Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 December 1896 — Page 2

CONDITION OF TRADE.

REPORT OF THE TWO OBIAT COMMIEKfilAli AGENCIES, Zi

.»/

A Fair Holiday Trade Confined .to Articles ot Medium

Grade.

X.y

New York, Dec. 24.—R. O. Dun & Co. Weekly Review of Trade tomorrow will say. The failure of two important banks, the second In Bfze of "business at Chicago, and the oldest at St Paul, with some others dependent upon them, closes not favorable a month which promised to end with only moderate commercial disasters. It does not lessen the effect of these failures that one was caused by enormous loansj^i aid of an electric railway find other concerns and that the other appears to Shave resulted from heavy ventures in unsalable realestate. Since several thousand business men and depositors are for the time embarrassed is much as the speculators that caused the trouble, the breakdown is the reverse of hopeful at present, although it comes when money markets are well supplied and when no serious effect in business is to be apprehended. Other important events of the week ire the failure of tho billet and rail pools to find a basis for agreement, and the some what general discharge of hands or reduction of wages in the shoe manufacture. The holiday trade has been fair, but generally In articles of medium grade.

The fall in steel billets from over $20 to about $16 at Pittsburg, and in steel rails from $28 net for the mills to $25, less brokers' commissions, produces so great a change in other prices and conditions of business that the meeting held here this week, for the purpose of reviving pools and fixing prices, influenced operators throughout the country. But no agreement was reached and meanwhile contracts have been made covering the wants of most producers for three months and some for the whole year of 1897 and it is said some large contracts have been made at $15 at Pittsburg and $17.50 at the east. Bessemer pig has declined to $11.15 and'grey forge to $9.65 at Pittsburg, while bar and other finished products remain unchanged, though 100,000 bundles of ootton ties have been .contracted for at 60 cents per bundle. The production of coke increases rapidly, 9,660 ovens being in blast, with an output of 97,115 tons for the week. Scarcely any business has been done in the minor metals, and $11.37 is emoted for lake copper. $12.85 for tin, and $3.05 tor lead.

in the cotton manufacturet^reas fur her

decline in some staple goods and

by Northern spinners are disappointingly

light. Print cloths accumulate and do not 'f

advance. Raw cotton comes forward just as .nce

It did in other years when official and other

stories of injury ended in great crops. Sales of wool are restricted by the general conviction that prices asked by interior holders cannot be realized, and there is considei able disposition to unload speculative purchases at seaboard markets. Most manufacturers have more wool than they have orders, and others meet as yet no satisfactory demand for goods. Sales of wool were only 2,363,000 pounds at the tliree chief markets against 5,594,400 for the same week last year.

Wheat has grown a little stronger in spite of the disturbance of the Chicago market. Exports have been 1,471,443 bushels, flour included for five days, and 8,392,587 for four

weeks, against 8,527,959 for the same weeks last year, while, from Pacific ports the increase has been large. Western receipts are still small, amounting to 8.455,631 bushel in three weeks of the month against 14,344,859 last year.

The volume of business, all branches considered, is not large. Payments through clearing houses have been for the week 25 per cent, les sthan last year and for the month thus fai* the daily average is 9.8 per cent, less than last year and for the per cent, less than last year.

The aggregate of gross earnings of all railroads in the United Sttaes reporting for the first half of December, or a part thereof, is $12,017,126, a decrease of 4.5 per cent., compared with last year. Of sections of the country in whiph representative roads have reported, Western roads, including the grangers, make the most favorable showing. Traffic on all roads has been far from satisfactory for several months and as yet U'ere is little indication of improvement, but hc heavy losses in gross earnings reported jy many roads is not entirely due to los. of traffic.

BRADSTREET'S REPORT,

£howg 327 RnslneoR Failures Throughout tho United State* L.ust Week. New York, Dec. 24.—Bradstreet's tomorrow will say: •the year, and the period of annual stock the year, and theperiod of anuual stock taking have further checked the volume of wholesale business.

piling her for divorce at Chaxlaroi, in Belglum, has arrived at Budapest with the gypsy musician, Johnn Rigo. The latter says that this Band has played nightly In the leading restaurants of Paris. The princess became" enamored upon hearing him play and invited him to her house and they finally eloped. He says he will marry her when the divorce action Is ended. The Budapest gypsies are organizing a festival in honor of the event.

^FLORIDA'S ORANGE CROP.

