a» THE EVENING GAZETTE Pleasure for warm, thirsty people,— it’s so delightfully cooling and refreshing -— invigorates the whole sys- tem —sooth'es the nerves— ‘ . promotesrestfulslumberand " a. hearty appetite for food. ABBOTT’S -: HIST llllfll “ Burn Paint cures CORNS, BUNIONS and WARTS SPEEDILY sud WITHOUT PAIN. ~FOI? SALE BY_ ALL DRUGGISTS. LIEI’HAN BROTHERS, Prop’ rs, 42 WATER STllEET, You can find as fine an assortment of iillflillilii lfllltPFiIlfllfll‘lWfll‘l 1: b- - 11nd ir any Yard in the State. L 101: it over and get prices before going elsewhere. 00 You Kllllw That you can save money by buying you1 Meats 1nd Fish at F. W. SMITH’S 55 Main Street. Everything First Class. OPEN EVENINcs DORLON HOUSE GREGORY’S OINT. NOW OPEN FOR THE SEASON OF 1897. SHORE DlNHEflS, anon: 13111111 111111 CAKE, 3111111111. 1101111111, mums. Electric cars to Hotel, every twenty minutes. JOHN E. O’SULLIVAN, Manager. /® B‘ALSIAM / \w / 256. Ask Your Druggist ilT HOME. Don’t go out of toWn to have your Avimings madewhen you can get them ri ht here at home jus as cheap. If you want a canopy for a party or awed- ding, I will supply it at . two hours” notice. A letter or postal card will receive prompt at. tention. P. E. CALLAHAN, Awning Maker, .53 CrossSt. Norwalk. PRICE OF SILVER. ITS FALL DUE PRlN—C-IPALLY TO IN- CREASEDSQPPLY CAUSED BY CHEAPER PRODUCTION. Price Also Afi‘ected by Diminished De- mand—Coinage Demand Has Decreased Ten Per Cent Since 1888, While Pso- duction Has Increased 55—Demonetiza— tion Acts Not Responsible For but the Result of Lower Prices or Silver—Some of the Factors of Cheaper Production Are , Cheaper Transportation, Better Mechan- ical and Chemical Processes of Treating Ores, Use of Electricity-Immense De- posits of Silver Ore Still In Sight——Silver Is Produced Cheaper In Mexico Because Wages of Miners Are Paid In Silver. , The last number of The Journal of Political Economy contains an interest- ing article by Edward S. Meade on “The Fall. In the Price of Silver. ” The facts produced by Mr. Meade make it clear that the price of silver has—fallen for the same reason that prices of nails, steel rails, calico and of most other manufactured articles have fallen—im- proved and cheaper methods 0f produc- tion. In spite of the great decline in price since 1888 production has increased 55 per cent. The rapidly increasing supply of silver and the equally rapid decline .in price are undoubtedly re- Sponsible for most of the demonetization acts which have occurred since 1873 and which are now becoming so numerous- that it seems likely that, as our director of the mint says, it will be less than 15 g§‘*years before every country on the face 5 :of'the earth will have adopted the gold . standard ' The following table shows the world’s production of silver, coinage demand and price per ounce from 1888 to 1895: Production World's coin- Price of silver in age of silver per fine fine ounces. in fine ounces. ounce. 1888 ........ 108, 827,606 104,354,000 8 .939 1889 ........ 120,213,611 107,688,256 .935 1890 ........ 126,095, 062 117 ,789,228 1.046 1891. . . . . 137,170,119 106,962,049 .987 1892. . . . . . . . 153,151,762 120,282,947 _ .871 1893......" 165,472,621 ~ 106,697,783 .780 I 1894 ....... 164. 610, 394 87, 47 2, 5.3 .635 1895 ........ 168. 308, 353 94, 057, 903 .654 After neticing these statistics Mr. Meade says: “'We cannot ascertain with any ex- actness the strength of the demand from the arts. It has probably been stimu- lated by the increasing cheapness of sil- ver, but there is no evidence that it has increased sufficiently to offset the de- creased demand for coinage purposes. ” Mr. Meade thinks that but little of the silver that has been used in the arts will .ever be put upon the market. While it is probably true that the most of the silver now coined will remain in this form, the fear that certain countries will throw their large stocks of silver upon the market is constant and is prob- ably largely responsible for the .recent rapid fall in price. Comparing the years 1873 and 1895, Mr. Meade finds that the yearly product of silver increased 266 per cent, while the price fell 48 per cent. The most interesting portion of Mr. Meade’s article is that which deals with the cost of producing silver. He notes the general progress of the silver indus- try and mentions a few of the most im- portant improvements in methods and machinery. The following extracts will give an idea of some of the changes: “The first and most important im- provement in silver production has been the _, improvement in transportation. Railroads have been rapidly extended throughout the western part of the United States and of recent years into Mexico. The building of these latter roads has made possible the