Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 8, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1899 — Page 7

Deposit Your Savings —With— THE INDIANA TRUST CO. Capita! sl, (XX), 000 Liability of Stockholders. 1,000,000 Total Security for Deposits . 2,000,000 This company will pay you 3 per cent, i: crest, compounded semi-annually, on deposits ol jl and upward. No Fines, No Expense Fund, No Withdrawal Fees. You can withdraw the full amouut of y ur deposit and interest without any deductions whatever, OFFICES: Indiana Trust Building, Cor. Washington Street and Virginia Ave. THE L. A. KINSEY CO., INCORPORATED. CAPITAL, $-5.000—1-'LLL PAID. -uuoKiatsChicago Crain and Previsions, New York Stocks. Long Distance Telephone. 1373 and 1598. 1! and 13 West Pearl Street • 'ln Innatt Office, Room 4, Carlisle Building. MURDERED Hi HIS POST. Aight Telegraph Operator Killed in a Lonely Hallway Station. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 7.—H. Wurster, th.. night operator for the Philadelphia & K>. dinK Railroad Company at Bingen, a small town near Bethlehem, was murdered ally to-day by robbers. The murder is P ought to have occurred between 1 and 3 • ' lock. When the local treight reached Bingen the conductor looked in at the window of the telegraph office. Leaning against iio wall, sitting upright in his accustomed i* a. e, with his feet on the desk, was the body of Worst nr. His head had been crushed and there were apparently two bullet holes in ihe side of his head. The body was yet warm, indicating that he had been murdered lut a short time after having reported ins last train at 12:45 a. m. The oifice floor was covered with blood, indicating there had been a terrible struggle. All the drawers had been rilled and the lifeless form had been placed in the chair after the murder. There is no clew to the murderers. Wurster was twenty-seven years of age and married. Llewellyn Stcut, who lives at Spring Valley. mar the scene of the murder, was placed under arrest to-day, charged with killing Wurster. Foot prints in the snow led from Bingen district to Stout’s home. He tells conflicting stories about liis movements last night.

HOW BHII E GOT RICH. 1 Mil Hi* Own Judgment In Preference to Others. Facts and Fiction. Then is no more striking example of suc- < •-- at . aim and by the efforts of Individual * i'ity than that in the career of the late \-S* nator Calvin S. Brice, of Ohio. It is bo time at all since, he hadn’t enough to flag . l>r< ol wagon. It was in Governor Foster's titn<- as chief magistrate of Ohio i hai Brice, then a poor, hard-up lawyer, jnatiag •! to get into Foster’s debt about >2, j. '>no day Bi ice came to Foster and to.d him that the law business didn't pay. : ao i.-kou him to appoint him to a position vh't* ho might make a living. "Can't.” said Foster; "you're a Democrat.’’ i admit.’’ replied Brice, "that I am slights a Democrat, but if you’d give me. a i osition I'll guarantee that nobody will notice it." I’an’t do it," said Foster. "To appoint a Democrat would ruin me.” But you’ll never get your $2,000," said Brice. "You might as well ask me to make *1 ir as to make that $2,000 with my law practice.'’ "I'll tell you what I’ll do." said Foster. ' I am all tangled up with Hocking Valley on the New York Stock Exchange, and I want somebody to go there and look after things. I'll send you if you’ll go." Brice jumped at tint chance. Foster gave V w SSOO and a lot of directions, and impr. > and upon him solemnly the necessity of doing just what he was told. If Brice had been a waiter he would have taken your order, and then brought you anything In P eased. He would have used his own judgment. That's what lie did with Foster's Hocking Valley deal, but he clawed off a $ !•>!-> proti. whereas if he hud done as Fosi : h and told him h would have lost all. Foster was delighted, and, like a good old n iii in thi story book, he gave the young man S2'UK- Then Brice went back to Wad f-ireet and plunged. I iii s greatest play was building the Nickel-plate. He put In every dollar he , ou.d get and from any source. There .in.*- a time, too. when to save himself from Mier ruin, if not from som* thing worse, he 1 id to sell. He went to Vandal hilt, whose ).!;■(! the Nickel-plate paralleled. Vanderbilt gave him what low natures call “the laugh.' He wouldn’t buy the Nickel-plate. }:, aid lie could afford to wait for the first-T.i.ei'-Mgo foreclosure and buy it from the sheriff. ■ 1 1 you don’t buy it Jay Gould will,” said lirice. “Oh! no, he wont.” said Vanderbilt, and then he gave the anxious Brice a second tdi'am of 'tin* laugh.”, Brice then went to Gould. He knew that Gould didn't want the Nickel-plate, hut he L.ul a beautiful scheme to propose. He wanttd to et Vanderbilt in for the road, r. r.d h* knew he w ould buy it before he would allow Gould to get it. Here came Brice's strategy. He told Gould that if he v iaiM sit silent and not contradict, neither id'itrn nor deny, any newspaper article to tin effect that he was going to buy the Nickel-plate, and after this dam-like silence I d continued for a week, if he would then slow \ rid* over the Nickel-plate in an obsnation car. Vanderbilt would buy the r- id : ' i<l ho would give Gould S.V'O.OOO. Couldn’t didn't care for the ITsW.OOO, but he was a jocose simulator, a r.d it struck him that the whole thing would be a majestic joke on Vanderbiit. And that was the s:*>ry of it. The papers came out and said that Clouid w;.s going to buy the Nickelp’. to. Gould, when asked, kept mum and look'd wise. At the end of a week he r indor'<l snail-like over the Nickel-plate, smoking cigars from the rear end of an Ohs' rvotion car. and had all the air of a man looking at a piece of property. F ties were vi ed about Gould’s trip from every water tank and way station along the line, an<j before Gould had reached Chicago A' rd. ibilt. in a tit of hysterics, wireei Brice t! at he would take the Nickel-plate. Ven- < t took the Nickel-plate and Brice was saved. > r. Brice was a man of many interests an an indefatigable worker. Men who knew him well have said that if he had eon- < * ntrated his mind to the mere labor of monoy-gt iting h’s wealth would have eon.- id that of the Goulds or the Vanderbilts He extended his operations ic the bu-in-'S? of resuscitating dying railroad properties in various sections of the country. The services of himself and of his P : tn* r were in constant demand. In Washington. as in New York, he lived like a peine* He entertained lavishly. It is said that one dinner given by him cost SII,OOO. He owned a box at the Metropolitan Opera Hous*. He paid $38,000 for it. The annual t x on it an*l assessments amount annually to about J.'l.Vm His fortune has been variously estimated at from $2.000.(KK) to $7,000,(w>>. and no one suspected it would dwindle to anything like SOOO,OOO. Pensions for Veteran*. Certificates have been issued to the follow ing-nanu and Indianians: Increas"—Henry K Powell. New Castle, sl2 to sl7; John Crabtree, Hartford City, sl6 to SJ7. < 'rjgir.t! Widows, etc.—Elizabeth Rutherford. Washington, id: Harriet B. Klein, English. SS; Louisa Crawford. Fuirmount. D M*.ry D. AB-ore, Bloomington,, sl2; Julia t "X. Laurel, $x llnlidtnsr Permit. W. Hardacre, frame house, ooraei East Tenth end Tacoma streets, 11,200.

