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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-12-22
TUE BILL.

The free coinage advocates profess
to be shocked by the passage BY the
lower house Of congress Of the currency
bill, yet not one OF them offered u free
coinage amendment to the measure.
Az a matter of fact, the democrats
wanted to ace the bill passed, IN the
hope that ii will prove disastrous to
the country and enable them to make
political capital against the republi.
cans. But there Is no danger Of disas.
ter. This country has practically been
on the gold standard ever since 1873
and the measure just passed by u
branch Of congress, IL 1t passes the SEN
ate and becomes q law, will merely re-
move the option Of the treasurer to re-
deem outstanding obligations against
the government III gold or silver. It
will then have to DO gold, but II has
practically been gold alone that has
been used for this purpose for nearly
forty years; the treasurer has not
availed himself Of tho option to pay In
silver, 1t always having been the policy
Of the government to pay in the best
money.
III a few sentences, the above Ia the
main object OF the new currency bill.
IVA
"A great hue and cry will Of course be
raised against II by tho free coinage
press in the west, and their stock ar.
Rument will be that 1t will contract
the currency aud make money scareer.
But the facts are that under the gold
standard, which has been IN force and
effect ever since 1878, the volume OF
currency has been increased nearly a
half billion dollars during the three
years Of the Mckinley administration;
IL has been increased 800. 900, 900
during the current year. Thure Ia a
unanimity Of sentiment In favor Of
,soane such measure; the business inter.
pests Of the country demande IL; the
new bill simply confirms the gold stand.
ard.
And, as far IA the masses OF the
people are concerned, they care very
little about it. II times remain good,
they are satisfied, Financial agitation
thrives only when money Is scarce and
the people are out Of employment; they
are too busy nav to attempt to master
the intrinaoies Of the financial question.
All they want il to continue the repub'
lican party In power; they are satisfied
chat 1t knows what In best for the couI-
try, The proof of this pudding Ia in
the eating of 1t, and the American peo'
pie haye had pudding in theirs ever
since democracy wal relieved Of power,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-12-22

Congressman Campbell Of this state
did not vote on the currency bill passed
by the house last Tuesday, being on his
way home 10 Butte when the vote was
taken. He Ia home, he says, on priv.
ate business" but 1t Ia not believed
the public business will suffer by reason
Of his absence. However, had he been
the friend Of free coinage that he pre-.
tends to be. Campbell would have been
In his seat to vote against the gold
standard. But the less said about him
the better; he will be forgotten by the
people Of this state when his term ex.
pires, aud with the dying recollection
Of this subservient tool the universal
feeling Of contempt for him may be
lessened.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-12-22
T ARRIVALS.
Al the Grand.

Tuesday, Dec. 19.-Marian Jenkins.
st. Paul; s Hughes, Chicago; Walter
Anderson. Red Lodge;J Simms aud
wife, Lavina; j w Hathaway, Helena /;
J H Hay, Butte; Miss CA Fox, ST.
Paul.
Wednesdays B Amin. P Lavelle.
Columbus; W 0 Forsyth, Kansas; A E
Pike, st. Joe; H Q Eggleston, F Rob
ertson, st. Louis; E s Kellogg, Helena
7 Smith, Chicago; B Shorey. Merrill
A ] Sayer, St. Paul; Al Merriweather,
J z Edwards, Grow Agency I L Ring
walt, Gebo; J Allisory, Omaha; H
Hilburn, Spokane; E E Dolymus, Car.
bon; W f Meyer, Red Lodge; d G
Brown, Great Falls; J E Morse, Bos.
ton J N Hoone, r J Porat, Livingston ;
H L Miller, Glendive.
Thursday-W Fl Kuhlenan, Chicago;
J A Elliott, Highfeld, Mont. F @
Chandler. New York; L P Best and
wife. Butte; A F Greene, Grow Agency
s G Reynolds, city; VIM. p jain, Mil
waukee; D Mckenzie, st. Paul; A D
Chamberlain, w P Webster, Cody,
Wyo. J ID Graft, M Sangrelet, Litch.
field; H G Dueifeldh, Detroit; P r
Saace, Helena; Henry WEIGH, Carbon.
ado; M L O'Brien, Glendive.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-12-22

The senate committee OH privileges
and elections has agreed to take up,
Oh Friday. Jan. 3, the protest against
the continuance OF Senator Clark Of
Montana. occupying his seat in the
senate. No decision was reached in
the Scott case, The Quay case " AZ not
considered in tho committee.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-12-22
A GREAT

and Ellis Brook Musical spectacle.
This fine attraction will be seen at
the Billings opera house OH Christmas
evening, next Monday, and is ~ Of
the best things that has ever visited
this city. Last Tuesday vi published
very complimentary metropolitan press
notices Of Charity Martin, and today
w reproduce q few as to the ability Of
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-12-22
First Pub. Dec. ~, 1879 Last Pub. Jan. II, $780,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Estate Of Chales Allen, Deceased.

