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He Stumbled hut Won d Wife.


Gov. Aaron V. Brown Of Tennessee.
was a Chesterfield for politeness and a
Talleywand for wit. When he, a much
admired WidoWer, was paying his adj
dresses-as yet unavowed-to an at
tractiVe widow, he called at her house
one day and was ushered into a room
sdarkened to the degree which the pre-
vailing fashion OF. those days declared
to be elegant and before the governor
had familiarized himself with the sur
rounding ebjects.:in the: gloom the
young widow entered the::roonl., With
ienthusiastic,.sdev otions he .ad vanced to
meet her hastily, not noticing a low
stool directly In his pathway; unhap-
oily he stumbled over it. and pumped
upon his knees directly at the, feet Of
the object of his affections. Before
she could utter a word of apology. or
sympathy the adroit governor seizing
her; hee., hand, exclaimed: Madam. a hap.
by accident has brougl me where in
clinat tiph has long led me; =, for
NAL ma aeela.ra tion With sh: 4 t9lloWed was OF
COURSE suecessfuL for such ready gal
lantrA; could not,.s1 DE resisted. Ladies'
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A Queer View Of Trusts. }: 5 s

Z l. !: , ..Nf.
Folllowlngsis an. extract; from q. letter
Journal and the editors N answer there: S.
to: ~: ,. Is. .@. 81 %
..:'If as sou say. * recent cen estimate.
shows that 3344557 3,457 900 men .eari Their. tiY
ing in the employ :of trusts, Isn't. that
In favor of trusts, they ei1plo yingE more
people than the popu4a tien of all sreat-.
er. New. York; i%'z =; s. s
Mr., Heckle, believe us when we say
that this letter does not display your
best reasoning talents.
1t is not the trusts tha IT. employ over
three million men. 1t is the inhabi-
tants of the United States, with their
wants, their activity and their sarn-
ing capacity. who employ these lneli.
The man who works and sometimes
goes crazy in the overheated pits of
sugar refineries does not owe his job
to Havemeyer, the sugar king. He
owes his poor wages and hard cOndi-
ton to Havemeyer but he works for
the Americans who eat sugar.
The trust people do not create ems
ployment for men. They simply mo-
nopolize industry and take the profit
on the labor of three millions who
work under their control.
In former days a million or more
negroes We're employed and regularly
fed and clothed by slave owners. Was
that in favor of slave owners
The idea that the man who exploits
his fellows, employing them at lo.'
wages and absorbing the profit in thei,
work. is public benefactoS is non
SENSE.
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AN OLD ROMAN. CHURCH DOOMED
st. Maria Liberated to BE Demolished
by Forum ExcayntOrx. gF

ny Forum Excavntors.
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passed. It provides for the imposition
of duty equivalent to one fourth Of
those imposed upon other foreign pro-
ducts and that all moneys collected:
for that duty, ei Il her iie Porto Rico or
the United States, shall be spent for.
the benefit of the island and its inhabs
itants. The report in favor of the bill
says it will save to the planters of
sugar and tobacco in Porto Rico, about
So, 100000 a year, and that the guam
tity Of these products sold to us will
be insufficient to bring about any; re-
duction of prices In the United States,
This argument is combatted in some
quarters, and Senator Platt of Connec-
ticut, whose constituents raise consid- =
erable tobacco, says he will offer an
amendment in the senate to make the
dutey at least SO per cent. The prin-s
cipals opposition to the bill, however, is
political, based upon the principle that
lit is unconstitutional; that Porto Rico
now being a part of the United States
is entitled to free trade with all other
parts Of the United States. The ques-
ton is an interesting one. and it is,
really regretabfe that it could not be
discussed and decided without the
drawing Of political lines, but that has
already been made impossible. The
supporters Of the bill say that is in
tended for:lnaking a precedent: for put
ting d duty on the products of the
Philippines. that free trade cannot be
granted to our island possessions with
out abandoning the protection system
LOT the government. It is already ap-
l.parent that the question is: going to
figure extensively tin this years ma
tlonal campaign. ..ii .s5.a5
! Senator Nelson's report in favor of
the bill creating the department of
commerce is an interesting and com-
5pact history <off the growth. Of, the ex-
ecutfye depaTEt i Etnents s. Of the governn'el
Ethe aet :of July az ..:l7s9. rt,e ,bilf win
Elikslya ec0lne..a law s. .ts i:
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! tie of the Nile, by which Nelson des-
troyed the fleet of Napoleon and made
the scheme on which the future master
conquest of Egypt, with view to the
conquest of India--impossible, took
place on Sunday; Fuentes donor, per-
haps the most fiercely contested and
risky Of all Wellington's battles in the
Peninsula, was fought on Sunday;
Orthes also was a Sunday battle, Clu-
Rodrigo was captured on Sunday. It
is almost needless to say that Water
loo and Inkerman were Sunday battles
The outbreak of the mutlny-which
was, it must be admitted, not success
full ultimately for those who took part
in it, but which shook our dominion
in India and exposed us to almost as
great anxiety as the present campaign
occurred on Sunday. The great stroke
which dealt the first deadly blow
against the center of the mutiny-the
capture of Delhi-wa S delivered on
Sunday. The fight at Rorke's Drift
was on Sunday. Both Firkeh and
Omdurman were Sunday battles
I have limited myself in this state
ment to our English fighting during
the present century. The list might
be Indefinitely extended if one went
back over the great battles of the past
If one We're to select a day Of the week
on which the most important incidents
have occurred, my own impression,
without absolutely making a statisti-
cal calculation, is from my knowledge
of past history that Sunday is the day,
no q ho Lo1
quite as frequently the assailants OH
that day who have won the victory as
the defenders.-London News.
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Dx,ed Fo,,ais for Birds

