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THE BKOOK LYST DAXLY EAGLE. NEW TOEK, WEDNESDAY, 8, 1899. THE GEE. MAN CENSUS. LI 05T0N IS REPUBLICANS Gl ViGTDRY IN KENTUCKY.

NEW JERSEY EASILY. bleachers, to $4.80, and weavers, $1.42 to $4.80. "One big linen factory in Breslau ships its whole product to a New York firm about 100,000 mark3 worth a month. This firm furnishes the liuen by contract to leading hotels, the Pullman and Wagner sleeping cars, and so on. About seventeen different linen factories are situated in my consular district, and twenty four glove manufacturers.

There are twelve porcelain and two glass plants, which employ a large number of hands, but whose pay rolls are insignificant as compared to outs. They must make money, for they tell me in Breslau that more factories have been built there in the last six years than in the previous twenty years. All are substantial brick structures, for there are very strict building laws in Germany. Inspectors keep close watch ovct tho factories to see that there are no violations. Men and women may be employed in the same factories, but they must not work in the same room, and the law prescribes so much space and so much window tor each one.

"The iron industries are also flourishing here, as everywhere else in Germany. Employes in those plants get a little better paid, but their wages are not to be compared with the magnificent rewards offered in the Pennsylvania furnaces and mills. Engineers get $7.14 to a week; turners, $5.95 to molders, electricians, $4.28 to blacksmiths, horscshoers and pattern makers, to locksmiths, $3.57 to machinists, to smelters, $3.57 to boiler makers. $2.85 to $5.95, and smiths, $2.85 to $4.76. Mow, you can compare this with the $800 and over which Carnegie says everybody, boy and man, common laborers and all, earned at the Homestead in one year, and you can form some idea of how much smaller is the German manufacturer's bill for labor.

These wages that I have given are minimum and maximum, but you must understand that very few, even of the skilled mechanics, get the highest rate. "Women are employed to a great extent and at very low waces. Thpv are nnM tai i the party there was uo question in my mind as to the result. I counselled Governor Lowndes then that his only escape from defeat was his retirement from the ticket. I felt convinced that after his duplicity, weakness and treachery it would be impossible for him to be elected.

He preferred the advice of the coterie of Republicans and assistant Republicans, Cowen and Warfield, at whose dictation he had betrayed me. I knew that he was foredoomed to defeat, and though some of my friends thought it unwise for me to put myself on record in a declaration that ho would be beaten. I felt no hesitation, because of the conviction I had. "Four years ago by my effort he was nominated for the governorship and elected to that ofllce. This year it was only necessary for mo to stand aside, at his bidding, and inevitable and overwhelming defeat came upon him, notwithstanding the assurance that the independent and gold Democrats and corporation influences would be exerted to the utmost in hia behalf.

"The defeat I told him of has come upon him, and he haa not only the bitterness of a candidate that is beaten, but of one who in his own heart knows that the defeat is a just chastisement at the hands of the people for his weakness and treachery. This is not a defeat for the Republican party; it is a defeat for Lowndes and his personal allies. By the experience gathered in this campaign the Republican party must take warning and make for itself a new future. Lowndes is politically dead and buried, and the malign influences which surround him will no longer have weight in Republican councils. The party must gather itself together and do battle as a Republican party under Republican leadership dominated by Republican influence and standing upon Republican principles, win a victory in Maryland for the Republican party." Population of the Empire Increases 1,000,000 Per Year.

The Times of Thursday publishes a careful analysis of the German census taken on June i 14, 181)5. from which it appears that the popu 1 lati. amounted on that day to 51.770 000. of whom 33.400,000 were males ami 30.30ii.00u females, the excess of females being, ibeit iore, nearly a million. This population in.

reuses at the rate of a little more limn a million a year, fur which new means of maintenance, education and housing must be provided. The rush is. of course, to the to.vns, too gen eral union pipulatii.u having increased since mm by si; iur while the populations of uiattons oi towns v. 1th more than 100 OUI" poisons had (' pui'jons had total, 8.292.000 moie thun doubled. Of tin are occupied in agriculture S.2S1.00O in in dustry, 2.23S.0OO in trade.

714, 000 in the professions, as soldiers or sailors, and 1,339, 000 as servants. The proportion i si rv antu is the lowest in the census taking world, not half the proportion in Great Uriiai.i. The Catholics are about a third of the pup illation, while of the whole commercial class 5.71 per cent, are Jews. London Spectator. SIR WILLIAM GATACRE.

Qualifications of the Han Who Will Command a Division of Buller's Army. Horace writing in the London Sketch, givej these faens about the career of a distinguished British officer who will command a division in Buller's army corps: In the official army list he is accorded the dignity and title of Sir William i Gatacre, K.C.B., D.S.O., P.S.C.. and ao "II" against hiis name reveals to the learned in such matters that he is in receipt of a reward lor distinguished ur meritorious services. in the most homely atmosphere ou the barrack publicans, while the Democrats tried to roll room and places where a less polished tor a dif plurality to strengthen themselves HUl'anS cvt JfaUtarljr for the e'itv election next month, kno.vn as Bill Backaeher. For tins tnere is more reason than is usually the case with tho i election to day was one of the quiet graceful sobriquets which the ingenuity ot At est for many years, and with scarcely any kins and his companions in the liahit of ffort toward campaigning by either party, a bestowing so light upon their mill off in lhe vote was anticipated.

