Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — Page 2

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SENSATION AT A BATTLE CREEK, MICH., FUNERAL. Hanging of Hay ward—Sultan Yields to the Powers— Republican Convention Will Meet in St. Louis—Race Prejudice Among Orange Pickers. The Corpse Came to Life. Fred Markham, of Santa Cruz. Cal., received a letter ten days ago stating that his mother had died in Hattie Creek, Mich., as the result of a railroad accident and that the remains would he interred before he could reach Buttle Creek, where he formerly resided. A few days lat.er he was astonished at receiving another letter containing the information that his mother was alive and would probably recover. The letter further stated that his mother was apparently dead when the first letter was written. Arrangements for her burial were under way. but while the funeral services were in progress the minister, relatives and congregation were horrified by a sound front the coffin and were almost paralyzed when a moment later the eotlin-lid was broken and Mrs. Markham was found to be alive. It appears that she had suffered from concussion of the brain at.d for two day was unconscious. NEGROES DRIVEN OI.T. White Men Will Allow the Blacks to Pick Oranges. Nearly 200 half-starved and terrorized negroes were brought to Tampa. Fla., mi the steamer Lawrence from Lee County. The negroes were hired to go 1 1 ore County and pick oranges. When they reached Fort Meyers they were ordeied to leave, being told they could not wmk there. The negroes showed resistance, when armed whites surrounded them and they were kept under guard for two days until the steamer returned. The negroes were given nothing to cat and feared they would be massacred, as the guards kept up a constant fusillade at night. Twelve of the negroes became so terrorized that they leaped overboard, and. it is thought, were drown, d. Several others tried to run. but were shot. The negroes say the bodies of those shot were thrown into the river. A. V. Lane, a prominent resident of Fort Meyers, confirms the story told by the negroes. lie says white men have been visiting the camps of the orange pick, rs and firing into them until nearly all the negroes have tied the county; M: ay negroes have uhdoubtcdlv been kilo-d. St. Louis Gets the Prize. The Republican national convention will be held at St. Louis on June 10 next. That was the decision reached by the Republican National Committee assembled in Washington Tuesday, after spirited balloting lasting two hours. The successive ballots are shown as follows: St. Louis 11l 14 IS 22 29 San Francisco 20 19 19 19 10 Pittsburg 9 9 9 1 0 Chicago S S 9 9 0 New York 1 (1 0 l) O Hayward Pays the Penalty. Harry Hayward was hanged at Minneapolis at 2:0.1 Wednesday morning for the murder of Catherine ( ling. He made a statement of five minutes’ duration, and. while not making a confession, said he hoped Cod would forgive him for all the harm he had ever done. Tile murderer went to the gallows with a laugh on his lips, and went down with the trap just as he uttered the words, lightly: "Let her go, Megarden.” The command was directed to the chief deputy.

Governor Hastings Ik 111. Governor Hastings is confined to tin executive mansion at Harrisburg, Pa., with a mild case of bilious fever. This is the third attach of the malady since his return from the Atlanta exposition. The Governor had a heavy -chill during his visit to Gettysburg. He returned to the city feeling ill, and was driven direct to the executive mansion. He has since been confined to his room, and will see lie one but members of his household. Sultan Issues Firnians. Constantinople dispatch: The long drawn-out controversy between the Sultan and the ambassadors of the powers over the question of the admission of additional guard ships for the protection of the embassies was settled at 8:10 o’clock Tuesday evening by the issuance of an irade granting the necessary firmans to permit the guard ships to pass the Dardanelles. No One Is Responsible. The Cleveland coroner has rendered his verdict on the Central viaduct disaster. He fails to find sufficient evidence of an act committed or omitted on the part of any person to warrant him in holding anyone criminally liable for the accident. He concludes that the seventeen victims of the disaster came to their death as a result of the injuries sustained or from drowning in the river. Chicago's Murderous Trolley. Two people killed outright, four probably fatally injured, seventeen injured, besides minor casualties in the shape of horses killed, buildings set afire, telephones burnt out, fire alarm service crippled—such was the record of the deadly trolley in the Chicago police reports during the month of November. More Troops for Campos. Dispatches from Havana announce the arrival there of six transports with reenforcements of Spanish troops for service in Cuba. Generals Marin and Tando were also on board. Must Wear Stripes. The commissioners of Delaware County, Ind., decided that workhouse convicts must wear penitentiary stripes in future. The severe step is taken to check numerous escapes, blit is looked upon as too severe, as a majority of the inmates are “plain drunks.” To Impeach T. F. Bayard. Representative Barrett (Rep.) of Massachusetts offered a resolution in the House for the impeachment of Thomas F. Bayard. United States Ambassador to Great i Britain. Fought Over a Sandwich. At Denver, Col., William Byrd, son of the Rev. S. W. Byrd, pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was shot and fatally wounded by Charles Keiton at a social of the Christian; Endeavor Society in the church. Both men are negroes. The shooting was the result of a quarrel about a sandwich which Keiton ate but refused to pay for. May Go to the Ocean. It is reported that the American Steel Barge Company will send the big whaleback passenger steamer, Christopher Columbus, around into the Pacific and operate her on one of the coast routes.

