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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-22
COTTON MARKETS.

Liverpool Futures.
Special to the Gazette.
LIVERPOOL Sept. 2l.-Cotton futures closed
barely steady, TO points higher
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-22

Exchange at New York.
NEW YORK, Sept. 81.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-22
Galveston sugar Market
Galveston Wool lis rket

Galveston Wool lis rket.
Special TO the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEN, Sept 2l.-Wool-:Garket
closed quiet.
Unsecured wool
spRING-TwELvE MONTHS CLIP.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-22
PRESERVES. JHLLIES, ETC.

Jellies, assorted, SOD wood pals, 4 D. SC: s.
D tin pals. q dcz-, IS S5; preserves, 5D tins,
q doz., . 50; peach and pear. pals. lie; as
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-22

NEW YORK, Sept. 2l.-Bonds and stocks
closed at the following prices bid;
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-22

GENERAL MARKETS
Freights from Galveston.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON. TEX, Sept 2l.-By steamship
from Galveston, Tex:
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-22
THE FORT WORTH MARKETS.

[All quotations below are revised daily by
leading dealers, and will he found relia-
bic, wholesale and retail, as specified.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-22

Daily Movement at Interior Towns.
GALVESTON, TEX, Sept. 81.
Special to the Gazette.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11
DIPPING THE PLATES.

plate in this country, holding that it
was a private business matter.
''What is the increased cost of tin
plate to-day as compared with the price
of one year ago."
'SOn an average / should say SO cents
a box, or 10 per cent"
DO you hope to be able to success
fully compete with the English tin
plate manufacturers in the sale of plate
in this country?"
''Yes; but still they are going to
make a big fight. l have information
that they will, after July 1, deliver tin
plate in this country at the same price
as before the Mckinley tariff went into
effect. paying the increased duties out
of their own profits In a recent letter
an English manufacturer wrote to me
that the manufacturers would reduce
wages in order to be able to sell goods
in America. In letter received re-
Gently the same manufacturer writes:
IAN heroic effort will certainly be made
after the new tariff comes into force,
by econOmizing cost in every possible
way, so that we still hope for an outlet
for our energies for many years to
come in our American trade"
What do you know relative to the
Post that some of the manufacturers
are not making tin plate, but are
simply redipping low-grade tin plate?''
II do not know what other maniac
turers are doing, but we are now max
ing twenty-five boxes of tin plate a
day. We would make more, but our
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11
Bryant on Writing English.

Bryant's advice to a young contrib
utOr, than which ''sounder on the same
subject was never penned," is worth
starting on a new round of usefulness
81 observe" wrote he, that you have
used several French expressions in your
letter. think if you will study the Eng
hsh language that you will find it capa-
BILE of expressing all the ideas you may
have. i have always found it so, and
in all that l have written do not re-
call an instance where 1 was tempted
to use foreign word. but that on
searching / have found better one in
my own language. Be simple, unaf-
fected; be honest in your speaking and
writing. Never use long word where
a short one will do as well Call q
spade by its name and not a well-known
instrument of manual labor; let home
be q home and not a residence; a place,
not locality, and SO on of the rest.
When a short word will do you will all
ways lose by long ore."-Lo16on
Athen@um
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11

among them, but it is hard to see how
they could have treated him better u
they had loved him
In republican states he has been re-
ceived with decent formality and moth
ing more The speeches he has made
have been politely applauded. and when
sent to the country have fallen nat
His .'Old Flag and Subsidy" address
at Galveston was type Of one of the
two forms of address which in various
language and lengths he delivered
along the route. The other speech,
now heightened, now sharply con-
densed. had nothing whatever in it
Except in the Old Flag and Subsidy
speech, as reported on various occa-
sionS, Mr.. Harrison made no references
to his policy. At Denver a very skillful
effort was made to draw him out on
silver coinage by presenting him with
a silver brick, but he lodged with some
skill.
The tour as a whole has been with,
out result except as it shows that per.
Sonally Mr.. Harrison has no hold Oh
the country. If it had enabled him tn
see this. the trouble and exhaustion il
has cost him Will be well repaid, but q
is almost certain that NOW boldet
grown, for praise installing pother,'
he will insist more than ever on being
indorSed with denomination St
Louis Republic
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11
FIGHTING HORSES.

