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TO BE PRoBED BY MORTON.
The Secretary Will Investigate the
Workings of the Cattle Trust.


WASHINGTON, April r.-Secretary of
Agriculture Morton to-day began an in
curry into the recent increase in the price
of meats for the purpose of ascertaining
if any combination in violation of law ex-
lists for the purpose of putting up prices.
The Secretary's letter of instructions for
the inquiry is addressed to DIR. ID. f.. Sal
mon. chief of the Bureau of Animal In
dustry, and reads:
..Sir-Furnish at your earliest convenience
a statement of the number of cattle re-
Kansas city, in East St Louis and in Chi
cago during the months. of January; Feb,
ruary and March for the years 1891 and
1895 1t is important just at this time to
ascertain as nearly as may be from those
eatale Supply of the United States as com
pared With viii or 10 ye e e
year for $5.65, and in March the same year
for s5771a per hundred weight, at the Kan,
in the same market in January at $, in
February at $3.50 and in March at $40 per
January 1snuary @ at s.so, in February. ss.s5: in
March, $50; and In January. 1894, at the
Kansas City stock yards they sold at s5.25
in February at s4.sO and in March at $3.50.
Il wish now to ascertain the prices paid
at Kansas City and md IN chicago sa during jan jan
the number of cattle received at those
points during that time. The largest cattle
rsrTed a. beieve. on April Is. 1852, when
81. ca head were received. and the largest
cattle receipts at Chicago in a single week
were 9s SOS head. received during the seven
days ending Sept 10, 1897; and the largest
receipts of cattle fer a single s month at
ass 466 head were received. Be kind enough
to instruct the agents of the Bureau of
nartment of Agriculture. wherever they
may be stationed. to collect and send in
rapidly as possible all reliable data at their
command which may tend to truthfully
show what diminution, if any. there is in
the wear 1895 as compared with previous
years. Also instruct the agents of the Blu
reau of Animal Industry to make thorough
inquiry as to whether in their judgns MT
there is any combination. in violation of
law. by which cattle trust Is putting up
the price of beef products while IL is put
ting down the per capita price of CATTLE
Concerning the inquiry Secretary Morton
said: 1.-The increase in the price Of cat
tie has been quite remarkable and certain
fluctuations seem unaccountable. It would
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ers have formed to control the supply
and the prices. There may be some
thing in thif. but there is much more
reason to believe that it is due to the
inadequate supply of cattle fit for the
market. 1t is. however. an important
question and one which it is the duty
of the Secretary of Agriculture to in
vestigate. Such an investigation would
not affect the price of meat at once, but
If the advance is simply due to a COM
bination of packers in three or four
cities Congress should be able to devise
a remedy.
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humiliating as were ever exacted by
one nation from another, yet under the
circumstances they do not appear I'M
reasonable or yindictive. That Japan
would demand the independence of
Corea, the original cause of the war.
was foregone conclusion She wants
the island Of Formosa. and has improved
the opportunity to get it. The war in
demnity which she demands, though
large, is not out of proportion to the
extent of her victory and her power to
enforce it. The opening up of the in
terror of China to commerce will benefit
other nations as well as Japan, and will
probably mark the beginning of new
era in Eastern trade.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Many of the tall palms seen in the nall
ways of the modern house are artificial.
There are practically no oaths in the
Japanese family. About the most en-
phatc remark available for use, even by
iinrilSsha men in street piocAaue' -
ssshinksu," or beast.
