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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1891)
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE , SUNDAV , AUGUST 23 , 1891-SIXTEEN PAGES. TALUS ON OMAHA FACTORIES. Business Men all Interested in the Subject of Homo Patronage. WHAT SOME OF THEM HAVE TO SAY , Tlio llox KaolorlcH Number of Men KmploycMl and WIICM Paid AVImt 1 hey I nk < i and \ \ lie Ari'TholiI'ntrotiH. . Ono week ngo TUB Uni : published what wiis promised to bo the first of n series of ar ticles on Omaha's munufacturinc interests nnd the ndviintngcs of homo patronage. Tut ; BKR took thu stand that Omaha Is already deriving great benefits from tlio local fac tories and that If they were patronized aa they ought to be tholr capacity ivould soon bo doubled and other manufacturer.- ! , seeing tholr prosperity , would move to Omnna. It In surprising thq amount of tnlic that has been created among business men by the publication of these articles , and if any doubt existed before in the mind of Iho writer as to the necessity nf cnlllna-tho attention of the [ icoplo to the subject , it has entirely disap peared. After spending considerable time among tlio manufacturers during the past six days listening to their com ments on the subject , I find tnat tills "luck of homepatronngo" is a crime far more prevalent in Omaha than many people ple dream ot and that it almost amounts to u boycott In some cases. I talked with n mnn- ufiicturor who was formerly n salesman for a fnutory located In another city and who sold so many ( -oods hero that ho decided to locate n factory of his own In Omaha. Ho put up u nice plant and ns ho coulu lay down thu same uoods from his Omnha house nnd nt the same price ns from the eastern homo ho expected tu held all his old trade und iet ; many new customers , but ho found that many old customers went back on him ns snon ns it was known that ho had located m Omaha , nnd that new customers came nlowly. lln Is on thu point now of closing down the factory and moving to some other city. I talked with many manufacturers who named some of the most prominent houses In Omaha Unit would not oven give them a hearing but always dismissed their rep resentatives with "wo buy all those poods In the cast" or "you can't make those goods as cheaply us wo buv them" or "our customers don't want Omaha goods. " Some houses which feel pretty bljr tell the small manufacturers ' - couldn't make manufacturersyou enough goods to knepnis going even if wo did give you orders. " This is the kind of encouragement manu facturers got from many Omaha business men. men.Tho manufacturers themselves are not nil true to Omaha. I learned of one largo cs- t-ibllshmcnt whose sales in Omaha of a cer tain product run into thousands of dollars overs * month , that buys supplies in the east that other O in all a factories would furnish at the same money. While talking with a largo retailer on the subject he mentioned having received letter from this very establishment aslclng his patronage for a corlain article which tuny hud just commerced to make. The retailer remarked that "what Is sauce for the goose is saueo for the gander" and if this factory wanted his patronage they ought to glvo their patronage to other Omaha linns as faros possible. I might fill several columns with instances of the same kind , but this will servo to give an idea of the obstacles with which local manufacturers have to contend. Every ono will admit that manufactoales nro n great bcnellt to a city and that they ought to bo patronized but nn assertion so easily inndo and so readily admitted does not leave any lasting impression und the flrst person to give his assent to it may bo the llrst to go on with his business forgetful of the existence of the factories and of his duty to them and to the city. In order that some thing practical may result from this discus sion it is proposed to call attention to the factories in detail , show what they are doing for tho'City , nnd what support they arejro- celving nnd In this way Intciost the public , and if possible , induce business men to trans fer their patronage from the east to tholr own city. During the past week I visited the box fnctoriel the existence of which few people outstdo of trade circles nro even nwnro of , and yet these factories employ ninetv-two people , about one-third of them boys and young women nnd the balance men , some of them with largo families. They pay out in wages fiiQ.TW ) per year. Some of this money goes into real estate and to Day for the homes of the toilers , but a great proportion finds its way into the hands of thu sellers of food nnd clothing. Among this little army -workers I did not see a single unhappy face ; they till ap peared contented , healthy and nrosporous , and a few hundred moro people just like them would bo a valuable addition to the city. I saw three girls sisters -working in one plaeo who , tholr father being dead , are supporting the family nnd paying for their homo. Tliolr employer seemed very proud of them nml romurked that factories lire the only institutions that arc in n position to take the labor of snnh people nnd give them in return comfortable homes and a good liv ing.So So much for the people who labor ; as to the factories themselves there nro live ot them. Thu Omaha box factory , located in East Omaha , and the Consolidated box and manufacturing company ut Twenty-sixth nnd Walnut streets manufacture pack ing boxes : the City box factory nt Fourteenth nnd Davenport streets , makes cigar und packing boxes ; Onmhu Paper llox factory , lUIT-KUD Douglas street , paper boxes , and V.i. \ . Iioft , 1503 Jackson street , cigar boxes. I-ACKINO noxi.i. : Few men there nro who have never made a box at homo period in the course of their lives. Jt may hnvo hocn when they were boy's , nnd thu covotcd box intended to hold a pet rabbit or a Job lot of toys , or It may hnvo boon after they had reached their majority nnd were proud In thu possession of n gentle man's workshop In the roar of their city roa- ! donco. Whatever tbo ngo nnd condition in life , the tools nnd method were nbout thu same , several boards , a square , saw , hamuinr "and several nails ; usual results , onolop-sldod box , several patches of cuticle missing nnd one or two lingers more or less damaged from obtruding themselves between the descend ing hnmmor and the sldo of the box. The Omaha box factories employ nn im proved method in which the square , handsaw bud hammer bnvo no placo. Entering on the ground floor of ono of the packing box factories the visitor is struck with the similarity of thu place to a planing mill , and in fact that is what It really Is. Men are shoving