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The Portland daily press., 1899-04-14

Little Colds" Thousands of lives
sacrificed every year. DR.. Woods Nor
way Pine Syrup cures little colds, cures
big colds too, down to the very verge of
consumption.
The Portland daily press., 1899-04-14
"Mrs. winsIow-s Soothing ryrup.

Mrs. WinsIoWb soothInE tyruP'
Has been used over Fifty Years BY millions oil
mothers for their children while Teething.
with psrfect success. 1t soothes tho child.
softens the gums. allays Pain, cures Wind
Collie. regulates the bowels, and is tho best
remedy for Diarrhoea whether arising from
teethinr or other causes. For sale by Drug
gists in avery part of the world. Be sure and
ask for Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25 cts
a bottls
The Portland daily press., 1899-04-14
o79f Ho0P<R} $685.
WAN ED.

A first class dressmaker and
twenty girls TO work in our
alteration department. Expert
enced hands only need apply.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
A Gibraltar In The United States.

| guard it's treasure. The guard that
watches over the clearing house is a very
| large one in itself, and together with the
| outside assistance from private detective
bureaus and the nearby police stations,
which are connected with the clearing
house by electricity, would make a for
midable body for any gang of safe bur-
glars to run across.
In the true spirit of democracy there
is very little of the ornamental about this
| guard, which is a marked contrast to the
guard, for example, which nightly patrols
| the vicinity of the Bank of England in
London.
This guard, which is detailed nightly
to perform this duty, comes from a near
by barracks and is one of those unusual
spectacles-common in London streets
! which makes that city so interesting to
! Americans. But no such attempt as was
made a few weeks ago to break into the
Sank of England could ever have sue
ceeded in the New York clearing house,
Notwithstanding the lack of the pic
turesque squad of Tommy Atkinses.
The three steel vaults in the clearing
house are of the most perfect construc-
! ton and LOCKED with time locks. Grant
ing that a bank thief could gain admit
lance to the basement and had set to
work at the steel walls that he wou en-
COUNTER there, it would do him little good
after all. For after boring through that
obstruction he would still find eight feet
of space between that wall and the vaults
to cross which. even to the finest bur-
glars kit. would hardly be possible.
But for anyone other than those hav-
Ing business there, to enter the base
ment, is a practical impossibility even in
business hours. After that the finest
system of electric alarms and signals
and a large force of Watchnen make the
place a veritable Gibraltar.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

even this temporary means Of relief will
in a little while no longer avail the Clear
ing House association.
AS soon as fifteen millions more of gold
are received by the Managers it will be
impossible to store any more in that
vault. 1t will become practically a solid
parallelogram of gold. There are now
$155, 000, 900 there, and it seems to be GER
tain that during the spring the amount
placed there for storage, where it is also
utilized as a basis for currency and for
commercial transactions for the banks
which deposit gold receive clearing house
certificates for it, will be much greater
than Sis, 000, 900.
This state of affairs-as portrayed by
this CONGRATULATIONS known in
New York the next day, and some in
quiries We're made of the president of the
Clearing House association as to the
truth of the statements. 1t is one of the
unwritten rules of that body not to be
too communicative over it's affairs. 1t
was true, the president admitted, how
ever, that when constructed the clearing
house vaults were only of a capacity to
hold $105 .000. 900. Floor space for a prac-
tically unlimited vault capacity was re-
served in the basement, however, with
the expectation that it would be needed.
Within a year an additional vault ca
pacity of $50, COO, 900 has been put in, and
it would be possible to put in additional
vaults to hold over 5000 900, 900 more gold.
SO no anxiety over the correspondents
story need be felt as to the ability of the
clearing house to accommodate all the
gold that is entrusted to its keeping.
OF course the keeping of this vast sum
Of one IS an important matter. But
the guarding of it is equally important.
The Clearing House aSSOciatlon-like all
great financial institutions of the world
has taken extraordinary precautions to
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
Gospel Yacht Of
the Ohio.
IT WILL. TRAVEL TO THE OCEAN BY
WAY OF THE OHIO AND THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVERS.

