Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1901 — Page 6

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN, OEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - * INDIANA.

PEOPLE HAVE MONEY

BANK ACCOUNTS WILL TIDE OVER ANY DISTURBANCE. Neither Labor Difficulties Nor Short Corn Crop Can Seriously Interfere with Retail Trade—Cincinnati BoyGoes Crazy and Attempts Murder. -“Anxiety regarding unfavorable possibilities in the future rather than any actual present misfortune depressed securities and caused cancellation of some orders for merchandise by western dealers. Retail distribution of goods will not be curtailed by the labor controversy unless it is of long duration, as the men have saved money during the recent period of full employment at high wages. Similarly, in some agricultural districts, where there is fear that little corn will be harvested, preceding bumper crops at good prices have put farmers in such prosperous condition that their purchases will not fall off materially, while the greatest crop' of wheat ou record has not brought a return to the low prices of previous heavy yields,” according to R. G. Dun A: .Cm’s weekly review of trade. Continuing, the report says: Atlantic exports show d large gain over last year's figures, for the week amounting to 3,902,775 bushels, against 1,841,801 a year ago. Failures for the week numbered 193 in the United States, against 231 last year, and 32 in Canada, against 27 last year.

PROGRESS OF THE RACE. Sfbndinit of League Clubs in Contest for the Pennant. Following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: W. L W. L. Pittsburg ...43 30New Y0rk...33 34 St. L0ui5....43 33 Boston 34 36 Philadelphia 39 33Cincinnati ...32 41 Brooklyn ...40 33Chicago 29 51 Standings in the American League are as follows: W. L. W. L. Chicago ....48 27Washington. 31 33 Boston 44 20 Philadelphia. 30 39 Baltimore ...38 29 Cleveland ...28 45 Detroit 41 34Milwaukee . .24" 51 TRIES TO KILL HIS RELATIVES. Seventeen-Year-Old Boy Attempts to Take Lives of stepfather and Wife. In Cincinnati Clarence Davis, aged 17 years, shot and seriously wounded his stepfather, William Weidebusch, and also attempted to kill his young wife- and John Good and George Metze, two young men whom he charged with slandering him. His child wife had left him. Davis attempted suicide on three different occasions and threatened to kill any one ■with whom he quarreled. He started out to kill four persons. He shot at his stepfather four times. He was disarmed and arrested before he could shoot at others. He is believed to be insane.

BENT TO JAIL. FOR CONTEMPT. Notary of Portsmouth, Ohio, Makes a New Move in Case of Miss Frv. Miss Mollie Fry refused to answer questions while depositions were being taken before Notary Cecil S. Miller at Portsmouth, Ohio, and he ordered her committed to jail for contempt. This is the first time a notary ever sent a person to jail there for contempt. Miss Fry sued the estate of William Mee, a hermit, for $20,000. She claims Mee agreed to marry her and gave her a note for $20,000 to show he was in earnest. He died before they could be married and she has sued on the note. Agreement Averts a Strike. There will Be no strike on the part of the 6,500 Missouri and Kansas coal miners in district 25. The joint scale committee, composed of ten operators and an equal number of miners, which has been in session at Kansas City, almost continuously since June 1, reached an agreement on every important point in the new wage scale. Find Body of Lost Girl. While hundreds of citizens were hunting for Agnes Hodges, the missing Smith College girl, her body was accidentally discovered in Birges pond, Bristol, Conn., by William Fitzpatrick, who was bathing. On making a dive into deep water he struck her body, which immediately came to the surface. ■Perishes ''bile Digging a Well. While digging a well south of Chamberlain, S. D., Thomas Wyman, at a depth of seventy-five feet, was overcome by the damp air, and his partner. Evers Phillips, not hearing from him had himself lowered down and narrowly escaped a like fate, being insensible when brought to the surface.

