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HE OMAHA SUNDAY PAGES 17 TO 20. .TTJXE 10. 1S71 OMAHA. STXDAV " civrir. nr nv irrvrtr. 55 * THE OWNERS RETIRED SUDDENLY PROB1 BUSINESS aucl their stock , which was composed of Wholesale Wholesale Price $15.00 , Price 815.00 Such as ouly New York's largest trade requires , was sold for less than 5Oc on the dollar. 50 very stylish all wool TO This elaborately trimmed Walker Beaver Cloth Jackets , satin iJi Cape , like above cut , trim lined military trimmed , mar med with marten fur , cut jet and ten fur edged , just like above i 16th ant ! Douglas , braided , heavily satin lined cut.Vein arten's wholesale , through price $15 , on sa'e at $6.98. OMAHA , out. Weingarten's price $15.00 , on sa'e ' at $5.98. An odd lot of Wein- arten's sters and Short Jackets , fas price Whole sale Wtolc- price sile $5.50 price This Extra Heavy 220 high price sample $15.00 " This wool beaver jacket , like "This beautiful double tan Me'ton Jacket , like Jackets , in empire fronts above cut , trimmed on sleeve , cape , like above cut , handsomely above cut , made in This long- black beaver and backs , the new Hussar This extra lon Chi fine Walkers- around entire cloak and back somely trimmed with darker the latest style , satin cape , like above cut , velvet Jackets , new box front na Astrakhan Fur Cape , like Plush Jackets , beautifully shade braid. Wein vet trimmed and braided. er oi ' Jackets , of them with silk cord , Wcinffarten's ' faced. Weingarten's ' many above cut , exeptionally large fully brocaded satin garten's price $5.50 , on price $9-50 , on sale W eingarten's price S. 50 , beautifully and stylishly trimmed , , price 85,00 , on sale at $1,50 sale at $2,50. at $4.98. - ' on sale at $3.50 and YVeinsarten'n no two alike price In the from entire $15.00 lot. to sweep , actually worth $1500 , lined. Weingarlen's price 525.00 ; on sale at SD.'JS and fr2 ! 50. on sale at $ S SS. $19 50 , on sale at $7.77. 500 DOZEN MISSES ALL WOOL 2000 Travelling Men's Samples 1500 Samples Odd 800 Boz. Ladies' wool Ribbed AND This includes every make and " All full seamless and regular madeplain and ' "style , aid of both domestic and Every sizj , shaie , co'or ribbed fast black and natural colors. imported goods. , Regular - PA IK EACH Vests ' or pants , gray , came's ha-r , balbrggan. lar price 5oc , on sale at 150. worth 5oc. Eft and style , worth from $ i to $2 50 a pair They are worth from $2. 50 to $5 a pair. Silver , Turquoise. Regular price , /5c , AGE OF INDIA RUBBER Gigantic Growth of the Industry Thnragh- ont the World. MILLIONS OF TONS IMPORTED ANNUALLY IJIc- } ! ninl OMicr V.-IilcU-H Tired KuliliiT Tlie Ilulilier IIor t- lioc Iiullu no n Grnud Uuubrr rorrnt. t. IK * . S , B. McClure Co. ) It was a Frenchman who first spoke of our own times a * "the India rubber ace. " The aptness of , this expression docs not at flrst bight Impress luelf. One has heard tbo end of the Nineteenth century described cs the "Iron age" and the "ago of elec tricity , " But consideration shows that the term "India rubber age" te something more than a. witticism descriptive of modern elas ticity. The part plajed among us by rub ber U quite as Important as that of either Iron or electricity ; and the flcld which rub ber covers h. If humbler , notably vaster than the fields co\ered by those two other great agents of civilization Rubber has. Indeed , become a necessity , where electric ity and Iron are merely desiderata. Hence the Justification of the French tavant and " rubber . " bis "India ape. Some slight idea of the gigantic growth of rubber industries may be gleaned from the following remarks o. the- man ager of a New York vehicle fac tory : "We ha\e fitted 0.000 car riage * with rubber tires In New York City lone during the past two jears and there iKe scores of flrmti competing with us. ' "Sforeover , we hate put rubber tin * on at least 35,000 vehicles In other parts of the country , and yet the mo\ement only took commercial thspe- four jears ago It began with the livery stables which keep cabs and carriages for hire. The keepers of * uch vehicle * found out that when par- tie * of two or more waqted to go to the theater or to a dance they could not cpcak coftly ae they wished to do. The granite .y.trincnu cautcd this nolte , and when the rjt'bcr tires were Introduced people dls- tovered that they could at length enjoy a drive In comfort Klr t private carriages were thus equipped , and then the livery ctablo kepe-s were obliged in