Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1897 — Page 1

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Frank Foltz. Charles G. Spitle r Harry R. Knme. FOLTZ, BPITLER & KURRIE, (Baooessors to Thompson & Bro.) law, Bb Hill bnn, ttl ruis ul Lai:. Only set O' Abstract Books in the Connty. BENS ELAEB - - INDIANA. James "W. Do lit hit, ItUruy -at-Law »4 I»Ury Paklic. ST Office front room, np-stairs, over Laßne Bro’s Grocery store, lieneselaer Indiana Ralph W . Marshall, ATTOBWBY-AT-liAW, ( Practices in Jasper, Newton and adjoining counties. Especial atten ton given to settlement of Decedent’s Es tates, Oollections, Conveyances. Justioes’ Cases, etc. . «r Office over Chicago Bsrgain Store, Bensselaer, Indiana. Charles E. Mills, ATTOBNEY-AT-LAW. I Benrselaer, Indiana. Pensions, Collections and Beal Estate. Abs raots carefully prepared, Titles examined. ASTForm loans negotiated at lowest rates. Office up stairs over Citizens’ Bank. Ira "vr. "Yeoman, Attornoy-at-Law, Beal Estate and Collecting Agent, Bsmihgton, Indiana. I. B. Washbubn. E. C. English. Washburn &, English v»hvsiolau» & Surgec ue itenueiaer, bid. Dr. Washburn will give special attention to diseases of Eye, Ear, Nose Throat and Chronic Diseases. Dr. English will give special a; tention to surgery in all departments, BBd General Medicines. Office in Leopold’s Corner Blook, over Ellis A Murray’s. Telephone 48. w WHartsell, M. D., l«uMr«thic Physician k Surgeon. Bensselaer, Ind. S3r Chronio Diseases a Specialty. "®a Office in Makeever’s New Blook. L-A- BUST WICK, ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR. Maps and Blue Prints OF MSSMUiiJIII. LAND DRAINAGE, Map Work and Platting a Specialty B enbbelaeblnd. Plans and Specifications for Buildings prepared on short notioe and reasonable terms Office, Boom No. 7. Forsythe Building. John Makeeveb, Jay Williams, President, Cashier. Farmers’ Bank, Rbnsselaeb, - Indiana Heceive Deposits. Buy and Sell Exchange Collections made and promptly ‘ remitted

J, W. HOBTON. H>entist, All diseases of Teeth And Gnms oorelolly treated. Filling and Crowns a spe oialty. MSr Office over Post-Office, Bensselaer Indiana. G. P. lIAHLER, RENSSELAER, IND. ftfeikg, M-kfii, Wapn-Mak>ng. -sition '■» rip»lr’u-> BC<c D satin •’ i • • iiV > i ,»r Br is X-"j. KNIGHT, Painter AED — Paper Hanger. HdFOnly the Best work done. SATISFACTION GUAR ANT'D! Shop on Cornelia Street, Rear of Mossler’s Model. w. j. wbight7 (Sucoessot to T. P. Wright,) UNbERTAkER&IEiIBfIUIER Rknkkki.akr • • ISBt. • l OsUs promptly responded tp day or night,

The Democratic Sentinel.

Largest on Record —The bak auce of tr:>de in favor of the United States for the year ending January Ist, 1897, aggregates 1306,315,032, the largest balance in our favor on record. We exported last year $986,871,256 worth of goods, and imported 9660,557,228. This condition of affairs would, under ordinary circumstances, bring about prosperous times. On the Ntool of Repentance. The Daily Kanawha Patriot, published at Charleston, W. Va., supported the gold standard in the recent campaign It has at last seen the error of its way, has repented and will hereafter advocate the restoration of sPvei. it says: “The Democratic party proper cast nearly 95,000 votes m West Virginia iu the recent election, while that part styling themselves gold Democrats cast less than 700 votes. For the success of the last named wing of the party we have been heretofore laboring, but we Lave fully become convinced that instead ot achieving anything for pme Democracy we have only been working for the success of the enemy. “Running a gold|stan lard paper is only helping the opposition and receiving naught for your pains; they get the spoils, while you get laughed at for the poli ical ass you have made of yourself. The gold standard has been fully tried since ’7?; as to its success the idle factories and unemployed mi lions can testify, fi:e bimetallic standard cannot make our situation any worse. *‘We are fully satisfied that even a fifty-cent dollar, it there is such a thing, is better for the toiling masses tha an appreciated dollar that an not be got for labor or tiade.” An Empress’ Dressmaker’s Mila, A French antiquarian has brought % tight some Interesting dressmaker's hills of the ladles of Napoleon’s court They are from the account books of Leroy, the Worth of his time In —t ten of dress and a bad fellow gsssi ally, but an undisputed arbiter of In feminine raiment It appears that Josephine’s yearly bill was about *B<V DOO, and this was a greater --rr ,T »l than Marls Louise or Quean Hertaass dared or desired to spend,'