High Prices For the Fruit of the Trees That Survived the Great Freeze. Palmetto, Fla., Dec. 24.—Nearly all the orange trees spared by the great freeze of two years ago are in the Gulf counties below the cold line of Lee, De Soto, and Manatee. The total yield of fruit for this year is estimated- at about 70,000 boxes. The great bulk of these have already been bought and are being pressed forward to the larger cities for the holiday market upon the theory that if the consumer must pay 5 cents apiece for oranges he will more willingly do so at that time. Buyers are paying $3 a box here, to which must be added from 5 to 10 cents cartage to the shipping point, a freight of 84 cents, and cartage and commission at destination. One company sold the fruit in a sixteen-acre grove for $5,000 on .the trees. While showing this large plantation the superintendent pointed to a grape fruit tree and remarked

that its

fruit would

fill five boxes and was worth $50. A Tampa dealer says that he has just bought a grape fruit grove at $7.50 a

box,

boxed .or. around

12 cents for each fruit to the New Yorker who must have them for breakfast, these grape fruit will coat 25 centB each,

In Florida all things date from the freeze that killed the orange trees. to the ground and the state's prosperity at one blow. Since the freeze, then, has come an opportunity to engage in orange raising on remarkably favorable conditions. The crop had reached from eight to ten million boxes, and the price on the trees had declined to 40 cents a box, which did not pay much profit. It will now be perhaps ten years before the price will go as low as $1, which pays handsomely The one risk is another freeze but as the second freeze, that of two years ago, came sixty years after the first, growers have great faith that a long time ^must elapse before the third

one.

Meanwhile the

thrifty will have accumulated enough to

Many groves have been abandoned outright Others, owing to the improvidence of their disheartened owners, who saved nothing when prosperous, axe

forsa*e'^"

eluding sometimes a more or less habitable house, at the coat of the wire fence that encloses them. Good orange land that brought before the freeze $75 an acre uncleared may

tiiorp is further nexore iu# uw® the union, and hundreds of employes who at-

the towns there

yacant dwellings

them rent

be cheap,

that one may

to iecea as

faBt as one unoccu-

there ig plen

ty of game in the

fish in tbe

iakes and rivers near-

wlnfan moi

by, and as three crops in °ne wlnter^may

be grown in the dooryard, livlngthuswould be cheap, ai nothing at all

1and"the"delightful

climate co*U

DUPED BY A WOMAN-

She Has Written to Him Time and Again. St. Louis, Dec. 24.—A mysterious female, writes loving .letters, making appolnt-

WhO

ments which she never keeps, is worrying

Hal Garvey, traveling salesman for a local

ten new

gray hairs

gray

The same place, an

'People must havetaken meforapick^

tributlon of merchandise has been smaller!at Fairport, he was brought to the city and at a number of distributing centers.

Fail-j

most of them are preparing to go out wllhin a fortnight. The moderate trade revival which followed the late presidential election has been disappointing in that aside from the Christmas demand business has' tlon would be necessary, been more unsatisfactory for a month past Scott heard of the case, than at a corresponding period iu many yeaj-s.

The shake-up in iron and steel prices is nearly complete, and quotations for bessemer pig iron and for steel billets have gotten down to a level of those for other sta-

Exports of wheat (flour included as wheat) from both coasts of the United States this week amount to 2,111,702 bushels, against 3,524.000 last week, and 3,457,000 bushels in the same week a year ago. Exports of Indian corn this week hold up well, the total amounting to 3,179,000 bushels, as compared with 2,814,000 bushels last week, and 1,S39,000 bushels in the same week a year ago.

There are 827 business failures reported throughout the United States this week, twelve less than last week, and eleven more than in the corresponding week a year ago. There are 45 business failures reported in Canada, against 39 last week, and SO in the week a year ago.

MlM Ward »n«1 Her «»pny Musician. London, Dec. 25.—A dispatch to the Daily Mall from Vienna reports that the Princess of Chimay and Caraman, formerly Miss IUra Ward of Detroit, whose husband i*

detective, he said. In telling

pocket or a of his experience. Saturday another letter came. It was in

Id Jack Connell, "but how t'ell can I tell

told her when I don't know who she is?"

PROBED AND PROBED IN VAIN.

aro being received, and trace is slow. Re- ,ence did everything possible before it called tall demand for holiday goods has been

active, but it is for cheaper grades than cathode. in. previous years. Iu other lines the di3-1

ta the HlHn.

