Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1895, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. v MOSES SONS, F Street I Corer Eleventh. | Storaze Warehouse, 22d near M. The $20,000 CONSIGNMENT SALE of Chotcest ORTENTAL RU will be brought to a close next Monday night. Meanwhile the lower than auction prices will continue to the end. Unusually Low Prices —will be in effect all next week on the Furniture Floors. We've made telling reductions on many lines of goods, with a view to still further popularizing this as your Furniture Store. —Betier values than these cannot be quoted: Parlor Suites. Seplece Tapestry $23.00 23.00 30.90 Damask Damask Suite. vce Brocatelle St a stuffed ... Parlor Tables. Antique-finish Table, Solid Oak Table Mabogany-finish Ts Mahogany-tinish Table Mahogany-finish Table. Maple Table. Odd Parlor Pieces. Gold Reception Chairs. Gold Corner Chairs. 1d Reception Chairs. Mabogany-finish Easy Ch; Banquet Lamps. Banquet Lamps. Onyx Tables. Sideboards. China Cases. Sulid Oak. -$16,00 $10.65 Soll - 18.00 12.75 00 19.00 ») 18.50 NING CHAIRS to be sold at a lower price than any fine Dining Chair was ever sold in the United States. Solid oak, box frame, new style eane $1.90 Solid Oak. Mahozany Finish Mahogany Finish. Secretary Book Case Solld Oak. Solid Oa Chamber Suites. Solid Oak Suit. Maple Suite 23.50 Maple 26.00 r 27.00 Birch Suites. 31.50 Full Sized Double Oak Be $2.45 Mapl 3.75 Birch Be 5.00 6.00 Oak 6.00 Oak Bedstea 7.50 $11.10 11.10 11.10 16.00 $18.00 $11.78 238.00 27.00 . $5.00 3 5.25 + 800 5.95 Sold 210.00 7.50 Solid . 15.00 11.25 Solid 216.00 12.95 Solid 219.00 18.50 RIPANS TABULES. Mrs. Margaret Treadwell of Milburn, Long Island, in an interview had with her on the 24th day of May, 1895, said: “Two years ago I had the Grippe, and since then I have never been real smart. Nothing that I ate seemed to set well on my stomach. I ain’t been much of a hand for doctoring, but I tried different kinds of herb teas, but they didn’t seem to do much good—Catnip was the best, but I got kind of set against that. One day a lady asked me if I would try some of her medicine—Ripans Tabules she called them. They seemed harmless-like, and Richard he took some, too, and whatever they are made of I don’t know, but they beat all the herb teas, and we ain't felt so well in years. We work on the farm all day now and eat our three regular meals, and all kinds of victuals seems to agree with us. My advice is, don't bother with herb teas when you can get these Ripans Tabules, and don’t hesitate, as | did, about taking them. They won't hurt you. (Signed) Mrs. MARGARET TREADWELL.” Ripaus Tabules are cold by d ts, or by mall the pete centy a tor) fs set 19 the Ttipans emteal Company, No. 10 Spruce wi., New York. Sample vin), 10 cents. ~ | Woodward ». Lothrop, 1oth, 11th and F Sts. N. W. Perfect Retailin g Finds its best exponent here. The look is always ahead. The bettering process is always going on. The result of the new thought, the new im- pulse and the new force is seen here today in the magnificent display of fall and winter merchandise gathered under this one great roof. Never before have we touched so high a point in grand retailing. At no time in our business career have we been in a position to offer values like we are presenting daily for your thoughtfu consideration. The latest, the fresh- est, the best always, and at the lowest possible prices, and something bright and new every time you come in. The better the truth is known about this business the greater its progress; the more that is understood the greater its growth. For Autumn Wedding And Anniversary Gifts We are exhibiting a superb collection of choice pieces of Fine Art Pottery and Bronzes—New designs in Lamps with exquisite shades— Palm Pots and Pedestals—Doulton Loving Cups—Dutch Blue Delft Ware—Teakwood Lamp and Jardiniere Stands — Turkish Rugs and Cushions—Divans—Scarfs—India Draperies—-Benares Brass Ware—In- laid India, Turkish, Damascus, Moorish and Empire Taboyrettes—also a beautiful assortment of Art Furniture, in decorative and useful one-of- a-kind pieces, &c., &c. X India Goods Occupy a Conspicuous Place In home decorations this season. From India we are showing many noveities, including Peshawar, Poona, Meerut, Punjab, Gagra, Odhuy, Cashmere, Kutch, Fulkaree and Dhurry for Draperies, Cushions, Scarfs, Covers, &c. These fabrics are hand-embroidered and block-printed, and, . while quaint and novel in their style, are inexpensive. The “India Corner,” With its rich multi-colored Draperies and its luxurious Oriental Furnish- ings, is very