Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1891 — Page 3

“GIVINGOUR MARKETS.” THE SHALLOWNESS OF THE RECIPROCITY IDEA. We Trade for Our Own Good—We Enrich Ourselves by What We Get In Exchange—“ Reciprocity” Good, but Must Be Wider—Thoughts for Farmers. A shrewd Yankee shoe manufacturer Indorses reciprocity for the reason that “it will open up for us markets, without our being compelled to give for them, as a price, markets well and cheaply supplied by our own labor. ” But when we “give our markets,” we donot do so to accommodate other people, but ourselves. The pretense that in putting sugar, for instance, upon the free list we are doing a great favor to Cuba is a piece of transparent hypocrisy. We put sugar on the free list because we Americans want cheap sugar. “Giving our markets” by removing duties is precisely like the citizens of some isolated town going to work to build a railroad in order to put themselves in communication with the outside world — they “give their market” and get a market The mai'ket which they get adds to their source of wealth, but in “giving their market” they do not take one ny from their yyealth. On the contrary," they grow richer by opening their market to outsiders. The “give their market” in order to get goods into it; and surely.these goods are a blessing, el<e the citizens of the town were great fools in building their railroad. Pursuing this analogy further, if these citizens should take up Republican notions about protection and reciprocity, and should determine that their “market” was too valuable a thing to “give away.” they could easily protect that precious market and make it harder for outside goods to come in, by passing a law that all in-coining trains shouid consist of only two cars, that they should not run above ten miles an liour, and that there should be only one such train a day. Os course they build their railroads in order to get goods a as well as to sell them, and these regulations would merely defeat the object they had in view in building the road; yet such regulations are an exact parallel to the whole protection system. Duties are levied on foreign goods in order to render the home market more or less inaecessble. The same thing could be accomplished by compelling all steamship companies to use steamers only half as large as those now in use, to make their trips less frequently, or to remain anchored live days outside our harbors before landing. Such is protection, and such the false notions on which reciprocity rests. Yet for all that, there is no pian in the United States doing more to undermine the protection system than Blaine with his reciprocity treaties Those treaties, if they foreign trad’d, will only make iit plainer to the people that in “giving hway our markets” we are gainers and not losers. ■■■< Moreover, what are to be the limits of reciprocity? It was first intended to be purely an American affair —a thing for “sister republics.” But already it crossed the Atlantic and lias takeu'in monarchical "Spain. Where shall the thing end? If it is good to trade with one Country, why is it not good to trade with any other country? If trade is to be freer with Spain, why not cross the Pyrenees and make it freer with France? Why not cross the Channel and make it freer with England? , But all this is strong meat for the backers of reciprocity. They look back with a timid concern to the home market, fearing lest wo “give away” that market—“the best market in the world. ” They are like the farmer who should decide that he would not open his “market” —for every farmer is a market —to more than one manufacturer of plows or wagons or elbth or sugar. The simplestminded farmer in the country knows that it is best for him to open his little market as widely as possible to all the manufacturers of plows, in order that they may bid against each other and so reduce the price of plows; ditto of wagons, cloth, sugar, and all other commodities f “Competition is the life of trade,” says the old adage, and in order that thpj-o may be competition there must be open markets. American and English Shoe-Making. The London Boot and Shoe Trades Journal gives an interview vjgth a Mr. A. Harden, an American wfib is in England for .the purpose of introducing American shoe-making machinery there. This Mr. Harden makes some statements which should be read with interest in this country. The London journal says: “Invited to give his opinion upon our systen£ and quality of work prodiiced, he expressed himself as considerably surprised at the high degree of excellen’ce attained by the mixed up methods now prevailing here, and candidly admitted that there was little to be desired in the latter respect, but in,the former he considered we were just about in the same position as the Americans were about twenty years, ago; but he could observe that many of the manufacturers were of a progressive type, and' with the facilities afforded by the numerous, large and well-appointed factories we should rapidly overtak<®.hiscountrymen, the two things necessary being the adoption of good machines and systems and the cooperation of the workmen. The workmen in America had learned that machinery was beneficial to them