Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — Page 6

DEATH IN THE CRASH.

AWFUL DISASTER AT A CHURCH CORNER STONE LAYING. Platform Gives Way and 300 Are Precipitated Into a Pit—Parochial School la Tnrned Into a Hospital— Forty Persons Injured. —— —— Many May Die. A frightful disaster plunged Lorain;;; Ohio* into mourning Sunday, and what .was, meant to be an incident of glad rejoicing became in an instant a catastrophe of appalling horror. One child was killed outright, ten persons were fatally injured and between thirty and forty others were seriously hurt by the sinking of a section of temporary platform built on rotten timbers. The accident occurred at the out. set of the ceremonious laying of a corner stone for the new St.. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, and just after the priests had hushed a crowd of 5,000 people into solemn silence. The list of dead and injured is as follows: .■■■._ Killed: - Mary Weber, 3-year-old daughter of ! M«t Weber, of Sheffield. Fatally injured: ! Miss Kate Deidrick, of Sheffield; both legs hi-oken and hurt internally. Mrs. John Eustin. aged lady, of Lorain; r left leg crushed and chest injured. ■ John Feldkamp, of Lorain; hurt internally. Katie Griffin, S years old, of Lorain; left leg crushed and hurt internally. Mrs. Michael Kelling, middle aged, of ’Lorain; injured internally. Rosa McGee, 3 years old, of Lorain; skull fractured. . Mrs. Mary McGrath, of Lorain; left leg crushed and hurt internally. - Mrs. Margaret Maokert, -of Lorain; hurt internally. Mrs. Cornelius Sullivan, of Lorain; •spine injured and left leg crushed. Mary Sieder,. of Lorain, aged lady; jcheat crushed and hurt Internally, i* Seriously hurt: ! Col. W. I. Brown, leg and arm bruised, —Mrs.. William Burgett, of Lorain; hurt fraternal hr. Mrs. M. Bruco, of Hoganville; le.ft ankle broken. Nellie Dollard. of Lorain; head cut. John Kustin.'of Loraiii"; Back hurt." ' Mrs. John Fox, of Sheffield; both legs broken. Mrs. Mary Latimer, of Carlisle Center; right leg crushed. John Martin, of Lorain: left leg broken. Mrs. Mary O'Keefe, of Lorain; hurt ilnterually, and leg will have to be amputated. William Ryan, of Lorain; right leg [broken. George Theobald, 3 years old; head cut. } Nicholas Wagner, leg bruised. Platform Was Crowded, The foundations of the church are extended about ten feet above the bottom of ;the unfinished basement. It was on these •foundation walls that a large platform bad been built, on which the ceremonies were to be held. From an early hour in the morning until after noon people had boon gathering on this platform, anxious to secure a point of vantage from which the services of the church could be seen and heard. When the reverend/fathers took their places on the platfpjfci at. 1 o’clock fully a thousand people were standing or sitting on it. The great ma-‘ jority of these were women and children. Four thousand others were grouped about the place, all within earshot. Just as Monsignore Boss. of Cleveland, the chief Roman Catholic dignitary present. raised his hand to bring the audience to quiet, a sound of splitting timbers threw the great crowd into consternation, which became panic when it was seen that a section of the temporary platform was sinking beneath the weight of 300 people huddled together upon it. The crash came of a sudden and every one of the 300. .save a dozen or two who scrambled off the edges, was precipitated into the pit ten feet below. The section which gave away was in two wings, and as it formed a veritable death trap for the victims. The pi: with its slanting board walls, resembled an inverted roof of very steep slant, the gable ends being closed up by the stone foundation walls, and into this vortex were heaped men, women and children in one conglomerated, struggling heap, all in frightful, maddened panic. The sound of the crash was followed by a wail from the helpless victims aS'by an echo, and that again by a great cry from the spectators of the tragedy. who had been stricken into a panic and were well-nigh as helpless as the victims themselves.

The inevitable result of panic followed and doubled the horror, already great enough. Those persons at the top of the mass escaped easily, but when the pit was partly emptied those victims who were still entrapped could not clamber up the pteep sides, and they trampled upon each ’other like so many wil'd creatures, the strong men getting on top and the weaker women and children being crushed and beaten down beneath the greater weight. Three thousand people, lost to presence 1 of mind, made a mad rush forward toward the pit, hoping to lend aid to the un- * Tortunates, but as they pressed forward their weight threw at least fifty of those nearest the edge headlong into the pit. For at least fifteen minutes no aid was given, and nothing was done except in the why of making matters worse. Finally ropes and ladders were procured and handed down to the struggling victims. When assistance finally reached them a till the rescue was well under way it was found that the dead body of one child lay In the'bottom of the basement, and that almost fifty other persons were lying bruised mid mangled on the floor.

