Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — Page 3

P OLOTOCAL

Home Market and tUe Tariff. Americans are much inclined to boast of the vast foreign commerce of this country, which has~suao<niiy silG?" upward, until now our exports and imports total ahnPst -$3,000,000,000. But sow !>erso«»- ever think what a mere bagatelle this is in comparison wit'll out domestic commerce, the trade between different parts of 1 110 United States by railway, highway, river and "eifna!, and by lake and coastwise vessels. One significant sign of the importance and value of this home trade Is shown by the totals for railway earnings, now jumping qpward at an annual increase of 10 per cent. According'to a preliminary report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the gtoss earnings of the railroads of the United States, covering approximately £IO,OOO miles of road,. will show, for the fiscal year ending June 30, at !«-ast that rate of excess over the $2,073,000,000 earned in the preceding fiscal year. Official statistics will not be returned by some of the roads for several mouths, but the Increases that have been shown month by month during the year and the final reports of many roads give reason to believe that the expected 10 per cent increase will be real-mL H to this expected total of $2,280,000,000 railway earnings the freights collected for other transportation within the United States in the last fiscal year were added, the gross amount would doubtless exceed $3,000,000,000. In other words, the mere tranportation charge on our internal commerce amounts annually to as much as the total value of the commodities handled In our entire foreign trade. It has always been a principle of those statesmen who favored building up our home markets by a system of judicious protection for American industry -that the home market was many times more valuable and Important than any foreign market could ever be. In view of the fact cited above, It would be difficult to dispute this argument. This vast home market has been developed largely by protection, which lias provided employment for millions Qf manufacturing employes at the highest wages ever paid, thus creating an unprecedented market and the best prices for agricultural products and other commodities which are often not deemed within the influence ■of protective tariffs. To tear down our tariff walls and destrop this home market, in the chase for imaginary foreign markets; to throw several millions of workmen out of employment, and thus lessen the people's power to buy and (consume the products of the country’s 'agriculture—this Is the net meaning of the Democratic outcry against Republican protection, and of the campaign ifor control of Congress which the Democratic party is now waging. Any tariff In force for nine years Is 'bound to develop iniquities, and doubtjless the present schedules are defective iin some particulars. They should be Revised, arid will be, if President Rooseivelt’s aims prevail. But a Democratic !Congress will mean, not revision, but destruction. There is no reason to doubt that the country understands this, or to imagine that the country has any intention of turning Congress over to the Democratic party.—Tacoma Ledger.

Campaign on Higher Lines. Voters in the West are under no necessity of resting satisfied with “The bald assertion that the Dlngley act is the perfection of tariff legislation,” while even the party opponents of that act are compelled, in their statements of facts and conditions in the business world, to prove its surpassing efficacy. The widening distribution of manufacturing industries over the country is at last admitted by the free-traders, after years of denial, because the fact has now become so palpable that continued denial, even free traders can see, would involve a disastrous reaction against those persisting in it. The diffusion of investment and of enterprise under the Dlngley tariff law are such as to be capable of easy demonstration. They, In fact, demonstrate themselves and make ‘‘the bald assertion that the Dlngley act is the perfection of tariff legislation” unnecessary. Bald assertion is never necessary when facts and figures are available. If .we are to have a tariff campaign this year it is growing reasonably clear that it is to be on higher lines than in the day of the last great obfuscation. Cleveland got the key to the White House in 1892 on incongruities and absurdities which can not be repeated In any tariff campaign into which the Democratic party will venture, or let Itself be driven without wiping it off the map. It finds Itself forced to admit the distribution of manufacturing industries and the existence of a home market for foodstuffs and raw materials raised On the farms. The country retains a vivid recollection of the last campaign,. Jn which It was contended that there was no distribution of manufacturing industry and no home man ket which could maintain the prices of farm products. The Republican party has recognized, in the passage of the railway rebate and regulation law, that Its broad national poilcy of diffusing Industrial growth and placing consumers and producers on one common basis As interest, must be supplemented by

