Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — Page 7

How Great Cities Grow,

[Chicago Dally Kews-RecoiSJ Unthinking people suppose that big elties grow like jelly fishes, gradually expanding from a single center. But they don’t. They cover the ground just as a crop of parsley spreads over a new-ly-hoed garden. Bhoots spring up here and there from a great number of central roots. From these various centers It gradually extends until the ground is completely covered. The various root oenters are plainly discerniDle about Chicago,and the vacant spaces between them are just as plain. Leave the city and you run through a rapidly filling blank spot before you strike Englewood; a blank, then Auburn Park; another blank, then Pullman to the west, South Chicago to the ea6t, and just beyond you Hammond, with vacant spaces between each of them. Another blank and then you come to Griffith—a rapidly growing new center. This leads one to inquire what is necessary to make a root-center? What determines where they will grow? Evidently railroads. The junction of two or three railroads in the vicinity of any large city is sure to develop into a suburb. Therefore land near to a junction which is twenty miles from the center of a city is often worth more than land nearer the city but remote from any railroad or only on one. Griffith is at the junction of lour great railroads and two fuel oil pipe lines. One of its railroads is a complete belt line encircling Chicago and bringing twenty-four more railroads into immediate switch connection. It is strange such an important point was overlooked for so long. When a few months ago Jay B. Dwiggins & Co., of Chicago, laid out a town there, four factories immediately located, and houses and stores are springing up like magic.

Some Peculiarities of Birds and Animals.

“Some animals exhibit a queer lack of sense,” says a man who has observed them. “Put a buzzard in a pen about six feet square and open at the top, and it is as much a prisoner as though it were shut up in a box. This is because buzzards always begin their flight by taking a short run, and they either cannot or will cot attempt to fly unless they can do so. Again, take a common bumblebee and put it in a goblet. It will remain a prisoner for hours, trying to escape through the sides, without ever thinking of escaping from the top. Bo also a bat cannot rise from a perfectly level surface. Although it is remarkably nimble in its flight wheh on the wing, and can fly for many hours at a time without taking the least rest, if placed on the floor or on flat ground it is absolutely unable to use Its wings. The only thing it can do is to shuffle helplessly and painfully along until it reaches some trifling elevation, from whioh It can throw itself into the air, when at once It is off like a flash. ” —New York Tribune.

When the Trap Is Sprung

Upon ns, as it sometimes is, in a most unexpected manner by disease, we appreciate the fact that it is a most insidious foe, and that not only is it necessary to oombat It by the most potent medicinal agencies, but to prevent Its manifestation at all by counteracting the oauses that produce it. Thus, exposure in wet weather, the enforced wearing of damp clothes during a storm, a thorongh draught, unaccustomed diet and water, bodily or mental overwork are breeders of disease, but Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters will prevent their Inducing it. This medicine fortifies the system against the assured effects such causes would otherwise produce. To the mariner, miner, the outdoor laborer, tbe slave of the desk and pen, and the overworked generally, It Is of the utmost advantage. Dyspepsia, kidney trouble, malaria, biliousness, all yield to It. It is generally agreed among naturalists that the tortoise is the longest lived of all animals. Many have attained the age of 250 years, while one iB known to have reached the unparalleled age of 450 years. SI,OOO Home Work, for Boys, Girls, Men, and Women; no agency or canvassing. Address, with 6tamp, Crystal Cave Supply 00., 8602 State street, Chicago. 111. The first carpets made in Europe were manufactured in France, in 1664, in imitation of some which had been brought from Turkey. F. J. CHENEY Sc CO., Toledo, 0., Props, of Hall’s Catarrh Cure, offer 8100 reward for any case of catarrh that can not be oared by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for testimonials, free. Sold by Druggists, 7Sc. Neighborly sympathy is a good thing, but sometimes a man has to break his leg to get It. FITSr—AII Fits stopped free by Dr. Kline’s Greet Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and 12.00 trial bottle free to nt cases. Bend to Dr. Kline 061 Arch St.. Phils. Pa

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FOR ALL THE VOTERS.

