Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1891 — Page 3

OUR MARKETS.”

THE SHALLOWNESS OF THE RECIPROCITY IDEA. We Trade for Our Own Cood-We Enrich Ourselves by What We Got in Exchange—“ Reciprocity” Good, but Must Be Wider—Thoughts for Farmers. A shrewd Yankee! shoe manufacturer Indorses reciprocity for the reason that "“itwill open up for us markets, without our being compelled to give for them, as a price, markets well and cheaply supplied by our own labor.” But tyhen we “give our markets, ” wo do not do so to accommodate other people, but ourselves. The pretense that in putting sugar, for instance, upon the free list we are doing a great favor to Cuba is a piece of transparent hypocrisy. We put sugar on the free list because we Americans want cheap sugar. “Giving our markets” by removing duties is precisely like the citizens of some isolatedtown going to work to build a irailroad in order to put themselves in communication with the outside world — they “give their market” and get a market The market which they get adds to their source of wealth, but in “giving their market” they do not take one penny from their wealth. On the contrary, they grow richer by opening their market to outsiders. The “give their market” in order to get goods into it; and surely these goods are a blessing, else the citizens of the town were great fools in building their railroad. Pursuing this analogy further, if these citizens should take up Republican notions about protection and reciprocity, and should determine that their “market” was too valuable a thing to “give away,” they could easily protect that precious market and make 1t harder for outside goods to come in, by passing a law that all in-coming •trains should consist of only two cars, that thfey should not run above ten miles an hour, and that there should be only •one such train a day. Of course they build their railroads in order to get goods •as well as to sell them, and these regulations would merely defeat the object they had in view in building the road; yet such regulations are an exact parallel to the whole protection system. Duties are levied on foreign goods in •order to render the home market more •or less inaecessble. The same thing could be accomplished by compelling all steamship companies to use steamers only half as large as those now in use, to make their trips less frequently, or to remain five days outside our harbors before landing. Such is protection, and such the false notions on which reciprocity rests. Yet for all that, there is no man in the United States doing more to undermine the projection system than Blaine with his reciprocity treaties Thoso treaties, if they increase our foreign trade, will only make it plainer to the people that in “giving away our markets” we are gainers and not losers. Moreover, what are to be the limits of reciprocity? It was first intended to be purely an American affair—a thing for “sister republics.” But already it has crossed the Atlantic and has taken in monarchical Spain. Where shall the thing end? If it is good to trade with one country, why is it not good to trade with any other country? If trade is to bo freer with Spain, why not cross the Pyrenees and make it freer with France? Why not cross the Channel and make it freer with England? But all this is strong meat for the backers of reciprocity. They look back with a timid concern to tho home market, fearing lest wo “give away” that market —“the best market in the world. They are like the farmer who should decide that he would not open his “market” —for every farmer is a market—to more than one manufacturer of plows or wagons or cloth or sugar. The simplestmiuded farmer in the country knows that it is best for him to open his little market as widely as possible to all the manufacturers of plows, in order that they may bid against each other and so reduce the price of plows; ditto of wagons, cloth, sugar, and all other commodities “Competition is tho life of trade,” says the old adage, and in order that there may be competition there must be open markets.

American and English Shoe-Making.

