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New York City.?Louis XVI. coats,
with all their picturesqueness of big
rt.vers. hip pocket laps, turn-over cuffs
v and lace trimmings are among the sea
LOUIS XVI. COAT.
son's favored designs. This highly effective
May Manton model is cut in
ihe most fashionable lines and is adapted
to velvet, velveteen, handsome cloth
and silk, either with skirt to match
or in contrast. The original makes
part of a costume, the material for
? which is hunter's green velvet and is
trimmed with bands of mink and large
jeweled buttons, the rest being of
brocade and the revers, collar and
cuffs of Irish crochet over white
satin.
The waist portion fits snugly and
Includes single bust darts. The skirt
Is seamed on at front and sides, but
cut in one with the back and the
pocket laps'are attached at the seams.
The vest also Is closely fitted and is
Joined to the fronts which are extended
to turn back and form revers. The
sleeves are in coat style with roll-over
flaring cuffs and the neck is finished
with a deep turn-over collar.
To cut this coat for a woman of medium
size five and one-half yards of
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material twenty inches wide, two and
three-fourths yards forty-four inches
wide or two and one-fourth yards fiftyfour
inches wide will be required, with
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wide for the vest, one j*ard of all over
lace for collar, revers and cuffs, and
( four and seven-eighth yards of fur
edging to trim as illustrated.
Misses' Lone: Coat.
Long coats, that completely cover the (
gown, make eminently stylish, comfortable
out-door garments for young
girls and are in the height of present
styles. The excellent May Manton
model, shown in the large drawing, is
made from Oxford cloth, with simply
stitched edges, and is serviceable at
the same time that it is fashionable;
but plain or covert cloth hi black, grey,
r tan. brown and dark creeii and cheviot
are all appropriate for fair weather
coats,while waterproof finished cloths
are admirable for rainy days.
The coat is loosely fitted without a
seam at the centre back. It falls in
unbroken lines aud may be plain across j
the shoulders, or when desired, iht>'
applied yoke can be added as shown in
the small sketch. The neck is finished
with a regulation coat collar and lapels
and convenient pockets are inserted in
the fronts. The coat sleeves are finished
with becoming roll-over cuffs.
The closing is effected invisibly by
means of a fly.
To cut this coat for a miss of fourteen
years of age three and one-half
yards of material forty-four inches
wide, or three yards fifty-four inches
Tvide will be required.
Risen From the Ranks.
Promoted from the ranks of skirt
flouncing, flare ruffles are rising in
, the scale. They are now an accepted
mode of finishing the sleeve or a
cloak or Newmarket. The sleeve is
normal at the arm-size, and only increases
slightly in its proportions at
the elbow. Nevertheless, just below
i the elbow It is much extended in the
Graceful lines given by flare ruffles.
The upper one is moderately wide, the
geeond and third are increased in pro
portion. Flare ruffles are finished witl
stitching. They are near relatives t<
the rippling revers of fur seen on som<
"Louis" coats. The undulating ripples
take away the severity of a cloth gar
raent.
White Satin Linings.
How many of these new jackets hav?
white satin linings! Sometimes bro
caded silk appears when a rich cape
of sables is flung backward. The lin
ing is pretty sure to be white. This
rin intinf>ss is all verv well for wearing
over a light theatre waist, but it L?
anything but economic to wear a whit<
satin lining over a dark cloth waist
The dark cloth is sure to come off si
little on the white satin. The heat oi
the body will surely help to rub off s
little of the crimson, brown, green 01
navy blue or black woolen upon the
white lining. Gray does not seem
to rub off, but other colored woolens
are apt to do so.
Pretty Silk Sachets.
Little silk sachets are to be found it
many designs. One of the prettiest
varieties is of silk, a small bag, em
broidered with forget-me-nots. While
handwork is expensive as a whole
there are many small things done bj
hand which are in good taste.
Gilt Metal Buckles.
There are buckles made of gilt metal
over a background of black satin rib
bon, the metal part being jwTeled.
