Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 1 April 1892 — Page 2

F fclw JJcnwrrnt W * wPW/WWNr* • F | . DKOATUR, IND. MteOKBUBN. - - - Publish ba. |n the world—that Is, if you fret it Krom a lawyer. ’’ The sire of the man’s salary does blot necessarily indicate the amount IKt work he does. ?3 To full the wool over a man’s I tons has a tendency toward making I Mlm feel sheepish. p A farmer in Connecticut has been ■a 11 BiKfrfrlT"six tines. His rule seems 'to be "the more the merrier. ” E' ’’ If Mr. Edison would bring his inC itive genius to bear on a fire-escape would receive blessings and ducats. Fu . ■ , I Chicago groans because it has a *Wang” council. Throw out the gang oUnk and let the offenders walk it. •- i - ‘ Even Greece is having a little Cabinet matinee and party feeling runs tery high in the classic anvironments !■ it Athens. ' , And tfow a coffin trust has been termed. In the face of this can any Ene deny that the trust question has wecome a grave one? i The Poorman Mine owners in Idaho say that their electric light Mant saves them $3,000 a year. Why •ot put in another one? F i; How people dislike to obey the fews of* naturel How fortunate a tadg is; he never wants to do anything •hat is net good for him. There may be something in a (game after all, for not only the Rusitfan people but the Hungary people •re starving by the score. 1 It is an indignity placed upon the jAfnerican hog that it is now sold in Competition with mule beef at Parisian meat markets. The hog should ■queal. e—y ' If this country should go to war ©ver a matter of sealskins, the fight •rill be a bitter one. Heads of families •re wrought up to the last pitch of Isndurance already. Some writer, struggling to get out •f the worn rut, has been dilating •pon the antiquity of gloves, yet •very one knows that a majority of them are “kids” yet. The folding bed promises to succeed in prominence the use of kerobane as a fire kindler and the deadly tomlly pistol tnat is always supposed io be without a load. & . The groundhog, the lion, the lamb, ■nd their relations to the freckled Character of weather we are having tense more newspaper talk than anything outside of politics. | Mr. Deacon and Li?ut Hetherington must not be accepted by foreign tuitions as typical Americans. The ■H 'sanctity of the American home is not guarded by the husband’s pistol, but by the wife’s loyalty. . i The Dubuque News is Raid to be the smallest full-fledged weekly paper |n the country Its size is about 6x9 Inches, and it has two editors. Persons who dislike “blanket sheets’’ •hoiild try the Dubuque News. If John L. Sullivan can be persuaded to put himself in good shape |ind knock the everlasting mouth off Os one Mitchell before he dies he will Confer an immense relief on a tired f 'country and can die as soon as he K pleases. -L A Boston lady writes to one of the s ’ ©apers of that city: “Will some of t • your readers be kind enough to tell fc me what to do for a canary bird that has lost its voice?” Keep it, dear | madam, care for it tenderly, and be thankful. It was the consensus of opinion ■mong sporting meu that Maher was • coward because he refused to 1 be E •finished” by Fitzsimmons, but the BF greatest evidence of cowardice apK jpears in bjs subsequent attempt to | Commit suicide. Philadelphia has at last “got the bulge” on New York. The latter has always sneered aj £he former as slowgoing; but in the matter of aiding k the famine-stricken Russians It is | miles ahead of its “fast” sister. New .Xork ought to apologize and hurry up its Russian contribution. Ibi •Professor John L. Sullivan's D arms have been tied up for some months by a contract which required his exclusive devotion to the hisgg’ trlonic art. But now Mr. Sullivan’s arms are free" and have begun to •wing. Gentlemen seeking a fight need not go to the cxpense«»of adverjtlsing. Call early and’avoid the rush. , Also, look outi’for that tremendous IF- Bulllvanesque rush when the fight K open?. -Ei- t K Montreal has a very interesting E. lawsuit over the responsibility of a theater manager. When the Abbey..Grau Opera Company went to Montreal the manager advertised that Mme. Sealcbi would sing in a certain r JJWformance. As Mme. Scalchi ’is very popular in Montreal, there was : :a big sale, and a great many people E' were disappointed when it was announced that the favorite contraltc I S Waa ! too 111 to take her part. Theii , disappointment changed to indigna when they found that SdLlch WM well enough to sing in Bost or that same night, and thdt she had rvi

