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The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-12-06

out or OUU men under his orders does no
exceed 2 per cent, showing that on tht
whole the men are not ill-carOd for. Thc
number Of accidents also was spokel
Of 90 being insignificant.
AS to wages, they seem to be sufficiently
liberal. Engins drivers Of the frat class
on the state railroads are paid at thI
rate Of 2 forms and so centimes day
with a bonus of from Is to 80 forms
month and an additional bonus of from
10 to y forms for eight months. o.
the same line engine drivers of the thirC
class get 2 forms a day with bonus o
20 florins month. Other employees arr
paid as follows: Stokers from form anC
Is centimes to 2 forms day, with
bonus of 2 forms a month; brSkemen
form day, with q bonus Of 10 florinI
month; head guards 600 florins q year
with bonus Of 16 forms q month; ordi
nary guards 450 AOrins q year, with 1
bonus Of l2 forms The wages of minol
cateRories Of workmen range from 9(
confines to l form and 70 confines @
day, with q bonus of 8 to forms 9
month. The system of bonuses ia some
what complicated, and in some cases con.
stitutes a large addition to the regular
wages. They are given as an incentive
to economy, as, for instance, to engine
drivers for saving in Goals, oil or grease
or for the number Of miles run by the en-
gine without repairs; or as an encourag-
ment, as in the case Of guards, for the
punCtual arrival Of trains and the like.
Some Of the regular laborers both on
the State and Holland railroads are
housed, the rent charged by the Holland
company being u per cent. less than
would be charged elsewhere for similar
accommodation. The men are provided
certain articles Of clothing, or are given
money in lieu thereof. Liberal arrange
ments, too, are made FOR supplying warm
underclothiDg and blankets and also
fuel to the less highly paid men Of the
Holland company out Of q sustentatior
fund kept for that purpose. As many
as 1,7l9 families, with 2637 children,
were supplied in one year with AT
blankets, 624 men's shirts and 467
women's chemises, besides undercloth-
ing Of various kinds. The widows Of
men formerly in the service Of the COM
psny are employed in making these
articles.
The state railway has q sick fund and
pension fund, to which all their per-
mRnent employees and workmen are
bound TO contribute. In cases Of illness
two-thirds Of the wages are paid curing
the first four months, and one third dur
ing the next four months. Medical at
tendance, attendance during confinement
to the wives Of railway servants. and
funeral expenses, are met out Of these
funds, the contribution to which is at
the rate Of / per cent on the regular
wages. Sixty five is at the age at which
the compsny's servants are dismissed,
provision being then made them out Of
the pension fund, as we'll Rs for men who
are incspacisted for work. Pensions are
also granted TO the families of deceased
servants. The contribution to the PEN
sion fund amounts to 8 per cent. the
company paying about $1,000 forms g
year toward it. The Holland and Rhenish
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while the revenue from the private rail-
way companies lines was 12,548,00O
guilders. The expenditure in the state
railways during the same period was 49,
1000 guildeTs, as against 1884, QUO ex-
pended by the private companies. The
traffic on the respective lines during the
same period was:
Goods Passengers
State railways 80. .5,673OOOOOO kilos 11,17S,OOO
Private railways. 2724 100000 kilos 100000
AS an Item of interest l may here add
that in 1890 the total length Of the tram
way lines Of Holland was $50 miles, while
the number Of passengers carried was
3O,086, and Of goods 242,Ol9 kilogrammes.
The revenue Of the lines during the
same period was 1897, 600 guilders.
Some highly interesting information
in connection with the Dutch railways
was elicited last year by commission
which was appointed to inquire into the
question Of labor, wages. ETC., on Dutch
railroads. The lines dealt with were the
state railways, the Holland railway and
the Dutch, Rhenish railway, which, to-
gether, constitute the bulk Of the Dutch
railway system.
An attempt was made so far back as
1875 to regulate by enactment the work
ing hours Of the staff OF all classes on
the railroads. Articles of a royal ordi-
nance Of that year says that "the time
during which railway employees and SER
wants are kept on duty shall be so ar
ranged as to displsce them, except in
unforeseen circumstances. from all work
connected with the railway for an nm
broken period Of eight hours at night, or
when on night duty, Of ten hours during
the day time" According to q number
Of witnesses examined, these regulations
are 90 worded as not to effect the object
in view. 1t not being expressly stated
that eight hours rest are to be granted
out Of every twenty four hours, the regu-
lRtion is in some cases held to be COM
piled With il eight hours are allowed
between the working hours, and II not
more than sixteen hours work is exacted
in every twsnty-four hours.
Article 116 Of the royal ordinance,
further defining night as ''the period be-
tween sunset and sunrise, q large por-
tion of the railway staff, especially in
winter, is kept partly at day work and
partly at night work, so that the rule as
to eight hours unbroken rest is not
strictly carried out. One Of the wit
nesses examined on this point was in
favor Of the English system, which fixes
a maximum Of working hours per week,
with q minimum Of rest between. Com
plants were likewise made as to the ex-
pressive "unforseen circumstances" being
made to include the care of excursion
trains advertised eight days beforehand,
or coal transports requiring continuous
work for twenty hours at q stretch.
Instances of excessive hours were
given. For example, engine drivers and
stokers were sometimes worked seventeen
or eighteen hours, or even as much as
from twenty to tWenty-one hours; guards
from seventeen to eighteen and one-half
hours; pointsmen, twenty hours. A man
at shunting would get nineteen
hours work one day and ten the next.
One Of the causes of length of work.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-12-06