Estate Of Chales Allen, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the un-
d%ersigned administrative of the estate
Of Charles Allen, deceased, to the
creditors Of and all persons having
claims aginst the said deceased, to ex-
hibit them, with the necessary vouchers,
within four months after the first pub
LEGATION of this notice, to the said ad-
ministratrix at Columbus, in the county
Of Yellowstone, state of Montana.
Dated at Billings, Mont, Dec. 10th,
1899. -.
Gertie Allen,
Administrators Of thelEstate of Charles
Allen, deceased.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-12-22

A genuine tenor 1obusto. -Philadel.
phia Ledger.
Baldanza as Edgardo was the best
that has been heard in Brooklyn. -
Brooklyn Eagle,
Sig, Baldanza is a most excellent
ar tist. - Boston Post.
Beyond doubt and beyond all ques.
ton the best artist and tile best tenor
we have ever heard. Cincinnati Com
meroial.
A tenor Of unquestionable merit
Daily Times, St. Louis.
Wide in range, full Of volume. and
musical and very sympathetic in quail
ity. -Chioago Inter Ocean.
Ono Of the finest Grand Opera tenors
we have heard here in a long time
Chicago Times.
Baldanza, the leading tenor, took the
audience by storm. and was recalled
again and again. San Francisco
Morning Call. ,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-12-22
sENAT0H CAKTEn's INFLUENCE,

Even the enemies ct Senator Th0s.
II. Garter admit that ha Yields vast in
iiuanue at Washington, it having been
frequently said that he il the most in
fuential member of the senate from
west Of tho Mississippi river, IN proof
at this, the Washington correspondent
Of the Heleha Herald, writing Of the
committee appointments, saysi
The appaiatmdat of Mr., Garter TO the
committee on appropriations II Al
event Of great Importance 70 our state,
The committee IL the most important
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-12-22

the gags used. hut have All earnest hard
working company. The edge Of the
finest razor would lose its edge hunting
for the slightest fuzz on anything told.
The after-pieoe ia called AUNT Han.
nah's Christening" and sends the peo-
pie out we'll pleased.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-12-22

Have you ordered that Christmas
turkey, chicken or duck? II not. let
Hogue, Robinson & 90. fill the order.
They dress all their poultry and guar.
antee satisfaction. 60-2
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1899-12-22

Burlington Route-HoIinay Rates.
Holiday rates,
Via Burlington route.
Dec. 20. "a, rs, 80, 81 and January /.
Between stations not more
Than 200 miles apart.
Liberal return limit.
Soc nearest agent. 69.2
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02

Parana valley. There are acres of 1t spread
over the buildings of the Argentine and it
forms the chief roofing material of large
parts of Uruguay. We have the cheapest
iron and coal in the world, and we should
make this more cheaply than any other
country. Still, the bulk of it comes from
England, Belgium and Germany.
Germany furnishes most of the wire fenc-
ing, and this is a big item in stock country
like this. Uruguay Is, you know, al
most altogether given up to stock raising
1t is putting up more and more fencing every
year, and the day will come when every
one OF it's 72, 900 square miles will be fenced
and when it's 100000 COWS and 13,000,0 000
sheep will be held in by wire. The market
is open and our machines ought to make
| that wire.
Another thing is printing paper. We make
the cheapest and best of the kind, but Mon
tevideo buys its paper of Germany. There
are seventy three newspapers in Uruguay, all
printed on paper made in Germany. We
should be first in drugs and perfumery
| especially in drugs, for, through the electric
power at Niagara and other things, we have
the best facilities. Still, the French stand
first, and we come along about fifth as to
J such articles. Our drugs are better put up
than the French. / found some American
drugs in a little store In the interior OF
Paraguay, and was told that they gave bet
ter satisfaction than any others, but that
it was too much trouble to get them.
The Yankees have a national reputation
as trading nation, but this reputation is
confined to their business at home. Inter-
nationally they are among the poorest of all
who compete for sales in the highways of the
world, and their fame is confined to the
making of good goods and the not knowing
how to sell them. You remember the
wooden nutmeg story. Well, 1t is not the
Yankees, but the Europeans, who are the
wooden nutmeg yenders of today.
The Germans sell the most furniture,
whereas we have the cheapest, best and
most stylish articles of the kind in the
world The Uruguayans pay big prices and
| want good goods, but in some way or other
the Germans get the business Even little
i Belgium, country which would not make
1 a pimple on the face of the United States,
j surpasses us in the competition for the
trade of Uruguay, and 1t sells the very
things which we should be able to make
most cheapy, It has the monopoly in
i scythes iron beams and sporting guns. Our
!. guns are universally conceded the best. and
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02

