The farmers' union., August 27, 1891, Image 1

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MKMTHIS, MISSOURI, THURSDAY AUGUST 27, 18iU.
NUMBER 30
FROM THE NORTHWEST.
INDUSTRIAL GROWTH
NEW STATE.
OF
tmpnrlaiit Industrie t l:t Aro t!niler
Way Marvo on In rc ise f I'opulatlnri
Slfno and Slinii T hj Conn fry In
General.
sl'ICIAl, COUIlKslliM.FXcr.
When you travel over tin? Nrt1iTii
Pacific, with jour trust'd k. dak in your
liand, ready to milk- :iknn!.:Ti-hi)t(in
the choicest bits o iccucry, I-t us atl
vise you to h Id vi ne aunuun i ion until
you rea-h the I'larU's Fork li ver, unless
you take a c mp c of snap-- tit th" Flat
lieads who bant about !!i stations In
the vicinity of the Lo-ebud Aicn -y. No
Wonder tin" Cove mmeiit e pericmcd
trouble with su h citicns The iiitst
who took a tipica' Halle ad counte
nance as a study of "trouble" won d be
bound t overdo th' Sub eet, if he was
faithfui to his model Th -tr tents, how
ever, are quit ph tin- s ;ue, and so, n's .
are the Indian, provided they are far
enough away.
The valley hi which the Ibisehud
Aconcy Is located !s very fertile ami in
vitinif. and heme seek. -is an 1 capitalists
alike view it with envious eyes lYrlia; s
it Is a pi cuilarity of Indian reservations
to appear to the eyes of white- Ut be a
litt'e mere desTable hind than that
which is eiiua'lv fer tile a:td well located,
lut width i- o; en to tin- whit sett'er
Btid speculat t. It is th 1 f rbiddcu
which always ap; ears mor tempting.
When once ou have reached the
thorns of ('ink's Fori; yon wi I lotemi t
t'd to fire a jwr'o -t fudilade o' -nip
shots: for every mile of tic one hundred
alotiiT which wi folo.v this stream of
fers new and enticing seen e beauties in
marvelous and striking tarieiy. Here
the sportsman finds an abundance of the
choicest victims. Almost evi ry motin
tain bro k that Cows In'o the river is
alive with "speckled beauCe., hungry
for the 1 ook. ami i either too shy nor too
wise- to lieln thems d es freely, at th-;
lirst opportunity, while 1 ear. d.'cr, ami
other large game nr- plentiful in the
Woods.
Lake I'cr.t! d'OrelHe. in Western Idaho,
Is one of the most i miianting lakes in
the West. Southwest of Lake Tend
d' Teille is l ake (' i ur d'AIene. another
beautiful mo' iitnin hike. This is the
headwaters of th S; okane Iliver.
The banks of this lake ami river are
thickly tlmbcivd with lir and cedar, ami
the eo-t of 1 tunning the lo.'S down the
Spokane Miv. r is from thiity to fifty
Cents per thousand '1 he great water
power must make that city the isito of
some of the pt ea test lumber mil's of the
Wi st. fo,' the amount of timber on the
Spokann Iliver. Lake (our d'AIene
and the St. .It soph. St. Mary and (.' cur
d'AIene Uivers. which fnw into the lake,
is almost beyond coniputat'on. Spokane
a' ready has various p c.si nous mills, one
cutting loe.itoi feet of lumber p r day
Spokan draws a large amount of
wea th from ada cut mining districts,
which are a'l with n o miles distant
The Idaho district which are tribu
tary to Spokane, are the ('n nr ti'A'cn ',
eouthca-t the i'enJ tl't rei!!e. ea-t and
the MetalitH', nort'ieast. Tin; 1- o )tenai.
across the line, in l!rit;sh Co'unibia. is
also tap; vl by a S, okane railroad, and
the districts in the State i f Washington
which aro iartia'Iy or who'ly tributary
to Spokane an; the ( kanoaau ami I'ol
ville, to the north and northwest. The
supplies for these districts are mainly
furnished by Spokane, which will derive,
a hirse additional source of profit from
Its surrounding? minerals as eoon as the
magnificent smelt "in plant just built,
8 me live miles out of the city. Is in full
operation The capital Stock is one
million dollars. Tin; amount of free
SlI.VlUl MINK ASIt lONCKNTIl ATOll.
mining ores from mines In these dis
tricts, in iv.o, was ub ut three mil ion
dollars, while the amount of unelt'ng
oies produced that year from tributary
districts Is placed at 17"..Xo tons, (if
this the f'o ur d'AIene district pro lured
! ".ton tons of ore, valued at ?t'..tf.'1,(). o.
'J'ho smelting charge on thi; amount of
ore, at tin; averaw price, would be
Sl.n.WKMi.
Anotli'. rcity which is surrounded with
abundant mineral resources is LUeiis
burgh, the county seat, of Klttitass
County, and the metropolis of the Ya
kima Va ley, sltnat'tt in practi ally tin;
geographical cent-r of the State. !n
1s,.hii its poiu'af'on was lo; ; it now
lias nearly .",ih inhabitants. Its latest
Iriumih of enterprise is the erection of
the Ei'ensbiirsrh lIat Furnace So. 1
The lulldinss are already up, and the
furnace is bring built of lire-brick man
ufactured from n::tive fireclay by a
plant erected on the site of the furnace.
Tlie clay from which they are made is
superior to the fan. tins Scotch fire-clav.
The manufacture, of these fire-brick,
whih tetail for 4!) I er thousand, can
scarcely fail to develop into an Industry
of considerable i roportit.ns: but It Is to
their iron. gold, ami coal resources that
tlie citbens of ICllenslmrgli look with
greatest expectation. Iron has proven
the wo. Id over, ami particularly in Kn
gland, Pennsylvania, and Alabama, to
be a most substantial basis np m which
to build cities. There is no reason why
it should fail to meet the expo tatlon of
the people of Ellens'inrgh, for there are
in Kittitnss County, and in close prox
im'ty to Ellensburgh, litera ly moun
ta'i.s of Iron of a very lrgh
grade. In the report of (leorgc
A. JJethune, State (Jeoloalst, bearing
date of li)', we find tlie fol'owing ofii
cia! Ftatenietit: "In Washington, to day,
there are In process ot development
nearly twenty promising Iron properties.
