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THE LABOR WORLD.

IT takes 1,5OO, 900 men to work the worlds
coal mines.
In Naples, Italy, compositors are paid Is
little as $1.25 q week.
SEVERAL Pittsburg mills that were idle al
summer have started up. ....
TEN THOUSAND people are employed as tele-
phone operators In this country. ..
IT is estimated that since July 800,-
900 employees have lost their situations.
Iy Chicago. according to an exact count,
79, 1854 wage workers are out Of employment.
NzAHLY 2, ,OOO, 900 wageworkers are out of
employment In England since the coal strike
began.
A LARGE number of idle miners from the
Michigan Upper Peninsula districts are leav-
ing for the mines in Alaska.
A Law In England provides that no
person under eighteen years shall be en-
ployed about shop for longer than seventy
four hours, including meal times, In any ono
week.
TIE Chinese In California have chance to
20 to warmer climate. They are offered
$25 head In British Guiana to hoe sugar
cane and dig gold. The colony only wants
5000 Of them. f.......
The north Of England miners live, on an
average, three years longer than Enslishmen
taken as whole. They live eight years
longer than the Cornish and nine years longer
than the South Wales miners.
BRASS grinders working by the piece are
able to earn about $40 week, but their
average life time Is not quite thirty five years.
Most OF them die from hemorrhage Of the
lungs, caused by particles ofthe brass inhaled
by the men while at work.
ALL the collieries OF the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company at Shenan-
dosh, Penn, have resumed operations under
orders to work six days each week for two
months, the miners to be paid at the rate of
five per cent. above the $3.50 basis.
STATISTICS show that the entire agriculture
OF the world furnishes employment to $50 ,O00,-
900 men and represents an invested capital OF
1924, ,O0O, ,000, 900. The annual product Is
worth over 500, 900 ,000, 900. 1t is estimated
that the civilized Nations pay annually for
food S19, zoo, 100000.
A PARIS shop girl ordinarily begins at a
salary OF from S5 to 50 O month. Besides
she invariably has commission on her
sales, varying from one half to one per cent,
according to her success. Many receive as
high as $50 q month In salary and make
much more In commissions.
TIE Government Of Portugal has ap-
propriated sufficient funds to establish
labor exchanges, under the control OF
organized labor, In the larger cities and in
dustrial centres OF that country. These e1-
changes are under the supervision OF tho
Department for Commerce and Industries.
LABOR bureaus which were expected to
solve the problem of the unemployed In
London have proved disheartening failure.
At one Office some 800 applicants in search
of work Of any kind registered, and only
F.. I1IS& hat
after three months work the bureau found
employment for ouly two men.
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AN IMPROVED LIFEBoAT.
It is Built to Travel Equally Well In
Either Direction. ss

A novel lifeboat has Just been completed In
Baltimore. Md. The boat was designed and
is patented by Charles Dickinson. and Is In
tended for use from vessels or at hfe-saUng
stations. The model, says the Baltimore
Sun. Is eighteen feet long, with four feee
width of beam. 1t is constructed OF galvan-
lied iron and is called sef-r1ghter and SELL
bailer. The boat Is built to travel equally
we'll In either direction, both ends being tho
same. At each end hooded cabin rises
above the sides and Is closed by Q Water-agne
door. It is said that should the boat be over
turned it would instantly right ITSELF By res
son OF the air contained In these compart-
ments. Ventilation Is secured by atr-tubes,
closed by valves, to prevent the entrance OF
water when waves wash over the boat or IL
Is overturned In the seq. Between the TWO
end compartments the boat Is decHed over
and has seats and oarlocks for rowers. Be
meath the deck Is tank for fresh water, WIN
a tube leading to it. to which may be attached
a pump. Another tube leads to the bottom
for pumping out any water which may.De
washed into the hold. A third tube s 1or
holding signal staff. The boat has mar
TO the keel, which will serve to carry on
water from the deck. A feature OF the boat
Is a means Of self-propulsion to and from
stranded vessel to the shore. small tupe
runs from each end to the deck section.
Through these tubes rops may be passed
and a turn taken around u reel and wlnd!ass
in the middle OF the deck. With one end OF
the rome fastened on board tho vessel from
which the boat is launched and the other
fastened on shore after the boat is,rowed or
has drifted through the breakers, 1t IS claimed
the little vessel may be easily propelled from
one place to the other by turning the wind
lass A special carriage is built for the boat
by which it may be launched from any part
OF vessels deck and in any position. A sea-
anchor or drag Of a peculiar pattern Is car
ried, to be thrown out and keep the boat OUT
Of the trough of the seas.
