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Show linos are I f UROMETER Jjw Earnings Show Which Jj rtfhe Business Winds I Are Blowing. jSf'iUSINESS CONDITIONS INCREASED EARNINGS Mt Is Slack Then Enrn- ) ?gs Show a Marked ailV Decrease. 1 PEESTON C. ADAMS. Wlre to The Tribuno. )RK, April 23. Thorc are few Ications of general business 'todifi than railroad earnings. 'if fa good the railroads show It ily eed earnings, and when busl-p-i lack, decreased earnings result, u 4 ilfylng, therefore, to note that t ist week In March reports from jjjj railroads In all sections of the fotl ow an 'llcrcasc f 17.60 per ' iompared with the same period This Indication of business t, borne out by visitors in New i ti all sections of the counlrv. tati tfprJces for farm products, to-t to-t hi tn general advances In wages, . Itably result in good times for Dr merchants and an Increased Ojik r all classes of goods for con-About con-About tho onlv clement in nk; unity which ban not begun to ;ta! :ood times arc tho unorganized rite feera In the cities. Iquaring Themselves. eg a taking the bull by the horns Ii j, Bes to scjuare the supply of cur-iMKl cur-iMKl tlie demand by uprooting 20 tofc ;of her currant bushes. This thi tes for the reimbursement of Tfa; tr acreage uprooted by the gov-it gov-it ind Is designed to curtail tho U)t ,'of tlie fl"ult. Brazil' is trying gent S supply of coffee so that her irsi wers may secure a good price tj product. Whether or not tlicse olSJl be more effective tlmn tho rBfUff and gin burning by which aril id cotton raisers in some parts lull iintry tried to regulate tlie sup-osMis sup-osMis to be seen. iffiink Skins Valuable. ""Jjfknow where skunks can be VIU ;'s a good time to catch llicm. ftl"3 have Increased In value last two yeara t!00 per cent SHSf'snys Isaac Wcisborg, a fur jjflJtMoberly. Mo. "Every woman 03ln Paris and Berlin and the (TJlnental cities now wears one "Vfkunk skins on at least one of 'iS as tl'Im'"isr around the bot-llJHv1 bot-llJHv1 many are used for trimming 3?Qts. This fasliion started the .firftTwo years ago tiio price of nns suddenly jumped from SO 'ir,,a,ld 11 Is now averaging $3. -rrr9rat skins, we used to buy -vfipted at 10 and 15 cents apiece. '""Ware bringing ?1 apiece. iBawklns are sold at aucllon in Tijtfnd furriers from all parts of SWfcentl Tlle 3o"-nd for furs of Mfiff : Increasing enormously. I got iPW of tho reason at tho rac&s .5 .yveck ago last Sundnv. I Haw IjrUI ISJ.waiing a. Russian sable that ;havc cost a cent less than i c!f ??',cr savr 50 ,n,Ic1' silver fox lb.?life. These furs come from jflfl a British Columbia, In spite gal ,on impression that they come la, and thoy bring fubulous 1i 5?.,Bii,-n was 4:01(1 at- saio re- fii 1Hj- a"'J tlle linlshed furs i. J3000 to S500O. The black Tt l,IErner' We fih,n ver I here ile 9 iO.OOO and $100,000 worth of animal skins every vcar. ho- -;.wc sell over here. As for the ! f ijjls an American animal, and ipnio rrom this aide." Shifting the Market. 