Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1890 — Page 7

CARNEGIE’S BLUNDERS. TH JL.F RRORS OF THE GREAT STEELMAKER CORRECTED. Statements About Guns and Steel at the Outbreak of the War-Blaine on Gum—Our Big Iron and Steel Industry I in 1801-6. Andrew Carnegie is the principal manufacturer of steel rails in America; As such he ought to know something about the manufacture of rails in Amerlpa. In his article in the North American Rcview on the tariff, however, he makes f ’ statements which arc grossly inaccurate, not to say absurd. Referring to the outbreak of the war, he says: “In what condition did the country find Itself then? Without the abilitv to supply clothing, arms, or ammunition ’ for her troops. Iron and steel for railways and locomotives—articles almost as essential for subduing the rebellion as any of those named—could not be proCureci at home. Agents were despatAed to Britain and the Continent, and ft was only by drawing from foreign countries that the republic was able to trwmph. If Mr. Marcellus Hartley, or Mr. Gilead A. Smith, or any of the other /agents with whoso experience I am jf familiar, could be induced to write the 7 story of those negotiations and purI chases, it would be most interesting I reading indeed for every American. H These statements are made in order to f show that wo should have had higher | protection at the outbreak of tho war, in W which case we should have been able to I supply ourselves with arms and with iron I and steel for railways. But it is not 1 true that the country was in the condlf tion set forth by Carnegie. I In regard to arms no less a witness than Blaine himself can bo cited to prove the falsity of Carnegie's claim. In a speech in the House of Representatives ' on June 5, 1876, Blaine said: “In the month of November, 1861, I was summoned to Boston by a telegram to meet Mr. Fisher and another gentleman on some urgent business. I immediately responded. On getting there I found that they were the proprietors of a newly invented rifle. The other gentleman was Mr. Ward Cheney, of Connecticut, recently deceased, well known for his eminence in the silk manufacture, and a gentleman of great wealth and high character. ono of the ingenious mechanics in his employ named Spencer . had invented a repeating rifle. It had been tested in various private ways, but it had not received the official sanction of the Government. They had employed various persons to come to Washington during the summer of 1861, the first of. •» the war; but these various agents reported, and these gentlemen so reported to- me, that what they called a gun ring in Washington were so close and were so ■powerful that they could not jjet an opportunity to bring that new arm to the attention of the Secretary of War, the present venerable Senator from Pennsylvania, and they asked me if I thought I could do it. That was two years and more before I, entered Congress. p “1 told them that I thought I could. And going back home and making preparations, I immediately camo to Washington, and-in a very short time I had &n interview with Secretary Cameron at the Wt£ Department. He looked atAue gun, was satisfied there was some-tming in it, and gave an order to have it tested by the Ordnance Bureau. It was thoroughly tested, and in the course of two weeks the experiment was so satisfac- , Lory that they gave a preliminary order for 20,000 rifles. It was, of course, as, every gentleman who is familiar, with the war knowsja most eminent success. *- It was one of the wonderful arms of the war—the Spencer rifle.” This “gun ring” at Washingtort was casting “an anchor to windward” with a vengeance, as maybe seen from a report from Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. This report shows that under the ■administration of Cameron, the first Secretary Or War under Lincoln, 1,200,000 muskets and rifles were made or contracted for by American manufacturers. There were at that time 568,000 foot soldiers in service. We had, therefore, more -4 than two guns’©? domestic manufacture for each soldier. These were either in hand or contracted for during the first nine months of the war. Besides these wo had already considerable quantities of arms when the wan broke out, but in order to make assurance doubly sure some 700,000 muskets and rifles were ' bought in Europe. It appears from the report of Secretary Cameron, under date of July 1, 1861, that many of these wore bought for the Government by private citizens of our" country, who were in Europe, on their own responsibility, “ ■'fearing that the country might not have a sufficient supply. ’ As to the quality of our own arms, in comparison with those made in Europe, Secretary Cameron said in thesame report; “The and ordnance supplied from our national armories .under the able superintendence of the Ordnance Bureau compare most favorably with the very best inanufactured for foreign governments. The celebrated Enfield rifle, so called, is-a simple copy of the regular A- arm manufactured for many years at the Springfield Armory.” The Enfield rifle was a gun of English make. Carnegie is equally far from the truth in regard to iron and steel rails, as is shown by the following figures: Homo pro- linportaduction of tion of Raila imYear, pig iron. . pig iron. ported. Tons. Tons. Tons. 1861-. 