The BADLY IN MARYLAND. John Walter Smith, Victorious by an Estimated Majority of About 1 5,000 for Governor. DEMOCRACY WINS LEGISLATURE Treachery Intimated by Republicans to Account for Losses A Narrow Escape Prom a Lynching. Baltimore. November 7 Incomplete returns from the City of Baltimore and meager reports from the state received up to 11 o'clock to night indicate that the Republicans of Maryland have been overwhelmingly defeated and that John Walter Smith, the Democratic candidate, lias been elected by a majority variously estimated at from lO'oOO to 15,000.

There is also a reasonably certainty that the lower house of the General Assembly will be Democratic by a large majority, and also that the Democrats will elect enough State Senators to overcome the Republican John "Walton Smith, The Democrat Who Has Been Ejected Governor of Maryland. advantage among the hold over Senators, thereby controlling both branches of the Legislature. The Democrats are wild with enthusiasm, while the Republicans are correspondingly depressed over the result, which they are Inclined to attribute to treachery among the followers of Mayor Malstor and United States Senator George L. Wellington. The latter has taken no part in the campaign and has not hesitated, since his resignation as chairman of the State Central Committee a few weeks ago, to predict the overwhelming defeat of the Republican ticket.

The gold Democrats, as an organization, supported Governor Lowndes, but they seem to have but little if any effect on the result. Lloyd Wilkinson, secretary of the Democratic State Central Committee, to night made the following statement regarding the result of to day's election: "Mr. Smith's majority in the etate will be from 14,000 to 15,000, with a majority in both Houses of the Legislature. The result shows clearly that the Democrats were thoroughly united and that the were divided in Baltimore City and in several the counties. "National issuee were not considered in this contest.

The nominees of the Democratic state convention were satisfactory to Democrats generally, and the way they were nominated met with general approval. The result of to day's election shows that Maryland is a Democratic state whenever the party is united." Shortly after the polls closed this evening fifty intoxicated colored men ran amuck on Center market space. They fired pistols and threw stones about promiscuously, one of the bullets mortally wounding Oscar Dietz, 12 years old. White residents along the space gave chase to the rioters when it was learned that the boy would probably die and a riot seemed imminent. The colored men separated and ran in various directions, followed by the white' citizens and by policemen.

Four members of the crowd were captured, one of them, Wesley Brown, 18 years old, being Identified as the party who wounded the Dietz boy. Excitement ran high for a time, and only the arrival of a squad of policement probably prevented a lynching in the street. Baltimore. Nov. 731 out of 308 election districts in Baltimore city give Smith for governor, Lowndes 3,031, a Democratic gain of 688 over 1SDS, when Democrats carried the city by 440 majority.

The News (Rep.) concedes that Smith has carried the city. Baltimore, November 8 Returns from both the city and state have been very slow In coming to hand and at 2 o'clock this morning the full vote from only thirteen wards of Baltimore City have been received, while In the state not a county is complete. The thirteen complete wards in the city, with the balance estimated, show a plurality for Smith (Dem.) for governor of 7.541, while in the balance of the state his plurality will probably be between 2,500 and 3,000. The Democrats have carried the three legislative districts in Baltimore City, and the probabilities are that they will have seventy five members In the lower house of the general assembly, while the Republicans appear to have elected but 16. The Senate will be very close, with the chances slightly favoring the Democratic claim of a majority of two.

On the face of the returns the Republicans have carried but five counties in the state, Allegany, Charles, Garrett, Anne Arundel and Sumerset. Five others are doubtful. These are Carroll, Dorchester, Prince Georges, St. Marys and Calvert. The Democrats have carried beyond a reasonable doubt the remaining thirteen, Including Frederick and A.

H. Longino of Mississippi, The Winning Candidate for Governor. Washington, by majorities ranging from 1,200 in Baltimore County and 1,000 in Worcester down to a very close margin in some of the others. A special from Cumberland quotes Senator Wellington as saying that this was one of the happiest days ot his life. The Senator added: "The defeat of the Republican party in this contest was not a surprise to me.

At the time of my retirement from the chairmanship of the state central committee of SITE IS W. Murray Crane. Is Elected Gov ernor by a Majority of 65,057. rAK I I LUbd lb IOjIH'Ib Anti Imperialist Candidate for Senator on Independent Ticket Defeated by a Republican. Bpiitcn.

November 7 The Democrats to day had no ulty in carrying the City cf Bosun. For the pa.st three yearc the city has indorsed the Republican candidate for governor, but this year Robert Treat Paine, the ratli: nominee, received a plurality of W. Crane, Republican. vote il.TAsi. and Crane re celvt il 2vvi.j.

I.a. year WoScott (Rep.) carried the city by a plurality of 1.S97 over Alexander B. Jiruiv figures show a loss for Crane Wolcott's vote of 7,179, and a gain for Paine over Bruee's total of 914. The decrease in the Crane vote is partly due to the tart that ne ooro' a from the western part' of the state and did not have the local popularity that Wolcott had. The election passed off quietly, comparatively little intercut being taken by the Re leaders, therefore, were considerably surprised when the returns showed that a goo4 majority of those entitled to vote had cast their ballots.

The Democrats counted confidently upon equalling lust year's vote, believing that many of the gold men who had held aloof from the party during 'he three years would re turn to the fold. On the other hand, the Republicans looked for a considerable falling off from the large vote given Governor Wolcott last year. Local contests did much to counteract the tendency to refrain from voting, and the tosses are only about 10 per cent, tor the Republicans and 4 per cent, fur the Democrats. In some districts the Democrats held their ground or gained, while tile Republicans lot materially. Returns from cities and towns out ot 353 give Crane 16.S.&59; Paine 103.