lotice It Sin-Eiiita. State of Indiana, ) Connty of Jasper. J ss In the Jasper Circuit Court, To Moroh Term 1897, John Enopinski I , ' va t Complaint George Market et al ) No 6268 Nov eomes the Pla ntiff, by Hanley A Hunt his attorneys, and files is complaint herein, together with an affidavit tha the defendants George Market and Mrs Market wi e of said Gtorge Markel, Mrs Mark lwi owof s.> d George Markel; "W J Hale and Mrs Hale wife of said W J Hate, Mrs Halo widnwof -<Aid W J Hale; Isnac Montoe, Trustee; James Monros and Mrj Monroe wife of said James Mon roe, Mrs Monroe widow of said James Monroe; Wi lion D Evans and Mrs Evans wife of ssid Willism D Evans, Mrs Evans widow of said Wiliam D Evans, and all of ths nnknown heirs, devisees and lei a tees, and all of the unknown heirs, dsvi sres and legatees of the n known heirs, devisees and legatees of eaeh and every of the above naxed and described de lend nuts are unknown, bnt each and eve ry of said defend ants named and m t named and the de endants Mary C Teter and Edwa d T Teter are net residents of the State of Indiana Notioe is therefore hereby given said defendants that unless they be and'appc ar on Maroh 29th, 1897, being the Isth Judicial day of the next Term of the Jasper Circuit Court, to be holden on the Third Monday of March, A D 1897, at the Court House, in the City of Bensselaer, in said County and Stat , nd answ. r or demnr to said complaint, ti e same wi 1 be heard and determined in their absence. , , In Witness Whereof I here s Heal. unto set my band and 1 —<— - affix he seal of said Oonrt at Bensselaer Indiana, tbia 27th day of January, 1897 Wm. H. COOVEB. Clerk. Hanley t- Hunt, Att’ys for Pl’ff January 29, 1897. *lO

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Rensselaer, Jasper Oountv, Indiana, Friday, January 29, 1897.

Many newspapers are adopting various plans to meet the exigent cies forced npon them by the hard times. Some conclude to try a reduction of the subscription price and hope to increase the number of subscribers; others announoe that they will throw off 50 ceute per annum to delinquents who will square up arrearages. We do not think either of these plans will pay. With wheat statiug at 60 @ 60, oats 10 @ 12, corn 16 @ 16 producers find it next to impossible to make their income meet their necessities. We have concluded, tor a time at least, to meet the emergency, in reducing our necessary cash outlay each week by reducing the size of the Sentinel, and the price to 91: and so soon as we may feel justified in doing so will restore the paper to its former dimensions.

