Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 20 March 1891 — Page 2

(the democrat WECATUr'i nd. M. BLACKBURN, • . Publishes. The Bank of England was estab- ! iished in 1694. The man who is really anxious to do Something for you is usually too poor. ‘ The Farmers’ Alliance has 116 pa- | |>®rs in Kansas—one to every county, | With ten to spare. > The main marble staircase alone in Mrs. Mackay’s new London residence boat over SIOO,OOO. At Nashville, Tenn., during a snowstorm, countless numbers of small : fish fell. They resembled carp. A farmer in Holt County, Kansas, : has 26jliving children, all of whom are ' Unmarried and live at the homestead. ■ Thf. printing press which Voltaire : «et up in Ferney to demolish Christianity is now used to print Bibles in Geneva. A bill passed the Senate jnaking it a felony to fight a prize-fight In the State either with gloves or with- I out gloves. Kansas requires for the instruction of her 509.614 school children 11,612 teachers.-paying her male teachers $42 and hepiemale teachers $34 a month. The English telephone patents have expired, and the monopoly there has come to an end. The Bell patents in this country have still three years to run. ~ \ l__ Folly consists in the drawing of false conclusions from just principles, by •which it is distinguished from madness, •which draws just conclusions from false principles. An employe of the Cincinnati Street Car Cpmpany has held the position of switchman for thirty-five years at a salary of $5 a week. He at one time had a family of ten children. A man who hit on the idea of popping corn iu an attractive stall in the busiest part of Fulton street, New York, in full view- of the shopping crowd, is making lots of money. - The city gas works of Berlin brought $1,750,003 clear profit into the treasury during the last financial year, despite the unusually heaVy expenditures for new gas houses and conductors.- * " ■' TnErlate Cardinal Simor, who was the son of a shoemaker, became a millionaire and one of the richest prelates In Europe. There is a wide difference between pegging soles aud healing souls. Mrs. Sarah Bucks County, Pa., 91 years old,' haslo4 descendants | living-—three children, twenty-two grandchildren, sixty-nine great-grand-ohildfien and ten great-great-grand-children. y— There is in Holt County, Missouri, a farmer xvho has twenty-six children, Including eleven pairs of twins, all living with him. He can truly and even apathetically as Patti sing, “There is no place like home.” ’ The widest plank on earth is on exhibition at the railroad 1 depot at Humboldt. Cal. It was cut at the Elk River mill, and is sixteen feet in width. It 'will among the Humboldt exhibits at the World’s Fair in Chicago. An artesian well near Albert Lea, Minn., which spouts both oil and water, often changes the programme and sends out a stream of small minnows which are wholly unlike' any known species of fish found in that vicinity; According to reports which have recently been published, Germany employe 5,500,000 of her women in industrial pursuits; England, 4,000,000; France, 3,756,000; Italy. 3,500,000; and Austria-Hungary about the same rumbejs. iThe Empress of Germany, since her confinement, has given a fresh proof of Womanly sympathy by ordering 100 complete sets of baby linen to be given to poor mothers. She has also set apart 10,000 marks to accompany the gifts. ' The withdrawal of the cattle from the Cherokee Strip has. left little for the wolves to feed upon and they have migrated into the grazing countlies of Kansas, where they are very troublesome. In one case they carried off a 6-year-old boy. The total population of the earth is about 1,200,000,009, ofyvhich 36,214,000: die yearly,. 98,840 daily, 4,020 every hour, and 67 every minute; the numofl‘births is 36,0)2,000 yearly, 1,000,800 daily, 4,200 every hour, an average of 76 every minute. It is slid that the Maine lumber camps are Unusually brightened by the presence of xvomen this year. They are housekeepers for their fathers and husband-, and seem to have combined to keep obnoxious characters away from the camp. - A Marlette, Mich., physician rejcently gave an old lady patient some quinine in capsules. The other day she brought back the “little bottles,” as she called the empty capsules, to have them refilled, as their contents “had done her lotsjof good.” The bicycle is becoming wonderfully popular nowadays but prejudice has f not- entirely died out. The Bishop of I Chester has found it necessary to come 1 oiit in print and deny the report that he had ridden a wheel, and to back it : up with a promise that he never will. The hunting costume for women in Great Britain is of such a clerical stamp that xvhen a lady was thrown lately in Ireland a countryman rushed up with the remark: “If your riverinee will i just kape along the bank a bit, there j is a handy rail your riverigee might , climb over 1” , It was found from careful germina- I tion tests at the Wisconsin station that

