Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 258, 25 July 1909 — Page 6

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HOARDING WOOL FOB IIP DUTY: PRICES TQ BOOM

Rich Combine Foresaw . No Change in thevTariff, So, as A Result, StoredlAway Tons Of the Product. WILL FORCE PUBLIC TO PAY 120MILLI0NS Manufacturers Are Now Busily Engaged in Sending Telegrams to Taft for a Revision Downward. Philadelphia, July 24. By keeping up the tariff on wool congress will place an additional tax on $120,000,000 upon the people of this country for clothing next year, So confident hare the raw wool interests been that the tariff will not be reduced in the bill now before congress ' that they hare stored millions of pounds of wool and expect to sell it for next year's clothing at prices which prevailed before the' 1907 panic and which are 19 or 20 per cent, higher than are quoted in London. This declaration was made yesterday to The North American by David Kirschbaum, of A. B. Kirschbaum & Co., one' of the largest clothing manufacturing houses in the country. ; It is asserted by Mr. Kirschbaum that the wool men who have thus held thelrwool for higher market must either have relied upon their influence to control the situation in congress or must have had assurances that no change in the duties on wool'would be made. Appealing to Taft. Clothing manufacturers throughout the United States, on the other hand, Mr. Krischbaum says, too President " Taft at his word, and looked for a material reduction in the tariff on wool. Thousands of appeals to the President to redeem his and the party's pledges are now, Mr. Kirschbaum said, going into Washington with every mail.. His statement as to the force and extent of the , protest that is being made by the clothing men of the country was substantiated by those of other manufacturers. He asserts that if the. pledge meant anything, the first place to begin was on the wool schedule. "The average prices' of; woolens and worsteds for the spring of 1910," said Mr. Kirschbaum, "are .approximately 25 per cent, higher than what they were for the spring of 1909 in the "United States. "That this increased cost is due to conditions prevalent in America only Is proved by the fact that the price "of cpring woolens in 1910 in England are only from 5 to 6 per cent, more than they were for the spring season of . 1909. Wool is Stored Here. "London is the wool market of the world. Whatever wool is imported into this country is almost invariably bought through London. Therefore, London being the wool market of the world, the increase there would indicate the natural increase that ought to be demanded here. V "If the manufacturers of America are enabled, through an unreasonable high wall of protection, to increase the price of woolens from 20 to 25 per . cent., while English manufacturers on1 ly have raised the prices from 5 to 6 per cent., the conditions here speak for themselves. "Wool has been stored to the extent of millions upon millions of pounds, not only in Boston, but in cities like Philadelphia, with a reasonable assurance that the wool tariff would not be tampered with, and that they would 1 eventually get the same prices for the 1 raw ' wool that prevailed before the panic. , "The clothing manufacturers through- ' out the United States took President Taft's word, which was a pre-election , pledge, records of which are obtainable, stating that raw products would (Come in free, or the rates of tariff would be very materially reduced. "For these reasons we were justijfied in expecting that we and other ! clothing manufacturers would be able I to continue manufacturers would be able to continue our policy of giving to the trade, or the wearers, thorough1 ly trustworthy fabrics in their gar- . ments. "We expected that we would get, through the proper legislation, such i i woolens as would enable us to give , as good values as we have been giving but the more prominent wool and ' woolen men of this country, pn the contrary, stored quantities of all grades of domestic wool, feeling assured that President Taft and the republican party's pre-election pledges would not be kept, and that the issue would be sidetracked. Public Overtaxed. "There are less than 20,000 people employed In the raising of wool in the United States. Ninety per cent, of the people engaged in . this industry are not owners of the sheep; therefore. It leaves 10 per cent of the whole that are owners or directly financially in. terested in this tariff. More than 90,000,000 people; are over-taxed for the sake of protecting a handful of wool barons. . "There Is but one way by which President Taft can keep bis promise to the people of the United States, and that Is by referring schedule K back to the house. (and having the wool question reopened. ' "There is no raw material used in the manufacture of anything so vitally ' Important to the American public as raw wool, and there if nothing so

highly and so unjustly protected aa raw wooL' - "I think thatttbe president is getting more detailed information on- this wool subject i than he has had in all tho months previous to this time. President Taft owes it to every citizen of the United States to see that this 'tariff is revised. - "There is not a community in the United; Statesthat is not agitated over this subject. The little commercial bodies, .even Jin towns of from 3,000 to 4,000 people, V have started petitions signed by the leading citizens of their community and are forwarding the same to vwashington. A tariff of 45 per cent. . ad) valorem on all grades of wool would satisfy the clothing man-

