Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1894 — Page 4

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THE INCOME TAX, We think that the Democrats of the House ara acting Tery unwisely in insisting that the income tax thall be tie<J to the Wilson bill. It to not necessary to charge that there is a secret purpose to defeat the new tariff—though such a suspicion would not bs an unnatural oue—but it certainly may be said that the income tax people are betraying a disregard of consequences so reckless as to indicate a willingness to postpone indefinitely the day of tariff reform. We know that many earnest and honest tariff informers are earnestly and honestly in favor of an income tax. But suppose they can not get it? And suppose, further, that in their ill-advised attempts to reach that result they make it impossible to remove any of the tax burdens which now rest upon the shoulders of the American people? What answer will they make to their outraged constituents? Do they for a moment imagine that they will escape punishment? The question then, os it presents itself to us, is not whether or not we shall have an income tax, but whether or not the Wilson bill will go through the Senate. The Bepublicans understand the situation. They are opposed to the income tax on principle, so they will not vote for it, but they know that it will prove a serious, if not an insurmountable obstacle in the pathway of tariff reform, ao they refuse to help the Democrats beat ’ it, but sit silent in their seats while their adversaries are putting the rope about their own necks. Is there nothing suggestive in this? The Bepublicans will vote against the completed measure, of course; but they will not vote against the proposition to saddle the income tax upon the tariff MU. They know, as every one else knows —or should know—that the Wilson bill will have a hard road to travel through the Senate. That body is full of attorneys of protected interests, and of stockholders in industries which have many favors to ask of the Government. The men who live on taxes understand this, and they are even now marshalling their hosts for an aasault upon the Senate. The wool men, the iron men, the coal men and the ore men will make the fight of their lives. And they will find many sympathisers in the Senate— and this will he especially true if the bill contains a tax upon senatorial incomes. If there were any question of principle Involved, the case would be different But there is no such question at stake, or rather, if there is, the principle is against the proposed tax. It can only be defended on the ground of neoessity, and there is no njcsssity for it As we have many times pointed out there is a rev*, euue of $40,000,000 a year in sugar which it ie foolish to throw away. McKinley threw it away because it was a revenue tax and one which is easily collectible without hurting the consumer or helping the trust This duty should be reimposed. It it a revenue duty, a^lroost all of it goes— where it should go—iWo the Treasury. The people have a right to expect that a party which professes to believe in a tariff for revenue only will take advantage of every opportunity to put their creed into practice. The Democrats are then logically and m honor hound to tax sugar. There are other articles which are fit-sub-jeets for taxation. Bank checks, for instance, would easily stand a tax, and such a tax would be self-collecting. Every man who has a hank account can afford to pay two cents for every check he draws against it This tax and all other internal taxes were made the excuse for the high tariff duties which were supposed to he compenaatory. Senator Allison said iu 1870: - This large in terns! revenue tax was made the excuse and cause of the advance of the tariff of July 14, 1868, and June 30, 1864. I quoted the language yesterday of the then chairman of the committee on waye and means In l&s, Mr. Yhaddeus Eleven*, himself a protect ion 1st, and certainly in :avor of the protection of the great interest of Pennsylvania iron. He made a pledge upon this floor in 1863 that those additions of duties utoa manufactured artieles In this country were made necessary because of the internal revenue taxes. If protective duties are, as they were confessedly intended to be, compensatory for the internal taxes, then there can be no injustice in imposing a lew of .those latter taxes, which have, with the exception of the whisky end tobaccp tax, almost all been swept »way, while the tariff duties have been enormously iucregsed. We are aware that the ineome tax was one of tbo internal taxes levied during the war. But it was a bad tax then. Mr. David A. Wells, perhaps our bent authority on eeonomic subjects, shows, in the January Forum, that in 1869, under a law assessing all incomes larger than $1,000, there were only 254,817 persons out of a population of 3?.000,000 who acknowledged the receipt •I a taxable income. The exemption waa

