Nebraska Newspapers

    SUPPLY AND DEMAND.
ONE OF THE DRAWBACKS OF
EXCEPTIONAL PROSPERITY.
NbIm In Struct oral Steal ami
Iron aa lllaatratlna or tha Phaaomeaal
Condition* Attending the Rnetoratlon
of a Protective Tariff.
TV famine in structural steel and
Iron Is perhaps the most striking
Among the phenomena attendant upon
McKinley prosperity. Nothing like It
w«s ever before known In this coun
try, and certainly not In any other
country. Here we have every Iron and
Steel producing plant In the United
States working to It* utmost capacity,
and yet there is a big shortage in the
supply, so great Is the demand in many
lines of construction. Because of the
Inability of the mills to All orders, or
even to meet the time requirement* of
contracts already entered into, we are
told by the New York Herald that in
New York the structural work upon
many big office buildings Is at a stand
still, and public schools that were to
have been opened for the fall term will
remain uncompleted; In Philadelphia
work upon warships for foreign pow
ers is at a halt; in the West the agri
cultural implement makers are at tbeir
wits' ends for material and are renew
ing their demands for steel for next
year's delivery, and from every section
contractors and builders are calling
tor impossible thirty and sixty day de
liveries of mill products.
The shortage in structural material,
says the Herald, Is so serious that eon
trmetors are vainly offering bonuses
to the manufacturers to push their
work. It Is but a short time since
Structural iron and steel were ad
vanced $5 a ton. and It la predicted that
Ahere will be another Increase within
S few days. According to the experts,
the railroads are the most seriously
affected by this remarkable state of the
iron and steel market, and already
American agents are at work in the
English market obtaining options upon
Scotch steel. The demand for mill
products Is Increasing daily, and those
who are responsible for the supply
frankly admit that they are unable to
cope with the abnormal situation.
Contractors and builders are growing
desperate and are daily begging those
who hold them in bond to release them
from obligations the fulfillment of
which has been made impossible by
conditions for which they are not re
sponsible.
From Chicago It is reported that
railroad tonnage is on a scale never
before equaled, and is still mounting
higher. As for the Iron and steel
trade, the exports for June actually
fell off owing to the great home de
mand. The domestic requirement was
so enormous mat material could not be
spared for foreign shipment.
The demand has caused the resur
1 rection of mills believed to be dead.
Old plants that have been idle for
years, chiefly from competitive causes,
have been reopened and put In opera
tion.
If a manufacturer wants material
three months hence he must buy now
and pay the prices that are current.
The clamor for materials Is In no way
relieved. There have been large sales
of pig Iron for delivery in 1900. Iron
bars cannot be bought under four
months' delivery from the mill.
Vessel owners of Chicago having
suitable bottoms for the transportation
of iron and steel cannot All orders.
Two years ago prices were forty-five
to fifty cents a ton for the haul from
Lake Superior to Lake Erie. Now the
rate for ore from Duluth to lake Erie
Is $1.30 a ton. and will go higher.
In Philadelphia the big shipyards,
notwithstanding the boom in their in
dustry, have been compelled to lay off
hundreds of men because of delay In
the arrival of material. Extensive
building operations have been halted
and others almndoned. Charles Mc
Csul aald: "To my knowledge certain
big building concerns within the last
few days have tried to contract with
local companies for structural steel, to
be delivered a year from now at pre
vailing prices. The proposals were re
fused."
The Phoenix Bridge Company is lia
ble to a penalty of #50 per day for fail
ure to complete the big bridge over the
Schuylkill river at dray's Kerry. The
delay la due to the steel famine. The
director of public works has derided
not to enforce the penalty.
Pittsburg manufacturers of Iron and
•feel say they see no relief for New
York contractors. The demand la so
far ahead of the output that it will
take many months for ths trade to
catch up. The Carnegie Steel Com
pany, It la aald. will not taha orders
for structural steel for delivery un
der twelve months last week #U a
ton was paid for blllata. Two yean
•go the price was #it. Tne pig iron
manufacturers will nut quote prices
tor dsllvery this year.
