Marshall County Independent, Volume 1, Number 23, Plymouth, Marshall County, 22 March 1895 — Page 6

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TREASURY IS GAINING

TME INCOME TAX EXPECTED TO MAKE ACCOUNTS BALANCE. Receipts far Four Months to Jane 30 ICqaal Expenses Complete Statement of Government Finances from 1892 to 189Ö, Itoth Inclusive. Deficit Is Now $38,000,000. WMKhinxton eorrespomlence: An analysis of the Federal treasury's rendition shows the Government's finance art now working into better shape. The treasury has run behind about .S.OW.OOO tliti.H far this current fiscal year (since July 1. 1S14. hut unless cah-ula-Uoiih are su lly at fault the record for the last four months of the year, to June Ä). will show un income equal to the otitic. Customs and internal revenue receipts are on a bed-rock hard-times basis. Any change must be in the direction of increase. The deficit hist year (July, 1WVJ. 0 June 1S!U. inclusive) was $7.000.000 in round figures. This year (July, 18U1, to Jure. 1S1C. inclusive the shortage will approximate $.'. MXU UK). Next jear (ISU.Vr.) there stmuhl be a handbfHiie surplus, with revenue laws uniiangcd. To delve somewhat into detail it may be stated that receipts from customs are running nlnmt $100,000 a day ahead of last year. Occasional spurts to $.'"io.0o0 r$100,X0 a day inert ase suggest a growing drift in the direction of enlarged revenues from that source, but .SlOO.'Mio a day is a fair average 0f the daily increase, mill tliere is really nothing in sight to justify expectation of a further swell for aerernl mouths. The customs receipts for the first iidit months of the current ! fiscal year (July. 1S!M, to March, aggregate $ltt.l,0. 11 1.10, as compared with $ülJl.".löN.!7 during the corresponding period of 1SJC5-4. A monthly vera go of $t't.0oo.oO during the four lt mouths of the fiscal year will put the footings for the year above J? l."o,ooo,000. or SIS.CKXi.OtM) over last year. The receipts from "internal revenue" fvr the lirnt eight months of the fiscal year were esrly $r.MMMMM, ai,,..i 0f iy.).:-l4 for the corresponding period, the total to March 1. IS'.M. and lS'.K". respectively, being $1(M..V1,i;.;. and $J.VJSm.2:;j.;m;. Mre than one-half of the revenue of the first eight months of the present fiscal jour whs collected in July and August, and on Sept. 1 last the amount collected was $1S.OOO.OOO greater than 01. the corre.sHii(lint; date of the preceding year. This difference dwindled to .$:.( mmUHH) during the succeeding four months, and ihe internal revenue receipts are now nuuiing $100.000 a day behind last year on un average. At the present rate of decrease, the revenues from that source would aggregate not more than $1.".S.fiOO.OOO for the entire tiscal vear. against $1 1(1, 7ir7t '.0.17 for the year lSlK'-iH, a falling off of. $',000.1h) approximately. The Secretary of the Treasury relies with confidence on getting in $13,U00,UIH from income tax payments before the end of June, which would swell the cash coinwig in through internal revenue channels to the neighborhood of $1."3,000.H0, or $('.000,000 above last year's total. In addition to revenue from customs and internal taxation the Government dort res about l-"VH.UNM a year from miscellaneous sources. The treasury 1hoKs at the end of the current year, June 00, khould show something like this: Iteceived from customs $150,000,000 Keceived from internal revenue irG000,000 iteceived l'roin miscellaneous twmrces 10.000,000 Total $018,000.000 The expenses of carrying on the Government from July 1, 1S91, to March J, IM-", were $217,170.070.00. It is believed that the total expenses for the year can be kept within $.'kVi.00O,i()0. or $10.000,000 below the year 1N90-94. If these expectations are fulfilled the deficit fnr the entire year will approximate $:;S,000.00O. Now $0N.KX,tMH is just about the shortage at the present writing. It will be seen, therefore, that it is the hope and purpose of the treasury to keep the Government on an even financial keel during the remainder of the fiscal year. "Whatever it may run behind during Ida rch, April and May will be made up in June from the income tax. Icccipt ami Disbursements. The following tutmarization of the Governmental receipts and disbursements by months for the last two years will provo or great value to readers of Ihii paper in arriving :st an intelligible understanding of the present treasury situation. These figures are obtained front the records of J. Worthington Ford, treasury statistician, and are ollicial: lU'CEIl'TS FKO.M CUSTOMS. Mouths- lsO.ViO. 1S0.'