Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 34, Number 20, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 January 1892 — Page 3
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A WARN I NO. lit formed rtala sia ta make Mm tM. Which rtjrWtjr ht Wtowrf all kss dr: ni Kheaha krwrihed Ms iMt-annmM, fate Jle, dyls. nhlhty lei of praise, A deead sehseeaent W tkta kin mm Hy h11 mMki4 m totally tor. Hi jplr. madia ur Um sendl of Fame. Wept smh te Mud that time hi name waa not, And now he rta dk-rted a elowtl. In dark oMivtoa, and awulul nrinvn To tlxl blent! eae t tfc cownwim owd. And dft mm) bU jdr1t heare. "I nl;nt have mowb that InworUHir Can he achieved Wjr mwIhk."m h waits. "No suore lha nUm eaa b eaa tat -ah mr ! Iff iuttlaesa)t imi tkeir little tails." And whn I heard him wake this saga
remark. H eeed te youth
In tta Tt raclly 'tM truly stark; In otkr word.' a kit of naked truth. And I reacted upon that very day That chemlK for tka laurel la at test. I'll press whatever Button came ny way, And lt relat:cW4 Fate do all the ret. Jehu Keadrick IJuag, ia Harper's Weakly.
tan
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US. KNAPP
-jT before her
molding-board making some of the min co pies for which she was famous throughout the Tillage. She had just taken three of them from the oven, and the spicy, savory oJor rising from them filled the spotlessly clean and cozy little kitchen. "There ain't quite enough left to make another whole pie," said Mrs. Knapp. as she deftly mnehed together the edges of the one she was making. "1 Kdieve I'll make a nice little turnover, and take it to poor old Nancy Gregg. Well, if there ain't Nanc3 her-K-lf coming in here! She can take the turnover home with her." Nancy was always slight, and she wj. growing old. She Mmd smaller than erer, and her age was more evidently telling oti her, a she came harrying up the frozen path. The wind blew her garment about her thin form, and Jocks of iron-gray IrAir straggled tinder the shawl thrown iver her he ad. "It, too cobl to stand on cer'monv."
she said, m slws hurried tin to the shin
ing kitchen .store and spread her hands
out over it. "I declare if I ain't 'most
froze. It's awful nice and warm ia
here."
tome round here and set down in
tlits rocker. .Nancy, and put your feet
up before the grate, I was iust sarins'
to myself that I'd take this mince meat
1 ve got left ami make yon a turnover."
' J m obliged to yon, Mary," replied the old woman, a she-took the proffered rocking chair. "If everybody had been
a good to me as vou have alwav Wen.
1 shouldn't be miserable as I am now."
Her voice had a plaintive note, ami a
tear stood in her eye. "You haven't heard the news, have you. .Mary Knapp?" she asked, suddenly, with averted face. "Xo. I don't know as I have, unless it's about their having the diphtheria orer to Deacon llaxter's." "Xo, it isn't that It's about me." ' You, Nancy?" "Yes me. I'm-I'm Mary Knapp, m on the town!" "Why, Nancy!" "1 am. Mary, I !" The old womin leaned forward la her rocking-chair, ier elbow on her knees, and her faee her hands. Then she lifted her head and said, in choking voice: "Think of it, Mary hnapp! Think of being the Irat of Joor name to eome oa the town! Xon ef uy folks ever had such shame put
emotion, while Mm. Knapp wipd the tears from her own y. The villagers who chanced to be at
WW- imi window at about oeloek the next Mactrniag iaw a
rowiul tight. It was Oh poor-fam wagon rattling along over the froawn fctnmt. ami in it wa Xaney Gregg and her few poor Wlongingo-aH old ldtead, a rocking-chair, a bundle of bedding, h hair-eovered trunk and a pine talde. Ear ltat, the keeper of the aimhouae. waa tlriviag. and liy hU shle sat poor okl Xsney, a picture of humilia
tion ami despair. It waa .still very ohl, ami the old woman was bundled as h bad been the Uy before: but to-day a black erape veil wa thrown over "her bowed head, and no one could ae the teara ranniHgdown her eheeks, or note the tremulous quiver of her thin lips. As the wagon paed Mrs. Knapp'a house, Nancy's old friend Mary came running out, a shawl thrown hastily oer her head, to speak a word of comfort and cheer. "Do yon see?" said
Mrs. tregg, touching the dingy crape of her veil. "I'm in mournm' for Nancy Oregg. Her useless old body atili 'cambers the earth, but her heart and her
spirit are deaL I'm going to hur fu
neral." Time was when Mrs. Gregg had not known the need of a dollar, and when a husband nnd sons had stood between
Iw ami want. She had seen them die
one by one, and a few years later had
seen the savings they had left her
swept away in a moment by the failure
of the business in whieh thev were in
vested.
