AUTOMOBILE ON THE FARM.
ft Bu Brrmc m Commoa Talaa: la
i Nebraska mm 4 Kmim,
i TTestern age nU of automobile factories
ssert that if the machines ronld be se
ctored hundred of auto could be sold fhis
Mimnier to the farm en of Nebraska atid
Kaunas. As it is the residents of country
towns and the fanners are buying more
of the benxine buggies than the cities,
and there is scarcely a country town in
Nebraska in which there are not more
Automobiles In proportion to population
than in Lincoln or Omaha.
The prosperity of western farmers hns
tSocoine an old story, and this prosperity
is (coin to be augmented this year by an
other big crop of wheat and corn and
oats. Most of the farmers in the State
could buy a medium priced machine just
As a luxury If they wanted to, but the
manner in which tbey have amassed their
money aors nor leau io extravagances 01
that kind.
f 'When a Nebraska agriculturiHt adds to
lis machinery collections he buys only
that which will be of use. That is why
lie is just now turning to the automobile.
The favorite farm type is the runaliout,
largely because of its low first cost. The
prudent farmer figures that with a good
carriage horse bringing $150 to $250 each
m the market he is foolish to utilize
them in his pleasure jaunts and bis jour
neying to and from church. If he uses
his work horses to go to town or about
the country he deducts just that much
from their working capacity on the farm.
By using an auto he saves the horses
fresh for the farm work, he can trans
act his business quicker and get back to
. the farm in a short time, to his financial
betterment.
The employment of the gasoline engine
km farms in the pumping of water for
dock and in running threshing machinery
and grinders and shelters has familiarized
him with this type of power and he takes
, hold of an automobile proposition with
Interest and enthusiasm.
f Architects of a New Race.
' Such is the somewhat pretentious title
Adopted by a new cult under the leader
ship of Dr. Asher Oluck, who has formed
the nucleus of a colony at Chicago, and
n-ho recently has been seeking converts
tit New York and other points in the
(East. Dr. Gluck claims that any man
and woman who will follow his regime
consistently for fifteen months may give
birth to a child having the power of
speech, and who will attain full stature
and intelligence at the age of 5 years.
The program includes vegetarianism, com
munism in labor, all members of the
group receiving an equal share of the
iotal proceeds of the colony's industry,
(the absence of every form of sensual
pleasure and the wearing of linen clothes
from head to foot, even the shoes being
made of this material, and the women at
tired in shirt, coat and trousers like the
.men. The belief is that by these and oth
er methods of living the ordinary senses
- may be developed to a much finer degree,
and that other senses, such as telepathy
ind clairvoyance, may be brought into
play. It is held that man has twelve
enses instead of five to be developed.
There are 3(1,000 employes on the
Louisville and Nashville's pay roll.
Steps are being taken to reorganize the
building laborers of St. Paul, Minn.
All the printing offices of Lincoln,
Neb., are now working on tho eight-hour
basis.
A weekly pay bill for railroads will bo
introduced in the next New York Legisla
ture. There are 00,000 members of the Inter
Tiational Tobacco Workers' Union in the
United States.
In one year preceding Ndvcmber, 1000,
$3,908,133.00 was paid out In strike ben
efits by sixty-four international unions.
The Structural Building Trades Alli
ance of America now hns a membership
of 200,000 outside of New York City.
Japanese In some Union I'nclfic mines
are drawing as high as $17 a month,
and It is feared wages will go still higher.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen
linn a membership of .11.000 distributed
throughout the United States and Can
ada. ,
Work in the painting Industry in Min
neapolis, Minn., lias fallen off, and there
are many men idle. Many workmen have
Jert the city. '
The government of Belgium, having re-
fmuwt in mil a mnnuurA iw1i,.il, fm
hours of labor In' mines, was defeated on
a vote taken In the Chamber of Depu
ties. During a period of ten months, 320
new charters have been granted by the
American Federation of Labor, which Is
an increase of 140 over the same period
last year.
As a result of the agitation fostered
ty the Missouri Federation of Labor,
much valuable legislation was obtained
for labor at the recent session of the Gen
eral Assembly.
In order that all metal molders may
become members of the organization, the
Iron Molders Union of North America
has changed lta name to the International
il older s' Union.
The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill
limiting the hours of railroad telegraph
ers to eight a day, and also passed a law
giving street railway employes a ten
lour day within twelve.
