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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1900)
SOUNDEST OF HEALTH UNKQUALED 3HOWINQ OF PROSPEROUS CONDITIONS. Uncord of lluilnciM Failures for 1800 1l ttie Smallest Average of I)e finlteil Liabilities KTcr Knoitn In tlio United Stales. S splto of tho casualties among fi&nnclal concerns In tho closing daya oC tho old year, produced by purely syiculatlvo causes, tho fact remains, ntCordlng to Dun's Review, that the failures of 1899, l.ho great year of Dlng Inf tariff prosperity, were In amount smaller than In any other year of the pffat twenty-nvc, excepting 1880 and 1881, whllo tho avcrago of liabilities $77.60 per firm was smaller than In any previous year; and, most Impor tant test of all, tho ratio of defaults to ao'vont payments through clearing houses, 97 cents per $1,000. Is not only tfr Btnallest ever known In any year, bA smaller than In any quarter savo otrn. tho third of 1881. The failures fOfT" $100,000 or more In the past six yciTrs have ranged between $31,522,180 In 1.899 ahd $98,603,932 In 1S9C, the dc crjrso being moro than two-thirds, but tho small failures ranged betwean $F?,35G,703 In 1899 and $127,592,902 In W0, tho decreaso bolng moro than ons Jialf. But from tho nest of failures result ing from tho speculative collapse In Boston In tho latter part of December, the aggregato for tho year would have been about $21,000,000 less than It was. As the record stands, however, and In cluding tho failures Incident to over speculation in Now England and tho brief but sovero panic In Wall street, tho failures In 1899 aro the smallest ever reported slnco 1881, with tho low est avcrago of commercial liabilities ever reported, and with greater evi dence of commercial soundness and In dustrial prosperity than has over be fore appeared In an annual statement. Not only havo failures been smaller in tho aggregato than in 1898 or prcvloas years, but they have been smaller In every section of tho country. Such uni formity of Improvement throughout tho country Is extremely rare, and would scarcely be possible unless busi ness of all sections was exceptionally 60und and prosperous. Tho Massachusetts manufacturing defaults, in spito of the Influence of the lato December banking collapses, wero tho smallest In any year, as wero thoso of tho other New England states, Now York and the middle nnd central states. Tho Now England disaster swelled trading defaults by $3,920,000 In flvo .vcv'.alin failures, besides two banks, with liabilities of about $13, GOO.000, nnd two brokcrago firms for $250,000. In New York tho manufac turing failures wero only about a quar ter of thoso in two years of tho pre vious flvo, nnd not halt thoso of two other years, whllo tho trading failures wero also much less than half those of four previous years, but In broker age tho liabilities were nearly as large as in two other years, and In banking larger than In any provlous year. But In other middle states manufac turing and trading liabilities presented the samo bright contrast, whllo in both other linos tho failures would havo been almost nothing but for that of a, elnglo largo stock concern at Phila delphia wrecked by crime, and In no way caused by business conditions. Tho central states also showed trading de faults from $3,000,000 to $11,000,000 smaller than In any provlous year, though some brokerage and promoting failures at Chicago swelled the "other commercial" defaults abovo the returns of previous years except one. Tho average of defaulted liabilities per firm is a test which serves bettor than most to show how tho defaults comparo with tho extension of busi ness, but this year that average is for the first time less than $80, tho lowest in any previous year, having been $93.03 In 1880. A much batter test Is tho ra tio of defaults to actual payments In (solvent business through tho clearing houses. Hero tho ratio for 1899 is less than $1 per 1,000, namely, only 97 conts, tho lowest by moro than a fifth ever reported in any year, and the low est over