Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 9 February 1889 — Page 11

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'UNCLE SAM'S CASH.

Report of James P. Kimball, Diroctor of tho Mint.

The IMroc.or Discourses on tlio I'milnotion iind ColnaS() of Gold ami Silver in J?

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lolls ot iVoducUon uii'.l Coinage In ttio Jtost of tho WopIU.

I the average person, says the St. Louis Mobc-Dorooerafc, tho report of the Director of tho Mint is not an enticing docuineut. The long1and complicated tables of figures which it contains nro repellant to most people, whilo the style in which it is printed

POIUIliR MKTIIOI) OX' CTtCSXTING GOLD AND SII.VEIt 01IB. and its mechanical make-up generally are Tai 1 oni bciug attractive. On books of this class Unclc Sam docs not "spread" ^himself, in an aesthetic sense. 1110 individual who imagines, however, that there is no interesting matter in tho deliverance of Mint Director James P. Kim.11 mistaken. The thing spoken about has had a mors or less enthralling influeueo cm the human mind Eince the early days in the history of tho race when man first disco. C:'Cu that his desires outran his possessions. Virgil sung of tho arms and hero of Troy. Kimball attunes his Ivre to tlio genes'* unci ^amount of the country's cash.

Tho Mint Director's report tells the iiuioimtof tho product of gold and silver in tho United States the calendar year 3887, and of the coinage of these motais in that period. The time spoken of, it is ri'c i°ndotl about twelve and a half months a^o' .while the book has just leftthe

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r.ntmg-ofilce. Mr. Kimball, though, is •not responsible for the delay. His report was sent- to the Secretary of the Treasury onJtily 17,188S. Tart of tho interval bctv. ecu that date ami this lia3 been consumed

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in printing and binding it. A largo part of tho time, though, was probably expended in passing tho documents from ono set of officials to another through tho devious avenues of Uncle Sam's circumoffice. report, as has been said, gives the

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dar year 1SS7. It does more. It tolls tho viiuount of thoso metals exported and imported in that year, tho quantity used in ho domestic industries, and tho amount coined as well as the amount industrially 'consumed in tlio entire world in the year named. Ail this information is given with the greatest affluence of detail. In fact, it is this embarrassing variety of detail which would overwhelm, confound and depress the general reader if ho should take up the book. Taking it as a whole, though, the

MODERN METHOD OL" CnUSUlXG THE Oltn. document is tho most clear, comprehensivo and satisfactory or its class which can be found in any language.

The mines of the United States produced £33.000,0U0 worth of gold and £53,357,000 worth of silver in 18:!7. Silver in this est imate is given at its coining value. The smite amount of silver, it' sold as merchandise, would bring only about SM0,-150,000. Most persons arc aware that silver coins are not intrinsically worth their face in gold. The value of the silver bullion in a standard

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MACHIXI2 KOIl IlOLI.lKG GOLD A.SO SILVEll. dollar ranges from about seventy-two cents to seventy-five cents.

Now let us see how this product compares with that of recent preceding years. This table gives this information:

Gold. Silvr.

18S0 S3G.OO.UOO f,30,200,003

*.S81 1,700.OW) 48,001),000 188 2 82,!W0.000 40,80J,000 1883 30,001.000 40.200,000 18S4 80,800,000 -18,8011, 00 1?35 81.800,000 M,GOO,000 1SH0 3r,010,000 M,000,000 1687 E3,0.)0,000 53,: ,jr,0)0

Tlio years hers given aro calendar years, an a of is coinage value.

