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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1897-08-20
ERESH BREAD.

HAVENNER'S BRRAD-fresh every day
For sale by
June 10 d. H. BOUIC.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-03

and our coal fields are practically in
exhaustible. Tnere is enough coal i'll
Alabama to do all the manufacturing
of the United States for many years
to come. l was told at Bessemer that
the available coal of Alabama alone, if
it could be put in a lump, would make
a solid chunk seventy miles long by
sixty miles broad, and ten feet thick
Such lump would, it is estimated,
furnish ten thousand tons of coal a
day for more than eleven thousand
years, or a million tons a year for 115
years. But Alabama has only a small
amount Of the great Appalachian coal
fields. These fields end somewhere in
Alabama. They run from there north
ward a distance, it is said, of about
nine hundred miles, and they are from
thirty to one hundred and eighty miles
wide. They furnish about two-thirds
Of all our bitUminOus coal output, and
we produce, you know, about One-third
of all the coal of the world. In 1894 we
mined 10000, 600 tons Of coal, while the
whole world produced only $40 600, 900
tons. The only country which beat US
that year was Great Britain. We have
thousands Of square miles Of coal lands
outside of the Appalachian fields, and
there are great undeveloped coal areas
in the West. I was told Of a great iron
mountain which is to be opened by a
railroad from Salt Lake City to Los
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-03
Where Iron

(Copyr GIFTED, 1856. by Frank G. Carpentero
WASHINGTON, Jan. IL write to-
day Of the wonderful development
which is going on in iron-making in
the South. l have visited the mines
and furnaces in Alabama and else
where There has been revival of
business since the election Of McKin-
ley, and the indications are that there
will be a steady increase in the output
from now on. [ spent some time at
Birmingham, which, you know, had
such a boom not long ago, but which
is now doing business on a good finan-
cial basis. Birmingham is the biggest
iron producer south of PittSburg. There
are twenty-siX iron furnaces within
thirty miles of the town, which have
a daily output Of almost 1000 tons of
pig iron. They employ nearly 1000
men and pay wages of $50 900 a month.
They claim to make iron cheaper than
anywhere else in the world, and one
Of the furnace companies shipped some
of its product not long ago to London
and sold it-there at a profit.
BIG MONEY IN IRON.
The South is doing it's business on a
big, broad scale. There is an enor-
nous amount of money invested, and 1
visited the furnaces of one company
which has a capital stock Of $21, 100000
This is the Tennessee Coal and Iron
company. 1t has mines scattered
throughout Tennessee and Alabama,
and l am told that it's property is
worth as much as some of the small
European Kingdoms. 1t has a vast area
of coal beds and if is now mining more
than 1900 tons Of coal a day. 1t owns
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-03
FREE: TO EVERY MAN.
THE METHOD OF A GREAT TREAT
NEENT
Which Cured Him After Everything
Else Failed.

Painful diseases are bad enough, but
when a man is slowly waiting away
with nervous weakness, the mental
forebodings are ten times worse than
the most severe pain. There Is no let
up to the mental suffering day or night.
Sleep is almost impossible and under
such a strain men are scarcely respon-
sible for what they do. For years the
writer rolled and tossed on the troubled
sea Of sexual weakness until 1t was a
question whether he had not better
take dose Of poison and thus end all
his troubles. But providential inspira-
ton came to his aid in the shape of u
combination of medicines that not only
completely restored the general health.
but enlarged his weak, emaciated parts
to natural size and vigor, and he now
declares that any man who will take
the trouble to send his name and ad-
dress may have the method of this
wonderful treatment free. Now when
1 say free I7mean absolutely without
cost, because I want every weakened
man to get the benefit Of my expert
ence.
am not al philanthropist, nor do T
pose as an enthusiast, but there are
thousands of men suffering the mental
tortures of weakened manhood who
would be cured at once could they but
get such a remedy as the one that
cured me. Do not try to study out how
I can afford to pay the few postage
stamps neceSsarygto mail the informa-
ton, but send for 1t, and learn that
there are q few things on earth that
although they cost nothing to get they
are worth fortune to some men and
of us. Write to Thomas Slater, Box
1873, Kalamazoo, Mich, and the in
formation will be mailed In a plain
sealed envelope.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-03
THE HANDS.
THE PLAY.
North and South, IT; East ana WEST,
A COUP THAT WORKED.

