Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1892 — Page 2

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

Camparisou of Wages in Ameri- — can and Rnglish Mills, (« «uu BnI); Means— Other Timely Topic* l>lf< USMd. - . . Ciptair. Henry Snyder, n leading Democrat of VThite county, has turned Lis back on tbe enemy anti v:ll rote for President Harrisofi. Tbe Captain's brother, not »<, prominent, but heretofore a stanch Democrat, will do likewise.

wages in English and American mills. JetiTCeesc. tr Clfliago jfePaid.* 4 had its Degrees. Protection luw its Fricks.” For once, and for a wonder,, our esteemed conteinuorary has stated the case correctly. -- ... . We respectfully remind the Herald that Legree was "a Southern Democrat who solved the free trade problem by paying his laborers nothing per year. We call the Herald’s attention to what the protective Frick has been paying the 325 laborers who resist, and it may be justly resist. a proposed reduction of 12' pgr cent. Tbe Iron Age of June 30,1832,gives tbe following figures as the waire list of “ a well equipped mill ” in Western Pennsylvania, working under the Amalgamated scale, which is the scale determining the rate of wages -at Carnegie’s works. We place English rates for like work in separate -paragraphs: The American wages stands thus for the year 1891; . -- Pt-r tmn BSter* to 7‘inc-n miH. 42S turns of Hhoursi-aih per year .... 15.828.98 813.81 KoHors In IU-hioh mill, 468' turns 9,248.44 19.70 Ciolku * in guide mills. 514 _ turns 7,-160. C 2 14.93 Bolin-* In War mill. 279 turns. 2,146.66 7.78 “Thus it seems that the lowest price jvcid ful* eight hours’ work to any roller vis $7.78, and the highest ! ibr labor c f equal duration was $19,7(1. __ We make bold to say that there is hardly one editorial writer on the regular staff of any one of the freetrade papers whose editors-in-chief five orders for •* slashing articles on Vick and Carnegie’s starvation wages ” who -put d at tbe rate of! $9,248.44 for 408 '‘turns” at his work.

The English pay of a roller in iron mills is $2.50. English pay s2.3oper day*. American “starvation wages $7.78 to $19.76 lor eight hours’ work. Is which country does the modern Txfjree live—in protection America -or in free trade England ? Let us now consider how “heaters” are paid in American and in English iron and steel mills. The wages in the Pennsylvania mills have, been as follows for the trade year just ended: Per turn* ■Heater In 7-lnch mill, 453 turns i»l 8 hours each 83,914.49 $6.90 Heater in 10-inth mill, 468 turns oT 8 hours isctch.. 4.634.83 0.88 Heater in guide-mill, 6:4 turns o 4 8 hours each 3,580.16 £7.47 Heater in'bar mill, 552 turns of S hours rarh 3.510.00 5.83 English pay $3.60 for a day’s work, American pay from $5.83 io $9.88 for hours' work. It really seems that if “protection has its Fricks,” as the Cnicago Herald remarks, (treat Britain- must have something very much worse.

The pay of a blast furnace keeper has been $3.25 per day under the scale hitherto in force in the Pennsylvania mills, aud $2 in England. Ladle meu have received from $2.75 to $5.75 in the United States, and from $1 to $1.15 in England. This, perhaps, is why the Southern employers, who desire cheap lihnr ;ire in favor of repeal of the “infamous policy of prottfctlon,'“midwhy their ufcedicut servant, the Northern Democratic press, clamors for it. Converter men are paid from $4.50 to 8.50 in the American iron works, and $1.45 in England. Certainly $1 45 is ..nearer .ta the limit of “starvation wages” than $4.50 or $8.30. We are acquainted with people who have saved enough to become house owners out of au income of less than $8.50 per day. Rail straighteners earn $lO per day under the Amalgamated scale in America, and sl-35 in England. Ten dollars per day is equal to tb? salary of the judges of many Circuit Courts in rural districts. It is S6O per week. It is quite a nice thing to have.

Sixty doliurs a week may lie starvation wages. but if Cleveland should be elected half a million or so of Democrats Mil! be found scrambling for public a dices that pay less than half of sixty dollars'a week. Tl»e lowest priced labor employed in mitts naming on the Amalgamated scale receive $1.50 per day. Itscoun terpart in England is paid (id cents. • These figures are submitted to the consideration of all thoughtfv ! people without reference to IDs .proposed .reduction of 12 per ceut at tiie Homestead works, though that proposed seduction affects only 325 of those who have been earning from $5 Ki to 419.75 for eight hours'O work, and docs cot touch the wage list that ranges from $1.50 to $4.50 a dnv The figures prove that under proitaction wages in America have reached an eminence that seems incredible to the European workman.