-1)4 I at J $ S.4-7.."hW.4 5 U.OSa.OtSUO August ll.SOt.'Ut.l.'l ll.M4l.(!-.'5.L'S fccptcmttcr . .. . l.V44.!HH rj.oiin.77i, 1". tx-totier 11. !.. IIS. 17 l.ytK..'V:1.4." fi'ovemher .... lo.-WKW-.M lo.'jis.uss ;i ecember . . . . ) il.i:a;.ot:'.4o JM.vt.i'ir. : Jam-jrj I7.::ut,:t;.jr, ii.t.-.so:t.i4 February lo,r::4.ij'jl.Su ln.aun.rcs.n fclarrh 1 l.:gW.!i.7 April io.i7u.?t.::u J !.7!.N1o,,7.1,: i ho t.H."s,s7(.i; Total 'lrst 8 mos. 11 sm I year. . KW'UII'TK r Months - Jty August September . . . Oct oter November . . . leeeiiibrr . . . January February 11 a rch April Hay June ?131.S07.7.S SS .$ 0.920.11 l.U UOM I XT KUX AI. 1WC.SU. .$ 2-2tK).4M7.'.C, $ . 27.ri;2.27S.SO o.lSM4').47 u.4t:,.4.'.o.rj 7.774.o74..:2 i.::!) .ock..' ,so.4Ho..;. ni,c,i.-.irs.7 KKVK.MK. iv.:: to. 1 .';s:.rj7..t lo.;Vrv.H;7.:u 11.4i8.:?M.ttf, 12.7.'il.4iK.4H i2.or4,(M;:.r,s i2.o:rt;,.Tj..i.-, lo.711.i1!.'t 1 J.or.o,4o;:.j! 12.SiH,l'J7.i;i it.::K:.i4i.rj 12.04 t.'CiO.ftt 15.17M.S1IH..'! Total first K mos. u-al yea i vir. .$ !oo..vi.jn.i.r,n 1UOM ALL 1SU.VU-I. M.son.rKKi.'ri 'to.4o7,Uor,.M 22.r.22H.KS i'.M:;u,2io.io 151.41 l.UKt.bS 2i,hM.i:u;.s2 27.wh.:mk.71 ITJ.SSM.O'm.O'J ItKCKITTS SOLKCKS. IS'.I.'J-OI. $ ).JKr,.77;.u 2.'i,s!N.Kvr, ::o 24.rN2.7.vt.in 24..v:.::!i.tt7 2:t.l70, tOo.iH) r2,:t 12.027.00 24,tw2.7:is.:t7 22.2li!.2;!'.4I -4.H4a.7J7.7 22.iac:;c,4.2t j:t,iN!iia!KM.:rj 2i.4sr..ujr,.72 Months Jty $ August tveplemlK-r .... October NovcmlMr .... Iee-iiiber .... J Mil nary IVhrnarjr linrcli Aim II Hay June Tti $2,::,tH,o.st) lrst K mos. lUral year.. .?20S.tVJ7, 112.", S10:.o7U.277.W UKCUl OK r.Xl'KXlMTl'UKS. Mmiths- 1V.C.J. ISO.t-04. July $ r.l,.CIS.H:,2..'V.l ? .11.(;75SS.j0 August :ti,,.v,.r..sr, :t:,.,:.or,.22.s.4s Kcpteiiibor ... i:o.::j:5.ois.(;i 20.47s.010.17 October ,.2.7ia.o;;i. LH.)..'VKS,7!2.r4 Novemler ... 2S.477.lss.7t ;:i.:ur.2;.4i ecfmUer ... 27.tr,.4tVo.rJV .".o.o.Vs.LMWi.nt JnHiinry 4,02:1. 1 17.00 .:i).(i4;i).r9 robrnarj 'J5,blHJ,0.i5.13 Üil,72r.:t7.'t.h4 March l.i:t7.nCiO.'J April 2,072,H.'4..42 Uy ai.77SI,llt'.(C! Jhuo toj(iiTf 0 1 . i Total 17,173,070.35 $3W,030.S03.73

Much encouragement can be extracted from a comparison of the completed Treasury Department returns of our foreign commerce for February and the first eight months of the fiscal year, with the figures for the corresponding periods of the year immediately preceding. The returns, as published, warrant the conclusion that Europe is recovering from the panicky desire to throw back upon this country its holdings of American securities, that the tide has actually turned and that trade- relations are again becoming normal. From June JIO, ISO.", to March 1. IV.) 4. Europe paid an adverse merchandise trade balance of $218.000,000 with -.";,( Hi,(HKt in gold and ?(1T,o00,(h h in stocks and bonds of American production. The corresponding eight months of 1 NU 1-5 (bringing the calculation down to within a fortnight show a merchandise trade balance against Europe of .!rj,oOO.i x 10. That balance was paid oft with American securities, while net gold demands upon this country for $-l::.oOO.ooo additional go to show that futurities to that value were also thrown 1 ack upon the markets, indicating a total security ba.ktlow of $1T4.mio.i00, or $.".1.1 nn Mm 10 less than during the corresponding period of 110-4. Now the prospect would be blue, indeed, if there was any likelihood that foreign holdings of our obligations were coming back for any considerable length of time at even the diminished rate of $17,1 x h ),( m h 1 a month, but the returns for February very clearly mark a turn in the tide. They show that this country imported $4.h;7.