The Gospel yacht, now being built at
Jeff~ersonvilie, Ind, will shortly make a
trip to the Cuban coast. 1t will have on
board a devoted band of preachers and
Missionaries; in fact, the entire crew will
be ministers and mission workers, and
the sole object of their voyage TO make
converts.
The yacht is the largest ever built for
the purpose. 1t is 100 feet long, with an
auditorium or chapel between decks cap
able of seating 700 persons. The decks
will seat about 1000 more, and will be
used for religious services whenever
practicable. The boat is to be launched
on the Ohio river and will reach the
ocean by way of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers. Missionary work will be carried
on along the way and advantage taken
of every opportunity to preach. Several
of the workers speak Spanish.
The yacht will sail under the auspices
of the Gospel Yacht association, which
is interna tional, and has about 800 menu
bers. The crew will be supported by the
members of the association, many of
whom are prominent clergymen, and by
voluntary offerings from the people with
whom they work.
The idea of the Gospel yacht was sug-
gested by missionaries who were i'm
pressed with the needs of sailors. Boat
men on the Ohio were cut off practically
from all forms of worship and the Mis-
SlSSlnpl was lttle better. sailors Ollen'
testified that they had been for months
without an opportunity to go to chu;,h
though within sight Of land, in a Chris
tian country.
And not only were sailors deprived Of
worship, but fishermen as well had few
opportunities. Alongshore there are not
many churches and the chances to get in
land were few and far between. Now and
then a strolling preacher would tell the
gospel but not often.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
DIZZY SUMS,

The figures necessary to express the
s~tupendous transactions of the govern
ment are SO large as to be Incompetent
sible. 1t has been said that the mind
cannot as nearly grasp the real signifi-
canoe Of a million units as it can the
idea of infinity, and government tram
sactiOns are almost Invariably expressed
in millions. Some idea of this may be
gathered from the following figures
which VIII have an interest to most
readers, aside from their purpose as an
illustration. Clip them and keep them
handy. They may come useful IN an ar
ument.
Last year the government mint at
Philadelphia turned out more coin than
at any time since 1890. The grand total
was $21 ,654, ASP, of which $14, 759,251 was
gold, 81, 1885 silver and the balance
in nickels and coppers. The coppers alone
would have made a fair fortune.
At the close of 1898 the government
debt amounted to Slab, SAC, 9S1, of which
fOur-ffths is interest bearing. In the
treasury at that time there was cash on
hand to the value of 1890, 431, 951, of
which 1921 129, 435 was in gold, $503 PIP, S54
in silver and the balance in paper and
| small coin. There are current liabilities
which, after deduction, leaves a grand
balance of 1924, 164, 695. This would be
enough to buy titles for all of New York
city's -four hundred" The flow into the
treasury went on at the rate of over sixty
millions per month during the last six
months of the year, the new internal rev.
enue alone furnishing over 1922, 600, 600 of
this in the month of December.
The last years marked increase will be
offset in a measure by additional dis
hursements, one of which is the proposed
Hull army bill. The cost of maintaining
the regular army on a peace footing here
| I FnrA has l1n,, ~ 1;ttIn. oxyn ~ G)t n0H D00 MOI.
year, hut the enlarged army will require
$50, 900, goo annually.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

An enterprising, but in this case not
very reliable, newspaper correspondent
threw a large number of people into an
extraordinary state Of excitement the
other day by sending a thrilling account
to his home paper Of the sad state the
New York Clearing House found itself
In, in not being able to find room in its
vaults for the tremendous amount Of
gold that was pouring into them in the
course of business.
According to this story, the influx of
gold from Europe n the increase of the
output of our own gold mines made it
become a serious mechanical question
for the clearing house to care for this
vast sum of money which is doing so
much to stimulate industrial and invest
ment activity.
The managers of the clearing house,
speaking of this matter to the corre-
spondent, said that they We're convinced
that it will be necessary in a little while
to enlarge the great vault in the clearing
house building.
It is only three years since the new
clearing house building was finished.
The managers of the association gave
when the building was being planned no
little thought to the vault. II the most
liberal estimate Of the greatest demand
that would be likely to be made for stor-
age facilities in that vault was for $780,
00G, coo in gold. In order to make a good
margin over that liberal estimate, how
ever, the decision was reached that the
vaults should be built so as to be able to
contain as much as S105 600. 600.
Within a little over a year after that
vault was opened to receive its precious
burden the capacity had been reached
and ii became necessary to make use of
the aisleS or passage ways IN order to
store the gold that was offered. But
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

