Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 9 January 1891 — Page 6

THE FUTURE OF REFORM VIEWS OF CONGRESSMAN WM. M. SPRINGER. The Democrat* Will Koop Tariff Reform a to the Front—lt Wilt Ho the Winning I**ae in ’o3—The Hopele** situation of the Republicans—They Cannot Shift the I*«iie. and Cun Neither Go Forward Not* Hackward. f Congressman Win. M. Springer will be a prominent figure in the new Democratic House. He is already a candidate for Speaker, with a show of being elected; but whether he is elected or not, his long and conspicuous service in the Demo- \ cratic party lends great interest to his views of the outlook for tariff reform at this time. He talked recently to a member of the New York Reform Club as , follows: “The Republican politicians of Washington are now trying to divert public attention from tho principal issue upon which they wore repudiated at the November election. They seem to be of the opinion that there is but one yay open through which success is possible in ISV?. Upon the tariff question they have been thoroughly repudiated. They now hope by reviving sectional issues, through and by means of-the force bill and appeals to sectional prejudice, to re-form political issues upon other lines than tariff and taxation. In this they will bo as much disappointed as they were overwhelmed .by the result of the recent election. The people of the country have pronounced against taxation of the many for the benefit of the few. They wil) not give up this issue until It has eventuated in practical legislation in accordance with their demands. If we were now living under the form of government which prevails in monarehial England, the new Congress would at * once be convened, and the McKinley bill would bo immediately repudiated; but under our more conservative methods wo must abide the constitutional forms required for securing results. “On the tariff question the Republicanscan neither go forward nor backward - with any prospect of bettering their condition. To stand still is conceded defeat; to move in the other direction scarcely less advantage. If they go forr ward they must rely upon tjm fulfillment of ple’dgos made before tho election, and pending tho*pa£sago of tho McKinley bill, to tho effect that while prices of articles affected by the tariff might bo temporarily advanced, yet, ultimately and in tho near future, by moans of competition, such prices could be greatly reduced and articles would be jjold ’ cheaper than before the passage of the bill—thus placing their reliance in tho a reversal of tho popular .judgment in November upon a claim that competition is to come to their relief, and that by tho time of the next Presidential election tho people will bo in the, full enjoyment, of cheap necessaries of life secured through c ompetition. This hope Is a flattering one; it can never be realized. “Competition has already done its perfect work in this country in the matter of reducing prices. So perfectly has competition been carried on that combination for the purpose of arresting has been resorted to all along the line. There is scarcely a manufacturing industry in the United States that is not more or less controlled by some kind of combination'for the purpose of limiting the output and regulating the prices. In some cases this combination has taken the form of trusts or organized monopolies. Theso trusts have secured the cbncentralJpn of " rly all the capital engaged in a given > i.ustry. and by this combination a oomph to control of the output and prices has beeiuseejjred. In other cases a more mild type of. combination has been rerted to In some cases the combinai on has been, secured by means of corcspondenco between the various interests and taeit agreement reached as -to output and prices, year after year. But, through one form or another, scarcely an industry can be mentioned in which further competition is not prevt ntod or made impossible-by the mutual concurrence of those engaged in tho business. > “Those, therefore,.who, look to compe--tition for a reduction of prices’will be deceived. Prices of manufactured articles can only be reduced, while the » McKinley bill is in force, by the -reduction of wages or by the adoption of improved processes. The latter will come without the tariff; it is entirely independent of it. In most lines of industry it would seem that the processes of .manufacture were almost perfect at this time; but still we may hope for continued improvement in. this direction, although such improvement will scarcely be perceptible in the brief space of two years. Lower prices secured by re- j duction of wages would be attended | with greater disaster than if present! prices should be maintained and wages [ increased; so that, wherever cheapnessIs secured, by reduction of wages, the } remedy will be worse than the disease—l Speaking in a political’ sense, as it