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THUR8DAY, November 9, 1905.
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WAGES AND HOURS.
recent report of the bureau of
declares that the- conditions of
workers in the United States have
improved wonderfully during the
ten years. This report shows that
conditions have been gaining
le BY little but surely on the cost
living. In the last three years the
times period has caused a marked
provement, considerably ahead of
record for the seveti years pre
ing. The report shows that in 1904,
compared with the average for the
years from 1890 to 1899, 25.7 per
more persons were employed,
i,urs of labor per week had been re
iced 4.1 per cent, wages per hour had
eased 17 per cent, weekly earnings
employe, has increased 12.2 per
t, and the weekly earnings of all
sons employed had increased 41
cent.
interesting table which is a part
3 bureau's feport, shows that in
as compared with 1903, the total
ber of employes decreased .6 per
t, the hours of labor decreased .7
cent, wages per hour increased .6
ir cent, weekly earnings per employe
Teased .1 peir cent, the total weekly
ings of all employes decreased .8
cent.
bureau reports that blacksmiths,
ers, grinders, machine woodwork
machinists, molders, painters and
Uernmakers—in agriculturela impie
ty Jnt work—have advanced in wages.
1'
tside blacksmiths have los,t while
seshoers' and forgers are getting
money. About half the boot and
oe workers have lost, while the
ithers have gained—mainly because
jjopen have been breaking into the
ictories—the departments in which
ien work showing decreases^
ckmakers and most of the depart
ents of tie building trades show
Ises since 1903—the paper hangers
jtnd plumbers alone showing gains.
%mon laborers appear in better de
d, their pay increasing and their
rs increasing by a slight fraction.
)y for municipal laborers has ad
nced and the hours are shorter,
ist of the employes of meat packers
total negro population has decreased.
There was, however, an increase from
1860 to 1880. On the-other hand there
was a rapid decrease from 1880 to
1900.
The proportion of white children un
der 5 years of age to the total popula
tion decreased steadily, except vfrom
1850 to 1860, the number of such chil
dren beinc in 1900 about three-flfths
of what it was in 1830. The decrease
during the last decade of the century
was insignificant.
The corresponding proportion for
negroes was at its height in 1850 and
1880 and except for 1870 was least in
1890.
The decades of great immigration
and the divll war showed the greatest
ratio of decrease in the proportion of
children. The decades immediately
following those of great immigration
showed a reduction in the rate of de
crease, probably because of the high
birth rate among the Immigrants.
The reduction in the proportion of
children to total population during
the century suggests but doe3 not
prove that the birth rate was lower.
The increase in the proportion of
children among negroes from 1860 to
1880 and the decrease from 1880 to
1900 suggests a high birth rate during
the twenty years following emancipa
tion and a rapid fall iw the birth rate
thereafter.
The proportion of children under 5
years of age to women of child-bear
ing age increased from 1850 to 1860
but has decreased since then, being in
1900 about three-fourths of what it
was in 1860.
The decline in the proportion of
children since 1860 has been less
marked in the south than in the nortb
and west. The proportion in the north
and west in 1850 was about five-sixths
and in 1900 less than three-fourths of
that in the south.
A GAME OF PERILS.
Ottumwa has been fortunate in that
the has been the scene of no serious
football accidents. The game has
been played here by student teams
and by elevens made up of more ma
ture players. For several years it has
furnished entertainment for those
who admire physical strength and nev
er has c. player been seriously injured.
There are several cases of' serious,
and some few cases Of fatal injuries,
however, resulting from the game,
these reports coming from all over the
country and the conclusion the lay
man must reach is that the game is
truly one beset with perils^'
Football is, almost entirely, a game
between teams representing schools
and colleges. In these institutions the
object of athletics is, or should be, to
afford the students a means of exer
cise and recreation from their studies,
building them physically while they
are improving mentally by means of
their studies. Track and field ath
letics have their inning in the spring,
and" a few wteeks are given in most
schools to baseball. But football is
the real college game,the season open-
getting slightly, increased wages benefitted physically, at any rate for
(ier last year. Book and job
printers
lower, while in newspaper work heroes are "husky," else they would
jjale compositors are getting less not be' able to hold their places "on
pney per hour and female composi
JlTs more—the opposite, applying to
Knotype operators.