How the Leaders of Western Herds Bat
tie for Their Honors.
The herds of horses on a western
ranch, roaming over SO large a space,
rarely encounter one another. When
they do, the mares evince only the
smallest possible amount of curiosity,
but join and Craze. Different is it with
the stations. With but a moments
preparation, they rush wildly at one
another like mad bulls, neighing in
what seems the mockery of a neigh.
and with head in air and tail curving
proudly, they rush and plunge and rear,
kicking and biting, stamping one on the
other until the ground and horses are
covered with blood and exhaustion of
one forces surrender and retreat. As
have said, the tickle mares march off
with the conquerOr at their head, while
the defeated 1ags YEARLY behind. One
of the most terrible battles that proba-
bly, ever took place between ranch stall
lions occurred near the home ranch of
the Little Missouri horse farm in the
spring of 1883, at the time when
the several punches or droves of
horses were being driven in from
the ranges for an account of stock
and for the branding of the young
chance that three droves came in to-
gether with the stations leading.
Naturally the three joined, and at once
arose the question of leadership. This
could only be settled by battle. and
before the herders could begin to form
any plan for separating them, the
three stations were engaged in ferc-
est battle. AS described by those who
saw it, this battle was SO savage and so
bloody that it seemed certain that at
least one of the com batants must be
killed. 1t lasted a little more than
twenty minutes, and when the smoke of
battle" drifted away and the fight was
done, a big gray Percheron named Ma
poleon was Seen to be the victor, and
ne it was that, with uplifted head and
proudly curved tail, led the company
of mares and colts to the pastures,
while the two defeated ones marched
together, like whipped ours, deiectedly
in the rear. In this instance, although
the fight was an unusually desperate
one, and all three horses were badly
cut and torn, none of the three suffered
more than temporary discomfort
Harper's Weekly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11
BRUSHING THE OUTPUT.

month ago the agent of the United
States Tin Plate Company was here and
talked in glowing terms Of what they
were going to do. He asked for an
order for tin plate and gave it to him.
That was four weeks ago, and l have
| not seen any of the tin plate yet. do
not know whether they are manufac-
turing it yet. Mr.. Niedringhaus is not
selling any of his plate. What he has
not sent about the United States as
samples of domestic manufacture he
has used in his own works.
What has been the effect of the Nc
Kinley tariff on tin plate?"
''Since the passage of the bill the
price of tin plate has advanced from
$3.50 box to $3.50 and S.. IS. / think,
however, there will be a slight reac-
ton from these prices, but not great
one"
What does it cost box to manufac-
ture tin plate?"
81 could not answer in all the details,
but can make rough estimate. The
sheet iron, or black Sheets cost about
81 cents pound and the labor and
material used in dipping these sheets
adds about cents. You see that is
why 1 don't think the Mckinley law, as
far as it is directed towards tin plate,
will have any influence. If there was
really desire to build up new indus
try in this country the tariff should be
made fully cents a pound higher. I'm
less this is done 1 believe the duty on
tin plate should be taken off entirely
CANNOT BE MADE PRoFITABLY.
Mr.. Charles Knight, of the Excelsior
Manufacturing Company, " no is an au-
thority on tin plate, was seen. ''The
Evening Post may be right as far as 1
personally know regarding the alleged
deception by eastern tin plate manu-
facturers, but Mr.. Niedringhaus is
making tin at his works in this city
The quantity, however, is small, only
twenty-five boxes a day, 1 was told.
Most Of this he uses in his stamping
works. The agent Of the United States
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11
THE REPUBLICAN POLICY.
Creditors of the Government ShamelessIy
Cheated by the Party of Greed.

Creditors of the Government ShamelessIy
Cheated by the Party of Greed
The entire policy of the republican
party has been in the line of cheating
creditors Soldiers in the trenches
were creditors OF the government.
They Were deliberately plundered by
the republican party, and the man who
engineered the scheme was John Sher-
man, who lived to boast of his cunning
after the war had closed. After the
government, under the control of the
republican party, had placed in the
hands of the people four hundred mill
lion dollars of treasury notes bearing
on their face the pledge that they should
be ',fundable at the option of the
holder in any bonds issued by the
government, the party which claims
now to oppose the cheating of creditors
then cheated every government cred
itor except the holders of interest
bearing bonds by the passage ofa law
taking this important privilege from
the holders of the notes issued This
act was denounced by the republican
chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee as mot quite right but it was
no less cheating of creditors than that
proposed by the peoples party and now
denounced by the inventors of this
fraudulent legislation
The producers who were to help paw
the fraudulently-createdw war debt wers
creditors of the government. That
government owed them fair protection
In their rights The republican party
pledged itself in convention in this city
In 1865 to. care for the people who were
to pay the debt and to preserve equal
and exact Justice. It proceeded to make
new contract for the benefit of the
bondholder and to add more to the
burden resting on the people than the
war had honestly cost The producers
were creditors to the government in a
double sense They had largely aided
in the suppression of the rebellion
They found themselves gradually grow
ing poorer while millionaires were he
ing made by act of con2ress.-Chica1o
Times
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11

capacity is not greater. We cannot
spare more sheet iron from our rolling
mills at present than to make that
quantity"
''Have you sold or taken any orders
for domestic tin plate?''
NO not yet. We have sent out con-
siderable of our output as samples, but
have not yet taken any orders. We
have used great deal of the plate in
our stamping works, but twenty-five
boxes day is not near enough for our
own uSe.'
NO FAITH IN IT.
Mr.. George Wiegand, vice president
Of the Standard Stamping Company,
does not have much faith in the future
possibilities of domestic tin plate man
ufacture
MIR. Niedringhaus' present works
are on an experiments scale. 1 look
on it as a matter of experiment. About
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11
A CHILD'S DISCOVERY.