It will be of interest to learn what share the productive States and Territories had in tho general output of tho precious metal during 1887. This information can bo prose nted thus:

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Alaska Arizona California Colorado Dakota Georgia Idaho Michigan Montana Novada Now Mexico North Carolina.. Orofjpn South Carolina.. tali Washington. Texas Alabama, Ten-Js-S'-Jmssee, VI if '-inula. Vormon '*. l.nd Wyoming o, Totals

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•$ii7'»,c.00 83!). 00! I 13, .100,0 JO

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S«7i-,300 4,U(0,IK) M.ooo,

8,80-'l.0J0 i,r.oo.oo m,ooo,ooD [••10,0 .if r,on 3,010,000 33,000 ir,«)0,0!)0 4,0,10,00 2,300,000 5(Ml

previously given of tho production of tho money metals for 1887. Tho table puts the output of gold at an uraountSI35,000 greater than tlio sum given in the other estimates. while thcro is an advance of about

GOO,000 in the case of silver. Tho discrepancy, which is so trilling as to bo unimportant, is due to the fact that round figures aro for the most part emploved in the table,

Glance at the table again. It tells an in. teresting story. For years California, practically speaking, produced nearly all tho precious metals obtained in this country, and for oilier and subsequent years it held tho lead in this particular. In tho mind of the average person it stands ahead yet. '1 his is where tho average person is mistaken. California produces moro gold still than any other State or than any Territory, but in tho aggregate output of tho money metals it has fallen to third place. Montana leads in tho grand total, with Colorado a closo second and California a bad third. In the gold item alono Montana ranks second to California, and is steadily increasing its product, while California is falling back in this rcrpcot.

Tho tables already given here show that the production of gold and silver in tho United States in the past few years has ranged from $S0,000,000 to &?7,000',000 annually, tho aggregate output slowly but steadily increasing.

The United States is not tho only country which produces the money metals, although

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it leads in both gold and silver. The world's yield, including that of the United States, stood thus in the years named, tho silver product being put at its coinage and not at its commercial value:

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1883 SO.VM.'.fifK) ""PI 13.867,(TO Hit,CO),0)0 110,773.1.0.) IS'o 10M.744,IK11I 12?,i 00,800 1S80 09,2otl,0J0 32.),8:t5,-!OJ

The year 18S0 is tho latest year for which data arc had of the world's yield of gold and silver.

One-third of tho world's gold and nearly half of the world's silver is produced in tho United States. In gold production Australia stands second, Russia third, China fourth, Venezuela fifth and Colombia sixth. Australia's output has averaged about C27,000,000 in recent years, as ecS.ipared with an average of about ?33,000.000 for the United States. Tho annual average of Kussia has been S20.000.000, of China £5,000,000, I of Venezuela 53,300,000, and of Colombia 53,000,000. The Chineso product is nearly all obtained in the Anioor district,

Mexico stands second in yield of silver, iv a an if Peru sixth and Spain seventh. The uverage production of Mexico for tho past four or live years has been about §3:2.000,000 annually, with tho tendency upward. In the United States the yearly average has been about $7£,000.000 in the past four years, with a steadily increasing yield. The yearly averages of the other countries named have been: Bolivia, $10,000,000 Chili, fS,00U,000 Germany, 90,000,000 Peru, £3.000.000. and Spain, 4:2,200,000.

The United States minis were busyduring lSS7, but their output, in the aggregate, did not equal that of tlio preceding year. The story is told in this table:

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110,000

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5,2 0,000 2,ron,ooo 500,000 225.0SJ0 000,0,10 ro,ooo 2.0,000 150,000

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Gold 508, I 1 -73,."flS Silver dollars iJMOIs. (11.710 Subsidiary silver GO i- 1 7!U:71 Minor 31 l^b 3,'JI5,(50

Total W!,375,4!:8 800,370,150 In addition to the coinage executed at the runts iu 1SS7 there were manufactured bars of gold and silver principally for exportation of the value of S(5,a'i8,f»X. Most of this—§7i$,TU-i.yrG—'was gold, with i0,06 ',(:S silver.

