Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1892 — Page 1

VOLUME XVI

RECIPROCITY

Has Fallen Far Short of Original Expectations. As Now Enacted, “a Fraud, a Delusion and a Snare.” It Ha* Been in Effect Over a Tear, and New Ask the Ameriean Farmer if He Ha* Felt Any Good Effects of the “New Markets’* Opened for His Products by Such Legislation—He Has Looked in ▼aln. [Written by Judge Lewis Jordan.] Down in Maine there lived on a farm an old man and his wife. The husband did not admire Blaine, but this was not the case with the wife. Everything Blaine did met her enthusiastic approval. One day the old farmer returned from the fields late in the evening and found his good rife in a fearful state of excitement. Inquiring the cause, she gleefully announced that some friend had sent her, as a present, a beautiful bird, and she requested her husband to furnish a name for it. Not being in a very amiable mood because his evening meal had not been prepared by reason of the arrival of the bird, he petulantly sang out, “Name it Blaine, everything is Blaine, Blaine with you.” Bo the bird was named Blaine, A few* weeks afterward the old farmer, upon returning from his work, again found the old lady very much excited, “Blaine,” she exclaimed, “has laid an egg”—reciprocity.

A prohibition'temperance lecturer tells the above anecdote, and it must, therefore, be founded on fact. The kind of bird presented to the old lady is not stated, and its species can only be conjectured from its habits. It is more than probable that it was a cuckoo, which never builds its own, but lays its eggs in , some other bird’s nest. The Blaine reciprocity egg w r as laid in nest, and hatched by him much against his will, but who afterwards claimed the bird with beautiful plumage, as belonging to his brood.

It may have been a snipe, and laid eggs which, when hatched, increased that species of birds used to gull the fellows holding the bag. A wide field for speculation is opened by the' failure to give the species of the bird that brought such joy to the old lady. There can, however, be no controversy over the statements that it was a rare bird, which had never before appeared in the United States, and that it was a native of the “American hemisphere.” When it first appeared, it was claimed that it could live in the bleak climate of Canada* but it is now asserted that it can only flourish in the countries that lie “south of us.” It would even chill in the congenial climates of Europe.

I state these facts upon the authority of the celebrated ornithologist, James G. Blaine, and his student in bird lore, Senator Hale, of Maine. There has been, and will continuqgro be, so much cackling over this reciprocity egg, that it will be interesting to study its paternity, its size and composition, and for whose benefit it was laid. The McKinley bill passed the house May 21, 1890, and provided for free sugar up to and including No. 16 Dutch standard. Prior to this date, Mr. Blaine visited the ways and means committee rooms and wanted to lay his reciprocity egg in McKinley's nest. He was driven away, and in a towering rage fled to the rooms of the senate finance committee, smashed his new silk hat on the floor, and denounced McKinley and the Republican members of the ways and means committee because they would not let him lay his reciprocity egg. Mr. Blaine was opposed to the reduction of the sugar duty, and was thrown into a towering rage by the proportion. His letter to Senator Fry, dated July 11, 1890, denouncing the McKinley bill as it passed the house on the 21st of May, contained these memorable declarations :

It would certainly be a very extraordinary policy on the part of our government just at this time to open our market without charge or duty to the enormous crops of sugar raised in the two Spanish islands. * * * . But there is not a section or a line in the entire bill that will open the market for another bushel of wheat or another barrel of pork. If sugar is now placed on the free list without exacting Important trade concessions in return, we, shall close the door for a profitable reciprocity against ourselves.

