BOW THE TARIFF IS WORKING.
We remember that the chief officers
of the Illinois Steel company (aconcern
second only to the Carnegie works)
were gi?ing to the public the most
gloomy and pessimistic predictions of
the inevitable effect of the new tariff
upon their interests so long as it should
be a law. But now the new tariff be
ing only in existence ten months, and
having at least two years of life re
maining the wages of that company's
7,000 workmen have recently been in
creased and its great mills, in several
cities, are full of work. Certain well
known manufacturers of spool cotton
thread in New Jersey gave to the pub
lic one year ago a statement that the
proposed reduction of the duty from
7 cents to 5 cents per dozen spools
would exert a most depressing influence
upon their business. The minds oi
employes were prepared for a reduc
tion in wages, and it was even sug
gested that it might be necessary to j
take the business back to England and
Scotland. One of our contemporariet
has recently made an inquiry as to th
condition of this thread industry, and
it reports that since the beginning oi
the present year the mills have been
working to their full capacity, with the
maximum force employed. There wa
a reduction of wages during the period
of depression, although the working
force was cut down for a time, and it
is stated that business is more lively
than it was in 1893. Everybody was
told last summer that the copper min-J
ing industry would be ruined by the!
removal of the duty on copper, but the
mines continued to pay their large div
idends, and wages were recently in
creased in the largestof them, and the
prices of copper stocks have been ris
ing for some time on the exchange in
Boston. The owners of the iron ore
mines in the Lake Superior district,
and many republican journals, asserted
that this mining industry would be
ruined by the reduction of the duty on
ore from 75 to 40 cents per ton. But
there has been a noticeable revival of
activity in that mining district.
Wages have been increased. The lat
est reports say that the ore shipments
during May and June have broken all
records and that the. ore output for
1895 "will unqustionably be the largest
yet made."
Tb.at Fixas the Pries of Gold Bullion.
Editor Journal: For the benefit
of some that do not understand why
gold bullion commands the price it
does, and for the benefit of others who
dispute the cause of its stable price.
I will quote from England's coinage
law of 1S70. I would like to have every
person examine for himself to see
whether these are facts or not, and to
help such as feel disposed to inform
themselves. I will say, look in volume
16 page 435, of Encyclopedia Britanica
and you will find the law construed by
B. W. Chandler Roberts, and R. A.
Hill, both of the Royal mint London.
They say that: "Gold bullion for coin
age is supplied to the mint almost en
tirely by the bank of England, the
bank being bound by law to purchase
at the rate of 3, 17s 9d per ounce any
gold bullion of the legal standard,
which the public may bring for sale.
Private individuals are permitted to
bring bullion to the mint, and to re
ceive back the full amount (at 3 17s
10d an ounce) converted into coin,
free of any charge for loss or manu
facture;" but, as they are subject to
some delay in the comingof the bullion
at 3 17s 10d an ounce more generally
prefer to take 3 17s 9d an ounce and
do as they please with it. Ask yourself
the question, now, does this law create
an unlimited demand for gold bullion,
or not? Be your own judge and jury
in the matter not for England alone
but for the world over. For myself I
have no doubt on the subject. II. B.
Sexator David Turple, of Indi
ana, '.permanent chairman of the
Memphis silver convention, said
"Ratio and parity are two words
much used in this discussion, and have
experienced similar fortunes. When it
is proposed by us to restore silver to
full coinage, parity is spoken of as an
invincible objection. How has parity
been maintained from 1792 to 1895 ?
By law. In the same manner we shal
establish and maintain the same par
ity. For this parity by law we shall have
a voucher, that of more than a cen
tury's maintenance. Parity and ratio
are handsome names. Elegant syno
nyms for that hostility to silver which
its enemies would prefer to disguise
In the vernacular of the single gold
standard, as it is spoken today, parity
means no more silver; a ratio means
nothing but gold. They have put silver
under duress. We would make it free
as before."
" Democratic Committee Meeting.
The democratic county central com
mittee is called to meet at the police
judge's office in Plattsmouth, Ne
braska, on July 20, 1895, at 1 o'clock
p.m. for the purpose of calling county
convention and such other business
as may come before it.