If an investigation is continued into the amount of the coinage of tho country since tlio first mint was organized, in 1702, the inquiry loads into the dizzy heights of mathematics. Ten figures aro required to represent tho total coinage in dollars of gold and nine figures are needed to tell that of silver. Tlie mints of tho United States, up to the close of the calendar year 18S7, turned out £1,157,010.114 in gold coin and ?510,779,03Sin stiver. The minor coinage—that of the pieces made of copper, bronze, nickel, lie.-amounted to tl0,051.000. Taking the coinage as a whole—gold, silver and minor

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20,500

t33,130,000

an 800 ,il-i,077 KO

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that the totals iu with tho figures

—it reached at the closo of 1S37 the stupendous total or 51,993,400,551. In aggregate coinage of gold Australia comes near tlio United States. Russia stands third with an annual coinage ranging from 515,000*000 to $20,000,000, the latter beingthe amount,in 1887. Germany's mints turned out over 52S,000,000 of gold in 18S7, but that of 1SSG was only a little over $8,00 ),000, whiie the coinage in IS'vi was less than ?8,0W.000. Great Britain's annual

average recently has been about 511,000,000. When it comes to silver coinage theUnited States lakes second place. India coined $•1-1.000,000 worth of silver in 18S7, S27,000,00.1 in 1SSG and 54S,000.000 iu 1885. TheUnited States average in these years was about •-.3"2,000,000. Mexico ran its third in this particular, with a coinage of about 120,000,000 silver a year. Tho annual average or Spain and Japan, which range next to Mexico, is about 47,090,000 each. 1 lie amount of the gold and silver' coin and bullion in ,the country on January 1,

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1SS8, is put at SI,075,4:25,527. Of this sum J701,!)S'!,o5'3 was gold and 5370,4-12,175 silver. This includes tho whole amount in the United States—in the Treasury, the banks, mints and assay olliees, and in the hands of the people-at that time.

In 18S7, as shown by tho figures before given, tho coinage of the United States was $60,379,150. Of this nearly 000,000 was gold and a little over 530,000,000 silver. Tho world's coinage, including that or tho United States, in the year was (-12-1,092,405 of gold and 1(50,9S-t,877 of silver. This wa3 a much higher total than in the preceding years. Tho world's average coinage for tho past half dozen years has been 5110,000,000 of gold and 5130,000,000 of silver aunually. Broadly speaking, tho United States coined one-fifth of tho world's coinage of gold and considerably over one-fourth of the world's coinage of silver.

Every body knows that a largo part of the gold and silver produced each year is used iu the industries, but every body does not know how great this proportion is. The Director of tho Mint makes inquiries into this matter every year. He does this by means of letters to manufacturers, private refiners and jewelers. The result of his investigation convinces him that at least 514,000,000 gold and *5,230,000 silver were consumed in t'.e decorative art and other industries in the United States in 18S7.

In the world as a whole, in 1SS0, which is the latest year for which figures have been obtained except for the United States, tho \alue of tlio gold used in the industries is estimated at ?-l.",9l7,SSl, and of silver at 521.118,782,

The subject.of the use of the money metals in the industries has a deeper and more abiding interest than will appear to tho casual reader. Nearly half as much gold as

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was employed in tho coinage of the world in ISSti was used in tho industries. Gold production, on the whole, is stationary. Notwithstanding the incrcr.se in 1SS7 over 1SSG, tho tendency in recent years has not been upward. Production, therefore, lias perhaps reached its highest limit, while the use of the metal for decoration is rapid.ly increasing with tlio growth of the world in wealth and luxurious habits this increase will be kept up. Tho supply will not expand, while the demand for it for other purposes

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than tho comntre must continue to grow in a high ratio Under these, conditions, will not a tune soon cotno wneu ino amount, available for coinage will be too small to meet the. world's wants as a basis for the circulating medium! This is a question which economists and statesmen must soon begin to grapple.

A few words will now be given about the illustrations. Iu most eases the pictures explain themselves with tolerable clearness.