The London Boot and Shoe % Trades Journal gives an interview with a Mr. A. Harden, an American who is in England for the purpose of introducing American shoe-making machinery there. This Mr. Harden makes some statements which should bo read with interest in this country. The London journal says: “Invited to give his opinion upon our systems and quality of work produced, ho expressed himself as considerably surprised at the high degree of excellence attained by the mixed up methods now prevailing here, and candidly admitted that there was little to be desired in the latter respect, but in the former he considered we wore just about in the same position as the Americans, were about twenty years ago; but he could observe that many of the manufacturers were of a progressive type, and with the facilities afforded by the numerous, large and well-appointed factories we should rapidly overtake his countrymen, the two things necessary being the adoption of good machines and systems and the cooperation of the workmen. The workmen in America had learned that machinery was beneficial to them and to the whole community. It dispensed with a great portion of manual labor, the men using brains instead. It also meant to them higher wages and shorter hours, to the manufacturer increased profits, and to the community at large the advantages accruing by the cost of production being lessened, thereby superior goods could be bought at even reduced prices, and so increasing the consumption to such an extent that hand labor could not cope with the demand, and he was certain our workmen would speedily become cognizant of the above advantages. ” If the system of shoe manufacturing in England is twenty years behind ours, where is the need for our 25 per cent duty on boots and shoes? Certainly it is not necessary to protect labor, for, as Mr. Harden points out, our machinery gives the. laborer an advantage over his foreign competitor. In a late number of the Boston Boot and Shoe, Recorder its Brockton (Mass.) correspondent reports that an Englishman had been in that city and had said that he found labor cheaper there than in England. Brockton is the largest boot and shoe manufacturing center in the United States, and it Is claimed by the correspondent just quoted that wages are higher there than in other places in New England and the West Ex-Consul Schoolcraft is authority for the statement that a pair of shoes costing 35 cents

to mako In this country costs CO ter make in England, this being due to the greater use ot machinery here and to the greater efficiency of our labor. What become.B. then, of the claim that our laborers in boot and shoe factories need protection from fore'gn competition?

Still Humbugging Labor.

At the recent protectionist banquet in New York one Mr. George Gunton. who plumes himself upon being a political economist, made a speech in which he said: “Are wage laborers benefited by protection, then is the question. If they are not, there is no economic, social or political defense for a protective policy. I for one am willing that tho merits of the protective policy shall stand or fall by this test. ” In answer to this challenge may be quoted the following list, giving but a few cases of wage reductions in protected industries made within about a month before these words were spoken. The twelve manufacturers of briqk in Trenton, N. J., gave notice on Apfil 5 that the wages of their employes would be i educed per cent, on the following day. On April 6 the workmen, 1,200 in number, went on strike against the reduction. A reduction of 20 cents per thousand in the cigarette factory ot David B|llor, in this city, caused a strike on March 26. In Lehigh, lowa, 100 miners went on strike April 3 because of a reduction from SI to 86 cents per ton. The wages of engravers and chasers at the Middletown (Conn.) Plate Company’s establishment have been reduced 15 per cent. The men employed in Requardi’s cigar factory, Baltimore, were on strike April 9 against a reduction of from SI to S 2 per thousand. Twenty-seven finishers employed at Solomon’s leather factory in Newark ’ struck, on April 10, against a threatened reduction of 14 per cent. Forty ribbon weavers at Frank & Dugan’s silk mill in Paterson, N. J., went on strike, April 20, against a reduction of 75 cents per cut. This was the third reduct’on in two weeks. Tho employes of the New Haven Rolling Mill Company, in New Haven, Conn., wont on strike, April 6, owing to a reduction of 10 per cent. On March 31, the weavers at the gingham mills of the Fitchburg Manufacturing Company, at West Fitchburg, struck because tho firm refused to pay them a uniform rate of three cents per yard on all grades of goods. When is protection going to make labor contented and happy?

A “Revival” Promised.

When is protection ever to “do its work?” We have now had high tariff for thirty years, and still protectionists are busy making promises that protection is going to make the country prosperous. President Harrison said to the people of San Francisco: “1 feel that we have come to a point where American industries, American commerce and American influence are to be revived and extended.” American ship building has had for years absolute protection in the shape of laws entirely forbidding the purchase of foreign ships; and despite this absolute protection the President has to confess that, so far as ocean shipping is concerned, we have already gone out of business. But even the President, hide-bound protectionist that he is. is making progress away f%m McKinleyism. In his speeches on tho tariff in the House of Repx-esentatives last year McKinley asked contemptuously, “Why need we vox ourselves about foreign commerce?” He praised his bill for the very reason that it would “diminish tho importation of competing foreign goods:” and there was applause on the Republican side of the House. But io, what a change in ono brief year! Here is our President going about the country telling the people that American industries arc at the point of being “revived” since the billion Congress has voted subsidies to ships for tho purpose of increasing our foreign trade. McKinley erects his wall and frankly tolls us that it is for the purpose of reducing imports. McKinley bill and subsidy bill are both passed, the one to kill trade the other to “revive” it; and they aro both signed by the same President! It is all very amusing.

