Show A STRANGE PEOPLE pitcairn home of the original bounty refugees in tho south pacific ddean contains one of the most isolated christian communities on tho earth now and then news comes from this people by a passing vessel many years ago the people were afraid of visitors but today they aro most welcome the islanders are always pleased to get newspapers from ito glean information of the big nations recently the captain of the ship keeper brought to the united states some bresli news from the island printed in the new corb sun he says that the islanders have recently rescued a shipwrecked crew whom they found on aeno fifty miles away during ono of their daring excursions far to sea in rowboats row boate aeno is surrounded by a dangerous coral reef and vessels prefer to give the neighborhood a wide berth on dark and stormy nights the Pitcairn ers have dug a well there so that future castaways may havo plenty of fresh water for the first time in years they report that deatle lias visited their little community free from vices and living simply and happily they usually reach a good old age probably no community inthe world of two hundred and fitly odd aeouls can show such a mortality record as that of tho pitcairn islanders in recent years for six years ending in february 1892 one death had occurred and that was the result of an accident they are a prolific people it is only a hundred and four years bince the nine mutineers and the brown women they stole away from tahiti landed on pitcairn their descendants now number nearly eight hundred most of whom live on norfolk island some of them colonized in 1857 it will not be very long before the rock of pitcairn with an area of only about a mile square will again become 00 crowded for comfort then a second exodus from the home its denizens ove fo well will become a necessity t was forty odd years ago that the community thought it for the common to bend one of their women to america to perfect herself in alie arts of dewing and housewifery they know nore of the world now though they bave lost little of their charming simplicity city they are admitting more strangers and intermarrying freely with bliem the names of the mutineers ire still most prominent in the two colonies but at last they are in the minority tho islanders have been in san francisco and in sydney aavo in some peculiarities hey show hardly a trace of their half polynesian origin and they seem destined to become more and more closely identified with the superior race of their fathers THE republican party is the party of progress it is the party which be devea in alie protection of american industry and american labor it is the party for whose candidates every lover f american freedom and institutions should cast his ballot up to a year ago the country was prosperous under Ke publication rule when the election of grover cleveland and tho triumph of tho democratic fc party became a settled fact and the country comprehended alie full meaning of the change there came a i great fear of alie result and with this tear came tho tumbling down of prices tho closing of industrial institutions the consequent throwing out of employment hundreds of of men and finally hard times of oregon should have taken one more step in his unique thanksgiving proclamation while he recommended the people of oregon to implore god that the president might be disposed to restore silver aa full legal tender money in accordance with tho policy ot the fathers that alie honest toilers of the land may secure daily bread a reward of their labors he should have asked them also to be almighty that these same powers might get a move on them in relation to the tariff that fearful robber tariff THE COLUMBIAN exposition has been a grand financial euc cesa with all its expenses and debts paid the management withdraws with abash surplus of with such a purse and with alie whole world applauding what has been done the direct ora may well feel proud and at ease said vice president peck when wo contrast this condition with that which faced us on the morning of may ast 1st wo are compelled to congratulate ourselves and our stockholders when tho fair opened we owed not far from there was a floating debt of nearly and we owed on tho face of bonds issued one year ago THE AMERICAN navy hae now in the I 1 water three of the most powerful battle ships in the world the massachusetts the indiana and the oregon their contract price for liall and armaments alone is and with and premiums the cost may perhaps reach and their fitting up and their batteries will be extra secretary tracy three years ago said of them that their equal aa fighting ehing does not eliet at the present day and again that the battery of the battle Is the heaviest and most effective in battle carried today by any ship afloat or projected 1 1 |