will | alfect the- interests of the Republican party. Hence, it seems conclusive that ' -the Republican party cannot improve its | mi the tariff, or on taxation byadhering to the McKinley bill. “If, however, the leaders of the party should determine to reverse their position, overturn the leadership of liarrisdn, McKinley, and Reed, and put Mr. ■ Blaine forward with the implied promise 1 of the repeal of the McKinley bill, the ; enlargement of-trade, through reel proc- I ity and the bettering of their condition by repudiating all that the Republican party has done since it camo into power, it wiil find this latter condition more hopeless than tho former. “President Harrison, in his message to Congress -pointed with pride’ to the fact that tiiere had been, recently, an. increase in the prices of agricultural products, such as corn, wheat, etc.; and he endeavored to convey the impression that such increased price of agricultural products was the result of the McKinley bill. Nothing could be further from the truth. IT he had taken pains to examine tho reports on the condition of : ■is ps,’which issued from the Agricul- j t iral Department almost simultaneously with his message, he would have found j that in Kansas the average yield of corn I l r aero was only eleven bushels, wherea-' it ought to have been thirty. The v ry fact that there is almost atonal * failure of thepthe corn crop in Kansas was one of tno reasons which produced the-political revolution in that State. The failure or shortness of the corn crop • in the great, worn belt of the country caused scarcity of this product, and | scarcity resulted in higher prices for I corn, But the trouble with the farmers was that they had little or no corn to sell, and many of them who had stock to feed became buyer at the higher rates which scarcity had produced. 'I he prices of agricultural products are determined entirely by the extent of production, and Tthis is governed by natural causes, not ! by legislation. “A failure of (;rops in this country is | regarded by the farmers as the greatest calamity that can befall them Isiit such | failure inevitably results in higher prices I of farm products, and therefore the I President has cited as an evidence of i prosperity that which the farmers them- I selves regard as a calamity, namely, ' higher prices resulting from crop failure. I ’There can be no combination among ! farmers to reduce the output of agricul- I tural products; such combinations are I not even desirable. Farmers universally strive for bountiful harvests, the pious '

ones among them praying as well as laboring for them. They regard a bountiful harvest as essential, to their prosperity, notwithstanding the fact that the greater the crop the less will be the price of the products. They are political economists who believe—who realize, in fact—that abundance is wealth, and that scarcity can never tend in that direction. If the next season should be favorable, and large crops of wheat, corn, oats and other products of the farm Should bo realized, there will be a corresponding depression of prices, and the larger the crop the lower the prices. If such should be the result a year from this time the President in his annual message would—following the lines of his late one—deplore the unfortunate condition of the country brought about by the low prices for farm products caused by abundant harvests. “Tho Republican leaders cannot nope to divert the attention of the country from the tariff Question whatever they may do, whether they go forward or go backward. The Democratic party has a plain, unmistakable duty to perform; that duty consists in moving steadily onward and pressing tho advantage which it has already obtained. It will keep this question before tho public until the fruits of victory have been realized, until the McKinley bill has been repealed, and until materials which make profitable manufa -turo impossible have been

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relieved from unnecessary burdens, and so cheapened as to not only aid manufacturing but increase profitable production. It will demand larger markets for American products; not only reciprocity with Cuba, South America, and Canada, but freer trade with all tho world. “Tho late election was only tne expression of popular desire; that popular desire has not been accomplished. It may not bejully realized until after the next Presidential election, at which the final and complete victory will be achieved—namely, the election of a President and both branches, of Congress, who will carry into effect the popular verdict of last November. During tho Fifty-sec-ond Congress the largo Democratic majority will keep this question continually in view. It will not bo turned to the right nfir to the-left; it will not permit side issueXof any kind to interfere witli this all-absorbing and all-important