American Locomotives.

The Railway Gazette says: “German locomotives are said to cost, on an average, SII,OOO each. Our native establishments would be overjoyed at such prices. It has not, we believe, been questioned that the Americans can produce better as well as cheaper engines. The closer the comparison between the railway systems of this country and the old world the more reason we have to be proud of the skill of our artisans and the progressive spirit of our manufacturers.” Last year tho Baldwin Locomotive Works, of Philadelphia, built locomotives for the new railway between Jaffa and Jerusalem, in Palestine. It was to this fae»t that one of the speakers at the late protectionist banquet in New York referred when he triumphantly exclaimed: “It is due to this policy [protection] that the ruins of the ancient world vibrate with the shrieks of a Philadelphia locomotive.” Not long ago a ship steamed out from Philadelphia with an entire cargo of Baldwin locomotives bound for Australia. Last year we exported 161 locomotives, valued at $1,280,000, or slightly less than SB,OOO apiece. Facts like these certainly prove that we are abundantly able to manufacture locomotives in competition with all the world. Yet what does Major McKinley do? He put a duty of 1.8 cents per pound on all locomotives. This means a duty of $40.32 per ton, or a total duty of $1,128 on a standard passenger locomotive weighing twenty eight tons. There is absolutely no need and no excuse for this duty. The only purpose it\an serve is to enable the few manufacturers of locomotives to keep up prices in the home market at the same time that they are selling their locomotives in successful competition with all the world. Silly people, who are still asking whether the tariff is a tax, can find an answer in the fact that granulated sugar is now selling in the United States at from to cents per pound, whi e just across the border in Canada, the price is seven cents. The difference, you see is just this: Canada has a duty of 1 cent per pound and 35 per cent, ad valorem on refined sugar. Is the tariff a tax? Since Germany undertook to protect itself from American pork by an absolutely prohibitory law, the prices of all kinds of hog-meats have advanced 40 to

«W per cent, in that country. Meantime Germany's imports of our ho? products have fallen from §11,000,000 in 3881, to a very low figure last year, excepting tho single item of iard, which is still imported under a duty of about I cent per pound. Aside from lard, Germany took from us last year only a little more than §200,000 worth of hog-meats.

THE TWINE TRUST.

