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A reasonable reduction m:ale for ad vertisements by the three, six, or twelve months. DE10CRATIC VILAS MORE BITTER 1 TOWARDS THE SOUTH THAN REPUBLICANS. The Register Gives Him a Good Rap. We have received two orations de livered in New York city on Decora tion Day, May 31st. One of the ora tions was delivered by the Hon. W. F. Vilas at the Academy of Music, and the other by the Hon. John A. Logan at Riverside Park. We have read both of them and do not propose to publish either, as they are by. no means addressed to the Southerner. We note, however, as somewhat sin gular the fact that Senator Logan, whilst eulogistic to indiscretion to the great Union Captains. as we think, says not a word which will grate on Southern ears, Mr. Vilas, on the contrary, seems to go out of his way to say much that was neces sarily offensive to the South and whill it was not necessary to say on such an occasion. Take for instance the following utterance : "In veneration of the fathers they mustered in the name of Union, con tent to save what the Revolution had planted; and lo ! the angel of Liberty. In shning presence. led their battle vond the fathers' ains, to finish ie work they left undone and win a brighter crown. They blotted from The Constitution the covert meaning of that abhorrent word the voice of freedom refused to utter there; they scourged from her temple the mon. ge4ig of nmotaers and babes" Where is the necessity of saying?I this or the truthfulness thereof, when Lin~coln's proclamation to the Suuth aFn S&ates so unequivocally promised that slavery would in no way b,e in terfered with if the South would lay down its armns and recognize the au thority of the government of the United States? Again. is not Mr. ~ ilas .gwqre of the original terms ~eed upon by General Sherman and Johnston, in which it was agreed that the States of the South shoald noi.ge bacl; with all theic political p ights and rights of property undis turbell in view of these faets we see no good reason for thrusting this a mongerin g of mothers and babes" into the teeth of the people of the jSouth. when Lincoln himself would ~have made term~s and permitted this oWlering~ to g4) 011 m~li $herman ctu-ally did make terms leaving the ongering"' where it had always od urnder the Federal Constitgtionl 1 age)Pair enough to bind, themselves There are othtiitUS fulr esad useless olTenSiv'feine Mr. s jl' address which are as untruth ol ~ thear inbad taste. lIe can .t .h ,Oti ilsili theI p re ard for the f rvy whin h ot a rganze and arm for the field. wjito des notknow that the ~ ih --6 ared~e~ f o e eonl casthe South with ever - th~ et asl as well as numbers on irg~. 'hey had theC recognized ir si e- n ay , all .ernfMel ti inzfg a great apphiances edste huad unteer forCe,'eie th wtais then ore for the fild. - hlth th fe u t al l e r in s o m CSto t ke th lace of arms es tbYcof he got. Mn" "'m withco - 1LinIl sticks, to Sthe alr m sI (o lah Stle he sam Sp1rit preva1ils it addre' with ddes lie!' dCI honor ~ ' In vIe" "!th j,a uoe nd0 ~ 'Is ddress we WOUf O1" ~ 1 s '~ ~hs OWlors, which sem to som unfitly wrt . uci that was necessarib~ LcrortI ft addrss Iiih. hilt honoring noble Union dead, might very voided anythiing savoring of taunt or insult to others. Let Mr. Vilas speak : "-Reproaches for deed-s beyond re demption. for conditions gone for ever; sig!is for hopes once enter tained, but long turned to ashes; may be worse than folly. they may become a crime. Whoever gives his voice or his example to light or fan a flame of sectional d iscord among the fraternal people. aiis at the nation's peace ard life. lie b:.s spoken treason though not dared to act it. wio from the one side flings vaii taunts and scoffs. the dingering demons of the past. or on the other sentimentally prates of the resurrection of that mouldenng mumnini, the 'Lost Cause.' Who wants to "resurret." the "Lost Caus',?" Why, the very phrase itself shows that it, is dead and buried. though it he buried in high honor. Why, allude to it more then in any other light than that whieb has gone forever, never to be resurrected. None but a pitiful demagogue would make capital out of a sneer against a cause which all admit and receive as "lost," thougih its memory lives in the hearts of as true men as ever strode to the fore. front of battle, and as noble women as ever sent their husbanus and sons and lovers to lav down their lives for a cause still dear to them, though now no more. This sentiment in no waS disturbs a single man's devotion to the Union to-day any more than love for the honored dead may disturb re spect for the living.