Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1895 — Page 2

gbe?r«iotratttSentinel J. W. McEWEN, PublUher. RENSSELAER. - - - INDIANA

LAUGH IS ON ST. PAUL

MINNEAPOLIS HAS THE LARGER POPULATION. Pacific Coast Health Officials AlertHeavy Deficit in National Finances for August New York Excursion Train Wrecked. Rivalry Between Twin Cities. The rivalry between the thriving twin cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, is never quite so intense as it is during the years ending.in oor the national or the State census is being taken. The State census for St. Paul is given as 140,292. The figures for Minneapolis will show a population of 190,000. While there have been fewer charges of padding than in previous census periods, both towns have had citizens’ committees at work to see that a full count was made, and each has to keep a close eye on the other. It is a certainty that neither has allowed the other to pad to any appreciable extent, while at the same time each has received the benefit of an approximately complete count The population race between Minneapolis and St. Paul has attracted wide attention since 1880. In that year the Federal census gave Minneapolis something over 46,000 people and St. Paul 41,000 plus.

STATEMENT OF THE TREASURY. Expenditures for August Exceed Receipts by $3,635,488. The comparative statement of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the month of August shows receipts as follows: Customs, $15,639,047; increase for the month, $1,562,063. Internal revenue, $12,172,104; decrease for the month, $726,391. Miscellaneous, sl,141,544; decrease, $952,844. The total receipts for the month of August, therefore, were $28,952,696, against $40,41?,605 for August, 1894, when the whisky .withdrawals were immense on account of the new tariff law. The loss in receipts in August as compared with July was $117,001. The expenditures during August amounted to $23,588,184, against $38,548,063 for July. The excess of expenditures over receipts during August was $3,635,488, and for the two months Of the present fiscal year, $13,113,854. TWENTY MAY DIE. Train Load of New York Excursionists in a Wreck. One hundred persons were injured by an appalling disaster on the New York Sea Beach Railroad at 3:40 o’clock Monday afternoon. Twenty of the injured are expected to die. A train of seventeen cars on its way to Coney Island had stopped at Woodlawn Station. The cars were packed almost to suffocation. Up the track there came thundering a wild engitle, with no one at the throttle. The locomotive crashed into the rear car, which was broken into splinters. Its human freight was buried in the wreckage. No one was killed, but Brooklyn hospitals are filled with maimed and dying, and hardly a person on the train escaped a terrible shaking up.

SCARED BY CHOLERA. Health Officials of Portland Taking Every Precaution. The prevalence of cholera in Honolulu and in the Orient has created a scare at Portland, Ore. The local Board of Health is already adopting stringent measures to repel its invasion. City Physician Wheeler says that at no time have Pacific coast cities been so seriously menaced by scourge as noy. Winter is' no protection against the disease, as the germs flourish in all temperatures. He says the situation is alarming; people must not be deceived; the health ordinances must be rigorously enforced. All vessels will be carefully examined and quarantined if necessary? ENGLISH-IRISH-AMERICAN’S. Formation of a Paternal Organization on New Lines. fc , A remarkable movement was inaugurated in Lawrence, Mass., at a meeting held in Spinners’ Hall. Its object is to organize into a compact body all the residents of Lawrence who formerly lived in England who are of Irish parentage and who have since, become can citizens. The motive of the new organization is to combine its members for social,an<t ■fraternal purposes and, incidentally, to make their influence as citizens felt in local and general politics. OLD SOLDIER SWINDLED. Bogus Government Detectives Get $35 from an Ohio Veteran by Threats. At Green Brier, Ohio, J. P. Johnson, an old soldier, was swindled out of $35 and gave his note for sllß, payable to the United States. Two men drove to his house in a carriage drawn by two white horses. They represented themselves as United States detectives and threatened to take him to Cincinnati and put him in jail because, as they said, he had obtained his pension by fraud, unless he paid Xvhat was demanded. Outrages Renewed in Armenia. News from Tiflis is that 5,000 soldiers and 10,000 Kurds under Sako Pasha attacked the Armenian town of Kemakh and several villages. They plundered the churches and monasteries and burned the houses.