question, Witli the advantages already obtained it would be little less than criminal to .permit anything to occur which would make impossible ultimate and complete tariff reform.” XVarm Clothing in Winter. The comfort and health of the people in whiter depend upon having sufficient warm woolen clothing. While it cannot justly be expected that the government should help tho people to got such clothing, still it is clearly the duty of the government to enact no law which increases the price of clothing and thus makes it more difficult for the masses to get. What the McKinley law has done in this line may be seen from tho following table of prices for woolen underwear: Former “McKinley price. price.” Undershirts, winter quality: 32 inchess2.4s $3.00 34 “ 2.55 3.15 36 “ 2.65 3.30 40 “ 2.85 3.65 50 “ 3.75 4.75 Drawers, winter quality, A: 28 inches in waist 2.50 3.00 30 • “ 2.65 3.15 32 ’ “ “ 2.75 3.30 40 * “ 8.20 4.10 50 ” “ 4.25 5.00 If McKinley’s notion is true that “cheap and nasty go together,” and that “where merchandise is cheapest men are poorest.” then people ought to be thankful to him for these higher prices. But the large class who cannot afford to pay higher prices must console themselves with Jay Gould's remark that those who cannot afford two suits of clothes in a year will jnit up with only one. Foreign-Born American Calves. One of the amusing absurdities tariff has just been made public through a decision of Assistant Secretary Spaulding of the Treasury Department The Collector of Customs at Nogales, Ari., wrote to the department to say that it was his custom to allow American cattle, which had strayed across the

Mexican border, to be brought back into Arizona free of duty. Being in doubt whether this was legal he asked the customs authorities at Washington for a decision on the question. Tne answer of the Assistant Secretary bears date of Nov. 14, but it has only recently been published. The decision is that the Collector is right in collecting no duty on cattle in cases where ownership is clearly proved; but if any of the returning cattle had so far forgotten their American citizenship as to bring forth their young on Mexican soil, such calves must pay the duty of 82 each. These calves, being produced on Mexican soil, must be treated as “pauper” calves with which we cannot compete. The ridiculous side of the matter is that this duty is a part of McKinley’s “protection for farmers.” — o tariff letters to farmer BROWN. NO. 13. Does a Tariff Bestrict Foreign Trade? I)eaj: Fabmek Bkown: The question which I put at the head of this letter may seem to be an entirely needless one; since most intelligent men, whether protectionists or tariff reformers, areagreed that protection does restrict importation, and most of those accepting this conclusion agree also tliat the restriction of importation must necessarily, in the long

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Tun, restrict exportation. I say the question may seem a needless one, but when I take up the protectionist journal's and sec what they are trying to teach the people, and when I read the utterances of their leading mon, I cannot regard the question propounded as being unworty of treatment in these letters. Alas, what confusion there is in the camp of the protectionists! Some of their leaders blow hot while others blew cold, and still others blow both hot and cold at the same time. Protection raises prices and lowers prices; is given to the farmer under th.e pretense that it will enable him to sell his products more profitably, but When given to the manufacturer the farmer is told that protection lowers prices. Some tell us that imports are hindered and may. be prevented; others tell us that protection does nothing of the kind. Two such eminent protectionists as President Harrison and Maj. McKinley are not agreed as to the simple question whether a tariff diminishes imports. In his speech in the House of Representatives on the 7th of last May, McKinley combated the opinion of the Democratic minority of the Ways and Means Committee that the proposed tariff bill would not reduce the revenue, saying: “The very instant that you have increased the duties to a fair protective point, putting them above the highest revenue point, that very Instant you diminish importations, and to that extent diminish the revenue.” This is a very clear and true proposition. Upon it McKinley proceeded to reduce the revenue by increasing taxation, and thus in so far to prevent the people from buying the things which they want. On the other hand, When President Harrison came to write his message to Congress he found that the imports at the port of New Y’ork for the first three weeks of November were actually greater than for the corresponding periods in 1889 and in 1888; and he called attention to this singular fact with evident satisfaction as showing that “the