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The National tribune., 1884-08-21

IT Is ONLY question Of time when there
will be collision between Germany and Eng
land. 1t may not become open war, but it viii
approach such condition A variety Of minor
causes of quarrel obscure the main bone of con-
tention. which is that England is selling goods
in the markets that Bismarck wants for Ger
man merchants. This is all there is of it. Eng
land, by her aggressive foreign policy, has
nearly monopolized the markets of the world.
Her great competitor for centuries has been
France, and the wars they have fought with
each other have had their real origin in the
desire of each to control some particular
market or markets. Now Germany IS making
bold grasp for a share of the commerce of the
world, and everywhere she finds the great OBJ
staele in her way to be England. Bismarck is
showing very ugly temper toward England,
and the German press is especially insulting.
We should be in readiness if the two powers do
come to blows over part of the worlds trade
to grab it up ourselves while they are fighting.
That is the only way we can get even with
England for the destruction OF our Ocean
carrying trade.
The National tribune., 1884-08-21

The LEADING commercial incident OF the
week was the action of the Minneapolis Mil
lers' Association in revising the schedule of
prices lately put out. The new schedule is as
follows: No. hard, n cents in Minneapolis ;
No. hard, IA cents; No. 1, 72 cents; No. 2, SO
cents. AS the freight to Minneapolis, commits
sion, insurance, ETC., must be deducted from
this, the farmer viii receive on an average 81
cents for his No. hard, 81 cents for No. /, and
"a for No. 2. The drop is quite heavy, being
cents on No. hard and 3 cents on No. hard
regular. The Association is sharply criticized
for the abatement of the difference between No.
hard and No. regular. Last year the Asso-
citation announced that it would maintain
difference of 10 cents between these grades,
but the new schedule only makes cents. The
crops are everywhere reported to be immense.
In Dakota and the Red River country, where
the barvests are just being finished, the yield
passes all estimates. Oliver DaIrymple, the
great Wheat King of the Northwest, reports
that his % 900 acres have averaged for the past
seven years 10 bushels to the acre, and this
year they viii exceed that by perhaps two
bushels. As it cost him On average 50 an acre
to put in his wheat his profits viii be enor-
nous, even at the low prices which prevail
Yields of 25 and 30 bushels to the acre are
common in Minnesota and Dakota, with an
average of Is, while in Kansas the Winter
wheat viii average 21f bushels al over the
State, and Spring wheat 1856 bushels to the
acre. The average for the United States in the
great wheat year of 1879 was Is bushels per
acre
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ENGLAND has 50 manipulated the Spanish
authorities as to utterly destroy an important
eOoperage trade,-amounting to 100000 an
nually which the United States has hereto
fore had With Cuba This has been done by
the Decree of santandar,D which so changes
the duties and eustom-hOuse regulations as
make 1T more profitable to use English saeking
than American hogsheads for the shipment Of
sugar
The National tribune., 1884-08-21
1KlLI. MT cRRRY EIgY OFfPs ,

Smart Basiness Nan: No. sir; no watch but
the Waterbury for me. Iclaim to know good
thing when I get hold Of II, I do. ! would
have been in the poorhouse long ago If my
cwn Judgment Of the value Of things hadn't
carried me triumphantly around a good many
sharp corners. ] never let big names or big
prices for anything fool me bit as to their
real value. I kaow this Waterbury keeps just
sseood time as the $500 Jurgenssen my partner
carries, 50 that ends the matter The only
thing carry a watch for IS 70 keep time. This
does i just as well as the best watch made, and
] am consequently 1896 ahead Of my partner.
That's bnsiness.-that's ne. every timei|
The National tribune., 1884-08-21
TWO CENTS A WEEK

buys THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE. The price Of
postage stamp, half the cost of the cheapest
cigar that any one smokes. one-ffth what a
man pays for blacking his boots, pays for eight
splendid pages of reading matter of unsur-
passed value and interest to any one. Every
man can afford to pay two cents a week for so
much entertainment and instruction for him
self and whole family.
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S32s,20,oOo

