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The Frontier. rum.MIIKI> I'VKUV TllfltSDAY T.Y 1 HE FIIONTISK IMONT1NO CO. bX'KUjlT; • ■ NEIIRVSKA.' The Russian navy of the present time consists of 102 vessels, of which thirty-six are first-class ships of war. In almost every school of the mikado's empire it Is the custom one day in autumn to take the pupils out rabbit hunting. A tricycle to bo propelled by electri city and to run at the average spend of ten miles an hour has been patented at Washington. -♦ « » ... It is computed that 38,< 00,000 babies are born into the world every year. This is at the rate of seventy a minute, or more than one every second. It is unusual for a person's eyes to be equally strong.' In only three cases out of ten does it happen that the eye eight is equally good In each eye. A scientist has discovered that noar afghtednoss prevails to a larger extent among blondes than brunettes. This accounts, then for Germany being the nation of spectacles. A new series of postage stamps has been Issued by tho republic of San fialvidore. All Btarups previous to 1803 have boon called in and only the new stamps will be accepted In payment of postago horeafter. It is said that if the earth's atmos phere extended to a height of 700 miles the sun's heat and rays could never penetrate it and wo would freeze to death while wrapped in darkness blacker than the blackest midnight. Judging from tho number of chart ers taken out in the different states for the construction of railroads it is estimated that upward of 7,500 miles ef new track will be added to the total mileage of the country this year. oiiuu. ims uioit imiuo irotn a very oarly period, first and most largely by th* Spanish, who preparod it with •oare and scented it with various ma terials. Next the low countries, Soot land and England, extended and popu larised the use of snuff. • The population of Bogota, the cap ital of the United States of Colombia, decreased 654 during 18ui. There were S,305 births and 3,150 deaths in the «lty during the year. Emigration and immigration are not factors In the aity's eoonomy, No people in the world are more de pendent upon boats than are the na tives of southeast Alaska. They live in a region where the coast line is bro ken into many channel straits and har bors by the numerous islands of the Sltkan Archipelago. In northern Africa date stones are roasted and used as a substitute for coffee. All kinds of basket and wicker work are made from the leafstalks, while the leaves themselves are maae into mats, bags, eto. The wood is used lor fences and bulldingt. A man who has had many years of commercial experience in China says that the right wo-d is “pidgin,” not “pigoon." English. It is the Chinese pronunciatidu of the word “business," and it is in the business of Chinese ports that this particular dialect Is used. snips are less orten struck by light I' nlng now than in former times be cause they haro more iron about them in the form of wire rigging and iron Italia The metal acts as a conductor and carries the lightning into the water before it can do any damage to . (he ship _ A woman in Huoksport, Me , while • feeding a small pig, dropped in the pen a roll of money—130 in gold coin and 950 in notea The coin was found subsequently near the mangled re mains of a 910 note, but it was evident that the pig had swallowed the rest ol the money. - Lepers in India were treated with shocking inhumanity before Christian ity entered that country. Many ot them were buried alive. The knglish rulers have put a stop to this custom, ana for fourteen years there has been a special Christian mission to the 135, ■000 lepers in India Coffee bleaches and improves with age, but old coffees, which used to be highly esteemed, are now no longei obtainable, as the prices of coffee have been so high that the planters have ^urried their product to market in stead of keeping it, as was often the custom in the olden time. Snails’ eggs absorb moisture. The most singular thing about them, how ever, is their marvelous vitality. Thej may be burnt in a furnace and thus re duced to powder, yet on the applica tion of moisture they swell and regair their vitality, hatching out as freelj and successfully as if . they had beer left alone. It is related that at the marriage o: Mr. and Mrs. Sumner Soule, of Free port, Ms, recently, the minister in thi course of a long prayer, said: “Oh Lord, give grace to some soul today.' As the groom was known familiarly a “Sum" Soule and as his bride’s nami was Grace the prayer was answerei satisfactorily, although the clergy mai was unconscious of having said any thing so wall fitting the occasion. THE DRAWBACK PROVISION or the MrKInley 11111 — Does It l*rnve the Free Trade Theory 1 hit the TarllT Is a To*? An instance of the loose logic upon which free trade conclusions are usual y based