rawed iu 16TS to $3,000; and the number of people who made u return of a taxable ineome had fallen to 72.049 uut M a population of 39,000,000. I« not this a ridiculous showing? Yet it is the leaching of experience, and a recent experience, too. As Mr. Wells says, there was A presumption that every one of the 3A9*7.051 who did not pey, and was made subject to inquisition by tbe officials in respect to hie iueome, made oath that he was not in receipt Trom wages, salary, interest or profits of an income liable to taxation in excess of 62.000. From an economic point of view it would be a misnomer to call such a result “taxation”; trom a moral point of view its characteriration aa “appalling” would not ba inappropriate. This tax then being, at it is impolitic, and there being no necessity for it, is it not madness to imperil the "Wilson bill by insisting upon incorporating an income tax in it? Even should the bill go through in spite of this handicap, it would be discredited. The American people are not fond of the tax-gatherer and his inquisitorial methods. They do not care to take the wOrtdJnto their confidence in regard to their business operations. It was a difficult matter to get them to answer the questions asked by the census agents when there was no taxation, except indirectly, involved. Many ajnan is willing to reveal information as to his gross receipts who would be dumb as an oyster about his net income. We hope the Democrats will reconsider their ill-advised action. Let them tax sugar, bank checks, patent medicines and other articles of this sort which will suggest themselves to the student of taxation. But now that they have a chance to lift some of the load of tariff Uses which are crushing the life out of our industries, it would be folly to throw that chance away. And that is what they seem bent upon doing.

WAR IN PENNS 1LVANIA. Yesterday’s papers brought news of a beautiful riot in Pennsylvania. As our McKinley contemporary said in its lurid headlines, it was only the old story of “men driven from their work by maddened Huns and Slavs who marched from place to place applying the torch and committing all kinds of excesses.” These men are the constituents of Mr.4!rosiu8, who said, in discussing the coal tax the other day, that “free coal would leave his constituents naked and defenseless.” In discussing these remarkable words, we called attention to the fact that those constituents had always been paid miserable wages, and that American labor in the Pennsylvania mines had been largely displaced by foreigners. And now we fidd that this new outbreak, which is only the last of a long line of similar occurrences, is the work of Huns and Slavs. Such things as this reveal the frightful hypocrisy of the whole protection business. American labor is uniformly sacrificed to the cupidity of American capital. We tax the necessaries of life, which American labor must have, at the highest rate, and those in whose interests these scandalous taxes are levied, import Huns and Slavs by the shipload to take the places of Americans who have been guilty of the crinpe of thinking that they were entitled to some of the benefits of protection. We keep out the goods and let in the men who produce them, and call that protection of American labor. More than that, we ruin foreign industries, ao that the men who are thrown out of employment in Germany and England and Buuia have to come and do come to this country, and so depress the labor market. Whereupon the McKinleyites go into raptures of delight We think American laborers understood how they have been swindled. And we believe that they understand what Mr. Brosius means when he whines about his constituents. They are Huns and Slavs who have been brought here by the millionaires who are now builying Congress in the hope that they can force it to tax clothes and warifflh in their own interest

^5 TO STREET-CAR FARES. IF it be true, as reported, that Mayor .Denny is contemplating an attempt to modify the franchise granted to the City Baiiway Company with reference to the fares, we have to say that he will make a thoroughgoing mistake. This matter was discussed in all its phases at the time the franchise was offered by the city. While we do not think the terms asked by the city were the best in every particular, we do think that they were in the right direction, and tbe acceptance by the City company being an improvement on them it is hypercritical, if not malevolent, to attempt to better them. The Mayor's movement is exceedingly ill-timed. The street-car question is in the courts. The thing to be decided is the life of the existing company and the right of the new franchise to go into operation. Any attempt to disturb this situation by a meddlesome effort toward reduced fares or any thing else is not the part of good sense and may easily bear the construction of an effort to defeat tbe uncommonly favorable franchise which the city has secured and of which it may have the benefit according as the courts slUll decide. It is tr.ue that the Republican platform on which Mayor Denny was elected spoke about reduced street-car fares. It is also true that in the campaign the deciding question was the enforcement of law, and that it waa accepted on all tides that whichever side should win would mean no difference with reference to the street-oar question, it being in the courts^ for settlement. Mayor Denny had better leave it there. He is not called on for this foolish and impracticable attempt to have fares reduced. He can make nothing and mar much. He should devote his attention to guarding aealously the city's interests in the pending suit The franchise to the City Company is one of the most favorable ever secured by any city. If the court’s decision be such that we may realize on it Indianapolis will be in splendid shape. A movement toward three-ceot fares, or toward any amendment of that franchise means mischief and nothing else. Tbe Mayor had better keep his hands off.

