INDUSTBIALACTIVITY STATISTICS WHICH DEMON- STRATE PROSPERITY. Immense Increase In tlio Importation of Commodities lined In Doiucwtlo Manufacture ) * , and Decrease In the Im ports of Articles Made Abroad. Some interesting facts Illustrative of the marvelous revival of industrial ac tivity which followed so directly upon the election of President McKinley and the enactment of the DIngley tariff are set forth in a statement issued by the treasury bureau of statistics. It Is especially significant of prosperous times among manufacturers that arti cles required in manufacturing and food stuffs not produced in the United States form the largest items of the Increase in importations shown by the fiscal year just ended. The statement covers , all articles or classes of articles in "which the Importation increased or decreased as much as $1,000,000 during the year , and shows an increase of im portations in nearly nil articles of for eign -production required by our man ufacturers. Unmanufactured fibers , raw silk , crude rubber , bar and block tin , liides and skins , undressed furs , j b'inet and other woods , unmanufac tured tobacco and chemicals for use in manuTacturing , all show a heavy increase - crease , wool being the only important item of material for the factory which shows a reduction in imports. In the ten great classes of material imported for use of the manufacturers fiberB , silk , rubber , hides , furs , tin , copper , tobacco , wood and chemicals the Increase amounts to about $30,000- 000 , though the reduction , of several million dollars in wool brings the net Increase in manufacturers' materials to something less than that figure. In food stuffs the principal increase is in sugar , tropical fniits and cocoa , the Increase in these being above ? 30,000- 000. The very heavy importations of sugar just prior to the enactment of the tariff laws of 1897 made the sugar importations of 1898 extremely light , BO that those of 1899 show an increase of 50 per cent in quantity over those of 1898 , but many million pounds less than those of 1897. Among manufactured goods the finer grades of cotton , silk and fibers show the largest increase , though matting , chinaware , dressed furs and spirits are slightly in excess of last year. Diamonds and jewelry show the largest increase among the articles classed as luxuries , though this Is believed to be due in part at least to a reduction in duties under the act of 1897 , which was made in the belief that it would reduce smuggling and thus bring within the operations of the customs law many million dollars' -worth of this class of goods which had formerly escaped tax ation. In manufactured goods there has been a decrease in imports in a number of important articles which come in competition with American manufactures , especially in woolen goods and tin plate. Coffee also shows a decrease of about $10,000,000 in value of importations , largely due , however , to the decrease in price rather than in quantity , the average price per pound in 1899 being more than 10 per cent below that of 1898 , while there is also a slight reduction in quantities im ported , owing to the very heavy im ports of last year. The following table includes the ar ticles or classes of articles in which the imports of the year show an in crease or decrease of as much as > , $1,000,000 , and compares the imports of the year with those of the two pre ceding fiscal years : IMPORTS. 1S97. 1S9S. 1SS9. Chemicals . . . .S44.948.7R2 < 41.470.773 S42.CCS.731 ChK-are . . . 9.977.207 6.687.360 7.M2.995 Cocoa 2.997,865 3 , < 15fa29 5,360,116 Coffee S1.544.3S4 05,057,631 55,274,646 C ° ? . . . . . ? ! ' . 999,824 3,077.835 5.604.S33 ° ffi5SrSr" : 34.429.363 27,267.300 32,053,511 Fm nf tured" ' . . 12,336,418 13,446,156 20,290,727 Fibers , m'f cs _ gs g 25,132.495 Fruits & nuts 17,126,932 14,566,950 18,317,201 Furs , undr'ed 2.93S.D79 3.S32.603 5.W5.5SO Furs & m'fcs Hides" & "skins 27,803,026 30.065,932 41.9SS.045 ts. 2.43S.363 1,779,055 3.112.SS5 InBduttabperrcn 17.558,163 25,545.391 31.S76.342 JcTous ftonet 3.559.567 10,388 SSO 17.649.446 XTiittlne . . . . 3,922,003 l,43i,171 2.651 , Silk unman - . IS 918,283 32,110.066 32,479,627 lilk : SSL Of. SsimOGJ 23.523.6G5 25.105.482 . . 3.8oO,114 2,134,794 3.144.61J 60,472,749 94,964,120 6.535,825 8,776,151 11,843.357 Tm'bpiaIe7T 5.344 63S 3,809,148 2.613.564 Tobacco , leaf. 9oS4lao 7.4SS.60S 9.900,033 Wool raw . . . . 53,243,191 16.783,692 8,322,897 Wool , m-fcs. . 