THE SUGAR TRUST. Facts of Interest About the Great Combination. How Claus Spreckles Fought the Eastern Refiners. It in gcnorally known that a trunt is formed for the pnrposo of controlling production of cortain articles, and if tills purpose is attained success is as en red. Tiio ratio of success to failures is shout one-half, demonstrating that it is quite a different matter to con ceive a thing and to put it into successful operation. In conversation with well-known stock broker, whoso office is located op on F street, a reporter of The Evening Star recently gleaned consid information about trusts .nd their methods and capitalization. Among the long list of stocks quoted daily and publitihed in The Star, area cum ber of trust whose names hardly con vey to the uninformed the nature of the combination quoted in the mar ket. The broker said : "The history of trusts is short, com paratively speaking, as prior to 1890 v very few of the combinations, such as they are now, wore known to those familiar with the stock exchange bulle tin boards and quotations. The suc cess of the larger combines gave a great boom to the Idea ol controlling production under one head, and as a result trusts becamo a great fad with would-be Kapoloons of finance. Mil lions were made ami millions were 1 Ht. About the best known of all trusts at the presout time is the Amorican Sugar Rotluing Company, but few people are aware of the immense amount of monoy wrapped up in the concern. This combine is a New Jersey corporation, with an original capital of 50,000,000 divided equally between the common and profcrrcd stockholders. In January 1892, an additional 925,000,000 in stock was Voted making the capital of the trust $75,000,000. This additional $25, 000,000, was voted to buy up sugar refineries. Tho stock is a great spec ulative, boing goed to buy or sell anywhere, from 75 to 100, and many Washington people will vouch for the correctness of this statement. Tho great Havemcyer, the Spreckles, the Franklin Sugar Company and others, are in the trust, which has a tremen dous grip on tho sugar producing business of the country cast of the Tiocky mountains. "Several good stories are told in connection with the expenditure of tho 825,000,000 additional stock that was voted in 1892 in which Mr. Claus Bprecklos figures as the bright partic ular star. For many years back Mr. JBpreoklos has had a monopoly of the Fuoiflo coast, and all he asked of the trust was thnt ho be left alono. But tho trust felt strong, and invaded his ter ritory. This aroused the strong Teu tonic blood in Mr. Spreckles and he decided to rotaliate in kind. He camo cast, and after purchasing a site in Philadelphia, he started the ball of competition rolling. He not only built a million-dollar plant, but pre pared for a long fight by persuading farmers to go into the cultivation of sugar boots, promising to take the en tiro product at profitable figures. Muuy farmers stopped raising tobaooo and wont into the sugar beot cultiva tion, and made monoy at it, too. "Seeing these preparations for a great fight the trust decided upon a compromise, but Mr. Spreokels, see ing his great hold on the trust, de cided to make thorn pay for inaugu rating the fight. His plant in Fhila dolphia cost, all told, about 81,500, 000, and to paoify the farmers around that city would take anuther$500,000. The trust proposed that they vacate tho Paoifio coast and take the Phila delphia plant off Spreokels' bauds at $2,000,000. But Spreokels Baid ho was making money in the East and would rather remain. But this proved to be a big bluff. At any rate it wont through. Six months later Spreokels was given possession of the Paoifio coast and something over $3,000,000 to vacate the East. He moved. The history of the big sugar refinery at Locust Point, near Baltimore, is prao tioally the same. A syndibate banded together to squeeze the sugar trust, and, like the NioUul Plate deal, thoy vAiiknd oft the riot. Washintnn fttiii. An Iudlcatiou. "I guess Skiddins has just made an other of his flying trips to New York," said a young man in one of the de partments. "What makes you think so?" ' "Ho just borrowed a quarter from mo to get his luiioli with." Washing ton Star. A Good Inilinn. Sharp Nose will get a pension. Ton don't know Sharp Nose personally, and perhaps you nevor heard