JUSTICE BREWER’S REMARKABLE SPEECH. The fact that our Federal Supreme Court justices dwell eo apart from tbe ordinary currents of life makes a speech which Justice Brewer delivered et Boston lest week the aaore remarkable for ito poor taste. Tha occasion waa a dinner of the Boston alumni of Yele- After the speech Justice Brewer became alarmed, and went personally to the reporters present to suppress the reference to ex-Pre«ident Hayes, of whom he spoke thus: In such a time we need men of thorough scholarship, who add to the wisdom derived from observation all that comes from accumu-

lated experience of oeoturiee. When you are not very ill you may send safely for a iaithcure doctor, but when the battle of life rages fiercely within your frame yon need an educated phys e aa. A pettifoger will do for a replevin lor a calf, but it takes a twenty-live thousand-dollar lawyer to be a successful counsel for a great railroad corporation. Even Mrs. Hayes's husband could make a respectable President in time of peace, but It took Lincoln—gentle, great, sad—to pilot the Nation through the majeetie times and the horrors of the civil war. Even a stump-speaker in time of political heat yrould hardly venture on a remark so cheap as tiiia. That the occasion was semi-private does not mitigate the Justice's offense against good taste or make less inexcusable the abandonment of a dignity which members of his court have always earrifed into all the affaire of life. It is not surprising that Mr. Brewer was desirous of preventing the publication of his speech as spoken. It was a thing for him to be heartily ashamed of. It would be unbecoming for a member of the Nation’s highest court to criticise any public officer in such fashion, bat when the oject of comment was an incumbent of the office of President, a gentleman whose recent* death directed attention anew to merits which had been too scantily recognized in his lifetime, the offense is great enough without considering the ili-bred fashion in which in was spoken. A fine sense of the functions of his judicial office should prevent the interpreter and maker of law in a court of final appeal from touching on matters which might in some form come before him for adjudication. Judge Brewer referred slightingly to a number of questions which have been or are likely to be before the Supreme Court He said: „ This is an age Of cranks, who in ignorance of the teachings of the past think they have evolved out of their inner consciousness some scheme tor the redemption of man and the reformation of society. Some of the schemes are amusing; some full of peril. In ancient time there was but one Baalam’s ass. Now they are so numerous the air is heavy with their braying. They advise US to make the State a dram-shop, to solve financial problems by wading bridle-deep in blood, to pardon anarchist murderers, to fill the mouths of hungry women and children by long-continued strikes, to divide the school money between different denominational bodies, license houses of bad repute, and to put a tag on the Chinaman in order to protect the American laborer from him. “Looking backward” is the beatitude of the future. In the good humor of the after-dinner hour a man might be pardoned for careless utterance, but Mr. Brewer read from a typewritten manuscript this astounding speech, making no change except in the wording of the paragraph about ex-Presi* dent Hayes, which was spoken as above given. His toast was, "Has Alma Mater Lost Her Place?” which, in the light of this address, is the ieaht bit suggestive.

It’s two to one that the Senate will make a spectacle ol itself over the Wilson bill. i'HE Bell telephone patent has expired, but the company wants to increase its capital stock by 110,000,000. This does not indicate that it intends to ring off. This recent incident waa not the first in which the Khedive has spoken offensively to England. A tew more such breaks would get him into trouble—but then, he says he never said it. This city is thrifty and prosperous to an unusual degree. The law under which improvements are made is such as to entail no hardship. We must advance. Who would to-day take up the lew miles of asphalt streets that we have and relegate us the day of mud roads and bowldered abominations? The decrease in the value of property and in the rate oft rents would be many times more than all our improvements have cost. We*must go ahead, wisely but rapidly. This year should see so much sewer work done, so many paved streets pat down as to enable us to take a stand among the cities of the country^ The young German Efhperor has made himself so popular by the reconciliation with Bismarck that he can prooably get another increased the army voted. It seems strange that the rioting strikers in the Pennsylvania coal-fields have not lattened on the “protection” they have been given all these yeart. Mr. Lodge in his recent speech in the Senate ppposing the repeal of the Federal election law, spoke, in terms none too strong, of the scandalous performance ot John Y. McKane, of Gravesend. And yet McKane behaved in much the same way in the election of 1888, when he cast the vote of his bailiwick almost solidly for Mr. Harrison, and when the Federal election law was in full force. Again in 1892, with that law administered by Republicans, Mr. McKane “fixed” things for Mr. Cleveland. All this being true it is difficult to see what Mr. McKane bee to do with the case.

