Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 42, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 April 1896 — Page 6

DCTTIE'S GARDEN.

I'm g'..;': that Spring-time's coming Winn the lays art warm. When the 'Winter-time is over With its snow and storm; "Cause i a pa has promise.! That he will make for mi? The cutest little garden That ever you did see. "And wLen papa has made it I'll give it lots of care. And raise the mostest flowers And pive them everywhere. I'll sf-rid you all a violet, A pansy Mid a rose. And buttercup and daisy. And . very kind that g-rows. "And must plant some other things The kind that's good to eat. So we an help the ioor folk. Who iive on our hark street. And when my garden's finished, You all must come and see It growing in the little ho I 'a pa has made for me." -Womankind. T II LEE is a cardinal number, and is th" sum of two and one, or is one more than two. The name of this inimlifT !: the Sanscrit language is Tri. The Polish. Russian. Ilokemian. Welsh, Irish aiid Caelie languages all have this form Tri. probaLly from the Sanscrit, and this form serves as a prefix in hundreds of English words. The word three in Old Saxon is Thria: in Anglo-Saxon and Old Persian it is Thri: in Old l'riesi-, Thre: in Gothic. Thni: in Swedish. Danish and Italian it is Tr-: in Icelandic, Thir; in Dutch Dr; and in low German. I) re. In words of the same origin, but in different language, we uttexi find the letter t used la one hinguage and the letter d substituted for it i:i another. Foreigners, too. in learning our language, often make a tmilar substitution, saying dis and dat f jr this and that. In Latin we have Tres äs the nnine of number three, and from this comes the French Trois, the Spanish Tres. and the Portuguese Tres. Three in Greek is Treis. In tongues where the name of th number admits of declension tvo give c-nly one form of it. There are many features of interest in the wonl m:d many curious uses to which It is por. The principal parts of a bird nre its two wings and its central body. Ancient List rians always speak of an aruiy It; line of battle as having right and left wiis and a center, and we use the same term to-day, and. further, the leading divisions of an army are infantry, cavalry, ard artillery. The trinity in religion eonits of Father. Son. and Holy Ghost. The trinitarian thought is seen ngain in the Ilrahma, Vishnu and Siva of the Hindoos, and in another form in the divine triad of Thebes, Amen, Not and Kohusu. In IM en we lind Adam. live and the serpent. The names Abraham. Isaac and Jacob are almost always mentioned together. Tlo- hief loilies of the heavens nre the su::. t:io..n and stars. The triangle Is the b:ti of the branch of mathematics known as Trig noiaetry. In the domain of treaties we have tripartite agreements, as letwen Germany, Austria and Italy to-day. these nations constituting a triple nlliance for offensive and defensive purposes. Trifeli.:i (three-leaved is the name of a genus of leguminous plants numbering over three hundred. All are familiar with the trilogy and the expressions: "When shall we three meet again V" "The three tailors ef Tooley street," authors of a petition beginning with the words: "We the people of Groat liritain, Hireo black crows sat on a tree" and the Iloratii at the bridge, in "the brave days of old." It takes thre; persons to make a family, a man. wife and child. An insect's body is divided into three parts or lobes, the !ie;id, thorax and stomach, and, attached to each side of the central lobe there are three legs. We speak of man's life as extending over three score years and ten, and a youth reaches his majority in three times seven rears, ami his whole life is divided into childhood, youth and age. Fruit has ikin. puli und seed. There are three witches in ".Macln'th" who " 'round ulout the cauldron go." Then are three fundamental or primary colors and the prism has three sides. "Three times and out." "a three-leaved clover." "a three months bank note." "tri color flags." "two out of three, "three out of five." "red, white and blue," are phrases heard every day. The knife, fork and üpooji are used in taking food. The soldiers of the revolutionary war wre three-eorner-'ii hats. . The earth has two polos and the equator from which we reckon latitude and longitude. Farly in the century it was customary to print nearly all novels in three volumes. The triangular form of buckwheat kernels. Iwehnnts. Itrazil nuts and of ooooanuts before the outer covering is removed, is well known. The Prince of Wale has three daughters. President Grover Cleveland hps three; he has been nominated for the presidency three times and would tike mich to have a third term. A bank's three days of graeo, Cerberus, the watch clog of Hades, with his three heads, the three roots of the tricuspid molar teeth, tripods, three-masted ships, are further illustrations of the use of number three. In logic we l.ave the major and minor premises and the conclusion. Man has a physical, intellectual and moral nature. A government has three bram-hos, the legislative, the judicial and the executive, and nature ha three kingdoms, the mineral, the vegituble and the animal. The day i- subdivided into morning, noon nnd nicht, the seasons have three booths each, three times three gives u