49.162.992 14,823.771 13,831.967 The following table shows the total imports of each fiscal year during the decade : Because They Don't Know. The outlook for the yield of French champagnes for the season of 1899 is discouraging. The latest facts from the wine districts published in Paris show that the white grapes have suf fered severely through inclement weather. The vines bearing these grapes do not produce a "contrebour- geons , " and in consequence the first growth having been destroyed , there is no hope whatever of fruit for the autumn. In Epernay , the center of the champagne country , the damage done M i is considerable , but not so great as in many less known localities , m Paris the certainty of a bad vintage has lit caused a great demand to spring up for wines of previous years , in which a brisk speculation is being done. The wine statistics for the champagne district - * trict for the year , from April , 1898 , to 'April , 1899 , show a fall of 700,000 in the number of bottles exported. On the other hand , the consumption in France has increased over 2,500,000 bottles. The total number of bottles disposed of during the year waa 27- 397,996. The stock the growers have In hand amounts to 100,371,755 bottles , together with 413,053 hectoliters of wine in casks. If not a bottle of French cham pagne could be spared for export to the United States for the next ten years it would be far from an unmixed calamity. Certain so-called connois seurs whose tastes are regulated by label and not by quality would feel the deprivation seriously , but in the long run they would be the wiser and the better for it. Then they would be forced to drink the fine champagnes of native production , and would for the first time in their lives discover how excellent these wines really are. At present they don't know , for they never taste them. REPUBLICANS ARE READY. Tlio Froc-Trado ISHUO Will Find Them Well Prepared in 1900. Some of the Democrats who see the hopelessness of u campaign on a 16- to-1 platform express anxiety to make free trade and protection the issue. If the Bryan or Democratic leaders will agree to ignore the silver issue in their platform and pledge that its speak ers shall not allude to it , it is possi ble that the Republicans would accom modate them. In 1894 the Republicans made the campaign on a declaration against the Gorman-Wilson tariff law. Hard times helped , but the Democratic party was never so badly beaten. In deed , the overwhelming defeat in 1894 caused Democrats to seek a new issue for 1896 , and free and unlimited coin age of silver was accepted by many Democrats because they dared not go into a campaign with a revenue tariff platform. The Bryan convention dropped the word "only" from the usual Democratic platform declaring for a tariff for revenue. The duty in the Gorman law was high enough on iron , but it was made so low on a long line of goods that half the factories producing them were closed. The woolen industry and the wool-growing interest were hit very hard by the Gorman law. During the past two years the wool-growing in terest has got on its feet again. Sheep and wool again have values , and the latter , produced at home , is taking the place of the foreign article , coming to us on the free list. It is not probable that the wool-growers , who are in three-fourths the states , can form a wool-growers' trust. The wool man ufacturers have not yet accomplished much in that direction. Clothing is not materially higher than it was un der the Gorman law. Free trade in glass would lose to Indiana the east ern trade in one of its prominent in dustries , as did the cut in duties by the Gorman tariff law. So with other industries , the principle of protection cannot be safely set aside unless we are all willing to reduce wages to the basis of those of competitors in other countries. Great Britain has com petitors today because all nations have protected their industries by tariffs which have held the home markets for the home producer , and there is no doubt that they will adhere to that policy in adjusting duties. At any rate , if the Bryan Democracy is anx ious to drop 16 to 1 for the tariff issue , Republicans are ready. Indianapolis ( Ind. ) Journal. , RIonpy Is Plenty. I1 " " " " * ilUF B Dick Hello , John , what are you buying now ? John A gold watch. Dick You must be flush with money. John Yes ; I've just had another raise in wages. A Policy Which Invites Disaster. No matter what steps we may take to destroy trusts Germany is deter mined to maintain a system which it is generally recognized is bringing pros perity and wealth to the empire. Shall we then , in order to overcome an evil which may be regulated , resort to a policy which will invite disaster ? Is it conceivable that the American people ple , in the face of the menace which the organized front of Germany pre sents , will strike down the only barrier to the deluge of articles manufactured in Germany which the removal of pro tection would invite ? Great Britain is now endeavoring to rescue her West Indian possessions from the evil fate imposed on them by the German ex port bounty system. Are we anxious to share the same experience ? If we are , all we need to do is to dispense with protection and the Germans will soon make it clear to us that in the ef fort to abate an evil which is largely imaginary we have exposed ourselves to the danger of having our manufac turing industries totally destroyed. San Francisco Chronicle. No Longer Fashionable. A Canadian 'correspondent , writing on the trade between Canada and America , says : "The policy of the United States toward Canada since 1867 , with the brief intermission while the Wilson act of 1894-97 was in force , has been one of grab all and give noth ing. Of course. It is no longer fash ionable in this country to discriminate against Americans. Wheeling ( W.Va. ) Manufacturer. ACREES WITH HAVEMEYER. A Ilrutlicr Monopollut Indorses tlio