Church Is Made a Morgue, i The old Catholic church, a few rods distant from the new, was turned into a morgue and hospital, and some of the injured persons were carried into the parochial school nest door and there made as comfortable us possible.' Twenty physicians were oh the scene within twenty minutes, and they were kept busy until sundown eaHng for the victims’ wounds. Several of the injured will die before daybreak. When the people had carried the dead aud wounded into the old church and quiet had to some extent been restored among those who escaped the services of corner stone laying were resumed. The delay occasioned was not more than thirty minutes, and the ceremonies laid down by the Human Catholic ritual were not altered in any wise,-except that they became a shade more solemn and to the devout hearers a trifle more impressive, father Boss delivered the sermon. It eloquent and impressive and was tinged with the somber hoe of the dark

tragedy that introduced It. Reference to the disaster was frequent throughout. | The pray era and then the formalities inl which Father Boss was assisted by six | other priests also partook of the unwonted Badness, yet they were carried through with imperturbable purpose, though the* audience was altogether unnerved and unstrung. Following prayers came the laying of the corner stone. When the ceremonies were finished the priests called at the extemporized hospitals and made inquiry concerning the condition ofthe victims—their parishioners. H

MUST ARBITRATE OR FIGHT.

Alleggif" Ultimatum by Olney to England in the Venezuela Affair. Nothing has been done by our Government with reference to the Venezuela boundary controversy since Secretary Gresham forwarded Ministcr Bayard * copy of the resolution passed by the date Congress urging Great Britain to submit the disputed question to arbitration. It is ' said, however, that Secretary Olney has prepared a note for Mr, Bayard to lay before Lord Salisbury that contains a more forcible expression of the views of the United States on this subject than has yet been officially uttered. This dispatch is of a positive and most unequivocal nature. As soon as it shall be placed before the British Government it will raise a question which can be settled only by the retreat of one or the other Government. The stand taken by the United States in this dispatch is one which involves the oldest and most sacred tradition of the Government —the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine. Secretary Olney’s dispatch is in substance a declaration in the most posiiive language that the United States will never consent to British occupation of tjie disputed territory in Venezuela unless that nation’s right thereto is first determined by arbitration. While this declaration is substantially the same as that which was made some months ago, and to which the British Foreign Office replied with a statement that the English right to a part of the territory in question could bo submitted to arbitration, the right to another part of the region in question could not be submitted to such arbitration. .When Great Britain took this ground the question which President Cleveland and his advisers had to decide was whether the United States is bound by the Monroe doctrine and by her dignity ts> insist that all the territory-in tfispute should Ire submitted to arbitration, or whether by conceding England’s contention we should virtually abandon the field and leave Venezuela to fight it out alone. Few more serious questions have presented themselves to the American administration within recent years. The decision of the President and his £abinet advisers, after careful discussion and painstaking investigation, is that a bold and consistent policy shall be adopted, and this policy has been formulated in the dispatch which Ambassador Bayard will lay before the British Government as soon as he returns from his present journey to Scotland. The dispatch meets England’s rejoinder with a reaffirmation of the principle of original contention expressed in phrases which leave no possibility of doubt as to the meaning and eamestneste of the United States. It does more. In polite, but firm and significant words, Secretary Olney declares it to be the belief, of the United States that the territorial claims which tireat-Britain has set up iii -Venezuela are in the nature of nil attempt to seize territory on the American continent to which she has no legal”right.

CORN TO BURN.

