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NEW YORK’S TRADE West and Sooth Rebel Agatodt Commercial Suzerainty. Tima •> M«ar mik*a i«i o« tk* BtM nilf tw Cow WuU Bo Tara Bad tor Ked—Tsewd I If the United States were a huge funnel, with the smaller end at New York, so that all things from ail sec tions could scramble in at one end and land with a certainty at the other, the business men of New York might not be engaged, as they are at present, in what threatens to be the last strug gle to prerent the general trade cen ter of America from sloping to the in terior of the continent, says Arthur I. Street, in Ainslee’s. Twenty or more years ago nearly everything gravitated toward New York, Boston, Philadelphia and other cities of the North Atlantic section The raw products of every portion of the west, from Utica to Denver, tum bled over themselves to reach the man ufactories of the east. The retailers of the west, from the Monongahela to the North Platte and the Sacramento, sent their orders for pots, pans, hoe handles and groceries to the jobbers of the Harlem and the Schuylkill. The farmers of the west shipped their wheat and corn from the Mississippi valley to the shores of the Hudson and the Narragausett to purchase their plows and their hay-rakes. But in the latter portion of the seventies the process began to stop, and it has been stopping ever since. The food stuff and raw material of the west have found that home is a good place to stay. Grocers and furniture dealers and clothiers and shoemakers think that freight charges saved are better than trade-marks of old firms pn the Atlantic. Woods grown in the forests of the northwest and the south are turned into harvesters and wagons and office desks in the vicinities of their birth. The man in the west does his business in the west. The man in the south does his business in the south. New York is simply submitting to a law of geography. There are mountains and rivers between the west and the south and the north and east, and commodi ties of trade, like human beings, climb or swim only for necessity or for sport. Grain refuses to go up the Blue liidge in order to get down to the At lantic, because it can reach the ocean at the gulf or the great lakes with half the effort. Orders for metal or cloth balk at the mountains and the distance to the east and north, because they have found that they can get what they want in the nearer fields of Birmingham and Superior and North Carolina. \s Col. J. M. Lowe, of Kansas City, put the thing rather aptly some years ago, in a speech made in reply to a declaration by railroad managers that the diversion of traffic to the guli was to be checked: “It’s no use. The flat has gone forth and all the managers in creation cannot stop it. Western grain will not submit to climb the mountains and be hauled 1,300 miles down to a seaport when it can reach deep water on a down grade in half the distance. For a quarter of a century the west, like a gigantic Alderney cow, has been stand ing, stretched ucross the continent with her hind feet in the east, and we ure getting tired of all this and pro pose to change ends.” SATISFIED WITH HIS JOB. A N«w Hi rad Man Who DU Hod Cora Abort tho I’rohSbUlost o* taoktaf. One of Cleveland’s leading business concerns hired a new man the other day, and a little later, when the super intendent passed by, he noticed that the new man was smoking a pipe. The rule against smoking on the premises s a rigid one, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “See here, my man,” cried the offi cial, “you can’t smoke here.” The new man looked up and nodded and the superintendent passed along. A half hour later he was back again, and lo! the new man was still enjoying his pipe. “Say,” the official cried, “didn’t I tell you that smoking was not permitted here?” ‘ i-tsy “You did,” replied the new mail. “Didn’t you understand me?” “I did.” "See here, perhaps you don't know ho I am?” That's a true word.” „,‘dl, I’m the superintendent." he man looked up at the official with an depression of deep interest. » , rt’.^e’,,ure?” he cried. “Superin en< en , eh i Well, it's a fine job—take care of it.” And he calmly returned to his work. t\hen traveling on a railway you can tell how fast the train is going by the following method: The tele graph posts along a railway line are Placed 30 to the mile. So .1 you mul tiply the number of posts passed in a minute by two the result gives you the number of miles per hour at which the train is going.—Science. The worn-oaf mjffbti of the Brit ish army when sold bring back Into the war office treMuav ulnae unw $150,000 a year, J WHO GAVE THE TITLE? CMtravcnr l> K»«ls«* •» *° v,e* tsrta’s llacaas tat**** ___at Imtta. An animated discussion is now going on in England as to who first suggest ed that Queen Victoria be invested with the title of “Empress of India." Thomas Power O'Connor, usually re liable as to his facts, declared that Sir Andrew Clarke, long prominent in In dian affairs, was the originator of the idea; others insist that Disraeli (Ixird Deaconsfleld) is entitled to the honor. The latter, however, made no such claim, but frankly gave credit else where. In the debate on the third reading of the royal titles bill in March, 1876, Mr. Disraeli quoted a let ter from a correspondent—“a young lady who is only 12 years of age—so there is nothing compromising to her conduct or my own. Her father was in the house of commons a few days ago listening to our debates and the young lady asked her father what the debate was about, and he told her the house of commons was discussing whether the queen of England should be called empress of India. ‘What silly men they must be!’ said she; *1 have known that for three years.’ ‘And how do you know?* she was asked. Whereupon the young lady produced a geography book and point ed to a passage stating that ‘Tlritish India is under the dominion of Great Britain. Her majesty the queen hears there the title of empress of India.' ” The geography was, as a matter of fact, a well-known work and, as Dis raeli observed, was “not to be despised, for it is in its eighty-ninth edition." BUCKINGHAM PALACE. Great Improvement* Have Beea Doted Since the Aee**eioa ot Kina Hdwavd. j A complete transformation has come over Buckingham palace since the accession of Edward VII. At night it no longer presents a dreary prospect unrelieved by a single gleam of light. The windows are illumi nated, the courtyards are bright with incandescent lamps and the whole palace looks cheerful and in habitable, says a London exchange. Buckingham palace stands on the site of pleasure grounds known in the days of Evelyn and Pepys and frequently mentioned in their dairies as the Mulberry gardens. The prop erty was eventually bought by the dukes of Buckingham, who erected the first house, which, however, w;is not very large or handsome, notwith standing that it was even then called Buckingham palace. George III. pur chased it from the dowager duchess of Buokingham as a residence for Queen (Aiarlotte, whose palace, Som erset house, in the Strand, was re quired for public purposes. After much haggling with his majesty’s agents, the duchess parted with it for £60,000. It was not greatly al tered till 1824, when it was enlarged and almost rebuilt after designs by Joseph Nash for the London resi dence of the royal family. THEY ALL EAT ICE CREAM. Picm la the United Staten Senate Bate a Weskieee tor Frown Sweets. Among the best patrons of the ice cream booths in the vicinity of the cap itol at Washington are the pages em ployed in the senate chamber. No sen ator ever eats ice cream in the daytime and the few ladies who take lunch in the restaurant rarely call for it. The chief patrons of the frozen food are the page boys. The love of the youngsters for ice cream surpasses all understanding. It U a purely juvenile taste and they in dulge in it to their hearts' content. The substantial sandwich, the tooth some pie, the ninety and nine other things that a sensible man would se lect for his lunch have no attractions for the bright little fellows. They want ice cream and plenty of it. At lunch time half a dozen pages can be seen burying their noses into heaped up plates of ice cream, while their faces are the very mirrors ot content ment. If it wasn’t for the pages the ice cream freezer would have to go out of business. Violated HU Own Law. King Leopold of Belgium wu lately fined 500 francs for violating one of his own laws by driving his auto mobile at a higher rate of speed than permitted by statute. When arrest ed near Belgium the king was so ef fectually disguised by his great coat and leather goggles that the of ficer did not recognire him. When his niajes^ removed his riding “specs” and unbuttoned his coat, re vealing his famous beard, the conster nation of the policeman may be im agined. rite officer had prasenee of mind enough to do hie full duty, and was commended for his act. The Qimm’i IssUlsg. Victoria was a stickler for good spelling. All queens and most un titled members of the sex are be lieved to be superior to petty con siderations of orthography; but in her own case interest in the matter led the queen to rebuke official cor respondents for laxity in spelling. Sir Arthur Biggs preserves om of her formal reprimands. WHERE A PRESIDENT LIVED. Four miles from Orange, Ve., is Montpelier, once the home of Presi dent James Madison. The home still retains much of its original beauty and picturesqueness, although the old mansion in which the president and his charming wife, "Dollie" Mad ieon, resided is sadly in need of re pairs. Lovers of the antique will be glad to know that the maneion, to gether with the broad acres attached, has recently been sold by its owner, Louis F. Detrick, of Baltimore, to William Dupont, of Wilmington, Del., who is making extensive improve ments in the property, reports an eastern exchange. The estate con sists of about 1,300 acres, of which about 500 are in timber. The stately colonial mansion haa a frontage of 153 feet and is three stories high, having 32 rooms besides the serv ants' quarters. The original designer of this build ing was William Thornton, who drew the first accepted plans for the cap itol. The final additions that were made at Montpelier in 1808 were un der the supervision of the famous Latrobe. The