M. Archer, Cbairmaq.
Chas. Grimes, Sec'y.
GOLDEN APPI.ES.
(.Written for The JocknalJ
The golden apples Lang Just out of reath,
While those we erasp are only tasteless austt
Yet do we never heed the tale they teach ,
They're only ashes all, beneath the crust.
We look upon our neighbor's richer dres9
And envv him. perchance, his nappieriot;
We cannot Bee the weary cares that press,
The tears that rise beneath his eyelids hot.
He has not poverty, we have not gold ,
Yet we. maybe, are far more ricniy Diest;
We may be young, perhaps, while he is old,
He may be racked with pain, while we may
rest.
Each has his sorrow, reck not otherwise;
Deep hid beneath the pleasing outer shell,
Within the chamber of the heart it lies ;
Each knows his awn and guards his secret
well.
The golden apples bang just out of reach.
While those we grasp are only tasteless dust,
Yet do we never heed the tale they teach ;
They're only ashes all. beneath the crust.
Isabel Richet.
PERSONAL, POLITICAL AND PERTINENT.
A severe hail-storm visited Tecum-
seh Tuesday, doing considerable dam
age. The corn and other vegetation
was nearly ruined, while the fruit was
knocked t ff the trees. It hailed for
fifty uiiuutes and three inches of rain
fell. The storm belt was only about
two miles and a half in width and ex
tended about two miles north and
south.
Among the democrats the names of
Wm. Taylor jr. and Wm. Wheeler are
spoken of as likely candidates for
sheriff.
The weather is warm and dog days
are near at hand, therefore every one
should keep a sharp eye on their dogs
and when they act a little queer it is
better to kill them than to run tberisk
of having someone bitten, even though
tbey may not be suffering from the
rabbies. One human life is worth all
of the dogs in the world.
A "tall man with a blonde mus
ache" is going about central Illinois
claiming to be John the Baptist. He
is doubtless an impostor. He doesn't
answer the authorized description of
John the Baptist in any particular.
In political circles there is consider
able talk of making Chas. C. Parmele
the democratic candidate for county
treasurer, and he is said to be very
popular throughout the county.
The new woman at Bryn Mawr col
lege is responsible for the latest and
best joke about the Deleware peach
crop. "In Deleware," they say at
Bryn Mawr, "the people eat what
peaches tbey can and can what peaches
they can't." The new woman who is
capable of that kind of thing, will
make her way.
According to the assessment returns
for Lancaster county, only one man in
that county owns a bicycle, while some
three thousand people ride wheels in
Lincoln alone. The riders claim they
are not legally the owners of the bicy
cles until they are paid for, and they
all say tbey are paying for them on
the installment plan.
The reported increase in the force at
the Plattsmouth car shops is in per-
fecl accord with divers reports of bet
ter business prospects throughout the
state. Omaha Bee.
David Weaver of Cairo, Ritchie
county, W. Va., on whose land a big
240-barrels-a-day oil well was struck
one day last week, died the next day of
heart disease resulting from excite
ment over his stroke of good fortune.
"I'm ferninst bloomers," as the hus
band said, when he tossed his wife's
houseplants into the street. Ex.
LUt of Letter
Remaining unclaimed in the postoffice
at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, July 17,
1895:
Arnold, L L Blsizek, Frank
Hawkins, S P Lynch, Rev
Smith, Birt Weeks. C W
Peste. Gottfried.
Persons calling for any of the above
letters or parcels will please say "ad
vertised." VV. K. Fox, P. M.
Special Notice.
The 24th annual camp meeting of
the state Holiness association will be
held at Bennett, Neb., Aug. 10-20.
Itev. G. W. Wilson of Des Moines, la.,
and Rev. P. F. Bresee, D. D., of Los
Angeles, both members of the Na
tional Holiness association, will con
duct the meeting. Reduced rates on
all railroads. For further particulars
write to the secretary, H. (i. Wilcox,
Beatrice, Neb.
Prominent Druggist of Blair. Neb., Write
Magnet Chemical Co.
Dear Sirs: The goods which we
bought through your salesman are
sellers j the Magnet Pile Killer es
pecially sella good and gives excellent
satisfaction. We have re-ordered
through our jobbers several times.
