IALL AEE AT WOEK.
A TYPICAL CENTER OF PRO
TECTED INDUSTRY.
Extraordinary Showing by a Frro-Trailo
Journal on ilio Condition of Thing *
That Jinn I'olIoircU tiia IEos orallon of
the American Policy.
The New York World has discovered
the existence of a Greater Klondike.
It is located in Pittsburg , that hive of
protected Industries , and the World's
correspondent is telling some tall sto
ries of the wonderful products of the
region. The stories are well told , and
they have the additional merit of be
ing true which is more than can be
said of all the World's stories. Re
duced to a brief form of statement , the
situation In western Pensylvanla's In
dustrial Eldorado is thus described :
"Area of Pittsburgh industrial Klon
dike , 180 square miles.
"Number of industries being operat
ed on full time , 118.
"Number of men employed in these ,
embracing all classes , 270,000.
"Average wages per day , ? 2.15.
"Range of wages , $1.75 to $7 per
day.
"Number of idle men , none , except
from sickness.
"Number of mills and factories un
able to run full time by reason of scar
city of labor , CO.
"Railroads unable to move freight
promptly because the traffic is 30 per
cent larger than all the freight cars in
service.
"Gross industrial value of trade in
industrial Klondike , $6,000,000. "
Further along we find the World , a
! free-trade journal , testifying to the
wonderful results of the revival of in
dustry that has occurred since the re-
advent of protection and prosperity. It
prints the following table , showing
"the extent to which labor has shared
One came from Alabama , the other
from Ohio. The Alabama man wanted
200. Ho was told that the manufac
turers in the Pittsburg district wanted
men as badly as he did. He went fur
ther east tonight , seeking them.
"Common laborers are almost as
scarce as skilled hands. Mr. Williams
secretary of the Amalgamated associa-
tlon.told the World staff correspondent
today that unskilled laborers could find
employment throughout the district.
Contractors employing laborers on
public improvements are constantly
seeking men.
"John C. Sheehan , the former boss of
Tammany Hall , who has a contract
for constructing Pittsburgh new
$5,000,000 boulevard , is inconvenienced
by the limited supply of laborers.
"E. B. Taylor , general superintend
ent of the Pennsylvania lines west of
Pittsburg , said today that his road
could not secure as many men as he
desired.
"The same story is heard in every
line of trade , but principally , as is nat
ural , from mill owners not men
enough , cars enough , facilities enough
to meet the new conditions that are
making the 180 square miles of mines ,
forges.mills and factories around Pitts
burg a veritable Golconda of wealth.
"Next to the shortage of labor comes
the transportation famine as a factor
In retarding the fullest operation of
the industries in the Pittsburg district.
Mine , mill and factory owners all com
plain of their inability to secure
enough cars to carry their product to
the markets.
"Railway officials have pressed into
service all the cars they can secure
from any quarter , yet there are not
enough.
"It may be that the shippers them
selves are to blame , as the railway of
ficials declare. Their complaint is that
the mill owners and mine operators
are compelled to utilize the cars for
storage purposes because of the lack
of room in their establishments.
UNRESTRICTED DOMESTIC COMPETITION.
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i H. 0. Havemeyer ( testimony before the United States industrial com
mission , June 14 , 1899) ) The customs tariff is the mother of trusts.
Madam Protection If you insist upon -being recognized as a member of
this family , you must be prepared to submit to its discipline and restraints.
"Unrestricted Domestic Competition" is the rule of this establishment. to
in the increased prosperity that hcs
come to the iron and steel center of
America during the past year" :
Increased wages ,
Trade per cent.
Tin plate workers 15
Sheet iron mill men :
Tonnage hands 11 %
Day hands 25
Finishers 25
Steel workers , both in and out
of the Amalgamated Associ
ation 10 to 13
In this table no account is taken of
I Increased employment. A detailed ex
hibit of this important branch of the
subject would doubtless show that the
number of men who are now receiving
the increased rate of wages is nearly
double the number which received the
lower rate of wages paid four years
ago in the Pittsburg district. Four
years ago , an equivalent length of time
after the enactment of the Wilson free-
trade tariff , scarcely more than one-
half the workers of the Pittsburg dis
trict could command steady employ
ment at the then lower rate of wages.