attractive—Fourth floor, adjoining Upholstery Department. Women’s Sanitary Jackets Are a Novelty, And a decidedly practical one. Eminent physicians claim them to be a thorough protection to the health of the wearer, inasmuch as they pre- serve the normal temperature of the body. We have these garments made up in the very latest styles of new Boucle Cloths, elegantly lined All sizes. with satin. Colored : Dress Goods. Novelties—charmingly exclusive. Our showing was never so rich or attractive. The very latest styles from Paris, London and Germany are here in colors and combinations beautiful beyond description. Fabrics in rough and smooth effects include Boucles, Bourettes, Caniche and Camel’s Hair, Scotch Cheviots in heather mixtures, Crepons, Silk and Wool Novelties, Plaids, &c. All in Exclusive Styles. $1.50 to $4.50 the Yard. HANDSOME FRENCH AND GERMAN ROUG NOVELTIES, 40 to 48 Inches wide. Per yard. .$1. ROUGH ALL-WOOL BOU E, 40 and ‘SI TWO-TONED STRIPES AND CH! , BOUCLE AND SIL YOOL NOVELTIES. An excellent tment of styles. 88 to 45 inches wide. inches SCOTCH MIXTUR! wide. yard... STLK-AND-WOOL MIXTURES, in a carefully selected styles and colorings. wide. Per yard.. 2 Plain Goods. Unusual values in English Storm Serges, Coatings, Armures, Fancy Weave Henriettas, India Twills, Camel’s Hairs, Cheviots, Mohairs, Boucles, &c. (ist floor. futl_ lin 6 ++++e10th st. bldg.) Fashionable _ 7 Silks. Harper’s Bazar says—‘“Silk is to be worn during the autumn and win- ter for afternoon street toilettes as well as for the house,” and few woolen dresses there'll be but will have a touch of silk somewhere on them. We are showing today every fash- ionable Silk, from the simplest to the most extravagant. Recherche Novel- ties for the most exclusive connois- seurs—elegant fabrics for party, bridesmaids’ and evening dresses and the newest weaves for brides’ outfits. CTS IN| BROCADES. PER- INB AND) PRINTED LE M “Velour Jardiniere,” Satin ground brocaded with velvet buds and figures true to nature, in white, pink, ciel, maize and nile. $4.00 the Yard. ‘This material fs undoubtedly the bandsomest spec- of silk weaving produced in many In ign and coloring the finest talent has dest been employed. We have just added to our already magnificent stock some new and striking effects in Chine, Broche and Plaid Taffetas. $1.00 to $5.00 the Yard. t colors are combined in these wonder- poptlar weaves, two, three and up to twelve tints appearing in one piece, and nothing can be more decorative. Special. 21-inch Imported Pongee Faconne, for dresses, trimmings, &c. 26 beau- tiful evening tints. soc. the Yard. +-Under skylight.) (ist floor... SED, $1.50 PER PAIR. $18.50 Each. —o 11th st. building.) Black Dress Goods Were never so fashionable nor so charmingly beautiful as they are this season. Almost every new weave shown in colors has its counterpart here in black. Besides all the new smoother effects we are showing scores of new weaves in the popular Rough Effects. And you see the goods just as they are, under a per- fect, natural light. The Novelties. ALL-WOOL, MOHAIR-AND-WOOL, SILK-AND- WOOL—42 TO 47 INCHES WIDE-INCLUDING OVERSHOT FIGURES, STRIPED NOVELTIES, DI- AGONALS, BOUCLE, TETE DE NEGRE, MAYAZ! BANDMAGE, CAMEL'S HAIR NOVELTIES, MAT- LASSE, VELOUR, CANICHE, PETITS POIS, VI- GOGNE, CREPON LAZELLE, CREPON CRICOTIN AND OTHER HIGH-CLASS WEAVES IN CREPON. $1.50 to $5.00 the Yard. All-wool Fancles, 38 inches wide. Per yard. .31c. All-wool Fancies, 88 inches wide, In small figures, stripes, fancy diagonals and @lectric designs. Per yard .. ma + -50e. All-wool Fancles, 40 Inches wide, in Soliels, Fig- ures, Boucle Diagonals, &c. Per yard. 40 and 42 Inches wide, All-wool Fancies, in Boucle, Fancy Cheviots, Diagonals, Satin Stripes, Soliel Figures, Granite Weaves, Figured Mohairs and Small and Large Figures. Per yard.......$1.00 All-wool Fancies, 42 and 45 inches wide, in Striped Bedfords, Camel's Hair Novelties, Figured Bengalines, Wavy Effects, Large and Small Figured Armures, Striped Serges, Bedford Cords, Matlisse Figures and Figured Granites. Per yard...... $1.25 (ist floor. . s+eees-Amnex to 10th st. bldg.) ————— Monday-= Housekeeping Goods Sale. Some uncommonly good values in Linens, Blankets, Flannels, &c. Recent: pur- chases at special prices. Linens. Special sale of Bleached Damask Cloths, with Napkins to match. 