FLIGHT OF SAID PASHA. Tnrkey’z Ex-Grand Vizier Seeks Refuge in British Embassy. A dispatch received from Constantinople says that Said Pasha, the President of the Turkish Council of State and formerly Grand Vizier, has taken refuge in the British Embassy at Constantinople, believing himself not only to be in danger of arrest, but fearing for his life. The existence of a Cabinet crisis has long been commented upon, but as a change of Ministry is one of the oldest and most familiar moves of the Sultan to obtain further delay little or no attention has been paid to the matter beyond conveying to Abdul Ilamid the intimation that another change of Ministry would in no way alter the determination of the powers to take any action they may think advisable under the circumstances. All the Turkish Ministers are guarded, and all are in fear of their lives, not only dreading assassination at the hands of the Armenians, but standing in great apprehension of being summarily dealt with by the Sultan, who is known to be irritated beyond any previous degree at everything and everybody. Seeing the meshes of the European net drawing closer and closer around him every day, Abdul Hamid is described as being frantic with impotent rage and likely to wreak vengeance upon any or all of his Ministers if he can only muster up courage enough to do so. ’FRISCO FIGHTING HARD. With Western Members, Can Name Republican Convention City. Gen. James S. Clarkson, the national Republican committeeman from lowa, met W. 11. Mann, of Ohio, in New York, and discussed the selection of a time and place for the Republican national convention. It turns out that San Francisco is to make a very sturdy tight for the convention, which will be held about June 10. The Golden Gate city has already from fifteen to twenty votes out* of the fifty-two members of the cqnimiltee, and it was said that California could hold these votes, and eventually, even if it lost the fight, designate the city where the convention will be held. San Francisco gave way in 1892, and by the votes of California and the far Western States euchred Chicago and Cincinnati and gave the convention to Minneapolis. Only four cities are putting up a fight for the convention —namely. Pittsburg, Chicago. St. Louis and San Francisco. The Goiden Gate city clearly has the balance of power in determining the result. Gen. Clarkson said that there was no mistake about this.

WILL NOT ARBITRATE. England Insists Upon Her Claims to Venezuelan Territory. Washington dispatch: The eagle bird of freedom is preparing to do some screaming. The provocation is varied. Three resolutions of inflammatory tenor are already . before the Senate upon which discussion has already commouced, and the steamship Britannia brings additional ammunition in the shape of a reply to Secretary Oluey's note to Lord Salisbury touching the Venezuelan boundary dispute. The British Governmcit questions the right of the Uuited Slates to mix in and flatly refuses to arbitrate upon the title to the disputed territory east of the “Sehjynburg line,” holding to the precedent that the area specified is part and parcel of the British possessions, and therefore solidly British beyond peradvontiire. This is the reply that lias been expected; but it will nevertheless be the occasion of a fuss and future demonstrations of seemiug great consequence. Abuse of Habeas Corpus. The annual report of Attorney General , Hannon, sent to Congress, shows that there has been an increase in the number of criminal cases pending in the Federal Courts, as well as an increase in the expenses of the courts from $3,8(14,898 in 1888 to $1,(128.223 in 1891. A strong argument is made for the abolition of the tee system, lie says too much of the time of the Supreme Court is occupied by criminal appeals and suggests that such appeals be disallowed, save in capital cases. The Attorney General also calls attention to what he regurds as the growing abuse of the writ of habeas corpus and suggests that the allowance of a stay by the Supreme Court or one of its judges be required, at least on appeals after the first. He asks for an additional Circuit Judge in the Fifth and Sixth Circuits. The Northern Pacific litigation has called attention to the necessity of legislation to regulate the appointment of receivers and judicial sales of railroads, parts of whose lines are ill different States, lie points out the desirability of the investment of a single court with control over the entire property. Propipt action is urged toward working out the solution of the problem presented by the Government’s relation to the Central and Union Pacific Railroads, and, as it may become necessary or advisable for the Government to institute proceedings against one or both of these companies, he shows the necessity of a law giving some court in the District of Columbia jurisdiction of the entire property and all of the parties in interest. He urges the imperative demand for the erection of at least one penitentiary in a Southern State for the confinement of convicts from the Southern district.