Nuvnl Text-Book Excluded. Third volume of “Maclay's History of the American Navy” is excluded as a text book at the naval academy at Annapolis, it being discovered that it calls Admiral Schley coward, liar, caitiff, incompetent and insubordinate. Two Killed and Four Injure-'. Two freight trains on the Louisville and Nashville road collided at Xortonville. Ivy., killing two men, fatally injuring two and slightly injuring two. The accident was due to a conflict of train orders. Mrs. Pjut Kruorer "If •. Mrs. Kruger, wife of the former .President of the Transvaal republic, who is now In Europe, died after a short illness. Plea from I ffect* of Poison. William Montague Muir McKenzie, •nly son of Sir Kenneth McKenzie, secretary to the lord high chancellor of England, committed suicide in Houston, Texas. He and his wife had lived in retirement, and had regulurly received remittances from home. Seven Injured in Trn'lejr Collision. Seven persona were Injured, one of them fatally, by a collision on the Palmer Monsou Electric Railway in Palmer, Maaa. A passenger car run into two construction ears, derailing them

FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH

HE SAYS HE CAN'T LOSE HER. Anton Praeger Is Pursued by a Woman Who Fell in Love with Him. Afiton Praeger of , East St. Louis, 111., 6ays he is the most pursued man in the world. There is a woman. Miss Lise Merto, who wants him to marry her, and she wants him badly. She has been following him about for nine years now, he says, and at last he is going to see if the law can’t rid him of her dogging footsteps. He swore out a warrant for her arrest the other day, hasn’t been able to get it served upon her. Praeger, who is 40, says he was a butler in a wealthy family of Vienna in 1892. The first week of his services there, lie declares, the woman began to make love to him. He repulsed her, but she wouldn't be refused. Finally, to escape her, he fled to America, the land of the free. He was working serenely in California, when one day, two months after his hegira, Miss Merto, bobbed up and insisted that he take her hand. Again Praeger fled, this time to Wyoming. But still the woman pursued him, and with the aid of a clairvoyant, found him a laborer on the railroad. From Wyoming Praeger fled to North Dakota, and all over the Northwest, but he couldn’t lose her. She was always on his trail, with the clairvoyant to help her. Praeger' reached St. Louis two or three months ago, congratulating himself that Miss Merto never would find him there. But there is no pur»aer so keen as this woman scorned, and on a warm May day she upset all his plans by bobbing up calmly at his boarding house. Then Praeger went across the Eads bridge to East St. Louis and found work at the stock yards. But once more she found him. BIG BUILDING COLLAPSES. Grand Rapids Business Structure Falls —Damage Is $259,000. With a crash that'roused residents for blocks around, the four-story Luce building at Monroe and Ottawa streets, Grand Rapids, Mich., collapsed at 2 o'clock Thursday morning, doing damage estimated at $250,000. Half an hour after the building fell fire broke out in the great heap of debris and caused considI erable damage before it was extinguished. The building was constructed in 1856, and had long been regarded as unsafe. Recent interior improvements necessitated removing some of the supporting walls, and this is believed to have caused the accident. Friedman Brother* dry goods and department store and C. F. Blickey's crockery and glassware store, in the building, were completely wrecked. The only person injured was Lieut. John Connor of the fire department, who fell from a ladder and sustained internal injuries that may be fatal. HUNDREDS KILLED BY VOLCANO. Terrible Eruption in Java—Great Destruction of Life and Property. Oriental advices give details of a terrible destruction of human life which occurred in northern Java last month by a sudden and terrific outburst of the volcano Kloet. For fifty miles around all the coffee plantations and other estates were destroyed by showers of ashes and stones, together with great streams of | Tava and hot mud. Seven hundred natives and a.number of Europeans perished. The country around was strewn with corpses. Charitable Man Die*. Charles A. Spring, associate of the late Cyrus H. McCormick and manager of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company from 1858 to 1889, died at his home in Chicago. He was 75 years old. It was one of his principles that no man should have more than a moderate fortune, and, in keeping his property at the $250,000 mark, which he had set, charitable institutions and individuals were benefited.

N. P. Boynton bo.es Office.

N. 8. Boynton, founder of the order, was deposed as supreme adviser by the Supreme Tent, Knights of Maccabees, at Port Huron, Mich., the law creating the position being repealed. The office was especially created for Maj. Boynton and this action is the result of the fight made against him since he sought two years ago to wrest the chief executiveship from D. P. Markey.