The cigarmakers of Minneapolis will
try the plan of organizing a bnnking
' eastern on a small scale, to haudle the
funds of the union and Individual mem
bers. They have been encouraged to this
step by the operations of a loan fund
which they established some months ago.
The total number of wage earners, cov
ering all classes of employes in manu
facturing establishments in Cnnadn for
the year 1900, was 314,035, and the wages
paid amounted to $113,219,350, while for
the year 1903 wage earners employed
numbered 391,487. and the total wages
paid amounted to $101,394,490.
Wages 10 per cent higher than paid
last year are offered throughout the Do
minion of Canada to all who want to
work on farms.
Wages of South Wales miners have
been advanced another 5 ix-r cent, bring
ing up the rates to within 2Vj per cent
of the maximum.
The barbers' strike at London, Canada,
has Leen settled, and the men get a guar
n'"e of $11 a week, with 5 per cent over
912 taken la a ( hair.
MaKKarhu-ctis State Federation of
State, City and Town Employes' I'niout
...-.u ...a.. - ....L.i..n t. ; 1 1 f,. ..i,. t
ju Leg!lulure.
rilEVEEKlY
1000 Norwegians defeated the English
at Fulford.
1198 Richard I. defeated the French
at the battle of Qisors.
1327 Edward II. of England murdered
in Berkeley Castle.
1350 English defeated the French at
the battle of Poitiers.
1415 Owen Glendower, the Welsh pat
riot, died at Monnington.
1028 John Endicott'a colony arrived at
Salem, Mass.
1630 Boston; formerly Trimountaln,
Mans., named.
1033 New' England colonists declared
war against the N inn tick Indians.
1GG5 The great plague of London
reached its height.
1073 Bloody Brook massacre at Deer
field, Mass.
1097 King William's war ended by the
treaty of Ryswlck.
1710 Expedition against the French'
sailed from Boston for Port Royal.
1714 George I. landed In England.
1745 Battle of Prestonpans between
the Royal troops and the Jacobites.
1747 Marquis de Beauharnais ended his
twenty-one year term as governor
of Canada.
1759 Quebec capitulated to the British.
1762 St. John's, Newfoundland, retaken
from the French by the British.
1770 The first Trinity church, New
York, destroyed by fire. Built la
1098.
1777 Continents I Congress left Phila
delphia on the approach of the Brit
ish... British victorious at battU
of Saratoga. .. .British defeated the
Americans at Paoll, Pa.
1702 Meeting of the first Parliament of
upper Canada.
1793 George Washington laid the cor
ner stone of the national capitol at
Washington.
1801 Robert Emmet, Irish patriot,
hanged for treason.
1S21 Central American States declared
their Independence.
1823 Samuel L. Southard of New Jer
sey became Secretary of the Navy.
1838 Opening of the London and Bir
mingham railway. .. .Anti Corn Law
League formed at Mancbaster, Eng
land. 1841 Railway opened between London
and Brighton.
1847 Shakspeare's house, Stratford-on-
Avon, bought for the British nation.
1850 President Fillmore signed the
fugitive slave law.
1854 Allies defeated the Russians at
the battle of Alma.
1830 The last national convention of
the Whigs met at Baltimore.
1857 Massacre at Mountain Meadow,
Utah. -..Delhi captured by the Brit
ish. 1800 The American tour of the Prince
of Wales began at Detroit.
1801 New Orleans banks suspended
specie payment.
1802 Battle of Antietam ended.
1803 Gen. Bragg began the siege of
Chattanooga . . . First day of the bat
tle of Chlckamuugu.
1SG4 Gen. Sheridan victorious at bat
tle of Winchester. .. .Gen. Fremont
withdrew as a candidate for Presi
dent. 18(58 Revolution In Spain commenced.
1870 The Germans Invested Paris.
1871 Lincoln's body removed to its final
resting place at Springfield, 111.
1873 Financial panic precipitated by
the suspension of Jay Cook & Co.
1881 Chester A. Arthur took the oath
as successor to President Garfield.
1891 The St. Clair tunnel under the
Detroit river opened to trallic.
1894 Chinese defeated with heavy loss
at battle of l'ing Yang, korea.
1895 reary Arctic "relief expedition left
St. John's, N. F., on return home.