importa-' tion of silver ores from Mexico into the United States, which greatly stimulated the silver industry of the former coun- try. Railroad transportation enables the shipping of fuel and timber, frequently scanty in the richest. mining localities, and also the introduction of the im- proved machinery, without which, ex- cept in the richest deposits, silver min- ing cannot today succeed. Transporta- tion. facilities also make it possible to utilize lead as a byproduct of silver, which materially decreases the cost of silver production. Difficulties of trans- portation have seriously retarded the progress of silver mining in Bolivia. A railway has, however, recently been in process of construction in that country, which will open some of the richest mines.’ “Next in importance to the improve- ments in transportation come those in the mechanical and chemical processes of mining and extraction of ore. We may divide these as follows: Improve- ments in extracting and dressing the ore and improvements in methods of- treatment. Under the first the steam and later the electric hoist have been substituted for the hand Windlass. Im- mense improvements have been made in the construction of concentrators. The old method of concentration, which is still in use in Mexico and at mines in the United States, was that of hand pickingf The improvements in sampling ores have been even more striking. “Great improvements have also been , made in ore crushing, For the bowlder crusher of Bolivia and Mexico have been substituted the battery of stamps and the rolls. A large amount of labor has been saved by the manner of construc- tionof the smelting works. All refining works are now built in terrace form and are so arranged that the base bullion, which has necessarily to be handled while being unloaded, sampled and charged into the softening furnace, shall run from one furnace to another and not be lifted again until it is loaded. “In the smelting proper improve- ment has been even more active than in the preliminary operations. “In the treatment of "dry silver ores, which are amalgamated with quick-. silver and retorted, the chief improve- ment of recent years has been in the saving of quicksilver. ' : “The methods of extraction of high: grade silver in vogue in the United States and in the best mills throughout ’ profits of mine owners to the same ex— 1 of the platform of the Nebraska Repubr the world may be summarized as :fol- lows: The ore is hauled to the mill, is sifted and sorted by machinery, crushed by heavy stamping batteries or by the rolls, after which it is carried directly to the amalgr mating pans, in which it is kept constantly in motion by ma- chinery, passing through the eight pans in four ho: rs. From these the pulp; passes into settlers, which clean up the charge of 1,000 pounds in four hours more. The mass is then retorted. The averagecost'of an average mill in Ari- zona was from $3.12 to $4.90 per ton of ore. “The improvements in lead silver ex- traction have been perhaps more nota- ble than any others, Priorto 1874 these ores were reduced by amalgamation as ordinary d1y ores. About that time it was discovered that this silver could be far more easily extracted by a. process of smelting. Following this discovery came the great development of Lead- ville and Pueblo in the early eighties. The essentials of this method of extrac- tion are: (1) The smelting of the ore in an ordinary blast furnace; (2) the con- centration of the silver into a much smaller quantity of lbad; (3) the sepa- ration of the silver in a cupeling fur- nace. The blast furnace has been great- ly improved during the last 25 years. “An important feature of the general improvement in the silver industry has been the rapid introduction of electric- ity into mining operations. ,The use of the electric light has greatly facilitated all processes carried on within the mine. Electric power is also employed in hoisting ore and in pumping, with the very" best resuks--.both as regards cost and convenience. Electricity can be transmitted long distances with only a small loss of power, and it is thus possible to use,power, at such a distance from its source as would render it other- wise unavailable. The importance of this improvement can be better realized when we consider that one of the greatest obstacles which mining, espe- cially in Mexico, has to encounter is the difliculty of obtaining fuel for pow- er, owing both to the lack of transpor- tation facilities and, where these exist, to the high charges for hauling coal from the United States. .Where water power exists within a radius of 50 miles it can be used for the transmission of electric power to a silver mine. The economy of power is very remarkable. At one set of