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LATER NEWS.

TIE failure OF j. 8. McCsleb, who con-
Quoted banks in Uniontown and Connells-
Vile, Pennsylvania, is found to be much
more serious than at first supposed. bis
place OF business was surrounded by mobs
Of angry Hungarian and Italian credi-
tors, who threatened to kill McCaleb on
sight. The clerks in the banks have armed
themselves to protect the property of their
employer. .s +.
A TRAIN ran into an open switch at Whit
ing, Ind, causing the engine, mail-car and
two Pullmans to leave the track. The dead
are Henry Warner, engineer {; John Christie,
fireman. Six passengers were injured. q
MISS Eta GUM and Josephine Dresser
we're walking along the railroad track near
Bluffs, Ill, and train came up behind
them before they were aware Of the danger.
Miss Gum was killed instantly, and Miss
Dresser was fatally injured. s.
BR1aAD1ER GENERAL BREcKNRrDeE In q
report to the War Department declares the
seacoast defences In the South are in dis
graceful condition. 81
TIE Tucker bill, repealing all present
Federal election laws, was passed In the
House Of Representatives by strict party
vote, 200 to 101.
THE rebel Brazilian warships again bonn
barded the forts at Bio Janeiro. t.g. M
A POLICEMAN and sanitary official were
killed In cholera riot In st. PAUL, a suburb
OF Hamburg. Germany. IA
FIVE students were dismissed and Ave sus-
pended for hazing at Princeton QS. - Col
lege. i.s5t &; q :;.
THE Flint Glass Worlprs Union, all the
men employed by tho United States Glass
Company, better known as the Flint Glass
Trust, In its sixteen fsctories, went on strike
at Pittsburg, Penn. The company employs
$500 nen. The Flint Glass Workers Union
Is considered the strongest labor organiza-
tion In America. It has 1000 members and
has In it's strike fund $175, 900.
The American yacht Vigilant and the
British contestant valkyrie met In q race OF
fifteen miles to windward and return on
Sandy Hook, N. j., but the wind failed and
they. could not finish within the six hour
time limit Erst IL ~ RI
cosszcr1cur DAY was celebrated at the
Worlds Fair
REcErvsRs were appointed for the Chicago
and Northern Pacific Railroad by the United
States Court at Chicago, I'll.
DAVE JACKSON, a colored wife-beater, was
taken out OF the CoHngton Ola } jail by a
mob and hanged.
SEVERAL thousand additional men will be
needed to man Uncle Ssm's new warships.
A MAIL boat plying between Roussy and
Edsy in the Orkney Islands. was upset In q
squall and the two boatmen, woman and
her three children, were drowned.
CHOLERA Is decreasing in Russia, although
the mortality Is still heavy. s.,s - (.
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tory. It stops its vigils. however, at sun
down, and begins again in the morning,
which is the salvation of the bibulous Guate-
malan, who keeps one of these birds in the
house.
On the east wall OF the open court there Is
painted map which shows the location OF
the principal towns and the railways already
built, in course OF construction and pro-
iected. The principal work the Government
is doing at present is the building of rail-
way which, when completed, will connect
San Jose. the principal town on the Pacific
coast, with Puerto Barrios, on the Gull OF
Honduras. Already the city OF Guatemala.
the capital of the republic, has been reached
from San Jose, and 175 miles OF the road has
been constructed from the Puerto Barrios
end. The Government has already e1pend-
ed 5000, 900. The total cost OF the Work 1t
Ia estimated, will reach $40, ,000, 900.
The the Guatemalans claim that for flavor
their coffee is the best In the world. TO ad-
yertise 1t to the American people they have
built pavilion by their building, where they
serve Guatemala coffee to tho music OF the
narimba. In the center Of the building is
an open court, where about fountain Is
displayed the exhibit Of the fora OF the eoun-
try. Pictures are hung about the balcony
which show the principal places IN the city
Of Guatemala and the other large towns.