-Colmn%)i Re/ ister. MISERY IN WEST IRELAND. What a Visitor Saw at Carraroe. I reac: ed Carraroe on Saturday evening; and on the next day I iap pened to meet the Rev. Walter Con way, who was on his way to attend some sick calls on one of the islands which make up his straggling and ex tensive parish. Being anxious to see as much of the condition of the people as possible. I gladly accepted his invitation to accompany him. I was by no means prepared for the scenes I witne;scl that Sunday afternoon. Such poverty-stricken people. such wretched hovels. such misery and patient suffering I never saw before, and T hope I shall never see again. There was scarcely a house but had some inmates lyin. downi with fever brought on. I was assuredl by the local doctor. by. hun. ger er the want of sufficient food. it was pitiable in the extreme to see the emaciated features of mnost of them, and the look5 ot' famishiing de spair on their countenances as they~ lay huddled together on the bare earthen floor or staggered laout the hour,e like d.runkcn people from sheer exhaustion. While the good priest wy's admin istering the last sacrament a, a few of the wVorst cases. I inspected ser eral of the houses alone. I was q1uite unexpected, and iudeed I tequlire no other evideoce thtan the chiaraicter of the cabius and( the woe-b)egoneap pearance of thle inmates to conlvinice me that theO gaunt spec' r' of famine had already appeared. I shall never forget ihe sight I behe91 in one0 house. Father' Conway had preceded menb several yards. On his pushing the door of this house open I gbgerved him re'et backwardi and looi; as if he .werc goieng to faint. The fever.laden atmosphere of the onte.r'ogmed hnulse ed outward was overpower e timou beftore he could enter. -, o ol age to follow ! n'~ ckoned mc to comec on. Iha.d som;e difienlt', inr ~.. the fear'ful scene her e mec.O! boys in a1 state~ of u nconscminsne:s and alumon sTh b i h bicn lay their tw') sisters in the same piti able condition. F"ol lowi ng the <irec tion indicated by the priest. I olh served the mother of theCse foul Ohi! dren, a few reet: o'?i, a corpn)s ! were lyinf on the bare' floor. with few sca'nty' rags their ilnly cov.ering Ihlastened from liihe hense nver fe' lings were canl he ett'': is n than described. The j'ri.'t reminn og a conit.erah1e :oni inl th eabii cutt'i' v.ff the girls ' with a..i oi after a clo~e searcht. Tfhe next da' h ietvi=itedl tiS stricken famtli . oid( publicity-tw~o 'f his ow; blankets with whichl to cov1;er tL po ril anid the i ' brothers. - nl T~ he word 'pnlpit.'' like "'hrr.h and "outlandish women." oe:ors one' in the BiAble. It was Ezra who wa ine t he pulpit. 'l I1 ('HA N( E OF' GAUGE. WVIIAT im ILILIROAD)S HAVE DONEI I TFN DAYVS. Iiow the Work is Io Ile Done-.oore Than Thirteen Thou:sund Miles of Road to Be Changed in Two Days. A1thonzh much has been written arid puMblished in thc newspapers for some mr :i;tbs on the subject of chang ing the auge on the Southern rail roads. there is n vast. numnh'er of the readers of the Re(ist.er who vet have a very indefinite conception of what it all means. With a view to give these an intellirnt, idea of the nature and extent of the work which this change involves, and the method by which it is eietetd. we have compiled from the Augnusta E;vening News-and the Charlotte ()hserver, two of our inos.t valued exchanges, the following clear statements. which will give the fullest information on the subject. "The. railroads in the South are now in tUe miist of a great revolu tion, and Ifrom to-day to the second day of June each line will be a bee hive, or rather a long iron line of la hor. One oz thegreatest railroad movements ever knownn will in fact be achieved when th.e present work of changing the gauge of some thir teen thousand miles. of railroad in the South is completed. - --The standard gauge is now adopt ed all over the North, and uniformity has long been desired. The. South ern gauge has for many years past been a source of endless expense and inconvenience to ail the railroads South of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers, and while the advantages of a uniform gauge have long been seen its adoption has now come to be an imperative necessity. The time has at last arrived for the Southern roads to correct the unfortunate mistake made when the five foot gauge was adopted. and when the change has been accompiished all 'of the impor tant railroads in the United "States will correspon(d sufficiently in gauge. to have the running gear tlroughout the country alike and transferalile in every State. "A meeting of the representatives of the several Southern roads inter ested in the change of gauge was held in Atlanta on February 2, and all the details of the change were ar ranged. It was 7tecided that Mon day, May 31, and Tuesday, June 1, he et apart for the work. and that a uniform 'aug~e of 4 feet 9 inches be adotedin ieuof the strndiard gauge, wh ich ' is, e S., inehes. The i foot, 9 inch gaug~e is considtered muore con~ v-enient, aiid as a certain amount of