intention of singing In Mon Weal. , Several wealthy patrons of the theater have brought suit against the management for obtaining money under false pretenses, and they propose to test the law as to whether a theater manager is responsible for his , announcements. Ethel Osborne, the unhappy ( London society woman self-convicted of perjury, has been sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment at hard labor. The deplorable scandal has served at least to show in Captain Osborne, who has loyally and gently sustained and cheered his wife throughout the whole Affair, a gentleman such as , London society seldom offers for the admiration of the world. The trial and Its end have also demonstrated that English law Is Inflexible and remorseless—when the culprit does not wear a title. B - The NeW York Court of Appeals has rendered an opinion which shows that married women In that State are still in bondage. A women fell down a coal-hole and sued for damages, recovering SSOO. The defendant asked for a new trial on the ground that the woman was»worklng for her husband, and that the court had taken Into account her loss of wages. The Court of Appeals reversed the decision and sent the case back for a new trial. It held that the services of a wife belonged to her husband, and she cannot recover any wages even if she holds his written promise to pay. He cannot compel her to perform any work for him except household duties, and if she does any other she can not compel him to pay for it Therefore, all the plaintiff is entitled to recover is such sum as will compensate her for personal injuries, but nothing for loss of wages. Schweinfurth, the unspeakable leader of that refuge at Rockford impiously called “heaven, ” is defendant in the Circuit Court to a charge of alienating the affections of a Chicago matron, and will be called upon to defend a suit for $50,000 damages. The false prophet announces as his line of defense the “showing up” of the husband’s character. That husband, the plaintiff, is a man of wealth and comfortable income, whose home has been ruined by the influence of the bogus Christ. His wife has gone from him in a manner worse than death. His ‘daughters are poisoned with the baneful doctrine, and all the earth holds dear for him is sinking ki the bottomless slime of that “prophet’s” following. The mormons at Nauvoo were never more dangerous to society than is George Jr Schweinfurth. Within or without the law there should be some method of whipping him out of the country. The admitted right of all men to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences grants to no man immunity in this wholesale debauching of women. Two citizens of Chicago have .returned to this Irountry afteir an enforced absence of twenty years. When they went abroad in 1872 they embarked in extensive financial transactions, making the Bank of "England their base of operations. After a brief period of prosperity their careers as financiers were abruptly terminated, and they were compelled to resdrt to the business of oakum picking, which was not so agreeable as bank plucking, though attended with less -risks. They would be picking oakum at this time if it had not pleased the British Government to grant them tickets-of-leave, which have enabled them to secure greatly needed recreation It is possible, of course, that Messrs. George and Austin Bidwell have sincerely of the crimes which condemned them to penal servitude for life in British prisons. All things.are possible, and their repentance may be included among the possibilities. But nothing in the conversation of the Bidwells points to penitence. Austin Bidwell is reported as even. boasting of their crimes, and he takes pride in the fact that “they taught the great moneyed Institution of the enemy of their country a lesson.” No one certainly would desire interfere with honest efforts by these men to accomplish a reformation of their lives, or. to atone as far as possible forthe 1 mistakes of the past. But it is not out of place to suggest that under all the circumstances they , would do themselves and their cause . no harm by being a trifle more modest when speaking of the operations ! which have made them notorious. , An affected modesty, no matter how , patent its insincerity, would become them better than, the boasting in which they indulge. j - > = , A Geological Puxsle. . Rev. Owen Watkins has been prospecting in Mashonaland in the interests of the«; Wesleyan Missionary So 3 ciety. In a recent Letter he says he. ’ is presumably the first white man to t sec the Mount of Footprints, which - he thus describes: “At last we came . »to one large mount of folks on the 6 top of the hills. Here are*thousands j. of impressiondon the granite rock. Hundreds of human footsteps, thousands of footprints of animals —lions, g jackals, wolves and antelopes. On* a the top of the mount.the appearance is as if a crowd of animals and men had rushed together in fright. At whatever period these footprints I were made, ft must have been before II the outer surface of the rock had' is hardened. The distance from where is the footprints begin to where they le culminate on the mount is 200 yards. ” —St. James Gazette. *_ o : —— — [J. On 'y lor Visitor*. ° Miss Breezy (of Chicago)—How many times have you been at the top of Bunker Hill monument? * ” t ®® aCe , nhill —l w?s never there; *» I live in’BostonJester.