the hulled grains of timothy seed neither germinate so well nor retain their vitality so long as those not hulled; also that timothy seed, when properly stored, is fairly reliable up to five years* old. The Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald prints the following inscription from a tombstone, which evidently refers to a member of one of the old before-the- ' war darky families: “Henryetta, Em- ' meretta, * Demiretta, Creamertarter, I Carolina, Balstic, Daughter of Bob and I Sooky Cottin.” Ordinary accumulators or storage batteries for electrical work are not very portable, owing to the liquids they contain. In consequence of this trouble it has been proposed to add a ■ little sodium silicate to the cell, which has the effect of turning a sulphuric | acid solution into a jelly. I A remarkable petition to the Queen iis on its way from India- It is upward |of sixty feet in length, and is signed by more than two thousand women ol India, who are anxious that the age at which a marriage may be legally entered upon shall be raised from its present limit of ten to fourteen years. Handbells vary more than those designed for public use, and are often composed of brass, silver, and even gold. It is a common idea that silver is mixed with other metals in the casting of bells, to mellow the sound, but this is a mistake: any large quantity of silver would seriously injure the tone. Heretofore the Postmistresses of France have been practically debarred from marrying. By an old-established rule husbands of Postmistresses could not engage in a number of trades or professions on theAhoory that they would offer temptations to the husbands to tamper with the mails. Now, however, the government has abolished these restrictions to the choice of a husband with the exception of. police officials. Soon after the battle of I.exington in the Revolutionary War, Ethan Allen, at the head of eighty backwoodsmen from Vermont, known as “Green Mountain Boys,” made a sudden descent on Fort Ticonderoga, near the soulh end of Lake Champlain. Entering the fort in the night, he found the commander in bed, and summoned him to surrender. ■ “In whose name?” demanded the officer. “In the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!” replied Allen. With the fort Allen secured a supply of powder, then very much needed by the Americans. Gold mining in the colony of Victoria shows a decided tendency to decline. • Between the last two decennial cehSuse> the number of miners fell frdm 54,425 to 35,189, and the population on the gold-fields from 270,428 to 230,944. and this in the face of an increase in the total population of 131,00. >. Eight years later—that is, at the close of 188!)- -the Mining Department estimated the gold miners to number 25,047 only. The total was very nearly equally divided between alluvial and quartz mining—the latter, however, slightly preponderating. The Chinese miners, who only count for in teis number, are nearly all engaged in the alluvial mining. An interesting sequel to Miss Elaine Goodale’s work as a teacher among the Indians is her engagement to marry Dr. Charlo's A. Eastman, a full-blooded Sioux. . Dr. Eastman lived arhong the Indians till he was 14 years old, picking up a smattering of education at a reservation school, and forming an ambition for something better. He went to Beloit College, and from there to Dartmouth, where he took the full course. After studying medicine at Harvard he returned to his people in Dakota, and has been doing useful work among them. Dr. Eastman and Miss Gocdale are both at the Pine Ridge Agency, aud the former has been appointed house physician of the little Episcopal Church which now forms the emergency hospital for Indians who were injured in the recent battle at Wounded Knee. A Pittsberg friend of the late Capt. George Wallace, of the Seventh Cav-‘ airy, thus describes that officer: “He was a magnificent man in every sense, of the word. He was 6 feet 3 inches tall, and .of athletic build. He will long be remembered in the Seventh as a most fearless rider and crack shot, as well as a charming companion. That Captain Wallace died hard and fighting to the last is shown by the latest reports from the seat of war. There were found lying around him where he fell five dead lndians, for whom five emptyNchambers in his revolver accounted. He was wonderfully expert with gun or revolver. I remember that on one little hunting tii;> we took together in Missouri he disdained to use a shotgun “on small game, and brought down more with his rifle than the rest of us could with our scattering guns.” .« Courtesy on Wheels. Mail comfortably seated in crowded suburban train. Numerous tired ladies standing in aisle. Man becomes thirsty. Puts overcoat in seat to hold it for him and goes forward to get drink. Man standing up beckons lady’ Lifts up overcoat and offers her vacant seat. Lady takes seat with profuse thanks to rnan standing up. Thirsty man returns. Finds lady in his seat. Cannot swear owing to presence of ladies. ■ Takes overcoat from innocentlooking man standing up. Does not Jhank him. Looks daggers and brickbat., at everybody, (iocs forward with ■ murder in his heart and gives vent to his feelings on platform outside. No particular moral about incident, but much comfort. And it actually happened.— Chicago Tribune. A Philosophic An Arab water seller who was in Turkey during the last war with Russia was wandering about the rear of a battlefield with two freshly filled jugs of water, calling out: “Clear, cool water, 2 piasters a cupful,” when a shot bounding along smashed one jug to atoms. The Arab wandered on without pausing, but he changed his I cry to “Clear, cool water, 4 piasters a cupful.”— The Jester.