Respectfully yours.
Palmer & Taylor.
For sale by Gering & Co.
J. M. Young brought in last Men
day and posted in front of The Jour
nal office a hill of corn from his
father's field near Rock Bluffs, the
stalks in which averaged 11 feet 3
inches, and the tallest stalk was Bilked
with two ears.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE,
Dr. Marshall, Graduate DENT
IST, Fit2grerald block.
Bi Seybert of Murray was in town
Saturday.
J. M. Carper of Weeping Water was
a court house visitor Monday.
Louie Boedeker, the Louisville stock
dealer, was in town Tuesnay en bus
iness.
Harvey Holloway went to Nehawka
and Weeping Water Monday on his
wheel.
Mrs. W. H.Dearing and sister de
parted Saturday afternoon for a visit at
Wabash.
Miss Nellie Spencer departed for
Ashland Monday morning to attend
the teacher's institute.
Geo. Amick, a prosperous farmer of
this vicinity departed last Tuesday on
a business trip to Lincoln.
Many farmers were in town Saturday
having laid their corn by. and are now
makiug ready for harvest.
Jacob Tritpcb, the ex-county com
missioner, was in town Tuesday. He
is spokeu of for county treasurer.
Mrs. Street is having her millinery
pallors papered and cleaned, greatly
improving the appearance thereof.
County Treasurer L. C. Eickhoff
was in town Friday morning, and
went up to Omaha in the afternoon.
Doc. Hunter, mayor of Cullom, and
Councilmen McCool and Brooks of
that city spent Sunday in Platts
mouth. Attorney A. L. Timblin of Weeping
Water was attendiug district court
yesterday. He says he is not seeking
rfny oflice.
Govge Horn of Cedar Creek was in
town Saturday. He say s the cribs and
elevators there aie hungry for the com
ing big crop.
District court convened yesterday
and has been busy all day with the
suit of the Plattsmouth Water com
pany vs. A. B. Smith.
Messrs. Ed. Schulhof, Arthur Big
nell. H. K. Fogarty, Rob't. Schaper
and Ed. Kroehler of Havelock visited
in the city Monday.
Miss Minnie Sharp of Louisville,
who has been visiting with Mrs. Way
bright and other friends for a week,
returned home Saturday afternoon.
Fine large cooking plums were sell
ing on the street Tuesday for $1.25
per bushel. The price will probably be
lower yet, as the plum crop is very
bountiful this year.
Mrs. Frank Young and children of
Durango, Colo., accompanied by the
former's father, S. W. Barnett, of
Weeping Water, are in the city visit
ing with Mrs. Street.
John J. Stineof Union was in Mon
day paying his taxes and took the
trouble to renew his subscription to
The Weekly Journal. He is one
of the early settlers of Nebraska.
E. S. Barnett, the rotund and jolly
justice of the peace from Weeping
Water, was here Tuesday airing his
chances for the nomination on the re
publican ticket for county judge.
Wm. Eikenbary of Union, who was
in town the other day, says crops are
advanced a week more down that way
than in this part of the county, and
the small grain harvest is at its height.
Hawrick,the Sixth street secondhand
dealer, is growing some cotton plants
on the south side of his building.
Their growth will be watched with
interest especially as the holies come
to maturity.
Misses Maud and Lilly Coray, two
of Cass county's teachers, departed
Fridav morning for a fortnight's visit
among friends in Missouri, taking
their lit-le niece with them to see her
grandparents.
Chas. Schopp. living a mile or two
south of town, brought In a branch off
one of his apricot trees last Tuesday
that was literally loaded down with
ripe fruit. He says he lias twenty
trees, all full of fruit.'
Richard Nast. a well known farmer
of Nehawka precinct, was in town Fri
day. He says that crops out his way
are excellent and the farmers will com
mence about next week to harvest
their wheat and oats.
A five rr.ile race has been arranged
between Lee Allison and his team of
bronchos and a bieycle rider on the
fair grounds track at Shenandoah on
the 24th inst. That foolish Iowa biker
needs to have bis eye teeth cut and Lee
is the man to do it to a turn.
