Gaylord Herald from Gaylord, Kansas • 2

TWO HAPPY MEN. TOPICS. The Gaylord Herald. BY L. C.

HEADLEY SON. "Froliflo Parent of Deficit. The prolific parent of deficits is congressional extravagance. The Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, New York. Why not prove it so by your figures? We quote them from the same article: PROTECTIVE TARIFF a.l all necessary appliances for purifying the sewerage, which amounts in dry weather to about 200,000,000 gallons daily.

The sludge is loaded upon steamers and thrown into the open at a distance of about fifty miles from the works. In addition to the regular pumping apparatus, there are storm stations with a capacity of gallons per day. These are used rain storms, the object of them being prevent flooding in the lower quarters of the city. Vekraska a Great Whea-t St.u This year Nebraska has uura.9 to the ve. rank as a wheat-producing s-'iuie.

with her splendid crop of lies of spring wheat, averaging over ti i to the acre, and 6.000,000 buslieis of wheat, which will average S21 butdiuN --the acre. The table given below, whi-ii has been carefully compiled, shows v. f.u: will surprise many, that Nebraska third among the Btates as a v- lieui pro er, and it must be bourne in miiid il.tr. the states that outrank her are alnu l-. clusively wheat states, whereas is a country of diversiiied crops, cum being her principal product.

WMTBRX STATES WHEAT CHOP. Actual figures for lb'JO and eouservutive estimates for 1807: ACCF Pill LABfT7J 1S67. ISfi'l. 65.ui.uooo 8 42 0 4ii.tr. 0 ::::,.) SSiwi 27 IJ 7.000.

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TSnttonliole Cutter One of the Latest Convenience for I lie Womenfolk A Dilijjlilful Shower ISatU (aruwlug Spiders for Market. Growing Spiders for Market. TiLlNZiNG the -X It good gifts of nature excellent SI thins when proper- ly bui r-5fcao05 very ery few people will appreciate that i form of utilization I C. -r'-r which is described Jr-TJ-v' in a bulletin of the Division of 1 y. Ac cording to this account there is cai- rifcd on in a small village in France and also in a small place near Philadelphia the unique industry of growing spiders tor market.

These creatures are raiseu with a view to stocking the cellars of wine merchants in order that they may weave cobwebs over the wine bottles. These spiders are soM at the rate of ten dollars per hundred, und the people engaged in this industry are doing a flourishing business. The value of a cobweb covered bottle is likely to be sadly diminished as soon as the facts about this new branch of trade become known. Japanese Alloys. The Japanese are noted for their me tal work, and efforts have been made to discover the secret of the alloys of wVich much of their finest work is made.

The following is therefore interesting, the secret having been divulged by workmen who are familiar such alloys. The "shakko" is an alloy of copper and from 1 to 10 per cent oi goio, uie oujcci uciu6 pmu iu a. mordant of sulphur, of copper, alum and verdigris unui uiey uc hbbuiucu the coppered or blue-black hue of sword sheaths and decorative articles. Another of these is "gni-shi-bu-ichi, a copper alloy with 30 or 50 per cent of silver of the well known gray color. What is called "mokume" is a compound of several alloys.

About thirty plates of foils of gold, shadko, copper, silver, and the last mentioned alloy are soldered together, holes are made, the plate hammered out and put in the mordant. The finest Japanese orass "suichu" consists of ten parts copper and five of zinc, and of bell metals the 'karakane" is made of ten parts of cop per, four of tin, one-half iron, one and one-half zinc, the copper being melted first, and the other metals added in the above order. New York Ledger. Convenient Buttonhole Cotter. Women who have been fastening their clothes with pins because they could not cut buttonholes have no longer an excuse for their habit, which savors of untiliness, besides being de cidedly inconvenient.

There have been shown on the counters of some of the department stores this week samples of a little contrivance which obviates ill difficulties and most of the labor of the buttonhole cuiiing. it ua been called an "ideal" buttonhole cut ter, and judging by the ease with which work is performed with this wonderful little instrument it is not a misnomer. The woman whose du ties necessitate the making of button holes in all kinds of garments, from the sheer dimity robes of the baby to the heaviest clothes worn by the man of the house, can have at her disposal an article that will cut quickly and ac curately. And she does not have to lift, haul, turn, measure, or fold as she used to when scissors were the only means. For generations past the average woman has been cutting buttonholes by jabbing the point of the scissors into the cloth, after which she trimmed off the ravelings and bound the incisions of various shapes and sizes.