reported until this year In any quarter, savo tho third quarter of 1881. Tho failures for $100,000 or moro wero only 34.7 por cent of tho aggregate last year, 38.9 per cent In 1898, and 35 per cent in 1897, but 43.G per cent in tho bad year, 189G, and 42.2 per cent in 1895, and 38.3 per cent In 1894. Tho amount of such failures, and of the ro malnder for less than $100,000 each, nro hero shown for six years, and de- servo especial attention: Largo Small Totnl. Failures. Failure. ISM $ W.879.8S9 J 31.523.1SG t 59.3.1G.703 18!M 130.CC2.893 50.875.912 79,780,978 1S97 151.331.071 Gl.005,987 100.32C.OS4 S'J 226.0110,831 9S.W3.932 127.592,902 1MI5 173.19C.00J 73,100.109 100,029.951 1891 172.992.850 C0.21S.310 100,711,516 It will be seen that for four years thero was comparatively llttlo chango In tho small failures, but tho decllno of about a fifth In 1898, and the further decllno of nbout n quarter In 1899, aro highly significant. It Ig In such facts and ligures as these that wo find tho truth regarding the phenomenal Improvement In busi ness conditions that followed straight upon the election of William McKlnloy and tho restoration of tho American policy of preserving tho homo market to tho domestic producer. Kverrboily Hlinulil He Satisfied. End of tho year reports confirm those made earlier, and show that tho woolen business, which was In desperate straits during Cleveland's frco-trado administration, and which showed only loss to those engaged In It, has qulto redeemed Itself under the moro favor able conditions produced by the Ding ley tariff law. Business has been grat lfylngly active, sales enormous, nnd, "for tho flrf.t tlmo In tho history of the trade," says n dispatch from Boston, "wool has been exported, and In large quantities, too." Tho troolcn manu facturers hare profited, but tho wage earners havo not been forgotten. Tho American Woolen company, which con trols tho production of worsteds, has advanced tho wages of Its operatives 10 per cent, to tako effect Jan. 1. And with all this the peoplo In general havo moro and better clothes than they had beforo tho present tariff law was cn- actcd. Thero doesn't seem to bo any reason why everybody should not bo satisfied with tho stato of things tho consumer, as well as tho producer. Everybody Is satisfied, In fact, so far as appears, except thoso who must havo all their clothes from "Lunnon." PROTECTION'S TRIUMPH. Illustrated In tho i:xicrlcnco of the United Slates ami (lermatir. Georgo Alfred Townscnd, tho well- known newspaper correspondent, In his last weekly letter in tho Boston Globe, quotes n scholar In New York who has been a great traveler, as say ing: "I regard tho doctrlno of freo trade carried to a pernicious height as a main cnuso for tho decllno of Eng lnnd. At present Germany stands clearly out as tho foremost power In Europe, with England n bad second. And Germany, which Is a very scien tific nation, deliberately selected pro tection lnstcnd of freo trado as tho prlnclplo of her manufactures and ex ports. Sho stimulated both her agri culture and trndo by putting an export bounty upon beet sugar. Sho built up her motnl factories, llko Krupp's, by a collusion with tho Btatc." Tho scholar quoted Is evidently a keen observer. For somo years Eng land has been losing ground. Tho United States and Germany, tho two great protectionist nations, havo been underselling her In tho markets of tho world, both In agricultural products and In manufactured articles. By ex tending to their manufacturers tho protection of tho homo market, tho protective countries havo given them a solid foundation upon which to build, nnd havo attracted capital nnd skill Into manufacturing enterprises to such nn extent thnt German nnd American products excel In qunllty ns well as undersell in price. Tho English manu facturers can no longer play their old gnmo of rushing In goods and selling them below cost until tho homo manu facturer Is ruined, for tho tariff pro tects him and still gives him tho homo market If his foreign market Is cut off. Thus Iho British