Lively Blaze in Rochester. At Rochester, N. Y., the wholesale clothing store of Sheil, Rosenbaum & Steefel was burned. The total loss is estimated at $113,00. Twenty-five Horses Burned. Fire broke out in Fleming's livery stable , at Petersburg, Ind., and jt was soon completely destroyed. Twenty-five horses were cremated and many vehicles burned. The opera house building and the Read Hotel and contents were also turned into ashes. Losses aggregate $50,000. r ■ — Rebels Are Deported. A company of Cubans under sentence of imprisonment in the fortress of Ceuta, Morocco, for rebellion, were deported from Havana on board the steamer Cataluna. Caught by Uncle Sam. United States Marshal Tannan and deputies swooped down upon a camp of Cuban filibusters at Penn’s Grove, nefr Wilmington, Del., and captured twenty men, together with twenty-eight cases of arms and ammunition, which had been taken for shipment to Cuba by steamer. Sharp Advance in Silver. Twelve of the largest silverware manufacturers in the country, it is announced, representing millions of dollfirs in the aggregate annual production of silverware, have increased the price of sterling silver, flat ware 10 cents an ounce, tile advance to go into effect at once.

SIX COMPANIES DISRUPTED. Chinese Minister at Washington Takes a Hand in the Trouble. The factional fight that ha* been going -on for some time in Chinatown, San Francisco, between the See Yup and the Sam Tup families has culminated in the disruption of the Six Companies, the most powerful organization ever instituted by the Chinese in this country. All the efforts of Consul General Li Yung Yew and other prominent Chinamen to bring about a settlement of the differences have resulted in failure, and the Chinese Minister at Washington ha* announced his intention of going to San Francisco and trying his powers as a peacemaker. The secession of the See Yups from the Six Companies leaves the latter with the small end of the organization and a depleted treasury. The boycott started by the See Yups has nearly ruined the Sam Yup merchant*, and if not ended soon it will cause the retirement from business of a large number of firm*. The boycott is not confined to San Francisco, but is being extended to every place in the United States whare^hineee-reside Jo-any.num-ber. THE BALL PLAYERS. Standing of the Clnbs In Tbeir Race for the Pennant. The following is the standing of the elubs in the National League: Per P. W. L. cent. Baltimore 104 67 37 .644 Cleveland 114 71 43 .623 Philadelphia ...106 61 45 .575 Boston 106 60 46 .566 Brooklyn 108 61 47 .565 Pittsburg 109 59 50 .541 New York 107 57 50 .533 Chicago 109 57 52 .523 Cincinnati 106 55 51 .519 Washington ....101 33 68 .327 St. Louis 109 35 74 .821 Louisville 107 27 80 .252 WESTERN LEAGUE. The following is the standing of the clubs in the Western League: Per P. W. L. cent. Indianapolis ....107 70 37 .654 Kansas City.. . .110 64 46 .582 St. Paul 107 61 46 .570 Milwaukee 110 53 57 .482 Terre Haute... .11l 50 61 .450 Minneapolis ... .11l 49 62 .438 Detroit 117 50 67 .427 Grand Rapids. ..11l 36 75 .324

STOCKYARDS INSPECTION. Texas Fever at Mt. Sterling Brought by Cattle from Southern Missouri. The Illinois State Board of Live Stock Commissioners issued the following, report of cattle inspection at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, during thg last week: Number cattle inspected. .Y 1 . .175 Pas'sed in the yards .....‘.....102 field for post-mortem examination. . 73 Passed on post-mortem examination. 26 Condemned as being unfit for food and ordered tanked 47 The board reports that an. official inspection of the outbreak of Texas. fever at Mount Sterling, Brown County, sliows the disease to have been brought into Illinois by cattle shipped from the stockcards at St. Louis, the cattle coming from the southern portion of Missouri. Those sent to Chicago were thoroughly examined apd five head of cattle were cou-tiemned-.with the fever upon them. The diseaseJs under control at Brown County and no further fear is felt.