And now the Emperor is to return Bismarck’s visit. Really Germany is being reunited. * The Wilson bill will go to tbe Senate this week. Then the long, tedious processes of senatorial dignity will begin. The Slavs, Huns and other foreigners who are now rioting in the mining fields of Pennsylvania were brought here to lower the wages of American labor. That is how the mine owner* profited by high protection to give their employes an increase of wagee! It is said that Mr. Peckham can not possibly be confirmed. We fear that this is true. The Senate represents little else than the whims and grudges of individual Senators. And as David B. Hill happens to be a Senator—to tbe everlasting shame of the great State of New York-hie pleasure will probably be the controlling influence. But the gentlemen should be forced to stand up and be counted. Any agreement for a vim voce vote should be smashed. The dispatches bring word that there are many Democrats who want to vote against Peckham, but “as they do not desire to go upon record as antagonizing the President.” they do not want a yea and nay vote. We say that any agreement to such an effect is distinctly immoral. The cowards should be smoked out: It baa come to a .pretty pass when a justice of the Sunreme Court must belong not only to s certain political party, but to a certain faction of that party. The country has a right to know the names ol the Senators who yote in favor of this unspeakable theory of govern meat The Republicans in tbe House will not seek to delay the passage of the Wilson bill by voting to send it back to the committee. Would that the Senate wontd be eo considerate! . . It the oil-burning machine tor locomotives, which was described in The News recently, turns uut to be a success, what is to become ot the coalminers whom the diminished demand for coal will throw out of employment? We think that the inventor should "be turned over to the tender mercies of Major McKinley. It to uneato to advocate any measnre because come one els* opposes it But we uot* with apprehension that Tammany Hall to fighting the income tax. It snows, we eay. when ships of cloud, Borne on wind-tide* that bear them ill, Together crash and to the earth Thoto snowy cargoes spill.

Thu Thought How sadly #iih this age 1 disagree; With totwre void, er stretching gloomy eat. Sluggish yet feverish it seems to me, Brushed ’Death the weight of knowledge and o( doubt By onr forefathers’ faults made sadly wiae. Strong rafto from all onr broken ships we make; But like a east beheld 'aeatb alien skies. We gase on life, and care not to partake. Athletes tired out before the fight’e began, Indifferent to good and 111 we are; W* see men rise and toll, and yet not one Excites our hatred or proroses oar care. Thus some frail plant that in a hothouse grows Chaims not the eye nor gives the scent perfume: Gnawed by an ulcer which doth naught disclose, It dies of age when it should be in bloom. By constant study w* have worn away Illusions sweet that used our hearts to cheer; And nothing is more natural to-day Than >or a man to mock at tilings once dear. The brimming cup we scarcely touch at all. That cap in which the gods delight have shed; Onr powerless thirst of wine makes hitter gall, > And missing love w* drink disgust instead. Art to a phantom, poetry is dead; *Tis stupid to admire. Though from our hearts Enthusiasm has not wholly fled; We needs must stifle it with studious arts. To our teeth’s edge our laughter scarce doth

go.

Our tears before they reach our eyes are

THE NEW YORK STORE \ THE NEW YORK STORE) !Established to .8*3.1 ( [BetohHstisd to idgg.j j

THE NEW

The Logansport Purchase a Great

Boon to Indianapolis.

fathers

dried.

Hatred and love no longer do we know; Strong sentiments that with our I

died.

Each fears in history to trace his name, We jest at men who deeply stirred the past; And as we seek a tomb unknown to fame, A scornful glance at life we backward cast. In silence shall we vanish from the soil Where we have planted not one single thing, Either of icrtile thought or fruitful toil, That can a fruitful harvest ever bring. And e’en tbe tomb win prove a refuge vain When we the future verdict seek to fly; A double condemnation we shall gain: We lacked alike the strength to live or die. —[From tbe Russian of MikhaU-Lermontoff.