the rough boards , just ns they came from the mill , into machines which dress down mid smooth the surface on both sides , Others are running boards over n circular aaw that slits them Into any thickness dor ) rod. When this is done the lumber is passed up to thu second lloor , und there the actual box-making com- u.encca. lioforo going any farther it will oo well to pi an co into the engine room. Hero will bo noted ouo of thu sccrottof the manufacturers art , thu saving of the waste material. No coal Is used under the boilers , but shav ings , bits of boards , etc. , are tniulo to tukolts place. The wiiito water from the oxnuist pipe and the rain from the roof is saved In a cUtorn , to bo used in tilling the boilers , this doing uwny some of the expense of city water. The sawdust Is nil collected and sold for packing. liut to thu second lloor bore there is n wll- ilurnuis of machinery , mid the whir of the revolving wheels , the clutter of Hying boards nd the churning of the nailing machines are a combination of sounds that makes the imislu of thu factory. A thotnnnd boxes are to bo iniulo nil of ono tlzo and style. Tlio block on a table in the center uf which is a swiftly running saw , Is so plueed that when a board la moved alone bv it and thus over the nxv tbo piece cut on * will bo the right length lor the ido of the box. Another table Is sot to aaw Iho ends and other tables will t > llt the boards limiting them the right width. If it is de sired that tlio boxes bo lettered , us In thu paso of rrucker boxes , etc. , thu side * nro run through n printing press , Uoys pile the pieces by the side of the nail- lug imiculncti oud a man picking upn sldo and end ploi-o nnd placing thum together ut right uncles , louche * alnvur with his foot , tag ma- rhino gives u jolt and six nulls are driven home. An uuluU as thought ho claps on an- v.hor und piece , a jolt aud it Is nulled. The whole operation takes loss than n rnlnuto nnd the box Is tossed on to the next machine which nails on iho bottom. Another step down the line nnd It comoi to the llmshlng machine which knock * off the rough edges und the work U eomplcio. There nro also other machines for the finer work , for dovetailing , proovlug , Bundpaper- Ing. etc. Whllo I was nt the factories they were nt work on boxes for the Ournoau cracker coin- panv , cases for Swift < XCo.tho South Omaha packer * , nnd egg cases for Klrschbraum & Sons , butter and egg shippers. Those und n number of other largo houses , Including candy factories , plcklo works , soap factories , overall factories , etc. , both jobborn and manufacturers , give nil their work to the Omaha factories , out there nri a great many who do not. On nil sliloi it was given ns n conservative estimate that there were pack ing boxes enough used in Omaha to keep -00 tnon employed steadily If the orders * uro all. placed hero. As Jt Is , the most of the boxes nnd packing casca used hero are tnudo lu Wisconsin , Michigan or some other lumber producing slate and nro shipped hero "knocked down" nnd the consumer does his own nailing. Parties using these boxes ilguru that thq nailing does not cost anything , us It is done bv tholr regular etnploves when they might otherwise bo idle ; nor do they llguro In unv slorago or cartage. In this way they make It appear tnat thu boxes cost them less 1'iuii those mndo In Omaha. Mr. ICIrschraur. In explaining this phase of the question said , "I figure that I am p.iylng the Omaha factories n fraction of n cent moro for egg cases than they would cost mo in Michigan , but oven then I am thu gainer. By patronizing Otnnhn factories I keep my money tit homo und thus contribute jnst so much toward malting money moro plenty hero nnd business and collections better. Hvery man I enable a factory to employ makes Just one moro family to consume but ter and eggs. Every buslnor.s man can af ford to patronize home industries from self ish interests ulono oven if ho takes no pride In the growth and properity ot the city.- CIIIAK IIOXKH boxes nro made in nbout the same wny ns packing boxes but it is light work nnd ac cordingly n good many young women nnd boys are employed in this branch of the In dustry. In addition to malting the boxes there is n good deul of hand labor In pasting the labels , covering the corners , etc. It may ho of Interest to the unnlliatcd to know that In cigar boxes as in many other lines there is the genuine and the imitation. Boxes for high grade cigars tire made of cedar wood from Mussachussotts , Now York nnd Cuba. Cheap cigars are put In boxes made of bass wood colored to resemble cedar. A now box which gives promise of selling well is of poplar veneered on thu outside with gcnuiuo cod u r. Cigar box makers have nn uphill road be fore them. The mnnufacluro' cigars In Omaha for some years has been n declining industry nnd it is estimated tlmt only nbout half as many cigar makers are now employed In the city as there were when the city's population was rated at only (10,001) ( ) . You ask the cause for this and every cigar maker will answer "a lack of homo patronage" und yet some cigar manors are practising the Very thing that is killing their business , buy ing their boxes in thu east. Omaha manufacturer. ! have reduced prices so that boxes can bo obtained in Omaha ut the same prices asked in Milwaukee thus saving the freight for the cigar maker nnd they nro pushini : the trade out into the larger towns of the state , where they have some very good customers. I'Al'KK IlOXUrt. The making of boxes of this kind is n matter of baud work almost entirely , und women and boys uro the workers. As a paper box is rather bulky to ship , the Omaha manufacturer receives a fair patronage from such sources ns the shirt factones7 notion houses , coffee houses , rrucker factories aud candy manufacturers. Occasionally , how ever , the agent of some outside factory thinks ho sees a chance to work in his goods nnd cuts prices nnd sells a carload or two. Box-tnnkins is only in its infancy in Omaha , but it could soon bo transformed into a full- grown giant if every business man would consider himself personally responsible for its success. In St. Louis they have twenty- two box factories , nnd whiio I am not famil iar with the history of the business there , I will veiituro the assertion that a St. Louis business man would send out his goods wrapped in a piece brown paper before ho would go to Chicago for n packing-box. Dvvr.xroitT. What Business Men Say. The advantages of patronizing homo indus try are so many nnd so vital , that it should require but a glance from the sagacious busi ness man to fully realize them. Still in Omaha , it seems , they fall far short of the marknna In