Then buttonhole scissors were adopted, but even they are primitive in comparison with the latest invention in that line. The new cutter is simple and easily understood. It consists of a circle of steel from which project four blades of well-tempered and ground razor-steel. These blades are of different sizes, and with them can be made holes to fit any sized buttons. The circle of blades is regulated by means of a spring, which, when pulled outwards, allows the wheel to revolve until the desired size is at the end of the cutter, where it is held firmly in place by dropping the spring.

Anybody who can draw a line and press down with ordinary force can use it. There can be no bungling. All that is necessary is to spread the cloth or garment smoothly over a board or table, mark where the buttonholes are to be, boar down with the edge of the blade and cut them in perfect line and of exactly the same size. Absolute uniformity is secured, together with freedom from raveling and the tearing of the cloth at the end of the hole. The new cutter aims to save time and secure ffeatness and will probably become popular with the many women who have occasion to use such an instrument.

The Handling of Sewaee. London is most admirably equipped with machinery and a plant for taking care of the sewage from the largest city area In the land. On either side of the Thames there are pyimping sta tions which are constantly at work re lieving the sewers of their contents, The stations can pump 500,000,000 gal Ions in day. There are settling tanks sei. In to and the in of Year.

Revenue Expenditure. Surplus. 1891 $335,372,685 364.937,7X5 345,023,331 385,819,628 383,477,954 9,914,153 2,341 Deficit; 25.2U3.245 1S92 189J ISMS $313,390,075 $366,195,298 1896 352,179,446 1897 347.1 84 Tai Stir, S07 836 Our average annual expenditure dur ing the first three given years, as above, was $354,624,657. This was dur ing the Republican policy of protec tion. But, from 1895 to 1897 inclusive.

under the Democratic free trade tariff our expenditures averaged $358,060, 860 a year within $40,000,000 a year of the same amount. The final column of our table, however, shows that there was a surplus of revenue, averaging $16,500,000 a year for the years 1891 to 1893 inclusive. But during the Democratic administration with its free trade tariff, from 1895 to 1897 inclusive, there was an average deficit of $28,800,000 a year. The "prolific parent" of these Democratic deficits was not our "congressional extravagance," which was within a year of the same amount under free trade as during the three years of protection. But the "prolific parent of deficits" under the Democratic; administration was its free trade tariff, with a revenue averaging only a year, as compared with an average revenue of $378,000,000 under the Republican tariff for protection.

The figures are taken from the same article in The Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin which made the utterly, false statement that "the prolific parent of deficits is congressional extravagance." The statement should read: "Democracy is the prolific parent of deficits," as proven by the figures above quoted. The Relation of M'ageg to he Keciui-tion In Tariff. President Raichford, in a letter to the New York Herald, says: "A miner's wages in the western Pennsylvania field ranges from 54 to 47 cents per ton In thin-veined districts and from 30 to 2S cents per ton in the thick-veined. In 1893 the mining rate in thin-veined districts was 79 cents and in thick-veined 65 cents per ton. During the same year the rate in Ohio and Indiana was 70 and 75 cents, respectively.

Now it is 51 cents, with a reduction proposed iu Ohio to 45 cents per ton. This ratio holds good in a general way all along the lines; Illinois, a portion of leva, eastern and central Pennsylvania and the Virginias are all equally The fall in the wages shown by these figures is certainly a remarkable one, and unless the miners were exceeding ly well paid before, they must find il difficult to live decently now. Mr. Ratchford's figures also suggest a parallel between the tariff rates on coal and the wages paid for digging it. During the years cited they were al most exactly the same, the duty under the McKinley bill having been 75 cents a ton and under the Wilson bill 40.

Jacksonville Times-Union (Dem.) Dead. Another Deadly might. The blight that has constantly fallen upon this country, and which has kept it in a continual condition of business prostration, has been the inability of the factories of this country to purchasers enough at home to consume their products. Under this almost unvarying condition the manufacturers have been compelled to close their factories down for long periods, with tlia consequent throwing out of employment of thousands of people who at once become a vast army of non-pro-, ducers and non-consumers. "Register," Mobile, Ala.

