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
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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,