These are situated In King. Skagit, Kit
ta'ass, Stevens, and Okanogan Counties,
and I am pleased to say that the devel
opment work on all of these deposits
is being vigorously prose -iit"d. I have
inspected many of these discoveries, pro
cured samples from all visit d. and hae
ascertained that each of the classes of
iron I name above are to b ; found in our
own State, and that of these classes the.
Washington ores are of superior excel
lence. In King, Klttitass ami Okanogan
Counties magnetites and hematites exist
In great quantity, and the value of these
varieties cannot be over estimated, as
from them is made that quality of steel
designated the Uesscmer, and acknowl
edged the king of steels throughout the
world. Our magnetites and hematites
aro peculiarly adapted to the manufac
ture of steel, because of the small quau-
y-. '
tit y of phosphorus they carry and the
high per cent, of metallic iron contained
in them. I look forward with nipreme
confidence to the. time when Washington's
JSessemer steel will to om; of her princi
pal manufactures, and to the time whoa
steel works will be seen in o;crat;on
throughout the great hematite and mag
net :tc ore belt of the State.
"The fact that the railway devclop
mt nt of the St:i'; l as assumed really
phenomenal proportions, and that Iron
I'.YMiAi'i.itr
Id'.'hways aro penetrating the very seat,
of these and deposits of ether iron ores
of the classes I haw mentioned war
rants the i r.ipliecy that with n less than
two decades the output of iron lu this
A KI.ATUKAO INDIAN FAMILY.
Slate will lea 1 that of any other iron
produein;' division of the l'a jje Hope."
The pre-eme of large t.uan'it'es of
the red hematite ore greatly simt'lil'es
the i r cess o'" reducing 'h ; other iron
ores, because the intr..di:ct!on of a
proper proportion of red hematite Into a
tM'S of the other ore; cause the whole
to reduce one-third fjui.-ker than if
smelted without mixing. Alongside
these iron mountains are immense de
posits of high grade coking c- al. ami
limestone of remarkable strength and
purity, which makes the finest of flux
ing lime
The gold fields about Ellensburgh are
the famous Sauk, f'ie-Klnm and l'es
chastin d'stricts, in Klttitass County.
Concerning the first ai.d set ond beds
the State Ceo'oglst reports; "This dis
covery was made In th" spring of isTt
by lien ("c.ndwin, an old time California
miner, and a prospector who. in search
of hidden treasures, had traversed the
who'c of On-gon and Idaho, ami then
came into Washington and what is now
Kittitas County. Iieaching the Swank,
I am told. (1: odwin lost his bearings,
ii nil camping, proceeded to look about
him As a result of this the prospector
found himself the discoverer of what to
day aie the richest placer mines of
Washington. Of fabu'ous richness w re
those placer mines, and as an evidence
of their extent, I may say to th s tlay
they are being worked with rich results.
Nuagets valued at as high as Stoo haw
as recently as the past season been ex
tracted from thesi placers. And to o'tl
I5en (ieodwiu must be given the credit
for having first found the State's richest
seat of surface deposits of goid.
"It was nearly thn e years after the
discovery o? the Swank placers that C.
I'. Culver, a I ioneer prospector, en route
to tlie Columbia River and the South,
found fiaying placer diggings on the
banks of the l'eschastin creek, a liwly
stream emr.tying itelf into the Wenat
chle lllver, which ia turn terminates
with a jointure with the Columbia Iliver.
This creek is In what Is now Klttitass
County. Like the Swank, the l'eschas
tin p'acers proved fabulously rich, and
were worked l.y htm beds of miners,
thousands o." dollars b ing extracted
from them. Like the Swank deposits,
tlicv (seem to be Inexhaustible, as at this
writing they are being worked, and with !
it.i .,...... i .. ..... ...i . ,,
r,pi -l.iliu 1" luiiir., nj IliUIIJf lIOM'Ti .
Of the 'ast he fays: "The more recent
d'scoveries of placer diggings date from
the year lssi, when the Cle-KIum placers j
were found. The Cle-Elum Hiver Is a !
small stream, having its source in the j
ri.ACRR .MINING.
Cascade Mountains In Klttitass County,
end emptying into the Yakima Liver
near th o i rosnt rous litt'e town of ( lo-
I Elum. There was a rush of miners to
the new found fie'd. There is no ossi
j ble methol by which the output of the
j Cle-Elum placers can br; even approxi-
mafeu with anything liko accuracy. I
know the fact to be that the Cle-Mum
placers are still oe'ng worked by a n'ini
hcr of miners, and with substantial re
sults. "
There are extensive nuartz mines in
; the l'eschastin district, and the lirst
; stamp mill in Washington was erected
j and is now operatod here The Tona
j hue mine in tlie Pest hastin crushed its
: quartz in old-fashioned arrastres, at a
; loss of 80 per cm. t of the metal, and
j then secured $17,000 worth of go d last
season.
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The annual out-put of the fswauk, Cliv
Kluni, and l'eschastin districts is over
SI'(M).M). MAVFI.UIVWI
POISON IN ICE CREAM.
lliw I uMlly Toxie Mai t r 1 Ilnvolopo.l inj
Tliut l"r."Kll Snont.
There is much food for rcHeetion in
the suggestion uiuJo by Dr. (ieorgt; S.
Hull in the MniU'il' Scwx that the
rooloin iix; cream free .or, when lilled
minim;.
with erf am, is in reality a galvanic cell
or lmttery Tlie cream, especially if
saline, or if mixed with fruits, eggs,
etc., lveeoines the corrosive electrolyte,
and the zinc and tin, zinc and copper,
or any other two metals of the puddles
and freezer, become the ositive and
negative elements of the battery. i.
Hull has by experiment proved lhat
on clectiieal action tikes place ii
freezing under such circumstances,
and, if electrical action, tlioa of coursa
chemical action, resulting in the intro
ductio i into cream of highlv jioisonous
salts of copper or of zinc. The Xew
I contains al o the reoorts of Drs.