prohibitory effect upon importations imputed to the act is not justified. ” But the President was too hasty in his conclusion that the McKinley law is not reducing importation. Taking as an example the dry goods schedules, in which the increase of duty was relatively much greater than in other parts of the tariff, we find that for the two weeks ending December 24, the imports at New Y’ork were only $3,959,338 worth, against $5,376,641 for the corresponding two weeks in 1889, or a difference of $1,417,303. When the President wrote many manufactured goods were still coming in from orders sent off before the new tariff law went into operation, with the expectation that the goods would be lauded before the expirationof the old law. The goods did not get in in time to avoid the extra McKinley tax, and there was thus

no longer any motive to hnrry them In. If, however, it should turn out at the end of the fiscal year that our imports irave gone on increasing, will this fact prove that the McKinley law has not restricted imports? Our population continued to grow during the four years of the war; can any sane man claim, therefore, that the war did not diminish the population? The thousands who fell on the battlefields were not so many as the children that were born at the same time. Yet we know that the war caused a loss of population, and this loss was revealed in the census of 1870 in the relatively lower rate of increase for the previous decade than in the earlier decades. j You are not a horse-racer, but you know what a handicap is. When one horse is lighter or swifter than its competitor it is sometimes agreed to handicap the former. A certain quantity of lead is fastened to the saddle in order to diminish the speed and give the other horse a chance to win. Now if the handicapped horse wins the race, notwitstanding that it Is weighted with lead, who but a fool would claim that the handicap had not lessened its speed? Y’et it is such a monstrous claim as this that the protectionist sets up who claims that the tariff does not diminish imports. Such a claim was made in the latest number of the the organ of the Protective Tariff League, in

an article entitled, “Does Protective Tariff Curtail Foreign Trade?” Its answer to this question is, “Never was a greater fallacy promulgated.” Yet in another column this organ of protectionist heresies prints as an article of its own an extract from a speech of Senator Jones, of Nevada, in the United States Senate on Sept. 10, in which that Senator Attempts to show that foreign trade is in itself bad, and is, therefore, not to be desired. trade.” he shys, “spoils the equilibrium of a nation’s industry; it leaves them one-sided and disjointed, and postpones indefinitely the period of their natural co-ordination. ” Tho Senator views with satisfaction “our geographical situation, separated as we are by the fiat of nature from the older forms, the stagnant conditions, and the imbruting civilizations of other continents.” This was said in defense of a bill which had for its object the diminution of foreign trade, and the words of the Senator were consistent, at least, with that object. And yet what a piece of inconsistency is it for the Economist to print such sentiments as its own. and then attempt to show elsewhere that protection does not curtail foreign trade. In disposing of the whole matter I need not trouble you with a long array of figures. I will only call your attention to the familiar fact, which you have often youi! own buying, that as the price of goods rises the fewer will be the sales of them. When sugar, for example, is dearest our housekeepers are most economical in the use of it. Fewer pies, cakes, preserves, etc., are made by the great majority of poor and moderately well-to-do people; and when clothing is dear they wear their old coats longer to escape buying a new one. Now, when these simple economies of poor peopld are added together they make a very large stream of loss to the trade of the country. What the people do not buy the retail merchant will not order, and what the retail merchants do not order the wholesale dealers, importers and agents of manufacturers will not supply. The rise of prices narrows the circle of buyers; and anything which adds to the cost of goods will raise the price to tho consumers. A tariff duty on imported goods clearly raises the cost of them, and must therefore .increase the price at the same time that it diminishes the buyers of them. The duty on imported goods is added to the price to the consumer—not only the whole duty, but an extra gain on the duty itself. As those buyers of imported goods are driven away by higher prices, the Importation of sueh goods must necessarily decline. There can be no two opinions about this; it must be so with absolute certainty. Richard Knox. Some very aristocratic nosea arc triiunied with strawberry red.