1808 Spanish forces began the evacua
tion of Porto Rico. ... French min
ister of war ordered the prosecution
of Col. 1'icu.ua rt, in conuectlou with
the Dreyfus case.
1899 Anti-trust conference at Chicago
ended.
Thirty-Four Ualloons In a Race,
A great International balloon race start
ed from Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 15,
thirty-four balloons participating. More
than 100,000 persons assembled to wit
ness the start. The English "Zephyr"
and the Swiss "Cognac" made the best
records for distance, so far as known,
alighting in France, 550 miles away.
Goinprrs to Aid Telegraphers.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Iubor Is preparing to send
out 20,000 circulars to labor unions all
over the country asking for contributions
in aid of the commercial telegraph strike.
Bier Boycott failed Off.
After several months of vain fighting
against the United Railroads the strike
committee of the Sun Francisco labor
unions has railed off the boycott forbid
ding union men to rido on street cars, al
though it declared the strike still in force.
During the last month hundreds of work
men could be seen riding openly on the
cars and thu pressure became so great as
to lead the strike lenders to take the
bove action. ,
YeKt-inrlanliiii In I'ool hall.
Coach Stagg of t lie I'niversity of Chi
cago football L'um has inaugurated a veg
etarian regime by announcing that only
flesh abstainers will be permitted to take
place on the varsity eleven this fall.
claims that the endurance and agility ot
athletes are greatly enhanced by '.he vege
tarian diet, and hopes in -hi" way to
win back the western championship lost
last year to Minnesota
B1Q O.L TRUST MOmt.
rTavr York rimrlns Shows Proflt at
$40,S15,84 In Seven Years.
The bearing before Special Federal
Referee Ferriss of Missouri In the gov
ernment suit to dissolve the great oil com
bination was begun at New York, with
Attorney Frank B. Kellogg repiesenling
the government and John G. Milburn and
others as counsel for the Standa'd Oil
Company. Mr. Kellogg submitted in evi
dence statistics compiled by tho Standard
Oil ordain, showing that rhs Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey had earned
profits in the Inst seven years aggregat
ing $190,315,934. and that during the
same time dividends had been paid to the
amount of f:0H.359,403. These profits
came from the plants owned by the parent
company, as well a from those of the
subsidiaries controlled by it. This was
the first time in the history of the oil
trust that a record of its earnings entire
had been made public. Acting Controller
Fay of the Standard said there were
nineteen subsidiary compnnies, and gave
their names. The evidence is being taken
for use in the Circuit Court at St. Louis,
where the dissolution suit, under the
anti-trust law. is to be prosecuted. Mr
Kellogg, among other things, wanted the
company to produce the minutes of th
various meetings at which the absorption
of smaller companies was arranged, but
the counsel for the company was Inclined
to resist.
The examination of Charles M. Pratt,
aecretary of the trust, brought out the
fact that the parent company had trans
ferred its S4.000.000 holditiM in rhs
Waters-Fierce Oil Company of Texas to
' a son-in-law of Vice President Archbold
from V.HH to 1907, during the ouster pro
ceedings brought against the subsidiary
by the State of Texas, and that only
$125,000 in cash was paid for the stocks,
the remainder being in the form of a note
, which was never fully taken up, the prof
, its of the Waters-Fierce company going
i toward tho payment of the note. Mr.
Pratt admitted that this transaction did
, not appear on the books of the Standard,
the accounts being kept tinder the title,
"C. M. Pratt Investment." Mr. Pratt
explained that iiy this arrangement be
held the stocks for the trust merely as a
convenience, and when asked if It was
not done to avoid the anti-trust laws of
Texas lie replied, "Not that I know of."
Tabulations were also, verified slewing
enormous earnings of subsidiaries, umoag
whirh those of the Standurd Oil Company
of Indiana appeared most remarkable.
This corporation on a capitalization of
$1,000,000 made profits In 1900 amount
ing to $10,510,082, and last year paid to
the parent company $4,493,5001. This
I amounted for at least one year to the re-
' markable profit of 1,000 per cent. Mr.
Kellogg also brought out evidence show
ing how the New York branch had been
systematically drained by saddling upon
t it enormous liabilities at the same time
that its assets were greatly increased.
Counsel Milburn disclosed one line of de
fense by giving notlco that tho trust
would object to any testimony bearing
upon acts committed prior to July 2,
1H!H), when the Sherman law went into
fleet.
