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The McCook tribune., 1896-10-30

HOME OF THE SECTION FOREMAN
price of staple commodities on each side
of the line. In Juarez these prices pre-
vailed:
Beans, to cents per pound.
Sugar, IA to Is cents per pound.
Coffee, so to 60 cents per pound
Soap, cents per pound.
Bleached sheeting, 20 cents per yard.
Prints, 1919 cents per yard (33 inch
esq.
Candles. cents each.
On the western coast Of Mexico corn
is a drug on the market. and the far
mers were selling crops grown two
years ago for from 20 to 25 cents per
brshel.
Beef cattle, as fine as any on the
American ranches, are sold on the Mex
lean plantations at from S25 to S35 per
head. while ranch cattle bring from Si2
to SIG per head. All classes of stock
are sold by the head, and not by the
pound. Ranch horses can be bought
for s12 per head. Mules were quoted
at from $40 to $50 per head
The above prices, of course, prevail
in the cheap Mexican dollar. worth a
little more than 80 cents, and these ar
ticles are produced by the toll of mil
lions whose average daily wage is 2G
cents, in the same deprecated money.
d. o. MAVOY.
The McCook tribune., 1896-10-30
SILVER IN MEXICO.
"A TRIP OF OBSERVATION
THROUCH THAT COUNTRY.
Wages Low and Cost of Living High
Miserable Condition of the Farmer
such Conditions Would Bring on a
Speedy Revolution Here.

El Paso. Texas. Oct. 26.-I have just
concluded tour OF Mexico, which
made for the purpose OF determining
whether business and wages and prices
OF farm produce were really as satis-
factory as has been claimed and partic-
uJarly whether the conditions are such
as TO encourage the people of this coun-
Try in adopting the financial system of
Mexico.
met and talked with two passenger
conductors between Torreon and Ell
Paso, Texas, about the wages OF that
class OF railroad employees. Unlike the
. ofticiaiS OF the Mexican Central and
other roads il Mexico, the men in the
operating department do not receive
gold for their services. They are paid
In paper money or silver worth little
more than SO cents on the dollar. These
gentlemen would not permit me to
quote them, but talked freely with the
understanding that their names were
not 20 be used. They said it was the
policy OF all railroad corporations in
that country to stand in" with the
powers that be, and refuse to discuss
the financial system of the republic.
This, they explained, was because the
government granted big concessions 20
the railroads which were developing
the resources OF the country. One OF
these conductors said: My salary Is
SlG0 per month. / pay $50 a month
room relt, CT . total CT S240 year.
pay fer beard That | would not eat in
the States, 81 per day, or $3.50 a year
1t costs ne $40 per mcnth for room rent
for my wife. There's S240 more. Then
l have TO pay S25 Eer IGoath for heT
boari-SS39 year mere 10 add TO tho
total TIE rules ccnrei ne 10 buy t~C
suits nf clothes per yc2T, for which
have &c pay $40 per suit. OGt of the So
cent dollars which we have left after
ray.nG out these suE,s We must buy
all of Cur clcthing. Figure 1t cut your
self ard y0u VIII fad that it takes con-
siderable 1inancceTilg 10 make both
cnS.s mgct The American who is down
hero ra:!roading 0aGhi 10 be pretty vel!
up in arithmetic, because he has got tG
do come calculating each month to find
ont Just now much his dollar is worth
The other conductor corrokorated al
this 2nG rncre. My expenses in MeXi-
co arc greater" he sad, than in the
The McCook tribune., 1896-10-30
HOMES OF THE POOR FARMERS WHO WORK FOR zee

could be levied and the young man
smoked his cigar leiEurely until he was
out OF sight of the Mexican officer
Then se alighted, taking with him
twenty pounds of American granulatec
sugar which he had purchased at El
Paso for 81. If he paid for this sugar
in Mexican silver it cost him little
less than 81, for Mexican silver was
worth 50 cents that day. The same quail
ity of sugar was selling in Juarez for
Is cents per pound. and if he had pur-
chased it on the Mexican side would
have paid S3 for it.
This little incident caused me to
make some investigations as to tie
The McCook tribune., 1896-10-30