is furnished by the Chicago Herald of February 29. It adduces the irnwback provision of the McKinley law (whereby a manufacturer whose goods contain imported materials may receive back 09 per cent, of the duties lollected on these materials when im ported, provided the finished products ire exported and sold in foreign mar tots), ns conclusive proof that the tariff a n tax, at least to the extent of 09 pey rent, of it. If it is not, why this pro vision? it asks. Suppose a manufacturer of plows un iertakes to introduce his wares into a oreign market—say into Australia, for ixample. lie finds that in order to do io successfully against his foreign rivals, lie must place his plows on the Australian market just a shade lower •,han he can possibly offord to and con '.inuo in business, liut he notices in die market reports that pig iron is •henper in England than at home, and, >y figuring it out carefully and closely, loncludos that, if lie could got liis iron it that English price, he could then nako the prico of liis plows low enough ,o compete with the foreigner in Aus tralia. He find.1* also that the McKin oy law allows him to do that very •king under its drawback provision, bet us see how it Would work out. We .vill thus come to a good understanding >f the practical workings of that pro vision and decide whethor it involves die admission that 99 per cent, of the luty on pig iron is a tax. llessemer pig iron now sells in En gland at 48s., or.811.US a ton; with ocean freightage added, say $13 a ton. The American plow manufacturer imports it, at this price and pays the duty, $0.73 i ton, which brings its cost up to $19.73. After it lias been manufactured into lie plows destined for the Australian narket and the plows entered for ex port, the government refunds to him 99 hit cent, of the duty paid, which would ne $0.tt5 a ton, making the net cost of ‘lis pig iron $13.07 a ton. The Chicago Herald’s learned econ omist says that this refund is in effect ■in acknowledgement that at least 09 per cent, of the duty is a tax. Not sa The only acknowledgment involved Is that it is a good thing for the country if, in addition to our own mar ket, the Australian demand for plows ;an bo supplied from this country. It would mean an influx of good Australian money to employ American working men in the plow works,' and to circulate in American channels of trade, which otherwise would go to Germany or En gland. But no matter what the refund of duties implies, if the Herald insists m its implication theory, the fact is that the $0.05 a ton is not a tax. Why? Because, as we have seen, the English pig iron would have cost $13 a ton if ad mitted free of duty. The manufacturer :an buy Bessemer pig to-day in Pitts burgh at $14.75-a ton. The difference, II. 75 a ton, is the utmost limit of the “Tariff tax,” as figured out by the most ipproved “reform” method. Cannot the clerald man get this through his head? Politics vs. Truth. I have spoken of the| A provision in the wndltlon of agricultural constitution of our niiustrles in my own state directs that “the itate; I have called at-lgovernor shall convey .enllon to the fact thatjlo the general assem or years these lndus-jbly Information con ■rtes havo been pros-cerning the condition jcuted at a loss Instead of the state and reo >f a profit, and I wunt ommend such leglsla tow to say to the bust less men of this nation, md to the politic! ms ns veil, that some plan nust be devised to get tton ns he deems ex pedient. In discharging this duty it is my pleasant privilege to say that at his,industry on a differ-.no time in the history rnt basis, or this nation of Iowa have her peo nust prepare for a'ple been blessed with ttorm, the consequences more general prosper if which—In both a polity than they now eu .ttlcal and economic joy. tense—no man cun mens-' In each of the years ire. (composing the last bt I want to say further eunial period wo hnve :hut the men engaged In been favored with ihis industry are nut abundant crons. * * Soing to wait for a home * With inures sod market to grow up. prices for the products Wound them that is'of our farms has come large enough to con- a substantial advance »ume the enormous sur-,ln the market value of Plus they annually pro- the agricultural lands fluoe. 'of our state. A marked They are already impetus has been given thoroughly urousea.Uo the upbuildlngof our They ore fast becoming! cities and towns. An as thoroughly organ jera of prosperity has trod. The law-maklngicome to our manufac power of this nation turlng and mining in must revise the tariff, dustrles. Our lines of etc.