The advocate., 1897-08-25

VantageS WllCl Will encourage LuGlI
productions and tend to improve prices.
The fax duties like those imposed on
sugar, will tend to encourage the farm
ers to diversity their industry and en-
bark in the production Of articles in
which good profits are promised, rather
than continue in the production OF
staple farm products, the prices OF
which have been depressed by in
creased foreign competition, as well as
by the lower consumption among the
people during the depressed times in
the industrial centeTs of the country
OF the past three years.
New York Tribune: Here are three
items of news, published separately but
simultaneously Each is interesting in
itself. Taken together they form a most
impressive pOstlude to the campaign
of 1896. One is Lnat the price of silver,
steadily falling, reached on Wednesday
56% cents an ounce, making the bullion
value of standard dollar only 43.88
cents. Another is that the price Of
wheat, steadily rising, reached that
same day 86 cents bushel for futures
and g24b cents for cash wheat. The
third is that during the year ended
June 30 last the number of savings
bank depositOrs in this State increased
by 36,035 and the amount of deposits
by $26,441, ,974, the total number Of de-
p0sitors now being 1,768,417 and the
total amount Of deposits $741 ,474,S46.
Louisville Commercial: The best ar
gument against the antiquity of the
human race is found in the slow prog
ress man has made toward the highest
Of his present civilization. The fact
that he has Just made intercourse by
telephone practicable, and is beginning
to unfold the mystery Of electricity is
not a matter Of much surprise and
admiration, IL he has been million Of
years at work upon it, and when we
take into consideration the intolerance,
superstition and ignorance of our best
men and most advanced thinkers, the
conviction cannot be escaped that, ii
the human race has been in existence
many thousands Of years, 1t must have
started from very remote point Of in
telligence to have made no further
progress out of stupidity than 1t has
done so far.
Mail and Express OF the extraOr-
dinary developments in the iron in
dustry in the region of Birmingham,
Ala, none is more significant than the
very recent discovery that the brown
ores of that territory can be success
fully used in steel-making. The i'm
mediate effect of this fact will be the
doubling the capacity Of one great steel
mill in Birmingham and the use of
native steel in its operations instead
of the ingots which have hitherto been
supplied from Pennsylvania. The saw
ing effected by this process will run
from 81 to S6 ton, as compared with
the cost of ingots brought from the
North, and the result that Alabama
which is already an oversshadowing
factor in the iron trade, is about to
become equally formidable in the man
ufact1lre of STEEL
Pittsburg Dispatch: The manner in
which the girl Of the period is justify
ing her athletic development is i'm
pressive and conveys an intimatiOn of
new protection to society. The latest
example, that of Miss Smith, of Yonk-
ers, who, on the discovery Of burglar,
ran him down and dragged him off to
the lookup, is an exponent of the
change. Numerous other instances
have been in which the athletic young
woman in moments of danger calmly
ignores the old-fashioned feminine
practice of fainting or giving in to
Mysteries, and proceeds to the business
Of the moment, In none of them has
there been q clearer intimation that
the cnminn 1unnnan will snl1n tho rrnh-