Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — Page 2

FARMERS BUNCOED.

M R'ETS OF THE WORLD HAVE l.Ot BEEN CAPTURED. Took Larger Quantities of Our Products.bjitGave Us Less Money—Heads ' They Win and Tails We Lose Under Free Trade. We Give* They Take. It Is unnecessary to remind the American people that they were to capture the markets [ 6f the world as soon as the wall of protection was broken down and they could reach out beyond the confines of the markets of the United Btates. Volumes have been written upon this subject by the free trade newspaper editors, volumes full of theory and volumes full of promises. Now let us look at the practical side of it At the present time the only details of our exports of American products for tne fiscal year ending June 30,1895, that have been issued by the bureau of statistics of the Treasury Department are those relating to mineral oils, breadstuffs, cotton and provisions. The official returns show the quantities and values of each of these commodities that have been exported to foreign countries during this and the previous fiscal years. , . Instead of there having been a large Increase in our exports during the 1895 year, ten months of which period the Gorman tariff was in operation, strange td say our official statistics show that we have been selling less of our products in the markets of the world since our wall of protection was broken down, *and that the promises made by the free trade writers were misleading and their theories based upon false premises. In the following table we give the decrease in our exports, with the quantity and value of mineral oils, breadstuffs, cotton and provisions during the fiscal year ending June 30,1895, as compared with the previous twelve months: * Decrease in exports for year ending June 30, 1895: Mineral oils— Quantity. Value. Crude, galls... 10,099,805 $765,979 Napthas ..... 798,889 37,441 "TTlumlnafihg, galls., 15,408,951 04,070,200 Residuum, galls ■■■■.... ■ 16,208 a 2,475 Breadstuffs— Barley, bush. . 3,153,871 1,417,117 Corn, bush.... 37.917,902 15,712,308 Oats, bush.... 5,130,377 1,806,523 liye, bush.... 221,957 121,386 Wheat, bush.. 12.126,641 15,467,453 Wh’t flour brls. 1,594,344 17,356,061 Cotton, “ ten, months, 1b5..a560,862,795 3,430,306 Provisions— Cattle, num’er. 25,952 2,934,469 {Beef— P Canned, lbs.. a 7.590,263 a 515,537 Fresh, 1b5.... 2,340.177 145.358 Salted, 1b5.... V- 599,267 36,203 Tallow, lbs... 28,588,800 1,462,478 Hog products— Bacon, lbs. ... n 34.744,336 623.549 'Hams, lbs. ... a 18,089,318 a 1,078,812 Pork, lbs ~ 6,030,896 -987,878 Lard, 1b5..... n 23,003,974 3,516,869 , Dairy products— Butter, lbs... 6.195,760 1,157,228 Cheese, lbs... 13,456,60 S 1,683,738 Net money loss $65,664,819 a Increase. Out of 22 different articles it appears tijar tsf five only did we expert larger quantities last year than in 1894; that in the case of four articles only was there an increase in value; of 17 out of the 22 commodities we sold less in quantity aud of 18 we sold less iu value. In the ease of illuminating oil, which shows an increase of over $4,000,000 in (lie value of our exports, there was a decrease of 15,400,000 gallons iu the quantity exported. The recent sharp rise in the price of coal oil accounts for this difference. Among the provisions it will be seen that we sold over 23,600,000 pounds more lard last year, but received $3,516,000 less money than in 1594. We also sold 34,744,000 pounds more bacon, but received $623,549 loss money. Capturing the markets of the world on any such basis as this, where we .have sold larger quantities of our eomjinodities at much lower values, can hardly he a profitable undertaking for the producers of such articles. No doubt the cotton growers will bear us out in this statement, because, although during the break in the wall of protection wo sold upward of 860,000,000 pounds more cotton iu ten months than during the corresponding period of the - previous cotton crop year, yet the price received for our total exports of cotton was $3,430,000 less thau when we sold over a million bales less. In other words, we have practically given away 1,024,000 bales of cotton for nothing, and have also received $3,430,000 less money than we did when we sold a smaller quantity in 1894. Hard Times on the Cow. An exchange tells of a man out in the western part of the State who went into his cow stable the other night and by mistake mixed the cow up. a nice mash in a box full of sawdust instead of bran. The cow merely supposed the hard times were the cause of the economy, meekly ate her supper, and the man never discovered his mistake until the next morning, when he milked the cow aud she let down half a gallon of turpentine, a quart of shoe pegs and a bundle of lath.—Midtlleburgb, N. Y., News. That Restoration of Wages. While the free trade papers Jubilate over the restorations voluntarily made In the wage schedules of some factories, they Invariably forget to state that such Increase does not.make the rate of pay now received by the wage earners equivalent to their earnings of 1892. Another point to which they fail to refer is that, where wages have been feCTy^a' t, * > "' “A"7> **••-■* *4--- . -i, t

