The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 6, 1896, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1896. PROTECTION WOULD BUILD UP THE SUGAR INDUSTRY Having shown how the wool business of | the United States has been ruined by that | form of Bryanism and free trade seen in | the Wilson rcvenue bill, the free-trade | measure particularly championed by Wil- ham Jennings Bryan in Congress, and having adduced evidence from the best ! sources to show that the lumber indus- tries of the country have been ruined by ‘ free trade, it is now proposed to take aI | survey of the sugar question, with refer- ence to Government aid. It should be borne in mind at the outset McKinley bill provided for a bounty of 2 cents & pound to the producers of sugar in America. That wasa stroke of policy destined to encourage producers, but that law was repealed by the Demo- | crats. Under the present law there is a small duty (40 per’cent ad valorem)on sugar, but it is the general opinion of those who have stuaied thesnbject that a higher uty should obtain, and that a specific duty would be better in every way. | Lest the reader fail to grasp the situation, let it be understood at the cutset that the consumption of sugar in America each | reaches the enormous amount of that the | ear 2,000,000 long tons. The exact figures in tons were as follows for the years named: 1893, 1,905,682; 1894, 2 T44. Now let it be understooa that the Louisiana production is but 317,000 tons a year, and tbe total beet crop output is 3! 0CG tons, and it will be seen how va percentage of the sugar used in the United States comes from abroad. In 1895 the 1 consumption of foreign sugar was 38 tons. The beet sugar importations were 284,000 tons. That year there came in free nearly 1,064,000,000 pounds-of sugar. A proper tariff on this commodity alone would have gone very far toward | paying the expenses of the Government. | In addition, it would bave greatly en- | couraged American producers, and led a | number of farmers, aiready groping in vain in search of new industries, to have gone into the beet sugar busi Tc there is not proper encourage- ment for farmers to go into the beet-sugar business. Why? Because, though the industry pays fairly well there are obsta- cles in the n the form of cheap prog- ucts from afar, products that come in free ; 1895, 1,949,- of duty. The imports from China alone | are about 25,000,000 pounds a year. The ers arriving at the port of San Fran- nearly all bring heavy consignments inese sugars. These, like all goods Great Prosperity the Certain Result of a Wise Tariff, While Free Trade Is from the Orient, are made by cheap labor under conditions wholly un-American. One of the large Chinese steamers will bring a million pounds of sugar into the market. If there were a heavy protective tariff on sugar and a bounty such as the McKinley law offered the sugar industry might readily be made one of the most important in America, particularly im- portant on the Pacitic Coast, where the climate and soil favor the profitable devel- opment of sugar beets. Speaking of the matter yesterday, Claus Spreckels said: “We ought to have a tariff on sugar; also a good sugar bounty. This would encourage the sugar industry. The American farmer must be given a chance, but he cannot thrive in any branch of sugar-raising if the Govern- ment does nothing to aid him. In Ger- many the government pays a bounty of 48 cents on every 100 pounds of sugar ex- ported, but the Cermans also have a high protective tariff law. What is the result? Germany is to-day the most prosperous of countries, while England is in a bad way, and if she is not driven to protection asa policy further ruin must come to her. In | this country there ought td be a sugar bounty of at least $5 a ton and a duty of 4 cents a pound, the same as in Germany. “There is no reason why a proper se- ries of fostering laws would not make it possible for American farmers to produce sugar enough for the United States. We could do most of the sugar-raising right here 1n California for that matter, because we have every advantage of soil and cli- mate. Wheat-raising no longer pays, be- cause the great fields of the Argentine Republic have ruined prices. The sugar- beet industry, therefore, naturally pre- sents itself as one of prime importance to the farmer and to the whole people, for if the farmer fails all fail. “The McKinley law’s bounty feature was a good thing, and the Republican party’s a Blight. American Farmers Can Be Given a New Business by Pro- tection. protective tariff idea is a good thing, for the sugar business in particular. Protec- tion and a bounty would enable the Amer ican sugar-beet grower to work diligently to build up a substantial business; but under free trade, with the cheap labor of the world against him, with bounties abroad to give his competitors every ad- vantage, the farmer cannot be expected to fare as he would under the fostering policy outlined. *The State of Nebraska still pursues the proper policy, paying 1 cent on each pound of sugar. This goes as an encouraging bounty to the producer. Liitle sugar as we raise in this country, compared with the consumption, we have seriously felt the loss of the bounty at various times. In 1894 times were very dutl on that account.”’ Mr. Spreckels believes the German Gov- ernment’s policy of a sugar bounty is the correct one, und that this country will yet seeits way to a similar law, The following interesting account of the way the German bounty stimulated the farmers is from the June report of Consul- General Frank H. Mason at Frankfurt. Mr. Spreckels says there is no reason why similar prosperity should not come to this country under a similar law. Consul Mason says: The sugar-tax amendment law, over which hes been waged in the German Parliamentone of the longest and most determined battles of recent years, was finally enacted as a conces- s10n to the agrarian interests, and went into effect on Monday of the present week. Itsin- fluence wil: be to increase the sugar produc- tion of Germany, snd to that extent exert a depressing effect upon the general market and the interests of producers in other beet-grow- ing countries, The circumstances which have led to the present situation are briefly these: From the time when the Prussian Government began the systematic encouragement of the beet- sugar industry down to 1887, the tax on sugar for home consumption was caleulated upon the quantity of beets worked up by each separate factory, it being assumed that the quantity of roots required to-produce a given weightof sugar would be uniform and invariable. The proportion adopted was twenty units of raw beet root to one unmit of sugar, which, at the time when the law was enacted, was approxi- mately correct. But, under the stimulus of the export bounties provided by the same law the Ger- man beet-growers and sugar-makers worked hard and intelligently to improve and increase their prodnet. By careful selection and cuiti- vation the beets were so improved that from twelve to fourteen tons of roots would yield a ton of sugar. Great advance was also made in the machinery and processes employed in the sugar factories, so that as a final result the German Government, which paid nearly 12 cents per hundred weight bounty on all sugar exported, and charged a tax of the same amount on all sugar for home consurption that could be made from twenty hundred weight of beets, found that the export bounties completely absorbed the revenue derived from the sugar tax. This tendency of the system had become ap- parent as early as 1869, and an attempt was made at that time to revise the law, but the sugar-producing interest was powerful enough to resist this effort, and during the sugar sea- son of 1866-67 the Government was paying about $117 bounty on each 100 kilograms (220.46 pounds) of sugar exported to foreign countries. This was more than the imperial treasury could well withstand, and the export bounty was reduced to 2.50 marks (59.5 cents) per 100 kilograms—a little more than one- fourth of a cent per pound. Sugar-growing still continued to be the most profitabié form of culture for German farmers, the area of cultivation and number of sugar factories continued to increase, loud com- plaints were Leard against & system that favored one class of farmers at the expense of the entire population, and, in 1891, the Im- perial Diet reduced the sugar export pounty by half, that is, to 29.7 cents per 100 kilograms, and decreed that such bounty should entirely cease on the 81st of July, 1897, provided that, in the meentime, Austria, France and other bounty-paying countries should likewise re- duce their bounties on exported sugar. Sev- eral attempts have been made to reach such an international agreement, but without suc- cessful result, and under cover of this failure to secure a general reduetion or abolition of bounties, tbe German agrarians have rallied and secured the adoption of the present law, which restores the export bounty of 1887 (59.5 cents per 220.46 pounds) and raises the tax on sugar for home consumption from 18 marks (84 28) to 21 marks ($4 99) per 100 kilograms, or about 2.2 cents per pound. The increased tax will of course be added to the retail price of sugar, already very high, and tend to still further retard the increase of sugar consumption in Germany, which is now only 28.8 pounds per capita, against 73.68 pounds per capita in England and 77 pounds in the United States, This low rate of con- sumption will not appear unnatural when it is remembered how large a percentage of the working class in Germany must live with the utmost economy, and that sugar, which sells in the United States at 4 and 5 cents per pound, costs at retail 7}¢ cents a pound in Ger- many. But what would become of the sugar in- dustry under the policy of non-inter- ference advocated by Bryan? Careful stu- dents of the situation see great possibili- ties in a protective tariff, judiciously ap- plied to the sugar business of the country, They see in it an outlet for the farmers, a new field for the expenditure of agrarian energy, and the prospect of a new busi- ness