2x2t4-yard Cloths, each 2x3-yard Cloths, eac ‘apkins to match, per doz. pkins to match, per doz 2x2 -yerd Double Damask Cloths, 2x2%4-yard Double Damask Cloths, 2x3 -yard Double Damask Cloths, 2x3%4-yard Double Damask Cloths, 2x4 -yard Double Damask Cloths, 5-8 Napkins to mateh, per doz 8-4 Napkins to mateh, per doz ‘This display Includes twenty-five entirely new and cannot be found elsewhere Washington. Blankets and Spreads. each. each. each. each. each. in 100 pairs 11-4 “Fort Wichita’? Wool Blank: velvet finish, weight 5% Ibs. Per pair........ $4.3 100 “Monarch” Crochet Spreads, 11-4, extra large and heavy. Euch. Flannels. All-wool Homespun Skirt Patterns, 24% yards wide, 89 Inches long, good patterns, border at bottom, thoroughly shrunken. Each... Another lot of All-wool Elderdown in Hght blue, pink, light gray, dark gray, slate, tan, old rose, cream, white, brown mixed, dark red and cardinal, 27 inches wide, at sees e250. yard ESS LACE CURTAINS CLEANSED, 75c. PER PAI. Woodward é & Lothrop. Dec tn ee a a ee ee ae are eut lower than actual worth. if, that doesn’t mean bargains But of ¥ everything in these five’Stores— and all our Warehouses—the $ most desirable—the most season- Zable — FURNITURE— CAR- PETS — MATTINGS — STOVES — CROCKERY » WARE—BEDDING -FANCY LAMPS — BRIC-A-BRAC — all any house needs. We said $we'd sell our present stock by what &the time the new building is. Our prices then? And it isn’t a cutting here and $there of slow sellers. ready—and we're doing it. Were never so busy in our lines. LOCI POOO DODO L EGO SOU ROSPOO OCOD SOILD PO OUP OOD ODO DOO ODD Per iHtsHteetCeneeh teeter DMG NEES POSSE IO SOCOOD DOSES GOP ISS EDOOEDHIGES 4 > 3 : House & Herrmann, = The Leading Hovsefurnishers, = 917, 919, 921 AND 023 7TH ST. % oc2e-sta 636 MASS. AVE. Poeeeeeeneeeecetetegenaeeetectetetetetetetette Tell your husband —to stop at the grocers on his way home from office and order a sack of— Ceres Flour, the flour used by ALL the PRIZE WINNERS in the recent breadmaking contest held at Convention Hall. This is but one of the many victories Ceres has repeatedly scored over its rivals. Accept no substi- tute. Wm. M. Galt & Co., Wholesalers, ist & Ind. Av. it Fall and Winter Millinery. Mrs. M. J. HUNT, 1309 F St. N.W., stantly receiving the very LATEST RNS in IMPORTED BONNETS and which, together with the creations of het own workroom, make a large and varied stock from which to sel it Bicycle and Golf Caps. ——o — | Everett's, 1225 F St. [ — PER CENT OEE SALE * To be continued all next week. You can select anything out of the entire stock of Diamonds, Jewelry, Gold and Silver Goods, Watches, Porcelains and Fine Art Goods at 20 per cent off marked figures. A rare chance this. EVERETT, 1225 F Street. CE ad How Do You Do It? This Is Really Wonderful. These are sample compliments made by our customers on our un- paralleled cut in prices. Our business has been so large that we have decided to extend the time of this sale. For next week only, positively to last only until Saturday night, No- vember 2, we will make to order any Suit of Clothes in our house for S15. Any Pair of Trousers in our house to order, D5- Black and Blue Worsteds alone excepted. Morton C. Stout & Co., Merchant Tailors, 1112 F St. N. W. eee xe HR HH a 026-3t aa “Swell” Hats and Bonnets —are here in endless va- riety, including the latest Parisian Patterns, as well as those of my own de- signing. —— GH Largest line of Trimmings and Un- —trimmed Hats In the city. Lowest prices. Mrs. C. Stiebel, 1113 G St. Importer of Fine Millinery. ein livery of work. All work warranted for one year. oc28-im,6* A. KAHN, Watchmaker, 935 F nw. Colds, Coughs and Bronchitis Cured by Taking Ny YER’S Cherry Pectoral Awarded Medal and Diploma At World’s Fair. U! AYER'S HAIR VIGOR FOR COLOR. IF THE BALY IS CUTTING TEETH BE SURE and use that oll and well-tried remedy. Mrs, Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for children teething. It soothes the child. softens the gum, allays all Rain, cures wind colic and is the best ‘remedy for arrhoea. 25 cents a bottle. seld-ly Backache 1s almost Immediately relieved wearing one of Carter's Simart Weed and dconuna Backache Plaste Try one and be free from pain. Price, 25 cent STSSTOSSSSC TS SSS STOTSIE MOOD $ Select Your Holiday Gifts Now. Tophain's 150 Soeossosessoese 4 0) Discount Sale. Previous to Remodeling, Enlarging, Improving: Our store, by the addition of No. 1233 Pennsylvania avenue to our already large and well-equipped store, making it the largest and best-appointed Travelers’ Goods House south of New York and Philadelphia, we offer you the above Ib- eral discount on our already reduced prices, until our improvements are com- pleted. ‘ The zo0ds subject to discount will be marked In plain figures, as are all our goods, und discount tags attached. Traveling Bags, Pocket Books and Fine Leather Novelties. We offer the best bargains we ever put before you. ‘The prices seem ridiculously low, hay- ing been specially reduced 2nd subject to the discount as well. opllain's Travelers’ & Fine Leather Goods *Manufactory, 1231 Pennsylvania Ave. FACTORY, 1218 AND 1220 E ST. ring and ordered work in all our branches carefully and pron.pUly executed. It VV OS COS SESS COS SOS SOLS SS Ge SSSOSSSSSSSOS SOS DDD EPEPRGOSSG OO 99O6-9094-06 FT FOOL GOSOT PRIDE S DOSSOSSO9O an ra CRAIG & HARDING, \° 3ath and F sts. | | eee eas :Dining-room: ‘furniture. Pleasant snrroundings adi greatly to/®) Un asures of a meal. The most re-!