Ths torn sad steel Industry, It will
he remembered, la protection a biggest [
gad brsltbtest child. It Is sa Industry
which free traders tweaiy-ffve or thirty j
year* ugo declared could not he built
up by a protective tariff Yet tuday
Iba railed fftaiee leads the world la j
the product loa of Iroa and at eel Hig |
ga the Industry has become it |g got |
able la supply the require masts at lbs
great home marked In thee# llama of
McKinley prosperity tv sa lades of 1
tbs peaersl ruadlttwae I bat have grown
out ef lbs readwratioa of I be Amertrea
policy I be Iron sad steel sltuattua la I
misreading sad instructive
It In reported from (Ninth ibat tbs j
retail buetsea* ef ibat slip la double j
what M was a tear ago fbts stale ml ’
affect has been brtmgbi about .sieg>
ffy Iba largely |g. resael |i■ Isas
made by tbe femmes ef wage aanmn
Tbee« baa wss mesh a growth ef Is
dtisrry in That vicinity that there is
ealcl to be more work to be done tban
there are laborers to do it, and the In
dications are that this condition of
things will ixmtinue for some time. |
With such a demand for labor, wages
are neceasarily high. The high wages
mean liberal purchases on the part of
the laboring men and their famlliee,
and the retailers profit by It. They In
their turn make large sales for the
wholesalers and the increaajd demewde
on the wholesalers make more busi
ness for the manufacturers, and so
the wheel of prosperity goes around.
1 be description of the state of affairs
in IXuIuth reveals only a few links in
the "endless chain" by which the pro
tective tariff brings prosperity to the
whole American people.
A Convert to Protection.
The latest and most prominent con
vert to the doctrine of a protective
tariff is Hon. William R. Grace, former
mayor of New York and a leading
Democrat of national reputation. Mr.
Grace was for years one of the strong
est free traders, atanding In close sym
pathy with Cleveland and Wilson. Mr.
Grace says;
"I am not ashamed now to say that
In the light of recent events I have
completely changed those views and
now see, as I believe, clearly that the
amazing growth in all that makes for
permanently prosperous conditions and
In all Influences that have ao recently
established the United States as a first
power among the nations of the world,
not only politically, but financially and
commercially, Is due in great measure
to the policy of protection.”
Mr. Grace says "facts are stronger
than theories;" and the facts of the
past two years under the Dlngley law,
as compared with those under the Wil
son law, are enough to overturn ary
theory and convince Mr. Grace or any
other free trade Democrat.—Tacoma
(Wash.) Ledger.
No Ciutt tor 41 rumbling:.
First Farmer—Help was never so
scarce before nor wages so high. If
that’s the result of "McKinley pros
perity,” I don’t want any more of it.
Second Farmer—Oh, I don’t know.
Everybody ’round here has paid off
hie farm mortgages, and I noticed you
got a new piano over at your house
last week. Don’t seem to me you've
got any kick cornin’.
The Cotton Mill* and Protection.
A year or two ago there were many
complaints of the declining cotton
manufacturing industry of New Eng
land. but we are glad to learn from the
Springfield Republican that there is
now a complete change for the better;
that the mills everywhere are actively
employed; that prices are firm; that
the export demand Is good; that the
home market is strong, and that the
business is generally profitable. Mills
which had suspended dividends are re
suming a distribution of profits, and
many others are increasing dividends.
The Amoakeag's current semi-annual
dividend Is 5 per cent, against 4 per
rent paid six months ago and 2 per
cent in the first half of 1898.
The Republican does not tell us
that this recovery of prosperity on the
part of the New England cotton mills
is due to Republican protection, as
that would be too frank an admission
for a Clevelsnd mugwump to make;
but as the cotton mill prosperity has
come along with all the other indus
trial prosperity since the triumph of
Republicanism in 1896 and the enact
ment of the Dlngley law In 1897. it is
a fair Inference that the adoption of
the protective policy by the nation has
something to do with It.—Minneapolis
Tribune.
Keoooiole. Not Fell Ileal.
