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It Bore Apples Ninety Years.

On a farm in Ohio stands an apple.
. tree that has been bearing fruit for
ninety years. It is a yellow bell-
flower, and was planted when this
whole region was almost a solid for-
est. Five feet from ‘the ground it
measures nine feet six inches in cir-
cumference, and it would take a has-
ket forty-eight feet wide to set under
the tree to catch every apple that falls.
The tree shows some signs of decay
now, but it is thought the year 1900
will find it producing—Cor. Cincinnati
Tribune.
Alabama displayed wisdom in ex-
empting from taxation for ten years
any new cotton factories established
within her borders, and the first fruits
of it are apparent in the preparations
for the institution there of a million-
dollar plant by Eastern capitalists,
who have recently paid the state a
visit to look over the ground and lay
out their plan of action. The inten-
tion is to make fiber fabrics than have
hitherto been made in the South,
which is an important industrial de-
parture for that section, promising to
help toward the solution of some of
its most difficult economic and social
problems. Alabama legislation, sc
hospitable to capital. stands in rather
marked contrast with our own, which
in many cases seems devised with the

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WEEKLY-NORWAbK-GAZET

all/[Elma HARM

llluch Damage Reported From Heavy
Snowfalls III-the West.

THE RAILROADS BLOCKADED

Trunk Lines In Nebraska. Kansas, Colo-
rado and Wyoming Involved—Big
Losses on Cattle Ranges—The

1 Danger From High Water.

Omaha, April 2.——The severest storm
of the entire winter has prevailed for
the last 35 hours in western Nebraska
and adjacent territory and has com-
pletely stopped all traffic on three Oma-
ha railroads, the Burlington, the Union
Pacific andthe Rock Island, in that
section. The interruption to train sefv-
ice, and the best means of getting
trains through, engaged the entire at-
tention of ofiicials at the Union Pacific
headquarters.

Throughout the Union Pacific system
the storm extended along all the lines
in Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas. The
only part of the system on which trains
were moved was between Omaha and
Sidney, Neb. The Overland limited is
snowbound at Hillsdale, Wy., 20 miles
east of Cheyenne. The fast mail is ly-
ing helpless in a. snowdrift near Sidney,
this state. The passengers on the snow
bound trains are suffering no discom-
fort, being well looked after.

The weather reports of the Bprlington
and Missouri lines showed great depths
of snow in Wyoming, Colorado and
South Dakota. Belmont reported 6
inches, Ardmore 2 inches, Custer 3 inch-
es, Deadwood 15 inches and Holyoke 4
inches. Most of the points in the south-
ern part of Nebraska reported heavy
rains, with the weather growing colder.
Great piles of snow cover the plains of
western Nebraska. It is four feet deep
in many places. The mercury is above
zero, but a. very high wind prevails.

In the eastern part of the state great
quantities of rain have fallen during
the past 48 hours. All the streams are
bank full, and the danger of floous is
inoreasing hourly. When this flood
strikes the already booming Missouri,
disaster doubtless will follow.

Damage In \Vyoming.

Laramie, Wy., April 2.——The most se-
vere snowstorm in 20 years has struck
this section, doing immense damage to
cattle and sheep. Business here is prac-
tically suspended, and yesterday even
the daily papers were not issued. On
the main streets the snow in places is
ten feet high, while residences on the
outskirts of the city are in some in-
stances completely buried by drifts. Sev-
eral buildings collapsed in consequence
of the weight of the snow on their roofs.
The storm extends from Medicine Bow
to Pine Bluffs, Wy., a distance of 175
miles. Laramie and Sherman Hill ap-
pear to be the very center of the storm.

All freight trains on the Union Pacific
have been suspended for the past 48
hours, and officials are making strenu-
ous but apparently futile efforts to
keep passenger trains moving. The
tralnmaster of the Union Pacific hopes
to have trains moving some time today.
On Sherman Hill the big rotary snow-
plow has been kept moving all day.
plowing through drifts fully 20 feet
high in many places. Several snow-
plows are working west of :here, mak-
ing an endeavor to keep‘ the main lines
the

open. Fears are entertained for
safety of several hunting parties in
this section.

Sheep are scattered all over the

plains, and it is expected the ks; Will
reach into the thousands. Several
borders reached town yesterday. hav-
ing deserted their herds and having
escaped only with the greatest difficul—
ty from being frozen to death. It is
feared that the driver of the North
Park stage has been frozen, although
he may have reached some ranch.

Louisiana Levees Intact.