yachtsmen will leave their private craft
to spend an hour in prayer and song, and
be glad of the chance.
The purpose of the yacht will be to help
physically as we'll as spiritually. The
missionaries will recognize no NATIONAL
ity. Cuban and Spanlard alike will be
invited to attend the floating chapel. The
Christian religion will be spread along
the northern and southern shores of our
new possessions wherever a community
can be found.
Yacht association. as it is also called,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
PREMIUM FOR WIDOWS.

According to the laws of good society
in China, Il widows should not re-
marry. Widowhood is therefore held In
the highest esteem, and the older the
widow grows the more agreeable her po-
sition becomes. Should she reach so
years she may, by applying to the en-
peror, get a sum of money with Which
to buy a tablet, on which her virtues are
named. The tablet is placed over the
door at the principal entrance of her
house.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

was organized November 6, 1897. The Of
ficers are: President, George E. Benin,
J~effersonville, Ind; vice presidents, DR..
j. A. Phelps, High Bridge, KY; George
b. Snyder, Aurelius, Mich; Deacon F..
M. Sanders, Aurelius, Mich: James Glib
son, De Witt, Mich: A. G. Winscott,
High Bridge, Ky; treasurer, Edwin S.
Harris, Eaton Rapids, Mich; general
secretary, Irene Wallace, Zeno, Ohio; as
sistant secretaries. Grace Bateman, Au-
lelius, Mich; Mary Mayfield, Science,
Ky, and Ida Williams, Wheeler, Mich.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11

The Gospel yacht grew out of this idea,
and it was built with the one thought Of
helping sailors and fishermen, though
people on the coast may profit by it.
Nor Will it appeal to the working class
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
NTMCo,

alone. During their short experience
the yacht workers ave found that if OPP
p%ortunity afford. wealthy persons Will
come on the Gospel yacht as it lies at
anchor of a Sunday morning. Amateur
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
Mrs. Maggie P. Slime, New
Berlin, Pa, writes:

II have suffered with terrible
backache in the small of my back
for about seven years, and could
never get anything to help me.
I tried several physicians, but
found no help. l have now taken
three bottles of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and
feel like a different woman.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-11
nrs. H. A., I74 Cedar Street,
OwossO, r1ich., writes:

NEARLY three years ago I wrote
to you asking advice in regard
to my health. Twas so miserable;
suffered from painful menstru-
alton and backache, was nervous,
dizzv and faint. l received such
a kind letter from you, telling me
Just what to do. I followed your
advice and l now am recommend
ing Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. l thank God
for this pain destroyer"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

The Bureau of Statistics of Labor or
Massachusetts, has Issued its annual re-
port. The number of establishments
considered in the report is 4,7O1, as
against 1895 in 1897. The value OF
goods made and work done during the
year in the nine leading industries was
$S65 ,619 1856, of which boots and shoes
contributed $131, 162,57S; cotton goods,
$9O,9S6, 469; leather, $25,9O7,7S0; ma
chimes and machinery, $34,797,77O;
metals and metallic goods, $40 ,426,7SO;
paper and paper goods, s2S,625'357;
wooden goods, s30,359, 533, and worsted
goods, S25,664,722. The report shows
that the production Of the textile in
dustrles in some of the cities has de-
clined in value. For example, Fall
River, which leads in textile produc-
ton, produced during the year textile
fabrics to the value of $3O,23O,934, this
being a falling Off of $3,O96,454 or 9.2S
per cent, as compared with 1885. 1t Is
shown that the various mills following
a systematic plan not only cut down
the number of pieces of cotton cloth
carried over from the preceding year.
but also cut down production material
ly. The number Of textile establish
ments shows decrease of SO. The re-
port contains table showing the
amount of capital invested in the lead
ing industries, as follows: Boots and
shoes, $22,414,635; cotton goods, S1l2,
7O2,33O; food preparations, $l9,O40,S52;
machines and machinery, $32,6S3,S13;
metals and metallic goods, SIT ,191 1883;
paper, s2O,733, 967; rubber and elastic
goods, s1O,S75,3OS; wooden goods, $780,
93O,O24; print works, dye works, etc.
s12,674,S71. The cotton goods industry
gave employment to S1,3S5 persons,
who received in wages SIG, 1894, 240. In
the boot and shoe industry 51,S97 per-
sons were employed, at wages aggre-
eating $23,904,714, while in the pro-
duction Of machines and machinery
1888, 62S persons were engaged, who
drew in wages $10,O6S, 181.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