interviewing manufacturers and jobbers they invariably point to Kansos City , St. Paul , Minneapolis aud Sioux City aa places enjoying largely the benefit , of a local interchange of trade and trnOlc. Tns Bun adopts this mode in attempting to educate householders and buyers and consumers gen erally of the big advuntuges attained by standing by homo industries. W. V. Morse , manufacturer of boots nnd shoes in speaking on this head said : Our goods are just as good tind in many. Instances better than tboso sold to the western trade by eastern manufactures , but local retailers seem to labor under a prejudice against any thing made nt home und uru prone to send \ abroad for their wares oven at a disadvan tage in price and freightage. All things being - ing equal it Is truly the duly , I should think , of local Jobbers and retailers to slick- by local manufacturers. That is the way to build up a city for it redounds to thu benefit of all parties Interested. This condition of things exists in many of the western cities to a much larger extent than it does in Omaha. Kansas City , Sioux City , St. Paul and Minneapolis are all largely loyal to their homo concerns , consequently prollt largely over Onmhu. Franco us a country , however , furnishes tno best example. The people there trudo among themselves nnd are consequently rich und prosperous. Thu retailers should always inuko It a point to see the manufacturers hero , and all things being equal , I repeat , glvo them thu benefit of thojr patronage. That , is my doctrine. I have all my boxes inudo hero , notwithstanding the fact that I could get them n trlflo cheaper elsewhere. There is but ono ahoo manufactory in this section , but If there was u half dozen they would not ho ublo to supply one eighth of tli'j tributary territory. The people of Nebraska consume about fS.OOO.OOOvorth of shoes annually , yet loss than ? . ' ( HK)0 ) , ( ) uro sold hero. Yet Nebraska raises moro of the raw ma terial than any state lu thu union. Still the people complain nbout hard tiuios , nt the sumo time send all of this stuff east , giving Iho eastern manufacturer and his laborers the chunco to sell tholr goods ut a nice profit , which hi turn they loan to western farm ers nt a paying rate of interest. Another thing that militates against our local trudo is the fact that many parties hold express franks , whinh privilege Induces them to send abroad for almost every thing , oven to the dally household necessities. Charles I ) . Sutpuon of thoSutphon car riage house , said that the bettor elms of buy ers in Omaha do not patronize Omaha dealers as they should , but send oft to Now York and Jioston undsr the Impression that tholr puichases there glvo ihum some additional tone , nnd rest assured that tboy pay well for It. Hvoti our southern Nebraska trade Is largely cut in on from ICnnsiiK City und St. .loo , and no far ther distant from this city thnn Nebraska City und Auburn. Mr. Sutphou hardly Know whiit to suggust , only ho recognized Tun Bun's endeavor to educate householders und citlzous generally of the advantages attained by patronizing homo industries ns n most commendable ono. Ho said thut in muuy In stances wealthy people hero had sent east for their fancy vehicles , only to buy exactly the samn innko nf goods bundled by him , the only difference being that they enjoyed thu privilege of paying from $100 to (150 moro for iho same vehicle than they could have purchased hero. Mr , Aulabaugh of thu Aulabaugh fur company , said : "Ouo of the greatest obita- clos wo meet with la the dtspoMllon ot the citizens to send east for the betlor class of goods of all kinds and descriptions under the delusion thut they were getting a fuller worth for their money , which is n grave- mistake , for iho fuel Is that our prices uro lower Hum tin so of cither Now York , Hoi ton , Philadelphia or Chicago. Ouo reason for this U that the westuru people have not yet ucgua to realize thut there has been such on enormous udvanco in furs of all kinds , and there scorns to he n deep-rooted prejudice against anything niudo at homo , lu St. Paul things are different , ut ' least so far ns our business Is concerned , for I know up there It must be n rnro Inducement - mont indeed that can Intlucncotho citizens to gUoutsldo for their ( roods. Here the people seem to bo determined to go awnv from Omaha for articles which wo can discount rnththoro. They pay bigger prices , of course , nnd the result is u great discourage ment to the local manufacturers. The out- aldo buyers , too. labor Under another big dlsadvnntngo , nnd that Is to run thu risk of a nice HI ting garment , or ono deficient In many ways , Btlll thsy must accept nnd wear them , because they came from Now York or Bos ton. All sensible people should bo loyal enough to their own Interests nnd those of their neighbors , to civo the deal ers of tholr own city nu opportunity to pro duce the very goods they hnvo sot their hearts on , with perfect llts , the best mater ial , best make nnd nt lower llguro * than they can cot them In the larger citlo.v That would bo ono of tin ) ways to inuko u metro politan city out of Outnlin. ,1. Buckman , manurajturcr of cigars &ald : I do not have anything like the local trade I should have or nm entitled to. Thu principal causa of this Is the natural prejudice against homo goods. Dealers do not seem to hnvo the properconlldunco In local manufacturers , and will give their orders to smaller towns east of hare , where they haven't the same facilities for turning out superior goods that wo havo. I have manufactured cigars hero for sixteen years or moro nnd can tmng any number of customers who wilt testify to the good quality of my goods. They buy exactly the Hnmo grade of goods outside the city that they do hero , but in every in stance pay a blpeor price , oven us high ns $ . " > or ? 