J. WKinser has just completed an
extensive job of plastering for Wm
Hagel, a wealthy German farmer of
Mt. Pleasant precinct. Koehnke &
Frahm, the carpenters, recently built
Mr. Hagel a large, new house and
Wesley secured the contract for plas
tering it.
Wiley Black and P. E. Ruffner are
picking, packing in barrels and ship
ping apples of the Duchess variety
from the orchard of J. P. Falter this
week. They last week put up 25
barrels from an orchard near Murray.
Tbey pay 75 cents a barrel for the
fruit on the tree.
J.C.Petersen brought in a stalk of
corn from bis field near the head of
Chidago avenue last Friday, July 12,
that was tasseled and silked cut,
measuring eleven feet aiiel six inches
tn height. It is of the white dent va
riety. The growth is very large for
that date. Can anybody beat it?
Subscribe for the Weekly Jour
nal $1 per year, if paid in advance.
HOW BEADS ARE MADE.
One of the Oldest and Most Interesting of
the Minor Arte.
Chinese are the oldest beadmakers in
the world. They have made beads so
long that even their historians do not
mention a time when the industry was
not ancient. And the Chinese today do
the work just as their forefathers did,
and the styles are exactly the same.
After the Chinese no people are so ex
pert as the Venetians. At present there
are more than 1,000 workmen in the is
land of Murano alone who are engaged
in beadmaking. The few manufacturers
in other parts of the world have all
learned the secret of the craft in Venice.
For beadmaking there must be a rope
walk connected with the glass factory.
A rope walk is a narrow, straight gal
lery 150 feet long and so situated that
the middle is not far from the furnaces
in which the glass is melted. The first
process is the making of ordinary tubes
like those used in almost every drug
store. Two brawny workmen with bare,
brown arms seize a huge wedge of -the
"metal," as the molten glass is called,
between their blowpipes, and after it
has been blown hollow thoy gradually
stretch it out into a long, swinging rope.
When it has been reduced to the prop
er Bize for the beads about to be made,
it is laid away to cool, after which a
workman comes along and in a wonder
fully deft manner chips it into frag
ments of uniform size. Often for small
beads these are not much larger than a
grain of wheat, but so carefully is the
work done that the little cylinders are
rarely cracked or spoiled.
The pieces are now picked up by boys
and placed in a tub with sand and ashes
and stirred up carefully. In this way
the holes in the embryo beads are stuffed
full, thus preventing the danger of the
sides flattening together when heat is
applied. They are next placed in a skil
letjust such a one as the housewife
uses in frying eggs and stirred over a
very hot fire until the ragged edges
where the pieces were broken from the
tube are rounded, giving the bead a
globular form.
As soon as tbey are cool tne ashes and
sand are shaken out of them in a sieve,
and then they are separated according
to size by other sieves. They are taken
next to a long table around which a
whole flock of boys and girls are sitting.
If the glass is colored, as it often is, the
piles of beads on the table suggest a
rainbow, with every hue, from jet black.
through red, green, yellow and blue, up
to white.
Each child has a needle and thread,
and by long practice the beads are
placed on strings with almost incon
ceivable swiftness. And the children
keep an exact count, too, so that the
manufacturer knows just how many
beads be is seudkig out. The threads
are tied into bundles and shipped to al
most every port where a vessel touches.
Chicago Record.
BRYANT'S MARRIAGE.
It Wm an Ideal Union Between the Poet
and Ills Wife.
Allusion has already been made to
William Cullen Bryant's marriaga
None could have been happier, no un
ion more nearly an ideal one. Miss Fan
ny Fairchild was a young lady whose
parents had lived on the Seekonk, a
stream tributary to the Green river, not
far from Great Barrington. Early left
an orphan, she made her home alter
nately with her married sisters in that
place, and there it was that Bryant met
her. Charming in person, sweet in dis
position, lovely in character, she drew
him to her through his sympathy with
her orphanage, his admiration of her
beauty and his appreciation of her
worth. For 45 years she was the stay
and blessing of his life. What that mar
riage was to him they knew best who
knew him best. Reserved on the subject
to the world at large, he allowed only
those who were nearest him to know
the wonderful depth and tenderness of
his affection. Their sympathy was per
fect, their dependence mutual.