BIO CORN 8HOW.
More than 10,(XIO Entries top tb
Exposition to II o Held In Chicago.
That there will be more than 10,000
entries for the National Corn Exposition
which is to be held in the Coliseum at
Chicago, is the confident belief held bjr
the manafc'ment, based on the hearty re
spouse that met tho first appeal to tht
farmers in tho corn belt. Within a few
days after sending out tho list of the
classifications for the entry of corn te
contest for the $10,000 cash prizes and
tho $25,000 in special premiums offered,
application for 1,500 entries were made.
Quite apart from the educational end of
the exposition, It will be especially strong
In attractive show features. While the
most striking of these doubtless will be
the lavish decorative scheme which has
been completed at an expenditure of $30,
000, a number of specialties have been
arranged.
Freight trallic la reported to be Increas
ing at an abnormal rate In New Eug
land. Reports from California state that the
Southern Pacific road is preparing to run
its trains in that State by electricity.
The fortieth annual number of Poor's
Manual, recently issued, places tho gross
earnings of tho railroads of the United
States during 1900 at $l,124,5lK),3!K), an
Increase of $2:11.112,510 over 1903, in
spite of Increased wages and cost of ma
terials. There were 815,774,118 passen
gers carried hst year, and 1,010,099,829
tons, of freight moved. The average re
ceipts per passenger per mile was 2.011
cents, as against 2.028 in 1905. The
average revenue per ton per mile on
freight decreased from .784 cents to .700
cents. The total assets of all the rail
roads amounted to $17,334,381,033. The
total funded debt of tho roads is $7,851,
107,778, being a slight increase over the
previous year. The Increase iu capital
stock v. as $304,452,151. the total now be
ing $7,100,408,970. The total Increase
,of liabilities of all kinds was $1,190,015,
807. The construction of new road dur
ing the year was 0,510 miles, making a
total at the end of 1900 of 222,035 miles.
The Erie railroad has received an all
steel passenger coach, which is practically
nou-wreckable and will not burn. There
la les than 300 pounds of wood or other
Inflammable material used in Its construc
tion and all of that has been treated
with a preparat.un which, it is claims.!,
renders it immune to an ordinary degree
of heat. The car looks like the standard
passenger coaoh In general use, but i,s
weight is much In excess of the voodtn
car, being nearly l'Ht.OtK) pouuds. The
car is so sttongly built and so weil riveted
and bolted that it will stand almost auy
shock that railroad service will give it.
A new railroad hus been projected to
run from Denver to Seattle, through Colo
rado, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon uuj Wash
ington. I It is announced that the Pennslyvanla
road has resumed its aggressive construc
tion and improvement operations ou all
parts of its system.
As a test of long-distance speed en
durance, Uniou Pacific motor car No. 12
has n'ude a continuous run from Omaha
to Denver iu 10 hours 34 minutes.
company h'i h"eM organised to hoild
ra Irond fro i the T.tgirt valley In West
Vlr;:'uia to IVi-bui-. It W to be knowo
as tliw Fairir.oiii iud Southern road.
CHICAGO.
Activity in the leading prolucine in
lustries discloses n.i diminution, although
the aggregate of new demands has fallen
Delow the exceptional bookings at this
time last year. Delay in aire 'incut
upon the new rail specification bolls up
ninny contracts for steel mills and lessens
the demand for pig Iron, but indications
ire good for an early lifting of fa is tem
porary embargo.
Other heavy manufacturing lins main
tain steady drawing upon rnpncity and
absorb large quantities of supplien. and
current deliveries of finished products rre
remarkably large in machinery, hardware,
cars, furniture and footwear.
The course of prices affords oni re
lief to consumers of raw mtterijl and
receipts of the latter continue ample,
while values of leading outputs of the
factories remain unchanged. Financial
conditions are paramount in considering
new enterprises and, while no decline in
the cost of borrowing moy be looked for
soon, there is a Ix'tter feeling in the
money market, which begins to bava a
salutary effect upon business.
A most encouraging feature is the sus
tained enormous marketings of grain and
tne rapid conversion of these and other
farm products Into cash, all making sub
stantial addition to the circulation of
money, which must eventually stimulate
commerce and widen confidence.