f or years she had led a hand-to-
mouth existence, supporting her.-mlf by weaving rag-carpets, piecinir quilts.
knitting stockings, and even going out
by the day m house-cleaning times. Hut she no longer had the strength required for the work of weaving carpets, her sight had failed her. and her sewing days were done. Sh could not support herself by knitting, and at last there was nothing left for her to do but to be supported at the expense of the town. H From the time of her arrival at the-poor-farm, Mrs. Gregg seemed to be a woman without hope, and yet there were times when she felt that the shame of being a pauper might be taken from her. Those times wrre when she took from her old hair covered trunk a worn leather wallet of a kind not often seen
'IT'S TOO COLD TO BTAJID OS CKR'MOXr." Hn f T bcff' I deaw't seem to me "at I can bear it. I don't know wlmt m do," l.,t1irnTlre'Mlf1? on7 for.Y. Nancy; ,,Ul " 1 were yon now, I'd try to make )r. t of it If. one of thoM thlnr.
ill il"'1 ? Wri. d you know, Ll. ? "tfeVWhat ean't be euredi
,", cnuured. I've heanl that Mr. Z ltmtes r rl nlee folks, wo2?e " ary!" cried the old JJjwi, with a wail and a aek "Yo Sturl WU " rt nut; I'm a P"Bfr now!" J w her eM fthawl up Vent hr
now. J
The wallet contained nothing but a
small piece of writing paper, yellow
with are, and almost ready to fall to
pieces almg the creases where it had
been folded and unfolded again ami
again.
The poorer old Xaney had ltecome.
the oftner had she taken this limp
ami folded bit of paer from the purse that vras once her husband's, ami the
of tenor had .she read ami reread what
was written on it Awl this was what
she always rem!:
"One year Irosa date, for vaiae received. I
premke to pr to Jam T, GrfjNt th sum of e ihoaaad deltarx. wttk i&vrrcM at etsht fier
ecat. kak.M. WAtHf,"
The note was dated .lannarv 10.
ami it was on tin; tnth day of January. IS?.., that Mrs. Gregg, in the eereey of her cokl and cheerless little bedroom at
the iHKK-hott.'re. took out thi note and
read it for perbami the thousandth
time.
"1 don't know whr I don't throw
this into the ire," she said. "It's oat
la wed long ago, and Frank Ware, even
if lie's living, has ptoved that he is not
the man to pay anything he h t forced
to pay.
"I've hoped for year that I might
fSnallv gt something from this note,
given for monev mv husband ami
earned ami saved dollar by dollar, but
It's no nse to hope so any longer. I've
written to Frank Ware agaia and
again, an' I tried to collect it by law
before it ran out; but he had nothing
to nay it with then, and now, when he
could, he won't pay it.
"I've heanl that he has got proper
ty now, ami I think he ought to pay
me at least enough to keep me from bctnif what I've no need to be if I had
my own. "I might as weli barn the note
stop honing for what can never be-
no. I'll semi it to Frank Ware ami tell
him I'm on the town as a pauper, an
he can keep the note an' put it where
it'll remind him of my shame and of
his dishonesty every time he looks at
it"
Filled with this new determination.
she went to Mrs. Hates and asked for
writing material.