THE PRESIDENT’S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE. The Issues Are Deflned-Pollcy of the Republicans—The Contest Lies Between Protection and Free Trade— Fair Elections and Reciprocity Touched Upon. The President’s tetter. President Harrison’s letter accepting the Bepublican Presidential nomination was made public Monday night. It contains over 10,000 words, is dated at Washington, and the substance is as follows: The Hon. W. McKinley, Jr., and Others, Committee, etc: Gentlemen—l now avail myself of the first period of relief from public duties to respond to the notification which you brought to me on June 20 of my nomination for the office of President of the United States by the Republican National Convention recently held at Mmneapolis. I accept the nomination, and am grateful for the approval expressed by the convention of the acts of the administration. The great work of the Fifty-first Congress has been subjected to the revision of a Democratic House of Representatives and the acts of the executive department to its scrutiny and investigation. There has seldom been a time, I think, when a change from the declared policies of the Republican to the declared policies of the Democratic party Involved such serious results to the business Interests of the country. A brief review of what has been done and of what the Democratic party proposes to undo will justify this opinion. The President then at some length compares the present system of banking and the issuance of money with that which prevailed before the withdrawal of State bank issues, and declares that the present plan is the safest ever yet devised. He touches upon the commerce upon the seas and recognizes the fact that our exports are carried in vessels sailing under foreign flags. He says:

The merchandise balance of trade, the treasury books show, is largely reduced by the annual tribute which we pay for freight and passage money. The great ships—the fastest on the sea—which are now in peace profiting by our trade, are, in a secondary sense, war ships of their respective governments, and in time of war would, under existing contracts with those governments, speedily take on the guns for which their decks are already prepared and enter with terrible efficiency upon the work of destroying our commerce. The undisputed fact is that the great steamship lines of Europe were built up and are now in part sustained by direct or Indirect government aid, the latter taking the form of liberal pay for carrying the mails or of an annual bonus given in consideration of agreements to construct ships so as to adapt them for can ying an armament and to turn them over to the Government on demand, upon specified terms. It was plain to every intelligent American that if the United States would have such lines a similar policy must ■be entered upon. The Fifty-first Congress enacted such a law, and under its beneficent influence sixteen American steamships of an aggregate tonnage of 67,400 tons and costing $7,400,000 have been built or contracted to be built in the American ship-yards. In addition to this,lit is now practically certain that we shall soon have under the American flag one of the finest steamship lines sailing out of New York for any European port. This contract will result in the construction in American ship-yards of four new passenger steamships of 10,080 tons each, costing about $8,000,000, and will add to our naval reserve six steamships the fastest npon the sea. Mr. Harrison favors the development of our South Atlantic and Gulf ports, and the increased application of the policy of reciprocity in South American trade. For this latter, he ascribes all credit to Mr. Blaine, and in summing up results and prospects, says:

At a meeting held In March last of the associated chambers of commerce of Great Britain the President reported that the exports from Great Britain to the Latin American countries during the last year had decreased $23,760,000, and that this was not due to temporary causes, but directly to the reciprocity policy of the United States. Germany and France have also shown their startled appreciation of the fact that a new and vigorous contestant has appeared in the battle of the markets and has already secured important advantages. The most convincing evidence of the tremendous commercial strength of our position Is found In the fact that Great Britain and Spain have found it necessary to make reciprocal trade agreements with us for their West India colonies, and that Germany and Austria have given us important concessions in exchange for the continued free importation of their beet-sugar product. A few details only as to the increase in our trade can be given here. Taking all the countries with which arrangements have been made, our trade to June 30, 1892, had increased 23.78 per cent.; with Cuba during the first ten months our exports increased $5,702,193 or 54.8 percent.; and with Porto Rico $590,599 or 34 per cent. The liberal participation of our farmers in the benefits of this policy is shown by the following report from our Consul General at Havana under date of July 26 last: During the first half year of 1891, Havana received 140,056 bags of flour from Spain and other ports of the island about an equal Amount, or approximately 280,112 bags. During the same period Havana received 13,976 bags of American flour and other ports approximately an equal amount, making about 28,000 bags.

But for the first half of this year Spain haß sent less than 1,000 bags to the whole Island and the United States has sent to Havana alone 168,487 bags and about an equal amount to other ports of the island, making approximately 337,000 for the first half of 1892. Partly by reason of the reciprocal trade agreement bnt more largely by reason of the removal of the sanitary restrictions against American pork, our export of pork products to Germany increased during the ten months ending June 30 last $2,025,074, or about 32 per cent. The British Trade Journal of London, In a recent Issue, speaking of the increase of American coal exports and of the falling off of the English coal exports to Cuba says: “It Is another dase of American competition. The United States now supply Cuba with about 160,000 tons of coal annually, and there is every prospect of this trade Increasing as the forests of the Island become exhausted and the use of steam machinery on the estates is developed. Alabama coal especially is securing a reputation in the Spanish West Indies, and the river and rail improvements of the Southern States will undoubteply create an Important Gulf trade. The new reciprocity policy by which the United States are enabled to Import Cuban sugar will of course assist the American coal exporters even more effectively than the new lines of railway. The President fears tbe loss of present, And endangering of future trade, If tfche Democrats are successful, for he declares they favor repeal of the reciprocity provision. He further says: The declaration of the platform in favor of “the Amerioan doctrine of protection" meets my most hearty approval. The convention did not adopt a schedule but a principle that is to control all the tariff schedules. There may be differences of opinion among protectionists as to the rate upon particular articles necessary to effect an equalization between wages abroad and at home.

