Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 21 February 1895 — Page 6

ELI S IDIOTIC DRIVEL. PROTECTIONISTSHARD PUT FOR ARGUMENT. Bucolic Judge in Florida Laments that People Now Wear Cheap and Warm Woolen Garments instead of Being Compelled to Shiver in Cotton. Cursing Cheap Wool. The American Economist, omn of the Protective Tariff League, has an editorial on the sugar bounty question in a recent issue. It is headed, “In the Interest of Honesty." The same number contains a letter from Eli Perkins purporting to give a recent interview with Judge Hunt, of Palatka, Fla., on the cotton and sugar question, it can hardly be said that Eli has become famous for truth-telling. Those who know him by reputation will doubt first, the existence of any such person as Judge Hunt; second, the fact as to any interview, and third, the accuracy of the report if any interview occurred. In fact, Eli's reputation as a fabricator of interviews would suffer materially if it should ever be known than any part of any one of his alleged interview s had not been manufactured "out of whole cloth." It would indicate that he lacked imagination and was incapable of fabricating the entire intervie w. With this preface and after noting the fact that Eli has always posed as the champion of McKlnleyism— probably because it offers greater opportunities for his genius -let us see what this particular interview contains which makes it so valuable to the protectionists. In the alleged interview the alleged Judge Hunt is disgusted with himself and with Southernors generally because they voted for free wool. In his agony he says; “Cheap cotton was substituted for wool, but now cheap wool is a substitute all over the North for cotton. Cheap Thibet, Asiatic an 1 Australian wool used to cost from 10 to 25 cents. We Southerners thought It was smart to stab the wool farmers and take the 10-cent tariff off of wool. We did it. and now that same wool is being sold to Northern knit shirt and cloth factories for from 6 to 15 cents. With C-cent wool the mills are throwing back our cotton. Who would not give 2 cents a pound more for woolen shirts or cloth than for the same things made of cotton?” The Judge does not question the good sense of those who prefer to "give 2 cents a pound more for woolen shirts 1 or cloth than for the same things made ' of cotton.” He is only kicking himself , for having given the people an oppor- i tunity to wear cheap warm woolens Instead of “cheap and nasty” cotton or shoddy goods. He says cheap wool "will reduce the demand for cotton a million bales,” and that it is “hurting the South more than the North.” Per- | haps Eli's Judge may not know that | there are millions of people in the North who don't object to being “hurt” L..- ; cheap woolen shirts. If the Judge had read his Democratic newspapers more carefully in 1890 and 1892 he would have learned that his party favored free wool for the very reason that it would enable the farmers and laborers of the whole country to wear cheaper, warmer and healthier clothing. Then the Judge laments the fact that ‘•we Southern men voted solidly against the bounty on sugar." He says that ‘in : five years this (.bounty encouraged) su- I gar would have taken 2,000,000 bales Qf [ cotton out of our way and put $50,000,000 worth of sugar in its place." "What made you do it?” asked Eli. “Oh, polities. Dog gone silly, idiotic politics.” “And what do you propose to do?” “Why, let us put that wool tariff back and let our cheap cotton take the place 1 of Asiatic w 001, and then put that sugar bounty on again and send sugar into | the cotton fields. Editorials in the papers and prayers in the churches won't ■ save us now. We must quit politics and use our brains.” The Judge discredits the good sense and morals of the Southerners. They voted against the bounty because they did not think it right to levy a $12,000,- : 000 tax upon 70,000,000 people for the ! benefit of 500 or 600 sugar barons in the ■ South. For the same reason they voted ■ aga inst the "protection" which robs the ; many to enrich the lew. Eli's fake interviews are invariably I “dead give-aways” to McKlnleyism. The wonder is that any protectionist organ will purchase them from Eli, who writes for cash only.

