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to manufacture your goods and supply

soue ss 9snnsaetops o%a yeur goods and supply
His answer was: 1--WE want the Amer
ican market. It is the greatest market
,H the world and during the time the
Mckinley bill was law our manufac-
turers re were quite paralyzed."
Inere was exported from Bradford
during the last nine months of the ex-
lstence OF the Mckinley law $4.47S, GOO
worth Of goods. This was from January
!, 1894, to September 30. 1894. During
the the corresponding period Of the following
ber 80. 1850, under the Wilson bill,
the exports from Bradford amounted to
$2l,11l:O 600. Five times as much under
the Wilson bill as under the Mckinley
Oil. The total exports for the year 1895
MSn IRON Bradford amounted to $27. .745.O eco.
but consist chiefly of card clothing. cot
ton goods. iron and steel, machinery,
hosiery, stuffed goods, worsted goods,
yarns, silks, etc.
Mr.. Meeker, United States consul at
Bradford, furnished me these statistics,
Whch were taken from his reports to the
state department.
f We. manufacture similar goods in
America: but on account of the Wilson
tariff bill we have been deprived of the
chance to manufacture them, and the
money which should have been paid to
our own working people has been paid
to the laboring people of Great Britain
Our chimneys have ceased smoking,
while theirs are in full blast. Our
working people are idle and deprived of
q living on account of this iniauitous.
free trade, Wilson tariff.
Businexs Ihrives in Birmingham.
! left Bradford on August "a for Bir-
mingham, passing through Leeds and
Sheffield, whose iron and steel works are
in full blast. Not only in these places,
but all over England, this line of in
dustry is prospecting. And the factories
IRE running full time, and the greater
part of their product is shipped to the
United States. And while their works
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who wal was very sick. An around were
signs of poverty. 1t was not ft for hui
man beings. It made me chill with
pity as looked on this terrible scene.
Going through a little court about 1Ox
to the shop where one of his daughters
makes chain with another woman. l
asked her name and she told me Clara
Boxley. Her age is % years.
years and receives from $1.75 to $2.16
a week for her work. She makes three
eighths inch chain and is paid $1.O2 for
bread and butter and tea and sometimes
a piece of bacon. She. told me she
worked from o'clock in the morning
suntil in the evening; that the only rea-
son she staid there was because she
could not save enough money to pay her
fare away from the town.
The buildings look as if they had stood
the little court leading into the house
and which is walled on every side by
houses l counted fifteen little children
from to 6 years of age playing to-
gether in oil the filth that could sur
round a blacksmith shop in this district.
another daughter was making chain.
She is married, has one child and makes
$216 per week.
She has been making chain for twenty
years, having commenced when she was
IL years old. Her husband, chain
maker also, earns from s. to- $3.50 q
week.
Mrs. Polly Fowkes has four daugh-
ters making chain. She is "a years old
and has made chain since she was q
years of age, but is now too old to work
at it any more. Each of the daughters
makes from $t.2O to $1.5O per week.
They live in little old house, with
stone flooring. Here they cook and eat
and live in the same room all huddled
together. The girls are very smart at
the forge. set five girls to work in
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ground floor of this lodginghouse is a
large room for the men to sit in. The
kitchen below contained" a large closed
cooking range, which was. red hot, and
the odor Of the cooking going on made it
anything but enviable to be in. The lodg-
ers all cook for themselves and have q
variety of things to cook and they are
not very particular as to how many diff
ferent things are cooked together in the
same pot. We went upstairs and saw
395 beds, which are let Mt three differ
ent prices-6, 8 and IL cents per night.
The l2.cent lodger has place boarded
OFT to himself-nO water. no towel.
Wealth and Poverty Mixed.
Manchester. with her 100000 popula-
tion, boasts of her wealth and manufac.
turing resources and one would suppose
that all of the people alike lived in pal.
aces; but to examine into the exact con.
dition I find quite the reverse. Thou
sands of these people live On alcohol,
When they earn any money, it goes for
alcohol chiefly.
Coming back to my hotel, the Queens.
facing one of the finest streets in Man.
chester, is the Royal infirmary, ali along
the front of which there are seats which
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One pauper to every g persons. twenty.
eight paupers to every 1000 persons.
Cost to- maintain these paupers
: annually. ..:...:.............$5 .$57. .S25475
c the royal family. ~ .:..:....;:..: 49,. -. .2,eos77o
Cost to maintain the president
and his secretaries. ........... e6t COO
The population of the British empire,
Including India and the colonies, is 346.-