In some not remote national campaigns the issue has been—or, more correctly, has been made to appear to be—between a high and low protective tariff, both parties expressing some solicitous regard for the wages of oar working people and for the prosperity of our domestic industries,- Bnt under a more courageous leadership the Democratic party has now practically declared that, if given power, it will enact a tariff law without any regard to Its effect upon wages or upon the capital invested in our great industries. The majority report of the Committee on Platform to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago contained this clause: “That when custom-house taxation is levied upon articles of any kind produced in this country the difference between the cost of labor here and abroad, when such a difference exists, fully measures any possible benefits to labor, and the enormous additional impossitlons of the existing tariff fall with crushing force upon onr fanners and workingmen ” Here we have a distinct admission of the Republican contention that American workmen are advantaged by a tariff rate equal to the difference between home and foreign wages and a declaration only against the alleged “ad! dltlonal impositions” of the existing tariff law. Again, this majority report further declared: “But In making a reduction in taxes it Is not proposed to injure any domestic industries, but rather to promote their healthy growth. * * * Moreover, many industries have come to rely upon legislation for successful continuance, so that any change of law must be at every step regardful of the labor and the capital thus involved.” Here we have an admission that many of onr industries depend upon protective duties “for their successful continuance” and a declaration that tariff changes should be regardful of the workmen In such Industries and of the Invested capital. The overwhelming rejection of these propositions which had before received the sanction of Democratic National Conventions was not more indicative of the new and more courageons leadership to which the party has now committed itself than the substitute which was adopted. This substitute declares that protective duties are unconstitutional—high protection, low protection—all unconstitntional. A Democratic Congress holding this view cannot enact nor a Democratic President approve any tariff schedule the purpose or effect of which Is to limit importations or to give any advantage to an American workman Proffljcer. A bounty might, I judge, be given to the importer under this view of the

