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ANOTHER WAY IN WHICH THE STEEL STRIKE BENEFITS LABOR. The Steel Trust has ordered its mill at McKeesport removed on account of the strike. Thousands will be deprived of the means of livelihood.-Daily papers.

THE KIND OF A ROW THAT PLEASES EUROPE.
From the Journal (Detroit).

The cartoonists have given particular attention of late to the strike situation, and they reflect public opinion with fidelity in their demand that the steel strike be settled by conciliation, arbitration, or other means. It is significant that Europe is gloating over this industrial deadlock in America.

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DO THEY THINK OF THE ONES WHO REALLY SUFFER?-From the North American (Philadelphia).

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So vast an army of land-seekers was assembled last month to take advantage of the opening of an Indian reservation in Oklahoma that only 7 or 8 per cent. of them could be accommodated, and these were selected by means of a governmental lottery. It is not strange that people should be seeking Western farms, for agriculture has been highly prosperous in spite of the damage to the corn crop.

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THE BIG LOTTERY.-UNCLE SAM HANDS OUT A FEW THOUSAND ACRES.-From the Herald (Boston).

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IT'S THE FAILURE OF THE LABOR CROP THAT BOTHERS THE FARMERS OF THE NORTHWEST THIS YEAR.
From the Tribune (Minneapolis).

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UNCLE SAM: "Somebody's pressed the button again." From the Journal (Detroit).

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"FIGHTING BOB

EVANS IS PLACED IN A VERY UNDIGNIFIED POSITION.

From the Tribune (Minneapolis).

WINFIELD SCOTT SCHLEY.

A REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY.

BY PARK BENJAMIN.

They picked it up and carried it to the side, as if to give it to the ocean. Then the commo. dore:

"No, boys-no-not that-not that-put him there beside the turret-and cover him! God knows, we owe him Christian burial!"

And so they spread a tarpaulin over the sad sight, and the guns of victory thundered a knell for him.

If the Spanish shot had laid low, not that gallant young seaman, but the veteran commodore who had then served his country for more than forty years, this is the life-story of the latter which would have been told.

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N the great sea fight off Santiago. but one man on the vessels of the United States was killed. He stood bravely out on the Brooklyn's forecastle, measuring instrumentally the distance. of the nearest Spanish ship. A moment before, the commodore, almost beside him, had expressed a belief that the Viscaya was gaining on her pursuers, and in response to a repeated expression of doubt, the instrument was leveled.

"No, sir," said Ellis, quietly glancing along the sights, she is not further off than eighteen hundred yards."

Again he adjusted his telescope, looked long and carefully, lowered it from his eye, and began "No,-I

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Then came a mighty whir-a fierce rush of wind sweeping by and staggering every oneand the headless body of the sole victim fell to the deck.

Winfield Scott Schley, aged seventeen, came to the United States Naval Academy from Maryland in 1856. As an acting midshipman he completed the four years' course creditably, though not conspicuously; for he was one of those popular, good-natured youngsters who had taken to the sea because he loved it, whose bent for the blue water was far stronger than for books, and therefore among those who seldom secure the preferment of cadet rank, so that he began and ended his career in the battalion lugging a mus ket as a high private.

It was at this time that the first embassy sent by Japan to the civilized world visited this country, and its mission being completed, the Government, as a compliment, ordered the fine frigate Niagara to convey its members home. The ship was lying in New York harbor, and there Midshipman Schley joined her in June, 1860, just after his graduation from Annapolis. She went to Japan by way of the Cape of Good Hope, and did not get back to the United States until April, 1861, and then in the midst of the excitement following the attack on Fort Sumter. The navy was largely a Southern institution, as no small proportion of its best officers had been appointed from the disaffected States. They were resigning daily, and their action was being precipitated by the peremptory demand from Washington that the oath of allegiance to the Union should at once be taken by every person in the naval service.

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