and to the whole ,community. It dispensed with a great portion of manual labor, the men using brains instead. It also meant to them higher wages and short r hours, to the manufacturer increased profits and to the community at large the advantages accruing by 5 the cost of production being lessened, thereby superior goods could be bought at even reduced ’ prices, and so increasing the consumption to such an extent that hand labor could not cope w;ith the demand, and he was certain our workmen would speedily become cognizant of the above advantages. ” If the system of shoe manufacturing in England is twenty years behind ours, where is the need for our 25 per cent, duty on boots and shoes? Certainly it is not necessary to protect labor, for, as Mr. Harden points out, our machinery gives the laborer an advantage over his foreign competitor. In a late number of the Boston Boot and Shoe. Recorder its Brockton (Mass.) correspondent reports that an Englishman had been in that city and had said that he found labor cheaper there than in England, Bro< ktoii is the largest boot and shoe manuia turing center in the United States, and it is claimed by the correspondent just quoted that wages are higher there than in other pla es in New England and the West. Ex-Consul Schoolcraft is authority for the statement that a pair of shoes costing 35 cents to’make in this country costs 60 to make in England, this being due to the greater use of hiaehinery here and to the greater efficiency of our labor. What becomes, then, of the claim that our laborers in boot and shoe factories need protection from foreign competition? Still Humbugging Labor. At the recent protectionist banquet in New York one Mr. George Gunton, who plumes himself upon being a political economist, made a speech in which he said: •“Are wage laborers benefited by protection, then Is the question If they are not, there is no economic, social or political defense for a protective policy. I for one am willing that the merits of

the protective policy shall stand or fall by this test ” In answer to this challefte may be quoted the following list, giving but a few cases of wage reductions In protected industries made within about a month before these words were spoken. The twelve manufacturers of brick in Trenton, N. J., gave notice on April 5 that the wages of their employes would be i educed 20 per cent, on the following day. On April 6 the workmen, 1,200 in number, went on stride against the re--1 duction. A reduction of 20 cents per thousand in the, cigarette factory of David Billori in this city, caused a strike on March 26. In Lehigh, lowa, 100 miners went on strike April 3 because of a reduction from SI to 86 cents per ton. The wages of engravers and chasers at the Middletown (Conn.) Plate Company’s establishment have been reduced 15 per cent. The men employed in Bequardi’s cigar factory, Baltimore, were on strike April 9 against a reduction of from SI to $2 per thousand. Twenty-seven finishers employed at ■ Solomon’s leather factory in Newark struck, on April 10, against a threatened reduction of 14 per cent. Forty ribbon weavers at Frank & Dusilk mill in Paterson, N. J., went ‘‘Wf strike, April 20, against a reduction i of 75 cents per cut. This was the third , reduction in two weeks i The employes of the New Haven Rolling Mill Company, in New Haven, Conn., went on strike, April 6, owing to a reduction of 10 per cent. i On March 31, the weavers at the ging- : ham mills of the Fitchburg Manufacturing Company, at "West Fitchburg, struck because the firm refused to pay them a 1 uniform rate of three cents per yard on : all grades of goods. When is protection going to make ' labor contented and happy? A “Revival” Promised. I When is protection ever to “do its I work?” We have now had high tariff for thirty years, and still protectionists are busy making promises that proteci tion is going to make the country prosI perous. President Harrison said to the 1 people of San Francisco: I “1 feel that we have come to a point ' where American industries, American I commerce and American influence are to be revived and extended. ” American ship building has had for i years absolute protection in the shape of laws entirely forbidding the purchase of foreign ships: and despite this absolute protection the President has to confess that, so far as ocean Shipping is j concerned, we have already gone out of ' business. - I But even the President, hide-bound i protectionist that he is. is making progj ress away from Me Kinley ism. In his : speeches on the tariff in the House of Representatives last year McKinley ask- : ed contemptuously, “Why need we vex ourselves about foreign commerce?” Ho 1 1 praised his bill for the very reason that ; I it would “diminish the importation of • 1 competing foreign goods:” and there 1 was applause on the Republican side of the House. But 10. what a change in one brief year! Here is our President going aboui the country telling the people that American industries are at the point of I being “revived” since the pillion Con- ’ gre|s has voted subsidies to ships for the ! purpose of increasing our foreign trade. ( McKinley erects his wall and frankly tells us that it is for the purpose