THE FOREIGN MARKET. WHAT THE* FARMER SELLS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Statistics of Foreign Trade in Farm Prodnets—here the Bushel ot Wheat and ■ Barre! of Pork Go To—England Is the ■ Farmer’s Best Foreign Market —Great ' Importance of the Foreign Market to Our Farmers. When a man undertakes to defend a false system he is constantly compelled to make untrue arguments Our protection organs labor early and late to show the farmer that the foreign market is of very little value to him. While . Blaine is trying to get the farmer “a ; market for another bushel of wheat and I another barrel of pork,” and the organs . applaud his efforts, they even forget themselves still and go back to their old job of showing that the foreign market is no good. But the facts' about the farmer’s foreign market are clearly set forth in the figures published b.v the Treasury Department. Those figures for the year ending Dec. 31, 1890, have recently been i published; and they are well worth the attention of any farmer who wants to i know the size of his foreign market and where his greatest foreign market is. I The figures of the department show that the total exports of agricultural produets in 1890 amounted to $628,772,000, which was 74.33 per cent, of all our exports. On the other hand, exports of manufactures were $156,983,000, or only 18.56 per cent, of the total. These figures show that where the manufacturer exported $1 worth of goods the farmer exported $4 worth. The. for-I eign market is Therefore four times more ■ valuable to the farmer than to the manufacturer. The heaviest single, item of agricul- i turai exports was raw cotton, reaching , §254,275,000, or about 10 per cent, of all agricultural exports, and about 30 per cent, of all exports of every kind. Exports of cotton in 1889 were still lamer, being $266,649,000. The next largest item in the total was provisions' $142,842,000. These were divided as follows: Beef products— i Canned beef, $8,610,000; fresh, .<13,837.CO9; salted or pickled, $6,039,000: tallow. $5,738,000.' Hog products—Bacon, $37.855.000: hams, $8,425,000: pork, fresh j and pickled, $4,704,000. Dairy products , —Butter, 53,228,000; cheese, $8,130,0(0. ' The exports of provisions for the past three years make an interesting coin parison, showing, as they do, a gratifying increase. These are the figures; | 1188.. $ 91,249,000 ■ 1889 123,307, COO I 1890.. ?y . 142,842,000 | The next heaviest exports are bread- I stuffs, $141,602,000. Here aie the prin- ; cipal Atoms: Cofn, $37,603,009; wheat, , 842,'348,000: wheat flour, $52,709,000; I oats, $4,141,000: rye, $1,025,000; corn- [ meal, $917,000: oatmeal, $579,000; barley, $463,000. Besides the exports of provisions as <bove given, there was a considerable export of live animals, principally cattle. Total exports pf animals were 835,665,- j 000, of which the exports of cattle reached $33,297,000, against $25,673,000 in 1889. Exports of hogs were $970*000; horses. $808,000: mules, $358,000; sheep, $199,000. There were also some exports of miscellaneous agricultural products. These ' were as follows: Bones, hoofs, horns, etc., ; $400,000: fruits, $2,845,090: hay, $577,000; hides and skins, $1,488,000: hops, $2,172,000: seeds, $2,945,000; leaf tobacco, $21,155,000: vegetables. $1,370,060. Besides these of raw farm produce, there were some $40,000,000 of manufactured goods exported, of which our farmers furnished the raw materials. ! These were as follows: Cotton goods, • $11,113,000; leather and manufactures of leather. $12,575,000; lard oil. 8646,000; i cottonseed oil, $5,400,000; oilcake, $7,762,000; manufactured’ tobacco, $4,018,0.'.0. The above figures afford some idea of the vast importance of the farmer’s foreign market. In the face of such figures the protectionists have the effrontery to try to persuade the farmer that he cannot compete in the mai kets of the world with the pauper labor of countries less j prosperous than ours, and they even go ; to the length of saying that if it were | not for McKinley’s humbug duties on j farm produce our markets would be' '■ flooded with the cheap products of other ' countries! O These figure? prove the ability of 6ur i farmers to hold their own in the world s I market. Yet McKinley made it a re- ; proaeh. to the Democratic minority on 1 the Mays and .Means Committee a year > ago that tliey stood forth in defense of , .that market for our farmers. “The ! ‘world’s market,’ to which tne advocates | of tariff for revenue only invite the farmers of this Country, - ’ he said, “is to- I day crowded with the products of the cheapest human labor the earth affords. All over the old world there is a rush of their surplus to that market, and it is to such a contest as this that free trade I would allure