Buying of necessaries reflects satisfac
tory headway, trade in the leading retail
departments being seasonably strong and
much augmented by liberal purchases of
many visitors from the interior. For
war clings of stable merchandise exceed
those at this time last year, and country
merchants operate freely.
Western advices indicate prosnTus
fortditions throughout the agricultural
sections, and country stocks of merchan
dise under gratifying reductions. Collec
tions at most points are reasonably
prompt, while the record of defaults
again makes a favorable showing.
Freight movements by both rail and
lake are much In excess of those a year
ago, and the calls for cars to rush bread
stuffs, coal and lumber begin to overtax
equipment. The totul movement of grain
at this port aggregated 10,977,081 bushels,
against 9,791.091 bushels last week and
0,027.011 bushels a year ago.
Bank clearing, $210,904,950. exceed
those of corresponding week in 1900 by
18.5 per cent. Failures reported in the
Chicago district numbered 10, against 23
last week, and 19 a year ago. Dun's Re
view of Trade.
NEW YORK.
Retail trade feels the stimulus of long
awaited cool weather, as does also fillftig
In order business from jobbers. On the
other hand, regular house trade has de
creased in volume, now that the first rush
of fall trade is over, and shipping of
goods ou orders is engrossing jobbers' at
tention to a largo degree. Advices as to
the real proportions of autumn trade vary
with the sections reporting. Collections
are still a matter of complaint at many
markets cast, west and south, the latter
section noting that the recent freer move
ment of cottou 1ms only made for partial
improvement. Conditions in the shoe and
leather industry are irregular. The re
striction of output of sole leather Is re
flected in firm prices for desirable grades.
Some dealers claim concessions In side
leather in the Boston market. Shoe ship
ments from eastern Massachusetts ar
4.4 per cent less than a year ago.
Business failures for the week ending
Sept. 20 numler 10(5, as against 179 last
week, 105 in the like week of 1900, 183
In 1905, 179 in 1901 nnd 153 in 1903.
Canadian failures for the week number
BO, as against 40 last week and 27 in
this week a year ago. Brudstrccfs Com
mercial Report.
Chicago Cuttle, common to prime,
M-00 to $7.25; lio.s, prime heavy, $1.00
to $0.03; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00
to S.Yt:.". ; wheat. No. 2. DOc to 97c :
corn, No. 2, 02c to 03c; oats, standard,
rOo to D2c; rye, .u. , wc to :hc; nay,
timothy, $12.00 to $17.00; prairie, $9.00
to $15.00; butter, choice creamery, 23c
to 2Scj eggs, fresh, ISc to 21c; potatoes,
per bushel, 55c to (illc.
Indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $3.00
to $7.00; bogs, choice heavy, $1.00 to
$0.55 ; sheep, common to prime, $3.00
to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 93c to 95c; corn.
No. 2 white, tile to 02c; oats, No. 2
white, 49c to 50c.
St. Louis Cattle, $4.50 to $7.20;
hogs, $1.00 to $0.70; sheep, $3.00 to
$3.50; wheat. No. 2, $1.00 to $1.01 ; corn,
No. 2, 02c to 03c; oats. No. 2, 47c to
48c ; rye, No. 2, S2c to 83c.
Cincinnati Cattle, $4.00 to $105;
hogs, $4.K) to $0.93; sheep, $3.00 to
$5.00; wheat, No. 2. iSc to 99c; corn,
No. 2 mixed, tile to 03c; oats, No. 2
mixed, 50c to 51e; rye. No. 2, SSc to 00c.
Detroit Cattle, $4.00 to $5.10; hogs,
Kim to ill 4.-,- klieen. 2.50 to $4.50:
wheat, No. 2, 97c to OSc; corn, No. 3
yellow, OSc to 09c; oats. No. 3 white,
52c 10 53c ; rye. No. 2, SSc to 89c.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern,
$1.08 to $1.10; com, No. 3, Ole to 02c;
oata, staudurd, 51c to 52c; rye. No. 1,
S9c to 00c; barley, standard, 09c to $1.01 ;
pork, mem, $15.50. '
Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$UX to $0.50; hot;s, fair to choice, $1.00
to $7.00; sheep, common to good mixed,
$4.00 to $5.25; lambs, fair to choice,
$5.00 to $8.25.
