Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1891 — Page 4

©he democrat SV". BhACKBURN, Proprietor. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1891. As the roads are in good shape now, the most of the farmers will feel that they do not need any improvement, and consequently will not talk about gravel roads until the roads become so bad that it is impossible to travel with wheeled vehicles, then they will talk gravel roads. But now is the time to commence to get ready tor next, year by preparing everything so as to got an early start, and Pave the roads completed before bad weather in the fall, thu« giving-the work a good chance to settle, and be arranged by the party that has' the overseeing of the road. With the vast quantity of stone here and the facilities the quarrymen have for handling the same it can be got as cheap as gravel, and on the road a few miles beyond town the stone need not be more than eight inches thick it the road bed is properly made and drained. Where the ground is low ' and mucky, of course, the material should be thicker there or it will not hole!’; up, but if properly managed in the making of the road they will require but little attention afterwards and will prove one of the best investments that the farmers of this county can make, so let the ball that has been started be kept rolling until all the roads in the county is macadamized, and then we will have a county second to none in the state, for we have the soil and the proper drainage, but so far have lacked the roads, and that because we have thought we had no material out of which to make them. But since that has been found and that in quantities that seem to be inexhaustible, we can, and will have good toads in a few years if the farmers will take hpld of the work, and help crowd it along. While some will feel that the burden will be too great, and they cannot stand it to pay the additional amount of taxes. The payments will be strung out so that the amount each year will be comparitively small, and then there is not anything that is worth having but what we have to pay for, and with such improvements as the graveling of the roads the farmers can f*oon get.their money back in the advantage of the markets that they can reach when the roads are bad, so Let the matter be discussed in the d iff erent meetings of the farmer’s association. While it is necessary that they discuss the raising of grain and stock, the reclaiming of wet lands, it is also necessary that the roads have a fair share, for the benefit of the farmer. Our merchants report trade better, with the prospects of it increasing. For the prospects of a good crop this season is all that can be desired, if it can be saved, so that money matters will loosen up. But the merchants say they are better than they were a year ago, that money is plentier, and the farmers do not ask tor ( credit, so frequently as m times past. This may be due to the fact that they are finding out that to buy on credit is to pay more than 10 per cent profit on the goods they buy, thus taking from them the money that is necessary to have to live on. Then the F. M. B. A. may have something to do with it. While not a member we understand that one of the requirements to be a member in good standing is that members must pay all their honest debts and this may something to do with their not asking for the amount of credit that they have heretofore. But let the cause be what it will, our merchants are well pleased with the future prospects. / iMM If the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association will continue to do as much good in the future as they have during their existence, the business men will feel that the organization is among the best that this country affords, for it seems that one of their principles is, that their credit must be sustained, their debts paid and as few contracted as is possible for them to get along with, thus coming nearer to a cash bases than any of our merchants ■can do, without it is the man who will not sell to anyone without the money in view, and they are scarce in our city. While it is the only way for everyone to do and be successful, the habit has become so interwoven with our business men that it is among the hardest things for them to say no to anyone who Will promise to pay in the future. ■. .* .- .*■ ’■ >l> ■''»' ■?&'' ..♦■ ' > * . »j.-. .1