of reI dueing imports,. McKinley bill and subsidy bill are both i passed, the one to kill trade the other to , “revive” it; and they are both signed by i the same President! It is all very i amusing. American Locomotives. The Railway Gazette says: “German locomotives are said to cost, on an average, SII.OOO .eaeh.r Our native I establishments would be Overjoyed at , such prices. It has not, we believe, : been questioned that the Americans can ' produce better as well as cheaper enI gines. The closer the comparison between the" railway systems of this coun- ! try and the old world the more reason we have to be proud of the skill of our artisans and the progressive spirit of our manufacturers. ” & .Last year the Baldwin Locomotive Works, of Philadelphia, built locomotives for tfie new railway between Jaffa and Jerusalem, in Palestine. It was to this fact that one of the speakers at the late protectionist banquet in New York referred when he triumphantly exclaimed: “It is due to this policy [protection | that the ruins of the ancient world vibrate with the shrieks of a Philadelphia locomotive.” Not long ago a ship steamed out from Philadelphia with an entire cargo of Baldwin locomotives boujid for Australia. Last year we exjwted 161 locomotives, valued at $1,280,000, or slightly less than SB,OOO apiece. ~ Facts like these certain!}' prove that we are abundantly able to manufacture locomotives in competition with all the world. Yet what does Major McKinley do? He put a duty of 1.8 cents p%r pound on all locomotives. This means; a duty of $40.32 per ton, or a total duty of $1,128 on a standard passenger locomotive weighing twenty eight tons. There is absolutely no need and no excuse for this duty. The only purpose it can serve is to enable the few manufacturers of locomotives to keep up prices in the home market at the same time that-they are selling their locomotives in successful competition with all -the world. I He Will Not “Make Her Obey.” In a Sheffield church the other day a marriage ceremony came to an abrupt and altogether unlboked-for termination. 1 It was the fault of the would-be bridegroom, and most people will say in losi ing his bride he met his deserts. The Ceremony went on right enough ; till the clergyman, addressing himself to I the woman, put the question whether 1 she would have the man to be her hus- ! band, “to love, honor and obey.” J i At the mention of the word “obeyr the bridegroom ejaculated, “I’ll make thee. ” * I i “Are we married yet?” asked the woman of the clergyman. / “Xo. you are not,” he replied. / 1 “Then we shall not be, ” said she, and thereupon she left the churcK \ The man protested that it whs4§o late, but she heeded him not, and his discomfiture was made none the less when ' the parson told him that he thought she had acted very s^sibly, — Irish Tinies. Silly people, who are still asking I whether the tariff is a tax, can, find an ; answer in the fact that granulated sugar is now selling in the United States at from 4’.j to 4% cents per pound, while j just across the border in Canada, the 1 price is seven cents. The difference, you see is just this: Canada has a duty of 1 cent per pound and 35 per cent ad ; valorem on refined sugar. Is the tariff a tax? 1 FraXce collects a duty of 22 cents a l ton on coal and Germany admits coal freq, yet the wages of coal miners in France is 75 cents a day, while in Germany the miners earn from 75 l cents to sl. Protection does not serve to work any I better for labor in France than in our 1 I own country. Since Germany undertook to protect 1 itself from American pork by an abso- I i lutely prohibitory law, the prices of all 1 kinds of hog-meats nave advanced 40 to I ■6O per cent, in that country. Meantime ;

Germany’s, imports of our hog products have fallen from $11,000,000 in 1881, to a very low Ugure last year, excepting the single item of lard, which is still imported under a duty of about 1 cent per pound. Aside from lard, Germany took from us last year only a little more than $200,00C worth of hog-meats. THE TWINE TRUST. THE MANUFACTURE OF BINDEF TWINE STILL INCREASES. Openins of an Immense Factory in Brooklyn, N. Y.—Lower Unties Have Not Hurs the Twine-Makers — False Representartions to Get Higher Duties. The following item has recently appeared in a New York trade journal! “The American Manufacturing Co., which consists of the various mills comprising the jute trust, has just completed and will In a few days begin to operate its new mill at Brooklyn, N. Y. Its capacity is said to be 860,000,000 pounds annually of rope, binder twine and bagging.