advanced, it is very often the case that such an advance was made to far fewer, people than were employed in 1892. A firm may then have been employing 500 hands, and even if the same rate of wages should now be paid it is often the case that only 350 hands are employed. What, then, has become of the other 150? Has some other industry made such marked progress under tariff reform as to be able to absorb these Idlers? If so, why have not the free trade editors recorded the fact? It is most likely that the 150 have either left the eountryorare tramping around still looking for that job which they had before they voted for President Cleveland and tariff reform. Down on the Goose. During eleven months of the last fiscal year, np to May 31, 1895, we imported almost $1,500,000 worth of crude

feathers and downs. Under the McKinley tariff a protection of 50 percent ad valorem was accorded to American feathers and downs. The free trade slaughterers abolished this protection, placing crude feathers and downs upon the free list. The largest goose growing State in this country is Missouri, where Senator Vest comes from. 4 ln Missouri two French breeds of geese, known as the Emden and Toulouse, have been imported and improved upon. The States of Kentucky and Tennessee are the two next largest producers, and the three best markets for goose feathers are at St. Louis, Nashville and Louisville, these three cities receiving and distrib-, uting fully two-thirds of all our domestic goose feathers that are grown in the United States. The protection given to this Southern Industry under the McKinley tariff largely stimulated an increase in the number of geese, but not even the boss free trade gander. Senator Vest, raised his voice for protection to a Southern Industry, but he vyas content to pluck the last feather from the goose that lays so many golden eggs for his fellow citizens in his own State. A Good Topic to Discuss. We observe with satisfaction that the protection journals of the entire country combine to defend the national policy of encouragement to home Industries with ability and success. Their arguments qye up to date and deal with new phases of the question. The welfare of the whole country, and especially of the wage earners, is an inspiring theme and merits the ability with which the subject Is discussed in connection with the tariff. Home Market for Home'Goods. Every farmer in Faulk County should wear woolen clothes. Every person who owns a horse In Faulk County should have a woolen blanket for It Every bed In every home In Faulk County should be provided with at least one pair bf woolen blankets. All of

whhfh should be manufactured In Faulk County. We produce the" wool In ample quantity, now let us provide for its manufacture.—Faulk County Times, Faulkton, S. D. We are pleased to see the spread of the doctrine of protection in the far Western section of the country. Every State that produces wool should have its own woolen factories and manufacture its own woolen goods home market The object of the policy of protection is to secure a home market for American products. Against Convict Labor. In the liottae of Parliament Colonel Howard Vincent moved, on Feb. 19, 1895: “That in the opinion of this house it is incumbent upon her majesty’s government, in the interest of the industrial classes of the United Kingdom, at once

An Object Lesson for Farmers.

to take steps to restrict the importation of goods made in foreign prisons by the forced labor of convicts and felons.” After a long and interesting debate a division was at first vigorously challenged from the Government side, but was not persisted iu, the motion being unanimously adopted amid opposition cheers.

The San Francisco Journal of Commerce urges its local manufacturers and producers’ association to institute a California week, or even a California day each month, when the various business houses of San Francisco will display in their shops and on their shelves goods of California manufacture. Keep the ball rolling. ,

The consumption of home products and manufactures has been very effectively agitated by the Manufacturers and Producers’ Association of California. This association has 850 State factories affiliated with it, employing about 34,000 working people, aud it believes in protection in the strongest form.

An Ohio revivalist named Jonas appears to have gone into the business of reviving as a profession. His “ad" in the paper declares that “he has a strong voice, and is able to speak to the largest audiences at grove meetings. He is not backward about speaking.'twice a day where opportunity is afforded. His heart is full of the'work, and he is anxious to reach people with his message of deliverance. He can preach on Sundays as well as talk politics on week days. lie Is a very efficient revivalist. He has a wonderful faculty of entertaining, holding and convincing audiences, and can speak in the same place night after night with continually increasing attendance." In Austria a credit of six months is generally allowed. 4 , .**-*•- r.- :• ’ ■ / V • '••• •’ -- - *

Try It at Home.

Of Course It Does.

A Businesslike Revivalist.

DIED IN THE FLAMES.