THE MANUFACTURE OF BINDER TWINE STILL INCREASES. Opening of an Immense Factory In Brooklyn, N. I, —Lower Duties Have Not Hurt the Twine-Makers False Representations to Get Higher Unties. The following item has recently appeared in a New York trade journal: “The American Manufacturing Co, which consists of the various mills comprising the jute trust, has just completed and will in a few days begin to operate its new mill at Brooklyn, N. Y. Its capacity is said to be 860,000,000 pounds annually of rope, binder twine and bagging- ” Here we have the binder-twine industry flourishing like a green bay tree, although the twine men wero filling the air with prophecies of blue ruin last year when the reduction of duty was proposed. The original McKinley bill passed the House of Representatives and was sent to the Senate on May 21. On the 26th of May the following statement was sent to the Senate Finance Committee by the binder-twine manufacturers: Sir— The cordage and blnder-twlne manufacturers of the United States beg that your honorable committee will amend that clause In the tarltf bill which relates to our business. It places a duty of IJ4 cents per pound binder twine. Should this become a law' it will close our mills. We ask for 1 % cents per pound, an increase of onohalf cent. In September came the effort to put binder twine on the free list, which was at first successful in the Senate by reason of the Northwestern Republican Sentors voting with the Democrats. When, however, the bill was in conference committee, the trust made a determined light for the restoration of the duty, la this fight the trust was strongly supported by the high tariff New York TrUmne , which spoke of the effort to put twine on the free list “in the interest of the farmer, ” as being “as shallow and indecent a pretext for a raid upon a legitimate industry as was ever made by political bushwhackers of either party.” This foolish defense of tho trust was made by the high tariff organ, notwithstanding the fact that Senator Davis of Minnesota had shown in his speech in the Senate that the trust was squeezing profits of 40 per cent, a year out of tho farmers. In the face of this fact tho organ went on to say that “to put binder twine on the free list is so probably out of harmony with aH the principles of protection as to be almost an absurdity in tho ponding bill. ” Another organ which came to the aid of the Tribune in defending tho trust was the Manufacturer, tho mouthpiece of tho powerful protectionist organization in Philadelphia known as the Manufacturers’ Club. As the result of this squabble over binder-twine a compromise was made by the Republicans in the conference committee. Twine made of istle, Tampico fiber, sisal grass or sunn boro a duty under the old law of 3% cents per pound, and that made of manila a duty of 2% cents. These duties were respectively equal to 27 and 22 per cent, ad valorem. The duty on both classes was made 7-10 of I Cent per pound. Tho old duty on jute twine was 35 per cent; this was reduced to 1% cents per pound. The cordage trust had said that the duty of 1 M cents per pound would close their mills and asked for cents. They did not get it, but got only 7-10 of a cent on manila and sisal twine Did tho trust then close their mills? On the contrary, within a week or two after the McKinley law went into operation*, it issued a prospectus which was advertised in many of the loading newspapers,) in which it was said tnat—“The annual aggregate profits of the several concerns for tho past ten ye.ars have been more than enough to pay iho annual dividend on the preferred stock and leave a very large surplus, notwithstanding the fact that during some of that period the interests now consolidated were in competition of a character now avoided. “Tho committee further certifies that at no time within the past twenty-five years have the aggregate annual profits of the several concerns been insufficient to pay the 8 per cent dividend on the preferred stock, although the consumption of cordage at the beginning of that period was only one-quarter what it is to-day. ” And now comes the report of the completion of the jute trust’s enormous factory at Brooklyn. It seems clear that when ah industry says that lower duties will ruin it and close its factories, its statements are to be looked upon with suspicion.

He Will Not “Make Her Obey.”

In a Sheffield church tho other day a marriage ceremony came to an abrupt and altogether unlooked-for termination. It was the fault of the would-be bridegroom, and most people will say in losing his bride he met his deserts. The ceremony went on right enough till the clergyman, addressing himself to the woman, put the question whether she would have the man to be her husband, “to love, honor and obey.” At the mention of the word “obey” the bridegroom ejaculated, “I’ll make thee.” “Are wo married yet?” askod the woman of the clergyman. “No, you are not,” he replied. “Then we shall not be,” said she, and thereupon she left the church. The man protested that it was too late, but she heeded him not, and his discomfiture was made none the less when the parson told him that ho thought she had acted very sensibly.— lrish Times. France collects a duty of 22 cents a ton on coal and Germany admits coal free, yet the wages of coal miners in France Is 75 cents a day, while in Germany the miners earn from 75 cents to sl. Protection does not serve to work any better for labor in France than in our own country. The oleomargerine men, who have a protective duty of six cents per pound, are reported to have formed a trust, and already to have made two advances in price. A fiqe of SI,OOO is said to be provided as a punishment for breaking the trust agreement ' Cook books are valuable in showing the cook what she had better avoid. *

