Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — Page 6

COMMEPCIAL AND FINANCIAL

New York—Stock market conditions have undergone an important change in the last week. Extraordinary strength has given place to decided weakness, and where a short tifrie ago there was a rush on the part of the public to buy stocks, there is now n scramble to unload. Values have been slowly but steadily declining for several days, and the aggregate of losses in the trading favorite z now ranges all the way from $3 to SLS a share. Wall street, following ijjj-usmil custom in anticipating the future, carried the upward movement to an extreme point. The Speculative jwndtthtm generally is.started in the light direction, but it not itifrequently. happens that it receives an impetus which gives |t too great a swing. As prices continued to advance the investment buying was gradually withdrawn, but each day the ‘•bullish" enthusiasm of what is known as the public was raised to a higher pitch. Wall street as a result became overloaded and the market temporarily depressed by its own weight. Trade .is comparatively quiet, is is usual at this season of the"yi’Wr. Chicago—The wheat market did what it was expected to do in the event of the support being withdrawn which il was credited with having received from certain Wall street operators. The regular wheat traders for the most part were- not saiigiiiti" of success for the bullish venture of the so-culled New York clique, but tnahy had been willing to help the deal along while it appeared strong enough to go of itself. Whi>n, however, it gave signs of failure to maintain mi advance of about 7 cents a bushel, some ten d ivs agciTtsm h assistance as it had from ( hi••ago was quickly withdrawn, ami the price of the commodity’ settled quickly to a price that it was worth for export. The'lime wus inopportune, for a bull yp-. oration in wheat. Receipts of that cereal in the West were too heavy at a period of the season when, if there was any truth in the short-crop theory, it should be having the corroboration of materially tedmc'd ariivals at points of accumulation. Although other points in the situation fa voted the bulls, the vital factor of heavy receipts, along with a vast accumulation in the visible supply, forced itself into notice every morning when the sum of the day’s receipts in the West were exhibited on the bulletin board. Trade in coarse grains received more attention than for a week or two previous, witli local sentiment leaning somewhat to the bull side. Corn has many warm sup porters among some of the strongest trad CIS in the market, and it is matter of common knowledge among the specialists in the oats market that a large* amount of capital has already been committed to the bull side of that commodity. Liberal receipts of hogs do not appear to cheek the strong situation with which the pro vision market is regarded by brokers in the pit when asked their opinion of the market’s probable course. Pork, lard and ribs all have their friends, who are sanguine chances of speculation spreading and perhaps to an extent that might in a month or two make present prices seem extremely low. ,

COST OF CHRISTIANITY.

Over $1,000,000,003 Spent AtitiOMly to Sprea l the Gospel. It costs over $1,009,369,494 annually to uuiiatain and advance the gospel in-nil the world. There are now said to (>»■ 26,000,000 UfiVistians in the UniteX State>H, and in (he world 500.000.000, liWd 1 ' the cause which could not furnish wlrento on to lay a Saviour's head has come, to an annual expenditure of SI,9OO,OIWtJMtO and more. Some people ask if the elttirch is failing. Tht> tmswer is that ('hristiau ity made greater increase in both mom Is-rsltip and expenditure during the cen ttiry just ended than wtis made bet ween the beginning of that century and the day of Pentecost. To maintain Christian interests of the United States last year cost as follows. The figures are from the reports of the various Christian bodies; Advehtht ? so-’, vi B.qut-i IJ.3lS..<>> it'oiiin Catholic 3i.i55.;i00 .Swcdeuliorgiaa . .. Sltt.lm Cong: eii it Iona! 7,023. 100 Disctpl.'s < f Christ 7.SSU.SUU Protest Hit Eplsci'pal n.GOIi.MN Friends l.lHllt.ti P Gcrnian Evanao’.leal IHtl.'Ji 0 Couimuieil bodies 512.700 Luther in ...... 1 l.i 03.70 > Mollie Presl.y i orl.ui 20,375,1 i 0 Iteforine l 2.131.2'*t S.c \a 11 >u Ami v .... 75u,200 United llr.'lireu LU.ltwi Une ii in 7t13.1r0 Ii rn vei. ilSt 571.200 V M < A 3.12‘i.500 Y 1' 'irg.iulzatl.'n- 4.133.000 F'>reign (alssluiis . 5,5>>0.(0>l S'ln l.iy x.-lieols 7,2.'0,:HH1 New oil.'lings, vie 27.5.1 o.iai i A'ld for non i'p ining Iti.MO.ilOO ciirlsti.m literature 11.22-.ih.O I In ati in 21.50 <o i llospiiaS. etc 25.3u0.0i0 Mis el ineulis • 1u.5i0.1U0 1 "f l .$2'47.047.300 Figtin s for different cities follow, but they do not itielude money given for Christi.in literature, for hospital, orphanage, ('duration, or other effort: New' York |8,l«tl,l»l3 P1111.1.1e1p111.l 4.771,71X1 Clllesgo 2JiOo,2tx> Boston 2.219.C00 nttxburg 1.251,700 Baltimore i.OSS.tilXi Ht Louis giltt.4<Mf Cincinnati 7:tH,soo Hi Paul iitiil Minneapolis 7|sp>io Wfishliigtoii 712,10 » Cleveland t!73.iix> Dvlrolt ; 5*3.000 Buffalo 530,100 Koelivster 51<1,100 Providence 3N7.200 Louisville 3BS».;«xt Indianapolis ' , 332 3'o San Francisco ~, 31*4, pxi Milwaukee 277,100 A Georgia judge who tried to hnitnlo King Solomon in deciding the ownership of a tVmotiths old baby, was uonpluaseil when, as he put the infant on the table and amrouueed his intention of catting il in halves with u big botcher knife, the women cried: "Don’t do that; keep it yourself," ami left the court hiiri-icdly. Tteree hundred Tetutessoe negroes will go to Hawaii to work on sugar plnntu tiona. , Ijphauon, Tenn., was scorebed *75,000 BMrtk.