The Garneriusr of 1895 Is Certainly a Monster. The Chicago Tribune, thus suggests a novel way of disposing of the surplus corn crop: “On a 2,500,000,000 bushel crop the West will have corn to burn. According to a Kansas City dispatch a packing house company has already issued order-* to its Wichita house to begin tjig. dse of corn for fuel so soon as it c«n be bought for 12 cents a bushel* Last year the unusual and abnormal feature in the grain situation was the feeding of wheat to farm animals. Little attention was paid to it at first, except as an experiment, but in the aggregate it amounted to millions of bushels, aud was reflected in reduced stocks in farmers' hands. Burning of corn for fuel is less of a novelty than feeding of wheat to hogs, as it has been general enough on several occasions to attract a great deal of attention. Both are direct results of overproduction. The eonditiohs in wheat which made stock-feeding practicable are all present in corn in an aggravated form to make its use as fuel in many sections feasible. The. .1805 crop of corn is practically made, and without doubt it*will be a record-breaker. On the basis of present prices corn will be cheaper than coal for fuel during this fall and winter in States west of the Mississippi River. It is said that experiments have shown that a ton of dry corn will go further iu produeiug steam than a ton 'if coal. The oil iu the corn makes it especially adapted for hot fires. It is clean to hiyullo and almost smokeless. A prom* inent operator on the Bonn! of Trade offfprod to forfeit SIO,OOO if he could not 'furnish the ‘Alley L’ road with corn for fuel at a less cost than that of the coal supply." - But on the other hand reports from Nebraska. Kansas and lowa prints, where in times of coal famine resort has been made to corn for fuel, state that its use is neither satisfactory nor profitable. The heat is so intense that the iron of furnaces am! stoves is soon burned out. Then, too. it is not steady, which renders it impracticable for making steam.

MORTON’S HORSE-MEAT ORDER.

Foreign PurcUasers to Be Protected by Having the Product Labeled. Secretary MfiMon's latest meat inspection order, promulgated to go iftto effect Jan. 1, is intended to prevent the exportation of horse meat as “canned beef,” “salted beef,” or under any of the other various titles which it is alleged have been applied to this product to deceive the foreign purchaser. Tile has asserted that he has uo authority under the law to prohibit the sale of horse meat, because it was recognized as an edible, but he hqtffcnken a new means for reach* ing the perpetrators of the fraud by his latest order amending the regulations so that the inspector’s stamp Rimll show that the product is not only free from disease germs, but also the species and origin of the animal from which it is taken. The sudden death of J. C. Wilson, receiver of the Santa Fe Head, at New York, which mystified even his most intimate friends, was caused hy ossification of the arteries. -

TOPICS FOR FARMERS

A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. One Farmer Who Will Use Corn Fodder Instsad of Hay—Formula for Preventing- Hog Cholera—When, to Sell Pigs—Weeds Among Potatoes. The Handling of Cornfodder. In 1803 I purchased a corn harvester, believing they were better than the com knife. I cut twenty five acres, and put twelve hills square iu a shock. We cut the fifth and sixth rows first; when we had cut twelve hills'we stepped oIT behind the machine and set our fodder and one of V s held it while the other tied the top with a twine string, and after we had cut through to the end of the row we cut around until the row of shocks was tinislied, and then cut another iu like fia&nner, etc. Toward evening, said Joshua Jester. at the Rippey (Iowa) Farmers’ Institute, we. would stop cutting, and tie the shocks already cut with binding twine. One hundred shocks we thought was a day’s work. I built a platform 10x16 feet on my truck wagon to haul it in with, then took the sulky plow wheels and built a derrick on them, with a lever to hoist the shocks on the wagon. We 'used the lever part of the time on one §tde of the wagon and then on the other. I find the derrick works better With the shocks eighteen feet square than they-do thirteen feet square; ' I secured a busker and shredder, and by this means I husked my corn and stacked my fodder. The live stock eats this shredded fodder up clean. The shredder was run by horse power. My neighbor used a threshing machine with engine, and made better time, but bad more help. I think the shredder is the best, as it leaves the corn on the ear, instead of shelling it. ... .. ' With two years’ experience and results, I shall use corn fodder instead of hay; It is cheaper and better feed. I tMnk~rim~harn is"flip the fodder, but "it must be well cured or it will heat. It will keep well in the staehJf properly topped out with wild hay material that will turn rain. The cost to shred and husk corn Is about $1 per acre.