S12. The same towns in 1S9S gave Wolcott 191,138: Bruce 107,957. The Republicans, therefore, have carried the stale by The result shows a net Republican los of IS, 1 17. Thero were a number of interesting sen ntori.il contests, the most important being that in tile Franklin Hampshire district, where Sr nutor Herbert I', i'ars jns, an antl iali. who ran on an Independent ticket, was defeated by the regular Republican nom inep.

Springfield. November 7 The vote in thig city was somewhat lighter than last year, even with some sharp local contests which were relied upon to bring out a big vote. The vote for governor is 50!) below that of last year. tOUC IUIUllg ZUl OejOW OICOll VULe, Paine V.iS below that given for Bruce last year. In the senatorial contest in the first Hampden district the unexpected happened ia the re election of Senator T.

W. Keneflck of Palmer, Democrat, by a majority of 1,243. IC neiick carried this city by although the Dickinson nun worked hard. Dickinson was cut heavily 1 Republieans and the expected Democratic slump to him did not materialize. In the repr.

itntative contests Stone, ratir. and litihinsou. Republican, were elected in the Third District: Marsh and War riner, Repiii.lieaus. in the Fourth, and Har viy, Republican, in the Fifth. A VERY GAME CHICKEN.

Another Picture of How American Sea men Act Under Fire. The Chicken, assisted by the Holy Mosea, began a methodical killing of the anchored gunboat, says Stephen Crane In Collier's Weekly, 'lhe bptinish on shore tired freuzieuiy at the cni. Pent giving the wheel t.j a waiting sailor, stepped out to a pull, hel he uj.i.'J tie Jtiell at the guns. bulKL sp.tijeii j.i t.iai and into the lui iivji. tie i In.

head into the v.iu:v. i hai Lie vuii. UiirryV" he inquired, with interest. "No, sir," cheerfully responded the man at. tile wheel.

I 1 i.e. very busy superintending, the lire ot iii; absurd battery. The anchored gunboat s.iiij.iy woihd ii.jt sink, ft evinced that initial al stubbornness v. iiieh is sometimes (i by obje ts. The gunboat at the whan had sunk as if she had beea seutile.i, but this ii.

idled thing at anchor wouid not even take tire. Petit began to grotv tluriieii privately. He e.jiild not stay there farev, r. Ulty didn't the pig headed gunboat admit iis destruction? Why was at the foiward gun when one of his engines rs eame to him. and after saluting, said, serenely: "The men at the after gun are ail down, sir." It.

was one of those curious lifts which aa enlisted man. without any way knowing it, can give his officer. The impudent tranquillity of the man at once set Pent to rights, and the engineer departed admiring the extraordinary coolness oi his captain. The next few moments contained little but heat and odor, applied and an expect a' Ion de ath. Pent developed a fervid and amazed appreciation of the men, hij men: men he Knew very wen.

out strange "hat explained them? He was doing hie oe; i nex us' was captain oi uie vmcjien. and he lived ur died by the Chicken. But wh. it e. mld move these men to watch his eye in briu lit ant ieipat inn of his orders, and then obey them vith enthusiastic rapidity? What cause, them to speak of the action as soma kind of a joke particularly when they knew he could overhear teem? What manner of men? And be anointed them secretly with his fulU'St affection.

Perhaps Pent did not think ail this during the battle, i'erhons he thought It so soon after the battle that his full mind became ifusnd as to the time. At any rate, it stands as an expression of his feeiine. The enemy had gotten a field gun down to the shore, ami witn it tncy oegan to throw she lis at the Chicken. In this war It was iiKual that, the own trodden Spaniards, in their ignorance, should use smokeless powder, while lhe Americans, by the power of the consistent, everiust log. three ply, wire woven, double back action imbecility of a hayseed gov.

rtimeni used powder which on I seii arel on land crid their position to heaven; land, accordingly, good men sot killed without reason. At first Pent could not locate th.e I field icon at all; but as sewn as he found it he ran aft with one man and brought thn i i poundi again into action. He paid little heed to the old gun crew. One was' lying on his face, apparently dead; another was prone, with a wound in his chest; while tho third sat. with hi" back to the deck house holdltie a smitten arm.

This last one called out. huskily. "Give 'em hell, sir." The minutes of the buttle were either 5ays, years or they were flashes ol a second. Once pent, looking up. was astonished to see three shell hide, in the Chicken's funnel made surreptitiously, so to speak.

"If we don't silence that field gun she'ii Bink us, boys." The of the man Bitting with his hack against the deck house were looking from out his ghastly face at the new gun crew. Me poke uith the supreme laziness of a wounded man: "(live 'em hell." Pent felt a sudden twist of his shoulder. He was wounded slUhtlv. The anchored runboat waa la Factional Fight in the Democratic Party Helps to Defeat Goebel. TAYLOR'S PLURALITY, 7,000.

Some Estimates Place the Figures as High as 15,000 Expected Violence Did IJot Materialize. Loulsvillo, November By the combined efforts of the Republicans and anti Qoebel ites Attorney General W. S. Taylor (Rep.) has been eloeted Governor Kentucky by a majority variously estimated at 7,000 to 13.000 over Goebel While the majority will not reach the Republicans' estimated figure tho returns reported up to 1 o'clock continue to show Republican gains, and a plurality ol 7,000 is conceded by many oi the Democratic leaders, while some of the more faithful are claiming a plurality of 5,000 for Goebel. It is thought that the Republicans have gained so materially that it leaves the complexion of the next Legislature in doubt, despite the holdover Senators.