1 ( ) on the thousand moro. Take my goods nnd put Now Yoric on the boxes , nnd place them In n case along with the genuine article from New York , nnd the Jobocr or consumer or any ono else cannot distinguish the difference - enco that is , the cigars being of the sumo grade , til fact , my chances nro good for being selected r.s the favorite , ni mine would bo made of fresher material. Then too , the dealers would have the advan tage of having them inndo to their own lining ns to weight , shape und other particulars tlmt enter Into the manufacture of cigars. In buying my goods they do away with tlio bother und expense of writing their orders nnd freightage , which is essentially a big thing in fnvor of the manu- fneturer. Mr. W. W. Cole of the Consolidated coffee company said : We have a very nice homo trade , but nothing what it should bo. Con sumers are prone to use goods from the east , but they are not as good us ours in many respects. Tnero is u prejudice existing " ing against homo goods that is dllll- cult to understand , as wo can ndvnntnceously compete with any ono in price or ijuiillty. In fact \vo can give n bot- ler liieh grade of coffee than any of the out side houses , and this wo invariably do in order to partially overcome the prejudice - dice existing. Cotfcoi dcpreeiato in value very much after roasting , ut least 10 per cent n month. ColTcos roasted east cannot bo delivered huro for fully a month after this process bus been undergone , while wo can furnish it fresh every day. An order cotnlnc into us In the morning is roasted nnd shipped that day. Bennett does not buy a pound of coffee outside of the pity , and ho probably enjoys the biggest coffee trudo in Omaha. A moro liberal homo patronage would of course enable us to enlarge our business , nnd thus everybody would receive tholr proportion of the bonellts. G. li. Yutes of the German yeast company said : Our homo patronage is the very poor est wo have , nnd yet we mnnufacturo the German yeast exclusivelv and there is uo bettor in tlio world. Our factory on the Bolt line is n three-story brick , iiOx40 : , and was built for this single purpose , yet the city trade is the most meagre we have. The reason is probablv that the retail procerymon do not push our goods. Wo leave samples at almost every household in the city every three months , und have yet to hear of the flrst complaint , out there have been instances where parties preferring our yeast reported to us that they were unable to get it of their local irrocoryman. These grocer * mainly handle yeast made in the cast and never take into consideration that our climate is hotter adapted for the manufacture of pure yeast than that of any other in the country. Wo nro right in the great corn belt , und Omaha should bo the principal yeast center in the country. Our yeast is undoubtedly a superior article. The price of the different makes Is the same to the consumer , still the. , benefit would bo Incalculable by handling the homo made article , when you consider that it is as good , if not bettor than any other. This would give local manufacturers nn opportunity to increase their capacity and contribute Just so much moro toward building up the city , and thus benefit measurably all kinds of trade. Tim Bun's enterprise in agitating this matter must , bo thoroughly appreciated by the general trade. JHH/6M r/O.V.1/ Through a compromise reached in the Han cock will case Harvard college is to receive $70,000. The vast extent of the work done at Chau- tauo.ua is shown by the circumstance that the class of ' 01 at that "institution" numbers be tween 30,000 and 40,000. The oldest collcgo in North America was founded in IfiiH the College of St. Ildotonso , In the Citv of Mexico. The next oldest .is Laval college ; Quebec. In the past twelve years the ntimbsr of stu dents in Chicago theological seminary ( Con gregational ) has Increased from forty to 1(17 ( ; aud the faculty from six to fourteen. The California state university seems to bo in pretty easy clreumstancoi , Ilmiticinily. At n recent mooting the ravonts decided to put gliiK)0 ] ( ) on Intcroa secured by mortgage. Intholl.'pl cities and towns of Massachu setts -ts now have frco public libraries , and the state has lately provided aid for the Ilia small towns and villages which have no li braries. The Cincinnati Technical school permits girls to take all its courses , even to engineer ing und carpenter work. This summer two Kentucky girls , Lucy Mary Higgs and Julia Bediuger , received diplomas. Now YorK World : A now course of in struction in "thu study of woman" is to bo introduced into thu University of Kansas. This will necessitate a revision , so far us the Kansas student is concerned , of'Pope's noted .opinion that "tho proper study of mankind Is man. " Bishop Hurst , ns chancellor of the Ameri can university at Washington , has issued nn nppcal to the Methodist churches and to all other friends of Christian education , to con tribute a fundof SIO.OJO.OOO for buildings nnd endowments of professorships. A site which cost f 100,000 bus already been secured and paid for. for.Says Says the Burlington , Vt. , Free Pressi "Hecognlzing the fact that dalrvlng is the loading industry in Vermont , the trustees of the University of Vermont mid State Agri cultural college have made arrangements cor conducting , the coming wlnter.adairvschool. The session of the school will last foiv four weeks und will bo devoted to the subject of butter-making. The first denial college In the United States was established In 1S40 nt Baltimore , nnd even as late us I8IU ) there were but three oth ers in the country , two in Philadelphia nnd ono in Cincinnati. , There uro now nbout twenty-six of these schools in the United States nnd In sovonil of thostutcsn colloginto course is compulsory to ono intending to prau- tico dentistry as a profession , The three collates nt Spokane. Wash. , have consolidated to form n university , with u present fund , In land , of about $3. > 0UOO and Immediate expectations of about ? 150,000 more. There will bo nn ncadomic , a legal , u uicdiral und a theological department. Kov. It. E. Blsbeo of Cambridge , Muss. , will bo president of thu university , The deanMilp of the law school has been ofTorod to Edmund P. Dole , ot the Seattle , recently of the Now Hampshire bar. In the librury of the Moravian school for boys at Nazareth , lu. , which was founded in 1741 , nnd whoso sessions since were inter rupted for n brief period by the revolution , is n series of quaint old volumes containing thn compositions , graduating colloquies nnd as says , together with sketches In pencil made by scholars whoso hands became dust half a century ngo , The main building of the school on the ncmlcnilo green is the stone Pomoran- inn "uastlo" ercctod by Count Zlnzcndorf in what was then the wlldoruuss of Pennsylva nia , and which attracted many curious visi tors in the lust century. from "Earth's noblest thing n woman perfected. " ' "TIs hoavan nlono that Is glvon away , 'TU only Gcd may bo bad for the asking. " "Two ineunlngs Imvo our lightest , fantasies , Ouo of the ilesh uud of the spirit one. " GRA8D JPY DEPARTMENT , enmi ' Reunions turn damp Fires in Progress in All * * ' Directions. THE G , jtx R , MEMORIAL HALL , i r Thirtieth Atiiilvri'Hary or'tlio Itnttlo of \ \ II.HOnV Crook and tlio Death of Qcncrnl Jjyini HunnliiK iho ItlodkhVlc ol'tlio 1'oloinno. j i A District Hoiinlon , Atn meeting of the veterans of the CSrand Army of tlio Republic nt Orconwootl , Neb. , August 0 , \vhllotlioruuiiton was hi session - sion , which lasted from August il to S , n dis trict , reunion association was orgnnlzod. Com- rndo .1. 