Host Cholera and Its Cure, Many farmers have given a condition powder composed of intestinal stimulants and antiseptics to hogs sick with cholera. The National Bureau of Animal Industry has recently recommended the following formula as a preventive and palliative remedy in swine diseases, especially in cholera and plague: Take one pound each of wood charcoal, sulphur, sodium sulphate and antimony sulpliid, combined with two pounds each of sodium chlorid, sodium bicarbonate and sodium hyposulphite. Each Ingredient-is to be fully pulverized, and all are .to be thoroughly mix~edr~ For each two hundred pounds live weight of animal, give one daily dose of a large tablespoonful, mixed with the drinking water or with soft, moist food. Small pigs need about a teaspoonful of the powder, and shoats from two to three teaspoonfuls. Hogs are said to like the taste of this medicine. Should the diseased swine refuse either to eat or dripk, it will be necessary to turn them on their backs, and put the dry powdered medicine down their throats with a long-handled spoon. The sulphur-soda-antimony condition powder seems to kill and remove the disease germs and their accumulated poisons. As a preventive, the powder may be fedjn smaller doses to the healthy animals during an epidemic, and it will act as an appetizer. The drinking water should be As pure and clean as possible, and the animals should not be fed in or confined to filthy mud, but should have free access to dry, clean eating spaces and sleeping quarters. Green food, roots or silage should be fed occasionally, with some decayed wood, sods of fresh soil and an abundance of charcoal. It Is so difficult to cure hog cholera that the greatest procauapns should be taken to prevent infe«<sn.

Selling Young Pigs. The chief obstacle to success in growing pigs is the danger of becoming overstocked. There is always a profit If pigs are sold while young. But many farmers who have a fine lot of growing pigs will not sell them, thinking to moke greater profit by feeding until they have attained full growth. In most cases this is a mistake. The older h pig grows the smaller Is usually the profit from feeding it. Besides, It is poor policy for any class of men to always get all the prolt there is in a trade. We have known men so close at a bargain that they could finally find nobody to trade With them. To live aud let live should be the aim of all. A good rule is when breeding animals not to refuse a reasonable offer that would leave a fair profit and not stop further breeding. With stock that Increase so rapidly as do pigs, a very few breeding sows will quickly replace those that are sold. If this Is done repeatedly through the year, the profit each time amounts to more than could he made by feeding animals until they attain, full growth. Ppraylnsr for Fungi and Insects. That paris green and kerosene emulsion still remain the leading insecticides, and that Bordeaux mixture is the best remedy for plant diseases, is the expedience of the New York station at Geneva, as given In The Agriculturist. The knapsack sprayer is generally useful, though extensive growers need a machine of greater capacity. The suction pipe should always enter the tank at the top, and the pump should Be made of brass or be brass-lined. Hmjd pumps should allow the weight of the body to' be used on Um handle while at

work. Vermorel nozzles give a bettefr spray than the disk machines. For spraying potatoes and tomatoesanozzle is needed which can be lowered betwqpn the rows, and directed so as to force the spray up through the vines. The agitator is needed to keep the xmlsons' in solution. The best forms work up and down in an upright tank, like the dash in the old churn. Where the pump piston has a packing this should be often renewed. For killing cabbagq worars aad insects, no liquid has been found equal to dry paris green applied with a hand sifter. Powder guns are: useful for applying dry powdered poisons. pyrethrmn, tobacco dust and sulphur. Ba/nboo extensions should ba used in spraying large trees. fill and Young Farmers. _ Waldo F. Brown, of Ohio, the wellknown agricultural writer, tells in the following how he would manage if h» were a young man on a dairy farm: “If I were a young man and able to work hard I should run as largg iUdalryas the farm would furnish rough feed for, and buy most of my grain, and I would try to dispose of the cream, or engage butter at paying prices, so as to keep the milk at home to be fed to calves and'pigs, and I am satisfied that I could double the profits from my farm and improve it rapidly, for'we should have large quantities of the richest manure and could make all the land that we cultivate very rich. But it seems to me that a man of my age (63) out, of deljt and abie to live comfortably, with a reasonable degree of economy, owes it to himself not to be obliged to work ha rd every day and be tied up at home as I should be with a dairy, and so I am satisfied with moderate success on the farm and to leave the young men the privilege of pushing out and showing what the farm is capable of even in hard times. “There so many specialties in farming nowadays that there is a place £p'r energetic men on the farm and a better chance /or success than in most other callings: The farmer is not likely to become a rich man, but, on the other hand, he is in very little danger of ha a k rupf ey ” ' .... -- •

