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About The Wealth makers of the world. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1894-1896 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1895)
1) VOL. VII. SO MOVES THE WORLD. The population of New York City is 1,849,856. The New York World has a circulation ol 553,813 daily. Fifteen people were killed in London Oct. 29, by an explosion of gas. Four sweat shop toilers were burned to death in a New York Are Nov. da. The jury in the Durraiit murder trial convicted hi in , agreeing on first ballot The Iron Moulders Union has gajned ten per cent in membership or 3,500, since August 1. The Hawniian government has ap pointed Francis W. Hatch its minister at Washington. . There are in this country 293 colleges and universities, with an attendance of 141,800 students. H. II. Holmes has been found guilty of murdering members of the Pitzel family, for insurance money. The assassination of the queen of Corea is causing Japan trouble. Some Japs bad a hand in it. " Mayor Pingree of Detroit has been named for presidential candidate next year. He is a people s man. Depew has issued on order forbidding the sale of "Corn s Financial bcliool,, on the Vanderbilt system of roads. See? The wholesale murderer for life insur ance, Holmes, is being tried for his life in Philadelphia, and will doubtless hang. At the National Institute for the Blind in France cycling is one of the amuse' r, " - ments, and they even race and have ' - established records. '". The earth has been trembling under . ft.: xr .. ..a Ti. : .. ... that the Almighty dopn not make it shake at New York and Washington." Walking backward is said by the Medi' cal Record to be "an excellent and never failing cure for the heffdache." Ten minutes is as long as is usually neces' eary to promenade. Bill Nye, it is reported, was rotten-egged at Paterson N. J., Nov. 1st. The audience did not appreciate his jokes and he was deluged with stale eggs when leaving the ch urch and at the tram. A woman and two children were burned at the stake in Hidalgo, Mexico, by order of the auxilliary judge of Tecapa, he obeying the mandate of fanatics or alleged saints who claimed they had had a vision. Mrs. Richard Walsh, weighing 200 pounds, jumped from the third story bal cony of a Chicago department store. Oct. 29, and was dashed to death on the floor of the rotunda, in the presence of Hundreds of people. It was intentional suicide. The editor and associate editor of the Yorwaerts and the editor of the Volks- blatt, German socialist papers, have been sentenced to six, nine and twelve months imprisonment for offending His Mjesty the emperor. An appeal has Dwn taken, and tbey are out on bail. Eugene Langen of Colosrne, France, a director ol the Utto Uas bngine Works of Philadelphia, died of heart failure the nu 01 uciuuer. lie uac acquired a , , $20,000,000 fortune fn bt'et suirarmanu- tj ! factoring business iu his country, and wf ciifiuK'.-u eiwiiBivBijf in jjua eugiue inunu- iacturingin uermany as well America. The Hudson is to be spanned at the North river junction by a bridge which is pronounced the greatest undertaking in the world. It will be a 3,200 foot suspension bridge 150 feet above the river and will cost not less than $22, 186,540. The four steel towers to carry the cables will overtop the great Wash ington monument. The masses of masonry that will have to be built on shore to resist the enormous pull of the 16 cabins will in their united weight and bulk rival the great pyramid of Gizeh. When loaded to its full capacity the bridge can carry in midair 17 heavily loaded trains which if strung out would be two miles in length and represent a . load of 26,000 tons. Francis Schlatter, the healer and preacher to the poor, it is said, has per formed any number of genuine cures. He accepts no money, is self-depreciatory and humble. Rev. Myron Reed has borne witness to his sincerity and be lieves in his power, saying that his life is "the most literal following of Jesus Christ that I have ever knowu." Two years ago he was a shoemaker in Denver. In obedience to what he regarded ns the divine voice, he footed it to Arizona, fastod forty days in the desert, then be gan his healing, and after another period of fasting lasting sixty days returned to Denver. He was arrested during this time and confined in jail for traveling without hat and shoes, and while in jail claims to have been reincarnated. The New York Voice commentingon his work says: "The evidence that seems to be accumulating daily in support of his claims is beginning to demand souie ,thing more than superficial attention. Dr. Madden, Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat diseases, over Rock Island ticket office:, S.nvcor. 