15. Ferguson , of Fnragut post No. ! i , Lincoln , was chosen president , and P. S. Galley , of Missouri Hidgo post No. 149 , Uroonwood , secretary. CotnradoC. H. Cockney - noy WHS nimlui uartorraastor and E. C. Coleman - man , commissary It , was decided to hold n mooting of the ex ecutive board on Monday , September 81 , IS'JI , of which the commanders of tlio var ious posts In the district will receive notice. The district as nt present organized con sists of the counties of Lancaster , Cass , Sauuders and Sarpy. The Twenty-Second A circular from "Tho Veteran Association of the Twenty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry" announce * , that tlio piano of moot ing has been changed from Uoloit to Lake Ucnuva. and tlio date is September ! i-'J. Comrade IX H. Allen la appointed local sec retary to assist Set-rotary Northrop in milk ing tlio necessary arrangements. All com munications with reference to accommoda tions hero should uo addressed to him at this place. , The opera tiouso Is engaged for the occa sion , ( jots will bo placed in the upper rooms for the accommodation of "tho boys" who may prefer to camp out. The evening of the -d will bo devoted to short talks and music ; n programme to be furnished by the commit tee. General Lucius I'-airohild will bu ttiero and deliver the annual address before the so ciety on Wednesday evening. There will bo a business meeting of the association at 'J o'clock Thursday morning , tno yd , after which n free excursion on the lake will give you an opportunity of seeing all the camps , i Kirks , and beautiful residences surrounding the lake , stopping at Kayo's park for dinner. 'i hi * Sllyor I'Jnc iinpinont Says the Boston Post : The Grand Army men of Boston who wont to Detroit to at tend the national encampment are not sing ing the praUoj of that city for the manner in. which they were entertained , nor for the way in which the people turned out to see the parade. Gamp Sheridan was o very fair kind of a place but it is not what the boys got in Boston ; and there was not so much of that hearty spirit of welcome and hospitality , if some of the old veterans who were there can bo relied upon to give a talr description. The men high in tlio ranks of the Grand Army of tlio Republic who wont to the hotels complain of the way rates were ad vanced upon thoift , when it was agreed that tboy should not bo. It was expected that throe or four people would bo put into one room , but it was not supposed that each per son would bo charged more than the regular price nf tno room , as they wero. Tills s tate of things prevailed at all the hotels. Uno noticeable thing was the absence of en thusiasm along the line of march of the big parade and the comparatively small number of people that viewed it. In decorations , however , Detroit excelled Boston , and the display was the finest over witnessed by the veterans. Tlio camps also were excellent and the arrangements llrst class , as were also the excursions , especially that of the Loj al Legion. The G. A. It. Memorial Hall. Chairman J. M. Clokoy of the local commit tee arrived at his homo In Deeatur , 111. , from Detroit , whore ho and ox-Governor Oglesby , a member of the national committee , made a gallant light , for the National Memorial Hall association , Grand Army of the Republic at Deeatur , 111. , .which was unanimously In dorsed by vote of the encampment. Mucli of interest in reference to the Hall was not tele graphed from Detroit during the session of the encampment. Mr. Clokoy says : "Tho report presented by General Oplcsby was adopted without change or amendment. It provides for a national advisory board cm- ' bracing the cominandcr-in-chlef and each department commander , which board shall meet annually. The hall association will bo required to make annual reports to tbo board. The commnndcr-in-chiof shall also appoint four members ol the national board of trus tees , and when the plans for the hall are pre pared they shall bo submitted to iho national advisory board for approval. " The associa tion and local coinihitteo nro greatly elated over the full and un quail lied recognition of tlio enterprise by the Detroit encampment , and they will now go ahead nioro energet ically than ever in soliciting contributions for the hall fund. The Kittle ol xVilHtm's Creole. Just thirty .vearj ago August 10th the bat tle of Wilson's Creek , Mo. , was fought and General Nathaniel Lyon gave up his life for the cause of froodom. The battle w.is oneof the most disastrous of the serins of bloody en counters which took place in tno state ot Mis souri during the summer of ifitil , r.nd its re sult had a signal effect 0:1 : the condition of tlio affairs of the west. Missouri was divided within herself throughout the whole war , and blood was shed and powder burned within her borders long after tno death of the confederacy ana the proclamation of emancipation. Brother fought brother and father slow son , and the fertile -plains and rugged mountains were the seonei of many dark crimes which were oxcusid 111 the con fusion that prevailed on thojjroundjof patriot ism. ism.Wilson's Wilson's crock Is a llttlo stream flowing through Greene county , Mo. , nearly UJJ miles in 11 southwesterly direction from St. L.OUIS. At Springfield , on this creek , sev eral battles occurred during the war , but the only one which ha * found pluca in his tory is that of August 10 , 1SUI , whoa General Lyon foil. Lvon was u Connecticut man , born nt Ashford In Umfstate , July 11 , 181'J. ' Ho was u cadet ut West Point with Grant , and lilco him served with' distinction in the Mexican war. Ho ulso tuuV"uUvo part in suppressing ho Seminole Indian outbreak in Florida Just uftnr his graduation from West Point. At the time of the gold excitement ho was stationed in California , later in Oregon , and In ISM in KansasIn 18(11 ( ho took command of the United Stoles volunteers in Missouri , und was commissioned n brigadier general. The Secessionist forces in Missouri at the tlmo were led byl the governor of thostato , Claiborn R Jucltstrti who , early in Juno.lSOl , established u cihhYi on the outskirts ot St. Louis , garrisoned''it ' with the rebel state militia , and prepared to solzo the United States arsenal ut .St. Louis hero Lyon was in charge. * , Lyon had but two companies of volunteers to defend thu place , but the confederates for torno reason delayed the attack. Lyou , how ever , divined their purpose , and Joined by u regiment of Union ndnoronts from the city , ho sallied out and captured the whole rebel force , meeting with uo opposition