For Bullot Leg ot

Cleveland, Dec. 23.—X rays probably

Only filling in orders saved,John Burns' leg, though medical sci-

in tlie aid the

taken to Marine hospital. The bullet was

ures of Important bariklng institutions at' probed for. It could not be found. For six Northwestern cities tend to unsettle confi- weeks at intervals, when the man's strength denoe in commercial and banking circles, bas permitted it, the surgeons at Marine Very few salesmen remain on the road, but hospital have been sticking instruments

into him, trying to find that bullet. All to no purpose. ." His leg. meanwhile, was getting worse, and Saturday, it was thought that amputa-

THE BOSTON STRIKE.

THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS COKPtliMD TO WALK ITKSTBBOAY.

Many Employe* of the West Bnd Street Hallway Qalt Work fot.a Time.

WEST END STRIKE

Haw the Trouble With the Company Started.

Boston, Dec. 24.—In spite of official announcement of the Motormen's and Conductors' Union of the West End street railway, made early this morning, that the proposed strike over the alleged non-reoognition of the union by the West Bnd management would be deferred until December 30th, many of the employes have taken tho matter into their own hands and at 10 o'clock the service had been seriously crippled by men leaving their cars. The indications are that the lines will be pretty well tied up by noon.

The cities of Maiden and Everett, as well as the Charlestown district, had little or no street car accommodation this morning, and thousands of people were obliged to get to their work in the city the best way they could. Meetings were held between midnight and 5 o'clock at the headquarters of

'manded

int0

v.' +,% rtpnth He has grown port received from Everett this forenoon wholesale hous brooding says that ^00. "West End railway employes ten new

hairs the past ween.

and waited an the lady.

hour

°VTheh5ouble sorted last Thursday, when a town and ft&bury routes are running irreg mellifluous feminine voice telephoned Mr. Garvey to meet her in Scruggs. Vandervoort & Barney's, at 4 p. m. He was there

but failed to

chirography. {or

meeting me

yesteraay.

that the strike sh ld g0

as orlginally decid

free, as an occupied house ,M_1

Qf tue s^renie

mentioned. Garvey was prompt long. The floor walkers eyed him furiously, and every lady who passed thought he was trying to flirt, so hard did he stare, trying to identify the lady who wanted to meet him.

the same handwriting as the first, and com- West End dlreWorS? will endeavor menced, "Dearest boy I am dying to meet,

you. If you don cfure to keep the

appointments I make, why don you say

"I am dead anxious to mpet her, Garvey 'road

tjrcome tQ some

admitted that this will be

The union 0

End stre

mysterious glimmer of the

John Burns is a sailor. On November 2,

'et

Dr. N. Stone Dr. Scott has a

fine ray apparatus. He thought that perhaps the troublesome bullet might be located with its aid.

Meanwhile Dr. Scott was busy developing the negative. Other physicians waited for the result with interest. The plate finally

pies. The billet pool has been patched up came out ot its bath. With eagerness it nominally. Anxiety is felt in the iron and was scanned. There was a demonstration steel trade as to the uncertainty of the price of joy as the photograph of the bullet was of lake ore under the new combination to plainly seen, buried in the mass of sinew control that staple. Freer receipts of cotton and muscle in the rear part of the leg. tend to encourage high crop views and ac-1 The bullet will be removed at Marine count for the reaction in pricc. Lard and petroleum are also lower.

Unchanged quotations are reported for wheat, flour, sugar, pork and coffce, as well as for print cloths, although heavy stocks of the.latter are having a depressing effect on the market and are likely to cause a restriction of output in the near future.

hospital Tuesday. The surgeons say that the operation will be comparatively simple, now that the bullet has been located.

PRETTY ANNA HELD.

The Little French Slnjer Sang In the Streets of Pittsburg for Charity. Pittsburg, Dec. 24.—Anna Held, the beautiful French singer who is filling an engagement at the Grand Opera House with the Evans and Hoey "A Parlor Match" company, introduced for the first time in America the French Christmas custom of street singing for "sweet charity's sake." Her effort was successful beyond expectation, and Le Grand White, who had the "concert" in charge, turned over to the humane society $S03, the proceeds of the unique entertain ment.

The lower portion of Fifth avenue was peopled by a dense throng when the fair singer made her appearance, and the substanial applause in the way of bills and silver given her rendition of "I Want Yer, Mahhoney," was generous in the extreme. The principal clubs were afterward visited, where Miss Held, on request, auctioned her photos, some of them bringing as high as S10.

raSlway 0

ed by

the council. There were several exciting scenes when it was announced that the strike would be postponed.: v.