1)1 ftft-,,itl!,fin who Is accroiarv of UiifV". trade of Annapolis Royal, iiirfipiCKl(lf,nL of t"? J'Uinbermens losfllof western Xova Scolla, in in .rr' Whitman said the hun- J) KCrr ";'d len prepared to ""TLi L' rc'Srl to the tariff and irr "ccn 110 ptt lemon t of the fihlUveen Canada and tho United UHlar as tlie lumbermen were 'feV ! W0"W nave simply been IrtC"., np,, 11,13 mailcet. "Canada lP? tho United States as a con- largo quantity of her pine." -jWr minn' "a,ul recently, though flflfr, VK mostion was settled, the V ,beo!' si1'"? from Enalanri Ued States. If the extra duly H flFfi , on- we should only havo UHyiuck to England for our marie mar-ie Americans would have paid iftfor their timber." venting Forest Fires, 'fttiubermau's association was lS6!marT.,y, 10 "sliL and prevent UV:S- It luis been in exlstenoo Als5rs 1ll!,our I'icsunt. methods IllUr orost fi,es avo been pro- riSome of your authoritlcH tlie islence. yc have a chief lire lllfic ?ount.v. who 1ms full oii-lUVvappoInt oii-lUVvappoInt aa many Hubrancers irgeiioy calls for. and can order IJ-In his county to light a tiro. "Li , ranPcr for the whole lifr service is in charge ZfcPn this system was cstab-thu cstab-thu lc ?,ver 150,000 acres burnt rlllppi r, morc 1000 acres IJPJTho lumber cut thla year In titnJi t1"1, 10 7K I(?r Cllt Of fl50,. ,c 1ad 110 K,10W in tho iQ h!H an xtremcly r.v ddrt lj.il . a ,10"al cut wcj liave SJm'0 t0 two al a half ,pnow. 9, ''Eccles Has Retunicfl." -f5.1?''. 8. W. Eccles. vice Jfc,.Am,eHSan Smelting and itt,".3!' iwh0 Juut loturned iSSi '"SPcctlon In Mexico, "-'tefv,1 1 f,ou,u! hl"CHS slack il'"111.1" Uu st vear thcio llfl'RSi" ,tht? cnlt'' iul wheat ' iilo . ,nck of loiont rain. 4h FftHn'infti.'- Bho'-iuse in many iD's Bi190s; Natny. such m1Llnakc for u mosperlty pgfjJWic farmers are all bnsv at i Sfk inH) ycar !iml tle ouUook IS ,orP lflr excellent. In it- Tl i "K.-s universal and in oP, tl,,R 1,iul ,,cc 1KH. --uK?, ri8,ttiialon lH I vis- fOE 'un,1?er dlHlrlots and at Varftr ftnnmiU l operation that RfiOi fi00,?, feeL of timber a day. B aJfci,t2,,.)0ltr constructed, and r-m rr-uinu,L should bo noo.000 feet nl ml,,0lJ, of Mexico are ptfT JiVn n-" n,a.kc an excellent ,f,.k- Naturally, tho low prico wmM eir ne hoavHy on many of JL nv c J,n,t Practically all fAhn P'uc ng satisfactorily, tfho rncUI situation to right fOOnr, oths. As soon aa tSi i lH ass"'(' thcro should ondt "! whl,. Porhapa not up to nioment 'Mirfen,, ,lvc "teajHBhlps avall-otir avall-otir -outhern pacific's Atlanll steamship lino Is lo establish a sen-ice between New York and New Orleans during dur-ing I he coming summer of two ships a week from each port. Tlio steamship Creole, which has boon on tho wayi; all summer and Ik having her turbine engines en-gines replaced by those of the reciprocating recipro-cating typo, will be ready for business next month. Manufacture of Paper. J, IT. Mt'Cormack, who lives in Albany, and Is vlco president of a. big paper company, which has three big mills In Troy, when visiting hero tbo other day said that his company pays' moro a ton for raw material than tlie prico of finished fin-ished steel rails. This raw material Is nothing more nor loss than old manlla rope. "This old rope comes to us from all parts of tho world," said Mr. McCor-mack, McCor-mack, "but the greatest quantity is obtained ob-tained through Liverpool and London, when tho rope Is tit for nothing ol.se, and tlie rope Is marie Into paper for flour anil cement ancles and sandpaper, and Into insulating in-sulating paper, which last has to bo chemically pure. Tho process, a compared com-pared with making paper out of wood is less mechanical. It has to be ground up and cooked, but the process of manufacture manu-facture has taken a long time to perfect. Between 25.000 and 3U.0O0 tons of old rope were manufactured Into paper In this country Just year " |