HELD UP TO THE LIGHT

IS THE DAILY LIFE OF MANY IN" DIANANS, Woman Burned to Death—A Pony In a We 11—930,000 Sensational Suit »t KvonsVlllo—Deaths. Accidents, Etc. —Laporte complains of bad streets. —Y M. C. A. organized at Vincennes. —Delphi’s waterworks will cost. $33,000. —New Albany has 7,501 school children. —Marion bootblacks have formed a union. —Anderson’s now rolling lihill will emply 250 men. —Big light against the demon rum is on at Mitchell. —Crawfordsvillo has lost 619,000 by fire the past year. —A cat at Vincennes has adopted three young squirrels. —Lewis Gckeler, Lancaster, fatally injured by a horse kick. —Farmer Stevens, near Walkorton, has struck oil on ills place. -—Pern people can’t decide Whether or not to pen up the town cow. —Rev. John Stuck committed suicide by hanging at, Boundary Gity. —Mrs. Blondcll nearly died at Brazil from an overdose of laudanum. —A. P. Craig, train robber, given ton years and 0500 fine at Laporte. —Tho Edinburg ice-plant will soon commence the manufacture of ice. —Ground has been broken for tho now Theological Hail of DePauw University. —Stephen Jenks’ house burned down at Dana. Loss 62,000, insurance $1,200. —Columbus street car line to bo extended out to Orinoco, fashionable suburb. —Crawfordsvillo will issue $30,000 worth of bonds to pay for electric light plant. —Elkhart Globe tissue paper works burned down. Loss $30,000; insurance $15,000. —lsaac Miller, aged 87, and Sarah Graves, aged 79, were married at Ladoga. —A Piqua, Ohio, firm is arranging to manufacture farm implement handles at Columbus. —Minerva Cross, a maiden lady 63 years old, was found dead in her bed at Rushville. —A farmer’s wife in Putnam County has hatched 463 chickens by incubation this spring. —Chas. Combs feel from a kitchen loft at Reddington. nose broken and otherwise disfigured. —C. H. Hancock, Seymour, clipped pounds of wood from a 1-year-old Scuthdown sheep. —Claude Murrer, 6 years old, horribly bitten by a dog at Fortvi e, is threatened with hydrophobia. —The Prison South contains 599' inmates, the largest number since Warden Patten assumed charge. —Louisa Lows, of Manchester, on her 87th birthdav,fell and frolic her hip bone, from which she soon died. —A child of Alfred Mead’s Daviess County, was frightened by a hog and is going blind from the shock. —Oliver Wood received the naval cadetship appointment at the competitive examination held at Tipton. —Joseph Bangard sues Alonzo Smith for $30,000 damages at Evansville — alienated his wife’s affection. —Thomas Ster'nberry, a hostler at Brazil, was cornered and kicked into insensibility by a vicious horse. —Outbreak of hydrophobia and measles in Clay County. One child died with measles and several more dangerously sick. —Wm. Smelser, a Jcffersor.villo telegraph operator, home from New Orleans, tells that he helped massacre the Mafia gang. —Standard Oil Company’s building a large plant at Columbus for storing refined oil for distribution in southern part of State. —Johnny Keimnitz, 12 years old, killed by the cars at South Bend. His sister was killed on same road a short time ago, —A Crawfordsville woman rushed Into her burning dwelling and rescued a canary bird, thereby receiving several ugly burns. —Joseph Banyard, of Evansville, claims 630,000 damages from Alonzo Smith as the price of his (Banyard’s) wife’s affections. —Corydon is proud of a broad-spread-ing elm under whose branches, tradition says, a session of the Indiana territorial legislation was once held. —There is a married woman in Montgomery County who does carpenter work, hangs paper, digs cellars, etc., besides doing all her own housework. —Jackson Rust, of Jeffersonville, found an Indian skeleton in the creek, it having been washed down during high waters from an old burying-ground. —Walter Wisehart, Smartsburg gallant, escorting Tessie McFeeley home from raeetin’, accidentally shot her with a weapon he carried for her defense. —The mother of Dr. Claire Taylor, of Peru, requested that her heart, hands, and feet bo preserved In alcohol and taken to France after her death, and tho doctor has left Peru to carry out the instructions. —The name of Neifc Providence has been changed to Borden back to New Providence and over the fence again to Borden within a few months. —Midland-agent Mooreland, Lapel, concealed 660 in a waste basket for safety—janitor emptied contents of basket into a fire, burned up money and all. —Ah Leon, Chinese laundryman, Evansville, 50 years old, ugly as mud, fell desperately in love with a handsome young lady in that city and was arrested for dogging her footsteps.