HOftRID FATE OF MANY IN ,A' HOTEL FIRE. ■ Gumrj House at Denver Wrecked by an Bxploaion at Midnight—Guests Caught In the Ruins—Fire Breaks Out and Firemen Forced to Betreat. ! An Awful Tale. The Gumry Hotel, at Denver, Colo,, was wrecked by a terrific explosion at i 12:10 a. m. Monday. The rear half of the building, a five story brick and stone structure, went down with a crash. The hotel was crowded with guests and be- \ tween forty and fifty of them were killed, I as well as the entire forje of hotel em- j ployes, who were sleeping in the portion of the building which -fell. No meals were served in the hotel and every guest entered on the register occupied a room in the hotel Sunday, most of them late at night, the list being as follows: Mrs. O. H. Knight, Lake City. Mrs. Knight’s sons. J. I. Kirk, Omaha. J. 0. Brown,Omaha.. Bud Buren, Colorado Springs. J. W. Roberts and wife, Colorsde Springs. Miss Jennie Hnword, Boston, Mrs. C. W. Williams, Boulder. Miss Hattie H. Williams, Boulder. W. C. McClain, Huron, Kan. Mrs. McClain and child, Huron, Kan Henry Sloan, Huron, Kan. Mrs. Henry Sloan, Huron, Kan. George Burlfe, Colorado Springs. E. T. McClosky, Cripple Creek? Colo. F. French, Central City, Colo. B. Lorah, Central City, Colo. W. J. Corson, Pueblo. M. E. Letson, Denver. Probably Sixty Killed. At 3 a. m. Monday only fifteen persons who are known to have been in the buildiug at the time of the explosion are accounted for. This leaves sixty supposed to be dead. Henry Sloan and wife, of Huron, Ivon., and W. O. McClain, cashier of the Huron State Bank, are among those taken down by ladders, and—afe-all-morecur-leas injured. On both sides of Lawrence, from 17th to 18th street, and on Larimer, directly back of the Gumry, the plate-glass windows of the business houses were blown in and a number of pedestrians were injured by falling glass. The fronts of many buildings in the vicinity were badly wrecked. , <► The hotel structure, for 100 feet along the alley and extending 75 feet toward the front, is a mass of debris. Brick and plaster piled in heaps twenty feet high, and from this mass of wreckage could be heard the moans of the injured and dying. The cause of the explosion is uncertain, but it is supposed that the battery of boilers in the hotel basement must have exploded. The sound of the explosion was heard throughout the city, awakening people in bed a mile from the scene. A cloud of dust was thrown a thousand feetin the air, and, as tliere was not a breath of wind, it hung in the air like a huge column. Minute atoms of powdered brick and yiortar descended like gentle snow. At 12:50 the ruins began burning fiercely and the firemen were to retreat from the work of rescue. Every engine in the'eity was pouring streams into the mass, but the flames could not be possibly got under control before the injured were cremated.,:. As their chances of escape lessened the cries of the imprisoned people were increased, heartrending shrieks rising from every portion of the great mass of wreckage. During the height of the excitement a team ran away on 18th street, stampeding the great crowd of spectators, A number of people were more or less injured by being trampled upon and falling in the broken glass which covered the streets and sidewalks in every direction. Electric-light wires dangling from-brok-en poles in the alley added fresh peril to the firemen. Ono horse was burned by coming in contact with a live wire*, Two injured women had been almost extricated from the ruins when the flames approached so close that the rescuers had to abandon them for safety. The bodies of three women were also to be seen in the back part of the building, but could not be reached. Hardly had the firemen got fairly at work when they were forced to retreat. Proprietors of the Hotel Killed. Amoug the dead are Peter Gumry and R. C. Grenier, the proprietors of the hotel, the day clerk and the night elerk, none of whose bodies have been found. Immediately after the explosion occurred n baby was heard wailing in the corner of a room which had nearly all fallen away. Its parents had gone down with the first crash. Afterward the little one’s cries became weaker ami weaker, and when the flames shot up into the skeleton of the building it became silenced. The firemen made a brave effort to save a woman (f.ught in the debris of the north corner of the hotel, but were forced to abandon the attempt. The Gumry Hotel was a five-story brick with stone front, and wns built about six years ago. It was of the better kind of second-class hotels, catering largely to transient family patronage. Thus many women and children were among the guests. The building was put up as the Eden Musee by the widow of Gen. Tom Thumb, and was so occupied for several yeftrs, later being remodeled for use as a hotel. Gumry and Grenier have owned the.hotel for Several years. Mr. Gumry wns a prominent contractor and had done much of the work during the building of tho State capitol. Mr. Grenier acted in the capacity of manager.

Told in a Few Lines.