It is now apparent that William McKinley, Jr., can not claim the paternity of the reciprocity egg, although he cackled with delight over it during his canvass for governor of Ohio. On the 18th of June, 1890, the senate finance committee reported the McKinley bill to the senate with an amendment providing for a tariff tax on sugar. On the 19th of June, Senator Hale, of Maine, offered an amendment prepared by Mr. Blaine, which read as follows:

And the president of the United States L‘ hereby authorized, without further legisla. tion, to declare the ports of the United' States free and open to all products of any nation of the American hemisphere, upon which no export duties are imposed, whenever and so long as such nation shall admit to its porta, free of all national, provincial (state), municipal, and other taxes, Soar, com meal, and other breadstuffs, preserved meats, fish, vegetables and fruits, cottonseed oil, rice, and other provisions, including all articles of food, lumber, furniture, i and all other articles of wood, agricultural implements and machinery, mining and mechanical machinery, structural steel and iron, steel rails, locomotives, railway can

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and supplies, street ears, nlm| petre&MKa, or such ether prod nuts of the Halted States as may be agreed upon. It will be noticed that the above amendment embraced Canada, for it is a “Nation of the American hemisphere.” This is important, because it furnishes Conclusive evidence that James G. Blaine the high priest of protection, was willing to have free trade with Canada, provided that nation would admit free the articles named in his amendment.. But Mr. Blaine soon found his reciprocity egg was too big, and in the face of the language of his amendment, he denied that the bird could live in Canada. Strange as it seems, Senator Sherman stated that if we were to have reciprocity with any country, it should be established with Canada firtt. Mr. Blaine was now in a quandary. McKinley would not allow him to lay his egg in his nest and he fared no better with the senate finance committee. After Senator Hale dumped it down in the open senate, opposition sprung up on all sides, the Republican senators from New England taking the lead. For months the Blaine egg laid in the senate and was vigorously pecked by the senators. It abandoned the principle of protection, and was for disguised free trade. The shell was strong enough to knock over the “home market” sham, and the dyed-in-the-wool protectionists did not propose that this should be done. But Blaine had proposed reciprocity, and it was surmised that he had the administration of President Harrison at his back.

The doctors of the Republican party held a consultation over the Blaine egg, and determined as it was then in a state of decomposition it could not be used. Another egg must be laid by a different species of bird. Fortunately the bird was suggested by the name of one of the senators —Mr. Aldrich. It is well known that one of the characteristics of the ostrich is its hiding its head in the sand when alarmed, thus imagining that its whole body is hid. The new egg would seem to resemble that of the ostrich, and was proposed by Senator Aldrich. His amendment to the McKinley bill was adopted, and is now Section 3of the tariff law. Section 3—That with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing the following articles, and for this purpose, on and after the Ist day of January, 1892 whenever and so often as the president shall be satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, raw and uncured, and any of such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural ■or other products of the United States which, in view of such free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides into the United States, he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power, and it shall be his duty, to suspend, by proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, the production of such country for such time as he shall deem just; and in such case, and during such suspension, duties shall be levied, collected and paid upon sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, the product of or exported from such designated country as follows, namely: Here follow the specified rates of duties on sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides (now coming to us free by the McKinley bill), which shall be collected ofi those articles whenever the president shall see fit, to-wit: On the best sugar, 2 cents per pound (and less rates specified on lower grades and certain rates on molasses); coffee, 3 cents per pound; tea, 10 cents per pound; hides and skins, 1 1-2 cents per pound. The difference between this ostrich egg and that of the bird of beautiful plumage named Blaine is so marked that the most casual observer will notice it. Under the Blaine proposition our ports were to be “free and open to all products of any nation of the American hemisphere” when such nation shall admit free the long list of articles named in the proposition. The ostrich amendment, which is now the law, confines reciprocity to countries producing sugars, melasses, tea, coffee and hides. Should any country producing and exporting these articles impose duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which the president may deem reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he may suspend the law and collect tariff taxes on their sugar, molasses, tea, coffee and hides. And this is the ostrich egg over which there has been so much cackling. It was laid to increase agricultural exports and give new markets to the American fanner. But these neW markets were only to be allowed the farmer in the countries “south of us.” The door was closed on the north and east. Treaties under the reciprocity clause have been in effect more than a year, and the farmers can answer if they have felt the good effects of the “new markets” for their agricultural products. They are looking in vain for the blessings that reciprocity was to shower down on them.