MANY SENATORS CHOSEN.

Lon* and Bitter Struggles Precede Election in Some i- fates. Federal Senators have been elected in elevon States and fights for togas are in progress in several other States. Most

of those named and to be named will succeed themselves. Long and bitter struggles "preceded the triumph of Quay in Pennsylvania and Clark in .\Fo nta na. For years battles within their own respective parties were waged agai n« t

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them, but their enemies' victories were only temporary'. After having deadlock-’ od the last precedinfg session of the Pennsylvania Legislature, M. S. Quay was appointed by Gov, Stone as his own successor. The United States Senate by a majority of one rejected the appointment as unconstitutional. Quay, they say, is a man who never forgets, and he has been sworn in again in the Senate, where he was always a power. Clark’s principal enemy in Montana, Marcus Daly, is now dead, and he had little opposition in

t h e Legislature, which elected him to succeed Senator Carter, Republican, who got hiA office through Daly’s, aid. After the bribery charges had been heard and a majority report against Clark filed by a Senate committee last winter, Clark

resigned before a vote could be taken on the report. To till the vaftmey he was .appointed by Acting (Governor-Spriggs, a Clark partisan, while Gov. Smith of Montana was out of the State. When Smith returned he at once revoked Clark's appointment and named Martin Maginnls in his stead. The Clark-Magin-nis credentials were referred to a committee and pigeon-holed, Clark only waiting for the Legislature to conveneagain. Three new Senators who have been named are E. W. Carmack of Tennessee,

T. M. Patterson of Colorado, Democrats, and Henry E. Burnham of New Hampshire, Republican. Th e first two have been in the lower house of 'Congress. Patterson is editor of a Denver newspaper and Carmack was formerly editor of a Memphis paper.

TILLMAN.

Patterson succeeds Edward O. Wolcott, Republican, and Carmack is the successor of Thomas IL Turley, Democrat. Burnham will occupy the seat now held by W. E. Chandler. Benjamin R. Tillman was once more elected in South Carolina by the Democrats, and George Frisbee Hoar was chosen as his own successor by the Massachusetts Legislature, while James McMillan was chosen without opposition to succeed himself. The Senate and House of the Maine Legislature in joint session confirmed and announced the re-election of William P. Frye. Fred T. Dubois, fusionist, defeated G.

L. Shoup, Republican, in Idaho by a vote of 41 to 27. He announced that he. would henceforth be a Democrat. He was once before sent to the Uiiitwl,. Statefl Senate ng, a Republican,'but voted .with the “DenMx'rhtfc oil monetary and other legislation. ; Attention h a s been foctfacd dfi the Nebraska 'legisla-

tive body, wjtpre there has been a deadlock over tlie choice of two Senators. One will Wifeeed John M. Thurston, Stundard OH nftorliey, the other, Thomas Allen, fusioijiat.. Delaware has its usual senatorial deadlock. The Republican strength is divided between Addi<4ts and anti-Addicks men. There seems little likelihood of a choice.

THIS BOY WAS KIDNAPED.