mines in Mexico, those operated 'by the Real Del Monte works, electric power is obtained from Regla falls and transmitted from 15 to 25 miles to work pumps, hoists. stamp mills, crushers and ventilators. “It is obvious that the results of this long series of improvements in silver mining and silver smelting have been greatly to lower the cost of producing silver. These improvements have doubt- less to some extent been accelerated by the falling price of silver, which they have also tended to produce. It was not to be expected that the great advances which have characterized every other department of industry would not affect the production of silver, and it should be remembered that there is no reason to believe that this march of improve- ment will he stayed. To take but one illustration: If the experiments in the utilization of the direct heat of the sun are evor successful, the smelting of all kinds of ores will be completely revolu- tionized. The problem of fuel will have been solved. “The second and most important ele- ment of the production of silver is the supply of ore. ” Mr. Meade here notes the many large deposits of silver, prac- tically inexhaustible, left in different parts of the world, and the probability that under new methods of mining and smelting the output of many mines will greatly increase. “A third factor in the supply of sil- ver which has doubtless exerted a con- side1able influence is the silver stand- ard prevailing in Mexico and the Cen- tral and South American .silver coun— tries. The mincrs’ wages-are paid and most of the supplies are purchased in terms of the silver standard. Domestic prices and wages have not varied with the price of silver, and by consequence the fall in silver has not affected the tent as in the Unit ed States. This fact has placed mini 5.; opciatms in silvc1 standard countries at an advantage in competition with their competitors in the United States and Europe and has doubtless to some extent increased the supply of silver, though we should be careful not to exaggerate its impor- tance. “To summarize this portion of our study: We find that the increase in the supply of silver, which has been the main cause of its fall in price, has been due to the application of improved proc- esses and appliances to a series “of ore discoveries extending over the last 30 years, and that this advance of improve- ment has constantly lowered the cost of producing silver." Hulnpty Dumpty’s Great Full. Humpty Dumpty sat- on a wall. Humpty Dumpty got- a great fall, And all the senators and congressmen Can’t put Humpty Dumpty 16 to 1 again. Forgot Silver. Dollar wheat seems to have knocked all knowledge of the silver question out llcans. Silver isn’t mentioned. __ SUGAR IN WALL STREET. Thu Scene in the StuckIExchanze During Considerrtinn of the Tarifl‘. As was the case four years ago, the whole period Of tariff consideration this year was characterized by feverish speculation in the stock of the Sugar Trust. This speculation reached its highest pitch upon the completion of the sugar schedule by the confeience. Although the Sugar Trust , committee. had demanded a much larger differen- tial than was actually granted, the re- sult was favorable enough to stimulate the market and send sugar stock to the highest figure ever reached since the trust was formed. The accom- panying drawing made by a Journal artist, represents the scene in what is knOWn as the “sugar pit" on the great floor of the New York Stock Ex- change in Wall street. Says the J our- nal: “The lioor of the Stocx Exchange became for the nonce a ‘bull-ring’ in grim reality, and the galleries, crowd- ed as never before in years, looked on, breathless, speechless, wild-eyed in amazement at a scene which the an- cient Romans would." have cheered without comprehending. Around the post which marks the center of the ‘sugar pit,’ (in the great floor of the ex‘change, two hundred men howled and danced, clutched and toughngesticulated and shrieked in a wild scramble for profit. Coats, collars, and shirts were torn in the rush to ' get some of the millions that were flying in the air or in the desperate , struggle to keep some r ' . '1 boarded thousands out 5/ of the clutch of the pre- datory buccaneers ot the Sugar Trust. 'rnE srocx Ex-CHAI'GE. At the close of the trading urday the sugar stock had stood at .-.,,.4 .- D..