LIGHTS AND SHADOWS J THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE INDIANANS. Slashed With a Razor— Shot His Eye Oirt. Robbed by a Foolpod — Brutally Founded—Suicides—Fort Wayne Raising a Purse for Brave Officers. —Crawfordsville’s ’live with tramps. —Peru is now routing out her gamblers. 4 —Scarlet fever is epidemic at Willow Branch. —There’s a genuine case of smallpox in l}odi. —Covington has many severe cases of la grippe. —Adeline Guthrie, aged 80 years, died at Lebanon. —There are two cases of spotted fever in Washington. —Jeffersonville is being tortured with la grippe again. t —Counterfeit two-dollar bills are circulating in Franklin. —Emanuel Kiusey, of Claypool, was fatally hurt by a fall. —Miners’ State Convention will be held in Terre Haute, March 3. —Terre Haute’s nCw electric streetcar system is in operation. —Brazil has a fighting chance of seizing the Indianapolis car works. —Michigan City is going to have a German paper, the Freic Lanze. —A young Shelby villian claims to have smoked 7,000 cigarettes last year. —Hoopston canning factory put up 210,720 cans of pumpkins this year. —Five hundred thousand pike have been placed in a pond at Rome City. —A new and unusually powerful gas well has just been drilled at Muncie. —Fort Wayne mail carriers have organized a mutual protective association. —Shelbyville’s mjw natural-gas company will get its supply near Fountaintown. —John Anderson, a tramp, was found in a Isadly frozen condition at Martins—Tell City will give a square and $20,000 if they’ll let it be the county seat of Perry. —During the past year the city of Crawfordsville paid $5,810 to salaried officers. -—Benjamin Alvis, miner, was fatally hurt by a fall of slate in the mine near Newburg. —The 8-year-old son of ThomaA Anderson, of Owen County, is said tojweigh 200 pounds. —Harry Robins, a 6-year-old Shelbyville boy, was blinded while playing with fire-crackers. —The steamer Gen. Pike met with a disaster at Madison and sank in twenty feet of water. —Little Harry Robins, playing with fire-crackers in Shelbyville, shot out both of —T. R. Johnson, of South Bend, is dead at the age of 77. He settled in South Bend iiL 1843. —.James Whiles, a Union County farmer, has failed, with liabilities of $12,000 and assets of $7,000. —Nine hundred volumes of standard works have been added to the library of the prison south. —Samuel Little, Pike County, has brought suit to eject the striking miners from the houses near his mine. —Fire in 11. D. Pixley & Co.’s—establishment in Terre. Haute destroyed about $15,000 worth of property. —Lewis Summers, of Providence, was accidently shot by a companion while hunting. His wounds are fatal. —(tis a positive fact that gold has been discovered in paying quantities in Blount Township, near Danville. —L. Barber, a brakeman on the C. & E. Railroad, lost his right hand while making a car coupling at Decatur. . —Miss Lizzie Snowberg, who. was so badly injured while crossing the railway track near Camden, has since died. —John Fitzgerald, sr,, a wholesale grocer of Logansport, well-known in tho northern part of the State, died suddenly. —Mrs. John W. Mullen slipped and fell on the icy sidewalk at Madison, suffering a double fracture of boues of her leg. —Henry Underwood, near Groveland, lost his fine barn, with many horses and cattle by tire. Partially insured. Incendiary. -—Noah Hoffman slipped off a load of hay, near Lebanon. A shotgun he was carrying was discharged, tearing off his left arm. —A fox-drive near Loogootee resulted in the capture of live foxes and about two hundred rabbits, nothing but clubs being used. —The German National Bank, of Evansville, has been reorganized under the State laws, and increased its capital stock $150,000. —Mrs. Harvey Moore, Greencastle, attempted to eat one quail a day for 30 days. She ate 29, but could not manage the thirtieth. —B. L. Schroit’s 11-year-old son was drowned while skating near Emma. His companions were too badly frightened to try to save him. —A mineral, gas and oil-well company was incorporated at Greenwood, with a capital of SIO,OOO. Boring will commence immediately. —Lexington jokers put a rope around the neck of Charles Madden, who was intoxicated, and suspended him from a coat-hook. He was nearly lifeless before the jokers realized the gravity of their prank and cut him down. • —Mrs. Wiliianfein and Mrs. Ely, returning to their homes in the country alter shopping in Wabash, were overtaken on the way by a footpad, who deliberately reached in the back of their buggy and took their packages of dry goods, and escaped. —Gen. Lew Wallace, of Crawfordsville, has the following recipe for the cure of rheumatism, that is said to be effectual as well as simple: ‘"Apply a full-strength mustard poultice, containing a little garlic, to the hollows of both feet and then cover up in bed. Place sufficient bedding under you to take up the perspiration. Remain still from three to four hours, then remove the mustard and wet bedding, but do not remove any clothing trom the body for fear of taking cold; let it dry on you. The mustard will not blister the feet, but will drive the disease from the system.’’