The old method of crushing the gold and silver ore is still in use in Mexico and some of the South American countries. Tlio rolling, drawing, cutting, milling and coining processes represented in the pictures take place in the mint. The machines doing this work arc driven by steam. Between the rollers the ingots of gold and silver are run. This presses the metal into thin strips, of the proper thickness, for the coin. The strips are then drawn, like wire, through a steel guage in tlio dn.ving bench, after which they are cut ii:t, the required size by tho cutting press. Subsequently, tho planchets or pieces are weighed, and then run through tho milling machine, which forms a rim around tho edges of tho pieces. After being submitted to tho annealing and cleaning process, tho plaiicliets are put through the coming press, at tho closo of which operation tlicy are ready to perform their function in the world as a measure of price and medium of exchange.

Pahadoxicai,.—A light affliction—paving the gas bill.

Ink noon recreation

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THE SAMOAN QUESTION.

Something About tin) Causn or tlio Prosont liiilouily li«t\vcci:i Germany and the liuKcd StatLM— Tlio Sunionii It-luiuls ami

Their l'oojro King Mulictoii a»nl His -accessor, T.miincsi). Iho most interesting, nnd what may prove to bo the most serious, topic, of tho (lay is the Samoan question, an altercation between tho governments of tho United States and Germany brought about by the aggressive policy adopted by the representative of Germany anparently on behalf of tho Gorman merchants residing at Apia and other Samoan trade centers. •The Samoan, or Navigator's, Islands is a group of twelve volcanic isle3 in the Southern Pacific Ocean, between latitudes 13 deforces 20 minutes and 14 degrees 30 minutes south and longitude. 1G8 degrees and 173 degrees, four of which, Upolu, Manua, Tutui'a and Savaii, have for some time been known to students ot political and missionary history. Apia, tlio chief town and capital of tho "roup, loeated on Upolu Island, has a harbor which can accommodate six or seven vessels, and is the commercial as well as the social metropolis of the native tribes and foreign residents. The principal products of the country are coffee, sugar, bananas and other tropical plant') and foods, which grow in great profusion and from the discovery of the group until tho present day the great commercial nations of tho world labored hard to secure an ascendency over each other.

Before foreign influences became an important factor in tho affairs of the islands their people, who, by tho way, aro among the most perfect specimens of Polynesian manhood, were ruled by hereditary chiers.

Jealousy, which has destroyed so many r.emi-barbarous nations, wrought its dire work among the Samoans, aud tea-pot revolutions followed each other in such rapid succession that foreign intervention became necessary. In 1873 two pretenders to tho throne, Malie-

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toa and Tupuea, were

compelled by tho governments of England ana the United States to adopt a sort of constitutional government which was to he administered jointly by the two warring chieftains" under the protectorate of the United States. Two years after the adoption of this compromise, in 1875, a German commercial agent by tho name of Stciuberger, arrived at Apia and wormed himself into tho confidence of Malietoa, who succeeded in rallying enough followers to change tho constitution and had himself proclaimed tho only legid King. Intrigue thereupon followed intrigue, and Steinberger, who had filled the portfolio of Prima Minister to every body's satisfaction, was deposed through the machinations of jealous natives and foreigners. This feud terminated in tho defeat of the Gorman adventurer, who was dismissed by tho ungrateful King. Steinberger, who felt himself outraged, then fomented another civil war, which ended with Malietoa being firmly placed on the throne, and in his official recognition by tho governments of England, Germany and theUnited Slates.

At this time Bismarck's colonial policy assumed aggressive proportions, and his agents at Apia and

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points worked like beavers to secure ascendency in the Tacific island countries. Fair and foul means were ployed to win tho support: of native chieftains, and in 1SS4, after various agreements a conventions, a treaty was signed between tho Samoan Government aud the threoffi||| interested powers which practically gave tho whole uuthority to tho German Consul at, Apia. Malietoa, when he began to realize the import of the treaty, made a formal appeal for its revocation to Emperor William I. on tho ground that unduo pressure had boon brought to bear to make him sign tho document. The appeal was not answered. A protest addressed to Queen Victoria met with the same result. Iu 1SS5 the Germans, dissatisfied with tho independence displayed by Malietoa, began to press the claims of a pretender to tho throne known as Timiasesc, whom, in August, 1S88, they placcd on the throne in a high-handed manner and in utter disregard of all tho treaties entered into between England, tho United States and Samoa.