*’ Here we have the binder-twine industry flourishing like a green bay tree, although the - twine men were filling the ■ air with prophecies of blue ruin last year when the reduction of duty way proposed. The original McKinley bill passed the House of Representatives and was sent to the Senate on May 21. On the 26th of May the following statement was sent to the Senate Finance Committee by the binder-twine manufacturers: Sir—The cordage and binder-twine manufacturers of the United States beg that your honorable committee will amend that clause in the tariff bill which relates to onr business. It places a duty of 1% cents per pound upon binder twine. Should this become a law it will close our mills. We ask for IJ4 cents per pound, an increase of onehalf cent. In September came the effort to put binder twine on the free list, which was at first successful in the Senate by reason of the Northwestern Republican Sentors voting with the Democrats. When, however, the bill was in conference committee, the trust made a determined light for the restoration of the duty. In this fight the trust was strongly supported by the high tariff New York Tribune, which spoke of the effort to put twine on the free list “in the interest of the farmer,” as being “as shallow and indecent a pretext for a raid upon a legitimate industry as was ever made by political bushwhackers of either party. ” This foolish defense of the trust was made, by the high tariff organ, notwithstanding tho fact that Senator Davis of Minnesota had shown ia his speech in the Senate that the trust was squeezing profits of 40 per cent, a year out of the farmers. In the face of this fact the organ went on to say that “to put binder twine on the free list is so probably out of harmony with all the principles of protection as to be almost I an absurdity in the pending bill. ” Another organ which camo to the aid of the 'Tribune in defending the trust was the Manufacturer, the mouthpiece of the powerful protectionist organization in Philadelphia known as the Manufacturers’ Club. As the result of this squabble over binder-twine a compromise by the Republicans in the conference committee. Twine made of istle, Tampico fiber, sisal grass or sunn bore a duty under the old law of 3% cents per pound, and that made of manila a duty of cents. These duties &ere respectively equal to 27 and 22 per cent, ad valorem. The duty on both classes was made 7-10 of 1 cent per pound. The old duty on jute twine was 35 per cent’: this was reduced to cents per pound. The cordage trust had said that the duty of ll< cents per pound would close their mills and asked Tor cents. They did not get it, but got only 7-10 o.f a cent on manila and sisal twine Did the trust then close their mills? On tho contrary, within a week or two after the McKinley law went into operation, it issued a prospectus which was advertised in many of the leading newspapers, in which it Was said tnat—“The annual aggregate profits of the several coneerns for the past ten years have been more than enough to pay the annual dividend on the preferred stock and leave a very large surplus, notwithstanding the fazt that during some of that period the interests now consolidated were in competition of a character now avoided. “The committee further certifies that at no time within the past twenty-five years have the aggregate annual profits of the several concerns been insufficient to pay the 8 per cent dividend on the preferred stock, although the consumption of cordage at the beginning of that period was only one-quarter what it is to-day. ” And now comes the report of the completion of the jute trust’s enormous fac•tory at Brooklyn. It seems clear that when an industry says that lower duties will ruin it and close its factories, its statements are to be looked upon with suspicion. Tale of a Joke Maker. A professional humorist said the other day: “There is a great deal of truth about jokes which both readers and writers recognize in practice but do not often formulate. It is this: “A good joke improves no less with age than does the wine of Bordeaux. Once upon a time there was a famous speaker whose tolerably bad lecture started off and ended with two of the most exquisite jokes ever invented. People traveled miles and sat patiently through the same lecture year after year to split their sides at the same old jokes. After the effect of the introductory joke had worn off there was always perfect silence until the lecture was three-quarters done, when the anticipations of an audience which had never been swindled would begin to break out in gurgling laughter, nods, winks and whispers of ‘it’s coming!’ And when at last this well-seasoned old chunk of wit brought the performance to a close, the very roof was raised. “But one fa‘al night there was a bad case of dyspeptic pessimism in a front seat. It is true that when he roared ‘chestnut’ at the first joke the audience nearly mobbed him, but the lecturer’s tender spot was touched. He prepared a new lecture which began and ended with two absolutely fresh jokes. When the lecturer walked npon the platform with his new manuscript in his hand he received an ovation. ‘ « “The first new joke seemed to stupefy the people. But a few sentences of I the new lecture seemed to wake them up, and they rose as one man and demanded their money at the box office. At the next town the lecturer affixed the old jokes to the new lecture, and all went so well that he is still cracking them with constantly increasing success. ” The oleomargerine men, who have a protective duty of six cents per pound, are reported to have formed’a trust, and already to'have made two advances in price. A tine of SI,OOO is said to.be pro- ! vided as a punishment for breaking the I trust agreement ’ Cook books are valuable in showing . the cook what she hail better avoid.