whatever. Jackson then got together u small armv at Boonovlllo , about forty miles north of JeTor- ( sou City , on the spot wuero Daniel lioono had long before planted a settlement. Lyon found mm hero and completely routed his forces on Juno 17. Word then reached the federal troops that another band of confederates wai gathered at Dry Springs , near Spriugllold , and Lyons hastened south to meet them. Tno rebels , under Cienurul McCullocb , were warned of his approach and prepared to greet him warmly , but they wnro Igiioniliilously de feated and forced to full back along Wilson's creek toward the town of Springllcld on Augusts. Kobul ro-onforcomcnts , led by Colonel Price , then arrived to aid McCuliocu's and the confederates thus assembled so greatly outnumbered the men of Lyon's command tlmt It seemed hopeless for him to attempt to hold any part nf southwestern Missouri. Hut Iho region Is ono of the richest of the a Into , and Lyon resolved not to give it up without n light. Ha had been so successful heretofore , every movement of his had been attended with such overwhelming victory , that ho bocnmo moro courageous than pru dent anil attacked the rebels on Wilson's crook August lu. The day was fiilr and at the start the tide seemed to run In his favor. But llcklo for- turn ) turned suddenly nnd the light bowline desperate. Twice was Lyons wounded as ho headed his men nnd cheered them on , The wounds were painful nnd wcnkvncd him perceptibly , but his indomitable spirit kept him up and supported him. A colonel leading his regi ment as It charged by Lyon was shot nnd fell at his feet. For an instant the soldiers faltered. But Lyon sprang into the plnco of thi ! dead olllccr , and with u word rallied tlio troops and the advance was resumed. Next moment , however , just ni fortune seemed tosmllo upon him again , a bullet crashed into his bre.ist , and ho fell , i ylny instantly. Disorder followed In the union ranks , and the confederates seeing their opportunity fol lowed up their advantage and enslly won the day , driving the federal troops from the Held in n panic. The loss on both sides wan not heavy , but the result of the -Moat was to deprive the union of control In the larger p.trt of the state of Missouri during the ro- malndor of the war , and to provide a cover under which countless g.uigs of outlaws , guerillas and desperadoes ravaged the newly settled country nnd terrorized the Inoffensive' pioneers. N.oono over thiilks of Wilson's creek with- out'rei-alllng Lyon , Its hero , und it is llttlni * that tomorrow no true American should fall to honor by remembrance the brave soldier nnd good man who gave his life for his country at Wilson's creek thirty years ago. The I'otoiiiaiHlnckndc. . Hear Admiral F. A. Hoe furnishes the fol lowing account of n thrilling incident of the war : During the summer and fall of 15(11 ( the confederates had ofl'octod the complete blockade - ado of the city of Washington and tno Potomac mac river. Not an ounce of provisions or munitions of war could got Into Washington except by railway from Baltimore and under going transshipment at that placo. The Potomac river was closed and the rebel bat teries could bo passed by only u few small crafts nt night. The Pensacola had boon sloop-of-war lilting for sea ut the Washington navy yaru for nearly a year 'past and in the month of No vember her ollleers pronounced her ready. The rebel batteries swept the channel of the river through u distance of nine miles , and this was the gauntlet the ship was to run if she was to join Farragnt's licet below Or leans , where sun was ordered to ronde/vous. Tno confederate olllcors o ! this long Hue of batteries on the right bank of the Potomac had possession ot { .he coast survey charts and they were thus enabled to train their guns accurately on the mid-ctmnuol of the river , not very wide at this placo. The ele vating screws of the guns were made secure after the aim hail been carefully adjusted , and nothing was left for the gunner to debut but to watch until the ship should como in the line of lire and pull his'lock string. Nine miles of bultcrius seemed to make the destruction of the ship a pretty sure thing. On n starlit November night , just as the moon was sinking in the west , tlio ship , which had been lying at anchor olt Alexan dria , got under way and headed down the river toward the batteries and to try the for tune of war. . .lolin Walters , the only navy yard pilot who remained loyal to the govern ment , stood by the con to steer thu ship through her dangerous course. Two navy yard tugs were secured along the oil-shore side of the ship to help the ship's own en gines and to bu ready to assist in the event of their being disabled. It is impossible to describe or to under stand now the intense interest excited by this attempt to break through the rebel blockade ot the federal capital , not onlv in Washington , but throughout the country , and especially in the confederacy.That night , therefore , but few people in Washing ton wunt to their beds to sleep , us they lis tened to the booming of tno great guns on the banks of the Potomac. President Lincoln , Mr. Scward , the secretary of war , and in deed nearly or quite all the members of the cabinet , embarked in a steamer at tlio navy yard und followed in the wane ot the Pensa- cola down tlio river , until she arrived oft Shipping Point , whore the llrst gun was Jired from the rebel batteries. There they stopped their engine and peered through the night at the receding hull of the ship , amid the flashes and booms ot guns. Never , perhaps , in the history of our navy bad so much and so intense mi interest been centered upon a ship of warl Orders from the navy department had been issued to tlio captain of thoPensacola that no reply should bo given to the rebel batteries. It was the mission of that ship to pass through the fire of the enemy ns swiftly nnd as uafolv as possible. Think of being under the tire ot an enemy's guns for ono hour or longer and forbidden to lire back I The grand old pilot , Walters , understood his business. The throttles of the ouciues were opened wino ; ho tugs were only to keep speed with the ship , and to give neither sight nor sound to the enemy ; and. by a line , shrewd trick nf .seamanship and piloting the Pensacola was near to the very edge of the channel nearest the batteries , on the right bank of the river , and every shot passed just over thu smokestack , " und plungud In the mid- channel water not the length of the ship from the hull. There were timoj when the Pensncolu's keel had not an inch of water under it und a lump ot sand or a big stone Ivlng them would have insured the ground ing of the ship under the