STOCKS TENDING HIGHER a BANK statements show that EASY MO\KY WILL COATIME. — Active Trading on \ew York 'Change Saturday, with Some Specialties Lower—Local Trade Qaiet. At New York, Saturday, money on call waa steady at 2%'g-3 per cent.; last loan, 3 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 303% per cent. Sterling exchange was steady, with actual business in bankers’ bills at $4.84%® 4.84% for demand and at $4.81%#4.82 for sixty days; posted rates. $4.8214 and $4.85*4; commercial bills, $4.80% #54.81%. Silver certificates, 59%@00%c; bar silver, cidfeC; Mexican dollars 4<i f Lc. At London bar silver closed at 27 5-16d an ounce. The imports of specie for the week were $16,388 In gold and s’2,7*o in silver: dry goods and merchandise, $9,86 ‘ 25ft. Exports of gold and silver from this port to all countries for the week enc b.g Friday aggregate $769,200 silver bars and coin and $670,000 gold. Toe New York weekly bank statement shows the following changes: Surplus reserve, increase $4,349,400 Loans, decrease 4,504,900 Specie, increase 3.685,800 Legal tenders, in'rease 1,624.600 Deposits, increase.. ; 3,844,000 Circulation, decrease 412,400 The banks now hold $23,530,575 in excess of the requirements of the 25 per cent. rule. The New York Financier says: "In view ot the extraordinary speculative activity, the weekly statements of the associated hanks of New York assume new interest. The current exhibit, in the sense that it foreshadows easy money, and therefore makes for a continuance of those factors which have been so prominent of late, is of a favorable character. The week covered has been marked by heavy dividend disbursements, and as the statement includes only the beginning of these transactions, it would not be strange if the real condition of the banks at the close of business Saturday differed radically from the published figures. In the main, it must be said that the tendency of funds is as about set forth. The banks gained heavily from the interior during the week, some estimates placing the amount as high as $5,000 000. As the operations with the treasury resulted only in a slight loss, the published expansion of $5,310,400 cash, $5,686 &00 of which was in the form of specie, does not seem unreasonable. The decrease of $4,504,900 in loans is the first contraction noted in some weeks. It is rather difficult of explanation, but probably is to be traced to the cancellation of sterling loans and the part played in the week's business by the closing of the Baltimore & Ohio reorganization. The real significance of the statement is found in the cash expansion. The certainty that reserves will be increased from this time on by interior remittances assures a continuance of easy money. The present deposits and loans of the New York banks are far above previous records, and with increasing idle reserves they can be expanded indefinitely." The total sales of stocks Saturday reached 480,100 shares, including 15.120 Atchison, 67,TX) Atchison preferred. 4,910 Central Pacific, 7.650 Burlington, 4,35 ft Delaware & Hudson, 3.367 Louisville & Nashville, 9,200 Manhattan 7.300 Reading preferred, 6,500 Missouri Pacific, 4,200 Northern Pacific, 4,920 Reading, 4,900 Rock Island. 10,420 St. Paul. 6,500 Southern preferred, 3.300 Union Pacific preferred, 4 non Wheeling & Lake F.rie, 16.200 Tobacco, 33,700 Steel, 11.800 Steel preferred, 14.400 People’s Gas, 10.820 Colorado Fuel and Iron, 6.710 Pacific Mail. 17,720 Sugar. 8.420 Rubber, 6 ICO Western Union, 4.600 St. Louis & Southwestern preferred. STOCKS IN DEMAND.

New York stocks resumed the upward movement Saturday and in some cases advanced materially. Efforts to bring about a reaction were successful only in the initial trading. There were moderate arbitrage sales for London account, which aided the reactionists’ early efforts. The grangers and Pacifies were off fractionally, while the so-called Flower specialties Brooklyn Transit, Federal Steel and People's Gas—were very sharply off. The execution of an order to sell a large block of stock at the market caused a bad break in Tobacco. This brought out further sales by reaching stop-loss orders. Floor brokers in many cases advised their houses that the movement in the general market was too violent to last, and presently buying orders predominated over those to sell. These purchases were largely increased on the appearance of the bank statement, which was far more favorable than expected. Brooklyn Transit rose five points from the lowest; People’s Gas. 1%; Tobacco, 2%: Sugar, American Steel and Wire and Federal Steel, 2 each: the grangers about a point, and Atchison preferred. IP*. Notable advances were made in American District Telegraph, which rose 8 points; Colorado Fuel and Tron preferred. 10; St. Paul & Duluth, 567: Delaware & Hudson, 2%. and Rubber preferred ,2* 2 . The close was active and strong at the best Hesitancy and irregularity marked the week's fluctuations in values. The underlying condition continued very favorable in mercantile and financial circles and market movements were largely technical, owing to the recent steady advance. Prominent interests were ranged on both sides, one party marking up their specialties, bringing nut a considerable commission house following, while others, having disposed of their holdings, tested the market for a reaction with some success on Friday and early Saturday, but the market moved up before the close. The conditions of affairs in the Philippines and talk of friction between England and France, as well as a desire to realize profits, were assigned as reasons for the selling for London account. London’s persistent selling on balance daily initiated a nervous and unsettled trend in. early trading which, except on Friday, was as regularly overcome by a subsequent rise. There were pronounced movements in both directions in the specialties, while the standard securities fluctuated less widely. Grangers for the week show fractionally irregular changes, while the Pacifies, Northern Pacific and Union, are off a point each. American Steel and Wire is off 4% for the common and 6 for preferred. The decline in Hocking Valley preferred was 6%. Pronounced advances for the week were Brooklvn Transit, 11; Colorado Southern, first prefVrrtd, 7 New York Air-brake and Tobacco 5 each and Pullman, 4%. The traffic returns of railways were in nearly all cases unusually large, reflecting improved business conditions as much as of the increase iii the grangers, for instance, was due to a profitable return from the seaboard traffic. Sc. Paul’s gross receipts for the fourth week b December were unprecedentedly large, exceeding as they did last year’s returns for the seme period of over a quarter of a million dollars. The reports of the Louisville end the Southern railroads for November w.