American agriculture.” And still our. farmers go into that mar- I kot and beat “the cheapest human labor” I on its own ground: and they are iu no ) "mood to withdraw market, as I McKinley seems to advocate, if his I words mean anything. The farmers ! know too well that if they should cease I to sell in the foreign market they should i fail to find sale for ail their products 1 at home, and thus depress prices j to an absolutely ruinous figure. But- the, farmers are not fools; I they know that the more of our farm products is taken by Europe and the i more of manufactured goods that is sent to us in exchange, the better off they are. The freedom of that exchange, so beneficial to our farmers, is obstructed in the interests of the manufacturers ssolely under the false cry of “protection to American labor. ” Another important fact shown by the Treasury figures is that England is far and away the farmers’ greatest foreign market Against all the silly protectionist talk about Eng and, “the grasping Briton,” .and the like, let the farmer consider the following figures: Total exports of cattle, $33,297,090* of which England took' $31,364,000; canned beef, $8,610,000, to England, $6,356,000; fresh beef, $13,837,- j 000, to Eng and, $13,654,000; salted : beef, $6,125,000, to England, $3,952,000; tallow, 55,738,009, to England, $2,643,000; baepn, $37,855,000, to Eng’and, $30,966,000; hams, $8,495,600.. to England, $6,857,000; lard, $36,062,000, to’ England, $11,139,000; butter, $3,228,000, to England, $1,355,000; cheese, $8,130,000, to England, $7,080,000. Qpr exports of breadstuffs were also principally taken by England. The leading items were: Corn, $37,693,000, to England, $19,474,000; wheat, $43,348,000, to England, $28,810,000; Hour, $52,709,000, to England, $32,356,0 )0. Exports of raw cotton amounted to $254,00 ',009, of which England took $148,000,609. Hops to the va'ue of $2,172,00) were exported, of which all; except about $65,60 ) went to England. Os $21,155,000 of leaf tobacco England! took $6,191,000. • That is the state of our export trade now. How will it bo if our mad McKinloyfsm has the effect of driving England into opening up new sources of supply? j Many facts point to such an outcome of i our McKinleyism. What will the farmer then think of McKinley’s “farmers’ tariff?” The New York Commercial Bulletin has recently printed the following Item about tho carpet trade: “Carpet men

say that, bo'dy Brussels, velvets, and moquettos have been moving out rather sluggishly of late. This is probably due to the tariff-bred advances established a few weeks ago.” The protection journals, however, keep on protesting that the McKinley law has not caused ah advance in prices of any of the necessaries of life. Let them quit fibbing, or else using carpets as needless luxuries. C ASTELAR ON PROTECTION. The Spanish Patriot Arraigns Protection nn<i Paints the Achievements of America in Eloquent Words. The most progressive man in Spain to-day is Casteiar, who is known throughout the world as a patriot, a statesman, an orator, a writer of ability, and as the leader of the republican movement in that country. Spain is now agitating the question of “revising” her tariff upward, in imitation of the McKinley method, and provoked thereto by McKinley’s Chinese antics. In view of these facts it is of interest to note a recent letter from Casteiar, which was printed in the New A ork Herald. This letter shows Casteiar to be a broad minded citizen of the ■world, devoted to the good of the human race, and hence looking with pity upon the folly of the nations in waging commercial warfare upon each other in the form of protective tariffs. Casteiar does not lay the blame of originating protective tariffs upon America. He finds, rather, that America is simply following the bad example set by Europe. He does blame America, however. for adopting a. system so at war with her traditions of freedom, and sp damaging to her mission as the standards bearer of liberty among the nations of the.world. Among the continental nations of Europe her influence fop liberty and enlightened statesmanship is largely nullified by protection, and her example is used to strengthen thq old hatreds and jealousies which have proven so disastrous to those nations. The old spirit of international distrust and hate which has so often wrought ruin in Europe, is still alive in the form of retaliatory tariff laws, and the exampip of America is unhappily thrown upon the wrong side. Casteiar eloquently says: “Arehamlognl contradictions must disappear, and tin* cause of human progress imperatively requires nations to urge on universal exchange, free trade, just as cosmic heat compels sidereal motion. Having in every sense of the word outgrown the age’ when competition could be