Mitchell and Ilyndman of Cincinnati,
and the discussion in the Cincinnati
Academy of Mediciuc concerning the
terrible Snook II err poisoning cases
that o.-eurred near Louisville about two
mouths ago. Our readers may remem
ber that f-omo sixty wedding guests
were poi-oned, the bridegroom and
several others fa'ally. The cause of
the poisoning still rema'iis a profound
mystery. The editor of the Aledir.il
A'cfc.s throws out the suggestion that
Ir. Huli's expeiiaioats and theory
may possibly bal to an explanation of
the strange facts. Tlie ingenious sug
gestion is also made by tha editor
that of two persons eating cream
from the same freezer one may be
killed by the poison in the cream and
the other unharmed, bv reason of the
fact that the stiff and pasty cream j
would not permit thorough mixture ;
and dissemination of the oison :
throughout the whole mass except j
nfter prolonged stirring and mixing.
r. Hull's theoiy prcsitpose that the j
toxic matter js thrown off into the j
cream when it stands over night or for j
a number of h mrs in connection with
the two metals in the freezer. The !
conclusions of Ir. Hull's study ate I
thus summarizi d :
"1. If we desiie the smallest quan-
tify of metallic poison in our ice cream
and still keep in use our modern j
freezer we should see that the ingredi- i
ents are pure, that the mixture is '
f:O'0 l quickly and the paddle at once .
removed. j
"J. The quantity of jioisonous salts J
is increased by acid mixture, espo- J
cially by the addition of eggs, corn- !
starch, etc. The r.tllilion of salt for
flavoring purposes, as made by some I
manufacturers, becomes criminal, and '
it is grossly careless to allow any of
the salt water from the outside to get
into the can. If. as a result of fer
mentation, ice cream should contain ,
tyrotoxicoti then it must be acid, ami, '
ou this account, will dissolve still more ;
zinc or copper. !
''The quantity of metal dissolved do-
ponds upon the length of time the
pa Idle is left in the can, or, if the cm
has a zinc coated bottom and tin sides, 1
the length of time the cream remains i
iu it. or the amount of electrical action !
will again vary if the can be copper, i
coated with tin, and the tin be worn
off so as to expose the opper, thus !
producing local currents that dissolve j
the copper." j
Olail t. S;o Them, j
"Oneof the early lovernors of a cer-
tain Western State." writes a corn;- !
spondent, "was a man of great popn-
larity, commanding strength of char- j
actor, nml undisputed fitness for the 1
duties of his otico. but entirely with-
out any gift for public shaking, i
Shortly after his election ho paid an ;
official visit to the State prison, in the '
court e of which he was ushered into t
the chapel where the convicts were 1
assembled in a bod v. I
"Eefore the Governor cou'd realize j
what was goi g on, the chaplain had !
presented him to the company,- with
the remark that he would doubt,lo-:s
have something to say.
"'But, my dear sir,' whisperfd the
startled Governor, "I haven't anything
to say, and I couldn't say it if 1 had '
I never made a speech in my life.'
"The chaplain, who was entirely in
nocent in the matter, could only reply :
"'I beg your Excellency's pardou for
being so premature, but as I have,
committed you ko decidedly I see no
way out of it, and feci confident that
yon will not mind addressing them
a few words.'
"The Governor certainly was com
mitted, and. though he was literally
trembling, he began :
"'Ladies and gentlemen ! No, no. I
don't mean that g-ntlemen and fel-low-citiens!
no, 1 don't exactly mean
that, cither but but well, men and
fellow-prisoners, I cau't make a speech ;
I I don't know how to make a speech;
I couldn't make a speech to save your
souls, or or-or even my own! anil
so so well, aliont all I can say is,
that that I'm very glad to see so
many of you here!'"
In Germany experiments have re
cently been made with small locomo
tives for towing boats on canals. In
stead, however, of attaching the roi o
to the locomotive it is attached to a
heavy towing car, which is drawn by
the locomotive. The plan is said to be
satisfactory.
It is stated that the railroads of the
United States lose !'2,0(Mi,(iUJ yearly
from landslides, $5,000,000 by Hoods,
$l,0()0,0ii0 by lire, and $3,000,000 by
collisions.
Hakd drinkers have no antipathy fp
the whisky trust. It is the whisky "no
trust" tiie vant abaiisi
.1 ri. fWi 4.:fi.ltf.J-.
110CS CO ,NS FRKKimV
CHEAPER THAN MEN QUEER
KIND OF FAVORITISM.
.ferry Simpsmi Is i:i--!s! I'tvipte .-,nii;if,l
Kiiir tn ; itli-o:ol AImmiI ::s i a-i
lilies Are t'arrie.l -1 r. irate il:i!nf.v
Fully i-:s.-u':l iy titt !"..
Jerry Simpson i
fanl with the r:tii
do not charge more
til
d t.
llu.l
th-v
tads liec.ti:.:''
.r !i tuliu r u
in:i:i. .!:rrv
t'em f n e:t rr vi !i -r in t'i -if-rrv I
apparently ovt r'ooked
with the exception of
hogs do not ride in
aiul I'ullmau coaches.
the fie' th.lt,
isolated cases,
passenger cars
-A'i' i.s-f.s Cil'i
I cli'i the above blunderin-; witti-
ci:-m from t!it Kansas (,'iiv
Let
tile
less
us examine it .".n 1 see uji:i:i
v.lv
laugh falls.
J ii t he first place, men weigh
than hoes. Secondly, they lo.i I
unload themselves, which ho th
and
i I ' ' .
Ho let those inaltcis rest, la tin
third
place, men reij'iire better ami more
cosily aeeoiumodiit ions t hau hogs; and
hence that becomes !!ie main j oi.it id'
the disCilS-ion.
What is the difi'erence, then, in cost
to the railroad company of carrying
and oi.'immo:laii:ig ne n as eomp irsl
v it!i hogs 1 1 is i'onnd iMainl v in the
com; arati ve capital invested in a hog
car on the one hand, and a iirst-tda.--s
coach on the other. We can afford to
be liberal in this calculation, and will
put the cost of the hog car at nothing.
