The Democrat.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1890.
THE deepest part of tho ocean is prob
ably the spot where McGinty went down.
DURING 1889, 68,255,000bu5he1s of Pitts
burgh coal were sent out to Cincinnati
and Louisville.
41 A VIGOROUS foreign policy in power,"
and th e new Republic in Brazil still un
recognized. Great times these.
THIS and all other Rcpuliean Ad
ministrations have great appreciation
for the soldier's services— when lie lias
been a Republican.
CONGRESS is thoroughly awakened. A
bill is to be passed immediately to pre
vent members from being swindled out
of their saleries. Strike a Congressman's
pocket and liis loyalty of duty comes to
the surface at once.
IN view of the fact that there is likely
to be no ice obtainable from our rivers
and lakes for next summer's supply, it is
in order for Congress to put a heavy duty
on Canadian ice to develop the infant in
dustry of making ice by artificial means.
FARMERS in parts of Kansas are mak
ing fuel of corn ; miners in Illinois and
Pennsylvania are starving for want of be
ing allowed to mine coal which could be
shipped to Kansas anil traded for corn,
hut the monopolistic owners forbid. Is
it any wonder we have anarchists ?
TIIK color line is undoubtedly drawn in
Northern as well as Southern communi
ties.—Philadelphia Prcse.
Right yon ate; but what Republican
newspaper has the courage to say so dur
ing political campaigns?— HarrMurg Pa
triot.
CnicAGo is to have the finest Alansonic
temple in the world. The cost of the
building will he $2,500.000. The inten
tion is to build a towering structure of
unique design that will far overtop any
•of the tall buildings iu the vicinity. The
lower thii u- will ho constructed with a
view to leasing them for a huge European
hf**
MUCH interest is attached to the meeting
of the non-partisan It-male temperance
advocates, to he held in Philadelphia next
week. A lively time is expected, us sev
eral of the prominent women have ex
pressed their intention to declare them
selves in a very emphatic manner, and
when woman says she lias something to
declare, tin country looks on with due
PENNSYLVANIA wants to take rank it
seems ar> the fir.-t State in the number of
divorces this year. In Philadelphia ou
Saturday twt n ty-seven divorces were
granted in the courts. Applicants for
divorces are as relatively numerous in the
country, and can gel divorces as readily
as in the city or even Chicago. Where
will this thing em', unless there are more
stiict requirements in the matter of
granting divorces ?
APPRECIATING our situation several
papers are advocating the dredging of tnc
rivers about this place. It is certainly
true that many tiings are done bv the
national government that are far less
praiseworthy. One thing is sure—we
Shall be subject to inundations unless
either the rive: s are dredged or the level
of the place raised : and in our present
condition we are hardly able to d-> either.
The people here are willing to do what
they can, but it is to be hoped that the
Pennsylvania representatives in Congress
will lend their encouragement!, to the
proposal for Congressional aid.
A TARIFF org an congratulates Mr. Wana
maker upon his recovery of $500,000 as
his share of the $0,000,000 which the de
cision of the Supreme Court will compel
the Treasury to repay to importers of rib
bons. It says "the half-million of dol
lars belongs to hint, and we arc glad he is
going to get the money." This is con
spicuously untrue. The money belongs
—or aught to belong—to the customers
of Mr. Wanamaker aud of the other mer
chants who added the duty to the price
of the ribbon in making their prices.
But under our tariff laws it is always the
consumer who is taxed and robbed.
ACCORDINO to n reportjust published
by the bureau of statistics, the United
B'ates imported from Brazil $00,000,000
worth of goods in 1889, of which $45,-
000,000 was coffee, $2,200,000 hides, $7.-
500,000 rubber and nearly $5,000,000
sugar. We exported less than one-sixth
this amount, or a little over $9,000,000 of
which $4,000,000 was bread stuffs, and
SOOO,OOO provisions, the two being about
one-half of the total, while mineral oil
furnished nearly $1,000,000 more. Brazil
limited her purchases to $9,000,000 worth,
because she found she could buy manu
factured products cheaper elsewhere.
Surely both countries might profit by en
larging our manufactured exports in this
case. The Pan-American should grapple
this. The same is true of our trade with
other South American countries.