rebel batteries and her certain destruction. It was bold soamcn- shlp for night work , but It saved the ship. At early daylight the Pensacola received the last shot trom the enemy off Aquiacrook , which fell short nnd spent itself in the water , but it was the last shot received by her with out a lierco reply. The batteries were passed and the ship was safe. But , though no shot was fiic'd from the ship , what a victory this was for the union cause I Thu confederate government ut Richmond mend , lu its ignorance and wrath , blamed the men and olllcors of the batteries and accused ttiein of culpable neglect ot duty. The uest men in its service were dismissed , degraded , court-martialed nnd the gunners distributed to the four quarters of the confederacy dis honored. Nothing could hnvo noon better calculated to demoralize the rebel army at this early period of the war. The batteries , erected at great expense nnd labor , were abandoned and the blockade of thu Potomac was utterly broken. The federal capital was once more free and the pathway to the ocean was clear. On the morning after the passage of the ship , a lady of Alexandria , has told mo ho wat on the streets of that city , iindon the sidewalk mot a group of colored boys inani- intitod discussion over the great event Through the night they had hoard the dis tant thunder of thn rebel guns. Armed with a broken broomstick , she hoard one of t.homsay : "Do.in yorseol Thar's the rebel guns , and tliar's the river , and thar's wharshu's got to go ! " and ho brought his stick down on what he supposed was the channel of the Potomac river. For nil that the seaman's wit and coumgo saved thu ship , nnd on April iil , 1WW , she led the udvanco column of Furragnt's fleet in iho tremendous buttles of Forts Jackson and St. Philip and thuChalmottu below Now Orleans. During that nlelil of ono of the greatest tmvnl en gagements known to history the Pensacola led the "forlorn nope" of that magnificent conflict. Captain Henry W. Morris of New York , one of the "old-time navy captains , " com- manned the Punsucola , nnd Lieutenant F. A. Koe , also of Now York , nnd the writer of this paper , was the executive onicor. During the administration of President Arthur the heroic pilot , Waters , applied nt the navy department for n position at thu navy yard us laborer or watchman. Hi ) was very poor , he said , and was growing old , hut the secretary could tlud no pluce for this man nnd ho was luft to light out the bnltlu of life alone. But ( nm glftd to record of him that , In nn hour of the dlro.it need of the na tion , ho was the ono "faithful among vho faithless found. " Head This. July and August are nnxloua months for mothers who carefully watch over their llttio ones. Hot days and frequent chuigos of temperature nro liable to produce cholera mornus. How satisfactory It should bu for parents to know Hut Haller'ti Pain Parnlyzer Is both a pleasant and otToctlvo remedy for all summer complaints. It soothes und re lieves nil pain nnd griping and always effects a co m pi o to euro. FOR DYSPEPTICS ONLY. Iitxura K , Morrow. "I would not live nlway , I care not to stay. " Mulnncholy , Isn't It ? Hut sny , did you over wrestle will tlmt pathological monster , dyspepsia which Is always thvoatonliiff to put tu end to your temporal existence bu never quite does UV You have. Well , then , you know what a liisnnl abode this world is , and the sentiment of the pout will find a sympathetic response in your uncom fortable soul. Still , I wouldn't bo in a hurry nbottl , for it'u only "Ono day nt n tlmoThat's ! , nil It can bo ; No faster than that In the hardest fate. And days have their limits " ixnd nights too. Isn't that comforting ? Existence is anything but a poem to you , wo know , yet there are thousands of stomachs just as ballty as yours , from which unhealthy fact you ought to bo able to squee/.o an additional grain ol consolation. You are getting a pretty comprehen sive Idea of eternal punishment , to bo sure , if the disease has not a real good grip , and no amount of orthodoxical ranting can convince you that eternity has anything worse in store for your gem of a soul. Symptoms of all the ills in the cata logue of diseases manifest themselves in startling succession. For a time vou have cancer of the stomach ; vou are sure of it. The very thought of such a terrible disease is enough to turn the 150,001) ) hairs of your head white , but vou meditate upon the state of your affairs nevertheless. Day and night the morbid growth slowly oats its way to yout vitals. You die , robe yourself for the narrow house which nobody covets , pronounce a eulogy over yourself and bury the remains. Hut after a little you resurrect your poor old body and discover you haven't a cancer at nil ; it's a tumor instead. Still a tumor is just as bad us a cancer and then comes another season of dole ful meditation and funeral preparation. Meanwhile tlio tumor grows and grows till it gets pretty nearly up to your oars anil you expect to bo called hence at any time. I5ut after awhile the old tumor collap ses of its own accord and before you have n chance to change your garments of mourning and look like other folks , something whispers in your oar that your heart isn't doinc very good wo k. it is too much in a hurry , and you im mediately discover that it has been Hopping around in an uncomfortable manner for a long time and you wonder why yon never thought of it before. You are certain now that it is about to beat its lust boat and you institute immediate propa- ralions for a sudden demise. You road all sorts of treatises on that bothersome little organ which promises a speedy ending of your earthly career , until your brain is so muddled you ctin't toll an auricle from a ventricle or a tricuspid valve from an aorta. Still your own poor old "wheel at the cistern" keeps up its irregular revolu tions and manages to pass enough blood around to keep you from Investigating the mysteries of eternity. Bynnd by it trots over its giddiness and'you slowly crawl away from tlio val- , * nftlm Klinrlmv nf rltuit.b milx' tn flurl that your lungs are very much attected and consumption is your inevitable fate. You read about all the advertised con sumption cures with avidity and your case is described to a dot by the schem ing empiric who has sot his trap for such as you. You probably take thirty or for'ty bottles of this vile com pound at $1.50 a bottle , which you might have prepared yourself for iibout one-thirtieth of tlmt amount and fed it to your hogs with quite as satis factory results. You got no bettor ; your consumption symptoms mnltiply alarmingly and in less than a month you are dead and buried again ; And so you go on