Reciprocity gives New England free hides and free rubber for manufacturing purposes, and this was one of the reasons it was adopted. The markets “for another bushel of wheat or a barrel of pork” might be found on the other side of the big pond, where the people have no bananas and tropical fruits to subsist upon. South America can not be made to furnish markets for our agricultural products. Reciprocity as now enacted is “a fraud, a delusion and a snare.” A New Yorker has made a clock from 84,000 pieces of wood, comprising over 800 varieties. For sixteen years he has had sailors bringing him rare woods from every quarter of the globe.

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA FRIDAY JUNE 24 1892

TWO PRICES.

MOW THE INDIANA FARM SB It SWINDLED the ItpaUlotn Ttflff—litnil troth. Senator Voarheea* Speech in the Senate, Sept. 3 —Ameriean Made Agricultural Implement* Seld Cheaper la Feretga Ceuntrles Than at Home. Below is given an extract from Senator Yoorhees’ speech in the United States senate Sept. 8. last: How dares the American manufacturer compel the American farmer to pay him $65 for a mower which he sells in South America for S4O, or S9O for a feed-cutter which he sells in the Argentine Republic for S6O? The following table discloses in brief space the increase of prices in the protected home market, where the farmer is compelled to buy, over the natural and honest prices of the same articles in foreign markets, where it has no protection and needs none : Foreign Home , price. price. Advance plow S9OO SIBOO Advance plow. 4 00 8 00 Bay-tedder 30 00 46 00 Mower 40 00- 66 60 Horserake. 17 00 26 00 Cumming -feed cutter No. 3. 60 00 90 00 Ann Arbor cutter, No. 2.. 28 00 40 00 Ann Arbor cutter, No. 1.. 16 00 88 00 Clipper cutter 9 50 18 00 Lever cutter 4 25 8 00 Cultivator 2? 00 30 00 Sweep 6000 9000 The same rule of different prices for the same article, depending on its sale at home or abroad, which this list contains is to be found in the way of discounts and other trade arrangements of from 10 te 70 per cent, in favor of the foreign purchaser, and discriminating against the home consumer on nearly every dpecies of manufacture known to American industry. I submit a partial list of Utensils indispensable to the farmer which are manufactured in this country *nd sold abroad cheaper than he can buy them here: Wheel hoe, cultivator, rake and plow; all-steel horseshoe and cultivator with Wheel; all-steel plain cultivator with wheel; lock-lever rakes; self-dump hayracks ; hay tedder; potato digger. Plows: Two-horse, chilled nine-inch cut; same all-steel. Chilled, ten-inch cut; all-steel, ten-inch cut. Two or three-horse chilled, sr.; same all-steel. Two or three-horse, chilled, jr.; same, all-steel. Two-gang, four horses, steel. Shovels: Cast steel, long handles, round point, No. 1 and No. 3; cast steel, D handle, round point, No. 2 and No. 3. Shades : Cast steel, D handle, No. 2; No. 3, cast steel, long handles. Rakes: The S. R. Nye improved twenty-two teeth and twenty-six teeth; Waldron’s pattern, oiled; silver steel painted; Western Dutchman, browned ; fine cutlery steel, full painted ; all steel, I full polished. Grain scythes; Waldron’s pattern; oiled; silver steel, painted; clover, oiled; clipper, bronzed and painted. To this list may be added the statement of the senator from- Missouri, which I quote: Also table and butcher knives, scissors, spoons, forges, drills, duck and twine, electrical appliances, explosives, j mills, boilers, flue cleaners, angers, wrenches, vises, blacksmiths’ tools, hoist- i Ing engines, jack-screws, pails, water ; coolers, washtubg. keelers, milk pans, j lamps, miners’ tools, keys, locks, meat cotters, lathes, saws, etc., on which the discount to foreign purchasers ranges ranges from 10 to 70 per cent.