iateral pla.y is allowed on all tracks, it is sTli'ientl) near the Northern auetn permit of a unifo-rm wheel ~auge all. over the country. It is saidl that mrany .if the rail ro:ad (enpanies seeing that the cange mnst have come eventually, coi:mmencedl to prepare for it a.q early as three~ y ears an and such -is the power of' organ ized labor and the deC mandc of busine.s that nearly 13,~.000 m~iles of railror,d will be changzed i,o the urniform gauge inside of about twlehurs, and without interp tionm in the ruinning' (A -many of the important trains even on the day that the eimnge Lakes place. -Techange of <.9'gge wiii .Lake pacen ajmo'st eCry-ratodduth tendng o eat;., I',2 luiles of r ailway, moade up as h)llows: South Caroliua 1,320 miles, North Carlia 50 Geourgia 2,413, Floridla. I.250, Luisiana: :31l8, Ken tucky' 1,118, Ten ne"ssee 1,8S, and Virginia 9%t tfl "The( I folo.ing liceu will changie on Mr. 31st:Louisville and Nash -ile) Cattanooga. 'i an St. Louis, hi and C;hi'egten, i'abama G?a so~utheru, CAi inat, Selm~a a.nd M\ole, bieuntgomery aind Eu iaula. Northeasternm of Gecorgia, Pen sacolai andl Atlanta, F~lorida Railway mi ines chang'e on1 June 'st. "Tecagn of th giu e?1'r of the all-' i n three inces without disturb 'ig tic other rail a't all The prepa rat ions for ebagin the road h)ed Lor cig the tie to muoth and eve surface w~itlte base of the rail and . cleaing awa any~ obistructionis even i with '2e top of the tie for a soeeo not le than five inches eron the. rail that is to be mnoved in, 'otht whlen the change is made the *beavrin of the track will not be dle stroyed. All spikes not absolutely necessary will be drawn out before hand. The rail is fastened to each acrosstie by two spikes. one on the in s sidle andi the other on the outside. All insi spikes will be drawn ex cept the spikes in every third cross. tie on tangents, and every other tie on curves. "By means of a template to mess. ure the distance that the rail is to be moved a great deal of valuable time can be saved by riving the inside spikes beforehand. Inside spikes will be set with templates in every third tie, and will project suffiCiently above the surface of the tie to receive the base of the rail. When the ebla,Pge actually takes place, 'there. fore. all that will be necessary to be done will be to draw the few inside spikes that have been left to keep the rail in position, shove the base of the rail under the spikes that have already been driven on the inside of the new gauge, and then secure it by driving in the outside spikes, leaving the old outside spikes to be drawn at leisure. This arrangement will also save the necessity for measuring the gauge and changing the bearing on the day of the change. "The distribution of forces for work on the Richmond and Danville lines ou the day of the change will be, for each squad of fifteen men, three men drawing inside spikes, two men throwing rail, one man with hand car, one man driving down 'stubs. seven men driving spikes, one water boy. The list of tools for each force will be seven spiking hammers and seven extra handles, four claw bars, one stub punch, one monkey wrench, one standard track gauge, one water bucket. ono tin cup, two lining bars, one axe, one track wrench, one adze, one water barrel, one lever car 4' 9" gauge, will be pro vided. The foreman who belongs on the sub-division will use the lever car, and let the foreman from the other section use his wide gauge pole car. It will not be necessary to drive any inside spikes on the day of change of gauge except to drive home those that have been set back and drive inside spikes at joints. Out side spikes are to be driven at joints, centres, and quarters, on tangents and at joints, and in every other tie be t ween"joints in curves. When the work of change of gauge is com menced, the first object to be attained is to get the main track in condition to pass trains with safety. To do this, forces will work regardless of section limits until they meet forces working in opposite direction. As soon. as forces meet, they will then return, over the track they have changed andI full spike curves, and then full spike tangents. AMTr this work is completed, all sidings that have not already beeni changed will be brought to 4' 9'' gauge. Compen sation allowed each foreman for work on day of change will be three dol lars, a.ud eacth laborer one dollar and fifty cents and rations. "All railway forces have been in creased to at least double their ordi nary numnber, and on the day of the chanuge of' gauge there will be at least three ien assign~ed to each mile of track, 'rho men will be scattered along the whole line, and the work will be in progress nn ery mile of the toa at the same time. The squads go out from each section house, and two squads beginning in the middle of a~ inl tey work in 01) poshe dig.eetio.ns