emigration increasing. British Wageworker* Flocking to the tTnited States in Large Numbers. The official reports of emigration of the English Government for the month and the seven months ending Aug. 1 show that the movement of wage-workers toward the United States is on the increase. For the mpnth of July departures for the new world from England, Ireland and Scotland aggregated 9,500, tin increase of 3,000 over the same month of last year, while 6,600 emigrants from continental countries embarked at English ports. The total British emigration during the last seven months to the United States was 71,314, as against 49,791 for last year's corresponding period. To Canada during July, the total British emigration amounted to 1,557, of which only one-tenth were Scotch and Irish. HOLMES WILL BE INDICTED. No Attempt Will Be Made to Take Him to Indianapolis. An Indianapolis dispatch says: Coroner Castor, of Marion County, is in pos-' session of the premises on which the bones" of young Howard Pitzel were found at Irvington. An examination of the bones by the coroner showed that the large -bones' which could not at first be classified are parts of the pelvis. Holmes will be indicted in this county for murder, but no effort will be made to bring him here, as evidence against him elsewhere is thought to be sufficient to convict him;

Annexation Talk. Annexation will be a burning question in the next Congress, but the pivot upon which it will turn will be Cuba instead of Hawaii. Private advices received at the State Department indicate that the independence of Cuba is but a question of a short time. The news has none of the features of a surprise to our diplomatists. The inability of Spain to quell the revolution has been apparent for some time and the reason was as plainly to be seen in the fact that Gen. Campos, the Spanish military leader, lacked the support of the conservative elements of the island. The commercial interests of Cuba have not been in full sympathy with the insurrectionists for the very good reason tha t t. the character of the latter rendered their* triumph and consequent rule undesirable to property-owners and the conservative and respectable element. But while witholding their sympathy from the insurrectionists the conservative residents of the island have given no support to Spain, hoping that by such non-action the Spanish Government might in time be forced by. the incorrigibility of the insurgents to grant important concessions I<j the Cubans. These' concessions were promised at the plostvof the las', Cuban revolution, but were never carh'ed out by Spain. They consist chiefly of a dema ml for a more equitable and humane system of taxation and a fair representation for Cuba in the Spanish Cpj;t?^. ( , r 'lt isinot surprising that the Cuban view of ’ the should enlist American sympathy in certain quarters, for it in only a reiteration of the old colonial doctrine: “No taxation without representation.” The next move, it is believed, will be an appeal to the United States for

Lives Lost by Storm. Wednesdify afternoon terrific storms, accompanied by tremendous rainfall, swept over a wide area. At Bloomington, 111., a buggy was caught in a ravine, during a cloudburst, and two children drowned. Pawnee Bill’s Wild West tent collapsed, and 6.000 people were panicstricken. On the St. Clair River, off Port Huron, Mich., four young people were drowned. Through'Wisconsin and lowa lightning caused many fires; and much damage was sustained by crops by wind and rain. Syracuse, N. Y., was also swept. Great Boom in Iron. Bessemer pig iron was worth Friday sl7 a tow. The quotation marks a clear advance of nearly $8 a ton over the lowest figure reached during the recent depression. It is an advance of $3 within ai«rbt days. The gradual upward move-

meet In Iron and ateel price* the last «!x month* ha* developed into a boom of the first water. Iron and steel circles of Pittaburg are excited over the condition* and prospect*. The largest concern* have orders booked covering their capac ity beyond Jan. 1, and there has been no abatement in the rush of orders and inquiries for material. A* things are now no combination will be necessary among the steel people to maintain prices. The demand is such that it is likely to continue drawing prices upward. DUN A CO’B REPORT. Warning Against Too Raoid Expansion In Trade. R. G. Dun & Co.’« weekly review of trade says: Improvement in markets and prices continues, and whereas a few months ago everybody was nursing the faintest hopes of recovery, it has now come to be the only question in what branches, if any, the rise in prices and the increase of business may go too far. A strong conservative- feeling is finding expression. not yet 'ebtittplljng .tlje ,i®arkets or Industrie “"but warning against too rapid expansion and rise. In some directions the advance in prices clearly checks future busineqs,,but encouraging features have great pMrer. Exports of but are met by syndicate dapoaiis and' hre expected to cease soon. Anxieties about the monetary future no longer hinder. Crop prospects, except for cotton, have somewhat improved. Important steps towards the reorganization of great railroads give hope to investors. Labor troubles are for the moment less threatening, and some of importance have been definitely settled. The industrials are not only doing better than anybody had expected, but are counting upon a great business for the rest of the year.