wages ranged about as they do In the
United States. The shop men at To-
peka receive about the same wages that
are paid on the Mexican Central and
other roads in Mexico, with possibly a
few exceptions, but when you consider
the 100-cent dollar of Uncle Sam and
its purchasing power, and compare 1T
with the Mexican dollar at so cents ana
the prices of the commodities of life in
that country, an object lesson is pre-
sented that a child can understand.
Railroad men are consumers and are
interested in buying their goods where
they can get them cheapest. Ii the
Mexican dollar would buy as much as
the American dollar in such articles as
food and clothing, the railroad man IN
Mexico would have little to complain
Of The American dollar will buy
double the amount Of the staple COM
modities in Mexico, and in this country
it will buy nearly three times as
much in the common articles OF 1000.
The best place TO ascertain the cost OF
articles in general use is at Ell l'Paso anu
JuareZ. border towns separated by the
Rio Grande river, which is the bound-
ary line. There the man who desires
to ascertain the relative values OF the
two moneys will gain some valuable
| information. While was there Mayor
R. F. Campbell of Ell Paso went to the
stores in Ell Paso and secured prices on
the staple groceries and articles that a
Iaboring man would have to use.' Then
he went over to Juarez and got the
prices of the Mexican merchants on the
same articles, for which they would
| nav in Mexican silver. After compiling
his figures he made affidavit to the
statement which follows:
The McCook tribune., 1896-10-30

more money at it than they can to work
from one to three bits per day. How
many thousand beggars there are in
the City of Mexico can only be guessed
at. The newspapers of that city admit
that the beggars are reproach to the
republic. It is claimed that of the 3OO,-
600 inhabitants, 1000 are homeless and
sleep in the parks and on the streets,
with the broad canopy Of heaven as
their shelter.
The McCook tribune., 1896-10-30


Col. ". S. Herndon, ex-member Of
Congress from Texas, is probably as
well equipped for giving accurate in
formation concerning Texas as any OF
her citizens.
We are also informed that present
indications point to heavy top crop
owing to the average high temperature
in September, and seasonable and
abundant rains, and experts estimate
the Texas cotton crnn Ar lAA 010 haIaz-
The McCook tribune., 1896-10-30
A Comparison of Prices.

The prices of some of the common
articles of merchandise furnished an
object lesson which shall not soon for
get. The City of Mexico is the metrop-
oils of the republic. and it is fair to
n-esume that the merchants are not un-
The McCook tribune., 1896-10-30

beans. These they get through the
hacienda store The ration for each
man is one and one-half pints OF corn
per day. If he has wife and six chill
dren, as is generally the case, he would
have to draw from the store account
twelve pints each day. The hacienda
owner charges all the way from to II
cents per pint for shelled corn, and at
the end of the year when a settlement
is made the poor farmer finds himself
helplessly in debt, and his slavery con-
tinueS.
There are those who insist that these
people do not desire and would not en-
joy and appreciate better condition
in life; that they prefer mud house
to a comfortable home; sheepskin in
preference to a bed, and blanket to
cover their nakedness and keep them
warm instead of clothing. There is
inst as much reason and truth in such
declaration as in the oft-repeated
claim that the free silver policy of that
country is beneficial to the laboring
classes. for neither assertion is true.
There is no more peaceable, patient
and Woodworking class of people on
the globe. than the peon laborers of
Mexico. They are not responsible fer
the policy that has tended to degrade
rather than lift them up. They know
nothing about the benefits and bless
ings of education, but they can look
about them and observe the conditions
of the rich, and although they may
never hope 10 advance from the life OF
slavery that is now upon them, it is
idle folly to say that these people would
not appreciate the little home-con-
forts that make life worth the living.
Beggers Everywhere.
The City of Mexico is the flower OF
the republic. I was not disappointed
in finding there the concentration CT
enormous wealth, because l had heard
much Of the magnificent homes, fine
business blocks, the beautiful drive to
Chepultepec, the great parks-and the
bull fights. But amid all this gorgeous
display of wealth l found undenlaDle
evidences Of poverty and hunger every
where. The halt, the lame and the
blind are not the only class who beg
you to give them money on nearly eV-
cry street corner. Strong men and Wo-
men, able to work, vie with the al
flicted in their appeals for ''centaVos.
The only reason can give for this gen.
eral begging is that they can make
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25
What Is Sleep?