President Fanre on Taxation. The New York Press of Feb. 3d published an article by Francois Felix Fauro, the new President of France. As Fanre neither believes in ‘’protection" nor indirect taxation of any kind the Press, which is a McKinley organ, cautions its readers against his theories which, however interesting, "are distinctly opposed to those which would fit American conditions.” It adds, however, that by many "i.e is considered to be one of the greatest living authorities on governmental finance.” President Faure is explaining the cause of the rapidly increasing expenditures of all civilized countries. He thinks it largely due to the fact that in all taxation is mainly indirect, and that indirect taxation always benefits special interests. These special interests are always lobbying to have indirect taxes increased, or at least not diminished. They favor increased governmental expenditures, hoping—as is usually the case—that they will lead to more indirect taxes. Parenthetically it may be remarked that this is one of the explanation of the “billion-dollar Congress” of 1890. The protected barons of this country hoped by greatly increased expenditures for pensions, bounties, canals, etc., to rivet McKinleyism upon this country. It also explains the anger of this same privileged class at the re-

I duo Jon of expenditures, by the Democrats. and the substitution of income for tariff taxation, to meet part of the expenditures contracted by the Republican Congress. Income taxation being direct, does not inure to the benefit of special interests. In fact, it rests most heavily upon those enjoying special or monopoly privileges. Speaking of the increasing burden caused by increased expenditures. President Faure says in part: “Any effort to establish the exact dis tribution of the burden is necessarily I hampered by the indirect nature of pres I ent taxation. It is also surprising that 1 special interests are permitted, as they I are, to take advantage of the taxing i power to further individual ends. The ! power to tax is ordinarily connected in ' the general mind with the power to i raise money. But taxation will aceom- : plish a great deal more than the rais- ■ ing of money. It is a wealth distribj uting influence. In truth, it may be ’ doubted whether the power to tax is not the whole of the power to govern. "Viewing now the intimacy of th. | connection between the power to tax ’ and certain special interests, and fol- ; lowing a logical method of seeking for the cause in the effect, we may conclude that for some reason or other benefit accrues to somebody through this general increase in the expenditures of the world's governments. But who are these beneficiaries? "The most practical method of establishing that would lx- to effect a reduction in the budget regardless of the representations of special interests. It usually happens that those interests which are most active in the lobby have greatest influence in the preparation of the budget. How comes it that the existence of this lobby is possible? That is, how can the special interests which maintain them afford the expense? "Obviously, because their profits under tile existing exercise of the taxing power are very ample. It is therefore certain that an interest which maintains its pre-eminence through the taxing power of the government creating it must reap very great advantages Did it not. it could never maintain the vast and intricate system rendered essential for the preservation of its supremacy. "A consideration of these facts may make it more evident why the governmental expense accounts do not decrease. Once a new source of expenditure has been discovered, it becomes almost impossible to close it. There is sure to be some interest battling for its retention, and there is, moreover, a certainty that other schemes are in contemplation, all clamorous for a representation on the fiscal list. There is something almost pathetic in the expectation of one administration after another that the expense account must decrease with the year to come. The year comes, but an increase comes with it. “The populations of the world are having a heavier weight to sustain as the years elapse. What then will they do when the truth dawns upon them ? "It is perhaps unfortunate that this whole subject of governmental costliness is so little observed. Nay. the fact that a vast official system expends so many millions a year affords positive pride to many of its citizens. Few reflect that while the burdens of such expenditures must be sustained by all directly, in a greater or less degree, the resulting benefits of a direct nature have to be in the very nature of the case reserved for the few.” Panics Under Protection. The contention of some of the more organic- Republican journals that the prosperity of the country can be secured and the treasury replenished by the simple expedient of restoring McKinley duties lacks a basis of fact and experience. There were too many panics and long periods of hard times under the high tariffs to sustain the paradox of taxing a nation into prosperity. Besides, the national revenues fell off $40,000,000 under the McKinley tariff, as they would fall now under increased duties. It is not forgotten, furthermore, that the treasury went rapidly from a handsome surplus to an impending deficit under the law which the people twice condemned.—New York World. Protectionist Saving at the Spigot. Protectionists would encourage the thrift of Russell Sage and discourage the foolishness of building a home. They would protect the wisdom of storing up dollars and rebuke the waste of buying the products of labor to make a family comfortable. The Times has never favored an income tax. But it fails to see how the organs of a prohibitory tariff tax can consistently oppose it. Tariffs tax necessaries. An income tax will tax the surplus accumulations, and not severely at that. A tariff thinks nothing of 50 per cent. The income tax is satisfied with 2 per cent. Protectionists would do well to choose their words in denouncing the income tax.—Minneapolis Times. Senator Morgan's bill to make the consular service a school of diplomacy will not prove a very popular measure. The art of being a consul is, like croquet. within the reach of the feeblest intellect. It consists chiefly in being able to sign one's name to manifests and declining to be responsible in any way for wandering Americans. Reports on the commerce of the country can always be prepared by newspaper men who have the facts at hand, and who will do up the matter cheaply, and as for the rest of it a consul has to work hard enough to get his job to justify him in declining to work afterward. Civil-service reform and the consulates will be found incompatible, if the idea is ever hatched into a bill. A heavy dew is the precursor of rain, because it shows that the atmosphere is saturated with moisture.