The leaders of many divisions of the city fend suburban plants threaten to leave work without the sanction of -the council, and several divisions have been tied up, at least temporarily, as a result. The first action against the company occurred in Charlestown and Exerett, when a number of the Maiden .motormen and conductors refused to take their cars out before daylight. No cars were run from the Maiden and Medford line stables in Medford this morning* §yd the citizens who were obliged

to gQ in th(3 city either wa

iked or got

overcrowded passenger trains. A re-

& Cars Qf Charles

ularly. At 1 o'clock all the cars'were off the streeti of Bdston, except tho'se-of the Wash-

distinguish ington street lines and" the South Boston

not 0

prnoon

more chance meet me

division. The men on the other lines as

morning came fast as thfey came into the car houses aftef^used his appeal, and a3 a consequence there

To add to nis bur delicate their eariy trip, stopped work on being told is not a ship in the United States navy thaf a letter of repro

The West End Railway Co. this afternoon issued a notice to its employes stating that those who voluntarily absented themselves from their duties would be cctosidered as having withdrawn from the service of the company.

The railroad has issued a statement which gives a history of the strike from President Little's point of view. In opening, mention is made of conferences between the union and the officers of the road and of a letter seating forth that President Little had no authority to sign the 1S97 agreement with the employes except by vote of the directors. The statement concludes as follows: "Representatives of the employes stated that they would recommend action in accordance with its terms and would notify Mr. Little by 10 o'clock what action was agreed to. When 10 o'clock cajne they telephoned for delay. A little before 12 o'clock two members of the committee returned and reported that a majority of the full committee had agreed to in no way interfere with the running of the cars and that the matter should remain in abeyance until December 30th, pending^tlie decision of the West End directors. Thar matter was supposed to be clased for the night. "The first intimation tke West End officials received of there being any trouble was a notice from the car stations that the men were refusing to take out. the cars this morning. This forenoon a part of the committee that was present Jast-night came to Mr. Little and said hp .jhad attempted to carry out their agreenk^at in good faith. They stated, however, th^t some of the men could not be controlled! -.Slbe West End officials feel that they haves^one everything in their power to prevent a strike. They recognize fully their responsibly and the inconvenience and loss that astrike causes to all the people in Boston anid suburbs. They were willing to go to aay proper length to avoid such a calamity. They have never refused to sign the agreement presented by the union, but distinctly told the representatives of the men that the matter would be presented to the West End directors if they would only give them time to do it. "The managers of the West End Railway recognize and are not in the least

of the inconvenience and Ion which the present strike is occasioning, but they fail to" see how they are in any way to blame for the present situation. They dealt with a properly authorised committee and made a fair andsquafe agreement with them as representing the employes. The agreement was immediately repudiated by the men themselves and a general tie-up ensued. It is not the WesV Utad officials who refused to recognize thei representatives of the union, but the employes of the road, who repudiate the agreements of their ip^n representatives." 'y

Boston, Dec. 25.—The great* strike on the West End Street Railway hasfc^n officially declared off. This action carnalize a bombshell at 12:39 this morning. But'tt remains to be seen, when daylight combs, If this second action of the supreme cpiyicll will be heeded. The following is t£p^ statement made by the supreme eoundWW.-'s' "TV the Public: The supi-eWe council was given power to hegotlate^for an agreement With the management of the West End fact that the United States is not ready for road. The council performed its duty and war. We now have a fine fleet of ships—a

in doing so, found the president lacking in authority to make juiy settlement without consulting his board of directors. He asked for further time, which was granted. The men repudiated this act and, we, as honorable men, have had to do one ot two things, sanction the repudiation of the men and'thus violate our agreement with the president, or refuse to be silent 4arty-^ a continuance of the strike. Wo chose the latter ana would keep our agreement with President Little as gentlemen at all hazards.*'

NOT PREPARED FOR WAR.

Onr Country'* Coast Defenses Are Altojrother Inadequate. Chicago, Dec. 24.—W. K. Curtis* Washington special to the Record says: Army and nayy officers are reluctant to talk about such things, but there is no disputing the

much better navy than Spain. We have four of the finest of battleships, equal in every respect to anything that floats, while Spain haa but one, which is neither so large nor BO well armed aiMhe Massachusetts, Indiana, Oregon or Iowa. She has two second class battleships that are better than ours of the same grade, but she has no sea coast defenders, while we have six monsters that are equal to anything of their class in the world. She has four armored^ cruisers, while we have but two, but we have ten protected cruisers where she has but two. In partially protected cruisers the- two nations are about even in tonnage an«L guns. In gunboats we are superior 'ia number and in tonnage, but in torpedo boats the Spanish navy is very much superior to ours. If the two nations should meet at sea and fight it out, there is no question of a final victory for the United States, although Spain might win the first few battles. Of course, we could raise a larger army, and the Uniced States is a wealthy nation, while Spain is poor. Our credit is strong, but hers is weak, and has been exhausted in the money centers of the world. It would be impossible for Spain to make a loan of any larger amount with foreign bankers. Her la3t attempt was a failure, and she was compelled to appeal to her own people, who responded promptly and generously. Their itsources are limited, and it would not be possible for them to duplicate the. money they have already given to suppress the insurrection in a

