Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 July 1892 — Page 2

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WEEKLY JOURNAL.

PRINTED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING By T. H. B. McCAIN.

Entered at the l'osloflico ut rawfordsville Indiana, as second-class matter,

WEEKLY—

One year In advance #1.25 Six months 75 Three months -0 One month 15

DAILY—

One year in advance t.VOO Six months -.50 Three months 1.25 Per week delivered or bv mail 10

SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1892.

A Great Offer,

In order that no one may have an excuse to be without

THE JOURNAL,

we make the

following unusual offer —from now until Nov. 19, for 25c. This lets down the bars to all. Take advantage of the opportunity.

"TAKE BAR IRON."

Tlie Star makes a very lame attempt indeed, to answer our challenge to show an instance in which the price of any manufactured commodity had been increased to the consumer by the policy of protection. It says that the average price of bar iron was greater from I860 to 1870 than it had been under the low tariff prior to I860. This is an attempt to mislead. The average price of everything was greatly increased during tne war, partly on account of an increased demand and partly on account of a depreciation in the money in use during the war. Near the close of the war wheat sold at 82.50 and S3 per bushel, but it would be very unfair to quote these figures as proof that the tariff had made wheat higher than it had ever been before in this country. The fact cannot be denied that under the continued policy of protection the price ol bar iron bus been steadily going down, until it has reached the unprecedented low rate of less than 2 cents per pound, the exact quotatiens in the last number of the Iron Age being SI.75 and SI.80 per hundred pounds. The Star wil have to try

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hand again. When we

commenced the policy of protection bar iron was sold for over ten cents per pound. Protection

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developed com

petition and stimulated invention, until the price has gone down to lesB than 2 cents per pound. The Star is very unfortunate in selecting bar iron to show that the tariff increases prices to the consumer. As to the price of labor, our proposition was that the average price of labor is to-day four-fold what it was fifty to seventy-five years ago. This is not denied by the Star but a few instances are given where it is claimed "wages have been reduced under peculiar circumstances. But theBe, if true, count for nothing as an anBwer to our proposition. The fact still remainB undenied that before we had protection the highest wages the most skillful mechanic could earn were less than S50 per month and that since we become a great manufacturing nation thousands of skilled mechanics find constant employment at rateB as high as $150 per month.

TAKING BUDGE BALDWIN'S SCALF. Swift Wright, of the Logansport Journal, ie after Judge Baldwin and his tariff vagaries. After ripping up his theories in a

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accomplished

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and with unanswerable logic, fortified by a solid array of facts, he then 6hows by illustrations from real life that a settled conviction is not one of the Judge's virtues and adds:

The Journal cannot but regret Judge Baldwin's mistakes. He is not by nature a demagogue, but he is trying hard to become one by practice. His weaknesses are known and regretted. A man of strong intellect, a brilliant Hnd forcible thinker, a hard student he has failed to the eminence he is otherwise entitled to by a lack of

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tions and a too great zeal for his own interests. With his hands tied to a principle he can make a beautiful splash but free he flounders and is ca6t about by diverse currents. He is like a locomotive, admirable on the track pitiable in the ditch. He never discovered a great truth or stuck to it when it was discovered for him. As an illustration he once contributed an article to the Journal for the Sunday issue. It was crowded out and did not appear until a week later, over an asterisk. The next day he brought around an answer to it completely knocking out hie own article the writing of which he had forgotten. Proofs of contributed articles come back from hie hands BO corrected as to take -directly the opposite position. His last letter from abioad was in type when he got home. In the copv was an erasure with a synonomous word interlined. A proof was submitted to him in which he marked out the interlined word and

Bubfatituted the original. In a revised proof he again marked out the original and inserted the substitute, and when •the article came cut in the Journal he came into the office with a copy in his hands calling attention to a "failure to correct proof. The error as pointed out was in inserting the substitute instead of the original.