front porch is sup ported by four lofty plastered col umns, and commands a grand view of the towering range of the Blue Bulge mountains, which be about IS miles distant. .Madison inneritea me esiaie rrom his father, who had received it from his father, Ambrose Madison. The president’s father, between the year* 1750 and 1700, built of bricks made on the place a modest rectangular brick house, which was the begin ning from which grew by subsequent additions the present house, and in the house that now stands Madison lived for upward of 70 years, and on the Montpelier tract he and his fa ther and grandfather lived for 114 years. In 17'J4 Madison took his love ly bride there, and within its walls many notable sociul gatherings were held with the charming Dolly Mad ison as hostess, and many distin guished people were guests at Mont pelier. La Fayette visited President Madison there, and in the latter '7()’s President Hayes and several mem bers of his cabinet passed a few hours there. The property had a number of owners after the death of President Madison, and in 1857 it went into the hands of Rev. Mr. Carson, of Balti more. He was a well-known south ern sympathizer during the civil war, and fearing confiscation by the fed eral government deeded the property to his brother Frank, an eccentric old bachelor, who died there about 1881, when it was purchased by Louis F. Detrick, of Baltimore. In a field not far from the house is the burying ground. There a sim ple granite shaft inscribed with just the name “Madison,” and the nates of his birth and death, marks the grave of the great statesman. Be hind this monument, in a sunken spot, overrun with periwinkle, is bur ied Dolly Payne, the great beauty of the white house, and near by is the modest grave of poor Frank Carson. HAIR WILL DEADER BOISE. Ml from It Greatly Lhicdi •ha loaad Vibrations of ■nary Msebiasry. Hair felt has repeatedly received mention as a means of deadening vi brations and noise from machinery, placed for this purpose between en gine bedplates and foundation cap stone and underneath rails subject to heavy train traffic. Now, however, cork is said to have been used in Ger many with the same end in view, the available particulars being to the ef fect that a sheet made op of flat pieces of the cork in mosaic fashion corresponding in size to the bedplate of the noisy machine and held togeth er by an iron frame, is laid under the machine. What measure of success has been obtained with this new ex pedient is not told, though as a means of temporary relief it probably an swered the intended purpose, says Cas sier’s Magazine. 1 he true solution of moat if not all machinery vibration problems is, how ever, to be found in proper founda tions, ample in area and weight, and it generally pays to provide these if at all practicable. To what exercise of ingenuity the engineer is sometimes put in accomplishing this was illus trated a dozen or more years ago in one large factory, where on an upper floor a row of small engines had to be Installed for the independent driving of a corresponding number of different machines. Though the building was of substantial construction, with steel floor beams, it was a foregone conclu sion that that row of engines would cause trouble if set with nothing but the floor as foundation, and as it was undesirable to raise them much above the floor level each engine was provid ed with a separate foundation, built up of brick and mortar in the usual way, but suspended by steel straps be tween the floor beams and thus pro jecting down into the head room of the floor below. Seen from there each foundation, with its engine, appeared as if resting on airy nothing. But those suspended foundations accom plished all that was —fund of them m vtfcrtUM ftbtorbyrfr) (COURTHOUSE BLOCK, KURKKA). .... DlAUBB n .... FURNITURE, OILS. PAINT8, VARNISHES, WINDOW GLASS, .... AJTD .... WALL JPAPER8. CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE, jearr ro* domamc an macbimbs. Undertaking in All Ita Branches. tW Order* from ths country promptly at tended to. Eureka. Sereda, And. It, 18S7. salt EUREKA SHAVING PARLOR A. 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Powell, widow of eald deceased : You are hereby notified that I have expended one hundred dollar* In labor and improve ments npon the Barton loda, situate In Eu reka Mining District, County of Eureka, Stats of Nevada, aa will appear by certificate filed January 9, 1901, In the office of the Recorder of said District ind County, In order to hold aaldpremises,under the provision* of Section 9324, Revised Statutes of the United State*, being the amount required to hold the same for the year ending Decamber 31,1900, And if within ninety days after this notlo* by publi cation, you fall or refuse to contribute your proportion of such expenditure as eo owners, your interest In said claim will become the property of the subscriber under laid Section 2324. MINNIE D. SMITH. Euraka, Eureka County, Stat* of Nevada, January 9, 1901. jsn 12-90d To Whom It Hay Concern: On January 15, 1901, I purchased all o the interest of B. 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