WE are citizens of a magnificent coun
try. It lias a great history anil it has a
greater future. The Democratic parly
be'ongs to no one corner of it, but it thrives
in every State ami Territory. It be
lieves that the sectional Republican party
is pursuing a sectional policy, but it has
never stooped to the baseness of accus
ing half of the American people of being
hired by foreign nations to bestray the
interests of their native land, though Re
publican policy has that effect. It has
jDcvei lost sight of the fact that the na
tion is greater than par'y, and it has
never confused party loyalty with loyalty
to the nation. The Democratic party is
the party of one united country, whose
children will differ in regard to this or
that piece of legislation, but will be abso
lutely united in their love of their native
land.
WUKItli NICKEL. COMES FROM.
How it iH Mined and Prepared Tor the
A uteri can Market.
In the Copper Cliff mine, near Sud
bury, Canada, it is said, more nickel is
being produced titan the entire market
of the word calls for at current prices.
A little branch railway off the main line
of the Canadian raciflc railway, four
ntiies iu lentil, leads out to the mine,
which opens into the face of a crag of
the blown, oxidized Laurentiau rock,
characteristic of this region. The miners
arc now at work at a depth of about 300
feet below the surface. As fast as the
nickel and copperbearing rock is hoisted
out it is broken up and piled upon long
beds or ricks of pine wood, to be calcined,
or roasted, for tie purpose of driving
out the sulphur which it contains. The
roasting process is of the nature of lime
kilning or charcoal burning. Each great
bed of ore requires from one to two
months to roast. When roasted the rock
goes to the principal smelter, a powerful
blast furnace, ''jacketed" —in mining
phrase—willi running water, to enable
it to sustain the great heat requisite to
reduce the crude, obdurate mineral into
fluidity.
The dross of molten mass is first al
lowed to flow off, and afterward the
nearly pure nickel and copper, blended
together in an alloy called the '"mat," or
matte, is drawn off at the base of the
furnace vats into barrow pots and wheel
ed away, still liquid and fiery hot, to
cool in the yard of the smelter. The
mat contains about 70 per cent, of nickel,
the remaining 30 per cent, copper.
When cool, the conical pot loaves of
mat can easily be cracked in pieces by
mcuus of heavy hammers. The frag
ments are then packed in laurels and
shipped to Swansea-in Wales and to Ger
mauy, where the two constituent metals
are separated and refined by secret pro
cesses which are very jealously guarded
by the mauufacttiters. So jealously is
the secret kept that no cue in America
litis yet been able to learn the process,
idlhouuh one young metallurgist spent
three years at Swansea, working as a
common laborer in the factories in order
to procure it. At present there are pro
duced daily at. the copper cliff mine
about nutty pit loaves of mat, each
weighing near 450 pounds, an output
which yielded an aggregate of more than
4,000 tons of nickel uveal - .
TO MAKK M KUHY over.
The cubic is u great in veil ion. It en
ablest New York to sneeze as soon as the
influenza gppeared in London.— Milwaukee
News.
St. Peter—What is your cla m for
recognition and admittance?
Newly Arrived Spirit—ln life I was
never guilty of confessing to any annoy
ance from a woman's high bonnet in a
theatre.
St. Peter—Angelic man! ileie is a
check for a front seat.— Pittsburgh
Bulletin.
A good tiling can lie carried 100 far.
A Huston man, who had been told that lie
\vi s about to die, asked the doctor tor his
hill, saving that lie did not wish to depart
Imm his life-long rule. " Pay as you
go."— Hume Sentinel.
Inquisitive Citizen—What's the mutter
with tlie man ? Been run over by a rail
road train ?
Ambulance Surgeon—Worse than that,
lie was caught among the women in a
bargain rush at Seller's. — Philadelphia
Inquirer.
" You shouldn't have taken ' No ' for
an answer so readily, Charley," said his
more experienced friend. " Don't you
understand that a girl's ' No ' often means
! Yes ? "
" She didn't say ' No.' Jack," re
sponded Charley, utterly without hope.
•' She said ' Naw.' " — Boston Beacon.
Some men have to die to head a proces
sion.—Atchison Globe.
There is usually a good deal of back
talk when two women get together to
discuss the bustle.— Boston Courier.
"You are about to marry, George ? "
•' It is a fact my boy."