—Speech of Oov.!railway have felt the Botes, of Iowa, at the;tntiuence of bolter ltnnerof the "Reform" prices for the great -lub, December 113, 1 890. staples we are able to send abroad, and wher ever we turn, in every branch of industry, trade or profession in which our people are engaged, are to be seen unmistakable evi dences of the general prosperity with which we are blessed —Mes sage of Oov. Roles. of llowa, January 3,1893. Benefits of the McKiuley Law. President Harrison has been pre lented with a handsome American silk teal plush overcoat by the Hind & Har •ison Plush Company of Clark's Mills, and the firm has received the presi lent's acknowledgements. The plush was manufactured at Clark's Mills, and :he coat was made by R. G. lloerlein, ;he Fayette street custom tailor. The foods are far superior to that manu factured in England, and through the oenetits of the McKinley bill they can oe manufactured in this country as cheap. About four yards of plnsh were used in making the coat. The coat is very light, but exceedingly warm, and It makes a neat appearing garment l'he factory at Clark's Mills is the only cue in the state where the plush is made, and it is running full time and employing a large force of men.—Utica Herald. _ IIow would this look as an epitaph on the tomb of the defunct McKinley prices liar: The largest dry goods job . bing house in New York reports that nil kinds of goods sold in the domestic iepartment, which embraces tickings, ' lenims, stripes, blue and brown, shirt , ings, cambrics, cotton flannels, corset jeans, checks and many other classes of 1 foods in common use. were selling on January 35 at an average of 9.51 per , cent, lower in price thwn in January, 1890, before the McKinley law passed, i Printed calicoes of all kinds, including shirtings, indigoes, turkey reds and ’ similar fabrics, also ginghams, averaged 1 i 17 *4 per cent, less in January last than ■ in January before the enactment of the j McKinley tariff. That is how the new ’ J law has taxed the clothing of the poor. SHORT TARIFF SERMONS. Free Raw Materiel. In tho first place, what arc raw mar terials? Ore and coal In the mines, trees in tho forest—in short, anything that has undergone no change by tho hand of man. Taken, however, in a broader and commonly accepted sense, the raw ma terial has a different significance — namely, the material which forms the basis of an industry. A finished prod uct of one industry may therefore be come the “raw material” of another in dustry. Pasturage is the raw material of the sheep grower, and wool his prod uct. Wool is the raw material of the spinner, and yarn.liis product. Yarn is tlie raw material of the weaver, and cloth his product. Cloth is the raw ma terial of the tailor and garments are his products. Forest trees are the raw material of the woodman, and logs are his product Logs are the raw material of the lum berman, and lumber his product Lum ber is tlie raw material of carpenters and cubinet makers, and houses and furniture are their products. Tho mine is the raw material of the miner, ore is his product. Ore is the raw material of the furnaceman, and iron his product. Iron is the raw mate rial of the steel manufacturer, and steel his product Steel is the raw material of the spring maker, and springs his product. Springs are the raw material of the watchmaker, and watches his product Therefore, when free traders talk about “raw material” they mean mate rial upon which labor has been ex ponded; in other words, they would ad mit free the product of certain manu facturers for the benefit of certain other manufacturers. This is just the opposite of what a protective tariff would do. Protection protects every thing from the moment the hand of man first touches it up to its highest and most finished manufac ture. Free ore and coal means ruin to tho miner. Free wool means ruin to the sheep raiser. Free lumber, free salt, free this and free that, each means ruin to some American indnstrv “fliwe ns free raw material,” says the free trader, "and we twill capture the mar kets of the world.” Well, our tariff law does that very thing'. It gives a drawback of 99 per cent, on all im ported material used in manufactures for the export trade. Don't be deceived, then, by the delusive and dishonest cry for “free raw material.” American Wages. Our import duties are laid with a view to covering the difference in cost of production here and abroad. Labor cost, or wages, constitute fully 90 per cent, of this cost of production. Consequently our workmen receive nearly all the benefit derived from pro tection. It is conceded by all that American wages are from 00 to ISO per cent, higher than in England and from 100 to 1,000 per cent, greater than in other countries The American farm laborer gets on an average 950.00 a month and found, while the English farm laborer gets but 98.00 The American iron workers get 95.50 per ton for puddling, while the English man gets but 93. The American potter gets three times as much for the same work as the En glish workman. Our textile workers earn from two to three times as much as the toxtile work ers in England. And so we might go through every trade and occupation, skilled and un skilled. and we would find that a day’s labor in the United States is worth double, and more, the same work in England. This is equally true whether paid by time or piece. ^ J llUlkU 1 VV.