Du'.on House. Topeka, Ka.. ll.'s'isapsl ssy
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-01

blower and ON the administration. by
hanging up the nomination and max
ing pretense of being able to defeat
1t. He then sent word to deputy Presi-
dent Dan Lamont that if the admins
tration would in some public way en-.
dorse the candidacy of Judge Maynard
he would withdraw his opposition to
Hornblower's confirmation. That's
the whole story as far as it has gone.
The Democratic members of the
House Ways and Means Committee say
that the imposition of an income tax
has been decided upon and that it only
remains to determine where it shall
begin, the lowest income that shall be
taxed, what the rate of taxation shall
be and how it shall be collected.
Slowly but surely the Democrats are
carrying out the threat of Senator
Blackburn, to repeal every vestige of
war legislation. The House this week
passed bill amending the revised
statues so that proof of loyalty shall
not be necessary in any application for
bounty land where the proof other
wise shows that the applicant is enti-
tied thereto.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-01
As Well as Not.

An impossible gulf yawned between
their hearts. She sat in low wicker
chair by the window while he leaned
moodily against the mantel. 1t was
not large apartment but the gulf be-
tween their hearts could not have been
less than fourteen feet in width, as the
crow flies. There were tears in his
voice as he spoke. 81 can never" by
supreme exercise of muscular
activity he swallowed few sobs, 'love
another" Then" her hands were
twined tightly together, ''if you speak
truly, l don't see that you have any
further use for this large diamond
ring" After the interchange of con-
ventional civilities usual upon such
occasions he withdrew.-Detroit Tri-
hune.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-01
A Jubilee Magazine.