The deal which we give below is
taken partly from our imagination. The
play made by East at trick four, actu-
ally occurred in a straight whist game
a few evenings since but the players
did not preserve the hands or recall
the development, and we have supplied
both. East's play in refusing to win
with his ace of hearts shows that he
fully understood the situation. A less
careful player would have taken the
trick and returned the diamond, know
ing that he could make a small trump
by this course, and possibly get two
discards. But East sees more in the
hand; he refuses to take the trick in
order that North may place ace OF
hearts with South and draw the
trumps. This, of course, North does,
and falls into the trap; he has no idea
that East has been coupling, and leads
back the heart confidently expecting
to take five tricks in that suit. East
now plays the ace and West makes
six diamond tricks. East's coup gains
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-03

mountains of iron ore, and last year it
produced more than a half million tons
Of pig iron and more than three and
One-half million tons of coal. [ visited
its coke ovens at the town of Bessemer,
south of Birmingham, and was told
that the ovens there, together with the
others owned by the company, make
almost 5000 tons Of coke q day, while
out Of it's Alabama iron mines alone
are daily taken more than 5000 tons of
ore. This is perhaps the biggest COM
pany of the South, but there are other
large establishments, and you may
look for an enormous Industrial devel-
opment there within the next few
years.
~ COAL AND IRON HUGGING
The coal and iron of the South are
fairly hugging each other. They lie
side by side, and when their marriage
takes place in the furnaces with the
aid of the fieecy bridal veil of lime
stone, which is also found near by,
they can produce Industrial children
in the shape of iron and steel more
cheaply than their kind in any other
portion Of the world. Next to Ala
bama the greatest iron mines OF the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-03
New Iron Mines OIL The
SOalh Ond How They
Are BEING EGVGlOpGd.
Is King.

United States are along Lake Superior.
The biggest coal beds are in Pennsyl
vania, more than a thousand miles
away The limestone is also far off,
and the products have to travel hum
dreds of miles before they can come to-
gether Chicago makes vast deal Of
iron. 1t gets it's ore from Lake Su-
perior and it's coal from Pennsylvania.
1t is the same with Cleveland and
Toledo, but the freight rates on the
great lakes are so low that we are
able to shoe the seven-league boots Of
our industrial progress with iron. Even
at such great distances we have
brought the iron and coal together and
have made ourselves the greatest iron
manufacturers of the world. A little
over ten years ago Great Britain pro-
duced ten times as much pig iron as
we did. We caught up to her In 1890,
and we now beat her in the production
of both iron and steel. / have only
the figures of 1892 before me. In that
year and every year since then we
have led the world in these respects.
In 1892 we made more than one-fourth
of all the iron and steel in the world.
and Germany and Great Britain Jagged
far behind US on the metallic road.
Then the world produced 100000 tons
of iron, and our share of this was over
600 tons. Our pig iron product
that year was worth more than all
our gold and silver
| WHERE IRON COMES FROM.
| There is no doubt that we are to
furnish the greater part of the iron for
the world in the future. We have big
ger ore beds than any other country
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-03
Gold Production the Greatest i'm thu
World.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2-The Engineer
ing and Mining Journal TODAY c6ntains
statistics of the mine producfione ~
the United States during 1896. In onlv
nine OF the chief articles was there anv
marked decrease, while in several there
were considerable increases. nGta hIv
copper. The gold production of tbe
united States in 1896 reached the total
OF IOOO,0OO, a gain over 1895 of no less
IMAM S1O, l69, 800. This extraordinary
advance, which thus far surpasses the
gam reported from any other country
IN the world, puts the United States
IN the lead of the producing countries.
The output of gold was no less than
70 per cent Of the total Of the entire
world. The production of silver from
domestic ore, reached a total Of q. 465-
II" hre ounces, showing a decrea sa
from that of 1895, and amounting to
So6O62 ounces only. The silver produc-
ton has thus been maintained better
than has been anticipated. Moreover.
there were produced or refined from
foreign ores and bullion by our smelters
and other works no less than 40, 900 900
Hne ounces of silver, making the total
quantity refined or put into final mar
ketable form in this country, IS, 4S5. 173
fine ounces. This large production was
almost entirely absorbed by the mar
kets, and the average price of silver
for the year shows an actual advance
having been 81 cents, although to-
wards the close of the year it fell
about 2 per cent. below that point.
Of the silver obtained from foreign ores
it is estimated that 3S, 600 900 ounces
came from Mexican ores and bullion,
and 100000 ounces from materials
brought into this country from Canada,
chiefly from British Columbia.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-03
HEWITT WOULDN'T BELIEVE +