Richard Burton, who has been proposed
for the new professorship of English liter
AZURE at Yale, is graduate or Trinity COL
leee and of Johns Hopkins. and is az pres,
emit the literary editor OF the HARTFORD
Courant
ENGLISH titles are still a stumbling block
to the French journalist. The Figaro SAID
recently: Lord Gladstone passed through
Paris yesterday morning. The carriage of
the Great Old Man was sent direct 10
the Northern Station.
A monument to the memory Oh EDGAR
Allen Poe is proposed by the Baltimore
SIM. which SAYS: ..There is no city which
shon,d feel greater interest in memorial
of him than Baltimore, where part OF ms
life was passed, and where, 'a1ter mes
fitful fever, he sleeps well.
1t is proposed to name a street in Paris
after Alboni, the illustrious singer. Nine.
Alboni lived in the French capital for near
w half a century She loved Parisians for
the hospitable treatment they always eE-
tended to her, and when she dled sne me i esoo
the adorable CITY," as she calied IL, $fuo,VW.
The late NJ Guzman, of Paris. left $4,000
francs to provide musical entertainment for
the sick in the hospitals and asylums OF
that city Some years ago a musical en-
thusiast left $1,000 francs for that purpose,
but the sum s was net afge sn eaou ADDITION
makes it possible to carry out the philan-
thropic project.
Lady Burdett-Coutts. while never being
able at any time to claim beauty, yet has
had no lack of suitors, and there is prob
ably no woman in the world who has re-
ceiyed during her long life SO many offers
of marriage from royal princes. sucn as the
Duke of Aumale, down to cranks. ANA even
after she married the young american she
was still prosecuted by the latter.
Dr. Edward Eggleston takes the ground
that the highest intellectual satisfaction
is to be derived in these days in assemblies
in which men and women come together.
If a gathering is made up wholly of men
there is apt to be lack Of restraint that
wars against the best mental results. III
women meet by themselves they grow opin-
donated Where men and Women meet on
an equal footing there is an intellectual
friction that is pre-eminently inspiring
F.ss / took and backward look,
And my heart was like to smother
To think of what fool was
/ might have had another.
Detroit Free Press.
There is no rose without its thorn;
But here's a proverb drearier;
There's naught which makes life less for
That hasn't it's bacteria.
Washington Star.
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Much ignorant remark is being made
by free-traders because American manu-
facturers are able to pay present wages
and yet undersell Great Britain in the
shoe market. There should be no mis-
understanding about the matter unless
one prefers to have IL so, since it is due
to the fact that the British shoemakers
have not been induced to use the labor
saving machinery which Is found in
every American shoe factory. 1t is
quite remarkable that while England
has surpassed all other competitors in
the Introduction of the factory system
with its labor-saving machinery and
division of labor into the textile and
iron Industries. II has not been able to
extend that system to the production
of shoes. much of the work still being
done by the piece in the homes of the
employees.
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The extent to which electric roads be-
tween considerable towns are receiving
patronage is illustrated in the fact that
the leading railroad in Connecticut has
applied to the Legislature to have the
construction Of such lines prohibited. In
some cases the railroads have lost near
" the whole of such traffic. The ground
on which the interference of the Legis-
lature is asked is that the permitting of
such roads is an infringement on the
legitimate business rights of the char
tered roads and the illegal taking of
highways which belong to the public.
Nevertheless, Ii the people are better
served it seems that the competition is
q legitimate one.
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General Notes.