(Hni more gold than it exported, and that it bought merchandise in excess of exports by .S2.m17.MM. thus creating an Adverse balance of $!,oS4,OtK, which must have been paid with securities. Our securities sire beginning to find their way back to European investors. The trade balances indicate that during the last twenty months, or since July 1. lstK. this country has been obliged to buy back its paper to the market value of $o7(.(HMI.km $'J4JJMH . in the full fiscal year INI:'.-.! and !.nn.immi during the first eight months of lS'M-tl."l, and the prospect of getting out from under a part of this lend will be a source of satisfaction to the business world. The process is not likely to be rapid at first, however. DEAD IN THE RUINS.

Five Lives Frob.tbly Lost in Toledo liou inllioiise Fire. At To!m1o. Ohio, the roof of the Wabash I'.-ilway round-house fell in during si tire. ki'ling three men and injuring many J more. The dead are: John A. lln-er, djohn L-ary. J-on J. I'rcsboi, :si;d the fatally injured F. Howard, 1. McPonnligh. Shortly before lo o'clock in the for--iioon people in the vicinity noticed a small Maxe in the upo!a of the building, evidently kindh'it from n spark from some passing locomotive An alarm was sent in and soon the department responded with three engines and bos-carts. When the tire started then- were only three people in the building. They were: Levy Meade, foreman; Jack Finlay. an engih- r. and a machinist named (leorge 'lowers. The round-house whistles were at uce sounded and as tinny of the employes of the company reside in the vicinity they were soon on the spot. There was apparently no immediate danger, as the fire was still confined to the top of the Ktruetun. They rushed inside and endfavored to get the engines out to prevent their destruction. As nearly all of them had no water in the boilers considerable delay was occasioned in getting them in shape to move. Suddenly the roof was observed to bo sagging. A cry of alarm went up, but the roar of the flames evidently prevented the men on the inside from hearing it, and as the cross bar ties of iron supporting the roof gave way the building collapsed and fell a mass of ruins. It was known that several people were in tho building when it fell and the collapse aiding materially in extinguishing the thinies, :i search of the ruins was male as soon as possible, revealing the extent of the tragedy. The. loss of six engines dotroyed is estimated at $lO.IM0: building .S".'"; storeroom and miscellaneous stock, SlO.OOO. Total. $100,000. It is understood an investigation will be made as to the condition if the building, which has been used about forty years. It was ih of the railway landmarks. .SV : '. ft? .Jyp im IV.. ..Ill The Massachusetts Legislature po?ed to fine every non-voter $.". proThe (Jerry whipping post bill was lefeated in the New York Assembly by a vote of tVi to ."7. Minnesota Populist leaders have announced their opposition to joining forces with the new silver party. Itoth houses if the Oklahoma Legislature have passed a divorce bill which is unequalled for its liberality. A general fight was narrowly averted ilu'ü.g th discussion f the penitentiary bill in the Oklahoma Legislature. Dr. Farkhurst excoriates the Lexow Committee for its utter failure to convict ct.rrupt New Vrk indice officials. liill granting women the right to vote for certain township officers was defeated in the Illinois Senate by one vote. Michigan legislators have decido! to mi Imi i t the picstion of increasing the salaries of State dlh-crs to a popular vote. The bill to grant full municipal suffrage to women was defeated in the lower branch of the Massachusetts Legislature. Lwer house of the Wisconsin Assembly decided to appoint n committee to inquire into alleged tax dolging by the railroads. There is a strong probability that Mrs. Mary FJlen Lease will b nominated for Mayor of Wichita, Kan., to oppose a Republican. Dr. liny, superintendent of the Nebraska Insane Asylum, refuses to give up control of the institution to his successor. Dr. Abbott. The Kan s;i s Legislature has passed the Fickstein nnti-bribery law. It npplies equally to the giver and taker of bribes. The penalties attached nre $1,000 fine and seven years in the penitentiary, or both.