Fatal Freight Collision.

Two freight trains collided on a bridge over the Arkansas river in Indian Territory, killing five persons and fatally injuring two. Fire consumed both trains and the bridge. Both locomotives dropped into the river and were swallowed up up by quicksands.

Russian Crops Are Ruined.

Large parts of the Russian empire are again threatened with famine. The last official report was dated June 21. Since then not a drop of rain has fallen in the eastern provinces and it is believed the crops are now largely beyond hope in many districts.

Man Walks Out of n Win low.

Stuart Leathers walked out of a thirdstory window at his home in Louisville and fell to the pavement, thirty feet below. He was badly injured, but the physicians say there is a slight chance for his recovery.

A Charged with Bigamy.

Joseph Cratner, 75 yenrs old, is under arrest in Philadelphia charged with having seven wives, all of whom, it is declared, are living. When the warrant was served Cramer fainted. He is a sufferer froni heart failure. Burn lx cm’s Body. American train crew in Mexico, having killed a man by accident, threw his body into the firebox of the locomotive and tied across the border.

Girl* Brow i While Bnthinur.

Elsie Hirtz, uged 14, and Fannie Griffin, aged 16, both living nt Hoknh, Minn., were drowned while bathing in Root river falls.

THE MARKETS

- Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.95; hogs, shipping grades, s3roo to $0.05; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2,48 cto 49c; oats, No. 2,30 c to 32e; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, fresh, to 13c; potatoes, new, 60c to 85c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $4.00 to $6.00; sheep, common to prime, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,63 cto 64c; corn. No. 2 white, 50c to 51c; oats. No. 2 white, 34c tp 35c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $5.85; hogs, $3.00 to $6.00; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat. No. 2,63 cto 64c; corn. No. 2, 51c to 52c; oats, No. 2,33 cto 34e; rye, No. 2,53 cto 54c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.00 to $.25; hogs, $3.00 to $6.10; sheep, $3.00 to $3.50; wheat, No.’ 2,64 cto 65c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 50e to 52c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 36c to 37c; rye, No. 2,49 cto 50c, Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $6.10; sheep, $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,67 cto GBc; corn, No. 2 yellow, 48c to 49c; oats, No. 2 white, 35c to 30c; rye, 51c to 52c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 67c to 68c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 48c- to 49c: oats. No. 2 mixed, 30c to 31c; rye, No. 2,49 c to 50e; clover seed, prime, $6.50. Milwaukee—Wheat, No. 2 northern, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 3,49 cto 50c; oats. No. 2 white, 34c to 35c; rye. No. 1,50 c to 51c; barley, No. 2,54 cto 55c; pork, mess, $13.90. Buffalo—Cattle, choice shipping steers. $3.00 to $5.90; hogs, fair to prime, $3.00 to $6.20; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50 to $4.25; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.25. New York—Cattle, $3.75 to $6.00; hogs. $3.00 to $6.50; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50: wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 74c; corn. No .2, 52c to 53e; oats, No. 2 white, 37c to 38c; butter, creamery, 18c to 19c; eggs, western. 13c to 15c.

FROG BLOWS UP HAPPY HOME. House of Newspaper Correspondent Wrecked Because of ?tory Sent Out. The home of Hillman, a newspaper correspondent at Albany, Mo., was wrecked by dynamite. Hillman is charged with being the correspondent who wrote the story telling of a frog that ate dynamite, exploded and killed or seriously injured the three children of George McCurr.v. The trouble with the story was that McCurry was single, had no children, dynamite, or frog. Some friends of McCurry’s decided to hoist Hillman by his own petard. The other night a quantity of dynamite was placed under the correspondent’s house with the intention of giving the writer a taste of higher journalism. Hillman, however, was away from home. The explosion lifted the roof off the house and tore great gaps in the walls. ATTACK ON GIRL A MYSTERY. Estelle Neidel of St. Louis Is Found Wounded and Nude in a Field. Estelle Neidel, 19 years old, was found lying wounded, nude and unconscious in a weed-covered field at Tyler and Oak Hill avenues, St. Louis. There was a frightful wound in the back of her head. Attending physicians declare the girl must have been lying wounded and exposed to the sun for several days. The wound in her head, they state, could not possibly have been caused by a fall. Mrs. Emily Neidel positively identified the girl as her daughter, who disappeared from home last October, and of whom she claims she has not been able to find a trace.