Woman's Evening Waist.
Full waists of light fabrics made In
baby fashion are in the height o? style
for evening wear and are both charming
and almost universally becoming,
The very pretty model illustrated is ol
loulsine silk, in a soft shade of pink,
banded with black velvet ribbon and
finished with a drapery of pink tullt
at the neck Over the shoulders art
black velvet straps, covered with embroidery
in pink and white and held
by fancy ornaments. All soft, pliable
materials are, however, appropriate
and the waist can be raised either bj
being made high, with yoke and long
sleeves, or low with elbow sleeves, having
the shoulders cut away or not, ai
shown in the small drawings.
.ONG COAT.
The lining is carefully fitted and
closes at the centre front. The full
soft back and fronts are simply gath
ered at upper aud lower edges and
arranged over the foundation. The extension
straps are cut in one with
the waist and covered with any desired
material. The tulle bertha is
shirred on indicated lines and arranged
over the neck edge. When yoke and
sleeves are desired they can be made
of the same or contrasting material,
either as a separate guimpe with the
lining for a foundation as part of the
waist. The elbow sleeves are both
fashionable and cut on exceptionally
good lines, as the puffs fall exactly at
the elbows, so allowing perfect freedom
for the arms.
To cut this waist for a woman oi
medium size, two yards of material
twenty-one or twenty-seven inches
wide, or one and seven-eighth yarde
evening waist.
forty-four inches wide will be re
quired, with two and one-eighth yardi
of nil-over lace for yoke and lonj
sleeves, one and one-half yards foi
elbow sleeves and one yard of chlffoi
or tulle for bertha.
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Burned Fortune For Religion.
The Rev. Charles Waggle, of Cincinnati.
nas just closed a revival in Pittsylvania
County, in which he taught
sanctification in extreme form. He
declared that the use and raising of
tobacco was a vile sin. He told his
converts to destroy their crops, and
Matthew Serco, a young farmer, emptied
his barns of $8000 worth of tobacco,
piled it in a heap, invited his
neighbors and set fire to it.?Roanoke
(Va.) Correspondence Philadelphia
) Record.
> Most Costly of Silver Services.
? 'Few people, at least in this country.
possess plate worth such a fabulous
sum as that owned by London's Lord
Mayor during his term of office. Its
face value has been computed to be
! slightly over $100,000, though three
times that amount would not buy It,
! owing to the historical interest attached
to many of the articles. The
! two solid silver soup tureeus, which
! are employed at the banquets to dis'
tribute 100 gallons of clear turtle to
the guests, are valued at $2500 apiece,
and are said to have been in possest
sion of the corporation for over a cen
tury. Moreover, there is a gross of
i silver dinner plates worth $7500, 200
' ice pails valued at nearly $5000, 200
, entree dishes, the cost of which $10,i
000 would not cover; eighty solid sili
ver meat dishes, worth another $10,000,
and hundreds of other articles,
such as grape scissors, saltcellars,
waiters' trays, decanter labels, etc..
? nil /v# rvrtlrl ai* eilvor onH tralnoH
ail vi ouuu jjuiu on i v/i | uuu iuauvw
at over $25,000. This collection of
plate is constantly being increased, for
* every Lord Mayor, at tDe expiration
1 of his term of office, is expected to
add an item, the cost of which must
not be lower than $500.?London TitBits.
Unlucky Names For Ships.
Nothing Is ever likely to shake the
naval superstition that ships named
after things that sting are doomed to
, loss. Besides the Viper and Cobra,
the Serpent was lost with nearly all
her crew, the Wasp was wrecked with
heavy loss off Tory Island, and a sec;
ond Wasp, a gunboat, disappeared in
a typhoon, never to be heard of again.
I In consequence of this double disaster
, to ships named Wasp, that name has
I been struck out of the Admirality
list of available names.' In the past
I we lost Rattlesnake, Gadfly and Hor,
net. Probably a new Viper and a new
Cobra will be built, but should anyI
thing happen to either of them the
, name is almost certain to be changed
by the authorities in deference to
, sentiment that prevails afloat concerning
unlucky names. The only
exception that obtains is the Resolution.