CvlTlES " 3r ö v:' A p vj

the number af the muses. All are tamilir with the thro bright stars in the belt of Oriou. The story of man's life on earth is comprised in his birth, life and death. Three years are ordinarily consumed in preparing for college, and three for a course of professional study: a fisherman's outfit is a rod, line and hook, and the dude is fully equipped when he has an illfitting suit of clothes, an eyeglass and a cane. A journal has three departments, the editorial, mechanical and business. Judas betrayed the Saviour for three times ten pieces of silver. The national flag and the barber's pole have three colors each, three-story houses are most numerous, lemons, sugar and water are the ingredients of a refreshing drink. A pretty objection to three is found in the lines How happy could I be with either. Were t'other dear charmer away. A major general's coat has two rows of buttons arranged in groups of three each, and the shoulder strap of a lieutenant general has three stars. Tri-weekly papers are common, the solar system has the sun, the planets and their attendant moons. Matter exists in three states, the solid, the liquid and the gaseous. Two malefactors were crucified with Christ; pen, ink and paper are needed for writing, and Methodist Church ministers may serve three years in one church. We have triple expansion engines, there are three series of strata in geology called the Trias. In a trice, or while you count three, and one, two, three, lire or go, are common expressions. The three ships of Columbus, the ancient trireme, a craft with three banks of oars, the three barleycorns which make the inch, the three feet in a yard and the three miles making a league are familiar matters. Triglyph, trigraph. triclinic, tridactylous, triennial, trifallow ing, trimester, tripetalous, triphthong, triplet, tripod, trisyllable, triumvir are only a few of the one thousand words in the Fnglish language which have tri as a first syllable. In mathematics we have three dimensions of extension, length, breadth and thickness. Three compounded with such words as leaved, bodied, coated, legged, toed, stringed, makes many words. Trilobite, trilobate, tri-lemma and trihedral are much used words. A speech has a beginning, a middle and an end. Triumvirs and the triumvirate are mentioned many times in ancient history. England. Ireland and Scotland constitute Great Pritain. gallinaoious birds have three toes. Europe, Asia and Africa constitute the Eastern hemisphere, or the old world, ami North. Central and South America constitute the new world. In the philosophy of Cointe the assumption is that the development f mind has three stages, the theological, or supernatural, then the metaphysical and lastly the positiv, in which the mind rests in the observation and classification of phenomena. This is called the law of tin thre stages. The "song of the thre' children" is an addition to tie' Apocrypha punrtiug to be the prayer and song of the three Hebrews inMhc fiery furnace. Certain fevers run three weeks, the tricycle and the three horses attached to Hussiau vehicles and the three wickets of the cricket game are well known. The Pythian sat on a three-legged stool. We usually have three meals a day, and on public work and in mines a day's work is usually donu in three shifts of eight hours each. The sun is Sol, Apollo and Liber, and the moon is Luna, Diana and I locate. The Sabines prayed three times a day, and Mohammedans do likewise. Three years is a common term of service for members of municipal boards. Old medical books tell of remedies to be shaken three times, to be filtered three times into three dishes or bottles, and to be taken or applied three times to effect a cur'. At the surface of the earth we have air, land and water. Two eyes and one mouth make the three Hat openings of the face, and the ears and nose make the projecting features of the heath Yesterday, to-day and forever, or the past, present and future, constitute the three common divisions of duration. I'read, meat and potatoes comprise the leading articles of our food, and water, tea and coffee are our common drinks. The prominent features of a meeting of an aid or sewing society are giggle, gabble and gobble, and a circle may be made to pass through any thiee points not in the same straight line, and a Masonic blue lodge eon f its three degrees. The three L's, "Lead, latitude and lookout," is a phrase used by seamen ami comprises a careful use of the first in sounding, a knowledge of the second and a vigilant performance of the third, for in this way accidents at sea can largely be avoided. "The three sisters" is a name merely for the thre; fates. Clot ho. Lachosis and Atropos; the three furies were Tisiphone, Alecto aud Mogaora. We .also have what is known as the "three-field system," and "the thre' estates" were originally a division of the population into nobility, clergy and the people, but now in Great Britain into lords temporal, lords spiritual and commons. We have ''the three wire system" of distributing e.nluctors to economize the cost of copper. The phrase "three trees' was long used for the gallows, consisting as it did of two uprights ami a cross piece. All are familiar with three cat wrk in painting and plastering, also with the rule of three in arithmetic, three per cents, three decker ships ami brains ami three ply carpets. "Throe hours" service, three hours agon-, is a church service held on Good Friday in Kornau Catholic and in many Anglican churches in commemoration of Christ's sufferings on the cross from noon