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UNCLE SAM DEMANDS A PROMPT APOLOGY. Secretary Grcsham Informs the Spaniards that a Recurrence of the Alltancu Incident May Lead to War Our Flue Must lie Kespected. Tart Note Sent to Madrid. The most belligerent mess.i dispatch ed bv this (iovernment to a foreign nower 1 1 since the memorable controversy between the Harrison administration and the Chil- j tans has been conveyed tnrouga .Minister Taylor by Secretary (.Iresbam the minister of foreign affairs at Madrid. A more downright assertion of American rights was never uttered by Mr. lliaino himself. It amounts practically to a warning to Spain that a repetition of the Allianca affair will be considered by this country as a declaration of war. The incident is looked upon in Washington as more than the blundering impertinence of a naval commander. The revolution in Cuba has been supported by American Cubans. Key West and New York have furnished the Finows of war to the revolutionists. Public men at the capital have been open in their declarations that the time for annexation of Cuba to this country is near at haul. The assault on the Allianca is taken as an intimation that Spain will stand no further triding with Cuban affairs. Mr. Cresham's retort is extremely fiery. In substance, he commands the Spanish THE ALLIANCA, THE COLUMIJI AN Government to apologize, and to promptly instruct its naval commanders not to interfere with ships Hying the American Hag. The friendly relations between this country and Spain have to be considered when war talk begins, but there is no doubt that in any other circumstances the tone of the message would be provocative of a conflict. The message in full is as follows: "This department is informed that on theSlh inst. the United States mail steamship Allianca, on her homeward voyage from Colon to New York, when six miles from the coast of Cuba, off Cape Maysi, was repeatedly fired upon by a Spanish gunboat, with solid shot, which, fortunately, fell short. "The windward passage where this occurred is the natural and usual highway for vessels plying between ports of the United States and the Caribbean sea. Through it several regular lines of American mail and commercial steamers pass weekly within sight of Cape Maysi. They are well known and their voyage embraces no Cuban port of call. Forcible intorf?rence with thorn cannot be claimed as a. belligerent act, whether they pass within three miles of the Cuban coast or not, and can under no circumstances be lerated. when no state of war exists. "This Government will expect prompt disavowal of the unauthorized act and lue expression of regret on the part of Spain, and it must insist that immediate nnd positive orders be given to Spanish naval commanders not to interfere with legitimate American commorco passing through that channel, and prohibiting all acts wantonly imperiling life and property lawfully uuder the tlag of the United States. "You will communicate 1 1iis to the minister of foreign affairs and urge the importance of prompt and satisfactory response." One of the precedents which have been unearthed and brought to the attention of Acting Secretary Uhl as having a direct bearing upon the Allianca incident was found in the proceedings of the Alabama claims commission. In one of the decisions announced by Judge French tho court held there was no authority for the stoppage or detention of a mail steamer w hich is pursuing her usual route, even If that route lay at places within the three-mile shore limit and so within tho marine jurisdiction of the j.owcr seeking to stop the ship. If this n held to be sound doctrine, then, of course, the Spanish Government will make reparation for the action of its cruiser, even should it appear that the Allianca was within three miles of Cape Mais, as the Spanish minister in Washington beliyos. On the other hand, if this decision isiot In effect then what is known as the headland theory of jurisdiction will probably play an important part in the adjustment if the matter. According to tho contention of Great Itritaln in the Forttino Bay fisheries case, in which the United States has acquiesced, the line of marine jurisdiction is drawn three miles from a line running across from headland to headland In the case of n bay or a depression in the general coast line. The Spanish authorities evidently take the position at this time, in the absence of exact advices, that the Allianca was within such n line and so within their jurisdiction, although the ship may have been actually, more than three miles from the nearest shore. Crop Condi tlotis. Reports have been receivel from the Farmers Keview correspondents In Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Mulligan, Kentucky, Missouri, Kausas, Nebraska, Iowa, Wis