DEATH DUE TO GREED. Colorado Miner* Drown Like Rats In a Trap. Thirteen miners in the Sleepy Hollow mine, Central City, Colo., were working Thursday afternoon in the drifts, when suddenly a torrent of water came streaming down the shaft, and, sweeping debris befoTe it, choked up the entries and passageways, intombing the workmen. Two Italians working above were caught in the mighty rush of the flood, and, they, too were sacrificed. The season has been unprecedented In the amount of rainfall. The hills have been soaked to repletion, and the giant pumps of the big mines have had a difficult task to perform in beating down the waters. The disaster is due solely to greed of the operators. The danger was not unforeseen, but the mine is in litigation, and the operators would not spend money enough to properly equip the plant with pumping apparatus. ACADEMY AN OLD LANDMARK. Buffalo Theater, Burned Saturday Night, Was a. Historic Pile. The Academy of Music at Buffalo, N. Y,, burned Saturday night, was erected in 1852 by Henry T. Meeeh, who died in 1870, since which time it has been managed by his sons, John H. and Henry L. Meech. It was .originally known as the Metropolitan. It was remodeled in 1882. The’ sons owned the property until a year ago, when it was sold under foreclosure proceedings to a syndicate Of creditors. The seflson had just opened. The property is worth about $250,000 and was heavily mortgaged and but half insured. It is.-unlikely the building will be rebuilt as a theater.

A Frightful Death. The wife of Josiah Gess, a farmer living north of Columbus, Ohio, committed suicide. Soon after her husband arose she secured a can of coal oil, thoroughly saturated the bedding and her clothing, got into bed and set fire to it. She was so badly burned when found that she lived only a few hours. She was evidently insane. Gess was afraid of banks and had SSOO in bills sewed up in the bed, which was burned. . ,_ : Gives an Advance to 20,000 Men. The window glass wage scale for the year, beginning Sept. 1, was settled at a conference of manufacturers and workmen at Pittsburg, Pa., the manufacturers conceding an advance over last year’s scale of 7*A per cent. The settlement, which is a compromise, affects about 20,000 men. ■ - 1 Atlanta Will Hear the Bell. Tli<e city of Philadelphia received judicial consent to send the old Liberty Bell to the Atlanta Exposition. President Judge Thayer, of Common Pleas Court, nieliyered a decision dismissing the bill in equity recently tiled by a number of prominent citizens. s Kills His Wife and Himself. Hezekiah Roberts, a young farmer at Butler, Ky., cut his wife's throat and then cut hie own. He died instantly. His wife is fatally hurt. He is supposed to have been insane. The bloody deed was witnessed by their three children, aged from 1 to 4. Abducted‘Little Girls. Albert Dean, 29 years old, has been landed in jail at Hudson, Ky. He was arrested at Canaan, Conn., charged with being instrumental in attempting to abduct little girls. Indian Agent Murdered. It is reported that Capt. Baldwin* U. S. A., acting agent at the Kiowa, Commanche and Apache agency at Anadarko, O. T., was murdered by Indians.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 62c to 63c; corn, No. 2,36 cto 37c; oats, No. 2,19 c to 20c; rye, No. 2,40 cto 42c; butter, choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes, per bushel, 30c to 35e; broom corn, common growth to fine brush, 3c to per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,61 cto 62c; corn, No. 1 white, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.50 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2,38 c to 40c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; w’heat, No. 2,63 cto 65c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 35c to 37c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,44 eto 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $4.00 to $5.00; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 39«.t0 41c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 24c; rye. 41c to 43c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 64c to 66c; corn , No. 2 yellow, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2,43 cto 44c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs. $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 spring, 61c to 62c; corn, No. 3,35 cto 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; barley, No. 2,41 cto 42c; rye, No. 1,42 cto 43c; pork, mess, $8.75 to $9.25. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, $4.00 to $5.75; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; butter creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, Western. 14c to 1G"

KNIGHTS IN BOSTON.