Gough Is Convicted. George Gough, of Chicago, stands convicted of manslaughter for killing George Pucik. The jury fixed his punishment at eight years in the penitentiary, but it was considered “surplusage” by the Court, and the sentence will remain indeterminate, unless Attorney David's motion for a new trial is granted. If sentence is passed by the Court, then under the law that went into effect July 1, 1595, the prison board will have power to abate the term at the end of the minimum, one year, or to protract it during life, as Gough's prison behavior determines. Gough was an attendant at the Dunning poor house, and Pucik was an insane inmate. The latter was kicked to death by Gough. Four Vessels Missing. At Port Townsend, Wash., much apprehension is felt for the British steamship Gorzdd, Capt. Mead, now out fortyfive days from Singapore. This is. the third steamer which is unaccounted for on the Northern Pacific Ocean, the others being the T. Eskdale and the Strathiiovis, bound westward. It is feared that these vessels and the British ship Lord Brassey foundered in the violent typhoon which swept the China Sea on Nov. 14 and 15, thus causing a loss of 150 lives and property valued at $1,250,000. Religious Congress Scored. A Rome dispatch to the London Chronicle says that in the Jesuit organ, the Cevita Cattolica, the Vatican will publish an official note blaming retrospectively the religious congress and condemning the idea of a similar congress at the next Paris exposition. Savings Banks in Schools. The Board of Education of New York will provide for the opening of the branches of the penny provident fund in the public schools. There are now twenty stations of the fund in the public schools, and they have met with surprising success. Chicago Firemen Busy. Chicago's business center suffered bndly from fire Sunday. There were two serious blazes, one in the morning and the other at night. The first destroyed the

five-stety building occupied by H. Wolf & Co., wholesale general merchants. Nos. 210 and 252 Madison street, and a stock of dry goods, toys, and notions, insured \ on a valnation of AWO.taai. Harris Wolf. president of the firm, is known as "King j of the PoddloKs." Tile second fire broke 1 out at l(»25l> at Nos. ITS and 1 Wabash I avenue, and liefore it was quenched had j caused a loss of SIOO,OOO to the huildiug ' and the stock of Meyer 4c Weber's piano ' house and other coin-eras under the same roof. Two men were injured in the fires, one in cadi, and two had narrow escapes in the Wabash avenue blaze, being res0111*1 from ihe building in time to save their lives. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA. London's Distinguished AYar Correspondent Is Dead. George Augustus Henry Sabi, the distinguished Ixmdon author mid journalist, is dead. George Augustus Henry Sala, journalist and author, was ln*rn in London in 1828. In the early part of his career he became a contributor of articles to newspapers and magazines. He founded and was the first editor of the Temple Bar Magazine. He visited the United States in 1S»C! as special correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and in the latter part of the following year published the result of his observations under the title of "America in the Midst of War.” lie was war correspondent for the same paper in France in IS7O. witnessing the fall of the empire in Paris Sept. 4. He afterwards went to Rome to re< ord the entry of the Italian army in that city*in January. 1875. He visited Spain on the occasion of the entry of Alphonso NIL lie visited Russia in December, 1870, as special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. and subsequently traversed the empire to observe the mobilization of the Russian army, then in progress. SWISS NATIONAL EXPOSITION. Its Electrical Features to Be the Finest Ever Seen. The Swiss national exposition, which begins at Geneva May 1 next and terminates Oct. 11. bids fair in the matter of interesting novelties to surpass any national display made since our centennial. Probably because Theodore Turrettini, mayor of Geneva, and the most distinguished electrical engineer in Europe, is president of the exposition, the electrical exhibit will lie the finest ever seen. The river Rhine supplies 12,000 horse power to be electrically transmitted six miles to the grounds. There will be a traveling footpath operated by electricity traversing the great machinery hall: horseless eabs driven by electricity; appliances for aerial navigation; a multiplying valve pump; processes for making paper and fabrics; tests of strength of metals by electricity, and many other electrical appliances.