The present ship is the tenth.
No less than eight of them have had
tragic fates, and the present one some
years since very nearly met disaster
at sea. Most of the old Resolutions,
however, earned first glory in battle,
hence the perpetuation of the name.
?London Chronicle.
The Appalachian Park.
The proposed Appalachian national
park purchase in West Virginia, Virginia,
Tennessee and the Carolinas
would cover a long, narrow slip of the
Alleghany, Cumberland and Blue
Ridge ranges. The area would be
about 6390 square miles, or one-seventh
the size of the State of Tennessee.
It would be more than four
times as large as Rhode Island, a quarter
larger than Connecticut, three
times larger then Delaware, and
about the same area as Connecticut
and Rhode Island together. We hope
the enterprise will be a success. It
is high time that some authority intervened
to save the remnant of the
once magnificent Appalachian timber
tract in the South from total .destruction.
The States apparently cannot.
They will not even try.?Chattanooga
Times.
Flantr on Wheela.
Every woman who keeps a rubber
plant or a palm?and where is the
woman who doesn't, nowadays??has
had occasion to lament the usual unwieldliness
of its potting. At the recent
flower show movable wheeling
dishes were shown, which permit the
easy moving of plants from place to
| place without the marring of hardwood
floors or the usual wear and tear
on carpets. These dishes, which are
like large, flower-pot saucers, are made
of fiber, which is not affected by iuois-""innt
rust- .md are licrht. strons
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and durable. They come in varying
l j sizes, from one inch in diameter to
twenty-two. with castors of hard wood.
?New York Mail and Express.
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Benefits In Smallpox.
A limited advent of smallpox such
as we are now witnessing in London
has, at any rate, this advantage, that
it leads a large number of people to
get definite information on the subjecti
of vaccination and enables medical
men to read a lesson to which
at other times the public may turn a
deaf or indifferent ear. The laziest
or least curious individual becomes in-,
terested to know the truth about pre-!
ventive measures when smallpox is
next door.?London Lancet.
The Transit of Venus.
In the "Life of Major-General Sir
Robert Murdock Smith. K. C. M. G.,"
we have this story:
"On their way between Telriz and
Teheran the members of the expedition
sent to Persia by the German
Government to. observe the transit of
Venus met a solitary European lady,
riding in the opposite direction, a
member of the English colony, who
was as clever as she was beautiful.
Having been long resident in Persia,
she was fearlessly riding alone, a long;
way ahead of ner caravan.
"The Germans marveled at such an
orvnorlHnn In au/>Vi o A o t>tt affl
wondered she wasn't afraid?wouldn't
She let some of them stand by till hei
servants and baggage came up? No,
she was quite at ease, and usually in
her travels was far ahead of her attendants,
whose mules, more heavily
laden, could not keep her pace. 'And
now, gentlemen,' she said, 'who are
you, and where are you bound for?'
"They introduced each other; one
was the astronomer, another the photographer,
another the archaeologist and
naturalist, and so on, and they were
going to Ispahan to observe the transit
of Venus. The lady smiled, started
her pony, and waved her adieus, saying:
'To observe the transit of Venus.
Ah! well you can go home now,
gentlemen, youT duty is done. Goodbye.'
"
Queen Victoria Trying to Servant!.
Even in the royal h6usehold the post
of housemaid is apparently no sine
cure, and I remember long ago hearing
a story of a lady who, while engaging
a new servant, naturally made
the Inquiry as to "why she had left
her last place." It came out then that
she had' been employed at Buckingham
Palace, and that she left because
"really Her Majesty (the late Queen)
was that particular that after you had
done dusting everything , quite aa
much as necessary, she would pass her
lace handkerchief across a table or a
chair and notice even the tiniest
speck." Even Buckingham Palace is
not good enough for servants nowadays,
it seems! It was told of the late
Queen that she was so difficile as to
the making of her bed that It took the
chambermaids two hours daily to
make it, as the undersheet had to be
most carefully and smoothly stitched
to the lower mattress so that there
never was the slightest wrinkle, which
story recalls the fairy tale of the Princess
and the crumpled rose leaf.?The
Onlooker.
