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WEEKLY OREGON STATESMAN. FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1900. TKE IiIEKIY DM STAIEOI ; Published every Tuesday and Friday by the STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO, 266 Commercial SL, Salem, Or. U R. J. HENDRICKS, Manager. 1 ' ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year, in advance......... ...$t 00 Six months, in advance. ...... 50 inrce montns, m advance......,.? 25 One year, on time......... .....$t 25 The Statesman has been estab lished for nearly fifty years, and it has some subscribers -who have received it nearly that long, and many who bive read .it for a generation. Some of these object to having the paper dis continued at the time of expiration of their subscription. For the benefit of these, and lor other reasons, we have onchided to discontinue subscriptions tnly-when notified to do so. All per sonstpaying when subscribing, or pay ing in advance, will have the benefit of the dollar rate. 'But it they do not pay for six months, the rate will be $1.25 a year. Jiercaitcr we -will send the pa per to all responsible persons who or der it, though they may not send the money, with the understanding that they arc to pay $1.25 a year, in case they let the subscription account run over six months. In order that there may be no misunderstanding, we will keep this wtice standing at thisplace in tne paper. - SUBSCRIBERS DESIRING THE AD dies of their pap-r changed must sUt the name of their former postofllce, as well as of the office to which they wish the paper changed. - - . The free rural mail delivery system Mill prove a mimns wIkji organized on the wren projiosed route from the Salem Mtstotti-e, ax it ha lieeu a suc--ess from the Turner office. We sh.'ill never have good roads In Oregon until it i somelMsly's business to keep track of the matter. We imhhI State Engineer of Road. Such an official would keep the matter alive, liesidcs furnishing plans and direction to enterprising communities. New suliscriltors'to the Twice-nWeeti Statesman are now eoming In at the rate of aliout five hundred a mouth and n good many of them voluntarily from fields already -canvassed though the larger proportion are -"sent in by our hustlers iu the field. 'Although 110 definite action has 1 teen taken ly any organization represent lug the hop' grower,. It seems to Ik? t he general understanding ; tliat. the prlee. to .'be paid for picking ;thl year .will lie thuty-fivo ut ImxS It the present good Weather eon ti mil's, tins price will lie as' good iu most .'yard us wa. .forty cent a,loi that u-u ,,.is,i last year. , . The Hon. Henry M. Teller call Col. Bryan the Uncolii of the Silver lie publiiins. A newspaper paragrupher comments;''-The Colonel is known to Ik the Jefferson or the 1 temocra ts, the Washington of the Aguiualdiau and the Bryan of the Populist. Wliatever deficiencies in i,hit of vote ho may have rauw to complain ,f. hi collec tion of complimentary notice must 1st complete." The following is from that very stal wart -Democratic newsiier, the Mo bile Register, and It cannot therefore ! cluirgtil to prejudice: "Strange mu-rh-m are told of the action of the Massachusetts .delegation on the nwd to Kansas City. The delegation carrhil with them a car load of litiuors and cigars, ami many of thiiu cfmhl not Ktaiut the pressure. In short, tiicr got drunk and boister ous. They are decrilKil a parading up and down the platform at Toronto houtiug for the lloers anl waviii green flags, all to the niauifest disgust of the Canadian. The standard of DenuHTiitle repreutation of .Massa chusetts seems to. have fallen cousider ally of late. , On Monday then werj? In the Oregon Asylum lor the Insane 1173 patients, 811 Ning male and orj fctnalen. The. PuiuIkt .of employee was 13k The nmnlK.r has doubled, if we mistake not in tirte'ii years the number both of patients and employee. Iu the same time then habecu pinctl-. tally no increase in the uumlsT ettlier of employees or prisoner at the IV nl tentiary. We do not mentioti thi to either find fault or to draw- condu st;ns but merely as an interesting fact. There are no patient at the Asjluui that coiill. uuder the hiw, i4 discharged, or that might have been refused admission, while there- are me in private homes tlirouhout the tate ' who Voud Ih x-oiuuionwetilth l'arg l.nt for the tare and consider ation f their relatives. But It si4uis to ns iiiat a better system should be adopted iu the matter- of receiving pati. uts sent to the institution a In sane iktmhi. The counties, or dis tricts, ought