AMERICAN ARMOR-PLATE BEST. Test in Russia Proves that It Has No Superior. Robert P. Linderman, president of the Bethlehem Iron Company, Bethlehem, I’a.. received from Lieutenant Meigs, engineer of ordnance for the company, a cablegram stating that a very successful test of armor plate had been made at the Czar’s proving grounds at Oclita, Polygion, near St. Petersburg. "The plate was selected from a group of side armor for the battleship Sevastopol, and subjected to the most severe test possible. The projectile penetrations were very slight and there were no cracks. The test resulted in the Russian Government accepting 110 tons of Ilarveyized armor plate. The test proved that American armor plate is the best made in the world. Waiting for Holidays. It. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "Business is still sluggish, as if gorged by excessive indulgence of the appetite for buying when prices were advancing. In nearly every branch stocks not yet distributed lo consumers stand in the way of new orders, and competition of a producing force largely exceeding the present demand puts down prices that decline, retarding purchases yet more. After the holidays men look for a larger demand. For the present the springs qf new business are running low, but enough is doing on old orders to keep most of the works employed in part and a good proportion fully. Financial influences have not hindered, and rarely has the opening of a session of Congress affected business so little.”

(limped from the Windows. The Greenville Hotel, located six miles east of llortonville, Wis., burned to the ground. William Router, an employe of the hoted, was suffocated and was taken from the burning building dead. Several members of a medicine troupe escaped death by jumping from the second-floor windows,' clad only in their night robes. Reunited in Their Old Age. At Jeffersonville, lnd.. John and Margaret Cowling, aged T.’i and 70 years, respectively, after having been separated by divorce twenty-four years, were reunited in marriage Thursday night. Victim of Railway Bandits. At Bucyrus, Kan., two masked men attempted to rob the railroad station. W. A. Gilman, the agent, offered resistance and was shot through the lungs, being mortally wounded. Chief Justice Fuller 111. Chief Justice Fuller, of ttie United States Supreme Court, is confined to his bed at Washington, D. C., with a severe cold. market quotations. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $5.50 to $5.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 57c to 58c; corn, No. 2,20 cto 27c; oats. No. 2. 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2. 34c to 36c; butter, choice creamery, 23c to 26c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 22c; potatoes, per bushel, 18c to 25c; broom corn, S2O to SSO per ton for poor to choice. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,62 cto t!4c; corn, No. 1 white, 26c to 28c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 23c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00: hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 58c to 59c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 24c to 26c; oats. No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2,38 c to 39c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $3.50 to $4.50; hogs. $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $3.50: wheat. No. 2,67 cto 6!>c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 21c to 22c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.00; hogs. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to 68c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 28c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 21c to 22c; rye. 3Sc to 39c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c: oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 22c; rye, No. 2,37 cto 39c; clover seed, $4.50 to $4.60. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red. 68c to 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 33c to '34c; 22c to 24c. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 5Sc to 59c; corn, No. 3,26 cto 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c to 19e; barley. No. 2,32 cto 34c; rye, No. 1,37 cto 38c; pork, mess, $7.50 to SB.OO. New York—Cattle, $3.00. to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 28c; butter, creamery, 16c to 27c; eggs, Western, 21c to 24c. I

HOLD IT TO ACCOUNT.

REPUBLICAN CONGRESS MUST NOT TINKER WITH TARIFF. Cooler-Headed Men in Their Own Party Will Protest Against the Introduction of Bills Calculated to Demoralize the Country's Business. A Friendly Warning, The Republicans in Congress are not to be allowed to bring forward tarifftinkering bills without being Jjeld to account by the cooler-headed men of their own party. We have already noted the admonition of the press and some of the representatives of the Northwest A still more striking, though indirect, warning was given by ex-Senator Miller of this State last week at the annual dinner of the Home Market Club of Boston. That organization was formed to advocate tariff legislation to keep foreign goods out of the American market. Its guiding principle was aptly stated by one <>f the speakers: ”(>ur home market is worth Incomparably more than all other markets.” Most of the gentlemen who addressed the club pictured the country on the brink of ruin in consequence of the present tariff. Mr. Charles Emory Smith, for instance, painted the situation in the gloomiest colors; “The shriveled values, the shrunken work, the diminished wages, the decreased consumption, the foreign goods taking the place of home products, the mills and factories of New England and Pennsylvania struggling against a new British invasion —all this is the natural and inevitable harvest of the noxious seed that was planted in an hour of madness and delusion in 1892.” The only way to treat such a state of things is, of course, a heavy dose of protection "along McKinley lines.” But Mr, Warner Miller sees things in a very different light, and in denying the correctness of the diagnosis destroys all excuse for the proposed remedy. He finds the country in a state of vigorous health, and improving daily. There is in “the last two years” an “increased output of all our leading industries;” there is “re-employment of a large number of laborers at wages nearly or quite up to the standard of 1892;” we have “an increased demand and advanced prices Jor our agricultural products, wheat and cotton,” and especially we have “the return of confidence in every department of business which is the necessary forerunner of the return of the era of prosperity.” The future —not the remote future after the tariff lias been changed back to the old rates, but the immediate future —looks very bright to the ex-Senator, and, so far from thinking that we shall have to light for the home market against a “new British invasion,” he Bees that we can and must get out into the open markets of the world and fight British trade on what has always been Its own ground: “The value of our agriculture and manufactures exceeds that of any other nation by many millions of dollars annually. We are able, not only to supply all the necessities of our own people, but in many lines of production we can and do produce a large surplus, which can only find a profitable market beyond the limits of our shores. We are compelled to seek a foreign market for our surplus cotton, wheat and meat products. In the manufacture of many grades of cottons, of iron and steel, machinery, railroad supplies, agricultural implements, and many other kinds of goods we can now compete successfully with tlie older nations. We must, therefore, look abroad for an outlet for our present surplus and for the increase which will come with returning prosperity.” These are the wortfs of one who is a business man first and a politician afterward. Mr. Miller speaks from observation and experience, and not merely to enforce a party cry. It is true that he advocates Federal subsidies to steamship lines as a means of more cheaply and readily reaching the foreign markets which we need. That, however, is a minor matter. It would be a tough job at present to raise enough money by increased tariff taxes to pay subsidies that would have any effect on our export trade. The important fact is that the vast commercial reservoir of the United States is fed by productive streams that are capable of filling it beyond the home demand. There is no doubt that outlets will be found, and while the business men of the land are engaged in this labor they will not patiently submit to disturbing tariff agitation on the absurd plea that we cannot hold our own markets. —New York Times.