for the country. It has been demonstrated that while California is peculiarly fitted for the beet industry, it will flourish in nearly every State in the Union. A protective tariff on sugar would not only greatly encourage the industry, but it would raise revenues in vast amounts for the purposes of gov- ernment. The sum in 1893 alone on im- ported sugars would have been $90,000,000 had there been a tariff of even 3 cents a pound on the importea article. In view of the policy of Germany, of the cheap sugar of the Orient and of the other inequalities the American sugar-raiser has to contend with, a bounty and a tariff on sugar seems the most desirable means of improving the industry, protecting the capital already invested, ana raising a large revenue for the Government. FARNERS BVER SUGAR BEET FEVER, Eager to Go Into the Culti- vation of the Profit- able Crep. SPRECKELS REFINERY. | | ever done before. | It Has Given a New Impetus| to Life in Salinas | Valley. | BIG PROFITS IN THE BEET. | and Makes Il% in | It Cures the Land Capable of Big Things Other Crops. The farmers of Salinas Valley are en- thusiastic, and growing more and more g0 every day, over the prospect of the quick | establishment in their midst of the big | Snreckels beet sugar refinery. { The committee in charge of the work of | securing pledges of land from the farmers for the production of sucar beets is having | an easy time of it. The necessary 30,000 | acres of land has been more than pledged already. Claus Spreckels has returned to the City, | and is busily engaged with his engineer‘ and architect in completing the details of | the big factory. The arrangement of the interior is made under the persoral direc- | tion of Mr. Spreckels from plans secured | during his recent long trip abroad, made for the special purpose. Plans were originally drawn in Paris, very hastily, just before Mr. Spreckels’ departure for his home. The exact location of the refinery has not yet been determined finally, but it is | probable it will be built on the outskirts of Salinas, near the Spreckels railroad. In his address to the business men of Salinas at the banquet last Saturday night Mr. Spreckeis said that the big refinery was bat the beginning and that other large en- terprises would follow, and referred inci- dently to the wharves to be built at Mon- terey Bay to accommodate the shipping of sugar. All this has so swelled the citizens of Balinas and the farmers of Salinas Val- ley with hope and pride that they think and talk of nothing else. The farmersare | citing incidents of the revenue that is to | be gained from the cultivation of sugar | beets. It issaid to be one of the most profitable crops that may be putin the ground. James Borden is said to have re- alized from the cuitivation of 200 acres no less than $14,000 in one year. Jacob Clausen rentea to some Indians his tract of a hundred acres at $20 per acre. | Being asked if that was not a pretty steep | fignre for rental Le said that the Indians, his tenants, bad realized $21 per acre, which he thought was profit enough. Jn other wordsthe crop had netted $41 an acre. A number of such instances are being cited. The secret of success of Salinas Vulley is the very simple one of rotating crops, and thatis no secrat at all, for it is necessary to success everywhere. *‘The land of the valley is very foul,” said Wil- liam Vanderhurst. “The principal crops are barley and wheat, of which they pro- duce such a poor quality as to be unable to find & market for it out of this country. It has been shown, however, that it will produce the very best quality of sugar beets. More than that. After growing & crop or two of the sweet root the land is cured and the quality of barley and wheat thereafter broduced is of the very best. It will be seen that the farmers have more than one reason for joy at the coming of the big sugar factory. 1t gives them a | have turned eagerly to beets. | adapted himself to the spirit of the coun- | not be a duplicate of the old movement. ATTACKED HER MOTHER, need be taken of commission merchants’ margins or freight bills, while the growing | of this crop, in making possible the grow- ing of other profitable crops, increases the value of the land.” Many of the farmers have raised grain with such poor results that they have be- come greatly discouraged. Since the opening of the Watsonville factory they From the same land where a failure had been made of cereals they have taken off an average of fourteen tonsof beets per acre. One man last year weighed up 700 | tons off thirty-five acres. At $4 per ton nybody can figure that this is doing very good business. After several crops of beets a farmer put in potatoes where be- fore that crop had yielded very poorly. He barvested one-third more than he had This is the universal testimony through- out the valley, and easily explains why everybody down that way is now suffering from the sugar-beet fever. Mr. Spreckels says he expects to have the biggest factary in the world eating up 3000 tons of beets per day in full operation in about a year from this date. The Volunteer Army ALAMEDA, CaL., Aug. 5.