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consin, Minnesota and the Dakotas on the condition of winter wheat and rye: In Illinois the wheat crop has come through the winter in excellent condition, the recent heavy blanket snows having proved a perfect protection against adverse atmospheric conditions. Very little freezing out is reported. The plant Is small in some localities, but this will prove of no great moment if the crop be not subjected to hard experiences in the way of thawing and freezing. Wheat on clover sod seems doing very well. Ilye has been quite exteusively sown, and is doing finely. In Indiana the conditions ore the same as in Illinois quite largely. Ivittlo injury is reported from freezing. The snowsaved it, and prospects nre now good, though the plant is in soni. ouuties thin on the ground and small. lJye has been very extensively sown, but is in average condition. In Ohio the crop is everywhere fair to good, though reported uneven in Borne counties. Itye is doing well and has been quite extensively sown. Michigan reports conditions good, so far as known, but snow still covers much of the crop. The greatest danger nt present comes from ice blankets formed by melting dri.'ts. Iiye is good. The crop in Missouri is not all that could be desired. A good many counties report it only fair or poor, from varying conditions. Too dry weather last fall was one of the principal causes of the present condition. The snow has done much to improve it. Enough counties report the condition as good to bring tho whole State up to an average of fair, live, where planted, is generally good. Kansas, as usual, reports greatly vary-

LINK MAIL STEAMSHIP FIKFD ing conditions. Some localities report outlook as unusually good, while others report the crop as badly blown out on sandy land or much damaged, but latesown is better. Whero rain has fallen re'ently there is a marked improvement. Itye has ben sown in quite a number of counties, ami is generally good. Nebraska reports are quite good, although in soiiie sandy localities the crop has been hurt by high winds blowing it out. Too dry is rejiorted in some cases, but n great many counties have excellent prospects for a crop. Hye is, on an average, better than wheat. In Kentucky conditions are very favorable, most correspondents reporting a high condition. In n few cases where the crop is now poor it is improving rapidly. The snow of the past two months has proved of immense advantage, giving protection from the cold and moisture for spring development. Itye is generally doing well. As usual, a great many counties in Iowa have sown no winter wheat. In the other counties there appears a great variation in condition. While a good many correspondents report the crop in fine shape, some say that in their counties tho outlook is bal. One says: "Half crop; too dry." Iiye is fair. Wisconsin prospects are not good at present. The snow w as not so much of a protection as in some other States, and much of tho ground has been bare for some time. This has permitted thawing and freezing to nn alarming extent. It does not appear to be possible for the crop to escape without a serious disas'or, except in localities where snow has remained on the fields till very recently. Iiye is nol very fair in condition, but is likely to feel the adverse conditions loss. In Minnesota and the Dakotas little has bien grown any year, and the conditions will not greatly affect the crop of the countrj. The conditions are doubtful, both as to wheat and rye where the latter has been sown. It should be borne in mind in reading the nbove summary that the States that grow the largest amount of winter wheat report the conditions good, and that tho adverse conditions are quite generally reported from States that grow comparatively small quantities. From this it will be seen that the general average of these twelve States is good, and that a large winter wheat crop may bo looked for. REBELS ON THE RUN. Spanish Forces Are Driving; Them from Their Strongholds. Official information by the Government of the situation in Santiago do Cuba has just been given out. A dispatch received by the military governor of Santiago from General Garrich was forwarded to Havana. In this message General GarCXI! AN KKVOLI'IIOXAUV FI. AO. rich says that Colonel Santocildes, with 100 men. met a band of 400 insurgents near Guantantino. There was a desperato battle, tasting for an hour and a half. This battle was plaiuly seen front

the roofs of house. The insurgenta wer defeated with a loss of fifty killed and wounded, while the Government troops had but six men killed. Many horses and mules were killed. In his message. General Garrich commends the ofLVers and men of the Spanish troops for t.ieir bravery. It is also reported by the Government that Ma sso, one of the insurgent leaders in Santiago, says he was misled, but is ashamed to surrender. He says there are only 700 men in th- movement at Santiago, two-thirds of whtun are negroes. Seven insurgents surrendered to the military governor of Santa Clara. Troops which have been pursuing the insurgents in the Carthagena district have returned, us the province is now tranquil. All is quiet in the provinces of Havana, Puerto Principe, Pinasdel Kio and Matanzas.