Califpil&'a Galley*.
Prince Orsini, who is the owner or
the beautiful Lake Nemi, near Roma,
has facilitated in every possible way
the efforts of the Italian Government
to raise the two galleys of Caligula
which were sunk A. D. 41 off the
shores of this lovely sheet of water.
Sufficient has been recovered at present
to disclose the astounding fact that
the vessels in question measure respectively
225 feet and 237 feet in length
by 60 feet and 75 feet in width. Their
docks were evidently covered with
splendid mosaics, and already an immense
number of magnificent bronze
objects, among them a beautiful head
of Medusa, are to be seen at the
Prince's villa, where eventually a museum
is to be organized of objects in
connection with the sunken galleys.
Teachers Deier* ? Better Pay.
The average life of the country
teacher is not over three years. Why
Is this? Why does he not continue in
the business as long as he lives and is
able to work? The reason is evident.
The remuneration is not sufficient
This state of things should not exist
in our schools. Well qualified teachers
should receive, at least, as much as
first class mechanics. Until this is
done, teaching will never take its
proper place, and the best results will
neVer be secured. Teaching has to be
learned, like any other kind of business,
and it Is a reckless waste all
rnnnrl tn hnro toanhors Ipnvr* th<* xrnrlc
just when they have learned to do It
with some facility.?John McBurney,
In Ohio Teacher.
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Idren.
ladies.
or .business men.
e under all circumstances.
ions of families the world over.
, as a laxative, with physicians.
have the best laxative the world
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Ctlut fieqnola Named For McKlnley.
Secretary J. J. Lerman, of the YoI
Semite Vallpv flnmmisslrm havlncr
been sent by the Commissioners to select
a tree in the Mariposa Big Tree
Grove to be named "William McKinley,"
visited the big trees on Monday,
October 21. Many trees were looked
at. A fine sequoia that stands between
"Washington" and "Lincoln"
was selected as the tree which will be
known as "William McKinley." It is
estimated to be 3000 years old.?San
Francisco Call.
Ulster, Ireland, had only seven dry
days in December.
Prostrate With Rheumatic Fever Six
Times Within Twenty Years.
This was the case of Mr. Eli Wiltshire,
of Landsdown Terrace, Calne, Wis., who,
during this time, suffered the most intense
agony. He writes:
"T Uaarfilif inrlnraa fViD foofimAniala
JL UC?1 bllj 1UUVIO& I>UW vvgnuiwiuuuj
which you publish of St. Jacobs Oil as a
pain killer, for I have been a sufferer
from rheumatism and kindred complaints
at different times during the last twenty
years. I have been laid prostrate with
rheumatic fever six times during that period,
therefore I consider I know something.
about rheumatism. During all of
these twenty years I have tried various advertised
, rheumatic remedies, oils, ointments
and embrocations. None of them
gave me much relief, but when I tried St.
Jacobs Oil I found quite different results.
It eased the pain almost immediately, and
has done for me what all other remedies
put together never began to do.
"I could give you several cases that have
been cured, which have come under my
notice, and through my recommendation;
also one of toothache, one of faceache and
one of sore throat.
"I have recommended St. Jacobs Oil
and shall continue to do so by every means
in my power, as I consider you deserving
of every support."
A barrel of gasoline confined in a cellar
has twice the explosive force of a barrel of
gunpowder.
A Christmas Dinner That Was Not Eaten
Because of indigestion! This sorry tale
would not have been told if the system had
been regulated and the digestion "perfected
by the use of Nature's remedy, Garfield Tea.
This wonderful Horb medicine cures all forma
of stomach, liver and bowel derangements,
cleanses the system, purifies the blood and
lays the foundation for long life and continued
good health.