-re also creditable. A hardening tendency in the money market, call loans being often bid up sharply, coincident with bear raids, although it quickly receded to nprmal figures at times distributed confidence of mar-gin-holders of stocks. IMPORTS OF GOLD. A feature of interest was the import of a million and a half of gold, a petty payment on account of Europe’s indebtedness to America, which is at present loaned abroad. The currency movement towards New York, which has already set in, seems likely to continue. The hank reserve increase of $4 349,409 was largely due to this movement. Seasonable weather for the anthracite coal trade at one time helped the coalers, notably Reading, although disappointment was expressed at the failure of the predicted advance in coal to materialize at the beginning of the year. The purchase of coal lands, which it was assumed would largely increase the traffic of the Ontario & Western. because it was made by parties friendly to that road, gave the stock a sharp turn upwards. The delicate character of the reorganization of the Hoiking Valley was a shock to the holders of these securities, and sates by those dissatisfied caused a break of ID points in the 5 per cent, bonds, 22 in the sires, and sln the preferred stock. Colorado Southern, which is the new company organized through the rehabilitation of the Union Pacific. Denver & Gulf Railroad, showed exceptional strength and activity, making a totai gain of 7 points for the first preferred. The marked reduction in fixed charges contemplated through the management of the new company v as ascribed as a reason for the demand. Pullman and Federal Steel were bulled on talk of good earnings. The weuk was nrcl’flc of rumors and ensuing dentals affecting various properties. Manhattan was o be electrically equipped by General Electric, and both stocks were marked up on prospective benefits to each, should the story be true. Brookl>m Transit, it was said, would be consolidated with other trollev lines in Brooklyn, and made a very handsome advance on such reports and the more tangible fact of its increase of

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$665,009 in gross earnings for the year. Brooklyn Union Gas surged upwards on arguments tending to eluciuate how Brooklyn Union Cas might benefit by an alliance villi certain electric companies, although as far as the public knows such projects are still m the air, and then the possibility of increased dividends was mooted. Pittsburg. Cincinnati, < "hicago & St. Louis attained high record figures on talk that the minority holdings were being purchased in the interest of Pennsylvania, the parent company. Denials of this story from Philadelpma. accompanied by selling from that quarter, brought the advance to only a temporary halt, but as the truth or falsity of this report is only bv inference the confident buying of 'Western Union appeared, and it was rumored a rate agreement with tlie Postal Telegraph Company had been arranged. The short lines put out on the appearance of a rival company were largely driven to cover in the case of Tobacco, which appreciated very largely, the gossip being that such assets as were supposed to represent an equivalent of the Tobacco Company’s interest in the Continental Company might be distributed in some manner among the stockholders. Sugar was successively pressed down on talk of demoralization in the trade and lifted on the closing of an independent company’s refinery because it found refining unprofitable at present prices, said the sugar buils, but for repairs, said the refinery relerred to. The sag movement in American steel and wire was connected with negotiations for the consolidation of independent companies. The bond market during the week displayed considerable irregularity, but there was a decided undertone of strength which prevented any concessions of note in the prominent lines United States old fours and the fives, coupon, advanced %, the new fours and the fives, registered, %. The threes deelirfed % in the bid price. Tlie following table, prepared by L. W. Louis, Room 11. Board of Trade, shows the range of quotations: Open- High- LoVr- ClosName. ‘ing. est. est. ing. Atchison 18b, 19% IS 19% Atchison pref 50% 54 50% 53% Baltimore & Ohio 67% Canada Pacific 85 Canada Southern 54 54 54 54 Central Pacific 85 Chesapeake * Ohio 25 25% 24% 25 Chicago & Alton 170% B. & Q 124% 125 124% 125 C. & E. 1 60% C. & E. I. pref 113 C., C„ C. & St. L 43 43% 43 43% C., C.. C. & St. L. pref 94 Chicago Great Western 15% Chi., Ind. & L 7% Chi., Ind. & L>. pref 32 Chicago & North western.... 141% 141% 141%, 141% Delaware & Hudson 109% 1)., L. & W 156% Denver & Rio Grande.... 19 Denver & Rio Grande pref 70 Erie 14 Erie first pref 37% P'ort Wayne 178 Great Northern pref 144% Hocking Valley 2% Illinois Central 114% Lake Erie & "Western 19% Lake Erie & Western pref 73% Lake Shore 197 Louisville & Nashville 61% 65 64% 65 Manhattan 101 101% 10*>% 101% Michigan Central 11l Missouri Pacific 44% 45% 44% 45% Mo., Kansas & Texas pref. 39% 39% 39% 39% New Jersey Central 97*4 New York Central 121% 122% 121% 122% Northern Pacific 42% 43% 42% 43% Northern Pacific pref 76% 76% 76% 76% Reading 20% 22 20% 22 Reading first pref 52% Rock Island 113% 114% 113 114% St. Paul 120% 121% 120% 121% St. Paul pref 167 St. Paul & Omaha 91% 92% 91% 92% St. Paul & Omaha pref 167 Southern Pacific 39% Texas Pacific 18% Union Pacific pref 73 7:’,% 73 , 73% Onion Pacific com 42 43 41% 42% Wabash 8% Wabash pref 23% Wheeling & Lake Erie ~% Wheeling & Lake Erie pref 28% EXPRESS COMPANIES. Adams Express 198 American Express 142 IT. S. Express 54 Wells-Fargo Express 125 MISCELLANEOUS. American Cotton Oil 34% American Cotton Oil pref 88% American Spirits 13% 14 13% 13% American Spirits pref 28 American Tobacco 148% 148% 146 148% American Tobacco pref 135 People’s Gas 11l 112% 110% 112% Consolidated Ges 195% Commercial Cable Cos 175 General Electric 99% 99% 99V* I’d/, Federal Steel 52% Federal Steel pref *3 '* Lead 37% 38 37% ?.i Lead pref ••• IL% Pacific Mail 45 45% 44% 45% Pullman Palace • • hi Si gar 125% 127% 125% 127 Sugar pref H 2 Tennessee Coal and 1r0n... 36% 37 ."*•>% 36% U. S. Leather */ V. S. Leather pref 72 72 % 7: .2 U S. Rubber 42V. U. S. Rubber pref •••; 1*6% Western Union 94% 96% 94% 9a% UNITED STATES BONDS. U. S. fours, 18% U. S. fours, coup H‘% U. S. fours, new, reg 129 U. S. fours, new, coup *29% U. S. fives, reg 112% V. S. fives, coup 113% U. S. threes, coup 10*%

Saturday's Dank Clearing:*. At Chicago—Clearings, $19,315,701; balances, $1,430,309. New York exchange, 20c premium. Sterling exchange, posted rates, $4.82 and $4.85%; actual, $4.82 and $4 84%; sixty days, $4.81 and $4.83%. „ . , At New York—Clearings. $241,462,232; balances, $11,869,167. At Boston— Clearings, $21,434,614; balances, $2.268,025. At Cincinnati— Clearings, $2,0-49.200. At New Orleans —Clearing®, $1,952,970. At Baltimore —Clearings, $4,183,651; balances, $482,189. _ * , At Philadelphia—Clearings. $14,586,8*3; balances, $1,825,851. At St. Louis— Clearings, $4,6U,u2J. LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE. DuD Week in Trade Circles, with No Important Changes In Value*. The first week of the year 1899 was no exception to that of corresponding weeks of former years, the week being occupied more in ascertaining what was done in 1898 and making collections of that year. Monday traveling salesmen will start out on their usual rounds, a number of houses having put more men on the road, so promising is the business outlook. Prices carry a steady tone, and in no line is there a tendency to advance to any extent. The range is now so low that any change is likely to be in the way of an advance. In no line was there any feature calling for comment. The local grain market is increasing in activity. Higher prices are increasing the receipts of corn. All cereals are in active request at the following range on track, as reported by the secretary of the Board of Trade: Wheat —No. 2 red, 69c; No. 3 red, 64@68c; December, 69%c: wagon wheat, 69c. Corn—No. 1 white, 35Vic; No. 3 white (one color). 