New Orleans, April 2.——Up to the
present time as far as known the line
of Louisiana levees is intact, but the
strain against them is such that a
break at any moment is feared at al-
most any point. Vigilance is the price
of safety, and the constant watch for
weak places has been the means of
averting several crevasses at dang.”
ous places. The sloughing on th: A;—
glers side just below the city has bee;
repaired, 30.000 sacks of earth havfiz;
been used in making the place secuie.
Another weak spot developed at
Jesuit’s Bend, 20 miles below the city,
but several hundred men s;on restored
it. The great danger below the city
is due to wave wash, caused by pass-
ing steamers, some of which run very
close to} the shore to avoid the swift
current and drift. and the governor and
mayor have issued proclamations call-
ing on them to keep to the middle 'of
the stream and run under slow bells.
The heavy rain and wind of the past
two days, which still continue, have
soaked the levees, and the people who
are behind them are growing indignant
at the heedlessness of the .pilots and
are talking of using arms to compel
them to keep to the middleof the river.

The Surget-Ashton levee in Concordia
parish is reported sloughing badly. A
run-around is being built there, but it
is feared that the old levee will,give
way before .the new one is completed.

There is much concern for the rich
country along Bayou La Fourchee.
The levees there are low and in some
places very weak. '

‘High Water In North Dakota.

Wahpeton, N. D., April 2.—The water
in the Red and Boise de Sioux rivers is
two feet above the danger mark and
about the highest ever known. The ice
has risen with‘ the water and is threat-
ening all the bridges on the line of
those rivers. >

Strenuous efforts are being 'made to
save the Northern Pacific, Great

Northern and the wagon bridges at this,

place. Continuously since yesterday
morning dynamite has been used in
breaking the ice, both above, below and
between the bridges and there are Some
hopes now of saving the railroad
bridges, but the road bridge which con—
nects this city and Breckinridge seems
to be doomed. A few inches more rise

and the ice will lodge against .the
bridges and force them from their
foundations.

 

To Protect the Deer.

Albany. April 2.—The assembly, by a.
vote of 100 to 20, has passed Mr. Ives‘
bill" to prevent the jacking and bounding
of deer for five years from June 1, 1897.

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Japan’s Experience \Vith Silver.

The attempt of Japan to maintain a
mint ratio that was different from the
market ratio was a failure] and resulted
in denuding the circulation of gold. Bi-
metallism had failed in Japan as else-
where. . _

The decline in the value of money had
in Japan the effect it always has had of
robbing the laborer and enriching the
capitalist. The miserable pittance paid
to the wretched operatives must. at no
distant period lead to a social revolution
unless the rate of wages be considerably
improved.

In 1872 a family consisting of five
members of the lower middle class could
subsist on 70 yen a year. In 1893 the cost
of living had risen to 180 yen a year.
During a period of 22 years the silver
yen declined very nearly one-half in its
gold value, about two-fifths in its power
to buy merchandise and about one-fourth
in its power to buy labor.

The gold value of the exports from
the United States and England to Japan
was over $18,000,000 in 1892 and nearly
$31,000,000 in 1896, while the imports
of the two from Japan were over $29,-
000, 000 in the first year and less than
$31,000,000 in the last year.——Fred
Perry Powers in Sound Currency For
March 1. *

Cheap Confederate Money.
A southern firm advertises 15 varieties
of Confederate bills for 25 cents, also a
“rare collection of 50 different bills and

shinplasters for only $2. ” Apparently

the firm has millions of dollars worth
of this money for sale cheap.

What a pity that our old fogy consti-
But ‘for it the
cheap money advocates in any state
where they have a majority céuld buy
up this whole Confederate outfit and
start in business at once. The amount
of prosperity and happiness that could
be extracted from this old paper mine
would depend upon the size (population)
of the state fortunate enough to secure
the monetary outfit. .

For instance, it would probably give
N cvada more than $1, 000 per capita and
would at once transform her from one
of the poorest to one of the wealthiest
of states. Instead of sagebrush and
prizcfights she would teem with gran-
aries and warehouSes. Down with a
constitution which prevents state home
rule in monetary affairs and the mani-
fold blessings of cheap money!

 

Better Banking Facilities Needed.

Discussing the poor credit and bank-
ing facilities of the west and south be-
fore the last meeting of the American
Economic association, Mr. Thomas G.
Shearman said: .

In the 11 southern states it is impos-
sible that one-tenth of the farmers could
have any bank accounts or could ever
draw checks in payment for their retail
transactions. In the recent campaign
the successful candidate received the
votes of 23 states, the defeated candi-
date the votes of 22. The 23 states hold
92 per cent of all bank deposits and de-
positors. Deducting from the other 22
states the silver states and a few large
cities, the remaining vast agricultural
section of the country, having 40 per
cent r. the 2, «palation and 75 per cent
of tlm . . ..._.s less than 4 per cent of
the barn. llciJOSitS and depositors. This
suggests what was the real grievance of
this mass of voters, although they did
not themselves understand it. Their
banking facilities are proportionately
only one-sixteenth of the rest of the

country.