new legislation, it concedes that the Dingier law. while it has worked v miracles of, change from the sonphouse era”of tariff tinkering untie? < u veland. must he buttressed by other laws, regulnting internal commerce between the claim of absolute perfection for any beuian jdevice. But according to Democratic testimony the results of its policy to date are such that it may well “staqd pat" for this campaign.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ■— ,;- c f . Good Politics and Common Senna. The decision in favor of the “stand pat” policy on the tariff question Is good politics and common sense. The time for making a breach in our tariff walls is not yet at hand. The President was elected, in 1904, on a tariff platform sound in every timber. He received the largest popular vote, and the largest- popular majority ever given -to a candidate for office in the world’s history. That tremendous indorsement by the people of the United States was an unfailing index of the popular sentiment on the tariff question, as upon* the other questions of the campaign. So far as is known the people have not radically changed their minds on these important issues. They certainly have not had reason for any very radical changes of sentiment. The widespread prosperity which then existed still continues. There Is work In plenty for. all who will work. Wages were never better, and all the conditions favorable to continued progress still exist. Why should the Republican party renounce one of Its chief articles of faith, which the people have so enthusiastically ? So long as well Is well enough, whju uot let well enough alone, instead of entering upon experiments which have heretofore been proved to be impracticable? So far as issues are concerned, the Republican hosts are ready to go into the battle to-morrow. There are men to defend the policies as well as policies to defend.—Los Angeles Times. Trusts or Farmers? More than $65,000,000 of American capital is Interested In Cuban sugar and tobacco production. The American Tobacco Trust alone has over $40,000,000 inyested, and the Sugar Trust and the Havemeyers are heavily Interested in raw sugar plants. A Southern Democratic Senator is a large holder of Cuban sugar-growing stock, and a number of other United States Senators- are “in” on various Cuban sugar and tobacco -deals. Upon these facts the Cuban sugar and tobacco Interests largely base their hopes of a renewal of the reciprocity treaty which expires two years hence. Holders of nearly $100,000,000. in American beet-sugar plants, American farmers who sell about $30,000,000 worth of beets a year for sugar-making, and other American farmers who grow cane sugar, tobacco and fruits are hoping that the treaty will not bo renewed. It remains to be seen whether the trusts or the farmers will count for most when the Cuba a treaty comes up for extension in the fail of 1908.

A Bit of History.

As a part of tlie record of the Congress campaign of 1906 the following is worthy of preservation: Oyster Bay, N. ¥., July 25, 1906. Dear Mr. Shopman: I have your letter of the 24th inst. and inclosures. I send my dollar. I think It an admirable plan, and I congratulate you upon the success that bids fair to attend the movement. Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Best He Could Do.

Eva —I saw Charlie Cogger yesterday. Edna —You don’t 'say. And did be tip bis hat? Eva—No, he wagged his foot. Edna—Wagged his foot? Why, that is a strange wny to greet a lady. Eva —Well, you see the poor fellow was under his automobile mending a break.

Hadn’t Thought of That.

Mr. Newrick —Yes, I see you’ve been able to trace my nncestry right back to the fifteenth century. How lunch do I owe you for all this? Pedigree Compiler—l shan’t charge you anything at all for the family tree, but I want 50,000 francs, or I shall publish all I know about your ancestors and tliejr methods of making Bon VlvauL

Takes It Ont of Him.

"Why is It women nre such poor arithmeticians? My wife can’t add a column of figures to save her life!” “Neither can mine. Bat she's a corker nt subtraction—when IF cornea to money!"—Detroit Free P*ess.

Didn’t Know Where To.

Mrs. Flip —I have Just been talking to a specialist and he says my brain vitality has all goue to my long balr. Bo yon belleve tt? - Flip—Well; er—l knew it had gonel —Detroit Free Prese.

A Good Guess.

“Now," said the cook school teacher, "can any young lady tell me what th« pieplant la?” ; # k "I suppose that’s just another name for pumpkin." said the bright glrL— Philadelphia Ledger.

GIRL TERRORISTS.