The assumption that prominent
members of the Republican party are
more identified with trusts than the
lealers of the Democratic party le con
trary to fact. The corporate Intereeu
of Meears. Croker sod W. C. Whitney
have no parallel In the Republican
ranks. Senator llanna, who is the
butt of all Democratic shafts against
capital. Is a mere dabbler In specula
tlog compered to Messrs Whltaev and
Croker. who. many hold, will dictate
the neit Democratic nominee for the
president y When Ike public grows
familiar with the subject It will learn
that trusts are eatlrely sn et-momic
and not tn the least a political issue
They ran fatten on free trade as well
ss protection They need only the rich i
anil ef good times Cincinnati Times- I
Mar
**■ 71 iammmm a
N ml I* its* U lot*
Th# origtssluy aad bold sees of the
lues Item <rratle cuaveatioa are sit >en
la the asti trust plash. The rented*
foe trusts Is the "repeal af the prater
Uve tariff ef the ehule tariff as
■sorely of the dalles »a trust cua trailed
(■■•d* This sluae isdleatsa with whst j
dell beret tue aad t boat hi fa issue the
platform was frnmad Is there a Deal
arret »t« really baMevas that foes
all *«♦» *«*»•* s peute-M** tariff
and I be ytnhttMi ad the Philippine*1
The platform aas drawn sad adapted
bp are aba beau list teey bed noth
tag Id teas Cbletffe ff*ea'a* l*set
Merit Will He Rrrognlsed.
The imitation of the most famous of
foreign brands in many lines of man
ufacture by American producers Is con
ducted on as large or larger a scale to
day than ever before. There are, how
ever, some notable exceptions to this
rule. For example, It Is a fact now
generally recognised that the beet cut
glaa* in the world 1a the American;
but In some other lines of manufacture
the sentiment of the Kuromaniacs ia
still very strong.
To illustrate; In many lines of silks
and woolens made by American man
ufacturers foreign brands are still used
very largely. A representative of the
American Economist met one of our
largest manufacturers a few days since,
who was about to Introduce a new line
of dress goods, and said tbat it would
be necessary to introduce this as a
foreign manufacture to begin with.
“Why?" was asked. "Because If I at
tempted to introduce this dress goods
as American the people who are seek
ing foreign goods constantly would
claim that my product should be sold
a; 20 per cent lest than I can sell these
same goods to a foreign importing
house. Consequently I will Introduce
these goods through an Importing
house, and after ward I will bring out
the trademark or dpslgn."
In time the American people will be
educated up to the fact of the dis
tinctive merit of the products of their
own country—the silks, the woolens,
the dress goods, the wines, cigars, min
eral waters, et-t.—and It will no longer
be necessary to sell such products un
der foreign brands or labels.
I.ook tn RmuIIi.
When a policy has been in operation
so long as that of the protective tariff
it is only rational to look to results al
ready achieved rather than to the orig
inal theories in estimating its eco
nomic valtieM. That is what ex-Mayor
Grace has done. He has glanced about
him in commercial ranks and he has
everywhere observed substantial evi
dence of healthy growth. He has seen
the exports from the American facto
ries, for which the tariff tonic was de
signed, more than doubled during the
period of which he speaks. He has
found every commercial gauge regis
tering high-water mark, and he has
come to the natural conclusion that
it was because of the tariff and not in
spite of it that the country has pros
pered. That is the logical conclusion
and it Is not at all improbable that
other Democrats have reached it, but
lack the moral courage to go on record
tc that effect, as Mr. Grace has done.
If they haven’t yet read the lesson,
they have been given eyes with which
to see and brains with which to think
in vain. Either their intelligence or
their courage to express conviction will
have to be discounted.—Sioux City
(Iowa) Journal.
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A Significant Increase.
Uncle Sam continue!) to reap a double
profit from the Dingley law—a direct
profit through the increased custom*
receipts and an indirect profit through
the prosperity of the people in general.
The receipts for the fifty largest post
offices for the month of July, 1899,
show an increase over the receipts for
July, 1898, of 1177,969, this Increase be
ing equal to 6.1 per cent. This means
that more letters have been written.
People writs oftener to friends and
relatives when they have a prosperous,
cheerful tale to tell. It means more
money orders and registered letters
sent, both for the purchase of goods
and as gifts to those dear to the sender.
It means that more birthday and anni
versary remembrances have been sent
to the absent. In short, the increased
postal receipts tell to the thinking
mind s story of prosperity, generosity
and contentment, a story made possi
ble by the restoration of the industry
creating, work giving, wage raising
policy of protection.
New Imliastrlee.
The newspapers have been pretty
busy recording the number of instances
of the increase of wages and of the
reopening of factories since the pas
sage of the Dingley law. They have
had a hard task to keep track of them
all, but there is a harder task before
them. They will be obliged now. and
in a constantly Increasing number of
rases In the future, to turn their at
tention to another phase of the pros
perous times which have come to the
country—vis., the building of new
mllln and the establishment of new In
dustries. One commercial paper pub
llshed In n single Issue recently, in ad
dition to Its numerous reports of in
creased prosperity In dtffereut cnees
o' Industries already established, the
announcement of a new pulp mill of
mammoth sis* in Wisconsin, n new
wall paper plant in Massachusetts and
a nsw fertiliser fa. lory In Georgia.