OOO,OOO. There are 50 colonies and 40
distinct governments.
Life In London.
I arrived in London August %, ond
made q visit to Whitechapel. visited
lodging house on Osborne street. I
daced to him. y They call a him i .;the Isoy gov
ernor" to distinguish him from other
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bed and few pots. These rooms are
sublet for 12. cents a night for two
size IL by 10-where people eat, cook
and sleep. I entered some Of these
houses-:if such a name could be given
to the novels ! saw-and in one asked
"Do you rent this?'' EYES," was the
.s Whrs y, 70 DO you .ps pay for t'" -Four and
"Haye you the whole honse?" '.No.
sir; only this ROOM" lSize 12 by 1O.y
DO you sleep in hcre?" Eyes. sir:
we sleeps. eats. cooks and everything
'.Yoa have room above-up the
.Can I go up?" Eyes. dare say he
/, will let you"
Before go up I would like to ask,
What do you do for u livingy'' my
husband sells sandstone, sand and blue
mole, or he gives the stone and gets
rags, bottles, bones or old iron for
then"
What does he earn in week?"
a: this question the woman smiled.
"WeIl. it depends-sometimes more.
sometimes less. One day perhaps q shjl-
ling "a cents), another day i and 8
(36 centsl and SO on 4,
I should say here that the agent finds
they are, for / will not attempt to de.
scribe them. This I will say-no dog
of mine should ever be allowed to sleep
on what is called bed in those places.
The whole outfit was not worth 10
cents.
Have you back yard ~ "No, SIR
'sWhere is your closet, then ?"
There, sir, pointing to three closets
In me street.
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the working people and comparing their
wages with, those of Americans. -Four
years ago I made second visit for the
same purpose and ON August '12, 1895,
left New York, for the third time, to
make another investigation. arrived
in Manchester on August 20 and there
began my investigation. where found
more destituti0n than T. had ever seen
in any other city.
The s.Cesspool" of Manchester.
Standing, looking up Angel meadow,
a graveyard on the left and behind one
of the worst courts in Great Britain,
public houses of course, and all around
u population struggling in the ocean Of
moral and social degradation, it has
been called the 'cesspool Of Afanches-
ter" Its history is history of dirt,
vile crime, drunkenness, riot, cruelty
and robbery. The houses are low and
dilapidated, and many are villainous
holes, unventilated, undrained, corrupt,
reeking with smells, utterly infamous
and sickening both to body and mind
all this within few minutes walk of
the Queens hotel, the Exchange and
railway stations.
There are scores of rooms furnished
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are occupied by poor people from the
slums. was informed that many sat
there the whole night. so ! arose early
the next morning and went across to the
seats and found that 80, IL Of whom
were women, one with child. had sat
.here an night because they had not the
itetnssary cents for bed: !
The trade of Manchester is very much
depressed at present-awaiting the nres.
i ldential election in the United States.
The merchants of the United States are
making very. small purchases now. be.
cause they fear ii new tariff bill and.
.'ss, ueea" american consumption is less.
aned . through the idleness of the people
facturers and shippers here do not want
any change in the present American Am Mcn,
tariff. But they say they would rather
nave Mckinley for President than Rrv.
an. Tor It Bryan is elected and q silver
standard s,'a declared in the United States.
they cannot sell their goods at ali TO
6r; as the London Times state,I I,s'f.sy = fn,y
days ago. his infamous tariff hin
Trade Paralysis IN Bradford.
Leaving Manchester, 1 visited Brad.
ford, which is the largest woolen and
shoddy manufacturing district in tho
as United States shipments are - con. On.
cerned at present. The manufacturers @
are awaiting the election Of the Presi-
whether he will be free trader or M pro.
tectionist. The merchants are very much
agitated on this account--for they can
get but few orders from the United
States. said to one of them: "You
have now the whole British empire On
cluding India). with population of nj
most 35O, ,O0O, 600 controlled by her ma jcs-
ty, to surply; why are you not satisfied
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There are 519 friendly societies -
trades unions in Great Britain with .
membership Of 1.043, 600 taken from ~
port of House of Commons). Geyesak
of these societies are located In Lohdens
and include some of the trades emmes~
ated in the Booth table. The societies..
control the wages Of their various tradeak
and were it not for the stand they take
their wages would be reduced BY tAe--
they are at present, which is less than.
one-half of what is paid in America.
Higher Wages i'm America.
Our last census report Of 1890 gxye-
MS 4,712622 people employed in mnns-
featuring, the average yearly earning ct
each person being $488. The average n
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at the expiration of which time they are