of this good old Indian that the Government of the United States proposes to take enre of for the remainder of his days. Sharp Nose is called a good Indian, not for any special gentleness of spirit, lack of interest in a good lively fight, or the absence of any of the other qualities that make the true In dian, but because he has always been a tmo friend of the Great Father in Washington. A bill providing for a pension for the old Indian chief has just been favorably reported in the House of Representatives, and it ought to bo and probably will become a law. It is a very unusual kind of a pension. Tjie Indian is now very old, and he resides on the Shoshone In dian reservation, and his Post Office address is Fort Washakie, Fremont county, in the State of Wyoming. He was born a war chief of the Northern Arapahoe Indians, and for many years was scout and guide with the United States troops on the Western frontier. Sharp' Npse has made some good friends In his long service, and some of them speak of him in terms of ad miration that would make even an old Indian's cars tingle and his heart elate with prido. Every boy in the United States has heard about Sitting Bull and Rain-in-the-Faee, who won their fame in tho great massacre on the Little Big Horn. Those were tho kind of Indians that were only good dead, but how many have heard of the brave Sharp Nose, who was in command of the friendly Indian scouts in tho battles of that year in tho Big Horn Mountains? It is well for the Government to re ward such services and for the young er generations to know that there are yet some Indians that come up to the romantic and heroic standard of Feui more Cooper's "Last of the Mohicans." Detroit Free Tress. Business Enterprise In New York. Whon the New York business man feols trade slackening he goes out and gets it. There are various ways of doing this. The florist who has cm ployed twenty pretty girls to spread his flowers over the city hasn't hit on a bad thing, judging from indications. Ho is but carrying out the church fair idea, taking advantage of susceptible young men and old men on the return trip to the ohildish period, and it goes. These girls woar nice blue uni forms and saucy yachting caps, and very soon develop a seductive tongue. But there ore other ways of pushing things, and the Sixth avenue mer chants are inclined to take lessons from Baxter street. The window sampler is getting to be an old story. The sidowalk puller-iu is yet a littlo too realistic for the somi-fushionable quarter. However, thero ia a near approach to it in the outside operator in front of some ladies' furnishing stores in Sixth avenue. This is in the guiso of a pretty modal who trios on hats for the benefit of the passing feminine croud. She stands a littlo to one side of the entrance to the establitriimcnt and tries on one hat aftor another. Each hat is labelled in front with a sign big enough to bo road at a distance. The model is, of course, a very comely young lady. She simply puts on a hat as it is handed out to her, turns hor head this way and that for a mo ment, takes it off, parses it in, put? on another and so on, repeating the operation all day. On each hat is a labol containing the price. It is, "This for fifteen cents," and tho pooplo have no option but to look and havou't tho trouble of going into the store. It is pretty hard to got away from a Now York business man whon he's got anything to sell. Now York Herald. M. Caruot and the American Boy, One of M. Carnot's most amiable traits, and one which he shared with Mr. Gladstone, was a habit of "tip ping" schoolboys on almost every available occasion- A friond of mine onoe saw him in the waiting-room of a French railway station carrying on an amusing conversation with a small Amorican boy whom he had casually met there, who was miuding his sis ters' luggage. The boy, after the manner of Amerioan youths, was charmingly candid in his remarks, and informed M. le President that he didn't care for Fronohmon, adding, "thoy want the earth," an American oolloquialisin which convulsed M. Carnot, When thoy parted he patted the boy on the head, and gave him a gold ooin, which young America ao oepted with the remark that he "guessed he'd go and make himself miserable," thus giving the President farther food for urrjioot. London Figaro. QUAINT ASD