IjV^The summary of the report declares
that conditions of labor are improved,
[and that the workers are sharing in
He general prosperity of the country.
QUESTION OF THE AGE.
\Xhough the question of race suicide
s.'it affects the. United States is re
.arded as unimportant by the average
Jtizen, inspection of the census fig-i
ons In some nations, notably France,
ft is one of the great questions of the
age. That it is truly the greatest can
not be very seriously questioned when
the enorblous decrease in the birth
t$.te LA taken into account.
A rectent census report on this sub
ict is of more than passing interest
It gives comparative figures and
ows the decrease in its full
rength.
No census can furnish all the in
irmatlon needed to compute the
rate or number of births in a
ar to each thousand persons,nor has
is information been obtained for the
nited States, or any considerable
part of It, by an .other agency.- The
attempts to approximate the birth rate
cn the basis of census figures have
been far from satisfactory. As a re
sult, the birth rate in the United
states, past or present, is unknown.
The ratio of the living children un
er 5 years of age to each 1,000 living
omen or child-bearing age is used
Wthe best available substitute for the
a-th rate during the last half of the
wneteenth
century.
The proportion of chldren under 10
iars of age to the total population
be -ascertained for a longer peri-
It has decreased almost uninter
ruptedly since the early part of the
century, the number of such children
constituting approximately one-third
OF the total population at the begin
ning of the "century and less than one
fpurth at the end.
[»The decrease in the corresponding
proportion for whites began as early
ajg 1810 and continued uninterruptedly
to the end of the century.
Since 1830, when the figures were
first obtained, the proportion of negro
children under 10 years of age to the
No matter
how long you
have suffered
from
STOMACH
Poor Appetite,
Indigestion,
Dyspepsia,
Heartburn,
Weak Kidneys,
Costiveness,
or Malaria
the Bitters
will help you
Try it today,
I,
"I 1K•* I
Jf"*
the time being. All the- gridiron
the team." But many of them receive
injuries, most of them of a minor na
ture, but injuries just the same. A
broken collar bone or a few broken
ribs, a strained -ligament or a sprain
ed ankle, are of frequent occurrence,
and often reports from training quar
ters are to the effect that half the
members of a team are in the hospital
squad.
Naturally, the question arises: Is
the benefit-derived from the game suf-
flclent.to
res and Consideration of the condi-j^
°^®®t
thf
a.tlon
*ngs the conviction that President
-isevelt is far from wrong 'and farmer of permanentinjury? When death
rom sensational .when he says that °c°urs' i?
us
How much better that the game had
never been played! How much bet
ter that the danger httd been anticipat
ed! There are, other games that can
be played at this time of year and
that are not nearly so full of danger.
Of course it is useless to advocate
A general cessation of the game. Play
ers have been killed before and the
game survives. The public and the
football enthusiasts seem hardened to
the fact that each year adds new vic
tims to the roll of dead or maimed.
President Roosevelt has taken an in
terest in the matter with a view to
attempting a revision of the rules
that will lessen the roughness of the
contest and thus decrease the d?nger.
It is to be hoped his efforts will meet
with early success and that meanwhile
a kind Providence will keep the list
of football casualties as low as pos
sible.
The students of St. John's school at
Manlius, N. Y., who have, by a resolu
tion in their athletic association, done
away with football in that school, are
trying to induce other similar institu
tions to take the same action.
The Courier is today in re
ceipt of a letter fr6m the
athletic association of the school, en
closing the resolutions recently adopt
ed and .in explanation of the action the
letter says: "We believe the only thing
that will clean up the game of football
will be for all preparatory schools,
academies and high schools to refuse
"}P
1
to play for a year or so. This will
qpmpel football authorities to radically
change their rules."
SUBSTANTIAL PROSPERITY.*
While the American nation with
stands the temptation to start a specu
lative boom, and so long as the craze
for speculation and its promises of
great profit do not lure the dollars of
the Yankee nation, financiers believe
there is .little to-fear in the way of a
break in the present prosperous condi
tions. One of the largest and most
dependable financial firms, in its week
ly report on market conditions, has the
following interesting observations:
"Business conditions very promising.