|B( Swindled • Real Estate WewtThis is the season when the real estate men are bothered by tree agents. One day last week, while the writer was talking with a well-known dealer, a man entered the office and inquired: “Do you own any subdivisions ?” “Yes,” was the brokers reply. “Well, Td like to sell you some trees to set out on your property. I’ll warrant them.” “Well, now look here-a minute. Can you show me a subdivision in Chicago that has trees two years old growing on it? Do you know of one? I’d be glad to have it pointed out to me if there is one.” The tree man was at somewhat of a loss, and after asserting that he didn’t know anything about other people’s trees, that he would warrant his own to live two years and would take them back if they didn’t, that the reason why many trees didd was because they didn’t have proper care, that a sandy soil was hard on trees any way, etc., beat a hasty retreat. “I am shy of those fellows.” asserted the real estate man after the visitor had departed, “I had an experience with one of them which has rather dis- , couraged me from buying any more trees. A well-dressed man came in here once and I bought some trees of him and had him set them out on a subdivision of mine. They stood there for a year and at the end of that time not one of them had shown any signs of life. Soon aftei I found out the same fellow drifted into the office . again and wanted to sell me more trees. I told him pretty emphatically what I thought of him and he seemed very sorry about it and offered to take them away, saying that he supposed ttyat as they stood they were merely an eyesore. I told him to go ahead and take away the trees. After he had gone I began to 4think about the matter and the longer I thought tbe stranger it seemed to me that he should volunteer to take away those trees, when he must know very well that I never would buy any more of him. So I wrote a note to a man who worked for me and lived near the subdivision, and told him to watch when any one came after the trees, follow him and see what he did with them. After a while the fellow came with a team and took up the trees. My man followed him, and what do you think he did with those trees ?” “He took them over to another subdivision not two miles from mine and set them out on it. How many times he had sold them before he sold them to me no one knows. That’s why I’m careful about buying trees.”—Chicago Herald. * Court Bodmakers. Ah amusing record of ancient domestic service is that concerning the customs of the court bedmakers in the time of Henry VIL Only men were employed, and with them it was apparently “a fine art study.” A merry time, too, they must have had, with no hurry to speak of, if reliance may be placed upon the accounts handed down from “the king at arms” of the period. “First, by four sturdy young men, the curtains must be drawn, and a gentleman usher must hold them fast; the next touch of ceremony demanded that two squires should guard the bed’s head, and two yeomen of the crown must likewise watch at the bed’s foot, after which, all the stuff should be laid safely and evenly on a carpet at the foot of the bed, and so remain until the contents of the palliasse were re J made, and a yeoman should leap up and down thereon to array the litter, and lay on the canvass, and put into smoothneis the feather bed. “The under blanket byway of eminence termed the fustian, was then cast on without wrinkles, and the sheet samewise, the latter to be well tucked in; to be followed by a second sheet, blankets, and a final covering of marten’s fur and ermine. “Thepillows, beaten by a yeoman, were tossed to the squires to place them as pleaseth the king’s grace; and., lastly, a sheet of Rennes linen was passed under the pillows.”— Harper’s Bazar. Selling Peacocks and Dogs. 8 A street fakir selling peacocks on Broadway said: “These birds come from Ohio. What are they worth? I’ll sell them to you for $25 a pair. My pard here has the female aud this is the male, a lovely specimen, as you see. Why do we bring them along Broadway ? Because the swells and your fine ladies would not see them anywhere else. We Work Broadway from Fourteenth to Thirteenth street. The trouble is we draw such crowds that the police won’t let us stand long in one place at a time. It blocks up the sidewalk, you see. “Yes; sometimes I sell dogs. I sold fancy dogs in London and Paris. There ain’t no place like America for one of us. Dead loads of pups are sold on the streets here every year. People who won’t go to dog fanciers are often struck with the dog mania when they are confronted with the live article on the street corner. That’s where we catch ’em on dogs. That's where I’ve been catching ’em on peacocks. We are going to run elephants next”— Neto York Herald. Attacking Ant Hills with Cannon. In the forests of Guiana dwell some very large and exceeding ferocious black ants, which throw up hills fifteen and even twenty feet in height They will not hesitate ito attack man, and their headquarters are usually given a wide berth. The traveler Malouet speaks of having witnessed the destruction of one of these fortresses and its inhabitants in away that was I certainly extraordinary. A trench was dug entirely around it and filled with dry wood, which was set fire to simultaneously at all points. Then a train of attillery was brought to bear and .the hill knocked to pieces with the cannon balls. The ants, seeking to escape, were all burned in their attempt to cross the fiery gutter.— lnterview in Washington Star. A Good Deal ot Trimming. «‘ Some idea of the size of the milliner bills which the husbands and fathers of this country are [called upon to pay may be had from estimates made by the Government that the amount of money which must be refunded by Uncle Sam on account of his having levied excessive duties on hat trimmings will aggregate between $20,000,000 and $30,000,000. This sum ’ represents only the difference between the legitimate duty on hat trimmings and that on ribbons during the period covered by the claims of the importers. It indicates that the female form divine requires a good ° deal of trimming.— Boston Herald. “Now,” said the teacher, who had been trying to instil her class with a love of nature, “which of the seasons do you like best? Johnny may answer.” And Johnny promptly answered, “The baseball season.”