CURIOUS. Absinthe is the national driuk oi France. Throe and one-half miles are equal to three knots. Man is the weakest of all animals in proportion to his size. In Russia people may not wed a fourth time nor aftor thoy are 80. Butterflies have been known to live eighteen days after being beheaded. A contnry old tortoise is exhibited in the museum at Uplands, in Colo rado. In England tree dispensaries dis tribute $1,000,000 worth of medicines year. A sufferer from Asthma at Glendalo, Penn., has not slept in a bed for twenty years. During the fourteenth century in Italy a tax was levied on everyone who wore shoes. The Arst porson to be hanged in England was a pirate in the reign of Henry III., 1241. In the fourteenth century 60,000,000 people died of the black plague in Europe and Asia. The note of the boll bird sounds like the tolling of a bell, and can be heard a distance of throe miles. Transportation of criminals was first resorted to by Oreat Britain in 1590 in the reign of Elizabeth. Herodotus tells us that the number of women employed in making bread for Xerxe's army are beyond count, A young woman somnambulist of Crab Creek, Oregon, recently plunged into a stream and swam across it while asleep. Dolplaino gives figures to prove that the planet earth has supported 6(5,627, 342,237,075,266 human inhabitants since the beginning of time. Bautam chickens wore first brought from the East Indies, and are sup posed to have receive 1 thoir name from Bantam, a residency of the Island of Java. A firm in Chicago has a camera at tached to its cash draw, so that if it is oponod by a thief his photograph will be takeu instantaneously, a bell rings, a fog horn blows a blast loud enough to awaken the dead. An ingenious Pittsburgcr has de vised a clothes wringer which is oper ated by electricity. It works auto matically, and when the last pioce is squeezed out a bell rings and the wash tub is turnod over and emptied, Dictator Francia, of Paraguay, ouco enacted a law that all males should wear somo kind of hat, if only a crownless brim, so that thoy could show rospoct to their betters by re moving their head coverings. The portrait of himself whioh Honry Clay pronounced the best is to be found in a patchwork quilt now on ex hibition in a Kontucky county fair. It ornaments the central square of the quilt, and is valued at $1,000. The human system can endnre a heat of 212 degrees, the boiling point of water, because the skin is a bad conductor and because the perspira tion oools the body. . Men have with stood without injury a heat of 300 dogroos for several minutes. Hallway Spine. A man with large responsibilities is Dr. S. Murks of Milwaukee, the chief physioian of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway system. "The railroads are suffering," said Dr. Murks, "from an epidnmio of 'railroad spine,' and it is costing them a great deal of money. 'Railroad spine' is the name givon to cases where a claim ant for dumagos on acoouut of injuries sustainod insists that he is suffering greutpain, but where the physician is unable to locate any cause for such Buffering. The surgeon will go into court and swear that he can discover no injury, but the Court will hold that he cannot swear that there is no pain. I had a case of that kind somo time ago. The railroad settled the case, and with the settlement the pain disappeared." San Francisco Chron icle. Secret of Power. The Infanta Eululie, who is at pres ent staying in England for economy's sake, has uttered a great truth. She aid i "People mooting me casually sometimes fauoy I am proud, I can only imagine it must be because I am so erect. Now, my sistor sometimes laughingly oomplains that no one minds her, I always say: 'Then hold yourself straight' " And therein lies the secret of power. An ereot oarriage and a haughtily held head avail more in commanding obedionoe than ancient lineage and large rent rolls. MODISH MODELS. DESIGN KVOfA'KI) FOR THE ACTUM N'Atj CAMFAIUN. All About TlrMesmalda A Wedding Where There1 Were Twelve Hats to Suit the Most Capricious Taste Are Shown. ERE are some extracts (all re lating to bridesmaids) from accounts of recent London weddings. The eight bridesmaids who attended Miss Peel were all 1 attired ' in white satin dresses, the bodices being trimmed with cream pointed guipure i shoulder capes of emerald