fatal to it, as well as the period of economic contradictions, the new world tights against its own providential destiny and betrays its office by aggravafl- - as it is now doing, its . protectionist tar.fl', converted by measures which are simply odious into desolating prohibition. ” *■ How pitiable appear the attempts of the protectionists.to undermine America's confidence in herself, in the light of Castclar’s eloquent portrayal of America’s great achievements. “Nations, like individuals, in proportion as they mount toward the highest summits of illustrious renown, assume an increased responsibility. The nation within whose frontiers reign peace, liberty. democracy, republicanism, progress and labor must noi, beyond those frontiers, represent reaction, race enmity and the retrogradation of humanity. The people who have chained the tempest and subjected the lightning, who have fitted our vessels with the steam engines which enable ■ them to override all waves and to brave all winds, who have given to spe ’ch the speed of lightning, who have created the power of transmitting the human voice over the whole surface of the earth by means of the miraculous telephone, who by the aid of the magic strands of the tele 4 graphic cable hidden in the depthsuf the ocean have joined the mostdistant lands, who have gjten the human race the benefit of the electric light, are compelled to forwa:d the cause of universal progress by the adoption of free labor and free exchange. McKinleyism Gone Mail. The copyright law recently enacted by Congress contains one piece vs protectionism much more crazy than anything in the McKinley tariff law. The latter measure allows the importation of English books not more than twenty years old, upon payment of a duty of 25 per cent.; but the copyright act takes away the privilege of importation altogether, except that any person may import one or two copies of a book for his own use. importation for piloses of sale is obsolutely prohibited ’in tho case of all books print- d in the English language less than twenty years old, and copyrighted in the United States.. Even so extreme a protectionist as Senator John Sherman opposed this piece Chinese protectionism. He. offered an amendment permitting the importation of books upon the. payment of the dutyjust as is the case with all other articles; and this amendment was passed by the Senate. The McKinleyites of the House*, however, refused to accept the Sherman amendment, and the Senate had to back dbwn. Senator Shermanvoting against the whole bill by reason of the failure ol his very sensible amendment. And thus it goes forth to a wondering world that the only things which our McKinleyites absolutely shqt out from the channels of trade in this country are obscene books =■ and pictures, drugs to produce abortion, and-—tell it not in Gath!—all English books not more than twenty years old! Now let the Chinese become civilized and shut out American books. Let the Hottentots catch the inspiration of our example and prohibit the flood of pauper-made Bibles! Protection \\ ages Again. Reductions of the wages of protected Pennsylvania labor still go on. Here are a few of the latest: Allentown—Crane Iron Company, JO per cent, reduction. Pottstown—Glasgow Iron Company, puddlers wages reduced from $3.75 a ton to $3.50: also a reduction of 7 per cent in the plate mill. Potts Bros. Iron Company made similar reductions. Pittsburg—lt is almost certain that the coke operators will reduce wages 20 per cent, instead of 10 per cent., as previously announced. Harrisburg—Wages of puddlers in all the mills about the city to be reduced 25 per cent. March 16. And such is protection to American labor! Getting Kill of thn Sugar Tax. The McKinley law seems to be doomed to teach the people that the tariff is a tax, even where it removes a duty. Raw sugar becomes free April 1, and already refined sugar (No. 4) has been sold in New York in who'esale lots for April delivery at less than3> a ’ cents per pound The McKin'eyites took off the sugar tax in order to prevent the reduction of the tariff on manufactures and in this way to save protection; but free sugar is going to teach the people very cjearly that the tariff is a tax, and that it is a good thing to get rid of such a tax. For American Wear. The high tariff keeps out of the country much of the weol which our people need to make their clothes, and hence it need cause no surprise to hear a leading Massachusetts woolen manufacturer say that a large part of the clothing worn by our people is made of shoddy and cotton. While wool is taxed heavily, rags come in free; even woolen rags, however, pay