HUSTLING HOOSIERS. fTEMS GATHERED FROM OVER THE STATEAn Interesting Summary of the More Important Doings of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crimes. Casualties, and General Indiana News Notes. Minor State Items. Elwood planing mill plant is in ashes. Loss. $5,000. Salem is talking of an electric railway Between Salem and Seymour. Mbs. Elexob Maxwell, 76, early settler of Morgan Comity, is dead. Clay Couvty sold $25,000 worth of jail bonds, lately at a premium of $6lB. Hamilton County fruit growers say that nearly the entire crop is ruined. There are two cases of glanders in Needham Township. Johnson Comity. The farm residence of Granville Wolman, near New Carlisle, was destroyed by tire Loss. $2,000: insurance, SI,OOO, in Fanners’ Mutual. Mrs. T. G. Ewing, a wealthy lady of Seymour, slipped and fell on the iioreh at her home, and broke her left arm at the shoulder. A thorough investigation is beingmade of the Foust murder.at Elwood, and it is very probable tjiat at least two more arrests will shortly lie made. A company is to be organized at Frankfort for the purpose of manufacturing leggins. overgaiters and other cloth goods. Capital stock SIO,OOO. Charles Fraker, who shot his rival, Frank Richards, from ambush in Harrison County, some time since, was sentenced to two years in the pen. at New Albany. The collector of internal revenue. Jump, of Terre Haute, has appointed Ferd Baler, of Suliivau Cvuiity, and W. D. Bryant of Frankfort, deputies of the income tax. Ahandsome new Masonic temple for Logansport is assured. It is to be located at North ami Fourth streets and w ill probably contain an auditorium that will seat 1,400 people. Cloyd Meexei.ey. the 9-year-old son of J. V. Meeneley of the Frankfort Times, was run down, by a cab. the wheels of the vehicle passing over.his head and inflicting what is thought to be a fatal injury. Extensive preparations are being made at South Bend for the entertainment of the Indiana teachers, who will hold a three days' session there the first week in April. One thousand teachers are expeeled. Fred Stockenbahger. Mishawaka, killed a freak in the poultry line, the other day. The chicken had three legs, one growing out from the back. The peculiar ity was not noticed until after its death. Charles, the 6-year-old son of John ZippofNew Albany, was left alone at home and was burned to death. The child's clothes caught fire from a grate and he was horribly burned before neighbors could render assistance. Rhixeheakt Smith of Elwood, was out gunning, and by some unknown means his gun was discharged and the load passed through his right wrist. The wrist was so badly shattered and mangled that amputation was necessary. Elwood has so far this winter had no need of a charity mission of local citizens to care for the poor, as there are very fewcases of destitution reported, and these are being eared for by the different churches and fraternal societies. A few weeks ago Albert Frazier of Muncie, was married, and in the delirium of his joy he treated all his friends to cigars. Two of the recipients happened to be minors and the grand jury indicted him. He was released upon a [>etition signed by the citizens. Suit has lieen entered for damages against the Alexandria natural-gas company. by Jean < Irenier, Anderson. He claims that while his child was sick the company shutoff the gas and the change in the temperature of the house caused the child’s death. Pnn.jp Lykens, of £pwan, who was believed to have Lecn murdered, has turned up all right visiting old comrades in the Soldiers’ Home at Marion. His failure to tell of his departure and the fact that he had just been paid his pension led to the report. The firm name of Wadsworth & Kessler, publishers of tiie Laporte Argus, will undergo a change in the near future, the latter having sold bis interest in the paper to D. L. Wadsworth, son of the senior member of the firm. The transfer, however, will not occur until April 1. The little town of Jonesboro, Grant County, some time ago. struck mineral water similar to that at Martinsville and now has a new phenomenon in the shape of a hot water well. The w ater is too hot to drink and on striking 1 the cold air sends up a great volume of steam. At Jeffersonville, Judge Gibson granted a divorce to Mrs. Anna Fineberg from her husband Abraham. The proceedings occupied just seven minutes. The court officials claim that is the shortest time on record in which tiie proceedings of a divorce suit were