Today , two years after the enactment
of the Dingley tariff , not only are
wages much higher , but the supply of
labor is not equal to the demand. Again
let the free-trade World tell the story :
"When Mr. Bryan , the aspirant for
the Democratic presidential nomina
tion , recently visited Homestead , he
asked a colored man employed there
what wages he mafle a day.
" " 'Oh. about $6 when I work full
time , ' was the answer.
rtMr. Bryan did not asli any more
! ,
i questions.
"Even the iron puddlers , whose work
among the furnaces of molten iron is
about as humble and hard as it can be ,
* come in for a share In the general pros
perity. As a matter of fact , there ara
not puddlers enough to fill the demand.
Yet only a few years ago the puddlers
were a drug in the market as a result
of the improved machine methods in
troduced to take their place.
"In the phenomenal revival of trade
In the Pittsburg Klondike the pudOler
summoned again as a matter
1-as been
of necessity. His pay a year ago was
S4 per ton. Now it is $5. With a help
er whom he pays , he can make $ i.oO
or $8 a day. Only a very small per
centage of the mills can secure all the
puddlers they want.
manufacturers at
two
"There were
the headquarters of the Amalgamated
association today seeking puddlers. :
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" 'Some of the mill men , ' said Mr bem
Taylor , 'have long lines of ore , coa m
and freight cars in their yards , all ii
loaded with material. They have no Wi
storage facilities of their own , and use bjWi
the cars. There are 9,000 tons of coal Wi
locked in cars and awaiting delivery. re
" 'The rush comes every summer , but ta
business is very much greater this thwi
year than for many years past. ' wi
"River transportation is choked sp
with the immense amount of business th
quite as badly as are the railways.
Thousands of tons of iron and steel ce
are stored on the docks awaiting shipment ad
'
ment to western river points. fa'
"Ready for transportation to southern an
ern points are 30,000,000 bushels of coal is
that cannot be moved until the flood pr
of the river in a few weeks. thwz :
"Great difficulty is experienced in se wz
curing hands enough to transfer much foi
of this tonnage from cars to docks and
boats. In one yard as high as $1.75 a
day is being paid to shovelers , and they
are scarce at that price. tei
"The good times that have come to it
the operators and operatives in the iff
Pittsburg Klondike are not confined to be
the iron , steel , coal , coke , tin and glass thi
fields. aff
"From reports to the commercial inl
agencies and big dealers the sun of tri
prosperity shines upon all kinds of bn
toilers , the labor and professional iut
classes alike. It was said today by a we
lawyer and by a leading newspaper wi
proprietor that the supply of compe thi
tent labor in those branches was quite set
as restricted as in the mines and ue
mills. " me
It is not very difficult to guess the coi
motive of the New York World in
blazoning forth these splendid facts of
restored prosperity. Doubtless the de 1
sign is to warn Mr. Bryan and his tal
Demo-Pop following of the futility of th
preaching " 16 to 1" as an issue in next of
year's campaign ; to present an object of
lesson which shall show that in times is ;
like these a cheap money crusade will as
fall flat. Such , indeed , is the inevita asma
ble logic of the World's showing. But oft
it logically demonstrates much more , ful
which all the World's free-trade Joi
sophistry cannot obscure or keep down
namely , that the industrial Klondike
that is the rule everywhere throughout
this country is in great measure the
product of the policy of protection. In ie
sounding the knell of free silver the nd
World is unconsciously arranging for
the obsequies of free trade. It is build- ho
TARIFF REFORM.
Will ( ho Democratic Party Make This
Imuo In the Campaign of 1000 ?