A Sign of Prosperity. Bradstreet’s, a leading financial journal, publishes detailed statements of the gross and net earnings of the railroads of the country for nine months of the years 1894 and 1595. A summary of the figures shows a stpadily increasing growth in the volume of business done by the railroads during this year, and affords another proof of the general improvement in trade conditions under the Wilson tariff. The net earnings of 141 of the principal railroads, embracing over 75 per cent, of the railroad earning capacity of the country, were nearly 8 per cent greater than in 1894, the proportionate gains being much larger for the last three months of the period for which returns are given. While the earuings of practically all the railroads have been largely increased, the wages of thousands of employes have also been advanced. The improved feturns to capital have in no case been secured by lessened wages to labor. This unquestioned improvement In the business of the great railroad industry, representing an investment of $10,000,000,000, will, of course, be denied by the pessimistic preachers of protection. They are paid to howl that the country is being ruined by low taxation and free trade. Little things such as facts furnished by impartial financial authorities will not prevent professional weepers from wailing. But all fair-minded citizens should be convinced that if railroads are earning a great deal more money it is because they are carrying more goods, and that If more goods are being transported more are being manufactured and sold. Could there be better evidence that prosperity has returned ? Cackling Protectionists. It would be well enough, if tariff changes are to be urged in behalf of the manufacturers of Pennsylvania, to

consult the manufacturers before preparing the schedules. The bulk of the manufacturers are very busy, thank you, and very well satisfied down in their boots and in the depths of their bank accounts, with things as they are. The cackle of protectionist newspapers must not be mistaken for the call of the country.—Philadelphia Record. Good Reason for Thankfulness. Thanksgiving Day was observed this year with joy and gladness, to which the people had been strangers for several years past. In 185)4 the country was still suffering from the effects of the terrible McKinley panic, which two years before plunged millions into idleness, debt, bankruptcy or poverty. Although the protective tariff which had brought about such a deplorable condition was repealed in August of last year, the business and industrial interests of the country had only commenced to revive by the end of November. There were still many thousands of households over which the trade depression cast a shadow, and many thousands of unemployed workers who had little reason to be thankful that the Republican policy which had impoverished them was at last struck from the statute books.