True. This Democratic "blight" per. mitted the factories of Europe to supply our markets, hence, as the "Register" says, our manufacturers "have been compelled to close their factories down for long periods, with the consequent throwing out of employment of thousands of people." And these" thousands of people" will never forget the destructiveness of the deadly "blight" of the Democratic party's free trade policy, McKinley on Labor Organizations. President Gompers of the Federation of Labor and the secretary of that organization called upon President McKinley to obtain a declaration of his views on labor. Mr.

McKinley, always frank and unambiguous, declared himself without exasion thus: "I regard the organization of labor as a natural and legitimate effort to secure its rights." Ex. The last refuge of the free traders in their attempt to excuse themselves from the reduction of wages of the coal miners is in the statement that coal importations were no greater un der the Wilson law than under the McKinley law. They do not seem to understand that it is the price fixed by foreign importation rather than the quantity imported which, in this case, fixed prices of the home productions. The fact that Nova Scotia coal, mined at water's edge and loaded ini-medSrV'ly upon vessels from the mines, could be brought into' the New England ports, with a tariff of 35 cents less per ton than prior to the Wilson law, was of itself sufficient to turn the tide of West Virginia coal away from New England and into the west, thus Inducing the rate wars and forcing down the wages of miners in nearly the same amount that the reduction in tariff reduced the prices of coal in th eastern markets. The tariff having been reformed, th next step la the currency.

iJAYl.ORl), KANSAS 1 Crooked steps are the most apt to ba noticed. It takes will power to look oneself I squarely in the soul. Probably Colonel Ingeisoll is right. It is hard to believe that there's a land that is hotter than this. 'Politically there is something in the wind out in Kansas," remarks a contemporary.

let up on Peffer. Rev. John Jasper of Richmond, has just celebrated his 84th birthday, firm in the faith that the "sun do move." It turns out that Dr. S. Weir Mitch ell is not dead, as was reported the other day; but he is spending the summer in Philadelphia.

"Why did we celebrate?" asks a Denver editor. pshaw! What's the use of beine sorry about it now? Stick to bromo seltzer and you'll pull through all right It is reassuring to learn from a lo cal contemporary that "Sculptor St. Gaudens works quietly in his studio in New York." Those loud, explosive, boisterous sculptors never accomplish much, anyway. One of the worst things about whisky drinking is that it "catches 'em com ing and going," to use a somewhat slangy expression. In prosperous times the tippler tipples because he thinks he can afford it; in dull times he tries to drown his despondency in drink.

It seems that the per capita consumption of whisky in this country last year larger than in any twelvemonth within the last quarter of a century. Dean Goulburn, who recently died in England, was once master of Rugby. His discourses to the boys were ornate. He talked to them one day on the subject of schoolboy jesting, and remarked in his stately way: "Let your pleasantry, my younger brethren, resemble the coruscation of the summer lightning, lambent but innocuous." Such Erglish may seem high and lifted up, but better this mountainous range of speech than the low and malarious land of slang. Among the citizens who are worse than worthless are the Cubans who have been naturalized in the United States for the purpose of using their citizenship here as a shield while plotting against the Spanish government in Cuba.

How many there are it is impossible to know; but Spain is making only a reasonable request when she asks the United States for an agreement that will prevent naturalization for such a purpose. No one who has a keen sense of honor would seek the armor of a bad-faith American citizen ship before exposing himself to danger. The United Postal congress, which recently finished its work at Washington accomplished something in the way of simplifying the postal transactions of the world: Following is an official resume of the results of the work of the congress: The principal treaty which excludes the entry of Corea into the postal union; the declaration of the Orange Free state, which failed to send a delegate to Washington, that it hoped soon to enter the union; and the declaration of the Chinese empire, which was represented in the congress, that it will observe the regulations of the union as soon as the organization of its service permits. The intermediary transit rates have been facilitated, and the tariff diminshed materially on a grad uated scale for the ensuing six years. Uniform colors have been projected for postage stamps.

Postal cards un paid are subject to a double tax; that is, 4 cents in place of the former tax which was 10 cents, the same as for unpaid letters. Circulars produced on a machine (typewritten) in quantities of twenty circulars, all cf the same char acter, are admitted to the internation al mails at the same rates as printed circulars. Samples of merchandise are admitted up to 350 grammes. Ob jects of natural history, animals, dried plants, or preserved geological speci mens, are admitted as samples. The question of the creation of a universal uostase stamp was brought up, and the proposition was defeated on ac count of the difficulty which would oc cur in putting into practice that im portant innovation, especially because of the diversity of currency standards.