consummated and the divorce granted. The Nelson Glass Company at Muncie, which has been engaged for several months changing the factory to a flint-glass from a green-glass works, has resumed operations with 175 hands. Muncie now has not asingle idle factory, and the Whiteley Malleable Castings Company wants 100 moulders to add to their list of 400 hands. The business center of Anderson was startled recently by an explosion of natural gas, which took place in the basement of the saioon owned by Louis Blest. Hundreds of persons rushed to the scene to find a half dozen persons mangled in the debris. Henry Dittmer, a bartender, was the only person injured. His head, face, and hands were pretty badly burned. Dittmer went to the cellar and, upon striking a match, the explosion followed, although no trace of gas . had been previously noted. Their late-glass front was shattered to pieces and blown across the street, the floor ripped open, bottles broken and pieces of plastering loosened from the walls and ceiling. A half dozen jiersons were at the bar. all of whom were slightly stunned by the concussion, but none injured. Webster Dougherty, one of the bestknown and brightest Fort Wayne newsboys, was killed: recently. He attempted to run across Lafayette street between detached parts of a train and was caught between the ears. Fredebsck Nipple, a prominent farmer living three miles south of Delphi, was hunting rabbits with his 13-year-old boy. Both were armed with shotguns, and both discovered a rabbit at the same moment. As the lioy, in his excitement, brought his gun to his shoulder his finger accidentally touched the trigger too soon, and the contents of his gun were discharged into the body of hjs father, causing instant death.

I INDIANA LEGISLATURE. In the House Monday the regular order of business was bills in second reading. There was some discussion over House bill No. 348, for an act regulating the dog tax. The bill was passed to third reading. Among the other bills jiassed to third reading were the following: Touching the duties of township trustees; - inizing the Imard of trustee* of Purdue University; relating to the running at large of all kinds of animals; concerning the dimensions of gravel roads on which tolls are collected, providing that such roads shall lie twelve feet w ide and shall have gravel twelve inches deep: to authorize common councils to license vehicles: to regulate teaming and hauling over turnpikes; relating to the employment of teachers by township trustees. The Miller-Bowers contest from the joint representative district of Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland counties was decided in favor of Miller. The follow ing bills were introduced in the Senate: To prohibit the sale of pernicious literature; a fee and salary bill; to provide for a waterway from Lake Michigan to the Wabash River, and to drain the Kankakee swamp lands: to protect persons who have been injured and have recovered a judgment therefor: to amend the laws concerning civil eases. The Senate passed the following bills Tuesday: Providing that fencing and drain tile shall be a lien on property; authorizing trustees of religious and charitable institutions to receive donations: providing that auditors of counties from which cases are sent on change of venue may make inquiry into bill of expenses charged: providing for the apointment of a food and dairy commissioner: declaring a road that lias been used five years a public highway; requiring railroads to build their tracks to a grade with the streets; placing the keys of the jury box in tiie hands of the jury commissioner of opposite politics to the clerk; providing that the salaries of county commissioners in counties of 60.000 or over, shall l>e $1,200 a vear: appropriation slo.l*lo annually tn enable the state Board of Agriculture to pay premiums. The House adjourned at 3:30 o’clock to give the Republican Representatives an opportunity to attend the Lincoln League meeting. The bill prohibiting football and baseball on Sunday was engrossed. The bill requiring farmers to take out license before selling produce in cities ami tow ns was referred to the Committee on Rights and privileges, and thereby killed. The bill prepared by the Ways and Means Committee providing for the exemption of mortgage indebtedness from taxation to the amount of SSOO was amended to read SI,OOO, and was ordered to engrossment. The bill exempting SSOO indebtedness on personal property was also engrossed.