Wyoming’s Common Sense Action.

By defeating an unqualified free sil-
ver resolution and substituting a resolu-
tion in favor of free coinage of gold and
silver by international agreement, the
Republican legislature "of Wyoming
taught a lesson of common sense and
practical politics to all the states of the
northwest. The free coinage of silver

 

on any other basis than that; of actual _
value is a delusion which was effectually
disposed of last November. -—New York
World. >

The House Builded on' the Sands.

 

 

 

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, Government Must Control Mines.

The Bankers’ Magazine for March
finds the origin of our present troubles
about silver in the demand that the
ratio of its value to gold shall be deter-
mined by the government. It is, how-
ever, no‘proper part of the duty of the
government to try to fix the ratio of
values of the two metals.

“Being,” says The Ban‘kers’ Maga-
zine, “commodities as well as money,
and being commodities before and after
they are money, and being money sim-
ply and only because they are commodi-
ties, and being commodities because
they have recognized and intrinsic value

independent of any action of govern- .

ment, and even in the absence of govern-
ment, and being therefore severally sub-
ject to all the laws of commodities, the:
law of variable supply and. demand and
value among others, and, these varia-
tions not being uniform for both metals.
it is impossible that government can
ever ‘fix’ the ratio of theii'value.

“If, however, it should he insisted
that it is the function and. duty of gov-
ernment to (try to) fix the ratio of their

A values, it would seem to follow as a
consequence that, since their ‘

logical
relative value depends absolutely on the
relative supply of the two metals it is
the primary and plain duty of govern-

ment to fix (regulate) their supply by =
controlling and operating. the- gold and ’

silvermines, the sources of their pro-
duction. It should do both timings or

neither, and it is preferable that it .

should do neither. It is folly toexpect it
to do the former without’ doing the lat-
for."

This is the truth of the'mutter in a
nutshell. Unless the government first
acquires all the mines in the world and.

decides how much silver and. how much: 1

gold are to be produced yearly, it is: im-
possible to maintain a ratio after it is:
‘ffixed. " France “fixed” it 356 times,-
but it would not stay fixed, and France
has at length abandoned the! effort. The
United States has also tried; the experi-
ment several times without success.

matter alone.

Why Interest Is High. In Texas.

The Galveston Daily News reminds "
its Texas readers of the difference in in—
terest rates in the northeastern states '
and in some of the western and southern 3

states and gives them a: few elementary
lessons on the reasons for thisdifierence.

“Interest is never so low,” it says, “in 5
communities given over to suspicious !

fires, questionable assignments, fraudu-

lent failures or to legislation with a de- ,

cided turn against the creditor and in
favor of the debtor. ” Much of the mar-
ket rate of interest is insurance against
risk, and of course diminishes as the
risk decreases. ‘ ‘ Where men are required

by law to pay their debts and are not _

sheltered and encouraged in tricky
courses by unreasonable exemption laws
and by a public prejudice against cred-
itors as a class the» risk is. naturally less

serious. ’ '

Making its application to Texas,»
The News says: “We have a.- right to
to leave a fraudulent debtor a residence
worth $50, 000,. all the bank stock or
bonds he, can carry and an extraordinary
collection of the tools of his trade or
profession and to. defy his creditors to
crook a finger at him. We can do this if
we prefer, but. it is going to cost us
something. ” It asks why the “goodly
majority of the people of Texas,” who
“are not disposed to live high today and
hide behind the exemption law, the as-
signment law or some other law tomor-
row, ” should be forced byathe discredit
of bad laws and a few dishonest men
“to pay two prices for every dollar they
borrow. " It believes the rate of interest
would come down one-half and the
loanable funds would double if the hon-
est men of the state would demand the
enactment of laws under which a cred-
itor could collect what is due him.

 

Currency Evils Must Be Corrected.

Twenty-five trade associations met at
Young’s hotel, in Boston, on March 8
and decided to petition congress to pass
a bill authorizing. the president to ap-
point a. banking and currency commis-
sion. They demand the gold standard
and the gradual retirement of the legal
tenders and favor the issue of currency
by the national banks to the par value

of their bonds and a reduction of the .
They also recom- ,

tax on circulation.
mend additional banking currency,based
on assets, under national supervision,
safe, elastic and redeemable in gold, and
the establishment of banks with a capi-
tal of $25,000 or more in small towns
and villages. The one important thing
is that they demand action. The future
of the currency question is very dark,
but there is one consideration that is en-
couraging, and that is the appearance
among the classes directly suflering
fromvthe free silver agitation of an or-
ganized effort at currency reform. That
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