Tl
i at
is low c
m 'U we
oug!,. The!
will put nt
for
$lt),H)0. Good judges tell me that j
this sum will build about live good !
coaches. Four per cent per annum is
sail to be the a er age income on rail- j
mail investments. J"t us ailu b kv
cent, per annum for repairs and re
building. We have then a UUMM coach at 10
per cent, per annum for the men, with
no cost for tin- hog car. The interest
cost oil the investment in the coach
for men is l.ood pcr annum, or about
:S per tlay, or To cents for tl hours,
suppose, now. that our coach is about
half-full of pi ople, say '2o passengers.
ivide To cents by ! and we have '!
cents each as the cost of accommoda
tions for each passenger on a ti hours'
ride, or 12 cents on a '21 hours" ri le.
To use a local illustration with which
I am well acquainted 1 will say that
six hours is about the time occupied by
a stock train or a passenger train run
ning from Junction City to Kansas
City, a distance of LIS miles. The
charge of carrying hogs over that
route is usually about ,"u cents per
head. At the same rate of liroiit. men
should be carried iu a ltl.tM!D coach
over that route foj- not exceeding .Vi
cents each. If there were more than
25 passengers in the coach the cost
would lie still less per head. Thepr. s
cnt charge for passengers between
Junction Citv and Kansas C;tv is over
' $-1. How much of this extortion is
! robbery? Nobody can answer that
; question better than people who are
: robbed.
j Some one may object that the charge
per capita is not the true basis of cal
I dilation. Let us then take the car-
( load as the basis. 1 :i
j will till the coach with
j car is tilled with hogs.
number in ecch cas-
that case we
people as the
I. -t 50 be the
And let the
j route be from Junction City to Kansas
j City, at usual rates for hogs, which wo
i assume to be $'2: per car. Then add
j 75 cents to the charge for the coach to
I cover the extra invest nemt. This
makes 5(1 cents inr head for hogs and
abont al i cents lor
i The present rate for pe
the people
iple is if. 15.
If it is objected that the pcoph
I coaches would seldom be full, 1 reply
' that the experiment of low rates is
J worth trying. At one-third of a cent
j per mile for travel, many more people
i would travel than now. The wonder
is that, at present r.itc:. there is as
much travel as there is. The same
rate on hogs as is now charged for peo
ple would stoji theii shipment entirely.
Hut there are other sides to this
question. Passenger trains usually
carry mail and express matter. The
charges on theso are said to be enough
to pay for running "the trains. This
will reduce our figures for men down
below th" price now charged for carry
ing hogs.
Now turn to page 22 of the Interstate
Commerce Commission Report for
lsss, and we find it ollicially stated
that people are frequently carried from
New York to Chicago for 1 per per
son, or less than one-third tlie price
per mile for carrying hogs in Kansas.
Now on whom is the laugh - Simpson
or the Star '!
Again : The average cost of run
ning the average -passenger train in
the Cnited States, in the years 1NSS
and ltjfS'.i, one mile, was f cents. If
that otlicial statement is correct, then
2S passengers in a (rain at Kansas
rates will pay for running the train.
All passengers over and above that
amount ami the mail and express mat
ter are profit. Turn the matter any
way you please, ami Simpson has the
better of the Star. Your old partv
newspaper hack reminds r.ic of the
famous old admiral on her majestv's
ship Pinafore: "I always voted at my
party's call, and never thought of
thinking for myself at all."
In closing, 1 desire to say that Jerry
Simpson never said that "the railroad's
charge more for hauling a hog than
for carrying a man," as tin; .S'fiir blun
deringly has it. ()a whom is the
laugh?
This discussion is based on the the
ory that the present rates for ea rying
hogs are just. Put this is not the fact.
The present rates here in Kansas, and
generally throughout the country, are
many times too high, occasioned by
the millions and billions of fraudulent
or '"watered stocks" resting on the
roads, on which dividends and interest
are charged, amounting to hundreds
of millions of dollars per annum.
John, Davit, M. ('., in Journal of K.
of L.
A New Christ W.-mtctl.
The demands of the l'.tth century is
for a new Christ. The teachings ot
Jesus are too old and fog v. lie was
down on the mouey kings, an 1 told a
tale in which he ldctiiro 1 a tramp) as
going to paradise i.r.tl the rich man
who turned the tramp frmi his door as
going to a place t.f tnunent. The
Christ of to-day, to 1 e popular, must
reverse the story and put the money
king in paradise and turn the tramp
into hell where he belongs. The old
time Christ associated with common
people, ami did he live to-day ho could
not be admitted into Washington so
ciety and the high-toned people would
not it cognize him on the street. The
doctrine of the equality of man was
good enough for Christ to preach 1800
yt ars ago during the dark ages, but in
the glory of the present civilization it
is all out of place, for the new Christ
muat wear a plug hat, smoke 25 cent
cigars, drink whiskey straight and
vote for the candidate' named by Wall
street. Jesus taught, the doctrine that
it is as hard for a rich man to enter
the kingdom of heaven as it was for a
camel to go through t he eve of a ii"ed!e,
and that, the kingdom of heaven be
longed to the pour. The mw Christ
must transpose this matter and plae ;
the kingdom id' heaven into the I rusts
and syndicates of the millionaires and
ni ike it impossible for the poor man to
evi r enter. Tie- idea that poor, ragged
chil Iron and working people are fit
for h.'.iven i.; not in accord with the
1 opuhir i lea. The Christ of the olden
ti;: e was so j oor that he had no place
to lay his head ami he wen', about as
a labor agitator, holding farmer's alli
ance picnics and feeding She p"fj le on
bread, and 'ish. The new Chris' must
boa billionaire, ride i:i palace cars,
own enough land to m i';e a couple of
s'ates. operate sev.-r tl 1 lions ir.d miles
id' railroad, get tij a sapjur worth
f 1,000 a plate, an 1 dictate to a con
gress of millionaires. No. no, the old
Christ was too much of a reformer and
not iu sympathy with the two old par
ties. A new Chris' is neede 1. -tl'i.'r:il
I ii mi.