Great activity is reported in all sec
tions of the country, keeping money
actively employed and suggesting firm
rates for weeks to come. In almost
every department of industrial, com
mercial or financial activity records
have been daHy broken. It is quite safe
to say that the volume of trade during
the present year far surpasses all other
years In the history of the country.
There are signs here and there of its
approaching end and yet the relative
absence of dangerous speculation, the
unquestionably rapid development of
our natural resources, the great growth
In population and the absence thus7 far
of any general signs of over production
give confidence in the belief that we
are to enjoy at least another year of
general1 prosperity. The wonderful
demand for iron is such an old, old
story, yet it is still the most convincing
proof which we have of healthy condi
tions. The great steel corporation has
orders on hand or In sight which will
keep it fully occupied for the next
twelve months, and it could easily em
ploy a very substantial increase to its
present capacity. Real estate is also
enjoying a boom which has never yet
been equalled. Usually, activity in this
quarter marks the culmination of an
upward wave but as yet there are.no
signs of overdoing, and the demands
for increased office, home and work
shop accommodation are the legitimate
consequence of our natural growth and
prosperity. In fact, considering the
vast volume of business and traffic, the
amount of speculation in force is not
excessive. This is partly because of a
restraining influence exercised by our
leading bankers, who keenly, recognize
that the greatest danger of the mo
ment is the outbreak of a speculative
craze. Attempts have been made too
often to.infuse unnatural activity and
strength into low grade securities and
those of questionable value. When
stocks that were given away a few
years ago as a bonus to promoters are
selling In the 30's and 40's It is time to
call a halt and when the best invest
ments are selling on a to 4 per cent
basis, and good railroad stocks at a
level where they bring a much inferior
return to money, there is little basis for
any prolonged bull movement unless
prosperity brings them still better re
turns and increased dividends later on
ing with the school year and contin
uing until Thanksgiving day. There is railroad stock's was short lived and
no doubt that the football player is half-hearted, and tire probability of its
being repeated soon seems .to be re
mote.
Such manipulations as have been seen
iii Reading-and a few other shares are
a menace and not a support to the
market."
Fortunately, the flurry last week in
v!
*^uriea inflicted
onside,r-
the loss of time, the stop in-
eJf
S?6?
tion, for the too obvious answer is
"No."
In a game a few days ago between
two high school teams, representing
two Chicago euburbs one of the play
ers, a boy 17 years old was injured so
seriously that he died a few hours lat
er. He was not the victim of a brutal
attack nor was he in poor physical
condition when he went info the game.
His coach testified to the latter fact
before the coroner's jury, saying in
addition that the cause of death was
"just the game." This coach was form
erly. a player on the university of Illi
nois team and should know whereof
he spoke.
The authorities of Oak Park, 111.,
where the unfortunate boy lived, have
stopped the playing of football there
for all time. Lacrosse or some other
game less fraught with danger to the
players will foe substituted for foot
ball. But this action will not bring
that lad back to life nor ease the sor
row of his parents.
:'3
WILHELM IS FOR PEACE.
Emperor Wilhelm wants world peace,
and for that reason he is anxious to
placate the American government in
the matter of the German tariffs. This
is the assurance brought to this coun
try by Ambassador Sternberg, who is
the bearer of a proposition from the
kaiser having to do with a new Ger
man-American treaty, a trade agree
.ment that will make the German na
tion and the United States virtual al
lies.
"The world has regarded Emperor
William as a man of war," Ambassador
Sternberg is quoted as saying in Wash
ington. "I tell you he's a man of peace.
He always has observed and is closely
observing the traditions established
by his grandfather, the great Frederick
Wilhelm, and those traditions call for
the peaceful development of Germany
and in international affairs adherence
to those principles which are based
upon the law of nations. The emperor
seeks to preserve not to destroy, to
build up, not to demolish. He has no
wish to acquire additional territory but
to maintain the status quo and develop
the people. Take for example Morocco,
He has never sought to grab territory
there, but on the contrary, wishes the
integrity of that empire to be pre
served and the people developed
through the improvement of their gov
ernment."