—Major Wash- ington Blackhurst of the Volunteers of America bad a fuli house to greet him iast night in the Park-street M. B. Church. He explained the situation which led to the dismissal of Commander and Mrs. Baliington Booth from the Balvation Army, and contrasted the systems of gov- ernment in England and America. | Elaborating this thought he maintained that unless a Salvation Army officer try he lived in he could not succeed in building up his work. The Volunteers would therefore be more republican in form of government, and other innova- tions would be introduced that would add to its permanency. The Volunteers would There would be as much difference in them as existed between the governments of England and America. Tragedy Attempted by a Young Lady in an Aristocratic Neighborhood. Miss Guernsey Wields a Knife While a Guest at the Wright Resi. _ dence. OARLAND OFFICE SAN FrANCISCO CALL, 8 Broadway, Aug. 5. The aristocratic residents of Jackson street were greatly surprised a few days ago to learn that a tragedy had been very narrowly averted in their midst, Miss Guernsey and her mother,who were from the East, were staying at the resi- Miss Guernsey is subject to spells of par- tial insanity and during one of these it was reported that she had made an at- tack on her mother with a knife. The intimate friends of the family said to-day that Miss Guernsey’s feeble health was all that saved her mother's life. ‘“The visitors were staying at the Wrights’ for the benefit of Miss Guernsey’s health. She is feeble-minded and frequently re- quires restraining. A few days ago she was attacked with one of her customary spells and she considered that she had been commissioned to kill her mother. She went into the kitchen and procured a caseknife and essayed to attack her mother. Mrs, Guernsey isa much stronger woman than her daughter and was able to overpower her. “Had the attack been made when Mrs, Guernsey was unprepared there would bave been a much more serious story to | :uee“x-t nl]{er mother to;)k the daughter East orning and their depart: great relief to their host.” ey ——————— Dr. Kuhlman’s Case. Dr. Kuhlmen was brought before Jud Hunt yesterdey morning on a writ of lllb!‘l: corpus, he being in the handsof the Sheriff on an order of Coronor Hawkins for contempt. Judge Hunt fixed the doctors bail at 1000 and ordered him to & A.X.for heating, T ROTTOW at 10 puici SRR @ T Beg FAT Went Into Convulsions. John Polkingham, a painter, 1iying on G street, drank something out of a fwme :::: dence of John T. Wright, the capitalist. evening and went into convulsions, taken to the City and County Hospital Hl::.l: market at their door wherein no account in e fairway to recovery. what was in the !mua.’ L e LEFT 0 DI ON A DOORSTEP, Unknown Child Found in Front of a Lodging- House. ONLY THREE DAYS OLD. It Was Neatly Dressed and Wrapped in an Old News- paper. SENT TO THE ORPHAN ASYLUM The Police Can Find No Clew to Lead to the Identity of the Parents. _A Chinese servant employed in the Hillsdale House, corner of Sixth and Jes- sie streets, found an abandoned baby girl only have been a short time on the steps before being discovered by the Chinese servant. _The police will make a strong effort to discover who the parents are, and, if found, an example will be made of them, as the abandonment of infants has been too frequent of late. It is believed that the fact of no arrests having been made and the consequent immunity from pun- ishment is responsibie for this increase of crime. A few months ago a newly born baby boy was found in the yard of the same house wrapped in a piece of cloth. It, t0o, was sent to the Moant St. Joseph Orfbnn rAsylum. No trace of its parents could be ound. DID NOT Tirey L. Ford Gave His Services Gratis to the Miners’ Assoclation. At a meeting of the execulive commit- tee of the California Miners’ Association, held Monday evening at the rooms of the Union League Club, T. L. Ford submitted a report of his labors at Washington ia behalf of certain mining legislation during the recent session of Congress. After the committee had received and adopted the report and ordered it printed for circula- tion among members of the association, Mr. Ford was informed by a member of the committee that it was desired that be should retire from the committee-room in order that certain matters might be dis- cussed. The matter consisted of voting to pay Mr. Ford $1000 for his services, par- ticularly as he had been to considerable expense, beside having neglected his per- sonal business for several months during his trip East. 1t was a matter of some surprise when on the following day President J. H. Neff of the association received a letter from Mr. d ) - = 7 ,1’7’4//% The Little Waif Who Was Left to the Mercies of the World. on the steps leading to the Jessie-street entrance yesterday morning, About 8 o’clock he was attending to his usual duties sweeping away the dust from the stairway and hallway, and on opening the door he saw a bundle on the steps. Something was