V'h:iS Is :i J'.il'ioii-.'
The New York Sun commenting on
the billion dollar congress, tries to th)
a tiling which is tlii'ienlt to do, that is
to explain to its readers so that they
can realize what an enormous pile of
cash it talus to mike a billion dollars,
lteciinse we think it good food for
thought and because we think the peo
ple, the voters, of this ;-ou;;try are re
sponsible to some extent for this waste
ful misuse of public monies, and be
cause we think when they see their re
sponsibility in tins matter they will
see to it t hat this outrags shall cease,
and because we foci it to he our duty
to give them all the light wo can and
enforce it upon their nionorv, if pos
sible, we give what
sii ii savs :
"A billion dollars is a vast sum, and
a mere recital i f what could be accom
plished with it shows the wrong done
the people, from whose pockets every
cent was taken.
"Counting at the rate of 200 a min
ute, for twelve hours every day, hot
work in the heated season, it would
take 0.011 days, or about nineteen
years, to count a billion.
"A billion dollars iu silver dollar
pieces, falling on the ground with twi-
liuht's tlews. would cover
bout :n;o
acres, considerably more than
llf
square mile.
"A billion dollars would pay the
salaries of 2ii,O00 presidents of the
I "nitetl States ; and if in dollar bills laid
in line they would form a belt about
114,5(10 miles long, going around the
earth nearly live times, or reaching
half way to the moon.
"A billion dollars in paper would
make, as we are told, if spun together
in one large sheet and then cut up into
pieces of the proper size, dresses for
nearly l.oOO.ooq women, or more than
2.000',0(0 children.
' A billion dollars would pav for the
education of 250,00 ) children from the
kindergarten c-uirse through college.
"The weight of the average man is
1 :!5 pounds ; hence it would take an
army of more than .VSiMMO average
men to turn the scales againt a billion
silver dollars.
"The entire emigration to America,
from the day that Columbus first set
foot in the new world until the pres
ent, is supposed to amount to 25.000,
000. Counting evorv now comer, there
fore, since 1102. the last I'nite 1 States
congress appropriated of the people's
money forty dollars for each one of
them.
"The total number of votes for presi
dent cast by all American electors
since the establishment of tin; republic
amounts to about 75.00O.0OD. The late
congress appropriated the equivalent
of thirteen dollars for each such vote,
or i;inc!v dollars for each voter now."
Millionaires lllo.re !'ir.
People who for years have read the
reports id what seemed fabulous wealth
owned by millionaires in New York
City, may 'peruse w ith profit, somewhat
mixed with incredulous amazement,
the figures of the tax commissioners of
New York.
It is painfully evident that however
wealthy a man may consider himself
and however high that wealth may be
rated by his envious neighbors, the
immediate effect of a visit to the tax
collectors" office is to produce that, im
pression of grinding poverty which re
subs in apparently grievious misstate
ments. For instance, you mortgage
burdened farmers of the west v. ho have
heretofore imagined that Gould had a
wad of money, r.oto that he is assessed
for personal property to the value of
J500.000: George Gould at 10, 000;
Vamlerbiit at ?20O.O0O. IWs that
look like the wealth of the Yanderbilts
or the millions which Gould is sup
posed to possess? It links more as if
the tax dodger flourished like a green
bay tree in the Empire state.
Of all the reputed men of fabulous
wealth, but one W. W. Ast or pays
taxes on anything like the proper
amount. He is assessed on 1,400.
It would appear that being a million
aire in New York does not require so
much capital as was generally sup
posed. vr.
IS It (.(Mill II'lsl IICNS?
The railroads of our country are
capitalized at S'.l.OOO.OOO.OOO and it is
as well known tact that the great ma
jority of their slock is held by people
in England and other foreign counfries
who have no more interest in the
United States than the vampire has in
its victim. Foreign capitalists own
many of our mines, elevators, irrigation
systems and other properly, and prob
ably billions of acres of our land -one
foreign combination alone, the Villard
syndicate, controlling a land grant of
74,000 square miles, two and a third
times as much as is contained in all
Ireland. At a reasonable estimate for
eign capitalists have invested 810,000,
000,000 in our country. What value
have they given us in return? They
did not give us gold or silver because
these metals have been carried abroad
by the ship load and ure mined here,
not in Europe; they performed no
labor to cam this monstrous sum, and
we have given them at least value for
value for every ounce of goods wo ob
tained from them. Xrni'ia (Mo.) In
iluslrinl Hcvictr.
A "Vile S'ioJ" 1 n ;. Ihe;l.
The Washington correspondent of
the I'l'iijiic believes that a systematic
effort is to be made to corrupt the peo
ple's party representatives in congress
by giving them a surfeit of dinners and
drinks. To be foiewarncd is to be
forearmed. Messrs. Davis, Simpson,
el al., knowing what is ix store, or
rather in cupboard, for them, will be
careful. Put really the old party
leaders and heelers are wiser than we
iv ere inclined to give them credit for.
We had supposed that they intended
to meet and attempt to discomfit "the
hayseeds" with arguments. They are
wise to challenge them to an eating
and drinking match instead, lieing
firmed at all points with solid, stubborn
facts and amply supplied with sound
common sense, the "hayseeds" would
have iieen more than a match for flu;
apologists for monopoly in argument.
Hut tin; latter are famous trencher
men, as a rule, and seasoned casks
withal, and could cat "the hayseeds"
into dyspepsia and drink them under
thetihle. Why a Chauncey Depew,
for example, could devour more at a
ilium t than the entire value of the
harvest on a Kansas farm, and then
swallow more champagne than the
value of a Kansas farmer's live stock.
We congratulate th party managers
on the clear-headedness they display
in discovering thus early tin; one thing
at vhivh they arc "the hayseeds" snpe
riors. Inn ni'il of thr Kuijhi. oj
I." 'no:
Our Muticil l-ateiiiicH.