* markable feature about modern Dining | Room Furniture is that, although there | is a wonderful improvement in the woods, designs, finish and construction, |*) the prices are lower than they ° Deen during the past decade. “Ou the grand array of appropriate Dining. Roem Furniture we pick the following ¢ for special mention: ° Dining Chairs, $1.15. Another hundred of those elegant Sol. id 0; + Cane-seat Din- ing Chairs, substantially 5 . * built and fully worth $1. OSI 15: Special price. 5 ° * . ° ° : Dining Tables, $6. We have Dining Tables for less, but none equal in value to this fine 6-feo Solid Oak Extension Dining . Table, which we are run- 6: ning at. | Here's another for the fine trade—e| Massive 8-foot Solld Oak Polish Finish |¢ ension Table, 42 by 45 6 top, fluted column, t i “ZS, and thoroigty Sons I | “ $ 2: deboards, $14.75. a ik, Solid Tlighly Polished 1 ch beveled plat =, 1 lined; long lnen dray cupboard below. — Equal board in a \“Chic,” dainty styles in ‘Hats ad Bonnets Embrdying th2 newest London and Paris- * jan modes. Original and exclusive pat- * terns of my own designing also shown. * Patrons pronounce them to be most * charming. I solicit an Inspection. Tliss Gussie, 515 11th St. 06 26-2009, A market filled with the finest sort of ‘Eatables’ **. Kyeerything that's choice in of 2 *) Meats, Food 7. © ° if you're about to gly the * * in food supplies.” "Phone 4: Palace Market, 102; coxs. ave. &C26-1600 Methods of Dentistry —are without doubt the most successtil— the most harmless—the most gentle means -of treatiog all manner of tooth troubles. Qué operaters are quick, skillful and perl perform every. operation dentistry’ expertly and isfactorily Puinless extraction, 50 cents. Evans Dental Parlors, 1217 Penma. Ave. N. W. 21d & “Dr. Blegert’s Angostura Bitters, the most effi cacicus stimulant to exeite the’ appetite, keeps the digestive organs in order. AMERICAN FARMERS Secretary Morton Says the Necessity is for More Markets. COMPETITION BECOMING INTENSE —_T. Still the Intelligent Agriculturist Has a Happy Future Predicted. AN INTERESTING TALK “Yes, there is no question of greater im- portance to the American people than the question of our agriculture, because it af- fects not only the happiness of the farming community, but the general prosperity of the nation,” said Julius Sterling Morton, Secretary of Agriculture, in response to an interrogatory from a Star reporter. It was ) o'clock in the morning, the hour when most government officials are wrapped in the arms of Morpheus, that the reporter called upon the Secretary by ap- pointment to obtain an interview with him upon the subject of agriculture in the United State and its future prospects. The Secretary evidently has inherited some of the qualities of his Mayflower ancestors, fcr already had he been at his desk at- tending to his mail for some time, having dictated more than twenty letters to his sterographer before the reporter's arrival. Having finished his morning mail he but- toned his tightly-fitting black Prince Albert around his rather rotund figure, straighten- ed himself up in his arm chair, and said in reply to the question as to what he con- sidered the most pressing need of the Amer- ican farmer: “In my judgment the most pronounced necessity of the American farmer today is more markets for his crops rather than mcre crops for the market. The demand for American farm products in foreign countries is, to be sure, already large and encouraging, but it may be doubled, trebled and intensified by analyzing it carefully and then skillfully catering to it. To illus- trate: My report for 1804 shows that Danish bacon brought $14 per hundred: weight in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, while American bacon during the same year brought only $9 per hundred weight. The reason that the first named meat brought a pound more than the bacon from he United States was that the former was mildly cured, not oversmoked, and