“SCRAPS.” The Volga is the largest river of Europe. This country has an area of 2,291,1)15,347 acres. The area of the earth is 197,000,000 square miles. Greece reports 56,000 tons of currants per annum. Americans have $300,000,000 invested in shipping. More cheese is eaten by tbe Danes than any other race. Paris hss expended more than £40,000 in statues iu honor of citizens. The circumference of the earth at the equator is 24,896,821.4 statute miles. About 74 per cent, of the value of the exports of the United States conies from the farms, The United States has dwelling-houses valed at $14,200,000,000, containing lurniture valued at $7,200,000,000. Illinois is first in corn, oats, pork, distilled liquors and railways; second in coal, wheat and hogs; third m cattle. Asia occupies oVer four million square miles more than any other of the principal land divisions of the earth. Outside of John Gully, M. P., of England, John Morrissey was the only pugilist who obtained parliamentary honors. John Adams lived to a greater age than any other President of the United States, being ninety-one when he died. In 1670 the Dutch owned and operated one-half of the world's shipping; now they own but 1 per cent, of the whole. Affable Friend—Ah, Mr. Grumpsey, I hope I see you well, Grumpsey—If you don’t you had better consult au oculist.— [Philadelphia Record. A schoolmaster, according to an advertisement in the Kentish Mercury, England, wishes to exchange his little daughter, age eleven, for a boy'of similar age. Teacher—Wha* is the feminine of man, Thomas? Thomas — Woman. Teacher — AnJ the feminine of gentlemen? Thomas (unhesitatingly)—Dude.—[Puck. Minnie Jefferson, colored, who claims to have been a slave in Thomas ^Jefferson’s family while the latter was President, is living in New York at the reputed age of 107 years. The business man w r ho put in his window a piacard reading, “Don’t go anywhere else to be cheated. Step right in here,” was disgusted to find that it didn’t attract any customers. Bishop Foster, bf the Methodist Episcopal church, who has returned from his trip among the conferences of China and Japan, traveled since last May 23,000 miles without the slightest" mishap. . She—Poor George makes himself ill eating sponge cake every time we have it “He’s so fond of it?” “Oh, dear, no; he’s afraid of its coming on the table next day as pudding.’’—[Chicago Inter Ocean. Herman H. Artns, of Utah, Minn., who has slept most of the time for sixteen years, has again awakened, and is apparently in a normal state. He weighs less than one hundred pounds, but is improving in health . and flesh. ^ The withdrawal of the Princess of Wales from all social functions is largely due to her increasing deafness. English journals never refer to this, but it is an open secret that her failing hearing is the real reason for seeking seclusion. The district court at Everett, Mass., has decided that a store-keeper is guilty of keeping a gambling-house who sets up in his place of business a nickel-in-the-slot machine which may put forth a cigar or may present only a fortnne-telling card. The late George "Washington, of Savannah, was a great-grandson of I^iwrence Washington, a brother of the great George. He was a North Carolinian by birth, a graduate of Yale and a lawyer. His ace was seventy-six years. Before the war Mr. Washington was an old-line Whig, but when hostilities began he cast his lot with the Confederacy. A large force of men are at work on the Sault canal. All the masonry in the lock chamber is completed, and the massive walls, 1,000 feet in length, 60 feet high and 30 feet thick at the base, tapering to half that width at the top, make a public work of which Canada may well be proud. Tbe first vessel will pass through the canal next summer — probably in July. — [Toronto Truth. The Russian government has just issued a decree ordering that henceforth the services of all women clerks, telegraph operators, ticket-sellers, etc., employed on the Russian railroads are to be dispensed with, and the vacancies filled by men. No reason is assigned for this entirely unexpected and arbitrary dismissal of these women, who are the hardest working and most honest and conscientious employes of these branches of government service. This notice appeared in a late issue of the Hawkintville (Ga.) Dispatch: "We bate a good, gentle family horse that we are anxious to exchange for s good ‘possum’ dog, or a reasonable amount of fisn bait. There it positively nothing wrong with the horse but his voracious appetite. We have had him with us now about two weeks, and he has eaten up three loads of cypress shingles, two lot-gates, licked the bottom out of a cast-iron sugar kettle and commenced on the gable end of our residence, and the fact is we have just got to swap, sell or kill, or be without a bouse or home.” “The only certain way to foreeee the nature of a winter, is by the time at which the forest leaves turn,” said B. C. Blackey, a Michigan lumberman. “I have watched it ever since I was a boy, and when the leaves turn early we have a hard winter; vhen they turn late we have an open winter. One would suppose that the time at which winter set in would have everything to do with the turning of tbe leaves, and it is known that some open winters have set in early and some cold ones set in late. But I have noticed that the time of cold weather beginning does not mark the turning of the leaves. The present winter set in early in Michigan. There was unusually cold weather in October, but the leaves did not turn until a month later than the average time. All lumbermen arranged for an open winter on that aceount, and they have not been mistaken. In fact, I have never known tbe sign to fail/ 1 —[St Louis GlobeDemocrat

The entire stock of H. B. Ragan & Co., bought at 55c on the dollar and now on sale here at prices which has al* ready turned our store into a

bee hive.