The Philadelphia Record is another
newspaper which takes the ground that
the Democratic party's best chance of
success In the presidential election of
1900 lies in its making the tariff the
Isaue. It says :
"With tariff reform as the issue , the
Democratic party would not only be
united , but to its banner would be at
tracted tens of thousands of voters who
can no longer be duped with the false
pretense that protective duties , while
enhancing the cost of the necessaries
of living , give labor and high wages to
workingmen. "
The fatuity of those who believe that
any party or any candidate could win
in 1900 on a platform pledged to the re
peal of the Dingley law and the de
struction of the protective tariff sys
tem is beyond comprehension. If the
proofs were not at hand it would be
impossible to believe that there were
any one left in this country who still
believed in free trade. As a matter of
fact , we believe that the fellows who
are now crying tariff in the Democratic
party are low down cowards who want
to dodge the financial issue. That a
belief in free trade can still exist in
any one after our experiment with that
destructive and pauper-producing poli
cy during the Cleveland administration
almost makes one doubt the truth of
the old adage that experience is the
best teacher. But that any one can
dream that free trade would be a win
ning card , can think that the people
of this country can be led into making
another disastrous experiment with it ,
is almost beyond the power of imagina-
tion.
It will be a rather difficult task to
make any tens of thousands of voters ,
or any tens without the thousands , be
lieve that they are being duped by pro
tection. They have the cold , hard cash ,
brought home regularly as a result of
steady employment and high wages ,
since the rcsoration of the protective
tariff , with which to refute any charges
of being duped by protection. The
prosperity which has come as a result
of the enactment of the Dingley law
is too concrete a thing and too uni
versal a thing for the wild and base
less assertions of the free-trade papers
and free-trade orators to have any
effect.
The change from prosperity to hard
times at the repeal of the McKinley
law and the change from hard times to
prosperity immediately upon the resto
ration of protection by the passage of
the Dingley law is too great and em
phatic an object lesson to be soon for-
sotteu by the voters of the country.
By all means let the Democratic party. *
make free trade , or its alias , "tariff
reform , " its battle cry for 1900. It will
serve to show once for all that the
people of the United States by an
averwhelming majority believe in the
American system of a protective tariff. e
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American Spring Waters. n
An excellent move in the right direc nP
tion is that of bringing prominently
into view the virtue of American
spring waters by means of a public ex
hibit and sale under exceptionally attractive
iral
tractive conditions. It is with Amer al
ican spring waters as with American ti
tig
wines : Familiarity breeds respect ; g
they need only to be known in order in
inro
be appreciated. To promote a wider ro
rooi
knowledge on this subject the plan has
been adopted of establishing stands in cc
ccn
many of the large commercial build n
ings : of New York , where native spring ai
aibe
waters in many varieties are dispensed be
.the glass at a moderate price. The beN
water is displayed in a handsome glass N
receptacle , so constructed as to con to
tain the ice in a central cylinder , while si
the crystal water , kept from contact in
with the ice , and cooled to a natural st
spring temperature , is shown through stm
the outer circumference of the glass m
iacket. A considerable number of concerns us
usCl
cerns handling spring waters have Cl
idopted this method of securing the
'avorable introduction of their waters , In
md with excellent results. Any plan tb
to be commended that tends to im- vz
ress upon Americans the fact that in th
heir own country are found spring all
vaters equal to any in the world alike lif
hygienic and for potable purposes. br
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Make the Issue Plain.
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It is unfortunate that the trust mat-
has been brought into politics. If tor
is to lead to a revamping of the tar-
discussion , however , let the issue
made plain. In such matters even a
afford
Democracy of the country cannot
fford to be otherwise than honest. The an
nterests at stake are too great to be cr
rifled with. The present tariff has . : *
t
irought order out of chaos , prosperity
of disaster , and strength out of ana
weakness. It is to be hoped that there
I'ill be no more bootless discussion of a
his question which has already been
ettled , but if it must come let the is-
( be drawn squarely and let the Da-
thi
aocracy of the country endure the
onsequences. Pcoria (111. ( ) Journal. ' "
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The Parent of Confidence. ind
The Democratic papers are gleefully iad
aking up Mr. Havemeyer's suggestion
hat the tarirf is the long lost parent hu
the trust. Reversing the application tin
Col. Brj'an's recent bon mot , if trust gu ;
confidence ' , that might be construed ov
meaning that the tariff is the legiti- in
late parent of confidence. To this CO ]
impeachment the tariff will cheer- of
ully plead guilty. Sioux City ( Iowa ) ofNe
ournal. dr <
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Ttvo Frightful Examples. thi
Bryan and Havemeyer would be an Ah
Leal ticket on an anti-trust platform ric
one to denounce corporate greed CO !