antil. they meet the next squad. In this way the dis tinca wll casily be covered in a day, and the whbole track changed in gauge with only one day's trains off the track, 'The work will be done be tween 3.30 A. M. and 4 P. M., during which time thec running of all trains will have to be suspiended. After 4 o'clock, howyen the anin of the was will h,e resumed. ~he ch ,uge of gauIgt of coiurse, necessitates a compnlete change in the runmnjig ge of thme rolling stock, and this is an immense job. This work has been in progress for months, however, and all the trucks, wheels and axles not on t~iii gbo lutely geceigry fu the every day business of the roads. have ben in the Shops getting ready for~ their ne work. The trigim new in use have been~ iped so that the wheels can be pushed three inches nearer together with ease and expedition. "A great many of the roads have delayed gZetting new locanatives un til phe chag~e i., nade. and they have b;een ordered to suit the new gauge. This is especially the case with the South Carolina Railway Company which will replace a great many 01 the locomotives with the new ones Even with the locomotives now ir service there will roct be any greal diificulty in making the change. Al of those that have been purchasec during the past three years have beer made with the tires of the driving wheels se parat a from the main portiot Iof the wheels, and all that will b< e~.cessary will be to press them in litleoan each side -The change of gauge will, of course, necessitate the expenditure of a vast amount of money, but this will be compensated for many times over by the immense advantages which will accrue from the adoption of a uniform gauge throughout the entire country.-Col'imbia Regi.ter. Primary Elections. This question is attracting much attention at present, especially in the upper counties. An effort will be made for primary elections. not only in the choice of county officers, but for the nomination of Congressional and State officials as well, and in some of the Districts the Democratic County Chairmen have been request. ed to consider what arrangements will be necessary in making this change. We are not sure that the people would, if the plan were adopted, en dorse it a second time, The ma chinery of elections involves consid erable expense and time, and where, as would almost always be the case, two or three would have to be held to decide the nomination, the burden of expense would be heavy; and while the results would, apparently, indicate the will of the people that would not necessarily be the case. Srppose in the contest for Congres sional honors in a district with five counties, there should be a candidate from each one. Nine-tenths of the voters would most apt cast their bal lots for the candidates of their re spective counties; and the result would of course, be no nomination. A second primary is ordered, all the candidates being ruled out except the two receiving the highest number of votes, and they would with tolera ble certainty be from the two most populous counties. The voters in the three counties which have no candidates would to a certain extent stay home, and the matter of nomi nating a candidate for the District would be left to two counties, with the chances all in favor of the larger one. So we see that there are seri ous objections to primaries even out side the questions of expense and time, which will militate against their unanimous adoption; and we are confident that a District Conven tion composed of representative dele gates would please a larger number of the voters than a primary would whenever a large number of candi dates.were before the people; and not because the delegates knew bet ter than the people how to vote but for the simple reason that the people cannot get together and vote as can the delegates. In county matters it is different. The people know, by reputation at least, all the candidates; they are personally interested in having county officials whom they like, and in whom they have confidence, and will work and vote for them as ear nestly in the second as the first pri mary. We think with proper regula tions1 the primary system is the fair est by which candidates can be nomt inated for oounty offieers, but for Judicial, Congressional oi- State nomn inations it would be a delusion and a snare, mainly from the fact that the machiuery for the same would be too cumbersome and expensive, and inci dentally'-fromn the latter cause-he cause the people would not give the attention necessary to so important a matter. Still if the people want primaries they ought to have themu, If they are willing tp give the nteeded time and imoney absolutely required for carry ing~ theiu out properly, no man should say them niay-but we are not at all sure they want them, except for county nominations. We will outline a plan in our next issue which will combine both the primary and ennycotion plan, and which will elhiinate the more objec tiongble features of both.