Kinz'fl Views. Rarely in the annals of American politics have the statements of a man having any reputation at all been so completely refuted , riddled and ridi culed as those of Mr. Havemeyer , to the effect that the present tariff Is four-fifths extortion and the parent of trusts. In such a situation Mr. Have meyer has doubtless been turning in every direction looking for an indorse ment of some kind from some quar ter , and willing to accept it in what ever shape it should come. The loose-talking New Yorker may now comfort himself a little , for he has found a friend of just as much loquacity and just as little sense. That congenial indorser lives in this city and has sent the indorsement to the Nebraska City Conservative , in which paper It has been duly published without comment. It runs thus : Wells , Fargo & Co. , Office of Presi dent. San Francisco , Cal. , June 15 , 1899. Dear Mr. Morton : Referring to yours of June 7 , doubtless you noticed Havemeyer's testimony before the Washington commission yesterday and his remarks upon the matter of trusts namely , that the protective tariff IB the mother of trusts in the United States of America. I am with him every time on that statement. I think his observations in general were based on facts and good sense. Very truly yours , JOHN J. VALENTINE. A draft upon human credulity drawn by Havemeyer and indorsed by Valen tine is certainly a unique document even in the politics of a country where the canard and the roorback are com mon. Fortunately the names of the parties are so well known and the rep utation of each so well established that no one is likely to be deceived by the document. The only effect of the Valentine indorsement will be to con firm the judgment of the public formed on the original statement. The main interest in the matter lies in the new evidence it gives of Valentine's crav ing for notoriety. Wherever there is an opening in a newspaper , on a plat form or in a pulpit , he is there to show that he can shed language as readily as he shirks taxes or cinches the pub lic , and seemingly there is no form of iniquity he is not willing to uphold either by precept or practice. San Francisco Call. Two Inevitable Results. Not one-half of the articles handled by the trusts are protected by tariffs. Not one-half the capitalization of the great consolidations is devoted to the production of articles which are pro tected. Mr. Havemeyer knows very well that in forming these consolida tions the real objects were an economy of organization and a monopoly of the local production. These being the prime objects , the tariffs affect them neither in one way or the other , except as they may exclude a foreign competition. If we throw open the doors to foreign competition it would necessitate even greater economy in organization to en able home producers to compete profit ably. There would be no surer way to put the entire production of the coun try into the hands of consolidations than by striking down all our tariff duties. There would be an absolute ne cessity for trusts then.or else we should have to give our mafkets over To the Europeans and go out of business , for we could not continue to produce in any but the most economical way against unrestricted foreign competi tion. It is safe , then , to say that if all our tariff laws should be repealed tomorrow there would be just two ef fects one the degradation of American labor , and the other a complete ab sorption of our industries by giant cor porations. Kansas City ( Kan. ) Jour nal. Democracy and Trusts. It was in 1894 that the Democratic majority in both houses of congress paralyzed the section against trusts passed by the Republican majority in the preceding congress. The Wilson law prescribes no penalty against trusts except firms or corporations who are importers of foreign goods. Im porters are not organized in trusts and never have been. Consequently the Wilson law touches none of the trusts. It opened the door wide to all that now exist. The last senate was not Republican and would not permit the restoration of the anti-trust clause of the McKinley law. The Republican record against trusts is perfectly clear. A law in 1890 fulfilled the platform pledge of 1888. Then the Democrats came into power and misgovernment and calamity came with them. In their endless chapter of disasters was the killing of the anti-trust law. They worked havoc in that direction as in every other. Yet they are now making a prodigious racket over the trusts as if the subject were entirely new and their party acting upon it for the first time. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Then and Now. During the last Democratic adminis tration the papers were filled with re ports of factories closed , wages re duced and an ever-increasing army of unemployed. Now they are filled with reports of new enterprises , voluntary advances of wages and constantly im proved relations between employers and employes. Indianapolis ( Ind. ) Journal. Delighted to Meet Tliem. If the free traders are anxious to ral ly under Mr. Havemeyer as a mentor and his 10 per cent duty as a slogan , those who believe in the policy of pro tection will be delighted to meet them as soon as there is time to attend to it Indianapolis Journal. STOMACH LIKE STEEL HAD AN APPETITE FOR HARD WARE. Ate Nails , Wires and Knife Because no Lilted Them Ho Also Ilad a Crav ing for Hulrplus and Tacks Finally Ho Died. Joshua Davis , a patient who died re cently at the State Hospital for the In sane at Mendota , across the lake from Madison , Mo. , had an insatiable ap petite for hardware and lived nearly A year with half a pound of nails , knife blades , hairpins , tacks and pieces of wire of various lengths in his stomach and intestines. Physicians say that Davis * case was the most remarkable that has ever come to their knowledge. He was committed to the asylum from Saulc county , having been picked up by the police in Baraboo on account of his queer actions. He was received at the asylum early last August after having spent a couple of weeks in the Baraboo jail. Shortly before he died he told the hospital physicians that while in the jail he had swallowed all the nails and wire he could get hold of , partly be cause he had an uncontrollable appe tite for them and partly because he wanted to kill himself. The physi cians would not believe him and , being accustomed to hearing all sorts of strange stories , attributed his odd tale to his diseased mind. It was only after he became so emaciated that he could not walk that the physicians began seriously to consider his confessions regarding the hardware within him. Finally a careful examination of Da vis' body was made and the outline of the nails within the intestines was detected through the abdominal wall. The foreign substances in the stomach and intestines had disturbed digestion slightly during the first few months of Davis' confinement in the hospital , and this fact , with the remarkably rugged constitution of the patient , made the physicians discredit his story about having too much iron in the sys tem. However , when the doctors be came convinced that there were some foreign substances in the abdomen they determined on an operation. It was performed by Dr. William B. Ly- man , superintendent of the hospital , and his assistants , Drs. M. F. Clark and Eugene Chaney. They performed what is known as the operation of gas tronomy , the stomach being opened at the pyloric extremity. The revelations of the surgeons' knives were simply astounding. There , in folds of the stomach and intestines were imbedded two dozen nails of all sizes , from a tack to a twenty-penny spike , ten pieces of wire of different sizes and lengths and two pocketknife blades. The spike , which was six inches long , had passed out of the stomach and lodged crossways in the intestines , causing the latter to adhere to the ab dominal walls and forming a sort of dam which prevented the smaller nails and pieces of wire from leaving the stomach. The stomach and intestines were perforated by the nails , the pres sure from the sharp pieces of iron causing an advanced state of ulcera- tion. Though Davis had told the doc tors he had also eaten some pebbles , none were found. The terrible condi tion of the stomach and Intestines in dicated that the man had slight chance of recovery. After taking out the nails and . other pieces _ of iron , the doctors . - * * * * - stitched up the stomach , but Davis never rallied and died about eight hours later. The body was buried in the potter's field , near the asylum. Davis had been on a prolonged de bauch just before his arrest at Bara boo. It was while he was in this con dition that he was arrested and thrown into the Baraboo jail , thus being de prived of any chance whatever of get ting what his system most craved. The first day he was in jail he hap pened to pick up an old rusty nail and put it into his mouth. The taste of the corroded iron seemed to have a pleasant and soothing effect and finally Davis swallowed the piece of metal. This relieved him for a short time , but the old craving returned and Davis hunted up another nail. This he also ate , with twenty-two others , at inter vals later. Running out of nails , he began to swallow short pieces of wire , the next best thing. His suppy of wire also gave out , and at last he took a small pocketknife and breaking out both bades swallowed them. This completely exhausted his supply of metal , he afterward confessed to the doctors , and he went to eating small pebbles and pieces of plaster. No traces of these , however , were found in his body when the autopsy was made. "Fatty"Walsh. . New York has lost another of its unique characters by the death of "Fat ty" Walsh , whose humor was as robust as his corporosity , from which he de rived his sobriquet. He was a politi cian always , and he lived and died in office. He was the idol of the people of his district on the east side , and one of his favorite amusements was to stand on the corner of the street where he lived every night and give two pen nies to each one of the little children who flocked around him and could show clean hands one penny for each hand. Probably his most famous epi gram was perpetrated when the New York aldermen were indicted for the famous Broadway street railroad steal. "Fatty" Walsh had been a candidate for alderman that year , but he was counted out. When