A WATERWAY TO THE LAKES. Pittsburg; to He Conisccte! with Iake Erie by a Iig Canal. At Inst tho long-expected canal that is to couiuvt Pittsburg with the great lakes is about to become a reality and Pittsburg's most cherished dream and ambition will bo a material instead of a visionary project. Plans for two different routes have been prepared, either of which would be feasible. One is from tho mouth of the Heaver river, via the Shenango, to Conneaut Harbor, O., the other through the Mahoning valley, via Warren, to Ashtabula. . The length of the canal by either rou'e would be about K'.O miles. On the former route there would have to be tifiy loeks and on the other one-third less. The cost is estimated at from -7,-000,000 to S.'lo.ooo.ooo. UPON UV A SPANISH GUN I to AT. The canal will bo an important factor in the commercial and industrial development of the country it traverses. Coal, which, with iron, is found in all that district, is shippi'd to all part? of the country, so that any and every saving in the freight will benefit the entire United Statv. About 4,r,(KMio tons of it are shipp-d annually by vssels from Pittsburg to the lower Ohio and Mississippi river jxirts. It will enable the iron industries along the line of tin- canal to send products to shipping ports at about 37Vj per cent, of what it -.ss ttt present. The canal will provide the national Government with an easy way to d fend the lakes in ase of war. It will, by building up the wate plaees, iic-rcase the revenues of the States it traverses or affects. From a Pittsburg point of view, the canal will boom the .-ity :i s it lias never been boomed before. Pittsburg; commerce with tho great lakes in iron ore, lumber, etc., amounts to about 7.'o.(io tons per year. Along the route of the canal th're are fifty-seven furnaces, producing onefourth of all the iron produced in this country. tf3: es r Ii ho Mew$ Count CiKtelianc's young-r brother Is in New York looking for bids. Tho President didn't get many ducks, hut he kept himself out of rca h of many human geese. This is going to be a bad year for the oldest Mason; he has already di d iu three Stales since Jan lary. We knew it would c-me to pass. Some woman has sent a lot of fiowers to Gentry, who killed his sweetheart. Albany, Ore., has redueetl expenses by discharging the engineer of its fire engine. It will trust to luck and volunteers in case of a fire. Some one says that part of woman's theater hair is put on with her hat. Now those bats will com off. What law could not do slander will. Mr. Chappell, of Halt imore. would not now be sunl fr striking his wife for flirting in clunvh if he had kept his own eyes on the minister. Cob pipes nre said to be one of the latest affectations at some of the Eastern clubs. Each niemlwr is said lo have his own ob and lo leave it at the club. If Mr. Wilson, our new Postmaster General, sees all the pi turs of him that are being printed ho will have to keep a mirror on his desk to be sure that he is himself. It is gratifying to loam that tho surviving bank robber nt Ab-1. Iowa, will not be lynched, but why this report? Iowa ceasel lo be part of the wild West many years ag-. How the street railway compnnis v ill stare nt the news that a Savannah company has been conipelh'd by a United States court to raise its fares! They would like to move tlo'ir entire plant to Georgia, and their patrons, too. The codfish which has hung In the Massachusetts State House more than a hundretl years is to be taken to the new capltol by fifteen members. This Is the f.rst iustance on record of It taking fifteen Yankees to get away with on codfish.