A famous man is always interesting
when he tells how he did the thing
which brought him his reputation,
and there is particular charm about
Frank R. Stockton's narrative, which
opens the November Ladies' Home
Journal, Of how he conceived and wrote
his famous story, "The Lady or the
Tiger?" what came of its writing, and
the condition of his own mind at the
present time of the correct solution of
the story. The inner personality of
Mr.. Howells has, perhaps, never been
brought 80 close to his public as in the
many sided sketch of thenovelist which
Professor H. H. Boyesen writes of him
in this number of the magazine, under
the title of ''Mr. Howells at Close
Range" Few clergymen in New York
know society and its leaders better than
does the Rev. Morgan Dix DID,. of
Trinity Church, and his portrayal of
THE Society Woman of Today" is as
strong as it is authoritative. Amelia
E. Barr, also, has a strong article in
answering the question "Why DO Not
Literary women Marry" which Octave
Thanet cleverly supplement 3 in brief
article, "But They Do Marry Robert
j. Burdette is at his best in pointing
out what, in his opinion, is "The Task
mistress of Woman" +" while Will Carl
eton suggests his best poems in cap,
tian Young's Thanksgiving" which is
accompanied by characteristic illus
tration by Alice Barber Stephens.
Eugene Field is exquisitely dainty in a
new poem "Shuffle Shoon and Amber
Locks, while Nathaniel Hawthcrne's
daughter, Mrs. Lathrop. displays her
hereditary gifts in story, ''How Love
Can Hide" Palmer Cox has his funny
Brownies" in the polar regions, while
the various editors seem at ttheir bright
test in this number in discussing every
phase of woman's practical life.
With this number the Journal is ten
years old, and the issue is made, in
sense, a jubilee. An interesting illus
trated sketch of the history of the
magazine is happily given, the num-
Der being clothed in decorative panel
cover by A. B. Wenzell, an excellent
piece of work which that artist has not
exceeded for artistic beauty in any of
his previous drawings. To be only ten
years old and have a circulation of
100000 copies each month-the largest
circulation now in the worlds, in
few words, the wonderful record of the
Ladies Home Journal. But it is de-
served. The Journal is published by
The Curtis Publishing Company, at
Philadelphia, for ten cents per issue or
one dollar per year.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-01

their gifts, have done more harm than
good handsome, rich, brilliant, capa.
BILE, generous of heart, but lax in their
sense of moral obligation, indiscreet in
conduct, tolerant of evil, Indifferent to
social scandals, they demoralize by
their example. One obvious sign of
this decentralization is afforded by the
readiness of the community to over
look the sins of women whom it ad-
mires. There must be something wrong
when we are prompt to forgive in
beautiful and witty woman what we
would not forgive in a plain and dull
one. And what is true of the leaders
of society is true of society in general.
The entire community has an inter
est in society" and is warranted in
looking to it for help and good offices.
Let society" recognize the fact and
meet its obligations. Let those who
lead it consider their responsibility and
make it their aim to keep themselves
pure, to set an example of honorable
and decent living, and to put to good
use the privileges which they enjoy.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-01
For Gods Sake, do Something,

Unless something is done soon to
permit of definite understanding of
the issue on which the Democratic ad-
ministration proposes to have the party
stand before the people the party in
this section will suffer more by inac-
ton in the next few months than can
be repaired by all the activity and en-
thusiasm that can be gotten up during
the next years campaign.
AS a democratic newspaper which
stands fiat footed on the Chicago plat
form, on which the party won, and
which, as a defender and supporter of
Democratic principles is not less earn.
est than any newspaper in America,
we insist, in the name and for the sake
of the party, that something be done
to give the people to understand that
the Democratic platform is to be
redeemed, whether Wall street and the
protected trusts of New England favor
such action or not.
For Gods sake, do something: The
serious consequences of inaction are
manifesting themselves in Georgia.
Day before yesterday the fifth county
TO act in the last few weeks, chose
third party tax collector. We refer
to Rockdale County, which, on Tues
day, filled the vacancy caused by the
death of the late Democratic incum-
berent. The man who at the last coun-
ty election was defeated for county
treasurer because he was third party
lite, was on Tuesday elected tax collec-
tor. 1t will not do to ascribe inactivity
of democrats at home as the cause of
four counties out of five electing third
party representatives and county off
GERS. Give the home Democrats
something to fight for. Stop the talk of
repudiating the Democrat platform
and awaken party enthusiasm by en-
phasizing the determination to redeem
every pledge of that platform, the ad-
option of which enthused the Demo-
Gratis of the southern States more than
any other one thing that has been done
in ten years. That platform carried
Georgia for the Democracy by more
10000 votes. 1t made the party in the
South stronger than it has ever BEEN
Atlanta Constitution.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-01
Railway Headaches.