The Probable Origin of the Telescope
Idea.
There is a pretty story told about
the discovery of the telescope which
attributes it to child at play. This is
the story:
A poor optician lived and labored in
the Netherlands nearly three hundred
years ago. His little shop was an en-
chanted land to his children, who were
never so happy as when helping
him in small ways and amusing them
selves with his tools. One day in the
year 1908 Hans Lippersheim was at
work, and the children were PLAYING
about as usual, when suddenly his lit
tie girl cried out:
''Oh, father. dear, see how near the
steeple comes.''
The father looked up smiling, and
saw that his little daughter was look
ing through two lenses, one held close
to her, eye and the other at arms
length. She stood in front of the open
window, and evidently what she saw
had filed her with amazement. Call
ing her to his side, he examined the
lenses, and then stepping to the win
dow repe ated the experiment He
soon found that the child had CHANGED
to hold the lenses apart at their
exact focus, and that this had really
seemed to bring the distant steeple
within easy reach. His quick wit and
skillful knowledge of lenses showed
him at once that here was a discovery
indeed. He began to make use of the
hint, and that same year was able to
send to his government three telescopes,
which he named: Instruments by
means of which to see at a distance"
They were, to be sure, only the rough
germ of the beautiful instrument
which may now be seen in the possess
sion of scientific men, but the won
derful, beautiful principle was there,
and child's hand had turned the key
which had hitherto kept it hidden from
the world.
Not long after this it is said that a
man living near Amsterdam claimed
that he had discovered the principle of
the telescope about two years before
How this may be we do not know, but
tits at least possible that the child's
play was the open door to great dis
covery.-Sunday-Sc Advocate.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11
OUAY'S DECLINE.
Republican Leaders in Training for
Grand Reform.

Republican Leaders in Training for
Grand Reform.
The republican party. 1t is announced,
will shortly indulge in one of its great
periodical publications 1t is custom
airy in some of our bacl1woods commu.
mites for the county desperate to get
religion" at a revival meeting once
every two or three years, and behave
like Christian gentleman for at least
two days 1t is probable that the re-
publican party is actuated by a similar
motive now and then for little while.
Therefore, it was decided, according to
report, to dethrone Quay, and place
some other man at the head of the ma
chine in order that it may preserve the
appearance of responsibility.
Mr.. Quay deserves better at the hand
of his party. The public has been
taught that the laborer is worthy of his
hire, and if Mr.. Quay has not performed
the things that he was hired to do many
untruths have certainly been told
about him. His efficiency in the last
presidential election cannot be doubt
ed, and he is to-day the best exponent
of the methods and ends of the repub-
Hcan party. According to his creed a
party exists to get the offices, and any
means are pardonable if they are sue
cessfuL The republican party has
lived up to that principle, and under
leadership of Quay it achieved a sue
cess which it hopes to repeat in 1892 by
similar methods, though another man
may direct them.
1t is to be presumed that Hon J. s.
GARRISON is in training for the position
of moral and intellectual leadership
that Mr.. Quay has occupied in the re-
publican party, and more fit and ap-
prOprlate successor could not have been
obtained As assistant postmaster gen.
eral Mr.. Garrison demonstrated his
ability and craftsmanship by turning
out more democratic postmasters with
in a given space of time than anyone
hitherto believed to be possible He
has shown himself fanatical partisan,
a thorough believer in the doctrines
that to the victor belongs the spoils
and that the end consecrates the means.
and therefore by all the laws of his
party he is entitled to the republican
succession.
But this change of leaders viii come
too late to save republican respectable
ity. The party has thoroughly identi-
fled itself with Quay and Dudley and
Doodle and blocks of FIVE. and a change
of garments cannot discharge it of the
sins it has committed. II Quay loses
his place it viii be merely a campaign
movement, and will not blind the pub
lie to the fact that his methods will not
be changed, whether he remains at the
head of the national committee or not.
Courier ournal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.
The last republican pras;,