TWENTY-SIXTH GREAT TRIENNIAL CONCLAVE. Thirty-Thousand Templars and Their Friend* from All Parts of the Country—The Great Parade—A Week of Much Gsyety. Owned the Town. Boston has had rather moraithan its ■hare of great gatherings this summer. Scarcely had the Christian Endeavor cohorts departed with their banners than the Knights Templar veterans were seen rallying to the city of brains and beans to the number of 30.000, with half as many more ladies in their illustrious train. This twenty-sixth triennial conclave of the Knights of the Temple was remark-

MOST EMINENT SIR HUGH M'CURDY.

able in more ways than one. It was the largest gathering of the kind in the history of the order. This not only means that there is financial hopefulness and prosperity in the circles to which the Sir Knighjs belong, but it calls attention to the fact that the great and beneficent

MASONIC TEMPLE, WHERE THE CONCLAVE WAS HELD.

Masonic brotherhood which has been inwoven with the most important features of our national history is experiencing a healthy and continuous growth. The fact that there are now in this country upward of 100,000 members of the order of Knights Templar alone is full of encouraging significance. It is maintained that the Masonic fraternity, not to speak of others scarcely less influential, has done an incalcuable amount of good in conserving respect for the basic principles of true religion among a class of men most likely to be prolific in scoffers. And not less important.is the part played by this order in the perpetuation of patriotic sentiment throughout the Union. From the laying of the corner-stone of the national capital at Washington, a century ago, to the laying of the corner-stone of the Masonic Temple in Chicago, this society has played an important part in the public and semipublic events that have made up our history as a nation. It is forty-five years since Boston has been the scene of Knights Templar grand conclave, and the members of the order in the themselves to the utmost to outdo all that have taken place since. Boston boasts of the largest commandery in the United States, and this one body appropriated $35,000 to be spent in making the guests appreciate their welcome. Even with such an example the visiting commanderies were determined not to be excelled, and though none of them expended any such sum "of money, all planned to more than do their part in the festivities. Special trains were chartered from all parts of the country to carry the members of the visiting commanderies to the East, and in many instances the trips were arranged -nd added to so that the route included not only Boston but many other Eastern cities and points of national interest. The representation from .States as recorded at the triennial headquarters at the opening of the festivities was as follows: Alabama .... 80 Missouri .... 1,003 Arkansas ... 58 Nebraska .... 130 California ... 370 Montana .... 40 Colorado .... 134 New Ka’ps’re. 1,117 Connecticut.. 864 New Jersey.. 618 Delaware... 200 New York... I,GSO Dis. Col’bia.. 560 N. Carolina.. 18 Florida 30 N. Dakota... 6) Georgia ..... 76 Ohio 1,515 Illinois 1,605 Fennsyi’via . 2.084 Indiana 685 S. Carolina... 25 lowa 343 Tennessee ... 125 Kansas 363 Texas 1 Kentucky ... 280 Vermont .... 670 Maine 1,085 Virgiitia .... 441 Maryland . u . 527 Wisconsin ... 500 Massac’ setts Wyoming ... 20 and R’de»l’d. 6,218 Indian Ter... 45 Michigan ... 1,545 - Minnesota .. 223 T0ta125,721 The Grand Parade. The conclave was opened with a parade, which was the greatest of its kind ever held. More than 40,000 Knights Templar were in line, and fully'l,ooo of these were mounted. In addition to these was the members of the Grand Encampment of the United States, as well as other high officials of the order, in carriages. The parade was commanded by Grand Master McCurdy, of the Grand Encampment, who is the head of the order. The decorations of the city were superb, and all along the route of the parade mammoth grand stands had been

erected, each artistically decorated, and it is estimated that the seating accommodations for the reviewing of the parade exceeded 150,000. The stands seated anywhere from twenty-five to 5,000 persons and were erected by the different comanderies of the city and also by private individuals for speculation. In addition to these every available window in every honse along the line of march was bought up by speculators, and even the front doors were utilized for seats and

FLORAL CROSS AND SHIELD ON BOSTON PUBLIC GARDEN.