One man who owned some Of the
most valuable iron territory of Ala
bama called upon Abram S. Hewitt.
who, you know, has made fortune out
of iron and who has big iron interests
today. He showed Hewitt the ore and
told him it lay there in Alabama on the
top Of the ground and could be had
for the picking it up. Hewitt replied
that he had no money to invest at
present, and he evidently did not be-
lieve the mans story. t.Why," said he,
I'VE people here in New York look
upon iron as so much gold, and you
can hardly make me believe that you
people have Jumps Of gold lying
around down South, and that no one
has yet picked them up. If your story
is true, I advise you to take several
New York experts to the South and
get them to swear to what they see
before you try to place such property
in New York" 1T was some time after
this before the Alabama mining boom
began. A great deal Of this was on
paper, but the foundation is there, and
the iron mines are as valuable today as
they We're ten years ago. They are now
all owned by big corporations, and
they are being developed after the best
business principles. The mine which
we entered was worked with COM
pressed air drills. The cars were
hauled up and down an inclined rail-
way by steam, and hundreds Of sooty
laborers, with candles in their hats,
were at work. The vein Of ore that
saw ranged in width from eight to
twenty-four feet It is a great sand
witch of iron ore between walls of slate
and rock. It dips down into the ground
at an angle Of about So degrees.
DANGERS OF MINING.
I could hear the boom! boomi boom |!
of the blasting powder as / went
through the mine. At times the air
shook and quivered with the concus-
sion, and our candles were blown out
Dynamite is used almost altogether
in iron mining, and the danger is very
great If 1T is not carefully handled
Every now and then terrible accidents
occur in our mines. Men are torn to
pieces, the walls fall in, and there Is
great loss of ife. The miners I saw in
Alabama were negroes. They are not
as careful as the whites, and their
wages are less than the men at work
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-03
OAT MEAL TRUST.
It's Existence Admitted by the Sup
nOSed Prnrsnnfnr

SIOUX CITY, Jan. 2-GiIes w. Brown, of
the cereal and oatmeal mills had formed a
combine, admitted that it was practically
true. Mr.. Brown was represented as the
manager of the new trust He said the
Missouri, Nebraska and Minnesota. No date.
he said, for the future meeting has been
set. Mr.. Brown said he has been working
on the plan Of organization for four months
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-03

four tricks over the play of winning
with ace of hearts and leading a dfa9
mOnd.
The hands were:
NorthT-spades, A, O. 8; hearts. K, O. J g.:
S S, X, 10 T., 5; diamonds, K, 5. East
spaces, !: 8. p hearts A, z. g. 2; clubs, 8, s,
., .; hearts 10, 8, 6, 8, 4; clubs. o. ]: dia-
monds, Q, q West-Spades, z. 5, i; hearts
none; clubs, A, s. 2; diamonds Q, ], 9, 8, Z
Two Of clubs turned. Leader, North.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-03
COFFEE WAR RAGING.
Another Cut I'm Prices Made by the
Opposition.

TOLEDO, O., Jan. 2.-The coffee war
Is on in earnest. Yesterday the Ar
buckles met the 1 cent reduction in
package coffee made by the Woolson
company, and this morning the latter
cut cent lower. They declare they
will drop prices under those Of the Ar
buckles at any cost.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-03
Earthquake mt Ottawa.