Woman's crowning glory is sometimes
her hair, but more often her hat.
Each package of Putnam Fadeless Dye
colors either Silk, Wool or Cotton perfectly
at one boiling. Sold by all druggists.
The glazing of pens, In some varieties
[ considered an important operation, is done
I with shellac dissolved in naphtha.
I
Wish All a Happy New Year.
Happiness that comes with good health is
given to all who use Nature's gift, Garfield Tea.
1 This Herb Cure cleanses the system, purifies
i the blood and removes the cause of disease.
1 The Laplanders average four feet eleven
inches in height and are the shortest peoI
pie in Europe.
- Winter Tourist Kates?Season 1901-1903.
The Southern Railway, the direct route ta
the winter resorts of Florida, Georgia, tin
I JJtrolinaa and tne boutti ana Hoattiweit, announcea
excursion tickets will be placed on
sale October 15th to April 30th, with final
limit May 31, 1902. Perfect Dining and Pullman
Service on all through trains. For fall
particulars regarding rate, descriptive matter,
call on or address New York Office, 271 and
, 1185 Broadway, or Alex. 8. Thweatt, Eastern
Pass. Agent, 1185 Broadway.
It's easier for a woman to drive a bargain
than to drive a nail.
Best For the Bowels.
No matter what ails you, headache to a
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. Cascabets help nature,
cure you without a gripe or pain, produce
easy natural movemonta, cost you ju3t 10
cents to start getting your health back. Cascabets
Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up
in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C.
stamped on it. Bew ire of imitations.
When a girl becomes a Mrs. she never
! will be Missed.
A Good Way to Begin 1902.
Cleanse the system, purify the blood and
regulate the liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels
with the Herb medicine, Garfield Tea, insuring
health and happiness for the New Year.
Knowledge is power except in the case
of a man who knows he's been whipped.
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousness
after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Bestorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free
Dr. B. H. Klise, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila. Pa.
The only reason some people don't make
fools of themselves is because the opportu,
nity is lacking.
i Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
i teething, soften the gumB, reduces inflammation,
allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle.
Many a man thinks his wife is gifted as
a mind reader when in reality he taljia in
bis sleep.
Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken o*
as a cough cure.?J. W. O'Bbiex, 322 Third
; Avenue, N., Minneapolia, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900.
Fortune sroilp? on f?me of us. and .saves
th?* ri'?f of us flie lniifh.
B e caM
Its component parts are all who!
It acts gently without unpleasai
It is wholly free from objections
It contains the laxative principl
It contains the carminative prin<
It contains wholesome aromatic
agreeable and refreshing to tt
All are pure.
All are delicately blended.
All are skillfully and scientifica'
Its value is due to our method of
the orginalky and simplicity <
To get its beneficial effects ? bu
Manufactured 1
(auforKia pfi
San Francisco,
Louisville, Ky.
FOR SALE BY ALL LEAD INC
Parachute For Attending Chimney.
An ingenious ^cheme for attaching
the rigging to the top of a high chimney,
in order to enable it to be painted,
is described in the Electrical Review.
The resourceful engineer had a sort
of parachute made, which fitted inside
the stack quite snugly. To this a
string was attached, and the draft in
the stack soon carried the parachute
up ana out. xne siring was secured
by a heavier cord attached, and to this
a rope, after which the adjustment of
the rigging was an easy matter.
How'a This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Cheney 4 Co., Props., Toledo, 0.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney
for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly
honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to cr .-ry out any obligation
made by their firm.
West 4 Tbtjax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Ohio.
Walding, Rinnan <fc Mae tin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
mg directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle.
Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free.
Hall'B Family Pills are the best.
The most ductile metal is platinum.
Wires have been made of it very little
thicker than the threads of a spider web.
Bronchitis
" I have kept Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
in my house for a great many
years. It is the best medicine in
the world for coughs and colds."