The estimated plurality from most sanguine Democratic leaders is based upon returns from the interior of the state, which prob William S. Taylor, Elected Governor of Kentucky. ably will be overcome by the strong Republican counties, many of which are inaccessible by telegraph or railroad. Chairman Long gave out the following statement at 1 o'clock regarding the next legislature: "The Republicans have elected 10 Senators out of 19 sure. Three more ai'e believed to have been elected, but the returns are not complete, while one is in doubt.

There are two Republican holdovers and six anti Goebe! holdovers. In the House the Republicans have elected 41 members certain, the Democrats 35 and the auti Goebel Democrats 5." Lexington, November 7 In qne precinct in this city to night while the count was in progress, a body of armed men, said to have come from the Republican headquarters, attempted to enforce a "fair count," as they claimed. Reaching the precinct they were met by a number of police and citizens. Firearms were brought into use and about a hundred shots were fired. One negro was wounded, not seriously The attacking party fled and no arrests havo been made.

Frankfort, November A bulletin issued at 1 A. M. by the Goebel campaign committee says: "We have not enough information concerning the state to go into details, but we are confident we have won, though the majority is small." Frankfort, November Former Senator Blackburn at 2 A. M. eent the following telegram to W.

J. Bryan: "We have carried Kentucky by a small, but safe, majority. Sincere congratulations upon your splendid victory in Nebraska." GERMAN WORK PEOPLE. Pay They Keceive and What It Costs to Live Strikes Impossible. Charles W.

Erdman, United States Consul at Breslau, who is back here at his old home in Louisville, Ky. on official leave, tells the Bt. Louio Globe Democrat that the prosperity of Germany has continued at the same wonderful pilch as during 1898. Every factory tn Germany is running on full time and every workiugmcm is employed. Moreover, he is of the opinion that the McKinley tariff has not checked German industrial activity, notwithstanding the complaints the Germans are making.

As proof ci this he cites the fact that for the quarter ending September 30, 1S0D, the value oi declared exports from Breslau to the United States was $332,675.45, against i.2'J for the same quarter last year, a gain of $34,011.10. The principal Item of these exports is porcelain ware, the value for the quarter being Leather gloves come next, with a value of $70', 412. 72, and iincn and cotton goods are third, with His consular fees. also, which formerly averaged about a year, were $1, 005.50 for the quarter ending September 30, Indicating a rate of for the year. "The way in whiefo the German manufacturers have met the tariff," said Mr.

Erdman, "has been by a general reduction, of wages. They have simply told their work people that they must accept what is given, or the factories will be closed down. As there can be no strikes in Germany under the strict laws wliieh prevail there, and as the competition of laborers is so great, the workmen have had to submit. The consequence is that there is no remarkable industrial activity in Germany. The manufacturers may not be making as much as they once did 1 cannot apeak advisedly as to that point but they seem to be prosperous, as well as busy.

"People in America who have never investigated trade conditions ii: Germany have no idea iow great an advantage its manufacturers have aver us by reason of low scale of wages they pay. The exports from the Breslau district have been and are verv heavy, amounting to S1.1S0.S192 to $2, 271, 407 per annum, nearly all of which go to America, as 1 have shown in my reports to the State Department. "A whole family man, wife and children work in a factory for about 23 cents a day. Torcelain manufacture is one of tie principal industries of Breslau, and the highest wages 'paid in porcelain factories is only 54. 7G a week, the minimum being $1.13.

There has been a great expansion in glove manufacturing, and i think the wages are better now, but when I made a report on that subject, July 23. 18SS, the wages of cutters, the best paid workmen of ail. varied ftnm to jo. 71 a week. The sorters get 51.13 to 1.90, and the sewing girls t'je same.

One factory In Breslau ships 20,000 paira of gloves weekly to America, iud has 200 cutters: so you can see the importance of this industry, a few trades are better paid. Blowers" in glass manufactories get $5.95 to $8.56 a week; cutters, $4.28 to 35.71; engravers and painters, the same; smelters, $2.85 to 54.28; heaters and burners, sorters and packers, $2.85, and binding girls, The linen factoriee are among the most important industries of Silesia and Poscn, but the workers are miserably paid, Judged by American standards. Tho wages of dyers are 32.55 to a week, while embroidering girU get 71 cento to Plurality in the State Reaches Twenty Thousand Both Houses Carried BY GOOD WORKING MAJORITIES. Essex and Mercer Counties Show Strong: Bepublican Victories State Senators Elected. Trenton, November 7 The returns at midnight indicate Republicans carried the state by about "0,000 plurality, although there was no direct vote on a state ticket.

The Republicans will control both Houses of the Legislature by good working majorities and will have an in creased representation In the Assembly. Jersey City, November 7 The entire Republican ticket in Essex County, New Jersey, has been elected by between four and live thousand, judging from one fifth of the districts received at Newark. Eleven Republicans have probably been elected to the Assembly from County and Thomas N. McCar ter, Republican has been elected to the State Senate. George Virtue, Republican, has been elected sheriff and Joseph W.

Ellor, Republican, has been electud surrogate. Trenton, N. November 7 Mercer County goes Republican by 5,000. a Republican gain of 3,300 over the vote on' Governor last fall. J.

Warren Fleming. Ira A. Wood and Frederick P. Reese are elected to the Assembly; Samuel Q. Atchley, Republican.

elected sheriff and John W. Cornell. Republican, is elected surrogate by about the same vote. Atlantic City. N.