WASHINGTON, April 11--First Lieut..
Albert b. Russell, Seventh Cavalry. has
been ordered home. preliminary to retire
ment account of disability incurred in
the line of duty.
Documents relating to the services Of SOL
diers and civilians at the time of the revo-
lutionary war, which heretofore have been
scattered through the Pension. State and
War departments. have beens gathered to-
gether and placed in the care of Col. +. c.
Ainsworth, chief of the records and PEN
sion office of the War Department. These
documents contain a mass of information
of great value to the historian, biographer,
pension claimant and the geneaIogIst.
j. F. Deacon, of South Bend, and w.
Johnson and wife, of Indianapolis, are at
6. Ford, ofssouth Bend. is at the Airing
ton
To-day's statement of the condition of
the treasury shows: Available cash balance.
$lS6, o74,342; gold reserve, $50 1886, 592.
Judge William NJ. Springer says that the
decision of Controller Bowler to the effect
that the officers of the new courts for the
Indian Territory and Oklahoma are not en-
titled to salaries until after further con-
courts from doing business, as they
self-sustaining.
District Attorney Brney is trying to
make arrangements for the trial. two weeks
hence. of the recalcitrant witnesses In the
Sugar Trust investigation.
James Tanner, national commander of the
Union Veteran Legion has issued a circular
requesting the contribution of $40 from each
of the encampments to pay the expenses
of carrying to the Supreme Court test
days notice required to be given in pension
cases under the act of Dec. n, 1898.
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A boulevard is intended as an ornament
to the city and for the use and pleasure
of all it's people. This being the case,
the wishes of property owners along the
street should not be conclusive in favor of
narrowing the roadway, especially if it APP
pears that their reasons are entirely sell
fish, not using the word in an offensive
sense Capitol avenue is none too wide for
a boulevard now. 1t is to be regretted that
it is not straight, and that the upper part
of it is narrower than the lower part. The
'.jogs'' cannot be removed, and the upper
part of the avenue cannot we'll be widened,
but by all means the lower part should not
be made narrower. Forty feet may be
wide enough for an ordinary roadway, but
boulevard is something out of the ordi-
nary. The point is made that Fifth avenue,
New York, one of the greatest driving
streets of the world, has roadway of
only forty feet. Fifth avenue was laid
out a long time ago, and no doubt New
Workers would be very glad if it were
wider. Euclid avenue, in Cleveland, has
roadway forty-two feet wide in it's mar
rowest part and sixty feet in it's widest.
The Cleveland Leader of the 10th inst.
says: Five drawings of plans for widen
ing and beautifying Euclid avenue were
placed before the members of the C1eve-
land Art Association at their annual meet
ing in the Chamber of Commerce rooms
last evening. Engineer Pratt, of the park
and boulevard engineering force. was the
author of the designs" In Boston, not
only the beauty but the utility of many
streets was permanently destroyed by the
narrow standard adopted in the, infancy
of the city. The plan of this city has been
greatly admired by strangers, and no fea-
ture more than it's wide streets. AS we
have them without the expense of tearing
down buildings and condemning property
why should we not keep them? A boule-
ward, especially, should be, if possible. the
widest street in the city.
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CITY OF MEXICO. April f1.--George
Ageson. the Mexican Central fireman who
was accidentally poisoned at the American
of the kind which has occurred in the his
tory of the American Hospital. 1t Is not
nurse who made the mistake has crossed
the border at Laredo and is now safely
over the line In Texas. As the victim OF
the mistake lived until within less than
four hours of the schedule time OF the train
for getting Off Mexican soil. the unfortu,
states territory without mishap, she and
the gentleman TO whom she is engaged.
and who accompanied her, IL Is thought,
will be married and then proceed to ST.
T.0lis
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!
Sootbeer, who is a recognized author
ity in all lines of statistics, gives other
statistics, covering nearly four hundred
years. of the production of the precious
metals by periods which may be found
on page 306 of Mulhall's' Dictionary of
Statistics. They show that from 100 to
1740 the worlds production of gold was
63S tons, or 1886 tons year, and that
of silver was 393.40 tons year, while
the total value Of the output of both
metals for forty years was only 2S,5O0,-
600, or $712500 a year. The production
of gold during the ten years from 1901
to 1920 was 292 TONS or 14.6 tons a year,
and that Of silver was 1850 tons, or
717.5 tons a year. The value of the
product of these twenty years vas $780,
100000. or $2,075,0OO a year. The highest
period of gold given was the decade
1S51-60-2,01S TONS, or 201S tons a year.
The output of silver during that decade
was 1856 tons, or 1856 tons year. The
value of the ten years product of both
metals was $1SO,OOO,O00, or $1SOOO,OOO a
year. That is, the output of the worlds
mines during the decade 1S51-60 was
$180,O00,000, while that of the century
17O1fS00 was only 1923, 1000 During
the decade 1S71-S0 the worlds produce
ton of gold was LIS tons, or ILLS tons
year, and that of silver was 22,347 tons,
or 2,234.7 tons year. During the eight
years from 1SS1-SS the gold product of
the world was 1.O67 tons, or an average
of 1887 tons a year, and that of silver
FL, $50 tons, or 2,745 tons year. Two i'm
portant facts appear in these figures
first, that the volume of precious metals
produced during the eighteenth century
was so small as to be of no value in
comparison, and second. that from the
decade 1880 the ratio of the output
of silver in the world to gold steadily
increased to 1890.
The correspondent next quotes, as his
own. the statement of Professor Coin
that 1.-The worlds production of silver
has been less than that of gold since
1850" Coin gives no statistics, but re-
fers his readers to the report of the
Director of the MINIS and tells them
they can get copies by sending for them.
Why did he not give the figures? Sim
ply because the figures do not sustain
his statement, and yet the correspondent
quotes 1t without question. Now, what
are the facts? From 1850, when Cali
fornia gold began to swell the stock
until 1882 the value of gold mined each
year exceeded that of silver. But from
1855 gold began to fall off and silver to
increase. From 1870 to 1880 the output
of silver in the world was a little more
than doubled, while gold fell from $147,-
100000 in 1856 to $97 100000 in 1S75-a
period of twenty years. Since 1882 the
coming value of silver produced has
risen from Sill. 900 to s196, Ass, 900 in
1892. During the same period the value
of gold production increased from $102,-
100000 to s13s.s61 900. In 1892 the out
put of silver (s196. 100000 was within
less than 100000 of the aggregate for
the five years 1s50-54
The output of the gold and silver
mines of the world for three years be-
ginning with 1870, as given by mint re-
ports, was as follows:
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Colonel Fnvorite Talks.