There is clearly something wrong with the
adjustment of our farming system, when we
raise 10000 900 bushels ofwheatf for which there
is no Market and have to buy abroad 10 600, 600
bushels of barley, 64,O00,0OO pounds of rice,
100000 dozen eggs, 81, 1,250000 worth of
cork bark, etc. Equally, there is something
badly out of gear with our manufacturing sys-
TEN if we shut down cotton and iron mills on
account OF overproduction, and yet continue
to purchase abroad $32, 600, 600 worth of cotton
goods and 81, 100000 worth of iron and steel
We can raise the cork oak quite as well in
the South as it can be raised in Spain. There
are lands there which are fit for nothing else,
yet would make fine returns if planted in the
qttercsts suber.
1t is still more necessary that immediate
steps be taken to develop the culture of the
silkworm in order that the $14, 100000 year,
which we now pay ont for raw silk to people
who buy nothing from US, shall be paid to our
own people, who viii Immediately buy with it
the breadstufs produced on the teeming plains
OF Minnesota, Kansas and Dakota Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas and the Indian
Territory are the natural home Of the silk
worm. The finest mulberry trees in the world
grow there indigenously, and if proper atten-
ton were given the matter by statesmen and
people, the silk products of that region ought
soon to exceed the present value of the cotton
crop.
With onr wide expanse of territory, with
its wonderful diversity of soil and climate and
natural resources, there is no earthly reason for
buying abroad dollars worth of the articles
we have enumerated. The whole Of the 1885,
100000 which we pay every year for them is
spent among people who buy little or nothing
Of Us in return. If that enormous sum could
be paid to people within our own borders the
disposition of our surplus grain would be an
easily solved problem.
The National tribune., 1884-08-21

GENERAL business has been quiet during ths
week, as it usually Is in the middle of August.
In the stock market prices fell of slightly,
some going down 10 per cent, some not more
than 5. The quantity Of money IN New York is
enormous, the banks holding $32, 600 above
their legal reserve, with tendency to further
increase, as gold is coming in from Europe, and
there is not yet any pereeptible movement Of
money TO bhe West to start the crops.
The National tribune., 1884-08-21

have always been prominent in politics In
$40 his father was Lieutenant Governor. and
afterwards Governor Of Missouri. He was ap-
pointed to West POiat in 1886, and st ths
breaking out Of the war was Lieuteaant in
the 7th Infantry, He resigned to take COM
msnd in the rebel army, ard rose to be a Major
General. Hewss an active partizan, and man
aged to get great deal Of reputation by raidinx
around through the country, but he did nOs
give satisfaction when he commanded in
regular battle, as in the attack on Helena. in
July, 1868, when his division did net act at all
well.
The National tribune., 1884-08-21
LIFE OF LOGAN.

Going off like hot cakes" is homely ex-
preston, but it describes exactly how the life
of Gen. John A. Logan" is selling. It Is a
splendid book, fascinating as the most brilliant
romance, and something that every soldier and
lover of the Union viii read with absorbing
interest. Everybody who sees the book
wants it. It sells itself on sight. There is
nothing like it before the public.
The National tribune., 1884-08-21
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TRIBUNETs.

Life Example in Liquid Meazure-to find ous
how much the Khan Of Tartary really holds.
Es,o Orleans Picay,sns: John l. Sullivan Is IN
doubtedly behaving himself as nothing Is said
about him. This unfortunate man IS never spoken
of unless he IS drinking or fighting
Exchange; Has George proposed yet, EmlIy2"
No, ma but he did the next thing TO il last even.
ingr what did he dog" He asked meifI
thought paregoric injurious to teething children
There is no end to the inveutivsness Of the swees
maidens of the West. Now instead Of lotteries and
gambling at the church fair festivals they get to-
gether and guess at the number of hairs in ths
dudes mustaehe-a dime guess, with prize fox
the girl that comes nearest the number.
Who is 1t now gets all the blame
When the pet club has lost garne,
And from the cops protection claiIne
The Umpire.
Who Is Ii stands each gGbe and ieer.
Who gives decision with great fear,
With many missiles falling near3
The Umpire.
Who Is g. when the game ia done
W III surely try the crowd TO shun
And thinks it time for home runf
The Umpire
-ErsSGngs.
The progress made by science In discovering
other more certain remedies for snake bites than
filing the bitten mans hide as uu as it can hold Of
the best brand OF whisky Obtalnabe isvery discOur-
aging to gentlemen who are perfectly willing to let q
rattler chew on them if they esn be perfectly sure
OF q copiOus application of the remedy. We ara
assured that the juice of the common pIantain
weed-found by every roadside-beats even ths
finest brands of whisky clear out of sight as an
antdote to any kind of a venomoUs bite So an
increase OF knowledge closes up one after another
of the fountains Of happiness.
The Salvation Army is nothing II not sensational.
but it is not often that il performs IN scene so un-
consciously iudierous as one which took placs
recently in OtterviIe, Ontario. Il had brought to
the mourneF's bench Indian named solomon
jefferson who had been living for the last I9 years
with negTess 70 whom he was not married. The
Captain of the Army announced as 8 condition
precedent to SoIOmon's being admitted into the
ranks that Of marrying the woman. solomon ex-
prest his willingness to be married but dsvelops
strong preference for q union with likely Young
negress belonging to the Army. Such manifesta-
ton of the continuance of the old man " as =
partiality for young and eomely woman over an
old and il-fgvo-ed one called for severe diseipn-
airy measures, and the Captain ordered knee
drn to expel the last traces of the devil donina-
tion Of the venerable sinner After two hours Of
wrestling in prayer the Indian grurblingIy sur
rendered but had to be violently shaken, and
other coFreetives administered, before he would
say Yes to the all-impoFtant question, "WIs
thou take this woman to be thy welded wifeg"
The affair closed with grand "love-ieasts - ia
which Solomon took part, but with very sulIen
eountenance.
The National tribune., 1884-08-21