THE PRESENT AND THE PAST When one stops long enough to enumerate the advantages the poor of the 1 resent, have over, the poor of a few

years ago, he is struck with astonishment that there should be so much complaint of what is called the hard luck of the poor at the present day.

A few years ago there was not a free 6chool in Indiana, and many poor children were deprived of an education because their parents were not able to pay tuition. Now there is a school in every neighborhood in the State, free to every child who may wish to attend, and where he or she may receive an excellent education without the expediture of a cent. And all these schools with their excellent teachers, are a voluntary gift from the public. In these schools any young man or woman may make all the neces sary preparations for a successful career in life. As to the means and opportunities of earning money, they are fourfold better than they were fifty years ago. Fifty years ago a young man who could find employment at any price

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con

sidered fortunate. Our State was not then as now, filled with enterprises of every kind, demanding the employment of labor. The man who could find a job of rail-making at 25 cents per hundred, by which he could realize 50 cents per day, working from day-light till dark, had cause to feel proud of his luck. In those days it took a day and a half's wages to buy muslin enough for a single shirt. Now for a day and a half's lnbor one can buy three good shirts already made. A suit of clothing that was beyond the reach of any but the very wealthy, can now be secured by a day laborer with the proceeds of ten days common labor in the harvest field. A skilled mechanic of to-day live in a more luxurious style, and receives twice as much for his services, as a Judge of the Supreme Court did a half century ago. A few years ago, the masses of our people knew nothing and

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'.ng but home and drudgery, from New Year to Christmas. They had no means of travelling abroad. Now, people in all kindB of employment, take their vacation. A trip to Europe is no uncommon thing for those who, in the same occupation fifty •cears ago, could not have afforded a trip from here to Cin cinnati. We venture that more people who have to earn their living, have seen Niagara Falls, on pleasure trips, in the last twenty years than the whole number that visited there sight-seeing, from the first settlement of the

country

to twenty years ago. And so we might go on, almost without limit, enumerating advantages that the present generation possesses overthote thti* ancestors eajoyed. But we havG mentioned enough to satisfy any reasonable man or woman that these are not days of calamity and hardships, but days that are full of opportunity for all who will 6trive for the good there is in life.

CARNEGIE with an income of a million and a half dollars a year—the legacy of legislation altogether in his interest! 150,000 men on a strike because this plutocrat cut their wages 30 per cent. Here are the beauties of protection that don't protect anyone except the manufacturer.—Star.

Can you reduce Carnegie's profits by repealing the tariff? How? Take off the duty and you say down would go the price of Bteel. But with the reduction in the price of steel would not the wages af men go down also? To reach Carnegie the Star would be willing to trample over the prostrate body of labor. Labor has rights. It has aright to wages just as high as the conditions of business will warrant—no more or no less. Railing at millionaires amounts to nothing.

"C. N. Williams, chairman of the liepublican central committe of Montgomery county, was flying around here Thursday, clad in a suit of clothes he bought in Europe last year—he avers that it was made to order and cost him only 88.40. He is an avowed and loud talking protectionist." Greencastle Star Press.

And what did labor get out of that 88.40? A Crawfordsville or a Greencastle tailor would not touch a suit for less than S10, for making alone. Would the Star Press have the wages of our tailors reduced to the level of the wages of the English tailor? Mr. Williams

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his 38.40 suit as a practical illustration of free trade wages and free trade newspapers bite at the hook. »_

THE Surogate Court of New York has just rendered a decision that the collegiate beneficiaries outside of that State uuder the will of the late Daniel Fayerweather mutt be mulcted with the collateral inheritance tax. Its effect, unless it is reversed on appeal, will ba to turn into the State treasury about 3190,000 of money that was designed by the testator for charitable uses of a most commendable nature. This decision is of peculiar interest to the friends of Wabash college as this institution is one of the beneficiaries of Mr. Fayerweather's estate.