Listen to tlie i:-jullifttn of Kansas
City:
"If the republicans nominate a ticket
acceptable to the democrats, or if the
t wo parties unite upon a ticket, the al
liance can be beaten in the coming
election."
Thus you see the scheme. Poth old
parties mortal enemies when lighting
f i" spoils - are joining hands to kill tlio
alliance and perpetuate the money em
pire. My God, has it at last come to
this? Has our emperor started for his
throne? No; he started years ago and
is far on his w ay to the palace. Oh, yo
"subordinates and subalterns,'" get out
your trumpets and welcome your liege
lord, for lie is at your door. The money
power is behind him and you must
submit. Crawl on your bellies, you
groveling toilers and hayseeds. Kiss
the foot that trumps upon your necks.
Not only the leading speakers and
newspapers of both old parties, but the
small, one-horse local and county pa
pers art; lighting the farmers' and
laborers' organizations. They are do
ing so because their party's political
bosses compel them to tight the people.
Why don't these papers lire the party !
to h 1, and tight the good battle for '.
equal rights and justice for which the
very men who are feeding these men
dicant editors are struggling? Why
don't they support the men who sup
port them, their good friends and
neighbors? Let's look at it from the
other side: Why do the farmers and
laborers support papers even though
they are local that advocates a system
of robbery and plunder to which all la
boring classes must be op used? Why
do they support papers that place
party ahead of principles, thus helping
to steal the bread from toiling human
ity? If they must have local and
county papers- and they should why
not build up papers that respect the
ideas of the farm and shop, untram
mcled by the politican's wand ? '.
I. t rill, in Shi i'loii t la. t .Ion i n il.
Duty of (HiviTiitneilt.
It is the order of the day for the
partv organ to attack the sub-treasury
plan by saying it is unconstitutional,
undemocratic, mire public an. etc. The
why and the how for thes" statements
have been asked a thousand times and
nobody has given a reasonable answer,
or presented a convincing argument
against it. The farmers think the plan
a good one, and want that or some bet
ter one tried. They know that the
condition of affairs so far as they are
concerned cannot be worsted. They
know that they are bearing the bur
dens of tin' government and they would
like to secure some of its benefits.
They know that the financial affairs of
the country have drifted out of the
hands of the people and into the hands
of a few warehouses, called national
banks, and that every dollar that leaves
the treasury passes a dozen or more
toll gates before it goes to the farmer's
door. They have at last gotten the
idea into their thick heads that the
government belongs to the people and
not to a favored few, and they would
like to live a little nearer to their
property. They think if I nele Sam
can throw his paternal arm around a
few favorite children, he might stretch
himseir a little and take in the whole
family. They know that it is the
labor and products of the country that
make the wealth of the nation and not
the debt it ov.es. I! urn I Worl.iinni.
Tile IVapIe's ISllsiness.
It is estimated that the products of
agriculture (his vear at fair prices will
amount to S7.000.000.000. A large
portion of this vast amount must bo
transferred from the farms to the vil
lages, cities and foreign countries, and
to a greater or less extent manufac
tured, and other products are brought
back to the farms for use. This ex
change is continually going on, and
the only medium through which it is
accomplished is that of currency. It
is safe to put this whole volume of ex
change at $10,000,000,000. The differ
ence beet ween the price of money fur
nished the banks by the government
and the juice at which the banks fur
nish it to the people is at least 5 per
cent. If this per cent, could be re
tained by the producers of those pro
ducts it would reach the sum of at least
$500,000,000 per annum. As it is, this
immense sum is paid to the non-producer
as tribute, because they control
the volume of money. It is to rid the
producer of this incubus, to eliminate
from business this unjust tribute, that
constitutes the controlling factor of
the sub-treasury plan, and brings
about the bitter contest of the money
owners against it. Money at a lower
rate of interest is an important demand
of tin; alliance. Xntional Citizen'
Al Ha nre.
,ltist So, Sir. TaliuiiKc.
The overshadowing curse of America
to-day is monopoly. He puts his hand
on every bushel of w heat, every sack
of flour" and every ton of coal, and not
a man, woman or child in America but
feels the touch of his money despotism.
His scepter is made out of the iron
track of railroading and the wire of
telegraphy. He proposes to have
everything his own way, for his own
advantage and the people's robbery.
He stands in the railroad depot and
puts into his pocket each year $200,
000,000 beyond reasonable charges for
his services. He controls the nomina
tions and elections. He has the demo
cratic party in one pocket anil the re
publican in the other. llev. T. DtWitl
Talinaye.
Ex-Congressman Kelley, of Burling
ton, Kan., who never voted any other
ticket in his life than the republican,
is out in a letter stating that he has
joined the people's party, and giving
his reasons therefor.
OUR BUDGET OF FUN.1
HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DO
INGS HERE AND THERE.
Jokes jtnl .Joko ets that Are Supposed to
llavo Itoon Ilccotilly ro:n- Saylngn ant!
ItoiiiK tli.it Aro Ul:l, Curious and
I nugliatilo.
Tlie Iloaon of It.
Quester I wonder why it is that a
man is heavier when ho is in liquor
than w hen he is : ob:'i ?
Jester That i easily explained.
It's because he's "half shot."
Actttiltiiii- I r.vl ?nco.
Quoster You know Shrimper, don't
you? That chap that's made himself
so conspicuous iu town affairs of late.
Jester Oh. yes. Very well, indeed.
Quester He claims "to bo a self
made man.
Jestes Go.-:d ! I'm glad to be able,
on his own testimony, to relieve Provi
dence of the odium of having made
such a mistake.
No' II I'aut.
Kmorsenia Porch ister Olivinia
Holmes is not the recherche girl I
thought she was.
Pusscllina Waldo What has oc
curred ?
TMcryonia I 'orchester. I noticed to
day she was wearing her winter spec
tacles. Jewelers' Circular.
.Sucli a Trlllf.
Yt'ooden Mamie, if you will not
marry mc. I shall certainly lose my
mind.
Mamie -Well. I don't believe it
would be noticed.
Ho llcmeinVcreil.