self-defence to follow cult Now even the delhery vans Jiave their rubber tires. " BICYCLE'S DIG IMPETUS. Of course tbo ubiquitous blocle has done much to tend rubber Importations careerlne upwards. Itubber Importers are quite sure that the gradual rise in the price of Para rubber for the last few years Is due to the demand for pneumatic tires for bicycles A writer In the London Times has recently carefully estimated the output of bicycles In the United States for the present > ear at 1.000.000. and of Great Britain at 750.000. Each of these bicycles will require two pneumatic tires , or altogether 3,500.000. Each pair of tires weighs about three and a half pounds , of which two pounds are Para rub ber. There will thus be 3.500,000 pounds of Para rubber consumed out of a total production for the Amazon basin of 45.7SS.- C13 pounds for the year 1S95. Thus , roughly speaking. S per cent of all the Para rubber now produced goes Into bicycle tires. It is only In bicycle tires and In fine mack intoshes that the better grades of Para rubber are uted pure. For all other pur poses either Inferior qualities of Para rub ber are taken or the better grades are blended with rubber from other parts of the world , such as Central America , Africa and the Baet Indies. The total quantity of rubber exported from these countries amounts to a little more than half that de rived from the Amazon basin. The defect of all Inferior rubbers Is their tendency to grow soft after a certain amount of wear. The rubber shoe Industry consumes a very large quantity of rubber , there being several factories In New England which can each make 20,000 pairs of rubber chocs in one day. Some Idea of the total output may be gathered from tbo annual auction sales of rubber chops In Boston last November when 40,000 cases of shoes were sold for J500.COO. representing some -4,003,000 pairs of shoes. Large a * this number may seem , It only represented "seconds , " as the per fect goods were dUposed of in the ordinary way. way.HOW HOW THE CHILDREN HELPED. During the year 1S94 the public school children of New York City us , d three tons of rubber Ink erasers , while those of Brook lyn used two tons. It has been calculated from the books of a large manufacturer that the school children of a town of 12,000 In habitants use 8.C40 rubber bands every year , larger town and cities using proportionate cuantltit-s. Less than half the bulk of the white rub . ber which we see In tubing , Ink erasers , . cheap toys and other articles consists of the pure gum , whlttng and talc being added to give these goods their characteristic ap pearance and to make them resist oxidation longer. An enumeration of the various uses of rubber In the arts would fill a large iol- ume. Thus , the surgeon U able to perform bloodless operations by using Esmarch's ban dage , be utf-s an atomizer to spray dltln- fecUnts. He uses rubber tubing to drain wounds and rubber syringes to Irrigate them , ind sometime * he orders rubber hot water bags for hli patients. The dentist uses a rubber base In which to fix a set of false teeth. The electrician wears rubber cloves when ho wishes to Insulate his hands from the danger of a chance current , and mixes rubber wan all the Insulating material for wires stoie water. RUBBER IS EVERYWHERE. There Is hardly * bualneu man and so postoffice In the country which have not more than one rubber stamp. Every bil liard ] table has rubber cushions. Nearly i etery working horse in the country has a j rubber , sheet to protect him In wet weather. There must be 20.000.000 men and boys In the United States today wearing elastic suspenders , and at least nn equal number of women and girls who wear elastic gar ters. Every theater has Its rubber gas bags , while nearly every bouse has at least one rubber mat. Rubber belting Is extensively used In machine shops , while rubber valves and washers are common adjuncts of water pipes and steam fittings. Tortoise shell combs , excfpt as ornaments , have been en tirely superseded by those made of hard rubber. Vulcanite mouthpieces are now far more common on pipes than those made cf amber or bone. Noiseless rubber tires for cabs and car riages have already driven steel tires Into the background In London. Paris , St. Pe tersburg and all the large cities of Europe. Rubber horseshoes are now worn by racers and circus horses alike , and the use of rubber ircs and horseshoes Is rapidly be coming common in this country. Horseless carriages , which are now seen so frequently