" I'ermit me to congratulate you'. Of
course, she is the sweetest girl in the
world ? "
" Well, I should say so."
" Beautiful in form and face? '
" You bet! "
" Angelic in disposition ?"
"You're talking."
" Worth her weight in gold or dia
monds ? "
" Gold or diamonds! Why, man, here
in January she is worth her weight in
coal! " — Boston Cornier.
" The saloon," he solemnly drawled,
"is the house that Jagg built, — Buffalo
Courier.
Best place to hold the World's Fair—
right around tlie waist.— Boston Herald.
Mother—You don't seem tired for a
young lady who attended a dancing party
iast night ?
Jennie—lt was a plumbers' ball, you
know, and everything went so slowly •
that one could not get tired.— Boston Her
ald
The Flood Commission meets in Phila
delphia this week, and the full report of
the expenditures will be presented. It is
also intimated that this will be the occa
sion of presenting that manifesto of Gov
ernor Heaver'B which is expected to make
mince meat of General Hastings.—Pitts
burgh Dispatch.
THE PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH.
Tlieir Program in This State —Some Notable
Characteristics.
New York World.
It is now 172 years since the Quaker
Assembly of Pennsylvania ordered that
none but English-speaking immigrants
should be the subjects of naturalization.
Not satisfied with the workings of this
law the same body provided, a few years
later, that every foreigner to the English
government arriving after the passage of
the act should pay a duty of forty shil
lings, atui swear allegiance to Great Brit
ain and the province. These and other
measures discouraging the prospective
immigrants who fell within their scope,
were all aimed at tiic Germans, who, for
some reason or other, seemed possessed
of a wild ambition to land on the west
ern shore of Delaware. Prior to the year
1727 more than 50.000 of tbeni were
snugly established in the Quaker pro
vince. In spite of severe laws more were
coming by every ship, and the followers
of Penn were greatly disturbed in spirit
at the invasion.
Strange things have come to pass since
then. The Quaker lias vanished. There
remains nothing to tell the story of his
former greatness but the quaint old bury
ing-ground on Arch street and a dozeu
faded shad-belly coals, heirlooms in as
many Philadelphia garrets. He perished
in no great tumult of arms, nor by the
march of any pestileucc. He was neither
indolent nor lacking insbewdncss ; he did
not starve to death, nor did the Germans
so much as crowd him. lie died simply
because he was too good to live—a melan
choly warning which has not been lost
upon bis successors in Pennsylvania poli
tics. But the proscribed German stolidly
bided his time. He came, paid his duty,
and stayed. He took possession of the
rich farms along the Susquehanna, the
Lehigh aud Juniata, and filled the glrur
ious valleys which lead down to the
rivers.
He began to have things his own way.
and when the new ordet was established,
after the Revolution, lie held in his hands
the political power of the great Stale
which lie Itnd turned iniou garden where
the Gods might dwell. The most timorous
Quaker, fearful of German ascendency,
eon (1 scarcely have had a prevision of the
complete triumph attained by his Teu
tonic rival at the beginning of the present
century. The Quaker was already little
more than a memory ; the German the
potent fact of the social aud political
order. But lo! when the victor proclaim
ed his conquest it. was in a strange
ton-ue :he no longer thought nor felt as
a German. The fatherlaud wits not be
yond seas, but here. Germany and nil its
interests and family ties, was no more to
him than it was to Patrick. He had be
come a Pennsylvania Dutchman.
The Teutonic immigrant brought with
him to Pennsylvania only the limited
vocabulary of a German peasaut nearly
200 yiurs ago. His pronunciation of the
native tongue was often inaccurate, of
the English worse, and the deviation from
the vernacular lias increased with every
generation until all semblance of the
original is in many eases lost. " Topper."
meaning hurry : ••fat." forward " n on
er," underfatlish," done ot' finished,
are a few examples of many words not
eisily accounted for. Neither a German
nor an Englishman would make much ot
•" eoombera."' The former would say
kartoffel, the latter potato. Bui our
Pennsylvania Dutchman examines the
tuber, and, after much smelling and tast
ing decides that it is a berry. "If it isn't
a berry ves dcr deihinker is it ? " satd one
of them to me the other day, and "coom
bera," be calls it, doubtless led to bis
word, in spite of my friend's explanation,
through a foggy recollection of bis re
mote ancestors, who named it die gruud
birne, the ground pear. With words de
noting hesitancy or doubt the Pennsyl
vania Dutchman is well provided from
over the Rhine, but when he wishes to
express the idea of certainty, promptness
or quickness of perception he is obliged
to use the language of his Anglo-Saxon
neighbor, from whom he learned about
all he knows of these qualities.