New York Catt'. $1-00 to $0.45;
bogs, $1.00 to $0.70; sheep, $3.a to
$3.00; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.04 to $1.00;
corn, No. 2, 77c to 79c; oats, natural
white, 50c to 5Sc; butter, creamery, 23c
to 2Sc; eggs, western, ISc to 23c.
Toledo Wlieat, No. 2 mixed, 97c to
OSc; corn, No. 2 mixed. 04c to 05c;
oats. No. 2 mixed, 51c to 53c; rye. No.
2, 87c to 8So; clover seed, prime, $ 10.7a
Agents which minister to the public
must be the servants and not the masters
f the public, declared Vice President
Fairbanks In a tipeech at tho Berrien
County Republican Club's supper In St.
Joseph, Mich. Mr. Faii-banks guardedly
iudorsed President Roosevelt's policy in
tegard to corporations.
Benjamin S pence of the Dominion
Temperance Alliance of Canada at tho
Anti-Saloon League convention at Nor
folk, Vu suggested a rivalry between
the United States uud Canada to seo
which can first suppress the liquor business.
MEMORIAL TO PRESIDENT WILLIAM M'KDJLEY DEDICATED AT CANTON, OHIO.
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EXCEEPTS FROM ROOSEVELT'S
Ills broad and deep sympathies made
him ftH'l a genuine sense of oneness with
all his fellow Americans whatever their
station or work in life.
He was not only a leader of men but
a helper of men.
He always grew to greater stature as
larger responsibilities confronted him.
He deserved to have his life work char
acterized in Lincoln's words as being car
ried on "with malice toward none ; with
charity for all." -
A citizen who loved peace, be did his
duty faithfully when the honor of the
nation called him to war. 1
We are the best friends of the man of
VAST MEAT INDUSTRY.
Department of Commerce and Labor
Issnc Important llullrtln.
The Department of Commerce and La
bor has issued a bulletin on the meat in
dustry. The number of wholesale estab
lishments engnged in slaughtering nnd
meat packing during the last year was
029, with a combined capital of $237,713,
090. They furnished employment to 74,
134 wage earners, paid $40,320,972 in
wages, consumed materials costing $S05,
850,909, and manufactured products to
the value of $913,914,024.
Although 41 States and territories con
tributed to those figures the industry
was practically monopolized by 14 Slates,
Illinois, Kansas, New YorkNebraska and
Missouri leading.
In each of six Cities the value of
products reported was over $35,000,000.
Chicago ranked first with products val
ued at $209,581.4SU. (K. C. K.). Omaha,
New York, St. Joseph and East St. I.ouin
followed in order. For (K. C. ) the value
of products is not given because of so
few establishments that the figures might
be used to determine individual opera
tions, and the census office adheres to
the rule not to publish statistics which
might be so used, it is announced.
About 7.000,000 beeves, 11,000,000
cheep and 31,OO0,(M)O hogs were slaugh
tered ' for use in this ' industry. The
beeves cost about $2S9.tKMI,tHK). sheep
about $14,000,(100 nnd ho;s about $330,
OO.ooo. Iu addition the establishments
slaughtered other animals to the value of
about $13,000,000, purchased about $53,
000,000 worth of meat already dressed
nnd paid about $72,000,000 for materials,
supplies and transportation expenses.
The leading product of the industry
was beef sold fresh, of which 3,748,055,
377 pounds were produced, valued at
$247,090,724. Salt pork was the second
product in respect to quantity, slightly
exceeding hams, smoked bacon, sides and
shoulders; but the smoked products were
of a greater aggregate value. Each of
these products and also isirk sold fresli
and refined lard, exceeded in quantity
l.OOO.IHXI.OOO pounds. The value varied
from nearly $75.000,UH) for the refined
lard to over $132,000,000 for the smoked
products.
The quantity of most of the more im
portant products increased between the
censuses of 10OO and 1005. For fresh
beef the increase was over .Si H 1,000,01 M
pouuds, or 2S.5 per cent ; salt pork, over
1S5.000.000 pounds, or 13.7 per cent; re
fined lard, over 15,000.000 pounds, or
17.7 per cent; fresli pork, neirly II.OOO,
00O pounds, or 2 er cent. The quamity
of hams, smoked bacon, sides and shoul
ders, on the other hand, decreased over
400,(00.000 pounds, or 22.S per cent.
Canned beef, sailed and cured beef and
neutral lard also decreased iu quantity.