—A movement is on foot in Fort Wayne among the citizens to raise $1,500 for Officers Kennelly and Wilkinson, who captured Kuhns. —John Buchannan and Fittie Bender, of New Market, were fotfnd nearly dead in their room at a Jefferson hotel. They had blown out the gas. —Frank Carr and Robert Miesse, Noblesville children, furnished wnh powder for New Year’s fun, are now laid up with faces. burned beyond recognition. —lt is proposed to erect a monument to the memory of the late W. D. Robinson, of Washington, founder of the Brotherhood of Engineers. —The Midland Railroad promises to remove its shops from Lebanon to Brazil if Clay county will vote a $23,000 subsidy to its proposed extension. —Charles Parker, mulatto, in trouble with Lawrence Wagner, slashed him with his razor in Fort Wayne. Jailed on charge of assault with intent to kill. —William Law and .Benjamin Law, each in State’s prison serving twelveyear sentences, make application in the Franklin courts for divorces from their wives. —Maria B. Woodworth, the faith-epre evangelist, has filed in the Delaware Circuit Court a petition for divorce from Philip H. Woodworth, alleging cruelty and unfaithfulness. —A Green County farmer deeded all of his valuable property to his twelve stalwart sons, with the* understanding that they would in future support him. He is now engaged in hauling rails. —Capitalists from Detroit and Muncie have leased twenty acres of James Frazer, near Hillsboro, for the purpose of using the sand there for the manufacture of glass.’ The intention is to locate a factory there. —H. M. Bereaw and George W. Myers, stock buyers, living in Boone County, were called to Frankfort to answer to six indictments charging them with placing a thin piece of lead under the weight on their scales, therefore making 100 pounds difference every time the beam was balanced. They pvere fined 5350 and severely censured. —The trestle of Sam’s Lick, on the French Lick branch of the Monon, gave way while a passenger train was crossing. The engineer put on a full head of steam and got the train over, but it went down the enbankment. The engineer, Andy Erwin, was severely .bruised and Mrs. J. A. Ritter, of West Baden, and the baggage-master, William Price, were slightly injured. —George Ellis, of New Albany, while hunting the Louisville and Portland Canal, was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of his gun. He had Idid the gun in Uie bottom of his boat, and, in picking it up, the hammer caught against an oar. The contents of both barrels struck him under the chin and almost literally blew off his head. —While workmen were engaged in rebuilding the O. & M. Railway bridge over White River at Shoals, a girder was let fall, which knocked a stationary derrick down on the workmen. It crushed Theodore Wiseman, aged 45, of North Vernon, to death, and seriously hurt three other workmen, Lewis Long, P. W. Jackson and Isaac Little. No blame is attached to the railroad company. —Marion Potts, a section-hand on the C., C., C. & St. L. Railroad, was killed by the west-bound passenger train, about three miles west of Wiffcinson, while working on the road. He was struck by the engine and thrown the length of four rails, and his body struck the Randle of : the hand-car and broke it off. His death : was instantaneous. He was a married j man and left a family. —The celebrated case of the State vs. A. T. Howard was settled by compromise for $6,000 in the Floyd Circuit Court. Howard was Warden of the Prison South, and at the expiration of his term of office it is claimed that he was short in his accounts between $15,000 and $20,i 000. Suit was at once instituted, and the matter has been in the courts for i years. A year ago judgment was reni dered for the State for 52,500 in Clark County, and the payment of this judgment is included in rhe compromise. —William Reed, Arthur Hubbard, Orville Wood, Charles Heffner, and Henry Hunch, of Fairland, were in Muncie spending New Year’s, At night they boarded a freight train to ride hoipe. When a mile from Fairland, Reed fell from the top of a box-car and had his head cut off. His body was found alongside the track by the section men. His