CHICAGO, April I.-"They will have 1t
that there is a combine, won't they?" ex-
claimed Colonel Favorite, of the Armour
company, to-day, when asked in regard to
the statement of Secretary Morton that an
investigation would be made into the cause
of high meat prices. There is no COM
bine. Secretary Morton knows well as
we do why it is and as far as we are con-
cerned we hope that he will investigate the
matter thoroughly. He is now shipping
grain to the destitute farmers of Nebraska.
and their condition is about the same as
all the cattle-feeding district of the central
from there, and glance at the stock-yards
statistics would show that nearly 100000
head less have been received since January
than was received last year for these three
months"
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Lastly, let us compare the output of
the gold and silver mines by weight
from 1887 to 1892, both inclusive:

These figures show that the output of
silver in the world has increased from
nearly seven and one-half times as much
as the output of gold in 1870 to more
than twenty-five and one-half times as
much as gold in 1892.
These figures are taken from the mint
reports to which this Professor Coin
refers to sustain his assertions. They
show that his statements are false. and
yet the correspondent who has called
attention to them, statistician himself.
is duped. If such a man is deceived,
what an imposition such half truths are
upon honest and intelligent people who
have no means of testing the fallacies
and falsehoods of this adroit advocate
of the millionaire bonanza mine owners.
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The Mayor and members of the City
Council of Boston are before the Legis-
lature asking that the school commit
tee be prohibited by law from making
purchases of school furniture when there
1s no appropriation for the purpose.
And committee has reported in favor
of such a bill. That is the kind of a
law Indianapolis should have obtained
Of the last Legislature.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-12

II any reader of the Journal failed to
read an editorial of the Democratic
Brooklyn Eagle. reproduced in yester-
days issue under the caption, Words
that Burn he should hunt up the pa
per and read the boldest and most
caustic newspaper utterance that has
appeared for years. A Republican pa
per would scarcely dare speak as boldly
upon a sectional question, but the
ablest independent Democratic paper in
the country can.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-12

The news from Cuba that is not doc
tored by the authorities or that leaks
out in spite of them shows that the re-
bellion is gaining ground. If the revolu-
tionists declare their independence and
establish republic there will be
strong demand in this country for the
recognition of the new government as
soon as it can show that it has de
facto existence. Medieval Spain has
no business on this hemisphere
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THEY ARE COuNTERFEITs.
The Bogus Postage Stamps Were Not
Printed hx the Government.