Eminent Frenchman Shot At.

In Paris, while Baudin, the Minister of Public Works, was proceeding through the Avenue Marigny, a woman fired a shot from a revolver at him. under the impression that he was Dejcasse, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Baudin was not hurt. The would-be assassin is a Frenchwoman, who is married to a Pole of the name of Olszenski. She was arrested after the shooting.

Amie Leslie Weds Bell Boy.

Surprise was aroused in theatrical circles through the announcement that Miss Amy Leslie, the Chicago dramatic writer, had married Frank H. Buck, chief bell boy at the Virginia Hotel in that city. The ceremony was performed at St. Joseph, Mich. Mr. Buck is 23 years old and his bride 42.

Good Job for Mostly.

John S. Mosby, Confederate leader during the Civil War, has been appointed a special agent of the federal land office. He claims his present residence in California. He has beeu assigned to duty in Nebraska. >

Woman Burned to Death.

Ijliss Elsie Hirseh, the 19-year-old daughter of Simon Hirseh of the Star Distilling Company in Cincinnati, lighted a gas stove in the bathroom. Her night dress caught fire, and she was burned so badly thut she died.

Po**c Hangs Horse Thieve*.'

A posse organized nt Big Sandy, Mont., to capture three alleged hotsw thieves, “Bucking Bill,” Fred Com me nnd Pete Walter, has received word that the three men were hanged by another posse on the Missouri river, near Judith.

Town Farmer’* Crimes.

Fred Fourhelm, a farmer of Bartlett, lowa, insanely jealous, murdered his wife, his 6-year-old stepson, killed his favorite horse, set fire to his house and committed suicide.

If eld Up by Boy Robber*.

Three boy bandits held up Agent Miller at Hoyue avenue station of the Metropolitan Elevated road in Chicago and shot him in the arm, kit secured no monef

DOUBLE MURDER ON A TRAIN. Negro Kills an officer and Latter’s Friends Pitch Him to Death. A tragedy on an excursion train from Spartansburg, S. C., to Charlotte, N. C., resulted in the death of two persons and the probabiy fatal wounding of a third. The train was returning to Spartansburg, the crowd having spent the day in Charlotte. About midnight, as the train was approaching Thicketty, S. C., a halfdrunken negro caused alarm by flourishing a pistol in a ear reserved for white people. Dexter Kirby, an electrician of Spartansburg, who was also acting as a special policeman aboard the train, sought 4.0 suppress the trouble. He asked Haynes to put up his pistol. This the negro refused to do, saying that he would shoot if Kirby came at him. Kirby continued to advance and Haynes -began firing. The first bullet struck Kirby in the breast and penetrated the heart. He died in a seconds. As soon as Kirby’s friends realized that their companion was dead they laid violent hands on the negro and might have killed him aboard the train had they not planned a more horrible death for him when the train was crossing Thicketty trestle. It is ninety feet high. The negro was taken to the platform and hurled head forejnost into space. His body was found in the gras® below the trestle. BANK ROBBERS FOILED. Desperate Attempt Is Made by a Gang at Alexandria, Ohio. A gang of six or seven robbers wrecked the Ressler & Ashbrooke Bank at Alexandria, Ohio, about 1 o’clock the other morning. The strong box resisted their efforts and they overlooked a package of $1,500 in the outer vault, which they blew almost to pieces. Tools were stolen from the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad with which the front door of the bank was opened, after which four charges of dynamite was exploded to open the vault. The noise aroused Cashier C. B. Buxton and others who reside near the bank, and they hastened to the scene. Although the citizens responded promptly, the robbers remained in the bank for an hour longer, during which time they made repeated attempts to force the strong box, meanwhile keeping up an exchange of shots with the villagers. Finally the bandits fled in two buggies which had been stolen previously. They drove furiously away to the north. There was only about SBOO in the strong box, the package of $1,500 having been received too late to be placed therein the previous evening. This money was found among the debris by the cashier. GREAT FIRE IN WICHITA, KAN. Packing Plant of Jacob Pold & Sona Destroyed—Loss $550,000. The packing plant of Jacob Dold & Sons of Wichita, Kan., was destroyed by tire. There were four large buildings. It is estimated that 7,000,000 poupds of meat, in process of preparation, was destroyed. The loss is $1,000,000, with insurance about $400,000. One wall fell, injuring four men, but not fatally. Three hundred and fifty men are thrown out of work. It is said the plant will be rebuilt at once. The fire originated in the lardhouse and is thought to have been due to spontaneous combustion.