There is an article going around in the newspapers about the increase of the exportation of American flour to the island of Cuba; that it has become very much larger than heretofore, and where Spanish flour was imported there American flour has taken its place. Most certainly it has, and what follows then ? Have the mills ceased to grind in old Spain? Bae the wheat forgotten to grow there? Not at all. But the Spanish flour which was formerly sent to Cuba goes to the French,' the Italian, and other European markets, where our flour formerly went, and supplants it, because, transportation is so mudh shorter and so much cheaper. There is, then, a ohange in the direction of fee exportation of flour, but there is no change due to this cause in the quantity exported, and there is not a change of one hunareth of 1 per <Bent. in the value of any of the commodities named in the McKinley hill u being put upon the free list as the herix for ieciprocity. From Senator Turpie’s speech on the Reciprocity Humbug.

The McKinley bill it from beginning to end an exclusively party scheme, deliberately, inflexibly and irresistibly foroed upon the'country by a disciplined and terrorized congressional majority, at the behests of wealthy Industrialists who, ia consideration of this service rendered, have contributed funds and influence for carrying the elections in the interest of Bbe party now in ascendancy, or more •directly, of certain party leaders. It Htt stand upon the statute books as the gMasest and most corrupt exercise of legislative powers ever perpetrated in the history of the country, and as the signal monument of a point of departure at which wealth and corrupt politics joined hands in alliance for defeating public opinion in the government of the nation.—New York Commercial Bulletin (nonpartisan). The United States department of labor has begun taking a census of the building and loan associations of the country.

“A FIRM ADHERENCE TO CORRECT PRINCIPLES.”

tVhat th« McKinley Bill Dee* tor the Farmer*—Meuntatna of Tun on the One Side, end Bankruptcy en the Other Side. .. Present Proposed 40> duty. duty. Common window glass, 10 by 15 per pound $67 61 $73 78 Common window glass, 16 by 24 per pound 115 41 123 10 Common window glass, 34 by 30 per pound 128 58 135 84 Cotton ties per pound.... 86 00 116 08 Tinplate... 84 00 74 00 Steel ingots, etc., above 16 cents per pound 11 89 45 00 Wire-fence rods. No. 6 .. 45 00 54 00 Penknives, etc 50 00 75 00 Table cutlery 86 00 50 00 Hoisery.. 40 00 60 00 Shirts and drawers 40 00 65 00 Brown and bleached linens 85 00 56 00 Brown and bleached linens 85 00 60 Ofl Yarns 69 00 100 00 Woolens and worsteds, knit goods, etc 94 5$ 125 00 Worsted shawls 61 82 93 Ofl Belts for presses (printing) 58 14 101 00 Blankets, flannels and hats 89 70 110 00 Women’s and children's dress goods 68 00 108 00 Women’s and children’s dress goods 60 00 73 00 Women’s and Children's dress goods 85 06 110 Ofl Clothing, ready-made.... 54 00 84 Ofl Cloaks, dolmans, etc..... 60 00 82 00 Webbings, gorings, etc... 64 00 99 00 Cheap woolen shawls.... 88 00 185 00 How long will the people submit t« such piracy? ANOTHER COLOSSAL MONOPOLY. The Direct Result of High Protective Tariff.

We learn that arrangements are in course of preparation for consolidating the great western bituminous coal properties and the railroads therewith connected into a huge monopoly, fashioned after the anthracite combination recently consummated by the Reading company. The details of the scheme and the personnel of its promotion must remain for future ascertainment; but meantime the ultimate acomplishment of the project seems to admit of little doubt.

The really serious question suggested by this fact is whether the people of the United States consider that they have any interest in it and propose to have anything to say about it? Do they sup-pose-they have any rights affected by the scheme; and, if so, afe they prepared to Assert them? or do they choose to wait supinely until those rights have been put beyond the avail of protest or law?

What is coal to us? The chief source of industrial power; the propelling force of our railroads and steamships; the almost exclusive agent for converting our ores and working our metals; the source of our artificial light; the comfort of our homes; the means of preparing our food; it is, in short, the one agent that, next to the vital air, is above all others essential to the infinite ramifications of civilization.