Prof. Dubois of Lyons has recently
given an interesting answer to this
question. According to him, sleep may
be defined as a kind of intoxication
caused by carbonic acid. Experiment
ing with animals which hibernate in
winter, such as the marmot, for in
stance, he finds that during the prog
'ress of Information there is an accu-
mutation of ca.'bonic acid in the blood
of the unconscious animal. Further
study has convinced him that the win
ter sleep" of alternating animals does
not differ, as lar as its causes are con-
cerned, from the ordinary sleep which,
for shorter periods, lulls the senses and
restores the strength of all animals, in
Guiding man.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

Another tariff war between Russia
and Germany is among the early pos
sibilities. Under the existing arrange
ment Russia, which has a great sur
plus of agricultural products to ex-
change for German manufactures,
complains she is getting the worst end
of the bargain and talks of placing
big tariff on imports from Germany
In such case the country last named
would refuse to buy in Russia and
would take more breadstuffs from the
United States Beneficial results from
this might be offset in part by Rus
sia's increased offerings of her own
grain surplus in western Europe, af-
fording further competition for Amer
lean grain.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25
DIR. Nansen's Profits.

Some revelations concerning the
profits of DR.. Nansen's last trip in the
direction of the North Pole show that
polar exploration is worth while. In
the course of case In the English law
courts it was learned that for three
articles. which appeared in the Daily
Chronicle, he received $4,000. For his
book. in which he will tell the full story
Of the voyage of the Fran, he is to
receive $4,000. As he expresses his
confidence that he will reach the pole
noxt time. he should soon be very rich.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

The French convention decreed the
adoption of the republican calendar,
which counted period of ten days
a decade it was called-as a week.
When the decree was published a
witty man, seeing that the division
was far from convenient, said: Its
no good; it has two enemies who will
never give in-the beard and the white
shirt. 1.-THE wit knew that the laboring
class would not only find nine con-
secutive days too many for them, but
that their habit of shaving and put
ting on a clean shirt every seventh
day was too fixed for convention TO
eradicate. When Napoleon suppressed
the decade and restored the old week,
the change met with universal ap-
prevail
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25
BLASTS FROM THE RAMS HORN

is there any thing the devil can't
make out of an envious man?
When you pray for revival, don't
20 TO church with a long face.
Do away with personal devil. and
there is no need OF a personal Christ.
The more 1en disappoint us. the
more we should have faith In God.
1t is mistake to call anything sue
cess that is not according to Gods
plan.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

That the best attachments are not
the result of chance was exemplified in
the discovery Of the planet Neptune,
the fiftieth anniversary of which event
was recently celebrated in France.
Telescopes had long swept the sky
without discovering this shy outer
planet. but when astronomers noticed
how Uranus FASTENED in one part of
his orbit and moved with less rapid
ity in another. they knew there must
be an attracting body that held him in
check. Leverrier, therefore, after mi
nuto calculations, wrote to the astron-
omer of the Berlin observatory, re-
questing him to point his telescope to
a particular spot in the sky on an
evening indicated, and said: You will
see planet which have not seen, and
which no human eye has ever seen, but
which nevertheless must be on the
spot" No one would venture to call its
discovery that night an act of chance.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

The reckless and improvident would
soon be abandoned if their friends did
not secretly hope that they wolld in
time reform anG pay for favors re-
ceived.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

Col. Ingersoll, owing to illness, was
obliged TO cancel several lectures,
whereupon a st. Louis paper suggests
that it would be a good time to send
him some tracts, as there can be little
hope of saving him when he is well.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

There is said TO be one county in
gia-Charlton-that did not parti-
cipate in the late election, and the peo-
pie living in it don't know yet what
has happened. Where ignorance is
bliss It's folly to vote.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

While the DEVILS messengers were
telling Job everything had been lost,
the Lords messengers were on the way
to say that his gain had been hun
dred per cent
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

Money is one of che levers that
moves the world, and it always moves
it in the right direction when a godly
man controls it.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