manufacturer who at tempts to play this game finds himself ruined beforo hla Gorman or American competitor is. Thero is no doubt thnt England, If sho Is going to retain her placo ns tho world's workshop, or even as one of tho world's great workshops, will be compelled, sooner or Inter, to give her manufacturers somo protection by ndoptlng tho protcctlvo principle. Great Britain can no longer forco her manu factures into foreign ports through tho bulldozing tactics of her navy, for tho United States and Germany nro coming to tho front ns naval powers, and will demand, and will bo ablo to enforce, equal trndo privileges at all ports. For many years England flourished under frce-trndo policy because of her unnpproachnblo navy. But her domi nance ns a sea power Is near Its end. Times have changed, nnd England will havo to chango her industrial policy to meet changed conditions. Minne apolis Tribune. THE IDLE HAND OF 1895 AND THE BUSY HAND OF 1899. It Mates n Difference. "Tho prophets have again gone wrong. This tlmo It Is those knowlcdge oub gentlemen who predicted that, another bond Issue would bo necessary beforo 1900, and who now boo tho gov ornment redeeming lnstcnd of Issuing bonds." Loulsvlllo Courier-Journal. Yes; it seems to mako somo differ ence whether the country Is going to ruin under n free-trade, bond-Issuing administration, or Is enjoying a hither to unhcard-of prosperity under n pro tectionist, BurpltiB-nccumulntlng ad ministration. Doubtless this Is tho Idea which Mr. Wntterson Intended to cbnvey. l'lmsllillllles or riitx. Tho flax Industry In this country is or.o which tho free-traders havo been disposed to treat as of small conse quence, but it will not bo a long tlmo beforo wo shnll rnlso nil our own flax and manufacture all Its product's. Dur ing tho past year North Dakota form ers havo raised flax to tho value of about $10,000,000; nnd a largo mill has been erected at Fnrgo for tho reduc tion of flax straw beforo Bhlpmen! to Niagara Falls for manufacture Into manlla paper. A flax mill, with n capi tal of $250,000, Is projected at Taton. The Protectionist. No Came for Tears. Increased wages for tho opnatlves In tho cotton mills of Now flnglond ought to causo the Demo-Pops to wlpo away tho crocodllo tears they fhed in such profusion on nccouut of tfce stpg nation in thnt Industry a year or bo ago. Topoka (Kas.) Capital. A OREAT CENTURY. Tremendous Output of Manufacturing 'id Agricultural Products In tho Northwest. Exjrn interesting facts concerning the unparalleled business activities of tho gicat protection year of 1899 como from tho treasury bureau of statistic!! relative to th. tremendous output ot tho fvrent producing nnd manufactur ing legions bordering upon tho Great Lakes, as Illustrated by tho report ot tho business passing through tho Snult Stc. Marie canal connecting Lnko Su perior with Michigan, Huron, Erlo and Ontirlo. Tho report shows nn lncrcnso in tho number of vessels, number of passengers, quantities of freight, and In nrnctlcally all of tho classes or freight passing through that grcflt waterway, nnd makes for tho year 1805 tho highest record of business activity on tho Great Lnkes. Tho number' ot sailing vessels Increased T per cent, 38 compared with last year, tho num ber of steamers 15 per cent, tho number of unregistered vessels 29 per cent, tho quantity of registered freight 18 per cent, tho quantity of actual freight 19 per cent, passengers 13 per cent, lumber 1G per cent, nnd thnt great factor In manufacturing ac tivities, Iron ore, 30 por cent. In nil theso important features, which show the activities of tho producing cu mnnufncturlng Interests, tho record ot lako commorco In tho year 1899 sur passes that of nny preceding yenr, tho only case In which tho year's record falls below that of nny preceding yenr being in wheat and flour, of which tho supply of 1899 was slightly below that of nny ono or two preceding years, and tho foreign demand materially bo low that of 1898. A study of tho figures of the busi ness of tho "Soo" In 1899 compared with that of earlier