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i (Copyright. 1885, by G. P. Putnam's Bona. Published under arrangement with O. P. Putnam's Sons. New York and London. m OR some days after our arrival on the Bighorn range we did not come across any grizzly. Although it was still early in September, the weather was cool and pleasant, the nights being frost; and every two or three days there was a flurry of tight snow, which rendered the labor of tracking much more easy. Indeed, throughout our stay on the mountains, the peaks were snowcapped almost all the time. Our fare was excellent, consisting of elk yenion, mountain grouse, and small trout; the last caught in one of the beautiful little lakes that lay almost up by timber line. There were plenty of blacktail deer in the woods, and we came across a number of bands of cow and calf elk, or of young bulls; but after several days hunting, we were still without any bead worth taking home, and had seen ho signs of grizzly, which was the game we were especially anxious to kill. One day I We sat still to wait for his approach. reached camp, early in the afternoon, and waited a couple of hours before Merrineld put in an appearance. At last I heard a shout the familiar longdrawn Eikoh-h-h of the cattle-men and he came in sight galloping at speed down an open glade, and waving his hat, evidently having had good luck; and when he reined in his small, wiry, cow-pony, we saw that he had packed behind his saddle the fine, glossy pelt of a black bear. Better still, he announced that he had been oft about ten miles to a perfect tangle of ravines and valleys where bear sign was very thick; and not of black bear either, but grizzly. Merrifleld's tale made me decide to shift camp at once, and go over to the spot where the bear-tracks were so plenty. Next morning we were oft, and by noon pitched camp by a clear brook, in a valley with steep, wooded sides, bat with good feed for the horses in the open bottom. We rigged the canvas wagon sheet into it small tent, sheltered by the trees from the wind, and piled great pine logs near by where we wished to place the fire; for a night camp in the sharp fall weather Is cold and dreary unless there is a roaring blaze of flame in fi at of the tent. That afternoon we again went out, and I shot a fine bull elk. I came home alone toward nightfall, walking through a reach of burnt forest, where there was nothing but charred treetrunks and black mould. When nearly through It I came across the huge, half-human footprints of a great grizzly, which must have passed by within a few minutes. It gave me rather an eerie feeling in the silent, lonely woods, to see the unmistakable proofs that I was in the home of the mighty lord of the wilderness. I followed the tracks in the fading twilight until It became too dark to see them any longer, and then shouldered my rifle and walked back to camp. That evening we almost had a visit from one of the animals we were after. Several times we had heard -at night the musical calling of the bull elk. This particular night, when we were in bed and the fire was smouldering, we were roused by a ruder noise a kind of grunting or roaring whine, answered by the frightened snorts of the ponies. .It was a bear which had evidently not seen the fire, as It came from behind the bank, and had probably been attracted by the smell of the horses. After it made out what we were it stsyed round a short while, again uttered its peculiar roaring grunt, and went off; we had seized our rifles and had run out into the woods, but In the darkness could see uocmng; indeed it was rather ' lucky we did not stumble across the bear, as he could have made short work of ua when we were at such a disadvantage. Next day we went off on a long tramp through the woods and along the sides of the canyons. There were plenty of berry bushes growing la clusters; and all around these there were. fresh tracks of bear. But the grizzly is also a flesh-eater, and has a great liking for carrion. On visiting the place where Merrlfield had killed the black bear, we found that the grizzlies had been there before us. and had utterly devoured the carcass, with cannibal relish. .Hardly a scrap was left, J43iOeAniatex)s.towJUAw4