The J Cmr la la Greatest Dancer from Female Assassins. The Czar of Russia never stood in greater danger of assassination than he does to-day, Disaffection is so widespread and the terrorist propaganda has entered so many walks of life that for auglit he knows one who is the nearest to him may have takeman oath to remove him. I’rhaps he stands in greater danger from women than from men, for to women have been delegated some of Alie!3nqsfT danger-" 011 s work of the crew of assassination. As t far began to assume nihilist leadership and became even more fanatical than the men. Some of them proved absolutely fearless' nnti regardless of their own lives. They cut off their hair and as men studied in the colleges, particularly along the line of chemistry, until they became expert makers of deadly explosives. Young women of the highest rank dressed themselves as peasants, and sought menial employment that they might be' emissaries of nihilism. The Princess Tomborskoie was found working among washerwomen spreading the propaganda, and the universities became mere training schools for such as she. Many of them have been sent to Siberia. ' 1. ■ One of these wofnen leaders was Mme. Catherine Berschkovsky, a member of an aristocratic family, who was imbued with revolutionary ideas from her youth. She lectured to the peasants till silenced by the government. Then, under various disguises, she traveled about until 1874, when she was arrested and sent to Siberia with some 500 others. She was - the first woman to be sentenced to hard labor in the mines. She escaped, but was recaptured and kept g convict till 1896. In the recent outbreak of assassinations women and girls have committed many of • the most daring attacks on officials of the regime. The instance most familiar is that of the killing of Luzhanoffsky, chief of the secret police, by Marie Spiridonova, who has been called the second Charlotte Corday. She is only 17 years old. After shooting the official she was subjected to such inhuman cruelty by the Cossacks, who sent her at last to the hospital wi h a fractured skull and many frightful wounds on her body, and there was a great outcry throughout all Russia against Such barbarism. Recently one of these fanatical women committed suicide because her plans at assassination had failed. She was Barbara Printz of Moscow, daughter of Lieut. Gen. Printz. Among her friends at school had been the daughters of Gov. Gen. Gaulbars of Odessa. These young ladies sent her an invitatidn to pay them a visit. She told her superiors among the nihilists of the opportunity presented by the invitation, and they commissioned her to kill the governor general. She went to Odessa and was daily a visitor at the palace of the governor, though part of the time oe •upying a room at a hotel. Friday sh< started from the hotel to go t’o the gov ernor’s palace, having in the meantime learned the easiest means of gaining en--1 ranee to his presence. Beneath her cloak she carried a bomb. Accidentally she dropped the bomb on the street and it exploded with terrific force, but she was not injured. Knowing that any further effort at assassination would now be fruitless, she returned, to the hotel and killed herself with a revolver.

THE RAILROAD

Nearly $400,000 is to be expended by the Illinois Central Railroad for new pastenger train equipment. Frederick Underwood, president of the Erie road, holds seventy-two directorships and trusteeships, but is second in the United States to W. H. Newman of the New York Central in point of holdings. The interstate commerce commission, in session at Toledo to investigate the relations of the railroads with the ice trust, brought out numerous facts showing that the Ann Arbor road had discriminated in freight rates in favor of the trusts. TheVe were indications that the commission was about to make a thorough investigation of coal-carrying railroads of Ohio. Officials of the Lackawanna railroad announce that they are about ready to dispense with the services of all telegraphers after which they will control the movements of the trains by the automatic block signal system, supplemented by telephone facilities. This will effect the entire system and it will be the first railroad in America to make sweeping change. The Western Pacific Railway Company is perfecting plans to enter California, and when the read is completed It will be one of the greatest railroad engineering feats of modern times. The engineers in charge have instructions to keep one object in view, the line with the least grade. To accomplish this forty-five tunnels will be bored in eastern California, between Oroville and Beckwith Pass. Instead of going around mountains the Western Pacific is going through them. By the time she western wheat crop is ready to move the Canadian Pacific will have a hundred additional engines and 8,000 cars, which will be exclusively used to haul the western crop. Further than that, the roadbed has been and is being •o improved by reducing gfades and curves and double tracking that where formerly trains of five hundred lons were about the limit, in places the engines can now haul fifteen "EunJrecTToh Toa<ls, which means a vast improvement in the capacity of the road. It is claimed that with the recent general reductions in passenger fares in the West and the 2-cent fares in effect in thickly populated States east of the Mississippi river .lift passenger tariffs of the United States are way below those of Europe and among the lowest in the world. A newly incorporated holding company, to bo known as the Beach Creek and Eastern Coal Company, capitalised at $8,000,000, has taken over the Pennsyl-* vanis Coal and Coke Company, the alliance of which with the New York Central was recently investigated by the Intern State Commerce Commission.