Dr. sauermann, an Austrian, has OBJ
tanned curious results in coloration by
feeding: birds on food dyed with aniline.
Pigeons became Of a beautiful red with
metllvltraldromo tluorescine. Other
birds turned a fine blue with metfiyl
violet Ga mixture of the hydrochlorides
of pentamethyl-p l-pararosaniline and
Observation-Disclosures Canaries
very soon bred with the rainbow. The
experiments promise to have import
ant results in this direction. The Cock
.ney sparrow by d little art in his nour-
ishment might emulate the hulnming
bird. Whether his transiiguration
would be to his advantage is another
question. We are afraid that fashion
might cast envious eyes upon him and
cause him to regret his sober livery
London Globe.
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.cRoATs COMING Now.
still Another Element In the COsMO-
HpOlitan Population of the Country

still Another Element In the COsmO-
spOlitam Population Of the Country
Croatia is officially described in the
someNhat complicated geographical
subdivisions Of Austria as "a province
Of the empire forming with Slavonia
a kingdom united with Hungary"
Until last year the tide Of foreign i'm
migration into the United States, which
has included people Of almost every
race and nationality, did not bring
any material number Of Gro ats, and
in the censlis figures Of 1880 it was
not thought necessary to make any sep
arate subdivision for Croats,, though
Portuguese residents of this country,
Greeks, East Indians, Turks, Pacific
Islanders, Central Americans and ma s
tives OF. the province of Luxemburg
were separately enumerated. Accord
ing to the figures Furnished at the
Barge office it appears that IN 1898 the
number of 3Croats who arrived at this
port as immigrants was 6,S37. In 1899
this number was nearly doubled, being
IL, ,574, and, while the figures for JanI-
ary, 1900, have not been COMPLETED. 1T
is certain that the proportions Of ;in-
crease heretofore Festab ablished will be
maintained this year.
The fact of the matter is that with
THE increased prosperity of the limited
States since March, 1897, there has
been not only an increase in the num-
Der Of Immigrants ,sbut an even greater
increase in the number Of countries
from which immigrants have been
drawn to the United States. Thus,
there has been a large EDITION to the
number of Syrian immigrants. and
New York, though the first city to have
Syrian colony is no longer the only
one. There has been a very large in
crease, too, in the number Of Greek in1-
migrants, and there has been some adj.
dition to the number from Turkey.
Portugal and northern Africa, and a
very marked increase in the number Of
immigrants from Finland. SIS.
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Vests .sto1en.,P Pigs.

