DIVIDEND INCREASE.
BRITISH SHODDY FACTORIES
I DOUBLE EARNINGS.
One) Concern Started Title Tear with
ss.eoo.ooo of Ordere — Oar Woolen
Mliu Doing Steadily Closed Down—
British Mannfactnrera Delighted.
No two Bradford houses are better
known in the United States, either
among our dry goods houses or con
sumers. than those of Messrs. A. & S.
Henry & Co., Ltd., and Messrs. Lister &
cb. of the famous Mann Ingham Mills.
The former, simply as merchants and
shippers, the latter as manufacturers,
are, regarded as the business leaders of
Bradford. Were it not for the enor
mous trade that Henry’s do with us,
add the substantial slice that Lister’s
have secured from American manu
facturers, they would to-day still be but
"common fry." As Henry’s house is the
king of Bradford’s Anglo-American
shippers, let us note what this present
tariff has done for them. The chair
man of the company, Sir Henry Mitch
ell, speaking at Its annual meeting less
than a month ago, said:
‘‘.“When the shareholders assembled
twelve months ago It was at the close
of a'\tVy trying and very difficult year,
atxPiMhe directors had to put before
thfepf business results which were con
siderably less than the average for a
m«»ber of years past, and even less
tbqn in any year since the company was
fdWied. He was very glad to meet the
shaVefiolders with a very much more
satisfactory report and very much bet
ter results (hear, hear). As they would
see from the balance sheet, the net
divisible profits were about £46,000
niore than they were last year, and
nearly £20,000 more than the highest
atnount realised since the company was
rued. He hoped that the results
Id be considered satisfactory.
Then, speaking of the general prospects
of trade, he said those shareholders
who were at the last annual meeting
would remember that he held out some
hope of improved trade, and stated that
company had orders on their books
^upwards of £500,000 to commence the
business of the year. He was now very
sd to be able to say that at the present
be the orders amounted to nearly
iiooo.ooo (applause). So that their
prospects, at any rate, were somewhat
Jbiouraglng for the new year.”
The first year of our Democratic
.Cariff In the free raw material of our
woolen manufacturers has enabled a
British woolen manufacturing concern
jn, record profits of "the highest amount
^rallzed since the company was
jtormed.” It also began the second year
QM our free trade experiment with or
ders in hand that amounted to nearly
>J31000,000. No wonder the British
(Stockholders greeted these remarks of
Blr Henry with “applause,” as they
^mpared the two annual reports of
*«*-v
1894 and 1895, a digest of which 1b given
in the following parallels:
*>• A. * a HENRY CO.. LIMITED.
’ ' BRADFORD. I
■% 'jr*Z. Annual Report. 1894.
. £53,910
^Dividend..........,.5 per cent
Reserve fund. £85,000
r. Carried forward .,. £»io
* Annual Report, 1895.
Profit... £95,708
Dividend...7 per cent
Reserve fund.. £100,000
Curled forward. £15,708
K, "■%' .
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Although only a seven per cent, divi
dend was paid, yet the chairman ex
plained that the company had really
earned 12 per cent., but that this was
one of the yet i when It was prudent to
add a large sum to the reserve fund.
But what have Lister & Co. done?
Although they cannot present so roseate
a statement as their neighbors, yet their
100 per cent. Increase In dividend is
considerable. Here Is the balance sheet
also:
LISTER & CO., MANNINOHAM
MILLS, BRADFORD.
Annual Report, 1894.
Profit . £16,223
• Dividend .2 per cent.
Carried forward .
Annual Report, 1895.
Profit. £73,382
Dividend.4 per cent.
Carried forward . £4,682
* The profit of £15,223 being Insuffi
cient to meet the payment of a divi
dend, the Directors took £34,437 15s. 5d.
from the reserve fund so as to cover
£15,437 158. 7d. deficiency. This enabled
them to pay 2 per cent, dividend for
1894.
What American woolen mannfacturer
can present so favorable a statement of
his last year's trade as either of these
two British •concerns? And still the
Democratic adherents profess to be
lieve In free trade and, by their pro
fessions, try to make others believe!
that* they are Americans while they
practically place orders of five million
dollars’ worth of goods, with but one
British manufacturing firm, as a starter
for its new year’s trade.
A Sugar Trout Prophecy.
John E. Scarles, Jr., secretary of the
American Sugar Refineries company,
said: "I do not think any party would
dare to do anything that would mater
ially disturb the prosperity of the
country. The country Is too great to
allow the upsetting of any of Its in
dustries, and the party that attempted
It would come to grief.—New York Bun,
Novemt^pr 11, 1892.