to thr'o o'clock, the time answering to that reo nie I in the gospel of St. Matthew. We havi the harmonic triads, and the thn-c kings of Cologne, a name given to the "thre wise men from the East," Gnspar. ltahhazar and Melchior. "Three sheets in the wind" is a common expres sion for "drunk" or very tipsy. The Trisagion is a hymn of the early oriental churches. The anthem used in the Anglican burial service beginning: "Yet, O Lord, God. Most Holy," represents a form of the "trisagion." The triads of Hegel were supioscd to have introduced a harmony into his transcendental philosophy. The Trivium. a term once much used, consisted of three parts, grammar, rhetrie and logic. Gunpowder is made of sulphur, charcoal and saltpeter. Tin three graces, the tricycle, triplots, triceps muscles, trio, trinitarianism are examples f the common use, of the number three. The thunlrbIts of Jove, tin trident of Neptune, the tisula of Siva and the hay forks used by farmers have thre' prongs or tines. Man ban :i thorax and two arms showing a triple arrangement of form The expression, "the three chapters," has r'ferenee to an elict of Justinian, A. I Vl.", which condemned the writings of Theolor't, Theodjro ami Cyril. The 1hre F's" refer to the demands of the Irish Land Leugue for fair rent, free sale and fixity of tenure. All are familiar with

what is known as the three It's, Readm', Ilitiu' and Kithmcfic. Then there is three card monte, the three M brace and the three mile water lino from the shore of seas which a country, bounded by a sea, controls, the waters beyond this three mile limit being open sea. The triassie is the lower of three geologic formations of fossiliferous rocks above the Permian and beneath the Jurassic. Running through legendary lore and history the multiple of or 0, is often encountered. In Scandinavian mythology we find groups of 0 discs, D walkyries, 0 giant mermaids, 0 mothers of the god Heindell, 0 virgins of th' Menglod-Freyja and 9 dwarfs. On a fountain to-day in Nuremburg heroes are grouped. The same number can be seen on the Hanse salon of the Cologne City Hall. Nine judges ar mentioned in Icelandic and Germanic law. Nine children have long been looked upon as th ideal number for a familv. DI ANE DOTY.