to have charge of the matter, as fn the state of New York, and private parties Khould 1k chargtl for the keeping or their ileiHndeut rel atives in .the asylum, w here they are financially able to do so. This i tlie system that has I en adopted and 1 In suctessrul oMnitiou in the Empire Stsitp. It would reduce the numtKr of l-:itfeiits somewnat, ami It'wouhl less en the cost to the general fund, which now amounts to alnjut one-third of all ti.M i late taxf-s. - AND BOSS ENOUGH. ; Bryan being the candidate of three Iinrties liad a pretty good right to say what sort of platform should be built for hi ui to stand on. And he was lu- deiiendent enough to make hi right clear. Mobile Register. Ami box enough. And be used hi full power a such. ' .-;- " REPUBLIC OR EilPIRE?" New York Sun: What doe the talk against "imperialisin amount to? Do the Democrats really believe that any man of sound and disiiosing mind can be made to believe that the Republi can iarty want to destroy Democrat- ie-iRepubliean self-government in the United State and establish an empire In place of it? Democratic platform and orators and newpaper chatter aliout "the Republic or the Empire ho wishes to change the form of government? Who are the dangerou fiu'H'rialixt who are going to make tlie country all "slave? Aparently they are Republicans, the. Republican lwirty, in fact. The Democratic party went crazy in and it Is crazier in UMiO. To the Sixteen to One madness ami the delu sion about a conspiracy of the Money Power, it now add this hypermauia- cal lunacy of a conspiracy to. set up an empire, i; r Vnt the empire of reason still stands. y Japan may7;ktcorea. , : . . -.. The iKirt to lie taken by Japan Iu the suppression of rebellion and an archy in China seems likely to become lireiHindenint. but this very fact will ultimately raise questions not easily inwered. Undoubtedly the Mikado I iu a position to render at this juncture nest liual.Ie and, iH'rhnps, indispensa ble rervh-e to the cause of civilization. It i equally -ertain that the lalwrer worthy of hi hire. Nevertheless, when the Western power are called upon to letermiue the extent and nature of the recompense to bo awarded to the ! Island Empire, they may not fiud it easy to arrive at an agreement. Russia will no doubt favor a money ndemnity; but Jajwu may demand Corea or nothing, and iu this case the oj her nations may . press upon the Czar the . justice' of yielding. But these questions are for the future. The lreseHt problem is to restore order and punish China, so that order may be maintained In the future and all civil ization is Interested In this." Other cou- sidtT.i1 ions must sink into insigultl- I ; - canee for the present. . t.'ILlBS AT A STRAW. j tl-ist Oregonian, Pendjeton.) i j, Ex-Senator Corlett has caught his jHfontl iolitical wliid .and is'a candi date for t tin' United States senate agaiu. He announce his candidacy In a letter to the Portland Oregonian as follows: - 1 j "I'revlous to the recent act of my political eneutnes, I had hesitatinl to tH-come agail a candidate for i tlie tnitel States st'nate. I now offer my wrvices to the state In that;capacity, pltMlgliig myself to tiglit . for tlie best Interests of tlie state with the same Energy I use In fighting all blackmail ing, air form of repudiation, for the development of the Oriental trade, aud for whatever will make Oregon and the northwest great and prosper ous." - . Did mortal man ever witness valuer and :coarsr work! There is even an aiiH'arjinc that the ex-senator had the ("blackmail" suit started against himself, for "isilitk-tl reason, in or der it hat he might have excuse for of fering the worn -out issue of "too much Corbet l' to tlie tieople of Oregon once more. ';.."'' . ;' . ; ' The "fair Inez" should, never In for Kiveu for driving the old statesmait in to tlie field of iMlitics nxain, where he expects to fight the Imttle of his life for the double pun' of vindicating lits character and satisfying an unruly and unnatural desire to serve a ieiile In the' Uuitel State when aud by whm he 1 not wanted. Some ieople have apis'lites and amliitton. but thi a Red man has more than hi share of them, i He really need" a guardian. It requires more than a sciiudal, a suit of blackmail, a fat purse, a sub servient iuwspaier and an eay boss to enable a man to break info j the United States senate against the ieo ple's nilL ; AMERICAN POLICY IOWERS. AND THE The American iolicy in China ha leen viudk-atetl, so far a China her self is concerned, by the progress of events. But that policy does. not re late to China alone. It