Hetty Green announces that she will spend the summer in prayer. It is cheaper than spending the summer in Europe. John L. Sullivan's benefit performance in New York the other night netted him altfiut $6,000 This ought to last Aim at least two weeks. A thoughtless visitor began humming “Every Day'll Be Sunday By and By” in Sew York tho other day and a mob chased him nine miles. Gen. Campos has ordered 1,200 pounds of quinine from Spain- It’s no use; quinine will not stop the Spaniards from shaking in their boots. Several days ago Gen. Campos took complete control of the Cuban cable and announced that no news except reports of Spanish victories would be sent out henceforth. We haven’t heard from Cuba since then.

MECHANICAL EVIDENCE.

The Wise Girl and the Success of Her Scheme. “George,” said the young woman regretfully, but with determination, “your repmrks pain me, but I am no weak creature who gives way to her feelings upon slight provocation. That Is not the modern girl’s method; she is trained in a different school. As I understand it, you have decided to break the engagement!’ He bowed his head to signify that she was right - v “All is over between us, according to your statement We can never be to each other what we had hoped. There are obstacles and all that” “Yes,:’ he replied, slowly, “that Is it” ! “Here in this room, in which you proposed, and in which we have spent so many happy hours, you tell me that” she said in a business-like way. “Have you thought of the possible cost?” I He merely shrugged his shoulders. “Suppose I should sue for breach of ; promise?” she suggested He laughed at that. “You haven’t a Word in my handwriting,” he said. “Possibly not” she replied, with a glance toward the corner of the room; “but I have something better than that” ’ She took him by the hand and led him to the corner. “Will you listen if I start it?” she asked. “Has it—a—a—” he began. “It has been here all the time,” she Bald, coldly. For/a moment he hesitated. Then Jbe turned to her and exclaimed fervently: . “Mary, forget what Minve Just said. I was Thoughtless, foolish! I would not lose you for the world! Be mine!” j And when he left that evening she laughed softly to herself and said: “I ■ told father I’d land him sure if he’d 1 only buy me a phonograph.”

Pretty Cheap Living.

A good deal lias been written about the cheapness of table d’hote In the j restaurants of Boston, but what shall | be said of the country table d’hote that , is' told of by a Boston business man j who recently returned from a vacation passed among the green hills of Ver- ' nmnij—“l have found the cheapest place in J which to live in this part of the coun- | try. It is in Vermont,” he said, with enthusiastic gestures. “You talk about your city tables d’hote. They can’t hold a candle to those I’ll tell you about. I went on a fishing trip to Lake Champlain and found a first-class place on one of the large islan'ds—North Hero. The board was $1 a day and the food was as good as any man need eat After staying there a fortnight and gaining eight pounds, I went down to a town, south of Rut bland, and at the host hotel in the town I had a dinner for 25 cents ■which included mutton broth, tender roast beef, plenty of* vegetables, potato salad, apple fritters, eoeoanut pie, and frozen custard. There were other meats and desserts, but think of such a dinner served in fire-class country style, large portions, all you want of everything for 25-cents.”—Boston Commonwealth.

Proof Against Lightning.

Each day adds some new virtues to the long list of those already credited to the pneumatic. The latest of those is that the wheels of<a bicycle being oncircled by a band of India rubber and dry air—which is a perfect insulator—the rider is completely insulated from the earth, and, consequently, is impervious to flic attacks of the electric fluid. Thus, day by day, it becomes more and more a fact that life without a pneumatic tire is neither safe nor worth having. Any one who suffers from nervousness during a thunder sliower has now only to go into a barn or the cellar and seat himself upon the saddle of a pneumatic-tired bicycle to be perfectly safe from lightning stroke. As the chances of a man on a bicycle being struck by lightning have been carefully calculated to be about one in a billion, the W’lieel adds, there will of course be some pessimists who will deny that this newly discovered virtue of the pneumatic as a lightning insulator amounts to very much.—Scientific American.

A Tire Better than the Pneumatie.

A bicycle rider was slowly wending Ids way out Arch street toward Broad a few day ago when he wns hailed by a man of about 60 years, who said he wanted to ask his (the wheelman's) opinion of a bicycle tire which he had recently invented. “The tire is solid, but it has Just ns much elasticity as this one, if not more,” explained the man ns he pressed the pneumatic tire. “You can put it on the wheel in an Incredibly short time, and when it is once on need never to be taken off, as it will never wear out I have spoken to several bicycle dealers in regard to It, and they all assure me that it will bo a success.” “Your fortune is made,” said the rider, “if it is as elastic as the pneumatic tire.” When asked of what material it was composed the man only shook his head and declared that It was a better tire than the pneumatic. It is certain that such a tire as this would be hailed with delight by ’cyclers, as they would not then be In constant danger of a puncture, and would not have to pump air into it every few days.—Philadelphia Bulletin.