The weak point in our condition, however, is that we have so many important cities on our seacoast undefended. There is not one on the Atlantic coast, from Eastport to Galveston, that could resist or protect itself from destruction, if it were visited by a Spanish fleet, and a single' gunboat in a single day could do more damage to the United States and destroy more property than the Spanish army has destroyed in Cuba since* the revolution began. It ig also an important fact that our army and navy, both lack ammunition, which cannot be furnished in a moment. It is humiliating, but nevertheless true, that all the ammunition in possession of the United States is stored in magazines of the ships that are floating today, an^ our great battle ships and monitors would be absolutely helpless and useless after a few hours' fighting. Dispatches from Wilmington say that the powder works there are running day and night, filling government contracts. On the other hand, ain is prepared for war. She is ready to fight at the~3rop of the hat, while it would take six or eight months or a year to arm and equip our navy.

Last year Secretary Herbert sent an urgent appeal to congress asking for authority 3o enlist 3,000 men for service, and he showed that we had no more sailors now with our splendid new fleet thai? we had twenty years ago, when the navy consisted of a lot of old wooden tubs that had been kept floating since the war. Congress re-

sft'uation. The executive committeeas more than half a crew. Nor is it possi

the Pioneer Federal Labor Union, the ble to put our ships on a war footing in a

"You area mean g, central brganization of the employes, held -month or two. The modern man-of-war is

.. a meetin^'thls morning, at which the action monstrous machine, filled with engines

council after midnight, intind electric apparatus, machine guns and

ited deciding to postpone the strike, was criti- all sorts of tackle that requires skilled and cised. President Young of the union issued experienced men to handle. And a modern sailor must be a machinist. The slightest

a request that all employes, both in and out of the city, remain at work till noon, when, mistake or carelessness on the part of a he said, work on everV^" Ifhe would be, green hand would render «. gun or an en stopped. The police haW reserves at each station, but according to'llie^felegraphic re-

city aud sub

ioff ouietlv.

urbs, everything is -paS^hg'off quietly. It is understood thai 'a inference be

un(on anfl ejfectl&Ve

committee

understating, but it is

.ha difficult matter,

fflCiai3

jr thi*t eleven mail

ars which run over tH«f different lines of

wm nQt be lriVbl^d.

The West

peMCK*sthe. street car

line throughout the entire city proper, South Boston, Dorchestfsr,- ?East .. Boston, Bridgeton, Caipbridge, portions of Newton, Maiden, Everett, Medford'«nd in the entire Roxbury and Chafifestown districts,

It was estimated that 3,500 men were out

at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. As soon as

on, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway put on a fifteen minute time table on all its suburban lines out of the park square. The other steam roads quickly followed the New Haven and put on quick service to all suburban points.

unmindful

glne useless, and naval officers say that no man is fit to be trusted on board a ship in the excitement of battle until he has had at least five years' practical training at sea.

In these respects the United States would be at great disadvantage if the government of Spain should take a notion to re'sent the jingoism of the senate, and that matter was seriously discussed by the cabi net Friday night before Secretary Olney wrote his interview for the newspapers, and gave an assurance to the Spanish government that the independence of Cuba would not be recognized, no matter what congress said or did.

Our army is in even worse condition than the navy. We have about 24,000 men, but they would not be one-fourth as many as

are

necessary to man the fortifications

it became known that a strike was really I

jong the coast, even if we had guns for

them to use.

o.f course, we could enlist

1,000,000 men within a month or six weeks if there was danger of invasion, but, as Li Hung Chang suggested when I was In China, they would have nothing to fight with. Guns and ammunition can not be made in a day, and they cannot be purchased like dress goods or groceries. Therefore, as the great viceroy remarked when commenting upon our military condition, all that our soldiers could do in case of a sudden attack upon our sea coast would be to throw sticks and stones at the enemy, like a lot of old women.