companions had not missed him. He was a sober, industrious young man, aged 25. His father was killed at Anderson a year ago by falling on a circular saw. H. Mitchell, of St. Louis, Mo., recently’ advertised for a wife, and Mjss Alice V. Cammer, of Pennsylvania, a guest of relatives at Clay City, answered. He lost no time in reaching Clay City and making investigations. He found Miss Cammer young, handsome, and of excellent social standing. He had brought with him satisfactory reference. License was procured and the two were married at once. They left for their new home in St. Joseph, followed by a hundred or more Clay City people, who wished them well. Mr. 1 Mitchell is a school-teacher. The marI riage, though on sight, appears to be a happy one. * . v —Six unknown men inveigled William Vorhies out of his house in Peru, and beat him over the head with clubs. Mrs. Vorheis found him unconscious and helped him home. No explanation can be made of the outrage. —A package containing 10,000 postage stamps, valued at S2OO, was found in the vault of the Howard National bank, of Kokomo, the other day. The stamps were the property of ex-Postmaster Somers, and they had been laying iu the vault forgotten for five years. —The family of Joseph Fein, of New | Albany, consisting of six Arsons, ate what were called canned French peas, and immediately became very ill. All are now out of danger except Mr. Fein, whose condition is precarious. —Beckey Ortman, who has a Government license to sell beer near Crawfordsville, has adopted a scheme to evade the law, which does not permit the liquor to be drank upon the premises where sold. She has erected a small shanty on an adjoining lot and placed a store thereon, where her customers go to drink the liquor.

*f Had a Friend About to visit some section of country malarial disease, either in the form of chills and fever or bilious remittent was l articularlv rife, what would be about the best auvice you could give him? We will tell you—to carry along, or procure on arriving, that potent medicinal safeguard, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitten known throughout malaria-plagued regions’ here and in other countries, as the surest means of disarming the miasmatic scourge, and robbing it of its fell destructive influence. Not ojily does it fortify the system by increasing its Btamiiiu, but overcomes irregularity of digestion, the liver and the bowels, and counteracts the unfavorable effects of over-exertion, bodilv and mental exposure in rough l eather, or occupation too sedentary or laborious, loss of appetite, and excessive nervousness. The functions of alimentation, bilious secretion, and aSuii aV ° 121 a most powerful and rebahu Case of Mind-Cure. “Faugh! That's a nasty pipe, Cholly. Throw the beastly thing to the dawgs!” “Pipes, Fweddy. are [puff] getting to be all the go [puff] in England.” (In ah altered tone)—“ls that an English pipe, Cholly?’’ “Os course it is, old chappie!” “Blaw the smoke this wav again [Sniff.] Baw Jove, Cholly, a fell ih could get used to that vewy quick, <;<>,> [ t -h’ know? [Sniff, sniff.] Raw J<p. > 0 ! a boy, it’s delicious.” We quoted a current item about tl. experience of Dr. Alanus with a vegetarian diet, and his attributing disease of the vessels to his use of that diet. We expr- -,-vd doubt of any Ablation of cause and -IT-. t between such diet and softening artericNow Dr. Holbrook writes that probab’.v ir is a ’fake” item, since the German vegetal ians never heard of Dr. Alanus, and no su.-li name appears in their medical director: - Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. Fair Warning. Lady (who has determined to rid her pet dog of fleas) —Have you anything that will kill fleas? Druggist’s New Boy— Yes’m. but it’ll make y’r skin smart. — Street and Smitli’s Good Nctrs. A colored child without arms or legs la one of the living monstrosities of West Chester, Pa.

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Neuralgia. Hagerstown, Md., April 21,1890. “I, and others of my fkmily, have used SL Jacobs Oil for neuralgia and found it a speedy, effective cure.” Mrs. Agnes Kellet.

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