Replying to a query as to Germany's
attitude toward America Sternberg told
his interviewer the following:
"In the web and woof of our inter
national relations, it is especially pleas
ant to me to find that the strands
which unite us to America are straight
and strong, with, it is true, some kinks,
such as the tariff question, which, how
ever, is capable of comparatively easy
removal.
"I cannot say too strongly that the
mass of this German people enthusias
tically admire America, and look upon
your development wiih cordial sym
pathy. The American government and
people, are aware that Germany's de
signs "are purely commercial, that we
believe in the territorial status quo
throughout the world, and that all we
are seeking and all we desire is the
world wide application of the principle
John Hay established in China—open
door, or to be more explicit, equality
of treatment for our subjects and goods
in all countries."
Such assurances of good will can
not but make Americans feel that the
kaiser will not do anything to damage
the chances of American trade in
Germany. Just what the terms of the
proposed new treaty are has not been
made clear, bujt that will come in due
time and if the indications count for
anything it will be all that could be
asked by the American government.
An Ottumwa boy yesterday chose to
go to Missouri rather than serve
term in the reform school at Eldora.
But maybe he had never been in Mis
souri and he shouldn't be judged too
hastily.
Wives of destitute and idle
men in
England visited Premier Balfour
THE OTTtJMWA OOURIBtl
yes­
terday to tell him that unless condi
tions improve rapidly in
England
tiiere
3 '-J'
will be bloodshed. Mr. Balfour had
better buckle on his coat of mail, for it
is hard to make times good "while the
women wait" in a free trade country.
Perhaps G. Cleveland might tell him
something about his experiences, both
with free trade and With angry women.
The sage of Princeton has had an in
ning with both.
Tom Lawson has spent $100,000 thus
far in his campaign against the Insur
ance companies. It is estimated that
3,000,000 pieces of mail having to do
with the fight have reached his office
during the time. Seventy-nine people
afe employed in the office. It costs to
tell the people what you know, just as
it costs to learn.
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
"It is about time that some of the^fe
high rollers of finance were taught that
the old fashioned law In reference to
stealing Is still In force," says the
Muscatine Journal. "It might be a
very paying .investment If nir.e of
them were given a chance to study the
Inside workings of their,, own state
penitentiary."
All the same, the Burlington Hawk
Eye would join the rank and file of
this country's population in throwing,
up its hat and -elllng hallelujah if
Roosevelt should In spite of himself,
be swept by public enthusiasm into
another term of the presidency.
The Clinton Herald notes that on
the occasion of his recent visit to Ne
braska, Grover Cleveland got out of the
state as ouickly as possible after de
livering his eulogy on J. sterling Mor
ton. "The atmosphere was too strong
ly Bryan for his lungs," says the Her
ald.
It is the belief of the Creston Adver
tiser that A. I:. Smith's "equipment—
or his lack of it—for the position is a
proper sublect of debate and discus
sion. it is also our opinion," contin
ues the Advertiser, "that he is not the
kind of a man whom the eighth dis
trict would choose to represent it in
congress."
"The Thanksgiving proclamation is
all right in its way." says the Coun
cil Bluffs Nonpareil," but a recipe for
getting more turkey and less football
would be equally interesting."
Mrs. Russell Sage says that-Jdleness
makes women dangerous. "It does
anybody for that matter, especially
young men," suggests the Clinton Her
ald.
"And don't forget to bear in mind
that one can be thankful without
having a long list of things to be
thankful for," says the Sioux City
Tribune.
"It is a lucky, story that gets into
print before it is denied," observes the
Keokuk Gate City.
The Fort Dodge Chronicle says that
Governor Cummins is certainly in need
of no nerve tonic when he is able to
eet up before a convention that liar
invited him to address it and tell it
its principles are wrong.
O—
The Jefferson Bee gays that the lat
est and very potent sign of prosperity
in Iowa is that a farm hand has been
robbed of $1,20.0.
O——
'At no time has there boen such
premium on decency," says the
Washington Democrat. "There jiever
has been. more, demand, .for. honest
boys to go to work. Talk about all
opportunity being gone, there is no
sense in that kind of stuff. Decent
men and boys are in demand every
day. The world is walking around
with a lantern, 1IK old Dlogenei, look
ing for honest men."