From: E. 81 Il. The. st.::Itauis Republic.
story that ;sena tor, Vest tens: re-
lates. to- his candidaey for, the legis-
lature:.. in: 1861 against A. s.: walker.
The canvass was exceed1ngly: executing
because of the near approach 81 war;
and all the questions incident to it
We're discussed with much animation
Charges and seounte charges were
made. Both sides, knew that about
.ssix:Votes either. way would determine
the contest, and eon. the. day before
election Walker raised the. point on
Vest that he had. stolen some pigs. The
only way that Vest could meet the
charge was to acknowledge smilingly
/ that had the pigs in his pen. and
IN his possession. If he; had gone fur
Their and dsaid that .he had bought, them
: Which: they. hoped he would do--they
had Witnesses to show that he had mot
bought them, but West was too shrewed
to be. caught insthee trap, and turned
the accusation off with@a laugh and the
remark: &. ;. - 81;
"One can't account for the way his
boys get pigs
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libraries with books It would be a
much better act for Mr.. Carnegie, says
the Journal, to wipe out the stain Of
1892 at Homestead than to donate IL
braries. The memory of Carnegie will
never be forgotten as long as Home
stead mill stands monument to non
unionism and -memento Of the fam
Gus battle nearly eight years ago.
Four wholesale cigar dealers in Chi
cagO have been indicted for using
counterfeit union labels 81 III
The antitrust law of the state Of
Illinois has been declared unconstitu-
tional by Judge Kohlsatt.
Trouble between p. G. Conn & Co. Of
Elkhart, Ind, and the brass workers
has been amicably adjusted.
Manufacturers of chinaware have
agreed to raise the price Of their
goods an average of 40 per cent.
On February the eight hour day
went into effect in every sash. door
and blind factory in Chicago.
Louisville cigarmakers have assessed
themselves SO cents per month for six
months to boom the label.
Almost the whole of the town labor
ing classes of Austoria are now sup
porting the socialist propaganda.
The newest union label is that af the
potters. 1t was indorsed by the A. F.
Of Il. at it's last convention.
Tokyo, Japan, has labor newspa-
per, issued semi monthly, and labor un-
are rapidly forming throughout the
country.
a Liverpool guardian says that in
their slums the death rate is IS against
a general rate of Is for the whole city.
The bindery girls in Minneapolis have
union and get Sc per week. In st.
Paul the girls are unorganized and the
ma xim,1m wage in So per week.
The street car strikesin Troy, N. Y,
has been settled. the company conced-
ing most of the demands Of the en-
ployes. The strike lasted eight days
The wealth of South Carolina, with
its million and a quarter inha abitants
increased last year 50, O0O, 900. Rocke-
feller's wealth increased 3G,000, 600 ir
the same twelve months. si
r. b: Grover & Co. of Brockton
Mass, manufacturers Of the Emerson
shoe, have signed an agreement with
the Boot and Shoe Workers union fol
the use of the union stamp for per-
Tod Of three years. $z55ssH
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How He Restrained Her.

]. II Will,' she exclaimed; Il will not
live with you another day." N IS
You'll leave me, will you?" he calm
" asked. @
Yes, / WILL T.
'Nowright ox-this minutes
When p
You'll so right away?'
Yes, sir.
81 wouldn't If l were you."
But will. and defy you, to pre-
vent me. have suffered at your
hands as long as can put up with IT. :
I shan't try to stop you, he
quietly replied. TT u simply report to
the police that my wife has mysterious
lly disappeared. They'll want your
7descript ton, and / will give 1t. You
wear No. shoes; you have an extra
large mouth s you walk stiff in your
knees: your nose turns UP at the end; !;
eyes rather on the squint; voice like
a -
Wretch! you wouldn't dare do
that" she screamed.
81 certainly will. and the description
will go in all the papers"
1 They glared at each other moment
in silence. Then it was plain to be
seen that he had the dead wood on her
Ohio State Journal.
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TAKE CAR WORKS IN
.POHN r. SEARLEs NOW CONTROLS
BIG WEST DULUTH PLANT.
Promoter of Lake Superior Steel
Company is Developing His Plans
Regarding Head of Lakes Steel
Plnnts-He, is Said to Have Option
ON the Duluth Furnace COmpany's
Plant MT West Duluth. A3I