SSesSs
there Is a line Of volcanic peaks, the loftiest
OF which Is that OF Tajumulco, which is over
14,4O0 feet above the level Of the sea. The
land of Guatemala is dotted with lakes, some
of which are very large. The population OF
the country in 1892 was 1, $40, ,32e. More than
two-thirds of these people are Indians, the
other part being Lsdinos, descendants OF the
white race and mixture Of Europeans and
Indians. The Indians for the most part are
devoted to agriculture, while the Ladinos
are engaged In commercial pursuits. Gpst.
emala Is one Of the most fertile Of the Central
or South American republics. Without oul-
tivation pineapples, oranges. bananas, lem.
ons, anona, zapote and almost al! kinds OF
tropical fruits are produced. In the north
eBstern and southwestern parts Of the ooun.
try are vast forests. Gold, copper, iron and
silver mines are worked with great gains.
All OF the South American republics have
courted immigration In emulation OF the
United States, but most Of them without
very bright results.
Guatemala is ruled by political code
which was adopted in 1879 and in part re-
vised in 1885. The President is elected di-
rectly by the people. His term OF office Is
six years, and by the constitution he is not
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KOREA AND GUATEMALA.
THEIR STRIKING EXHIBITS
AT THE WORLDS FAIR.

This Is the First Time Far-off Korea
Has Taken Part in an Interna-
tionaI Exposition-Article of In
terest on Exhibit - Guatemala
and Its Productions.
This is the first time, according to the
Chicago Record, that Korea, commonly
known as the "hermit Nation" has partici-
pated in an international exposition. Though
she has been open to the world for more
than ten years, her relations with other
powers have not been intimate, except with
China, Japan and Russia. BY these three
Nations she is surrounded and jealousy
watched lest she may become either too IN
dependent or too much under the influence
OF one of these three powers. Korea thus oc-
cupies q very delicate and DANGEROUS po-
sitfon and must act cautiously with other Na-
tions She Is less known than either Japan
or China. Her exhibit, therefore, In the
Worlds Columbian Exposition, is very I'M
portant and instructive;
The Korean booth is in the southwestern
part of the Manufactures Building, and, be-
ING small, is crowded with exhibits. 1t ID In
charge of Royal Commissioner Jeung Kiung
Wow, who, with his associates, lives at 275
Forty-second street. The Korean flag, which
hangs from the booth, is blue and yellow,
and as symbol has very interesting neon
ing. As explained in the preface OF DR.. d.
N. Aliens book on Korea, the flag represents
the male and female elements OF nature.
Blue stands Tor the heaven, or male eie-
mont, and yellow stands for the earth, or fe-
male element. As seen across the eastern
sea- the heavens seem to lap over and en-
brace the earth, while the earth to landward
rises in lofty mountains and folds the
heavens in its embrace, making harmo-
nious whole. Such Is the explanation OF the
curious design on the Korean flag. The four
characters around the central figure repre-
sent the four points OF the compass.
Just at the left OF the entrance to the booth
are some miscellaneous articles of consider
able interest: A cupboard with dishes, a
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-10-25
STORM STRICKEN SOUTH.
AWFUL WORK OF WIND AND
WATER ON THE GULF.
The Dead Estimated at Fully Two
Thousand-GreatS Suffering Among
the Survivors-Immediate Relief

The Dead Estimated at Fully Two
Thousand-Great Suffering Among
the Survivors-Immedi Relief
Needed-The Stricken District to
be Abandoned as HabItation.
A late dispatch from New Orleans, La,
Gays The news from every section stricken
by the storm makes 1t safe 10 estimate the
loss Of life at fully 1000, while property worth
millions of dollars was destroyed. Besides
that; thousands Of people have been deprived
of the means OF making O livelihood. The
situation is appalling, but New Orleans is
want DR.. Story, Coroner Of Paquemine
Parish, has made the following report:
"a good many carloads Of provisions and
clothing have been sent. but not near
enough. Men, women and children are
without food and clothing. It Is frequent
sight to see little sufferers crying and beg
ging piteously for something to eat. Single
graves for the dead were impossible. Great
trenches wore dug and bodies were piled In
one on top Of the other. The earth was
thrown over them, and II their names were
above the graves. - I do not think exag-
gerate the facts when state that at least
2500 souls were ushered into eternity by the
recent storm in Louisiana. This, Of course,
includes those at Bayou Cook, Cheniere
Caminada, Grand Isle, etc. I never saw
bodies decompose so rapidly az those of the
storm sufferers which were Viewed by me.