CUE Al) WOOL AND DEAR CL 0 THING. The Home Market Club of Boston has issued a pamphlet for the special benefit' of New England manufacturers of woolens. It is entitled, “Protection of Wool—from the Standpoint of the Manufacturers,” and it is intended to convince the manufacturer that the protective tax for raw wool does not cost him anything. As the home wool supply is hardly more than half the consumption, and as the manufacturer pays directly from his own pocket a heavy tax on the wool imported, this is an undertaking of some difficulty, and the Home Market Club attempts it by diverting attention to the price of American wool, in which connection it submits- the following instructive matter: It is a mistaken idea with many manufacturers that foreign prices of wool are necessarily lower than home prices under protection. They average higher. They would be much higher but fora large and constant domestic supply. Tiie following- table is instructive:' « Foreign Average Average Price Price of all Wools of all Ameriat Ports of.Exporfa- can Wools tion Without Duty, at the Farm. Cents a lb. Cents a lb. ISBI 311-5 31 1882 31 9-1(1 30 14«3 34 2-5 29 1884 291-10 2(1 1885 32 1-10 23 18841 32 1-5 24 1887 29 1-10 24 Coming from the leading Protectionist club of the Northeast this ought to receive special attention from Western fanners. In com. men ting on it, Mr. T. E. Willson, the well-known tariff writer, says that “the tariff duty on raw wool imported into the United States never added one cent to the total value of the wool clip from 1824 to the present hour.” Thus the tariff reformer and the Home Market Protectionist are fully agreed for once. Mr. Willson explains that the tax on imported wool does not raise the price of American wool, because American producers, not being able to combine and create a monopoly, compete with each other. This is one reason and a good one. The primary reason, however, is that every pound of wool brought into this market supplies the need for wool in so much, regardless of the tariff tax on it, and so competes with every other pound of wool on the market. These two reasons are sufficient to show why the high tariff on fori eigu wools does not raise ,the> price of home,-grown woo’s. If half the wool used u foreign .and half domestic the tariff raises the of one-half and so increases the price of Nothing and the cost I * of making it. But it does not raise the price of the other half—the domestic wool—- . because the foreign half of the con- . sumption competes with it, and, in the absence of a monopoly tion among American producers, keepc the prices of American wool low. These facts are -self-evident on even a casual examination of the. subject. It would be worth millions to the West to understand them so fully m theory as to be able to apply them in practice. A large number of government officials seem to be connected with the great bank failure of Philadelphia so much that the directors have passed a resolution ordering their attorney to commence a suit against the government for the losses sustained through their official carelessness or their perversion of duty. It may be that the administration of bank affairs by the government may be as badly wrecked by the time they get through with the case, as what the banks are now. The cry of North and South that was the outcome of the civil war is passing into ancient history and but for a few flat headed politicians would not be heard of again. But while some of the would-be-lords of this country can make a little political capital they will work it for all they can, but a few years more and that bloody nether garment that has been waived so incessantly in the past will be folded and carefully laid away. a • With I. P. Gray for president the party have a winner he will be sound on the currency, and the tariff will be the only question in the fight. Duncan M. Hood, son of the late Confederate General J. B. Hood, has been appointed a cadet to the military aeadamy at West Point. Senator Vest, of Missouri, predicts that Cleveland and Gray will be the nominees of the Democratic party in 1893. — .i— mp. fei'nLy