-Suder Religious Fanaticism. A terrible murder and suicide oc curred in Lincoln County. WVest Va ginia, on last Monday mybht, Mrs, Margaret iuonan, a widow, became ingne f'rom religious fanaticism and imagined that she had beenm called on by the Lord to sacrifice the lives of herself and her three children to the Divine wrath, Early in the afternoon she threw herself upon her knees and spent several hours in wild ravings, She then arose, and arming herself with a large, sharp carving knife, made her way to a room occupied by her three daughters, aged twelve, ten and eight years, cut the throat of each child and plunged the blade into her own heart. The bodies were dis covered yesterday by neighbors, who state that the room was so bespattered with blood as to bear a strong resem bmnce to a slanghter house. We Will Figh.t it, out. on ihis Line if 1 Takes :aII Sumrner. A farmer friend asked us, a fe, days ago. why The People was not disciple of Capt. B. R. Tillmar That's aln easy question and we hay no hesitancy in answering it franl< ly. According to our understandin; an editor sustains a semi-oficial rels tion to his readers. It is his duty in return and payment for the sup port given hin, not only to collat< facts on which arguments that lea( to correct conclusions may be basc' hut to criticise men and measures. in terpret their rneanin'g an; whenevei and wherever he su:5peets the con cealrnent- of a cat in the meal tub t< cry aloud and spare not. The Ieo ple is n ot edited by "a young mar of the name of Guppy" and while i may be wrong. it is backing its judg ment and prefers the risk of beinf proven mistaken to the certainty o being a time-server, afraid to havt and express an opinion of its own. It is a friend to the farmers and all other bread-winners. The3 have had hard times since the wai and it's no wonder that frequent re curring disasters have made their despondent, heart sick and ready t< take any road that promises deliver ance. According to the loud as sertions of the supes of the melo. drama the right road has been founc but we don't read the sign board, that way. To emphasize our analysis of thf convention of the 20-30th April, le1 us draw a home parallel by supposing that a county convention had beer called to meet at Barnwell. tc consider and recommend reform and retrenchments in the counts government. And when the con vention assembled, delegates werf recognized miscellaneously, Allen dale sending one, Three Mile twen ty-three, Blackvi:ie five. and so or for all the townships. - And the con vention organized and made speeche: I and considered measurs entirely out side the purview of the call. meas ures that had not been considered al all by home constituents and that in creased instead of diminished the burdens of taxation. And no mattei how good the intentions of the con vention and the measures it advised the people at home would not regarc its actions. that was beyond the scope o~ its authority, as binding anybody except its own affirmativt membership. And that's the way the Columbia convention worked The representation from the dirTeren1 counties was irregular and unequal Charleston sendingz five'. Lauren twenty-three. Berkeley one and so) We have been told that one gentle man was unanimouslv elected by the votes of a half a dlozen of his owr employees and we presume, frotn the proceedings, that there were man) Jack-inm-the-box delegates, who ham no ideas of their neighbors to re pre sent and who simnply popped up as members of Capt. Tilhnau's comn pany. (Our published record shows that The People favored the electiom of delegates by a representativ' meeting lbut opp)osed the assumpiom of that right by copmoral's guard meet ings. And the inharmonious, tin seasoned phl: torm adoptedl by th< convention was the idiosyncratic ac comiplishment of one man and no the delilberate wo&rk of a real repre sentative convention. It was abiou as bad as the farm mangement cif thm educated and unsuccessful theorist but we shall try to beinm to inspec it next week. We will not. say tihat the~ disorgani izationi 0f the I )emiocratic pairty ha: bieen deliberately pl annedi. but tiher< is d anigor of the loiss of its elbow toucl that redeemied thme State and sakve< its civilization. ten years ago. Ther: are always mecn desroums of nev things, reckless spirits, as reamdy fo revolu.ion as the gamester is to risi his all on tIhe th;row of a dice,. an<m whmen trouble comes they appear. jus as thme petrel pr?eedeCs the storm. Wi thinI we have seen somei of th en recently. The D)emocratic party has heel very good to us and we can afford t< trust it yet. It has taken good eart of us an,i whatever reforms are uneed ed or wanited can bie best secure< within its lines, If