A'lmit9 Fraud In Pension Calm.

Thomas Carr, aged 72, of Edina, Mo., was arraigned before United States Commissioner Mitchell on a charge of making false affidavits for the purpose of being restored to the pension rolls. It was discovered Carr had been drawing a pension of $8 a month for three years under the name of James Carr. He pleaded guilty and was sent to the Hannibal jail. Two Die In Missouri Wreck. A head-end collision between a northbound St. Joseph and Grand Island passenger train and a Santa Fe freight, two miles west of Gower, Mo., killed Engineer Baker of the Santa Fe train and Express Messenger Floyd of the passenger train, injured fourteen others, and demolished the Santa Fe engine and several freight cars. , Steamer Collide* with a Yacht. With forty feet of her bow cut clean off in a collision with the steam yacht Wild Duck, the steamer Tremont of the Joy Line, which left Boston for New York with 300 passengers, was towed into New Loudon, Conn., and beached. All her passengers had been transferred to other steamers. Points ton Dark Crime. The village of Six Mile Ferry, near Homestead, Pa,, is excited over the finding of a woman’s arm in a ravine near the town, and later the discovery in some bushes of a silk dress, minus a sleeve. Bloodstains were also found on the grass in the vicinity. Kill* Mother by Accident. Near Dexter, Mo., Charles Dobb, while hunting turkeys saw u motion in the bushes and fired. He 'was horrified a moment later when his mother staggered out and fell dead in his arms. She was picking berries when the bullet struck her in the heud. Bnil* for the Pole. At Troinsoe, Norway, the ships of the Baldwin-Zlegler arctic expedition weigh W 1 anchor and, with the Stars and Stripes and Norwegian Hags at their masts, steamed off to the north. Mr. Baldwin feels confident of reaching the pole. Bake Steamer i amused by Fire. The excursion steamer Puritan was burned at its dock at Buffalo. The entire upper works were destroyed, and it will not be possible to repair the boat for this season's business. The damage ia estimated at SIO,OOO. Gave a Slice . u Imitation. Charles Kager, 10 years old, lost his life at Donaldsonville, La., through his own folly. He was imitating (be actions of a drowning man when he was taken with cramps and died.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Pern Bpnk Weathers a Henvy Rnn—- ■ A Remarkable Reunion of Brothers After Long Separation—Farm Hands’ Union—Judge Commits Suicide. Peru was all excitement the other day over a lively rnn which kept up during business hours at the bank of the Miami City Loan and Savings Association. No real cause can be ascertained for the run. but it is positive that it was nothing but the merest idle rumor. The bank has thousands of depositors in accounts ranging from a few hundred to thousands of dollars, and the deposits reach the sum of nearly $400,000. An examination showed nearly $73,000 in actual cash on hand. This sum and the knowledge that the First National and the Citizens’ National of Peru were ready at any time to make advances, gave the managers of the institution a feeling of security from the start. E. L. Miller, secretary, said from the very first that the association would manage the run on its own resources to show the stability of the institution. In all $33,000 was paid out in about six hours’ time, and a whole tableful of money awaited applicants. Each Thought the Other Pea- 1 . A remarkable reunion has been effected between two brothers in Henry County after a separation of nearly half a century, during which time each thought the other dead. Barton and Jabez Gayer lived with their parents in North Caro, lina. In 1852 Barton left home to make his way in the world. He went to Texas, thence to Mexico, finally returning to Texas, where he located. He wrote his brother repeatedly, but receiving no reply to his letters, gave him up for dead. Jabez, never receiving any information from Barton, lost all trace of him and likewise mourned him as dead. Barton enlisted in the Confederate artriy and served until peace was declared. Jabez lator on moved with lyis family to Henry County, Indiana. Recently a relative of the family learned through conversation with a traveling salesman of a man named Barton Guyer in Harrisburg, Texas. Correspondence developed the sac-t that he was the long-lost brother.