Indiana Slate News

FENCE FACTORY IS BURNED. Blase at Fraukton Causes a Loss y 40,000. Fire totally destroyed the factory of the Hoosier Fence Company at Frankton and also John Hays* 1 ivory bara and several fra m e b.ui 1 dings, resulting in—a_ total loss of about $49,000, of which onehalf was on the fence factory, with SB,OOO insurance. The factory was owned by A D. Hurst and W. H. 11. Quick of Anderson and was regarded as remarkable because in thirteen years past it had netted for its owners about $200,000. They will rebuild. . ~ , - • YEGGS NEARLY DESTROY , TOWN. Bnrglnrn Set Fire and Rolling? Prairie Has Narrow Escape. The safe in Eugene R. Adams’ general store at Rolling Prairie was blown early the other morning by robbers, who either accidentally or intentionally set fire to the building, which was totally destroyed, including contents. The safe contained leas than SSO. The loss on the building and contents is SIB,OOO. The robbers escaped. The residents with difficulty saved the business district from destruction. GIRL OF ELEVEN A THIEF. Steals |l4O from Parents, Bays Clothes and Makes Trip. Lucy Hill, 11 years old, daughter of Frank Hill of Kokomo, took $l4O from -a-dresser, bought some new dpthes, jewelry and a railway ticket to Dallas, Texas. She started south alone. Her parents thought she had been stolen, but she was arrested in Oklahoma. She will be returned to her distracted parents. “Oil, I just went out to have the time of my life,” was her only explanation. SHOT DOWN IN HIS HOME. A Boonvllle Miner While Drunk" Threatens Officer and Is Killed. Marshal. Charles Schave of Boonville shot and killed William Woods, aged 32, a miner. - Marshal Seha ve wa 9l called to Woods’ house by the letter’s [wife, and when he arrived was met at the door by Woods himself, who threatened to kill the officer. Schave retreated across the street and then tired three shots, which resulted in the man’s death two hours later. Woods had been drunk all night. I.caps from Moving; Train. A man supposed to be Victor Holer, aged 40, of Rhinelander, Wis., leaped through a window of an east-bound Pennsylvania passenger train at the Ohio State line. He has been unconscious with a fractured skull nil day and may die. Drowned in tlie Kankakee. Adolph Eisner, 20 years old, was drowned white bathing in the Kankakee river. He was a member of a theatrical troujie playing at Shelby, and the body was shipped to his home in Chicago, lie was alone at the time of losing his life. Farmer Killed by Fall from Train. Lige Iletti. 25 years old, a farmer of Dale, returning home from the fair at Christney on a crowded train, foil off and struck his head on a tie, fracturing the skull and sustaining fatal injuries. Brief State Happening^. Joseph F. Robinson, a wealthy farmer, depressed by ill health, committed suicide by shooting himself twice with a revolver at the Dejeans hotel in Vincennes. He leaves a family. He carried $20,000 life insurance. Gertrude Price attempted suicide hy jumping into the harbor before the eyes of several hundred Chicago people, who were passengers on the steamer Roosevelt, which was pulling up to the dock in Michigan City. Charles Marshall, a lifesaver, dived into tlie water and saved the girl. Disappointment over a love affair Is'given as tlie causer^ Suits have been filed by tlie Indianapolis prosecutor and State railroad commission on relation of the State against the Adams, the American and the United StatPs express charging them with habitual failure to obey the law in respect to express package delivery and asking that their charters be revoked. At the same time mandate suits la compel deliveries and for the collection of the SSOO penalties for failure were filed. The companies establish their own delivery limit, while the law says they shall deliver without extra charge to any point within an incorporated city having a population of 2,500 or more. The companies refuse to make deliveries outside of limits established by themselves. Within two days two small boys died near Terre Haute from gunshot wounds received mysteriously and which they were not able, owing to prolonged unconsciousness, to fully explain. The 6-year-old son of Bernardo Ptucfca was found oi» the porch with a gunshot wound. No one was near and at first it was reported he Was a victim of feudalism among the foreigner* at the mining camp. Once in the three weeks lie lingered he was conscious for a short time and muttered something about another boy accidentally shooting him. The coroner is investigating. Harry Morris, 8 years old, son of a farmer south of the city, died from a wound received July 21. Frank Kauffman, another boy, gays that he, Kauffman, shot at a bird in a tree and that the bullet glanced from the tree and struck Morris. The latter, in his conscious moments, told his mot her “that Kauffman ‘re go home and that when he did not comply Kauffman shot him. George Zumbrum, the militiaman Who pleaded guilty to the, charge of throwing acid in the face of his former wife, Mrs. Ira Vtiiidevener, seven miles west oi Windfall, wots taken to ahe penitent inry at MuhignirTTty to servf-TtprTtmcurr of from two to fourteen years imposed by the court. Geqrge Wolfe, proprietor of the Hotel Nicjfcl. suddenly left South Bend. His creditors held a meeting anti the sheriff attached tlie hotel. The Kainm and Rebel* Huger Brewing Company of Mishawaka holds a mortgage upon the place. Wolfe’* shortage will aggregate SIO,OOO.

RABIES IN NEW ENGLAND.