The bad weather of this morning made little or no difference, the crowds wanted goods and the prices were tar more important than a little wet snow*

THB LOGANSPORT 5T0RB We don’t like to promise too much for to-morrow when the goods are going so fast. But you’ll find these or something as good:' Dress Goods. A lot of plain stuffs and fancy plaids, Logansport price 35c and 40c, our price

19c.

40-inch all-Wool Henriettas and Plaids, H.' B. Ragan & Co.’s price 50c, our

price 29c.

40-inch Silk and Wool fine

Checks 49c a yard.

yard; H. B. Ragan & Co/» price was 7c. One lot Silkaline Scarfs, 10c; Logansport price was 25c 3dfc. Ice Wool 12c a box, while it lasts; H. B. R. & Co.’s price was 20c.

Fans

L*4i. Black palate* Fans, price to Lsgaato we* age; price to the Capital City, pc. Let s. Btock Silk Paw. H B, Ragaa’s price jgc; ear price, 13c Lot 3- Black Setto Paw. goe to Logeaapeit and only age la Indtonapolto (ear store, ef

coarse).

Lot 4. Hand-pointed Black Sotln Paw. H. B. R. A Co-’s price was $1, Si.s* and 61.(0; now yon can boy them for gee sack. * dozen Oxidised Pnfi Bonn je each; eoM

for 10c.

1 lot Por* Brtotie Tooth Brashes 6c; soil

tor ioc.

Hooks and Eyes 4 down tor 16, yon know the price. One lot of Silk BetUrff at 6c a yard, Ragan A Co.’s price was Me. 840-yards best Machine Spool Thread le each, Logansport price 4c. , • Velveteen Drew* Facing So, H. B. R. A Co.’s price was 10c Rick Rack Braid Sc Logansport price 80

and 10c.

Shoes.

Ladies’ fine Dongola But- ! ton Shoes, narrow and square , toes, patent tipped and plain,

A lot of ladies’ black and $1.93 instead ol $2.50. colored Kid Gloves, also a Ladies’ Goodyear welt Butfew pairs of children’s; Lo-i ton and Lace Shoes $2.98 a gansport price $i, bur price pair instead of $4 and $3.5a 59c. Misses’ straight Goatskin Another lot of them at 89c spring heel extension sole —all good quality; and all Button Shoes $1.69, Loganstheir finest Gloves at $1 a Jport or any place else $2.25.

Hosiery and Underwear. The entire stock ol Logansport Hosiery and Underwear and these Ladies’ Swiss Ribbed Vests, 25c quality for 15c. Their best Ladies’ and Children’^ Black Cashmere Hose, 65c and $1 quality, for 29c Is pair. Children’s 25c quality Black Cotton Hose for a pair. Men's Wear. Men’s Cotton Half Hose, sold at ioc a pair, our price

6c.

A lot of Merino Half Hose,. Logansport 'price 25c and

35c, our price 15c.

Men’s Linen Collars, good styles, H. B. Ragan & Co.’s price 15c, our price 3 lor 25c. All their 25c, 4 ply Linen

Cuffs for I2^c a pair.

A few Boys’ Suspenders,

15c quality for 9c.

Kid Gloves.

Only 96 pairs

ioc

Calf

pairs Boys’

Button and Lace Shoes now $1.79 instead of #2.50. Here’s stock and service for

ft

price 50c, our

All-Wool,

viots, their

price 29c.

Black Corded Armures, not strictly all-Wool but sold

at 50c, our price -29c.

A lew pieces very fine allWool Black Henrietta 69c a yard, Logansport price $1. 400 yards fine Black India

pair.

Fine Fabric Gloves for

a pair; Logansport price 25c

and 35c.

At 25c a pair, all their 35c j you.

and 40c Gloves—Silk and Basement.

Cashmere; 50c Cashmere H. B. Ragan & Co. didn’t Gloves for 25c. keep these kind of goods, Logansport Gauntlets, 50c arid if they had do you sup

ovelty Che- quality for 25c.

Ribbons Sc Logansport Ribbons for ac. 10c Logansport Ribbons for 5c. 15c Logansport Ribbons for 7c. 20c and 30c Logansport Ribbons for ioc. A lot of Umbrellas at 75c, 89c, $1, $1.25 and $1.50.

ose these

eaten?

prices could be

Genuine stag handleOarvera tot 7Bc etch. Fine nil-Brittle 6Uo* Polishers ooly.l7c. Good Hhoe Brush and lumber for Be.

