TWO SORTS OIJ WEALTH.
Concentration of Money; in a Few
Hands Under Protection.
The Forum for November will
conta in some very stairtling fig
ures prepared by Mr Thos. G.
Shea 'man, the well known Xew
York statistician, shoiviiig that
the concentration of wealth in
this country is greater than
anywhere else in the world.
.Mr. Spearman gives lst of 70
names of millionaire, ranging
from; $150,000,000 to $o,000,000
aggregating $2,7OO,O0(),o00, and
averaging $37,500,00p. He inci
dentally discovered fijfty others
withjmore than 810,000,000 each
and says a list of teb persons
can lie made whose wealth aver
ages ! $100,000,000 each, and
another list of 100 whose wealth
averages 825,000,000. each. No
such .lists can be made in any
other country
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The richest dukes of Eng-
a
land," he says, " fall
average wealth of
American citizens :
below the
a ! dozen
while the
greatest bankers, merchants,
and railway magnates of Ener
land cannot compare! in wealth
with many American." !
The average annual income
of the richest hundred English
men is about $450,000, but the
average annual income of the
richest hundred Americans can
not be less than $1 ,200,000, and
probably exceeds $1,500,000.
Tlie richest of the Rothschilds,
and the world-renoWned bank
er j Baron Overstonej each left
about $17,000,000. Earl Dudley,
the owner of the richest iron
mines; left . $20,000,:000. The
Duke of Buccleuch (and the
Duke of Buccleuch carries half
of ! Scotland in his pocket) left
about $30,000,000. The Marquis
of Bute was worth, in 1872,
about $28,000,000 in lland ; and
he may now be worth $40,000,
000 in j all. The Duke of Nor
folk may be wofth $40,000,000,
and the "Duke of Westminster
perhaps $50,000,000. , ! -
Mr. Shearman's conclusion is
that 25, 000 persons! own one
half the wealth of the United
States, and that the whole
wealth of the country is prac
tically owned by 25;0,000 per
sons, or one in sixty of the adult
male population ; Tarijd he pre
dicts from the rapid irecent con
centration of j wea that un
der present conditions 50,000
persons will practically own all
the wealth of the Country in
thirty years or less than" one
in 500 of the adult male popula
tions' : j . . . ;. j: ' . '
This is the boasted prosperity
we enjoy in America through
the protective system with its
lying claim of benefitting labor,
and commenting upon this state
of! affairs the Cincinnati En
quirer says : j '
" How can we prove that
these results have been wrought
by protection? Like causes
will produce like effects ; his
tory repeats itself. : j
, j4 Under the protective system
in Great Britain, which we have
transplanted here; millionaires
and paupers abounded. All the
earnings of labor beyond a
meager subsistence went to
swell the accumulated wealth
of the rich. Lless than a half
century ago the protective tariff
policy was abolished. The in
crease in the JMatioiial wealth
has been fabulously great. Has
there been a more equitable dis
tribution of the products of in
dustry ? tHas pauperism di
minished ? Have the toilers
ing their condition ?
Have the great; fortunes of the
very rich been doubling up as
they did under protection ? The
wealth of England in 1877, was,
per capita, 8l,o50; in 1840 it
was $750; an increase of S600 !
The average wealth of the rich
class is S15.000 less tlVan in i8.in
but the number of this class has
mcreased three-fold. A The aver
age wealth of the middle class
has fallen off 82.170 sWe 1840
but the number of beneficiaries
has more than doubled. The
effect of tlie : abolition of the
system of protection j upon ! the
wording class is still more sig
nihcant. Oyer one jmillion of
the workingmeii's families have
been added to the middle class
rising in wealth from $220 to
over 85, 000 v The class of toilers
is- increasing constantly m
wealth if not in numbers. The
middle class numbered in 1840
under protection 782,100 fami
lies. In. 1877 under free trade
1 ,4.4u by accessions from the
increased from 8f.8'J:i to 222,500
accessions trom the mi
le
ciass. ii protection is t effmi
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nated trom our tariff svstem.
we may be assured of the fol
lowing results : The number of
successful toilers will be greatly
increased, and the number of
millionaires will be diminished.
There will always! be the rich
and the poor, but those in com-'
fortable circumstances will be ;
multiplied a hundred-fold. The i
aggregate growth of wealth I
will assume much larger pro-
portions than ever before, but itf
will be more equitably distribu-sj
ted. The -poor we will alwavs
have with
us, but ther will
consist' of the idle. :
principally
the dissolute, the unfortunate.