years Indicates tho wonderful growth of tho carrying trado on tho Great Lakes, nnd of tho pro ducing and manufacturing Industries of the sections contiguous to them. Tho number of sailing vessels, which In 18C9 was 939, was In 1879 1,403, in 1889 2.C35, nnd in 1899 1,776; tho num ber of steamers Increased from 399 in 18C9 to 1,618 In 1879, G.C01 In 1889, nnd 14,378 In 1899; tho number of persons passing through the canal Increased from 17.C57 In 18C9 to 18,979 In 1870, 25,712 In 18S9, and 49,082 In 1899, nnd registered tonnage increased from 021, 885 In 18C9 to 1.C77.071 in 1879, 7,221, 935 In 1889, nnd 21,958,347 In 1899. In tho Important articles ot freight, such ns flour, wheat and other grains, conl, iron ore, copper, lumber nnd building stone, tho growth Is cqunlly striking. Flour Increased from 32,007 bnrrels In 18G9 to 451,000 barrels In 1879, 2,228,707 barrels In 1889, nnd 7, 114,147 barrels In 1839; wheat from 49,700 bushels In 1870 to 2.G03.GGG bush els In 1879, 16,231,854 bushels In 1889, and 58,397,335 bushels In 1899; other grnln, from 323,501 bushels In 18G9 to 951.4C9 bushels In 1879, 2,133,215 bush els In 18S9, and 30,000,935 bushels In 1899; Iron ore, from 239.3C8 tons In 18G9 to o40,0'.5 tons In 1879, 4,095,855 tons In 1.889, nnd 15,328,240 tons in 1899; copper, from 18.GG2 tons in 18G9 to 22,309 tons In 1879, 33,400 tons in 18S9, nnd 120,090 tons In 1899, and lum ber Increased from 1,2GO,000 feet In 1869 to 35,598,000 feet in 1879, 315,551.000 feet in 1837, and 1,038,057,000 fcot In 189?. VERY MUCH ALIVE. Wli tho Tariff Question Hn Not Ileon Taken Out of I'd I ties. Under this heading tho Hon. Albert J. Hopkins, representative In congress from Illinois, contributes nn Interest ing artlclo to tho January Forum. Rightly ho combats tho view that tho tariff as been taken out of politics and relegated to tho domain of aca demic discussion. Neither docs ho bo llovo that tho subject of import duties is evr going to bo referred to n non partisan commission acting lndcpcnd cntl.7 of congress. A tariff commission vested with these powers could not bo created under the constitution, and an amendment to tho constitution having this for Its object is a long way off, if not nltogetbcr Impracticable. The tariff will ceaso to bo a live Issue only when Ameiicnn free-traders ceaso to be solicitous In behalf ot foreign producers, cease their clamor for unro sttlctcd foreign competition, and censo their denunciation of protection ua rob bery of tho many for tho benefit of tho fosv. If In tho next eight years the Democrats should elect n president and obtain working majorities in both branches of congress, docs nnybody suppose thnt tho Dlngley tariff Inw would be allowed to remain on tho fed eral statuto books? Democratic oppo sition to a protcctlvo tnrlff Is not dead; It Is only asleep, or, what Is more near ly the fact, raeroly "playing possum." Tho tariff Is a llvo Issuo, and It must remnln allvo until tho two dominant parties aro In accord on tho question of nn economic policy thnt shall secure to domestic industry tho full posses sion of tho domestic market, Aiiirent Oversight. Somehow tho Brynnlstlc nowspapora who were bo skeptical about tho preva lence of prosperity nro becoming sig nificantly silent on that point. Tbey hnvo apparently overlooked tho dis patches announcing another 10 per cent advance In tho wages of tho New England mill operatives. Burlington Hawk-Eye. Hlioulil Not Force. Tho changes In tho wage b:1o of Massachusetts havo invariably been in favor ot tho mill hand since tho now tariff went into effect. Undor the Wil son bill the changes woro Invariably tho other way, and tho mill hands are not llktjly to forget tho difference. ?eorla (Itl.) Journal, AND AFTEE? The Woman in White had passed through a most triumphant day and was weary. Sho tossed her hat to a bed, her gloves and fan to a chair, and sho horself dropped Into a great willow rockor a mass of fluffy whlto dra peries, hor dcorllko head, with Its crown of red-brown hair, lifted abovo tho foam. Tho Woman In Whlto