was not overfattened. That is to say, it was streaked with lean and fat. It was fat- tened, killed and cured to meet the British taste and demand. That from the United States was fattened in our own way and cured to suit ourselves rather than our cus- tomers, so that it brought $19,257,376, while if it had been cured as the Danes cure their meat it would have brought $28,182,300." Bacon in England. “What is considered the finest bacon of lurope, Mr. Secretary?” “The standard bacon of Europe is the Wiltshire. The packers of Calme in Wilt- shire, England, pay the highest price for porkers waich weigh from 130 to 1% pounds and have a thickness of fat on the back not exceeding two and one-quarter inches. They pay the lowest price for swine weighing 249 pounds and upwards, with fat on the back three inches in thick- ness. The former, that is to say, the ight pigs, bring in our money 9 cents a pound dive weight) at packing houses. Just as soon as our packers study the tastes and demands of foreign customers they will create a broader market for American bacon througheut the world, and thus our own pork preducers will be enlightened as to that quality and size of pigs which find the readiest and most profitable market.” “Do you believe, Mr. Secretary, that the United States will ever become so densely populated that we will consume our en- tire agricultural output?” “No,” he repiied thoughtfully. “The general belief is that the United States cannot be so densely populated as to consume all of its own farm products, when its arable lands are put to their utmost capability of fru- ition. The farms of the United States number 4,564,646. They average 137 acres each. Their aggregate valuation is $1%,- | 279,252,649. ‘The average value of each farm is $2,900, and according to the cen- sus reports the farms of the United States are mortgaged for about 16 per cent of | their valuation. Now, what other line of investment is capable of giving such sat- | isfactory results as the $2.4) invested in | the average farm of 1: s in the United | States, provided the said farm is managed with the same skilled industry and vigi lance that is uired in the management of manufacturing, mercantile and transpor- tation business? “Some time since circular No. 3 was is- sued by the ited States Department of Agriculture, from the section of foreign markets. That circular contains but four pages and yet it gives the imports and ex- ports of the United States for the years 1898 and 189 It has been criticised by partisan newspzpers because it did not compare the years 1804 and 1892 as to the | agricultural export The fiscal year 1592 | was the year which included the exports | of the phenomenal or bumper wheat crop ; of 1891, when there was a pronounced fail- ure of wheat throughout the greater part of Europe. That year our export values were swollen to phenomenally high figures and because of the abnormal conditions then existing was already made unayail- able as a comparative year. It is safe to say that the extraordinary value of ex- ports for 1802 was wholly due to the in- crease of the foreign demand for our agri- cultural products. A Large Customer. “During that year the wheat, flour and rye alone, which was exported, aggre- gated nearly $110,000,000 in excess of the export values during the six years from 1890 to 1 inclusive. During the year ending June 30, 1804, the United States im- ported from the United Kingdom of Great Britain $107,000,000 worth; that is to say, in that time the American people bought 16 4-10 per cent of all their imports in Great Britain. But during the same pe- riod, if we include the possessions of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the United States purchased more than 27 per cent of the total value of all imports into this country from English speaking people. “During the same period of time Ameri- | cans exported to the English-speaking peo- ple of Europe $431,000,000 worth of pro- ducts and commodities out of an entire total of $82,000,000 worth. Nearly one- half of the total expcrt output of the United ates therefore has been to En- rkets. If we take all the British ions together and class them as omer we find that they take 090,000 worth of our preducts, or nearly 60 per cent of the whole during the years 18)3 and 1894. “The foregoing figures teach the import- ance of encouraging by legitimate indi- vidual enterprise the trade with the Eng- lish-speaking people of the globe, and that gainful trade which endures is| mutually adventageous. It benefits alike buyer and seller. Bad trade between individuals, that