A New Jersey photographer has
bsen taking pictures at night in
streets lighted with electricity. Whole
blocks with houses and people on the
street appear as distinctly as IL the
photograph were taken in the day
time. Science seems to determine to
make life unpleasant for the good cit
izen out for lark. Experts in high
way robbery take snapshots at him on
the dark streets and the amateur pho
tographer on the lighted ones. He has
the alternative Of losing his pocket
book OF reputation--or of remaining al
home and being good.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

Turning a mad dog loose is trihing
thing. compared to what the devil can
DO with a gossiping tongue.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

Very often when we think we are
impressing people with our smartness,
We are only making reputation for
being disagreeable.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

When a man says that nobody cares
whether he lives or dies, he isn't ad-
yertising himself very well.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

Getting the big head. shrinks the
heart.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

A mans luck is generally about as II
looks to him
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

There can be no true and abiding
comfort and peace, that is not rooted
and grounded in faith.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

a man isn't likely to enjoy hearing
his wife talk with a woman who re-
members him when he was a boy.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

There are people who soon Acquire
grudges against those who help them
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

We are rich, not in what we have
but in what we cannot lose.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

There are people who acquire i'm
p0rtance by being abused.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-25

Few things are more pitiable than {
joker with a joke he has to explain.
The evening times., 1896-12-03
MRS. CASTLES POOR HEALTH.
Four to Five Months of Radical
Treatment REQUIRED.

Philadelphia, Dec. 3.-Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Castle, of San Francisco, who re-
turned from Europe on the steamer ]layel
last Thursday, came to Philadelphia on the
day after their arrival in New York, and
are now at the home of Mrs. Castles
sister, in the northern section of the city.
Mr.. Castle last evening said that his
wife was still in pc or health. and that it
wastheirintentionto o remain in Philadelphia
for five or six months, until Mrs. Castle,
who Is now under medical treatment,
shall recover her health.
MIR. Castle appeared to be very solcitous
about his wlfe's condition, and said that
the physicians whom he had consulted here
had informed him that the case would re-
quire radical treatment, and would take
perhaps four to five months. He expressed
himself as being much gratificd at the man.
ner in which the unfortunate episode through
which they had passed abroad had been
taken up by their friends on both sides of
the Atlantic and by the newspapers, which
latter, he said, have treated them in the
most kindly manner,
Both he and Mrs.. Castle had felt much
annoyed by the widespread publicity which
was being given to every movement they
made.
Mrs. Castle, prior to her marriage, re-
sided in this city with her parents, MIR
and Mrs. A. WE'LL, now of Wilmington. n.
c., where her father is the agent Of the
Atlantic Coast Line. Miss WE'LL went I o
San Francisco to visit an aunt, and while
there she met Mr.. Castle, whom She sub
sequently married.
A sister of Mrs. C Castle, the one with whom
she is at present stopping, is married to a
well-knOwn Philadelphia business man.
The evening times., 1896-12-03
Emma SOuthWiCk BrintOn.

work the first Sunday in January. 1897
The church is to be Congregational, and
will be known as the University Park Tenn
pie.
For the last nine years q band of Chris
tian workers, known as the Universit y
Park Mission, have carried on a kind Of
institutional work with the hope that
some day n church would be the out
growth Of their efforts. This new move
mentis in large sense the consummatiOn
OF the plans and purposes OF the mission
The work already begun will be carried on
under the auspices OF the church with the
same enthusiasm that has always marked
the endeavors OF the mission.
At the meeting Tuesday evening. the fol-
lowing officers of the new society were
elected for the ensuing year: President,
Robert H. Terrell; secretary, Prof. Lewis
b. Moore of Howard University: treasurer,
Hon. Is. h. Bruce, trustees, Hon. b. X.
Bruce, Robert II. Terrell, Prof. Lewis B.
Moore, W. S. Welborne, James F. ,'hilds,
Z. N. Mitchell and ]. N. Bonner.
The Officers of the Ladies' Aid Society,
and important branch of the church. are:
President, Mrs. B. K Bruce; vice president,
Miss Linnie Waring; secretary, Miss Anna
Smith, and treasurer, Mrs. John NJ. Lang
ston. Hon. John NJ. LangstOn was chosen
as the president OF the Temple Assembly.
The music will be in charge of Mrs. Alice
in the mission building corner of Sixth and
Trumbull streets northwest.
The pastor of the new church will be
Rev. Sterling n. Brown, who was educated
at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn, and
who for the last eight years has been plstor
OF the Plymouth gregational Church in
this city.
The evening times., 1896-12-03
mrs. BRlI1o4'S LIFE
IN war 1tD IN PEACE
Among the First Volunteer Nurses
Lives in Washington.
Then She Did Work Among the
Freedmen-H New England
Log Cabin.