The jingoes who are displaying their patriotism in the newspapers and the United States senate have also failed to consider the cost of a war in human lives, as well as money. If we should send an army to Cuba a very small fcart of it would ever return'to this country. 'The malarial fevers of that climate have done more to prevent the suppression of the rebellion than the arms of the insurgents, and recent dispatches tell us that there are now 14,000 men in the hospitals of Havana alone, without including as many more who are disabled' from the same cause in other cities. The climate of Cuba would be even more deadly to an American than to a Spaniard because the latter are not accustomed to the cooler temperature and the comforts and luxuries which our people enjoy.

A Pnrtfon for l«&ac Smith.

Columbus, O., Dec.

24.-Governor

Bun

nell tonight pardoned Isaac Smith of Pike county, who was sentenced to be ba^ed in 1S89 for the murder ot his cousin. Hyphen Skidmore. Smith was nine

times

and his sentence finally commuted to life imprisonment. Once he was led out to the scaffold, the officials withholding the reprieve until the last minute in the belief that he would confess. He always asserted his innocense, and subsequent developments have shown that he did not murder Skidmore. r,»vfS l'i0*

A Stenmpr Overdue.

Boston, Dec. 24.—There are no tidings of the overdue Allan line steamer Scandinavian now eighteen days out from Glasgow. The steamer Caspian, of the same line, which left Glasgow five days after the Scandinavian and traversed nearly the same course the latter should have taken, saw nothing of her. Captain Pickering of the Caspian, reports he encountered the usual w'nter weather la crossing the Atlantic.

NEWSOVERTHESTATE

THE SUGAR MKf QCWtlWI IK THIS "llTATS.

A Rich Kail Who Preferred life In the Penitentiary to

Bilif

within ten miles.

Free—Neigh

borhood New*.

£. A. Huston of Purdue University Issue* the following bulletin in regard to the sugar beet question:

The subject of sugar beet making is at present receiving considerable attention' fo all parts of the United States. Factories are operating In California, Utah, Nebraska and New Mexico, and new factories will be erected in California and Utah and posslblj in South Carolina.

Many letters are received asking about the prospects for the industry in Indiana. The "Purdue experiment station has conducted experiments with sugar beets for several years and the results of the work have appeared in bulletin form. Seed has been sent to every county in the state and samples of beets have been received from all parts of the state. While many samples were of unsatisfactory character as was to be expected with a crop requiring special treatment which our farmers had neither the time nor tools to carry on to best advantage, it is still true that in all sections of the state, ]eets have been raiped that were satisfactory in point ot size, .yiel*, sugar content, purity and cost of production. In nearly every case the farmers reported that from their results with the experiinertai er«p they believed that they could liise beets at a profit,, if they received Mate for the crop. S

Our climatic cbhditions and the quality of our beets resemble those of Nebraska more enarly than those of the other states where the industry has been established. In

fhe

matter of cheap fuel, pure waters, and a milder climate in December, we would have some advantage over Nebraska.

It may be well to correct at once the idea that beet sugar can be manufactured on a small scale. Raw beet sugar is totally unfit for consumption and must be refined. There is practically but one perchaser of raw sugar in the United States and all oui successful beet sugar factories refine their own sugar. In this respect our conditions are quite different from those in Germany.

A suitable plant for extracting the sug from the beot and refining it would cost not less than $2,000. Most of the plants in the United States have several times this amount invested in them. They seem to prefer American machinery. Before any one can be expected to invest any such sum, two'things must be definitely known whether responsible farmers will contract to raise enough to supply the factory with raw material for its work. A factory should haVe not less than 10,000 $cres.pf beet land

Subsoiling and much hard work are essential. The cost per acre varies with the condition of the land and the season. It would probably cost a beginner |80 per acre, which would be reduced as he became more familiar with the work. The yield should range from ten to twenty tons per acre on our ordinary loams and lighter soils. Some factories pay a fixed price per ton for the beets while others pay from $3.50 to $5 or more portion according to the quality of the beets. During the last two years great numbers of cattle, sheep and hogs have been fattened on the pulp left after the sugar has been extracted from the beets.

If one wishes to experiment with the sugar beet crop, it is essential that he should have first class seed. Our experience In purchasing sugar beet seed from seedsmen of good reputation has hot been satisfactory. The seed obtained from the factories and from the United States department of agriculture has been satisfactory. '1

