Show t 1 I 1 while trying tos to squeeze veeze the like life out gf ae 0 a little ifa independent oil concern lit in 3 S boston which commands the sympathy I 1 of tafe entire public not in mon f T chains mr rockefeller sends I 1 another cheik check forM tor to the I 1 president resi i dent 6 of f chicago university tor for the 1 cause iise of eduan education mr rockefeller I 1 11 Is tas a confusing contusing con sort of man it Is of 0 interest Inter sv in this connection that a brooklyn stockbroker testified the 1 other day in U cleli action before a buffalo surrogate that during the past ten years standard oil stock had bad s brought regular and special dividends aggregating 32 per cent annually the cities of the country are going more and more deeply into debt for improvement and to a less and less extent apparently are am disposed to pay as they go they are being run on the method of the improvident railway corporation po ration which will never devote current earnings to improvements that can in anywise be deemed measurably permanent and charged to capital account meantime it Is to be noted that the ilia market for these securities Is large to tb the point almost of being insatiable they are preferred by investors to the securities of almost any private corporation po ration however well buttressed financially anci ally it may maybe le massachusetts like a good many other states Is attempting to minimize the competition of convict labor with free labor on J jan 1 a law went into I 1 effect limiting the number of convict who should be employed in certain specified industries and as a result over rone one third of the inmates of the prisons are now idle the prison authorities ties are confronted with the problem offending of finding something for these men to do in view of the established fact 1 that absolute idleness in prisons breeds insanity no solution of the question has yet been found the trouble has been encountered in many states and unless the convicts are set to work improving priti ving the public roads a task which everyone else shirks it is difficult to see what can be done to find work for via the idlers the problem is one which will give the massachusetts trouble unless they tire are more resource tol th than the officials of cf other commonwealths have been A statistician in the pall mall gazette has reckoned in round numbers the movement of the debts of the chief eighteen nations tor for the twenty years from 1876 to 1896 1996 with some interest ing an and significant results in the former year the ow chief debts in order of at magnitude were chose those of prance france great britain the united states italy austria hun gary spain russia and germany in twenty years yeara 41 all aal except six of the eighteen to io wit great britain brawn the united states S spain pain germany india and dext mexico I 1 increased their debts in mathe 1896 the order I 1 al considerably changed france i suit stood easily first with a debt aice as mir big as any others athers great f britain stood seco second tid closely pressed 2 ta austria hungary italy W was fourth 4 russia fifth and tf 0 spain sixth the 1 united states dropped from third to t seventh Il tan and the tha australasian I 1 colonies 7 fj Toses gex from sixteenth to eighth while 1 A V d larom eighth to sixteenth ft r wildo mexico fell from to elgh 1 1111 i I 1 enaa 1 an ana jd canada rose rom t from elgh elih af ad is s N te ty uth however some at aj noi the ol of b r ier haye come forward and now il Shave U arger er bag than several ot of the A Q R I 1 ia itaw n ib d argentine s IM edvan df japans A 1 a o bd I 1 ranked sev ev 1 F V M ren t e m j jad lash it benth respectively qabid C on I 1 I 1 e 4 pl 2 1 1 1 3 u bieth planes lr artt Tt e arl 4 da d 1 a I 1 so hu haa K r ag ag 0 1 ii r P ee am 1 i 9 1 j ess bang J gift am i 7 I 1 I 1 E 4 r 1 4 I 1 gun e esl I 1 il 4 I 1 f ali ey e y OK f ML es k nten ki nt ea 9 X t tn M ai khai tl alili ili en I 1 i 1 I 1 or I 1 ye t f i u 9 ij I 1 iro n T ia 77 I 1 a a r I 1 tion d 16 it a as s t ST sa at I 1 erm aar W M ad bv I 1 4 4 wow czi i ov aa 1 I 1 ew if 4 1 I 1 I W S II tia vo t q Z alt 4 1331 13 i ia 31 1 I 1 1 I 1 R ri I 1 1 1 Z dr 7 r ir 3 I 1 i j I 1 I 1 W 1 mt r 4 1 ustace Tac Wc it mel je rt J I 1 5 5 1 1 V 01 lj ir 7 er 1 I 1 e ct z aban I 1 illi r I 1 k t a 4 I 1 1 11 k Y las i WW liz 1 i ii diw V w 11 AM 1 A W 7 1 aw t lauga t ia ui e g f W 1 r 1 Z I 1 44 a i d i w an r 4 1 I 1 t aj M M 4 a i F 1 ilic I 1 k I 1 iv ewt I 1 37 i i W m I 1 ju A t 46 K wa I 1 i 10 I 1 G I 1 E 1 Z M azell MS ir wiggs A 4 mt g i 17 athe 4 5 az 1 n la W uia ft cincil an P K 1 F k f ai iv lq e atae at the ow I 1 f dris I 1 tai doff fjord ard elyia ael elY ii the asing ili ce lie autly 1 coo f 4 ea become lh I 1 el 1 y a a i S ty t a ait iian ariit colu 1 y 4 amt wi MM itam error pel J I 1 I 1 mg JC r 15 1 a no year 1 im w f ra ri fl fag ai w g A 7 w W t t iss t |