731,.Ml 110,025 74,490 1802 787,062 22,147 - .8,488 1863 949,604 31.007 17,008 w 1864.1,135,996. 102,223 118,714 1865 931,582- 44,601 74,712 T0ta14,531,3-8 310,0)3 293,482 From these figures it is seen that we produced fifteen times as much pig-iron as we imported. During the four years of the war we built 4,450 miles of railroad, not to mention a vast amount of repairing and relaying of old roads with rails.. For these 4.450 miles of new road M 500,000 tons of rails were needed. We y imported less than 300,000 tons, which I was, perhaps, not more than one-third of the entire quantity consumed; at any J rate our steel manufacturers reported in 1865 that they had thirty-seven steelmaking estabishments with a capacity of 38,000 tons-per annum, and that our f total importations of steel in 1864 was \ 17,(MM) tons. i Carnegie seems to have the usual protectionist mote in the eye whieh prevents him from seeing the natural capacity and resources of this country as they are. . *<No Retreat.” While the leading Republican . organs of the Wfest are urging the party to repeal or modify the McKinley tariff law as soon as Congress meets, the great organs of the East are crying, “no retreat!” Western Republican papers have read the handwriting on the wall and have interpreted it as a prophecy of diredisaster for the g. o. p. in 1892; and „ therefore they want to turn back and keep near the shore in order to save themselves from wreck in the next great storm of popular indignation. Nothing is more significant of Western feeling'on the tariff than the suggestion of Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota, as the next nominee for Vice President, upon the ground that ho voted against the McKinley bill, along w ith Mr. Blaine, who denounced the bill because it did not open the market for/ another barrel of pork dr another bushel of wheat. Blaine smashed his fine beaver hat in with his mighty fist as an expression of

his wrath and indignation at the folly of passing the McKinley bill; Pettigrew voted with the Democrats to make binding twine free, and then voted with them against the bill as a whole; and already the West is turning to these two men as the Moses and Aaron to lead the children of protection out of the McKinley wilderness—-turning to these two whe came nearest to the position of the “freetrade Democrats.” Blaine further criticised the McKinley law as being made for the East at the expense of the West. Perhaps this fact explains why Eastern organs of the g. a p. are now demanding that the law ‘ stand as it is. It is in the East that the “fat” is fried, and in the East where the men live who hold the mortgage on the g. o. p. If the party takes the back track now it cannot hope to “fry the fat” in such copious quantities in 1892 as it did in 1888. But the tariff “fat” is a necessity for the g. o. p.—how is it to carry elections without “fat?” How, then, can tho Republicans of the West get the McKinley law modified when Eastern manufacturers have bought and paid for just these high McKinley duties and swear they will take nothing less? The West is a consumer, and the g. o. p. has long since cut loose from tho doctrine that the consumer deserves one moment’s consideration in the making of* tariff laws. Only tho manufacturer deserves consideration; he stands ready to pay for his duties in tariff fat, and he must have them—the goods must be delivered. The great masses of the West must meanwhile content themselves with u tln-whistle” duties on corn, wheat, and other farm products. Os course these agricultural duties can do the farmers absolutely no good; but, then, the farmers do not contribute any “fat” to carry elections, and thus they have no claims upon the g. o. p. which are at all equal to those of the rich monopolists of the East. •— . The g. o. p. must pay back its debts—must render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s. The Eastern organs see this all the more clearly by being right whore the owners of the g. a p. live and thrive. They know whom the g. ap. is dependent upon, and they know that it is only by guarding the interests of these monopolists that it can gain victories in the future. The New York Tribune and other Eastern organs are in the right; there can be “no retreat. McKinley Industries. The American Economist tries to offset the effect of “McKinley Prices” by printing a few columns of what it calls “McKinley Industries.” This it calls “a page of notes as examples of what tho new tariff bill is doing for the country. ” Among these notes is the following: “Philadelphia parties will probably move several carpet factories to Kensington, Ga. ”. It. does not explain how tho McKinley bill moves an industry from ono State to another. If it had made an investigation it would probably have found that these carpet mills are going to Georgia to get cheaper labor, and that cheaper labor is made necessary by reason of the higher duties oh carpet wool in tho McKinley bill. “McKinley industries” ought to mean