IF the McKinley law is an "infamous" measure, why do not the Democrats of the present House repeal it, as they promised to do? It will not do for them to offer, as an excuse that such a

bill could not get through the Senate, and if it did it would be vetoed by President Harrison. If so why were they BO swift in passing a bill placing wool, cotton ties, binder twine and tin plate on the free list? Did they not know that the same Senate and the same President would prevent these bilis becoming laws?

THE Democratic New Albany Ledger 6peaks the truth in

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editorial para

graph: Democratic newspapers and speakers make a mistake in attacking the reciprocity policy of the present administration. It is the strongest argument it has for asking a continuance of power.

It is not new in theory it is, in fact, older than the Republican party in deed, older than this government. But it is new in practice in this country,and Mr. Blaine, with the help of the President, put the policy in operation, and the credit is due therefor.

GENEUAL BIDWELL, the Prohibition candidate for President is several times a millionaire. He made his millions in the wine business. It is an inspiring or chilling reflection, according as joa look at it, that a big fortune gained in the wine and brandy trade is going to be used to pay the rent of Prohibition headquarters, and hire Prohibition orators and Prohibition torch-bearers during the campaign. There are probably some conscientious Prohibitionists who will not like the notion.

THE Democratic New York Ail vertiser declares that Cleveland is "selfojjinionated, obstinate, impervious to advice, ungrateful, ungenerous, superior to hia party," and wants to know "what claim has he upon the working masses of his organization It would appear from this that the Democracy of New York has not yet "got together." All of which is comforting to Republicans.

COMMENTING on Carnegie and Frick, the New Albany Tribune says: "Andrew Carnegie has nothing whatever to do with the active management of ths Homestead Steel WTorks. He is stockholder but has no official position in the company. H. C. Frick, the "cold blooded" Democrat, is the active business manager and is solely responsible for a1! the trouble and the loss of human lile

As A straw which shows which way the political tide is setting, we refer to last week's Peru Republican, which states that Frank Fetter, who so handsomely won the inter-state oratorical contest two years ago, had changed over from free trade to the Republican way of thinking. He made a brilliant speech before the Peru Republican Club Ia6t Friday evening setting out his views. He was very severe on the Djmocratic party.

MOUNTAIN scenery is not wanting around Crawfordsville. The summits of the Pike street bridge are eternally snow capped and if the ascent were not so perilous, even for sure footed mules, the good people of this city wouldn't have to make long journeys to Alaska and the Adirondacks. In a hurried tr of two days the summit of the bridge can be reached and a magnificent view of the surrounding 6tates and the great lakes would be presented.

AT THE CIOBO of the last fiscal year 10,000 money order postoffices were in existence. Now by the recent order reducing the required revenue of such offices from 3250 to 3200, their number has increasid to 15,000 and will reach 20,000 before the end of the year. This extension of the system will be of immense advantage to a half a dozen Bmall towns in Montgomery county, and so to the county at large.

REPRESENTATIVES of twenty-one different college Greek letter fraternities attended a meeting at the Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago, recently and made arrangements for making a fraternity exhibit at the World's Fair. An executive committee was appointed, consisting of Richard L. Fearn, Miss Gertrude E Small, E. M. Winston, Miss Ethel Baker and Charles M. Kurtz.

THE most eloquent speech ever made in Chicago was Bourke Cochran's protest against the nomination of Cleveland in which he Eaid: "When the frosts come in November and the returns are before us in the chill air, the Democracy that were BO infatuated with Cleveland in the Summer time will be profoundly disappointed."

THE Louisville Courier-Journal says for itself: "Thi6 paper has said noth ing of Mr. Cleveland which it will have to retract." Then this must stand as the opinion still of the C.-J"Nomi-nate Mr. Cleveland, and we march through a slaughter-house into an open grave." The C.-J. said it and won't take it back.

THE initial publication of the Daily L'iFaijette Herald was made yesterday ruurnihg. This latest venture in LaFa\ette journalism is one to be noted

for its spirit and enterprise. It enters an already crowded field but if it maintains the able editorial department and the well filled news columns of its first isfiue it will of necessity succeed. There is always room at the top.