J. C. Williams, Attica, N. Y.
All serious lung
troubles begin with a
tickling in the throat.
You can stop this at first
in a single night with
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
Use it also for bronchitis,
consumption, hard colds,
and for coughs of all kinds.
Hill dm I Tti Mi l II AlH?aW?.
Consult your doctor. If he says take It,
then do as he says. II he tells yon not
to take It, then don't take It Ha knows.
Leave It with him. We are willing.
J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass.
DISCOMFORT
AFTER MEALS
Feeling oppressed with a sensation of
stuffiness ana findinn the food both to dia
tend and painfully bang like a heavy
weight at the pit of the stomach are
symptoms of Indigestion. With these the
sufferers will often have Constipation, Inward
Piles, Fullness of the Blood in the
Head, Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea,
Heartburn, Headache, Disgust of Food,
Gaseous Eructations. Sinking or Fluttering
of the Heart, Choking or Suffocating
Sensations when in a lying posture, Dizziness
on rising suddenly, Dots or Webs before
the Sight, Fever and Dull Pain in the
Head, Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellowness
of the Skin and Eves, Pain in the
Side, Chest, Limbs and Sudden Flushes of
Heat. A few doses of
DADWAY'S
?> PILLS
will free the system of all the above named
disorders. Purely vegetable.
Price, 25 cents per box. Sold by all druggists,
or sent by mail on receipt of price.
MDWAY & CO., 55 Elm St., N. Y.
Be sura to get "Radway's."
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wapsicum vaseline
Put up In Collapsible Tubes.
A Substitute for and Superior to Mustard or any
other plaster, and will not blister the most delicate
skin. The pain allaying and curative qualities of
thisarti le are wonderful. It will stop the tcothftch*
at once, and relieve headache and sciatica.
We recommend it as the best and safest external
counter-irritant known, also as an external remedy
for pains in the chest and stomach and all rheumatic,
neuralgic and grouty complaints.
A trial will pro've what we claim for it, and it wiU
be found to be invaluable in the household. Many
people say "It is the best of all your preparations."
Price, 15 cents, at aU druggists, or other dealms,
or by sending this amount to us in postage stamps
we will send you a tube by mail.
Xo article should be accepled by the public unless
the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not
genuine.
CHEESEBROUGH MANUFACTURING CO.,
17 SUte Street, New York Oity.
Dr. Benermann's Healing Salve,
Used in his private practice lor 3n years, now first
Kiven to the"public for old ulcer* nnd running
HoreM that your physician has failed to cure. Try
it. 25 cents. Prepared only by his, daughter, Jirs.
Eliz vbbth Beyleb, 86 Buah street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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The Seattle Floating Dock. -\ JThe
Seattle floating dry dock, or the 'tA
first section of it, was launched late* s-%
ly. This dock, when finished, will be
200 feet long and eighty, feet wide, the .
pontoon is twelve feet deep and the * - ^
towers thirty feet high; me displace- ' ^
ment is 2000 tons and the lifting cApacity
3000 tons. This dock Is so ion
structed that it may be used in conjunction
with another of like dimen? ,
sions now under construction, and the
two will readily lift the Largest ship ^
In Pacific waters.
The Beet Sugar Industry. |
A most important artidle giving
Messrs. Oxnard's and Cutting's view# '-M
x .o'
on the beet sugar Industry in tliit"
country appeared on the editorial pagt ^
of the New York Evening Post of De- y
namhai. 19 Incf (111(1 no OVPPT hntl/lfr ' ' V.
hold In the land Is Interested In. sugat ? c>J
the article will be of universal Interest M
THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY. ' "-"-M
The Evening Post bids the heartiest
welcome to every American Industry y J
that can stand on its own bottom and
make its way without leaning on the . ^
ppor rates. Among these self-support ; 3
Ing industries we are glad to know, if ~ ~ fipi*
the production of beet sugar. At all
events, It was such two years ago. Wc
publish elsewhere a letter written in
1899, and signed by Mr. Oxnard and ;
Mr. Cutting, the chiefs of this Indus*
try on the eastern side of the Rocky
Mountains, showing that this was the - ?
happy condition of the trade at thai *
time. If parties masquerading as beet . ^
sugar producer*, are besieging the ^
President and Congress at thlB mo- >>
mont nnd nrotonfUnc thflf thpv will h?
ruined if Cuban sugar is admitted for .
six months at half the present rates of
duty their false pretences ought to be
exposed. ' Y-'l?