Constitution in order to increase important importation, and so the revenue, for “revenue 1 only," is the limitation. Reciprocity of course j falls nuder this denunciation, for Its object and effect are not revenue, but the promotion of commercial exchanges, the profits of which go wholly to our producers. Mr. Harrison denies, that the policy i of the Democrats to-day was the policy of Jefferson or Jackson, and characterizes the present doctrine as “destructive and un-American.” He says: There is not a thoughtful business man in ! the country who does not know that the en- j actment into law of the declaration of the Chi- I cago convention on the subject of the tariff ; would at once plunge the country into a bust- j ness oonvnlsion such as it has never seen; and j there is not a thoughtful workingman who j does not know that it would at onoe enorm- j onsly reduce the amount of work to be done In this country by the increase of importations that would follow and necessitate a reduction of his wages to the European standard. If any one suggests that this radical policy will not be executed if the' Democratic party attains power what shall be thought of a party that is capable of thus trifling with great interests? Tlie threat of such legislation would be only less hurtful than the fact. And now a few words In regard to the existing tariff law. We are fortunately able to judge of its influence upon production and prices by the market reports. The day of the prophet of calamity has beensucceeded by that of the trade reporter. An examination Into the effect of the law npon the prices of protection products and of the cost of suoh articles as enter into the living of people of small means has been made by a committee composed of leading Senators of both parties, with the aid of the best statisticians, and the report, signed by all the members of the committee, has been given to the public. No suoh wide and careful inquiry has ever been before made. These facts appear from the report: 1. The cost of articles entering Into the use of those earning less than SI,OOO per annum has decreased up to May, 1892, 8.4 per cent., while in farm products there has been an increase in prices, owing in part to an increased foreign demand and the opening of new markets. In England during the same period the cost of living increased 1.9 per cent. Tested by their power to purchase articles of necessity the earnings of our working people have never been as great as they are now. 2. There has been an average advance in the rate of wages of .76 of 1 per cent. 3. There has been an advance In the price of all farm products of 18.07 per oent. and of all cereals 33.99 per cent. The ninth annual report of the chief of the bureau of labor statistics of the State of New York, a Democratic officer, very recently issued, strongly corroborates, as to that State, the facts found by the Senate committee. In view of this showing it is plain that this tariff law has not imposed burdens but conferred benefits on the fanner and the workingman. Some special effects of the act should be noticed. It was a courageous attempt to rid our people of a long maintained foreign monopoly on the production of tin plate, pearl buttons, Bilk plush, linens, lace, etc. Once or twice In our history the production of tin plate had b"en attempted, and the price by the Welsh makers would have enabled our makers to produce it at a profit. But the Welsh makers at once cut prices to a point that drove the American beginners out of the business, and when this was accomplished again made their own prices. A correspondent of the Industrial World, the official organ of the Welsh tin-plate workers, published at Swansea, In the issue of June 10, 1892, advises a new triad of these methods. He says: “It Is clearly the Interest of both (employer and workmen) to produce tin-plates, tariff or no tariff, at a price that will drive all competitors from the field." But In spite of the doubts raised by the elections of 1 1890, and of the ra&ohlnations of foreign producers to maintain their monopoly, the tin-plate industry has been established in the United States, and the allianoe between the Welsh producers and the Democratic party for Its destruction will not succeed. The President then shows that in this country the past year there was produced over 13,000,000 pounds of tin and terne plates. In continuance: Another industry that has been practically created by the McKinley law Is the making of pearl buttons. Few articles oomlng to us from abroad were so distinctly the product of starvation wages. But, without unduly extending this letter, I cannot follow in detail the influences of the tariff law of 1890. This tariff law has given employment to many thousands of Amerioan men and women, and will each year give employment to Increasing thousands. Its repeal would throw thousands out of employment and give work to others only at reduced wages. In considering the motives of Democracy’s leaders, the President says: “The appeals of the free-trader to the workingman are largely addressed to his prejudices or to his passions, and not infrequently are pronouncedly communistic.” But of the outcome, he says: “They will settle the tariff contest in the calm light of their November firesides, and with sole reference to the prosperity of