Information was received in Duluth
yesterday indicating for a certainty
that John E. Searles,5 the promoter of
the new Lake Superior Steel company,
has obtained full control and title to
the West Duluth car works. The Iron
ton arid West Superior steel plants
We're transferred some time ago. 1t
is als3 reported that deal is progress
sing whereby the Duluth Furnace com
.panyIs plant will be merged in the big
steel plant consultations
Mring the past few months some
pc ople Ihave feared that the steel COM
pany's plans might fall throug.. for
some: cause or another, but they appear
ito be shaping themselves all right.
Duluth people that know Mr.. Searles
have the utmost confidence in his
ability to develop his plans regarding
the steel plants with perfect success.
The news that the Duluth car works
plant has been transferred to Mr..
|.Searles and his associates was mat
ter Of general report yesterday and
Twas confirmed in several sources. The
two Duluth men most interested and
best qualified to furnish details Of the
transfer and what is contemplated, j.
M. Thomas and o. III. Simonds, were,
both out of the city last night.
It is said by some that the entire
deal, as closed, embraces only a part
|of the West Superior plant. The West
Duluth blast furnace is said to be
under option but the News Tribune
has information that Mr.. Thomas con-
siders it Sold He will still make Du-
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DAY OF BATTLES.
sunday Seems tn he n Special Favor
ite Among Fighters.

There is proposition which has
been set forth with much energy by
some correspondents whose views have
reached me. That is that the one
cause for which we both ought to
humiliate ourselves. and the one that
is in tact the secret of all our failures,
has been that our generals have fought
on Sunday. It is, therefore, rather
interesting to note how many battles
have taken place on Sunday. Certain
slys their result has not always cores
ponded with the views Of the extreme
Sabbatarians. To begin with, since
these comments We're made, Gen.
French has carried out a most success
ful operation which was due to a
movement OH Sunday. The great bat
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Sponge Gathering.

Consul Bertrand, who represents the.
French government at Benghazi in
.TrlpOli, gives a curious reason for the.
increased price Of the finest grade Of
sponges, which are gathered in that
section The fisheries have been SO
well worked that the divers must go to-
great depths, and this has increased
the dangers of the work
Mortality rate among the divers is
high, from $50 to 200 dying each season
in a total of 600 employed. Only the
most desperate men are willing to un-
5dertake the task, they being. for the
most part escaped convicts and fugi-
.tives from justice. They are paid from
$4O0 to $1,000 each for season of season
of seven months, which is about ten
times the usual wage in Tripoli, but in
spite Of this the difficulty of securing
sufficient men for the work is growing.
s. Sponges that are secured at such
risk OF life are the best that are known
and are such as are used by surgeons
in delicate operations. They are found
in various degrees Of fineness along
the shores of the Mediterranean, the
possessions OF Turkey beilg the best
ee1S, while the Spanish French and
Italian coasts are devoid of them. They
grow at all depths, from to 200 faith.
pnns, asnd as the work of gathering
them has continued 1t has become nee.
Tessary to dive deeper ana deeper FOR
them. They do not growsrapidly. An
ordinary bath sponge measuring about
a foot in diameter, is ten years old
When the sponge is brought to the
surface 1t is q heshy looking substance
covered with a firm skin whose OPEN
ings appear and disappear at intervals.
When the diver cuts it the interior
looks like raw meat, with numerous
canals and cavities. The first thing to
be done after the sponge is brought to
the surface is to remove the flesh, and
this must be done at once, since other
|tWise putrefaction would set in, which.
would destroy the elasticity This.
leaves merely the skeleton Of the ami
NAL, which has to be further cleansed
before it is ready for the market. 8
While the Florida sponges are not
worth more than eighty cents a pound
in average value, the Turkey sponge is
sometimes worth as much as $50 a
pound. It is thought possible that.
some of the best foreign sponges of
Tripoli might be transplanted to Flor
| ida waters and form a.: nucleus from
which a large area might be caised.
The; difficulties of Transportation
Would> be great however, for: the
sponge--:although. :she does not look it
when you see his skeleton. a lone--is a.
delicate animal and does not stand
long Journeys we'll. The United States
fisheries commission. however, has
been considering for some time the
advisabtlity of making:thel experiment.
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Where Water Is .tNceded.

Among the distinguished officials
who will represent this country at 5he
Paris exposition next May is ProfessoS
ElWood Mead, the state engineer of
wyoming. and an irrigation expert of
the department Of agriculture, relates
the Saturday Evening Post. He was
speaking at=a meeting upon a local wa
ter improvement, and after expatiating
upon the benefits which would be de-
rived by the farmer. miner and even
the manufacturer, he said: And this
extra supply of water is absolutely
necessary to our dairymen.
Before he could begin the next SEN
tence toWns,nan called out
Stop right there. They give us too
much Of II already. 2
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LAb0R'S FORCES. /
Dongs of the Daily Tolers at Home and
Abroad.