Weeds Among Potatoes. Late in the season some potato growers think they can allqjv weeds to grow without injury to the erbp. This is a great mistake. Until the plant naturally dies down from the ripening of its tubers it needs all the moisture that the soil can furnish. We have often seen in potato patches weeds that were overlooked in the early hoeing, and after the crop has been hoed by growing eighteen inches or morp tall, and evaporating every day more moisture than the potato plant itself receives. Their roots are then so intertwined with those of the potato that the weeds cannot be pulled up. The only remedy then is to cut down the weed as close to the ground as possible. This will stop the evaporation of moisture from its leaves and the root will consequently take less from the soil. But It would have been muuch cheaper to brush this weed with a hoe while still small and when the slightest brush would destroy it.—American Cultivator. More Sweet Apples Wanted. The attention of apple growers has been too exclusively directed to the cultivation of tart varieties, as these are best for cooking in pies. But for baking without the crust apples are better to be sweet, and there are not enough varieties "to furnish a supply during the season. The Sweet Bough, which will soon be in condition, is an excellent baking apple, and so, too, is the Golden Sweet, which ripens a little later. Forwinter use the Talman Sweet is the kind most frequently put up, but it does not bake so well as some others. The Pound Sweet i 3 a much better apple when not overgrown, but it will not keep later than February. We need some sweet apples that will keep until April or May. Many persons whose digestion is weak cannot eat pie, and if there were more good baking apples the pie could be generally dispensed with.

Shade for ’’hickenß. July and August are the two trying months for fowls, old and young, and the true poultry keeper will have an eye to their comfort. Shade Is one of the things essential to the comfort of poultry. Hens that suffer from the heat will not lay; the young chicks that have no shady retreat will not thrive. Natural shade of trees and bushes is the best, because such shady spots are usually open and free in the breeze. But, if such shade canuot be thgn a low shed Is the next best thing. Build it so that the air can circulate freely beneath IL Silver Hull Buckwheat. This new variety of buckwheat has the advantage of being earlier than the old-fashioned kind, and its grain will turn out more flour to the bushel. It may bo sown earlier on account of its earlier ripening, but it has the habit of setting its bloom over a longer period, some of the first flowers forming seed and shelling while the latest are in bloom. It requires judgment to cut the .crop when the largest proportion of the grain Is ready for harvest It will never do to leave It till all has ripened, for some of its later shoots are In blossom until time for fall frosts. Ripening Creamery Cream The souring of cream, which is necessary to make butter that will keep well, must be accomplished with creamery cream after it has been taken from the creamer. It Is well to keep it twen-ty-four hours after being gathered before it Is churned. Then, If the cream has been gathered through several days, the whole should be stirred well together each day so as to mix the old and the new. If this is not done mould may form on the cream earliest gathered, because it Is not brought In contact with oxygen. Cream should, in all cases, be kept where It will be free from contact with unpleasant odors.

A NOVEL INVESTMENT.