11 and 0 streets. Glasses accurately adjusted. L. P. Davis, Dentist over Rock Is land ticicet office, cor. 11 and 0 streets. NVESTORS' REVIEW Of London Talks About the Flow of Gold To England AND ITS CAUSE, IT ALSO TELLS What Effect Flows 'From Bond Issues and Increasing Our Private Dtbts to Aliens England's Power , , Increased Over Us by Oar Borrowing Gold. "The Bank of England how holds about $43,000,000 of the precious me tals in its vaults mostly gold," says. the Investors' Review of London. "It never possessed or controlled so large a sum before, and does not know in the least what to do with the money. Still the pile increases in size. Gold comes to us from the ends of the earth. The old 'law' which used to be so eloquently dis cussed by authorities in banking, to the effect that when rates of interest fall to a low point, gold tends to leave the coun try,' has for the present ceased alto gether to operate. 1 Rates of interest have been low beyond precedent for seve ral years now, and will, to all appearaucs, fo sqme time continue just as poor. Yet gold arrives by every ship, and the Bank of England, as things are now going, may soon be put to it to find a storage room. "Why should this be the case? It scarcely requires, explanation. To read ers of the Investors' Review, at all events, the causes should be plain enough Gold is coming to us, primarily, because we are a creditor nation to whom most other nations owe debts payable in gold. For a series of years our dominating position in this respect was concealed by theeuormous totals of our fresh lendings abroad; but since the crisis of 1890, and since the preliminary collapse of the Australian colonies, these lendings have been materially reduced. As a conse quence inter-national trade has been like wise curtailed, and the debtor nations and settlements have been obliged, to some extent, to fall buck upon the yellow metal with which to liquidate a portion of their obligations to us. "Such is broadly the abiding influence which works always in favor of the ship ments of gold to this country when times are 'quiet.' But there are an infinite mimtier of secondary forces some of them of high importance also at work in the same direction. Not least of these is the cheapness of commodities. Owing to the fall in the prices of the simple pro ducts of nature, or of the mine and the farm, which most of our debtors have to depend on for the means of liquidating their dbts to us, a much more severe strain is put upon tlicin thnn they form erly felt. It may often take twice as much of their merchandise to furnish the necessary balance now as it formerly did, and the power to sell enough produce at any price is frequently wanting. When the State or private debtor cannot find in the market enough commercial bills to buy for remittance to pay obligations falling due, gold perforce must be bought and sent, under penally of default. "The United States have been obliged to resume the shipment of gold to us, as we from the first ventured to say they would, principally because theirexports to Europe do not amount to the valuo required if their debtsare to be met with out gold. American financiers have been very persistent and ingenious in staving off the evil day once and again, but it only comes round with increased peremp totiness after each new device has been exhausted. That was a bold flying in the face of nature which was embodied in the syndicate of bankers formed to pre vent gold leaving the country for a given time, and its boldness has borne fruit, Gold is now leaving the United States faster than ever, because the public loan with which the syndicate started has been all absorbed and exhausted, and nothing now stands between the States and there inexorable creditors, not even fresh investments in American securities. To keep the gold from leaving New York for Europeduring the 'close' timedecreed by the very earthly powers at Washine- ton, the gold syndicate had quite early to engage in the manufacture of credit, to (in other words, and vulgarly speak ing) 'fly kites' in the shape of bills of ex change drawn against nothing, and sold on the market to supply the demand for means of remittance. The calculation, of course, was that, by the time the bills came due, America's crop would be harvested and sold to such an extent that trude on this side would be eager buyers of return drafts, by means of which these 'kites' would be liquidated. Harvest is over, and the States rejoice in bumper yields of maize especially; but we are in no such desperate haste to nur- chase. Other countries have corn and cotton and beef to give1 us just as cheap- LINCOLN, NEB., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1895. ly, and the Union has to take its chance in the market. We shall be large cus tomers to it as usual, but nothiug more and the best custom we can give would, not enable the gold syndicate to liqui date its "kites." It will have to send gold over to do that, or "bust"; so