Those who suffer from headache and
feel the fatigue of railway journey
disagreeably should take with them
two leather or silk covered cushions
one for the small of the back, another
to rest the neck and head. An emf
nent doctor once stated that this was
capital antidote to the evils arising
from the jolting of the train, liable
to cause slight congestion of the head
in very long journeys. He furthermore
advised no reading in the train to
those subjected to headaches. New
York times.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-01
The Sins Of Society.

IL would be easy to name women.
prominent in society by virtue of their
beauty, talent, moral purity and force
of character who have been powers for
good in their time, incentives to vir-
tuous and noble living, respected by
men and and acceptable to God, writes
the Rev. Morgan Dix in a vigorous
article on ''The Society Woman of to.
day in the November Ladies' Home
Journal. 1t would be equally easy to
mention others who, Notwithstanding
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-01

thing wrong about the matter, as the
goods came marked to Hall Bros. AS
Upton was terror to the country,
some one wrote Miller Il Co. there was
no such firm as Hall Bros. at Tygart
Switch. There was considerable or
der then il the depot at Enterprise for
Hall Bros, and Miller notified the
agent to hold the goods. This enraged
Upton to terrible degree. He charged
H. B. Felty with reporting him; Felty
was the railroad section master, and he
was after Felty day and night ; shoot
ing at him by day and into his house
at night Felty and all the section
hands had to leave the country. The
Railroad Company, through local de-
tective, took warrant to Elliott Coun,
ty and placed it in the hands of John
G. Howard, constable, and fearless
man. He learned that Upton, with his
vile, had started to move from the
country. Howard, in company with
another man, started to follow Upton,
and when they had gone about twelve
miles overlook him in Morgan County,
accompanied by two of his brothers in
law. When Howard rode up he drew
his gun and asked if he was j. G. Tip
ton he was answered by a shot from
3S Smith & Weston pistol, which
passed through his body. Howard
fired, but missed, and Upton fred again
as Howard turned his horse, shooting
him in the back he lived but few
nours. Upton left, but was hunted
day and night, and was finally betray
ed, arrested and confined in Jail in
West Liberty, Morgan County. His
case was continued, and he was sent to
Mt. Sterling for safe keeping. He was
again taken back to Morgan County
for trial, and the case being again con-
tinued, he was once more sent back to
Mt. Sterling, which is about forty miles
from West Liberty. The Sheriff had
him handcuffed to another prisoner,
and when about twelve or fifteen miles
from town he wrenched the handouts
off the other prisoner hand and again
skipped, under regular fusilade from
the guards.
He was at large for a considerable
time, during which he was charged
with several robberies, among which
was one in Ohio, of a relative by the
name of Upton, of $165 in cash. The
parties followed him to his fathers, in
Carter County, and, it is said and be-
leved, that his father refunded the
money, as the matter was hushed up
and nothing more done about it.
The next robbery of which he and
his chums were accused in Carter
County was the robbery of Mrs. Sophia
Garvin of $500. There Mas no indict-
ment, but it was we'll known and un
derstood that he di it. Some time af-
ter this he and w II Upton, his fathers
half brother, and two other parties by
the name of Toliver, from Ohio, show
ed up in Floyd County, where. they rob-
bed his uncle, Sill Hall, of 81, ,OO4, for
which they were all indicted, together
with one of the faithful brothers III
law who was with him when he killed
Howard. His brother in law was ar
rested and acquitted none of the rest
were ever arrested, as it seemed impos-
sible to convict them under the condi-
ton of things at that time, they being
terror to the community, and the cit
izens were afraid to testify against
them.
ICONCLIJDED NEXT WEEK
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-01

The wisest course in politics is to vote
for the best man, and you can not be
mistaken. So in the use of blood pu-
rifiers, you can't be mistaken if you
take Ayers Sarsaparills, because all
parties agree that it is the best-the su-
perior medicine. Try it this month.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-01