&1VO much better wages than the laborers abroad, but they receive more than our own laborers did half a century ago, when we had a free trade tariff. Not only are wages higher, but the cost of living has not increased. There has, moreover, been a general decrease in the hours of labor, all of which tends to better the condition of the American wage earner in every way. Will you vote next November to sus tain this condition? Prices. Next to having the wherewithal to buy, the price of what we buy concerna us most. While the primary object of a protect ive tariff is not to lower the cost of man ufactured goods, yet statistics show that such ip the invariable result The price of a line of goods upon which a protective duty is levied may at first be slightly advanced, but competition soon brings it down lower than before. On the other hand, protection gives to the farmer good prices for his products. The manufacturer who realizes a fair profit on his goods: the laborer who gets such wages that he can live well and save more than he could earn abroad; the merchant, the clerk, the professional man—in short, every one —is willing to pay such prices for his needs as will insure to his fellow man a good return for his labor. Things may be too cheap. There is a reasonable level, and when that is reached prices can go no lower and the nation or its people be pros perous. Prices in the United States of the necessaries of life are about the same as in free-trade England, while we have twice as much with which to buy them. Present prices of manufactures are lower than in periods of low tariffs; in fact, lower than ever before in our his tory. To go much lower would mean ruin to the manufacturer, idleness to the mechanic and less consumption for agricultural products and consequent irapovenishment to the whole people. We conclude with the following quota tion from President Harrison’s last message: Rarely if ever before in the history of the country has there been a time when the proceeds of one day’s labor or the product of one farmed acre would purchase so large an amount of those things that enter into the living of the masses of the people.—American Econ omist NEBRASKA. Kearney is building a plow factory. Beatrice will have a five-wtory hotel. Nebraska has 103 postoffices that art held by ladies. The cob pipe factory at Greenwood wll) be removed to Seward. The A. O U. W. lodge of Belvider* talks of building a hall. The Fillmore County Republican has been enlarged and improved. Jefferson county’s court house will be ready for occupancy May 1. A ladies’ athletic club has been formed by the young women of Geneva. It is rumored that another democratic paper will be started at Plattsmouth. The beet sugar bounty paid to the two factories in this state for 1831 was $53,• 974. A camp of Sons of Veterans has been mustered in at Genoa with sixteen mem* bers. The wheat acreage of Lincoln county will be 53 per cent, larger this year than last. Broken Bow citizens have formed a Bus iness Men’s association with sixty mem bers. Fire in C. C. Dawson’s grocery store at Harvard did damage to the amount oi $2,000. The machinery has arrived at Harvard for the new cheese factory being built near that place. S. H. Ktngery, of Fairmont, lost four teeth and had his jaw crushed by the kick of a horse. Mark M. Reeves, of the Sidney land office, wants to go to the Minneapolis con vention as a delegate. Clara Melcher, a little girl of Wisne, while putting ou a cloak fell backward and broke her arm. York has a new daily called the Daily Press. It is edited by Casper & Rawalt and will be democratic. The question of erecting a new school house building in. Gothenburg is being quietly discussed. Burt County Herald says: Fairchild, the alliance lecturer, failed to draw a crowd iu Tekamah. The Callaway Agricultural Fair asso ciation hns purchased forty acres and will lay out fair grounds. Several prominent citizens of Louisville were arrested by the police during a raid on a gambling house. ^jl i«uu ul uuri county, is at Alpine, Cal., near San Diege, where he has control of a fruit farm. Beatrice's ball club has been organized. The Knights of Pythias in Geneva will dedicate their $26,000 halt j Mrs. Jennie F. Holmes, of Tecumseh j the well known temperance worker, is very sick with congestion of the lungs. j Mrs. Nagleschmidt, a buxom lady of! middle age, of Grand Island, was lined $5 and costs for horsewhipping John Berry. Pioneer Council No. 1 of the Loyal; Mystic Legion of America has been or* ganized at Hastings with over 200 mem bers. O. Robinson, of Decatur, a prominent