Special arrangements concerning pack ages of declared values, postal orders books of identity, and subscriptions to journals have been thoroughly re vised. This country is not actually concerned in these arrangements. They mostly affect the states of the continent of Europe. WTe may add one of the principal capitalists of the Kansas City of Atchison to the list of wealthy men who are not above serving the public in a humble capacity. He has accepted an appointment as street commissioner at a salary of forty-five dollars a month, and it is safe to say that he will earn his money.

An illicit whisky still and a nest of moonshiners have been discovered in New York City. Perhaps this may account for certain peculiarities recently observed in eastern journalism. Certain grim figures in a recent report ought to make the glamor cf stage-life less alluring. During the past year nearly one thousand actors and actresses applied for assistance from the Actors' Fund. Instead of fame and fortune, how many who go on the stage attain only to bitter disappointment and much that is worse.

The Boston Traveler is worrying over the question, "Do the fires of hell illuminate?" What's the difference, anyway? Who would care to read aa asbestos newspaper? A Rock Pictures. There are upon the face of the basaltic rocks in Lake county. a large number of pictures of Indians, animals, birds and reptiles of various sorts. They have evidently been cut with some sharp instrument, and the work is very creditable, some of the drawings being excellent. The figures pictures are arranged in rows and groups.

It is thought that the pictures resemble those found in Central America and Mexico. Students of archaeology are of the opinion that they may indicate the existeuce of a civilization which long ago passed from memory and knowledge of man. Feeding: Boilers with Salt. Water. It has been a generally accepted idea that suit water could not be successfully used in boilers.

The fact that it can be so used has recently been demonstrated and will prove a most valuable discovery. The Yarrow boilers England, which are made with tubes Va inches in diameter, have been tested with salt water and favorable results are reported. It seems that there is no incrustation and no trouble about the priming, two obstacles in the way the use of salt water that have been universally supposed to exist. A Delightful Invention. Adolph Brinkmeyer, a native of northern Minnesota, went to live in St.

Louis. When the Missouri climate began to get in its deadly work on Mr. Brinkmeyer he was driven to inventing and the result is a shower- bath bicycle. It consists of an ordinary bicycle, with the wheels removed. Attached to the rear sprocket is a little pump, which connects with an up-running pipe terminating in a spray arrangement like that on a sprinkling-can.

By placing the machine in a bath tub partially filled with water and pedaling a la wheelman all the delights of a cool spin in the park can be combined with the exhilarating joys of a shower-bath. Only a small amount of water is needed, none being wasted. Mr. Brinkmeyer expects that his invention will prove a boon to the sub urbanites above all others. It will, he says, do away with the surreptitious and troublesome dip in the wash-tub in the cellar.

By putting a longer con nection to the machine and setting it out in the garden it can be converted into a sprinkling pump. As a corol lary to his "bicycle shower-bath" he has also invented a "rocking-chair bo-reas," as he calls it. This is nothing more than an easy rocking-chair with a bellows under the seat and a pipe and spray similar to that in the bath ing machine running up the back of the chair and pendant above the user's head. When the chair is gently rocked a spray of cool air is blown down on the sitter's head, and the effort necessary to produce a regular freshet of wind is not more than that usually exerted by a man who sits rocking on a shady veranda in a vain endeavor to keep cool. Smoke Consumers.

For years the subject of smoke con sumers has been agitated. Many in ventions have been put before the public, but very few have been even approximately successful. A new invention shows a system of flues by means of which the smoke is con densed and cleansed of all objectionable material. The principle is that of circulation with intense heat. A steam jet at very high pressure is forced into the chamber containing the smoke and foul gases.

In fact, the steam acts as a strainer, sieve, purifier and arrester of all objectionable matter. It is claimed that all of the products of combustion may be utilized, and that the air from the smoke-stack will be as pure as the surrounding atmosphere. Non-inflammable Fabrics. The recent disaster at Paris has called the attention of the public to the importance of making articles of decoration or of wealing apparel non-inflammable, and experiments have proven that even wood may be made capable of resisting an ordinary flame. Textiles are very easily made fire proof.