TRAINS RUN UPWARD. The Straight Up and Down Huns of Certain City I'x presses. "All aboard seventh floor first stop.". This cry greeted a reporter yesterday as he stopped into a down-town office building and faced a half dozen elevators. He wished to go to the ninth tk)r. He stopped into an elevator over which was the sign: "Express -first stop, seventh Hour." In it there were throe men nnd a middle-aged woman. The starter said "All right," and the elevator man grasped the throttle of the "express." It was the usual cable rope, and as thi man pulle! it began its journey upward. The lone woman passenger gave vent to a sigh "Oh!" and held her breath. Floor after lloor was passed at a speed of about eight miles an hour. When the sixth lloor was reached the woman wanted to g't off, but was informed that she was on an express, and it was against the rides to stop an expnss until its destination was reachol. The elevator arrived at the seventh tloor on time. It took exactly eight seconds t mak the upward journey of eighty-live fet. The elevator man tlnui announced that the next stop would bo the top lloor, ( foot above. The top lloor. according to the directory, was the fourteenth, and the elevator licw upward once more, arriving near the roof a few seconds later. "Wo can make a round trip in fortylive seconds, including short stops." said the ongin'or of the express, "but w have made it in altut forty without stops. Then are two express oh'vators and four regulars, that wo -all way trains. They stp at every lloor and for ev'rybody who shouts. Oftn I got passengers who want to got tut at the sixth or tenth lloors. They got mad, too. when they are told they must go up and take another elevator down. The other express makes no intermediate stops at all during the busy hours." New York Press. Nature of the Elder Dumas. I did not meet the elder Dumas until he was on the wane, but was aeuainted with him before? he loll under the intliiom-o of Adah Isaacs Menken. When young, his hair was fair, t Inn dark, but wl.cn I saw him it was gray, and in texture less woolly than the negro's. His lips wen? thick, and external from car t oar when be laughed, and his teeth were uneven and set apart from each other. He llattored himself that his ns was straight. It was. however, lumpy, with wide, strongly marked, and quivering nostrils. To th' pride of life he was insensible. Put In was a slave of the llesh, though in a fitful way; and the iH'vor-ending pressure of -roditrs obliged him to react against bis conviviality. One saw that he was a force of nature ami a child of nature. His small haiuls and feet, and his singular acute though good-natuivd blue eyes, alone indicated blood derived from a long line of civilized Northern ancestors. There w'ro traces of Africa in his speech. His laugh was a guffaw, but its hilarity was contagious. When a ease of suffering was made known to him his face at once fell, anl if be knew the sufferer thj broad fare contracted, and he howled until lie had spent his grief. Mine. Dorval, whom he and Victor Hugo thought the greatest actress of ler time, for emotional parts, used to call him her "lion chicn" and her "gros chien." In the hour of death she did not lay aside this term of endearment, which any one else would have resented. He was doggish in many respects, but of the generous, impulsive No w found la ml t y pe. Con t ury. "Making a Landrail." Having secured his pilot, it is the captain's next aim to make a "landfall." That is to say, be wishes t come in sight of some well-known object on shore which, lndng marked down on his chart, will show him just w-hero he is and how he must steer to lind the entrance to the harbor. A special lighthouse Is usually the object sought, ami in approaching Now York harbor it is customary for steamers from Europe to first find, or "sight," Fire Island Lightbous'. This is on a little sandy island near the coast of Loi.g Island. Posidos the lighthouse there is on this island a signal and telegraph station. When, therefore, the liner steams in sight of Fire Island Light she hoists two signals, one of which teilst her name and the other the welfare of tlise on bard. The operator then telegraphs to the ship's agent in Now York that she has been sighted and that all on board are well or are otherwise. The ship's course is then laid to reach the most prominent object at the liarlior entraiK', in this case Sandy Hook Lightship. She is easily recognized; a big, cradle-shaped hulk painted rod, with two stumpy masts having black ball shaped cages on top of them. If it wre night sb' would be found by a light at her masthead flashing brightly white for twelve seconds and Invisible for three-St. Nicholas.