"I haven't written a letter for three
or fonr Tears." she said, "ami l never
expect to write another, So. if you'll
let me have a stamp for this it'll be the last time I shall ever ask for one."
Oh! I'll give you as many postage
stamps as yon want Nancy," said the
kind-hearted matron.
Daring the first ten years of married
life Xancy fir egg and her husband had
through unceasing industry ami self denial saved one thousand dollars
. with which to buy a small farm.
Not intending to use this money for a year or two, they had been induced to lend it to Mr. Ware, who was then a prosperous village merchant He wanted the money to increase his business. The investment seemed a perfectly safe one, but before the year was done Ware had failed so disastrously that there was nothing left for hk creditor. He had then gone west, and many were the letters seat to him by Mrs. Gregg in the days of her poverty and widowhood; but for years no reply had eome to her letters. 'And this w the lat one I'll ever trouble him with," she sakl. as she slowly wrote the following lines with cramped and trembling hand:
Ma. Fkask Wars Dear mr: I scad yea lhs from the seoraeaM, where I hive been kroasht te end my days, whtck I dea't tkiak wilt he many, sad I aead this te yea. te let yea kaaw that I am here heeauM yea dea't pay year Jaat deMa. X atad yoa year eM eat' tawed-" Mrs. Greyf laid dewa her pea while she tat for a moment in silent refee ttoa, her elbow en the table, aad her earn ia her hand. There was a aid, kather-terered
Wide tW table at ivhiei, JMrs. ' t ler eye rented on the Inn w a ,t dUwu kr pes. SI irw it slowly towaurd her. and opened U at the sixth chapter of Matthew, Owe w her ungr ram up and down t be reiki Ptfe uctil sbt had found the twelfth verse, .She bent low over the book, and read: 'And forgiv us our debt. a we for. rive our debtors." Xaney GragfT d tka words otm and strain; slowly nodding- her Head to nnd fro. Then she Mf Uy closed the lk, al leaned forward, her faee in her hamk Her gray Head dropped lower and lower until it at ) a t touched the ltook, and her tears fell on its cover. Finally she took up her pen again ami drew it many times across the last lines sb had written, so that it was impossible to read them. Then she wrote: To l jiw Uw that I have sansr UM- " alnat yes sow, tbottKh I have had la the lat, MseiHr wkea 1 II rat sat oa the town. Hut it's all right new, and ta thU. the laat let.
tr I shall em write to ambodr. I frmlr for-
Klv ym evarrthieag and wlb you welt Ho ao
mw tui aat. .Nancy CIhsuo." Folding this letter she put it and the note into an envelope and asked Mrs. Hates to "back it" for her. When the letter had been sent to tlta post office Mrs. Gregg said to herself:
"I'm glail I didn't write what I set out to. Anyone old as I am ought not
to hold spite ajcainst anvbody." rtt - .
inree weeKK passeu and no answer
had eome to the letter. Mrs. Gregg- ex
pected none. .She had determined tc
dismiss the whole matter entirely from her mind, and liad almost succeeded in
doing so when one cold and snow
DIIOOUHTS FOR EXPORTS.
AN EXAMPLE.
l'AY
YOtf IP" IT TOOK KVJtKt
afternoon Mrs. Hates came into th
eheerle sittinje-room of the poorhOHM
ktuI saul:
"Xancy, there's somebody 'to see yon
down in the parlor."
"To see Hie? Who in the land ha come to see me on suelt a day as this
Not Mary hnapp or anyone from the
village?"
"o; it's some one I never saw be
fore."
" ny, l caa t Imagine who it can
be."