THE condition of Cuba gets more gloomy
every week. The island and all the merchants
and planters seem 70 bs completely bankrupt.
There IS neither money nor credit anywhere,
and the planters are discharging their hands
and abandoning their plantations, because they
have no money to procure food or other sup
plies, and the low prices of sugar ofsr no
announcement for them to try to do anything.
One observer estimates that Of the 500 sugar
estates in the island there are not five solvsus
ones.
The National tribune., 1884-08-21
A RARE CHANCE.

The most valuable Of military works is un-
doubtedly the REBELLION Reoord, the official pub
hcetion Of the War Department. Volumes
one, two, three and Eve Of this work are now
out Of pTiut, but TEE TRIBUNE has managed
70 secure three complete sets eleven volumes)
and viii send a set TO any address on receipt Of
ST.. Address simply TIE NATIONAL TRIB-
TEE, Washington, D. C.
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TIE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is ernphaticaIly
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journal outside Of the story papers spends Al
much every week on original contributions as
il does, nor presents 50 great variety OF origi.
nal matter Other papers I'll their columns
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Yet the paper only costs It's subscribers tloo cents
Eeek.
The National tribune., 1884-08-21

that great men have usually married inferior
termining the character of the child is supe-
rior to that of tho father. The weak spot in
this theory is that it assumes that great man
inevitably chooses an inferior woman for his
The National tribune., 1884-08-21
BY Uncle San

II Any Man Aternpt to HanI Down the American
Flag Shoot Him on the Spot.-John A. Dix.
The paper IS tho best looking and the best
edited Of any one sent Us yet, and brissles with
sharp points and fun In letter accompany
ing it COmrade Cherry says: send this in
justice to the 2d Iowa, who should have credit
for the first soldiers paper, and not the 39th
Ohio, as claimed By A. S. Winchester, Of Oak
land, Cal, in your issue Of July 2L
The National tribune., 1884-08-21

THE number Of pension certificates issued
and signed during the week ending Aug. Is,
1854, were Is follows: Original, 52s; increase
1853; reissue, 21; restoration. II duplicate, 0;
accrued pensions, o; total, 1871.
The National tribune., 1884-08-21

GEN. B. F. BUTLER's Iong-expeeted letter Of
acceptance has at length come out. He anudes
in it to his fight against monopolies in com
merce, his efforts in regard TO the preservation
OF the national legal-tender, and in behalf Of
reform. He also speaks against the construc-
ton Of the Panama ship canal without the con-
sent Of the United States. Speaking Of the
Republican party, ne says it IS bound hand and
foot to capitalized monopoly, and in regard to
the Democrats he charges them with being
governed by solid South, and says:
Experience. thebest teacher therefore establishes
the fact that commerce. the industries the laborn
man, the anti-monopoIist, the greenbaekar, the
farmer, or other small producers ali Of whose IN
terests are identical, get hope nothing rorn
either or both the present organized parties.
The National tribune., 1884-08-21

ever. At all events, we imported last year
$723, 1So,914 worth of goods, of which at least
one-half were articles which should have been
produced in this country, and, in doing SO,
given employment to men who would eat up
our surplus grain. We will enumerate few
of the leading articles, and the quantities i'm
ported Stated by valuation), which should
have been produced at home:
The National tribune., 1884-08-21

THE railroads are making WY face over
it, but they may as well make up their minds
to reduce their freight rates to correspond with
the reduction in the price Of wheat. With
wheat that sold for s1.14 last year only bring
ing n cents this. it is nonsense to talk Of any
maintenance of the old freight rates.
The National tribune., 1884-08-21

CoMEADE JOIN NJ CHERRY, Adjutant Of
Arthur W. Marsh Post, Warsaw, H., sends us q
copy Of the Anti-secessiorsist, published at Chill
heothe, No, July ?, 1861. by Cos. A and B. ID
Iowa, on the type Of the Chronicle, a rebel
paper, which gave up the ghost when the
Union troops entered the city. Above it's date
line is this one:
The National tribune., 1884-08-21
sprnus