This year the conditions are greatly changed. The improvement in business which immediately followed the adoption of the Wilson tariff has steadily increased during the past eleven months, until now the country is prospering as never before. Good crops of almost every staple farm product have given the farmers abundance for their own needs and a large surplus for foreign markets. The transportation of these crops has brought good times to the railroads, which have in turn purchased large supplies of rails, rolling stock and other equipments. In consequence, the Iron and steel industries have reached the heights of prosperity, the total output of their products exceeding that of any other period In the history of this or other countries. In all the principal industries of the country the same condition of great activity prevails. The best proof of prosperity is found in the wonderful series of wage advances which have taken place during 1895. According to the admission of the New York Tribune over one million workers having had their wages increased from 5 to 20 per cent. Factories and mills, closed down for years unfler McKinleylsm, have started up again; hundreds of new factories, especially in the textile industries, have been established, and in e>-er y branch of trade there is a strong demand for manufactured goods. With this unequalled business boom came, of course, a greatly increased demand for labor. Instead of marching through the country in “Coxey armies,” as thousands of workmen did while the McKinley tariff was in force, the unemployed found opportunities to work in reopened factories, in the mines, or on the railways. At a modest estimate one million workers who were idle before the enactment of the Wilson tariff, have now steady employment and are earning good wages. These are some of the reasons why in American homes there was this year so much of thankfulness. Protection hard times have given place to low tariff prosperity. McKinley idleness has disappeared, and the Democratic business revival has given more work and higher wages. Capital is earning good returns and merchants and manufacturers look forward to an even greater demand for all kinds of goods. For all these things the American people are truly thankful.

Kxports to Belgium. The New York Journal of Commerce notes the remarkable fact that last year we exported to the little kingdom of Belgium goods valued at $26,928,069. About one-fourth of this amount was paid for manufactured goods, including manufactures of iron, steel, textiles, leather, paper, rubber and paper, and for chemicals, glassware and earthenware. Commenting upon this fact, the Journal of Commerce says: “For most of these manufactures the ratv materials may be assumed to be cheaper in Belgium than here. Wages are not only lower there than here, but they are lower there than in England. S till the economy and efficiency of American manufacturing methods permit some of our manufactured goods to be sold in that country even in lines that are particularly Belgian, and in other cases the superiority of the American article offsets a higher price. “It is not to be expected that we shall ever export very great quantities of manufactured goods to a country with so small a population, and that population so generally engaged in manufacturing as Belgium. The significant thing about these figures is that if we can compete at all, and in any lines, with the Belgians at home, we have a much greater chance of competing with them in those foreign markets to which their exports, like ours, must bear the cost of transportation, and where their exports and ours encounter the same customs restrictions.” It should please those Republicans who believe that the Chief object of international trade is to secure a cash balance in our favor to know that our imports from Belgium last year amounted to but $8,609,819.

Foreign Pauper Labor. The ignorance of the workingmen of England and other European countries lias long been a stock argument of the protectioniSts, who describe all foreign workers as paupers of a very low degree of inteligence. A sample of the English operatives’ terrible degradation is given in a late issue of the American Economist, organ of the Protective Tariff League. Desiring to show that the British woolen industry has been benefitted by the Wilson tariff a correspondent of the Economist inserter an interview with an alleged Bradford weaver, who is quoted as saying: “The policy pursued by our firm is one which dispenses with as much overtime as possible. While we are now exceptionally busy, yet the great bulk of the operatives are not to-day working over-time.” This is the way in which the ignorant pauper Englishman talks. Strange to say, his language is better than that of the average editor of American hightariff papers. The Economist must either admit that its interview was merely a “fake” intended to deceive its readers, or that the alleged Bradford pauper is an intelligent gentleman. Which is it? Men ain’t apt to get kicked out of good society for being rich.

NATIONAL SOLONS.

REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceedings of Senate ar.d Houae—Bills PaMsed or introduced in Either Branch—Questions of Moment to the Country at Large. The Legislative Grind. The Senate plunged into real business Tuesday. Naturally the President’s message attracted the main attention of the day. but aside from this there were stirring resolutions on tire Monroe doctrine and the Cuban relrellion, and after that the usual deluge of bills and resolutions. The message was given the closest attention. At its conclusion Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, offered a resolution, vigorous in terms, reaffirming the principles of tite Monroe doctrine and presenting them in such form as to permit their enactment as a permanent law rather than an expression of the policy advocated by President Monroe. In the same line was a resolution by Mr. Culloni, of Illinois, and another by Mr. Alien, of Nebraska. There were 272 bills and sixteen resolutions introduced in tlie Senate altogether but a large majority of the bills were reprints of measures which failed to pass last session. Many of these, as also a large proportion of the new bills, were for private purposes. There were also several for the modification of the pension laws. Senators Peffer, Stewart, and Squire reintroduced their bills of last session pertaining to silver coinage. Senator Pettigrew introduced a bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy and reintroduced his bill of last session to prevent the extermination of the furbearing animals of Alaska. Senator Vest reintroduced his bill of last session to prohibit monopoly in the transportation of cattle to foreign countries, and also his bills for the compulsory education of, Indian children and the settlement of private land claims. Senator Chandler reintroduced his bill for the exclusion of alien anarchists and also his bill for the regulation of immigration. Senator Frye introduced a bill providing for the amendment of the tariff laws, so as to admit free of duty all material used in the construction or equipment of vessels built in the United States. He also presented several other bills for the encouragement of American shipping and American shipbuilding and general bills to amend the laws relating to navigation and to prevent discrimination against American trade. Among the large number of bills offered by Mr. Peffer (Pop.. Kan.) were those limiting the President’s term to six years without re-election, repealing all laws permitting the issuance of bonds, the limitation of the power of injunction. The Cuban situation received attention, from both the Florida Senators. The Cali resolution and the Monroe doctrine will receive early attention. At the brief executive session the nominations of Mr. QJney as Secretary of State and Air. Harmon as Attorney General were confirmed, and that of Rufus W. Peckham to the Supreme bench referred to the Judiciary Committee. In the House a large number of bills and joint resolutions were introduced, many of them measures that failed during the last session. The session of the House was, however, brief and consumed almost entirely by the reading of the President’s message. This was listened to with fair attention, but the features of the document' received no signs either of approval or disapproval from the members until the conclusion of the reading, when several Democrats created a slight demonsration. When it was finished the House immediately adjourned until Friday. The Senate worked Wednesday, hut most of the business transacted was of a routine character. Mr. Hoar offered a resolution denouncing the recent atrocities in Turkey and assuring the executive branch of the cordial indorsement by Congress of a vigorous course for the protection of American citizens in Turkey and the suppression of the barbarities against Christianity. The first formal speech of the session was made by Mr. Allen, of Nebraska, on Cuba and tbc Monroe doctrine. Air. Alien urged the recognition of the Cuban insurgents, the annexation of Cuba and a strong foreign policy. The influx of bills continued. Among them was one increasing all pensions granted under the act of 1890 to sl2. The session of the Senate was brief Thursday. Its only feature beyond the introduction of a bill by Mr. Chandler for the free coinage of silver when England, Franco and Germany enact similar legislation, and a resolution by his colleague, Air. Gallinger. declaring it to be the sense of the Senate that it was unwise and inexpedient to retire the greenbacks, was a short Speech by Air. Call in favor of the recognition of the Cuban revolutionists as belligerents. In the Senate Alonday a speech by Alorgan of Alabama opposing the settlement of the Behring Sea claim was the event of the day. The Senate in executive session confirmed the following nominations: Elmer R. Adams of Missouri to be district judge for the western district of Missouri: Rufus H. Peckham of New York to he associate justice of the United Stateg Supreme Court. The House held a short session and devoted most of its time to discussing the appointment of House officers. The first business proposition brought forward in the House was a bill by Air. Hopkins to amend the statute fixing the customs district of Chicago so that the district would embrace all of tile States of Illinois and Indiana. The bill was passed by unanimous consent. A resolution was passed for the appointment of three new assistants to the superintendent of the document-room.

Onr Gold. The Governor of Arizona says that Territory will produce this year $lO,000,000 in gold, against $4,000,000 last year. If the- gold resources of this country should be capitalized on the Kaffir basis millionaires would be reckoned small men and give place to the billionaire.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

This and That.

Until a woman is unable to tie a horse, she should talk less about voting A dog will always fight another dog quicker if it lias a ribbon around its neck. A woman rather enjoys an air of authority in a man who is not related to her. No man has had a real good time unless he is so tired next i>;y that he can hardly walk. It is awfully hard to admit that you admire poetry without feeling silly. A shrewd man without money is a better investment for a girl than a fool who’has money. Considering the fighting talk you hear, the cowardice of men is entitled to credit for a great deaAf peace. Do not think you can talk about people and not do them damage: a cyclone is composed of nothing but wind. I A man seldom volunteers to do a man a favor, but he is often bored and coaxed into doing an acquaintance * favor.

HUNTING HUMPBACK WHALES.