OTTAWA, Ont, Jan. 2-Ottawa was visit
ed by another earthquake shortly after mid
night. No serious damage has been re-
ported, but the shock was distinctly felt all
over the cit 1t caused considerable excite
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-03
Saturday, Jan. o. Next,

Will be the last day to deposit sums
Of S. or more in the Savings Bank Of
st. Paul to secure six months interest
July l, 1897. One-dollar deposits re-
ceived. "A East Sixth street.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-03
AMERICA LEADS

score North and South, 4; East and West. 9.
George L. Bum
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-11-19
The RuMRLEREE.

The Big Queen Searches for = Home
in the Early Spring.
In early spring, when the meadows
first take on a tinge of green, and the
apple trees put forth their rosy buds, we
may often see a single large bumblebee
flying low and swiftly back and forth
across the lawns or pastures.
These great bees are the queens who
have Just awakened from their long
winters sleep, and are now seeking
some favored spot wherein to com
mence housekeeping and found q col
ony; for these insects, like their cousin,
the honeybees, live in colonies consist
ingof three classes, or castes- 'drones,"
or males, . queens" or females" and
workers" When our big queen has
at last discovered a satisfactory build
ing site, usually deserted mouse hole,
she cleans it Of all rubbish and litter.
and places within a ball Of pollen, in
which she lays her eggs. The young
grubs hatch out possessed with enOr-
nous appetites, and, feeding on the pol
len, eat into it IN all directions. At last,
when fully grown and their craving for
food is satisfied, they spin cOcOOns of
silk in the remains of the pollen, and
change to pupa- While her family is
thus sleeping quietly within their silken
cells, the old queen is constantly al
work, building up and strengthening
the cOcoons with wax
Finally, their sleep being over, the
pupa cases burst, and the young bees
come forth in all their glory Of black
and golden livery and gauzy wings
The first brood consists entirely Of
workers, who Immediately fan TO and
relieve their tired mother queen Of all
work and duties, with the exception OF
laying eggs They fly hither and
thither, always busy and industrious,
now plunging into the center Of a gor-
geous hOIlyhoek or sunny dandelion,
or buzzing about among the modest
daisies, or diving head first into some
sweet-scented, aristOcratie lily or rose,
always emerging from their quest for
honey covered with the golden dust Of
pollen The honey and the pollen thus
gathered are stored away, and the eggs
laid in the waxsn cells from which the
workers issued; and the next brood,
composed Of drO1es and young queens,
feed upon this store Of neetar.-St-
Eicholas
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-11-19
ANoIENT wRITINe on a RocK.

PrehfstsrHc HieroEIyph1cs DtscOv-
cred Iz Vancouver Island.
During q recent hazardous journey to
the u1explored interior Of Vancouver
Island F. W. LANG, 3 fellow OF theRoyal
Geographical Society OF London, made
a discovery which VIII excite the curios-
ity OF students and scientists through
cut the world. The explorers were
crossing Great Central lake, the largest
body Of fresh water on the island. with
a length Of 30 miles, when the curious
markings upon the face OF q giant rock
attracted Mr. Laing's attention. The
canoes were stopped and Investigation
disclosed that 3 message had been left
there By some prehistoric dweners
along the lake, says the New York Sun
The hierOgiyphics forming the in
scription were arranged in I've parallel
lines. somewhat similar 70 = musical
star. while shore were figures. sppar-
emily intended for log OF wood and
growing tree. A third figure placed At
the right hand resemblsd nothing 50
much az s seTel-bFa1ched caud1estfciC-
The t1preasion- despite the 1sct that
eeatursss lauss have pazssd since Il vas
chsseled, remsin cIeE and dsstizct.
P5otogTsphs were taken e tie rock
ard slsetches made of the fnscrspff1n
They have been sent, among oahsxs, 10
Dr.. E-znz E1lz. ST The Slritl.zozfari IN
stuens Eho 81 rcsr ltElessilg il,sss
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-11-19
~ .zEALANo PosTAL ~.