• THE CORDAGE TRUST. * . 8 AN ABSOLUTE monopoly of r PRODUCTION. 1 It Manipulate* Market* and Get* from 9 It* Tariff Tax. an Kxiormou* Profit— Where’* That American lie Plate! f — A Veritable Oetopu*. r «Hemp and its substitutes, manila, sisal I grass and jute, constitute the raw mate- . rial of two Wnportant industries, those of cordage and bagging manufacture. The most important of these is the cord- < age industry, which comprises thb production of all classes of ship and other cordage, rope and binding twine. It is seldom that these products art niapu1 featured in separate establishments. 1 Nearly all the materials used are imi ported, and the establishments in the industry are quite widely diversified throughout the country. A scheme to combine all these establishments into a gigantic trust would have been considered impossible several years ago. Now, however, after the people have become accustomed to the sight of.Jrusts and combines, its successful accomplishment excites little comment. The growth of the present Cordage Trust from the so-called association which loosely bound the manufacturers together previous to 1887, when the present trust was formed, has been so gradual that except among the interests directly affected it has excited but little Interest Previous to October, 1887, the cordage manufacturers were in a combination or pool, the object of which was to fix prices. But, like other loose arrangements of this kind, the members, were not slow to break the agreements made when they found it to their advantage to do so. Early in 1887 this pool fell to. pieces of its own weight and an era of [ free competition followed till October, when the nucleus was of the following concerns: Elizabethport Cordage Company of New Jersey, and the Tucker A Carter Cordage Company, L. Waterbury & Co. and William Wall’s Sons, all of Brooklyn. Axound this nucleus of four concerns have been gathered forty-five other es- | tablishments in the United States and , Canada, until now the trust controls over 90 per cent, of the production of cordage, rope and binding twine. At the time of its organization in 1887, the trust announced as the object sought by its formation, an increase in the profits to be derived from a lower cost of materials by the removal of competition in the market, and from the economies to be derived from a decrease ir the cost of production. It was asserted time and i again that no attempt would be made to raise the prices of its finished products. These claims were repeated at the time of its reorganization as a corporation, and finally in February last in the annual report to the stockholders in the following terms: “Through these advantages secured by the control of many mills, and their management under one direction, the company hopes to be enabled to secure an increased margin of- - without increasing the prices of its product to the consumer.” Has the trust up to the present carried ! out this promise, or, if not, is there any likelihood ‘that it will do so in the future? In the following tables are shown the average monthly prices since 1885 of the i raw material and finished product. The ’ articles, the prices of which are given, are manila hemp and manila cordage 7-16 of an inch in diameter and larger: MANILA HEMP. ' ’ al ai fi| ea a January 7.72 B.H 9 W 121111.75 9.81 February . 7.25 8.06 9.12111.6811.12 8.06 March - 6.73 7.89 9.< 011.56 9.M 8.50 April 6.98 7.75 9/011.87 9.00 8.31 May 7.92 7.67! 9.00'12.87 9.25 8.19 June 7.87 7.44 1 9.001300 9.26 775 July 7. 6 7.62 9.00,12.87 9.25 7.62 Aururt 8.24 9.32 9.0013.87 9.25 7.« September 7.96 9.87 9.00i13.87 9.25 7.82 October..... 7.8910.34 9.0014.37 9.08 7.09 November 7.95 9.40 9.2514.12,10.5 6.87 December &15 9.01 9.12113.87 9.84 6.t2 . “ MANILA COBDAGE. Aa s| £ £ FPJIJ s January 11.75 12.00 10.50 14.25 14.60'1150 Februaryll2s!l2.o 10.50 15.25 15.00 10.87 March 11.758.0510.50 15.75 15.0 U 1u.75 Apri111.75112.0 ‘ 10.75 15.75 15.00 10.62 May1L75112.00 10.75 15.75,15.00 9.75 Ju e 11.7511.00 10 75 15.75-15.9 C 9.25 Ju1y11.75j10.50 1 '.75 15.12'14.75 9.25 August 11.75,11.37 11.87 13.50 U. 75 9.12 September 11.7511.25 11.50 13 0014,75 8.87 October 11.ISllJ.lS 11.2> 13.2> 14.75 9.12 NovemberlL7s|ll.37 12.0013.25 11.871 9.87 Decemberll.7 113.87 13.2; 14,25 12.00110.25 The following are the average yearly prices of materials and finished product (cents per pound): W86.|188?.[1C88.|1889, C0rdage1L70j11.51[1U514.5714.53 9.94 Manila...... 7.68 j 8.54 : 9.04|13.00 9.77 7.85 Difference...... 4.02, 297) 2.11| 1.57 476 2.04 These figures would be misleading without explanation. The high prices of the raw material prevailing in 1889 were in part due to a shortage in the crop, but chiefly to the manipulation of the market by a combination of the Cordage Trust and English brokers. In the fall of 1888 this combination began to corner the product with such complete success that during a large part of 1889 they controlled nearly all of the stock. The prices prevailing in 1889 were these at which the trust was willing to sell, .and not the prices which it paid for the raw material. By this corner of the material the trust was able to keep up the price of cordage to the high averages* shown for 1889 and 1890, until it had succeeded in working off the whole stock on hand. The difference between the,price of the finished product and of the raw material for 1890, as shown above, was about the actual average difference in 1889 also. This shows that the trust succeeded in making enormous profits entirely at the expense of the consumers. The reduction in the price of cordage in 1891 was made for a purpose. During the whole year the Trust was negotiating for the control of the independent establishments, and its success depended upon its ability to force these outsiders to terms. For had the Trust ' kept prices up, the outside establish--1 ments would either have refused to join 1 the Trust, or would have held out for more favorable terins than they would have been willing to accept under other circumstances. 