are bebindhand in threshers. Our reapers
are just beginning to make headway. We
should send the most of the hoes, rakes,
threshng machines and galvanized roofing
but Great Britain has the monopoly in all
these lines. 1t has also the lead In iron
and lead piping, and 1t stands first in wind
mills.
/ found one make of American windmiils
in Chilli and the same make scattered all
over the Argentine. 1t was universally
conceded that the mill was far better than
the English mills, and ! see no reason why
such windmills should not be sold In Uru-
quay. The trade should not be confined to
one make of windmills, for we have many
other mills which are equally cheap and
equally good.
Then as to reapers. We ship reapers TO
all parts of the world, TO Japan, South
Africa to Russia and other parts of Europe.
There is no reason why we should not have
the bulk of the trade here If the reaper
agents will work the country. An instance
recently occurred which proved the superb
ority OF the American over the English
machines, One of our reaper drummers
had sample machine here in Montevideo.
He was told that he could not get orders
because the English machines had the run
or the trade. Through the aid of Consul
tenerdl SWAIN ne secured competitive
trial OF the American and English machines.
1t was held on one of the big farms The
two reapers we're placed side by side Then,
before hitching up, boy was asked by the
American to lift up the tongue of the Eng
lsh reaper. The boy tugged and pulled,
but was unable to raise 1t. The American
then told the boy to lift the tongue of the
American machine with one hand, lie tried
II and the tongue rose up as though 1t were
a broomstick. The agent thereupon put his
little finger in the ring at the end OF the
| tongue and thus raised it from the ground.
/ In the trial which followed he was able TO
/ show that the American reaper would do all
/ the work of the English reaper with half
! the friction and with so per cent less weight
ON the collars Of the horses. The result
was that he got that day an order for So 900
worth OF machines.
| American Goods Which should Sell.
| Consul General Swain suggests to me thai
| urge the introduction of American slate
| for roofing purposes. There is demand fol
slate roofing here, and our states can com
| pete with those of Europe.
| 1t seems TO me, however. that there is al
even better show for galvanized iron. There
is an enormous trade in this all over tbs
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02

horses. Every boy on an estancia has one or
more horses Beggars really go about on
horseback in the country districts of Uru-
quay and the Argentine and the present of
a horse to a guest is neither eXtrayagant
nor uncommon.
A curious thing about the treatment of
horses in this part of the world Is that only
the males are used for riding or driving.
A gaucho will not ride mare. He would
consider it below his dignity. Mares are
used for little else than breeding and when
they grow too numerous are often killed for
their hides
l passed through one estancia where they
killed the mares for hog feed. This seems
big story, but ii is true. There was an
enclosure on the farm which was filled with
mares at the time of my visit and just back
of 1t in a corral were at least a thousand
fat hogs. They had grown fat by eating
mares meat, and by this time they have,
doubt not, consumed the most of the mares
saw in the enclosure. The mares are
killed and carefully skinned. The fat is
rendered out and the meat and entrails are
thrown in the raw state to the hogs, who
fight over them and greedily deyour them.
Such pork does not taste quite like our
pork. 1t is rather vealy and | confess since
saw the mare killing establishment have
decided to stick to our hams.
Hig Money in Meat.
Some of the best things in South America
in the way Of money making are to be
found in Uruguay. ] have not heard OF
anything that pays better than the meat
extract establishments at Fray Bentos, on
the Uruguay river. These establishments
have been capitalized for about $500 900
each, and they pay about 20 per cent
year From report published last Feb
Huary ] see that the profits in 1896 and
1897, one year. amounted to more than
$j50,000. The company is an English one
and the stock is nearly all held in Lon
don. 1t kills about 100000 cattle annually
and reduces them to extract, saving the
hides, tallow, horns, hair and blood ana
everything else connected with the animal
for other purposes. 1t takes 100 pounds
OF meat TO make two and one half pounds
OF extract, which Is worth at Wholesale
about 81 a pound.
The work is done during seven months
Of the year, and at this time / 900 cattle
are killed day. The company makes 1t
rule TO take no animal under years of age.
The cattle are killed by driving a knife
into them Just back OF the horns. in the
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02

