side by eide and leave room for the Cap
itoI at Washington. II the great py r.mid
was taken TO pieces and carried here ito
material conld be stored in this building
and you could look down upon Its masses
OF stone from the galleries.
This bulldog is about third OF q mile
ipz. Thirty great s,aircsses. so wide
that two car isges could be driven up |
them side by ide, will lead to wide gal
leries and there viii be a street fifty feet |
vide running through the center. With
iis gal cries il wi bsve forty sores Of Aocr
spsce. and It tires ope even TO think Of bs
possible contents.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-08-04

had friend from New York with me
in Boston who was much disappointed
man because be did not meet the Boston
Pirl with glasses. OF whom he had read so
much, or the literary woman dressed in
classical gowns. The fact is that Boston
girls do not effect eyeglasses any more
thrn do the girls of New York or Chicago.
Nor does one meet the literary woman
with the proverbisl cl,ssicsl gown In eth
or a Boston or Cambridge parlor. The
literary woman OF eccentric dress or man'
nerism is as much bsci Dumber in Bos'
ton as she is 10 any other city.
Affecteton Of superior knowledge or eel
centric pronunciation form no more part
OF Boston literary womsn's conversation
than i, does OF the New York woman. Her
grammar, as rule, Is always perfect; her
answers are sometimes models OF evasion,
but 10 this she is not the supe rior OF the
cultivated woman OF any other OF our large
Cities. The Boston type of literary wom'
40 Is, 10 fact. more creature Of the funny
imagination than reality.
She is not distinct in any sense from her
sister 10 other cities. She is simply an
American gentlewomsn, and as such she is
perfection.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-08-04

The major had invited me 10 40 on
with him 10 bis plaItdion. and We wer,
shining q fsld where number OF old
stumps bad been Sc, on FIRE. when be sud
denly stopped. smiled the air, and inquir.
ed.
Can't yen smell something roasting
yeref
Yes, there is qaeer smell
Smells lihe pi ce Of old cowhide thrown
Into the freY
Yes
Smells like that old piece OF cowhids
had got all frizzled upp
Yes 1s anything wrones
Not inst yet. but something viii be sor
ter wrong II don't tind that ouery uieger
who's seeing after these fires. l reckon
he's over by the dead tree.
We walked over the place designs nsted,
and there on the ground. lying on the
broad Of his back, with his hands looked
under bis neck. was a negro fast asleep.
Instead OF boots he had rags on, 40 ID the
rags on both feet we're on fire, and eviden,
'iy had been for long time
Boy Boy Oh, boy called the insjor, az
be touched him with bis boot
Wha-whst's de rumpus, Mars Thomp,
SOM stsmmered the negro as he sat up
md looked around.
Yo'r feet are on fire
Shoe! You doan tell mel
Come stir around or yoll be laid mp.
Yes, ssh-yes. sab HE gwine ter be
novin' right away, but deir's no cause fur
o get excited, Mars Thompson. Dem ar
eet must got sfah airly dis mawin. but
lie fab hain't dun worked down frew de
rst layer o. chilblains yitl Plenty o time
! doan do muffin befo ovenin.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-08-04
A Many sid.d Pr.sta.st.

r.. sident HsrisoD's address before The
Nstionsl Edncstionrl Association ct SArs,
ioes a1 characterized Vt once by gebisl
brightness sni homely good sense. DO
con 20, VAS the play Of bis vii aud plessi
-ntfy ,gt his seds,e and Intellectual sud'
ieuce u sell seasoned teacher. was conyuI
srd ~iib merrimeut; yet there was witbai
80 much that WAS scute 10 bis obserys.
iions. 90 mqeh thst wss philosophical 10
he Z, a ctiops thst this body of trsiaed
ednes,ors lsft his prcsence wi'b Increased
respect Ter the Presiieniis iiiss aud 81
is ged tie consciousness of the dignity OF
oftaeir esllins aud the importsnee Of their
work. There are few public men who
would esre 10 do more thsn to exchange
comnonplsce remsras snd polite eompIi.
ments siih sa assembly Of National sdu'
Gators Of high reputation. The President
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-08-04
1hr Ma,an,o d Ia I.oadou.