TARIFF FOR REVENUE ONLY. polls .)u,u.-n>l-Whatuo Democrats mean by “tariff for revenue omy?” Ask one of tße followers of Cleveland that question and he will answer that “a tariff for rev cuue only ts a tariff that <wi!l produce a •wlfieieut amount to #sy t':e e» f e*ces of the government

economically administered and io more.”' .Nine Democrats out of every ten believe this is a full and complete answer to the question. It is simply rio answer at all. McKinley himself does not believe in i aising more revenue by a tariff than will meet the expenses of—the gt>v~. ernment economically administered. Did any of t hese reformers over consider the remarkable fact that the McKinley bill does net produce* enough revenue to pay the expenses of government economically administered? Why then all this "run. pus” about '‘tariff reform?” If Democrats and Republicans alike want to raise enougn revenue to meet -the just expenses of the government and no more why all this cant about the “robber tariff?” What, then, is the

meaning of the Democratic platform when it dec I aresfora tariff f ir revenue only? It is this: Whencvgfll i tariff schedule is formulated the du.tiea must be so laid that American industries shall hAvc no protection" that In t<»4M»y l ,for revenue only,, to ! the exclusion of protection. Lnder this theory, when a Democrat proceeds to levy duties on imparts, he looks only to the amount of revenue to be produced, and without any regard whateyeVAo the effect such levy m ayhave on the man of act. ring establishments of .this country. It is revenue he is after, and revenue on ly. It therefore follows that your tariff-for-revenue-only fellow is always in favor of large importations —the larger the better. If every manufactory in the country could be closed, imports would be greatly increased, and of course every Democrat who wants “revenue only” Ought to be supremely happy. All parties agree Ahat we must have as much revenue from the tariff as'is produced by the McKinley bill. If that be true, how can the Democrats raise that amount of revenue after they have radically reduced the duties? In one way only, unci that is by largely increasing the imports. And what does that mean? Why, it necessarily means greatly decreased production at home, and consequently less work for our own mechanics and laboring men. It requires a given amount of manufactured articles to supply the demand in this country, and just in proportion as that demand is supplied, by importations will our mannfa ■ turers surfer and our laborers be without work. . The Democratic scheme is to so reduce the tariff that our imports will lie largely increased, and by that means still succeed in raising the same amount of revenue. The Republican idea is to preserve-our home market largely to our own people, and tiiis is accomplished by protection. Which plan commends itself to your judgment? Jonh B. Glover.

HOLMAN, THE PHARISEE, MASKED-Fifty-first Fifty-second! Congress. CongressAgrieulpirnl ...$ 1.794.496.60 $ 3,2.42.976.50Army 21,306.471 70 21,303,499.82 Diplomatic and consular 1,710,815X0 1.6)4,045.00 Dist. of Columbia.. 5,769 544.15 5.32:4,414.2? Fortifications,,,,!,,.,. 4,232,935.00 2.734.276.00 Indian i.... 7.983,0100 H 7.661.047.81 Legislative, etc 21.0W.752.75 21.899.252 ft? Military academy. . 435.2J6.11 425.91T.31 Navy 34,136.035.53 33,54.3,38.>.U) Pensions 94.457,461.00 146,737.850.00 POStofflce 72.226.698.99 80,831.876.7.1 River and harbor... 25.136.235.00 21,153.618.00 Sundry civil : 9.7.-8.342.23 28.000.001.00 Deficiency 38.617.448.96 15,8-0.503.18 Miscellaneous t 7.010,905.27 500.000.00 WjqtlU's Fair bill.. . 2,-500.000.00 Permanent annual - appropriations 101,623.421.00 121.g83.880.00 Totals $463,398,510.75 $507,711,131.64 SHORT TARIFF LESSON. Washington Special. ' “Our ships went out filled to the guards and returned almost empty last month. - The last incoming vessel from Amsterdam had but forty tons of freight. If it were not for our passenger business our homecoming voyages -wosil4 be almost an entire financial failure nowadays.” These were the words, the other day, of one of the most extensive ship owners at Baltimore, which has grown to be a largo exporting place. The vesselman then added this remarkable statement: “ We have to give prices' rot ribtn®' coming freight which scarcely amounts to enough to pay for handling. What do you think of $2 a ton for freight across the Atlantic, three thousand miles from shipping point? If we didn’t give such low figures, which amount to nothing more than ballast prices, we would have to ballast. ” “To what do you attribute the ! great reduction of imports?” was asked.