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MALIETOA.

On August 19 a German squadron arrived in the harbor of Apia for the purpose of enforcing reparation for damages done by some natives to German plantations and for an assault on a German during a quarrel which took place on the Emperor's birthday. Malietoa asked for four days' respite to procure the amount demanded by the German Admiral, but the latter declared war immediately, landed a strong force at tho capital and proclaimed Tamaseso King of the islands. Malietoa, frightened out of his wits, fled precipitately, but was eventually persuaded to give himself up by tho American and British Consuls, and was taken at once on board a German vessel and deported to New Guiana.

After this outrago followed outrage. The supporters of Malietoa rallied under the leadership of a chief uauied Mataafaand contested the claim of the Gerrnan-made King. They attacked tho German forces, and last January inflicted a severo punishment on tlicir foes. At last accouuts the "rebels," as they are called, fought under the leadership of an American adventurer named Klein, who achieved considerable notoriety in Chicago by being the person in whose arms Louis Lingg, the condemned Anarchist, who killed himself by exploding a dynamite cartridge in his mouth on the day preceding that set for his execution, breathed liis last.

The Government of tho United States pocketed many insults before remonstrating with Germany for its unprecedented cruelty and selfishness but the prospects now are that, Germany must either make amends to Uncle Sam or engage in a war with that formidable individual, unless the question is—as it should have been long ago —settled by arbitration.

Malietoa Laupepa, the deposed King of Samoa, whose portrait appears with this article, is fifty years of age and a man of mild, irresolute temperament. Ho is tho twenty-third ruler of his dynasty. His surname, Laupepa, literally translated, means '•Sheet of Paper," and* it is well bestowed, as he is mucMi mere of a student and romancer than a warrior. His dynastic name, Malietoa, is said to be that of an ancestor who drove out bold invaders of yore and is translatable as "Well done, fighting cock!" Tamas'cse, the King made and defended by the Germans, is a powerfully built man, a good fichter and a son of a native chief of prominence. Whatever settlement may bo made between tlio American and German governments, it is safe to assume that lie will continue to be the ruler of Samoa, as ho has tho bulk of the fighting material of tho islands at his back. W,

FRANCISCO LAINFIESTA.

Envoy from Guatemala unci S.in Salvador and Minister KesMont from Honduras. Since the death of General Barrios, iu 1SS5, Guatemala has had until recently no diplomatic representative at Washington. The same has been the ease with the Hepublics of San Salvador and Honduras for several years past,. Senor Lainfiesta now officially represents all throo republics. He is strongly in favor of the union of the Central American republics, Guatemala, San Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras, under ono confederation and government head, and considers such a union a question of only a few years. Strong efforts are being made at tho present time to reunite thoso five States into one, and to re-establish tho old Republic of Central America. This transformation will securo for it greater consideration and respect from foreign nations, and facilitate the unfolding of its destiny, which to-day is hampered aud embarrassed by petty and local interests.

The staples of theso favored countries of Central America are, says a writer in Frank Leslie's, thoso of every clime. Those moro generally exported arc coffee, sugar, indigo, cacao, vanilla, a variety of fruits, many sorts of peltry, india-rubber, balsam, tor-toise-shell, precious stones and dye-wood, mineral quartz, sisal-hemp, ramie, eta The importations to Central America amount to 520.000,000 or 525,000,000 in value. Of this sum, live-sixths go to

Europe, while the United States, not.cVwithstanding their advantageous position, only reap a small fraction, instead of the larger share. Tlio cliiof artides of importation gjSSP are woolens, sillc and •yFfcy cotton goods, hardware, machinery,

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manufactured iron

of all kinds, wines and liquors, cutlery, furniture, musical instruments, stationery aud office articles, books, fancy articles, kerosene, wheat-flour, preserves, drugs and medicines, china and glassware, cars and carriages, bags for coffee and sugar, etc. Almost all importations arc made via Aspinwall across the Panama Isthmus, and then transferred to the steamers on the Pacific: some arc made, with great delay, around Capo Horn and tho Strait of Magellan.