In the streets of Paris as to attract no at tention , are all equipped with pneumatic tires. In short , there I : no end to the unes of rubber and its adaptability to new pur poses receives dally Illustration In almost every fresh mechanical Invention. What Is better still , the United States leads the world In the manufacture of rubber goods of every description. JOHN BULL COMPETES WITH VS. But how long the United States can con tinue to bold this practical monopoly Is quite another question. U is a singular rail inai at tnis stage or me "inaia ruot > er age" the rubber tree should remain practi cally uncultivated ; and that to this very lack of cultivation the land of Uncle Sam should owe 1U supremacy In the trade. England has awakened to the fact that vast profits lie In the systematic cultivation cf the trees best calculated to produce the wonderful gum. It happens , however , that the American ' importers , having established lines of'communication with the natives of .Brazil who gather the crude rubber from the wild trees , are very anxious to retain for themselves their partial monopoly , and arc therefore almost unanimous In pooh- pooblne the planting of frrests of rubber trees as unnecessary and unprofitable , On the other hand. Englishmen Interested In rubber teem fascinated with the prospects of the profits which might be derived from the systematic cultivation of rubber trees. They hdve already established plantatlcnn In Brltlth India , Ceylon and Trinidad , and have Indirectly aided the establishment of similar plantations in Mexico. One rciult of the attention which British Guiana has lately be-en receiving through the Vcnezultan boundary dispute Is likely to be- the planting cf rubber trees In that t country , where the sol ] and climate Is I I peculiarly favorable for their growth. It should not be forccnten that the English i have been very succct&Iul In the cultivation 1 of trees and shrubs which jltfd valuable products. ' ENGLAND HAS SUCCEEDHD BEFORE. Thus they brought sugar cne plantations to a high state cf perfection In Jamaica. By transplanting the cinchona tree from Peru to India they reduced the price of quinine from J2 to 25 cents an. ounce ; the tea shrub in their hands in Aesiam threat ens to destroy the demand for the Chinese variety cf tea. It will be s * n that Para rubber commands a price one-third higher than the best of any other country. The crude rubber from the Congo sells at 40 cents a pound , but It has been proposed to transplant the rubber trees from the Amazon zen basin to that of the Congo , both rivers being sltuatt > d in the tropical regions and the conditions of eoll along the banks of each being similar. ' With the prospect of such an Immense Increase in the annual rubber output and of a battle royal between the , . English capi talists and the present American monopo list. ) there appears to be all the greater reason for styling this "the India , rubber age. " " ' , - WIDOW QUITO PHILOSOPHICAL. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9 Condolence * on Her lltiitltnn l' Dc-ath Very Grnrloiml > - . \ < -Ujj < i i < - < lK < ' ' ' . A North Side Lutheran pastor recently as signed to a fashionable congregation Is won dering whether hereafter It will be policy for him to offer condolence "when yoiinc matrons of his flock lose their husbands , or forever keep his peace. H < / hi jvery much perturbed over an incident hlcjh occurred quite recently , relates the Chc& : o Chronl- c'e. ' Some time last summer and before he had Itca assigned to this particular church , the Invalid husband of one. of his mo t promi nent church members went to tbo far west In the hope that a change of c.Unate might restore him to health. But the ratified at mosphere of the mountains Instead of bene fiting the Invalid , who uas'a consumptive , rather hastened tlie progress of ( be disease and within a very few weeks ho flled , Last week the young widow returned. What more natural than that the parson should offer his sympathies to the bereaved one. "You have my slncerest sympathy , " he said to the joung woman. "But after all , vou have this consolation that the dear one is DOW past all suffering end probably much fcaDUpr. " "You are too kind , parson , " answered the young widow. "Indeed , he Jastei much longer than I thought be would. I expected he would go much sooner. It was a hopeless " cane. Such a philosophic view ot the case rather startled the eood man. It came so unex pectedly that It left him nothing more to