35%c; No. 4 white, 31%@33%c; No. 2 white mixed, 35c; No. 3 white mixed, 35c; No. 4 white mixed, 31033 c; No. 2 yellow, 35%c; No. 3 yellow, 35%c; No. 4 yellow. 31V*@33Vic; No. 2 mixed, 35c; No. 3 mixed, 35c; No. 4 mixed, 31033 c; ear corn, 35c. Oats—No. 2 white, 30%c; No. 3 white, 30c; No. 2 mixed. 29%c; No. 3 mixed, 28c. Hay— No. 1 timothy, $8; No. 2 timothy, $6.5007. cember, 69c;- wagon wheat, 69e. insjiections—Wheat: No. 2 red, 4 cars; No. 3 red. 9; rejected, 2; total, 15 cars. Corn: No. 3 white, 1 car; No. 4 white, 1; No. 3 yellow, 1; No. 3 mixed, 4; no grade, 1; total, 8 cars. Hay: No. 1 timothy, 1 car; No. 2 timothy, 2; total, 3 cars. Poultry and Other Produce. (Prices paid by shippers.* Poultry—Hens, 5%c; spring chickens, 6c; cocks, 3c; hen turkeys, young and fat, 8c; young toms, 7c; old hens, 6c; toms, 4c; ducks, 4c; geese. 4c for full feathered, 3c for plucked. Cheest—New York full cream. 118311 c; skims, 60Sc, domestic Swiss, 12%c; brick, 12c; limburger, 100. Butter —Choice, 10c; poor, 6#Sc; Elgin creamery, 210. Eggs—Candled, 22c per doz. Feathers—Piime geese, 3Ce per lb; prime duck, 10017 c per lb. Beeswax—3oc for yellow; 25c for dark. W*ool—Medium, unwashed. 17018 c; tub-washed. 20®2.'.c; burry and unmerchantable, 5c less. Honey —lti@l3c per lb. Game—Rabbits. 65®70c. Venison, 18020 c per lb. Opossum, 20®25c apiece. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Green-salted Hides—No. 1, B%c; No. 2. 7%c; No. 1 calf, 10c; Xc. 2 calf. B%e. Grease—White, 3o; yellow. 2%c; brown, 2%c. Tallow—No. 1,3 c; No. 2. 2%c. Bones —Dry, $12013 per ton. THE JOBBING TRADE. (The quotations given below are the selling prices of the wholesale dealers.) * Cnndiea and Nut*. Candles—Stick, 6%®6%c per it>; common mixed, 6%#7c; G. A R. mixed. 6%c; Banner twist stick. 8c; cream mixed. 9c; o!d-time mixed. 7c. Nuts—Soft-shelled almonds, ll#13c; English walnuts, 9#X2c; Brazil nuts. 10c; filberts, lie; peanuts, roasted, 7@Bc; mixed nuts, 10c. Canned Good*. Corn, 75e#51.23. Peaches—Eastern standard S-lb. $1.7502; 3-ib. seconds, $1.2501.50; California standard. $2.10®2.40: California seconds. $1.7502. Miscellaneous—Blackberries. 2-lb. 85#70c; raspberiies. 2-lb, &o@9sc; pineapple, standard. 2-lb. sl.tv# 1.20; choice. $2#2..10; cove oysters. 1-lb, full weight. Si®93c; light. 6u#6sc; string beans, 70© 90c: Lima beans, $1.1001.20; peas, marrowfats. 85c®3l 10: early June. 90c#41.10; lobsters, *1.85®2; red cherries, 9oc#sl; strawberries. 9u#9sc; salmon. 1-lb, 90c#51.86; 3-Ib tomatoes, 90095 c. Coal and Coke. Anthracite, per ton, $7; Brazil block. $3; Island City lump. $2.75; Paragon lump, $2.75; Jackson lump, $4; Pittsburg lump. B: C. & O. Kanawha lump < $4, Wtmfreue lump, Hi Blossburg smith*

Ing. $3: smokeless. $4: lump coke, per bushel, 10c; crushed coke, per bushel, 12c. Drug*. Alcohol. *2.52ff2G0; asafetida. 25@3f>c; alum. 2% 64c; camphor, 404144 c; cochineal. 50®55c; chloroform. s*<g.sc: copperas, brls. 75j£85e: cream tartar. pure, <333c; indigo, 85@S0o; licorice, Calab., genuine, 3i%j4oc; magnesia, carb.. 2-oz. 25<G)30c; morphine, r. & W., per oz., $2.50442.75; madder, 14 ®l6c; oil. castor, per gal, $191.10; oil. bergamot, per lb, $2.25; opium, $4; quinine, P. ic W., per oz, 31936 c; balsam copaiba, 504760 c; soap, castile, Fr.. 12# 16c; soda bicarb.. 4%#6e; salts, Epsom. 4!&5c; sulphur, flour. s#6c; sTltpeter. 14c; turpentine. 45664 c; glycerine, 15<b!7e; iodide potassium, $2.50#2.60; bromide potassium. 55060 c, chlorate; potash. 20c; be rax. 9#l2c; einchonida, 20 ©2sc; carbolic acid, 20#32c. Oils—Linseed. 38#40c per gal; coal oil, legal test, 7#l4c; bank. 40c; best straits, 50c; Labrador, 60c; West Virginia, lubricating. 20@30c; miners’, 40c; lard oils, winter strained, in brls, 40c per gal; half brls, 3c per gal extra. Dry Good*. Bleached Sheetings—Androscoggin L, sc; Berkley. No. 60, 6%c; Cabot, sc; Capitol, 4%c; Cumberland, 5%c; Dwight Anchor. 6c; Fruit of the Loom. 5%c; Farwell, 5%c; Fitchville, sc; Phil I Width, 4c; Gilt Edge, 4c; Gilded Age, 3%c; Hill, 5%e: Hope, 5%c; Lin wood, 5%c; Lonsdale, 6%0; Peabody, 4c; Pride of the West. 10c; Ten Strike, sc; Peppered. 9-4, 15c; Pepperell, 10-4, 16%c; Androscoggin, 9-4, 15%c; Androscoggin, 10-4, 17c. Brown Sheetings—Atlantic A, 5%c; Argyle, 4%c; Boctt C, 4c; Buck’s Head, sc; Clifton CCC, 4%c; Constitution, 40-inch, 5%c; Carlisle. 40-inch, 6c; Dwight s Star, 6c; Great Falls E, 4%c; Great Falls J 4%c; Hill Fine, 5%c; Indian Head, 5%c; Pepperell R, 4%c; Peppered, 10-4, 15c; Androscoggin, 9-4, 14c; Androscoggin, 10-4, 13%0. Prints —Allen dress styles, 4c; Aden's staples, 4c; Aden TR. 4c; Aden’s rones, 4c; American Indigo, 4c; Arnold long cloth B, 7%c; Arnold LLC, 6%c; Cccheco fancy, 4c: Cocheco madders, 4c; Hamilton fancy, 4%c; Mernmae pinks and purples. 4%c; Pacific fancy, 4%c: Simpson's mourning. 3%c; Simpson's Berlin solids. sc: Simpson's oil finish, Cc; American shirting. 3c; black white, 3%c; grays, 3%c. Ginghams—Amoskeag staples, sc; Amoskeag Persian dress, 6c; Bates Warwick dress, 5%c; Lancaster, Ec; Lancaster Normandies, 6c; Renfrew dress styles, 6c. Kid-finished Cambrics—Edwards, 2%e; Warren, 2%c; Slater, 2%c: Genesee, 2%c. Grain Bags—Amoskeag, $13.50; American, $13.50; Harmony, $13.50; Stark, sl6. Tickings—Amoskeag ACA, 9c; Conestoga BF, ll%c; Cordis. 140, 9%c; Cordis FT. 9%c; Cordis ACE, 9%c; Hamilton awnings. 8c; Kimono fancy. 17c; Lenox fancy, 18c; Muthuen AA, 9%c; Oakland AF, 5%c; Portsmouth, 10%o; Susquehanna, 11 %c; Sbetucket SW, 5%c; Shetucket F, 6c; Swift River, 4%c. Flonr. Straight grade?, $4 50#4.75; fancy grades, $6.75® 6.25; patent flour. s6©6-50; low grades, [email protected]; spring wheat patents, $6.5(<®6.75. Groceries. Coffee—Good, 10# 12c; prime, 12® 14c; strictly prime, 14# 16c; fancy green and yellow, 18@2_c; Java, 28@32c. Roasted—Old government Java, 32%@33e: Golden Rio, 24c; Bourbon Santos. 24c; Gilded Santos. 24c; prime Santos, 23c. Package coffee^—city prices—Ariosa, lie; Lion. 10c; Jersey, 10.65 c; Caracas, 10.50 c; Dutch Java blend, 13c; Dillworth’s, 11c; King Bee, 11c; Mail Pouch, 11c. Sugars—City Prices—Dominoes, 5.50 c; out-loaf, 5.75 c; powdered, 5.35 c; XXXX powdered, 5.50 c; standard granulated, 5.25 c; fine granulated, 5.25 c; granulated—five-pound hags. 5.31 c; extra fine granulated, 5.35 c: coarse granulated. 5.36 c; cubes, 5.35 c; mold A, 5.50 c; diamond A. 5.25 c; confectioners’ A, 5.13 c: 1 Columbia A— Keystone A, 4.88 c; 2 Windsor A —American A, 4.SBc; 3 Ridgewood A —Centennial A. 4.88 c; 4 Phoenix A—California A, 4.81 c; 5 Empire A—Franklin B. 4.75 c; 6 Ideal golden ex. C— Keystone B, 4.69 c; 7 Windsor ex. C —American B, 4.63 c; 8 Ridgewood ex. C—Centennial B, 4.56 c; 9 yellow ex. C—California B, 4.50 c; 10 yellow C—Franklin ex. C. 4.44 c; 11 yellow— Keystone ex. C, 4.44 c; 12 yellow—American ex. C, 4.44 c; 13 yellow—Centennial ex. C, 4.44 c; 14 yellow —California ex. C, 4.44 c; 15 yellow, 4.44 c; 16 yellow, 4.44 c. Flour Sacks (paper)—Plain, 1-32 brl, per 1.000. $3.50; 1-16 brl, $5; % brl, $8; % brl, sl6: No. 2 drab, piairi, 1-32 brl, )>er 1,000, $4.25; 1-16 brl, $6.50; % brl, $10; Vi brl, S2O; No. 1 cream, plain, 1-32 brl, per 1,000, $7: 1-16 brl, $8.75; % brl, $14.60; % brl, $28.50. Extra charge for printing, sl.lo® 1.15. Salt—ln car lots. 80#75c; small lots. 90#95c. Spices—Repjier. 