Total 100000
This leaves Us I25 million bushels still on
hand, or more than two bushels head for
every man, woman, and child in the country.
That We are producing TOO much grain is un-
mistakably shown by the price declining to
the lowest point for 20 years, and the general
conviction that it VIII reach 20 cents before
the Fan is over.
Now, what is the remedyP It is to have in
this country more wheat-eaters, in proportion
to the wheat-groBers In other words, have
more men engaged in producing something
besides wheat
We must produce at home more Of the things
that VIC buy abroad in order that the men en-
gagged in the production may help consume our
surplus farm products. We must have more
men at work in iron-mills and cotton factories.
We must have hundreds of thousands at work
raising special agricultural products, which We
now purchase abroad by the million dollars
worth every year.
This st first utterance, may seem strange,
for it cannot be denied that many Of our manu-
factures show 81 gns of languishing. Iron works
and cotton mills are shutting down or running
on short time, and other factories have cur
tailed production.
We believe this decrease of manufacturing
production is moro apparent than real, how
The National tribune., 1884-08-21

BISMARCK would like to quarrel with Eng
land about the possession of the trade of the
Congo region. Really that trade belongs to us
and to Portugal moro than to anybody else
and 'ge should take steps to secure our share
of it.
The National tribune., 1884-08-21

GEN. JOHN 8. MARMADUKE, whom the
Democrats nominated for Governor of Missouri.
was the John Morgan of the Trans Mississippi.
lie belongs to an old Missouri family which
The National tribune., 1884-08-21
A SPLENDID CHANCE

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The National tribune., 1884-08-21
TKE REMEDY.

The very gEayest fact demanding the con-
sideration Of the American people to-day is
that we have not enough grain-eaters. Let US
see how vel the figures demonstrate this, tax
ing wheat as an example:
Our wheat crop this year sestnated At 52o0oo 600
Add reserve Of old wheat on hand..... 100000
Our wants are:
2J5 10000 bushels for bread. etc
4000o.O00 bushels for seeding
5000 600 bushels for reserve ....... Sl5 600 600
o1f l-us 20 90 900
Now, what shall we do with this surplus /?
Send it to Europe? That is our only market
for our surplus except a small amount sent to
Brazil But England, Belgium, ETC., can only
eat certain amount of bread, and need but
29o million bushels more than they can raise.
Let US make another table:
The importing wants Of Europe are.. 2s0OooOOO
OF which Russia win supply. 100000
India VIII piy..---...--...-.....-. 100000
Other countries viii SUPPLY. 100000
q nfa mn
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s.1Eals . s ..sne1oa ras1 osa IS szoos. cos. sa.
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bushels.
Our wheat crop this year estimated At 5200o0eo0
Add reserve Of old wheat on hand..... 100000
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-02-09
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-02-09


eyes; that his description to q
dot; ! wonder i {. he really did do
that a-purpose. !"
"Well, tell us about il. 1t does
me good to hear q blamed fool
tell how he lost his money. Don't
you see that your awkward ways
and general ereenness struck that
capper the first thing. and you
not only threw away your own
money, but two or three hundred
wappy jawed pelicans saw you
draw . big prize and thought it
was yours. and they deposited
what little they had, and every
thing was lovely 2
"Well, I'll tell you how it was
il it'll do any good and save other
young men in the future. You
see this capper, as you call him,
gave me . 81 bill to throw for
him and l put it into my vest
pocket so, along with the dollar
bill that father gave me. always
carry my money in my right-hand
vest pocket. Wal. 1 sailed up to
the game, big as old Jumbo him
self, and put q dollar into the
game. As you say. l drawed
big prize, $40 and q silver cup.
The man offered me $5 for the
cup and I took it.
"Thsn it flashed over my mind
that | might have got my dollar
and the other feller's mixed, so /
says to the proprietor, l will now
invest q dollar for q gent who
asked me to draw for him
''Thereupon / took out the
other dollar, and I'll be eternally
chastised il ! didn't draw q brass
locket worth about two bits q
bushel.
/ did not say anything for q
long time. Then l asked him
how the capper acted when he
got his brass locket.
well, he seemed panied and
grieved about something. and he
asked me il / hadn't time te go
into 9 quiet place where we could
talk 1t ever by ourselves, but he
had a kind Of q cruel, insincere
look iu his eye, and I said no, I
believe l didn't care to, and that
/ was a poor conversationalist
anyhow, and 90 came away and
left him looking at his brass
locket and kicking holes in the
ground and using profsne lam
guags.
Afterwards ] saw him talking
with the proprietor Of the lottery,
and l feel Is though they had
lost confidence in me. ! heard
them speak Of me in jeering
tone Of voice. and one said as l
passed by: There goes the meek
eyed rural convict now and be
used horrid oath at the same
time.
"If it hadn't been for that one
little quincidencs there would
have been nothing to mar the
enjoyment Of the occasion"
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-02-09

Los Angeles Lodse No. 2925, K. of q.
Regular meetings Y. s.c above Lodge are heio
every Friday evening ut Old Masonic Hall
Spring street. Waiting brothers are cordially In.
vited 70 attend. o. A. DEARfNG,
M Dictator.