I STRANGE COMMERCIAL FAITH. ! How Bread Ca4t Upon the Waters of Trade Comes Back After Manx Days —Enormous Investments in Modern Business Methods “What's In a Name?” Trade Marks and Their Defense. If our forefathers could look down on modern business methods they would at . tjhe first glance conclude that modern merchants were as marl as March hares. After they had become thoroughly, acquainted With the magnificent systems which are used by our great railroad corporations and mammoth -trusts, they would conclude that the age was an age as magicians, and not of fools. The machinery of business has kept pace with the improved machinery of our mills. Indeed, the merchant of to-day avails of no little machinery in the conduct of his every-day office work. Patented systems of copying, of duplicating, wonderful letter files, and hundreds of neat aids to office work have multiplied very fast during the past fewyehrs and within the last” month. The Graphophone has gone into active use in business offices, so that the merchant can dictate all his correspondence; to :a machine which records it jonsl wax-coated cylinder, from which, at a later hour, the typewriter can reproduce it for the mail. The marvelous developments of modem business show more strongly in the matter of advertising than in most other branches. Vast sums of money are appaieutly thrown away in this direction. When a great commercial house spends two hundred thousand dollars during a single year in newspaper advertising, there is nothing in the inventory at the close of the year which will represent the outlay. The papers have been printed, distributed, read and again reduced to pulp in the paper mill,* while the merchant’s good money has been paid to the publishers. Prudent men, even of the present generation, hardly comprehend it. Thousands shake their heads, and invest their own money in bricks and mortar, feeling assured that they can depend on possessions which they see rather than invest their money in building up something, which to them seems visionary; A true philosopher of the olden'time put over his door the legend, “Things intisiblc deceive not.” The bankers” andbuilders of his day sneered at him as they counted tlicir gold and reared their solid buildings. But he had Scripture for his warrant, and modern advertisers are the direct followers of hie .philosophy. He labored to show men that gold might be stolen, buildings might burn, substantial possessions turn to dust and disappointment, while skill, education and character, though invisible, could not be stolen nor destroyed. The modern advertiser goes much further, and proves conclusively that a mere name may be worth a million if it is well known and well respected. “What’s in a name?” finds forcible answer in the columns of our daily papers. The shrewd school boy, who puzzled his companions by daring them to spell housecleoning in seven letters, and then solved it by spelling Sapolio, must have recognized the intimate connection between these two ideas which has been built up by a vast expenditure of money. The five letters, P-e-a-r-s, though valueless singly, are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars when used .in connection with soap. The printed matter, painted signs, and countless devices to make the name popular pass away annually, almost as fast as they are paid for; but if properly managed, the trade name accumulates and carries forward the value as a permanent investment. An article of real worth, clearly named and .widely made known to the public, is sure of a brilliant success. Sapolio affords abundant evidence of this. Its great usefulness, its distinct but descriptive name, and its almost universal use has resulted in as great success to its manufacturers as in assistance to the housekeepers of the world. Such an investment as the trade-name Sapolio needs no fire insurance,, and cannot secretly be conveyed to Canada. If tampered with or infringed upon, it must he done openly, and modern law with each succeeding year recognizes more forcibly than before the rights of trade-name owners, and punishes with greater alacrity attempts at infringement. The manufacturers of Sapolio have successfully overthrown countless imitations, and we understand that they are now prosecuting dealers who silently pass another article over their counters when the customer has plainly asked for Sapolio. This is a new departure in law, but is clearly equitable. It promises to add another link to the laws which assist in the defense of trade marks and trade names.

An attempt to imitate is always despicable, except when monkeys or stage mimics are thereby enabled to amuse an audience. Yet although the history of trade furnishes no instance of a really successful imitation, still hundreds attempt it every year. In the office of the-Sapolio manufacturers there is a Chamber of Horrors where the proprietors keep samples of the many cakes of imitation stuffs which have been vainly put forward only to meet with prompt failure or to drag out a profitless existence through a few years. The public is too discriminating to buy an inferior article on the assertion that it “is just as good as Sapolio.” The man who attempts to deceive by imitating the name or appearance of another man’s goods is a self-proclaimed liar, and however general the vice of falsehood may be, it is a fact that even liars have no sympathy for one of their kind. The public asks uo better proof of inferiority than that the goods are pushed forward under the cover of a better reputation, and the Chamber of Horrors in the Sapolio building tells in plain terms how -the public recognizes and despises such attempts. It is not an empty faith or visionary speculation that leads these well-known' manufacturers to expend hundreds of thousands of dollars in constantly reminding the world of Sapolio. Years of intimate acquaintance have taught them that the public. |m>ows_ n good nrticle and is willing to pay for it; that the market for fine goods, whether it be butter or fruits, or laces or diamonds, yes, or good Rcouring soap, is never glutted. They have become intimate with the people, Sapolio is a household word, always spoken with good jvill, as if it were a familiar friend. The thousands who pass by The Snn building on their way to and from the Brooklyn Bridge, look \ip with a smile as they recognize the great sign which now overhangs the ruins of French’s Hotel, and say: “There it Is again,” when they recognise the seven letters arranged under the seven days of the week, with the brief statement that “if used every week day it brings rest on’Sunday.” The great white wall looks as though it had been cleaned with Sapolio, and a verse underneath gives, the comforting assurance that— . .. . This world is all a fleeting show, For man’* illusion given; But woman, with Sapolio, Can make that show a heaven. Poets, artists, designers, clever writers, wbany of whom would not condescend to