GOLDBEATERS' WOr.K. One Trade in Which No Improvement Has Hccn Made. "I was in the Yvork!ip of a gdlleatcr in New York re'cntly for the first time in my life." sai.l L. S. Tmlinsn. of Cbicag. at the Limb II. "Probably less is known of that interesting trade than f any tber extant. The fact Is that there nie s few ctigagol in it by comparison with other indtistrb's. I was greatly int-rcstel in the prM--ss. The g'dd Is iindted ni.i run into a small ingot making an dihmg plaw of al.solutdy pure gbl. This is rill'd Li I hand ndling mill until it is strung out into several yanls if gM ribbons, about us thick as parchment. This is cut up into phvos about an itu h sqimr". s'v-ral huiidrotl nre pl:t-cl bciK'a'h leaves of goMl. eater's skin, the v1h1h incbsol in a pap-btiu-nf -ver. Then it is b-Uen fr s'veral hours. Tft leaves tf gdl spread inuh r llt belling, ami tb-y hre eu h cut inio four pieces. The beating process is contiuUm1. the pieces ;iv Ualn Iividol. a lid lb' pnwess repit'd until tin gobl is so thin that tin' slightest bt atii will Mow It away. "I am told that this is itie iraie in which modern invention has made no improveim'in. Attempts to beat gold by machiiH'iy ha v." utterly lailcl. Im aus.' th strd;o must not be uniform, but regulated by the striker ae-unling

I to ho conditions. A false strk of the linmnii'v is sufhVjent to undo the work done at any sa ami novssiat's a fresh start, beginning with tb nn-lting-Iol. Only one stibst.uice lias ever been liscvu''l which will serve to beat gobl In. 1 1 is obtained from tli" iutstlns of rattle and suljectel to a seen t pnwess. I am told that gold is b'at-n now as it was when Solomon's temple was l-oor-ated with gdd h'.-if. Sometinu's a crtci'de of gobl iMi-aks. or is upct in the furnace. The cinders and ashes nro carfully gatheivl. beaten line lu a mortar ami then washe! by han.l. Practically all tin gold will be ivcovere in ibis way. Flying par;iles .f gdl l'af, as lino a lust. settle all v-r the shop. The sw'pings f the shop are saved, burned ami the ashes was'ael. and yp-M a sum in gold annually.' St. Louis Jlobe I ctiiocrat. To Make Hons Lay. There :ttv a pi-Mi many wonmn who would like to go into the poultry business, if they only kin-w how 10 make their hens lay w hen limy want tliom to. Hens have a habit of goimr u a sirike when eggs are highest, and of piling uj girs when they are worth nothing. Now. I think I have solved the problem f making hens lay at any time in the year. I have ne dozen louis, ami haw not failed to liavo eggs every month in the year. anl alniot every (lay in the month, for the last ton years I will give my modo of operations: Say wo bgiu in the fall jut after the moulting s asou. If you have fed Sherhlan's toiulitioii powlors through the moulting season .your Lens will be almost sure t be in a gool condition. You must begin feeding regularly twice a day about tho first of o-tdor. We si;ppse yur bens nr running out. In tho morning I fel a soft fc'l of wheat screenings, if I have it. bran :rd corn meal, about nMhird of each, about a juart d ford for a dozen hn, into whi-h I stir before wi-Ming one teaspoonftil of Venetian red. In cold wen Iber I scald tin feed. In odl every third day, with one toapoouful of r'l popper twice a e-':. Do not us tb popper with tb Venetian rrl, but t!s' alternately. Give this until ti:y Lu gin 1 lay, which will be in a w-ek or ten days; then give once a wrcU of euch ns long as you want eggs. At night I give a quart f wind corn, held peas u ratio sv1. cither of which are good, the pens esp-eially for laying hens Give plenty of pure water with lime in it. Th above rules, closely followed, will jjivo yu plenty of eggs and healthy chickens. My chickens never have the cholera. . anything else the matter with them. The Wnotian red Is harmless fr the chickens. Ym can obtain it at any drug store. In the spring you will not need to fed so often. And if yu want Stiers you must rdop feeding It entirely. I have given this receipt to several, and always with the best results. -Phihob'lphia Errrd. TraiclcrV Tlcs TIic .Mirage. The mirage can be svn nearly rvTy day In the plains of Lucr Egypt, and also to a limited extent in tho plains of Hungary and Suthrrn Franc. Now and then sunothing of the Kind can bo seen in summer by stooping down ami looking abuig our samly masts, such as Moivcanib Pay ami the ast of IevonhIre, ' over the I"ui district, at that season lril tip by the summer heat. We must retmunber that tho mirago of ih' l's'i t creates nothing, but merely inverts botlies that actually exist a little distance off; though in t'.ie Sahara skylight rays les-ending are bent upward by the hot air next the sand, ami the eye Is actually hdudol by an l:ipressiut resembling the reib'ctioii if skylight from water. Ihe illusmn being increased by the llickMing due to ronvecthm curnuits. suggesting the effects of a breeze u tho valr. Many of the description given f the mirage are- "travoh'r taFs" in the uncomplimentary sense. One of the most absurdly extravagant examples f this Is the following: 'This treacherous phenomenon deluls the traveler's ey with a regular sutvossion f beautiful lakes and shady avenues, and thn, again, with an expanse f waving gras around a picturesque villa; here is presented a grove of towrrlns tre; then is a flH-k of brwsing cattle. Ciia tubers' Journal. The patronage of women Is valuable to a newspaper; at least once a month most women have a lest cow advertise meuL

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