—The first accident sine# the electric street railroad went into operation twd years ago, happened in Bichmoud last week. A little boy was pushed under a car by a girl playmate, being ground to pieces. —Miss Lizzie Barnett, Crawfordsville Salvation Army soldier, kicked by a mule, declares she’s going to die; doctors say she isn’t; she knows better, she is, too, ’canso she had a “death warning” just a short time ago. * —At Greens burg the 4-ycar-old daughter of John Lawrence fell in a spring and was drowned. There was only about eight inches of water, but tho child was unable to recover herself, and was dead when the mother found her. —Aaron B. Scott, one of the pioneer merchants of Peru, and who was prominently identified with its advancement for forty years, died of paralysis, aged 76 years. He was one of tho oldest Knights Templars in Sforthorn Indiana. —Quito a number of “queer” half-dol-lars are being circulated in and around Edinburg. They made their appearance the first time within the past few days. They bear dates of 1854 and 1856, and are light in weight and color. They are also easily mutilated. —A colored man in Crawfordsville, besides carrying a rabbit’s footandother voodoo articles, has lately secured tho dried hand of a child, which he keeps in his vest pocket. Ho secured this human relic in tho West and considers it a charm more powerful than the incantations of a voodoo doctor. —Henry Harris has twenty acres of land in German Township,Shelby County, on which, twenty years ago, Henry Maley purchased 100 lino walnut troes for 03,300. Last week Maloy purchased seventy-five walnut trees on this samo tract for 01,600. There is yet 01,000 worth of ash and oak timber on tho tract. —Bedford can now boast of three banks. A now bank, organized under the State law, has just been incorporated under tho name of tho Citizens’ Bank of Bedford, with a capital stock of 050,000. Coi. A. C. Voris is President, and J. R. Voris, Cashier. Tho directors are W. 11. Martin, John Basse, F. D. Norton, and J. R. Voris. —Wm. Wrightman, living near Middletown, who has kept so,oral hundred bushels of wheat stored in his barn for a year, while removing tho wheat for market, found an old poeketbook containing $11,500 in gold coin and paper curroncy. How the money came there is a mystery. Tho money lias been placed in tho banic at Middlotown. —Rev. Gee, Attorney M. G. Rhoads, Dr. M. L. Hall, and several other prominent citizens of Newport went to tho Wabash River fishing. They tied their teams some distanco from tho river, and when they returned one of Attornoy Rhoads’ fine ponies was missing. After searching some time tho animal was discovered at tho bottom of an old well, into which he had fallen. The pony was small and easily hauled out of tho well, slightly worse off for ills fall. —The Attorney General lias been asked: “Is a convict, who is granted a new trial by the Supreme Court, and returned to his County, entitled to sls as provided by the Jaw?” Green Smith’s opinion says: “The law says that every convict who shall have served six months or more when discharged shall bo furnished with sls. A convict )s not discharged when a now trial is granted; the custody of the prisoner is simply shifted from the warden of tho prison to tho County Sheriff, and In a Jegal sense is not discharged.”

—Tho Episcopal minister at Crawfordsvillo was awakened tho other night by woeful yelps of a dog. A search revealed tho fact that the dog had fallen Into a dry well under his house. Ho planned and carried out several schemes to get tho dog out in vain. As a last resort he got a rope and made a lasso on the end. After a few minutes’ time ho got the head of the dog in tho lasso and then pulled the dog out. The animal was almost choked to death when he reached the top of the well, but soon recovered breath and started for home on the run. » —Great excitement has boon caused at Burrows by a gang of so-called White Caps, who have been trying to terrorize the community for the last eight months. A mob has been meeting secretly at various times recently, and the other night collected at midnight and aroused from bed some of the best citizens. They have for some time been sending “White Cap’’ letters threatening to burn and do bodily barm. They threaten to burn tho Wabash Railroad depot. There is strong talk of a vigilance committee getting in some effective work if this state of affairs continues. —At Muncic, Patrick Ford came within a hair’s breadth of losing his life. Constable J. K. Miller called at Ford’% homo to subpoenea him. The little Irishman was intoxicated and refused to go. As Miller took hold of him Ford pulled a revolver, but the officer was too quick and flred first. The ball hit Ford over the left eye and miraculously glanced off, plowing a furrow to the ear. Miller, supposing he bad blown out the man’s brains, gave himself up. While going to look after the dead man the horrified officers met Ford on his way to demand the arrest of Miller for attempted murder. —John Kohback, fatally Injured in a runaway accident at Fort Wayne. —A man living near Jamestown would not go to the funeral of his daughter because she did not die at home. —John Evered, of Peru, hid S2OO in greenbacks in an old stove, and his wife set fire to the rubbish without realizing its contents. -rThe Supreme Court has affirmed the decision giving the widow of brakeman David L. Pearey, of North Vernon,. SB,OOO damages.