had been younger, but sho had never been so beautiful. Becnuso sho had won him nnd bo cauao sho had no right to him. Bo causo ho had onco scorned and floutod her, and hnd passed her with his wlfo on his arm and a look of cold con tempt In his eyes nnd becnuso now ho had followed her for days and days, and sho had mado him sua for n kind word from hor her, tho scornod nnd despised. Bccauso sho had laughed In his face and had baited and lured him until ho had thrown to tho winds his decent life and all tho yong years of uprightness nnd tho position among men for which ho had struggled, and was ready to follow hor to tho world's end. And because ho was the ono man whoso scorn had cut deep Into what she called her soul. Sho looked at tho radiant thing In tho mirror and laughed and turned tho flnsning bracelet about and around hor wrist; and n something almost woman ly came Into her eyos aa sho roallzcd that It was not tho diamonds sho cared for no! alio would havo lovod a rib bon If ho hnd given It hor with that look on his faco, and would havo kiss ed It as sho did this, with n passlonato delight. And tho Womnn In Gray, standing In tho door, saw her kissing tho brace let. "May I talk with you a few min utes?" asked tho Woman In Gray, as tho Womnn In Whlto saw hor refloc- tlon In the mlrrow. What sho saw was a Blender, gray-clad woman, with a pale, palo face, and dark oyes with darker shadows under then), and brown hair that was beginning to whiten with early frost. Tho Woman In Whlto stnrcd Inso lently at tho reflection In tho mirror and smiled, "I don't know what my servants enn bo thinking of," sho said, without turn lug. I really have nothing for you, ay good woman. Perhaps, If you go down, somo of my people will show you to way out." "But I must see you for a llttlo whllo," Bald tho Woman In Gray, put ting asldo tho insult and coming slow ly noaror, and thero was a deadly still ness about her as sho drow n chair forward and sat down In It. Then they looked nt each other tho Woman In Gray and tho Woman In White. "I think perhaps you know mo," snld tho Woman In Gray. "No doubt peo ple havo pointed mo out to you as tho wlfo of of " "They havo," said tho Woman In Whlto, haughtily, taking up n steel pa per knlfo from tho tablo near nt hand and playing with It. "To what i'o I owo tha honor of thto visit?" Tho Woman In Whlto looked at tho paper knlfo nnd smllod wearily. "You mistake mo," alio said. "Some women might havo thought of that but you will llvo. See! tomorrow I go upon a long Journoy, and I know thnt I must see you faco to faco boforo I went." "What possible Interest can I havo In your plans for traveling?" crlod tho Woman In Whlto contemptuously. "Pray consult your dressmaker Instoad and toll hor for mo that sho should bo killed If sho ovor dresses you In gray again. It Is not becoming." "You aro bitter," said tho Woman In Gray; "and wo havo so llttlo tlmo and wo aro so near tho tragedies ot both our lives. A llttlo whllo ago 1 was bitter against you, too; but now I nm too sad to be very bitter. I see how past romody It Is. I am not horo to beg you to bo merciful. Even If you nished you couldn't glvo mo back what ( havo lost," "Well, you have had your chance," tried tho Womn In White. "And you ' ' " "YOU H AV IIAD CHANCe"" ' tiavo lost Itl Who but yourself is to blamo?" Tho Woman In Whlto had thrown prudenco to tho winds wJl that spcoch and now rngo and Jealousy and Inso lent triumph woro curiously blended In tho beautiful face, nnd flushed in a rod glow from tho eyes. "Yes I have lost It," said tho Wom nn In Gray. "And having learned this, past all doubt, 1 would not try to keep him If I could. I nm going away, nnd ho shnll llvo his Ufa in peaco. I havo merely como to ask you what kind of llfo It is going to be." Tho Woman In Whlto throw herself back In her chair and raised hor beau tiful arms abovo hor head. "Oh, you cold-blootlod woman," sho cried, clasping her hands abovo tho shining coll of hor hair. "You Icy wives that go your round of what you call 'duties,' and sow on buttons and have