the other to serve as the frightful ab <
sample of its effects on the individual cia
yields to malign influence. Min- cri
eapolis Tribune , Me
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TALMAGE'S SERMON.
BUSINESS LIFE , LAST SUN-
. DAY'S SUBJECT.
A Lecture in Common Honesty "Not
Slothful in Uusliieatt ; Fervent In Spirit ;
Serving ; the Lord" jKom. IS : 11.
( Copyright 1S99 by Louis Klopsch. )
Industry , devoutness and Christian
eorvlce all commended in that short
text. What ! is it possible that they
shall be conjoined ? Oh , yes. There
is no war between religion and busi
ness , between ledgers and Bibles , be
tween churches and country houses.
On the contrary , religion accelerates
business , sharpens men's wits , sweet
ens acerbity of disposition , fillips the
blood of phlegmatics , and throws more
velocity into the wheels of hard work.
It gives better balancing to the judg
ment , more strength to the will , more
muscle to industry , and throws into
enthusiasm a more consecrated fire.
You cannot in all the circle of the
world show me a man whose honest
business has been despoiled by re-
ligion.
The industrial classes arc divided in-
to three groups : producers , manufac
turers , traders Producers , such as
farmers and miners. Manufacturers ,
such as those who turn corn into food ,
and wool and flax into apparel. Trad
ers , , such as make profit out of the
transfer and exchange of all that
which is produced and manufactured.
A business man may belong to any
one or all of these classes , and not
one is independent of any other.
When the Prince Imperial of France
fell on the Zulu battlefield because the
strap fastening the stirrup to the sad
dle broke as he clung to it , his com
rades all escaping , but he falling under
the lances of the savages , a great
many people blamed the Empress for
allowing her son to go forth into that
battlefield , and other blamed the Eng
lish government for accepting the sac
rifice , and other blamed the Zulus for
their barbarism. The one most to
blame was the harnessmaker who fash
ioned that strap of the stirrup out of
shoddy and imperfect material as it
was found to have been afterward. If
the strap had held , the Prince Imperial
would probably have been alive today.
But the strap broke. No prince inde S
pendent of a harnessmaker ! High ,
low , wise , ignorant , you in one occu-
patlon , I in another , all bound to
gether. So that there must be one
continuous line of sympathy with each
other's work. But whatever your vo-
cation , if you have a multiplicity of
come losses and annoyances and per
turbations as well as percentages and
dividends , if you are pursued from
Monday morning until Saturday night ,
and from January to January by in-
xorable obligation and duty , then you
are : a business man , or you are a busi
ness woman , and my subject is appro
priate to your case.
* * *
Traders in grain come to know some
thing about foreign harvests ; traders
ir fruit come to know something
about the prospects of tropical produc
tion ; manufacturers of American pr
goods < come to understand the tariff on lu
lum
imported articles ; publishers of books m
must come to understand the new lav/ in
oi copyright ; owners of ships must th
come to know winds and shoals and te
navigation ; ; and every bale of cotton , In
and every raisin cask , and every tea icTl
box and every cluster of bananas is so Tl
much literature for a business man. oa
No\v , my brother , what are you going te
do with the intelligence ? Do you ha
suppose : God put you in this school of its
information that to :
merely you might be
sharper in a trade , that you might be mi
more successful as a worldling ? Oh , m'
; it was that you might take that
it
useful information and use it for Jesus
Christ.