FIRST COMPLETE YEAR OF THE M'KIN LEY TARIFF. The Bureau of Statistics ot the Treasury Department has just completed its compilation of the foreign trade of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892.

The figures here given are not estimates, but are official totals. For the first time in the history of the country the total exports of the year reached a billion dollars, the exact value being $1,030,335,G26. This is an increase over the previous year of §145,854,816.

The exports exceeded the imports by 3202,944,342. Truly a magnificent and unequaled balance of trade in our favor. The total foreign trade of the United States (both imports and exports) was 31,857,72(5,910.

The value of imports coming in free duty was 3458,001,145. The value of dutiable imports was 8369,390,139.

The percentage of free imports was 55.SS, an increase of 10.72 p&r cent, over 1891, when the percentage of free imports was 39.15. In 1890 it was 34.19 and in 1880 it was 34.81.

But the following statement tells its own story as to the Mclvinley tariff even more startlingly. The average ad valorem duty levied on the total imports for the year ended tine 30. 1892, was 20.05 for the year ended June 30 1891, it was 28.GO for 1890 it was 28.72 and for 1889 it was 29.G9.

Here are the facts Lrielly stated: Every Democratic orator and organ said a year ago: "The McKinley law will stifle foreign trade." The first complete fiscal year of the McKinley law's operation has given the nation the largest foreign trade ever known.

Every Democratic orator said: "The McKinley tariff will increase tariff taxes." It has decreased them more than 850,000,000 annually.

Every Democratic organ said: "It is worse than a war tariff." Under its operations a larger percentage of our whole foreign trade is absolutely freer than ever before in the history of the United States.

It levies a smaller tax on a larger volume of trade than any previous tariff law, Republican or Democratic, and it protects every industry in which American labor is brought into competition with Europe.

GOOD ROADS.

It is curious that no one ever took much interest in agitating the

SAYS th In lanapolis Journal: 'Those papers which have been declaring in large type, day after day, that the Carnegie company has Contracted to sell steel rails to an East India company 87 per ton below the current price have been in erior. Mr. Frick denies the statement on oath, and further declares that the Carnegie company never sold rails to be exported.

THE Prohibition brethren have a cat fight on their hands. The Rev. John A. Pollock, the former editor of the Phalanx, the organ of that party, has brought a libel suit against Eli F. Ritter, another Prohibition light, demanding 825,000 damages. In a newspaper interview Ritter intimated that Pollock was a "sponge," hence the suit.

DEMOCRATIC politicians claimed for years that the Carnegie mills were developed and maintained by a "robber tariff." They have now dropped this claim and are now maintaining that the mills were erected and are being maintained by the labor of the striking workmen.

SUPPOSE a half dozen hod carriers in Crawfordsville should be thrown out of employment, would the Democratic partv dissolve in tears over the fact? Yet then hod carriers can feel hunger and

VERTIGO*

Persons apparent 1 iu good health are often troubled with "swimming inf tlio head nauRcaaiid vomiting often follow. It results from a deranged state of the digestive organs and con-1 stipation. This unpleasant and often dangerous affliction will bo curod by

•Tiny Liver Pills*

gk which relieves the engorged liver and removes the cause through tho bow-' els. 25c. Office, 39 Park Place, N. Y.

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THE BEST

EVERY PARTICULAR.

MATERIAL, WORKMANSHIP, and OPERATION.

GIVE THEM A TRIAL.

Sold bv Zack Mahornev & Sons.

C. H. Erganbright, V. S.,

.!HA I t'ATE OF

Ontario Veternary College,Toronto, Cai

TREATS ALL

DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS.

—Surgery a Specialty.—

Your patronage solicited. Calls by mail or telegram promptly answerod. Office with Merrick & Darnell, Livery Stable. II-,!, 114 and llii East Market Street, Crawfordsville, Indiana.