ut the expiration OF which time they are
discharged.
Nobody is allowed to come to these
places more than once a month. and he
can stay no longer than the time pre-
scribed. The ward visited accom-
modated fifty-five men and thirty-two
women. The beds consist of narrow
strip Of canvas stretched like hammock
between two iron rods about foot from
after 8 p. m. in the summer time and
after p. m. in the winter time. AS
soon as they are admitted they are given
4 bath in one of the six baths in the
ward and their clothes are fumigated
and disinfected. After the bath they
and pint of cruel. For their bed they
are given three blankets. For breakfast
they receive the same food as for sup
Dcr. For dinner. in addition to the bread
and Cruel. they are given ~ ounces of
cheese. The total cost for caring for
these people during the. period of their
} cents each.
Advice to Americana.
Nv advice to every American working
man is, as have said before, to pro-
feet his own rights and the rights and
privileges of his family and not to fol-
low the whims, cries and falschoods of
the nt0 who ,be seeks
States which are made by cheap pauper
labor because he thinks the goods can be
sold cheaper than if they were made
in America.
III the wages Of the American working
those in England, and the goods are not
made in America: he has no money
to purchase these cheap goods with. Be-
ing deprived of work, where are they to
get their money to make their purchases
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are running full time our people are idle.
Today the goods that are being made in
for the Wilson bill. be made in the
United States.
r. spent day in Birmingham. which
is another thriving and prosperous manu-
featuring center. Here also the people
are. very desirous that no change he
made in the present American tariff
schedule which would result in depriving
them of our market for their goods.
The British Chain Gang.
After leaving here I went to Cradley
Heath-among the women chainmakers
and women blacksmiths-tO witness the
misery there which l had visited in
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1888 and in 1892. There are women
there by the thousands who make Chain
for a living in old, low buildings adjoin.
ing their houses.
One man. William Boxley, said he
was So years old and earned GO cents, a
day as u laborer. when he could work.
He has five daughters and five sons,
Three Of this daughters are chainmakers
and one works in brickyard. carrying
brick. went into his house. On the
lower floor was room with q stone
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FREE. TRADE MISERY.
Nathaniel Mckay Tells Of His Tour
Through British Manufac-
turing Oenters.
PEEP At POVERTY in LONDON.
Working Women at Masculine Labor
Stern Facts for Our Wage
Earners
PEEP AT POVERTY IN LONDON.

Free-trade slavery still exists in the
British empire notwithstanding the re-
duction Of the American tariff, which
benefits the English manufacturer, but
Eight years ago visited England for
the purpose of studying the condition of
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with ovens OH each side and a place for
coal in the middle. Back of this was q
little space for a. washroom where there
is room for only one person. In the front
room all the cooking is done and it is
also used fo. :. living room aud dining
room. Upstairs is Il room SX12 feet.
As As entered here he =. notics,l n1 d., :, woma,l man
Tensas gazette., 1896-01-03
They Weat

A well-known professor at one of
our universities was often annoyed by
two Italians playing a street organ be-
fore his house. Giving his servant
some money, he told her that whenever
she heard an organ, she was to go out
This was 4 failure. The men, instead
of coming once a week, came twice.
One day the sound of. the organ dis
turbed the professor while working at
a certain lecture. This so annoyed
him that he rushed cut and ordered the
men away, telling them that if they
came again he would hand them over
to the police. They refused to go
unless he gave them more money.
Enraged at their impertinence, he
policeman.
Just as he turned the corner Of the
street he met a sergeant marching
nine constables to their beats. With
out speaking, he turned and walked
alongside the procession. When they
turned the corner, the Italians saw
the professor with the policemen. 1t
was enough. They were both seized
with the sudden desire to see how
quickly they could get the organ out
of the street. The cure was lasting,
for the professor declares that no one
has since been bold enough to play an
organ before his house.
Tensas gazette., 1896-01-03
old BY the Thumbs.