say , and he beat as hasty s retreat as he could , Atlanta Constitution : Mr , Poorly This 'ere wall'll fall down ef ye don't fix It. th crock * are enormous. Landlord All rlcht. I'll have It papered at once. nnirrs OK run WOULD. A PrcNh Compilation anil CoiiiiinrUoti of Ntitlonul IlurdriiK. Whether it be a good or a bad thing for the nations , there is no room to doubt that the debts of the world are growing steadily , sa > s the Pall Mall Gazette. In 1&75 it was computed that they stood at 4,750,000.000. as compared vlth a round 4,200.000.000 two years earlier. On the basis of figures , many of which have been obtained by us at first hand , and are likely on that ac count to be more accurate than some of the wild guesses to which certain irresponsi ble statisticians have treated us , we our selves estimate that the Indebtedness of the world today stands at 5,800.000.000. As probably every one knows. France has the doubtful distinction of being the country which ha the largest debt. The latest figures put the total at something like 1,200,000,000 , which Is nearly double the debt 600.000,000 of Great Britain , which ranks as second on the list. Russia follows with a total of ' 575,000,000 , and Insignifi cant Italy coiiK-c fourth , with 500,000,000 that U , If we count as separate items the joint debt of Austria-Hungary and the indi vidual debts of the two portions of the nation. The joint debt stood in 1S95 at 275,950.000 ; while the debt of Austria alone was 122.678,600 , and that of Hungary alone 207.729.000. or 606,397.600 In all. The United States debt amount to 239,000OG ( ' . and that of Spain cxclushe of the more recent loins In prosecution of the war iii Cuba at 279.000.000. In thn follo-.ilnz statement we give a comparison for 1S95 and 1S75 , of the- indebtedness of the nations which now owe. or did then owe , 100,000- 000 or over : ins. isw. Country. ( Estimated ) ( Ectlmated ) France . . . . . . . * . . . fc < 0 ( K 0K0 ( L 06Ot4 > ( * jO Great Drttaln 7M.w ( . ( iW CM,0 > . uO Runia 5j. ( "JWJ Italy SJ , l0iW United States 4li.G ( i ( * i9 fij.aln I7l.WiOuO AustrU.llunirary 8Mi.uou.000 tOC.WKi X ) Germany fOO.OuG.duO M.M ) ( wo Auttrnlatla 4C.OOO.C& ) riO.f * OK ) Turkey J3S.000.COO 1MW)0 , 1 rtinutal Gi.ow.uoJ l&s.ono.iw ) India . : ( OO.CM i.w ) * w Urilll M.UM.OOO It5.0 l"lll ( KOTt . . . . . 75,0"G.OOO 106 WJO.OW ) In spite of the substantial reduction of r the English , American , Spanish and Ger man debts , there Is a net Increase for tbo fourteen nations In the twenty years of f 46.000,000. It may be added that In m5 tbeee same twelve nations owed 4,140.000.000 , made up thus Prance I&9S.OM.OOO ; Great Drltaln , 740.000.000. Italy , 455.000,000. Rus sia , 351.000.000 ; United States. 379.000.000 ; ' [ Spain. 270.000.000 ; India , 127,000.000. Tur key. 127,000.000. Australasia. 9S.OOO,000 , and Portugal , 3,000,000. In the years 1S7S- 55 th re WCE on this showing a net reduc tion of about 1&,000.000 on the indebtedness of the natlone enumerated ; but the whole world's obligations In 1SS5 represented an Increase on 1&7G. oar calculations gjxini ; a total for the former of nearly 4.900.000 000. Among the minor debtors , Belgium has In creased Its obligations from 71.000,000 In JS75 to 91.000.000 In 1893. and in the same time the debt of the Netherlands has gone up from SO,000.000 to 92.500.000. and thst of Canada from fSO.t00.000 to 51,300.000. The Greek debt stands at 32,948,010 * , and that'of .Mexico at 32.720.00 * ( as against C3.- 500.000 In 1S75) ) , while among the new bor rowers must be reckoned Japan , which now owes 47,300.000. end -the Argentine Repub lic , which owes about 74,000,000. For the small borrowers Bulgaria , Denmark , Nor way. Sweden. Chili , I'eru , Servla. etc. we have allowed 160.000,000 , which Is probably only two-thirds of the actual obligations of these nations. The sura paid annuclly as interest on the world's debts approximates to 230,000.000. Twenty jears ago the total was about 200.- 000,000 , and the increase of only 30.000.000 , with a capital addition of more than 1.000.