Seven-year-old son of Samuel D. Miller and wife, who was kidnaped by the mother from the Indianapolis home of his grandfather, ex-Attorney General Miller. The parents of the child have been separated for several months. The Royal George, Queen Victoria’* first yacht, still exists. She lies at Portsmouth, a depot ship for the crews of roynl yachts when they are under repair or refitting. She is tha oldest yncht in the world. The last state occasion on which she was used was in August, 1842, when her majesty made-her first visit to Scotland, accompanied by the Prince Coasort Eugene Travo, Chicago, shot Andrew Wall four times. Drunk. A stray buk let hit Willie Ostenburg in the leg.

BIGGEST IN THE

A Great Combination of Thirty Big Railroad*. J. Pierpont Morgan's unification scheme contemplates the combination of thirty railroad systems, not taking into consideration their numerous “feeders" or auxiliary lines, with a total mileage of main line track of 69,773 miles. Already the Vanderbilts, Rockefeller, Hill and Morgan control eighteen trunk line

J. .J. Hi I. John D. Rockefeller. J. P. Morgan.

systems or are in position to dictate their policy. u - The extent- of the movement. cannot be calculated in miles or dollars, as the field is prncticnU.v limited only by the desires of the allied money interests. “Community of ownership’’ is the title of the scheme and John G. Carlisle, who since his retirement from the Cleveland cabinet has been consulting counsel for Morgan intvrests, is accredited with the idea's parentage.

FRYE.

The heavy expense entailed by the Boer war has bad the effect to curtail England's expenditures on new warships. It is noted in London ns an extraordinary fact that not a single battleship was launched during the year 1900, although the English yards were engaged on two first-class armored cruisers, one thirdclass cruiser, four sloops and eighty destroyers. It is also interesting to note that if English navy building has slackened speed France, too, has made little progress. On the other hand, Russia mtrtle rapid progress last year, completing two first-class battleships, one firstclass armored cruiser, anil eight destroyers. In addition to these, launched three first-class battleships, one firstclass armored cruiser, one second-class cruiser, two third-dans cruisers, and three destroyers. Germany was a cluse second to Russia in the matter of naval construction, Japan coming next. luridentally it may be remarked that the United States launched no formidable warships during the year; but three firstclass battleships—the Alabama, Kentucky and Kearsarge—were completed and placed in commission", while the battleship Wisconsin has been accepted by the government. During the present year the United States will complete the firstclass battleship Illinois and launch the Maine, Ohio and Missouri, while six protected cruisers of the Olympia type are to be launched and four coast defense monitors completed. In addition contracts have practically been let for five first-class battleships, six first-class armored cruisers, and three protected cruisers. It is thus seen that the naval program of the United States is more extensive than any nation in Europe.

When there is so little of international moment in European politics the chronic invalids of the old world are sure tw take advantage of the lull in public interest to do a little complaining of their own ills. Last week it was the old familiar disturbance in th" Balkans, with Turkish troops skttrrying through Albania ami Si'rvia in search of a peasant revolt. This week it is tt Carlist uprising in Spain. Next week Italy will probably obtrude into public notice with a threatened cataclysm by the atinrchistic propaganda, while the Imgg standing quarrel between Norway and Sweden may cull for a share of public attention the week after. In Spain it is reportisl that Don Carlos has again authorized his partisans to prepare' for an uprising in Catalonia, Navarre and the Basque provinces in the spring. This news naturally has caused the greatest anxiety in official circles in Madrid, where the authorities are constantly discovering signs of activity among the agents of the pretender.

CULLOM.

It has been long since the nihilists have attracted attention to Russia, but now comes the iiuuonneement that Prince Nukaehdiz.e has been arrested in connection with a plot against the Czjir. Nnkachdize was arrested nt Nice. Prince Nakachdize was condemned to death in 1885 for plotting against tjie life of the Cxnr, but the influence of his family sent him an exile to Siberia instead of to tint executioner. He escaped from Siberia in 1887 and has since been driven from one country to another. The negotiations for the purchase of the Danish West Inilies by the United States are evidently nearing a suecessrul completion. While not u word of the negotiations comes from the Suite Department at Washington, it was announces! in the Folkthing nt CoiH-nhagen last Wednesday that tlie financial wmmittec, one memlter only dissenting, had agreed to tvport that on certain conditions Denmark could accept the United States’ after to buy the islands. « The Austrian elections are practically completed, and although the fitsil figures are not nt hnnd it is certain that the antiSemites have lost nearly one-third the scats they held in the the places going to the Socialists and the Germnti Radicals, who desire to carry Austria Into the German Empire. The Clerical party has lost ground, as have, the Bohemian Sotdalists, the latter losing to the German Nationalists. Five men kilbsl in n wreck on the near Ban Jacinto.