=?—. 11 LU!.£.' POUOBOUB Plants and Flowers. There are many plants whose leaver flowers and seed contain virulent poisons, which every one should know, so as to avoid them and keep children from them. Buttercups possess a poisonous property which disappears when the flowers are dried in hay; no cow will feed upon them while in blossom. So caustic are the petals that they will sometimes inflame the skin of tender fingers. Every child should be cautioned against eating them; indeed, it is desirable to caution children about tasting the petals of any flower, or putting leaves into their mouths, except those known to be harmfess. The oleander contains a deadly poison in its leaves, and is said to he a dangerous plant for the parlor or dining, room. The flower and berries of the wild briony possess a powerful purgative; and the red berries, which attract children, have proved fatal. The, seeds of the laburnum and catalpa trees should be kept from children; and there is a poisonous property in their Dark. The seeds of the yellow and of the roughpodded vetches will produce nausea and severe headache. Fool’s parsley has tuberous roots which have been mistaken for turnips and produced a fatal effect an hour after they were eaten. Meadow hemlock is said to be the hemlock which Socrates drank; it kills by its intense action upon the nerves, producing complete insensibility, and palsy of the arms and legs, and is a most dangerous drug, except in skillful hands. In August it is found in every field, by seashore and near mountaintops, in full bloom, and ladies and children gather its large clusters of tiny white flowers in quantities, without the least idea of their poisonous qualities. The water hemlock, or cow-bane, resembles parsnip, has been eaten for them with deadly effects. The water-dropwort resembles celery when not in flower, and its roots are also similar to those of the parsnip, but they contain a virulent poison, producing convulsions which end in death in a short time. The fine-leaved water-drop-wort, and the common dropwort are also dangerous weeds. The bulbs of the daffodil were once mistaken for leeks and bbiled in soup, with very disastrous effects, making the whole household intensely nauseated, and the children did not recover from their effects for several days.— Country Gentleman. Geometry. Three elderly gentlemen, all college graduates, were discussing the effect of time in obliterating early training at. school. One of them, Mr. A., asserted that they had all forgotten nearly everything they learned at school, and this the second gentleman, Mr. 8., as strenuously denied. “For instance,” said Mr. A. to Mr. 8., “what do you know about" Geometry now? Anything at all?” “Certainly,” said 8., “a good deal.” “Well,” said the third man, Mr.' C., breaking in, “let’s have a little examination. A., what is the shortest distance between two points called?” “A railroad,” said Mr. A., promptly. Mr. B. laughed heartily. “Well, B.” said C., “pdfrhaps you can tell me what the shortest distance between two points is?” “A telegraph line, of course,”said Mr. 8., triumphantly.— Youth’s Companion. A Deaf-Mute Cow. Alt Sander Skerkoff, the Russian veterinary surgeon, reports the case of a deafmute cow. She is 12 years old, of Algava breed, belongs to a Russian nobleman, and has never showed signs of hearing, or been known to bellow. Seeing that other cows ebellow she tries to imitate them, stretching out her head and opening her mouth—not. however, producing the least semblance toasouud. Two of her offsprings have been curiously malformed. One had its tail directly between its eyes; it lived but a week. The other is a full-grown cow of 5 years, with her udder in her flank, about eight inches from her backbone. Changing Defeat to Victory. „ The genius of Sheridan at Winchester changed defeat to victory. So when feeble adversaries in the shape of inefficient remedies fail to stay the progress of that obstinate and malignant foe, malaria. Hostetter’* Stomach Bitter* turns the tide—drives the enemy back. Nothing in materia mtdica, or out of it, compares with this as an opponent of every form of malarial disease. Chills and fever, dumb ague, bilious remittent, aud ague cake—it matters not—one and all are extirpated by the Bitters. To take a course of the great preparative in advance of the malarial season ii to buckle ( on, as it ware, an armor of proof which defies attack. So fortified, bo protected, you shall be scatheless. Remember, too, that the Bitters is an eradlcator of liver complaint, constipation, rheumatism, kidney complaints, and dyspepsia. Everybody Broke. Dedbroke—lt’s no use denying that times are hard. I tested the matter thoroughly this morning. J ackson—How? Dedbroke—l accosted a dozen prominent citizens whom I met on the street and asked each one for the loan of $5 for a short time only. Would you believe that not one of the twelve had that paltry sum in his poeket.