tefi cents a pound. A correspondent of the Boston IFool Reporter writes to that journal from London, and gives the exports from that city to various American cities for one week in February. From London to Boston there were 200,090 pounds of wool and 320 tons (716,800 pounds) of rags, and 1,000 bales of rags were in transit. To Philadelphia there were no exports “except 150 ba'esof cow hair in transit.” To Baltimore there were 24 tons (53,760 pounds) of rags. From Liverpool to Philadelphia 134 bales of wool, 121 bales of goat hair and 116 bales of cow hair were exported. Why not give us free wool and less shoddy? ACKNOWLEDGING THE CORN. A Manufacturer and a Rabid Protection Organ Admit that Our Goods Are Sold 'Cheaper Abroad th in at Home. The protectionists are forever getting themselves into a hole, They denied last year with indignant protestations that any of our manufacturers sell their goods cheaper abroad than in the home market; but now comes one of these very manufacturers and states over his own signature that such Is the fact. This particu ar manufacturer is not a believer in the humbug called protection, and he has nothing to lose in making the statement that American wares are bought by the foreigner at lower [prices than by the American buyer, .t The manufacturer in question is Mr. A. B. Farquhar of Y'ork, Pa., who has a very large establishment for making agricultural implements and machinery. He ought to know whereof he’speaks. jjn a recent letter, Mr Farquhar says: “Os the agricultural implements used in South America. Mexico, Australia, and South Africa, we now manufacture a very large proportion in the United States. In some sections American Implements and machinery are used almost exclusively; fully three-fourths of the plows used in South America and South Africa are made in this country. Ov.r implements for export must be sold at very low prices—that is, at a small profit to the manufacturer, since we must compete with England and Germany. The urices obtained for our agricultural implements sold abroad average from 5 per cent, to 15 per cejit less than what we get in this\country. As I have several times had'qccasioti to observe, the manufacturer who is able to export his goods can have no use for protection except to enable him to extort more money ffiom home purchasers than he is able to get from those abroad,”. What is still more remarkable, one of the very high tariff papers which were loudest and most brutal in denouncing the charge that manufacturers sell cheaper abroad than at home, has recently confessed that the thing is sometimes done. Tills is the Chicago inter f-Jjcean. which said several weaks ago in discussing the cartridge trust (protected by a 45 per cent, duty): “Just look at it Four concerns, protected by a stiff tariff against foreign competition, combine and crush out and buy out all competitors in this country, and then compel every American consumer to pay them 25 per cent, more for goods than a Canuek has to pay for the same goods, or a greaser in Mexico! This is protection with a vengeance.” It verily is! Refusing to See a Trust. In their zeal to defend the manufacturers the protectionist orators frequently rush forward w(th statements which are quickly disproved. Senator Hiscock, of New York, said in the Senate, last September, in speaking of agricultural implements: “In respect t > tho manufacture and sale of these kind of goods, there is not now and never has been a combination among American manufacturers to hold up the price above that of free and open com petition.” An old dodge of the protectionists to get rid of trusts by denying their existence. 7 But the decision of Judge Smith at Elm ra, N. Y., shows that there has been a very firm combination of the manufacturers of harrows, and it is said that one of the manufacturers in this Harrow Trust does business in the city in which Senator Hiscock lives. The harrow makers have their 45 per cent, protective duty; and they formed a combination to get the greatest possible advantage from it. In their determination to get absolute control of the market they compelled one manufacturer to join the trust who wanted to remain independent. After joining it ho became dissatisfied with the trust’s methods and drew out. The trust broiight suit to compel him to live up to the agreement made with it; but Judge Smith threw out the case, refusing to enforce the agreement upon the ground that it was against the public interest. The casexis interesting, showing that there is often “a nigger in the woodpile” when people, vvnose fire is burning low. are protesting the contrary in the most vehement language. Tlie Yonng Briile ' hopping. In a close-fitting, tailor-made dress and alight colored cape of Persian lamb, she appeared before the stall-keepers at Washington market. She carried a Russia leather note book with a gold pencil and the most artistic |ittle