The House was engaged all day Wednesday on committee reports. The anti-rail-road pass hill of Representative Robinson was before the House for an hour, and an effort was made to refer the bill to the Committee on Railroads, which would have meant its burial. The motion to refer was defeated by a close vote, and the bill was ordered to a second reading. The senate was engaged all day with bills on third reading. Tiie most important bill passed was the bill creating a firemen's pension fund. The following bills were passed: Providing for an attorney’s fee of not less than $5. to lie paid by the defendant. where any citizen, mechanic, laborer, servant or other employe has to sue for w ages; Requiring township trustees to keep record of all persons to whom aid is granted from public funds: providing that prosecuting attorneys may administer oaths in certain cases; providing that upon the petition of fifty-three holders the question of the construction of gravel or macadamized roads shall be left to a vote of the locality interested; authorizing county commissioners to purclia.se and hold for fair purposes fair grounds that have become encumbered with debt; providing for the issue of bonds for the purchase of lands and the erection thereon of school-houses. The Nicholson temperance bill was favorreported from the House Temperance Committee, Thursday. Representative Nicholson wanted the constitutional rules suspended and the bill placed upon its passage. This caused a wrangle, and an attempt by stave off discussion until next Thursday. Representative Robinson's amendment to postpone until Tuesday finally prevailed. Representative Moore’s bill giving councils the power so say where saloons shall be located and likewise the power to prohibit winerooms was also favorably adopted and the report adopted. The Railroad Committee made a favorable report on Representative McCaskey's bill reducing the rate of railroad fare to two cents a mile. In the Senate there was a discussion over Senator Shively’s bill, which permits a wife to become surety for her husband, and to make contracts, Ac. There were two reports. The majority report was adopted and the bill killed. Senator McDonald’s Iroquois Gun Club bill, to amend the present law so that men can hunt on the marshes in the north part of the State, which is prohibited now. was reported favorably. There were two reports from the Committee on Education on Senator Newby’s bill requiring instructions in public schools concerning the effects of stimulants and narcotics. The minority report, favoring the passage of the bill, was adopted. Mr. Wray’s anti-pass bill was done to death in the Senate Friday. The majority report of the Committee on Railroads was against the passage of the bill. The report was adopted. The county seat relocation bill was ordered to engrossment. A number of bills were introduced in tha Senate, among which the following were the most important: Making 4 per cent, the legal rate ot interest; regulating the liability of common cartiers: appropriating $25,000 for the erqetion o! a school for the deaf and dumb at Evansville; to regulate the sale of convict mads goods. The Committee on Reformatory Institutions made a report of its visit to the Reform School for Girls, Women’s Prison and Reform School for Boys. The reports commended tiie management of these institutions, and an appropriation of $9.00< was recommended for the purchase of 16C acres in addition to the land owned by tb« Boys’ Reform School. The bill providing that a diploma from the State Normal School shall entitle ths holder to a license to teach in the publit schools, was indefinitely postponed. Tiie bill to prevent the pollution ot streams by straw-board companies wai recommended for indefinite postponement by the Judiciary Committee, but the minority report, recommending the passage o' tiie bill, was adopted. The House adjourned out of respect ts the memory of the late Isaac P. Gray.