good dinners, nnd sit nt tho head ot tho tablo, ns Interesting ns that Droa den shophcrdess, month after month, and year nftnr year, and then nro shocked nnd outraged when ho moots a flcsh-and-blood womnn and loves hor! What kind of llfo will ho havo7 Why, he will learn for tho first tlmo that ho Is allvo! What right havo women llko you to talk nbout love! women who glvo a man up tho flrat tlmo ho looks another way! Why, I would mako my self tho most beautiful and most at tractive crcaturo In tho world to him, so thnt ho could never even look at nnothor woman nnd then. It ho look ed, I would not go away and leave him I would kill him!" Sho clutched tho paper knife In her right hand and lifted tho loft hand and kissed again tho flashing circlet on tho wrist. Tho Woman in Gray looked at hor, and tno sight was branded on her memory. Whon sho apoko again, It was in lower tones. Hor oyes woro fixed on a ring n loose, looso rlng.that sho was turning around on her flngor. "Perhaps wo wero mistaken about having loved each othor," sho said ab sently, us though sho woro talking to horsolf. "Wo woro both so young and bo Ignorant. Wo woro married earllor than wo had Intended bccaiiBO my mother died, nnd I was left nlono, nnd was such an unprotected child nnd bo wo wore married; and wo agreed that wo wero to study together, bccauso wo woro both so ambitious for him. And perhaps I couldn't havo kopt pace with him, at my boat; but I had to tako In sowing to help him along, so I hadn't much tlmo and In a little whllo ho was away beyond mo. I havo novor caught up with him Blnco but I havo always gono on studying bo that I wouldn't qulto dlsgraco him when ho becamo n distinguished man." Tho Woman In Gray stopped to put a dollcato and tromulous hand to her throat. "When ho was studying law," sho wont on presontly, "his eyos woro trou bling him, and bo' I read aloud to him for many hours every dny. Somo-i times I almost wished his oyos would fall a llttlo moro a great doal more, so that ho could bo moro dopendont on mo for I was very young and Ignorant then; and, you hco, 1 thought I lovod him!" Tho Woman In Whlto did not sponk, Sho was sitting qulto still, us though sho were n mar bio woman. "And ovon uwny back at tho first," tho Womnn In Gray went on, In that dcsolato self-communing, "whon wo woro Ignorant hoy and girl togothor, we had qulto sottled It with ourselves that ho was to bo n distinguished man. Wo even mado a llttlo piny of It, toll ing ono nnothor thnt peoplo would ono day point out with prldo tho poor llttlo houso whoro wo had lived, and whoro wo had bo much troublo paying tho ront; and then wo would lnugh so merrily oh, whoro has tho laughter all gono! And so wo went on, looking for ward always to tho day when ho would bo famous, and working nnd planning for It and I always pictured mysolf bo proud, bo proud of his triumphs! Wo cold-blooded women feel very deep sometimes, and think long thoughts! And now h has won the honors wo droamed of nnd tomorrow I am going on a long Journoy I" She slowly aroso, and tho marblo Woman In Whlto saw for the first tlmo that Bhd had a llttlo packago lu tho thin hand, "I havo something to loavo with you," said tho Woman In Gray; "some thing to glvo you, Soo, It Is a llttlo bttndlo ot letters. Ho v.roto thorn during my mother's Illness. They are tho letters ot an undeveloped and Ig norant boy to a poor llttlo girl. I havo chcrlshod them a long time but I glvo them to you now, bocnuso thoy havo already gono out of my life." An hour nftorward tho Woman la Whlto found that alio had bcon nlono for n long tlmo, nnd that tho last ot tho poor llttlo lottcrs was open In hor hand. A withered roso had dropped from It and lay In hor lap among tho folds of fluffy whlto. Tho nlr was filled with tho frngrnnco ot tho llttlo old-timo roso, which scorned to bo part of tho old-tlmo boyish lovo that was dead as tho rose. Onco, long ago, In her llfo also Tho radiant faco of tho Woman In Whlto was palo and old nnd weary looking as she tied tho lcttors In tha packet again nnd laid this