16 Inch Ostrich Feather Dusters going at Me

Twill Serge 75c a yard, Lo-\ Art Department gansport price £1.25. J A lot of Tinsel Cord, 3c a

each, regular price 61.15.

First clswt Clothes Wringers, seltri white rub-

ber roller*, wood frame, for 6Lflto

A 50-foot Clothes Line, with reel, only TOc. Btaiylard Cotifee Mill, beet in the market, an6

Engraved Initial Tumbler* 75c a doses. Satin finished Vase Lamps only f 135.

China Cuspidors 330. Bee the 61.50 Toilet get*.

Alarm Clocks, guaranteed to make plenty 6f noise and keep good time, 7®o each. PETTIS DRY GOODS CO.

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Garbage Is Burned On tbe Spot In Chieago—Jfo More Foul Garbage Carts. [Scientific American.] T has been clearly demonstrated that the best ffi method of disposing ot Jgj a garbage is to burn it * Crematories are being erected by municipalities ail over this country for the reception of garbage. This, of course, necessitates the carting of the unsightly and disease* breeding refuse through the streets, often lor many miles, leaving a trail of contamination behind. The city of Chicago has led the march in this line of sanitary progress, and now has a number of portable erematories, which visit the back

grate of which is inclined toward ; the front end. On the top is a receiving box into which the garbage is thrown, and where it is subjected to sufficient heat to drive out most of its moisture. When the box is filled, a rod attached to the eliding bottom is pulled out and the contents dropped into, the furnace, where the intense heat incinerates it instantly. While this burning process is going on, an attendant pushes the burning mass into a forward compartment which contains an inclined grate, in order to keep the consuming capaoitv of the furnace up to its highest mark. The fire is maintained by the use of crude petroleum. Two cans designed to hold thia luel are used; one is on the rear end immediately over the furnace doors, and the other is forward. The flow of this fuel is easily regulated by a stopcock, so that if the fire becomes low it can be enkindled almost instantly, making the crematory a roaring furnace. Frequently, when in operation, theMniokestack reaches a white heat, so intense is the heat generated. The capacity of this furnace is enormous, and ordinary garbage disappears in it like paper. The crematory is followed by a wagon

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alleys of the more thickly settled part of the city and destroy all dirt accumulations on the spot. DESCRIPTION OF THK CREMATORY. The crematory weighs 7,700 pounds, and is drawn by a pair of horses. It comprises a cylinder eight feet long and four feet in diameter, made of ordinary boiler iron, covered with asbestos. A tail smoke-stack m fronl completes it, the whole being mounted on wheels. Tbe general appearance of the crematory is not ninch unlike a traction engine. The cylinder is divided longitudinally into three compartments, two of which can be seen in the tllustra* lion, half of the double door to each being open. Tbe upper compartment is tbe furnace proper and the lower one is the ash-pit In the forward part of the cylinder is a third compartment the

which gathers op ashee, bottles, tin cans and other refuse that ean not be consumed. The ordinary day's work of this traveling crematory, and the two refuse carts which follow it, is twenty-three blocks, although there have been occasions when thirty blocks have been covered. It ie estimated the cost of the crematory and men to manage it and two teams to remove the ashes and other refuse is less than $20 a day. “Servo the Holy and tho Troo.” May wo etiU in labor* blest Never tire and never rest; And, with forces ever new, Serve tbe holy and the true. —{Dean Stanley. Domestic Economy. (London Punch,] “How to make both code meet,” Have sheep’s beau and ox-tail soup for dinner, same course.

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Tbe only Pars Cream of Tartar Powder.—No Ammonia; No Alma. Used in Millions of Homes—40 Years the Standard

. Lace Curtains We Have the exclusive agencj for one of the largest Lace Curtain Mills IN THE WORLD. We get a small commission for selling them. We can sell you Curtains cheaper than any store can buy them for. W£ are the mill agents. Our line of Curtains will be opened in a few days. WINTERCLOAKS Anything we nave in this line must be sold out at once to make room for Curtatna and Spring Goods. In a few days we will open a lint of House Wrappers. They aro just shipped from the factory and will be here some time this week. To-Morrow FOR A WINTER CLOAK SALEAny Winter Cloak now for little or nothing. We must get rid of them.

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