Exciting; Sport in Capturing the Monster* of the Deep. As we came abreast of a tiny cove or cleft In the cliffs, the harpooner suddenly stiffened with excitement, and he muttered “Blow-ow-ow” in an undertone. There in that little dock-like cleft lay a monster just awash, a tiny spiral of vapor at her side showing her to be accompanied by a calf. Down came the mast and sails as if by magic, and in less than one minute we were paddling straight in for the cove. The water was as smooth as a mirror and the silence profound. A few strokes and the order was whispered, “.Stand up!” to the harpooner. Louis rose, poising his iron, and almost immediately darted. The keen weapon was buried up to the seeket iu the broad, glistening side. “Stern all!” was shouted and backward we swiftly glided; but there was no tieed for retreat. Never a move did she make, save convulsively to clutch the calf to her side with one of her great wing-like flippers. AVe carefully approached again, the harpooner and officer having changed places, and, incredible as it may seem, almost wedged the boat in between the whale and the rocks. No sheep could have more quietly submitted to slaugh. ter than did this mighty monster, whose roll lo one side would have crushed our boat to flinders, and whose death struggle, had it taken place as usual, must. In so confined a corner, have drowned us all. Evidently fearful of injuring her calf, she quietly died and gave no sign. Case-hardened old blubber hunters as we were, we felt deeply ashamed, our deed looked so like a cold-blooded murder. One merciful thrust of a lance ended the calf’s misery, and, rapidly cutting through the two lips of our prize, we buckled to our heavy task of towing it to the ship. We were soon joined by the other boats, but all combined made no great progress, and we had seven hours of heavy labor before we got the carcass home. Securing it alongside, we went to a hard and weßearned meal and a good night’s rest— Good Words.

To Wash Dishes Properly.

To the woman with whom the love of cleanliness and daintiness is inherent the manner in which the ordinary servant washes dishes is maddening. Glass, silver, china, are all crowded, helter-skelter, into a diskpan full of warm water, a cake of soap is next added, and white this swims in the tepid suds, a greasy dishcloth is used to “swab” off each article before it is removed from the pan and placed on the table to drain. Dishes to be cleansed properly should be washed, as it were, in courses. Into a perfectly clean pan of scalding water, to which have been added a few drops of ammonia, go first the glasses, each one of which must be dried rapidly with a soft linen cloth. Now the washing powder or the soap, inclosed "in a Shaker, or, lacking this, in a deep cup, goes in the pan, and the silver is washed each piece being rubbed to a polish While still hot. Last comes the china, from which the grease must already have been rinsed. As many plates, etc., cool the suds, boiling water must be lioured in as often as needed. The secret of bright and polished table ware is never to allow a dish to drain. Each bit of crockery or metal must be wiped the moment it is drawn from the hot suds. Not one servant in a hundred will follow this rule, unless constantly reminded by the mistress that she must do so. The price of wellwashed dishes is, like all other dainty housework, the mistress’ eternal vigilance.—Harper’s Bazar.

Expensive Feathers in Wales’ Crown

The apex of the Prince of Wales’ crown is a tuft of feathers, tipped with gold, said to be worth £IO,OOO ($,50,000). It took twenty years to collect these feathers, which cost the lives of a dozen hunters in the bargain. The bird from whose tail the feathers are plucked is called the ferhvah. It belongs to the bird of paradise species, and is exceedingly rare. To obtain the tail feather in*its full beauty, it is necessary to pluck it out of the living bird, as instantly after death the feather becomes lusterless. What makes the hunting of the ferlwah so dangerous Is that the bird always haunts the lairs of tigers. It is very probable that the crown owned by the present Prince of will also serve many succeeding princes, as the English ladies who go in for reforms were horrified at the deadly havoc which the collection of H. R. H.’s millinery caused and the Prince promised that it should last many seasons.—Ex.

She Wanted It Badly.

In one of the Washington jewelry stores is a diamond breastpin valued at SI,OOO. A young woman whose love for ornaments Is much greater than her ability to buy them happened to be in this store when the pin was shown to a lady, who did not purchase it. Two or three times a week since then the'girl has gone to obtain a glimpse of the beautiful pin, until she finally made, up her mind that she tvould make an effort to own it, so the following colloquy took place, that I happened to hear: “How much is that pin?” “A thousand dollars.” “Well, I will take it if you will let me pay for it at $1 a week. I only make $2 a week. I buy everything else that way.” The astonished clerk told her that he would have to speak to the proprietor, who was out, and the girl promised to return.—Washington Star.

Couldn’t Deliver the Goods.

Edward Atkinson recently told the following anecdote as illustrating a human failing very frequently to be seen: "When cottonseed oil was under the bane of popular prejudice and the law as well, a Chicago lardmaker shipped some lard ‘adulterated’ with cottonseed oil to Europe. It was pronounced excellent lard. It was liked so well that he received a great order for 10,000tierces. But at this juncture he could get no oil, and was forced to ship the pure lard. The consignee pronounced it off sample,’ wouldn’t have it. and the unfortunate Chicago man last a large sum of money.”

A Johannesburg in Montana.

Rich gold discoveries on Harley creek, Mont., caused a great rush of prospectors, and the new camp has beeg. named Johannesburg. The wife of a Massachusetts minister wears a blue dress on Monday to match, her husband’s mood.