“The operation of the new tariff law, of course, ” was the ready response. “ How does it affect the exports ?” “It has not reduced them. We have larger outgoing cargoes now than ever before. I have never seen so much grain or manufactured goods'go to Europe as during the past year. ” “Why are the imports so small? Why are your cargoes coming home so light that you have to take them at ballast prices ? " " We seem to be importing almost nothing in the line of manufactures,”’ t said the ship owner. “Nearly all j the stuff we brought in was from Holland, and it vas cement. We used to send out immense loads of raw cotton and bring back loads of cottomgoods, but now we are making our Own cotton goods right here in Baltimore. Of leather goods, steel 1 goods* edge tools, glass, fabrics, we I bring in very little. Oh, but the | trade 1 in plate glass has dropped from Germany and Frauce. We i send *way much more than we bring jiu nowadays, ltaw materialsgaasti- ; tute our imports mostly. Of course j we haul back here a great deal of i beer and wine, bvt v.o take out a 1 largely Increased amount of spirits.

■T- ! ; T-7— — We .send, td the wine sections ot France and Germany immeDsequantlties of alcohol to fortify their wines and Italy is receiving large consignments of cotton seed oil with which to make us olive-oil. i briievc our exports have increased more during the past eighteen mouths than ohL imports have fallen off, and with .the imports have decreasetLAlLpei: coat."' If any dispute the above statement he can be furnished, for private use. the ramc of the ship owner who made the statement of fact, and lie is one of the largest ship owners and managers in the country. It alone is enough to vindicate the new tariff law. , and disprove the assertionsmade bv free traders that the McKinley tariff law would ruin United States export trade, on account of the alleged ” Chinese wall ” against the admission of foreign products.

DEMOCRATIC LOGIC, Toe Democratic party wants to kill the goose that lays the nolcleu egg.

j. National Prospers*y Q,. y.o u ; naughty boy, J told you not to dis j turb the nest. The birds will mourn tlreirlos3. Democracy—No, they won’t. I have-killed them both so they xtan’t. SIX OF A KIND. Destruction of Protection the Sole Aim of the Democratic Party. New York Press. I From, the Confederate Constitution “ Congress shall nave power to lay and collect taxes, duties aud excise ! for revenue only . . but no 1 duties or taxes ou importations from foreign nations shall be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry,” 11. Speech of Senator McDuffie,of South Carolina: “In a free, competition for the market of the United States, the wages of manufacturing labor in the Northern States must be reduced at least as low as the wages of labor in England. The natural pi'ice of the manufacturing labor of the Northern States is precisely the same as the manufacturing labor of England,and not a cent more. ” in. Speech by Congressman Lewis, of Alabama : “The average price of farm labor in the Southern States is not more than 25 cents a day; in the North 50 cents a day. But for the operation of the tariff laws this state of things would have been reversed. ” IV. Southern Confederate Committee to Lord John Russell. “The principal cause which led the Southern States to secede from the Northern was not slavery, but the high prices which, for the sake of protection, the South was obliged to pav for manufactured goods. ” V. John Quincy Adams’ Report of House Committee on Manufacures : “The interest of the South is identified* with that of the foreign rivul and competitor of the Northern man ufacturer, and against him aud for SauJ&eOL .planter and J British manufacturer are eolleagueu. VI. “ We declare it to be a fundameu tal principle of the Democratic party that the Federal government has n > constitutional power to enforco and collect tariff duties except fer the I purpose of revenue only. ”