I (I
liS-GOYERNfltflT
While Mr. Searlea did not fathom the
depth of degradation of the Democratic
party, to whoso campaign funds hii
sugar trust contributed liberally in New
York state, yet he was a true prophet.
The party that did attempt to “disturb
the prosperity of the country” has
“come to grief."
Japan Manufacture! Cotton.
Japan appears to be the only coun
try that is buying more cotton from
the United States than a year ago.
Last month she took S.100 bales, as
against 1,550 bales In January, 1895,
every other country buying less. The
freight rate on cotton. In carloads,
from Houston, San Antonio and some
other Texas points to Yokohama lias
been $2S per ton of 2,000 pounds. In
cluding the cost of compressing, or
$26 per ton exclusive of the cost of
compressing. The rate from San Fran
cisco to Yokohama is quoted by the
Southern Pacific company at $10 per
ton. The rate from New York to Liv
erpool, February 1,' was 3-J6 cent per
pound, rather less than $4 per ton,
and from New York to Bremen at $5
to $6.25 per ton plus 5 per cent prim
age. At present the difference In
freight is heavily against Japan, which
will afford some protection to American
manufacturers.
Democracy Will Get Thera.
The old legend, ‘ Pike's Peak or
bust.” which used to adorn the canvas
covers of emigrant wagons in the old
days, has been succeeded by various
signs appropriate to the changed and
chauging location of tbe boomers’ par
adise. A big prairie schooner passed
through Osborne, Kas.. bound east from
from Oklahoma last week, bearing tho
Inscription: "Oklahoma for starvation,
Kansas for desolation, Texas for devas
tation, Nebraska for damnation. Go
ing to Ohio to sponge on wife's rela
tion. To hell with Democratic admin
istration.”
Where the Trouble Lies.
- The performing of labor makes a na
tlon rich, while importing the product
of labor makes a nation poor. In those
few words lies all our tariff troubles.
—Fibre and Fabric.
XV hut rree Wool Did.
Free wool brought us more square
yards of foreign cu.-peta than in any
year since 1880.
, DAIRY AND POULTRY.
i -
! INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
Mow Successful Farmer* Operate This
Department of the Farm—A Few
Hints a* to the Care of Lire Stock
and Poultry.
N England, as In
'IB the United States,
cj.Jl there Is a continual
sjjfl warfare carried on
SjRI between the mak
J%I era and sellers of
’ ‘— pure butter and the
sellers of marga
rine. Most of the
latter material Is
imported from Hol
land. In a re
cent Investigation by a commit
tee of the bouse of commons,
one of the big Importers of margarine
was examined. He told the committee
that himself and his associates were
opposed to the selling of margarine for
butter. They had, however, found that
the local officers would not enforce the
law against such sales. He and his as
sociates had therefore begun prosecu
tions against offenders, and had already
convicted some dozen men In the local
courts.
He described the efforts of an honest
tradesman to prevent his competitors
from selling margarine and margarine
mixtures for butter. Said tradesman
had purchased a grocer’s stock and
with it had found a large quantity of
margarine. The clerk told him that
the former proprietor had been selling
It for shilling butter and that he might
as well do the same thing. He refused
to touch It. His competitors continu
ing to sell, as described, he secured
samples of their goods and called In the
inspector. The latter informed him
that If he would attend to his own busi
ness and let the doings of other people
alone, he would be all right.
The only way the law could be en
forced, declared the margarine import
er, was to have national inspectors
who should pass from place to place,
and who would not be affected by pri
vate and local interests.
Some Good Hens Reported.
For thirty-five years I have beon
breeding poultry. During that time I
A HORSE OP 500 YEARS AGO.
Here la the picture o{ the great white 60 years before the settlement of St.
horse of Northern Europe as he existed Augustine in Florida, and 116 years
noarly 600 years ago. This ie repro- before the Pilgrim Fathers set foot on
duced from an engraving of a picture the shores of New England. This great
by Albert Durer, and bears date of 1506. white horse was the one ridden by
This was painted 13 years after Chris- the knights of that day in those coun
topher Columbus discovered America, tries.
have bred Langshans, Light Brahmas,
White Cochins, Partridge Cochins, Buff
Cochins, Silver Spangled Hamburgs,
Rose and Single Comb Brown Leg
horns, White and Barred Plymouth
Rocks, and am now breeding Buff Co
chins, White and Barred Plymouth
Rocks. For town I thluk the Buff Co
chins are the best breed; for the farm
the Barred Plymouth Rocks are the
best.