Whet Mlaht Its Itsss
Another vindication of n high pro
tective tariff ha* been fouad by a
Pennsylvania pnwfaettr a* la wall
kauwa. we maintain a tariff on aar
dine* for lb* beaeftt of tb* New Bag
land heirias* out of which our "aar
dine* are mads and how ihia profs*
ser aaauuacws that stand asphalt eaa
he made taut of herriaga With the
nthisieaaacs of that tariff a few rear*
Ion gov it would not he surprising If w*
could Utah* altar of rase* and ctoa-tiH I
saws uul of berriags leauisvt||g Osar* I
Isr Journal
W a can still da* bolter than that Wt
ran sub* tramps out of uor mechanic*
and laboring men bp a return It* tbs
|i*d old dare of tie Wilson Gorman
tariff measure We ran da still atom
We eaa Issue #«»ij bads to carry oa
the garters meet and bring Idleness sad
waut and bund*' Into almost every
borne la Uto load dhall w* dw ItP
Pevria till i Jewry'*
TALMAGES SERMON.
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EASY DIVORCES. LAST SUN
DAYS SUBJECT.
*Wk»t Therefor* Cad Hath Joined To
gether l,#t Nat M*u Pat Aiaeder"
Matt. IV: •—Skeleton* All Over th*
B*ae* a* Wall ae la tb* Clout.
« That there are hundred* and thou
aanda of infelicitous home in America
no one will doubt. If there were only
one skeleton In the closet, that might
be locked up and abandoned; but In
many a home there Is a skeleton In
the hallway and a skeleton la all the
apartments. "Unhappily married" are
two words descriptive of many a home
stead. It needs no orthodox minister
to prove to a badly mated pair that
there Is a bell; they are there now.
Sometimes a grand and gracious wom
an will be thus incarcerated, end her
life will be a crucifixion, ae was the
case with Mrs. Sigourney, the great
poetess and the great soul. Sometimes
a consecrated man will be united to a
fury, as was John Wesley, or united to
a vixen, as was John Milton. Some
times, and generally, both parties are
to blame, and Tbomaa Carlyle Is an
Intolerable grumbler, and his wife has
% pungent retort always ready, and
Froude, the historian, pledged to tell
the plain truth, baa to pull aside the
curtain from the lifelong squabble at
Cralgenputtock and 6 Cheyne row.
Some say that for the alleviation of
all these domestic disorders of which
we bear, easy divorce Is a good pre
scription. God sometimes authorises
divorce as certainly as he authorises
marriage. 1 have Just as much regard
(or one lawfully divorced as 1 have for
one lawfully married. But you know
and 1 know that wholesale divorce Is
one of our national scourges. 1 am not
purprised at this when 1 think of the
influences which have been abroad
militating against the marriage rela
tion. For many yearB the platforms
of the country rang with talk about
a free-love millennium. There were
meetings of this kind held in the Acad
emy of Music, Brooklyn; Cooper insti
tute, New Vork; Tremont temple, Bos
ton, and all over the land. Some of the
women who were most prominent in
that movement have since been distin
guished for great promiscuity of affec
tion. Popular themes for such occa
sion?} were th( tyranny of man, the op
pression of the marriage relation,
women’s rights, and the affinities.
Prominent speakers were women with
short curls and short dress and very
long tongue, everlastingly at war with
God because they were created women;
while on the platform sat meek men
with soft accent and cowed demeanor,
apologetic for masculinity, and hold
ing the parasols while the termagant
orators went on preaching the gospel
of free love. That campaign of about
twenty years set more devils into the
marriage relation than will be exor
cised in the next fifty. Men and wom
en went home from such meetings so
permanently confused as to who were
their wives and husbands that they
never got out of the perplexity, and
the criminal and the civil courts tried
to disentangle the Iliad of woes, and
this one got alimony, and that one got
a limited divorce, and this mother kept
the children on condition that the fa
ther could sometimes come and look at
them, and these went Into poorhouses,
and those went Into Insane asylums,
and those went Into dissolute public
Hfe, and all went to destruction. The
mightiest war ever made against the
marriage Institution was that free-love
campaign, sometimes under one name
and sometimes under another.