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lay the bull elST I'hal tilled. . It was quite late in the afternoon when we reached the place. A grizzly bad evidently been at tlie carcass during the preceding night, for his great footprints were in the ground all around It, and the carcass itself was gnawed and torn, and partially covered with j earth and leaves for the grizzly has a curious habit of burying all of his ' prey mat no uoes uoi at lue moment need. A great many ravens had been feeding on the body, and they wheeled about over the tree tops above us, uttering their barking croaks. The forest was composed mainly of what are called ridge-pole" pines, which grow close together, and do not branch out until the stems are thirty or forty feet from the ground. Beneath these trees we walked over a carpet of pine needles, upon which our moccaslned feet made no sound. The . woods seemed vast and lonely, and their silence was broken now and then by the strange noises always to be heard In the great forests, and which seem to mark the sad and everlasting unrest of the wilderness. We climbed up along the trunk of a dead tree which had toppled over until its upper branches struck in the limb crotch of another, that thus supported it at an angle half-way in its . fall. When above the ground far enough to prevent the bear's smelling us, we sat still to wait for his approach; until, in the gathering gloom, we could no longer see the sights of our rifles, and could but dimly make out the carcass of the great elk. It was useless to wait longer; and we clambered down and stole out to the edge of the woods. The forest here covered one side of a steep, almost canyon-like ravine, whose .other side was bare except of rock and sage-brush. Once out from under the trees there was still plenty of light, although the sun had set, and we crossed over some fifty yards to the opposite hill-side, and crouched down under a bush to see if perchance some animal might not also leave the cover. To our right the ra vine sloped downward toward the valley of the Bighorn River, and far. on Its other side we could catch a glimpse of the great main chain of the Rockies, their snow peaks glinting crimson In the light of the set sun. Again we waited quietly in the growing dusk until the pine trees in our front Mended into one dark, frowning mass. We saw nothing; but the wild creatures of the forest bad begun to stir abroad. The owls hooted dismally from the tops of the tall trees, and two or three times a harsh wailing cry. probably the voice of some lynx or wolverine, arose from the- depths of the woods. At last, as we were rising to leave, we heard the sound of the breaking of a dead stick, from the spot where we knew the carcass lay. It was a sharp, Budden noise, perfectly distinct from the natural creaking and snapping of the branches; Just such a sound as would be made by the tread of some heavy creature. "Old Ephraim had come back to the carcass. A minute afterward, listening with strained ears, we heard him brush by some dry twigs. It was entirely too dark to go, in after him; but we made up our minds that on the morrow he should be ours. Early next morning we were over at the elk carcass, and, as we expected, found that the bear had eaten his fill at it during the night. His tracks showed him to be an immense fellow, and were so fresh that we doubted if he had left long before we arrived; and we made up our minds to follow him up and try to fled his lair. The' bears that lived on these mountains bad evidently been little disturbed; indeed, the Indians and most of the white hunters are rather chary of meddling with "Old Ephraim,' as the mountain men style the grizzly, unless they get him at a disadvantage; for the sport is fraught with some danger and but small profit. The bears thus seemed to have very little fear of harm, and we thought it likely that the bed of the one who had fed on the elk would not be far away. My companion was a skilful tracker, and we took up the trail at once. For some distance it led over the soft, yielding carpet of moss and pine needles, and the footprints were quite easily made out, although we could follow them but slowly: for we had, of course, to keep a sharp look-out ahead and around us aa we walked noiselessly on in the sombre half-light always prevailing under the great pine trees, through whose thickly lnterlae tug branches stray but few beams of lilht, no matter how bright the sun may be outside. We made no sound ourselves, and every little sudden noise sent a thrill through me. as I peered about with each sense on the going a few hundred yards the tracks turned off on a well-beaten path made by the elk; the woods were in many places cut up by these game trails, which had often become as distinct as ordinary foot-paths. The beast's footprints were perfectly plain in the dust, and he had lumbered along up the path until near the middle of the hillside, where the ground broke away and there were hollows and boulders. Here there had been a windfall, and the dead trees lay among the living, piled across one another In all directions; while between and around them sprouted up a thick growth of young spruces and other evergreens. The trail turned oil Into the tangled thicket, within which It was almost certain we would find our quarry. We could still follow the tracks, by the slight scrapes of the claws on the bark, or by the bent and broken twigs; and we advanced with noiseless caution, slowly climbing over the dead tree trunks and upturned stumps, and not letting a branch rustle or catch cn our clothes. When in the middle of the th!?ket we crossed what Htoat . Jttastwork .of .JaUca