Fond Mother-"And so my little angel
Joined the Little Defenders today, and
will always be kind to dumb animals2"
Little Angle-"Yes'm. Comm home
l met man wife bag full of kittens
at he was goin' to drown, and he prom
issd to bring them here for us to be kind
tO ~
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-01

The Moors believe that Boabdil and
his hosts are sleeping in cave in the
hills of Grenada, and that they will
sooner or later venture forth and re-
store the glory of the Moors in Spain.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-01

The gran total number of coins
gold, silver, copper and bronze-now
in circulation throughout the United
Kingdom is more than 900, ,OOO, 900,
which would mean three for every
inhabitant of Europe.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-01
Life is Misery

to many people who have the taint of
scrofula in their blood. The agonies
caused by the dreadful running sores
and other manifestations of this disease
are beyond description. There is no
other remedy equal to Hood IS Sarsapa-
rilla for scrofula, salt rheum and every
form of blood disease. tits reasonably
sure to benefit all who give it fair
trial.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-11-01

The joints and muscles are SO lubri-
Gated by Hoods Sarsaparilla that all
and stiffness soon disap-
pears. Get only Hoods.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-02-11
FOREIGN.

The island of Zante, in Greece, was
shaken by another earthquake and q
hundred houses were wrecked and
many persons were killed and injured.
explosion of firedamp in coal pit
at Recklinghausen, Germany, killed
eighteen miners and seventeen others
were injured.
ABOUT 500 houses were destroyed by
fire at Shibushi. Japan, and many lives
were lost
IRA MULoCK, president of the de-
funct bank of Florence, Col, died in
Mexico, where he had been exiled for
several years to escape criminal prose-
cution.
A FIRE in ROLAND Bros furniture
warerooms in Montreal caused loss
of 100000.
The state legislature of Pueblo,
Mex, has abolished bull-fghting.
THE Banco de Roma Y la Plata at
Buenos Ayres has suspended payment
in consequence of the loss of 81, 900, 900
in gold caused by the speculation of
the manager of the concern.
In riot at Bogota over an article
in newspaper alleging widespread
lSuOEauCC dilOuR thC lduollilS CliSStS
100 men were killed and 500 wounded.
ANOTHER great gold discovery has
been made 100 miles south of OaXaca,
Mexico, and hundreds of prospectors
were flocking to the new fields.
IN accordance with the ancient
Roumauian custom the weddings of
thirty-two peasant couples, represent
ing the thirty-two districts of Rouma-
MIA, were celebrated at Bucharest in
the presence of Prince Ferdinand and
his bride.
INCEssANT rain for several days
caused floods throughout Queensland.
Several towns were under water, hun
dreds of persons We're homeless, and
thousands of head of cattle were
drowned.
ALGERNoN SARToRIs, who married
Nellie Grant daughter of Gen. Grant,
died at Capri, Italy. He had not lived
with his wife for some years.
FURTHER advices from the floods in
Queensland say that several districts
were 20 feet under water and hundreds
of persons were drowned. The prop
erty loss would be immense.
Four new cases of cholera and two
deaths from the disease were reported
in Altoona, Germany.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-02-11
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THOMAS w. BENNETT, ex-governor Of
Idaho, who was appointed by Presi-
dent Grant, died at his home in Rich
mond, Ind.
MRs. CATHERINE ROBINSON died at
oskaloosa, Ia, aged 102 years and II
months
THE Michigan supreme court handed
down decision in the contested cleo
ton case in the Fifth congressional
district, seating Charles e. Belknap,
the republican candidate.
REV. w. j. TUCKER, d. D., professor
of sacred rhetoric at Andover theolog-
ical seminary, has been elected presi-
dent of Dartmouth college at Concord,
N III.
MRS. WILLIAM c. WHITNEY, wife of
the eS-secretary of the navy, died at
her home in New York, aged 40 years.
MRS. MARY WIKEL, of Atlanta, ILL.,,
died at the age of 100 years months
and 81 days.
b. +. HowEY, an ex-congressman,
died at his home in Belvidere, N. j.,
aged 6S years.