Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1896 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Two more men have been added to the force iff the n w cigar facta ctory. A. Lewis, proprietor of the new cigar factory, has been out on the road t.vis week placing his goods. 3ur farmers are busily engaged in getting id their oats. Assessor J. T. Sayler has engaged ex-assessor “Wils” Porter to assist him in this township. The old O’Halloran livery barn is being torn down to make room for a structure of larger dimensions. J. F. Iliff for the present occupies the Hemphill barn for livery, feed and sale purposes. Dr. E. C. English, a graduate of Wesieyan College, of Bloomington 111., and of Rush Medical College, -.-cently of the Wabash Railway Hospital, Moberly, Mo., and Dr. L. B. Washburn (»vho needs no introduction here) have entered into co-partnership for the pract ce of medicine and surgery.— ihevwill occupy the rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Loughridge which th ay are having fitted up in good stvle.

President Cleveland shook hands with 1,500 people at his last reception. “You can get used to nything, my to -” “You wouldn t say that if you had ever seen my wife.g—St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Ai) Object Lesson in Tin-Plate. The growth of the t n- late industry in the United S ates during the last two years emphasizes the superiorit of a moderate tariff over a high protective one in increasing manufacturing prosperity. While the McKinley schedule of duties was in existence the American tin plate company at Elwood. Ind., was a four-mill plant, employing 300 men, with a pay-roll of $3,000. Afte> an experience of a little over|a year of the Wilson bill the same concern has been enlarged to a sixteenmill. twenty-oni-stock plant, employing 1 360 men. making 15,000 boxes per week, and its pay-roll is increased to $55,000. The oth«-r day the stockholdei s ordered its facilities to be expanded 15 per cent.- < >ther tin plate mills throughout the country s :ow a similar growth. On the other hand, as a result of the 160 tinplate mills new successfully operating in the United States. 250 mills are idle in South Wales, from which this count ry formerly received all its supply.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch Bleeding the American Buyer. When steel billets weie selling at Pittsburg for sl7 two we.ks ago .he price of English billets was $20.65, and the duty on them is $8.96. The rail combination protected by a duty of $7.84, s< Ils rails to Japan for $21.26, while the English price is $23.08. The nailmakers, while advancing the home price by 200 per cent, in one year, sell more than 20,000,000 lbs. -or export a ring that year and are pr - tected by a duty of 25 percent. How are these manufacturers to show, not that their tariff duties should be increased, but that any | art of themisreally needed for protection?—N. Y Times.