tied upin a newspaper, and thinking it was some debris put there as a practical joke he was going to sweep it off the steps, when it struck him to ex- amine what was in the bundie. He lifted it up and was scared’ almost out of his wits when somethimg moved and gave a feeble cry. He tore off tne newspaper and the face of a big blue-eyed baby girl looked up at him. He carried the baby into the house and hurried to the landlaay with his precious burden. The landlady is of a practical -turn of mind and at once sent the Chinese in search of a policeman. He soon found Policeman Koegel, who took the baby to the Receiving Hospital. Matron Kane at once took charge of the waif and a telephone message was sent to Mount St. Joseph Orphan Asylum. In afew hours the baby was taken to the asylum, where so many other tiny unfor- tunates haye found a home. The baby is aboat two or three days old, and aceording to Matron Kane is an ex- ceedingly handsome, strong infant. It was neatly dressed in good material, but there was nothing that would give the slightest clew to the identity of its parents. From its appearance 1t could Ford, in which the latter declined to accept any compensation. In his letter he says: No one could appreciate more highly than do Ithe sincere and worthy motives that gov- erned the committee in their attempt to thus recompense me for the time which I had the honor to devote to the cause which we all have st heart. While profoundly grateful for the kindness thus intended to be shown me, and deeply moved by the kind expressions of per- sonalregard so ireely tendered me by yourself and others at that meeting, I must neverthe- less decline to acceptany pecuniary compen- sation for the humble services I have rendered the California Miners’ Association. ————————— Golden Gate Driving Association. At a special meeting of the Golden Gate Driving Association, held at Police Court 3, new City Hall, Tuesday evening, August 4, the following were elected a board ot directors: Dr. G. W. Leek, president; J. C. Ohlandt, vice- president; C. F. Kapp, treasurer; W.J. Simp- son, secretary; Dr. 1. Barker Slhhl,w!;." w. Thompson, H. F. Patrick, Fred Meyer, Willlam K-mem:, John T. Dare, T. B. Broderick, John McGrath, J. C. Kirkpstrick, L. E. Clawson, George Raubinger, W. McMehan, Thirty-three new members were initiated. There were sey- eral entries made for the trotting races which will be held September 9. A committee was ppointed to wait on the Park Commissioners and ask for the repair of the speed track. The next meeting will be neld to-night at 20 O’Farrell street, to which all horsemen are invited. ———————————— IN the artists’ material department of San- bo.-‘n. Vail & Co. you can buy il:" pl:int, ‘wood stains, house paint, gold paints, lignid giue and sterling p’:llll put up in Illfl mfhr family use at very low prices. * WANT PAY. | DR, STANTON 1§ NAMED FOR MAYOR, The Buckleyites Bring Out the Railroad Com- missioner. DEMOCRATIC ASPIRANTS Some of the Men Who Are Crowding Early for Local Nominations. POPPER’S PATRIOTIC PURSE. The Democratic State Leaders Are Waiting for New York Advice About Fusion. The Buckleyites have just begun a little boow for Dr. James I. Stanton for Mayor. The Railroad Commissioner 1s, perhaps, their most popular leader, and they will be unanimously and enthusiastically in favor of putting him at the head of their ticket if he will accept the nomination. Stanton has not, of course, declared him- self in the field, but he will be the nomi- nee of the coming municipal convention of the Buckley Democracy, without doubt, if he will consent, when the time comes, to being entered in the race for this higher honor, James D. Phelan is yet the only candi- date for Mayor discussed by the Junta, and they all expect to make him their nominee when they hold their conven- tion. But the future of all phases of Demo- cratic municipal ps outcome of the struggle between the rival factions, which has not brought forth any definite prospects of compromise. Candi- dates for municipal offices are springiny up on both sides of the fence, and all trust thatinsome way or other the party wiil be united on one ticket. W. J. lesg is just now the Jeading can- didate for Sheriff on the Junta side. Chairman Sullivan, Secretary McGovern, Max Popper,- Sam Braunhart and otner leaders are backing Blify andas likely as not the Junta convention will name Mr. e is will, however, depend much more on Sam Rainey and Ed Lanigan than on Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Popper, as the con- vention, which will be held in about six weeks, will be controlled by these bosses who will dictate the patronage nomin- ations at least. Rainey and Lanigan would like to nom- inate Joseph 1. Dimond for Sheriff if they aw any chance for hiselection. Anthony Quiile and P. J. Tomalty would also like to get the nomination, and on the Buck- ley side Under Sheriff Clack isan aspirant. nigan would like to make Bupervisor Hirsch, his brother-in-law, County Clerk, and Peter McGlade issaid to have Rainsy’s favor. John F. McGovern, secretary of the Junta