During some recent excavations for matt
drainage purposes al Endsleigh street, In
tue northern district OF london, the work
men, at Adeptb OF twenty two feet from
the surface came uron tho remains OF a
mammoth and other prehistoric animals.
portion OF one II the mammoth
tusks on being brought to the surface was
found to measure at it's tbickest part two
feet 10 circumference. and the probable
length OF the iusk in it's original state
would be about TN feet. The loamy soil
10 which these remains were iound also
yielded many seeds OF plants which were
conlemporaneous with them. and which
have since been found to consist OF twenty
species. From these it is learned that the
land WAS at the period indicated OF marsby
nature; and as cert lin other deposits were
found everything these remsins, the geolog,
ioal age during which the animals lived
may be included In what is known AZ the
glacial period. At least, such lie the opin,
ion OF the honorable secretary OF the geol
ogical society. TO whose scrutiny the spec
linens we're submitted.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-08-04
what CoIors 30 Combine

10 making new gowns. or while remod,
cling old ones, care must be taken 10 conf
bine hsrmonizing colors ~ well as mster,
isls that ugree. writes Mics Hooper 10 tho
August Ladies Home Journal. This seal
son has Witnessed an aim ost nubonnded
popularity fcr green. which is one Of the
most useful Of colrs. AZ il corresponds
with tan, gray. blsck. white, and even Law.
eder has been stJlisbly arranged with pale
green, but any such apparently glaripg
contrast must be arranged only by 40 arr
tist 10 the colors and shades Tsn and
brown forms an sdmirable contrast, snd
the gray shades sre worn with pink car
dinsl, black, yellow aud green. Navy blue
looks well With vest Of tan, yellow. pink.
psler blue or deep red, and lavender has
been very fashionable with pink and pale
green, besides always agreeing well With
clear purple shades There Ia q clear Law.
snder, 81 veil {. 3 pinkish shade. and the
latter is more becoming. N well ~ The sty,
lish selection Of present. A sharp con-
irast Ia M agreeable 81 sliebt one, but
harmony snd appropriateness must he
V'rs of en shade lighter OF
or darker ibsn the dress wil com bine bet
Ter than contrast especially II tb. fabric
Of the gown IA ofs Prominent stripe OF
aouvs a. than n hi utn0 .Hset In deslxa
lie. 40 eye for eel " is = welcome giit 70
.ny dresmsker. but is slso one tbst may
be cultivated ~heu nature has denied the
dent. now nscssssry ooe
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-08-04
VOLUME 90.

u smspy sided nan, He ,pssls inuris
bly from full miad. and with nslurslness
and simplicity hss something wise snd
thoughtful 10 say Whenever be meets .
representative body of Amsricsns
There vas something Qasipi 10 the sus
ses,ion ,bsi u is quite IS appropriate that
the Presideni should review the teachers
OF The land as thai he should review its
army or Iis mili.i.. But how lcsicsl Il
seemed when IL vas followed by the re-
Election that the strength and defence oi
National institutions. not only 10 peace,
bal also 10 var. are 10 DO found in tho cd.
uosted youth OF the oouniryl The teschi
ers bighest function In the Presi.icnt's
Judgement Is 10 give 10 education sale
direction. II in family and sohool are
taught the elements OF morality, good citi
isspship, obedience TO Law sud enlie btened
patriotism. education cannot be 30 uudi
recisd or misdirected power. In this ele
va,ed stain the President wen, on TO al.
cnss the modern development OF cd ucaiion
sl processes. 10 forecasts p, Rod when
there should not he found no adult cilirsn
VI the United Stst = without the elements
OF school training. aud TO encourage the
patient workers before him TO take the
highest views OF the great business In
which they were engaged II has ap elpi
meat Of life, be remarked, ha, no other
work has, II not or YVES ~ wealth il net
the luxuty aud ease Of rr,at fortune are
ynnrs, yonfr will bsa mtrs enduring
crown ii il can be said oi YOU that in ey,
cry tlnch upon The lie Of the young you
baye lifted It up
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-08-04

With trembling bands Rosa took the
little book.
All, Charlie. she said. as her heart iremi
bled with delight the plot has been 80
much sltsred since wrJte that 1t is no
ne nov; aud she tore ont The written
pages aud fung them 10 the nre. Ill be-
sin again. ChnlA she then said, and IN
call my story this time, The Story Of Ny
Hsppitess
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-08-04

A Washington wemsn recently rsmsrk
ed: I've hsd ironbls i,h every one OF
my . rsnt. sod ! suppose may sl~sys
/. rpret trouble reckon 20 tin. replied
tis eolofed domestic: / sia't yssr botbin'
yit boat no sogels dat was io0sin far ssr
wee places.