It is a manifest purpose in the constitution of things that whatever is most indispensable to human subsistence and comfort shall be most absolutely free; and it is as essential that coal should be free to common acquisition as that the supply of air should be unrestricted. No possible affront to the common rights of humanity could match in boldness and injustice this attempt to put the prime source of human welfare under the exclusive control of a mere handful of capital owners.

Viewed in all ite bearings, this scheme, and equally the Reading combination, is one of the most flagrant attempts to constitute an overwhelming tyranny of wealth ever perpetrated. If monopoly is to be quietly permitted to thus fasten its grip upon the motive power of our industries and commerce, what may not be next attempted In fee way of subjecting the national liberties and fep national development to the will of a petty all-controlling class?

The question this new movement puts boldly and squarely before the people ia neither more nor less than this—shall eur industry and commerce be subjected to the unrestricted control of an absolute monopoly over each interest? Does the public common sense need to be informed that such control would be more arbitrary and more obtrusive to the development of this great country than the most despotic form of political government could possibly be?. AmJ having rejected despotic political institutions, are we prepared to tolerate a still more destructive despotism of wealth?—New York Commercial Bulletin.

The Indianapelis Journal on Labor.

The tyranny of labor organisations over labor is far more absolute and galling than that of capital over labor. The real slavery of labor is that imposed by labor unions.—Journal, June 11, 1889. Five dollars a week is low wages, but it is not “pauper labor” by a good deal. —Journal, June 18, 1889. In Great Britain coal miners receive from SI.OB to $1.13 a day. The miner’s lot is hard enough, but at the lowest wages ever paid or offered in the country the American miner can make a good deal more than the foreign miners work for all the time. There is no “pauper labor” in the United States. It is an insult to call any man a pauper laborer who can earn even $5 a week.—Journal, June 18, 1889. Of the 338,000 divorcee granted in the Unitec. States during the last twenty years. 616,000 were granted at the request oi wives.

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For President, r GROVER CLEVELAND, of New York For Vice - President, ADLAI STEVENSON, of Illluois. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. Governor, CLAUDE MATTHEWS, Ver fiilllon. Lieutenant Governor, MORTIMER NYE, LaPorte, Baerctary of 81 ate, WILLIAM R. MYERB,Madison. Auditor of State, JOHN O. HENDEItONM Howard. State, ALBERT GALL, Marion. Attorney General, ALONZA Q. SMITH, Jouniuga. Reporter of Snprome Court, SIDNEY R. MOON, Fulton. Superintendent of Public Instruction, HERVEY D. VtIRIES, Johnson. State Stattatlclan, WILL/AM A. PEELK, Jh„ Marion. Supreme Judge, Second District, JEPTHA.D. NEW, Jenninva. Snprome Judge, Third District, JAM SS MuDABK, Warren. Supreme Judge, Fi.th District, TIMOTHY E. HOWARD, St. Joseph. lAppollato Judge, First District, GEORGE L. REINHARDT, Spencer. Appollate Judge, Second Dia’ilct, FRANK E. GAVEN, Decatur. Appellate Judge, Third District, THEODORE P. DAVIS, Hamilton. Appellate Judge, Fourth District, ORDANDO J. LOTZ, Delaware. Appellate Judge, Fifth District, GEORGE E. BOSS. Oass. For Next United States Senator, DAVID TURPIE.

Cleve and Steve. “Public Office is a Public Trust.” “Party Honesty is Party Duty." “Party Courage is Party Expediency." The masses demanded the nomination of Mr. Cleveland. The “bread-and-butter brigade” demanded the nomination of Mr. Harrison. No Republican of any prominenee has yet been fonnd who has any fault to find with Harrison and Beid.—Rensselaer Republican. On the motion to make the nomination of Harrlaonunanimos U. 8. Senator Wolcot, of Colorado, and otberß voted no.— The announcement of the nomination of Harrison brought forth the response from a prominent Republican: “That means Grover Cleveland will be the next President.”