has reference to the other iHwetu which are Inter ested ami are intervening in r China, setting forth sulmtantially this gov ernment's attitude toward them and their Chinese policies; and in that respect It Is no less important: than In tbe former. There Is of course, no hint at dictation to other powers as to what tliey shall or' shall not do. f Tlutt Is not to le thought of by this or ; by any ot her government. There I the deari'st iossIble statement of this government understanding of the situation, of Its own plans amli pur poscs, and of the extent to which It will co-operate with the other iwwers. From that it may lie possible to draw dtplomatic-ally Home pretty definite conclusions aa to what this govern . rearer ;.j The United States does not consider that China has declared or begun war against . It or therefore against other power. Such war as there Is in Ciu-Ll h civil war, Insnrrectlori ' and rioting. Till country Is to protect its people, there front barm. But it Is to do so by maintaining amicable rela tion with the lawful force of order in China, and not by indiscriminately waging war against all China. ;The Inference U that It would not co-oper atelwUb any other nation in .thus waging war and .would not regard with favor tlie 'waging of such a war. It looks to the Chinese government to make full amends for any Injury that may hare been done to American. and It will inexorably -require .such amends. But lieyoud that it'seeks , no revenge." It lias 710 ambition to burn summer palaces or to plant its warlike banners upon the vvalls of the ' For bidden City. If any 1 other Power wanfs to wage a eunqtaigu of simple vengeance the' United States may not interfere to prevent it, but It certainly will not "co-operate with it nor give its approval to such a war. Tlie extent to which this government will eo-oiierate with the other Powers is' stated with unmistakable exactness. It comprises the re-oiH-tnug of com- niuniactiou with Pekln, the rescue and protection of American life and property throughout the empire, the safeguarding of nil legitimate Ameri can interests and Incidentally benevo lent aid In saving the rest of the em pire from the troubles which now vex Chi-Ei. And "at the end this CJoveru- nient expects to 'see in China peace. territorial Integrity and the mainte nance of f n-aty rights and the ! open door. It will not, therefore co-operate in or approve any war for the parti tion of China,' for the breaking down of existing treaties or for the estab lishment of any "spheres of influ ence." In such things it has no inter est, save to regard them with dlsfavov. If the present government in China sliall be found too weak to guarantee peace after order and quiet lias been restored, then China herself will be encouraged or obliged to form a dif ferent government, and no doubt new leader will arise strong enough for the task, esiecially with the tempor ary supiiort of the all civilized nations of the world. THE SOUTIUS OI'PORTUNITY. -r A" dispatch of June 22d from Char otte. X. C, says: . V ( The ticket nominatel at- Philadel phia is satisfactory to ' the business men of thi part'bf'fhe country. " Men who own cotton j'uiUl say " ois-uly that they will support MeKinley. and Uoosevelt. ;I., W. Oaies, cashier of the First National-Bank and president uf the Charlotte Cotton Mills, said to night: ' ' ;' -' l't ;..'' '"j,"'.'"'r . 'The ticket;! n good one, and it will Ik- support e I by, the business men of the state., generally. . I voted for MeKinley 'four years ago and will gladly lo it again. I meet former Democrats-every day who will vote tlie Republican national: ticket this year. Many business men." who did uot vote at all in l.SJW, will vote for MeKinley in November." ; J6re titan a dozen leading mill men have expressed tlie name sentiments today. These men were loyal supiort ers of the Democratic party before i!M. Two-third of the cotton mill men In the state will vote for MeKin ley and Roosevelt. . I This is good news, and the predic tion of a heavy Increase of the Repub lican -vote' In -'North Carolina ought to connr true, whether it does or not. It ought to come true in every Southern state. A big gain In the Republican vote this year aud an increase In the uutnlsn of Republican Representatives elected from Southern Congressional districts would,. be, greatly to -the ad vantage of the South. What "tlie South I needs is a better showing of business and ttolit ical sense. more tangible evi- j dewe of eulightenment and progress, more convincing proof of the spread if progress anl development along up to