killing yourself with all the shocking difaoases to which man is the unfortunate heir until somebody tolls you that you have dyspepsia. Then by gradual and intelligent degrees you solve the riddle of your miserable exist ence. ence.You have learned now , among other tilings worth liuding out , why the gov ernor general of the inferno is such a conspicuous character in your dreams. You know why lie leaves his devilish dominions every night to trip the light fantastic all over your diaphragm. Now that you have discovered what is really the matter you apologize to your stomach and promise better-treatment in tlio future. If you don't you ought to do so. Recognize and respect its rights. .lust think of the enormous amount of work it does every day , leave alone the extras you have probably insisted upon ; Suppose it had bjon on duly for half a century ; then 7,000 pounds of broad has boon prepared according to nature's laws , as nearly as you would permit , and sent on its way rejoicing to various parts of your ungrateful anatomy ; likewise , ll,000 ( pounds of meat , -1,01)0 ) pounds of vegetables , eggs , fish , and mercy ! 7,000,000 gallons of water ! Who blames a stomach for striking it is asked to do moro than thatV And that isn't all. You attempt to lloat every mouthful of food in a sea of tea , colToo , choolato or something worse Down your helpless jusophngus it goes to tlio jaded stomach and'n battle at once begins between the foreign and domestic juices. Don't do that any moro ; it always moans trouble. Tlio food will got there without any such assistance , and don't bo afraid you won't got enough water intoyoursystoin with out suoli wholesale draughts at meal timo. / An 800-foot lake ought to satisfy any ordinary mortal , and if you live out man's allotted time and can by miracu lous moans ( rather up the little drops of water that have refreshed your body , you might plant such a lake in some drought Htrickon region. When the fraction of your original thirty-two teeth , if it Isn't too small.and a quart of saliva a day , you ought to be able and willing to lighten the labor of your stomach considerably , but some people don't seem to know what saliva ' ( Jhow every morsel thirty-two times , n In Gladstone und save your stomach tlmt much grinding. If you know of any way to got the exact - act length , breadth and thickness of said btomach and at the bumo time re tain your hold on this life , set about the job at onco. If you lind it to bo small not the job but thu stomach you can cat meat , eggs , line Hour and fruits with impunity ; nut if tlmt musculo-mumbra- nous canoldal sac happens to bo of the ample variety then you can bend down hard boiled eggs , cold baked beans , cu cumbers , cabbage , raw turnips or any thing of that sort and possibly never gut any acknowledgment of their re ceipt. Tlio stomach is long-sulToring and kind but like the pruvorblul worm some- times turns and then li when vou feel tlmt tills world is not your homo. \ou perhaps hnvo an appetite not very well trained and are prone to taste of everything sot before yon. Suppose you stop nnd consider the poslblo con stltuonta of the food you roll'as a sweol morsel under your tongue. M'rv it ii week. I'm sure your lot will soom/ easier and the desire for many thlni/ will be killed stone dead. ICeop nvvny from church fairs , sup pora and all gorging entertainments ol tlmt sort. God never intended that you should make that kind of a nmtyr of yourself for the Christian catixe. Don't attempt to make your nehos and pains a subject of conversation among your friends. They are sure to play the hypocrite every time. Don't vent your splto on the fatuity cat or dog. Tlio oat can't help it and the dog don't know what ails you. Don't spend any moro time gating In the undertaker's show windows or watch ing funeral processions. Take the other side of tlio street. Don't Iliul fault with your neighbor ' because his stomach is' good-naturod enough to stow away green turtle soup , spring lamb and mint sauce , boiled po tatoes , stowed tomatoes , brain fritters , seallopod squash , jellied tonguo. chicken salad , mince pie , Vienna tarts , English plum pudding. Kotnun punch and coll'oo all at one sitting , nnd never grumble. His stomach is made on the same plan as yours and sooner or later will snow light. . Don't imagine that life Is a failure be cause you can't enjoy such a pabular pot-pourri. It is an expensive pleasure and a hoggish ono ns well. Finally , "don't worry any moro about dying. "Death loves a shining mark , " , but tlmt has no reference to you. Dyspeptics never die. 'Hit * l.ntcsl Conundrum. Wliv ! s Halter's Barsapanlla and llimlork like the most popular soap of the day. Hecauso they both cleanse the skin and leave It both soft and velvety. iloulcey S For Homo reason or other the nvorago colored jockey is so brimful of supersti tion tlmt ho can hardly got down to weight. Jack CriUondon , the well known Ponnsylvavia colored jockey , liv ing at Gloucester , would rather lose every race for a year than to see asntike or a bullfrog. Tlio Htablo boys discov ered this Iho other day and ono oMhom [ iluccd a dead snake in Jack's bunk. The poor little follow , when ho touched the . laminy reptile , grow ashy in his pallor , low out of the stable into tlio night , and no inducement strong enough lias been bund for his return. Ho iirmly believes that the dead snake was an evil omen , mil that lie is hoodooed. Yesterday somebody slyly placed a dead frog , in lack's pocket. The jockey firmly Iw * ' ioves that tlio frog jumped into i. pocket and died. To prevent a recurrence - " ronco of this kind ho cut away every ono of his pockets and sowed up tlio open ings. Tons ol'S The treasury department estimates that 5)0,0l,00 ( ) ( ) ) ( ) pounds of stijrnr will be produced in the United States thin year and that $10,000,000 will ho required to pay tlio bounty. Ninety-three per cojit * of the yield is from su-jur cane , o per cent from the boot , about li from the the maple and the rest from sorghum. The boot , which seems to have Had no body to apeak fo1 * it in the last conjrross , produces more than three times as much as the maple , which Senator Edmunds tie strenuously advocated. Are you nervous and irritable ! A glass of Cook's Imperial wine banishes that fooling. It's the pure grape jticu naturally fermented. MOORE'S H'H" Ilk 1 Ikk For troubling1 pains in small of hack use Mooro's Tree of Life. For Catarrh use Mooro's Tree of Life. For Constipation use Tree of Life. The irroat life remedy Tlio Tree ol Life. Jluoro's Trcofif Mfo n poiltlro euro lor KM'iur nnd Iilror ( 'ompltlnt n > l all h cm I dlioiiu , . 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