November 7 Atlantic County elects Charles T. Abbott (Rep.) to the assemoiy Dy over 1,000 plurality. Smith E. Johnson, Republican candidate for sheriff, has been elected by more than 1,100 plurality. The election was quiet and the vote light.

cape Alay, N. November 7 Cape May County elects Ellis H. Marshall (Rep.) to the Assembly by oOO majority. Way (Rep.) is elected county clerk by less than 50 ma jorlty. The New Jersey Senate for 1900 will cpn sist of the following members: Atlantic County Lewis Evans, R.

Bergen County William M. Johnson, R. Burlington County H. E. Packer.

D. Camden County H. W. Johnson. R.

Cape County Robert E. Hand, R. Cumberland County E. C. Stokes.

R. Essex County Thomas McCarter, R. Gloucester County Hudson County Allan L. McDermott, D. Hunterdon County John R.

Foster, D. Mercer County E. C. Hutchinson, R. Middlesex County J.

H. Van Cleef, D. Monmouth County Morris County Mahlon Pitney. R. Ocean County G.

G. Smith. Passaic County Christian Braun, D. Salem County Richard C. Miller, R.

Somerset County C. A. Reed, R. Sussex County Lewis J. Martin, D.

Utiion County Joseph Cross, R. Warren County Johnson Cornish, D. Total Republicans, 12; Democrats, 7. publican majority. 5.

Re DANGERS OF ZIONISM. Influx of Undesirable Classes Commented On by a "Well Known Hebrew. Isidor Straus, the widely known Hebrew, having recently returned from a tour through Turkey and the Holy Land, discusses what he considers some dangerous features In the present emigration to Palestine on the part of Jews and under the patronage of the Rothschilds. He sets forth these dangers in an interview published in the American Hebrew as follows: "There was one thing that impressed itself on my mind very strongly. I regard it as a duty to give utterance to that impression.

It is this. Every effort should be made to discountenance and discourage emigration to Jerusalem." "You mean emigration of Jews?" "Of course. I mean of Jews who proceed there to settle there. There is, of course, no objection to any one going to Jerusaiem to visit the place. But my remark is intended to apply to that class of Jews who go there, armed with American passports and claiming to be American citizens.

They know nothing about our Institutions and can't even speak the language. They are refused the right of ianding by the Turkish authorities because of the suspicion that they are not really visitors, but intending settlers. The Turkish authorities have a regulation whicii forbids such visitors unless on the stipulation that, they will leave the country In from thirty to ninety days after landing. "When that, time has expired this class of immigrants fly to the American Consul for protection, claiming the right to remain as long as they please. Not only do they thus violate a clearly understood stipulation, but they place the unfortunate American Consul in an impossible position.

Their persistent appeals for aid are no slight trial, while their abject poverty and their pitiably helpless position plead strongly to every man with a heart iu his breast. No wonder that the American Consul is driven to ask his superiors for help to relieve him from his unenviable position. "The class of people who thus monopolize three fourths of the American Consul's time may be American citizens they have American passports. They may, or may not, have been long enough in this country to have acquired those passports honestly. But the problem they create has an undoubted tendency to throw American Judaism into ill reputea disrepute which reflects upon those American Jews whose visit to Palestine might otherwise have resulted In benefit to those Jews who are already located there.

If these 'American citizens' who have been found so productive of trouble continue to strive to locate them selves there, by fair means or foul, I fear that at some not very distant date it may bring hardships and suffering on all Jews who are legally entitled to reside In Palestine. "I know that it is far from the Intention of the Zionists to stimulate the emigration of the misguided and ignorant classes who compose this flood of immigration, yet I tear that these emigrants have ben encouraged by Zionism. If the Zionists hope ever to realize their ideals there Is nothing more certain to defeat that hope than the influx of immigrants who land in violation of Turkish law and whose refusel to leave within the stipulated time stamps them as perjurers (for they have to make oath of their intention) anil that stigma will, as usual, reflect on all Jews now in Palestine. "From information I have been able to gather I may say that or these immigrants I am safe In saying it of nine tenths of them, am practically paupers, whose flocking to Palestine swells the miserable crowd whose chief dependence is on the Chalukah. The Jewish press of the United Slates, and more particularly that portion of it favorable to Zionism, can do no more worthy, no more humane work than by strady.

unceasing, persistent effort to discourage this kind of emigration to Palestine. "No. 1 have nothing I should like to say on any other topic. This subject is too important to have its prominence lowered or Its emphasis lessened by any talk on what are comparatively trilling topics. Tho matter is very serious." A BIG PIECE OF GRANITE.

A big piece of granite ha.s been cut from the Palmer quarry, five miles from Vinal haven. Mo. It measures iu the rough state Bl feet in length, and is feet ti inches thick, by 7 feet in width, the total weight being 310 tons. When turned Into cylindrical form it will be 54 feet in length by ti feel 3 Inches In diameter, and will be the first of eight columns which are destined to support the great dome of the Episcopal cathedral of St. John the Divine of New York.

I SO pfennigs a day, which is equivalent to about 12 cents to 19 cents. Eighty women can uk mrea tor tne same cost as ten men and they do a great deal more work. The use that is made of the labor of women and children in Germany I saw illustrated in the lay ing out or a public park in Breslau. They iook tne emidren out of the industrial schools where they had received instruction in botany, and with a large force of women labor ers, the work of sodding and trimming the ground and planting trees progressed with wonderful rapidity. Tho trees now standing iu iUi pars: loon liKe tney had been there fifty years, and are haalthv anil flnurishino I got a good idea of what numbers, even of leeme workers, could accomplish there.