Mason, starved to death last week. He j could not eat on account of cancer of the throat The authorities at Grand Island cap* | tured a number of box car thieves with a large amount of plunder In their pos* session Valentine people can taste oil in their well water and they believe that the greasy fluid exists under the city in pay ing quantities. A herd of 850 cattle was shipped from Nance county last Saturday that are going direct to Glasgow, Scotland. There were twenty-three carloads. The Nebraska state fair will be held at Lincoln, September 2 to 9. There is to be tlO.OOJ in premiums, aud the best half mile track in the state. A district convention of the Baptist Young People’s union will be held at Grand Island April 18, 14 and 15. Ninety delegates will be in attendance. At the election held in Beemer Monday for the purpose of voting $6,000 to build a new school house there were 77 votes polled, of which 70 were for bonds and 7 BgUinSC. While Bef. S. Pearson was attending a funeral at West Point he was thrown from a carriage and injured so badly that for a time it was believed he would die. He is now recovering. An extensive prairie (ire destroyed con siderable hay east of Broken Bow. It burned two days, but about twenty-five men and boys finally succeeded in getting it under control. Two hotel men were arrested at Oxford for crossing the “dead line’’ fixed by the Burlington and Missouri eating house and soliciting patronage, but they were dis missed without a trial. Ed Marcott, of Gothenburg, got his right shoulder pulled out of joint last Sun day afternoon. He was leading a colt which made a sudden jerk upon its halter, held by Mr. Marcott, with the result stated. Ravenna proposes to celebrate the 4th of July and plans for the event are al ready being matured. The committee has three orators in mind—Governor Boyd, Henry D. Estabroolc, of Omaha, and Con gressman Kem. The committee appointed by the Elk horn Valley association of Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodges has decided to hold the next anniversary celebration of that order, which occurs on Tuesday, April 26. at Madison. The lodges forming the association are those at Madison, Bur nett, Stanton and Norfolk. Mr. Welsh, of Perkins county, came home from Grant last Friday to find his wife lying on the floor cold in death and their two children fast asleep in bed. The two children when awakened told their father that their mother was fast asleep, and they had tried to waken her but could not. He immediately sent to Grant for a physician and the coroner. When they arrived they gave the decision that the deceased had come to her death by an overdose of strong medicine. Albert Kelley and A. H. fioyes engaged in a fist fight at Gering, whloh went against Kelley. Kelley then drew a Knife and slashed Boyes iu several places be fore the combatants could be separated. The wounded man will recover. The soldiers relief committee of Bart county met at the oourt house last week. James R Davis, of Craig; Riley Hart, of Lyons, and Joseph Hall, of Riverside, are the committee appointed by the county commissioners, and they recommended that John Conrad and W. R, Davis, of Craig; John R Davis, of Decatur, and Margaret Leach, of Lyona, be furnished till each by the county. AN AMERICAN GIBRALTAR England Ready to Seize the Harbor of San Quint n. . A Scheme to Colonise San Oulntlll With British Subjects anil Salsa the Port on the Pretext of Protecting British Interests. Denver, March 28.—C. E. Anthony, who made pnblic the plan of the Eng lish governmet to seize the harbor of San Quintin, on the California penin lula, says: “I was engaged by the original Inter national Railway company of Mexico five years ago, to explore the peninsula of California and write up its mineral resources. Prominent among the stockholders of this company were Quintella, member of parliament, and Sir Edward Dwight Atkinson and Sir William Goss. Sir Edward was con nected with the secret service of Scot land yard. He was chairman of the reorganized company, while Sir Wil liam was made resident man ager. Upon obtaining control they imported from India Captain R. S. Scott, an officer in the royal en gineer corps, who was given a two years' furlough to colonize a portion of Mexico. In the course of conversa tion with Scott soon after his taking control of the company's affairs, he stated that it was their intention to colonize exclusively with iirilish sub jects and proposed to build a railway line from the peninsula south of En senada to Yuma, so that they could bring English colonists directly through on English ships, landing at Fortress Monroe and ticaeted direct to the compauy's headquarters at Ensen ada The company's steamer plying between Sau Diego, Cal., and the pen insula at first sailed under the Amer ican flag, but now they have settled upon that of