sold to the highest bidder. Every available window on Dartmouth street was sold for prices varying from sls to S3O for every front room above the first floor. Columbus avenue for its whole length was one reviewing stand, and the seats were disposed of at an average price of $3, while window space was taken by visiting knights for their friends at prices ranging from $25 to SSO for front rooms above the first floor. So great was the demand for window space and points of vantage for seeing the parade that enormously high prices have been been paid. A barber in Washington street offered his window space for $25 for the day and a shrewd customer in one of his chairs took it up and later sold the privilege for $75. Not less than $1,000,000 changed hands for the pleasure of witnessing the greatest parade in point of splendor ever held in this country. Expense of the Conclave, The estimate of the expense -of the grand conclave to the members of Massachusetts and Rhode Island commanderies, who are the hosts, was $350,000. In addition to this each member procured special regalia, and several thousand dol-

lars represent the expense of badges for exchange. Every .frater was supposed to carry an exchange badge; in fact, a pocket full of them, and when another frater met him on the street without the ceremony of ah introduction badges were to be exchanged. In this way vast collections of badges were procured as souvenirs of the triennial meeting, and a complete collection of those worn during the week will be worth fully SI,OOO. A series of receptions and social festivities were held during the convention and visiting knights were taken to view all interesting points about Boston. Many public, as well as private, buildings were elaborately decorated during the convention, and old Boston assumed an air of brightness and gayety such as she has rarely known before.

WHEAT CROPS OF THE WORLD.

Russia and the United States Have Nearly a Billion Bushels. Details of the Government estimate of the wheat crops of the various countries, the total for which was stated in a recent dispatch, shows the following in bushels: Great Britain, 46,811.000: France, 301,573,000; Germany, 103.550,000; Austria,

KNIGHTS TEMPLAR CAPTURE BOSTON.

45,802,000; Italy, 114,898,000; Belgium, 21,277,000; Spain, 86,528,000; Russia, 415,053,000; Hungary, 150,361,000; India, 237,456,000; United States, 400,017,000; Canada, 51,066,000; Roumania, 62,414,000; Bulgaria, 52,482,000; Turkey, 42,555,000; Argentine, 60,995,000; Australia, 35,746,000. The Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Scandinavia, Portugal and Greecle, together, 29,502,000; Servia, 8,511,000; Chili, 18,440,000; Africa, 47,094,000; all Asia except India, 70,950,000; total, 2;402,671,000. J. R. Brandon and his son Alonzo are in jail at St. Louis charged' with counterfeiting. They were arrested in Duncan County, and in a corn crib near their house was found a complet* outfit for making money, together wltfc $175 in spurious dollars of 1891. “Gen.” Coxey is touring Nebraska in the interest of free silver.

POTATO NOW IS KING.

Farmers Beginning to Realise that There Is Money in Tubers. The potato has at last taken rank as king among the tillers of the soil. For years Secretary of Agriculture Morton has been appealing to the fanners of the United States to grow potatoes, as he believed that they would be their salvation. They hare finally taken his advice, and now they are beginning to realize that they will profit by planting more ground to the tubers instead of wheat and corn. There is at all times a steady demand for them, and they are quite as staple as wheat and not subject to the fluctuations of the latter. With the low price of wheat and corn the farmers have looked about for some more profitable crop and investigation shows that the United States has never produced enough potatoes for home consumption. Thousands of bushels are bought in foreign markets every year and if there is a profit for powers abroad, with small areas to devote to the crop and the additional expense of ocean freight rates, there ought to be money in the .business for the fannersTn this country, who Eave’ larger tracts of land and cheaper freight rates. The imports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, were 3,022,578 bushels, of the value of nearly $1,250,000.