1 By October. 1891, the Trust had so far succeeded in securing control of the 1 competing mills that it was . able to advfince prices again. As a result, the 1 price of cordage has been raised from ' 8| cents per pound to the present price i ot 11{ cents per pound. And this ad- [ vanqp has been made directly in the , face of a declinipg market for the mate- , rial. The present price of manila for , shipment is to 7 cento per pound. The difference between this nricto and that of the finished product is, therefore, 4.38 cents per pound. The promise made by the Trust, that the Increased r profits which it hoped to secure from or- > ganization would not be at the expense of the consumer, has been completely i forgotten. 1 to ppite of the fact that the Cordage

Trust ongageu lu open war during tha whole of last with the independent | manufactories for the purpose of forcing them into the Trust, it was able to make I very large profits. During the fiscal ! year ending October, 31, 1891, the True} 1 made a profit of $1,406,313, which enabled it to declare dividends of 8 per cent, on the preferred and 9 per cent, on the common stock, and at the same time loft a balance of $106,313. As a result of the higher prices since October, the Financial Director of the Trust felt justified in making the following report for the quarter ending January 31 last "It is very difficult rtt- this time to give an accurate estimate of the profits of the business for the quarter ending January 31. I feel safe id stating, however, that after deducting expenses, rentals, and all fixed charges, those profits will be found sufficient to pay the entire annual dividend of $400,000 on the preferred stock and a quarterly dividend on the common stock, besides leaving a large Bnrphni." Should this rate of earnings b<re ntlnuod throughout the year the Trost will bo able to pay the dividend of 8 per cent, on the preferred stock, 12 per cent, on the common stock, and mve $1,000,000 besides to bo added to tffe ‘large surplus" I earned during j,he past quarter, which , later will be increased 300 per cent. Just so long as the high tariff on the products of truste .is allowed to stand I and prevent competition, just so long will the trusts use It to exact from consumers all the profit it allows. Tla-Plat* Truths. In older to determine the much mooted question whether tin plates are yet made in this country except for political purposes, the Secretary of the Tin Plate Consumers’ Association has sent out to the members of the itosoolation the following circular: “In furtherance of the objects of the ’ Tin Plate Consumers’ Association the directors respectfully request the members of the associatlop to furnish monthly returns of all Amerioan-made tin plates purchased by them, beginning with the month of January, 1892; also stating whether any American-made | tin plates have been bought by them previous to the first of same month, and, if so, what quantity, sizes and kinds. , “The names of those forwarding the information will be regarded as confidential by the directors, and will not be . published. Respectfully yours, “Bobkbt Ganz, Seo'y." In response to this circular 115 replies have been received, of which exactly 100 declare that the writers have not bought any American tin plate. Here are a few samples of the replies received up to date: California—San Francisco: We have not been able to obtain any American made tin or terne plates so far. Connecticut—New Haven: We use only highest grade tin plate, and we have not heard of any of these being manufactured. Illinois—Chicago: Haven’t been able to find any. Dundee: The tin plate which we use is not yet made in the United States. Highland: Obtained none up to date. Chicago: None of any kind except aI sample box of 20 by 28 terne Indiana—Vincennes: We have not had any American made tin plate yet. Indianapolis: We have obtained no American tin plates whatever. Kentucky—Louisville: I cannot buy i any that I know of. Louisiana—New Orleans: As yet have not been offered any. Maryland—Baltimore: Have not been able to obtain any. Have neither bought nor been offered any American tinplate. Bidgely: Wo have never seen a sheet of American made tin plates, and u ver i had any offers or quotatlcns. Massachusetts—Boston: Have not seen or heard of any American tin plates in this market. Boston: We haje nqt bought nor have we been offered a single sheet of American tin plate. Michigan—Adrian: We have not been able to find any tin plates suitable for our use, except imported articles. If you know of any manufacturers of the article, we would like to have their address. Missouri—Kansas City: On Dec. 3 last we ordered a carload 1 t of tin plates for January delivery from American manufacturer. There is no Immediate prospect of getting same, and we will cancel order. Nebraska—Omaha: None offered, and we