Wife Po you lcmember, Henry,
what the sermon wa about this morn
ing? Husband I should ray to. It was
about forty minutes too long.
I"nr llv a uit.
Mrs. Try Poes bathing suit vou,
Miss Pazzler?
Miss Pazzler I think so, but ma
eays there's hardly enough of it to call
it a suit.
All Kcoaotnical Iarky.
Gabc Snodgrass recently applied to
the llevereml Whangdoodle Paxter,
of the Austin I due Light Tabernacle,
for some pecuniary assistaree.
"1 jess can't do hit," replied Parton
Paxter; "I has to s'port my pore ole
nmdder."
"Put your j ore ole mudder f-ays yer
don't do nnflin for her."
"Well, den, ef I don't do nuffin for
my pore old mudder, what's de use ob
an outsider like you trying to make me
shell out?" Jera-i S Jiai'js.
Yon Writo Illes.li'y, Sir "
A Yale student recently h.inded ii a
paper fo his professor and was sur
prised to have it returned with a note
scrawled on the margin. He studied
it diligently, but was unable to de
cipher the note, and so he brought his
paper back to the professor. "I can't
quite make out w hat this is, if you
please," said the student. "That, sir,"
said tlie piofessor "why, that says:
'I cannot read your handwriting.'
You write illegibly, sir." Sj-ringlicld
ll'jnrfiHcitn- '
Diiln't Moot them.
Mrs. Hayseed "Did ye see any o'
them sharpers in the city?"
Mr. Hayseed "Not a one, Miranda,
not a one Put I met fomeold fiicnds
I never expected to see again. Po ye
remember old Mr. Pigcrop? Well, I
met a son of his. Thought lioth those
boys was dead an' lyin' out there in the
cemetery: but this one said ho was
snatched by grave robbers, and just as
they was sellin' his body to a medical
college he came to. ( Scod enough fer
a bool;, Miranda, good enough for a
book, and I told him he ought to write
it, and he sai I he would, and he'd dedi
cate the book to me as his father's old
friend. There's one queer thing, Mi
randa. This man's hair is b'ack, while
the Pigcrop boys had red hair, but he
said it turned black from flight. He's
way up iu tociety, Miranda, and intro
duced me to young n cu named Van
derbilt, and Astor, and Could, and
Prexel, and ever fo many more. I
tell you, Mirandy, the;e young fellers
spend money! Some bill fer cigars
and things came in while we was talk
ing, hundreds o' dollars worth, an" they
hipped out the cash liko a breeze.
One of 'em happened to run short, and
so I lent him all I had, but he said he'd
send it by express to-morrow. I tell
you what, Miranda, a smart man like
me is just as safe in the city as iu the
country."
A S'p 'c-lal JCovival.
Mr. Friendly La :son Limberlip,
you aro complaining of dull times at
your church; don't yon tlimk a revival
would help things?
Parson L. Ve'y much, Jedge! Hit'd
limcrdy de ca;e in a jiffy, pervided,
sitli, hit's do right sorter revivum. Po
kin' dat chu'eh wants am a revivum er
de ekschecker, an' how she gnine to
git it while do shiniu' lights er de sin
ergogue am wastiu' deir supstance at
de watorin' places? Tell yo' what it
are, genterman, ef de keeps on in dis
scan'ious way, h'it won' be no wateiin'
plaee dey'll lan' up witl in de nex wo:l',
deed it won".
Matrimonial II.il Tapo.
"1'Torry. dear," faltered the Wash
ington youth. "I-I couldn't summon
courage to tell you what was iu my
heart, and I wrote it. You got my
letter, didn't you ?"
"Yes. George, I got it.
"And you read it, didn't you?"
"Yes, I read it. In fact, I -I read
it over twice."
"And now, Florry," he said -growing
lioldev, "I have come to learn my fate."
"The best, I can promise you,
George," said the blushing daughter
of the distinguished Congressman, with
drawing her hand from the ardent
clasp o. the infatuated young man, "is
that I will advance your letter to a
third reading to-morrow." Hartford
Co u rant.
Carlyle'n Hlmitiiess.
Thomas Carlyle was orce bidding
"Good-day'' to a very conceited voung
man who had favored him with a lorg
sermon on things in general; he went
politely to the door and then said :
" Well. Mr. Pland, I've received ye for
the sake of your father. Now, good-
' by, and I earnestly hope III never see
' ye again !"' On another occasion Car
lyle looked in a passionless way at the
visitor who had been lioldirg forth for
J over so long and taid: "Man, but ve're
a puir creetute!"
The oldest traveling passenger agent.
i in the land is Capt. May, who has been
retired by the Pennsylvania Pailioad
1 on half pay for the remainder of his
' days, lie is a white-haired man of
seventy, tix feet tall, straight and
, strong.
AFFAIRS IX CHILI
HAVE ASSUMED A MOMENTOUS
ASPECT.
I'almacettV I'o nor TremUlin? In tlia
I alaure A Ml -lo, Conflict Imminent
Kurtlier Irtailsor the Awful Hurricane
in Din West Initio t tots of lire a nil
Shipping.
A dispatch from Valparaiso, Chill,
says: Tlie insurgent trmy has effected a
landing at ,uintt;ro Pay, cnly twenty
miles north f this city. According to
the lowest estimate it numbers in.oxj
men. They were brought down fro n
Caldcra on eiiht transports, three tusis
ami f"iir warships. The j o'nt of land
iim ;s about fifty miles from Santiago,
where Halmaceda's forces to the number
of KM ot have b -en stationed. CJuiiitero
l!.ty Is tin; cnir net; to a fertile va Icy
ami is in direct line wit'i Santiago and
Yalparai-o Tic; Italmai edists have for
some time anticipated a movement south
on the i rt of their foes, but they be
lieved that Co 4uimbo would beth-! tirt
place atta -kt d
It now appears that the hovering of
thn insurgent feet in the neighborhood
of Co .uitnlio P.ay was only a scheme b
d c 'ivc liabrnveda. by ccmiii'x so far
south the iii-ursent leave th" largo
force of I'alma edists at Coquimbu many
mdes to the north of them and helpless
io render any a'd to tho Jlovernment
army in this neiuhborlitxi 1. '1 he hint or;
at. '.luinttvo Itav was therefore a com
plete surprise t the 1 resitlent. but ,s
soon as lie learned the news he actel
prompt y. l.y his command a larse
force was sent, north t me q the enemy.