I have four poultry houses, each
10x30 feet, 8 feet high In front and 5
In the back, with a shed roof. They
are good, warm houses, with sash win
dows In front In my winter feeding.
I usually take equal parts of bran and
shorts, and sometimes mix corn meal
with it. Sometimes I add chopped
oats. I stir it all up dry and pour hot
water on It. I stir It well after that,
and let It stand about an hour before
feeding. This Is for breakfast. I also
sometimes feed wheat. At night I feed
whole corn.
Our marker here is usually good.
There Is a cold storage firm here that
ships to Boston, and another firm that
ships both live and dressed poultry.
I get a fair supply of eggs in winter.
I had last year 55 hens, and from these
I got, from January 1st, 1895, to Janu
ary 1st. 1893, 4,878 eggs, and raised
300 chickens ly hens. 1 have lost
more fowls from roup and cholera (or
Indigestion) than from any other cause.
I think mere fowls die from indiges
tion than from cholera. In raising
broods my chief troubles have been in
the chicks having bowel trouble and
being Infested with lice.
I sometimes doctor the hens, but it
Is easier to keep them well than to
cure them after they are sick. Give
them plenty of exercise and good, dry
roosting places. 1 have a new breed
developed myself. They are a rose
comb Barred Plymouth Rocks. 1 have
a pullet of this breed that began lay
ing In October, 1894, and kept up lay
ing an egg every day till along into
| February. Then I commenced to keep
a record of how many eggs she would
lay. From the first of February, 1895,
till the first of September, . seven
months, she laid 144 eggs, by actual
count. I also had a pen of three pul
lets and a hen of the same breed. I
kept a record of this pen for eleven
months. In that time the four birds
laid SCI eggs and each one of the fowls
raised a brood of chickens within that
time. J. R. Sheoffer.
Davis Count7, Iowa.
(The above is an excellent letter.
The five fowls spoken of made good
records, for high records are much
more uncommon than most people sup
| pose.—Ed. F. R.)
Air for the Cows*
The English government some time
ago took up the matter of the proper
supply of air to cows. It is regarded
as part of the work of the public health
officers to inspect all barns and see
either that the buildings are well ven
tilated or that they are large enough
to permit of being shut for some hours
without detriment to tbe health of the
cows. It Is said that the execution of
the law has occasioned a great deal of
friction in the country districts of
England. The medical officers make
specifications as to how a barn shall
be ventilated, or in the absence of ven
tilation how many cubic feet of air
may be given to each animal. Most of
the barns are found to fall far below
the requirements. It is very likely
that investigation would show the same
condition of things to exist in this
country, though in a less degree.
In fact, some of our barns are so
poorly built that they need neither ven
tilators nor air space, since the air has
free ingress and egress through the ,
cracks between the boards. To such
as have tight barns the question Is
pertinent. Of the two ways mentioned,
giving the cows more breathing space
would appear better than to ventilate, |
since by the former method all drafts
may be shut off. When an animal is
not in the best of condition, a draft of
cold air too frequently proves the be
ginning of serious and sometimes fatal
disorders.
MatnalTy Interested.
The creamery man Is Interested in
the welfare of his patrons, whether he
realizes it or not. That is, their inter
ests are so woven together that what
hurts one hurts the other. Too often
the idea gets into the head of the man
ager of the stock creamery that his
chief concern Is to get his patrons to
sell him milk as cheaply as possible,
and he does hot care whether the pa
trons make money or not. In the end
this course must be disastrous to the
•creamery Itself. As the patrons Dud
out they are making little money they
decrease the number Of their cows, or
'go out of the business altogether.
It is to the interest of the creamery
that a large quantity of milk be sup
plied, and the richer It Is, the less will
be the loss in separating. It therefore
becomes advisable for the oreamery
manager to have a friendly interest in
the cows of his patrons. If he be am
bitious enough he will stir up his pa
trons to test their cows and do away
with the poor stock. Probably there
are a great many cows in the list of
nearly every creamery that would
yield a profit by being disposed of.
Dairy Notes.
Is it a fact that it costs $35 per year
to keep a cow in teed alone?
It is better to test the cows before
you buy them than afterward.
Look to the condition of the cows
about to calve. It is better not to have
them too fat
Do you know Just what each cow of
your herd is doing, or just how much
milk and butter she can produce in a
year?