Our Democratic friends who are taking comfort from the absen .e of wild enthusiasm among the Repnblioana over the ticket, should bear in mind that June enthusiasm will have very little to do yith ■ettling the Novemberoontesi, etc., eto.— Rensselaer Republican. And the above ie the sole excuse of the Repnblioan for the laok of enthusiasm among Republicans over the nominees of the Minneapolis convention.

Tfie nomination of Mr. Cleveland was the work of the masses of the Democratic party, and is being ratified in all seotione of the land. The f nomination of Mr. Stevenson, of Illinois, for Vice President, is equally well received. There is no uncertain sonnd in theiplatform. The same issues upon whioh the people triumphed so grandly two jeara ago are again presented for their ratification.

ON THE TARIFF.

The result of this experience wife sugar ought to strengthen the dsnand of every laboring man or man of moderate means for the repeal or reduction of the duties on all articles needed for comfortable living. Why should the government tax the people’s clpfeing any more than the sugar they consume? Why tax salt any more than sugar? Why tax the farmer’s implement* of industry or the mechanic’s tools any more than fee sugar they consume ?—Atlanta Journal.

Among the working people of this country who are unable to perceive the benefits of the McKinley tariff bill ace a large number of woolen weavers employed in mills at WilmingtAh, Dei. Saturday afternoon notices were posted in the mills of a reduction in pay of five cents per “cut.” This is the seoond reduction in wages since February. Up to that time they received eighty Mote per cut, and now the pay is seventy cents.—Savannah News.

The St. Louis Globe Democrat says that tin plate is now (31 per box cheaper than it was 6ix months before the present tariff law went into operation, and that the price has decreased by just about the amonnt of the duty. This means of course the higher the duty tire cheaper the goods. If congress could bo induced to levy a 100 per cent, duty ea everything, the people could get everything for nothing. —Wichita Baaooo.

/ »5r A. McCoy A Co. are prepared to furnish loans on farms at as low rates and on as favorable terms as can be obtained. Call and see us before making your arrangements. ° A boy at “Lei.” Clark s last Sunday.© Rev. I. I. Gprby ooonpied the pnlpit of the Presbyterian ohuroh at Montioello last Sunday. The Fourth of July rate for Chioago will be only $2 20 or the tound trip. Miss Allie Paxton iB visiting with the family of her sister, Mrs. H.. R. W. Smith, Chleago. Friday morning last, during the thunder storm, lightning struck a tree a short distance from the residence of Win. Warren, in Newton's Addition. Studentß at home for vaoation are Misses Mamie Williams and Grace Nichols; George Bruoe, Warren Washbnrn, Rob Vanatta and Will Hammond. How well we remember grandmother’s attic, bo fragrant with medioinal roots and herbal Poor old soul, how precious they seemed to her! And yet, one bottle of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla would do more good than her whole collection of “yarbs." The regular monthly social of Epworth League will be held next Tuesday evening, at the residence of Ed. P. Honan. | Sam. Borohardt and family, of Brunswick, Ga., are visiting the parents of Mrs. 8., at this place.,, A son of Geo. M. Wiloox, Surrey, was overoomo by fasat while engaged in planting corn, last Dr. Hartsell was o ailed and succeeded in giving relief. - J. W. Pinitt, southwest of Brook. Newton oounty, committed euieide last Friday, by ontting his throat.

2,228.672. These figures represent the number of bottles of Dr. King’s Mew Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, whioh were sold in the United States from Maroh '9l to Maroh, 92. Two Million, Two Hundred and Twenty-Eight Thousand, Six Hundred and Seventy-Twobottlessoldin one year, and each and every bottle was sold on a positive guerantee that money would be refunded if satisfactory results did not follow its use. The secret of its success is plain- It nevor disappoints and oan always be depended on erf the very best remedy for Coughs, Colds, eto. Price 500. and SI.OO. At F. B. Meyers' Drugstore.