The letter of Messrs. Oxnard and ' V
Cutting was probably written for the A
purpose of inducing the farmers of the
Mississippi Valley to go more largely . $
into the cultivation of beets for the
sugar.factories. This was a laudable
motive for telling the truth and showing
the large profits which awaited. It
both the beet grower and the manufacturer
if the industry were perseveringly
and Intelligently prosecuted. To x A
this end It was pointed out that farm- ^
ers could clear $85 per acre by culti- "f'p
vating beets, and might even make ,f
$100. But in order to Assure the cultivator
that he would nSt be ex^yosed to
reverses by possible changes in the
Lai.iix, uicj piuuccucu iu ouuw uiai ujc
industry stood in no need of protection. . *
The beet sugar industry, these gentlemen
say, "stands on as firm a baste ~ ;
as any Illness In the country." They
point out" the fact?a very. important
one?that their product comes out as a * ' .-7a
finished article, refined and granulated.
It is not, like cane sugar grown in the ' >... ^
West India Islands, a black and offensive
paste, whicji must be carried In > '3
wagons to the seaboard and thence by
ships to the United States, where, after
another handling, it is put through
a costly refinery, and then shipped by
rail to the consumer, who may possl- '
bly be in Nebraska, alongside a beet
sugar factory, which turns' out the refined
and granulated article at one fell
swoop. Indeed, the advantages of the
producer of beet sugar for supplying
the domestic consumption are very :
great. We have no doubt that Messrs.
Oxnard and Cutting are within bounds
when they say that "sugar can be produced
here cheaper than it can be in
Europe." The reasons for this are
that?
"The
sugar industry is, after all, , . . j
merely an agricultural one, We can
undersell Europe in all other crops, ' , #
and sugar is no exception."
It follows as naturally ds the making
of flour from wheat. If we can produce
wheat cheaper than Europe, then
naturally we can produce flour cheaper,
as we do.
But the writers of the letter do not
depend upon a-priori reasoning to prove
that they can make sugar aMrpcegt
without tariff protection/-"They point
to the fact that under the McKinlej .
tariff of 1890, when sugar was free of
dutv. the nrice of the article was four
cents per pound. Yet a net profit of $3
per ton was made by the beet sugar'
factories under those conditions, not
counting any bounty on the home production
of sugar. They boast that
they made this profit while working
under absolute free trade, and they
have a right to be proud of this result
of their skill and ' industry. Many
beet sugar factories had been started
in bygone years, back in the sixties
and seventies of the nineteenth century,
and had failed, because the projectors
did not understand the business.
Since then great progress has
hppn made, both here and abroad, in
the cultivation and manipulation of the
beet. What was impossible thirty
years ago is now entirely feasible. The
industry is already on a solid and enduring
basis. There are factories in
the United States, these gentlemen
tell us in their letter, capable of using
350,000 tons of beets per annum at a
profit of $3 per ton, and this would
make a profit of $1,050,000 as the in- /
come to be earned under absolute free
trade.
It must be plain to readers of this
letter, signed by the captains 'of the
beet sugar industry, that the people in
Washington who are declaiming
against the temporary measure which
the President of the United States
urges for the relief of the Cqban people,
are either grossly ignorant of the
subject, or are practising gross deception.
The tenable ground for them is
to say: "Other people are having protection
that they do not need, and
therefore we ought to have more than
we need." This would be consistent
with the letter of Messrs. Oxnard and
Cutting, but nothing else is so.
Successfully Prosecutes Claims.
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