the country of which they are citizens and of the homes they have founded for their wives and children. ” No intelligent advocate of a protective tariff claims that it is able of itself to maintain a uniform rate of wages without regard to fluctuations in the supply of and demand for the products of labor, but It Is confidently claimed that protective duties strongly tend to hold up wages, and are the only barrier against a reduction to the European scale. The Southern States have had a liberal participation in the benefits of the tariff law, and, though their representatives have generally opposed the protection policy, I rejoioe that their sugar, rice, coal, ores, Iron, fruits, cotton cloths and other products have not been left to the fate which the votes of their Representatives would have brought npon them. In the construction of the Nicaragua canal, in the new trade with South and Central America, in the establishment of American steamship lines, these States have also special interests, and all these interests will not always consent to be without representation at Washington. Shrewdly, but not quite fairly, our adversaries speak only of the Increased duties Imposed upon tin, pearl buttons and other articles by the McKinley bill, and omit altogether any reference to the great and beneficial enlargement of the free list. During the last fiscal year $458,000,772 worth of merchandise, or 66.36 per cent, of our total Importations came In free (the largest percentage In our history), while in 1889 the per cent, of free Importations was only 34.42 per cent. The placing of sugar upon the free list has saved to the consumer in duties In fifteen months, after paying the bounties provided for, $87,000,000. This relief has been substantially felt in every household upon every Saturday’s purchase of the workingman. One of the favorite arguments against a protective tariff is that it shuts us out from a participation In what is called, with swelling emphasis, “the markets of the world.” If this view is not a false one, how does It happen that onr commercial competitors are not able to hear with more serenity onr supposed surrender to them of the “markets of the world,” and how does It happen that the partial loss of onr market closes foreign tin-plate mills and plush factories thatl still have all other markets? Our natural advantages, onr protective tariff and the reciprocity policy make It possible for us to have a large participation in the "markets of the world" without opening our own to a competition that would destroy the comfort and Independence of onr people. Of bimetallism he says: The resolution of the convention in favor of bimetallism declares, I think, the true and necessary conditions of a movement that has, upon these lines, my cordial adherence and support, lam thoroughly convinced that the free coinage of silver at such a ratio to gold as will maintain the equality in their commercial uses of the two coined dollars, would conduce to the prosperity of all the great producing and commercial nations of the world. The one essential condition is that these dollars shall have and retain an equal acceptability and value in all commercial transactions. His further remarks upon this head are but illustrative. Concerning regulations of elections; In mv last annual message to Congress, I said: “I must yet entertain the hope that it is possible to seenre a calm, patriotic consideration of such constitutional or statutory changes as may be necessary to secure the choice of the officers of the Government to the people by fair apportionments and free elections. I believe it would be possible to constitute a commission, non-partisan in its membership, and composed of patriotic, wise, and impartial men, to whom a consideration of the questions of evils connected with our election systems and methods might be committed with a good prospect of securing unanimity in some plan for removing or mitigating those evils. The constitution would penult the selection .of the • commission to be vested-in the Supreme Court if that method would give the best guaranty of impartiality. This commission should be charged with the duty of inquiring into the whole subject of the law of elections as related to the choice of officers of the National i Government, with a view to securing to every elector a free and unmolested exercise of the suffrage and as near an approach to an equality of value in each ballot cast as is attainable. The demand that the limitations of suffrage shall be found in the ballot, and only there, is a just demand and no just man should resent or resist it. It seemed to me that an appeal to our people to consider the question of -readjusting onr legislation upon absolutely fair non-partisan lines might find some effective response. Many times I have had occasion to say that laws and election methods, designed to give unfair advantages to the party making them, wouldsome time be used to perpetuate In power a faction of a party against a will of the majority of the people. Of this we seem to have an illustration in the recent State election in Alabama. The situation in Alabama is revewied at length, and the President says: I shall again urge npon Congress that provision be made for the appointment of a nonpartisan commission to consider the subject of