Guatemala, which flag they hoisted a few days ago. ‘•The captain's first and only colon ization scheme consisted in sending out a corps! of topographica. engineers to carefully map the interior, and by using Colonel Denton's surveys and the coast survey of the United States steamers Narragansett and Ranger they were able to make an excellent map of the whole country. They did not stop at the American boundary, but included the harbor of San Diego with its defenses and the navigable portion of the Colorado river. All of these maps were said to have been promptly forwarded to the British war department, and so satisfactory was this colonization scheme that the cap tain was made a major. “The English company has for some time been giving the harbor of San Quintin full attention, as that is the only landlocked port within their con cessions. It is a noble harbor, which can float the entire English navy. An arm of the mainland reaches out to sea in a crescent-shaped peninsula and incloses a body of water some two by ten miles This arm is composed en tirely of lava and has an irregular sur face with five distinct volcanos, which, when fortified, will give the world another Gibraltar. There is scarcely a hatful of soli there, yet the company has abandoned the former city on the main land, which is a perfect garden spot, and started another town on this lava foundation, where it will be fully protected by guns planted on the heights. If they follow out the designs and plans in hand they will erect coal bunkers and warehouses large enough for San Francisco. Inasmuch as they have forfeited their concession by not locating the required number of colo nists, the Mexican government is likelv soon to declare their contract void,and then the English will no doubt insist upon taking possession under the o.d cry of protecting the interests of Brit ish subjects. * v vi oia uiuca iK'rtc uccu ^raueu in eleven months since the contract was given and the concession from Mexico calls for the completion of tifty miles by the end of another month, in order to earn 89,000 a mile subsidy. Of course this is out of the question at this time and no effort is being made to comply with the contract. Then the company has to estab lish a certain number of families in the fertile valley, where the soil under irrigation is marvelously rich and capable of producing all fruits and vegetables. Instead of colonizing the English since entering into possession have, by every means in their power, sought to drive away Americans, who are considered obnoxioua “The internal company was first organized by Edgar T. Wells, son of Gideon Wells, of the United States navy, and all rights and franchises were transferred through an American banker who did not know the main objects of his principal. The sale was almost compulsory, as the American ran short of funds and turned the prop erty over to the English October, 1891). English agents have bought several islands in American waters and hold them in names of private individuals, and in the event of war they could be quickly fortified.’’ SALISBURY’S PROPOSITION. Members of Congress Very Reticent In Ex presston of Opinion. Washington, March 88.—Members of congress are unusually reticent in expressing opinions on Lord Salis bury's propositions as contained in his last two notes to Mr. Pauncefote con cerning a renewal of the modus vivendL Several members of the house commit tee on foreign affairs talked <yi the subject ia its general aspects. Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, took the ground that as the United States had paid 97,000,000 for the privilege of obtaining seals in Alaska it should maintain its rights at all hazarda He thought the position of Lord Salisbury was entirely untena ble. Mr. O'Donnell, of Michigan, said that when the United States obtained Alaska it obtained certain rights in regard to the sealing privileges which coaid not be surrendered. He thought the rights of the United States should be asserted and maintained. Mr. Barnes, of Maryland, said that as » member of the committee of for :.4 r eign affairs, prcierred n_. speak until the matter cam ‘ J0 fore the committee, if A 6 be dd, but his impression was Tr the demand of Great Uritiin tha* rather an extreme one, and tw „ Was promise should bo agreed on the pendency of the ^proceedin^""* before the ratification of the troS?y>nJ EnylUh Newspaper Comment; London, March 2S.-Tho newSnltl„M take different views of Lord bury's liering sea dispatches, ,ni there is a similar diversity Z public sentiment as pressed in the parliament lob,;"' and other places The expression the larger majority is that Lord Saljl bury s attitude assures a peaceful tlement of the difficulty and that win, anything like fairness on the part ^ the Washington government this qaes. tlon will be amicably adjusted. 4 * Lord Salisbury Explain, London, March 28.