The rich! we shall have, but?
they will consist chiefly of those j
who are! Enterprising, frugal
arid providejnt, and not as now, j
of those who can. through un- j
just legislation, appropriate the )
earnings of others without ren-j
tiering an equivalent. W e make
no complaint that some are
poor and others rich, but we do
and ever will protest asrainst
he Government lending "itself
o the work of robbing the
many to enrich the few. Jus-
ice Miller, pf the United States
7
Supreme Court, truthfully said:
To take the property of one
citizen and hand it over to
another is none the less robbery
because done under the torm ot
aw and called taxation.'
" There are certainlv facts in
addition to those mentioned
which no sophistry can gainsay,
and which the advocates of pro
ection (so-called will : not at
empt to denv. Since the repeal
of the tariff; laws in Great Brit
ain her foreign trade has been
increased! almost tapsvnnH im
putation, giving constant and
more remunerative employment
to labor. Wages have more
than doubled. Toilers are bet
ter housed fed and clothed ;
ave more hours of rest and
creation : eniov more of the
good things of life than they
did under ,600 years of protec
tion. Again, it will not be de
nied that the working classes
get greater wages, live better
than in any country in Europe
cursed with a protective tariff.
Again, khe working men in the
United States receive less wages
for what-they do than in Eng
land ; their! capacity for produc-
tion is greater ; they will make
more clothy boots and ... shoes,
clothing,
hats, etc., than will
for the difference in
make up
wages. "
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Red Clover.
I am a strong: advocate of red
clover as a fertilizer of all kinds
of soil ; its boots penetrate and
aerify the I subsoil while its tops
shade, and . when decayed fer
tilize the surface. I
The fertility, of I Our soil must
be improved by growing the
manure upon the land. Why r
Because vou cannot procure one-
fourth enough barn -yard ma
nure on your own farms to keep
up the average ! fertility ; we
know it to be the; best manure
the farmer can
apply to his
as it groes. It
worn land,
so far
stimulates
the production of
t
crops on the farm. I know it is
m carrymgl on the market gar
den, and nothing will ever su
persede it or take I its place for
growing succulent and tender
vegetables,! although we might
apply some of the many com
mercial fertilizers in this branch
of farming with; splejidid re
sults, such as bone dust and
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pure iime,-yxcnange
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Timely Suggestions.
The question sis to learlv or
late sowing of grain has never
been settled, although (the ma
jority ot tarmers sow early.
rrogressiye farmers are gen
erally agreed on the superiority
ot drilling in s:ram seeds over
sowing in broadcast.
JSow i the time to plant
spring flojwering bulbs, such as
tulips, hyacinths, crocus, nar
cissus and the like.
Asparagus plants may be set
out either in autumn, after they
have ceased to grow, or in the
spring, f !' ! j
... Several; weeks jshould elapse
between the sowing of grain
and of the grass seeds.
Essence of peppermint, ap
plied with the finger tips over
the seat of pain, gives relief in
headache toothache 1 or any
neuralgic
the bodv.
pain in any! part of
Care must be taken
not to put it directly under the
eye, on account of the smarting
it would cause.
She Didn't Want to e in the Fashion
Charlie I see, Mamie, that
diamonds: are no longer fashion
ciuie ior eneraerement rin-j
Pearls are all the
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rage now. Of
course, you want
to be in the
fashion ?
MamieNo , I never did care
much tor the edicts of fashion
You may get me a diamond en
gagement rine:, Charlie. If thev
are no longer fashionable they
must be cheaper.
Charlie hadn't Ithe courage to
explain tnat a pearl Engage
ment ring cost 75
per cent, les
than a diamond
The Work of the Butter: 'Extractor.
Seeing) is believing," and
the assistant editor of Hoard's
Dairyman,! who had a look at
the butterj extractor in opera
tion at the recent Minnesota
State Fair, expresses his I satis
faction at witnessing the
arcl machiijie do everything
was claimed for it. Ther
wiz
that e are
as yet only three of these sepa
rators m this country, and the
general agent of the company,
Mr. Henning G. Taube, had the
pleasure at Hamlin of convinc
ing the most skeptical by actual
demonstration that he was in
charge of a machine in one end
of which niilk could be poured,,
from the other end of which
butter would issue. After la de
scription of the mechanism of
the separator and its methods
of work the Dairyman editor
bears the following testimony
of the things which he saw with
his own eyes : !
j The butter looks' exactly like
granulated butter when it first
comes in thp churn, only it is
very nearly denuded of milk ;
but not sol much so but that it
needs washing, and should at
the same time be chilled down
to 55 to keep it in best granu
lar condition for brine salting.