Can it be that you have been deal-
Ing with foreign lands and never had tn
the missionary spirit salvation
, wishing the he
vation of foreign people ? Can it be
ex
that you have become acquainted with ea :
the outrages inflicted in business or
life and that you have never tried to th
bring to bear that Gospel which is to to
extirpate all evil and correct all ful
wrongs ' and illumine all darkness and ov
lift up all wretchedness and save , men ru
this world and the world to come ? inl
Uan it be that understanding all the in
tricacies of business you know nothing
ibout those things which will last after an
bills of exchange and consignments me
ind invoices and rent rolls shall have cei
rtimpled up and been consumed in Stz
he fires of the last great day ? Can an
be that a man will be wise for time str
ind a fool for eternity ? thi
I remark , also , that business life is nei
school for integrity. No man knows hci ;
vhat he will do until he is tempted , i"3
Ve
fhore are thousands of men who have
, '
tept their integrity merely because
hev never have been tested. A man roc
*
* \ nd
vas elected treasurer of the State of
no1
Iaine some years ago. He was dis-
ingtiished for his honesty , usefulness
re
uprightness , but before one year
passed he had taken of the public
nds for his own private use , and was
2r
mrled out of office in disgrace. Bis-
tie
inguished for virtue before. Distin-
fho
uishfd for crime after. You can call
ery
iver the names of men just like that ,
sue
whose honesty you had complete the
onfidence , but placed in certain crises
a v
temptation they went overboard , out
fever so many temptations to scoun- prc
Ireli.sm as now. Not a lavon the to
tatute book but has some back door hot
hrongh which a miscreant can escape. ing
! how many deceptions in the fab- ere
of goods ; so much plundering in am
ommercial life that if a man talk to
bout living a life of complete commer- del
delI
integrity there are -those who as- I
ribe it to greenness and lack of tact , for
lore need of honesty now than ever hin
efore. tried honesty complete hon- ! ant
esty , more than in those times when
business was a plain affair and wool
ens were woolens , and silks were silks
and men were men.
How many men do you suppose
there are In commercial life who could
say truthfully , "In all the sales I have
ever made I have never overstated the
value of goods ; in all the sales I
have ever made I have never covered
up an Imperfection In the fabric ; of
all the thousands of dollars I hare
ever made I have not taken one dis
honest farthing ? " There are men , how
ever , who can say It , hundreds who
can say It , thousands who can say It.
They are more honest than when they
sold their first tierce of rice , or their
first firkin of butter , because their
honesty and integrity have been test
ed , tried and come out triumphant. But
they remember a time when they could
have robbed a partner , or have ab
sconded with the funds of a bank , or
sprung a snap judgment , or made a
false assignment , or borrowed inimit
ably without any efforts at payment ,
or got a man into a sharp corner and
.
fleeced him. But they never took one
step on that pathway of hell fire. They
can say their prayers without hearing
the chink of dishonest dollars. They
can read their Bible without thinking
of the time when with a lie on their
soul in the custom house they kissed
the book. They can think of death
and the judgment that comes after It
without any flinching that day when
all charlatans and cheats , and jock
eys and frauds shall be doubly damn
ed. It does not make their knees
knock together , and it does not make
their teeth chatter to read "as the part
ridge sitteth on eggs , and hatcheth
them not ; so he that getteh riches , and
not by right , shall leave them in the
midst of his days , and at his cud shall
be a fool. "
What a school of integrity business
life is ! If you have ever been tempted
liei
ed to let your integrity cringe before
eiP
present advantage , if you have ever
wakened up" In some embarrassment ,
and said : 'Now , I will step a little
aa
aside from the right path and no one
vail know it , and I will come all right
again , it is only once. That only once
has ruined tens of thousands of men
for this life and blasted their souls for
eternity.