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of good roads till the wheelmen—that is the bicycle riders—took it in hand. Now these wheelmen are getting Congress and various Legislatures, to discuss the subject, and there are man} indications that we are to have a real impetus given to road-building and reliring throughout the country. Steps are being taken to have some practical teaching on the subject at the World's Fair next year. Montgomery county has Always taken an active interest in roads, and she will not bo behind in this new movement. Our people have learned from practical experience the benefits of good roads, and they will be found ready to second any proposition looking to a further development of our road syBtem. The people here have been made to know that money spent for good roads is not money thrown awav, but money invested where it yields a large income to those who invest it. It is like money spent for houses, bams, ditches, etc. It is money spent for something that can be used to furnish both profit and pleasure.

OTICE OF APPOINTMENT.

Notice is hereby iri$en th'.'t the undersigned lias been appointed and duly iiualitied as Administrator of the estate ot Albert Allen, Into of Montgomery county, Indiana, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be insolvent

E.P. McCLASK r.Y,

Dated Julylti. Administrator.

PMINTSTKATOK'S SALE.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned as administrator of the estate of Albert Allen, late of Montgomery couutv, Indiana.(deceased, will, on Thursday, August 11, ISii'J. sell nt public sale at his iate residence, 2 miles east of Brown's Valley, the following persona: property, to-wlt: Horses, cattle, hogs, corn in the crib, corn in the Held, all kinds of farming implements, including a half interest in a binder and a corn planter, wagons, one buggy, harness, household and kltcnen furniture and other articles too numerous to mention.

TEKSIS OK SALE—All sums of $3 and under cash. Over S.'i credit of twelve months will be given, the purchaser givlnir his note with approved freehold security waiving valuation and appraisement laws, and bearing six per cent. Interest from date.

E. P. McCI.ASKEY,

Julylti, ISifi. Administrator.

their families may starve but such sympathy is not popular.

THOMAS H. CARTER, of Montana, is the new Chairman of the National Republican committee. Mr. Carter is a young man, 38 years of age, and possesses a wide range of experience in political management.

SEVERAL Amazons of the Kind of Dahomey will probably be seen in the Dahomey village, %vhieh will be established a' the World's Fair. Sixty or seventy natives and their manner of living will be shown.

THE wages of the Homestead work men, skilled and unskilled, average 821.55 per week. This does not have the appearance of "starvation wages."

DURING the last thirty years free trade England has had ten labor rovts like that at Homestead to where tection America has had one.

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$100 lieivard $100.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there iB one dread ed disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment, Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the Bystem, thereby destroying the foundation of the diBeaee, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative power that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of Testimonials.

AddresB, F. J. CHEXEY & Co.,Toledo,O r^°Sold by diu^giBts, 75c.

JUST as sure as hot weather comes there will be more or less bowel com plaint in this vicinity. Every person snd especially families, ought to have some reliable medicine at hand for in stant use in case it is needed. A 25 or 50 cent bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is just what you ought to have and all that you would need, even for the most se vere and dangerous cases. It is the best, the most reliable and most successful treatment known and is pleasant to take. For sale by Nye & Co

Children Cry for

Pitcher's Castoria.

$100000 TO LOAN'

7 per cent. Annual interest.

Without Commission.

NO HUMBiJG.

Cumberland & Miller,

118 West Main St.

ABSTRACTS OF TITLE Hster,

aving secured the services of Wtc. IVP|, late of the Arm of Johnson & Wehstoi, abstractors of title, I am prepared to furnish on short notice, full and complete abstracts of title to all lands in Montgomery county, Indiana, at reasonable prices. Deeds J1.11® Mortgages carefully executed. Call at the Kocorder's office.

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THOS.T. MUNHALL. Recorder.

MONEY to LOAN.