apportionments and elections in their relation to the ohoioe of federal officers. Mr. Harrison expresses himself as thoroughly satisfied with the civil service system. Upon the education question he says: The approval so heartily given by the convention to all those agencies which contribute to the education of the children of the land was worthily bestowed and meets my hearty approval, as does also the declaration as to liberty of thought and conscience and the separation of ohnrch and state. The safety of a republic Is an Intelligent cltirenship and the increased interest manifested in the States in education. The public-school system, however, was not intended to restrain the natural right of the parent, after contributing to the public-school fund, to choose other educational agencies for his children. I favored aid by the general government to the public schools, with a special view to the necessities of some of the Southern States. But it is gratifying to notioe that many of these States are, with oommendable liberality, developing their school systems and increasing their school revenues to the great advantage of the children of both races. The considerate attention of the farmers of the whole country is invited to the work done through the State and Agricultural Departments In the Interest of agriculture.

Then is shown how, by inspection of our meats, the markets of several European countries were opened to our products. The President strongly advocates the Nicaragua Canal. Of the foreign policy, he says: It has been the purpose of the administration to make its foreign policy not a matter of partisan politics but of patriotism and national honor; and I have very great gratification in being able to state that the Democratic members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs responded In a true American spirit, and I frankly confess my obligation for needed cooperation. They did not regard a patient but firm lnslstanoe upon American rights and upon immunity from insult and injury for our citizens and sailors In foreign ports as a policy of “irritation and bluster." They did not believe, as some others seem to believe, that to be a Democrat one must take the foreign side of every internation question If a Republican. I do not believe that a tame submission to lnsnlt and outrage by any nation at the hands of any other can ever form the basis of a lasting friendship—the necessary element of mutual respect will be wanting. The Chilian Incident, now so happily and honorably adjusted, will, I do not doubt, place our relations with that brave people upon a more friendly basis than ever before. In our relations with the great Europen’ peckers, the rights of the United States and our citizens have been insisted upon with firmness. Nevor before, I think. In a like period have so many lmporant treaties and commercial agreements been concluded, and never before, 1 am sure, have the honor and influence, national and commerial. of the United States been held in higher estimation in both hemispheres. The Union soldiers and sailors are now veterans of time as well as of war. The parallels of age have apppoaohed close to the citadels of life, and the end, for each, of a brave and honorable struggle Is not remote. Increasing infirmity and years give the minor tones of sadness and pathos to the mighty appeals of service and suffering. The ear that does not listen with sympathy and the heart that does not respond with generosity are the ear and heart of an alien and not of an American. Now, soon again the surviving veterans are to parade upon the great avenues of the national capital, and every tribute of honor and love should attend the march. A oomrade in the column of the victors' parade In 1865,1 am not less a comrade now. The necessity for a careful discrimination among the Immigrants seeking our shores becomes every day more apparent. We don't want and should not receive those who by reason of bad character or habit are not wanted at h ome. The industrious and self-respecting, the loverß of law and liberty, should be discriminated from the pauper, the criminal, and the anarchist, who come only to burden and disturb our communities. Every effort has been made to enforce the laws and some convictions have J>ecn secured under the contractlabor law. The general condition of our country is one of great prosperity. The blessing of God has rested upon our fields and upon our people. The annual value of our foreign commerce nas Increased more than $400,000,000 over the average for the preceding ten years, and more than $210,000,000 over 1890, the last year unaffected by the new tariff. Our exports in 1892 exceeded those of 1890 by more than $172,000,000 and the annual average for ten years by $265,000,000. Our exports of breadstuffs increased over those of 1890 more than $144,000,000, of provisions over $4,000,000, and of manufactures over $8,000,000. The merchandise balance of trade in our favor In 1892 was #202,944,342. No other nation can match the commercial progress which those figures disclose. Our compassion may well go out to these whose party necessities and habits still compel them to declare that our people are oppressed and our trade restricted by a protective tariff. In closing, the President decries the policy of change advocated by the Democrats. He says: A change in the personnel of a national administration is of comparatively little moment. If those exercising public functions are able, honest, diligent, and faithful, others possessing all these qualities may be found to take their places. Rut changes In the laws and in administrative policies are of great moment. When public affairs have been given a direction and business has adjusted itself to those lines any sudden change Involves a stoppage and new business adjustments. If the change of direction Is so radloal as to bring the commercial turn-table Into use the business changes Involved are not readjustments, but reconstructions. The Democratic party offers a programme of demolition. The protective policy, to which all business, even that of the Importer, Is now adjusted; the reciprocity polloy, the new merchant marine, are all to be demolished—not gradually, not taken down, but blown np. To this programme of destruction It has added one constructive feature, the re-establishment of State banks of Issue. The polloy of the Republican party is distinctively a policy of safe progression and development—or new factories, new markets and new ships. It will subject business to no perilous changes, but offers attractive opportunities for expansion upon familiar lines.

Something: About Gingerbread.

We should be greatly surprised to see our everyday bread come to our tables tied with yellow and green ribbons or decorated with golden stars, but there was a time in England when so simple a thing as gingerbread was treated in a much more extraordinary way. In its earlier form gingerbread was simply a bread paste, with ginger and sweetening added. A very crude imagination went to work at it, and the market-places were crowded with gingerbread kings and queens, saints and roosters, adorned with gilt crowns and scepters, with halos, wings, and tails. Dispatches from Europe accumulate evidence that the cholera is spreading rapidly and causing a panic among the people of Southeastern Russia. The terrible disease seems to have started on its western march from Turkestan and Khorassan, a province of Northeastern Persia, where it is raging with frightful fatality. Thence, owing to lax quarantine regulations, it spread across the Caspian to Baku, the great petroleum shipping port, where the utmost consternation prevails owing to its alarming ravages. The TransCaspian railway has served as a medium for carrying the contagion from Russia in Asia, and there is now no question that It has gained a lodgment in European Russia. Notwithstanding the precautions taken at Tiflis, Sebastopol, and at the numerous frontier towns it found no difficulty in passing the barriers, and there is now no question that it is spreading in eastern Russia, as it has appeared at Tzaritzin, on the Volga, and other places, in which case the famine-stricken districts will now be afflicted with a fresh horror. It is even reported that the disease has made its appearance at Brindisi, on the heel of the Italian boot. This report, however, needs confirmation. Meanwhile there can be no doubt that Eastern Russia is afflicted with genuine Asiatic cholera of the malignant type in spite of the efforts, of the Russian Government to stamp it out with cordons of soldiers instead of sanitary measures.

“The unspeakable Turk” has forbidden the importation of quack medicines, Possibly “the Sick Man” has been experimenting, and has his own reasons.

WONDERFUL ST. PETERSBUPG.