12® 18c; allspice, 15®18c; cloves, lS#£sc; cassia, 15®l l c; nutmegs, 66@75e per lb. Beans—Choice hand-picked navy, $1.30©1.35 per bu; Limas, Calif* rnla, 4%#4%e per lb. Woodenware —No. 1 tubs. $5.75®6; No. 2 tubs. $4.75#5: No. 2 tubs. 53.75®4; 3-hoop palls. $1.40® 1.50: 2-hoop pails, $1.20®1.25; double washboards, [email protected]: common washboards, $1.25®1.50; clothes pins, 50#60c )>er hex. Molasses and Syrups—New Orleans molasses, fair to prime, 28@33c; choice, 35®40c; syrups, 18® 25c Shot—sl.3o® 1.35 per bap for drop. Lead—6%®7c for pressed bars. Twine —Hemp, 12@18c prr lb; wool, 8®10c: flax, 20®30c: paper, 25c; jute. 12®15c; cotton, 18®25c. Wood Dishes— No. 1, per 1,000, $202.25; No. 2, $2.25®2.50: No. 3. $2.5002.75; No. 5. s3#3 25. Rice—Louisiana. 4%#6%c; Carolina, 6%@8%c. Iron and Steel. Bar Iron—l.so#l.6oc: horseshoe bar, 2%@2%c; nail rod, 7c; plow slabs, 2%c; American cast steel, SS’llc; tire seel, 2%@3c; spring steel, 4% #”so. Leather. Leather —Oak sole, 27030 c; hemlock sole, 24® 26c; harness, 32®370; skirting, 38042 c; single strap, 38041 c; city kip, 60085 c; French kip, 90< ®) $1.20; city calfskin. [email protected]; French calfskin, $1.2001.85. Nail* and Horseshoes. Steel cut nails, $1.75; v.ir** nails, from store, $1.90®2 rates; from mill; $1.75 rates. Horseshoes, per keg, $3.50; mule shoes, per keg. $4.50; horse nails. s4®s tier box. Barb wire, galvanized, $2; painted. $1.75. Produce, Fruits and Vegetable*. Apples—Common, $3; good, $4: fancy, $4.30. New Tomatoes—s3.so per 6-basket crate. Grapes—Malaga grapes, $7 per brl. Figs—California, $1.65 per box; mat figs, 809 e. Cranberries—s6o7.so per brl; $202.75 per crate. Oranges—Mexican, $3 per box; California navels, $2.6502.85. Lemons—Messina, choice, SOO to box, $3.75; fancy. $4.25. Persimmons—7sc per 24-plnt orate. Bananas—Per bunch. No. 1, $1®1.75. Cocoanuts —50c per doz. Lima Beans—€c per lb. Potatoes—White, 45c per bu; red. 40c per bu; $1.2001.35 lier brl.

Sweet Potatoes—slol.so per brl; Jersey sweets, $1 bu; brl, $2.75; Illinois, $2 brl; 70c bu. Cabbage—Holland seed, $1.25 per 100 lbs. Onions —$1.50 por brl; Spanish onions, $1.26. Turnips—9oc per brl. Parsnips—sl.so per brl. Celery—Michigan and northern Indiana, 30040 c. per bunch; California, 40075 c. Honey—White, 15c per lb; dark, 12c per lb. Cider—s4.6o per brl: half brl, $2.60. Provision*. Hams—Sugar-cured, 18 to 20 lbs average. B%® 9c; 15 lbs average, 8%®9%c; 12 ibs average, 8% @9%c. Bacon —Clear sides, 40 to 50 lbs average, 6® 6*' 8 c; 30 to 40 lbs average, 6%@6%c; 20 to 30 lbs average, 6%®6%c; bellies, 25 lbs average, 6%@ 6%c; 18 to 23 Ibs average, 6%06%c; 14 to 16 lbs average. 7®7%c. Clear backs, 18 to 22 lbs average, 6%®6%c: 14 to 18 lbs average, 6%c: 8 to 10 lbs average, 6%@6%c. In dry salt, %c less. Shoulders—lß to 20 lbs average, 6c; 15 lbs average, 6c; 10 to 12 lbs average, 6c. Lard—Kettle-rendered, 6%®7c; pure lard. 6%® 6%c. Pork—Bean, clear, sl3; rump. 510#10.25. Seed*. Clover—Choice. $3.75; prime, $3.50; English, choice, $3.2503.50; alsike. choice. $45005; alfalfa, choice, $4.2504.50: crimson or scarlet clover, $2.7503; timothy, 45 lbs, prime, $1.1501.20; light prime, $1.2001.25; choice. $1.2501.30; fanev Kentucky, 14 lbs. $1.15: extra clean, 60@75c; orchard grass, extra, $1.1501.30; red top. choice. 80c @51.40: English bluegrass, 24 lbs. $1.1501.75; German millet, $10'1.25; Western millet, 60@S5c; common millet, 40#60c. LIVE STOCK. Cattle Steady and Stroup;'—Hop:* Active nnd Strong:—Sheep Steady. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 7.—Cattle—Receipts, 200; shipments light. There was a fair supply. The offerings were freely taken at steady to strong prices compared with yesterday. A good healthy market is looked for next week. Exports, good to choice SS.OC® 5.50 Killers, medium to good 4.500 4.90 Killers, common to fair 4.000 4.33 Feeders, good to choice 4.000 4.40 Stockers, common to good 3.000 4.00 Heifers, good to choice 3.90# 4.35 Heifers, fair to medium 3.500 3.?0 Heifers, com men and light 3.000 3.35 Cows, good to choice 3.600 4.00 Cows, fair to medium 3.00@ 3.35 Cows, common and old 1.50® 2.50 Veals, good to choice 5.00®i LOO Veals, common to medium 3.000 4 50 Bulls, good to choice 3.500 4.00 Bulls, common to medium 2.500 3.25 Milkers, good to choice 35.00015.u0 Milkers, common to medium 20.0C039.00 Hogs—Receipts, 6,000; shipments, 3,000. The average of the quality offered for sale was not as good as yesterday. Packers and shippers bought, and divided their purchases about evenly. The market opened steady to a shade lower, and trading ruled active, the closing being strong. Heavy $3.6503.70 Mixed 3.6fi®3.674 Lights 3.5003.62% Pigs 3.0003.45 Roughs 2.5003.50 Sheep and Lambs—There were no fresh arrivals, and no noticeable change In the market. Sheep, good to choice $3.5 04.01* Sheep, fair to medium 3.2003.50 Stockers, common to medium 2.0003.00 Bucks, per head 3.0005.00 Spring lambs, good to choice 4.2505.00 Spring lambs, common to medium 3.20#4.(W Elsewhere. ST. LOUIS. Jan. 7.—Cattle —Receipts, 500, Including 150 Texans; shipments, 600. No strictly choice beef steers were received here this week, but they are quotable at $5 5005,75; good stock steers and feeders are a shade stronger than last week, while medium and common grades close weak and about 10c lower. Fair to fancy native shipping and export steers, $4.5005.76, bulk at $4.75#'.35; dresred beef and butener steers. s4® 5.20. bulk at $4.250 4.65; steers under 1,000 lbs. $3 39 #4.40. bulk at '3.6504; Stockers and feeders. $2 75 4.40. bulk at $3.5604; cows and heifers, $204.50, bulk at *2.5003; canner*. $2 2502.50, bulk of heifers. $3.2503.65; Texas end Indian steers. *3 35 #4.80, buk at $3.85#4,25; cows and heifers, $2#.i.30. Hogs—Receipts, 5.700: shipments. 3,000; market Sc lower. Pigs and lights, $3.2503.40; packers. $3 3003.00: butchers. $3.3303.05Sheep—Receipts, S.000; hij*menta, 100; market nominal. Native muttons. SS-’>[email protected]; culls and bucks, $2 2503.25; stickers. $203.35; lambs, s4# 5.50; clipped and fed Texas sheq>, *3.8504. KANSAS CITY, Jam 7.—CatUavßeccipta, 300;

market steady. The moderate offerings this week met with encouraging demand*, and the higher values of last week were fully sustained. Heavy native steers. $.>[email protected]; medium. $4.40ft.>.10; light weight*, *4.20© 5.25; Stockers and feeders. $3.25© 4.50: Imteffr-rs’ tows and heifers. $2.73'fi4.50: eanners. 52@2.?5: Western steers, $3.25©4.55; Texas crn fed, [email protected]; Texas cotton-meal fed, $3.50 ©4.50. Hogs—Receipts. 8,600; market 5c lower. The demand this week for packing hogs was exceptionally good, and the higher values established last week were fully sustained. Heavy hogs, $3.35 ft 3.63: mixed, $3.35©3.60; lights, $3.2X&3.40; pigs, m J3.15. Sheep—Receipts. 1,470; gootl demand for all mutton grades at him t*> shade higher prices. Native and range-fed lambs, $4.5.'©5.25; muttons. $3 6."© 4.10; feeding and stock sheep and lambs, $2#3.?5. CHICAGO, .lan. 7.—Hardly enough cattle arrived to-day to make a market. Trading was at yesterday’s prices. Hogs were fairly active, but sales showed a decline of sc. Fair to choice. $3.57*£©3.7®: packing lots, $3.35@ 1 3.55: butchers, $3.40©3.7(>; light, $3.20© 3.60; pigs, $2.9C©3.55. bulk at [email protected]. The limited offerings of sheep were taken at unchanged prices, sales being on a basis of $2.50© 4.15 for sheep, sl© 4.45 for yearlings, and [email protected] for lambs. Receipts—Cattle, 300; hogs, 20,000; sheep, 2,500. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—Beeves—Receipts, 250; no trading; feeling steady. Cables steady. Exports 384 cattle, 162 sheep and 1.963 quarters of beef. Calves—Receipts, 6; no trading; market steady. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts. 3.450; sheep steady; lambs higher. Sheep, $4©4.55; lam*s, $5.60©5.85. Hogs—Receipts, 2,500; market firmer at $3.90© 4.15. CINCINNATI, Jan. 7.—Hogs easy at $3.10© 3.67 H- - steady at $2.r0©4.86. Sheep steady at $2.25©4. Lambs steady at $4.25 ©5.40. "THE PER DIEM BILL” Pension Measure* Approved by tbe Inlon Veteran luiou. COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 7.—The committee appointed by the National Encampment of the Union Veteran Legion to pass on the merits of tho pension measure known as “the per diem bill” has completed its report and forwarded it to Adjutant General Hay. The committee reaches the conclusion after an extended and exhaustive examination of the bill that an annual saving to the government of over $31,0CX),000 can be accomplished under its operation, and an additional saving of otfer $12,uu0,000 in the event examining boards are abolished. When the National Encampment of the Union Veteran Legion met in this city a year ago there was a great deal of discussion upon pension matters, and especially upon the “per diem bill.” At a previous meeting of the encampment in Pittsburg a committee was appointed to formulate a leport upon the good features of the bill, with instructions to report at the Columbus encampment. In the interim, however, a member of the eunimktee died and the report was postponed at the Columbus session to the meeting last tail at Williamsport, Pa. Tne bill is not framed so that the Union Veteran Legion alone wdl enjoy its benefits, but every Union soldier can come in under its provisions. THE MERRY MONARCH. American Opera Successfully Revived in London. LONDON, Jan, 7.—'The foremost theater in London devoted to light opera presented to-night as its chief offering for the season a resurrection of American opera. Gilbert and Sullivan have seldom pleased the English fancy more thoroughly. Th,e opera was “The. Merry Monarch,” by J. Cheever Goodwin and Walston Morse, conducted with apologies to their French precursers. D’Oyle Carte produced it at the Savoy under the title of “The Lucky Star,” but expurgated it of Americanism. It was mounted in accordance with Savoy traditions, most brilliantly. The cast includes all the Savoy veterans and several recruits. The opera was probably stronger than America had seen it, and was less a one-ipart work. Walter Passmore gave a most humorus conception of the leading role. An English audience is always loyal to old favorites,but two new-comers, Isabel Jay, a most graceful and sweet-voiced young lady, who played Tapioca, won instant favor. Henry Lytten, as the ambassador; Sydney Paxton, as the astrologer; Ruth Vincent, as the princess, and Emmie Owen, as the artist, ail of whom are Savoy veterans, completed the cast. Much of the music was especially composed by Ivan Caryli and new lyrics by Adrian Ross and Aubrey Hopew'ood were introduced. WANTS ANOTHER TRIAL. Gatling >o( Discouraged by tlie Bursting - of His Big Gun. CLEVELAND, 0., Jan. 7.—Dr. R. J. Gatling, in a letter to Mr. George Hoyt, the Cleveland representative of the Gatling Gun Company, states that the bursting of his big eight-inch gun at Sandy Hook does not, by any means, prove it a failure. He will ask the government for another appropriation to aid in building another gun. Dr. Gatling says he believes his gun was given more than the ordinary test usually given jacketed or built-up guns. He wrote; “Five iounus of 142 pounds of powder charge each were fired from my eight-inch gun, one of the charges giving a pressure of 39,500 pounds, extraordinarily great. The standard charges used in the built-up eight-inch guns have been 125 pounds, giving a pressure of 34,000 pounds to the square inch. It will, therefore, be seen that my gun has been subjected to a more severe test than has been applied on the built-up gun of like caliber.”

Situation at Scottdale. YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Jan. 7.—President Theodore Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association, was here to-night attending a mass meeting of the lodges in the Mahoning valley. Prior to the meeting he was asked regarding the strike at Scotidale, and said: "The situation at Scottdale is serious. The men have been cut 20 per cent, below the amalgamated scale, and refuse to accept it. The association w’ill stand by them, and it will be fought to the bitter end. The association is fully prepared to make the most vigorous fight ever made, not excepting that at Homestead. At the other mills through the country there is a disposition shown to treat the employes fairiy, and that is ail we desire.” Carter Defeats Billiardist Schaefer. CHICAGO, Jan. 7.—ln the Eugene CarterJacob Schaefer 100-point three-cushion carom match, the former won the deciding game by a narrow margin of two points, the score being 100 to 98. Experts who saw the game agree that it was the most brilliant ever played in the country at threecushions. In the series of three matches Carter has won twice. Carter’s best runs were two fives and five threes. Schaefer made nine, six, five, three fours and four threes. Found Gold In Three Creeks. VANCOUVER, B C., Jan. 7—J. C. Duffle, of Deadwood, Col., who left the Atlin district on Christmas day, arrived on the steamer City of Seattle from Skaguay yesterday. He brings news of the discovery of three new creeks—Union, Horse and Quartz creeks—all emptying into Surprise iake. He says that for four months he has prospected these creeks and in all good paying results were obtained. On a bench claim between Pine and Spruce creeks located by him he has been taking out from sl2 to S2O a day. Shot by a Brakeman. COLUMBUS. 0., Jan. 7.—William V. Grubbs, a locksmith and bicycle repairer, was shot and fatally wounded to-night by Edward Harris, a brakeman, as the result of a quarrel over the former’s wife, concerning whom Harris had made uncomplimentary remarks. Grubbs was shot in the head, the bullet entering through the eye, and died a few’ hours after being taken to the hospital. Harris, when arrested, claimed he shot Grubbs in self-defense. Saved Hl* Brother from Prison. CHILLICOTHE, 0., Jan. 7.—Elmer Butler saved his younger brother George from the penitentiary to-day when he pleaded guilty to manslaughter with the agreement that George be permitted to plead guilty to assault and battery. They were mere children. and were recently convicted of manslaughter for killing little Daisy Browser, a plavmate, but were granted anew trial. Elmer goes to the penitentiary and George to the Reform School. To Succeed Brice, Thomas and Porter. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—At a special meeting of the directors of the Chase National Bank to-day Oliver H. Payne. Grant B. Schley and A. B. Hepburn, former controller of the curr* ncy, were elected directors in the places made vacant by the death of Calvin S. Brice, and the resignation of General Samuel Thomas and William 11. Porter. Judge Day Sot 111. CANTON, 0., Jan. 7.—Judge Day Is not 111 and has not been since his return to Canton, all reports to contrary notwithstanding. He and Mrs. Day leave at 2 o’clock Sunday for Washington. They will be the guests at the White House for the diplomatic dinner and for the dinner to the peace commission.