Thomas W. Drew, the owner of a Chicago ofllce building worth several thousand dol lars and one of the most ecentric characters whoever served' in the prison south at Jeffersonville, will be released Thursday. Drew has been in the penitentiary one year and one month. He tramped into Evansville and stole something to eat. When brought before the Circuit Court on a charge of petit larceny the Judge sentenced him to serve thirty days in jail. Drew received his commitment with the comment: "I can stand on my head that long, judge." This remark caused Drew to receive one year In addition in the penitentiary south. Upon his arrival he boasted to the warden that he had money, but preferred the life of a tramp and had seen the interior of fiftytwo jails. Not long after he was brought to the prison two lawyers called upon the warden and questioned'him about Drew. They represented that he was wealthy. They stated that hiB father, who lives at Janesville, Wis., had sent them to secure from young Drew a power of attorney in order that the elder Drew might manage his real estate Interests. After much persuasion he gave his father the power of attorney, but restricted that power to collecting o.ily so much of his rents as would pay his taxes

and keep up necessary repairs. E. F. Claypool of Indianapolis will let the contracts next month for a new Bates

House, to take the place of the squatty old

landmark. The rapidly crumbling hotel

glittering little giinoraelt that will amuse a

small boy or girl at least three hours on some rainy day. Then there were all-day suckers in every color of the rainbow almost Many, grown .people do not know what an all-day sucker is so perhaps it is well to be explicit. It is a lump of pure candy stuck on the end of a long, light stick. This candy is so hard that It is almost Impossible to bre*S It, much less bue it, and the price varies according to the time that it takes to make It disappear. As for the popcorn balls, they were wonderful as to shape and construction "Now, let's buy the children some penny

toys,"

suggested a big sister.

"By all jneaps," a,cquiefced the favorite big brother.. "A£ til: rate each of the fiv« can have at ltait a hundred things each. "We'll tike soirie of-these miniature dolls at a penny fcach," she said to the ^lesman. and five of these little wooden doll chairs and beds, and do put in a whistle, a horn, a gun and a supple-jack and an ray apparatus." "One cent each," answered the sales-. man, as she took out her purse. '"Anything else?" "No, I guess we'll go on to a 5 cent store and buy some more expensive things," she replied with a laugh. •here

they

started In the

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hamers in

LiKiAaat UiiniM/ieei /iAinat I

stands on the most historic business corner 'and corkscrew

in Indianapolis. It looks today as it ^'d

sixty years ago, when Henry Clay made his speech from its old-fashioned veranda. The war riots occurred at that corner, and Abraham Lincoln and Grant have both spoken from its little iron railed porc'a. The new

hotel will be eleven ,lories and will tost

ceased their activity for a day during the hardest of times, are now threatened with a boom such as they have not seen for mam years. Captain Howard has just rccciveO the contract to build a large Lea line =ldewheeler for the Memphis trade, which is to cost $100,000.

The State Teachers' Assocation meets at Indianapolis December 29- 31st. Miss Martha J. Ridpath is president of the High School section and Professor Ogg leads a discussion on "Personal Influence as a Factor in Education." The executive committee fcas asked all to wear a badge of ribbon with the name of the city on it.

Thursday night the Crawfordsville Central School was damaged by fire, originating from a defective furnace pipe.

A CHRISTMAS SHOPPING SPREE.

Three Hundred Girls Itougbt aad the Cost Only •10. The mother of a large family of boys and girls has solved the problem of the expense of Christmas presents by establishing a rule that no article that costs more than 5 cents shall be bought for a Christmas gift. At first her boys and girls (some of them grown up) thought this very hard, but they've had so much fun doing their Christmas shopping that they now declare it to be a great scheme.

bit

$500,000. Landlord Loihs Reibold will con-J ^ught

First they went to a confectionery etore of rather a novel character and there they bought thirty novelties in the way of boxed goods, such as candies, popcorn and confections, at a penny each. Some contained a prize in each package. True, it wasn't smld ring or silver watch, but It was some

p}n&

department

on the top floor, having deiided to work their way down to»the household department, where the pre*»ts for the grown members of the family and friends were to be bougnt. They bought a rosy-cheeked_ Ch.na doll and a flaxen-haired wax beauty fi#*t of all. Both wi-re fantastically dressed ai-.! ju«t the kind of dolls that little girls really enjoy playing with. Then thev bought a box of saints, a drawing slate with twelve designs, a decorated t«a set of a doz»n pieces, a Noah's ark with animals «n I* that would h'* ve made Mr. Ntah's blc-od run *3id, a jack-in-the-box that popped hie head out and made every passerby s.op and laugh with him, a ball, a rattle, a whistle, a horn an4 a dozen other instruments of torture to the man and joy .o the child. Finally they came to the games, and there thisTiig broiler and this big sisteh stayed along while. They became engrossed in go-bang, and then they tried ybas«ball, football, golf, yachtir.g, steeplechase and tennis.