: He said at her death: "I never wrote
a poem that I did not repeat it to her
and take her judgment upon it. I found
its success with the public to be pre
cisely in proportion to the impression it
made upon her. " A dear friend of them
both has said: "The union between Mr.
and Mrs. Bryant was a poem of the
tenderest rhythm. Any of us who re
member Mr. Bryant's voice when he
said 'Frances' will join in his hope that
she kept the same beloved name in
heaven. I remember alluding to those
exquisite lines, 'The Future Life,' to
Mrs. Bryant, and her replying, 'Oh, my
dear, I am always sorry for any one
who sees me after reading those lines ;
they must be so disappointed. ' ' Beatrice
and Laura have not received such trib
utes from their poets, for Mrs. Bryant's
husband was her poet and lover at 70 a?
at 17. Arthur Lawrence in ffcnfnTv
What Ailed Him.
A gentleman of Berwyn, Pa., who is
employed with an electrical light com
pany, has two boys aged 8 and 5 years
respectively. The older one, through
frequent conversations with his father,
is familiar with electrical terms, appli
ances and probabilities.
Little 8-year-old one cold morning
was fumbling with a half frozen wasp
that had lodged on the window silL The
wasp thawed out, and recovered much
of his usual animation, a fact proved by
a succession of yells on the part of the
boy.
"What's the matter with Dawson?"
cried the father as he rushed from an
adjoining room.
"I 'spect he touched a live wire," re
plied the brother, with a scarcely per
ceptible OThx:outh,sCorQpanioq.
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BIRDS LIKE TO TRAVEL.
The Reason They Aunaitlly Leave Xortta
crn Cllmei and Fly South.
Why do the birds flit southward each
autumn and return again with every
fpriug? No one knows, hut science; in
the person of Professor Wang, the emi
nent Austrian ornithologist, has just dis
closed that the usual flippant answer to
this question, "Because they like to
travel," is not far out of the way, after
alL
In a lecture that Professor Wang re
cently delivered at Vienna he gave some
extremely interesting details regarding
the migrations of birds, all of which
migrations resemble one another in two
respects: They follow the most direct
line southward, and are made with al
most incredible rapidity. Numerous ob
servations have been made at Helgo
land, which is the principal halting
place of birds of passage from northern
countries, and of Egypt, which is the
winter home of many, and these obser
vations have established some facts hith
erto unknown. The bluebirds traverse
the 400 nautical miles which separate
Egypt from Helgoland in a single night,
which is at the rate of more than 40
geographical miles per hour. The swal
low's speed is over 24 miles per min
ute, or nearly three times that of th
fastest railway train. Even the younger
birds, 6 or 8 weeks old, accompany the
others in their journey.
Professor Wang asks himself what is
the impulse which causes the birds, aft
er the brooding and molting season is
over, to quit our nothern climate. He
does not think it is fear of cold for
many species quite as delicate as those
which migrate southward easily with
stand the rigors of the winter hut that
they have an irresistible humor for
traveling. This is his idea of the fact,
but he can give no explanation.
The Work of the Heart.
One of the most remarkable things
about the heart is the amount of work
it .does. Considering the organ as a
pump whose task is to deliver a known
quantity of blood against a known
"head," it is easy to show that in 24
hours a man's heart does about 124 foot
tons of work. "In other words," says a
contemporary, "if the whole force ex
pended by the heart in 24 hours were
gathered into one huge stroke, such a
power would lift 124 tons one foot from
the ground. A similar calculation has
been made respecting the amount of
work expended by the muscles involved
in breathing. In 24 hours these muscles
io about 21 foot tons of work. "
A Mob.
A mob is usually a creature of very
mysterious existence, particularly in a
large city. Where it comes from or
whither it goes few men can tell. As
sembling and dispersing with equal sud
denness, it is as difficult to follow to
its various sources as the sea itself, nor
does the parallel stop here, for the ocean
is not more fickle and uncertain, more
terrible when aroused, more unreason
able or more cruel. Dickens.
KJght on m Dark Subject.
Rivers Supposing it to be true that
Luther did throw an ink bottle at satan,
why do you think he did it?
Banks- I presume he wanted to see if
ae couldn't make him blacker than he
vas nmnted. Chicago Tribune.
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