TOIITUJJKI) JN CUBA.

HORROR ENACTED AT A PUBLIC EXECUTION. rr?al Spanish Inquisition Pays Surpassed by the (larrote Unfortunates Slowly Stranu'ed to Death on the fc-'caflold Agonizing 1'atc for Five. Work of Official HiiimlerH. A startling exhibition of bungling in the execution by the parrot of live Cuban prisoners to,k place at Havana. The men, classed as "murderers, violators and incendiaries" belonging t Cayajabo, were recently sentenced to be garrotod. and at 7 o'clock Tuesday morning a strong for. e of infantry was drawn up in the form of a spiare around the spot where the garrole had been elected. The instrument of execution, a chair with a post behind it. an iron collar and screw behind it. which when turned strangles or breaks the neck of the victim, was set up by the famous executioner, Valentin' lluiz, who. for some reason not fully explained, acted upon this iceasion as the assistant to his own assistant instead of as the principal ox'utioner. The tiv prisoners in their bmgeons received the ministrations of the prb-sts. Due man confessed himself to be guilty of the -riines charged against him and assTted that his companions were innocent, the latter stoutly maintaining their iunoccm e to the last. The man selected to be the fust victim quietly and coolly mounted tin? steps leading to Ii- chair and took his seat. The man acting as executiner tlwn twisted the lev-r or screw handle controlling the garrote. but ho was evhlently nervous, and this r-nder'l him so v-ak that his hands slipped repeatedly from the hwor. There wer iioi ril1. snioth ring, choking cries from the scaffold, and it was only after a I uig period of agony for the condMni!'d man and almost torture for the spectators that the Cuban was pronounced d.-ad. lut this was only a bginning of the terrible performance. The second victim was brought to the front ami I. d up th steps to tlie scaffold by the pists and assistant executioni . I'p.m reaching the platform the uufortuuat' man made an effort to say some: lung to the people surrounding him. but the c.eeutionT's hand was placed ot his mouth, he was hastily bundled into the deadly chair and in another moment tio iron -ollar was around his neck. If tii executioner was nervous upon the occasion nf tin tirst killing h was ten tims more so upon this iceasion. The r'suit was more slow, fearful strangulation ami another horrible 'xperieiico for th spectators.

IIARIO'S ENJHTKEV-FOOT HO AT. T.y this time th prison ..facials, the j goo.ls ami ..at.vmieal. Th.- IatirwiT7hT

priols and oilicTs in c itutnand of f u troojis had endured so much that they j op'iily .lei: unced the acting execution-!-and called upon him to get d nvn from the scaffold and let another man take his p!a-e. Thereupon the a ::ng 'xeeutioner fv rishly ealled upon the .r:'cutioiier-in-cliiel". Valeiiiinc IJe:., who from long xpcrietiee is looked upon as being an expert in his line Kuiz. how.'vor. was almost as nervous and excited as his assistant and fumbled badly as he handled the third Cuban. Itut he succ.-deil in a ciniplisliing tin execution in shorter time and with less horror than Iiis assistant. The fourth Cuban was then turned over to lluiz. Iy this tim Kuiz was shaking all over and he was much slouvr and einsi.lerably lumsicr in sending the unhappy man out of the world. So much so that there was rciicwc'l murmuring at the official incapacity ar.d Kuiz stumbled away from the death post, insisting in choking tones that his assistant must finish the day's Work. Consuently the assistant exe'Utioner again trh'd his hand at the ti-rrible st rew ami was as unlucky as before, for there was another scene of horror which nearly caused strong men to faint befon- tho fifth Cuban's life was pronounced extinct. Horror Caused in Washington. Tii' iiM'ssage from Havana giving the details of tin- killing of live prisoners by the garroto raised a cry of horror in Washington. Snor Dupuy le Etune, the Spanish minister, admitt'd that the men had been killel, but de-larcd that the form of punishiiH'iit was th nie prescribed by Spanish law. He said the men were ncj:ro.s. and hal been guilty of a most atrocious crime iu hanging a merchant r.t Cnira Mclciui and in killing a small buy at the same phu-e. II' said the details if the execution had been exaggerated to suit the Cuban sentiment iu the United Stales. The reports to the Cubans in Washington de-lar? that the horrible execution of the tiv' men at Havana is but a sample f the atrocious cruelties of Captain Cem-ral WeyhT in Cuba. Thy declare they have information indicating that such cruelties are practiced nearly ov ry day in Cuba, and that thy are so horribl' as to b' beyond comprehension. SLAIN AT ADOWA. Gen. A1bcrtnc, the Officer Kille! by AIHMilliailM.