NEW ZEALAND POSTAL BANKS.
a EForEin<rhan Tells OF the Advantage
Whica he Er5oy@
The Record has resolved from Tom
L. Mills OF Wellington, New Zealand
the following information regarding
postal savings banks in that country.
sNeu Zealand has a population Of
about 10000. The number Of post
offices open for savings bank business
in 1895 was 357; it must be 400 today.
In 1895 the number Of open accounts
IN the postof8ce savings bank was 49,
6s3. Of which IO1,337 we're for amounts
not exceeding go $500. which shows
it to be essentially a workers bank
3G.261 new accounts we're opened that
year. and 22OOI accounts were closed.
Deposits received IN 1895, 1886;
withdrawn, e425, 173; at credit Of all ac-
counts, s3,S95,543. giving an average Of
about Els TO the credit Of each &C
count.
"Amounts standing to the credit
Of open accounts in postal savings
banks at the end Of the years named:
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-11-19

In recent interview J. G.. johnson.
OF Peabody. democrat national commit
teemsn for Kansas, gave out a state
ment in which he said: -Populists,
democrats and silver republicans in
Kansas are all Bryan men. They all
admire the man and believe in what he
stands for. He is for a currency which
can neither be controlled at home or
abroad by q money power He is
against tariff barOns and railroad mag
mates and all other monopOlies which
seek legislation to enable them to tax
the common people. He is against
government by injunction. He is in
favor of conducting the government
in the interests Of its common citizens
believing that its uncommon citizens
need no special assistance, but can
always get their share of the national
earnings. Ali the fusion forces in
Kansas thoroughly endorse these views
and platform containing but these
few planks would accommodate them all
and surely they viii all get together
on such issues, not only in 1898 but in
1900" This is taken to be the demo
cratic position for next year and in
the next presidential election as now
outlined by the leaders.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-11-19
Mo7TNa ALoNa RTeHT line.

University or adversely" is the way
one Kansas lecturer puts it. And his
lsconic statement of the case doubtless
represents as we'll as a volume might
do the feelings of the Kansas farmers
upon that subject.
Kansas has shown by the success
which has attended agriculture in that
state of late that diversity and pros
perity 60 hand in hand together. Not
that the ideal diversifcation has as yet
been reached in that state, but the re-
suits Of efforts thus far forth have been
quick aud assuring, and point the way
to a broadening field and to greater
returns.
The evolution Of the American farm
toward that ideal which has ever shown
itself to be the truly practical-'the
little farm we'll tilied"-is just now
most rapid. The man with the hoe will
soon possess the vast western stretches
heretofore given over to the ranger
and the cowboy, and the great farms Uf
the more easterly states are being
broken up and intensive farming tax
ing the place Of extensive operations.
These are encouraging signs. They
mean better days to come for the
American farmer, who will By this me-
thOd ind profitable use for every thing
he grows, while be viii find an ever
widening field for effort and larger
market for his products. The differ
ence between a man with Sall his eggs
IN one basket" and the one who diver
sites his products, is the difference,
taken by decades, between failure and
consciousness Voice.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-11-19
TIPS FOR THE THOUGHTFUL

Choice WhittlinEs From the Block Of
Experic nee
Chairs are cheaper than backbones.
No true woman is either q man wor-
shipper or q man hRter.
On the shoulders Of the young and
bale poverty sits bat lightly.
He VINO knows the weakness Of his
own wings is sure Of successful flight.
Before submitting to the inevitable
it is wise to Be sure It is the inevitable.
In giving thanks for your blessings
don't forget the criticisms you have re-
ceiged.
The world is fun Of human mile.
stones. since it is more easy to point
than to plo3.
One song sung amid 8 storm is better
thsn 6 whole concert when the sun is
shining.
6 IS bstter to say little worse than
y9a aean# 1haE t. mean s litle worse
s'<ass s. S haz5 .5ii0cz 20 WhftEIe.
s sFi1g Is q priceless gslUs
osz eloe1eaee feFe2is ras-
- the Faseais.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1897-11-19

A boy had been up for an exsmina-
ton in scripture, had failed utterly,
and the relations between him and the
examiner had become somewhat
strained. The latter asked him if there
were any text in the whole bible he
could quote. He pOndered and then
repeated: sand Judas went out and
hanged himself"
as there any other verse you know
in the bible?'' the examiner asked.
ayes. Go thou and do likewise
There was g solemn pause and the
proceedings terminated.