willow basket imaginable. “Oh, the dear little piggies!” she exclaimed, walking up to where a number of pigs were incarcerated; “how much are they a pair?” “Eight and a half, mum,” said the but her. 4 “Isn’t that pretty dear?” she asked timidly. “1 guess I'll take som* oysters instead,” she said, wa'k rig over to where the men were busy opening the emblems of silence. “I want some oysters sent up, escalloped oysters,” she said, “with plenty of raisins in them. “Oh, th >se lovely pumpkins!” she continued, walking over to a stand where a lot of Edam cheese was displayed. “I’ll take these; I know it’s (Jlebian, but Reginald does like pumpkin pies. Are all hams yellow like this?” she said, pointing to a counter full. “No, miss, that’s only the cover,” said the man in charge. “Ihose lovi ly pink onicns will match my china. How do you sell them a dozen?” “seventy-five cents a bushel,” said the huckster, smiling. “Send up two bushels, ” she said. It is said that the Louisiana sugar planters aie preparing to produce an enormous crop of sugar this year in order toq ocket as big a slice of the McKin’ey sugar bounty as p< ss be. Sugarra’sing being looked upon by the McKinleyites as a pul lie necessity, they vote the peop e's taxes away to the sugar-growers io t ! e tune of some $7,00 ',OOO a year. But is sugar growihg any more a | übl'c n cessity than corngrowing or wheat growing? Massachusetts has, perhaps, more protected industries to the square mile than any other State. Yet a recent report of the Labor Bureau of that State shows that while tl e manufacturii g towns and cities are growing rapidly in population the farming districts are rapidly losing their popu'ation. How is this, if. the farmer gets tho principal benefit frein protection? Efforts are being made to form a trust of all the rubber boot and shne com| antes in the country. McKinley raised the duty on these goods from S per cent, to 30 per cent, and thus lixec* things for the formation of a trust

' The Weitarn Chosen SpeclfleI With every advance of emigration into th* far West, a new demand is created for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. Newly peopled regions are frequently less salubrious than older settled localities, on account of the miasma ■which rises from recently cleared land, particularly along the banks of rivers that are Subject to freshets. The agricultural or mining emigrant i soon learns, when he does not already know, ' that the Bitters afford tho only sure protection against malaria, and those disorders of tho stomach, liver and bowels, to which climatio changes, exposure, and unaccustomed or unhealthy water or diet subject him. Consequently, he places an estimate upon this great household specific and preventive commensurate with its intrinsic merits, and is careful to keep on hand a restorative and promoter of health so implicitly to be relied upon iu time of need. Extravagant Economy. The Captain of a fine clipper ship, rather than pay the price of having a tug tow her into port, attempted to sail her in during a furious gale. The result of this economy was the loss of an SBO,OOO craft, a SIOO,OOO cargo, and the lives of tho Captain and seventeen of the crew, which considerably more than offsets the saving of the price of a tug. Another sad feature arising from this economical spirit of the thrifty Captain, was the death of the Captain of the lifeboat which went, to the clipper's, assistance when she was driven on the rocks. Altogether it was extravagant economy. —A T cw Yorb. Evening World. A SLIGHT COLD, if neglected, often attacks the lungs. Brown’s Bronchial Troches give sure and immediate relief. Sold only in bores. Price 25 cents. A nipping air—The one the mosquito sings before he bitea Beecham’s Pills euro Billions and Nervous Ills. Fine—two dollars and costa Finer —the Judge. Finis —the prisoner.

The Beauty Os It > “ Is that Hood’s Sarsaparilla gives such perfect satisfaction,” writes a prominent druggist recently, after speaking of the large sales of this excellent medicine. We firmly believe there is nothing equal to Hood’s Sarsaparilla to purify the blood and , make the weak strong. If you have That JTifed Feeling, or if your blood is impure, take Hood’s Sarsaparilla. It is the best Spring Medicine How many people fl 11 fl F™ VF F* there are who regard the coming of winter as a constant state of siege. It seems as if the elements sat down outside the walls of health and now and again, led by the north wind and his attendant blasts, broke over the ramparts, spreading colds, pneumonia and death. Who knows when the next storm may come and what its effects upon your constitution may be ? The fortifications of health must be made strong. SCOTT’S EMULSION of pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda will aid you to hold out against Coughs, Colds, Consumption, Scrofula, General Debility, and all A uremic and Wasting Diseases, until the siege is raised. It prevents wasting in children. Palatable B.S Milk. SPECIAL.