'It is a satisfaction to know." says
the Iowa City Republican, referring to
the acquittal of Ed C. Brown at Prim
ghar, "that twice in,the last week the
courts have discovered that bankers
were not so guilty as had been: sup
posed and that the causes' of failure
were of another nature than a deliber
ate plan to rob the friends and pa
trons of the banks In question."
The Cedar Rapids Gazette suggests
that when President Roosevelt suc
ceeds in reforming college football
he might -tackle the Hazing question.
The Creston Advertiser-Gazette be
lieves that the biennial election sys
tem Is operating to the injury of the
republican party in promoting fac
tional discussion, in the absence of
contest with the democrats.
"It does make one feel rather lone
some," confesses the Fonda Times, "to
open the -morning paper and note the
fun the voters are having down In
Pennsylvania, Ohio and other states
Where they keep In regular annual
training."
'The next problem in Russia is that
of how to make the people believe It,"
says the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
The' Cedar Rapids Republican says
the power of removal which Governor
Cummins would like to have i- dan
gerous when confided In one man.
For instance," It suggests, "the pres
ent governor might And it hard to re
move a county attorney who had per
sistently "whooped It up' for him in
political conventions, while he might
find It easy to remove one who had
been opposed to him."
ro
The Mason City Times-Herald states
that the Iowa Insurance companies
are quietly interviewing members of
the general assembly to secure some
insight into their probable attitude to
ward an Investigation of the com
panies when the assembly shall meet
"Shall we abolish football?" asks
the Des Moines Register and Leader.
"Shall we abolish the third story win
dow?" retorts the Ida Grove Pioneer.
"More people were killed by falling out
of windows last year than football has
killed In five years."
FEEDING GREAT BRITAIN.
Edward Atkinson is Just returned
from a visit to England and he is
quoted in the Manufacturer's Record
in some* striking observations with
regard to future business dealings be
tween the United States and the Unit
ed Kingdom, sa -s the Buffalo News.
It is well known that this country is
the main source of food supply to
England. It is not so well under
stood that our corn crop is raised on
147,000 square miles and our wheat
crop on only 82,000 square miles. Cot
ton requires 30,000 more square miles
and the minor crop3 enough more to
run the crop area up to a total of not
more than 300,000 square miles, or
one-tenth of our area, excluding Alas
ka. Mr. Atkinson puts the figure at
230,000 square miles, but the census
gives the larger estimate.
The first remarkable thing is that
our awn DODUlatkm LA TED. trom. jthia
t"* 'IS.
IOWAX GOES EAST
if
4
S iW A
COL. WILLIAM H. MICHAEL WILL
BE CONSUL GENERAL AT
CALCUTTA
Is a Member of the Famous Crocker
—Shaw Cleans House at Treasury
Building, Throwing Away Quantities
of Counterfeit Money.
:v"' (Special Correspondence.)
Washington Bureau of the Courier,
Washington, D. C., November 7.
Colonel William H. Michael, chief
clerk of the state department, will re
tire from that office Wednesday of next
week to be succeeded by Charles Den
by of Indiana, son of a former minis
ter to China. Colonel Michael will re
main in Washington until about the
first of the new year, sailing from New
York, via Naples and the Suez canal,
for his new post as consul general at
Calcutta.
Colonel Michael is pleased with the
appointment and the opportunity it
will offer to become familiar with an
other part of the world and another
line of work, but he regrets that it
could not have come to him twenty
years earlier. However, he does not
regard himself as an old man by any
means and will enter upon his new du
ties witli enthusiasm and in the hope
of giving a good account of his stew
ardship as the cl^ief officer of the feon
sular service in a country having a
population five times as large as that of
the United States.
Temperature Like Florida's.
Mr, Michael says he has looked into
the question of climate and finds that
the temperature in India and southern
California-or Florida are very similar.
The temperature during the summer
rarely goes higher than 80 and in the
winter it is delightfully warm. Be
ginning with April and lasting until
October it is the custom of the British
government to move its headquarters
from Calcutta to the mountains, and
then return late in the fall. All the
representatives of foreign governments
follow and the capital of India during
these six months is at a small city in
the mountains.