peucllod lino upon them: "Do not go on tho long Journey for I go on a Journoy of my own." Thon sho slipped tho bracelet Into Its volvot enso and scaled and addressed it, and called a servant to go on two errands. "I am going awny tonight, John," sho said, as hla foot hesitated on tha stair. "Send Susnn up to pack." And then sho stood in tho mlddlo of tho room, hor head dropped, press ing back something that tried to como to hor eyes. "And now for now flolds," sho said, despairingly. "And tho llfo In them ?" Julia Smith Bishop, In St. Louis Globo-Domocrat. ROAM1NQ SCIONS OF PHARAOH Nomads of Itgjrpt Aro of Undoubted Royal Descent Wherever They Are. A band of gcnulno gypsies, whoso members trnco their genealogy back to tho days of tho Pharaohs, through the Stanley or English branch of tho gypsy family, Is enenmped for tho winter sea son nt tho Philadelphia Driving park, Point Breeze, nnd finds this Hold a profitable ono to cultlvnto. Tho camp is in churgo ot Queen "Molllo" Markls, now Bovcnty yenrsof ago, nnd hor son Thomas, now ofllclntcs ns chief of tho band. Tho Mnrkls family consists or theso two nnd Annlo, wlfo ot Thomas, four children, nnd Mngglo and Annlo MnrklB, Bisters of tho chlof. A number of othors nro ulso with tho bnnd. Their outfit Is woll adapted to their nomadic llfo. The qucon'o wagon Is sumptuous ly fitted up with red upholstery, laco curtains nnd bedding of tho finest ma terial. Another wagon, which cost $500, Is tho traveling conveyance ot Mrs. Annlo ttlnrkls and tho chlot'B nlotcro. This vehicle Is nlso handsomely fitted out, with yellow nnd gold hangings, Inro vurtulns and silk bod clothing. Chief Mnrkls says his band Is undor command of Great Chlof Stanley and Quoon Molllo, his wlfo, who nro wlu torlng nt Omaha, Neb., they bolong to ono of tho 350 fnmillcs undor Stanley as king. Chlof Markls has bcon wan dering ovor tho earth for thirty-two years, hnvlng traveled from .Cnlro, Egypt, through Germany, Russia, Atiln, England, Franco, Mexico and nearly all tho United Stntes west ot tho Now England states. IIo Bays tho western states nro tnoBt suitnblo for their no madic life; Its camping grounds are more plentiful; everybody Is willing to trndo horses, nnd nil femlnlno mem bers ot tho population bolng anxious to havo their fortunes told, Queen Molllo Is considered an oraclo, palmist ry bolng her strong point. Sho Is hardly conversant with tho English language, ns in prlvnto conversation they all speak tho gypsy lingo. Tho women folks of tho baud claim that Philadelphia is n great Hold for for tuno tolling, nnd tho mon Bay that with horso trading nnd racing they oxpect to put In a profitable winter. Phila delphia Record. "Tea" School. Tho oddest school In tho United Stntes Is now In dnlly session at Pine hurst, Summcrvlllo, S. C, says tho New; York Journal. Undo Sam's patornal and finnnelnl part In tho Institution1 makes It of Interest to tho nntlon. It Is situated In tho heart of tho tea lands nbout Summcrvllle, and Its odd featuro Is tho curriculum, Undor tho super vision of u competent teacher thirty South Carolina plcknnlnnlcs nro aught tho thrco old fashioned It's "readln. 'rltln' nnd 'r'thmctlo" and. ten picking. And tho last is not tho least Important study. Tho rapid de velopment of tea raising In tho South, has recolvod additional Impetus from tho announced Intention ot Sir Thomas Upton to Invest $500,000 In ten cuf turo In South Carolina. Sir Thomas Is familiar with tho soil nnd cllmntlc conditions of tho stato, having nt ono tlmo worked ns u luboror on a rlco plnntntlon In Georgetown county. Tho "United Stntes Dopnrtment or Agrlcuhuro Is taking a lively interest In tho "tea school," nnd has given it fluunclnl nld. tlood Ileiifon. From tho Now York World: A "Would you start out on a Journey on Friday?" B "No, lndood." A "Why aro peoplo so superstitious?" B "But this has nothing to do with supersti tion. I got paid on Saturday." The Nightingale' Song. The nightingale's song can bo heard at a distance of a mile, Only tho very "poor or the very rlci can afford .o keup dog.