— Harper’s Bazar. Light Wires. The overhead wires originally selected for the telephone service in London were galvanized, and weighed 224 pounds to the mile; but these are now replaced by silicon bronze, weighing thirty-six pounds per mile. DR. L. L. GORSUCH, Toledo, O.,*ays: *1 have practiced medicine for forty years; have never seen a preparation that I could prescribe with so muon confidence of success as I can Hall’s Catarrh Cure.* t-Bold by Druggist*, 75c. Corn and Roads In Kansas. A Douglas County (Kansas) farmer was compelled to use four horses the other day to haul twenty bushels of corn to Lawrence, but he got $1 a bushel for it. Bbbcham’s Pills cure Billions and Nervous Ills. a hen-peckbd husband Is often chickenhearted.—Texas Siftings. Makes the Weak Strong The way In which Hood’s Sarsaparilla builds up people in run down or weakened state of health conclusively proves the claiin that thia medicine *!nakes the weak strong" It does not act like a Btiinulant, imparting fictitious strength from which there must follow a reaction of greater weakness than before, but in the moat natural way Hood’s Sarsaparilla overcomes that tired feeling, creates an appetite, purifies ths blood, and, in short, give* great bodily, nerve, mental |*nd digestive strength. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggist*. sl:*lxfort& Prepared only by O I. HOOD A OO M LoweU, Ma*». 100 Doses One Dollar

. THE WABASH IiINE. H-andaoae equipment, E-tegant day ooaohea. and W-agner palace sleeping can A-reln daily service B-etween the city ot St. liouis A-nd New York and Boston. 8-pacious reclining chair cars H-ave no equal Ir-ike those run by the I-ncomparable and only Wabash. IV -ew trains and fast time E-very day«in the year. From East to West the sun’s bright ray. Smiles on the line that leads the way. MAGNIFICENT VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS, running free reclining chair cars and palace- sleepers to St. Louis, Kansas City, 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. Chandler, Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, St. Louis, Mo. Inquisitive. Children are all the time holding up a mirror in which older people may see their own characters reflected. Here, for example, is a picture for nervous invalids. “Have you got a pain, my little puss?” said Mary’s mother. “Yeth, mamma; ithurth like anything when I touch it.” “Then I wouldn’t touch it, dear.” “But, mamma, I want to thee how much it hurth.”— Jester. “Pjlpk." said mamma, "bring home a box of Bull’s Worm Candy.” She meant Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyers, but then the children call it candy and papa knew what she wanted. By mail, 25 cents. John D. Park, Cincinnati, Ohio. A Good Record. A man who has lived in Akron, Ohio, for forty-two years, has for the last twenty-eight never missed a week-day night of calling at a certain giocery store and sitting on the cracker barrel and telling stories. He has told one certain story over and over at least 4,000 times, and it was a “made-up” story at that. Why are you sick? Because you have neglected Nature’s laws. She continually tries to correct the trouble, but cannot do it without assistance. Prickly Ash Bitters is the assistant needed, and with the help of this medicine your health will be fully restored. Give it a trial and watch the results. Death to Bugs. A new insecticide is the subject of a Florida patent, It is a compound of sulphur, caustic soda, chloride of sodium, nitrate of potassa, and water, the invention including the process by which the sulphur is reduced from a solid to a fluid condition. For strengthening and clearing the voice, use “BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES.”— “I have, commended them to friends who were public speakers, and they have proved extremely serviceable.”—Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. _____________ Chess Reform. Mr, John Bland, a chess player, proposes to revolutionize the game by making the board nine squares wide, and adding besides a pawn another piece, to be called the “Premier,” possessing the combined powers of queen and knight. The best cough medicine is Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c. It must have been something funny that made Minnehaha. A heavy burden —all the ills and ailments that only female flesh is heir to. It rests with you whether you carry it or lay it down. You can cure the disorders and derangements that prey upon your sex, with Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It’s a legitimate medicine, carefully compounded by an experienced physician, and adapted to woman’s delicate organization. For all organic displacements and weaknesses, accompanied by weak back, hearing-down sensations, and for all uterine diseases, it’s a positive specific. It’s guaranteed to give satisfaction, in every case. If it doesn’t, you’ve only to ask for your money and it’s cheerfully refunded. If it does, you’ll want to ask for nothing more. It’s the cheapest medicine you can use, because you only pay for fAe good you get. It improves digestion, enriches the blood, invigorates the system, and produces refreshing sleep.