Abroad.

The union label is doing more to
put the labor movement on practical
basis than all other influences COM
bned. 1t lis a fair business PROPOSE
tion that organized labor ma Nes to it's
trends when the members say they.
will support those who use the label
on their products. 1t gives the fair
employer the benefit of a custom that
is interested in his success for the irea-
son that in his success the organized
workers are benefited. The label is
evidence that what bears 1t was pro-
duced by well-paid workers who We're
treated fairly and performed their
labor in a place free from unhealthy
or unsanitary conditions. The work
ingman or woman who does not de-
mand the union label is not doing
what common honesty requires. Too
much stress can not be put upon the
advantages coming from the general
use of the union label-Farm and
Factory.
State Factory Inspector Williams,
of New York, recommends a suspen-
sion Of immigration for ten years as n
remedy for the sWeatshop evil Three
years ago referendum vote from the
labor organizations connected with the
New York state federation adopted
resolutions to congress in favor of "a
suspension of immigration for five
years or until the domestic demand for
, labor overtakes the supply In sew
eral lines Of unskilled industry Amer
lean labor has bee entirely displaced
by cheaper workmen from other parts
Of the world.
In consequence of the Musicians ur-
ion refusing to stand by the theatri-
cal stage employees OF Detroit q new
union Of musicians has been organized
and is supported by the central body
of that city.
A $5O,OOO,OOO combine has been organ
ized in New Jersey, for the purpose of
buying retail stores in cities of20,OOO
inhabitants or more. The combine ex-
poets to control 500tto 1000 stores, and
will probably manufacture some ofsits
goods and purchase others in train
load lots. 80
The official paper of the Amalgamat-
ed Association of Iron and, Steel Work
ers protests against Andrew Carnegie
being asked to furnish trades unions
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effort, finds new employment for men,
is a public benefactor. The trust man
ager who gets hold of the invention.
puts up prices and puts down wages
is merely a leech.-New York Journal.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-12-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.

Severe fighting between Beers and
British continues in the Orange State
1t was protocol and not treaty
which Secretary Hay recently signed
with the NicaTaguan Minister.
at the City OF Mexico on Saturday
President Diaz took The oath as Presi.
dent of the Republic for the next four
years.
DR.. Thomas II. Norton has been or
| iered to proceed from Constantinople
to his post at Harpoot without the Sui
ans exequatur.
Senator Stewart, OF Nevada. has had
his name placed 90 the republican car-
Gus list. He has been q silver party
man for the last eight years.
The rebels 10 Colombia are showiug
renewed activity. In a recent fight b..
tween the insurgents and the govern .
ment troops at Chagres the latter lost
heavily.
The amount of gold in the Treasury
on November 30 was S474 l0S 1856, the
largest amount on record. The total
stock OF gold 10 the United States CO
the same date is estimated to be 81, IA.
l08 1866.
Sister Mary Augustin Gwynn died
Saturday morning after q lingering ILL.,
ness at Mount st. Agnes Convent Of
Mercy, Mount Washington. Sister
Mary Augustin was Miss Eliza a.
Gwynn, of Prince Georges county,
Maryland.
The new Church of the Sacred Heart
at Augusta, Ga, was dedicated there
yesterday morning by his eminence,
James Cardinal Gibbons, d. d., Arch.
bishop OF Baltimore. Bishops Northrop
and Kelley assisted in the services al d
the Pontifical high mass.
The latest departure in church pro.
cedure is TO paw Sunday school teach
frs. The plan has been adopted by a
prominent Boston clergyman. He
claims that Sunday school teachers are
entitled to salaries no less than men
bsrs of choir and orgsDists.
William Allen Cuthbert Stark,
clerical assistant In the commaudanl's
office at the Boston navy yard for more
thau 20 years, died yesterday in the
City Hospital of spoplexy, or hear,
diease. Mr. Stark was born In 1886 10
Petersburg, Va, son ALTERATION Stark
Of Norfolk.
President Kruger has abandoned bis
PROF osed visit to Berlin, owing to tie
receipt of an official intimation that
Emperor William regrets that, in cor
sequence of previous arrangements, he
will be unable 10 receive him. Kruger
will, therefore, proceed direct from |
Cologne for Holland.