same way that bulls are killed at the close
OF bull fight. 1t takes just about eight
minutes to kin beef, skin it and cut 1t
up. The skinners are paid Is cents a head.
After skinning the meat is cut up and
stewed in warm, but not hot water. It Ia
SKINNED again and again to get off the
fat and left upon the fire until it eyapcr-
ateS into a thin molasses. AS it gets cold II
jelles, when 1T is packed into 25O-pound
| boxes and shipped to Hamburg. Here 1t Is
repacked in little porcelain jars and shipped
all over the world. 1t is claimed that a
pound OF the extract is equal to forty-fv
pounds of meat and will make ninety
plates of soup.
Liquid Meat.
In connection with this there has been a
new discovery made by Uruguayan chemist
which may possibly supersede the ordinary
extract of beef. This is called carne liquida,
or liquid meat. | am told that it combines
both the qualities of the extract of meat
with the food properties Of the meat itself.
The ordinary meat extracts are more tonics
than anything else. They are stimulants, but
they give little nOurishment. This new
liquid meat is not only stlmulant, but il
retains the nourshment in the meat as well.
Its process of manufacture is the secret OF
the chemist who invented 1t, and It is. |
believe, only made in connection with him.
The biggest trade in meat in the countries
south of the equator Is In jerked beef.
Uruguay gets 5000, 600 from this every year.
Jerked beef is made in vast quantities in the
Argentine Republic, in Paraguay and in
Uruguay and shipped to Brazil and the other
countries of South America and to the West
Indies. A great deal goes to Cuba, and you
Will find it for sale at higher prices than
those received for fresh meat in nearly every
South American market house. 1t is called
carne tasajo or carne secca. The animal Ia
skinned and then cut up into strips aud
sheets, all the bones having first been taken
out. The meat is first put into a brine and
then rolled out and dried in the sun. II
takes a hot sun to cure 1t. and for this reason
such establishments are closed during the
winter. After 1t is once drIed, however, ID
will last for years, needing only thorough
soaking to fit 1t for use.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02

! the other articles.
American Coal.
I am glad to find that American coal is at
last coming south. The coal trade of this
continent amounts really to many millions
Of dollars, but so far it has been practically
monopolized by England and Australia.
Here at MOntevideo over 100000 tons are
sold every year. and coal brings all the way
from IS to $ll ton. There is practically
no coal OF any value on the east coast of
South America, and the coal OF lower Chilli,
which Is not of the best quality, Is the only
commercial coal so far used on the west
coast. The most of the steamers use Cardiff
coal, and this article Is used as fuel by all
manufacturers. The coal business of Uru-
quay amounts to between $1,000O00 and
So, 900 a year. There is a Virginia coal
that is largely used by the transatlantic
steamers, which is fully as good as the
Cardiff coal, and depot for the sale of this
has been established here. / have no doubt
that it will do a large business, and / am
told that There Is a good profit in selling at
the present prices.
More American cotton should be sold in
Uruguay. Just now England and Germany
! have the bulk of this trade, making their
goods from our raw material and shipping
them down here for sale. We have the mo-
nOpOly in kerosene because the good Lord
filled the rocks of Pennsylvania, West Vir-
ginia and Ohio with it, and did not put 1t
anywhere else in quantities except in far
away Russia, and we have also to a certain
extent the monopoly in timber, ptchforks,
tar and axes, The timber and the tar are
on much The same ground as the kerosene,
and we have no right to claim credit for the
fact
The chief things we buy In Uruguay are
wool, hides and horse hair. We take more
than million of their dry OK hides every
year and also a great quantity OF wool
There is an enormous amount of money
made here In meat and hides Uruguay is
you know, cattle and sheep country. 1t
has more cattle to its population than any
other country of the world. There are so
many cattle and sheep that II they were all
in one great corral and divided among the
| people every man, woman and child in
! Uruguay would have six cattle and sixteen
sheep and II they were driven off by families
each family would be driving home thirty
cattle and eighty sheep, The cattle, in
deed, are so many that they are often killed
for their hides. 1t is the same with the
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02
BIG OPENINGS FOR TRADE
How American Goods Are Making Their
Way in Uruguay
POINTERS ON MONEY-MAKlNG VENTURES
Threshers, Ironware, Cotton Goods
and Coal Wanted-Jerked Beef
Trade-Natiye Methods of
Business.
POINTERS ON MOUNTAINEERING VENTURES