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“August .Flower” There is a gentleDyspepsia, man at Malden-<m-the-Hudson, N. Y., named Captain A. G. Pareis, who has written us a letter in which it is evident that he has made up his mind concerning some things, and this is what he says: “ I have used your preparation called August Flower in my family for seven or eight years. It is constantly irnny house, and we consider it the best remedy for Indigestion, and Constipation we Indigestion, have ever used or known. My wife is troubled with Dyspepsia, and at times suffers very much after eating. The August Flower, however, relieves the difficulty. My wife frequently says to me when I am going to town, ‘We are out Constipation of August Flower, and I think you had better get another bottle. ’ I era also troubled with Indigestion, and whenever I am, I take one or two teaspoonfuls before eating, for a day or two, and all trouble is removal. ” $ Tutt’s Pills stimulate the torpid liver, strengthen the digestive organs, regulate the bowels, and' are unequaled as an Anti-Bilious Medicine. \ Elegantly sugar coated. Dose small. 25 cent.. Office. 39~& 41 Park Place. N. V. PURIFY YOUR BLOOD. But do not use the dangerous alkaline and mercurial preparations which destroy your nervous system and ruin the digestive power ol the stomach. The vegetable kingdom gives us the best and safest remedial agents. Or. Sherman devoted the greater part of his life to the discovery of this reliable and safe remedy, and all its ingredients are vegetable. He gave it the name of Prickly Ash Bitters I a name every one can remember, and to tho present day nothing has been discovered Jiaf Is so beneficial for the BLOOD, for tho LIVER, for the KIDNEYS and forth» STOMACH. This remedy is now so welt and favorably known by all who have used, it that arguments as to its merits are useloss, and if others who require a corrective to the system would but give it a trial tho health of this country would be vastly improved. Remember the name—PRICKLY ASH BITTERS. Ask your druggist fer it. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO., CT . T OUTS. XOl ♦ I EWIS' 98 LYE I Powdered and Perfumed. Kb The strongest and -purest Lfjg made. Will make the best per. i* fumed Hord Soap in 20 minuteo without boiling. It isi SIXO ZESeat: for softening water, cleansing waste-pipes, disinfect. HW ing sinks, closets, washing bot» VH ties, paints, trees, eic. PENNA. SALT M’F’G CO, CQsSZZuBb Gen. Agts., Phila., Pa. « PAID Me’Twill PAY Y ®“ Plain directions by which anybody, aay where can make from *25 to 12,500 per year. Twin not interfere with, but will improve any business. Send Name, Postoffice and State, enclosing SI.OO. Addrees, M. COKCDOX, Hands, 111. 111 ■ ■ ■ SAMPLES SENT AB | ■ Os spring patterns with bor3EW ■■ ■ ■ ders and ceilings to match ■ E ■■ |L_ One bait million roll, ot ■ ■ • • sered at wholesale priCba White blanks, 4c to 6c; am m Bs Gilts, Sc to 35c; Em- H bossed Gilts, 10c to 50c. WW BB RW Bl ■■ 1 will send you the most J ■ ■ popular colorings, and ■ a mm ~W ■ guarantee to save you money. ALFRED PEATS, 'Wall Paper Merchant, 63-fsW.Wa»hington-st..Cb>rsgo Whc. thi Dcaraees in eauece er SCARLET FEVER. COLDS, MEASLES, CATARRH, AC. evTHC use or ths invisible (nFAriSOUND DISC U I*- IT fwhieh guaranteed to help a largpp wMw B ■ * Iper canl. of cmos than all similar WHiaWVWYioN combined. TA« «awM lo rho Jtara glasses are to the eyes Positively invisible. Wom months without remota* ■eCe WALKS, Bridgeport. OmP IlflTU t DC IyIU I llEnw bedwetting.) For circular, and testimonial, address, with etanw* Dr._O. W. F. SITXDXK, McVicker’s Theatre, Chicago, 111. sale by ail Druggists. Price SI.OO. ( \ ( Iremediee. No .tarring, noinoonsenlene* * - 'and no bad effect.. Strictly confidential Send *C. for circulars and testimonials. SddreeeDn O.WrJSnDK*JtoViekePe Theatre Bldg. Chicago, HL Rlinnnr™® HOLY LAND, Round the L ||I(II|FP World. Select parties, best ticketing r URUr l» f*cilities.ocean tickets. H GAZSTS Lb SsTo. SON.Moßroadway,N.Y. (EsLIMW

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