date lines. In no Way could the South furnish a more -oncJusive dem- oustratlou ofithe dawn of a Ijetter and wiser order of things. More of latter-day Republicanism and less of antiquated Ltourlionism is the crying need of the South today.' A rousiug vote for MeKinley a ud Roosevelt Is the South' opisirt unity. The devil is to pay. John IV Rob ertson has discoveretl that had some one loaned tieorge WashIngtot ouly one dollar, at sixteen and a iuarter Icr eentj: ier annum, payable semi annually, and comimunded every six mohths, there, would on Octoler 1st next, be i tlue to the fortunate lender eight trillion eight hundred billion dollars I And all tlie property under our flag.; estimated at 75 billion dol lars, would pay Mess than one per eut. of t lie debt ! And all the wealth of the world would nrobablv not nav 10 per cent!: Thi is one tf the dis- closuri's In Mr. Rotertsons delight fully dismal coiumnnication printed In yesterday' Statesman. It Is fortunate for this country and the world that some calculating John P. Robertson of his jime did not loan (ieorge Wash ington a dollar at that rate of Interest, and stay on top of the earth nntil Oe toler 1st next to collect and compound Ids' interest semi-annually.' ' Iitory holds its breath In thankful considera tion pt the 1 fate which tbe world es- ment dee'ni to do. ,. ' u Waste Not Want 'Not. : Little teaks bring to cja.ntP and little imparities, of the blood, if not attended to, bring a. " Want" of health. HooTsZ " Sarsapariltk is the one and only specs fie that will remove alt blood humors and. imparities, thereby pat ting yoa into a condition of perfect health Bad Stomach HejuUches nd tired fteling, . bd con&Uon. 'of stonuich, caused me . tc i .Uke'7 Hood's SrsiprSI a. S stopped tM ftint troubled Cfuries sf&CtES Saudpaiifk . , l.iMIJ JJilll.i 1 imp- y : Boad Fltl mr. Btw Hl; tb iwm-trrttrtnK mi4l uly fthTttc to lr with HoodTT Srprtll. caped on account of , the' tact that the contemporaries i ofj-ihe Father of His Country .were not good Tat figuring, 1 - -Y- and irompt to act upon 'their knowl edge. Mr. RolH'rtsou als .tells us, in slightly stronger terms than usual, that the "national banking system is inchoate treason, and the national bank have, been pUIng tap jirotits far leyoud their sliare. Ami still a lot of; owners ui private luinks persist in re-. fusing to oiHn national batiks, and ae-1 tually go oat of the "national- franking buuies-ajid- even- right here ia ; Sui lem in spite of the factjtliat John P. Robertson iwluts them -the way , to much. greater afiiuence, and proves; it by the figures and figures don't lie; though John P. will figure. Onr 611 friend Uncle John M into has boat, the national lianks making ujoney, by rais ing sheep. 3 He lias made a hundred per cent, ami more on' hi money a hundred per cent, a year. And still no one has .-been grejitlyj thjwutroilden by Mr. Mluto's good fortune. Iiet Mr. Roliertsou figure up the wonderful profits made on s1hh-p, and advise 1- every farmer to kep a. few sheep,; and he will staud a chance of turning his faculty for lijjuring to some ac count. Then if the shec owners golv ble uj all the wealth. anl crush out even, the national baul-fs, thef wealth will ''lie in good hands, Upd we "will al be happy yet, and so will our chil dren, despite the shadovy, -ast over th; universe . liy , that . dollar -that wysu' loaned to Oeorgo Washliigtou. s- LOj THEi'OOK FOREIGNER.; I A somewhat prominent advocate of free'tradej ' in the course of a' ret'eut siKtJ'ch In "behalf of ' Id iet theory, siM)ke with scathing , sarcasm of the argument that the. foreigner-pays the tariff, under our prqtcttve system, aut-ording to an litstiiru excluinge. Not, that lie attempted to deny It. Oil, no! ,He, with more frankness' than, is always found among bis co-free trad ers, accept ed that wouelustvely proved fact,,' But the' vial of hi Wrath were injured out because the foreigners iid the tariff. I'oor ; foreigners! Our American fn'-e traders are always more concerned over tln-ir burdeus than over those of our own ;psqle. vWhy should he iay the tariff?" askeil' his I r.-.-. ir,i,i..r. ..un. ':! 1.. live in this country; h gets mo bene fits from our government; he is en titled to no protection i from it and owe no allegiance to lit. Why should we make him contribute toward : the expenses of our government?" v "Speaking out in meeting" was iiot allowed.