Hard Coughs No matter how hard your coughws or how long you have had it, yoa want to get rid of it, of course. It is too risky to wait until you have consumption, for sometimes it’s impossible to cure this disease, even with Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral If you are coughing today, don’t wait until tomorrow, but get a bottle of our Cherry Pectoral at once and be relieved. Three sizes: 25c., 50c., SI.OO. ■X.'i-f’T-ff « If your drngglßt cannot supply you, send us on* dollar and we will express a targe bottle to you, all charges prepaid. Be sore you give us your nearest express office. Address, J. C. Ayeb Co Lowell. Mass.

Breaking Up A Mob.

The Chinese carefully qjroid being caught in the rain. They have a superstition that drops of rain falling on the head breed vermin, which, with their very long hair, Is very difficult to get rid of. But they are equally careful not to wet their feet. This latter precaution is not due entirely to the fact that the soles of their shoes are made of pasteboard and liable to be injured by soaking, but to a belief that soreness of the feet Is brought about by getting them damp. In commenting on these peculiarities, Leslie’s Weekly prints the following: The Chinese tear of rain has sometimes had a striking effect on mobs and armies. At the time of the massacre in 1870, at Tien tsin, the mob burned the French consulate, with the cathedral and the convent, destroyed the orphanage of the Sisters of Charity, and murdered the consul, the Sisters and several priests. Then the crowd started toward the other settlement, determined to pub all foreigners to death. The cathedral behind it was in flames, and the mob, fresh from the torture of nuns, was hungry for blood. It started down the Taku road <ith frenzied shouts and the beating of drums and gongs, when suddenly rain began to fall. That was the end of the massacre. The crowd covered their heads and scattered.

THE CHANGE OF LIFE Is the most important period in a woman’s existence. Owing to modern methods of living, not one woman in a thousand approaches this perfectly natural change without experiencing a train of very annoying and sometimes painful symptoms. , Those dreadful hot flashes, sending the blood surging to the heart until ft seems ready to burst, and the faint feeling that follows, sometimes with chills, as if the heart were going to stop for good, are symptoms of a dangerous, nervous trouble. Those hot flashes are just so many calls from nature for help. The nerves ore cry* Mas. Jkxkie Nobl*. Ing out for assistance. The cry should be heeded in time. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was prepared to meet the needs of woman's ■system at this trying period of her life. It builds up the weakened nervous system, and enables a woman to pass that grand change triumphantly. “ I was a very sick woman, caused by Change of Life. I suffered with hot flushes, and fainting spells. I was afraid to go on the street, my head and back troubled me so. I was entirely cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.”— Mrs. Jennib Noblb, 5010 Keyser St., Germantown* Pa. (ImlnoM Fign. Despondent Fair One—Do you know, dear, I’m afraid I must be getting very old! Consoling Friend—Nonsense, darling! Why do you think so? Despondent Fair One—Because people are beginning to tell me how very, young I am looking!-Punch. When Traveling Northwest Bee that your ticket reads vin Wisconsin Central Ilj|* for St. Paul, Minneapolis, Ashland and Duluth. Convenient trains leave Chicago daily from Central station, 12th street and Park Row (Lake Front). Ask nearest ticket agent for further information. JAS. C. POND, Gen. Pass. Agent., Milwaukee, Wis. A Scottish soldier says that on entering a captured Boer laager he saw a girl al»out 18 or 19 years lying dead with, a rifle In her hand and a bullet ■ through her bead. \

Learned from a Woman.

If there is anything in which a wdman is supposed to be especially deficient, It is in sharpening a lead pencil in a neat and workmanlike manner; but a certain woman reporter on a daily paper was observed always to have her pencils most beautifully pointed. The masculine reporters watched her, but never succeeded in learning how she did It, and one day they sent a delegation to ask her about it “We have come,” said one of the delegates, hMnbly, “to gsk the secret of your gift as a pencil sharpener. Your proficiency humiliates uS.” “It is no secret,” she said with a smile. Thereupon she took a pencil from the hand of the speaker, raised the lid of her desk, drew forth a carpenter’s chisel, rested the end of the pencil on the edge of the desk, and deftly shaped it into a true cone with a few “shaves” of the sharp instrument “There,” she said, handing it back, “have you learned something from a woman?” “We have,” they said. And possibly the reader has also. The discovery that sheep flourish in Patagonia and Terra del Fuego has led to the stocking of enormous and very profitable ranches.

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