I TO ROW Acnoss THE Atlantic.

Two Darlntr Men in an Open IJa. to Cross the Ocean. Preparations are w-;l r.nl r way for the most daring attempt that has ever jecu inad to cross the Atlantic in an open boat, ('orge Harbo. New York pilot, fisherman and seaman from his earliest youth, propos'. to row from New York to England, using an ordinary row Ixiat. built after plans b'signe! by himself, and intended to show the improvement whh-h hi claims may be nunle in the lifeboats now in use. N sailing will be done m this extraordinary trip. Harbo says he will pull !it into the Atlantic with a ompanion. about the middle of June, and that from tlnui m they will row to Europe. The two ni'n will take turns in rowing the boat, each working about ighteen hours a day. Ilarlx. estimates than an average of about four knots an hour, day and night, can be made in this way. According to thi they wouhl make the passage in from forty to forty-five lays. The boat has been built with a stout piece of oak running al nig the bottom and sepa rat'l from the ke-l. Ilarho -.olly says that this is for th two men to lash th'ins'lv's to when tin- boat is upset and the sea is too rough for th-m to right her. Each man in very rough w-ather is to be lashed at the end of a l"iig line, tied about his waist, which will hold him to the boat wlicti he is swept iverboard. which Harbo -xp' ts will occur as a matter of course. In fact, it would seem that although tli trip is to be made in June and July, Harbo lo.ik forward to the roughest kind of a time and will only be disappoint'l if he eiiount-rs uniformly mild w-eather. The boat ;s IS f-et long with a ö-foot bam. Sh' is link'r-built, of cedar, with oak timber, and w-ig!is 'JiiO pounds, drawing when light but three inelu's of water. Th load which is to be put into her. how'ver. will increase hT draft to seven inch's. Sli- has the general appearance of a doubh'-einled sea skiff. There is an air tight -ompartni'ni in 'it!;er end of the boat some twvnty incins deep and thre feet six inches long. These two tanks will make the lioat unsinkablo wlicn they are intact. Next to the forward imparl im-nt there will be a t w nty-gal!.in sliectir.ui water tank, which will -onform -xatly to the shape of the boat. Four other small tanks of a capacity of ten gallons a-h will occupy th' irrisponding position at the stern. A canvas cover, und r which the men may sleep, will button v-r the forward :id of tho boat. The tuen will carry 'Xtra oars and a larg: pair f swe-p-:, using th latter when they work together. These, with the instruments, cooking utensils and other :iecesüti-s. will take up much of the spare room. Th? provisions are to consist largely .f canned especially useful, as sea wab-r may be used in boiling it. The anne.l goods will l. s'le.