greon vel vet, and large velvet picture, hats, adorned with black foathers. The tour bridesmaids at the Tre-thewy-Wood wedding wore pretty yellow bengaline dresses, with black colors, the colors of the Hampshire Regiment, and black hats, trimmed with yellow flowers, and they oarried yellow bouquets, tied with the regi mental colors. The bridegroom to each gave a gold chain, from which was suspended a heart-shaped locket set in diamonds. At the marriage of the Hon. Rosa Hood, the six bridesmaids wore pure white broche dresses, trimmed with moire, and in their pretty white chip hats were roses, to correspond with the lovely bouquets of white rosos which they carried. At the Dickson-Knocken wedding there were rive bridesmaids, attired alike in white muslin drosses, made up over white satin. Thoir pictur esque hats of black tulle were trimmed with roses, and they carried bouquets of roses and white parasols, gifts from the bridegroom. At the marriage of Lady Esther Gove to W. F. D. Smith, M. P., says London Truth, the bridosraaids, twelve' in number, included seven small children, some of whom were tiny scraps whose behavior amused one immensely. They grew so tired of standing still, those babies. And yon should have seen how they ad mired thoir wodding garments. They stroked their ribbons, petted their frocks and closely examined the white roses they carried, as though scien tifically traoing the cause of their per fume. Not old enough to have ex perienced the solace there lies in standing on one leg, they variod the monotony of standing on both by lift ing their feet and gazing with great interest at their pretty shoes. "We mustn't talk," whispered one to the other, as though inviting her to a breach of the command. A dear little fat finger went np to a pair of rosy lips in reply. I never saw such a sweet little company of restless, flut tering, white-clud baby bridesmaids before. One of thorn was the two-year-old stepsister of the bride. Her mother looked very well in gold and white brocade. The bride's dress was most particularly pretty and becom ing. One would think that all possi ble variations on the haokneyed theme of white satin and orange blossoms had long since been exhausted, but evidently there are brains still full of fresh ideas on even the stalest sub jects. The lovely ivory-tiuted satin of which Lady Esther Smith's dress con sisted was trimmed with exquisite, al most priceless, point d'Alenoon old family laoe, and was hemmed with sprays of orange blossoms. The bodice was filled with chiffon and trimmed with laoe, and the sleeves an important feature in the architec ture of a dress were arranged in al ternate puffs of satin and frills of laoe. The bride wore a oomb of orange blossoms under her tulle veil Her banquet was a perfectly glorious one, apd shod fragrance for yards around it. She looked very nervous, and her color kept coming and going, but it was a sweet face that looked through the wedding veil. BUTTONS EVKBYWHEnB. Her button gown was a great suc cess. She was conscious of this after wearing it for the first time. Such an amount of attention she had never before reoeived. It was an imported frock and it carried just sixteen dozen buttons. They were very small but tons of glisteaing gilt and they shone upon her dress like cords of gold. The skirt of this French costume was made of fine white broadcloth, with an unusual amouut of fulness at the back. On the right side of the skirt a narrow panel of helitrope vel H ' FALL MILLntERT. vet appoared to be caught to the broadcloth by a row of gilt buttons, which stretcuod from waist line to hem. The bottom of the skirt was fin ished by a band of th velvet gleam ing with another line of gilt buttons. The bodice was heliotrope chiffon over silk and shirred to a yoke of white broadcloth outlined with very small gilt buttons. The chiffon at the waist line tucked in to a corselet of helio trope velvet bordered with buttons. The draped sleeve was of white chif fon over heliotrope silk. The puff was most graceful. Below the elbow the chiffon was drawn over a tight fitting cuff which seemed hold togeth er by a row of buttons. DAINTY. STRAW HAM. Borne of the new straw hats have crowns of one color and brims of an other, like purple and green or red and blue. Some have rough effects made by straws of different