Another Influence that has warred
upon the marriage relation has been
polygamy In Utah. That is a stereo
typed caricature of the marriage rela
tion, and has poisoned the whole land.
You might as well think that you can
have an arm in a state of mortification
and yst the whole body not be sick
ened, as to have any territories or
states polygamlced and yet the body or
the nation not feel the putrefaction.
Hear It, good men and women of
America, that so long ago as 1862 a
law was passed by congress forbidding
polygamy In the territories and In all
the places where they had jurisdiction.
Thirty-seven years have passed along
and nine administrations. Yet not un
til the passage of the Edmunds law In
1882 was any active policy of polygamic
suppression adopted. Armed with all
the power of government, and havlug
an army at their disposal, the first
brick bad not till then been knocked
from that fortreaa of libertinism
Every new preatdent In hie Inaugural
tickled that monater with the etraw
of condemnation, and every congreae
stultified Itself In proposing eume plan
that would not work. Polygamy stood
la Utah and In other of the territories,
more entrenched, more brasen, more
puleaaat. more bragart and more In
ternal (hau si any lime la Us history,
James Uurban**, s much abused man
of bla day, did more fur the estlrpa
tlun of this villainy thaa all the mbs*
quest administrations dared M do up
to I HI. Mr. Uucbaaaa seat mt an
army, sad although It was halted la
Its work. Still he accomplished mure
than the subsequent administrations
which did nothing but tnik. lath. talk.
Kssn nl this lets day and with the
Kdmnnda act In fores the evil has sot
been wholly eatlrpoled Polygamy In
tub. though outlawed Is still pear
tlrsd In secret |t bee warred agalaet
tbe marriage relation throughout tbs
land It Is Impossible to have such sa
awful sswer of Iniquity sending up lie
miasma, which Is wafted hr • *» wings
north. south to’ sad west wlthunt
the whole lead being affected by It
A aether inffwente I her bos warred
•gainst the werrUge retaUua la this
• ouatry has beea a poet etwee litera
ture. with lie millions of sheets .«•»»
week choked with at nr lee of -tomcat t.
wrongs end lolMelittee. and masse* tea. I
sad outrages until it M n nuader to (
me that there are any decencies or any
common sense left on the subject of
marriage. One-half of the news stands
of our great cities reek with the filth.
“Now," say some, "we admit all
these evils, and the only way to clear
them out or to correct them Is by easy
divorce." Well, before we yield to that
cry, let us find out how easy It Is now.
1 have looked over the laws of all the
states, and I find that while In some
states it Is easier than In others, In
every state it la easy. The state of
Illinois, through Its legislature, recites
a long list of proper causes for dtvoroe,
and then closes up by giving to the
courts the right to make a decree of
divorce In any case where they deem It
expeii.ent. After that you are not sur
prised at the announcement that in one
county of the state of Illinois, in one
year, there were 833 divorces. If you
want to know bow easy It Is. you have
only to look over the records of the
states. In Massachusetts. 600 divorcee
In one year; In Maine, 478 In one year;
In Connecticut, 401 divorces in one
year; In the city of San Francisco, 333
divorces In one year; In New England.
In one year, 2,113 divorces, and In
twenty years In New England. 20,000.
Is that not easy enough? If the same
ratio continue, the ratio of multiplied
divorce and multiplied causes of di
vorce, we are not far from the time
when our courts will have to set apart
whole days for application, and all you
will have to prove against a man will
be that be left his slippers In the mid
dle of the floor, and all you will have
to prove against a woman will be that
her husband's overcoat was buttonless.
Causes of divorce doubled In a few
years, doubled In France, doubled In
England, and doubled in the United
States. To show how very easy It is, I
have to tell you that In Western Re
serve, Ohio, me proportion of divorces
to marriages celebrated was In one
year one to eleven; In Rhode Island,
one to thirteen; in Vermont, one to
fourteen. Is not that easy enough?
I want you to notice that frequency
of divorce always goes along with the
dissoluteness of society. Rome for 500
years bad not one case of divorce.