it is sending gold, and frightening the British investor out of all disposition to buy railroad bouds in the process. "Unless tbepolitieiaiiBof the Union have learned practical wisdom, which we see no signs of, the next step in their his tory will be a fresh issue of bonds to pro vide again a little gold for the impover ished but extravagant treasury. We shall be delighted to lend ten, twenty, fifty millions sterling to so great a country, for the security is better than any colonial one of our own; and at the end of the lending mount it to 200, 000,000, the cry for gold to be sent to Europe will be more urgent in the New York market than at the beginning, Within the last year the jiermcnent in debtedness of the States to Europe has increased with every issue of railroad or other bonds made on this side, and each increase adds to the sum-total t hey must remit, unless when the bank ruptcies of private corporations relieve the strain, as they often do. But the Federal Government cannot afford to go bankrupt; and therefore, unless it learns wisdom, it will probably go on raking in gold by means of syndicates and loans, and letting it out again in order to main tain its solvency, jor some years yet. There are only two other courses open be fore it; either to be honest and cut down its extravagant budget to a figure which gives a large surplus to the treasury, or to remain dishonestly extravagant, and sink, in consequence, to the position of a "silver" country. We sometimes think the latter the only end to the present confusion, because the knave too gener allo predominates in political affairs everywhere. "To this country, however, these debt creations and kite manufacturings al ways mean an augmented power over the cold supplies of tfte world, because we lend the . niojiey. to , the , borrowing State, or on the accommodation bill of the financier in good credit, wnn equal readiness. Some day we shall, no doubt, find out that we have lent too much, trusted too far; but that day is not yet. We could, perhaps, continue for another quarter of a century to supply all comers with as much money as they couia take, and seem all the richer for the process, because with every enlargement of the debt of other peoples to us comes an ex tension of our credit-creating power, and of our hold over the gold upon which this credit is supposed to rest. What is taking place, however, iu the United States once more vividly sets before the mind's eye the ultimate consequences of this kind of wealth multiplication. The borrowing and lending countries become together ensnared in vicious circles, out of which there is no getting except by violent means. Debt cannot breed debt forever.and mankind liveupon theearth.' L. P. Davis, Dentist over Rock Island ticket office, cor. 11th and O streets. Bridge and Crown Work a specialty. Neither calomel nor any other delete rious drug enters into the composition ol Ayer s Pills. A safe family medicine. You can't tell who is in the coffin by the length of the funeral procession. The man who does his best in the place he has now is on his way to a better place. The man who can not pray for people he doesn't like, can not pray for anybody. The poorest arguments will find their way, when delivered with firmness and decision. When you find anybody who is doing much to help other people, you find who bag suffered. Judas was not the last man who pro fessed sympathy for the poor to hide his own meanness. Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody; and to that person whatever be says has enchanted value. There are too many people in the church who won't march unless they can be at the head of the procession. 'Twould be more monevin vniin nnnVot to enrich your blood with Ayer's Sarsa- puriua. All druggists sell Dr. Miles' 1'aln Fills. This story of Efrhemnn nnna mnn afloat: Having: risen one 'nirht ha nnin. tentionally aroused his wife, who inauired. II A.. T ivio juu bick, waiaot" "Uh, no, my dear," was his reply, "but I've got an idea. What's the matter with these matches! I can't make them ignite. Let it go, now," sighed the philosopher, "my idea is cone." The nnit mnmlnn nrwn arising, Mrs. Emerson found all the teeth tu uer como Droken out. This is supposed to have happened in tha when matches came In cards. Deafness Cannot lie Cured by local applications, n they cannot reach the dlwaned portion of the ear. There is only on whv to cure Dnutnee, and that Is by coimtltu tlonal remedies. Deafness is cansed by an In flamed condition of the mncons lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube nets inflamed yon have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it Is entirely cloned Deafnen is the re sult, and aniens the liillam mation can be taken out and this tnbe restored to It normal condition, hearing be destroyed forever; nine caeea out of ten are canaed by catarrh, which 1 nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. e will give One Hundred Dollars for any can of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that rannot he cured by Hall's Catarrh dire. Rend for r4rilin res- K. J . CH EN K Y Jr. CO.. Toledo. O. t3T Sold by Dmggtsts. 