To the same source also does he go for
his profanity, once be became really ugly.
But that proves nothing one way or the
other. The English is after all, the only
language in which a man can swear and
get anything like satisfaction. The prov
erb which bids us beware the fury of the
patient man is a good one to remember in
dealing with him, for he is slow to
wiatli. lie is essentially a peasant; in its
original and least offensive meaning a
boor. He has no word denoting courtesy.
In good will and friendliness he
abounds: of tne little social amenities and
court grades which add so much to the
life of alt other people he knows nothing.
For example: Although it may lie stated
as a generalization that all of them can
speak English, association with them is
likely to prove embarrassing if you do
not know tbeir language. You may be
an invited guest at their house, but all
conversation among themselves will
be in their own native Dutch,
without any translation or apologies
to you. And they are great talkers. It
would seem impossible for rudeness to go
farther ; yet no offense lias been Intend
ed, and they would not comprehend your
indignation if expressed.
Of course they do not neglect you, >iud
will tulk much to you. But every com
ment not particularly addressed to you
will be in their own language. They will
argue and dispute among themselves
with great voluoility upon the subject in
hand, but no matter how deeply you may
be interested in the matter you will have
too guess at what they are saying. You
become indignant and feel like picking
up your hat and leaving, but that would
be a great mistake if it is at all near a
meal time. You will never get a better
dinner than they serve to the farm hands
every day of the year. Stay to dinner or
supper and you will forgive them every
thing.
Talk about your French cooks—hum
bug ! Leaving out tjie one item of beef,
which they boil, roast or fry until it is as
dry, flat and tasteless as a chip, the Penn
sylvania Dutch women are the best cooks
in the world. If the beef is unsatisfac
tory you can have a slice of fried ham
that would almost convert a vegetarian :
potatoes will be whipped into a mountain
of savory cream . the big Lima beans will
disolve at the touch of the tongue ; the
corn, tomatoes, asparagus—ail things that
ever grew in garden or in field—have lost
not one hrenth of their fresh and dainty
flavor. The bread is as light and white
as new-fallen snow, the butter was
churned yesterday and the preserves and
jellies are miracles of delicious sweetness.
At such a feast you forget your bodily
imitations, but cat as if you are a spirit
that occupies all space and can never he
filled.
IMPROVEMENTSONKAILItOAI) STREET
A Whole ot New Structure* That Will
Make a Fine Appearance.
A three story brick business block is to
be erected by Mr. Tlios. E. Howe on the
corner of Railroad and Jackson streets.
It will front about 100 feet on Railroad
street and extend back nearly the same
distance to the alley.
On the opposite corner of Railroad and
Jackson streets the Turners will erect a
fine building, equipped with all the hest
and latest improvements known to the
Turners' science.
In the spring Mrs. Oswald will have
her new building oti the corner of Clinton
and Railroad streets cased with brick.
Is is also said that before long a fine
new structure wil occupy the other corner
of Clinton and Railroad streets, now oc
cupied by Bostert's feed store.
Ail these improvements together with
the two fine new blocks now being com
pleted on Railroad street, will make it
quite a business center as wed as one of
tl:e best looking streets in the city.
I).iatli ola Former Resident of tin; County
in Mexico—i Valuable Milling Pio|,erty
Awaiting it Claimant.
Some t me since Postmaster Uaumerre.
ceivcl u letter from Charles C. Thomp
son. of Chiton, Durango, Mexico, request
hint to notify the ueirs of Newton Lloyd
of the death of that person on December
Otli. 1889. The letter state,! that Lloyd
hail owned a valuable mining property
in the State ■ f Durango, and that unless
some steps were taken soon to claim die
cstaict it would revert to the mining com
pany in whose employ he was at the time
of his death. Inquire developed the fact
that he was a son of Evan Lloyd, and
born and raised about two and a half miles
lrom Ebensburg. flis parents are dead,
but a sister-in-law, Mrs. Benjamin Lloyd,
whose husband, a brother 01 Newton's,
has been dead for some years, resides
near that place. There are also some rel
atives living near Paddy's Run, Ohio.