the verdict of guilty was brought in against the cor rupt aldermen he folded his arms and said : "God is good to the Irish. If I had been in the board , where would I be now ? " Boston Herald. Avarice Is a skin disease. Galveston News. The Battlefield Itonte. The veterans of ' 6F and ' 65 and their friends who are going to attend the thirty-third G. A. R. annual en campment at Philadelphia In Septem ber could not select a better nor more historic route than the Big Four and Chesapeake & Ohio , with splendid service from Chicago , Peoria and St. Louis on tin- Big Four , all connecting at Indianapolis or Cincinnati , and thence over the picturesque Chesa peake & Ohio , along the Ohio river to Huntington , W. Va. ; thence through the foothills of the Alleghanies over the mountains , through the famous springs region of Virginia to Staunton , Va. , between which point and Wash ington are many of the most promi nent battlefields Waynefboro , Gor- donsvllle , Cedar Mountain , Rappa- hannock , Kettle Run , Marsassas , Bull Run , Fairfax and a score of others nearly as prominent. Washington Is next , and thence via the Pennsylvania Line direct to Philadelphia. There will be three rates In effect for this business first , continuous passage , with no atop-over privilege ; second , going and coming same route , with one stop-over in each direction ; third , circuitous route , going one way and back another , with one stop-over in each direction. For full Informa tion as to routes , rates , etc. , address J. C. Tucker , G. N. A. , 234 Clark street , Chicago. When it comes to making Improve ments in all branches of railroad serv ice , the Baltimore and Ohio railroad does not have to retire from the front rank. As "nothing is too good for the Irish , " so nothing is too good for Bal timore and Ohio railroad patrons , and a progressive step in dining car serv ice is being taken. The Royal Blue Line dining cars are being shipped as rapidly as possible to change the in teriors so that each car will have a table d'hote compartment and a cafe , where the service will be a la carte. This part of the car will have easy chairs , tables and other conveniences of a first-class cafe , where gentlemen can smoke and eat without Interfering with those who prefer a different state of things. New Inventions. 497 inventors re ceived patents the past week and of this number " 163 sold either the en tire or a part of their right before the patent issued. Amongst the large concerns who bought patents the last week are the General Electric Co. . of New York , Girard Button Mnfg. Co. , Philadel phia , Pa. , Aeolian Co. , New York city , Kalamazoo Sled Co. , of Michigan , Richmond , Va. , Locomotive Works , Armour & Co. , of Chicago , Mergenthaler Linotype Co. , of New York , and Tiffany & Company , Jewelers , New York City. Parties desiring full information as to the law and practice of patents may obtain the same in addressing Sues - Co. , Lawyers and Solicitors , Bee Bldg. , Omaha , Nebr. Members of Company F , One Hundred Indiana volunteers dred and Fifty-seventh teers , intend to give a sword to Gen eral Lawton , the Indianian who dis tinguished himself at the Philippines. The promoters of the scheme will ac cept no subscriptions except from members of the regiment. This or ganization , famed as "Studebaker's Tigers , " was the first volunteer regi ment to be mustered into the regular army. A certain Nauvo woman assured her husband that she never told him a lie and never would. He told her that he did not doubt it , but would hereafter cut a notch in the piano when he knew she deceived him. "No , you won't , " screamed , "I'm not going to have my piano ruined. " Just before W. V. Smith , of Florence , Kan. , goes to bed he carefully places his beard in a muslin bag. After he has entered the bed he puts the bag under his pillow. His beard is nearly eight feet long. Special Kates Kast , Via O. & St. I and Wabash .Routes. For the G. A. R. encampment at Fhil- adeplhia tickets will be bold Sent 1 , 2 and 3 , good returning Sept. 20th. Stopovers will be allowed at Niagara Falls , Washington and many other points , choice of routes. For rates , timetables and all information call at city office , 1415 Farnam st. , ( Paxton Hotel block ) , or write Harry E. Moores , C. P. & T. A. , Omaha , Neb. She Why is it , I wonder , that little men so often marry big women ? He I don't know , unless it is that the little fellows are afraid to back out of the engagements. Tit-Bits. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury , As mercury will surely destroy the sense ol smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles s-hould never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians , as the damage they will do is tenfold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure , manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co. . Toledo. O. , contains no mercury , and is taken internally , acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you pet the genuine. It is taken internally , and made in Toledo. Ohio , by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists , price TSc per bottle. 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