THE MARINE BAND.

ikttidir of Under Seim’s Own Mailed Orgulfmttod. The Marine Band is one of the features of the nation's capital. This, band has had a long history. It began its existence as early as 1798, when thirteen musical Italians were enlisted’ by the government and made the nucleus of a band for the marine corps jnst then created by the government. Their numbers were increased from time to time, and under the direction of able leaders such as Carusi, Poris, Trei and Seals it became an efficient' organization. John Philip Sousa has been the leader since 1881, during which time the band has become one of the best in the world. General Grant was an enthusiastic patron, and

JOHN PHILIP SOUSA.

tinder Ins administration it numbered fifty-six musicians. President Harrison and Secretary Tracy have been its best friends, and the Fifty-first Congress did a handsome thing by passing an appropriation for its increase to seventy-two members, besides making many other provisions for the best musical results. The band is regularly on duty from 8:30 to 12 o’clock every morning at the Marine barracks in Washington, where a public concert is given every Monday. During the summer months con-, certs are given on the White House lawn every Saturday, and when Congress is not in session Wednesday con-, certs are given at tho Capitol. Besides these regular duties the band is subject to summons for all Presidential entertainments, inaugural balls, official receptions, festivities, excursions, etc. The members are enlisted as marines l and classified as musicians, and entitled to retirement for old age or pensions for disabilities received in the, servico. All of them are subjected to the most rigid physical and musical! examination, and must be over 5 feet' 0 inches in height. The strictest discipline is maintained, and the members all take pride in the military character of their organization. The instrumentatiyi of the band consists of fourteen clarinets, twoalto clarinets, two llutes, two oboes, two bassoons, four saxophones, four French horns, four cornets, two trumpets, two fiugel horns, three trom-. bones, two euphoniums, three basses,, besides drums, triangles, tympani, etc.

RIDDLE OF COLUMBUS.

Design of an Kgg-Bliuped Building for th»World’n Fair. A building has been designed, as shown in the accompanying cut, illustrating what is commonly known as the riddle of Columbus—that of standing an egg on end simply by slightly crushing the shell. The design is for a building constructed of iron and steel’ beams and girders, the shell to be of wood or some light material. Its dimensions are 128 feet in height and 100 feet in diameter, the surmounting statue of Liberty to be forty high.

COLUMBUS EGG-SHAPED BUILDING.

The cut will show the details of the exterior. The first floor of the interior will be suitable for a bar or refreshment counter, the second story for a restaurant, and the third for a concert hall. Arrangements for light and air are complete, the basement beneath the broken end being supplied with all necessary appliances. The estimated cost of the building is $40,000.

Eggs In the Nest.

A charming story is toldi of Corliss, the great engine builder, in Food, Home and Garden: A short time before his death Corliss found it necessary to enlarge his great machine shops, and set a squad of men at work to prepare the material for building. While the masons were arranging to blast a huge rook, a workman, pointing to a bird hovering over a ledge high ap in the rock, said: "That bird will have to change its nesting in short order if it wants to •ave its neck.” “Are there eggs in the nest?" inquired Mr. Corliss, with evident interest. “Yes, four littlfe speckled fellows over which the mother bird has been fussing ever sinoe we began to work," replied the man. “The yonng birds will soon be peeping through the delicate shells.” “Then let the work stop until the, hirelings are ready to fly,” was the* jreat-hearted man’s command.