The last republican president at
the grave of the first is another mourn
full example of how extremes meet
St Louis Republic.
when it comes to question OF
peoples party. what is the matter with
the good, old. true-blue democratic
party Chicago Globe
President Harrison is reported to
have harvested four hundred presents
during his recent trip An encore oa
his administration is not among them.
or, if 50. its label has fallen off.-Omah.
WOrld-Herald.
Poor old Blaine would NO douhA
reform if he could. but the friends he
made in his Mulligan and xuano dav.
are determined to be his friend. VET
and they have ''cinch on" him that :.
too strong for his new zeal for bono.
nores.-St Louis Republic
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11
THE PRESIDENTS TRIP.
a Bold Effort to Secure for Himself q
denomination.

n BOt0 EnOrt To Secure for Himself .
denomination.
Mr.. Harrison's transcontinental trip
was undertaken for personal reasons,
and while he has not thought proper to
reveal them it has been generally con-
cluded that it in augurates his active
canvass for a second term. The trip
must have cost Mr.. Harrison very Sc
rious physical discomfort, aside from
the mental strain of making a long
series of speeches without saying any,
thing in particular. On the return he
has spoken several times of physical
and mental exhaustion, and it appears
that he shares the general opinion that
there was nothing of the pleasure trip
in it.
significant political development In
connection with il is the uniform kind
ness and courtesy shown him by dem
ocrats and the entire absence of any
manifestation of enthusiasm from re-
publicans- It will hardly be supposed by
any zone that the democrats admire Mr.
Harrison as politician. or that. except
by a great effort, they can feel any
thing like esteem for him as a man. To
the democratic mind he represents
either the actualities or the POSSIBLE
tiles OF everything democrat ought
not to be- He is distinctly product of
the sectional politics of the civil war
period, and represents this sectional
ism as a survival into a generation
which is gradually broadening out of it
As part of this sectionalism, he has
manifested strong sympathy with the
sectional effort to force a race issue
and embroil the negroes with the white
people OF the south. Holding this at
titude to the south, his sympathies in
the politics of the east and west are
distinctly with the plutocratic classes
While it might be possible to have a
certain sort of admiration for the con-
sistency of a desperate radical like
Spies or Parsons, preaching anarchy
without regard to section, and stirring
up to violent revolution the ignorant
classes of Chicago and Mississippi
alike, it is impossible to have any adj
niration of any kind for a radical like
Mr. Harrison, who, as a railroad attor-
ney in Indianapolis, advocates the pol
icy of shooting down strikers, and then,
on coming to the presidency through
his capitalistic alliances, exhausts his
energies in an effort to disorganize So
ciety in Mississippi, Louisiana and
South Carolina
Though such Inconsistencies in Mr..
Harrison's character are keenly felt at
the south, it was from southern demo
Gratis that he received most kindness
during his tour. They did not pretend
to love him in making him stat home"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-11

EXTERIOR OF THE GREAT TIN PLATE
FACTORY.
plate, and that their advertisement
was put in to bring trade for their
other tin plates, and also correspond
ence which they could not otherwise
get.
'Our second witness is large banker
IN Philadelphia, who knows what he is
talking about. and what he says is that
the American tin plate plant of N.
IL u. Taylor & Co., consists of a
small corner or room rented in the old
Disston saw factory, corner of Front
and Laurel streets. where they make
solder and have put in couple of dip
plng-pots. In answer to the question
whether they were making any tin
plates, the witness stated that ssthey
were redipping some of the lower
grades of imported tins, and by this
means they could sell them as extra
coated and redipped plates and get a
higher price for them than if they
were sold under the name of the brand
by which they were known before
they We're dipped. He said distinctly
that they could not make the ordinary
or low grade of plates such as are gen
orally sold.
Later information received this
morning is as follows:
We can now give you OFFICIAL information in
regard to the Great American Tin Plate Work q
ofMessrs. N. & G. Taylor Company. One of
our statesmen gained admission there yester.
day. 1t consists OF a small room in Disston,s
old saw factory. Front and Laurel streets Uhis
factory is the one first occupied by Disston.
and from which he moved to his large works at
Tacony). This factory has been let out to
wood turner's feather founders. etc. This room
Is little more than half large as our ONCE.
which you have been in. They have in there
six pots, and three of them are nothing more or
less than solder pots. which they use in max
ing solder. The other three can be used for
putting in oil or grease.
They had there some twenty five boxes of a
very low grade of tin plate, the brand of which
we will mention to you when we see you. The
fact OF their recoating this low grade bears out
the fact OF the statement which we wrote you
In our letter of yesterday as having been made
by Mr.. H. w. Taylor.
The American public will be asked to pay for
the sake of being gulled, %, a or Is per box
more for a box of imported low grade Of tin
plate redipped, and there are many Americans
who can be so gulled-
The working force consists of an old man and
one boy. You have now got the great American
Tin Plate Works down very fine.