do not believe there is any in the market lowa—Sioux City. Five boxes. New York—Brooklyn: Have neither bought nor had any offered to me. Have not been able to find any suitable for my purpose on making inquiry. Buffalo: Have not bought any tin plate manufactured in this country; none offered at any price. New York City. Have not seen any except in Tribune newspaper. Waverly: None offered. Woodstown: Have n<M bought any American tin plate. Do not know where it Is made. Ohio—Cincinnati: We have not bought or seen any American tin or terne plates for commercial use; only political. Pennsylvania—Philadelphia: We have not been able to buy a single sheet of American tin plate. Pittsburg: Cannot get any. Would like to. Wisconsin—Milwaukee: We have not had any American tin plate offered to us, consequently have not made any purchases. Os the fifteen replies stating that the writers have purchased some Americanmade plates the following are examples: Ohio—Cleveland: One box; but price too high for us. Pennsylvania — Philadelphia: Five boxes. We have had no plates offered to us by any manufacturer. The above were bought to try the quality. The entire purchases up to the present, since the duty went into effect, and since it has been claimed that Americanmade tin plates have been put on the market, have amounted to only 665 boxes, or an average of less than six lipxes to each of the firms which have ! sent In reports. And yet the high-tariff I journals all over the country are making the claim that we already produce several thousand : boxes perday. But what, if this claim is true, becomes of all this tin plate? Heavy Wage Redaction*. The following is a partial list of the i wage reductions which have been anI nounced in the high-tariff journals since January 1, 1892: “The reduction in the wages of the employes of the Brooke Iron Company, I- at Birdsboro, this county, announced • some time ago, took effect* and all the i puddlcrs, heaters, and other employes •' continued at work, excepting some of lithe nail feeders. The, firm employs •; nearly 400 hands.”—Philadelphia Lcd- >' ger (Rep.), Jan. 27, 1892. c i “The wages of the puddlcrs in the ems ploy of the Chesapeake ■Nail Works at • Harrleburg, Pa., have been reduced ) from $4 per to $3.50 per day, taking •! effect on the 15th Inst.," —Iron Age r, Feb. 18, 1892. . j “On the same day a reduction in I I wages varying fromw" to II per cent. , ’ went into effect, at” the Central Iron i'i Works, Harrisburg, Pa. 1 Feb. 18, 1892. - “The puddling department of the s Central Iron Works at Harrisburg, Pa., 7 shut down Saturday night, throwing between 200 and 300 men out of employ- >; ment. The men would not accept the

J reduction."—Boston Commercial Buli; letin, Feb. 20. 1892. "Cofrodo A Saylor, of the Reading i Rolling Mill, at Reading, Pa.‘, on Thurs* . day night notified their employes of a I 10 per abut, reduction of wages, to take effect next week. The firm employs about 630 hands."—The Iron Age, Feb. 25, 1892. Also by Associated Press, ; Feb. 19. I "Early last week the Jefferson Iron 1 Works of Steubenville, Ohio, notified 1 , their nailers of a reduction in wages • amounting to 25 per cent"—[This was afterward withdrawn.]—The Iron Age, ; Feb. 25, 1892. “The Columbia Iron and Steel Company, Pittaburg, whose plant is located at Uniontown, Pa., have made a demand for a reduction of 25 per cent, in the wages of their employes.—The Iron Age, Feb. 25, 1892. “The Pottsville (Pa.) Iron and Steel Company will reduce the wages of ite 600 employes at Pottsville 10 per coat." —Boston Commercial Bulletin, Feb. 20, 1892. “Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 28.—Following the discharge ot the puddlers from all the furnaces at J. Painter's Sons mills last week came the dismissal of 200 puddlers 1 on Saturday by Jones A Laughlin. * • * j There is but one thing to , do, and that I will be to reduce the wages ot puddlers." I — Special dispatch to the Chicago Inter Ocean (Rep.), Feb. 29,1892. “Lawrbncb, March I.—A cut in the wool sorters’ wages ,at the Arlington Mills goes into effect to-day. It is said that 12,000,000 pounds of wool are used yearly at the mill, and that the price list now going into effect will reduce the wages of the men in the aggregate 20 per cent”—Special dispatch in the Boston Herald, March 2, 1892. "A reduction of wages of about 10 per cent took place yesterday in most of the piece-work departments of the Singer Sewing Machine Works.”—Associated Press, March 2, 1892. "It has been definitely decided by the tin-plate manufacturers that wages on black plates must be reduced.”—Special dispatch from Pittsburg to the Philadelphia Press (Rep.), March 2, 1892. “We con state that all the nail factories in the Pittsburg district are being operated under private arrangement with their men as regards wages to be paid for cutting nails. While it is true reductions have recently taken place at one or more mills, the men have qo recourse in the matter.”