touch on trade topics In an ordinary way, do not hesitate to set forth the merits of Sapolio. It is a simple solid cake of scouring soap, but Abe sun never sets upon its sale. From New York to San Francisco it is found in every household, lightening the housewife’s care, and, like the great men of the world, wasting itself to make everything around it brighter. In Honolulu, Nagasaki, Shanghai, Bombay, Ceylon, Calcutta and Alexandria it fonns a chain which binds the West of civilization with its Eastern edge; while over Australasia, the African colonies, and the countries of South Africa its sales are very extensive. This slight record of its successes and systemais a good proof of the valne of modern advertising, and we have coupled it with some facts relating to the disasters of those who have not followed the broad theory of advertising and created a name and reputation for something distinctively their own, because we would not by painting a tempting picture of success hire thoughtless people to make the mistake of supposing that servile imitation would lead them, to the same thing. Josh Billings covers the ground, “Never oppose a success. When T see a rattlesnake’s head sticking qut of a hole, I say that hole belongs to that snake, and I go about my business.” -- - — L -

A UNIQUE TOWN.

Probably It Doesn't Exist, but It’s Perfectly Feasible. “I live in a town,” said the gentleman at the hotel to the reporter looking for an item, “that Is unique in its way.” “What’s the town?" inquired the reporter. “It doesn’t make any difference what the town is; it is unique.” “In what does Its uniquity consist, then?” asked the reporter, seeing that he was balked on the previous question. “It is self-supporting and there are no taxes.” “Geewhillikins!” exclaimed the reporter, “give me its address. I want to go there right away.” “No,” said the inhabitant of this Arcadian vilalge, “I shall not do anything of the kind. We don’t want any more people there at present We may after a while, but as yet we are not ready for an Increase.” “What kind of a town is it?” 4 .... “An excellent town, of course.” “I should say so. WBy don't you put it in a dime museum?” . —— ourselves easier than that.” “How do you do it?” „ “Simple enough. When we laid out the town fifteen years ago we made it a corporation that could carry on its own business. In this way the town in the disposal of lots sold only every other lot, so that now it owns half the ground it occupies. These lots it gave long-leases on at figures which enabled lessees to build good houses on for business and’ dwelling, and on conditions quite as favorable, If not more so, than those had who bought outright. We had the country around us, good In agriculture, mineral, water ’and transportation to Insure a town, and when it was once started it went ahead, until now wo nave between 5,000 and 7,000 people, and our ground rents pay all our expenses and practically leave no city tax. Then we havo some other sources of revenue from the money the corporation put into manufacturing plants and mines, and on the whole we are In clover as a community.” “Now, look here,” pleaded the reporter, “give a fellow a chance. Tell rae the name of the place and let me.&0,,,„ there, too.” But the visitor was close-mouthed and the reporter went away unsatisfied, even the hotel register conveying no information that was of any value. —Detroit Free Press.

Paper Socks.

The day of the-paper collar passed away some years ago,'and, though paper Is used to-day lu many more forms than were ever dreamed of a few deeades -back, this cheap article of haberdashery has almost disappeared from the'market But there Is promise that It will have a worthy successor In the paper sock, which Is the latest novelty to be ground out of the pulp mill. The mechanism has been perfected to paper yarn of such consistency that It is capable of being woven into fabrics soft enough for wear. A special merit Is the cheapness of this newly devised material, socks being produced at a retail price of about 3 cents a pair. At this rate there Is no reason why the whole world may not be supplied with foot coverings. At 3 cents a pair the bachelor’s life will become gladsome and happy. It is said that substances can be used in the preparation of this material to make the socks so Impervious to water that they can stand several washings before falling apart. Cowardice of a Large Eagle. The claim of the eagle to the title of king of birds seems to be slightly clouded by an Incident reported from Stafford County, Virginia. A gentleman down therfe was watching an unusually fine bald eagle grandly sailing around in the air a few days ago, when he noticed a little bee martin rls<s In the air and make straight for the eagle. He wondered what tj>p martin’s object could be, and was surprised to see it sail In boldly to tear the feathers out of the big eagle 1 . But he was amazed to see the eagle, after a few moments of effort at beating off the little bird, Bail away la full flight, making every effort to escape from the martin. The martin followed up closely for aadlUe, making a savage jab at the eagle every few yards, bu\ was finally left behind through the superior retreating powers of the big eagle. The only American order ever founded was' that of the Cincinnati, In 1783. It jyas soon dissolved, a Society of Cincinnati taking its place. It was composed of the officers of the revolutionary war. There Is a loaf of bread In the Agricultural Department at Washington made from the roasted leaves of a plant allied to the century plant Another kind of bread is from dough of Juniper berries.