“Beautifying" in Paris.

The women of Paris put starch in (lie water to soften it It is much cheaper than borax or toilet vinegars, and more reliable than ammonia,which undoubtedly stimulate* the delicate growth of down. Every chamber, even the smallest, has a fireplace and mantel and one of the ornaments is a porcelain caddy or jar for the toilet starch-—Court Journal.

LITERARY LITTLEBITS

Few people who know Besant believe that he can be 57 years old. His plump face and clear complexion, and his very thick and very brown hair and beard, make him look a much younger man. M. Sardou has written a novel, taking his play “Thermidor” for a theme. And now the author fears to publish It, feeling doubtful concerning the reception of this first effort in the writing of tales. s Lord Rosebery’s mother the Duchess of Cleveland, it writing the life of Lady Hester Stanhope, her aunt, who began life as the, private secretary and confidant of William Pitt, and for thirty years had her own exact way as an Arab sheikh in Syria. A volume of political sketches Is to be published under the title of “Southern Statesmen of the Old Regime.” The author is Professor W. P. Trent, the Southerner who wrote the biography of William Gilmore Simms, published in the Ajneripan Men of Letters Series. “What with the newspapers and the newspaper syndicates offering prizes varying from ten thousand to five hundred dollars,” exclaims the Critic, “that author will be particularly unlucky who does not find his income for 1895 materially much larger than it was in 1894.” The first three volumes of an immense Italian work dealing exhaustively with the voyages of Christopher Columbus are nearly ready for publication. It Is to be complete in fourteen volumes, and the Italian government is bearing the expense of bringing it out. In the third volume are to be found one hundred and seventy facsimile pin tea of autograph writings, both authentic and doubtful. The author of an article in the Independent quotes Mr. Ruskin as declaring that if he had followed the true bent of his mind he should have been a civil engineer. “L should have found more pleasure,” he added, “in planning bridges and sea breakwaters than in praising modem painters.” And with a sigh, he said, “Whether literature and art have been helped by me I know not, but this I do know, that England ]ias lost in me a second Telford.” Rider Haggard says that there is too much talk about a successful author—what he makes or does not make by his pen. He asks, mournfully: “Why can’t authors and their earnings be left alone? Many men make their incomes on the stock exchange and at the bar without being purused by paragraphers. Why should a man who makes his living by his pen be pursued by paragraphs? I believe people often inake more money by paragraphs than the authors about whom they write.”

Up to Date.

A story Is going in England of a man who took a book manuscript to a publisher with the statement thatdt was the greatest novel.of the century. “We want it,’* said the publisher. “Is it up to date?” “Up to date?” said the author, “I should rather think it is up to date; it contains two problems and k wife who confesses all on the day of her marriage.”- : : : The publisher’s eyes glistened, but as he turned over the pages of the typoscript his face lengthened. “Great heavens!” he said, “it’s written in English; there’s not a Scotch phrase in it! And you said it was up to date.” “What do you mean?” asked the author. “What do I mean?” cried the publisher. “My dear sir, are you really serious in expecting me to publish a novel that’s not written in a Scotch dialect? Take it away—take it away." Well, the author took it away, and was somewhat disheartened, until he suddenly recollected that he had an aunt who had lived in Scotia nd, and had mastered the language so that she could go through Edinburgh without the aid of an interpreter, and could almost understand a Glasgow man when he spoke slowly. He hurried to her side, and with her assistance turned all the “froms” into “fraes,” all the “longs” into “langs," all the “away-s” into “awas,” the “friends” into “freens,” and the “flies” into “flees.” With the aid of a few “hoot mous,” “bonnies,” and a judicious flavor of the brose pot, the book was transformed, the publisher accepted It with enthusiasm, and its appearance is now expected every day.

What He Should Wear.

“I realize,” said the father of the bride-to-be, “that I haven’t kept posted on the little ins and outs of good form, and as you are to be one of the family pretty soon, I want to take the liberty of asking you a question.” “Anything you like." “What is the proper thing for a fafch-ejr-ln-law to wear at the wedding breakfast?” “The young man pondered deeply, and then replied: “Something In the way of a check.” ♦‘A small check?” “Well—say about $10,000.”

A Reasonably Good Reason.

“Pa,'why Is it that the wind mos’ always blows from the sea in the daytime in summer, ’n t’other way at night?” " “Well, my son, that’s—h’m!—that’s—ah—that’s because the bicyclers use Up so much wind blowing up their tires that it has to come in from the ocean to fill up the hole.” We have never yet seen a leg that looked well in a white stocking.