- 000,000 , is explained by the fact that money now is cheaper , provided credits are good , than it was in IS"5. whun on some of Its loans England was paying 3tt per cent , India 4 per cent , Holland 4 i per cent , Canada 4 % per cent , France. Russia and Brazil C per cent Italy and Portugal C per cent , Hungary "H- Per cent , Egypt B per cent. Turkey end I'eru 10 per cent , Spain 15 per cent and Mexico 18 per cent. Trance , of course , pays out the largest sum of money e\cry year in the way of Interest , the total running to about 37.000,000 , or 9s Ed per head of the population. Great Britain's disbursement Is 24.540.000. or 12s 9d per bead. Russia pays out a little more. 24,720.000 , or 4s lid per head Austria- Hungary , on the joint and special debit , pays out 37,190.000 a year , and the average per capita expenditure on the joint debt Is 4s lOd , on the special Austrian ucbt. 10s lOd , and on the special Hungarian debt , 15s. The annual charge in Italy amounts to 23,450- 070 , which workb out at the rate of 15s Id per head. Spain pays nearly 11,300,000 In terest annually , or 13s Id per btad. Though the capital Itself U a large item , , the charge per annum in the United States IE LO more Uiaa Is lid per head In UruKUaj. on the other hawl. It runs to BE much as 1 2s Od per head. Burdett says that In Peru this per capita charge runs to 1 C . but there must be something wrong with Burdctt's figures In Portugal the amount Is I5s lOd prr head , and In Egypt 11s lOd per head. In Germany It Is no more than is 4d. Can any one say off-hand what Is the ag gregate debt of all the English posse-scions In all parts of .the globe' We will give the total It Is 1,097,168,600. After the mother country. India has the heaviest debt , the total being asjwo have seen , 127,600.000. Then comes Nev South Wales with US.22C- 000. Canada with 61.2SS.OOO ( net ) . Victoria with 47.937,300 , New Zealand with 39.635- 000. Qureneland with 30.639.500 , Cape Colony with 27.675.178 and South Australia with :3lbO.OOO St Helena brings up the rear with a modest 5,408. run UKIAMIK. ItcinIiiI CTntT of Ill Vnreer nt Ihe Oprrntor'H T l l > . Some one had referrt-d ( o him as Victor Hugo when Edison made bis appearance ( as an operator in our telegraph office ib Bos ton ) , sas the Electrical Review , and It was by that name that wo generally spoke of him. E\cr. device was employed to thwart his soarings after the infinite and bU dlv- Inp-s for the unfathomable , as we regarded them , and to get an amount of work out of him that was equivalent to the sum paid per dieiu for his ser\ices , and among them was that of having him receive the press report from New York. He did not like this , the work continuing steadily from 6:30 : p. m. until 12. m. , and leaving him DO time In which to pursue his studies. One night about 8 p. m. there came down an inquiry as to where the press report was , and. on going to the desk where Edi son was at work. Night Manager Lelghton was horrified to find that there was nothing' ready to go upstairs , for the reason that Edison had copied between 1,500 and 2,000 words of stock and other market reports in a hand fie small that he had only filled a. third of a page. Lelghton laughed in spite of himself , and sa > lng. "Heavens , Tom ; don't do that again ! " hastened to cut the copy up Into mlnuto fragments and have it prepared In a more acceptable manner. While this was occurring Edison went on receiving , and the frequent trips of the noisy dummy box , which communicated with the press rooms on the next floor , gave evidence that be was no longer gaug ing Ms handwriting with an ultimate view to putting the Lord's prayer on a 2-cent ple < p. liut all at once there was a great noise , and it was evident that Press Agent Wal lace a .iiiost profane man. waa coming down the stairs , swearing and shouting ua he tumc. E\erjbody grew excited except Edison , who was perhaps dreaming of tbo possibilities In some of the realms of elec trical endeavor In which be has since won renown. L'ut wo did not have long to wait to know the cause of Wallace's tirlt. Kicking open the door , be appeared to us , but lie was epecnnle * ! The last note of blt > voice and the last remnant of a vocabulary of blas phemy which was famous throughout tbo city was gone. Standing there with both haudt , ( ull of email , white p&ges of paper , he. could only beckon. Lelghton approached him , and tenderly took the sheet * of paper from him. to find that Edikoii had ma do the- radical change from his flrtt style of copy to simply putting one word on each sheet , directly in the center. He- had fur- nlcbi-d In this way teveral hundred pagca In a very few minutes. He was relieved from duty on the press wire , and put on another circuit , wbllo the much-tired Lelghton devote4 hlmselt to bringing Wallace back to a normal con dition , admitting of the use of his vole * and the flow ot his usual output of pro * faulty.