By the way, did you know that in Germanv the graveyards muet be turned into parks "after fifty years? Well, they must; the graves are smoothed over, trees and flowers planted, and the resting place of the dead becomes a place of recreation for the living. "The servant girl of Germany is one of the jewels of workirigwomen. I pay my servant a fancy price about 200 marks a year, or $46. The ordinary wage is only 120 marks, about $27.60, or not quite $2.59 a month. For this meager compensation you get the mo6t faithful and vigilant service.

The girl cannot leave the house without your permission, and she is entitled to a holiday only about once a month. There is no trouble about giving sudden warning, for the law requires her to give you thirty days' notice before quitting your service. "All the conditions surrounding the German working classes contribute to the power which German manufacturers wield in the low cost of labor. Living is very cheap, and tho government requires every one to work. There are no drones.

Hence there are no beggars, and you do not witness there the spectacle so common among the colored people of the South, of one industrious man supporting a family of parasites in idleness. There their want.s are pitched upon the lowest scale. The pfennig is the basis of every trade; people buy and sell in pfennigs and expect to receive the odd pfennig in change. You can buy a pfennig's worth of almost anything if you are not abie to pay more. Ten pfennigs are worth 2.38c, so you can understand how closely they calculate.

But food is very cheap. You can buy a quart of good sweet milk for 10 pfennigs, and an Immense loaf of bread at 30 to 40 pfennigs. The size and weight of these loaves are prescribed by law. The same is true of the sale of meat and other articles of food. All are cheap and no shopkeeper dares to give you short measure or light weight.

Butter is one article that seems rather high, for it costs about 25c. a pound, but it is pure and sweet always, and a German pouhd weighs one tenth more than the English pound. "The fare of the workingman is exceedingly frugal, though he has a sufficiency. When he gets up in the morning, he takes a preliminary breakfast of plain rye bread and coffee, nothing else. Then he goes to work, but at 10 o'clock gets his breakfast, for which he Is allowed half an hour.

This breakfast, consists of a huge loaf or roll of bread spread with grease of some sort, generally lard. It is washed down either with a bottle of beer or else with 10 pfennigs' worth of white whisky made from potatoes. At noon his dinner is brought to him usually by his wife or daughter. It consists of soup cooked with balls of dough and with a mixture of various kinds of vegetables, but very rarely is there any meat. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon is lunch, when he feeds on a large slice of brow bread ana again common beer or white whlsr key.

I don't know what he has for supper. His drink may seem expensive, but it is not really so. He ouys a two and one half gallon hucket of common beer for 10 pfennigs, which he keeps for two or three days, and then puts in bottles to take for his lunch. The whiskey he uses i about as cheap; it Is not Kentucky bourbon. "The German Government is a paternal one.

and it watches closely after the Interests of its citizens, whose working life I have just described. Everybody must contribute something in the way ot taxes: even to the poorest servant girl, who pays her 10 pfennigs for the stamp of the book in which she carries the particulars of her birth and parentage and her police permit. For this they get the privilege of hospital treatment when sick, and, in certain cases, an old age pension. The workingman is required to contribute a fraction of his wages to this provision for his old age. whether he likes it or not.

Altogether, it is a tremendous working machine this industrial Germany and our government and our manufacturers cannot Ignore it." BIOGRAPHY OF BTJXLY HAYES. Bully Hayes, the famous South Sea captain, whose adventures have furnished more material for novelists than any other character of our day. is at last to have a fairly complete literary pastoral, for Louis Becke. the novelist, who has used Captain Hayes many a time in fiction, has just finished a book of adventure in the South Seas in which the redoubtable captain is the most prominent figure, says the St. Louis Globe Democrat.

What makes the news especially interesting is the fact that Mr. Becke knows whereof he speaks, tor he sailed with the captain as supercargo on the brig Leonora, and was with him when the brig was wrecked in 1874, and afterward k'ept up a lively correspondence with him until the captain's death. It was Captain Hayes who was the original of Captain Nares in Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Wreckers." Ralf Boldrewood, too, used the captain and his brig, the Leonora, in his story of "The Modern Buccaneer," and it is said that he kept pretty close to the truth, too closer probably than Mrs. Loud did when she made the captain the hero of an adventure in her Tahitian story, "Tauran," wherein he disposed of a cargo of slaves, when a British warship made an untimely call, by making them al! walk the plank. A NEW CANAL APPAETTJS.

Canal boats can be towed in either direction by a new apparatus, placed on one side of the canal only, the towing cars running on a double track, with the draw head of one car lower than the other and provided with a curved shoe to guide the other line over the top of the car. A TERRITORIAL ASSOCIATION. The new Nebraska Territorial Pioneer Association is liberal in its membership. Any person is eligible who became a resident ot Nebraska prior to MaTch 1, 1367, and also his children and grandchildren, upon tho payment of $1 initiation fee each, and they are assured that there shall be no dues. MAKING PAPER TILES.

According to the Engineer, an American firm is turning out a largo quantity of paper tiles for roofing purposes. They are said to be hard and tough and the glazing somewhat resembles Japanese lacquer. They are said to be cheap, and can bo made in any color or abapo to suit the purpos. THE RIVER ROUSTABOUT. He Is Still Doing Business at the Old Stands All Along the Mississippi.