-te.l so as to resist t h gr-at hat of a calm midsummer day on the ocean. Two spirit -ompas s will be tixed in the bottom of the boat. When th.' sea is so rough that little or no headway can be mad..' l.y rowing, the men will throw it a sea anchor made if canvas and opning lik' an umbrella. Harbo laims that two hours of work at the oar will make up for the drift of twenty-four hours in a storm with the sea aie-hor out. Changes if lothing for th' men wiil be taken iu a water-tight case. Tluir underclothing is to be lined with silk so as to avohl hating. Harbo is IV yars of age, aud lias spent his life ui-?r. :!. jea. ITALIANS SHOW FIGHT. Attempt to Ureuk Out of the Deportation l'cn at Ullis Island. It v.;s one continuous round of excitewnt on Kllis island Tuesday. Twice a large body of Italians, held for deportation, made desperate attempts to escape from their place of imprisonment, and but for the courage and alertness of the few keepers and inspectors who had them in charge riot aud bloodshed might have resulted. It was shortly after 10 o'clock when the tirst outbreak occurred. There were 'JÖ0 savage looking men, mostly Italians, shut inside the "to be lported" pen tin the second lloor f the main building. Suddenly there was a murmur among them. It iiHTe.-.si'd to a growl and to a how l of Iclianc.? and rage. II-.:::drr vf sunburnt, dirty h.nis tried to tear open the wire work of the pen. It began to beud and in a moment more would have given way had not th' koeprs rushed up and Iown outside, pounding the protruding fingers. Ir. Seimcr early in the day realized th gravity of the situation, lie telegraphed to Washington that he must have more help. Just when all seemed peae' the Arizona, the steamer which takes the immigrant from Ellis island to the battery, stoameil in. As the ivloas-d immigrants ran to board her some of them shouted to tiie throng of I't aineil." In a inonu'iit all was excitement again. A liT rush was male. Savage blows w-re struck at the illicials. and more than ne knif' was drawn in tin crowd. The ollicials went at the undisciplined im b lier-'-ly. and after a few minutes' lighting th' litih' knot f breathless ollicers hal the crowd subdued. Spark from the "Wires. Allen Hallow, 71 years of age, has just lieMi acquitted if the charge of murder at Lancaster, Ky. While rabbit-ihunting in lioyd County. Kentu-ky, Hugh Dixon accident :illy shot and killed his companion, John Johnson. An intelligent shepherd dog saved Mrs. Ollie Evans and her son Harry, aged 1, from cremation at Wilmington, Dd. The price f wire nails lias lu-t-n adv.iii.mmI lö 'uts per k'g from $J.! to .'.!.... Cut nails will follow the alvance in the same rati. Henry .Vr.rons, Jr.. aged IS. f Laurium. Mich., was found b-ad in his bed. It is thought he was suffocated during a lit.