The importations arc made through the southern coast of Central America, because on the northern coast there are but muletracks, long arid difficult, thus making the carriage slow and costly. The State of Costa Rica has tho only railroad on tho northern side its terminus is Port Limon. Nicaragua centers her hope upon theintoroeeanie canal. Honduras and Guatemala aro projecting inter-oceanic railroads from the north side. San Salvador has no coast to the north. There arc extensive mines of gold and silver in the Territory of Honduras, which are now worked by largo American companies.

Francisco Lainfiesta was born in tho city of Guatemala on the 4th of October, 1837. Turning his attention to an industrial occupation, as a boy he became an ablo worker in bronze and marble. Subsequently he engaged in agriculture, and rose to be manager on a plantation in the raising and the manufacture of two of Guatemala's chief products, sugar and rum. In 1855 he secured a clerkship in the Stato Department, which he held for five years. His next venture in life was that of a merchant. While thus engaged ho studied law, became a notary public, and in lSOO he was admitted to the bar. From 1S00 to 1S71 Senor Lainfiesta practiced his profession very successfully. When General Barrios became President of tho republic, ho offered Lainfiesta the portfolio of the Public Works, which ho accepted, and filled with ability, being very energetic and enthusiastic in the promotion of all works of hit-n ul imxirovement.

In 188*1 ho proceeded to New York for the purpose of securing American teachers for the public schools of Guatemala, and returned with several efficient instructors, both male and female, who were employed as teachers of the English branches in tho schools of tho capital city ot the republic. Two years afterwards he was Minister of Public Works for about cisrkt months, and in 18S3 ho the third time accepted the same office, which ho held till 1875, when President Barrios died and tho Conservatives went into power. Elected to Congress, he was made President of tho House of Deputies, and presided over its meetings iu 1SS0,1SS1, 1SS2 and 1883—four years. Congress designated Senor Lainfiesta VicePresident of Guatemala for one year.

Minister Lainfiesta is now giving the finishing touches toa history of Guatemala from the Presidency of General Carrana in 1S05 to the death of President Barrios in 1885. Ho has written two or three other books on Central American affairs, which have attracted wide and marked attention at home aud abroad.

Senator MoPliorson. //I

Senator McPherson, or New Jei sc\ is the only cattle drover in Congress His wealth was made out or large stock yards at Jersey City. Ho has just been re-elected ror his third term. He took his scat first in 1877 to succeed tho late Secretary

Frelinghuysen, who was President Arthur's Secretary of State, and 18S3he was reelected. He was born in Livingston County, N. Y., in 1833, and tlic'ro received his education. W he twenty- sixyears old lie moved to Jerit a

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buying ana selling cattle. He was elected alderman in 1SG4 and held tho office six years. Being a very good judge of a cow or a steer he made money riclit along and soon began to have something to invest in speculation, so that it was not long before ho was on the highway to a fortune. In 1871-3 lie was elected to tho State Senate of New Jersey. Ho has been a hard student of finance and the tariff, and is a forcible writer and speaker.

Tho Incorrigible Brother

Littlo Willie (to his sister's beau)—You can't guess what I've got in my pocket, Mr. Blinker.

Mi\ Blinker—No, I can not guess. What is it, Willie? Willie—It's beans. Mamma said you didn't know beans, but I thought I'd try you.—Areola Record. ,.y

Woman's Work Again.

The Woman—I think the women will shortly do all tho work now done by men, even to running steam engines.

Tho Man—I think tho women would do well around steam engines. They fire up Roquiv'kl... -Time,

Z.L.WHITE.