—In replying to the question in the house of lords today relative to the information about lien ing sea, Lord Salisbury said he hoped the house wonld agree with him in thinking it best to let the corn, spondence speak for itself. lJe ha(i perhups deviated from the usual course in making an entire disclosure of the correspondence before the negotiations were completed, but as much of the correspondence was becoming public property in the United Stales he thought it only fair and tending to promote a due appreciation of the ques tion that the whole correspondence should be set before parliament. FAKES FOR EUROPEANS Awful Stories of Storm ami Disaster Cabled Acruit* the l*oud. New York, March 28.—It is little wonder that people across the Atlantic are oftentimes inclined to regard the United States not only as a countrv little more than half civilized, but also a land full of terrors of one kind and another. Much of this belief has its origin in the extraordinary stories that are cabled to the other side regarding occurrences in the United States For instance, the English and French papers for the first half of the rtrocnnl imsnfL L!1, L__• 1 the latest mail, contain stories of a frightful blizzard, accompanied by fearful storms of wind and snow, that were alleged at the time of the dispatch to be raging in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakoth, South Dakota, Kansas and Iowa. According to the story “business is entirely suspended in the northwest, railroad traffic is at a stand still, there is destruction of property and loss of life on all sides, a fall of fifty degrees in temperature has taken place accompanied by a fall of snow and sleet, many persons are reported to have been frozen to death, and many cars on the railroads have been blown from the tracks," while in Chi cago a day of oppressive warmth was succeeded next day by so much snow and ice as to bring street traffic to s standstill. And the worst of it is that these extraordinary stories are believed to be as true as gospel by our British and continental cousins. CAUGHT IN THE QUICKSAND Thrilling Experience of the Wire and Three Children of Mayor Gilpin. Atlantic Citv, N. J., March28.—Tbs recent heavy storms along this coast have caused the formation of innumer able beds of quicksand. The wife and three children of Mayor Gilpin, af tim city, were rescued with difflculy from one of those traps yesterday. They were out driving, close to the water’s edge. They had scarcely proceeded a quarter of a mile when Mrs Gilpin no ticed that the carriage wheels were sinking to an alarming extent in the sand. The horse began to flounder, sinking to his knees with every step At last he was unable to pull the buggy any further and stopped, panting with ms exertions, while the tine rose. Mrs. Gilpin and her children leaped out. They sank in the sand above their knees and with every struggle sank deeper and deeper. They shouted for help, but no one at the moment was near. The water had almost reached the waist of Mrs. Gilpin when one of their frantic calls reached Mr. Willis. With the help of a bath room door he managed to reach Mrs. Gilpin It was hard work to get Mrs. Gilpin out, but he finally succeeded and got her beyond the reach of the quicksand to firm ground. Relieved of their com bined weight the bath room door had floated in shore. Willis secured it again and after half an hour’s struggle rescued the three children. FOSTER DISPLEASED. Nettleton'* Testimony In the Ellis Islsrd Case Very Unsatisfactory. New Yohk, March 28.—The Sun» Washington special says that there is the highest authority for the state ment that Seer, tary Foster is so dis pleased with the testimony of Assist ant Secretary Nettleton during t'1* pending investigation of Ellis islsn_ expenditures that he has PraC" tic-ally determined to re001“ mend his removal from 0)110. Secretary Foster has made no concea^ ment of his astonishment at the n markable developments of the invcs gation and is now convinced that sistant Nettleton and other treasu y officials have been guilty of the gro» est negligence. The members of investigation committee make no cret of the fact that their report " be almost, if not quite, uuanimou condemnation of Assistant Stcre • Nettleton and in recommendatio his removal. The Kaln Hill Murderer. London, March 28.—The inciues the case of the victims of the Ka‘“ ^ tragedy resulted today in a ver 1C willful murder against F. R 1)ee“ m. klias Arthur Williams. Martha we ing, wife of the murderer s r , testified in regard to the m°ye™e." mil the murder while he was at ,ircSi K) far aa was known to ll,.mi|arovi ind other witnesses gave s fence. _ ^_ The Now Solicitor-General^ ^ Washington, Msrch * • tl)e Charles 1L Aldrich, of Chic g^ ^ aew solicitor-general, arrlT* 0fflce lay, and after taking the oathol mtered at onee upon his du