industries which have sprung into being or have felt a new wave of prosperity by reason of higher duties imposed by McKinley; but tho Economist rakes together a mass of news notes about tho prosperity of industries, without any regard to whether there is a higher duty or not. A great output of pig iron at a Pennsylvania furnace is recorded among those “■McKinley industries,” although the duty on pig iron is precisely the same in the new law as in the old. Let the Economist point out only real cases of “McKinley industries,” for there will be such; and then the question will arise: Who pays for those industries? If the bill creates new industries it can only be by raising prices. -For whose benefit will this be? What is the use of new industries whieh lay additional burdens upon the. people? Industries are good things when they rest on an honest basis of self-support; but when they live upon the community such’industries are a loss and not a gain. A new industry is not necessarily a sign of prosperity. The Southern Iron Industry. The rapid growth ofSthe iron industry of the Southern States the best refutation of the protectionists’ claim that “infant industries” cannotjbe established in a new country without protection from older countries which compete with it. These States, which formerly had no manufacturing industries, found within themselves natural resources far exceeding those of any other part of the Union, and it has cojne to pass that a ton of pig iron can be made as cheaply in Alabama as in any country in the world. The very interesting statistics published by the United States Commissioner of Labor show that in one establishment in the South tho production of a ton of» pig iron was 53.55, in another $9.16, in still another $9.44. On the other hand, in many establishments in Great Britain and on the continent of Europe the cost of production per ton was over $lO. True, in some it was less. But the remarkable fact is that the difference in the cost of production between the establishments in the Southern and Northern States is much greater than that between the establishments in Europe 0 and those in America. In many establishments in the Northern States the cost of production is as high as sl4, sls, or sl6 per ton, and in some even more. There must be something badly wrong with the “infant industry” argument, when new competitors can spring up and put iron upon the market so much more cheaply than Pennsylvania can. Bulldozed by Reed. . » When the McKinley bill was under consideration in the House of Representatives, a, new Republican member from the Northwest thought it to be his duty to vote against the bill. When Reed heard of this he sent for him, and told him that, unless he voted for the bill, he should not so much as be recognized once during the session to present a single one of tho many matters of local interest to lus rapidly growing district which he wished to see passed. The Congressman was a new member, and this was his first session. He thought that it would be a fatal blow to his prestige at home if he should return to his constituents without once having had a chance to open his lips in the House, and he yielded to the intimidation practiced by the Speaker, and voted for the McKinley bill. A Foolish Tax. Nearly all our seed peas are imported, principally from Cdnada. A leading American seed merchant is quoted as saying that even if the United States should put a duty of $1 a bushel on garden peas they would have to be imported, because “there isn’t a spot in the United States where these peas can be grown profitably or to good advantage.” The duty on peas is changed from 20 per cent, ad valorem to 15c a bushel on dried, 20c on green and 50c on split When the farmer's wife wants seed peas she buys them in the nearest town. If she will look into the McKinley law she will find them taxed under agricultural products “for the benefit of American farmers!” It has lately been shown that if two coins are placed on opposite sides of a plate of glass and electrified for two minutes they will leave a perfect image of themselves upon the glass.

At tho Bottom of the Sea. At the depth of about 3,500 feet waves are not felt. The temperature is the same, varying only a trifle from the ice of the pole to the burning sun of the equator. A mile down the water has a pressure of over a ton to the square inch. If a box six feet wide were filled with sea water and allowed to evaporate under the sun, there would be two inches of salt left on the bottom. Taking the average depth of the ocean to be three miles, there would be a layer of salt 230 feet thick on the bed of the Atlantic. The water is colder at the bottom than at the surface. lu many bays on the coast of Norway the water often freezes at the bottom before it does above. Waves are very deceptive. To look at them in a storm one would tliink the water traveled. The water stays in the same place, but the motion goes on. Sometimes in storms these Waves are forty feet high and travel fifty miles an hour—more than twice as fast as the swiftest steamship. The distance from valley to valley is generally fifteen times the height, hence a wave