Steps are being taken to enter a claim on
behalf of the relatives, for the estate. In
telligence had been received before of
the death of Lloyd but no mention had
been made of the property awaiting a
claimant.
Tli* (irent Take of Siberia.
By far the deepest lake in the world is
Lake Baikal, in Siberia, which is in every
way comparable to the great Canadian
lakes as regards size ; for, while its area
of 9,000 square miles makes it about
equal to Erie in superficial extent, its
enormous depth of between 4,000 and 4,-
500 feet makes the volume of its waters al
most equal to that of Lake Superior. Al
though its surface is 1,800 feet above the
sen level, its bottom is nearly 3,000 feet
below it. The Caspian lake or seas, as
it is usually called, has a depth in its
southern basin of over 8,000 feet. Lake
Muggoire 2,800 feet deep, Lake Como
nearly 2,000 feet, and Lago-di-Garda, an
other Italian lake has a depth in certain
places of 1,700 feet. Lake Coustance is
over 1,000 feet deep, and Huron and
Michigan reach depths of 000 and 1,000
feet.
A (iood Suggestion
Uraddock Daily News.
After the Hood at Johnstown, Capt.
Jones, who was one of the first to reach
the stricken city with supplies and help,
strongly advised that the rivers be deep
ened and widened, or that the town he
filled up, or both, as the only way in
which they could avoid 'lie floods with
which Johnstown Ims always hail to con
tend against. The impoverished town
was unable to do this, nor is it likely to
be able to do this for years to come, if
ever, and li.cy will continue to lie
drowned out nt intervals, and the national
government should step in and do this
work, which, perhaps, might cost several
hundred thousand dollars, and it would
be doing a more desetving work than
some that it does do.
A dispatch from the Curator of the -Mu
seum of Egyptian Antiquities at Boolak
informs the public that the tomb of Cleo
patra has been discovered. There are
those who did not know that this interest
ing shrine bad been lost, but the general
verdict will lie that its identification is
cause for widespread satisfaction. Cleo
patra's tomb offers a -Mecca for the erotic
novelist. Of all the women who have
come thundering down the ages Cleo
patra is the most picturesque. Were she
alive to-day she could make a very satis
factory lecture engagement.
NORTH OF COUNTY ITEMS.
Register and Recorder Blair is laid up
with the grippe.
A local institute will be held at Bt.
Augustine to-day.
Deputy Treasurer M. I). Bearer has
been siek for several days.
Some of Ebensburg'* principal -troits
are axle deep with mud.
The road from Ehensburg to Curr.dl
town in well nigh impassable. Nobody
ever saw the like or wntiis lo see it again.
The County Commissioners on Monday
reappointed 1). A. McGpugh as clerk anil
Jesse S. Bolsiugcr as janitor for the Court
House for the ensuing year.
Mr. W. C. Scro'th, ot Ihe Eagle Motel,
Carrolltown, is recovering from a severe
attack of neuralgia which confined him to
his bed fro.n Saturday to Tues lay at
noon.
The entire amount of the county loan
of $50,000 lias been taken by the Johns*
'own Savings Bank at par. The bonds,
whtcli arc being printed in Philadelphia,
bear 4 per cent, interest and will lie is
sued as soon as they arrive.
Hou. John 'l. Griffith, of Kane, who
was in Ehenbuig at the death of his father.
ex-Sheriff Griffith, was taken suddenly
sick on Monday with influenza and was
too ill to attend his father's funeral on
Tuesday.
In Court on Monday, District Attorney
Fenlon asked permission to enter roAle
prosequi* in several cares of prosecution
for illegal liquor sclliug, held over from
last court. Judge Johngton refused to
permit the prosecution to lie discontinued.
Mrs. Ellen Jane Luther, wifeo' Edward
Luther, of Altoona, died at the residence
of her brother-ia-law, Cosmas D. Burns,
in Altoona, on Tuesday, from con
sumption. Her remains were taken to
St. Augustine on Wednesday and were
iuterred in the Catholic cemetery at that
place on Thursdr.y.