As 8««n Through the Eyes of a Famous American Correspondent. I wish I could give you a stereopticon view of St. Petersburg, writes Frank G. Carpenter. It is one of the queerest, one of the fastest, one cf the gayest, and by all odds the most unique capital of the world. Lying as it does on the great Gulf of Finland, a river as wide as the Mississippi at St. Louis runs through it and great canals cut it up so that it looks like a second Venice. It is a city of wide streets, of big three, four and five story flats; of vast palaces, many of which cover acres; of a multitude of gorgeous churches, of great schools, of art galleries, of factories, and the thousand and oue other features which make up the capital of the greatest empire on tho globe. You have heard the story of its building. I stood yesterday in the log hut that Peter the Great built on the swamp here when he decided that ho would make this point his capital. All this was a forest, a marsh and a wilderness. The Russia of that day, as the Russia of this, was in the interior, but Peter decided he wanted to have his capital where he could look out upon Europe and he called St. Petersburg his window, and, like Aladdin, he made it rise upon the mud in almost a night. He mad# noble in tho empire build a house here. Every boat on the Baltic and the Russian rivers had to draw a load of stone to the city, and 40,000 men worked year in and year out till the great capital rose. Fully a gen. eration after New York was founded the wolves howled in the wilderness on the site of St. Petersburg; now a city of stone and brick twenty-live miles in circumferance floats here, as It were, almost upon the waters, and 100,000,000 heads bow down to this as th.e seat of their ruler. Piles by the million have been driven down to make foundations. The great River Neva is walled for miles with granite docks and all the streets are paved. Our public buildings at Washington are large, but those of Russia cover far greater areas. The only things that compare with them are the mammoth structures of the Chicago Exposition, and as to the churches here, one of them, St. Isaac’s Cathedral, has cost nearly $20,000,000, or as much as will be the total outlay of the Exposition, There are other churches nearly as expensive, and the whole city has been built without regard to cost. It is almost a Sabbath day’s Journey to go through some of these palaces. The winter palace, on the banks of the Neva, would spoil the area of a ten-acre Held, and its corridors, if stretched out, would reach miles. There is a

ST. ISAAC’S CATHEDRAI. [Ono of St Petersburg's moat magnificent edifices.]

tradition that some of tho unused rooms were turned into a barnyard by the servants In years past, and that when the palace once burned a cow was hauled out with the furniture. It is the same with private houses. The people live In flats, and these flats make up In area what they lack In height. It takes nearly a square for the ordinary house, and the Hotel de I’Europe, where I am stopping, has halls which seem to be a mile long, and I lose myself again and again going to my room. The business blocks are big, and there Is a great bazar here, where hundreds of merchants have stores facing a vaulted arcade which covers a vast area, and which Is thronged from morning till night with thousands of shoppers.

Around in Twenty-five Seconds.

Medical workers have made many curious experiments, but none more wonderful than that by which they ascertained the exact time required for the blood to make one entire“t»ip through the system, which all students of physiology know means a complete circulation through the lungs, veins, arteries, and the general capillary arrangements. Profs. Dalton, Hering, Poissenillc, Mattuci, and Blake have been the chief investigators in this line, the first named having become more eminent in this particular branch of research from having the experience of others to fortify himseif with. All the old school anatomists believed that a considerable time elapsed, say from three to nine minutes from the time when the blood left the right side of the heart, traversed the whole system, and then again returned to the starting point; Dflton has shown that the time is much shorter than was formerly generally supposed. The chief agent used in his experiments was a salt known to chemists as ferrocyanide of potassium, which can be readily detected in the blood on account of its chemical reactions. Prof. Dalton describes the operation in the following language: “Blood was drawn from the jugular vein of the opposite side, and the interval which elapsed before the appearance of the foreign salt in blood drawn from the second opening indicated the time required for the blood to pass from the point of injection through the vena cava to the heart, from the right side of the heart through the lungs to. the left cavities, from the left ventrical through the carotid arteries and the capillary vessels of the head, and thence downward to the jugular vein on the opposite side. Dozens of carefully tabulated tests of this somewhat extraordinary subject show that the blood of man makes a complete circulation once every fifteen to twenty-five seconds, according to the physical conditions of the subject experimented upon."—Medical Beo am)

Excursion [?]tee South.

The Chicago and Eat tern Illinois Railroad will aell exclusion ticket* Sept. fT and Oct IS. 1802, at the low rate o( «ae tmM for the round trip, to numerous point* to the Southeast, South and Southwest For full particular*, maps, time table*, or any other Information, apply to ageat* (UK 1 K. R, Chicago city ticket ofltoi, 204 Clark street, or to Charles L. Stone. General Passenger and Ticket Agent ill first National Bank Building, Chicago.

A Wise Decision.