logs. a9 Merrineld. Who' was Ieadtaw. passed by the upright stem ef a great pine. As seen as he was by it he sank suddenly en one knee, turning half round, his face fairly aflame with excitement; and as I strode past him. with my rifle at the ready, there, not ten steps off. was the great bear, slowly rising from his bed among the young spruces. He had heard us. but apparently hardly knew exactly where or what we were, for be reared up on his haunches sideways to us. Then be saw us and dropped down again oa all fours, the shaggy hair on his neck and shoulders seeming to bristle as he turned towards us. As he sank down on his forefeet I had raised the rife; his head was bent slightly down, and when I saw the top of the white bead fairly betweeu his small, glittering, evil eyes. I pulled trigger. Half-rising up. the huge beast fell over on his side in the death throes, the ball having gone into his brain, striking as fairly between the eyes as if the distance had been measured by a carpenter's rule. The whole thin was over In twenty seconds from the time I caught sight of the game; indeed, it was over so quickly that the grizzly did not have time to show fight at all or come a stsp toward us. He was a monstrous fellow, much larger than any I have seen since, whether alive or brought In dead by the hunters. As near as we could estimate (for of course we had nothing with which to weigh more than very small portions) be must have weighed about twelve hundred pounds, and though this is not as large as some cf his kind are said to grow in California, it is yet a very unaeual size for a bear. He was a good deal heavier than any of our horses; and It was with the greatest difficulty that we were able to skin him. He must have been very old, his teeth and claws being all worn down and blunted; but nevertheless he had been living in plenty, for be was as fat as a prize hog, the layers on his back being a finger's length in thickness. He was still in the summer coat, his hair be-

There, not ten steps off, was the great . bear. tng short, and in color a curious brindled brown, somewhat like that of certain bulldogs; while all the bears we shot afterward had the long thick winter fur, cinnamon or yellowish brown. By the way, the name of this bear has reference to its character and not to its color, and should. I suppose, be properly spelt grisly In the sense of horrible, exactly as we speak of a "grisly spectre" and not grizzly; but perhaps the latter way of spelling it is too well established to be new changed. "I see." said Mrs. Starvem. "that a certain scientist claims well soon get a palatable food from wood" -"Well." growled the cranky boarder. "it seems Impossible to get It out of board.' " Every public school in Germany has a gymnasium, and there are 'certain hours on certain days when physical culture of boys and girls of all classes and ages is gone through. C1"CH11RSPILI5 Mil ta Mrm aa4 41.1a ateatlacN bMM. with. Bias "'--- Taka mm attar. Bar aT an Pi aa ilrt. AxkforCUlOTBB-TnS SAatSB BRAXU FILLS far SS Always RdUMe SOLD BY CSUGGtSTS EYERYIOEK Round Trip to Atlantic City, N. J. Via The C.C.&L. and Ihc Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Thursday, Aug. 12 Train leaves Richmond 520 a. m. and 4:20 p. m. Stop over on return trip at Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Deer Park, Harpers Ferry, &c- . Final limit for return to leave destination August 2& For particulars call -a a; BLAIR," Pass, and Ticket Agent, Richmond. Home Telephone 2062

Hurries His Daughter Away To Escape a Noble Suitor

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has come from Germany Is that having met Miss Meyer in the gayetles of this fashionable watering place that the king of England frequently honors. Count von Plauto laid seige to her. Hs was aided and abetted the story further goes, by his mother, the Baroness von Plauto, and another romance of two continents stood a fair chance of beginning most auspiciously, when fate in the person of the prospective bride's father stepped in with a heavr hand. "Grisclda. said the visiting aad critical relative, "you ought not to try to alas when you are shaking with the jchUls." "I haven't got the chills, a no tie, replied the church choir soprano. I am practicing on my tremolo." Chicago -Tribune. requisite for rcat, health and asa lairy Co. PHONV 11CS. Ai3 Cwt CCiBrali CO., C34 Mcta St. J