Though Mrs. Emma S. BrintOn was born
aud reared in Massachusetts she has lived
in Washington long enough to be identi-
fled with its interests and consider it her
home.
The first step in her public career was
taken in sci. when she volunteered as an
army nurse and did faithful hospital ser
vice from the beginning to the end OF the
war. Later she did mission work among
the freedmen of the Sea Islands, and after
her return North was engaged by the Bos-
ton Traveller and other newspapers to do
correspondents work abroad.
1t was at the Vienna Exposition, in 1873
that Mrs Brinton conceived the plan of
having a New England Log Cabin at the
coming centennial. When the little struct-
ure stood finished and furnished 1t was q
source Of amazemcnt to every one that a
woman should have designed and carriedi It
through.
at the Columbian Exposition she erected
and managed a second log cabin repre-
sentative of the life led by the New Eng
landers in Colonial days. People OF all
nation alities found In its simple inte-
rior the one idea OF health and home. The
hungry and weary sightsecrs were thank
ful for the abundance Of the Colonial din
ing room, and hundreds daily sat at its
board.
AS delegate to the International Peace
Congress at Budapest. and TO the Woinan's
Congress at Berlin Mrs Rrinton gath
cred material for lectures, which she has
made doubly Interesting with the aid of
many beautiful views. She will deliver
the last OF these illustrated talks at the
Church of Our Father tonight.
The evening times., 1896-12-03
DRAWS GOOD CROWDS.
Mt, CrittentOn's Bible Reading Yes
terday Was Well Attended.

terdAy was wen Atteuutus
Roth the afternoon and evening sessions
of the Bible reading meetings were Wen
attended Yesterday at Metropolitan Church-
Mfr. Crittenton announced last night that
in addition to these afternoon and eyei-
ing sessions there will be mass meeting
for children at go O'Clock on Saturday
afternoon. The topic for Saturday even
inc's consideration will be ''Consecration,"
and il is Mr.. Crittenton's wish that all
elders, deacons and members should at
tend
At the First Congregational Church sun
day afternoon he will speak of the Work or
the Florence Crittenton Mission, now 1t
was established, and how the rescue work
is going on in the different cities uf the
Union.
Mr.. Crittenton spoke last night Of Work
in the vineyard and told the story NJ the
two sons, one OF whom promised to go
and did not, and the other, who refused
and then repented and went. Go work
today in Ny vineyard he said, was the
evangelist's theme. This call was not for
ministers only, but for all. He told of a
saloonkeeper who, being urged by his wife
10 give his heart to God, declared that he
could not do it on account of his business.
".John.' she said how much do you make
a year.
''He replied $4,000.
...IIow long do you expect to live?' she
asked
"He answered that he hoped to live about
twenty years
"A nd would you sell your soul for ; 49,
O00?' asked his wife.
No replied John. He gave up his him
dering business and became a worker and
a Christian. Each day W must receive fresh
orders.'
The evening times., 1896-12-03
CHILDREN WERE IN DANGER.
One of the Buildings of School for
Feeble.Minded Burned.

yineland. n. j.. Dec. 3.-Thc Admins
tration building, the finest structure on the
grounds of the New Jersey Training School
for Feeble-Minded Children, was destroyed
by fire last night.
There were in the building at the time
eleven feeble-minded children and swelve
officers and teachers, all of whom were
gotten out in safety. The flames were
prevented from communicating to the other
buildings of the institution.
The structure destroyed was known as
the Administration or Markham building, it
having been the gift of Mr.. r. D. MaXh I'M,
n wealthy citizen of Vineland. The build
ing cost about $40, 900 and was insured
for $4,000.
An irreparable loss is the official papers
and records Of the institution, all III which
were burned. The fire started in defective
flue near the office Of the superintendent.
Rev. S. Garrison, superintendent tf
the training school. left Vineland for two
weeks vacation at Asheville. N c.