“So you have refused young Tompkins. Ethel?” said Ethel's friend. ‘Are you sure, dear, you are not making a mistake?” ‘lt would be a mistake to marry him. Of that lam quite satinfled,” replied Ethel. “I heard Harry talking to his mother one day, and he was both unfllinl and disrespectful. I oould never marry a man who spoke to his mother as he did.” “Youare right,” said her friend with a sigh, “but, Ethel, how many girls are there who would have tho moral courage to do as you have done?" “Oh, it isn’t easy, but it is better than a lifetime of regret," eald the young philosopher. Mr wife has used Bradycrotlne for headache with the best imaginable results. I state this without solicitation. J. W. Mashburn,' Abbeville, Ga. Of all Druggists. 80c. A mind full of piety and knowledge in always rich; it is a bank that never fails; it yields a perpetual dividend Of happiness. Medical science bus achieved a great triumph in tbe production of UeochamV Pills, which, at 24 cents a box replaces medicine chest. If It were not for the boy next door, your boys would be “perfeot little gentlemen.” To THX KESOUB WITH HALE'S FIoNET OF HoßEhouni) and Tab before tho baby strangles with eroup. Pike's Toothache Dnora Cure in one Minute. There Is no sweeter repose than that which is purchased by labor.

No Wonder L People Speak Well at W. HOOD'S. -For a lent jB) time I was troubled with y weak stomaoh, Indlges- / tlon and Dyspepsia. I began taking Hood's Rer/Aa. niiparlllu and have not felt so well all over lor year*. Mr. K. J. Brunei age. My food „ eld6m trouble* me now. My sister also took Hood's Sarsaparilla with very pleating results. I don't wonder people speak well of Hood's Sarsaparilla, Don’t see how they oan help lt.“ B. J. Bbundage, Norwalk, Ct. N. B. Be sure to get Hood's Sarsaparilla HOOD’S PILLS act easily, yet promptly end efficiently, on the liver and bowels. ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Svrup of Figs is the only remedy or its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt ia its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy ana agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Byrup of Figs is for sale In 800 and $1 bottles oy all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist Rho may not have it on hana will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIO SVRUP CO. BAN FRANCISCO, CAL LOUISVILLE, KV. HEW YORK. H.f. A FRIEND IN NEED. The old adage is that “A friend in need is a friend indeed.” Thiseveryone will acknowledge who has tried that sterling remedy, Reid’s German Cough and Kidney Curb. When racked by a vlolepteoughorsuffering with a terrible cold this great remedy comes like a messenger of peace with healing on Its wings. It at once stimulates the kidneys so that they resume their normal functions; It aids tbe lungs to throw off the surplus carbonic acid; and It restores the circulation to its accustomed vigor. When this is done, but not until it is done, will the system be restored and the cold be banished. No one can take even one dose of this great remedy without feeling the benefit. It acts at once, and at the same time it is perfectly harmless. It never under any circumstances does harm. This makes it the most invaluable of cough remedies. Get it of any dealer. Sylvan Remedy Ccl, Peoria, 111. ©«F»T FOLKS REDUCED Mr*. Alio* M*pl*. Qpogon, Mo„ writ**: i \ Wf I i “My weight w*a 320 pound*,now It in 116, • redaction of 125 lb*.” For eircal Art *ddr*M, with Co., Dr.O.W.F.BNYDER. MoVlolMr'aTheatre. Chime*.llL Barlows Indigo Blue. Dm Family Wash Blue, for sale by Qreoere.

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“German Syrup” Justice of the Peace, George WD-( kfaaott, of Lowville, If array Obi,, Mina., nukes a deposition concerning a severe cold. Listen to it “I» the Spring of 1888, through exposure I contracted a very acvera add diet settled on my lungs. TWe was accompanied by excessive nigh* sweats. One bottle of Boscbee’o German Syrup broke up die cold, night sweats, and all and left me in a good, healthy condition. I can give German Syrup my moat earnest coTnmmdation.” # nrtdtmietamiifLtlalnt *>***% —I a on* relief I* etreeni rtefee. Vi* si sum. fee uIU *w tb« rmflut rfiit rftn le>le*lhe Atvi dtMidb StdA jtMuWiuh eed lUk .y MHmtinttiimtttm ;: Going to Buy A Dictionary? BET TEE BEST. • » Mr AhresMef the Ehoe*. o', ’ A Chotoa Gift. , | A Grand Funny Educator. , • Tho Standard Authority. t > n*m ll A ■ mi* n au. Monnxm i asiffl®-: ;. a * a meretam 00-mmu*m. ~ BjrtnfltoH, Hit. U.S.I.

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