—The Iron Age, March 3,1892. In nearly every one of the above cases the manufacturers appeared before the Ways and Means Committee asking for higher duties on their products, not, however, for themselves, but; for their workmen. Chief among them were those who intended to manufacture tin plates. Now that the duties on tin plates has been increased from 1 cent to 2 2-10 cents per pound, instead of raising wages, they have ordered a reduction of the wages of the workmen who are engrged in rolling black plates for tinning. They are bound to appropriate all the tariff bonus for their own profit, and by their organization are able to add a little more to it by making a reduction in wages, and yet, in spite of this, they pretend that the tariff is for the benefit of the workmen only. Comparative Wool Price*. Demand and supply regulate the prices of wool, as of other products. But in the wool trade certain factors enter more prominently than in the trade in most other articles. The quality and availability of wools'are •powerfu factors in determining demand, and therefore prices. Similarly changes in fashion, by stimulating or decreasing demand, affect prices equally with J changes in supply. Thus, during the • past year, some wools have greatly fallen I iu price, while the price of others has been wqll maintained. Each variety of wool produced has a use for the purposes of which it is better than any other wool grown. The price of wool, therefore, does not depsnd upon the relation between the-general demand and supply, but rather upon the relation existing between the demand an<J supply of each particular variety. The general expres-sion,-Therefore, that "wool is up” or "down" Carries with it no real significance. Various attempts have been compare the prices of certain wools in this country and in England for the purpose of determining the effect of the tariff upon prices, but usually without satisfactory results, for the comparisons have Included varieties of wool entirely dissimilar. There are two varieties of wool which approach each other very closely in quality, use, and condition. In addition to this,* accurate records of their prices have been kept. These are Ohio medium fleece washed and washed Port Philip fleece. The former is a standard variety in the United States and the latter in England. For these wools a compaiison is possible. The following table shows the average yearly prices in gold in Boston and London respectively. London quotations are those of Wlndeler A Co., and the American prices are taken from Mauger A Avery’s wool circular: nil is £8 Is n«S 1866 1” WIT 7879 37«~ 41«” 1%7 36J4 43’i 1860 al 8-5 451-5 1868 83 4UJ4 1881 45 4-6 41 1869 37J4 34 1882 45 1-5 43 3-5 1873 40 4-5 841-3 1883........ 413-5 42 187150 3-5'42 1-5 1884. 36 39 2-5 1872 6<> 2-7751-4-5 1835881-5 35 27; 187318 3-5521-5 1880 35 4-6 33 1874.. 48 3-5 51 3-5 1887 36 4-5 82 1-6 1875.. 44 4-5,48 [IBBB 84 321-5 1876. 88 45 41 4-5 1869 37 3-5 86 1-5 1877. 41 41 4-5 1800 86 4-5 38 4-5 1878 39 2-5|411-5 11891........ 36 Port Philip fleece has averaged higher for thirteen years and lower tor twelve years than Ohio medium fleece. For the twenty-five years ending in 1890, Ohio medium has averaged 41.48 cents per pound, and Port Philip fleece 41.08 cents per pound 1 , showing a difference in favor of the former of .44 cents. If we eliminate the prices for 1871 and 1872, when speculation was rampant in this country and wools were contracted for on the sheep’s back at from 65 to 70 cents per pound, we arrive at the following averages for twenty-three years: Ohio, 40.26 cents per pound, aud Port Philip 40.52 cents per pound, showing a difference in favor of the latter of .26 cents per pound. During the whole period both wools have risen and fallen together. From every [point of view this showing is a remarkable one, and deserves careful consideration on the part of those who believe that the wool grower in the United ,States Wn derive any good re- ' suite from a high fluty on wool.—New [ York Daily Commercial Bulletin. 1 ■ Tenrorlto. The Inventor of terrorite, the new explosive, said to be more powerful than dynamite, died recently. His name was l Dimetry Mindeleff. He was about fifty , years old. His advanced ideas brought [ him into disfavor with the Russian Gov--1 ernment, and he was obliged to emigrate to America. As a chemist Mindeleff had more than a national reputation, and ! several of his important inventions have been patented—among them being a new ’ method for the reduction of cobalt and nickel ores, the destruction of phylloxera by means of pyrojlgueous aora, and the ’ invention of terrorite, a high explosive ’ that threatens to effect a revolution In ’ warfare and mining.

I GOOD MEN AND TRUE. ’ tr ‘ ' \ INDIANA STATE OFFICIALS ARE ’ POPULAR. I —— _ Their Snrvloc* * l »v® Been Invaluable, and They Will Bn Reu<»nlnnt*<l by the Demovratle Convention — What They 1 - Have Done lor the Nlate. I . I May Be Governor. Indianapolis correspondence: Timo - out of mind in Indiana it has been customary to reward with a second ni mInatlon the faithful public servant who has borne the heat and burden of one ■ campaign for office, and the present Democratic State offlcqrs are therefore looking with a good deal of complacency upon the approaching State convention, for they feel that their calling by the 1 party, whatever may be the result of ' the (flection, la sure. In the present Instance custom has beeh doubly strengthened by the personal popularity ; of the mon who will ask ronomlnatlons ■ at the hands of the party, and ths' ; doubt is not whether each will be ; nominated for his present position by acclamation, but whether the Secretary tof State, who headed the ticket two years ago, Will not be taken from thojist and nominated -for the governorship. This would bo to break the custom, but it would be such an innovation as the party would deem it wise to make, and