five feet high will extend over seventy-five feet of water. The force of the sea dashing on Bell Rock is said to be seventeen tons for each square yard. Evaporation is a wonderful power in drawing the water from the' sea. Every year a layer of the entire sea, fourteen feet thick, is taken up into the clouds. The winds bear their burden into the land and the water comes doWn in rain upon the fields, to flow back at last through rivers. The depth of the sea presents an interesting problem. If the Atlantic were lowered from 6,5(14 feet the distance from shore would be half as great, or 1,500 miles. If lowered a little more than three miles, say 19,680 feet, there would/be a road of dry land from Newfoundland to Ireland. This is' the plain on which the great Atlantic cables were laid. The Mediterranean is comparatively shallow. A drying up of 600 feet would leave three different seas and Africa would he joined with Italy. The British Channel is more like a pond, which laccounts for its choppy waves. It has been difficult to get the correct soundings of the Atlantic. A midshipman of the Navy overcame the difficulty, and a shot weighing thirty pounds carries down the line. A hole is bored through the sinker, through which a rod of iron is passed moving easily back and forth. In the end of the bar a cup is dug out and the inside coated with lard. The bar is made fast to the line and a sling holds the shot, on. When the bar, which extends below the ball, touches the earth, the sling unhooks and the shot slides off. The lard in the end of the bar holds some of the sand, or whatever may be at the bottom, and a drop shuts over the cup to keep the sand in. When the ground is reached a shock is felt, as if an electric current had passed through the line. ‘ Took a Long Time to Decide. "Just watch this crank.” said *a man in a restaurant. “He comes in here every day and goes through a whole act before he gets up courage.enough to ask for fried onions. He always finishes by ordering them, but he pever avows his real purpose until he has beaten about the bush for ten minutes. The waiters know him and humor him.” The lover of onions seated himself, and looked over the dinner card with a languid, bored air. and asked: “How are soft-shelled crabs deviled?” “They are very nice, sir.” “It’s a little late for crabs, isn’t it?” “Yes, it is a little late, sir. “Humph! Let me see. How is your canvas-back ?” “That is very nice.” “But, come to think of it, I dop’tcare for any duck;” and he knitted his brows, and carefully scanned the menu card. The waiter stood patiently by. “There doesn’t seem to be anything here that I care for. ” “How would you like a nice piece ol roast lamb, sir?” “No, that doesn’t strike my fancy.” “A chop?” “No. Perhaps you would better bring me a bottle of St. Julien and a slice of cold roast b eef. I have no appetite to-day.” “Very well, sir,” says the waitei starting off slowly. 4“Oh, Gaspard!” “Yes, sir.” “I have an idea!” “Yes, sir.” “I might be able to eat a good st eak with a few fried onions. “That would be very nice, sir.” “Only a few onions, but be sure tc have the steak good.” “Yes, sir.” “That will be all. You |needn’t mind the claret, Gaspard." “Yes, sir. Then the lover of fried onions leaned back in his chair, as innocent appearing as a child._ The Balloon and the Feasants. A Russian paper gives this account ol a balloon which landed near St. Petersburg recently: “ There was a general ■ panic. The peasants thought that antichrist was descending from the sky, and that the end of the world was come: women screamed, children cried, and all the inhabitants were well nigh out of their wits from fear. Soon, from the wood came the women who had been gathering mushrooms, running as fast as their legs could carry them. ‘A house,’ they cried, ‘has come down from the sky with wonderful strangers in it!’ The peasants thereupon all hid themselves in the village as best they could, with the exception of a few bold fellows, who took their hatchets and cudgels and proceeded cautiously to the forest. It was long before these lattei could prevail upon their fellow villagers to come out of their hidiag places.” He Was a Busy Man. Ascertain Georgia editor, who is alsc a real-estate agent, a building and loan association director, an attorney at law, Clerk of the Town Council, and pastor of the village church, was recently asked to marry a couple. He was in a great hurry, and the couple surprised him in the middle of a heavy editorial on the tariff. “Time is money,” said he, without looking up from his work. “Doyon want her?” The man said yes. “And do you want him?” The girl stammered an affirmative. “Man and wife,” cried the editor. “One dollar. Bring me a load of wood for it—-one-third pine, balance oak.”— Atlanta Constitution. — ——* • « Technical Terms. New Clerk—l should like to know something about these stocks, sir. Wholesale Clothing Merchant—Certainly. The goods on this floor are trousers for the New York and Bostoc trade.' On the floor above are the pantaloons for the Philadelphia and Baltimore trade. The third floor is filled with, pants for the Western trade. —Street & Smith’s Good News.