Johnstow. ' Petition.
| Lancaster Intelligencer.
The local flood committee of Johns
town ! ave determined to petition to Con
' gross for a half million to he used iu
' dredging and improving the Coneimiiigh
I and Bionycreik. iii the time ail flood
' damages have been repaired and all nee
i e-.-arv safeguards established it will preh
; aliiy be admitted that money would have
' been minlr h\ abandoning the site of
j Johnsti -vn, and bui'ding homes for tlie
| survivors somewhere else in that region.
I The dredging of these stream , if under
j taken at all, is wmk f the Slate r.nlier
| Mian the general Government, for the lain!
] drained by the streams and to be bene
j fitted by their improvement is all in
! Pennsylvania, and the State could hardly
j furnish a more perfect hiding-place for a
j half million dollars. The Johnstown
j survivors have been eousiilerately and
I liberally trca'e l by the State and
| country, lint those wiip jmw form
I the population of the olaec seetn
!to feel it their mission in life to
scramble for all that '.here is the least
| chance of getting They seem toleel that
they have about exhausted the patience
of the State, and the surplus wealth of
Uncle Sam naturally tempts them to ap
ply for this half million from the National
Treasury. It is an illustration of the evil
of a surplus. The dam no longer t ireat
eus the new town is built further from
the water, aud if Johnstown is still inse
cure it would pay better to buy it out
than to sink money in the effort to con
trol those mountain livers with their
steep rocky beds. Kiliier State or
nation could tind many better places
for tbe expenditure of money and Johns
town can only claim special con
sideration because of her terrible misfor
tune. That very plea, however, should
argue against the petition for dredging.
Why do anything to encourage the settle
men! and repopulation of so dangerous a
valley, a valley where the people ban be
come so trained to floods that they retired
to the second stoiies of their houses with
out alarm on the day of the disaster ?
Millions spent on those river channels
can only modify, not remove, the cvil 4
In other paitsof the State it might tiay
very well to take expensive precautions
against floods, but when a tnan under
takes to change the face of nature be
should carefully note its expression, and
in Cambria county it is certainly forbid
ding.
liloomtng in January.
carrolltown News.
Air. J. A. Caldwell, publisher of the
new country atlas, who made a brief but
pleasant call nt this office on Tuesday,
informed us that lie picked a uumbcr of
pansy blossoms—enough for several
boquets, from the St. Lawrence Hotel
flower garden, on Monday of the present
week. The fact of pansies in bloom on
the sixtli day of January on the summit of
the Allegheny mountains, knocks the
Westmoreland county poach blossom
story out in the first round.
llrury Ceorge's Trip to Australia.
in his paper the Standard Henry
George gives the following itinerary of his
trip across the country, while on his way
to Austratia:
" 1 expect to leave New York oil Jan.
32d j to lecture at Bradford, Pa., on the
23d; at Denver, Col., on the 27th and 28th;
Los Angeles, Cal., on January 31st and
February Ist: to reach San Francisco Feb
ruary 4th, and to sail for Sidney on Feb
ruary Bth.
Where Men can ami Should be Found.
At 173 Main street, every Sunday after
noon, a large number of men gather to
sing and enjoy short talks by young men.
To-morrow afternoon Rev. A. W. Con
nor, the recently-installed pastor of the
Christian Church will address the meet
ing, and every young man iu the city will
find a welcome. The singing will probably
be of an unusually fine character.
IN IKON Nl> STEKt. OUR COUNTRY
NOW LEADS THE WOULD.
Scientific American.
The United Stntcs may now lie said to
be independent of other countries both in
the minim.' of its ores for steel and iron %
and also in the manufacture of Ihe fin
ished product. Heretofore it has been &
asserted and believed that tins country • ;
could not furnish the required ores for
steel, and resort ImS been had to imported
ores: but the great demand for this im
portant mineral t.as stimulated tievv re
searches arid efforts which nave been
crowned with success.