ADL-A-I. Buffalo Express. L I'll sing you a song of a candidate Who hails from the far-famed Sucker Stata. He aspires to a position high. And he Is known to his neighbors as Adl-a 1. Adl-a-l. <r 11. A very remarkable spoilsman he. Who wielded a glittering snickersnee He chopped off heads day after dify And howled for more, did Adclay Adelay. nt. He was entirely too busy to go to war, He bad no desire to spill his goto. No good In the lighting he was able to see, ••It's a failure." said Adelns. A deice. IV. He yelled for Inflation and money "f ra»r, A tlreenbacker bold was Ills Illinois tags. ' The cheapest a dollar can possibly gro w. Is none too cheap," said Ail .la. Adu.’o. v. Some men at Chicago had heard of hlgv. They pulled him out of obscurity dim. And struck the Democrats totally duu.h By noiu i naUug our Adcluiu. Adel urn. VI. He Is a big man In Bloomlnetcn; His neighbors think he'll make a great run. But he'll fall In the soup with a tenia* .-p'ee'.i He will in November. wtU Afleloah. ' AdelOfh, p'Cosh. \ Will Adsios 1 ,. A fish “as big as a maa ' was s-y?i in tiie Allegheny rive*- near Pittsburg‘.be OTtm day by au eidl td ' fisherman.

PEOPLE.

There are 1,316 millionaires in New York City. —Carl Schurz has built himself a pretty summer cottage at Lake George, ; . , J". William M, Rise, of New York City, recently gave $350,000 to found a college at Houston, Texas. Count Crispiy the ex-premier of Italy, is in Rome undergoing an operation for cataract of his right eye. Four living-ex-Governors of Massachusetts were born in 1818—Boutwell, Claflin, Rice and Butler. , N. J. Arbeelv, an interpreter in the employ of the government on Ellis Island, speaks fifteen languages. Lord Randolph Churchill is re 1 - ferred to nowadays in England as “a man with a brilliant future behind him. ” William J. Stone, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Missouri, is a lawyer by profession, and 44 years of age. There is no better horsewoman in Austria than the Empress, and nobody Who iOnore careful of the steed she mounts or more attentive to its training and treatment. Benjamin L. Cohen, the latest dition to the ranks of Jewish legislators in Great Britain, is a wealthy London banker. If Mr. Astor were to try to keep pace with his income by counting it in silver quarters, he’d be a jibbering idiot in a week’s time. Seven of the fifteen Revolutionary widows in the United States live in one Tennessee pension district and four of them bear the good old name of Nancy.

One of the largest ranches in the world is owned by a woman, Mrs. Richard King. It lies about fortyfive miles south of Corpus Christi, Tex., and contains 700,000 acres. The Shah of Persia has left Teheran for bis annual sojourn at his summer palace, accompanied by a retinue of 300 wives, and regiments of Infantry, cavalry and artillery. Henry M. Stanley has become so angered by the flippant allusions in the Amerioan newspapers tohis Tate canvass that he declares that he will never set foot in the United States again. Gounod, the composer, is an eccentric individual, and will only work at his own time and to order. It is said that he has twelve unfinished operas lying in his manuscript drawer. The venerable Baroness BurdettCoutts is as active as ever in her labors of philanthropy, and her kindly hand is seen in many of the newer charities which are springing up in England. The class of ’53 at Yale includes Andrew D. White, Wayne McVeagh, Randall Gibson, Edrpund, C. Stedman. Isaac H. Bromley, Charlon T. Lewis, George W. Smalley and Judge Shiras. Mrs. Cruger’s pen-name of “Julien Gordon” finds a contrast in Mrs. Crrigs’s “John Oliver Hobbes." Still there are no hobnails in the style of sither of these gifted Americans. Watson R. Sperry the newly appointed Minister to Persia, is about 15 years old and a graduate of Yale class of ’7l. He is the controlling stockholder in the Wilmington, Del., Morning News.

Rev. Charles F. Hoffman, rector of All Angels’ Church of New York, has just given $25,000 to St. Stephen’s College, Annandale, N. Y., which makes $175,000 in all that he has given this institution. Mrs. Mackay has again been surprising London with her display of diamonds, and one critic eauF that 3he showed more really fine stones at one time than could bn seen in all the shop windows on Regent street. Jules Massenet is regarded by many people as* the most popular musician in Paris. An American acquaintance describes him as talklag .faster .anA display ing.mor* e n» s . gy than any other man in the French capital. A woman bridge tender is a novelty in Chicago. Mrs. David Power, whose husband died and left to her care and support three children, has been given the position at the Adams street bridge formerly held by her hu3band. The wife of the new Secretary of State, Mrs. John Foster, is a woman eminently qualified to fill her new place with dignity. She has had much experience in the most distinguished circles of Washington society, and also in the most formal and brilliant courts of Europeduring her long residence abroad. From an uncle well known in educational work Mrs. Foster received a thorough classical training at a time when few women were permitted to follow collegiate study. She takes a deep interest in the Canadian subject, and translates from the Canadian papers printed in French everything of importance printed on this topic for the benefit of her husband, to whom the language is not familiar.