Farm Hands Form Union.

The farm laborers in Knox County anil of Lawrence County, 111., have organized, and immediately secured an advance in wages. William H. Brevoort & Son, who cultivate over 5.000 acres, tvere the first to feel the effect of the new organization, which is chartered as the “Farm Laborers’ Union No. 9247, Vincennes, Ind., branch of the American Federation of Labor.” This is the first farmers’ union ever organized in the State. Mr. Brovoort employs about 150 men. Since the union was formed an increase has been granted the men from 90 cents to sl.lO for married men and from 75 to 95 cents per day for single men. The farmers are said to be viewing the outlook with great concern.

Womnn Henten an t V’ny Die.

Mrs. Mary Albertson of Michigan City, who iu a divorce suit some months ago charged her husband with selling her for $2 to William Denny, for whom she has kept house sin: e, is in a serious condition as the result of a mysterious attack. She was found iu bed on a recent morning unconscious, having been beaten with some blunt instrument. Her recovery is doubtful. Denny was arrested on suspicion,, but denies knowledge of the affair. The husband also is suspected.

Jn !«-e Sr'lara tnl» L ;f e,

Judge James 11. Sellars, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, killed himself in his law office at Ciawfordsviile by taking morphine. He left a letter saying that his life was a failure and that his debts were large. His letter was full of praise for his wife. He served on the bench and in the State Legislature with distinction. *

Within Our Borders.

Mount Vernon, with 2,500 people, has contracted for two miles ,of asphalt streets. Homer Reed, 18, was found dead, with his neck broken in Lost river, near Orleans. Mystery, A 40-acre field of shocked wheat belonging to Jesse Murphy, near Glenwood, was burned a few days ago. Merchants at Montmorenci are putting up a band stand and will a band concert every Saturday evening. At Terre Haute fire totally destroyed the plant of the Wabash Cooperage Company on the river front. The loss is $40,000, partly insured. John Gosma, near Lafayette, bought the patent right for a tire device for $4,000 and has seen neither papers nor stranger who sold it since. Farmer Amos Reece, near Anderson, was attacked by cats, whose concert he interrupted, and his face was so lacerated it had to be sewed up. (}. W. Drollett. principal in an Evansville business college, bus received word that Minister Conger, China, has appointed him private secretary. Benjamin Landen, aged about 60 years, was struck and instantly killed just south of Milford Junction by a northbound Big Four passenger train. Roy Jones, 12 years old, and Bryan Jones, his brother, 4 years old, were burned to death in a tire which consumed their parents' home at Broad Ripple. They tried to start a fire with <oal oil. Benjamin Brune, aged 45, of Tell City, died in the southern Indiana insa'ac asylum. A week before he lost a finger and thumb in a factory find through fear of losing his entire arm he went insane. Since then his oldest daughter, through brooding, has lost her mind. Rev. A. J. Cheeseuion, a Methodist evangelist,- while hut Irina with two sons in \Vhite river nt Martinsville, was drowned. He told the boys the water was not deep enough where they were and waded fartlier, stepped over a log into swift water and disapp pnre( l-

While Samuel Wilson anil Samuel Mace, farmers residing south of Brazil, were driving to town the bridge over Birch creek nuvo way nnd the unn ami their teams were precipitated in'o the Water', twenty-five feet below. Mace-was fatally hurt and Wilson was badly injured.

PRESIDENT’S ATTITUDE.