The man that begins to keep a strict
book account of all things is the man
that has improved his chances of suc
cess in the dairy.
The old idea that ignorance and dai
rying can go together is exploded. If
any part of the farm work ueeds sci
ence, it is the dairy.
Some of our best dairymen advocate
having their heifers drop their first
calves at two years of age. What is
the opinion of our readers on that
point?
Although it is hard to fatten a cow
during the milkiug period, it should
be attempted whenever the cow is to
be sold for beef after she runs dry.
Some cows will lay on fat even wr.en
they are giving milk, provided they j
are fed all the fattening food they can I
diaest
The Origin of “Peach.”
Few people are aware that the term
“peach,” as appled to girls of more
than ordinary attractiveness, and con
sidered atrocious slang by the ultra
cultured class, can trace its ancestry
back to a poem of perhaps America’s
most famous poet, lie was writing
about Philadelphia, and the line in
question would seem to indicate that in
his judgment Philadelphia's girls were
all “peaches.” At any rate, such a
meaning can be extracted without the
slightest assistance of the imagination.
Henry \V. Longfellow is the poet in
question, and the line occurs in his cel
ebrated poem “Evangeline." In the
opening lines of the fifth stanza of Part
Second the poet says:
In that dell'-'htful land which is washed by
the Delaware's waters.
Guarding iq sylvan shades the name of
Penn, the apostle.
Stands on the banks of its beautiful stream
the city ha founded;
There all the air Is balm, and the peach Is
the emblem of beauty.
_—Philadelphia Record.
English as She Is Spoke.
The darkey is fond of long1 words.
The meaning doesn’t matter, so the
words ane long, as this absolutely true
story will testify:
. On the M-'s plantation in Missis
sippi lives an old “before the war”
darky, too old to do any work harder
than throwing feed to the poultry. She
has known no other home and is a char
acter. Visitors to the plantation al
ways go to her cabin, and to their ques
tion, “How are you this morning. Aunt
Chris?” never failing to receive the fol
lowing reply, “Well, honey. I’m kinder
oncomplicated. De superfluity ob de
moruin* done taken do vivocity outon
de air and left me de consequence ob
comprehension.”—From the “Editor's
Denver” in Harper's Magazine for
April.
The Whole Teaching of I,lfc.
The whole teaching of his life, in
deed, is to leave us free and to make us
reasonable, and the supreme lesson of
his life is voluntary brotherhood, fra
ternity. If you will do something for
another, if you will help him or serve
him, you will at once l. egin to love
him. 1 know there are some casuists
who distinguish here, and say that you
may love such an one. anil that, in
fact you must love every one, and if
you are good you will love every one;
nut that you are not expected to like
ever}' one. This, however, seems to be
a distinction without a difference. If
you do not like a person you uo not
lore him, and if you do not love him
you loathe him. The curious thing in
doing kindness is that it makes you
love people even in this sublimated
sense of liking. When you love an- i
other j-ou have made him your brother;
and by the same means you can be a
brother to all men. — W. 0. Howells, in
the April Century.
Soap Plants.
There are several trees and plants in
the world whose berries, juice or bark
are as good to wash with us real soapi
In the West India islands and in South i
America grows a tree whose fruit makes
an excellent lather and is used to wash
clothes. The bark of the tree which
grows in Peru and of another which
grows in Malay islands yields a fine
soap The common soap-wort, which
is indigenous to England, and is found
nearly everywhere in Europe, is so full
of suponine that simply rubbing the
leaves together in water produces a
soapy lather.
Mothers
Anxiously watch declining health of
their daughters. So many are cut off
by consumption in early years that
there is real cause for anxiety. In
the early stages, when not beyond
the reach of medicine, Hood’s Sarsa
parilla wHl restore the quality and
quantity of the blood and thus give
good health. Head the following letter:
“It is but Just to write about my
daughter Cora, aged 19. She was com
pletely run down, declining, had that tired
feeling, and friends said she would not
live over three months. She had a bad
Cough
•nd nothing seemed to do her any good.
I happened to read about Hood’s Sarsapa
rilla and had her give it a trial. From tho
very first dose she began to get better.
After taking a few bottles she was, com
pletely cured and her health has been the
best ever since.” Mbs. Addis Peck,
12 Bailroad Place, Amsterdam, N. Y.
“I will say that my mother has not
stated my case in as strong words as I
would have done. Hood’s Sarsaparilla
has truly cured me and I am now well.”
Coba Peck, Amsterdam, N. Y.
Be sure to get Hood’s, because
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