Three Classes of Anarchists.

Harper's Weekly. The sober fact is that when we look at the anarchists individually, we can distinguish several classes of them. One class consists of young men with some natural brightness, but little education, who consider themselves too good for steady work, who first started as socialists, and who were carried away by the ambition to distinguish themselves by being more radical than the rest, by (imposing more violent “remedies” or existing evils, and by runnhag their half baked theories to more ab-

sorb extremes. There are some sfircere fanatics jjmong these who will do atrocious things with w-eertsun conciousness of self-sacrifice, and also meet death with composure. but the character of their dementia makes them no less dangerous nor less criminal, either in the eyes of the law or thoses of common-sense. bawlers, who have nothing in their heads but a rich vocabulary of catch words expressing their detestation of the “capital beast,” and theireagernes# for “revenge.” Herr Most is a fair representative Of this class. He has tbe reputation of being personally acoward, but nobody pronounces Hie blood-thirsty formulas of bis creed with greater fluency and a richer affluence of language. There are, however, anarchists more radical than lie, who set him contemptuously down as a “reactionary.” A third class consists of men who, under the guiSe of avenging the wrongs-of the poor or of vindicating the rights of labor,commit any crime that promises to satisfy their needs or that suits- their tastes. They are well represented by the Frenchman Ravachol!, who- recently met his fate on the scaffold. They are simply common' robbers and assassins. But in the same measure as the other classes of anarchists use the same means to effect their “‘social revolutions,” they will have practically to be treated as belonging to the same category.

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

Paper from rags was made in 1000 A. D., the first linen paper in 1819, and paper from straw in 1800. Chain shot were the invention oT DeWitt. the great Dutch admiral. They were first used in 1666. Flaying cards were invented for the use of the crazy King Charles VI, of France, in 1380. Weaving was practiced in China more than 1000 years before it was known elsewhere. The bagpipe, the favorite Scotch and Italian instrument, was invented by the Greeks in. 200 B. C. The great Cathedral En the City of Mexico is the largest in America, and cost to build nearly $2,009,000.

The harvester was* invented by Cyrus McCormick ini 1831, and has been improved by many subsequent inventors. The silk worm’s web* is only the 5,300 th part of an inch* in thickness, and some of the spiders spin a web so minute that it would take GO,OOO of them to lorm a rope on inch in diameter. The oldest capital in the United States is Santa Fe, which was the seat of government in New Mexico a? far back es 1640,and yet its population is only 6,185, according to Porter’s census. The United States manufactures 65,000 hats every day,, while Englandmanufactures about 40,000. The largest hat manufactory in the world is in Brussels,which* turns out 10,000 hats a day. For the first time* the Russian soldiers are to be furnished with handkerchiefs at Government expense. Banks and banking were known in Greece 385 years before Christ, in Rome 352 years 8.. G., and in Venice 1157 A. D. The Bank of England originated in 1695. The first newspaper, in the modern sense, was issued monthly at Venice in 1536; the first English newspaper was published in' 1622; the first American in 1704. Seven counties in Western Texas have refused to* issue a marriage certificate to a boy fifteen years old and a widow of forty with thirteen children- □ The British general elections are never held oa the same day, because an elector has a right to cast a ballot in every district in which he owns property. A dwarf residing at Shigaken, Osaka, is. thirty-six years old and but seventeen inches high. He is well w! nc^i^rahd“ j tsitf ! nrir*ii vritbsod by teaching penmanship. There is a surface of five thousand acres in Silesia, Prussia, which is unusually dry, but which every thirty years fills with water in some unaccountable way and becomes a lake.

WHO WAS TO BLAME?

SUNDAY SCHOOL I[?]