Those were her days of glory and
virtue. Then the reign of vice began,
and divorce became epidemic. If you
want to know how rapidly the empire
went down, ask Gibbon. Do you know
how the Reign of Terror was intro
duced in France? By 20,000 cases of
divorce in one year in Paris. What wo
want In this country, and in all lands,
is that divorce be made more and more
difficult. Then people before they enter
that relation will be persuaded that
there will probably be no escape from
it, except through the door of the sep
ulchre. Then they will pause on the
verge of that relation, until they are
fully satisfied that it is best, and that
it is right, and that it is happiest.
Then we shall have no more marriages
In fun. Then men and women will not
enter the relation with the idea it is
only a trial trip, and it they do not like
1* they can get out at the first land
ing. Then this whole question will be
tasen out of the frivolous into the tre
mendous, and there will be no more
joking about the blosoms in a bride's
hair than about the cypress on a coffin.
What we want, is that the congress
of the United States move for the
changing the national constitution so
that a law can be passed which shall be
uniform all over the country, and what
shall be right in one state shall be
right in all the states, and what Is
wrong In one state will be wrong in all
the stat3s. How is It now? If a party
In the marriage relation geta dissatis
fied, it is only necessary to move to
another state to achieve liberation
from the domestic tie, and divorce is
effected so easily that the first one
party knows of It is by seeing it in
tbe newspaper that Rev. Dr. Somebody
a few days or weeks afterward Intro
duced Into a new marriage relation a
member of the household who went off
on a pleasure excursion to Newport or
a business excursion to Chicago. Mar
ried at the bride's house. No cards.
There are states of ths union which
practically put a premium upon the
disintegration of the marriage relation,
while there are other states, like the
state of New York, which has the pre
eminent idiocy of making marriage
lawful at 12 and 14 years of age.
The congi tss of the United States
needs to move for a change of tbe na
tional constitution, and then to ap
point a committee—not made up of
single gentlemen, but of men of fami
lies, and their families In Washington
—who shall prepare a good, honest,
righteous, comprehensive uniform law
that will control everything from
Sandy Hook to Oolden Oats. That will
put an end to brokerages la marriage.
That will send divorce lawyers Into &
decent buslnesa. That will set peo
ple agitated for meny yeare on the
question of how they shall get away
from each other to planning how they
can adjust tbemselvea to the mure or
leee unfavorable circumstances
More dlAcult divorce will put aa
eatoppal to a great eitent upon mar
rings ee a financial speculation, i urn
are men who go lato the reletioa Just
as they go lato Wall stroet to purchase
share* The female to he invited Into
the partnership of wedloch la utterly
unattractive, and la dlepoalttoa a sup
preaeed Vesuvius Everybody haow*
It. hut this maaculiae candidate for
matrimonial order*, through the com
mot rial ageacy or through the country
record* Made oat how much eotate Is
to he Inherited, sad he calculates li
He Ihlnhe out how long It will be be
fore the old men will die. and whether
he ran stand the refractory temper
eaill he does die. and thea he eaters
the reletioa, fur he seye, "If | raaaot
•lead It. thea through the divorce law
I oil! hash out " That prove** la going
aa all the llaie and men eater late
the reletioa elihool ear morel pete
etpte althout ear affertioa, sad It Is
ed much e matter of etwvh •peculation
ee aaythlag Ihet eu treeearteg yes
• #»■!*> la t'atoa l*ne|g*. Wehaeh. end
Delaware aid l<erkaonaaa Now, sap- .
pose a man understood, as he ought to
understand, that If he goes !nto that
relation there is no possibility of bio
getting out, or no probability, he wouUI
be more slow to put his neck in the
yoke. He should say to himself,
"Rather than a Caribbean whirlwind
with a whole fleet of shipping in Ite
arms, give me a zephyr off fields of
sunshine and gardens of peace.”
Rigorous divorce law will also hinder
women from the fatal mistake of mar
rying men to reform them. If a yonng
man, by 26 years of age or 30 years of
age, have the habit of strong drink
fixed on him, be le as certainly bound
for a drunkard's grave as that a train
starting out from Grand Central depot
at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning la
bound for Albany. The train may not
reach Albany, for It may be thrown
from the track. The young man may
not reach a drunkard’s grave, for
something may throw him off the Iron
track of evil habit, but the probability
Is that the train that starts tomorrow
morning at 8 o'clock for Albany will
get there, and the probability Is that
< the young man who has the habit of
! strong drink fixed on him before 36 or
30 years of age will arrive at a drunk
ard's grave. 8he knows he drinks, al
though he tries to hide it by chewing
cloves. Everybody knows he drinks.