END OF SPAIN’S POWER - FALL OF THE WORLD-W IDE REALM ONCE RILED FROM MADRID. The Sixteenth Century Marked It* Zenith, and the Nineteenth Centnry It* Complete Overthrow. Philadelphia Telegraph. An empire founded ujon the ruins of Rome and once comparable with the latter in all its glory has passed through various stages of decline to its utter fall, which was signaled at noon on Jan. 1 when the Spanish flag was low’ered on the forts and public buildings at Havana and the stars and stripes hoisted in its place. The empire as an empire has absolutely perished, nothing now remaining but the supine and impoverished mother country and a few scattered remnants of her once world-wide realm. Spain once dominated all Europe and claimed half of Africa, the whole of America and a commanding place in As.a. To-day she is hardly a third-class power in Europe, is the least of all foreign land owners in Africa and sees the last of her American and nearly all of her Asiatic possessions slipping from her grasp. No empire ever began its course with higher promise than did Spain. The peninsula is singularly favored by nature. Its climate is genial, its soil well watered and fertile and abounding in useful and precious metals. Its geographical position gives it command of entrance to and exit from the Mediterranean, an ample frontage on both that sea and the Atlantic, ready access to all the lands of southern Europe and close connection with Africa. Nor were its people formerly unworthy of their environment and opportunities. The autochthones were probably superior to their neighbors, the Celts and Gauls, beyond the Pyrenees. At any rate, when some of these latter came down and mingled with them the Celtiberians were superior to the. Celts. Who were the autochthonous Iberians? Perhaps the Basques are their unmiscegenated descendants. If not, then who are the Basques? Neither Japhetic nor Semitic, the ethnologist and linguist would say, nor yet Hametic; perhaps the sole descendants of some antediluvian ancestor not taken into the ark. Certainly their language comes from no rootstock elsewhere known. It is the speech Adam and Eve had in the garden, says one. It was brought to Spain by Tubal before the confusion of tongues at Babel, says another. It is the language of the angels, says a third, which the devil once tried to learn, but mastering only three words in seven years abandoned in despair. No wonder if, as says a fourth, in it you spell a word Solomon and pronounce it Nebuchadnezzar.

But, however good the original stock, the advantages of a composite or cosmopolitan population were presently added. First came the Celts. Then Phoenica, Egypt and Greece successively added their quotas. Next came the Carthaginians, the most liberal contributors yet, and then, because of them, the Romans. The latter found the Iberians far more difficult to subdue than any of the purely Celtic tidbes. it was an inch-by-inch struggle over the whole peninsula, not completed until the time of Augustus Caesar. Then Spain became more Roman, if possible, than Rome itself, Italian and Iberian fraternizing, intermarrying, commingling beyond possibility of preserving traces of the separate strains. The literature and arts of Rome there attained their well-night best development. Spain gave to Rome in arms and letters such names as those of Trajan, Martial, Lucan, Seneca and Quintilian, while the names of Leon (Legio), Saragossa (Caesar Augusta), Pampeluna (Pompeiopolis), Merida (Emerita Augusta) and many others still tell in Spain the tale of ancient Latin glory. Then came the conquerors of the conquering Romans, the Goths and their allies. The Suevi established themselves in Lusitania, the Vandals made their home in and gave their name to Andalusia, and the Visigoths set up a kingdom which outlasted all its contemporaries of like origin. These added to the already mixed blood a virile northern tincture, and then, in turn, yielded to a contribution from the south and east, brought thither by the Moors. With such forebears the Spaniard of to-day is well entitled to be called “hidalgo”—“the son of somebody.” SPAIN’S WORLD-WIDE EMPIRE. Such was the composition of the nation which for many years dominated the who!© continent of Europe and founded the first empire upon, which it could truly be said the sun never set. The fifteenth century saw its rise, when famous navigators went out toward all the corners of the earth to find new worlds. Vasco da Garna and Magellan miy be claimed for Spain, the latter because he was actually in her service, the former because Portugal and all its findings presently became an appanage of Spain. Greatest of all, how’ever, was Columbus, who indeed discovered “anew world for Leon and Castile,” and whose great adventure called forth from Pope Alexander VI the famous “Bull of Partition,” of May 4, 1493, which gave to Spain all the lands of the earth not already possessed by a Christian prince, lying west of a line drawn north and south, from pole to pole, a hundred leagues west of the Azores. True, the French and the British disregarded the Holy Father’s decree, and presently began making raids and even establishing colonies beyond the forbidden line, and after a time such men as Hawkins, Drake and Oxenham took to disputing Spanish sovereignty wherever they found it. But for a long time Spain held her sway over the bulk of the western hemisphere. The history of Charles I of Spain, who was Charles V, Emperor of Germany, was the history of all Europe. The history of his son Philip II was the history of the whole known world. For under the former, Spanish authority was dominant throughout the German cities and dukedoms—the Holy Roman Empire; and though Charles failed broken-heartedly in his great scheme of making his son his successor and imperial dignity thereafter hereditary in his' line, he yet left to Philip a realm compared with which that of Charlemagne or of Napoleon seemed meagre indeed. For under that despot the Spanish empire included the whole Iberian peninsula and the Balearics, Roussillon and Cerdagne north of the Pyrenees, the Island of Sardinia, Sicily, Naples, and Milan, Franche-Comte. Holland and Belgium, and. practically speaking. Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and Transylvania. In Africa it had a vast though indefinite do-main-all that the Portuguese adventurers had seized upon: in Asia the splendid Philippine archipelago and various other holdings on islands and mainland; and in America everything south of Savannah on the east ami San Francisco on the west—the shores of the gulf, the Caribbean islands, Mexico. Central America, and the entire South American continent. Moreover, it had the finest army and navy In the world, and some of the ablest soldiers, sailors and statesmen; and the mines of the western world poured into its treasury such wealth of gold and silver as even ancient Ophir had not known. BEGINNING OF THE END. The year 1380 marked the zenith of the Spanish power, though to the beginning of the seventeenth century there was but little decline. Os all Europe, only one nation dared seriously to challenge her supremacy, but that one did. An English captain ventured to “singe the King of Spain's beard” and to play havoc with his argosies in the South sea. Then came the destruction of the great armada, the first fatal blow at the world-wide power. Thereafter the fall was steady, swift and hopeless. Nor were the blows all struck by foreign foes. In her tyrant kings Spain had her own, worst foes. They had done her vast harm a century or more before, when they expelled the Jews, the best tradesmen and scholars of the nation. Now’ they expelled the Moors, too, and thus deprved the country of its best industrial class. Philip JI had issued ncartless edicts against them, but his successor in 1609 ruthlessly drove them all into exile and poverty. The work was done with studied brutality. Half a million of the most worthy people of Spain were expatriated. In that deed the domestic industries of the country received a blow from which they have never recovered. Soldiers, priests and an ignorant and lazy peasantry were all that were left. In the meantime other troubles were brewing abroad. The Netherlands first revolted and formed the United Provinces in 1609. The turd\ Dutchmen a few years later destroyed what remnants remained of the Spanish navv. and in 1643. ut Roeroy, the Spanish Infantry, hitherto Invincible, was beaten and forever broken. Portugal and her vast possessions in three continents were lost in IWO. Naples revolted in IMS, under