A merchant in Liverpool got a five-
pound Bank of England note , and ,
holding it up towaid the light , he saw
11S
some interlineations , in what seemed
red ink. He finally deciphered the let
ters , and found out that the writing r
had been made by a slave in Algiers ,
saying in substance : 'Whoever gets
this bank note will please to inform
my brother , John Dean , living near tid
Carlisle , that I am a slave of the Bey d
of Algiers. " The merchant sent word , tl
employed government officers and h
found who this man was spoken of in luc
this bank bill. After awhile the man c
was rescued , who for eleven years had lybe
been a slave of the Bey of Algiers. beh
He was immediately emancipated , but h
was so worn out by hardship and ex cldi
posure he soon after died. Oh , if dib
some of the bank bills that come b
through your hands could tell all the i es
scenes through which they have pass- pi
ed , it would be a tragedy eclipsing any er
drama of Shakespeare , mightier than TlHi
King Lear or Macbeth ! Hi
As I go on in this subject , I am im
pressed with the importance of our
having more sympathy with business
men. Is it not a shame that we in our \
imlpits do not oftener preach about
their struggles , their trials , and their
temptations ? Men who toil with the an
hand are not apt to be very sympathet cs
with those who toil with the brain. ba
I"he farmers who raise the corn and ca
aats and the wheat sometimes are no
empted to think that grain merchants '
iiave an easy time , and get their prof- re
without giving any equivalent. Pla- va ,
and Aristotle were so opposed to :
nerchandise that they declared com-
su
nerce ' to be the curse of the nation ,
v ;
md they advised that cities be built
je :
least ten miles from the sea coast.
But you and I know that there are no
i
nore industrious or high minded men
ban those who move in the world of
raffic. Some of them carry burdens _ n .
icavier than hods of brick , and are
exposed to sharper things than the ag
wind and climb we
ast : , mountains high-
than the Alps or Himalaya , and if wa
hey < are faithful Christ will at last say Jet
them : "Well done , good and faith- err
servant ; thou hast been faithful thi
ver a few things. I will make thee inj
uler ! over many things. Enter thou sit
nto the joy of thy Lord. " ler
We talk about the martyrs of the int
Medmont valley , and the martyrs trc
imong the Scotch highlands , and the tri
nartyis at Oxford. There are just as it
ertainly martyrs of Wall street and itwh
itate street , martyrs of Fulton street giv
nd Broadway , martyrs of Atlantic COl
treet and Chestnut street , going fro
hrough hotter fires , or having their He
.ecks under sharper axes. Then it be- wil
covcs us to banish all fretfulness is
rom cur lives , if this subject be true. ect
( look back to the time when we
cu
'ere at school , and we remember the aQ
, and we remember the hard tasks ,
cor
we complained grievously ; hut
ow we see it was for the bsst. Busi-
ess life is a school , and the tasks
hard , and the chastisements some-
lines are very grievous ; but do not ing
omplain. The hotter the fire the bet- goc
the refininig. There are men before wa
throne of God this day in triumph
on earth were cheated out of ev- cur
rything but their coffin. They were gri
ued , they were imprisoned for debt , pot
rod
ley were throttled by constables with
whole pack of writs , they were sold -
by the sheriffs , they had to com- pot
remise with their creditors , they had fish
make assignments. Their dying
des
ours were annoyed by the sharp ring-
of the door bell by some impetuous
reditor who thought it was outrageous 10
impudent that a man should dare
die before he paid the last half A
allar. "H (
had a friend who had many mis- froi
irtunes. Everything went against and
. He had good business capacity siti
was of the best of moralSj but he hot
souls before the throne ?
"Who are they ?
question Is asked ,
of glass respond
sea
angels standing on the
out
who came
"These are they
spend :
o ? great business trouble and had their
in the
made white
robes washed and
blood of the Lamb. "
street prayer
in Fulton
A man arose
" publicly
er meeting and said : "I wish
licly to acknowledge the goodness or
trouble. 1
God. I was in business
and I had no means
had money to pay ,
to pay it , and I was in utter despair
of all human help , and I laid this
.matter before the Lord , and this morn
ing I went down among some old busi
ness friends I had not seen in many
make call and one said
years Just to a ,
to me , "Why , I am so glad to see you.