FROCKS FOR BABY GIRLS. The Daintiest Summer Materials Are Made for Their Benefit. When the summer baby girl of o appears in her new frocks she will be the daintiest, quaintest little creatun in the land. Prettily flowered'dm nities, batistes as tine as silk, of weblike texture and a host of dainty fabrics are now being made up in a manner most tempting to the mothers of baby girls. ~ S 3 jggjagagy/ w tv Skirts are flaring and sleeves are as big as of old. Many of the latter are made with the quaint 'IsBO slope much in evidence, lhe guimpe is still popular and embroideries are all the vogue as a trimming. Pique gowns with coats and hats to match will also be in favor. Dainty little nainsook dresses are charmingly made up with tiny ruffles of deep yellow Valenciennes lace and the big puff of the sleeve is quite shrouded in wee lace ruffles. Delicately colored chambray frocks are stylishly trimmed with insertion. The new eyelet embroideries will also be much used on children’s gowns. Ribbons will be In favor as a trimming, and saslie.4 are to be the rage. Gardens in the Air. Ancient Babylon may perhaps be called the most wonderful city of the world. No less remarkable were the hanging gardens referred to in the Old Testament and described by some of the early profane writers. The city itself was fifty miles in circumference, its walls being 350 feet high and 87 feet thick. The city was built in the center of a vast plain. The wife of the king came from a mountainous region and did not like this barrenness. Hence the famous hanging gardens. They were suspended over 400 feet in the air and planted with trees, fruits and flowers. No Jess than 200,000 slaves were employed in their construction. All this to please his wife. She must have been pleased. New Foreign Postage Rates. The new rates for foreign postage and registry have just gone into effect. The rate of letters to all parts of the world, excepting Canada and Mexico, will be 5 cents per half ounce. The rate to Canada and Mexico will remain the same as the domestic rates. Postal cards to ail parts of the world will be 2 cents. The fee for registering a letter will be 8 cents, instead of 10 cents. Printed matter will be charged 1 tent per pound. Blind and Seeing in One Day Frank Mason, a Delaware, Lackawana and \V estern railroad engineer, was suddenly stricken blind the other night while standing by his engine in Jersey City. His sudden affliction was found to have been caused by a tumor which had formed behind ‘his right ear. Next day an operation was performed, and when the bandages were removed the next day it was found his sight had been restored almost as quickly as It had gone. Cutting a Hailstorm in India During a severe hailstorm in the Himalayas our native gardener brought out a hatchet and placed it edge upward, in the garden, to “cut the storm,” as he said Catlin in his “North American Indians.” describes a ceremony of the Mandan Indians, in which hatchets and edged toms are sacrificed to “the spirit" of the waters to avert a recurrence of the great deluge, of which the tribs has the tradition. Howard's Wish. Jaira —- ,Z IStMSSSS™* Inat I could be . awhile- Mississippi nver for be three miles I couiu cat.'" uat a ( Guner

A BRIGHT STAR. JKETCH OF THE MAN WHO LED MARY ANDERSON TO FAME. Also Flayed Leadins Roles with Booth, Barrett and Thorne. (From lAr St. Luun Chronicle.) One of the most conspicuous figures in the Stayeland of America to-day is John W. Norton. Born in the seventh ward of New York city forty six years ago. the friends of his youth were Thomas W. Keene and Frank Chaufrau. We find Keene a star at the age of 25 and Norton in the flower of early manhood, the leading man for Edwin Booth at the famous Winter Garden Theater. He was starred with Lawrence Barrett enrly in the ’7O’», acd alternated the leading roles with ' Charlee Thorne at the Variety Theater in New Orleans. Early in the Centennial year, in Louisville. Norton met our Mary Anderson, then a fair young girl who aspired for stage fame, took her under his guidance and, as everybody knows, led her to fame. Mr. Norton is now the proprietor of the Grand Opera House in St. Loins, the Du Quesne Theater. Pittsburg, and one of the stockholders in the American Extravaganza Company. One afternoon early in June he hobbled into Lis New York office on Broadway and encountered his business manager, George McManus, who had also been a rheumatic sufferer tor two years. Nor ton was surprised that McManus had discarded his cane. Who cured you? he asked. ”1 cured myself,” replied McManus. “with Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.” "I was encouraged by Mr. McManus* cure, and as a last resort tried the Pink Pills myself," said Mr. Norton to a Chronicle reporter. "You have known me for five years, aud know how I have suffered. Why. during the summer of 1893 I was on my back at the Mullanphy Hospital, in this city, four weeks. I was put on the old system of dieting, with a view to clear ing those acidulous properties in my blood that medical theorists say is the cause of my rheumatism. 