ARGENTINE A RIVAL.

HER TRADE IN GRAIN GROWING FAST. Agricultural Industry of the United Statos Seruiusly Menaced An Indi cation us to What (tnr Wheat rann er May ll pect in the Future. K ml a timers Our Interests. The people of the Tinted States have very little comprehension of the growth of the agricultural industry in the Arg':itine Republic and Uruguay aud the dang-r that confronts our grain as well as our cattle iutTots from that direction, says a Washington correspondent. In ls.su tiic Argentine Kepublie was importing Hour and wheat, but iu 1SVJ the tide turn'l, and m-arly I'JHMl tons of wheat w.'iv -xp u-'.ed from that country. About that time modern mills wto introdu.vd also, and mmii after tic Hour product cxce.'ded tlie local demand and the Argentine miller began to ship it to Europe. The x ports el w heat iu 1SS"J wer 1.7 tons, and i:i lM the tirst shipment of Hour were :.: tons; in IS'.mi the total had reached .".'JT.MH tons of wheat and l'-MIT tons of Hour, and in ls'.'l l.r.OS.mo tans of wheat ami ."t'.srj tons of Hour. Mr. Mulhail. tin- well-known statistician of the London Times, is also editor of the llmiios Ayivs Stan. lard, and ho gives it as Iiis opinion that the area in wheat in the Argentine Republic ; is'.C was more than double that of ls'.i.".. The following are his s:ima: s .f the wh.at acreage for the last three years, and they will give so;u" idea of the magnitude as well as the growth of the industry in that courtry and w hat our v. h.-at farmers ars to expect in the future: Years. Acres. im :;.:,( .-.. -x lsi'i ...i..::.l,(k) IM." 7.:. hi.ixx) The number of immigrants to th Argentine lb-public in 1S1H was ÜV-' ''; for the first eleven months of IS',).", they nutnbered 0i,osl, ;m,l .luring November aloin they numbered I'M IT., whhi will bring the total for the year up to U h m i. Tho most of these immigrants go into the interior and seitle upon ilie agricultural lands which are furnished them free by the Government. In fa -t, the agricultural development of tint country is wry similar to that which was going n in the Mississippi valley twenty y-ars ago. It is important also to -onsider that tlw cost of raising wheat in the Argentine Kpublie will average '27 t cent less than in the United Stat-s. and that the average cost of transporting it from the fanner's cart to chi' hold of the steamer is only about 1 per c'iit of the market valu at the seaboard. Thus, assuming th.' average price of wheat i:i Kuenos Ay res at gold a ton. rhe average cst of transportation is .yj.öO a toil. The same stot y may be told about Uruguay. Mr. Uodrign-z Diz. of Montevidio, who has recently been in the United States as the agent of his (Jovernincnt for the purpose of examining into the methods of our agricultural lepartmenr for the purp 'e of organizing something similar in Uruguay, ivcently- made a wry interesting statement before the Committee of Ways and Means eoiuvriiing the grow t!i of the export trade in bef products aiid cereals from his country, lie showed by otiicial statistics that the exports of wheat from I "ruguay had increased from $ir:.;,!7 in lMJ.'i to $l,SS'Su: in IS'.H, and it was his opinion that in lS'.r, the gain was Km) per cent. II' showed, also, that there has h'on a similar increase in the exports of Hour, which were only 1.0." 4 tons in IMA'!, but jumped to ,".. Urjl tons in 1V.M. Tho great bulk of this Hour goes to Urazil '.. per cent of it and the exports in 1M." were doubled. The exports of corn from I ruguay in IS'..'! were .L'.t.'JTJ and in 1MH SSSTr:!. There was a wry large increase in lS'.Ci, tho principal market being llrazll. Mr. Kodrigmv. stated that no more wind mills are being erectel in South America. They are all now mounted with Hungarian stones and moved by steam power. SCHRÄGE AND HIS SAVINGS. Chicago Police llet Suspects in tho liiy: Kolilicry Case. Five persons have been locked up on suspicion of b'ing implicated in the robbery of Christopher Schräge, the Chicago miser who was beaten and bound and gagged and robhe.l. Chris Schräg', who is 7o' years ol age and lives alono at 711 South Jefferson street, was bound and gagg-d by two men at tltlSO in the evening and robbed of mony and papers amounting to more than $Ö0.(H.H). Tho robbery was one f the bohlest ever perpetrated in Chicago. At the time the ndS3.' Mije Is AM IMS 1IOMK. bery occurred Schräge was alone, and it was s .ine time before he was lis'ocred and the poli- notified. The valuables taken in lu.b'd $40.00) worth f C ok County and Chicago city bonls, mortgage papers amounting to $.,0M, s;'mm in registered! Government bmds, $öti0 in curnuiey, and $1(M in gold. The dd man lives entirely aline, and has always kept his inmey ami stvuritios iu a safe iu the rear room in his house. It was mattr of common report that he was iu the habit of vunting his tnon' owrv evening before closing up his houso for the night. The robbers were ev'nh'iitly aware of this habit of Schräg, and timed their visit n.vonlingly. The men gained o:itra?n to the house by pretending tha they were anxious to rent some rooms. (Icorge II. Nettleton, president and general manager f the Kansas City, l-'ort Scott and Memphis Railroad, died at Lia home in Kansas City, aged Gi.