Atimir.i! brown, from his flagship. t!m
San l'raiicisLvi, saw tin; lamlini of tlio
insurgents They are all well artuel
and eiithiis'a-tie. The Cnited Stat -s
warship l'.altiii.oi't' is in this harbor. 1 ho
Ksau-ralda. commanded by Miva Pallia,
is just outside the harbor. It is opc t-eil
that it will be joine I at once by tho
other insurgent war vessels fro n iuin
tero It.iy.
It look as if, in c n-n; ctio i with the
advance of the I:nd forces upon ibis
city, tlie feet w i! ueu lire i!mui the
forts that defend thl li rh r. Valparaiso
1 ay is st oiiiilv fort i fie I. The forts
mount t." irty tuns, nmong which are a
t-li-inch Mtl'.idt' loader, eleven figh -inch
and nim-in h br cell loado s. a d
five Kruiip guns of !'( centini 'ters cali
ber. Ti e remainder are : o -iHiin.ders
Most of these ir nis arc masked ami offer
a small t '.ruet for hips to the at. Tho
gunners are all skilled men, who have a
great th a! of p:actice T i y know the
distances across the hay. '. tli-y 1 ave a
range finder.
The insurgent feet has altogether
som" nineteen guns, includini 10-inch.
S inch, anil 0-inch breech-loaders. I n
less Mime of the government- gunners
turn traitors it does not seem like v that
the fleet can silence tie" forts So far it
is t;uiet here. It looks :i if the most
important engagt m -nt so far in the his
tory of the pres uit war is about to bo
fought I'ntil the present time it lias
been m arly altogether a battle of words,
Now a fcrec tight is imminent.
in its result depends in all likelihood
the complete overthrow of Italmaceda or
of his opponents. Tin; rout of the
President's forces would undoubtedly bo
quickly fo lowed by the capture of both
Valparaiso and Santiago by the victor
ious army of the insurgents.
OVER SIXTY LIVES LOST.
Trrrllilo Itrmi'ts a" th Hnrrlcsno tlint
Visited Mnr.iniqne.
The hurricane that swept over Mar
tinique of the West India islands, caused
greater damage than at lirst supposed.
So rar as can be learned there were
over sixty deaths as the result of tho
hurricane's visitation, but it will lie
some time before the full extent of the
disaster is known. At Foit de France
alone there were twelve lives lost, and
at both Fort de France and St. I ierre,
to say nothing of the country districts,
the-c l.jvve been large numbers of pcop'o
inured.
Five persons are known to have been
killed in St. Pierre, but, it is feared that
this dues not represent tlie entire loss of
life in the capital.
Communication with the difcretit
ports of the island was never an easy
matter, and it is excessive'y diU'cult to
get detailed news at present.
As Ihe reports from the various sec
tions reach St. Pierro it. becomes evident
that the extent of the devastation has
not been much exaggerated. Pestrrc
tion of properly and h ss of life are io
ported from a'l parts of the coast
The latest report received here-from
bamentin shows that there are ten dead
in that place alone in addition to a large
number of injuied.
At Francois there were sixteen people
killed and large numbers injured, and at
Uiviere Pilott- there were two or more
ih .it us anil soon from all parts of tho
island comes the tale of woe and desola
tion. La Trinite sends in the list of Its
dead at ten and numbers of more or le s
severely injured. The damage done to
shipping and property may safely be
classed as stupendous. About two-fifths
of tlie island was under cultivation and
the mountain slopes were covered with
forests. All tin; cultivation and all the
forests in tlio path of the hurricane ap
pear to have been swept away. Thn
numerous sugar, coffee, cotton, ami co
cao p'antations wdiicli felt the force of
the toruatlo feem to have been destroyed.
The number of ships wrecked in tho
several harbors of the island is at least
twenty.
Mil Clatia'c S cones.
Now Tit at Chauncey M. Pepow is in.
tlreece, let Ua hear no more about De
mosthenes. A rkansiw UnziVr.
CiiAvxor.Y M. Dkpkw is in Atlnns,
tir.eece. Of course ho will visit tho
Acropolis and seek out the tomb of
l'emostht'iit's. While at Homo he
dropped a tear at tho grave of Cicero
(pronounce It kickero, please). iittoit
TiniCK.
Mr. Pki'kw is of the opinion that tho
brigands in Southern Europe have lost
their cunning. They held up a train
next to the ono in which he and Mr.
Vanderbilt were trave ing. but inner so
much as looked at Mr Dcjiew's train.
The missed a golden opportunity. Jo
Co.t llerahl.
Ciiai xcfy Pki'f.w has recent'y visited
the late Henry Demosthenes, of Greece,
and is said to have remarked that lie
didn't see how Mr. Fcmosthenes could
have been much of a speaker when ther.5
was no such thing as Delinonf o's In his
day. Minncajiuliit Tim k.
Thkhk are fears that the investiga
tions of Mr. Pepew in the remote and
little frequented portions of Croeco may
result in his capture by the brigands in
festing those localities. Well, if our
Chauncey does get captured this coun
try will cheerfully- pay the ransom and
send the M 1 to the (lovernm -nt of
(ireece, (erhaps, by Pen Ituller, who
will seo that the formula, C O. IX, is
observed. Rome Sentinel.
That frecocloun Two-Y ar-OM.
A 2-yeam-oi.i) Chicago baby smokes.
Th s is pushing the smoke nulsanc; too
far, even for Chicago A'ctf York Rc
rder. CmcAiio vaults to tho fron, w th a
tobacco-smoking infant which is tlior-
oughly charged with nicotine at the ten
der age of two years. It is undf stool
that it wi 1 be on exhibition at the great
faiis to be held in that city next yar
and in U93, if it lives lout enough.
Kansas City Star.