Of course the United States has no
diplomatic officer, such as a minister,
in India, that great country being un
der the control of Great Britain. There
fore the consul general really fills the
office of minister and Is accorded the
recognition that is commonly, bestowed
upon a minister. Colonel Michael's ex
perience covering eight years In
the state' department, during which
time he has been constantly
ty-flve y.ears of his live in southwestern
and norwestern Iowa, It was from
small proportion of the national do
main and- the surplus is still so great
as to permit the sale ,of foodstuffs
abroad to the extent of hundreds of
millions -In valuo. "We may depend,
says Mr. Atkinson,. on Great Britain
for our permanent market over sea.
in .both .foot stuffs and cotton. But
there Is still In the United States, he
says, an area as large as that now
devoted to crops but which is not
yet cultivated at all, an acre as suit
able for grains and cotton as the ter
ritory now given to them, and actu
ally within the same states and terri
tories as those containing the preuent
crop producing tracts.
Mr. Atkinson holds that within this
area yet hardly touched for cultiva
tion It is practicable to raise an addi
tional 6,000,000 bales of cotton and
300,000,000 bushels of wheat at the av
erage rate of production at the pres
ent time. It is an idea to be tested
and if found correct to be developed.
It serves, at least, to emphasize the
opinion that' Great Britain must al
ways depend largely on the United
States for her food and her cotton
supply.' That is one reason why the
British naval force In this hemisphere
Is reduced to a skeleton and the great
fortresses of Halifax and Equfmalt
handed over to Canada to malntin in
her own way. Great Britain and the
United States are never to fight each
other again. England prefers even
humiliation to starvation.
ANARCHY IN RUSSIA..
New York Tribune.—It Is lamentable
that mob violence should be at all con
tinued, and yet it was to be expected.
There are always some extremists who
are unwilling to climb a stair step by
step, but try to reach the stop at a
single bound, even if they break thpir
necks in the attempt^ and there are
In Russia somie entirely irreconcilable
agitators who would conspire against
a republic as malignantly as against
an empire, and who Cdnsfequently con
tinue to rage against the government
In its concessions just as bitterly as
ever they did under Its' repressions.
It Is perhaps unfortunate'that General
Trepoff has been in command of the
troops and police.' Some' other man,
equally firm, but less'arbitrary, might
have restored and maintained order at
less cost. But on'the 'whjJle'it is doubt
ful if the disturbances will materially
delay the great' work 'which Count
Witte has In hdrid.' THey' riiay even
promote it, by causing a reaction of
the friends of ordered liberty against
wild license, and their1 consequent ral
lying to his support.'
New York Commercial.—Russia is
not by any means olear of the danger
of blood-"- revolution- The radicals in
the movement for freedom do not con
sider that enough has been granted.
They have forced so much—they know
they have forced it by working on the
fear of the czar and they are inclined
to demand concessions to the very
limit. The revolutionists do not be
lieve that Emperor -Nicholas has been
persuaded that the course he has pur
sued ip the right one and that-he has
granted this modicum of-liberty of his
own.free will after such change of
honest belief. They are of the con
trary opinion. They feel that they
have wrenched by threats and show
of determined force what they have
received from their ruler and If he
could he would retract. There is not
great confidence between czar and peo
pie. The minor clashes that have al
ready occurred between people and
military, resulting in bloodshed, are
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that exists in the light of the czar's
many broken promises. If this one is
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Iowa that he went Into the war-of the
rebellion, which brought him renown,
and- In Iowa he obtained his education,
marked out his }ife work and got his
start in the world.
He Is the orator of the Crocker bri
gade and the biennial meetings of that
rapidly diminishing organization would
be lacking in an important element if
Colonel Michael were not present.
Since his promotion he'has received
many letters from old Iowa friends,
congratulating him upon his good for
tune and feels grateful for the kind
ly expressions and good will of the
people of the Hawkeye state, which
is more home to him than is any oth
er state.
8haw Cleans House.
The latter part of last week Secre
tary Shaw cleaned house and now
there are many thousands of dollars
less counterfeit money, face value
count, than before the raid.
Every two or three years It is the
custom of the secretary of the treas
ury to authorize the chief of the sec
ret Bervice to clear out the attic of
the building and destroy the "junk"
that has accumulated during that time.