The old hay barn of Coen Jk Paxton has been tors down and will be replaced with ono more extensive and substantial, Wm. Meyer is improving his residence property corner of Work and Front sts. The people of Saylerville will oelebrate the Fourfe of July at their beautlfnl grove 24 miles west of Rensselaer. Dallas Yeoman, of the Trade Palaoe store, and Miss Ada Strong, were married at the residence of the bride’s parents, Rensselaer, Wednesday evening. Judge Ilammond will orate for the Goodladders on toe 4th. "Bert" Barioo and wife reli rned to Rensselaer, this morning and will resume his connection with the Republican. You can never know till yon try, how quickly a dose of Ayer’s Pills will ouro your sick headache. Your stomach and bowels need cleansing, and these Pills will aceomplish it more effeetually and comfortably than any other medicine you oan find.

A little son Austin Lukin, Union township, aged about 3 years, was drowned in a pond, near his home Wednesday trading. Hornie Peacock, of Whentfleld, was found dead in bed at the residence of his father, Jonathan l'eaoook, in Rensselaer, Wednesday morning. Heart disease. A wife and six children survive him. Aged about 58 years. Interment in Weston Cemetery

Advertised LettersMr. D. C. Berens, Mr. H. F. Frick, Mrs. Bessie K. Love. PersoHß calling for letters in the above list will please Bay they are advertised. Ed. Riioadup. Baldness is catching says a scientist.— It’ catching flies m summer time. Use Hall's Hair Jtenewer and cover the bald place with healthy hair and flies won’t trouble. Mr. Bruce B. Chiloote, accompanied by his wife and daughter, of Eckford, Michigan, are visiting bis brothers M F. and John C. Chilcote, at this place Next Monday Jesse E. Roberts will deliver the valedictory address to the low olass of 1892, at the University of Michigan. The following to obers have been selected by the school board; I’rof. E. W; Bohannan, late pinoipai of the Pekin, 111., high school, for Superintendent• Henry O, Wise, a reoent graduate of the State University. ;or principal of the high school; Misses Blanche Loughridge and Grace Vanatta -cere selected for other departments.

Thanks! Awpunnvl!—Wo lest veek " u ßß e *l e d that the; rposed improvements and the cost thereof would te rather excessive and extrav gunt on Bro. Marshall. The Town Board accepted that view, reduced the extent of improvements onehalf, and agreed to pay half the cost of improvements agreed upon, so that Marshall will have but about one-fourth of the amount first proposed to meet. It has caused a streak of liberality to shoet forth from the inmost recesses crf”his heart. In return he agrees that the town oows shall roam abroad at their pleasure, and “that two cream-colored Jerseys should count only as one whole eow."— It may be possible that the “Tariff Pictore” pi esented by the needless forcing upon cow owners the extra o. st of (12 or sl6 a season per cow, was too plain au illustration of republican tariff methods— It would be in the sole interest of the land lords the town treasury would derive not one cent.

Town Marshal Dom, of Kentland, waa shot by Jack Plummer, In tkat city on Monday last, from whioh death ensued. Plummer is said to h ve been regarded by those who knew him as quiet, hamless and eccentric, and his deed was a surprise. Plummer was brought to tbs Beusselaer jail for safe keeping. He olaims that he had started for his home, would have molested no one, and shot in self defense. Of course there two sir es in the affair, and it should be left to the court to ss certain tbs truth.

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TRUSTEE'S NOTICE. Not|ce is hereby given that I will be n: my office at John A. Knowlton’s. in J<u„ dan township, 01 the Fourth Saturday o each month for the transaction of bn ,i. ness connected with tba duties of Tr . , teo. JAMES H. CARR, Trustee Jordan TownslP ■ George Healey expects to start foi Cnlifornia, Missouri, next Tuesday. The Rensselaer ball olub to-day scooned the Remington boys—ll to 3. Fourth of July Rates. Fourth of July ratos on the Monou are to be one fare for the round trip. Tickets will be sold July 2nd, Bi-l and 4th, and be good going on day of sale only, and returning until Jul y* Bth. No excursion rate less than 25 cents for adults, or less than 15 cenia for children.