a Symbol of Rank. The distinctions of rank which exist in European countries give rise to many troubles which, though they may seem rather amusing as well as trivial to us, are in reality quite serious to the persons concerned in them. In Stuttgart, years ago, there existed a curious custom which is not yet entirely abolished, and, in fact, still flourishes quite vigorously in some parts of Germany and Switzerland. This was the use of lanterns of different varieties and sizes bywhich, at night, the rank of * the party could be easily distinguished. The lanters were carried by tbe servants who were sent to escort their mistresses home from places of amusement,, and they made the square in front of the Royal Opera House, where most of the entertainments were then given, quite picturesque, with their lights bobbing up and down in every direction. The differences between some of these lanterns were slight, but they had to be strictly observed, or trouble arose. The order of rank as set forth in the “rank-list,” was something from which they could never swerve. Some had lanterns of tin, some of brass; some had wax lights, and others tallow; even the number of lights was prescribed for each separate class or rank. An amusing story is told by Hacklander of two Stuttgart women, whose life-long friendship was nearly destroyed by the mistake of one of the husbands, who bought a# an auction a lantern which could only be used with propriety by people of the next higher rank. The servant polished the offending lantern, and took it with her the very next night when she went to meet her mistress at the close of an operatic entertainment. It was some time before the other woman, whose sense of the proprieties of life had been outraged, and who thought her old friend was endeavoring to lay claim to a rank above the one in which they both belonged, could be appeased. Even after the explanation, the subject of the lantern was always a sore one between them. Concerning Foam. Lord Rayleigh, in a recent lecture at the Royal Institution, took for his text the word “Foam,” and he proved by many interesting experiments that foaming, or frothing, is not possible with a liquid of pure constitution. Thus, pure water and pure alcohol will neither of them foam; but a mixture of water with 5 per cent of alcohol will foam strongly. Beer is, of couse, a mixture of this character. Water impregnated with camphor, or with a small quantity of any colloid substance, will froth freely, and we all know that a little soap added to water will t cause the same effect. Alluding to sea foam the lecturer said that this was not due to the salt contained in the water, but rather to the sea weeds which suffer destruction in stormy weather. He also alluded to the effect of oil upon troubled waters, and pointed out that, although in the first instance only the smaller ripples were affected by the oily coating, the larger waves were afterward brought under control, for it seemed as if tne power of the wind to create those large waves was due in great measure to the small ripples which formed at their back, and gave the wind a hold on the water which it would not otherwise have. It was in reality the curling tops of the waves and the broken water which were mischievious, and these were i quieted by action of the oil. The Child of an Evil Parent. Malvolio says in Shakspeare’s comedy of ■Twelfth Night,” “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” So it is with nervousness. Some are born nervous, some achieve nervousness by their own imprudence and' neglect, and some have nervousness thrust upon them by disease. The basic starting point of this ailment, which grows rapidly and assumes alarming proportions when it reaches the stage of hypochondria and chronic sleeplessness, is weakness, the child of indigestion, parent of many evils. For the incapacity of the stomach to digest food, and of the system to assimilate it after digestion, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters has ever proved a sovereign remedy. Sleep becomes tranquil, appetite improves, abnormal sensitiveness of the nerves is succeeded by steadiness and vigor in those delicate tissues, bodily substance increases when that signal restorative of digestion is systematically used. Conquer also withit malaria, rheumatism, kidney inactivity, liver complaint and constipation. Red Snow. At the head of Holy Cross Creek, near Leadville, Col., and in the almost inaccessible defiles of Mount Shasta, Cal., there are hundreds of square feet of ground continually covered with snow as red as blood. In the polar regions red scarlet snow is a familiar sight, but the two places named above are the only spots within tho limits of the United States where it is known to exist. The phenomenon is due to the presence of minute animalcule in the snow. How the little midge ever got there is a question that has never been satisfactorily answered. —-—— How’s This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. Vfe, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and financially able to carryout any obbgatior« made by their firm. West <fc Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Waliiit‘3, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggio is, Toledo, Ohio. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system Price, 75c per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Matrimonial Item. A young Texas lady of a violent temper, ju§t about to be married, was found weeping by a friend. “Why do you weep, Fanny? Your future husband is one. of the most kindhearted men in the world.” “I know it; but I can’t help feeling sorry for the poor man. I have such a kind heart that it makes me cry to think how I’ll boss him around. The poor man has no idea how he is going to suffer at my hands,” tind once more the eyes of the kind-heaited woman filled with brine. Thousands of mothers bless the name of Dr. John BulL&>r inventing his celebrated Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers. Children tease for them and they never fail to do good. An l&acting Statute. An eminent authority says: “It is extremely difficult to commit the crime of murder in such an accurate and honest way that it shall ’satisfy the specifications of the statute. Unless the wouldbe murderer take legal counsel beforehand and follow instructions minutely, he will fail nine times in ten, however sincerely he may try. Anybody can kill a man,’but he cannot do it in first-de-gree-murder style without counsel and care.” Four, poisons that accumulate in the blood and rot the machinery of the system ate eradicated and expelled by using Prickly Ash Bitters, a medicine that will notqrritata the stomach or bowels. It acts In a gentle manner on these delicate organs, and restores health in every case. Proverbs of Arabia. He who knows not, and knows not he knows not, is a fool: shun him. He who knows not, and knows not ho knows, is simple: teach him. He who knows, and knows not he knows, is asleep: wake Ijim. He who knows, and knows he knows, is wise: follow him.