''When ] went 10 nerve specials
first" said q man who was once an invalid,
''he told me that one way to judge OF a
persons nerves was 10 watch his thumbs,
Ever since that time ! have found the
greatest fascination in looking at peoples
thumbs. The doctor said that if they
moved involuntarily outward it was a
sign that the nerves of that man or woman
were not in the best con litioi. find N.Y.
self now sweeping the line that sits oppo =
site me in a car, and if that doctors test IS
a good one there is a surprising number
OF people in this town whose nerves need
looking after. There are few among the
women who do not 'involuhtarily move
the thumbs outward at intervals. of every
few minutes, aud when your attention has
once been attracted TO it the process OF
watching their gloved bands grows very
interesting / have found the habit much
less frequent among men; but take the
average number of women in "a cable car
and it will be a surprise to you to see how
many of them indulge uDcousciously in
this little habit / only hope it does not
mean ans thing as serious as it might indi-
cate If tiat nerve specialists diagno sis was
q good one"
Tensas gazette., 1896-01-03
The George Washington Stone.

Carved by nature in the rough stone
of Marblehead Neck, Mass, the calm
face of George Washington gazes out
over the waste of waters. In this
quiet, secluded corner of Massachu-
setts this remarkable monument re-
mained for ages undiscovered until
Albert Chapman, of Marblehead,
cropped the bushes and weeds which
grew about its base in rank luxuri-
ance, disclosing the stone features
which bear a most striking resem-
blance to the Father OF His Country.
Some call it the "Old Man of the Sea, "
but the majority Of Marblehead citi-
Zens trace in it's lines and curves a
counterfeit OF the loved face of the
first President. The face is formed by
three rocks, one forming the forehead,
one the chin and the other the nose.
The face rests upon slightly elevated
knoll, at an angle, as IL the great Gen
eral in effigy were taking his. repose
and languidly gazing out to sea. The
George Washington stone will hence
forth be one of the many objects of
patriotic pilgrimage on the coast of
the Bay State.
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now You 90 10 sLxEr.

Now physicians and physiologisis come
to the front with the astonishing STATE,
ment that a-man goes to sleep p'ecsmea
instead of altogether and simultaneously
as it were. That is, the senses DO not
lull themselves untedly aud at once INTO
q state of slumber, but cease to receive
impressions gradually, one after lhe other.
At first the sight ceases and next-'ne sense
Of taste loses its susceptibility TO outward
impression.
Even, then, the individual being almost
in a state of Inconsistencies, three senses
still temain in sense Of aetivity-smeli-
ing goes, then hearing and finally, with
the lapse of thought, the entire body De-
comes completely asleep. .-
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dubbed His Physician.

One of the most startling and ghast-
lysmurders ever heard of, and an unus-
ually odd one, occurred a few miles
from Buffalo, North Dakota, Saturday
afternoon, when W. @. Peterson went
violently insane and murdered DR.. A.
A. Young, one of the most prominent
physicians of the state. Recently
Peterson has not been feeling well, and
on several occasions Dr. Young was
called to his home, four miles from Buf-
falo, to attend him. When he arrived
Saturday Peterson grabbed an Indian
club and beat the doctors head to O
pulp. The crazy man leaped ont OF
the house only half-clad and drove to
Buffalo. He went to the bank and
knocked the cashier on the head till he
fell senseless. The crazy man was
placed in the county jail for safe keep
ing.
Tensas gazette., 1896-01-03
Enamored of a Siren.

A sensational tragedy occurred in a
house-boat on the Ohio river near Sis
teryille, W. Va, shortly after 6 o'clock
Saturday morning. Frank Rodgers,
aged 90 years, became enamored of a
dissolute woman named Alice McClel-
land, of Pittsburg, and desired her 10
leave the boat on which she was stay
ing aud marry him. This she refused
to do. Rodgers drew a revolver and
showed it in her face. In the struggle
which followed the woman was shot in
the right wrist. Rodgers then took
deliberate aim and shot Miss McClel-
land in the right breast, the bullet pen
etrating her lung and inficting a wound
that will doubtless prove fatal Rodg-
ers then turned the revolver on him
self aud fred two shots, one entering
his body just above the heart and the
other going through it, killing him
instantly.
Tensas gazette., 1896-01-03