£~ 133 and a fraction. At the close on Monday afternoon it stood at some- thing more than 144. The buying and selling had been enormous in volume, and the advance of a single day rep- resented a value of more than $7,000,- 000, the capitalization of the American Sugar Refining Company being $75,- 000,000. The extra profits of the com- pany on its advance importations will reach many millions that ought tc have been put into the Treasury by a special internal revenue tax as urged by Secretary Gage. X-RAYS TO STOP SMUGGLING. Passengers to France “’1“ Have Their Baggage Examined by This Method. I When it had been clearly establish- ed that" with the Roentgen ray 3. man might look right through any old thing, a great shudder went Over mod- est humanity. The pcssibility of be- ing the subject of a search-lightin- spection at any time or hour immedi« ately became apparent. ' Human ingenuity finds its limit in the endeavors of people to beat the custom house officers. The devices em- ployed are without number. The legs of a chair bored out and made the re- ceptacle for diamOnds and othel precious stones have been the means of cheating the customs out of thou- sands of dollars. The cushions of a steamer chair have been stuffed with contraband. Cigars carried in the pocket have been filled with dutiable goods of high 1ate. There is “11816 the ray will get in its best licks. Tuined on a chai1 leg the ray will instantly show the presence . of any foreign object imbedded there« in. A' cigar would be poor protection for a nest of diamonds, and a cushion will show up its contents as clearly as if y'ou had raised a window and peered in. The smuggler, male and female,.will find this all-seeing eye up- on him and his when he lands at a French port, and small chance there is that he will escape a. vigilance which truly never sleeps nor even closes an eye in as much as a passing wink. The machine which the French Gov- ernment has had constructed for use at the Gare du Nord is too bulky for zsy transportation, but smaller ones, which a man may carry‘ about with him as he would a camera are under process of construction. The big ma. chine, it is said, will reveal the entire contents of a trunk be it ‘of what material it may. Next season when you go to Paris you will have the novel experience of holding your bag while a gentleman in uniform turns on the’ light, and tells you to pass on. He may take a look through your numberless pockets at the same time. All things consid« ered, you had just as well undress for him and be done with it. . In the whole scheme, which the French oflicials say is perfectly prac- ticable, there is one comfort—the whole :world will not stand around and watch you unpack a ’trunkful of ap- parel, ahd’ your private life will still be your own, e‘icept, of course, for the fellow behind the ray. He will be omniscient. » First Wheelman (a beginner)— Strange how a fellow will run into things when he first begins to ride. Second Wheelman—Yes; I ran into. debt to get my wheel. ‘ . . HOBOHURST‘BY-THE-LAKE. Desel ted Village \IVIIIIeI-e Wandering “Til. . lies Are Having a Picnic. . Ten miles from Brule; Wis, is about the oldest 'town in the country. It has 300 inhabitants, every one of them a trgmp. The houses are new, the streets are broad. Near by are the deep waters of Lake Superior, and ten miles inland is the railroad run- ning between Ashland and Superior. Within a ridius of half a dozen miles' are enough farms to supply the village with pilfered produce. Those farmers and the few people who know the existence of the place call it Trampville. The railroad men who have heard of it describe it as Hobohurst-by-the-Lake. The residents however, adhere to its official title—— Clevedon. Back in 1880 a syndicate of English capitalists conceived the idea that a town could be established at the mouth of the Boise Brule river which, in time, would compete with the city of Super- ior, and attract much of the lake traf— fic- Where the Brule river flows into Lake Superior the land was cleared and a town site mapped out. Mechanics and builders of all kinds were -em- ployed with a. lavish hand, and houses and buildings grew up almost in a. night. Such quantities of money were poured intothe scheme that Clevedon soon attracted attention from the out- side world, and numerous famine-3 came. to the place, bought lots, and put up homes. In a year Clevedon had a population of about 1,100 people. and seemed de- stinted to become the great town the syndicate had planned. A big hotel was erected, streets were laid out, and the well-built and brightly painted cottages gave the place an air of bust- ling prosperity. rBut the tide of lake commerce re- fused to sweep upon Clevedon. It kept 0n moving toward Duluth and ‘Superior just as it hadbefore the ad- vent of the new city. Then the pop- ulation began to fade away. Cottage after cottage was deserted, and the next calamity was the collapse of the fund behind the syndicate. By 1890 it was as dead as any place :ould be. Every one had left The neat little houses were empty, the big. hotel took on a ghostly look. ' Three years ago some wandering? Willie discovered it. Perhaps, years. ago, he was one of those who had put' his money and faitn in the prosperity: of Clevedon. At any rate, other hobosI soon after began to pay visits. ' These saw the place, seized up the comfortable houses, and the big. hotel, and determined to spend a time' there. When others came along theyi were invited to join the permanent colony, and many did so.