■S - 'i . ■“ ~ ' A Mad Dojr Spare Now Covers Three Whole Staten. For more than a. year a mad dog scare , has' prevailed in Massachusetts, Rhode | Island and Connecticut. It originated,at Wliitinsville, R. 1., July .29, 1905, When T black cur dog afflicted with genuine rabies bit many other dogs of .that vil-. lage and then ran over to Graiton, where he continued his work until he was shot. From that day the hydrophobia idea has. prevailed! , At; the roundup it was found that no less than 45 dogs had been bitten by the black cur. All the dogs' known to have been bitten Were .straightway placed in strict quarantine, and every dog in the two 10 wnsTWhltinsvine and Grafton; was provided with a muzzle. East Douglas village followed sqit. The scare was continued when a couple of weeks after the first outbreak a greyhound went through Grafton Center and bit twelve more dogs. At’that point the real alarm began. Before cold weather the seeds of a magnificent mad dog scare were well sprouted. Proceedings began early this year. The situation was aggravated by the appearance- in spots of a dog 1 epidemic which veterinarians pronounce similar to biack diphtheria. This disease has been especially prevalent in northern Rhode Island. It passes under'the name of black tongue and, while manifesting its symptoms much earlier than rabies, is almost identical in its effect on the dog. Tks main difference is that, as the name suggests, in black tongue the tongue becomes dark colored and swollen and eventually is stricken, like the rest of tlie body, with paralysis.. Four days is about the duration of a case, and veterinarians say Ijpi always ends in death. That genuine rabies is widespread to-day in southern New England seems certain. Attleboro lias banished dogs of whatever size, shape or_ color from the even though muzzled and on a leash. Springfield has subjected its dogs to much the same restrictions which prevail in Providence, where dogs of respectable behavior may be towed. The smaller places are following the example set by the large ones. - - In the meantime the dog catchers are 'reaping a harvest. Tlie Providence dog officer gets a dollar a head for every animal lie kills and in tlie past three weeks lias disposed of some 300', for whose taking off tlie city provides the gas.

MINERS WANT COAL MINES.

Socialists Planning; for the Control of the Anthraeite Industry. Although the general public is giving little attention, to the prospect, there is, in tlie anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania, a well-defined Socialistic movement for obtaining public control of the great industry of anthracite coal mining, the output of which is more valuable than that of the gold produced by the entire world. •Socialists throughout the region are now organized as they have never been before, and are directing their efforts toward t-keorganiza-titm of tlio J min& workers, who, being most vitally interested in the plan, can control by the vote they command,, the political power of the region, if properly organized for such a purpose. The anthracite mines how employ some 170,000 workers and produce 70,000,090 tons of coal a year. The labor cost of producing this coal is about $1.76 a ton and at this rate the public ownership of the mines would permit the public ownership officers in charge of them to expend for labor alone over $ 123,<XX),000 yearly. Aiming at ultimate public ownership of the-anthracite coal mines, the Social* ists and the union workmen expect to make such a showing at the fall election that while they may not win their object immediately, they will take a decided step toward doing it and place themselves in a position to win greater and still greater power at each succeeding election. The great majority of the mine workers are foreign born workers from the provinces of southern and southeastern Europe. This class could, with proper organization, control the political destinies of the anthracite district and they are now being trained by the Socialists.

Scope of the Eight-Hour Law.

The opinion was rendered by the Departmenttof Justice that the law limiting to eight tlie hours of labor on public works does not apply to vessels under construction in private shipyards, or to supplies contracted for by the quartermaster, general. This-is based on the theory that such industries are not? properly speaking, “public works.”

Children’s Right to Play.

A crowd of children called on Mayor Johnson of Cleveland to make a foru*al protest against a rule of the police preventing, them from playing on the streets. The Mayor decided that where playgrounds are not provided for the children they have a perfect right to the streets of the city for their sports, as long as they do no danjage to person or property.

A Booming Stock Market.

Following- the Harrtman killing in Union I’aeifie and Southern Pacific stocks, which writs said to have netted the longs something iike $25,000,000, trading became active all along the line. Many of the railroads arid industrial stocks made new high records. It was apparent that at last the general public was regaining confidence and was buying.

New $10,000,000 Copper Company.

The Cananea Central Copper Company has been incorporated under tlie laws of Minnesota, witli capital stock of $10,000,000, to exploit 3,000 acres of mining land about the Greene consolidated mine at stock, at $lO par, were promptly oversubscribed.

Told in a Few Lines.