the famous fisherman known to his comrades and on the operatic stage as Masaniello. He was by bravos in the hire of Spain, and after a rang struggle the rebellion was suppressed. Bat Spains hold on the Two Sicilies, once loosened, was never*so strong again. France seized the provinces north of the Pyrenees and Franche-Comte. All authority in th** German states ftad long been lost to Spain, and the last Spanish king of the Austrian dynasty, at the close of the seventeenth centtiry, saw his realm the prey of whichever of the great powers could lay hands upon It most readily, and left it unable to establish its own sovereign wltout foreign aid. Equally disastrous were those times in tho colonies. The Dutch. French and English seized foothold in the Guianas, and then helped themselves, one after another, to the smaller islands in the Caribbean sea. By the time of the Dutch war of 1665 the pretensions of Spain to universal ownership in those regions were wholly ignored, and there was put into operation “The good old rule--the simple plan. That they should take who have the power. And they should keep who can.” In that year Cromwell’s Englishmen seized Jamaica. The French first took Tortuga, and thence sent out filibusters, who presently drove the Spanish out of Haiti—Hispaniola. Little Spain—and made it a French province. Even Havana was attacked more than once. Drake had a fruitless venture at it. Peun and Venables, who took Jamaica, tried to take it, buts illed. England did storm the forts in 1760. and held the city a few years, then gave it back to Spain. By the end of that century Trinidad, too, was snatched away and Spain's commerce with the American colonies substantially destroyed. England came to her aid at home in the Napoleonic wars, and then France in turn helped the wretched Ferdinand VII to hold his throne. THE PASSING OF THE EMPIRE. In the early years of the present century Si -h misgovernment in the South Ameri< olonies, long continued, began to bear i .rtain fruit. Secret societies were ?d, which had for their object tbe t,.rowing off of the Spanish yoke. The chief founder and promoter of these was a Spanish creole of Venezuela, Francisco Miranda by name. He had served under Washington in the American revolution, and had become thoroughly imbued with the spirit of liberty and with the principles of republicanism. What had been done in North America could, he thought, be done in South America. Ho therefore formed in London, since it could not safely be done at Caracas, the “Gran Reunion Americana.” Into this Boliver and San Martin were initiated. For some years Miranda made occasional but futile attempts at revolution, in one of which he engaged the interest of the great Dundonald. Nothing of importance was achieved, however, until April 19, 1810, when Caracas openly rose against Us Spanish Governor, Miranda, and Boliver heading the revolt. Two years of conflict followed, not promising for tho insurgents. Then came an earthquake. It destroyed Caracas, killing thousands of people. Ihe superstitious troops of the insurgents thought it was an omen, threw’ down their arms, deserted or surrendered, and the rebellion was at an end. Miranda was captured, taken to Spain and died in prisonmurdered. it may be surmised. Boliver escaped into the neighboring province of New Granada. It was In September, ISI2. that Bolivar fled to New Granada. In October he reentered Venezuela-with 5*4) men. declaring war to the knife against Spain. Victory followed victory. In August. ISI3, he reentered Caracas in triumph. Then came reverses, and he had to llee to Jamaica. For some years more the struggle went on until 1821, when New Granada and Venezuela were united as an "dependent republic under the name of Colombia, the last of the Spanish troops being driven out in 1824. Ecuador was added to the republic in 1822. Peru formed another state in 1825, under the name of Bolivia, Peru itself—and Chile also, thanks to the genius of Dundonald—becoming independent in 1824. Mexico threw off the yoke of Spain in IS2I, and Guatemala —then including all Central America—in 1822. Nor did the provinces on the Plate river lag behind. Paraguay, indeed, was first of all to win her independence, in 1814. Uruguay followed in the same year, and the Argentine Confederation, after a ten years’ war, In 1821. Brazil had been lost to Spain in the secession of Portugal, and Florida w r as ceded to the United States in 1819. Thus, in the first quarter of this century the entire Spanish empire in the western hemisphere, says only the islands of Cuba and Porto Rico, was forever lost to the declining monarchy. The last of Spain's holdings in America —the one which slipped from her grasp forever at noon on Jan. I—was the first, or the first but one, that she acquired. Columbus sighted land on Sept. 25, 1492, and actually landed on Oct. 12. Then, on Oct. 28 ho sighted Cuba, which he supposed to be tho eastern shore of Asia. “This.” he w’rote In h!s journal of that day, “is the most beautiful land ever beheld by human eyes.” Beautiful It was. and occupied by a peaceful, amiable folk. These the Spaniards presently exterminated with all possible accessories of torture—a half million people butchered in half a century. Since there was no gold in the island. Cuba was neglected and ignored for many years. But tho Spanish colonized it, and ultimately found that its sugar plantations and tobacco fields ■were more profitable than gold mines. For two centuries it has proved the most valuable of all Spain’s possessions—in fact, the chief support of that bankrupt nation, SEEKING FREEDOM. But Cuba grew restless under the plundering and blundering of Spain, and early in this century began to grope about for a path to freedom. Rebellion after rebellion arose, only to be quelled ruthlessly. A passage in an English paper in August, 1825, says; “Cuba is the Turkey of transatlantic politics, tottering to its fall, and kept from falling only by the struggles of those who contend for the right of catching her in her descent.” That was seventy-three years ago. The Cuban captain general’s proclamation in 1830, commenting on an attempted revolt against the despotism of Ferdinand VII, who abolished the Constitution and restored the Inquisition, declares; “This happy land, the abode of peace, plenty and loyalty, presents to the world a striking contrast; enjoying, under the mild government of her king, all the blessings which spring from security of property, the uninterrupted progress of the arts, education and science, w’hile revolutions, factions, discord and anarchy have established their empire in the rebellious provinces. * * * Some of them • • * have be* n misled by fallacious theories, ignorant of the irresistible arguments based upon a simple comparison between the state of the ever-faithful Isle of Cuba and the deplorable state of the continent. * * ° Madmen! All men of sense in this island are faithful to the King, our jnaster * * * whose heart never throbs with pleasure except when contemplating you as contented and ,happy.” The smaller island of Porto Rico, which ha* already passed entir*dy under American control, has had a colorless history, lacking in the significance and individuality of Cuba, upon whose fate its own destiny was largely dependent. Columbus declared Cuba to be th© most beautiful land ©v©r seen by human eyes. Magellan couid scarcely have given higher praise to the islands he discovered on March 18, 1521. Yet could he have done so they would have deserved it, for there is no lovelier group of islands in the world than the Philippines. Magellan discovered them on the one great voyage which he undertook for Spain, the first circumnavigation of the globe, which he did not live to complete. He discovered the strait which bears his tiame, though he gave it the name of the Eleven Thousand Virgins then the Pacific ocean, stopping at anil taking possession of the Ladrone islands, and finely reaching Tamar, one of the Philippine group. He took possession of the whole archipelago in the name of the King of Spain and entered forthwith upon the work of subduing and conciliating tho natives. In that he was at first eminently successful. But a few weeks later he fell into an ambuscade of hostile Malays on Maitan and was killed with a poisoned arrow. Nevertheless, his work remained ami the Philippines belonged to Spain from that day until the time when they practically preceded Cuba by a f-w months in passing from Spanish control. What is left to Spain? There are the Canaries, but they are, like the Balearic*, reckoned administratively a part of Spain itself and not as colonies. Then there are the Carolines, with 22.000 population, in the western Pacific. They have belonged to Spain for centuries, but were so long neglected that Germany raised her flag over them a few years back. Spain protested with much clamor and the Pope, as arbitrator. sustained her title to them. But, all told, they are worth little to Spain, especially as she has lost the Philippines. Still less significant are the neighboring Ladrones, or Mariana islands, the only one of which—Guam—ha* already passed to the United States by the fortunes of war. Least important of ail. Spain's remaining possessions in this region comes the Pelew group. In Africa there is the desert coast from Cape Juby to Cape Blanco, of some little value, perhaps, to the fishermen of tha Canaries. Spain claims a protectorate over it, but France owns all the “hinterland." and the coast is as barren as rock and sand can make it. She claims, too, a portion of the French Congo from the Campo to th® Muni river, a claim w’htch France denies and which will never be allowed. Fernando Po she does not own. an Island off the coast of the Cameroon*, and also the tiny Isle of Annobon. five hundred miles to the southwest. Add to these a bit of land on Corisco bay, Ifni, and Ceuta, the lust * mer# fortress and prison, and we hav® the extent of her holdings on the dark continent. Ail of them put together and all the Polynesia,** islands added would not make one fair province.

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