Walk in. We have some money on our
books due you a good while , but we
didn't know where you were , and /1J
therefore not having your address we
could not send It. We are very glad
you have come ? " And the man stand
ing in Fulton street prayer meeting
said : "The amount they paid me was
six times what I owed. " You say It
only happened so ? You are unbeliev
ing. God answered that man's pray
er.
er.Oh. . you want business grace. Com ?
mercial ethics , business honor , laws of
trade are all very good in their place ,
but there are times when you want
something more than this world will
give you. You want God. For the
lack of Him some that you have known
have consented to forge , and to mal
treat their friends , and to curse their
enemies , and their names have been
bulletined among scoundrels , and they
have been ground to powder ; while
other men you have known have gone
through the very same stress of cir
cumstances triumphant. There are
men here today who fought the battle
and gained the victory. People come
out of that man's store , and they say :
"Well , if there ever was a Christian
trader , that is one. " Integrity kept
titl
the books and waited on the customers.
Light from the eternal world flashed
through the show windows. Love to
God and love to man presided in that
storehouse. Some day people going
through the street notice that the shutters
tltc
ters of the window are not down. The
tcb
bar ; of that store door has not been
removed. People say , "What Is the
rin
matter ? " You go up a little closer ,
inai
and you see written on the card of
that window : "Closed on account of
the death of one of the firm. " That
day : all through the circles of business
there : is talk about how a good man
has : gone. Boards of trade pass reso
lutions of sympathy , and churches of
Christ ; pray , "Help , Lord , for the godly
man ceaseth. " He has made his last
bargain , he has suffered his last loss ,
he ( has ached with the last fatigue. His
children will get the result of his in
dustry , or , If through misfortune there
be no dollars left , they will have an
estate of prayer and Christian exam
ple which will be everlasting. Heav
enly rewards for earthly discipline.
There "the wicked cease from troub
ling and the weary are at rest. "
PREVENTING ELECTROLYSIS.
Possible Ulethoil of Itcniicring Va
grant Klectrlc Currents IlannleH.f.
The amount of damage done to water
ind gas pipes by electricity that has
escaped from trolley lines on its way
back to the power house is almost in
calculable. The evil is not so serious
lowadays as it was several years ago.
'ilodern methods of providing for the
eturn of the current have lessened its
-agrant disposition. Nevertheless the
rouble continues to some extent. A
mggesticn that bears on the subject
vas made by the Engineering News a
ew days ago. In St. John , N. B. . it
las been the practice for nearly half
century to close the joints in city
vater pipes , not with melted lead , as
most places , but with pine plugs ,
rhe experiment was tried in 1851 and
igain in 1857. On both occasions it
vorked so well that the same policy
vas pursued two years ago. The ob-
ect in view was merely to secure econ-
imy. But mention of the fact reminds
Engineering News of the insulat-
qualities of wood and of the propo-
ition made last year that two or more
engths of wooden pipe be introduced
nto the mains in every district where
rouble was to be anticipated. Elec-
ricity will not enter a line of pipe if
cannot get out again. An obstacle
i-hich would prove effectual at any
iven point along a system of metallic
onductors would dissuade a current
rom going into it in the first place ,
lence , if the wooden plugs interfered
'ith the conductivity of the pipes it
hard 1 to see why they would not pro-
them from invasion. And if the
urrents would not attempt to travel
long the pipe at all no electrolysis or
orrcsion would ensue.
FishermanN Pa rail I si * .
The record just published of a fish-
expedition in Lapland should be
oed reading for anglers. The party
: one of two rods , with followers ,
hey fished for eleven days and se-
ured a total of 282 salmon and 115
rilse , weighing in all nearly 5,000
ounds. The best day's catch for one
was thirty-three salmon and twen-
-two grilse , or a total weight of 553
ounds. It should be added that tha
shing party had to wait their oppor-
mity ' , for when they arrived at their
BSti'nation the river was frozen , and
hen the thaw came there was at first
much water for fishing. London
lobe.
Chicago rascal who called himself
Hope" secured from $1 to $10 apiece
om poor people out of employment
told them to call later and get
po
tions. As might have been expected
Hope and monay are lost.