One of the dangers of exhibitions is the presence of celluloid and the attention of scientists is being turned toward some treatment of celluloid which will decrease its dangerous qualities. Celluloid is being used in a thousand ways for every day purposes, and the fierceness of the flame when it takes fire makes it an exceedingly dangerous thing in careless hands. It, therefore, ought to be made in some way less inflammable. Not Real Enthusiast. "Pshaw! Don't tell me that Watson is a cycling enthusiast.

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Fold by aniRl'ti. 1 placing of an internal revenue tax of one cent per pound on all unrehned sugar in the United States when the new tariff law should go into effect, the object being to compel the trust to pay to the government a tax of one cent per pound on all this 1,500,000,000 pounds of sugar which it had accumu lated waiting the advance which it could make bv the new tariff. Had Secretary Gage's recommendation been accepted by the conferees and by congress it would have compelled the trust to pay in internal revenue taxes probably 15 million dollars upon the sugar which it had piled up in its warehouses. The conferees and congress, however, did not adopt Secretary Gage's recom mendation for reasons which they looked upon as entirely sufficient and the moment this fact became known first that the sugar trust would make this large profit by reason of the increased duty on sugar and second, that it would not be compelled to pay out any of that profit in the proposed internal revenue tax upon its sugar stock, those who calculated the profits which it would make during the coming year on this enormous mass of sugar which it holds saw readily that the profits would be great and the dividends large. The result was the advance in sugar trust stock about which there was so much talk and denunciation.

This advance was not due to any permanent advantage which the new tariff bill gives the trust over the old law but on the contrary the difference between raw and refined sugars under the new bill is, as already indicated 12 cents per hundred while under the Wilson law it is 22 cents per hundred pounds, thus making it apparent at once that the permanent "differential" or difference in tariff rates which the sugar refiners get under the new law is far less than that under the Wilson law, while this loss to the trust is offset by the mere temporary ad vantage in the advance In prices which they are able to make upon the enormous accumulation of sugar which they have on hand. GEORGE WILLIAMS. The Vote on the Tariff. Thirty-eight votes were cast in the senate for the Dingley tariff bill and twenty-eight voles were cast against it. Sixteen senators were paired.

Seven senators, all of them Populists or silverites, did not vote. Actually, therefore, the vote on the tariff bill in the senate was as follows on Wednesday: For Against Not voting Vacancy 46 3ti Total so Forty-six is a majority of the seu- att. This is how the states which sup ported and the states which opposed the tariff bill stood in respect to the total vote at last year's election: For. Ae-ainst. Connecticut 174, 390 Alabama 195,427 149,397 31.4HO 46.4H1 lta.Otll 674.010 tiS.mn 82.950 821.998 96.124 194.631 Illinois 1.090,881 Arkansas Iowa 521.547 Delaware Maine 11S.0'.I3 Florida Georgia Michigan Miss Minnesota 341 Missouri Montana 53,217 S.

Carolina. N. Hampshiie, S. Ohio 1,014. 292 Tennessee Oregon Perm R.

Island Vermont Wyoming Total Texas .1,194,253 Utah Virginia 63.S2I1 20,803 Total 71,313 With Senator Murphy paired against the bill, Senator Piatt cast the vote of the Empire state in its favor. With New York's vote added, the states supporting iu the senate the tariff bill adopted Wednesday represent a total vote of 7,320.000, against a total vote cast at last year's election of in states recorded in opposition. Such in detail is the analysis of the vote, and it is to be added in addition that of the twenty-four senators having the longest terms to serve, seventeen were recorded in favor of the bill on Wednesday and only seven against York Sun. American Steel In England. According to the returns of the British board of trade, the amount of pig iron and unwrought steel imported into the United kingdom from the Uni ted States of America during each month from January to May, 1897, In elusive, was as follows: Quantity, Value, Quantity, Value.

Pig iron. Steel, unwrought. 1897. Tons. Tona.

January 9,022 21,152 3,193 1 5,926 February ...7,733 18,099 6,868 March. 3,701 10,555 2,032 April 8,060 18,076 5,302 May 7,024 15,479 2,821 32,723 9,906 23,851 16,840 The McKluler Idem. Now if there is anything upon which Mr. McKinley has set his affections it is upon having a higher tariff on for- eign goods than ever existed before. "The Telegraph, Bradford, England.