7,-ic. A Short Sermon BY ItEV. CIIA8. M. SHELDON. Pastor Central Cong. Church, Topeka, Kansas, (Preached by the Devil every Monday morning from the pulpil of Sfx-Days-in-the-Week.) Dearly lleloved You will find the text this morning in First Coriuthians, tenth chapter, thirty-first verse; "Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever yp do, do all to the glory of God." This is one of those texts which need careful explanation. The word "what soever," for example, has no reference to anything a man does in politics or busi ness. It refers exclusively to whatsoever a man does while attending divine ser vice on Sundays, teaching a Sunday school class, while he is prayiug in a prayer meeting or conducting family worship. This is very plainly the mean ing of the writer when he said "whatso ever." To attempt to use the word absolutely literally would result in the greatest confusion and disturbance of the political and business world as it is now organized and carried on. EvidentlJ-it refers simply to religious matters con nected with the churches and Sundays- Again, my beloved hearers, let me call your attention to the word "all" in the next text. It is very easy to see that the writer did not mean that "everything" a man did should be done to the glory of God. By "all" he means those things which, outside of politics and business, cau be done to the glory of God when it does not conflict with money-making or with political and social success. Any attempt actually to do every tbiug' to the glory of God would result in the overthrow of the greut competitive sys tem under which we as a nation exist to day. For, as you all know, thecompeti tive system is founded on selfluhuess. If every businessman and every politician should begin to do "all" things to the glory of God, It would result incstablish ing business and politics on love instead of selfishness, and the result would be a complete revolution of all the present system. Finally, brethren, having made these two points clear, namely, that "whatso- .H7 n ' ci ti il ' 1 n 1 1 " (i fti tiAI f i 1 1,. tnLan litoi- ally.letmeurgeupon you the careful and regular attendance of church services on Sunday. . By all means cultivate that Sunday religion which does all things to the glory of God on Sunday. Do not absent yourself from the prayer meeting, and pray long and loud while there, to the glory of God. But remember that six days in the week belong to yourselves to make money und scheme for party places, and have a good time in social amusements. Do not be disturbed by the preaching of some ministers who say that this text means what it says. They are impractical reformers who do not under stand the laws of business or of political parties. Above all, my dear friends, at tend my servicenaiid sit under my preach, ing every Monday and at last you will come to believe every word I say. And if you dou't, you will know all about it when you come to die. The congrega- tion is now dismissed to attend to its money-making and politics and amuse ments for the next six days. The King dom. Try Getting a Job Yourself How often the silly assertion is made, "any man can get work who wants to work," by superficial-minded people, says the Oshkosh "Labor Advocate" who never stop to consider conditions that are constantly enlarging the army of un employed. Only a few months ngo a con tractor called for men . to do some work on a street crossing in Chicago, and while he only wanted about sixty men, more than. 5,000 were on hand at the place appointed. The city council of Salt Lake City ap propriated money to keep seventy-five men at work six weeks in cleaning ditches. The plan was to work seventy five men one week, then lay them off and put on another seventy-five, with the view of giving as many as possibles chance to earn something. Those wish ing to work were required to register at the county building, and it is estimated that from 1,000 to 1,200 were on hand at an early hour to register, and the rush was so great that doors were brok en down and windows broken. Six men fainted in the crowd, overcome with excitement and exhaustion. The scene, described by the "Inter-Mountain Advo cate," was terrible. Men climbed over each other in a battle for bread for them selves and their suffering families. Wolfe's Poland-China Sain As this iBour last issue before the irreat Poland-China hog sale of J. V. Wolfe we again call attention to thedate, Nov. 14. i ersoiis coming in on trams will take "Union College" cars and be landed on Mr. Wolfe's farm. Mr. Wolfe savs his hogs are in excellent