He Favosa Only the Reciprocity Defined by the Republican Platform of 1990. “Of one thing there Is no doubt,” says the Omaha Bee, “and that is that President McKinley is most earnestly in favor of reciprocity.” The Bee is right. The President believes in and favors the plan of reciprocity as defined by the Republican platform of 1900, “In articles which we do not ourselves produce.” He does not favor anything beyond that. He is distinctly and unequivocally opposed to that form of socalled reciprocity which diminishes home production and displaces American labor and wages through the larger admission of competitive foreign products. He does not want the reciprocity that takes from a single American workingman his job. The President has recently said so In unmistakable terms. The American Economist is prepared to vouch for the accuracy and authority of this statement of President McKinley’s attitude on the subject of reciprocity. On his return from the Presidential trip to the Pacific coast, Mr. Charles A. Moore, President of the American Protective Tariff League, in an interview, said: “The President, I am certain, is just as ardent a believer in the theory and practice of protection to cjomeetic industries as he ever was. But I do think it safe to announce that the time has come when the policy of this administration will favor more positively than hitherto the negotiation of treaties of reciprocity, with the purpose of enlarging our foreign markets.” Qnr Greatest Year. Last Sunday ended the Government’s fiscal year, and though it will be a few weeks before we have the exact figures concerning commerce and finance, enough is known to show that It will prove to be Uncle Sam’s greatest year. Our export trade of $1,500,000,000 Is not only a home record, but a world’s record, and Uncle Sam Is the greatest salesman on earth.

But that $1,500,000,000 is not so great, after all, when we consider that Uncle Sam’s folks have traded among themselves to the amount of over $l(i0,000,000,000, ns shown by bank clearings. Why, Johnny Bull and the Czar and Emperor William and the frog-eaters just stand amazed at those figures. And how they would like a slice of it, wouldn't they? They just get a taste as it is, for Uncle Sam has learned to make about everythihg he needs, and he not only feeds himself but half the rest of the world.

So he is paying off half his debts at home and abroad and piling up the surplus for a rainy day. He has done so well that on July 1 he stopped internal taxation to the amount of about $45,000,000 a year. And all the time John Bull is squeezing his subjects as hard as he can, and yet he cannot begin to meet expenses. Not only lias Uncle Sam had the greatest year since he has been in business, but all his great industrial family are breaking records, too. The farmers never did so well, nor the manufacturers. The railroads are as busy as they can he hauling all kinds of freight, while the millions of laborers of all classes are busy and well paid, happy and prosperous. If any one ever doubted that protection and prosperity went together he has only to study the figures of 1898, 1899, 1900 and 1901.—American Economist.

True as Gospel. In Ills speech at the Ohio Republican State Convention, Senator Foraker said: “The Democratic party came into power. Prosperity vanished, and four years of disaster followed. The soil was as rich, the sunshine was as warm, the rains were as abundant, the seasons, were as regular, and labor was as

eager, but it was all In vain. The Democratic party was at the helm. Free trade was In the saddle, and capital went Into hiding; the mills stopped, the mines closed, and idleness, want, suffering, tramps and riots spread over the land. Commerce waned, the balances of trade turned against us, revenues declined, deficits occurred and multiplied until they amounted to hundreds of millions.” True, every word of It; and it was because the people believed and knew it to be true—knew it from hard, bitter experience—that they voted in 1890 and 1900 to put an end to Democratic free trade tariff tinkering. Happy Vacation Day*. These are the very happiest vacalton days the American people have ever known. Few Indeed are those who cannot plan a joyful trip to the seashore or mountain with well-filled purse, thanks to protection nnd full employment at high wages.

Department Stores.

In “Shopping in New Ysrk” a writer in the Century gives a vivid description of the magnitude of retail business. Under the roof of the largest of these retail establishments there are gathered every morning, before the arrival of a single customer, three thousand three hundred and eighty-nine men, women and children, a community In itself; distributed at intervalo throughout the building from the engine-room, two stories below the street, to the little aeries of shops up under the skylights, where milliners and furriers are at work. This number does not Include tho buyers, the drivers and the stablemen, nor any of those engaged In the purchase and distribution of articles. A special department has necessarily been organised to meet the requirement* of shoppers by m»iL Ther? are often as roaby as sixty young men nnd women employed In It. From three to fonr hundred letters are received dally, sometimes ss many as & thousand.