Printed by the Government.
WASHINGTON, April u.--There is little
doubt that the scheme for distributing
United States postage stamps at rates be-
low their face value, which has it's head
quarters at Hamilton, Ont, is a part of
one of the greatest enterprises of it's kind
that has been unearthed of late years. The
officials of the treasury secret service will
work on the case until they have dis
covered. If possible where the work of
counterfeting is carried on and have ap-
pretended the principals in the plot. The
sold were part of those which were printed
by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving
when 1t first undertook the work. and
which were rejected by the Postoffice De-
partment, proved to be erroneous. Close
examination of the stamps disposed of in
Chicago shows that they are counterfeits.
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Mrs. Mack Arrested.

HAMILTON, Ont. April 1.-Mrs. A. t.
Mack. clerk of the Canadian Novelty and
Supply Company, was remanded in Police
Court here till April Is on the charge of
selling counterfeit stamps The prosecu-
ton asked for adjournment. Capt. Thomas
Potter, of the United States secret service,
and Postal Inspector Stewart of Chicago,
are here working the case. Several
packages of bogus stamps were found in
the cOmnany's office
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The UnknoyyabIe.

This hash complained. the Cheerful
idiot, lis simply awful, Maud Edith, simply
awful"
'Oh, dry up pleasantly retorted the
waiter girl. You don't know anything
about hash, any way
Neither does any one else" replied the
Cheerful Tdiot
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refused to give It encouragement. The
scheme has now been exposed and proves
to have been started in the interest of free
and unlimited coinage of silver for the bene-
fit of a few silver kings of the West and
their henchmen. Many intelligent people
have been deceived by the trash that has
been sent out by the school but they
ought to repent very speedily now--Brook-
vile American
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1t is said that while Governor Altgeld
is behind the Democratic free coinage
convention in Illinois, il is scheme to
promote the presidential chances of
Vice President Stevenson, who was once
a greenbacker and is now for free coin
age. If the convention declares for free
coinage in the United States Stevenson
will be very much a candidate. If it
should not he will not be in it.
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the Mohican at Port Townsend and Adj
miral Meade's squadron at Port-au- Prince.
Ioft


WASHINGTON. April u.-Postmaster-
general Wilson is very much encouraged
with the first reports that have been re-
ceived by him showing the business of the
department He thinks that the increased
business of the Postoffice Department In a
barometer of better times throughout the
country. The statistics which he has re-
ceived are for the fourth quarter of 1894.
ending Dec. 81 last The sale of stamps and
all kinds of stamped articles was over 49,
400 900, the largest known for any quarter
The receipts for the quarter ending Dec. 81.
1894. We're S.1652o9 greater than for the cor
responding period OF 1899. and the total ex-
same quarter in 1893. The deficiency for the
quarter in 1898 was S2.029. 742. and for the
same period in 1894 81, 4S4,S6t
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That will be an interesting campaign
IN Kentucky for the United States SEN
ntorship with Secretary Carlisle and
Senator Lindsay for international BIZ
metaIlism and Senator Blackburn for
free coinage and silver recommendation.
In fact, it will be a battle royal.
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war ON MILWAUKEE, pi,e-.

MILWAUKEE. Wis. April 11.--Milwau-
kee Is about to experience a moral reform
crusade. To-day a deegat on OF Methodist
ministers, including Rev. w. i. Patton and
his unknown companion. who recently
made a tour OF the "tenderloin" district,
called on Mayor Koch and demanded that
stems DE taken TO c.ean our the dives. The
Mayor was furnished with Z Est Of the
objectionable places, II the Mavor refuses
they will begin a crusade ON the city adj
ministra ton.
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The latest Information from Europe is
TO the effect that the sentiment in favor
of International bimetallism is rapidly
spreading. Two years ago in Great
Britain it could not have got any sort
OF show in the House of Commons,
but recently it was recognized and will
be an issue in the next election.
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In the East the butchers. who have
lost much of their business through the
competition Of the Armours and like
large packers by filing their markets
with dressed beef are telling their Gus
toners that the advance in the prices
Of meats, and particularly Of beef. is
due to the trust which four Or Ave pack