Last year 2,737,973 acres were devoted to this crop, and that was an increase over the year before of 83,000 acres. The product of 1894, on account of an unfavorable season, was 2,246,000 bushels short of the year before, notwithstanding the increased acreage. But in measuring the popularity of the potato as an article of farm product, the product is scarcely worthy of consideration for the increase in the area of land devoted to the crop is plainly the index of its popularity. All the evidence available indicates that there are now 3,000,000 acres of potatoes growing in the United States. The fact that there has been a steadily decreasing acreage of wheat, rye, barley, oats and corn, which continues this year, is considered by the Secretary of Agriculture to indicate an increased acreage of potatoes and other substantial small products. New York has steadily led all the other States as a potato producer. Last year 378,728 acres of land were devoted to the crop in New York, and the product, aggregating over 29,000,000 bushels, was sold for half as many million dollars. Michigan was second, with 215,270 acres and a product of over 13,000,000 bushels, which brought the growers nearly $6,000,000. Pennsylvania wa’s third, with 206,879 acres, which produced almost the exact number of bushels produced by Michigan, though the acreage was vastly less than Michigan’s. The acreage in Ohio was In round numbers the same as that.in Pennsylvania, and the aggregate of the crop was the same within a few thousand bushels, showing that both Pennsylvania and Ohio raised a larger crop than Michigan with less acreage. The other big potatogrowing States are lowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas, in the order named. lowa had 176,605 acres last year; Kansas, 108,213. The aggregate of acreage gradually decreases from lowa to Kansas, excepting that Illinois and Wisconsin had almost the same acreage—that is, about 166,500. While Missouri, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia, Kentucky, South Dakota, Colorado, and a half-dozen other States are good potato growers and have a large acreage, none of them approached 100,000 acres last year, and in nearly all of them less than 50,000 acres of land was devoted to potatoes.

Notes of Current Events.

S. A. Abbey, supposed to be a victim of the Denver hotel disaster, is alive at Pueblo, Col. Alfred Paxton has been appointed receiver for the Davis Carriage Company at Cincinnati. Postmaster Ilarmston at Vernal, Utah, has been arrested, his accounts showing a shortage of $2,800. Ilderim, Cornelius Vanderbilt's yacht, defeated the Mineola, owned by August Belmont, in a race at Newport Ralph Coe, son of George Coe, was drowned in a clay pit at South Bend, Ind., while throwing sticks at a dog. Miss Mrytle Bartimus, aged 20, living near Milan, Mo, was injured by a threshing machine so that she cannot recover. The ingrain carpet weavers’ strike at Philadelphia has been broken, most of the companies granting the increase asked for. Chief Webster and three firemen were caught under a blazing roof which fell at an Indianapolis fire and were seriously injured. C. L. Wright, of Honolulu, says the* government is about to start an information bureau to supply the outside public with data concerning the islands. Vice Chancellor Emery, at Newark, N. J., granted the Edison Phonograph Company an injunction restraining Thomas A. Edison from selling kinetiphones in Europe. A wonderfully rich placer find is reported on Gold Creek on the continental divide at the south end of the Wind River range, Wyo. The dirt runs SSO to the yard. Newton B. Eustis, second secretary and Mr. Alexander, counsel of the American embassy at Paris, have returned from Clairvaux, where they took down a full

statement from eX-Consul Waller of bis trial and conviction by the French military court at Tamatave. The Prince of Wales’ cutter Britannia has finished her racing season and has gone to Cowes to dismantle, previous to lying up for the winter. She is flying forty winning flags. Lizzie Sherley, a lunatic, was killed by the attendants at the Long View asylum at Cincinnati. She imagined that she would die if she partook of any food and since her advent the attendants have had to force her food down her throat, finally choking' her. The/tehedules in the assignment of Jesse-*G. Jones, the veteran lumberman, of Indianapolis, show assets of $150,323.37; pliabilities, $187,021.87. The heaviest creditors are the< Security Bank of Boston, $61,500; Quincy A. Shaw, oi Boston, $50,000; and Eliza A. Tolman, of Minneapolis.