1 left the hospital feeling stronger, but the first damp weather brought with it those excruciating pains in the legs and back. It was the same old trouble. After sitting down for a stretch of five miuutea, the pains screwed uiy legs into a knot when I arose, and I hobbled as painfully fs ever. After I had taken my first l»ox of Pink Pills, it struck tue that the pains were less troublesome, i tried another box, aud I !.<gau almost unconsciously to hare faith in the Pink Pills. I improved so rapidly that I could rise after sitting at my desk for an hour and the twinges of rheumatism that accompanied my rising were so mild that I scarcely noticed them. Lhtring the past two weeks, we have had much rainy weather in St. Ixuiis. But the dampness has not had the slightest effect in bringing back the rheumatism, which 1 i-onsider a sufficient and reliable test of the efficacy of Pink Pills. I may also say that the Pink Pills have acted as a tonic on my stomach, which 1 thought was well nigh destroyed by the thousand and one alleged remedies 1 consumed in the past fire ysars.” Fine Hair. The Coreans know nothing of the value of human hair, judging by the use to which they put their “combing.” A very large number of the saddlecloths placed under the backs of their ponies are made of hair wove into coarse mats or bags, and the baiters and head ropes of their animals are largely composed ol the same material. Human hair is largely exi orted from China to Europe, and Corea could furnish a large and chea i supply did the people know there was a demand for it. Jolt vNna SOUTHCOTE «ks a eati-wv • tic of the same variety a- Joan of Arc. Homeseekers' Excursions via. Nickel Plate Iloati. To points in the South, at one fare for the round trip, March sih. April 2nd and 30th. Ask Agents of the Nickel Plate Road for dedailed information. Portugal is a corruption of Porte Cale, the Roman name of tno town o/ Oporto. Attend the Fort Wayne Business College. BOTH Kepler and Cuvier died of different forms of brain disease.

Rev. Dr. Parker Is the beloved pastor of the Universali‘4 Church at Fargo, N. 1)., and has a Is* been a pastor in Providence, R. 1., New 1 \. Y ii- . “I regard Hood’s Sarsaparilla the best blood purifier, and I bate good reason for this opin*on‘ am now years of age. Four & years ago I was ast dieted with rheuma- £ c tism in my bark and limbs so badly that it was impossible for ■ .* t • H 7 me to get my usual i J V-* r.y sleep at night. I had «* * Li just partially recovZ *k ere< l from the grip, jfH L . whlch reduced my ’ )• weight 40 lbs. My appetite was poor. * nd 1 felt lan * uld r / and weak. In fact, Rev. J, N. Parker, I>, I», I was in a very dii argo. N. D. lapidated condition. Having heard and read so much about the wonderful cures produced by Hood’s Sarsaparilla I resolved to give it a trial. I followed the directions, and before the fifth bottle was fln» Cures ished my appetite was restored. I felt invigorated and strong. Mr rheumatic difficulty had entirely disappeared. I cannot but think very highly of Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” J. S’. PabkehHood’s PHIa ar? the best family cathartic and liver medicine. Harmless, reliable, sure. WALTER BAKER &, CO. / —The Largest Manufacturers of PURE, HIGH CRADE COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES this have received HIGHEST AWARDS from the great f®a Indostiia and Frail B . EXPOSITIONS B \ ‘.'vln Europe and America. J, . Tnliketh*DutchProcew.ro A!k»ur other Chemical* or Dye* * r * , -"«• "uwd in Bny of their preparation*. Th*’.rdehci<,m br l:a vi. aS Y cocoa w abnoluUly port utd Bolubie, *ud com* lent fha» one cent a cup10 LD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER & CO. DORCHESTER, MASS “uccessfuliy Prosecutes Claims •>T~ tj.nnUT U. S, Pea.lon Bun»» ln war, 15 adjodkatiag claims, atty ennee,