PROTECTION'S PA UPER PENSIONERS. The announcement that the direct bounties paid from the Treasury to American sugar producers will be between $12,000,000 and $15,000,000 in the first year ¥>ught to excite indignation at what is nothing more than an outright rob bery of the people. For this money is to be paid in pensions to men who have no shadow of a just claim to subsist on public bounty. They are the cripples of thirty years of High Tariff taxation, it is true, but this gives them no title to public support as the Pampers of Protection. If they cannot carry on business without a pension, justice demands that they should go into some other business, or, if they are hopeless paupers, go to their county poor farms, as doctors, lawyers, carpenters, merchants, bricklayers, farmers, editors and all' others who do not depend on the public treasury of the United States would be obliged to do under like circumstances. Yet the direct pensions to these Paupers of Protection is far cheaper than the indirect. We have been paying out over $00,000,000 a year increased prices of sugar under the indirect system. If we buy off by giving them a pauper pension of $15,000,000 a year, free trade in raw sugar saves us $45,000,000. That is, it would save it, had not the tax in raw sugar been transferred instead of released. Although we are to pay these direct pauper pensions on the theory that we are getting nd of the indirect taxes on raw sugar, these taxes, instead of being abolished, have simply been transferred to clothing, hardware, crockery, glass, tin-plate and hundreds of other articles. This is one of the most glaring frauds of the most fraudulent tariff bill of modern times. \ Nevertheless the superior cheapness of the direct pauper pension is demonstrated. As in the case of sugar, so in that of tin-plate, it would be many millions saved for the American people to put tin plate on the free list and give every millionaire in the Tin-Plate combine a direct pauper pensioli of $1,000,000 a year. La Grippe Again. During the epidemic of la grippe last se&spn Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption, roughs and colds, proved to be the best remedy, Sfipofts from the many who used it confirm this staUiaen£. They were not only quickly relieved, but ilhe dfsea.se left no bad after results. We ask you to give this remedy a trial and we guarantee that you wifl be satisfied with results, or the purchase price wifi bp refunded. It has no equal in la grippe, or any throat, chest or lung trouble. Trial hOittLe? free at A. R. Pierce’s drug store. Large xoc, and si.oo, Next Sunday morning at Un p’clock or any day this week, yod can buy at an/t , drug store a bottle of Dr. Marshall’s Lung' Syrwip for your cough as it is guaranteed to cure and jg.ll chronic and acute coughs for less than >ny other, as the price is only it e#Abfeg all to give this greet twcdiciiK a trial. A fresh supply at all druggists, *-■ - — o — Bucklen’s Arnica halve. The best salve in the world ior cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by A. R. Pierce. 28-* Miles’ Nerve and Liver Pills Act on a new principle—regulating the liver, stomach and bowels through the nerves. A new discovery. Dr. Miles’ Pills speedily cure biliousness, bad taste torpid liver, piles, constipation. Un equaled for men, women, children. Smallest, mildest, surest! 30 doses, 25 cents. Samples free, at W. H. Nachtrieb’s. 28* Bosse’s Mountain halve. The best salve in the world for burns piles, boils, fresh wounds, old sores, frozen feet, sore eyes, etc. Guaranteed to be superior to any other for burns and scalds. It has no equal for piles in all stages. Sold by all druggists. *

Baking Powder A Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. Superior to every other known. Used in Millions of Homes—--40 Years the Standard. Delicious Cake and Pastry, Light Flaky Biscuit, Griddle Cakes, Pdatable and Wholesome. Ho other baking powder does such wodb **— • ——• —•* ■ , ,

A SUCCESSFUL MAN • I Is a man that attends to'his own business. • O f Our Business is to Sell . . I Clothing and Furnishing Goods! 'J % ■ And our Study is to Buy Good Goods and Sell them at the Lowest Prices We have for the Season the Best and the Finest Line of Goods ever Shown in the City. e" .8Come in and see us. Everybody treated alike. One Price to all. Yours Respectfully, Pete Holthouse, the One-Price Clothier.

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ORANGE BLOSSOM female diseases, :?ME OF TM SYMPTOMS; manent relief obtained. . .—. . , _ I EVERY i_ adv CAN TREAT herself. O. B. Pile Remedy. I *I.OO for one month’s treatment. 10. B. Stomach Powder! 1 O. B. Catarrh pure. I —prepared by—• I O. B. Kidney Cones. |. J. A. McQILL. IW.D., & CO,, ♦ panorama place, Chicago, ill TOR sale RY Holtbo,use $ BlftoMwYL PeCfttur. Ask for Descriptive Circulars. $ GLEiiEW Owing to the fact that we are going to remodel our store room in July, we make our Clearance Sale abouty thirty days earlier than usual, therefore giving yon much better line of all Summer Goods to select from. You should be sure and ayail yourself of this rare opportunity. The following are a few of the ent priepa • -n , | Full Standard Prints (no snide) s|c Best Satteens,.... .... .. .. £ t,q )Jo Canton Fast Colored Lawns.,. 4c Sunnyside Suitings, 36 in. wide lie Figured Victoria Lawns (hand- Dragon Black Organdies some goods) 6c Lawns. ~1 24 to 25c Chailie Rivara (handsome cool All Embroidery Flounces 25 per goods .... 6c cent cut. Empress Chalhes...; 5c And in fact our entire line of all Summer goods proportionately low. OUT FR.IOES ON GHOCHH.IHS. We also make special prices on California Canned Goods. As these I goods must be sold and out of the way to save time and trouble in build- ( mg. , . Damson Plumbs 21c Coffee A Sugar 22 lbs. for 14 OG Green Gage. 21c White Ex. C Sugar 23 lbs. for $1 00 8 Cherries 21c Light Brown Sugar 25 lbs. for *1 00 I Bartlett Pears • • * 210 Splendid Roasted Coffee 23c Yellow Pie Peach* 17c Mason’s Java Coffee 24c Prunes ......... ff . lg|c All Package Coffee 25c Evaporated Peach............ s2c Qojden Drip Syrup 40c Granulated Sugar, 21 lbs. for $1 00 The and Best 5 cent Soap ■ In 100 pounds lets or m0re..,,, 4|o One Po#en ? boxes M.atphl 9B •?j .• I 111I 11 MB Remember we are going to put in a full line of FANCY GROCERIES as soon as our room is completed, and for CASH you can buy more of us than any other house in the city. Respectfully, BPRANQ A TRUE.