is, trade where either one is loser, always stops.itself. Exchanges between individuals last as long as they are found to be mutu- ally advantageous. That which is true as to trade between Individuals holds good as to trade between nations. An international eet trade proving profitless stops itself just as any individual trade stops itself Sumeloe! found to be disadvantageous to either party. This only Mustrates the fact that trade restrictions can impede alone that trade whicn is mutually profitable; disas- trous trade dies of its own inanition. Lower Prices for Commoilities. “During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, we sold to foreign nations $908,000,000 worth of commodities, which was $85,000,- 00 less than during the preceding year and $40,000,000 less than in the year "92-'s8. This decline in the aggregate amount Is due to lower prices of our commodities, which have been brought about by the les- scned demand for those commodities in foreign markets. In 1804 the United States exported 2,023,000,000 pounds of cotton. It brought $21,000,000, In the year 1895 ex- ports of cotton rose to 3,517,000,000 pounds, but brought only $205,000,000; that is to say, $6,000,000 less than the smaller quan- tity of the preceding year brought. If the average export price of cotton for the fiscal year 1804'S had been the same as for the preceding year the value of United States cotton exported would have reached $277, 00,000 instead of $205,000,000. During the same period had the price remained stand- ard our bacon would have brought $12,- 000,000 instead of $38,000,000, and our lard $43,000,000 instead of $37,000,000, “The prenamed kinds of exports if sold at the price of the year previous would have brought up the total value of our Ess exports to the figure of the former “The decline in the quantity value of the exports of the United States for 1805 as compared with 1894 was most marked in wheat flour, wheat, corn, raw oleomar- Barine, seeds, cheese, butter, hops, hides and skins, oil cake and copper, while there Was a less decline in quantity and value of exported tobacco, wood, cotton clothes, coal, live animals, agricultural implement sole leather, other leather and furs and ins. The United States commodities ex- ported in 1895 which show a marked In- crease In quantity and value are mineral }cils, fruits ard nuts, manufactures of iron and steel, cotton seed oil, fertilizers and wine. Competition More Intense. Competition between the sellers of agri- cultural products in the markets of the world is becoming more universal a: in- tense from year to year. In whei the United States must compete for sales with the Argentine Republic, the Russian em- pire, Australia and sometimes with India, though the latter country seems te be on the decline as a surplus wheat producer. This imperatively commands American f ventive genius and American farm man- agement to provide improved machinery and methods from time to time, so as to touch the lowest possible cost of produc- tion. Those who can produce a given commodity at the lowest cost can always command the market and drive out com- petitors. vA bushel of wheat in the United States, With the present improved implements and machinery for its production, cannot cost the farmer of today more than one-half what it cost predecessor forty-five years ago. Tren there was no gang-plow. One furrow was turned and the plowman walked therein. Today the gang-plow, with three horses, turns three furrow: and the man who drives rides the plow. Then the farmer walked and harrowed the field; now he rides and harrows. Then he sowed broadcast and brushed the seed in with harrow and tree top; now he rides upon a drill, which plants his wheat at a depth of two, three or four inches, as he may gauge his mackine. Then a large per- centage of the wheat sown broadcast was lost; now every grain drilled in comes to fruition. Then the harvest was made with sickle and cradle; now with the reaper and self-binder, Then it was threshed »y the use of the fiail and one-horse machine; now by steam. What the exact diminution ‘n the cost of producing a bushel of wheat may have been during the last forty-five years I am not able to state with any de- gree of precision, but it has been very large. “By these improved methods the supply of wheat has been easily increased from year to year, so that it has kept abreast with, or possibly some years exceeded, the demand for it, and farmers, as well as manufacturers and all others, understand, after little study, that demand is the sole creator of values. Condition of