health, the finest lot of pigs he has ever raised, and lie invites all to attend, whether wishing to pur chase or not. L. P.Davis. Dentist over Rock- Talanrl ticket office, cor. 11th and 0 Streets. unuge ana i;rown Work a specialty. ARKANSAS n The Ozark Region u Seen bj The Wealth Makers Bpeoial Correspondent THE STATEMENTS HEREIN MAT BE RELIED ON " The Territory Covered by this Article is Confined to the "Big Red Apple" Dis trict of Southwest Missouri and Northwest Arkansas In 8earch of Opportunities , Homes Within Reach of tho Poor Editor Wealth Makeub: On October 18th I left Lincoln to see the "Land of the Big Ued Apples," and I surely found it.. My first stop was at Asbury, Mo. From there I went to Siloam Springs, Ark., and returning stopped at Decatur, Sulphur Springs, and Gravett, Ark., and at Noel and Donohue, . Mo., and will speak of these sections in the order visited. Wbilo I can hardly do justice to the subject in the space I am allowed to occup1' "',1 do the best I can. Asbury, Mo station one-ly , mile east of the Kansas lino on the K. C. P. & G. Ky., and St. L. & S. F., is 140 miles from Kansas City, 11 miles from Pitts burg, Kansas, a ,city of ten thousand people, and 15 miles from Joplin, Mo., a city of hbout fifteen thousand. The laud in that portion of the couutry is us smooth as itls between Crete and Hold- redge in Nebraska. The laud is specially adapted to hay and oats, and fair corn is grown, making from 20 to CO bushels per acre. Cherokee county, Kansas, just west of the town, ispne of the best com counties in south east Kansas and ships large quantities of that grain. Small fruit and veget ables do well there, and being bo near the mining city of Joplin and the mining and smelting city of Pittsburg, jind a good market. An old resident who had lived there for 25 years said they had never had a failure, although last year (1894) was dry and the crop the poorest ever grown. On Spring River 3 miles east of the town there is considerable timber. Land from $12.50 to 30 per acre At Siloam Springs I met several Ne braska people who have cast their lot with Burton county, Ark., and all of them were singing the praises of their new home. I had been told that this country, except farmed land, was cover ed with heavy timber. This is a mistake. There are trees that will make one or two fair sawlogs and a good many trees that will make from 4 to 12 rails to the cut, and land for sale on which the tie timber if sold in ties would pay for the land. The timber is mostly oak, al though hickory, walnut and other varie ties are frequently seen. Much of the timber land in the country is as level as our Nebraska prairies; and much of it is hilly, although I saw no land in this Pounty as rugged as I expected to see. Do not think from this that there are no lulls, for if anyone fs longing to look at a hill there he can have that wantsupplied. While there is considerable land there that is entirely free from stones, some of the hill land is covered with broken rock, ranging in size from that ofan acorn to stones as large as a goose egg. On that land (or rock, if you choose to call it so) fine fruit is grown; one gentleman said he was husking corn on just such land, and it was making 40 bushels to the acre. When they said they raised good potatoes in such soil, 1 said it was fishy, but old timers in the county insisted that it was true. Rev. John Setzer of Decatur hired all the work done on one acreof strawberries aud sold them so they gave him a clear profit of $102.60., II. C. Thornton, living 5 miles from Decatur located there 13 years ago, an old man, so feeble he had to stop to rest every hundred yards he walked, and with a cash capital of only $12.50. lie bought 1G0 acres of land all on time, now has his land free from debt, owes no man a dollar, has 850 bearing apple trees, 150 bearing peach trees and a large number of young trees, 5 fine horses and a drove of hogs in his timber that will weigh 250 pounds each, and they never had a grain of corn. He has made all this from his land and labor. At Gravett, Ark., I met Col. II. II. Ben son of McCook, Neb., who is looking for a place to locate a colony of drouth stricken Republican Valley G. A. R. men. Although a Republican Col. Reason gave Mr. Ludden a roasting that would have made his ears tingle, for claiming that the counties iu the Republican valley have a good crop this year. There is a movement on foot to build a railroad from Bentonville to South West City, Mo., crossing the K. C. P. & H r n " tL- it. ii... NO. 22 Home think that northern men who go to Arkansas, are discriminated against, but I found that W. J. Parker of Clay Center, Neb., who had just located at Sulphur Springs, bad been engaged to teach their school. At that place I also met D. D. Oofoot, who for 14 years was ngagod in fruit culture at Paw Paw, Michigan, who, after spending two