— Scott’s Emulsion is non-secret, and is prescribed by the Medical Profession all over the world, because its ir-Jjredients are scientifically combined in such A manner as to greatly increase their remedial value. DAUTION.-Scott’s Emulsion is put up in salmon-colored wrappers. Be sure and get the genuine. Prepared only by Scott & Bowne, Manufacturing Chemists, New York. Sold by all Druggists. > SWF- WORTH A GUINEA A BOX/« ( For BILIOUS & NERVOUS DISORDERS ? Such as Wind and Pain in the Stomach, Fullness and Swelling after Meals, \ ( Dizziness, and Drowsiness, Cold Chills,Flushings of Heat, Loss of Appetite, < / shortness of Breath, Costiveness, Scurvy, Blotches on the Skin, Disturbed ( 2 Sleep, Frightful Dreams, and all Nervous and Trembling Sensations, Ac. / ) THE FIRST DOSE WILL CIVE RELIEF IN TWENTY MINUTES. ( 2 BEECHAM S PILLS TAKEN AS DIRECTED RESTORE FEMALES TO COMPLETE HEALTH. J ? For Sick Headache, Weak Stomach, Impaired < s Digestion* Constipation, Disordered Liver, etc., S S they ACT LIKE MAGIC, Strengthening the muscular System, restormg CoHt- J nlexbn, brlnglngback the keen edge of appetite, and arousing with the ROSEBUD OF I. } HEALTH the whole physical energy ot the human frame. One of tbe bj'st guarantcee V j to the Nervous and Debilitated is that BEECHAM’S PILLS HAVE THE LARGEST SALE OF J < ANY PROPRIETARY MEDICINE IN THE WORLD. , .. , . ) 2 Prepared oulv by TIIO.S. BEECHAM. St. Helen., I.nnen.hlre. England, d S Sold by Drutigistsge-nentUy. B. F. ALLEN CO.. 365 and 367 Canal St., New Yoriq 1 ( Sole Agents for the United States. »r ho (if druggist does not keep them) will maiim > ) BEECHAJtt on of H RELIEVES INSTANTLY. g&Bai ELY BROTHERS. M Warren SL. New York. Price BO

Tutt’s Pills enable the dyspeptic to eat whatever he wishes. They cause the food to assimilate and nourish the body, give appetite, and DEVELOP FLESH. Office. 39 Park Place. New York. MM Thru universal fbver am eonlod Tuusohast’. Puget jrf/l Bound Cabbage Sxsns leads JU. J'ScK me *° o4rer • **• GDO’W wttrfio O»yv\. Onion, <*« Jts.w r.ttow Urfr r ill V\\» «»«uwn«. To introduce it and ■fflf /vj-iia I ■ rrr \ <■ »bow its capabilities! will pay wrlff PRI/ Iri i ,J1 SIOO tor the best yield obtain■Mln r I I n Ww <“<! from! ounce of aewl which "ftaL l Jj-Lw rRI I will mail to-«• eta. Cata. mBNIimUT legaefbee.

How’s This? W® offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any ease of catarrh that cannot be cured bv Hall's Catarrh Cure. 1 • F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, Ohio. V e, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and financially able to carry out any obligations tuade by their firm. West & Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. Ohio. Walding, Kinnan * Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle* Sold by all Druggists, A Communist. “Married, ain’t ye?” asked the cook. “Yes, sorter,” answered the now housemaid. “What does your man do?” “He’s a communist.” “Communist? What sort ts job D that?” “W’y, on sunny days he sets around in the park. Calls Jt communin’ with nature.”— lndianapolis Journal. Do you wish to know how to have no steam, and not half the usual work on was today? Ask your grocer for a bar of Dobbins’ Eiectrie Soap, and tho directions will tell you how. Be sure to got no imitation. In . a Pullman* Passenger (reflecting)—l am sure I had a five-dollar gold piece among the change in my pocket. (To porter)—l say. porter, did I give you a five-dollar gold piece along with those nickels and dimes? Porter (calmly)—Yessah! What about t, sah? Wasn’t it good?— New York Herald. "Knowledge is folly unless put to use.* You know SAPOLIO, then use it! Sapolio is a solid cake of Scouring Soap used tor cleaning purposes. Cntcvs performers never engage board by the season. They simply take spring board Do you tumble?

-VASELINEFOR A OXI-DOLLAR BD.L sent ns by ad we will deliver, tree of all chances, to any verson i a the Untied States, all of the toUow.au articles. caretul y packed: One >wo-ouncs bolt's of Pure Vaseline........ Mota. One two-ounce bjltle ot Va-eliue Pomade.... 15 * ' Oi.e jar of Vaseli e Cold Creatn IS One cake of Vaseline Ca uphor 1ce...... 10 * One cuke of Vaseline 8 -ap. unscented. W * One cake of Vaseline Soap, exqu sitely scented 2» * One two-ounce bottle ofWhiio Vaseline » * Or, f»r onttao* aftMtm. nap staple nrMcte at Me prtee named. On no account be pereaaded to pour drutfpM any T'-ttline or preparahon Martfrem wn/Mt labeled ■»«* »w name, because you ie«i cerMßsl» receiee an taahahon wMc* Bae UUU or noeatae. M4r. Ota. M Bt*M SU*»«»