Success. “The American farmer of today must compete with farmers from every section of the civilized earth when he seeks for- eign markets. Speedy improvements in tke intercommunication by steam, quick telegraph and cable exchanges of thought and prices open the world’s markets to all who read and reason. The success, there- fore, of American agriculture must depend frora this time very largely upon the intel- ligence and skill with which it is con- ducted. The time is not distant when a man who secks a livelihood by farming without a practical knowledge of that in- dustry will be regarded as daft as one who now seeks to practice medicine or law without having studied either profession. The application of science to agriculture i's becoming more generally appreciated and understood by the American farmer. He is constantly impressed with the import- ance of soil analysis, both mechanical and chemical. “The relation of rain storage and mois- ture to deep tillage in certain soils is he- ccming more and more appreciated among farmers, while in certain kinds of soil the value of shallow plowing is understood better. The American farmer is subject to less impesition by the purchase of com- mercial fertilizer now than he was ~ven ten years ago, because he has been taught to ascertain by analysis the component parts of each fertilizer offered and to de- termine thereby whether it will meet the lacking elements in plant food which he desires to restore to his farm or field. “The farm home in the United States to- day is far more refined and embellished than it was thirty years ago. As popula- tion increases and the area of arabie lands remains stationary, there must be, during | the next decade, a very visible advance in all rural real estate. The relative supply of land to the demand for land will change very materially during the next twenty- five years. In that time the population of the United States will have reached i15,- 000,000, but the arza of desirable farm lands will not have increased at all. Farm Land Prices. “Therefore, in that time there will, neo- jessarily, be a mammoth enhancement of farm land prices all over this country. Ur- ban real estate Is not always productive, but with good care and tillage aii rural real estate can, as a rule, be made produc- tive year after year, so as to sustain com- fortably those who care for and cultivate it. In my judgment, there ix no avoc: which offers more solid and substantial isfaction to those who will diligently and int Iligently follow it than that of the ag- r.culturist. An American farmer out of debt, in good health, with a substantial dwelling, barns, orchards, ard reasonable acreige in tilth and in woodland, who has a healthy and industrious family, is, in my opinion, the most ind=peatent citizen of the reoublic. “AL that he requires is the world’s mar- kets, the right to buy and to sell where his interests are best ibserved, and no tax except for public purposes. The greatest calamity that has cver befallen the far ers of the northwest is that interpretati of the law by the courts which makes lez: the power of the majority to vote subsidies to railroads and other co1porations, for which endless taxation is imposed. The power to levy taxes, was never vested in a state except for public purposes. Govern ment was instituted merely to protect life, liberty and property. Our ferefathers never dreamed that the power to tax would be used for the benefit of a few. If a majority may take one’s properiy without due pro- cess of law in the form of arnual taxation for building a raitroad, a sugar beet fas tery, a mill for private corporations this year, why may not the sume power of tie ballot take away his hberty by a vote next year, and his life !n a sitatlar way the sue- ceeding year? Certainly there is no due process of law in a mere majority vote which takes from A to eurich B, and other letters of the alph ye Guilty of Embezzlement. Ross C. Van Bokkelen, ex-teller of the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Company of “hicago, who was brought back from Mexi- ah oRereed with stealing $40,000 of the company’s funds, pleaded guilty yesterday, and was given an indeterminate sentence. Van Bokkelen was of good family, and had peen a prominent society and club man. ee Balfour's Trial Begun. The trial of Jabez S. Balfour, formerly a member of the British parilament, and said to be the prime mover in the manipulation which resulted in disaster to the Mberal or group of companies, and who was extra- cited from the Argentine Republic after much delay, was begun yesterday in Lon- acn.