She went hastily downstairs to Mrs. Hates' parlor, and there came forward
to meet her a tall, broad-shouldered an;
manly-looking- young fellow of about twenty-two or twenty-three year.. He
had an Hone&t, kindly face and
friendly .smile as he came forward with
outstretched haml. "Is this Mrs. Gregg?" he askinl. e3, sir; that's my name."
"1 am very glad to see yox 31y
name is Sydney Ware. 1 received ronr
letter."
"What letter?" asked Mrs. Gregg, in
a tone of bewilderment.
"The letter you sent to mv father.
He has Wen dead several years, Mrt,
Gregg. I am h is onlv child. I adrer
tiseil for all claims against his estate
to ie sent in at the time of his death, ami yours would h&ve been considered
with'the others, old as it was. "I never knew anything about it tin
til your letter came with that old note in it, and I waat to thank you first for
the kindly and generous tone of your letter. I hate come to pay you every dollar due you on the note, and to tell you how sorry I am that the money
was not paid long ago, and how sorry
I am to find you here.
"Well, T-I I'm sure yoH're real
good." said Mrs. Gregg, still bewil
dered. "But of coarse 1 have no legal
claim oa you. I know that"
"Hot you have a moral claim or me, Mr.. Gregg, and that is more binding
in my estimation than any legal claim
could be. I would pay you if it took
every dollar I have."
He drew out a purse as he spoke aad
took from it the faded aad yellow scrap of paper Mrs. Gregg had seat
him.
The note," he said, "is for one
thousand dollars with thirty years' interest at eight percent., making a to tal of thirty-four hundred dollars, aad
I think I'd better put ia another hun
dred for good measure, making it an
even thirty-ire hundred."
Again the villagers saw the poor-
farm wagon rattling down the street, and again its occupants were Ezra
Hates aad Nancy Gregg.
Hut old Xancy held her head high
now, and the old black veil was gone.
A smile was oa her faee, aad her dim
eyes were shining.
Again Mrs. hnapp came rnaaiag out
with nutst re tolled hand.
"I've beard all about it, Nancy," she
said, "and I'm so glad for you I've
just leen np to the little house that young Mr. Ware has rented for you,
and you 've no idea how nlee and coav
everything is up there, and I'm coming
up again pretty soon to help you get
settled. Yoa look real happy, Nancy."
"I am," said she eld woman, with a
ehildkh little laugh. "It'll be so grand to be m a home of my own again; am'
I'm so glad to know that there's some
honest folks in the world yet If there wasn't, Mary h'sapp. I'd still be
be a pauper. J. I. Harbour, is
Youth's Companion.
All Alone.-He (admiringly)- "Aad
did you make that mat yourself?" She "Yes, I did it all myself, with the exception of a little help I meived from my six yotMfsr ihten," Yaahat
Ik w Trim" Vkr(M Nrnan
W4H lri4 m4 1U Mrnlu
a . .....
ror many years the leading saw manufacturer in the United States has
been the firm of lleury Dksioa Jk Sons,
whose oMces were loeated ia Phila
delphia and factories aerom the Dela
ware in New Jersey. This eompaay
has now absolute enatrol of all the
saw works in the United States but
two. These are the works of the
Montague Weodriugh Saw Co.. of
Chicago, and V. B. denning Co
The I Hustons first secured control of
the Richardson Saw Co. their strong-
sat competitor of Newark, N. J and
afterwards the works of the Harry W. Pease Co., of Hrooklyn, X. Y. About
the same time the National Saw Co,
was forme 1 by the consolidation of the following concerns: The Wheeler, Mad dan .t Clemson Manufacturing Co., the Montague Steet Co.; both loeated
at Mkldletown, N. Y.; the Wood rough tc McParlin Co., bf Cincinnati, and the
Wood rough ,fc Climson Co., of Boston.