one, certain--BSg MATTHZWB. jy, to which the benefleiary could not in conscience object. As it is, Claude Matthews is a candidate for Secretary of State, and to him the nomination is conceded to belong. He was chosen two years ago as a representative farmer, and in obedience to the demands of his class, who have lohg claimed that their interests have suffered by reason of the fact that State positions of honor and emolument were not open to the farming classes. Matthews is not only a farmer but Is one of the very best in the State, ' A Capable Auditor. J. O. Henderson, Auditor of the State, is a native Hoosier, having been born iu Howard County fortytwo years ago, and lived there continu- [ ously till ho was W •R. elected to his present position. His father LreK. [ founded the Kokomo V L ' Dispatch. In 1876 the ZfK son entered upon an active career of C nalism that has made y.* him one of the bestknown newspaper AO oiTOB ikndmbson men in the State. About the earns time he entered into politics, and for ten years past has been regarded as one of the brightest young leaders of the Indiana Democracy. For several years he was Chairman of the County Committee of Howard County, aud in 1885 was appointed by President Cleveland as Internal Revenue Collector for the Eleventh Indiana District. Mr. Henderson possesses’ in a rare degree those qualies which make men favorites with all they meet. Abundantly Quallfl-d. State Treasurer Albert Gall is a Ger-man-American citizen, and for a number of years has been known throughout the State as a business man of more than ordinary popularity. He was educated iu the public schools of f this city, and in 1864 L j-jisK engaged in the carp t r"® and drapery business, JAL J which he still carries £ ° a > having been remarkably successful and having male a lar ß e number of friends I f Hs njver aspired to jnsABinixBCALL o ffl C e till some of his friends brought him out as a candidate for State Treasurer in 1890. Though there were several candidates before the convention, he wan nominated on. the second ballot, and proved as popular as a candidate as he had been as a business man. A. G. Smith, Attorney General, is posßibly the best known of the several State officers, for the reason that he has been before the State more prominently than any of the others. In 1884 he was elected Sector from-Jennings and Jackson Counties, and was one of the most energetic members of the Judiciary Committee during that session. Before ff the Senate adjourned H 1 he was chosen Prcsident pro tern, of the V body. This opened up 1 an entirely unexpected I 7 1 field, and led to some 1 of the most tional scenes that were ever enacted in a legis-ZjJ( 1 1 Jatlvo body. In 1886 Lieut. Gov. Manson attornevgenbual > resigned to accept a smith. government appointment, Jand in the election that year R. S. Robertson was chosen to succeed him. The Democrats denied that a lieutenant governor could ' bo elected to fill a vacancy, and when Robertson appeared to preside over the Senate his claims were ignored and he was ejected from the Senate chamber ’ by order of Smith, who was presiding. ■ The case was carried into the courts, . but the Senate refused to surrender its ; prerogative of judging of the qualifications of its own members, and Robert- ! son never had the honor of presiding J over the body. Mr. Smith has< done i more, perhaps, than any other man in the State to unearth the taxables of cor- ; porations, and is now engaged in a legal light to prevent the law from being ! declared unconstitutional. Other Office* in Litigation. 1 William A. Peelle, Jr., Chief of the ; Indiana Bureau of Statistics, is a native i of Wayne County and has lived in this , city since 1874. When Neff was elected t Secretary of State In that year Peelle came hero as his deputy and served two terms under J. G. Shanklin, who succeeded Neff in 1878. In 1883 Peelle was elected Chief of the Statistichl Bureau by the Legislature, and re-olected lit 1885, 1887, and 1889. In . w. a. i eklle, n- the latter y«ar Gov. - Hovey denied the right of the Leglslas tore to elect the Statistician, and suit a was brought by his appointee for the -office. The Htlgation thus inaugurated r dragged on for two years, when the Supreme Court decided that the office should be filled by popular election. Peelle was nominated in 189(1 and elected . in November of that year. s In a criminal lately beheaded In y France'the beats of the heart were 1 noted during more than six minutes, * and experiments were made to dei the Independence of the i ventricular and articular contrac--9 tions; this 1» the first tithe such oh* v gervations .were ever made on man. a Statictici Arts estimate that there 0 are over 3,000,000 women In this • country who are engaged in work “ which Is not domestic. 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Prettey T«Xr%i£rely)-Dld yonr mother write thia excuse? Bad Boy-Yee’m. Pretty Teacher—Hum ph I It looks very much like one of your imrawli. Had Boy—Mamma wrote it; but, please ma’m, she had sister Jennie In one arm, crying with a bumped head, and brother Willie In the other with a cut linger, and a lot of sewing on her lap. and she was rocking the cradle with her knees, and she had to write with her toes. Pretty Teacher (In the evening)—l am very sorry, Mr. Poorcbapp, UH I have changed my mint!. I shall never marry. —Street A Smith’s Good News. Sol Vlas th* Problem. Domestic—l’m much obHged to ye, mum, fer soudin’ me to that cookin' school so long. Here's me dlplomor wok I got terday. ’’ . • Mistress (who thinks she has solved the servant-girl problem)—l am delighted. Now I presume you can cook.” Domestic —Please, mum, th' teacher said we couldn’t be executed to remember all wo learned, an’ wo roust buy her cooking book, an* keep It by ut all lb time. Mistress— Certainly—l will got you a copy. , , . Domestic—Thankee, mum. An please, mum, wud ye molnd sendin' mo for crew terms to boardin' school till I learn to read.