He has never said so. All that ha has ever desired is a tariff that will protect American wage earners from the competition of cheaper labor products made abroad, including the goods from Bradford. Undereitlmated. The new American tariff bill will yield twenty millions sterling of additional revenue. Bangkok, Slam, "Times." hope that this prediction from the Orient is underestimated.

THE SUGAR SCHEDULE DEMOCRATS MAKE ASSAULTS ON THE REPUBLICANS. A little Investigation Faulty or the Their Shows the Action of the I'roven the Claims and Keimhllmns Decidedly I'nf riendly to the Trust. (Washington Letter.) The screams of the Democratic members of the house and senate upon the subject of the advance in price of sugar stock when the tariff bill emerged from the conference committee and the action of the committee on the sugar schedule became known, and the tact that sugar trust stock did actually advance by great jumps warrants a presentation of the facts, a study of which will show that the Democrats as usual have been shouting themselves hoarse over nothing. The bill gives to the farmers the protection on wool and other farm products which they had asked, the house rates on first and second class wools being restored and a highly sat isfactory rate to the wool sections of the mountain states being adopted. Now as to the sugar schedule: It was generally conceded when the bill passed the house that it was not in any way advantageous to the trust but that on the contrary it took away from the trust much of the advantage which it had under the Wilson law.

Stripped of all technicalities the cold facts are that as the bill left the house the rates on refined sugar were 12 cents per hundred pounds greater than the rates on raw sugar. Of course the rates on different grades of raw sugar were dif ferent but taking the number of pounds of any grade which were required to make a hundred pounds of refined sugar it was found that the rates were on an average of 12 cents per hundred pounds less than those on refined sugar. This means that the sugar refiners of the country, whether in the trust or out of it, were allowed a dif-fencace of 12 cents per hundred pounds or Va of a cent a pound difference between raw sugar when imported or refined sugar when imported, thus giving them an opportunity to import raw sugar at of a cent a pound less than the rates at which refined sugar can be imported. It is generally conceded that the cost of refining sugar is not less than about of a cent a pound so that the rates really given to the sugar refiners are simply the bare difference between refined and un-3nned sugars of the cost of refining. It is well known that the rates adopted by the senate were more advantageous to the sugar refiners but it is a fact that the rates agreed upon by the conferees made precisely the same difference between raw and refined sugars that the house bill made when it was passed by that body.

The conference report did increase the rates on refined sugar slightly but it also increased the rates on raw sugar, thus making the difference in the rate of duty between raw and refined, or the "differential" as it is called, precisely what the house bill made it originally, 12 cents per hundred pounds, or of a cent a pound. But, says the objector, if the conference report gave to the sugar trust no advantage why was it that sugar trust stock advanced during the time that the bill was in consideration by the conferees and after it was presented to the public? The answer to this is simple enough. The sugar trust, knowing that the new bill would certainly advance the rate of duty on sugars as a protection to American producers, has been bringing into the co mtry as rapidly as possible, sugar in enormous quantities, getting It In, of course, under the comparatively Uw rates of the Wilson law. They have scoured the world for sugar and had in stock by the time the conference report was presented to the public, over 700 thousand tons of raw sugar, or, in round numbers, 1,500,000,000 pounds. Think of it! Enough sugar to load seventy thousand cars, or to load three thousand, five hundred freight trains of twenty cars each, or to make one continuous train over fifty miles in length.

On every pound of this sugar which they had in stock it was perfectly apparent that they would make whatever profit there was be tween the tariff rates of the Wilson law and the increased tariff rates named by the Dingley law or an aggregate profit calculated at 12 million dollars. Is it surprising that sugar stock went up In view of the fact that this organization would make upon the sugar which it had brought into the country, 12 million dollars by the mere advance which the framers of this bill have found it necessary to make in tariff rates in order to protect the sugar pro ducers of the United States and bring a revenue to the government? But, the objector will say, everybody famil iar with this subject knew that the sugar trust had all this sugar in stock, and since this fact was well known this does not account for the sudden rise In sugar trust stock which followed the announcement of the agreement of the conference committee. This is true, hut the explanation of the sudden advance, which was caused by the profit thus assured to the sugar trust through the enormous stock on hand Is found In the fact that Secretary Gage bad recommended to congress the.