the people wan a new dleal or the faLrmners want mori complete control of affairs tIhey ca: get them in the party. Let us firs find out what we oughlt to doi an< then do it. If the new political doc tors can convince the people than much phlysic is better than goot nuing.m The People will take a: muh memne as any body. and maki no ugrly faces about it and help t administer heroie doses to all wh< decline to partake, but until th Iwill of the majority is ascertained we refuse to have the pellets, sugar coated though they be, forced down our throat. We have perfect faith v in the sublime manhood of the An a glo-Saxon race. Tbrough all the eventful centuries it has been a dy. a nasty of conquerors and victory has followed its flag along every parallel of latitude. all arcund the world. The world can't get along witout its supremacy and the good Lord has it in his special keeping. And it will yet solve the problems confronting us and give the New South a future far brighter than its prosperous past. Mistakes can delay but they cannot defeat its eventual triumph.-Barn w:ell P'r-ple. -Save Your Cotton Seed. -Economy" in Winnsboro Herald and News says: "The stands of corn on the low grounds are very fair, yet I heard of a few having to plow bottoms up and plant over. The stands of cot ton are not as good as the farmers would like to see; the ground ap pears cold and the plant is coming up very slowly. The weather for sev eral days has been warm and clear. It is to be hoped that it may remain so, for if any disaster were to fall on the cotton crop now, there would not be seed sufficient in this vicinity to plant a two-horse farm. The whites as well as "Cuffy" sold their seed last fall. The roads in the fall and up to spring were constantly trav eled by wagons, from an ox-cart to a four-horse team, loaded with cotton seed, and if the question was asked, "where are you going ?" the response nine out of ten would be, "gwine to Swygert's or Dawkins depot." It is an astr nishing thing that the far mers countenanc the sale of such a fertilizer, which by rights should re turn to the land, thereby improving it, instead of draining the very life out it, thereby impoverishing it, and naturally enough bringing the hard times that are now-the blame of ! which the farmers ard trying to lay. at the door of lawyers and laws, while the same fraternity are re futing and charging the farmers with the blame, they being in the ascendency, or holding the ma jority of power in the goverunment. Just im:ugine twenty cars of cotton seed' containing 800 or 900 bushels, shipped from Dawkins depot from one crop. In round numbers 16,000 bushels. which at twenty bushels to an acre would manure 800 acres of wheat. Now it is reasonable to sup pose th;at we would get ten bushels of wheat per acre iu return at harvest time; this yield on 800 acres would be 8,00'0 bushels of wheat at the low price of one dollar pcer bu.shel; would be $8,000 the farmers deprive them selves of, andi the i mprovment of lan thrown in. Now itt us se wa the 16.000 bushels of cotton seed as a mierchantable article will bring3 them and find the net losses, 16,000 bushels cotton seed at fifteen cents per bushel, (for that was the price) woul be $2',400 received for their cot ton seed. and the improvmient of the land. Now make the difference and you find th-e farmer sustaining a ,loss of $5.00O0 from one crop of seed. on only 800 acres at that. Is not this ruinous! Who gainsay it is not ? XV by the banks with all their -financierinug powers could not stand that depreciation long, much less an im poverished people, whose crorps are sold long before harvesting. Le:t them get out of the old rat and raise b ogs hominy and small grain at home, instead of receiving them fourthi-hanided from Baltimore and St. Louis. Then I venture you will not see or hear of one class arraign ingz the other for the hidden causes of "hard times." Alsss Editors, this cotton seed statement is only one of the leaka ges in the farmers' ship; it is or looks r so smiall that they apparently over .look it. Would it not be wise to) make a careful examinaLtion, and while chinking lar-ge holes -seeming ly'' stop the minor ones ? For like an old sore. if let alone, will even tually destroy the body to which it is :attached." A gentleman recently calling at a ho:,'ing house, left his umbrella in -the hat-rack with a cardt, onl which Iwas the following : "Belongs to a man who strikes a forty-pound blow. Will be back in five minutes." When he returned, the umbrella was goneC, b ut in its place was a1 scrap of paper b earing the words: "Taken by a - man who walks five miles an hour. Swon't be back at all." Seventy girls went out on Satur 3 day last at Aurora, Ill., for an ad vance of twelve cents per dozen on the corsets they were making. They a got it, and so did 500 others in the same factory.