For a time the National Saw Co., though it made fast agreements with the Disstons on prices and territory, was Inde
pendent The Diss tons,boever, rapidly
absorbed the independent factories,
and when this was done, proceeded to
get possession of the National Saw Co.
also. This was accomplished a short time ago aad now their control of the
manufacture of all kinds of saws is ab-
solusely complete. The "saw trust," therefore, is the most complete trust in
existence. It is even stronger than the
steel ran or tne steel beam trust, in
that all the factories have been brought
under the control of a single eompaay.
The names of the old concerns have
been retained; they issue price lists, solicit orders and ship goods aa though
perfectly independent Ia this respect
wisdom is shown, for by so doing the
trust fails to attract attention as such.
All this was accomplished ia IStK). Having gained absolute control, the trust proceeded at once to raise prices.
nana saws were advanced 10 to U per cent and circular saws 4 to 8 cents per
toot the duties on all kinds of saws have long been prohibitive, and the trust was powerful enough with Me-
Kinley to keep them so in his tariff bill. The duties levied by the McKinley tariff and the imports of saws in 1900 are as follows: lhtty. Import. Circular saw Mprrcttnt. I (48 Crt ssent... ..,,....., S cents fit foot l.eis 11 an J and baeksMW.H percent. 2',0l Mill, pit and drag saws....,...,., W cents per foot .... ID
Total Import',
..... 171
This shows that the saw trust has ab
solute control of the homo market The saw trust employs the same method as that adopted by the ax trust, the glass, lead, cartridge and other trusts to keep up prices here. It presents catalogues ami price lists in Spanish, Portuguese and other foreign languages, which are distributed abroad. Ia these lists it offers to sell saws at prices ranging from 10 to 35 per cent, below the price which it charges the carpenters, lumbermen and farmers of the United States. A comparison of these prices with those charged American consumers will show the extent to which foreigners are favored. The following arc the prices on circular saws:
Sizes.
H-Imci ..... ll.hich 1-Mnch
M-lmh M-lneh.,.,.
41-lneh....
Ml. Inch ....
m Ineh....
W-tMCh.....
.............
e 2.S
11
Aa Kuhh4 TUf AntarUa Mlkt f iwa K. Benjamin A ml raws, president tt Hrown university, defines mercsatib ism in hie excellent book, "Institutes of Keosomioa," as follows: "This (the mercantile system) neglecting agriculture magnified other businesses, and commerce in particular, yet, regarding money aa the real form of wealth, insisted that in order to prolt by trading a nation must have a "balance of trade" ia its favor, work mines, tax imports, subsidise exportation, ami eonduct its whole poller with the view of amassing the greatest possible hoard of the precious metals. To this end ubiouitou governmental regulation of industries was neeessary, with privlleges and monopolies to all inland business deemed important, also en
couragement to domestic skipping, discouragement to foreign. These
notions, while more explieit ia France, were common to all Kurope, aad determined the character of economic aad international pal Hies for centuries." Were one asked to write a definition
of McKinleyism one could set do better than to substitute for mercantilism the word Me Kin ley ism in the above definition.
It was not until about 1775 that the
statesmen of England saw where the blind worship of mercantilism was lead
ing them. Adam Smith did more to open their eyes thau aar other person. At the dawn of the present eenturr
England began those reforms of her
fiscal system which have made her the
greatest manufacturing and commercial nation in the world. The abolition of her absurd ami narrow navigation laws was the first step, the second being the free importation of raw materials for
her mat jfacturers. The last trreat
measure a (reform was the removal of
such impovt duties as favored the few to the detriment of the manv.
On the ether hand, the French car
ried mercantilism to its logioal conclu
sion, and refused to discard it when its disastrous effects were becoming apparent The result was the French
revolution. The masses ia France had been so robbed and plundered on all
shies that they rose ia their power and swept the royalty aad aristocracy oat of existence,
With these examples before the peo
ple of the United States, will they longer tolerate McKlnleyism the ehief results of which are tariff-protected monopolies and trusts, which, unless
cheeked, will bring about 'he same results.