Among the numerous products was
211.137 tons of fertilizer, valued at $1,
897,020. Four llle In ItallroHtl Wreck.
Three trainmen and au unknown white
man, supiKsed to have been a tramp, were
killed when a freight train on the Sea
board Air Line rati into a washout near
Alamo, (!a., and was wrecked. The dead
Include Kngiueer Charles Hines of Aineri
rir and a fireman and brakeman, bjth
Ufgroes.
For iHMiknlves the steel Is temiered
at 470 degrees, for table kulvec at SUO
degruea, for saws at 500 degree.
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TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM M'KINXEY.
property when we set our faces
like flint against those offenders who do
wrong in order to acquire great wealth,
or who use this wealth to help wrongdo
ing. Many lessons are taught by his career,
but none more valuable than broad hu
man sympathy.
Arrogance toward the weak and envi
ous hatred toward the rich were equally
abhorrent to him.
Wrongdoing is confined to no class.
Good nnd evil are found among rich and
poor, and in drawing the line we must
draw it on conduct and not on worldly
possessions.
Although only six States elect Gov
ernors this full, for nn off year the No
vember elections will have uuusunl inter
est because of their bearing on national
politics and the presidential campaign of
1908.
Mississippi and Kentucky may be con
ceded to the Democrats. But in Mary
land, which the Democrats carried for
Warficld in 1903 by 12,085, the following
year the presidential vote was so .close
that one Roosevelt elector was chosen.
The Rhode Island Democrats last year
elected lliggins Governor by 1,318, but
they lost the State to Roosevelt iu 1!H)4
by 10,700. Of the two Representatives
in Congress elected last year Granger is
a Democrat and Capron a Republican.
In 1!M1 the Republicans carried New
Jersey for Roosevelt by 80,598 and for
Stokes for Governor by 51,041.
Guild was elected Governor of Massa
chusetts last year by 30.2:5.3; but the
tariff-revision issue, if the Democrats are
capable of takit.g advantage of it, may be
a determining factor in the iendlng elec
tion. General significance will also attach to
the election in New York of two judged
of the Court of Appeals, the Assembly
and possibly of the State Senate. Among
the State officials elected lust year Gov.
Hughes was the only Republican.
Nebraska, Mr. Bryan's State, will elect
only minor State officials. In l!l(Ki Shel
don,. Republican, defe.it e-1 Sliallenberger,
Democrat, for Governor by 12,973.
The Roosevelt administration nnd the
Taft presidential candidacy are directly
involved in the Cleveland mayoralty con
test because of the open indorsement of
Representative Burton by President
Roosevelt nnd Secretary Ta. Because
of the uncertainty of the result and the
importance of the issue none of the State
elections will command a more general in
terest than the Cleveland contest, remarks
the New York World.
News of Minor Note
Methodist foreign mission schools have
over 70,000 pupils.
Niagara Falls as a iover generating
plant is worth $10,000,000 a year.
Car repairers struck at Galveston,
Texas, in sympathy with the Southern
Pacific dock workers.
The cotton crop of F.gypt, which ex
ceeds 7,(HiO,ooo cantais (a ciutar being
a little over ninety-nine pounds , shows
a large increase over all records of the
past decade. It is estimated to be worth
$150,000,000.
A decade ago, iu the fiscal year 1S9i
'97, this country did a business with the
La i f-Americnn countries amounting to
$234,000,000. In ibe fiscal year l'.MHJ
07 it has done a business with the Lntiu
Americau countries in excess of $000,
OOO.OOO. The first contribution toward President
Roosevelt's Nobel peace prize fund was
received at Washington. D. ('., by Secre
tary Straus of the Department of Com
merce aud Labor. It came from Kugeue
Kramer, a lawyer in New York City.
The steel sleeping cars which the Pall
man company is building will weib 25
per cent wore than ;ke present cars.
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rp IIE dedication in Canton, Ohio,
II of the magnificent McKinlt-y
mniisolc-um. the tribute of the na-.
tlon to the memory of the mnrtymt
President, took place before 50,(HK)
men nml women assembled from nil
partM of the United States. Many of tb
foreign countries were officially repre- i
sciited. The formal exercises of tho
dedication ceretnonles were begun b.V
Justice William R. Dnv, Mr. McKiii
ley's Secretary of State, who delivered
the opening ntldress In his capacity
ns cluiirttmn of the Memorial Commit
tee. Judge Day explained, that upward
of 1,000,000 persons liiid contributed to
the mausoleum fund, representing ev
ery State In the Union and every civil
ized country In the world. The Invoca
tion was pronounced, just before Judge
Day's nddress. by Rev. Frnnk M. Brlsi
tol, pnstor of the Metropolitan Metho
dist Episcopal Church of Washington.