One who makes a trip up the river and watches the antics of the negroes and listens to their wierd songs and tales will not agree with the iconoclast who says that all the beauties and the picturesque features have faded out of tho steamboatman's life. As a line of negroes goes up the hill under the Stare oi tne searchlight with their peculiar I swinging tread and sing the music, which seems, somehow, to be an essential part of the action, the sight is one which has a strange wildness about it, and a fascination, too. The negro is not the same as he was before the war. Conditions have changed too much for that. But he has retained his love for the fantastic, and most of those barbaric customs which civilization seems unable to eradicate from the African mind.

The first mate has undergone a marked metamorphosis, and to his change Is due some portion of the new features in the deckhand's character. Time was when the first mate had a vocabulary which would make an ordinary sailor's parrot die for shame. He had this vocabulary, and the negroes held the same opinion as the one who answered when asked if he did not object to the mate's abuse, "No, boss; dat's whut he's paid for. He's got tcr make out he's doln' somethin', an' it don't do us no harm." Now the deckhands actually object to being sworn at when the oaths become too vigorous. The pay of the deckhand is usually $60 a month, even when the business is only moderately heavy, and last winter during the big rush a crew of negroes refused to ship because the wages did not suit them.

They were offered $90 per month, but wanted $100 for the trip. The first peculiarity which strikes the observer about the deckhand is his walk. He has climbed up the steep river embankment when there was mud all over it, and he has come down that same slide with' a heavy weight upon his back. He has adopted a step which prevents him from slipping, and this gives him a peculiar shuffling step unlike any movement seen elsewhere. He combines with this a hoisting of the shoulders and a peculiar turn of the head, acquired from turning his face to let a sack rest upon his shoulder.

These three traits are distinctive, and give the deckhand a strange appearance upon the levee, or anywhere off a boat or away from the river. As he works going up the incline or along the gangplank, precariously resting upon a levee's crest, he has a rhythmic sort of chant which fits in with his music. Always the same class of songs are sung. Usually there are no words, but some leader chants and the others voice the chorus as they bend to their tasks. There aro sack songs and barrel songs and music for the cotton bale and the ordinary package.

The music varies with the task, as the movement of the negro's body varies. The cotton song, as the bale Is lifted forward and allowed to drop, has a catchy swing to It. Down go the sharp hooks and the bale starts up to fall with a quick thud. So does the music. The other airs, like all negro music, are harmonies, not melodies, which are timed to the labor.

The crap game can be seen io its full glory only when the deckhand plays it upon the boat's deck. From the foot of President's Island to the city no stops aro made, and a like condition prevails in regard to boats from the upper river. This Is called the crap limit. The negroes are paid off before they reach the city, and usually at the last stop before the city. As soon as the pay is received the negroes gather and begin to shoot craps, and the cries for "Big Dick" and "Little Joe" and "Ada" are heard until the boat has landed.

When it does, some few negroes generally possess the money paid to all. Memphis Scimitar. JIM WABDKEE'S BANK. A Picturesque Tale of Spokane and the Old Days. Jim Wardner the only Jim Wardncr is still in Seattle spinning quaint tales nf the good old days when he made Spokane hit: resting place and his place for business was any part of the country for a hundred miles around.

Here is his latest as told to the credulous people of Seattle: "After Wardner made his stake out of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan cnine, In the Coeur d'Alenes, he started the Bank of Wardner in the nascent mining camp named in his honor. The bank consisted of an inconspicuous shack, a portable safe, a chicken coop netting for the protection of the cashier, a private box about as big as a cheese box. and Wardner's credit in Spokane, where he kept his own money on deposit. Busy with mining affairs, he left the management of the bank to Horace Davenport, Its cashier. Things went on swimmingly for a while, and Davenport was the pink of amiability, until one gloomy day he thought he saw tht end of the world, but more particularly the end of that Important part of it represented in the Bank of Wardner.

Swooping down on the unsuspecting president, he insisted that he must be paid what was due him and his resignation accepted. "It's all off, Mr. Wardner," said ho. "All we have in the safe is and one of our depositors, who is buying up a lot of cattle, will eocne in this afternoon with a $900 check." "That's all right," replied Wardner, non chalently. "I'll attend to him.

Your resignation is accepted." and writing out a personal check on a Spokane bank for the amount coming to Davenport, Wardner took his place behind the chicken fence. Presently the anticipated $900 check made its appearance. Wardner handed it back, cooly remarking that he wouldn't pay it. "You won't pay it?" exclaimed the astonished depositor. "What do you mean; haven't I $900 in this bank?" "Yes, but I won't pay it just the same." "Well," with a series of unmentionablo expletives, "if your blanked old bank Is busted you'd better close up." "The bank is all right," said Wardner, softly, "but I don't Intend to let you have the money on that check." Then he added, even in milder tones, "See here, haven't you any business sense about you? Now, I always sized you up tor a man who believed in helping along home industries'and home Institutions.