PXMOMA1 AND LITERARY.
INCREASING PRICES.
to Ia-
J l.U 1 4.44
4fi
rS.li
14
I .V2 2.S X 7.2 11. eo
The trust sells circular saws for ex
port at more than 98 per coat below the home price.
On crosscut saws a greater discrimi
nation is made, as the following shows:
Thin back, champion tooth, crosscut
saws, home pricts, per foot, 36 and 2S cents Export price, per foot, 20 cents.
Extra thin back champion crosscut
saws, home price, per root, 'J aad XI cents. Foreigners get these saws 9fite96
per vut- cheaper than they cost American buyers.
Hand saws are offered for export at
still better prices than circular and crosscut saws.
This can be shown by the prices
charged for the saw made at the factories ia Middle town, X. Y. The
prices per dasea for the various saws are as follows. The saw is what is known as No. 96, of spring steel aad carved and apple handle:
Length.
IS inches.
J r " .
"
? 9 o ?? ? : i a : J" iiTajr iu.se 17. RSi ii as rm as 27 in.ee
This saw is sold for export at over
per cent, ueiow tne price charged the
American consumer. These are facts
and can be verified by any one who will tike the trouble to compare the
discount sheets and price lists sent out
by the saw trust How should the
farmers ami workingmen look upoa
such a policy of high protection whole chief effect is to create trusts aad
monopolies to rob the people at the
same tim? that they favor foreign buy
ers r
One of the leading spirits in the
pocket knife traet is Thomas VY. Bradley, of the New York Knife Co., Wal-
den. X. Y. In a letter to the Xew York trade Journal, Hardware, he writes ia
merry way about the good thmrs
that the MeKinley law is doing for the pocket knife meuopoJy. He sars:
"American maaafaeturers of noeket
cutlery have, under the MeKialey tariff,
aa opportunity to sell their product in aa American market sach a they have
net had in years. e American makers are extending their works, increasing their output, aad getting
lightly better prises. LMe is
sight more werth living einea Mat
MeKialey aad Ma eellsae-aea inane V
preiec'bra aarlff to aretees,"
What Enabled the Tht I'tate Men
ereaae Trie. Those who strenuously adtoeated the
increase in the duty oa tin plate from
one cent to two ami two-tenth eents
per pound, ha 1 two objects ia view:
First To make tin and terne plate
so high that the consumers or these articles for rooSng and other purposes
would be forced' into the use of galvanized and other sheet iron and stsel la
st or J, and
Socond To compel the large con
sumers of tin plate to establish terne-
ing plants ami become the customers
of the sheet iron aad steel manufacturers. Every one conversant with the iron interest knowi that this is true.
The Iron Age admits it, and Senators Aldrkh and Allison in their report on the senate substitute for the Mills bill, in which they fixed the duty on tia plate at an average of
2-10 cent-t per pound, declared:
"The free admission of iron or steel sheets of all thicknesses, coated with tin or lead, would cause a substitution of imported .tin plates or sheets in wood cases for roofing and other building purposes, and for domestic uses whera galvanised or other sheet iron or steel is now used." The duty was increased at the demands of the galvanized sheet iroa manufacturers. As a consequence the
prices of tin and terne plate went up.