The machines now made are
capable of extracting the but
ter from l500 lbs. of milk per
hour, provided it is about com
mon milk in quality. If it is
fed very rich millror cream the
feed must be less per hour, as
its present capacity is to deliver
one pound of butter per minute.
The milk is colored in the re
ceiving vat if it is desired to
have artificial coloring in the
butter. As: it throws out the
pure butter from the milk of
course there is no buttermilk
proper about it, so all the sepa
rated milk is sweet for feeding.
Sour milk can be used as well
as sweet, provided it has not
lobbered, in which case it would
clog the deliveries. Sour cream,
if properly 'diluted with water
or skim milk and disintegrated
through straining, can be suc
cessfully put through if desired.
The product from such cream
would be acidified butter.
Breeder's Gazette.
" Sister Marie .Therese."
" Sister Marie Therese I'When
scarcely 20 jyears I old you were
wounded on the battlefield of
Balaclava while devoting: your
self to the care of the wounded
in the front line of battle. After
that you nursed our warriors in
Syria, China and Mexico. At
the battle of Richsh often you
were carried wounded from "the
field amid a heap of slain cui
rassiers. Later on a bomb shell
fell in the midst of the ambu
lance committed to your care.
You immediately seized it and
carried, it some eighty yards
away J from the j ambulance
where it fell to th'e erround and
by its explosion wounded you
seriously. Alter you had re
covered you! followed your vo
cation here to Tonkin. "
In such remarkable words did
the Governor of Tonkin, sur
rounded by his staff, m front of
all the troops, lately address the
buperioress lot the Sisters of
Mercy. He then bade her kneel
down, and touching her shoul
der thrice with his sword, ad
ded : 44 In i the name of the
French people and army, I con
fer upon you the cross for tried
bravery. JNobody can show
more heroic I deeds to merit, no
body can claim a more self -deny-
ing j career and entire devotion
to the service of his!fellow-meh
and! his fatherland,
present arms !" Par
Soldiers
s Letter.
Try One Before Going to Bed.
When you happen I to read in
a Pennsylvania paper the notice
of the marriage of Lena Auber
gestehemutterhauser and Hein-
richs Koontzchleichter, by the
Rev. Klaas jHolzhauzen, don't
be too fresh; and think you are
reading an (account ot a Uer
man wedding. The chances are
that the contracting parties and
witnesses speak better English
than they, do in Boston, and
that there wasn't a! soul at the
wedding who could speak or
understand a word of German.
These names are heirlooms in
some parts of Pennsylvania!,
and! the old' families cling to
them fondly long after speech
and accent have departed.
They're mighty good! things for
the babies to cut their teeth on.
Burdette. "": 1 i; j! ' .7"
To the orisdnal Croriin "sus
pects" have been added . a mis
cellaneous job lot of subsuspects
in the- persons of the alleged
Chicago jury-fixers. ! The trial
was fast becoming a dry. unin
teresting: powwow, but trust
Chicago to supply a side issue
sensational enough to curl hair
on a fawnee squaw. St. Paul
neer Jfress.
AM0XG THE CHURCHES.'
RELIGIOUS NOTES AND NEWS GATH-
E-RED FROM ALL QUARTERS.
The Interesting Story of How That Uean
tiful Hymn, Just j fs I Am, IWithmit
One Plea," Came tosIJe Written by a
Younj; Oiri. . . i- J
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One day a faithful : minister, tlie pastor
of a small i church, met in the street a
young girl, a niemb r of his congrega
tion, on hor way to be litteu for a n$v
dress for an : aiproaching ball. As she
told him her errand, he said to iher: f'l
wish you would give up your life of
vanity and become a Christian, and live
a godly I life. Will you not stay away
from the ball because I wish you to do
so?'; She answered: "I wish 3ou would
mind ycjur own business," and bidding
him good-by, she went on her way. i
Shortly aftervard she went to the ball
and dahcecj all night, and, returning
home, laid her weary head upon her
pillow. I But her conscience soon began
to trouble her: She thought she had
offended her best friend, the pastor, who
cared for her soul. She was in deep dis
tress i for three days. When she could
bear it no longer she went to4ier pastor
and told him how much she bad been
pained on account of the, words she had
spoken jto him. . "For three days." she
said, "I have been the most wretched
girl in the world, and now, Oh, that I
were a j Christian! I want to be happy.