LOOK HERE! I am hero to stay and can sell Organs and Pianos cheaper than anybody else can afford to sell them. I sell different makes. GLEANING AND REPAIRING done reasonable See me first and save money. J. T. COOTS, Decatur, Ind.

ANOTSER I S Any lady contemplating a £ fUf A’T * A11? * I A or ® tn P dress should not T .. miss to see them. We will place T ™I — I y them on our counter this week. * LADIES DRESS PATTERNS ■ t Very Attractive Bargains! 100 40-inch all Wool Plaid Serge, finest quality, 65 cts. per yard. $15.00 Imported combination patterns, all new designs. One of this season’s novelties, $12.00. & SI.OO Black Brocaded Mohair. New effect. Be sure and ask to see this novelity. 80 cents per yard. , Continuation of pur special sale of Lace Curtains From sOc. to $1 per Yard. New Novelties in Queensware. Highest prices paid for Country Produce. JESSE NIBLICK & SON, Next Door to the Adams County Bank. Just the same, AND SO DOES *9l a U I 111 |HI |N| H iii ■mi in J l| I | Son?. 1 MADE ONCY BY u N.K.FAIRBANK&CO. Chicago. 3 wwitiiii tie last few flays m bare enjoyed a can of i ) Van Houten’s Cocoa I Best & Goes Farthest-The Standard Cocoa of the World, j M remember that this is the cheapest, health- H H jest, and most delicious beverage and article of diet in ex- H Q istence, costing less than half a cent a cup, and guarantee- § Q ing absolute safety from dyspepsia. Don’t deprive your- B H selves or your children one moment longer of this delightful, B H nutritious drink-food. The strong may use it with N H pleasure, the most delicate with benefit. A delight to all. ■ fl For sale by every grocer. Q f OF j ? n<i "CMtoriaiaaoweUadaptedtodUldranthat I CutoH. cww Uolie, I recommend it Mtuperior to any prescription I gpw gtonmnit, Piarriwaa, kwwßtome.’* H. A. Abch«r, M D.,1 *• 111 8m Oxford Bk, Brooklyn, N. Y. | Witlout injurioo* mediMtitNL The Centaur Company, 77 Murray Street, M. T. Cheap Homes! Only One Dollar Pcr Week Will Buy a Lot in Decatur. No Interest —- < I have a number of nice Lots in Decatar I will sell for TEN ■ DOLLARS CASH and ONE DOLLAR A WEEK until paid for WITH* 1 OUT INTEREST. When thirteen Lots are sold it will complete the twenty, then we will give ope wy so tl)e go yoi| y|J| stand a chance of getting one Lot for nothing, as one qf the twenty Parchasers are sure to get it. Now is Your Chance to get a Home Cheap. Call on SCHURGER & REED, Agents, C. A. HENDERSON, Anderson, Indiana, Hmitv ?.■», ■■ ■>. '.n.AaasaoiSiKXjnii