Really these would do for grown people,'' said "he, as she made a touchdown. You bet 'hey would," he answered with

boyish enthusiasm. "Think of playing go»£ without l'nks, tennis without a court, an-' going yachting on dry land. Let's take ona of each." And so they did. Every article purchase*, so far cost 5 cents apiece. "I begin to feel real extravagant," said she. "Suppose we go to t' other side and buy somethings, two 5 cents."

Here they bought a whole lot of Christmas tree decorations. The lot Included strings of tinsel, bunches of moss, glittering stars, Christmas angels, not in garments white and fair, but fantastic robes crystal vases, candle holdern, wax tapers, ana, in fact, everything that heirs to make a tree neriect in childhood's eyes. A few books and boxes of paper ended! the purchases for the children, and the pair went down a flight and started in to buy useful and ornamental articles. "Now, do let's appropriate thingsr£h? things that our friends really need or want,-' urged she. "Why, of course," he answered, "a gift isn't half a gift unless it breathes of individual thought and consideration. Suppose we begin by buying some pieoes of—China, shall I call it? It wll sound better, you know. All ladies are fond of odd China. These old blue cups and saucers, decorated with the famous old willow pattern, are really pretty."

They bought not only cups aud saucers oi that pattern, but also dinner plates, tea plates, cake plates, patterns of all sizes, soup bowls, and small bakers at 5 cents each. Then they decided to buy some plain white China decorated with heavy gold bands and finally added twenty pieces decorated in dainty flowers, figures, and delft designs. "Suppose we buy some tinware," put in the brother, as the glistening pans and pails caught his eye. "Housekeepers never can get too many useful things in their kitchens." "That's so," she agreed, and they bought frying pans, baking pans, cake pans, wash pans of hejtvy block tin, dripping pans, graduated quart and pint measures, individual coffee pots, egg whips, kitchen spoons, forks, knives, tea balls (beauties they were, too) one pint cofTee and tea canisters, painted and lettered a- ten quart dairy pan, and a tea strainer at 5 cents each. Pie plates, jelly tins., stove shovels, milk pails and measures were added to the llat at two for five. "Oh, see what I am going to get* you," cried the girl, excitedly. "What?" he asked, following her. Then he said "I know—that tin cocktail mixer." "Yes, ard something elst to go with it." "That pint pocket flask which Is a dream in tin," he g'"-ssed and he was right. "Now, I'm going to lot -i for a present for you," he said, but obe stopped to buy a line of ihings 'hat do much toward making life more endurable for housekeepers. This lot incluued a willow carpet beator, a nine-bar clothes dryer, a varnished towel roller, a bar of fancy clothes excellent wblak broom, a crumb b-usb, a blacking br sh and a hat brush. After this they made a sweep at the hardware counter, getting a ^dlock, tweezers.

three sites, auger bits, a screw-

monkey

.y.]e

wrench, a combination

bicycle

haln

ftU kiildg

wrench,

cleaner made of ri

bicy-le chain cleaner maae oi real bristles, a tracing wheel, a meat chopper and three bread kt-.vec my dear, we haven't lought the servaiits a thing yet," reminded t£e brother.

tlnue to manage the house. towels, stamped linen doylies and tray The great shipyards of Captain E- J. Tiow-

ard of Jeffersonville, which lwve neve.

S we haven't" she replied, and must

thin Thls fr

cloths

What they

LoiJg thlek warm st&

-kipgs, lln-

notions in the way of needles, threou,

bunches of tape and pretty

wl'low baskets to put them in, and a lot of china, and bisque ornaments. "Nearly 300 articles io:* $10 said ths brother, as he looked over the memorandftm vhich he had been carcfvl to keep, Just lor the fun of it. "How interesting," she exclaimed. Only •think! Last year it was just the other way. spent $300 for ten oresent?." "Aud we weren't nearly so happy as we are now, because w,c couldn't afford to do that." M.-'k 'INot by half," she answered, as they went away, "and I'm sure the little children that we've bought things for will be even more happy over the queer Utile tricks we've just bought them than they were last year, for children always like *hese tttings better than the very expensive toys but how about the grown people?" "Aye, there's the rub." he said. test their'Christmas spirit all «he same."

Chester I. Fanlkner Injnre.l.

Washington, Dec. 24.—Chester R. Faulkner, a well known citizen of Indiana, was run into by a street car and seriously Injured tonight. He was removed to Providence Hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate his leg. The injured man is 75 years of age and his recovery is doubtful. Mr. Faulkner was private secretary to Senator Voorhees and was in charge of the Maltby government building in this city.

At Nick's, 671 Main street Bartholomay, Rochester, Bohemian Beer on tap or in bottles.