- op- It would have lxeii sug gested to this champion of foreigners that the transaction was a purely bus-, iness one; that, tlie foreign exporter lays the tariff, which iMl'ps to? support our government, as tbe price of hi entry into our market. It is a ' jcao of quid pro quo. iWc liave something viz., the best :iiiarket iu the' world which" the foreigner desires. We wt a price on a share of that market, the price lsdng in the shajK' of a .tariff which Is but a fair price toithei for eigner for what ' he gets, or otherwise he would not pay' it, ami which, at the sitnie time, is only a just, measure of protect Ion to our own .manufacturers and our own laltorers.' to whom! jour government- owes its first duty. 3 , Says the New York Sun: The I ton. Bob Taylor, sometime, the. musical tiovernor of Tenuess, has burst Into melody over Gov. McMilliu's ; with drawal from tlie light' for Senator. 1 am glad to bear the ? harmony ; licll ring, cries Boti; its the .. swivtesf music to my ear. Bo has a tft-tneu-dous ringing in his ears. He is sure that the- hajTinouy lellst Will ;', ring oit more joyously than now In N"ovetnber, when the grand old Demwratlc? party wiTI rsee daylight. U"nforttiuateiy the grand old Democratic, iarty wouldn't know daylight if it saw it." LI Hung Chang, China's "gram! old man,, has the clear vision to see and the! cunning to grasp opportunity;' and the present, troubles,' when they; are over, will probably find him In aiposi tion of authority in the empire. -f- Bishop William Taylor, who has leen placel rti the superannuated list of the Methodist EPiscousiI . ehnn-h.' 4 has bad an eventful life. He has will lie thrown mon the market, and preached regularly for AH yeanr and 'only the stockholders In these trusts liegan as a street preacher. He wa and eonibltie will suffer. As sure a afterwanl a missionary "in Africa, that ."the sun shine, whenever any in South America and the Pacific islands. Js'tttut ion te onies unwieldy because of Trusts and the People. ' I' Iter. Sam P. Jones. iFrom the Manufacturers' Record, " ISaltimore.) im large trusts anu comoiuations ... ... . -". aireauy lormcii auu ueiug lormeti oy agjrregatiou of capital are considered hurtful to the ,111a ss4 aud the COlll- mon people. This Is a theory. Theoret ically, a thing may' b so, and practi- 11 v it tnnv ln vorr nntrne. When w sneak of trust and combines we think iHak ot trusts and tomtiim ne think oi iue oianuaru uii irusi, xue jsugar Trust, the Tobacco Trust, etc. When the Standard Oil Trust ? was fonnetl I was paying forty, cents a gallon for kerosene oil; I am getting It now for ten cents ,a ' gallon; I was paying twelve and one-half t-euts for sugar several years ago, but when the com bine set in we got it at five aud one- quirter. When the Whiskey Trust wa organized I was In hopes it would put up whiskey where the poor devil eouldu'jt get it, but they luive seemetl to cheapen that down to where they can -pay-the government fl.l"i a gal lon revenue on it and yet sell it for $1.'J.7Yj, which demonstrates that they are making it and letting the public have It at about twelve ami one-half cits a gallon. s There is no doubt aliout the aggrega tion of wealth, with brain controlling it, that tliey can manufacture auj' ar ticle cheaiHT than it i or has been manufactured on a small scale. Tlie great railroad combinations, many think, will eat us, up blood rare. Oc--asioua)ly I get on a little jerk-water road that i not In the combination, and I want to double my accident pol icies and le satisfied With a 15-mile-an-hour gait and consde myself with the idea that I tan ride all day for a dol lar, lut when I get on the' Pennsylva nia or Vauderbilt -system of roads, with .their schedule forty miles an hour, vestibule trains, with parlor cars, sleeping ca rs. dining, cars. I ha ve a hotel on win-els carrying me towards my destination, and all this for a 1 suit two cents a mile. !ive me the road that is in the combine to carry me where I am going. IMillic MMitinicnt is the safeguard which is thrown arouud all aggrega tions of wealth and all combinations of interest. The Standard Oil. the railroad ci.mhinatious, the Sugar Trust are a sensitive to public sentiment as tlie snow-bank to the ravs of the sun. Trusts and combines will not hurt the public, hut stockholders and liond holders may suffer later" on. when these .great bulky institution lieeome unwieldy and fall with their own weight. Fifty thousand men in the United States, perhaps not more, are interested , in the. great trust .of the .country... "Those TSUiOrt men know that there are 7fMXMMf other people In America, 'and their wisdom teaches tbeivi-'tvhere lioulidary lines are,-- over which they cannot go without neril to juiemsetves and disaster to their busi us. No combination