an agreement to employ union labor
exclusively. It's a matter Of politics
who gets the state contracts. Money
talks in politics. The Typographical
union is ready to talk to the extent oil
&c. 600 to gain this particular thing II
wants. Years ago this union used to
rely largely on sentiment. 1t ISSUED
Statements" to the world, calling at
tentton to its real or imaginary griev'
ances. 1t found that the world had lit
tie time to read and less inclination to
heed these tales of woe. 1t doesn't issue
so many statements now. 1t does busi-
ness, and recognizes that to do busl'
ness with success, you must nave
money. So it appropriates money.
The shorter workday committee pre-
scented its final report. In the report
the craft is congratulated upon the
substantial progress that has been
made, and 1t states that not the lease
beneficial outcome of its labors mas
been the mutual understanding arrived
at between the employers and the em'
ployes of the allied printing trades,
The interest of employer and employee
alike can be best served, the commit
tee finds, by resort to a system IN
which negotiation is substituted ION
obstinate insistence on demands, ana
argument and reason take the place
Of strikes and lockouts.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

Day by day it becomes very apparent
that labor must meet capital on more
nearly equal ground by opposing or.
ganization Of men to organization Of
money. 1t is idle to think that close
and ever closer organization of capital
can be prevented. Xerxes tried to chain
the tide, but it rushed past his chain;
he then chastised the disobedlent wa
tiers by beating them with rods, but 1t
is not OF record that he hurt them.
The world has come to the conclusion
that XerXes wasn't wise. Yet now there
exist legislators and economists who
want to do exactly what Xerxes tried
to do. They want to stop" profitable
concentration by having congress and
state legislatures say that there shall
be no more concentration. However,
not all men are descendants of the
foolish Persian potentate. The wage
trust is already casting its shadow be-
fore. The organization of a union of
100000 workmen in Greater New York
has been begun by committee ap-
pointed by the Central Federated
union. Mr.. William A. Perrine, secre-
tary OF the Iron holders Conference
board, and one Of the leading members
OF the committee, said: "This new
union will be one of the biggest local
central labor bodies on the face Of the
earth. All the unions in the five Dor
Oughs of New York city will join.
1t will be more powerful than many
great national and international
unions, and will have more influence in
New York city than any labor organ
ization which ever existed The bust
ness of conducting the big bodies which
now exist independently will be great
ly facilitated Employees will also ben
eft by the Capitalization of central la
Dor unions in New York city. Strikes
are bound to become fewer in number
year after year through the influence
of the great central organization The
principle of arbitration will triumph at
last. For twenty years the bricklay-
ers' union have had no strikes, because
all bricklayers have been in one union.
There are many fine examples of the
Capitalization to be found in Greater
New York" 1t Is not matter of
choice with labor whether it will con-
centrate its forces, other than the
choice between adopting the only avail
able means of self-defense, or per-
ishing,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
The West Wind.