This is the accumulations of bogus
coin, bills and the machinery and oth
er devices for making the "queer"
stuff. When the secret service men
make a raid on a counterfeiting joint
and capture the tools and bad coin or
bills, the entire swag is taken to the
attic of the treasury building and
there stored under lock and key. All
the metal secured is sent to the assay
office and the gold and silver removed
and turned into the treasury. The bal
ance of the metal is returned and stor
ed.
It Is impossible to accurately esti
mate the amount of junk taken down
to tho navy yard and run through the
foundry, but It was a very large
amount, In fact for several months,the
stuff has been stored In another build
ing,* the attic having been filled to ov
erflowing. The value of the coin, ac
cording to Its face was about $40,000
and there were over a hundred thou
sand dollars in face value of bank and
treasury bills, to say nothing of great
quantities of metal, postage and rev
enue stamps, type for printing the
Latin numerals on the bills, ink, acids,
apparatus for photographing, dies,
plates, molds, etc. The value of the
silver obtained from the junk was
about $800.
The method employed by Secretary
Shaw In disposing of this stuff was to
appoint three treasury clerks who
personally supervised the removal of
it to wagons and remained on deck un
til it was dumped into the big melting
furnace at the navy yard and convert
ed into pigs of iron or lead. Then the
clerks make an affidavit that the prop
erty has been destroyed and this Is
filed, completing the task. Probably
befort the week Is ended, fresh in
voices of counterfeiters' junk will be
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From Washington men who were
present at the meeting it is learned
that the Alexandrians do not regret
having invited Mr. Shaw to speak to
them. The old hall was not only
jammed full, but during the two hours
and thirty minutes Mr. Shaw spoke
men stood in the aisles. There were
not many women present: it waB dis
tinctly a men's meeting and the only
vacant space was a small section ,of
the gallery reserved for colored people.
At least two thirds of the audience
were democrats, and notwithstanding
that Secretary Shaw talked republican
ism, pure and undefiled, democrats as
well as republicans cheered the speak
er repeatedly and cheered him heartily.
Mr. Shaw spoke largely of the tariff
and in treating this subject found It
necessary, of course, to refer to tho
policy of the,democratic party. In
other words he literally skinned th(»'
party to Which a large majority of his
hearers belonged, but he did It so artis
tically, with such a kindly touch and In
such good humor that it did not hurl
At any rate the democrats howled ami
applauded while the secretary was
peeling them, and when he had com
pleted the job they gave him an ova
tion and declared him a good fellow and
all right. Perhaps Mr. Shaw paved
the-way for this by telling his audi
ence at the outset that it reminded
him of an audience of the first families
of Iowa. "First families of Virginia"
is a favoritfe expression In the' "old
dominion" and this paraphrase made
an immediate hit.
KING OF ALL DISEASES
Secretary Shaw is very proud of the
fact that he is the first and only cabi
net officer to be Invited to address the
voters of Alexandria since the begin
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the blood but so potent is the poison that one drop will vitiate and pollute
the purest and healthiest blood, and in a short time the degrading and hor
rible symptoms begin to appear. The mouth and throat ulcerate, the glands
in the neck and groins swell, the hiir and eye-brows fall out, copper-colored
spots appear on the body, and in the latter stages of the disease the poison
even works down and destroys the bones. No other disease is so highly
contagious, and many have contracted it and suffered its awful consequences
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two or three years hence will have be
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Shaw's Alexandria Meeting.
Secretary Shaw' is very proud of his
meeting at Alexandria, last week, and
In, many respects regards it as measur
ing up to the best he has ever had.
Alexandria is just across the river from
Washington and may* be reached In'fif
teen minutes". It was the market placQ
of George Washington while he lived
at Mount Vernon, and is historic in
many ways. It is a city of about 20,000
and -of course overwhelmingly demo
cratic. Secretary Shaw was informed
by the invitation committee that he
was the first cabinet officer who-had
tyeen requested to deliver a speech in
that city since 1860. Administrations
have come and gone democrats have)
controlled the government two terms
of four yeara each in that period there
have been ten cabinets during that
forty years and only the Potomac river
separating them from thlB ancient Vir
ginia city, yet It remained for Spcrp
tary Shaw to be the first cabinet officer
of any party to be Invited to address
the people on the political issues since
the breaking out of the civil war.
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