now says 'Marnn the.iMjblie," but they have their wmth- eres-ks out on every proinineut cuiohi wa icmug now .the wtnd Wows. Of Hmrse: politieal capital caii be made out of such formations of wealth, and social orders may raise the black flag to fight them: but I am a thous nnd times more afraid of demagogues and politicians than I am afraid of trusts ami combines, t'msl ' govern ment which mean not only the well lieing of the citizen, but the overthrow of all that Will hurt: the citizen de 1 lends iqion good men In office, ana we had iK-tter. iy less attention to what we call trust and combination and more attention to those whom we elect to ottiee In the muuiciial. state and national governments. Mr. Stead, in his liook "If Christ Came to Chicago." speaks of the "Big Four of Chicago." and say of tliem- that 'their niethotl are iean and their tmnsacttons finsHction are i'"nest. iut that In the road of honest, but that iu the road of their stu-ces lies the blood and Ismes of the victims over -whom they have run to u-ces." The suceessf til man or com bination means tin downfall of other men ami other combinations. One preacher is ireaching to o,nni. .'twenty preacher around him -onsider seven-. tyrtive a full house, and a hundred a, perfect. Jam; one physician making $1MHK) a year, and forty little doctors In the neighborhood not making their grub. A Wauamaker selling ."M km ). (Ml a, year means , many little mer chants applying for clerkship in his store. It i tlie survival of the fittest, it. may lie. When Ood, made..; this world. He made mountains towering Into the clouds and valleys Iniow the level of the sea; lle made lakes ! ami oceans; He spread out the prairie of the West and piled up mountain around the little, .valley along the ranges of the Rockies and the Alle- iKtieuies. in ine oceans waters we find Whales and some very small flslies1l,'arni f,'n a lire 1mx. She consider and when the whales come atom? tli iirtle fish have to hide out. I have travelled over this country from ocean to ocean, and from Montreal to (ial Vestott, annually for twenty years. I have watched - the progress of events and the processions as they marched. I have yet to kno' of a single instance where combines and trust hurt the mnsses or" iKrmanentIy raised the price of any product. I am a thous and times more willing to deal with the trust and combines and purchase their product than I am to put my money Into their institutions and Im peril my holdings, conscious of their want of stability and Tearing their final downfall. K Of eourse these great combinations affect legislation, if they do not con trol It In many iustam-es, but while they may procure legislation in their own Interest, yet they liave one eye uim the public sntlinent all the time, conscious that they can go just so far and no farther. Here and there thy liave shut down a manufactory or closed up an institution and affected some individuals, but we are not look ing from that standMint. When wo look at the 7(MNNl,tM of our popula tion, we say they are only procuring t-heaper and Jntying for less nioney tlu prcsluct than they could have done under otlier circumstances, r With , the final disintegration of trusts and -om bine w hich will inev itably come when financial ! disaster and shrinkage of values shajl come of conrse - tlie surolns of their iirotlnct Its sbic and ltlk, It ipt futaljy 'fall of its own weight, j I i ; . j - j 5 I am an expansionist, and' I ijellev that one of the ca use of the stringen cy, fend- shrinkage pt Value in. this country 1 because we 'have not gone? out over the seas with our products as we should have done. While then is n. demand for our nroduet of ti. farm and manufactory of thi country .1 . .ft, 1 . .. . . t . . . . t m -utjr oi-money; , ,n,t, when wheat and corn and eotton ' ,... ..... ' . in. tip, mit aunt n..-., - urn, iivj .icmanil for them, ttien we have stringency and hard times. But when the highways over the seas shall Is laden with our i prtHll,Ct,t ,at ivigit- i-onntrles. aisl , , , Urouut back iu the Kiiii then we shall fiourlsh pen-niallv These great combination are the "only power in thi country that can do thi thing for us.