This was due to the fact that the fish and
crabs in the bayous eat the remains. be-
Heye firmly that the marshes and other places
are filed with human forms.
sit Is impossible to get at these however
as no one Is adventurous enough to explore
the swamps. There can be no doubt OF the
fact that this Is conducive to an epidemic Of
fever. or even cholera. II one case of the
latter disease should develope it would
spread through the country like wildflre, but
nothing can be done to prevent this"
The relief party which set out from Biloxi
tells an awful story OF the destitution and
loss Of life in the Louisiana marshes. The
marshes are filed with dead and putrefying
bodies, in very few cases the corpses being
recognizable. The number OF lives lost on
these marshes will never be known. The
territory covered was distance of 200 miles.
Newly made graves were everywhere. The
only sign OF life seen in the marsh was one
dreds Of oyster boats and luggers were lost
with most OF their crews, and the few sur
vivors tell terrible stories Of suffering. Most
Of them were nude when found.
Captain Julian Lefort, the leading spirit
among the survivors OF the Cheniere Camin-
ada, places the number Of saved at 800. The
population Of the island and the bayons i'm
mediately connected with It was slightly
more than 1900. He says 1t will be abandoned
as habitation OF nan. Grand Isle and
Chemedeleur will also be abandoned.
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FOSSILS AT. THE FAIR.

There are all forms Of fossils ranged In
rows OF cabinets and cases In the south gal
lery OF the Enthropological Building. The
evolution of the first form of life to its per-
fection-man-is laid out and traced In order,
according to the lore Of paleontologists In
the Ward collection. Cabinets OF crusta-
ceans, trilobites, crinolds do not alone mo-
nopoltze the space Of the exhibit IN paleon-
tology. There arc all sorts OF things OF all
the geological ages, from the first to the
latest before our own, from the Laurentian
to the auaternary. There are reproductions
of the forms of giant reptiles, mastodons and
models of the hugo beasts OF prehistoric
times. To the mind OF the paleontologist the
term antediluvian does not convey the I'm
preston of great antiquity. He deals with
things Of the age when the earth was shape
less, molten mass, OF the a2e'when 1t first
began to cool SO that existence was made
possible upon It.
The models Of these prehistoric animals
probably attract more attention than any
other exhibit in the Anthropological Build
inc, The largest Of these models is that OF
the great Siberian mammoth which stands
near the center Of the south gallery. The
restoration was made by the celebrated Ger
man preparatem, Herr L. Martin. The
measurements were taken from the largest
bones OF the mammoth contained In the
NA''A
acter OF the outer covering Is copied from
portions OF skin, covered with hair, taken
from a mammoth that was found in 1893 in
glacier Ice near the mouth OF the River Lena,
in Siberia, and Is now preserved in the I'M
perial museum of st. Petersburg. Thespeci-
men stands sixteen feet high and twenty-five
feet long from its tail to the forward curve
OF the tfnnk. The tusks are nearly ak feet
long and curved. A huge skeleton OF
plesiosaurus, marine reptile OF the jurassic
fine, stands with a coterle OF other models.
The original specimen was found in 1S48 in
the Lias, near Whitby, England. II meas
ures over twenty-five feet and would be
hideous compliment to any nightmare.
A restored cast in plaster OF the huge dino
saurian reptile, the hadrosaurus foulku,
from the upper cretaceans OF New Jersey.
stands near the huge mammoth. testudo
OF wonderful proportions, and an immense
ungulates or hoofed ANIMAL called the dino
saurus which, In rhe tertiary day, were nu-
mero,ls in Wyoming.
In the inalosure OF the Ward exhibit are
the skeleton and several legs OF various speci-
mems Of moa, gigantic, wingless bird, found
in recent deposits in New Zealand. The moas
skeletons, with portions OF the skin and
feathers still adhering. have been found.
A glyptodon relic OF the latter part OF the
cer;iary age was found near Montevideo. A
east OF this animal is contained in the Ward
exhibit. II was huge armadillo, but with
out the bands or joints present In modern
species, by means OF which they can roll
themselves into Il ball. There are nearly q
score or more OF these peculiar animals, all
| OF which have no counterparts in modern
| life
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TIE House.

47rH DAY.-yoe bill placing the Secretary
OF Agriculture IL the Line OF the Presidential
succession was passed. on the
Federal Elections bill we're made by Mr..
Murray and Mr.. Haines in the negative, and
by Mr.. Russell and Nr. Money IN the affir-
native.
4srH DAY.-The COLL OF committees for re-
ports was dispensed with, and the Federal
Election bill was taken up. It was Dis
.cussed by Messrs. Hainer, Hicks, Brook
shire, Cummings, Tawney, Tslbert and Gels
senhainer.