This is just what they wanted, for it
has enabled then to raise the price of
galvanised sheet iron. The combination at its last meeting adopted a new price list, making considerable increases, as the following shows:
Jtx-Seaatof Hereford, ef Wax Virginia, whose death has nwatlj bee reported, was one of Use earliest amigraats to California ia the "gold fever" days. He was a lawyer at the time, ami having settled in Sacra wesi to, became district attorney aad took aa active share in polities. A writer in lielgravia reealla what seems like a mockery of fate. Nefore the poet, Philip Hourke Mara4oa, became blind, in faet while he was yet aa Infant Dinah Muloek, hk godmother, apostrophized hhs beauty ia lines beginning, "Look at me with thy large brown eyes, Philip, my king!" Mile. Szumowska, a pupil of the great I'aderewski. is to make Her debut in London soon. In compliance with her father's wish that she should become a doctor, she passed while very young severe preliminary medical examinations; but her love for musk conquered, and she is expected to prove a brilliant pupil of her brilliant master. Lieut Julien Viand, of the French army, well known as "Pierre Loti," recently elected a member ef the French academy, has been made aomniander of ths French sloop-of-war Javelot, stationed now at Bidessoa. As the clever writer will bear is pain ia his new station, Kreneh papers express the hope that he will be inspired to write a book upon the country of the toreadors. Dom Pedro's daughter, the Countesa d'Eu, who lays claim to her father's hereditary "right" of ruling Ilrazil, ie
most unpopular among the Brazilians. Site is said to be a bigot, and has very eccentric notions of economy. According to the stories told of her she used to scrub the steps of the royal palace with her own hands as an example for the encouragement ot thrift among the people. The most prolific German authorAraely Iklte,has just died at Wiesbaden at the age of eighty. She began as a governess in London and commenced to write in German in 191. After that she obtained considerable popularity through the produutioa of more than fonr hundred romnnees, of which most were in two or three volumes. An effort to improve the social position of women ran through all her works. Mine, the Princess de Sagan. leader of fashions and frivolities, who has contributed more than any other womnn to the fortune of Worth, the man-milliner, has a villa at Trouville that reproduces even to details the residence of a Persian millionaire. Everything within the house suggests the land of the shah, even to the picture of Xasr-ed-Din that hangs over the fire pi see. This maison Persane is the favorite rosidenee of the princess, who entertains there with a lavish hand. A violin once the property of Louie XIV., who was a passionate admirer of the instrument, was recently purchased by a dealer in lluda Pesth. It was made years ago by Master Amati. The violin was sold a few days ago to s "member of the royal house &t Prussia" for five thousand guides. The parchaser, it is supposed, was Prince Henry, the sailor prince, brother of the emperor, who is an excellent performer oa the violin. Indeed, the prince has
played several times in public, and has
acquitted himself with credit While in Kiel he organised an orchestra among the members of the nobility, and gave concerts at the castle, which bees me famous in many ways. Tho prince is one of the cleverest members of the Hoheazollern family. HUMOROUS.
we n f hft I ow Prle Sew nrtee -No. P j perlwlln. per MS lbs. 17teM MieM iS.91 fl.M a to 21 17 te 19 i.ii l.st Jltoa Hlaw 4.M t.ss 27 II l.as a i va s.si
The combination of the manufacturers of galvanised sheet iroa never iatended te eagage ia tia plate production.
Thenr only object was to prevent tia
plate from interfering with their markets for galvanised iroa.
The manufacture of rope, cordage
and binding twine is controlled in this
country by "The National Cordage Co.," a monopoly trust corporation which embraces a score or more of separate corporations, and includes all ia this line of business except twe or three. A late telegram says that it now seems as if the National Cordage Co. woukl virtually control the sale of binding twine ia the northwest The principal object of the combine is to shut out nil alliance dealers who buy in large quantities aad sell to their members at cost Ia commenting the St Louis Republic remarks: "Under a tariff which ex eludes outside competi
tion, thefe corporations have combined
and cornered the market The way to break their corner is to atop imposing tar iff fines on those who try to buy outskle aad bring ia competing goods." In a speeeh ia the house of representatives when a member of that body Hon. John G. Carlisle said: "Every restriction on trade has, to a greaWr or less extent, a tendency to diminish the distribution of the comforts and necessaries of life among the people. We are all agreed, however, that a certain amount of revenue accessary for the support of the government mast be raised by the imposition of duties upoa imports, and so far as such duties may have a teadeaey te Interfere with a free exchange ef prod nets the souseqacaoos are uaavainable. But the ia
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