What must I do to be saved?"
The pastor, full of sympathy, fixed hia
eyes on the penitent young woman, and
directed her to come to the Lamb of God
just as she was. j j
"What! just as I am?" she asked with
astonishment; i'l am onefdTthe greatest
sinners in the world. Yourclo not mean
that God will accept me just as I am?'
. 'That is just what I mean," said the
minister. "God wishes you to com to
him just as you are." The young woman
went home to her room, kneeled by her
bed,; and prayed God to 'accept her just
as she jwas. And taking a pencil and
paper, wrote under the holy influence
the beautiful hymn beginning: ;
Just as I am, without one plea.
But that thy blood was shed for me,
i: And. that thou bidst me come to thee,
; O Lamb of God, I come. .:
The young woman was Charlotte Elliot.
The hymn was written in 1844. Selected.
Presbyterian.'
The contributions of northern Presby
terians ,; for benevolent and missionary
causes averaged $3.39 -per member in
1879, and in 1889, $5.o6, or C4 per cent,
increase. 1 The entire gifts. . including
church ieipenses, have advanced 23 per
cent., from 14.37 per member in 1879 to
17.75 in 1889. - .
- Dr. Verner White, the oldest ordained
active member in the English Presbyte
rian synod, is" about to retire. j
Six pastors in 160 years is a fact which
tells a good story for a church, lit is! a
record which the Presbyterian church jof
Bethlehem, N. J., may always be proud
to show. Three of these pastorates have
each; extended over forty years, and the
fortieth anniversary of the pastorate pf
Rev. Joseph G.j Williamson, the present
incumbent, was celebrated. j
Tho Presbyterian church at Cold
Springs j Cape May county, N. J.t is 175
years old. 1
The statistics of the United Presby
terian church were ready in advance of
the meeting of the assembly. They show
that that body has 753 ministers, of
whom 243 are "without charge," 903
congregations, and 101,858 communi
cants, an increase of 2,866 for the year.
There has fcfeen a gain in the contribu
tions, for hom and foreign missions,
church Extension ,education and minis
terial relief. The total of contributions
for all purposes is $1,110,853, and in
crease of about S90.000.
Baptist. " !
There are ten Baptist chapels in Rome.
A i nev station on the Upper Congo
river ha3 been opened by the American
Baptist mission. It is 170 miles above
Stanley Pool, j Lieut. Taunt, jUnited
States commercial agent on the Congo,
says this is the only mission on the river
which has been successful. - :
Over 200 Baptist churches in New York
state are pastorless. i j
There' are twenty-four Baptist church
es in Richmond, Va., with an aggregate
membership of 20,000, about one-fourth
of the entire population pf the city, j
The Baptist churches in Rangoon, In
dia, haying seen an account of the need,
of a chapel in Hammerfast, Norway,
near the Arctic circle, took up the col
lections for their European brethren and
sent $66.38 as their contribution to Nor
way, j ' ' :.j ' . . : : , j
Twelve hundred converts have been
baptized in the Baptist mission in Rus
sia the past two years, -The mission ia
principally among the German colonists
in south Russia. There , is also a . suc
'eessfcil mtrm in , Rournania and . Bul
garia. ; . ' i ' ' ;" .j-;
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Six Role for Extempore Pracbin. .j.
So good: an authority on this. subject
as R. S. Storrs D. D., sums up the sub
stance of his theory and practice in the
rules below: L ' : (:" ' ' j ' ' X
'11 The physical vigor must be kept'jit
its highest attainable point. " j
2. The mind must be kept in a state of
habitual activity, earnestness and eln-
rgy- - " ! . !
3. The plan of the sermon should be
simple, natural, progressive and thor
oughly imbedded in the mind. j
4. The preacher should have a distinct
and energetic ' appreciation of the im
portance of his subject. '
5. He must speak for a purpose, hay
ing in view from the beginning of his
discourse the definite end of practical
impression which it is to make on the
minds of his hearers. j j
6. He should always take into the pul
pit a sense of the immediate "conse
quences which may depend on his full and
faithful presentation of the truth, and a
sense of a personal presence of the Mas
ter. Homiletic Review.
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clothing-stoie of C. iD. -MMhton & Co. ,
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