general county committee, is a strong candidate, and has the favor of Sul- livan, Popper and the st elements of the Junta. John H, Grady, ex-Tax Col- lector, would like to succeed Mr. Curry. ‘W. F. Ambrose isreported to be Rainey’s resent favorite for Superintendent of Btneu. and Frank Lester. another candi- date for the nomination, is credited with Lanigan's good wishes. Ex-School Di- rector Thomas Ford is one of the Buckley- ites credited with this ambition. The Sul- livan-McNab-P r element of the Junta have, accordin, report, made up their minds to back C. E. Grunsky for the office of Superintendent of Streets. Mr. Gran- sky is a civil engineer, was a member of the late sewer commission and was the last non-partisan nominee for the cffice. Auditor Broderick wants to be Auditor again, and Fleet F. Strother, who once held the office, would like to succeed him. ‘When it comes to the Recordership one may hear that the office is being chased by the incumbent, Mr. Glynu, by T. J. Pin- der, School Director Carew, \6 H. Miller and C. W. Pope. The Democratic candidates for the Leg- islature are multiplying like rabbits. The secret of where the money to pay the running expenses of the Junta comes from all this time is out. Max Popper has beenu;mtnoncllly putting it up, and he lvanced to the McNab-Rainev aggre- gation several hundred dollars, which he trusts to the future for payment. The main expense has been the rent of the rooms of the State Democratic Club in the Flood building, which the Junta has occu- pied for several months. A day or two ago the headquarters were moved to a larger suite of rooms on the same floor, and Max cheerfully writes his check for the rent every thirty days. o5 Popper is naturally given added consid- eration in the councils of the “inside.” This is an old habit of Popper’s, He has in past years advanced thousands to county and State committees of which he was chairman. The Buckleyites are organizing Bryan and Sewell clubs in the various districts and expect to enroll several thousand Democrats in these organizations. Chris Buckley is a regular daily visitor now to the new and extensive headquar- ters of the Buckley organization at 20 Ellis street. He meets and enthuses the faithful in the rear room of one of the suites occnYud. holding levees which the boys proudly attend or advising privately with the leaders, who are not only hola- ing the organization well together but are extending and perfecting it. -PreliminarY campaign work keeps Chairman Alford busy day and evening in the State Commitfes headquarters in the California Hotel, where ieading Demo- crats are beginning todrop in and out. Fusion with the Populists is qnietly and informally discussed more or less, and the probiem will likely be canvassed at ihe meeting of the State Central Committee on Saturday. No definite propositions are yet to the front, and the Bemocmtic leaders are not inclined to say anything definite until after the meeling of the Democratic Na- tional Committee in New York. : National Committeeman J. J. Dwyer is on his way to New York to attend this meeting. He has consulted with the lead- ing Democrats and Populists here, knows the possibilities and difficulties of fusion in this State and will advise with Chair- man Jones in New York. g Chairman Alford and others will wait for the general result of the Nationai Com-~ mittee meeting and for advices from Mr., Dwyer before they do much dickering with the Populists. IN A NIGHT. An Island Disappeared and Changed the Boundary of Two States. An island in the Missouri River broken into fragments and washed away was the unusual spectacle Atchison (Kans.) people witnessed yesterday morning. For years an island of 600 or 700 acres has been one of the attractions of Atchison. It was as fertile as a garden, and was known all over the West for the excellence of the celery, asparagus, sweet potatoes and melons it produced. It haa the appearance of a veritable oasis 1n a desert, and its green shrubbery, generous shade trees, velvet lawns and cool springs were a perpetual joy. Upon thisisland a shooting club had a home, and the baseball enthusiasts had their grounds and grand stand. Alto- gether it was a most pleasant resort. Ina single night this island was dissolved into fragments. The big June rise in the Mis- gouri River struck it, andjio-day it is only a reminiscence. What was Kansas’ loss, however, was Missouri's gain. With the obliteration of the island the current left the Missouri shore and struck hard against the Kansas bluffs. The result of this is that the Missouri banner has been planted a mile westward, and hunareds of acres of rich bottom land bave becn added to its domain, while Kansas mourns the loss of its green island and pleasant park.—Cin- cinnati Enquirer. ——————— The Speaker and forty members consti- tute a House of Commons, NEW TO-DAY. Profits Divided WITH Customers. BIG CUT Crockery, China and Glassware A HANDSOME PRESENT GIVEN EACH CUSTOMER FRUIT 45c per Doz. Pints e ot ey St JARS 30¢ per Doz. 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