- A negro apd an old mule can make corn and cott.);, a(t folio w witb a two hundred ''dollar saw mill can make Iundier; bnt '-only aggrega tion of Wealth can build ships aud oiHMi markets in foreign lands. A nTTCDRED -MILLION CORKS. ' A ileal has jnst been closed whereby a brewing association purchases nltotit 4HMKN( Kund of cork. Thl deal rep res'iit :MHUoi. In two years this company will deliver to the brewery upwards of one bund red million corks. This I said to lie the biggest deal in corks ever made.' These one hundred million cork in bulk weighing -J.mi.ooo IMjnnfls, would suiiort 2HMKH) men on top of water were they thrown over lsiard each with a single life ircsei-v-er on. . ; Corkwosl comes from the bark of a ecies of. live, oak tree, found at its liest in the forest of Spain. The cork tret i said to be on of tlie three most valuable tree known, the other Uiug the tre' producing rubler and quinine. The corkwood luirk is strlp IhI from the tre and the principal liVancbe aitout once every ten years, each tre --. yielding from ."VI to .Ktd iMHiihl of crude cork. This i packed lu SiMiin. shipH-l to thi country in bal"". and Uiiled to make it less brit tle, and I then handled by (machin ery ami turned out in various! fjtdsiiiNp priwlucts. j The cork wxn1 trw require alxnit teu year to recover from the hark strip ping, and docs not. like most tri's; Hie with the loss ot It bark. Tlie older the tree the liet'ter the yield of cork is said to Ik', aud in Spain many tree are said to 1hi more than Km ytars ohl. Tlie only care required of the tree is that the underbrush lie cleared out onstantly to guad against tlie danger of forest tires. The trees. lK-causc of their bark, are highly inflammable. St. Louis Olode-Democrat. , NATURE U.VS PRECEDED MAX. Nearly All Mislern Inventions Sen to Have ItiK'ti Foreshadowed. Almost all Of men's inventions have Inh'U foresTiadwl by nature, says the New York' World. The hypoder mic syriiigt4' with which the physician, injects morphine into a 'patient's arm has its counterpart in the sting of, a bee. The tunnel Imrcr ,is an adap tation of the work of the 'teredo, or shlpAyorm.' The principle of the ha I" loou' Is found In certain fishes! The paiier-making industry Is paralleled In the building Of a wasp's nest. In tlie ' mechanism of a man's lsslr tliere are joint and levers similar to those usml In engines. The automatic "oiling of surface Which rub together in im en gine is on the-same plan as tlie lu brication of joints hi our lnsliks. plan's nervou system n'si'inble the telegraph In its -mode of working. '"The ball liearing of a bieyelor au tomobile are-not. so very dissimilar to the lall joint of human hips and shoulder.- Thfj prinHpl of .the lever was foreshadowed iu the long -bones tf the human lsxly. WHEN THE DAY IS DONE. ' Every religion Is grssl tliat teaches man to. Ih gol. Thomas Paine. Ouick-witted men., remarkable for repartee, are, after all. rarely men of much solidity of character or ability. De-Oulnoey. I'nh'ss you know as much alxiut , r,FjF. ry uiilllin r ill, j ,n. , in ifi - hoIvp. It in not wry safo to '-laugh' HI VI IU UIUI 4 4 Mil Yllll IIM UI. W. S, Forsten. i nri i' me iwjiiic i 111 i'kwii v. 111 11 ' . .. r 1 !...:...: who would gladly "burn their enemies. but yet who forgive them merely 1m catise it hi" hen plug eials of tire on ineir iieaus. r. .v. jMirivage. Mrs. Edward F. Croker, wife of the chief of the fire detriment of New jork. , Is a, much interested in the fighting of fire a lwr husband. She has drilled - her entire household in what to do- in case of fire ami she ad- , vises every bousek'eer to do the same thing. She has Instructed every one in her home, servants, ; childnii and all. in a simple line of action. rami tiartlctilarlv how to send in an 1 " 11 tne uuty or everyone to Know now. to do this and 110 one can say that she Is not right. , , Losing no Time. "Bixle.v is work ing like a dog over there In New Jer sey." What is he doing?" "Training Jersey farmers to look like Chinese Boxers for a series of biograph -battle-phi tires taken ' on the spot." Cleveland Plain Dealer. ; A Question of Fun'ds.-"My "din-tor onlerel a trip to Kuroiie jfor me!" "Did you follow hi diwtlonr" "No lle presented his and then took the trip to Euroie himself. Wash ington Star, v ,: True; to his faith. Mrs, Sparks Can't you get that stovepljs together, John? Rev. Mr.. Sparks No. I enn not, Mary; and if it wasn't that 1 10 a minister of the gospel,. I'd kick the Whole darn business to pieces. Judge. 'That talkative Mr. . babble '. re-1 mind me of a heavy siege, gun." ' u -whyr : . . , . -f "As sorrn as it's, knowh lie s loaded ' everybody runs for. cover." Cleve land Plaludealer. ' , . v Iy Ird St. Alban said that wise nature did never put her precious Jew. el Into a garret four stories high; nd therefore that ; . exceedingly talt "1"Q had ever -ery empty heads. Bacon. Tlie greatest of faults, I should Mft I to Is? consciou of none. Carlylc. Bean th f cf Tin Kind Hat? Alwm Btja