—New York Weekly. A Lucky Km*p«. Fortunate is th* man or woman reSlflint fa a B*luiaridd*n locality who ewapM th* 6r**d*4 scours* Noton* in a thousand do** Wh*a th* endamfo is a nwiodloal and wid»-*pr**d visitation, it is Just M oamtnon to *•• whol* ooesmunltlM sufferins from it as *fa,le individual* Th* molt vigorou* oon*tltutlon !• not proof *<ainit lt-bow much lost a syatem f»*bl* os dl*ord*r*d. At a m*an» of proteotlon agalnil malaria, Ho«t*tter't Btcmaoh Bitter* it ths 11pr*m* m'adlcfaal *(*nt. It will uproot any lona of malarial dlM*>* Implanted in th* tyttem, and *v*n m ragtoni where miaamatlo costplaint* ar* mott malignant and daadly. toolits th* letbmut of Panama, Guatemala, »nd the tropic* generally, it i* Ju»tly r> forded a* tn «- Soi*nt loftguud. No I*** effiewiou* i* it MS ourtllv* end pnvantiv* of chronic IndlfMUon, liver troubl* cooitiptUon, rbeumattem, kidney complaint*, and It grippe. Th* Plural of TableepoeutuL When a bey I spent much time in surgery, where I was allowed to asaist in dispensing. I can remember being rebuked for venturing to write "tablespoonsful.” I was told that it implied the swallowing of the spoons as well os of their content* It should be written tsblespopufuls. A short time.sgo my doctor prescribed for me a mixture, ot which I was to take two -spoonfuls three times a day. This I did with benefit to myself; but if I had swallowed six spoons a day. full or empty, you would not be troubled with this note. Zadkiel, the English planet reader, in his sixty-second annual almanac, just issued, has found a message somewhere in his stellar reading to the effect that In November of next year there wfli he “a death of a Empress or a Queen.* Btati or Ohio, Citt or Toledo, 1 _ Lucas County, j Fbanx J. Chxnbx make* oath that be is the Stnior partner of th* firm ot F. J. Ombnby A Co., doing busine** fa the City ot Toledo, County and State aforeutd, and that said firm will pay th* inm ot ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS foe each and every caw at Catarrh that cannot be cured by the ui* of Hau's Cataebu Cub* FRANK J. CHBNET. Sworn to before me and inbscribed in my prewnoo, this Oth day of December, A. D. ISM, ■| wX | W ifota/p pSfii* Hair* Catarrh Cure 1* taken internally, and acta directly on the blood and mucous surfact* ot the system. Send for test! inouial* fre* F. J. CHENEY « ca, Toledo, a, CTBold by druggist*, 75* There is an immense garden In China that embraces an era ot 50.000 square miles. It is al) ipoadow land and is filled with lakes, ponds and canala Altogether it is as jargo as the States of New York aud combined. . - Tackle an Obstoiatb Couoh or Conn with Hals’* Honey or Horehound a>d Tab. Pru’s Toothache Dbopi Cur* in one Minute. The wreck, fifty-five years ago, on the coast of Maine of the steamship Royal Tar, which carried a menagerie, has been recalled recently by the finding ot several hippopotamus teeth near Rockland. Bev. James P. Stone of Lower Osbot, Vt„ formerly ot Delton; N. H. t A Faithful Pastor Is held in high esteem by hie people, and his opinion upon temporal as well as spiritual matters I* valued greatly. The following 1* from •' clergyman long influential In New England, now spending well-eerned rest In Cabot, Vt. : •c. I. Hood A Co., Lowell, Mas*.: “We have usea Hood's Sarsaparilla fa our family for many years past, with g> eat benellu We have, with oonfldence, recommended it to others for their various ailment*, almost all of whom have been benefited by it* us* We can Honestly and Cheerfully recommend it a* the be«t blood purlfl*- w* hare ever tried. We bare used others, but non* with the beneficial effect* of Hood’*; Also, w* deem Hood'* Pill* and Olive Ointment iiivaln- ,> able. Mr*. Stone says she cannot do without them.’ Bev. J. P. Stone. Better than Cold Mr. Geo.T. Clapp,of Eastondale, Mat*,say*: •I *m 82 years of age, and tor 30 years have »ut- ' sered with running tores on one of my leg*. A few year* ago I had two toe* amputated, phy*iclan* saying I wa* suffering from gangrene and had but A Short Time to Live , Eight month* ago, at a neighbor urged me, I , begun taking Hood’* SarsanarUla. The whole lower part of mt leg and foot wae a running ■ore, bnt it ha* almost completely healed, and I cun truthfully say that I am in better health than I have been fonnany year* I have taken no other medicine, and consider that 1 owe *ll my improvement to Hood’s Sarsaparilla l It is better than gold? -I cheerfully verity i the above statement off Mr. Clapp, whom I have known 80 year*” J. M. Howard, Druggist, i Ma**-— —— Hood’d Pi Illi gwly veg»tabl*~*~ ; e••• •••••<■ If you have no appetite, Indigestion/ • Flatulence, Sick-Headaehe, "all run A down” or losing flesh, take •iutt’s Tiny Pills?, flf They tone up the weak stomach and ■ build up the flagging energies. S6c. ' »»**«*•••• fl? Price* and sell all our competitor*, and are utH-' 11b Jbl H? ?, M * n _ c * r t-...only‘y»3g