—Milwaukee , Sentinel. An Ufiexpecteti Imim‘sement. An exchange relates rard, the infidel millionaire of Phila- delphia, on one Saturday ordered all his clerks to come on the morrow to his idea typified is the aspiration of Genius striving after the perfect, reaching out his spiritualized being to heights un- trod before, when in the midst of tri- umph death in the shape of' earthly night grapples with and conquers him. It is, after all, simply the story of life, told again, in an ideal ,way. Embroidered CS”. The case here shown is intended for a traveller’s “Guide Book._” and has also a separate pocket for railway ticket, note book, visiting cards, etc. The ornamentation should signify the country for which the traveller is bound, and a sprig of pomegranate embroidered on front and back of the case, declares its place of destination. A piece of butcher-blue linen 63-4 inches high and 10 1-4 inches long across is required for the case, yet stuff must be allowed for the turnings in at the seams, asralso for the pockets : are 4 inches large—into which .I r the cover of the book is slipped. An —these extra pocket 3 inches large is set on to one of these, and a pencil slipped be- side it into a linen sheath, made of double stufi like the leather strings 3-8 of an inch wide and 51—2 inches long, set on to the front edges of the The embroidery is worked with case. it fleeting' ‘ 111 ill “til that Stephen (11- ; l Wharf and help unload a newly arrived . V. ship. One young man replied, Quiet-' ly: “Mr. Girard, I can’t work on Sun- day.” “You know the rules. ” “Yes, I know. I have a mother to support, but Ican’ 1: work on Sundays.” “Well, step up to the desk, and the cashier will settle with you.” ' For three weeks the young man could find no work; but one day a banker came to Girard to ask if he could rec- ommend a. man for cashier in a new bank. This discharged young man was at once named as a suitable person. “But,” said the banker, “you dis- charged him.” “Yes, because he would not work on Sundays. A man who would loose his place for conscience ’s sake would make 11 ustum thy cashier.’ And he was appointed. Coal Oil for Snake Bites. One day last week Thomas Pruett was in the corn crib when a large cop- pe1 head snake, which was concealed in '4. pile of corn husks, bit him on the thigh. rI'liomas made a hasty retieat with the snake hanging to his pants with its fangs. He says he does not know how he got out of the crib 01 how the snake got loose. His son came with a. pitchfork and killed the snake. They applied coal oil to the bite, and beyond a little puffing up and some purple spots it did not amount to much.—Paoli, Ind., Republi- ' ;.1re.”-—Ncw York World. can. ,. fine soft white cotton. Brown sateen Eis laid on for the initial letters and edged with fourfold pomegranate-red, thread fastened down with buttonhole stitches made wide apart; the contours of the letters being worked with blue cotton, and knot stitches in the same color giving the fillings. Dull-green is used for the stalks, the veins of the leaves and the line of chain—stitches bordering the embroidery on the out- side, which are interrupted by small leaves starting from the flowers done in leaf stitch and edged with satin stitch of a duller shade. The buds and blassoms are executed with two shades of pomegranate-red. Genius and Might. . chebski, the most famous of En— rope-3n sculptors, has just placed on or 11111111021 in one of the German art galleries his greatest work “Genius and Nightff It is regarded by critics as the century’ s greatest achievement in marble, and has lifted its creator into the ranks of the immortals. The No Pity for the Poet. “Don't you think young Porticus is 1 budding genius?” “No, I think he is mo‘re of a‘. blooming .diot.”—Philadelphia Bulletin. _ Poet—Give me a w01d that’s synony— nous with “01 op.’ Amr=eur farmer — (sadly) — “Fail- THE ORIGINAL Sta.mped II BOSS” Always the Same :, lights the way and stays lighted. IIAll brass. I, nickel-plated—no tin; outside oil-filler; cotton . packed oil foam; deuble convex ground photo- .1;- lens: bums kerosene, throws a light 90 it. and weighs but 12 ounces. 3 'f See Our new. cheaper maceration! ‘ Three years a leader, and thrée ymS’ improvements now added. Absolutely the handsomest and best bicycle lamp ever made. 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