Memphis, Tenn., Republicans have de* manned that President Hoosevelt run •again for President. Justice of th« Peace William Duff, a. farmer aged 80 years, died from the effects of a gunshot wound received in an altercating with four Italians at Newcastle, Pt. : , / The United States crifiser St. Louis, built by the Nefie & Levy Shipbuilding Company, was placed in commission nt the league Island navy yard, Philadelphia

THE WEEKLY HISIORIAN

1305 —Sir , William Wallace executed at ■ Smithfield. 1185—Richard 111. killed on Bosworth field. ;7 :< 7 1372—5U8 a rtholomcw's Massa ere. 1630-*-Court of Assistants first held at Charlestown, Mass. :IfffsaAmwican raid from New Jersey into Staten Island. - . 1789—Liberty of the French press decreed.... Mary Washington, mother of George Washington, died. 1814—City of Washington burned by tha British.1828—Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, founder of phrenology, died. 1830- -Insurrection of Belgians commenced at Brussels. 1848— American ship Ocean Monarch burned in Irish Channel; 170 lives lost. 1849 Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, escaped from Austria. 1851—Great riot in New Orleans, growing out of the Cuban expedition. 1854 —Japanese announced new policy of commercial intercourse... .City of .almost destroyed by. fire. 1856—The historic Charter Oak, Hartford, Conn., fell during a storm. 4863—Gen. Roseerans arrived in front of Chattanooga, Tenn. 1864 Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, surrendered to Farragut. 1870—Proclamation by the President of neutrality in the Franco-Prussian war. 1877 —Canal around the Des Moine* rapids on Mississippi river opened. 1882 —British occupied Port Said and closed Suez canal. 18S3 —Completion of the Northern Pacific railroad to the Pacific coast. 1884—Foochow, China, bombarded by the French. 1888 — Storm and flood created great damage in West Virginia.——- : 1889 — Mrs. Maybriek’s sentence commuted to penal servitude for life. IS9O Interest on money in New York ran up to 12 per cent a month. 1893 — Attempt to assassinate President Crespo of Venezuela. 1894 Japanese minister to Korea assassinated. 1895 — Attack made on American mission school at Foochow, China. 1897—President Borda of Uruguay assassinated. 1903 Lord Salisbury, prime minister of England, died. 1904 Mrs. Maybrick, after release from English prison, arrived in United States.... Great battle of Liaoyang, between Russians and Japanese.

The Bible In Foreign Lands.

The British and Foreign Bible Society now distributes the Scriptures in no fewer than 400 languages. This is one of the many interesting facts presented recently at the society’s meeting in London. Copies of the Bible are purchased from the British and Foreign Bible Society for cheese, eggs, arrowroot and many other commodities. In the New Hebrides natives pay for the Bible in arrowroot. In on* of the New Hebrides—Aneityum— so generous have the native Christians become that during the last eleven years they have grown and given arrowroot to the value of $5,000 for the good of the Christian cause and for starting other churches. Nothing else is used in these islands for the purchase of the Scriptures, but arrowroot, 15 pounds of which will buy a Bible. In Saa, one of the British Solomon Islands, Bibles are bought with dead dogs’ taeth. Other things used to purchase Bibles in different parts of the world are r barley, eggs, pigs, goats, fowl and beads..

More Strict Sunday Lana.

The laws recently enacted in France and Canada aim at a more general recognition of Sunday, at least as a day of rest. In France it is made a rule for all commercial and industrial establishments to close for this weekly day of rest, and when in any case such closing would be prejudicial to the interests of the public the law requires that an equal amount of rest be accorded to all workers on sonde other day, or by shifts in rotation. Canada’s new Sunday law is far more drastic. All trading or remunerative service is forbidden, except in works of actual necessity or mercy. Railroads may not run excursions or handle any traffic which can be attended to on any other day. But, most remarkable of all, there are to be no Sunday newspapers either published at home or imported from abroad. All public amusements are banished Heavy penalties for violations are to foe imposed on employers or corporations as well os on employes.

Alcohol Revolution Exaggerated.

The report of Internal Revenue Commissioner Yerkes, who was seat to Europe to investigate the uses of denatured alcohol, indicates that the promise of an industrial revolution through the placing of this article on the American free list is worthless. He says the fact is that nlcohol has not yet been harnessed for effective and economical use in the Industries. ' Nowhere in Europe do they propel autos with alcohol or use It for light or heat. The picture of the farmer distilling alcohol with which to operate his own (arm implements is mere Action.