The Hake Superior region, for example,
lias been so greatly developed that the
larger proportion of the supply now comes
from that source. '• , j
Tee output of Superior ore for 1889
is staled to have been seven millions of f "
tons, and the estimate for 1890 is nine mil
lions of tons, of which three millions
have already been sold at nn advance of
75 cents to $1.35 per ton above last year's
rates. It is understood the entire pro
duct will be taken by western iron men.
Tins may make almost an ore famine
here in the cast ; it is not believed the
Cubat. ores can be supplied in sufficient
quantity to meet the si eel demand of this •*
region. There is ltope of steel ores in the
Southern States. As for Spain, its whole
product of seven and a half millions of
tons is required for England, France, Bel
gium, aud Germany. All these countries
depend largely upon foreign impoilatioos
tor the best steel ores. This country
alone occupies the satisfactory position of
possessing its own steel ore beds, Many
ct the southern mines now worked, al-
though yielding excellent ores for Iron,
contain 100 much phosphorus for '
the best steel. It has, however, been as
certained that by the adoption of the basic
process, now extensively used in Eng
land, the iions from most of the southern
coke furnaces can be made to vield excel
lent steel. Tiie introduction of the basic
process is now in progress at the south
and prospects for a large production of
good steel in the near future are cheering.
11l addition Ui Hiis there are oilier mines .
more recently opened that, are begiiin.ng M
to furnish first-el ass steel ores.
Ttie prices of iron and steel have ad
vanced in Europe to a greater extent than
ir. this e mutry, and consequently, except
in lilting hack orders, there is at present
li tie or .10 market tunc for Itie foreign
production. Americans now have almost
cxclii-ivc possession of the American
market. Flits state of tiling's is likely to
continue so long us high prices tire kept up ,
in Europe; but when a decline takes
place, and English inn makers are wip
ing to sell without profit, and their
steamers return to the old practice bring
ing over pig iion without charge as bal
last. and rails for a tritte above nothing, it.
is possible the r may work into the market
again to a small extent.
Tiie great piogrcss which lias been
made in this country in mine develop
ment and i:-: the manufacture of steel and
irou will be evident when we consider
that it is but little more than twin y j ears
since the manufacture of steel rails was
begun in this country. In 1807 our pro
duct of steel rails was only 3.550 tons. In
1887 it was 3.355,090. or double quantity
made in England. As to tig iroi., wean?
now producing in aggiegutc about eight
millions of tons a vein, all of ivbich we
consume, and Enghiu 1* produces about
the same, of which site exports much. In
steel production the United States isc
ahead of Great Britain, our production
being about three and a half millions or
tons per annum against three and a quar,
ter millions fur England. As for iron
our product is also much larger than that
of tiie royal kingdom, ours being about
two and a half millions of tons against
one million eight hundred tl ousand tons
English production.
The advanced prices of iron and steel
arc haying a bud effect upon the Brittisli )
ship builders, ana unless a lowering soon>
comes, some of them will suffer loss om
existing contracts.
KNEELING AT A SPRING.
Drink, fair maid, trom the spring that bubbles
up.
Make of your slender bands a dainty cup.
And I, from those white hands, would rather
drink, &
Just as thoukneclcst on the mossy brink,
Than taste ambrosia of fair Ganymede.
Thou kneelest here—for what graca dost thou
plead ?
Wouldst thou somo forest god's affection win ?
Or dost thou seek—Great ;seott! she's tumbled
till
mother of Harrison's Mistakes. / t
Bedford Gazette. , &
Somerset is shaken from centre to cir- x
cumference over the tippointuient of Mr.
C. P. Ilolderbattm, a Democrat, to a store
keeper in the internal revenue service.
The people are up in arms. They are de
manding the resignations of Collector
Warmcastle and Congressman Scull, and
will probably tackle President Harrison
when they get their blood up to tne
necessary pitch. The fool killer is never
around when*he is needed.
Those Constables.
Clearfield Republican. |
We notice much debate in journals
throughout the State about the election of
Constables. Our Court settled the ques
tion last year by swearing them in for
three years, and took their bonds for that
period. This is about what the Legisla.
ture intended, but it was done in a bung,
ling way.
Up 10 its Pull Capacity.
The rapidity witli which steel is now t
made at the Cambria Iron Company's new
mill is at present satisfying the expecta
tions of those who constructed it. For
the first time since it has been in use the
new mill this week came up to its esti
mated capacity.