A Pleasing Sense Os health and strength renewed and of ease and comfort follows the use or Syrup of Figs, as it acts in harmony with nature to effectually cleanse the system when costivo or bilious. For sale in 50c and $1 bottles by ail leading druggists. Street Car Courtesy. A sallow-faced woman, with a wealth of freckles on her long nose, entered an Austin street car. There were eight or ten well-dressed gentlemen in the car, but none of them showed any inclination to give her a seat. After she waited a reasonable time, she remarked with asperity: “Es any of you galoots air waiten for me to squat in your laps, you are a sucked in crowd, for I want you to- understand I am a lady from the ground’ up.” A dread that she was not in earnest about not sitting in their laps caused sixof the gentlemen to leave the ear.— Texas Siftings. THE WABASH LUSE-H-andsome equipment, E- legant day coaches, and W-agner palace sleeping ears A-re in daily service B-etween the city of St. Louis A-nd New York and Boston. S-pacious reclining chair ears H -ave no equal E-ike those run by the I-neomparable and only Wabash; N-ew trains and fast time E-very day in the year. From East to West the sun’s bright ray. Smiles bn the line that leads the way. MAGNIFICENT VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS, running' free reclining-chair cars and palace sleepers to St. Louis, Kansas Oity, and Council Bluffs. The direct route to all points in Missouri. Kansas, Nebraska, lowa, Texas, Indian Territory, Arkansas. Colorado, Utah, Wyoming. Washington, Montana, and California. For rates, routes, maps, etc., apply to any ticket agent or address F. Chandleb. Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, St. Louis, Mo. Comparatively Comfortable. Editor (to reporter)—Why did you say that Jones, who died yesterday, left his family in comfortable circumstances? Reporter—Because ho did. Editor—But you know he died a bankrupt. Reporter—That hasn’t anything to do with it. He has been a terror to his family for years. They were always uncomfortable when he was around, but now that he is gone circumstances are comfortable, ain’t they? Editor—Well, by comparison, yes. The saving in elothing where Dobbins’ Electric Soap is used is twenty times thesoap bill. It is no new experiment, but has been sold for 24 years. To-day just as pure as in 1865. Try it. Your grocer has it. A Good Collector. Lawyer Pullman is an Austin lawyer who has a great reputation for collecting bad debts. If the money can bp got out of a man he will get it. It was to this lawyer that Bob Binckley referred when ho was requested to run quick for a doctor, as a neighbor’s child had swallowed a coin. “Doctor be blowed. I’ll run for Lawyer Pullman; he’ll get the money out of the kid quicker than a dozen doctors,” said Bob.— Texas Siftings. FOR BRONCHIAL, ASTHMATIC AND PULMONARY COMPLAINTS, “Brown’s Bronchial Troches'” have remarkable curative properties. Sold only in boxes. Why He Looked Blue. “What makes you look so blue?” asked Gus de Smith of Kosciusko Murphy, whom he met on Fifth avenue. •‘Miss Longcoffin has jilted me.” “No wonder you look so lack-a-daisy-girl.” x The demands of society often indnee ladies to use quack stimulants when feeling badly. They are dangerous! Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is adapted to such cases. The world always weighs a man in the balance. The balance is at his bankers. Quick work without loss or waste is secured by SAPOLIO. The only exception to the saying, "Quick and well don’t agree.” If drug-store clerks should ever strike they would hold a blue mass meeting. The best cough medicine is Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c. The creosote in toothache drops administered to a New York boy cured the pain but killed the boy. Beecham’s Pills cure Billions and' Nervous Ills. The head and mouth of a river are at its extreme ends. Queer fact, isn’t it?

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