Sunday night at q late hour Nathan
Maxwell was the victim of peculiar
accident at Rome, Ga, which may cost
aim his life. Maxwell is an employee
Of the Southern railroad, and has been
engaged as o track hand. When the
BIG wreck occurred at Chattahoochee q
~rrcking force was sent there to help
SID the track, Among the wreckage
was = tank of spirits Of turpentine,
and Maxwell was set to work around it
and his clothing became thoroughly
saturated with the spirits. Last night
he returned, and going home, was pre-
pairing to change his clothes, standing
by hot stove. Suddenly his clothing
ignited, and like flash his body was
enyeloped in flames. He yelled for as
sistance, but it'was impossible to ex-
tinguish the flames until they had
burned nearly every rag of clothing off
his body. Physicians were called and
did ali they could for the injured man
but it was found that he. was badly
burned about the body and limbs and
there is no chance for his recovery,
Tensas gazette., 1896-01-03
Three Coal Boats sunk.

The towboat Harry. Brown, while en-
route to the south from Pittsburg, Pa,
With large feet of coal, ran aground
at Glasshouse Rifle, Brunot's Island,
at O'Clock. Monday morning. The
pilot attempted to back into deeper
water to release the fleet, when heavy
cable parted, the ends striking Johna-
than Wood and deckhand known as
ssWhitey.7 2 The latter was instantly
killed and Wood was seriously but not
fatalIy injured. Two coal boats and
one barge containing sixty thous-
and bushels of coal are at the
bottom of the river as a result of the
accident, and the channel is blocked.
The sunken boats will be blown out
with dynamite by the government.
The loss will be very heavy.
Tensas gazette., 1896-01-03
He Needed Air.

he was sick, or at least said that he
was, and the other day he entered the
office of a well-known physician up
town and sank into leather covered
armchair in the ante-room waiting his
turn on the list. At last it came, and
the doctor examined his tongue criti-
cally, felt of his pulse, inquired as to
the symptoms of his illness and then
looked wise.
Taking a pad from the table he
wrote a prescription calling for bread
pills and distilled water or something
of that sort. Then, turning in his
chair, the physician said: Il cannot see
that anything serious is the matter
with you. What you need is plenty
of air.
Tensas gazette., 1896-01-03
Advance in Wages.

Following the notice to the 10000
coke workers employed by II. G. Frick
& Co. of 10 per cent advance in
wages after the first of the year, the
announcement was made by W. j.
Rainey. at Uniontown Friday, that he
would also advance the wages of his
1000 employees 10 per cent, to take
efftct next week. The past three
months have been the busiest in the
history of the coke trade. Ont Of
7,947 ovens in the regson, 6,011 are
in operatian, and the prospects are that
more ovens will be fired. The advance
of wages will enable the men to make
the highest wages ever paid in the COX 9
region. .
Tensas gazette., 1896-01-03
BAD WRECK.
Two Killed, Six Wounded and Two
Engines PoIverized.

Two passenger trains collided at 7:30
O'Clock Monday night on the Baltimore
& Ohio Southwestern railroad near
Coal City, fourteen miles from Cincin.
natl. They were the Louisville ex-
press, which left Cincinnati at 7:05
p. m, and the st. Louis accommoda-
tion, due at 7:O5. The latter was an
hour late. The first known of the col
lision was when the wrecking train was
sent out about s o'clock, accompanied
by physicians, railway officials and
others. They we're followed by the
newspaper men and others in carriages.
When information was obtained flom
the scene it was found that there were
two killed and six injured. Both en-
gines. were totally wrecked, as the en-
gineers had had very little time to
check their speed. The combination
car on the Louisville express and the
express ear on the train from st. Louis
ere telescoped.
Tensas gazette., 1896-01-03
Preparing to start a Big Furnace.

The Aetna Coal and Iron Co., az
Ironton, Ohio, will operate the big
turn furnace known as Big Aetna, and
the contract for remodeling has been
awarded to James P. Witherow, of
Pittsburg. The work will begin imme-
dlately and will be completed within
ninety days. The furnace will have
an output of 600 tons of Bessemer pig
daily and will employ 500 men besides
miners and ore diggers.