Can't you see that if Instead of drawing this money out of the bank you paid for cattle with Spokane drafts, the Bank of Wardner would Qiako 1 per cent, out of the transaction? Nine dollars isn't much to a bank to be sure, but every little counts, you know." The angry depositor cooled down at once, agreed that Wardner was right about the matter, and Instead of closing the bank, paid for his purchases in Spokane drafts, as suggesteda process that added just $9 to Wardner's credit in Spokane. The fact is. Sir WHliani'd second name is rather happily it ha.s hi given him on account of his capacity for performing hard work. Indeed, no march can he too lung for him, and, in his place at the head of ralnmn Ml 1, 1 i hour without a pause. As a ma tier of fact', his powers of endurance would put thLe of many a younger man to the biusn, and last jvai, uen in me souuan.

tne oet marc: torce in the country was led by him. As a major general he could, of courne, have ridden; but Sir William holds Gut, in the fieM, an officer should be ever prepared to ugh it" equally with his subordinates ot all ranks. Consequently, day after day a familiar siuat was afforded by the spectacle of the sturdy khaki clad figure tramping cheerfully through, the choking dust cloudu of the desert on the road to KharUum. It is not surprising, therefore, to find that among the rank and file the Impression prevails that the general "was made of wire." On the authority of "The Birthdav Book," Sir William Is about to celebrate his fit'ty sixth anniversary. Too much faith, however, cannot be pinned to such volumes, for, as is well known, a man is always merely as old as he feels.

Consequently, if Sir Wiilia le. ls but six and thirty, and ha the energy ot a man of thl3 age, then, for all practical intents and purposes, two decades can be taken from his tale of years. The regiment in which the first twenty three years of General Gatacre's military career were passed was the old Seventy seventh Foot. or. as it is now known, the Duke ot Cambridge's Own Middlesex.

This, by the way, in memory of Its distinguished servient Albuera, Is commonly spoken of aw the Die Hards. It is one of the foremost fighting corps in the British army and carries fifteen honors on its colors in token uf its prowess on many a hard fought battlefield. ranging trom Mysore to South Africa Tn 1S7i days) passed through the staff college anil consequently became entitled to append the letters P. S. C.

to his name. Heine thus pro fessionally qualified for such employment he now put in six years as a staff officer. The first appointment that fell to him was that of instructor in surveying at Sandhurst, and thia was followed by administrative posts, first at Aldershot and then at Madras. Iu issr, he went temporarily on half pay, bin Si William was too well thought of in influential quarters at the v. ar ofllce to be consigned tn the limbo of the half pay list for any length of time.

Consequently, by the end of that year he again In India. Here he filled such responsible positions as those of assistant quart cr master general on the headquarter staff, adjutant general at Bmnbay arid a brigadier generalship In the Chitral relief force. Be ing essentially a "first class fighting man," Sir William naturally seized every opportunl ty io lane jmit iu various campaigns that are periodically being carried on in our great Indian Empire. The first of these in i which he served was that of tho I Iazara. This was in 1SSS.

and on it coiiclus ion Sir Willis found himself member of the Distinguished Service Order and the reeitdrn' of a war medal and clasp. In the follov.in year til, Tonhon expedition (Rin na) was onveni. ut in progress and thither accnnlingiy worn. Gatacre. His next experience of war was afforded hy the outbreak of the ('! catnt aiitn in 1895.

Here. Sir Wi'li: wav 2ivn i he cn rrand of a brind? for i nir e.art of the re li force. With this he conducted tho action Mamagai and the farrow pa. snes of the Janbatai and Ln pnr 1'nt Ms K.rv Ices on these various occasions he was "m'm tioned in di hes" an 1 a 1" i G. ti.

tilltiois having been concluded he returned to England and became a major general at Aldershot. As with so many other st Miers of note, active service was abou to bi pre In tho land of the Pharaohs. At the commencement of last year, accordingly, he wen' there to take hie; place at. the head of the British brigade that, was being organized to try conclusions with the Khalifa. In this capacity he 'as present, at the battles of the Atbara and Khartoum.

At the r.nl of the campaign a K. C. B. ship made him Sir Will lam. Other honors also now dovdved upon him, for he was given the "thanks of both Houses of Parliament," was I "mentioned In dispatches," and awarded t.bt.

bluv and yellow ribbon of the Egyptian medal. In Natal, where he Is to co emand a dlvf ion. did not fall to distinguish himself ttill further. DAVID'S CHTJHCH GOING. A Dialogue Which Applies to a Present Discussion.

The following selection from "Davil Harum" is apropos just now in view of the discussion about church attendance: "Hain't they taken any notice of ye?" asked David. "Mr. Euston, the rector, called upon me," said John, "but I have made no further acquaintances." um 'm!" said David, and, after a moment, in a sort of i onflde. iti.U tone, "bo you like goin' p.i church?" he asked. "Well." said John, "tliut.

depends: yes. i think I do. I thin it Is the proper thine he concluded weakly. "Depends some on how a ffdler's been brought up. don't ye think so?" said David "I should think It.

very likely." John absented, struggling manfully with a yawn. "I guess that's about my case." remarked Mr. Harum, "an' I sh'd have to admit that I ain much ot a nanit ter church Pollv has the principal charge of that branch of the bus'nes. an' the one 1 slay away from, when I don't, go." he said with a grin, "'s the Prcspyteriun." John laughed. "No.

sir," said David, "I ain't much of a hand for't. used to worry at tne about It till I fin ly says to tier, I says, "I'll tell ye what I'll do. I'l: compermise with 1 says, 'I won't undertake to toiler right aiong in your track I ain't got the req'sit 1 says, 'but I'm now on I'll go church reg'Iar on It was putty near Thanksgivin' time." ho remarked, "an" I dunno but she thought if she c'd git me started I'd finish the heat, an' so we fixed it at that." "Of course." said John, "you kept your promise." "Wa'ai. sir." declared David, with the utmost gravity, "fer the next five years 1 never missed anendin' church on Thanksgivin' day but tour limes; hut ufter that." he added. "I had to beg off.

It was too much of a strain." he declared with a chuckle, an' It took more time 'n Polly c'd really afford to lt me ready." "David Harum," chapter XXVIII..