Following Judge Day's remarks, "The
Star-Spimgled Banner" was sung by
the entire assemblage of 50,000, accom
panied by the Grnnd Army Bnnd of
Canton. Governor Harris of Ohio wns
then introduced am! delivered nn nd
dress, which wns followed by the un
veiling. Then Miss McKlnley slowly
drew bnck the American flag nnd dis
closed the bronze figure of her brother,
represented In the attitude of deliver
ing the lust sieech of bis enreer ou
the day of his assassination nt Buf
falo. Sept. 0, 1901. After the rending
of Mr. Riley's poem on "William Mc
Kinley" nnd the giving of President
Roosevelt's address the program wns
close'l by the singing of "America" by
the vast throng and the bestowal of
the benediction by the Right Rev. Ig
natius Horstmanii, Bishop of Cleve
land. Immediately upon the finishing
of the formal ceremonies President
Rmisevclt and his party visited the In
terior of the tomb. The Invited guest
followed, ami then the general publiu
wns admitted.
THE GREAT WHITE PLAGUE.
Congress on Ibe Subject to De Held
Next Year In AVnshlimloil.
Next year au international congress on
tuberculosis is to be held at Washing
ton and the most prominent men in that
specialty of the profession of medicine
from all over the world will attend. To
bring these men to this country and en
tertain them while here will require $100,
0!K, $40,000 of which has been subscrib
ed. During the congress the delegates
will be divided into groups and these,
groups of men will visit every large city
in thu United States nnd give popular lec
tures upon this subject, trying to put
before the public the uwful ravages of
this most awful disease, teaching them
how to so care for their bodies that they
may not contract it, or having contract
ed it, if in its first stage, teach them how
to recover from it.
As a prominent bacteriologist says,
"consumption is a disease which the peo
ple must cure; doctors alone can't do it
nnd any attempt to eradicate this disease
must he a social as well as a medical
movement. Therefore, great good is ex
pected to result from these popular lec
tures, given by the delegates."
Committees have been appointed in
each State in the Union, nnd Mayors and
health officers of every city of any size
have been asked to participate in this
congress to awaken Interest nnd to diffuse
knowledge all over the country regarding
the dangers of tuberculosis, its care and
the best methods of preventing its spread.
The American people some way can't
be made to realize the inroads this dis
ease makes yearly. Over 150,000 persons
die in this country every year of tubercu
losis and over l.OOO.OU) are affected with
it in the United States to-day. Pure,
fresh air in our homes every minute of
the day and night, perfect cleanliness of
our bodies we must have If we would be
surely safe. In many States already
State hospitals have been built for the
care of early cases of tuberculosis among
the poor, rnd in Iowa they have a State
lecturer, who goes from city to city, from
hamlet to hamlet, delivering lectures of
instruction in this disease and its pre
vention. Weyerhnuaer on Lumber,
Frederick Weyerhauser of Muscatine,
Iowa, the head of the lumber combine,
who is said by some to be richer than
Rockefeller, in an Interview, criticised
Judge Lnndis for fining the Standard so
leavily, and said Rotvu'j'eller woul.1 never
pay a cent of the fine. As to the lumber
tradu, he denied that there is a trust and
insists that the high prices are due to
the growing scarcity of lumber, and that
prices will go still higher. lb thinks it
an outrage the way the wealthy men of
the country "are being attacked." 1I
nk: "What do they raeauV" and "What
have we done';"
Dragged from the room of his "affin
ity" by a mob of twenty "whltecappers,"
Rev. II. Marsha of Kremmling, Colo.,
was horsewhipped and told that he must
remain with his wife nnd children undet
pain of a worse punishment.
Adopting drastic measures to check the
demands of the newly organized union
'of fur-workers, the Fur Manufacturers'
Association, of New York City Inaugurat
ed a lockout, throwing out of employ
lufnt nearly 10,000 persons.
It pays to advertise iu this papar.