color woven in, but with so much trimming as is placed on them and the facings of shirred tulle or Italian crape one seos very little of the hat itself. One hat where the rough straw was made of green and white strands, had a mass of trimming consisting of green moire ribbon of the exact silvery green of the under side of poplar leaves. There was besides a grape vine, with its creamy white tufts of blossoms, its tendrils and finally two bunches of green grapes of different sizes. This was placed artistically on the top of the hat, and just under the bent part of the brim was a small cluster of ripe grapes and the fadod loaves. The whole hat was really poetic. THE NEW STYLR SHORT COAT. The new style short coat is made of electrio blue cloth, braided down the frost. The ooat is double-breasted, and has a large collar of the fur and an edging down one side and tho ouffs and muS of tho same fur. Another coat, which is to beoome very popular this fall, is a loose uUter, also tor driving, made of dark cloth and hav ing a painted collarette of seal and deep caffs of the same. r-RETTr DRESS TBIMMINO. Narrow black velvet ribbon overlaid with eoru vine laoe is a pretty dress trimming. Cream lace is used as well on serge and sacking dresses as on satin. Velvet overlaid with eoru in sertion is oommon on crepon dresses, green being the color used in one ef fective model. Suits made with tabs and buttons have the mook button holes outlined with soutaohe. White embroidery and black satin ribbons are the trimmings used on a dark blue erepon. Silken muslin crepe lisse, mouseline de sole, figured lace, span gled tulle and Liberty satin are some of the gauzy fabrics found as trim mings on the latest imported designs. Black silk muslin and jet are by far the most desirable accessories for black and white silks. tieueral Rule tor Diets. The general rule for all diets should be an abunduuoe of sweet fruits, fresh or dried, green vegetables those growing above ground reoeiving the preference a small proportion of the cereals, brown bread, milk, eggs, and a little meat Rochester Post Express. Printing in oolora was done in the fifteenth outury. KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS WORKMEN ENTOMBED. Qlass Works Burned A Woman Orenad te Pieces. ASTBRAX rLAOCI AT TtlOSS. The farmers living near Tyrone whoownod th cattle that din J of anthrax on th mount sins several day ago bavs completed thoir summary. It shows that 134 eattis wore takn to tho pasture laud, and of this num ber, ouly 43 nave been return oil, and many of those are still sirs. It Is oo.timo.tod that there are 81 ot I ho. animals known to be dnad yot unburiod on tho mountains, but the carcaese are not at all likely to contaminate the watsr supply ot Tyrone. Twenty-live oarcame worn found lying along tho watsr couroo from whioh Tyrone receive a watsr upply, but all of these wore thoroughly saturated with oil and burned. HOHOSAM DILtOATI. The governor has appointed honorary dele gate to the national farmer's congress, to meet at Parkershurg, W. Vs., October a. Among them are the following: ft. H. My holder, Leechburg; E. 8. Welgand, Beavnri H. 8. Plohl, Bedford! Frank Olasgow, Bell, wood: W. H. Riddle. Butler; John J. Thomas, Carrolltont Leonard Rhone, Center Hall) Prank Mantor, Exposltloni O. Hopwood, I'nlontown; Major B. F. Herrington. Waynes burg: George u. Hotchenson, Warrior Mark: I. McCrauken, , Frosts burg and Henry F. James, Franklin.'. The heaviest storm In years burst on Bstbiehem Haturday evening. For three 'quarters of an-hourrain fell In torrents, light alngflashed and thunder roared whendarknea overspread everything. Hall fell In great quantities and did much damage. Fouataln Valley creek, In the western part Of the town, overflowed and water fo ir feet deep entered, the hotels, stores and residences, doing thou sands of dollars damage. Along Second street water was ever six loot deep. Hundreds of families were flooded out. Mi Daisy Major, a brunette, tlxteea yean old, who ha been postmistress at Wampum fourteen months, Is charged with having stolen 3,7O0 from registered letter and from the postofftoe. Hhe bought Jewelry and fins clothing with the monoy. Her father is a merchant and will make good the loss, Mr. F.leanor Scott, seventy years old, of Msrysvllle, Mo. accidentally stepped off th Pullman