IX. K a*r sMjgjgllp THE FIRST i^™f ß ,«^ il |lg| Scpt.—M. When ther be*rdtlfll|i|ff they wer» cut to lh» heart. WmMsm gnashed on him with their t«elbHHm| School.— 55. But be, being (JHJ her vex, and saw the glory of 1188811 Jesus standing on the right hamSHSI 50. And said, Behold, see opened, and the son of man itwllii the right hand of God. 57. Then they cried out wlthHHB voifi®, and stopped their ears, and ■■ on him with one accord. 58. And cast him out of the stoned him: and the witnesses laiiSHß m name was Saul. 59. And they stoned Stephen, on God. and saying. Lord Jesus, rHggi my spirit. 00. And he kneeled down, and a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin charge. And when he had said feii asleep. fIH 1. And Saul was consenting to hisdHl And at that time there was a great cution against the church which wH| Jerusalem; and they were ail abroad throughout the regions of JiK and Samaria, except the apostles. ■ 2. And devout men carried StepheM his burial, and made great lamontatS over him. B 3. As for Saql, he made havoc of ■ church, entering into every house, m haling men and women committed thfl to prison. ; r - f 4. Therefore they that were scatteiE abroad went everywhere preaching Vw word. ■

The section of history extends ovß chapters 6,7, and 8:1—4, all of whitfl should be read in order to undefl stand rightly this lesson, s Time. Somewhere between thl autumn of a. d. 36 and the summel of a. n. 37. Probably May, A. D. 371 about Pentecost. I Place. —Jerusalem. The trial was! in the hall of the Sanhedrim, in thel temple area. The martyrdom was’ in the valley of Jehosephat, between the city and the Mount of Olives. Rulers.—lt was a time of general commotion. Pilate was removed from being governor, and no one was appointed in his place. The Emperor Tiberius died March 16, A. D. 37.

Circumstances. —lu our last lesson we left Stephen arraigned before the great council of blasphemy,--He defended himself in a powerful speech (Acts 7:2-53), at the close of which our lesson for to-day begins. Helps over hard plages. —s4. Cat to the heart: the original means sawed asunder. They were intensely enraged. 55. Saw the glory of Goa: in bis own future home, and God’s goodness amid all the evil around him. Jesus standing: not sittings as usually represented, but standing as if rising to help, defend, and welcome Stephen. 56. Behold, I see, etc.: this is exactly what Jesus had foretold to this same Sanhedrim a few years before. 57. Stopped their ears: as if unwilling to hear such things. 58. Cast him out of the city: they were forbidden t 6 hare executions within the city. The place was the valley of Jehoshapbat, close under the temple walls, at the foot of the Mount of Olives. The witnesses: the false witnesses. (Acts 6, 11, 13.) They were obliged to cast the first stone; (Dent. 17: 6, 7.) Young man’s.... Saul: afterwards Paul the apostle. He was probably thirty-four or thirty-five years old at this time. 59. Calling upon God: “God” is in Italics, showing that it is not in the original. He called upon the Lord Jesus. Saul was consenting: by his vote, and by aiding the execution. Except the apostles: why did these remain? “Because of their greater steadfastness.” They were the leaders, the organizers of the Church; their place, the headquarters of all deciples. It was not fitting that they should flee. Their steadfastness would strengthen the believers everywhere. Their fleeing would almost break up the Church. They must remain at every ctat. But (3) it is probable that they were permitted by the authorities to remain because they had not yet proclaimed the truth that the Stephen emphasized, as to the passing away of the “customs of Moses." 2. Devout men: Jews, not Christiana, who thus protested against the murder. 3. Haling: i. e, hauling dragging fourth. Subjects for further study and special reports. —The difficulty about distributing funds, —How it was settled.—How this aided the church. — Stephen.—The charges against hisa, —His address in reply.—Stephen’s vision.—Method of stoning. Stephen’s martyrdom.—Martyrs.—The effect of the persecution.

American Sacrifices Dead the Lise.

The charge at Balaklava will live forever in song; but the feat shrinks almost to triviality when we consider the facts. According to Kinglake, the Light Brigade took 67S officers and men into that charge': they lost but 113 men killed and 134 wounded, the total being 247, or 36.7 per cent. The heaviest loss in the German army during the Franoo-Prussian war, occurred in the Sixteenth Infantry (Third Westphalian) at Mars La Tonr, where it lost, in killed, wounded and missing, 49.4 per cent. But Col. Fox enumerates no less than sixty-three union regiments which lost over 50 per cent in single bat • ties of our own civil war without including others where the statistics are incomplete. In some of these cases, the bulk of the loss occurred within an hour. The First Minnesota at Gettysburg, in killed and wounded, 82 per cent, of the number that went in; The One Hun-dred-First New York lost 73.8 per cent, at Manassas; the Twenty-fifth Massauchusetts-lost 70 per tent, at Cold Harbor. “Every little helps to lighten the burden, as the captain said when he threw his wife overboard.