Parenta warn, neighbors and friends
warn. She will marry him; she will
reform him. If she Is unsuccessful In
the experiment, why then the dlvorcw
law will emancipate her, because habit
ual drunkenness is a cause for dlvorcw
In Indiana. Kentucky, Florida, Con-1
nectlcut and nearly all the states. Bo
the poor thing goes to the altar of ,
sacrifice. If you will show me the pov^
erty-struck streets In any city, I will
show you the homes of the women who
married men to reform them. In onw
case out of ten thousand It may be a
successful experiment. I never saw
the successful experiment. Hut have a
rigorous divorce law and that woman
will say; “If I am affianced to that
man It Is for life, and If now in the
ardor of his young love, and 1 the
prize to be won, he will not give up hla
cups, when he has won the prize surely
be will not give up his cups." And so
that woman will say to the man; “Nor
sir, you are already married to the
club, and you are married to that evil
habit, and so you are married twice,
and you are a bigamist. Go!”
—
UNIQUE SCHEME.
Hjr Wklcli • Clnw Man Made • Udaf
by Eating Oysters.
New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat: “I
used to know a young man here who
made a living by eating oysters,” said
one of a little group about tbe coun
ter of the Grunewald. “Ate them on*
a wager, eh?” asked an Englishman in
the party. "No,” replied the first
speaker, “he bad a much better schema
than that He would stroll into an
oyster bar—you know how many there
are In New Orleans—and order a dosen
on tbe deep shell, always selecting a
time when several customers were
present. After swallowing two or
three he”— “Two or three custom
ers?” interrupted the Englishman.
“Naw!” said the story-teller, frowning,
“two or three oysters. After he put
them away he would stop all of a sud
den and feel in his mouth. ‘Look herel’
he would sing out to tbe bartender,
‘what kind of things do you keep la
your oysters, anyhow? I've nearlyl
broken a tooth!’ With tbat be wouldi
take a beautiful big pearl from between
bis lipe. Of course, there was no ques
tioning the genuineness of a gem in
tbat way, and everybody in the crowd
would look envious. Some one wan
morally certain to make a guees as to
Its value. ‘Oh, well,’ the oyster-eater
would say, '1 don’t knew anything
about pearls, and I’d be glad to sell thin
one for |6.‘ I don’t think he ever
failed to make a trade on tbe spot, and
as soon as he got tbe five in bis Inside
pocket be would saunter out and work
another bar. He used to find about)
four pearls a week, and as long as ho
kept It down to that game was per
fectly safe. But be grew avaricious at
last, and found so many that folks got
suspicious and he considered it healthy
to leave for another fishery. He
bought the pearls by the gross from
a house in New Jersey. They were
very pretty pearls, and cost him about
6Vfc cents apiece net. I have one In a
scarf-pin now. - wiUSlV
- I
Haw Tliay Hawardad Madam* »t»rU«f.
Mad an* Antoinette Bterllng. tbs
contralto alnger and evangelist. bad aa
experience In tbe Bombay presidency,
India, which Is aa quaint aa any af
Kipling's tales of tbe hllla. flhe was
campaigning with Pundlta Ramabal,
and through her magnificent voice was
drawing thousands of nattvee to her
meetings. They had never teen that
kind of a mlaaiunery before, sad bad
never heard a voice like hern They
were so pleased with her work that
they eald to themselves "This la a
foreign woman guru, and for fear of
giving offense to us she has omitted
to put her begging-bowl outside of her
door for ua to put In the customary
contributions ' la India, every guru
or holy person carries a brans, wood or
clay begging-bowl into which the de
vout put mas email sum of money.
Madame Marling walked out upon the
veranda of her bungalow one morning
sad there, to her a state men I, found
two begging howto One, a Utils eng
silk a law annas is It Islanded fur tfeft
Pundlta and one aa saormuus affair,
containing g handsome sum of an and
and rupees far herself The saly ••
p least Ion she could ever attract trues
the servant sae this "Utils bowl—
llille muney tor the little Pundlta with
little cuke Big howl big money tor
Mg Mtosshib with Mg votes ' Madsens
dtsrllng sae use ef the yrmiyal
speakers among the Aatert-aa women
at the Internal Ion*, i couaetl recently
beid to l-oodon
The shift lees mna accuses * ~ring> as
being Mind.