years looking over the south for a location to continue the business settled in the Ozark region. At Noel, Mo., there are some fins cliff views and some good frnit land, if a man is not afraid ol hills. From Anderson to Neosho there is much smooth land, and at Donahue, in this strip, the Ozark Orchard Company, managed by L. A. Goodman, Sec'y. of the Missouri State Horticultural Society, has several thousand acres of land which they are clearing off and planting to fruit as fast as possible. The old settlers in the Ozark gladly welcome the northern man, and if you treat him as an honest man he will treat you as one. They realize the war is over, and what a blessing it would be to our country if the north knew itl Taxes on 160 acres of laud run from 3 to 8 dollars, and the state of Arkansas is constitutionally opposed to bonds.. Lumber and fuel are much cheaper there than in Nebraska, and if one is building a house near a brickyard the brick can be bought laid iu the wall at $6.50 per thousand. Timbered fruit land can be bought at from $4.00 per acre up, and smooth prairie laud at from $10.00 per acre up to the limit of your pile. , .' ' , This section is preeminently a fruit region, and if any one of our people are determined to raise'Truit, I would say to them, the Ozark region , is nearer the market than any irrigated district in the United States. The average rain fall is 46.5 inches against Nebraska's 23.5 inches. 1 saw 8 year old apple trees there larger than any 15 year old trees I ever saw in Nebraska. They plant one year old trees and tbey bear from one half to one bushel of apples at 4 years from the bud. ' v I was told before making this trip that apples could be bought there for 6 cents a bushel, and I said if' they hauled them to the market dumped in a wagon box, as we do our corn, that is all they ought to get. I found that was their method of handling them and the price ranged from thirty ' to forty cents a bushel, the culls being sold to the evapo rators at from 3 to 10 cents per bushel, price being governed by the amount of rot or bruise. A falling off of 7 inches of our average rniu fall gives us a drouth and a crop failure, while a falling off of 15 inches down there would leave then more rain full thau our state has ever had. Tbey have but two months in a year that the temperature ever reaches a hundred, and even that a rare occurence, while our re cord shows six months of such luxury. They have nearly six months exempt from frost, while our state record shows .' July as the only month free from it. : As for health, three rural counties of the Ozark region show a death-rate of 8.2 per thousand. And three rural conn ties of N'-braska, with about tha same population, show a death eate of 10.95 per thousand. Snakes are few and mosquitos are un known. The water is as good as the earth affords. : If you have a good home stay with it; but if you have none, and are determined to move, then go where yon can do best, and in my judgment that placets the "Land of the Big Red Apples." L. A. Willis. FAMOUS NAMES. From Areola to Waterloo Napoleon had nineteen horses killed under him. They were for the most part white or gray horses, for which the emperor bad an es pecial fondness. Mrs. Hallie T. Dillon, M. 1)., colored, daughter of Bishop B. T. Tanner, is not only the first colored woman physician, but the first woman of any race to pass 1 ' the Alabama State medical examination. The late Archbishop Mageo once la mented that the law of progress in church ritual compelled him to walk in proces- ' slons, and even to stand in a cold north wind while the choir sang "O Paradise, O Paradise." Empress Elizabeth's gorgeoas new pal ace at Corfu will hnvn a. hich lichthnnan . near it shining with electric lights of 12,000 cantae power, in tne grounds about the palace there will be 25,000 rose bushes ana many nne cactus plants. When he visited America in 1R81 Ron. langer showed nothing of the fop in his dress or of the anob in his mnnnnr Ha wore but one of his medals, and that pmn .conspicuously on his vest, where it was practically concealed by his coat. Herbert Spencer is a man of medium stature, with pink-and-white cheeks and kind gray eyes. His neck is encircled by Dushy, iron-gray whiskers. He dresses in excellent taste, keeping himself remark ably "well-groomed" for a philosopher. Rubinstein, the composer, is a man of striking appearance. He has a massive head, broad brain and heavy hair, in which " there is not a single gray thread, despite his age sixty -two years. He speaks English fluently, and is always happy to meet Americana How the Rothschilds are housed at Feij rleres, near Paris, may be Judged by their five establishments, wort'-. $4,000,000, needing the services of 150 people. The statles contain 100 horses. . When Louis NaT oleon visited Ferrtereg the p.othohil( ;1V I 7 x?riage and crown wi