Copyright, 1899, by Frank q. Carpenter)
MONTEVTDEO, Uruguay, March a.
Especial Correspondence OF The Bee.) THE
chief purpose OF my trip to South America
is to look up the chances for American
trade. 4 have Investigated the conditions
in every city from Panama to Buenos Ayres,
and I find that American goods are con-
sidered the best everywhere We are good
manufacturers, but bad sellers. We make
the best machines, the best cottons, the best
tools and best drugs, but we don't know
how to dispose of what we make l have
found that the Germans, the English and the
Belgians are beating us In every one OF
these cities. The same condition exists in
Montevideo. We don't get our share OF the
foreign commerce of Uruguay, This coun-
try bought s2O,OOOOOO worth OF goods last
year and less than $2,0OO,OO0 worth OF this
was furnished by Yankees. The bulk of the
remainder came from Europe. 1t consisted
in large part OF American goods. reshpped
TO this point. Much Of it was made up OF
limitations OF our machinery manufactured
in Germany. Such things are sold down
here as OF American make, for the Germans
are bound to hold the market II they can
This is especially so as to sewing machines
Germany does the most of the bushes:
supplying poor limitations OF our best knowr
American machines.
Talk with an Importer
The situation here in regard to American
trade was we'll described to me the othel
night by Mr.. Crocker the manager OF one
of the biggest importing firms of Monte
yldeo He has been in business here fo
years and deals especially in American arti
Giles. Said he:
There is no doubt but that American
goods are the best The people here wan
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02

them, and notwithstanding the opposition, I
find the sale of them steadily increasing.
We have taken $50 tons of goods from New
York within the past two months, and We
expect an increase. 1t is hard to get the
people to try new things, but when they get
a good article they stick to 1t. Take, for
instance blue denims We had great trouble
in introducing them but we now sell them
by the hundred of pieces. We have many
orders for Winchester rifles, and we sell
all kinds of American articles. There are
imported into Uruguay every year more
than one hundred and fifty different varie-
ties of things from America. Nearly every
one of these sells at a big profit, and the
amount sold might be greatly Increased.
What our people need to do is to study this
market and to look upon it as their own"
II think our merchants are beginning to
do So" said /.
THAT may be-" replied Mr., Crocker, "but
If so We have no visible evidence of 1t. The
exporters at home lose thousands of dollars
by not understanding what these people want
They lose vast amounts by bad packing.
The Uruguayan importers are as sharp as the
Yankees They take advantage of every
fault and If they can claim rebates on any
ground they do so Take kerosene. We get
it from the United States. 1t comes in cans,
put up in pine boxes, If the outside boxes
are at all stained by the weather or dam
aged by handling, the importers assert that
| 1t Injuries the goods and want a rebate 1t
makes no difference whether the kerosene
has leaked out or not. Why, upon a lot of
| such goods received a few weeks ago re-
bates to the amount of more than $4,000
We're demanded, and / have no doubt they
We're allowed.
; Another trouble is the matter of credit.
I The Germans and English will give six
months on all orders, and the Americans
want spot cash, They will not send goods
on consignment There should be large
warehouse here for the display of Ameri-
can goods, and the big institutions of our
country should have goods here on consign-
ment, to be paid for and delivered as they
are sold"
American Machinery.
During my stay / have gone through
many of the Montevideo stores which are
handling American goods. l see that quite
number of our agricultural implements
are sold, but am told that we have nothing
like the trade in such things We should
have. We lead now as to plows. but We
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02

Happy is the man or woman Who can eat
good, hearty meal without suffering after
ward. II you cannot do 1t, take Kodol Dys-
pepsia Cure. II digests what you eat. and
cures all kinds OF Dyspepsia and Indigestion.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02

Suits at S5.9S, made of tan covert
sio5h so5n pin E5imSeS GsSeks Or saiss sIain @E0Q
sue $5.9S. ~