4sTH DAY.-The Federal Election bill was
taken up, and. Mr.. Everett advocated It. he
was followed by Messrs. Grosvenor, Oates,
Hepburn, Swanson. Cannon and Hunter.
Fifteen members were present when, at 8. .4b
d8lock, the House took recess until b
O'Clock, when the debate was continued.
50TH DAY-The consideration Of the Fed
eral Election bill was resumed, and MIR.
Aldrich spoke in opposition to it. He was
followed by Messrs. Dolliver, Boutelle, Payne
and Fitch.
51sr DAY.-The day had boen set for the
passage Of the Federal Election Repeal bill.
Routine business was first transacted, but at
10 o'clock the flrst vote was taken on MI.
Burrows's amendment 10 Mr.. Laceys
amendment, and it provided for the reten-
ton Of sections zoos, zoos, 2O07, 2008 and
were eishty-one in the affirmative and 1873
in the negative. The yeas and nays
were ordered. The vote was-Yeas, 100 {;
nays, 1872 The next vote was on the
Lacey amendment, which strikes from
the repeating clause the criminal sections OF
the statutes. The Lacey amendment was
defeated-Yeas, ninety-si1; nays, 1872 Mr..
Fitch then withdrew his substitute for the
Tucker bill. The Tucker bill was passed.
Yeas. 200 nays, 101 a strict party vote. The
Populists voted with the Democrats In the
affirmative The House then, at 2.45, ad-
journed.
52D DAY.-The bill to amend the Chinese
Exclusion act WAS debated by Messrs: Nc
Crcary and Geary. bill to remit the
penalties on the dynamite cruiser fesuVius
was then taken ND. The amount involved in
the bill Is S99, 700. No action was taken.-
MIR. Hunter asked unanimous consent for the
consideration of 4 joint resolution providing
for recess of Congress. Mr.. Cultivate OBJ
lected and the resolution WAS referred to
the Committee on Rules.
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Washington.

TIE. nominations of. J. Van Allen to be
Ambassador to Italy, and OF r. E. Preston
to be Director OF the Mint, were favorably
reported to the Senate in executive session.
The Secretary OF State has received des-
patch from Mr.. Fishback, Secretary OF the
United States Legation In the Argentine Re-
public, saying that the revolution has ended
and the country is ut peace.
ORDERS have been sent by the Navy De-
partment to Rear Admiral Belknap at New
London, Conn, directing him to send out
she dynamite cruiser Vesuvius on the unique
and hazardous duty of blowing up fourteen
!derelict vessels that endanger navigation.
The President sent in the following nomi-
nations Stephen Bonsal, OF Maryland, now
Secretary Of Legation at Peking, to be Sec
retary of Legation at Madrid, Spain Charles
DENLY, Jr, OF Indiana, now second Secre-
tary OF Legation at Peking, to be Secretary
of Legation at Peking, China.
TIE President has appointed these Con-
suls: F. A. Deane, OF Michigan, at Naples.
Italy: Marshall Hanger, OF Virginia, at Ber-
muda; w. B. Hall, OF Maryland. at Nice,
France, Edgar Schramm. OF Texas, at
Montevideo, Uruguay J. H. Stewart, OF New
York, ut st. Thomas, West Indies P. B.
Spence, OF Kentucky, at Quebec; Reayel
Savage, OF MARYLAND, at Nantes, France; E.
s. Wallace, Of South Dakota, at Jerusalem,
Syria.
A TREASURY statement just issued shows
the total paper money Of each denomination
outstanding on October l to aggregate
81, ,126, 1896, ,03l.
The Presidents family moved from the
White House to "Woodley," Mr.. Cleveland's
suburban residence. Mrs. Cleveland and
her babies and Mrs. Perrins, her mother,
will remain at "Woodley' for several weeks,
in order that Mrs. Cleveland may fully re,
gain her strength for the winter season9
social duties. The President will spend his
nights in the country and will drive to the
White House in the mornings.
TIE Joint Congressional Commission to
inquire into the status OF the laws organic
ing the Executive Departments, etc., has
made report showing that there are 612S;
more persons employed there than arr
specifically appropriated for, and that o;
II, 500 employees 5610 have from one to mind
relatives each in the Government service at
Washington.
PRESIDENT RODRIGUEZ, OF Costa Rica, de-
mandeI reciprocity as condition OF hls
surrender OF Embe2zler Weeks tothe authori'
ties Of this country.