0 per cenfc for 5

vears on lm-

pi oved Farms in Indiana. We grant vou n« in hV-Ke^6*0- WlES this money back to payment

Write to oi call on

any interest

C. N. WILLIAMS & CO.,

Crawfordsville, Indiana.

G. W. IUU1,.

U. S. Commissioner.

rocery.

M. W. HliUNElt.

PAUL & BRUNER,

A tto neys-at-Law,

Ollice over Mahortiey's store, Cniwlordsvillc. Ind. .:.J.Ll,usiness entrusted to their cure will' receive prompt.attention P. S. KENNEDY,

L?. C. KENNEDY 3 Notary Public.

Kennedy & Kennedy,

ATTORN EYS-AT-LAW CRA WKO DSY] LI, ft INDIANA OIHcein Urnbami block North' Washington 3t'"'

E. W. REAM, Dentist.

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WITHOI Pr TP«es\

methods,1.

p""f° work'

4AMUi I.AJhfc. AW reliable anaotln*-teethOr Chkuouni to modem (lent 1strv are u^ed lor the extraction ot teeth. w. HftAM

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Hormal,.y Pull's

THEO. McMECHAM DENTIST,

Tpn,w^MF0KDfVILLE- INDIANA, lenders his service to the public Mnttn good work and moderate prices."

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White, Hnmphrey & Reeves.

ATTOHNEYS-AT-LA W. Crawfordsville, lno.

Office lO.'Uj Main street.

Money to Loan.

Souses and Lots for Sale also Dwellings to Rent.

Abstracts ot Title and Deeds and Mortgages Carefully Prepared.

ALBERT C. JENN180N

oan und Insurance agent, and abstractor a Conveyancer.

22 East Main St., Crawfordsville

Morgan & Lee

AHSTRACTORb, LOAN AND

INSURANCE AGENTS

Money to Loan at per cent Interest.

Farms and City Property For Sale.

Life, Fire and Aeoirtent Insurance. Office North Washington st., Ornbann Block, Crawfordsville, Ind.

FIRST MORTGAGE

LOAN,

AT 4 PER CENT Interest payable» Annually

APPLY TO

G. W.WRIGHT

Fisher Block, Boom 8, Crawfordsville,

FOR SALE

At the Gold liidgo Herd Polund Cliiiia iiOgs, of both sexes, iat farmers' prices. Also Hnried 11

W)i(te Plymouth Hot chicks. Egffs in season Come and inspect .tystock before purchasing Also, I have the celebrated Pacing Mnllion. Bill Hull man, murk of 2:30»4, out of Daniil Boom.*, 1st dam by Green Mountain Morgan.

GEOHC.E W. KULI.tll.

7 miles north of Crawfordsville, lnd. Mention TUBJOCHNAL.

'To Consumptives.

The undersigned having been restorid to health by simple means, alter sutlering lor several years with a severe lung ulleution, and that dread disease

Conmmptinn,

is anxious

make known to his lellow sullerereis the means of cure. To those who desire it, he will cheerfully send (free of charge) a copy of the prescription used, which they will find a Euro cure for

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Cumumption, Anthma, Catarrh, Brnu

and all throat and lung

Maladies.

hopes all sufferers will try his remedy, as It is invaluable. Those desiring the prescription, which will cost them nothing, and may prove a blessing, will please address KEV. EDWAHD A. Wtr.gQN Brooklyn. New York.

Co-opoiative Industrial Union

124, Kast Market St.

FRANK CORNELL,

Lucal Manager & Purchasing Agent.

Also agent for Ihe Wholesale Dealers' Association. We buy lor cash only anil therefore we have to sell for cash. No toleration of willful misrepresentation in business. No anmgonisni to any reputable business or business linn.

We furnish Gents' Suits to r.rder. Machine made carpets, liiiulinp twine. Notions, Sewing Machines, etc Old machines taken in exchange for ne»v ones, More lines if uoods to follow. Eating apples a specialty. Call and examine^ our samples and pive us a share of jour patronage, and we will strive to* merit a continuance of the same.