PRESIDENT OF TWO BANKS

thought at Time* He Would Have to Give Up the Fight, but Perseverance and Science Conquer <Hi» Trouble*. From Ou BepuWoan, Cooperstown, B. Y. The people of the present are traveling a pace that would surprise the good old wives and knickerboekered grandfathers of a hundred years ago. Things are not done by degrees or stages in these days, but; with a rush and hurry. This constant hurry and ever present business pressure has not been without its effect upon the nerves of the race, and ’ every year witnesses the increase of nervous disease. Medical science, however, has been keeping abreast with the times, and from the very demands made upon it there have sprung new departures and discoveries. A reporter recently met Mr. Philip GWeiting, who is president of the Bank of Worcester, and of the Toledo City Bank,

of Toledo, la., at Worcester, Otsego County, N. Y., and conversation drifted to the present topic. Mr. Weiting had been a sufferer from locomotor ataxia for twenty-five years. Knowing that he had traveled far and' wide in search of sofne beneficial treat- 1 ment for his affliction, the reporter asked; the president to give some facts in his own case. He responded willingly. “Yes, I suffered twenty-five years from locomotor ataxia,” Mr. Weiting said, “and during all that time I was seeking some relief. Well, I found it in Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. Of course I have it yet, to some extent, but I’m feeling better and my legs are stronger than ever before. Why, I could scarcely walk any distance at -all, and could not staud long without my knees yielding beneath my own weight. A person cannot conceive of the suffering such a state brings upon the sufferer. “I would go to Florida every year, and visited almost every health resort in the country. I went to the Sanitarium at lowa Falls, lowa, and also the very best in Michigan, but they didn’t do me any good. I took the full course of their baths and massage and rubbing, without receiving the least benefit. I thought I would have to give up all hope of ever curing myself. Finally I heard a good deal about Pink Pills through common report; and although, as I said, I had no faith in medicines of any kind, I was induced to try them. Well, I took several boxes without deriving any apparent benefit, but was advised to keep it up. So, when I went to Florida that year—zhree years ago this summer—l took a large quantity with me. After some months I stopped taking them; but my legs had become so much stronger and my ataxia had been so irtbderated that I eould stand and walk better than I had done for years. Pink Pills did it, and you can well imagine how I feel toward them. They did what nothing else could do.” During the entire interview Mr. Weiting remained standing and evidently' did not experience the slightest discomfort, in spite of the protracted period of his affliction. Although well along in years, he is still actively engaged in financial enterprises that necessitate a vast amount of mental and nervous energy. Suffice it to say he lacks neither, but makes his influence felt wherever he is known. Besides being president of the Worcester Bank, Mr. Weiting is also president of the Toledo City Bank, of Toledo, lowa, where his advice and sound business policies are a controlling element. His commendation of Pink Pills came unsolicited, and with the sincerity of one who feels what he says. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new'life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, srtL as siymressions, irregularities and all forms of weakness. They build up the blood, and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure in all eases arising from mental worry, overwork or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box op six boxes for. $2.50, and may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Wiliams’ Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

The Service of Birds.

The birds do an immense amount of drudgery for man, though they sometimes reward themselves for this hard, work by dainty tidbits of ripening fruit. A pair of common American robins, or thrushes, have been watched while they carried three thousand earth worms to one brood. Woodpeckers destroy eggs and larvae which would literally develop millions of destructive creatures, both in forests and orchards? and one of the most inveterate foes of the canker worm is the beautiful oriole, were it but allowed to live and hang its swinging cradle in the elm. For every wing of black and gold on a young girl’s hat an apple tree is stripped of leaves and young fruit, and left brown and ugly in the summer sun, or an elm is denuded of its graceful foliage by the loathsome canker worm.

Suggestive.

Undoubtedly many talented writers have to wait long for financial success. But it is well for an ambitious author to face the question whether his failure to make a living by his pen is a result of the poor quality of his work. A French philosopher had been much harassed by the complaints of a wouldbe writer whose talents were certainly not in the direction of literature. One day the young man made a particularly discontented speech about the poverty of writers. “Yes,” rejoined the philosopher, “there bl* as many pca ’“ Writers as there are—poor writers. Think of It, my friend.” And his friend thought of it clearly enough to adopt another profession.

Rightly Named.

Wife—What do you think of my new walking dress, Charlie? Husband—Should think there was room for quite an extended promenade in the sleeves alone.—Boston Transcript. Absence lessens small passions and increases great ones—as the wind extinguishes the taper and kindness the burning dwelling. When we read we fancy we must be martyrs; when we come to act we cannot bear a provoking word.