To Rattle Ground. The first annual meeting of tho Battle Ground Decoration Association will be held next Sunday. The Monon Route will sell round trip tickets at half rates. Tickets sold Saturday and Sunday and good returning until Monday. Htill More l*w Kates. Half fare ronnd trip tickets will be sold by the Monon Route, as follow# i Convention Knights of St. John, Toronto, Canada. Tickets sold June 23 and 24, and good returning until June 28th. RKI’UHUCAN STATE CONVENTION. The Monon Route will sell tickets to Fort Wayne and return, occasion of Republican State Convention, at one fare for the round trip. Tickets sold June 27th and 28th, and good returning until June 29th. PKOmitITION NATIONAL, CONVENTION. For the Prohibition National Convention, tickets to Cincinnati and return, on* fare for round trip. Tickets sold June 29th and 80th, and good returning until July 6th.

•lM T) D BE £>T EVEttV iJJdE J. li. Wilson, 371, Cl*y st„ Sharpsburg, Pa.srys ko will not be withou Dr. King’s New Discovery for Oonsumptiun, Goughs uud Colds, that it oured bis wife who was threatened wlih Pneumonia after an attack of “La Grippe,“ whan various other reinidles and several physlolans aad done her no good. Robert Barber, of Cooksport, Pa„ claims Dr.Klug’sNew Dhcovt ry nas done him more good than anything he ever used lor Luna Trouble. Nothing like It. Try It Free Trial Bottles at Meyer’s Drugstore: l-rae bottles. 60c. and *L 6

IT PAYS * Ty bo cautious in the ohotoe of medt/ dues. Many are Injured by trying experiments with compounds purporting, to bo blood - purifiers, the principal recommendation of which would seem to bo their “oheapnoss.” Being made up of worthless, though not always harmless, Ingredients, they may well bo “oheap;”! hut, in the end, they am dear. T%ie most reliable medicines am" costly, and can be retailed at mod.; orate prices, only when the manufacture lng chemist handles the raw materials In large quantities. It is . eoonomyj therefore, To Use Ayer's Sarsaparilla, the valuable components I of which aro Imported, wholesale, by the J. 0. Ayer Co. from the regions where these articles are richest In medicinal properties. “It Is a wonder to me that any otter, than Ayer's Sarsaparilla has a show in the market If people consulted their own in-' ' terest, they would never use any other; for it is not only the best, but, on account of its concentrated strength and purity, it is the most economical.”—James V. Duffy, Dm* gist, Washington st., Providence, B. I. Dr. A. L. Almond, Druggist, Liberty, Va.„ writes: “Leading physicians in this oitv prescribe ■t - Ayer's f Sarsaparilla, f have sold If t* eights** years, and have the highest regard for lt» healing qualities.” “Although the formula is known to tbs! trade, there can be no successful imitation of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. Without having the enormous facilities of the J. 0. Ayer Co., it is impossible for other parties to put together: snch valuable ingredients, at the low costof Ayer’s ) Sarsaparilla It stands at the head of all similar prepara- 1 tious.”—Mark A. Jones, 50 yean a druggist, 60 Cambridge st, E. Cambridge, Maas. l PBXPAKBD BT • Dr. J. C. AKER ft CO., Lmt, Man. Sold by all Druggists. Prise (1; six bottlstJS. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE. In the matter of the Estate of David M. Nelson, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court,{Juno 1 Term, 1892. Notio# is hereby given, That the undersigned, as Administratrix of the Estata of David M. Nelson, deceased, baa presented and filed her acoount and vouohers in final settlement of said estate, and that tbs same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit Court, on the 20th day of June. 1892, at whieh time all persons interested in said estate are required to appear in said Court and show causa, if any there be, why said acoount and vouchers should not be approved. □And the heirs of said estate, and all others interested therein, are also hereby required, at the time and plaoe aforssalo, to appear and make proof of their heirship or olaim to any part of said estate. ' IRENE B. NELSON. Wm. 11. Coovkb, Clerk. June 3, 1892. •