The West Wind.
Blow. winds. blow out of the 'wildering
West
The West of the setting sun.
The cup that has caught the sinking
light
or all the days that are done.
Blow, winds, blow out of the clouded
wake
OF the sunbeams tired of play
The beams that lean on the edge OF eve
And slip in the dark away.
Blow over the check OF painting hope.
At rest in his goaless climb;
Come back from the toll that doubles
age,
And teach us the younger time.
Chasten the lily Of the bitter cup
I stained with sin of yore.
And bring 1t back till taste again
or the sweets / left before.
Give birth to JOY in my heart, grown Old
In the history OF its grief.
And death to pain while his fangs are
dull,
The sting of their poison. brief.
Blow. winds, blow out OF the grave OF
light;
Come up from the tomb of day.
And lead all the spirit lovers back
From the dreams 1 dreamed away.
Blow, winds. but leave the sun OF the
East
Not long may I hold him guest
For he will turn with the tide of noon.
While l sink into the West
j. A. Coll in Midland Magazine"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29
MYSTERY OF NELLIE KNOX.

Alfred c. Ellis, a prisoner in the
st. Louis city jail on two charges
obtaining money under false pretensea
and bigr.my--is accused, in letter
sent to Sheriff Pohlmann by Mrs M. E
Knox of TO. 1900 Twentieth street, Dem
yer, Col, Of knowing more than has
ever become public of her stepdaugh'i
ter's disappearance. Ellis admits tina.
he left his father-in-law's home with
this girl who was Is years old, on the
night when she disappeared. She was
his wlfe's sister. He claims that he re-
members nothing OF what occurred.
He says he does not know where he
left her, what he did or where he waA
from o'clock at night until o'clock
the next morning. Two years ago the
girls skeleton was found In what was,
at the time she disappeared. a country
lane. 1t was identified by her father.
Major Knox. by means Of ring. ELS
has served a term in the Animosa, Ia,
penitentiary for bigany and has been
sent to the workhouse in st. Louis for
minor offenses. He has been married
four times, and. according to the stories
his wives tell, only one OF them was
legally united to him. Here Is para
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

A few days ago the international
Typographical union met in annual
convention in Detroit, Mich. 1t was the
largest convention ever held by the
union. 1t was up to date. 1t believed
in using the power Of concentration
and money, rather than resorting to
open breaks between employer and en-
ploye. 1t was prudent. 1t believed that
it is wise in time Of peace to prepare
for war. 1t realized that you cannot,
as a rule, get good thing without pay
ing it; so it adopted the following:
Resolved, further, That every member
shall pay, in addition to the 80 cents
before mentioned in this section, the
sum of 10 cents per month, the money
SO collected to be converted, as each
$1,000 Is accumulated, into United
States bonds or securities of. equal sta
bility, the same to be known as the
permanent defense fund.- in the keeping
of the executive council, the interest
on which, after the 100000 shall have
been accumulated, shall be turned over
to the temporary defense fund, by
which name the union fund shall be
known, in charge also Of the executive
council, the further disposition of the
permanent defense fund to rest solely
with the International Typographical
union, as determined by the referen-
dunn" One hundred thousand dollars
is much money, but 1t will not take
many men long to accumulate it, and
money talks every time in business
Then the convention did another very
good thing. 1t wants official printing
everywhere done by union men. The
official printing OF Michigan is not
done by union men. So the executive
council was authorized to expend not
more than $4,000 for the purpose Of
securing the Michigan state printing
contract for a arm that will enter into
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-09-29

Gunton's Magazine, a periodical that
discusses economic and labor questions
from a very fair standpoint, says the
Brooklyn, New York and Cleveland
street car strikes are manifest unnec-
essary business disturbances, which
need not, ought not, and would not
have occurred If the management oil
the corporations had lived up to the
spirit of the ten-hour law and recog-
nized the now conceded right of labor
ers to act as organized bodies. The
strikes emphasize the need of better
and more intelligent organization
among laborers, and of permanent,
established system of conferences be-
tween representatives Of the corpora
tions on one side and labor unions on
the other. The Brooklyn and New
York strikes were precipitated unwise-
", without specific statement of a
strong case, and without unanimity
among the men themselves. More eff
fective organization and discussion OF
the case in joint board of representa-
tiyes of employers and laborers-a la'
Dor senate-would have either made
the New York strikes successful or
prevented them entirely, and In the
Cleveland case would have forestalled
the chief and almost only cause Of the
whole disturbance.