The Noted Newspaper Correspondent Kocontly Deceased—A Man Who Worked II i» Way to tho Front in nis Profession.

Tho late Z. L. White, who died in Nassau, New Providence, the other day, was ono of tho most remarkable men who ever rose to prominence as a newspaper correspondent at Washington. Ho was born in Northfield, Mass., in 1S42.. His parents being very poor wcro unablo to give him an education,but ho earned it for himself by working in a foundry and ou a farm to get tho money to pay his way through Tuft's College. In 1S67 he beenrno reporter on tho New York Tribune, with which paper ho was identified"

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Z. I,. WHITE.

all his lifo until 1SS0, when he accented the editorship of tho Providenco Press. He was a man of naturally judicial cast of mind, very fair-minded, cool and clear in his judgment, accurate in his grasp of facts, and a writer of force and precision.

As a news-getter ho was famous. He got a copy of tho Washington treaty in 1872 in advance of its official publication and printed it in the Tribune. Thereupon the Senate arrested him aud Mr. H. J. Ransdell, his associate on the Tribune staff, and foe several days they were kept confined as prisoners in a Senate committee room. His health began to breakdown long boforo ho resigned tho Tribune work and ho made long journeys through the West, up and down thcRoelcy mountains, to build up his constitution but all tho timo writing very interesting loiters, describing the county through which lie went, and the occupations of its people. Some of the most important of his work was done in describing tho Granger movement and the political disturbances in tho South.

His management of the Providenco Press mado it a good paper. During tho past two years he had been engaged in magazine work chiefly. His fight for lifo was heroic, tho ravages of consumption being aggravated by dyspepsia. It was his habit nightly for years in order to secure sleep to remove from his stomach all its contents by means of a stomach pump, and then by taking a copious draught of hot water he was able to rest comfortably for tho night. It is said that by this caro of himself lie prolonged his life several years. Ho was buried at Washington in the Congressional cemetery.

Senator Harris.

For the third timo Governor Harris, of Tennessee, has been elected to the Senate. Ho is tho samo Isham G. Harris upon whose head Parson Brownlow put a price, offering ten thousand dollars for bis body, dead or a iv made it neca him to live in xi two years at the closo and just after the war. He was born iu the old republic of

Franklin, and began to practice law nearly fifty years ago. He was elected to Congress in 1849. and served two terms, de­

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clining a nomination for a third. For six years he was Governor of Tennesseo. He is one of the best parliamentarians in tho Senate, and is very often called to the chair. Governor Harris is a great stickler for forms, and corresponds on the Democratic side of the chamber to Senator Edmunds on tho Republican fSMe. He is of tho old school, courtly, gracious and affable.'*

The Late Isaac Dell.

The late Isaac Bell, ex-United States Minister to the Netherlands, lost his life by participating in a campaign parade. Ho was born in New York City, his father.

ISAAC BELL.

Isaac Bell, making-his homo tnere after a political and business career of prominence in Alabama. The senior Bell was a member of the commission that investigated the Tweed ring. Isaac Bell married a daughter of James Gordon Bennett, after whom the Jcanuctteof Arctic fame was named. Mr. Bell graduated from Harvard in 1866, spent several years in travel, and after his marriage made his homo at Newport, R. I. President Cleveland appointed him Minister to the Netherlands, and ho made a treaty with that country regulating tho entry of Sumatra tobacco into this country. He was a Presidential elector and could not vote in the Electoral College on account of his illness. He was a member of a number of prominent clubs.

A £.ack or ItusInoHS Sense

Candid friend (to young author)—Your story is a good one, I admit, Edgar but you never can make much money out of it without considerable alterations.

Edgar—Why, what's wrong? Candid ffriend—You should have fyour hero dine at Topitoff's, wear only the clothes made by Shearem, take a box at Blowhard's Theater, and drink exclusively tho wines imported by Fuddlcton. Always use tho names that will brmg you money, my boy.—Judge.

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