vestibule ot an moving train near Pittsburg and was ground to pieces. It was her daughter's bridal tour, and the party was going to see the encampment and visit rela tives. George Bruce, a citizen of Blacktown, Mer cer county, committed Ruloide Tuesday morn lug by hanging himself to a rador In his brother's barn at Harlanshurg. Lawrence county. Bruce was 43 years old, and was dnspondeut over a love affair of many years' standing. Thieves Tuesday night robbed Alexander Woodrlng. of Ricevllle, of (1,040 In cash and TOO worth of note. The money consisted of of !W bills and 2fl gold pieces, and was marked. As the family did not awaken until nearly noon, It is supposed that chloroform wo used. An explosion of gas occurred Tuesday at Centralia colliery, ucar Ashland. Bovsral worknen are entembed, but they all escaped through an air course. Three wore taken out bndly burned, one of whom has since dlod. The fourth biennial convention ot the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen begau In Harrlsburg Monday morning with 3S0 dule gat. The entire day's session was given up to the reading of the report of Grand Master Bargont, who occupied the oualr. W. F. Collins ft Co., general storekeepers st Nt. Petersburg, Clarion connty, were rob bed last Saturday of 1 0,000 In bonds, note and cash. Until Monday the theft was kept secret In the hope of catching the guilty per sous disposing of some of the papers. The Prison Warden's Association of the fulled HtHtes was In session in Pittsburg Monday.nlth wardens from sll the prominent penal Institution in the country in atten dance. Prison disclplino was the principal topic ot discussion. The Keystone gloss company's plant at Mcadvllle was entirely destroyed by lire at an early hour Tuesday morning. It had not beau In operation for over 11 vo years and It Is supposed tho lira was caused by tramp. Tbe loss is not estimated, but it will be heavy. James McAvoy, of Gallitzin, who shot and killed bis wife at thnt place In August, wo Tuesday found guilty of murderln the second degree. His brother Josoph, who was tried Jointly with him was acquitted. Mrs. Ann Byrne died at the home of her daughter, In Allegheny, on Tuesday, aged 101 years. Hhe was born In oounty lioscotumon, Irelaud, in 17U3, and came to this country lu 1830. McKeesport celebrated the centennial an niversary of her founding on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Gov. Pattlsou and Gov. Mckluley were present Wednesday. At Unlontown the Jury found Postmaster Harry Marrietta and others of Connollsvilla guilty of uulawful assembly and acquitted them ot riot and inciting to riot. In a Lehigh Valley railroad w.-eolc neat Wilkenbarre, Frank Gorman, a passenger, of Wllkesbarro was killed, and MUey lteude, a flromau badly injured, Prohibitionists 1,000 strong paraded the streets of Wllkesbarre. Later they were ad dressed by National Chairman blokla and Charles Hawley, Matt Savage, editor of the Clearfleld Public Spirit, was nominated for Senate In the Thirty-fourth district at Tyrone Saturday morning on tbe eighth ballot. George F. Work, the Philadelphia banker and tluancler, who was sent to the Eastern I'uuiteutlary for aspropriatiug bank securi ties bus been released. The stores of E. E. Fleming at Rcottdale L. E. Byer, of Now Kensingtou', Westmore land county, were closed by the sheriff on executions. Thomas Tlerney escaped from the Sharon I all. He was arrested In Hubbard, O., taken ack to Sharon and sent to the workhouse for wife-beating, James Onslow, sn old tlms Pittsburg news paper man, died Thursday at Harrisburg. Ha was a autivs ot Ireland, and about 70 years ot age. The kennel dog show held In Pittsburg during tbe enoanipment week contains over 4 0 line dogs. One of tue dog Is listed at 20,0U0. Joseph Nallls, of Summit, while digging a tronoh Tuesday was crushed to death by a cave-In. Ills brother, John, was seriously in. Jured. At Gettysburg. "Found any land marks?' "Yes; and I was thlqktng how you must have expanded since the war.x Here's tho tree you stood lictlnd during the whole battle, and It covored you well then.' Fond Mamma (to -clerk In china store) I see you have tuugs marked Tom and Jerry: have you any with Willie and Charlie on them? drop of dew tries as bard to do God's will thunderstorm,
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