’Judge’ Healy will hereafter keep on hand a select stock of ready made boots and shoes, and will also continue to manufacture to order work entrusted to him. — The judge’s well known good judg ment of quality, workmanship and prices in his line will be a drawing for patronage. Stcretary Herbert has been ma king an investigation into the cost of manufacturing armor plate, a - d finds that Carnegie and his crowd charged the governmen 19583 a ton for these plates and he says they can be maf’e at a good profit for 9250 a ton. Indeed the same ma. Hers have a contract with the Russian government for the same kind of armor plate at 9249 a ton. That is the way Uncle Sam habitually gets bilked when he deals with that old gang of rascals and subsidy beggars. Just now this same crowd is swarming around the tariff “hearing” committee audde, manding more tariff to keep foreign competition out of this countrj. The? claim that they can’t compete in this country with the pauper labor ot Europe, but they can sell tLeir products in he pauper labor countries i 1 less tha t half the price they get for them at home- The people “pay the freight.’ —LaPorte Argus. WANxED— FAITHFUL MEN OB women to travel for respon ible established hhuse in Indiana. Salary #7BO and expenses Posit ion permanent. Keferenoe. Enclose self-addressed tamped envelope. The National. Star Insurance Bldg,. Chicago. A New Book, “Knitting and Ckooheting,” of 64 pages, over 50 original designs illustrated, beautiful lace patterns, shawls, hoods, jackets, etc., has been published by The Home, 141 Milk St., Boston, Mass., and will be sent with a subscription to that paper. The Home is a 20-page monthly filled with original stories, literary and domestic topics an I fashions. Its departmi nt of Fancy Work is a special feature, new and original designs each issue. The price of sabscriution is 50 cents per year and will include one of these books As a special inducement to trial subscribers, a copy of thie book will be given with a 6 months’ subscription. The price ot the book is 25 cents, but a 6 months’ subscription and the book combined WILL BE BENT FOB ONLY 15 CENTS - Their annual premium list for 1897 will be sent free on application. Engineer Bostwiek will g* t you up plans and specifications for building. Cnarges reasonable. Office up-staira, ip Forsythe bpildi '«• Farm Loans. We are prepared to make farm loans at a lower rale of interest than any other firm in J asper county. The expenses will be as low as j the lowest. Call and see us. Of* fice n Odd Fellows’ Temple, near the Court Bouse WARREN & IRWIN, j Amer caii Feet Are Growing, it is a fad that thy feyt of American women ure growing larger I Devotion o athletic exercise Is the cause, and some oue Is daring enough to say that the dainty, delicate, little Cinderella feet that find ample room in No. 1 and No. it slippers yyljj pe unknown twenty yeans front now". Any yxeydfe tlpq keeps one on the feet for any great length of time will surely broaden and flatten the foot, and a year's steady course In * gymnasium will Show » remarkaMs Incnsaas if tbs etoe * tha 1 U-.tfc.nq Uin.l

*‘A mu ADHXBINOB TO OORUBOT PftntOTFLBS.”

Healy’s Ohristmis shoes are the great attraction. Mrs. James Maloy is on thesick list. Art Hopkins visited Knox, Friday, on businese increasing trade p cqniies more shelving in Judg* Healy’s store. Wm. B. Austin is transacting business in New York this week. Judge Thompson is holding the February term of court at Fowler. Rev. M. K. Paradis will preach bis fareweil sermon at the Pres* byterian church, Sunday night. Cobs for sale, 50 cts. a load, delivered. Phone 151. W. H. Churchill. Mrs. Minnie Kerr ha* moved into Mrs. Farrie j Loughridge’s new house. The patent leather dancing Bhoes take the cake. Judge Healy has them in stock. N. S. Bates return'd last Friday from nis visit to Woodard. Oklahoma. City Engineer Bostwick has located in rooms up-stbirs in the Forsythe building. We are pleased to see our old friend, S>mon Fhillips, able to be about again. % Judge Healy’s is the place for shoes—Genes', Ladies’ and Child* ren’s. Don’t forget it. Advertised Letters—Mr. Edwe rd Holtz, Mr. Alfred Moore, Ms John Reed, Mr, Charles Spencer. WANTED— FAITHFUL MEN OB women to travel for ree oneible e tabliihed house in Indi ns. Salary #7BO and expanses. Posit on permanent. Reference. Enclose sel -addressed stamped envelope. Tie National, Star Insurance Bldg., Chioago. W Mrs. J W. Duvall and daughter Ora are viaitii g relatives and friends in <&rand Rapids, Michigan. Earl Reynolds won the Oue Mile Amateur Championship iu skating contest, at Staten Island, N. Y , Tuesday. Frederick V. Powell and Miss Louisa A. Potts were married Thursday of last week. Rey. B. F. Ferguson officiated A oleasant surr-rise part}’ was given Mrs. Maria Hopkns, Friday evening last, at the home of her danghter, Mrs. C W. Hanley. The safe belonging to Long A Hardman, has been taken from tl e debris of the late fire, and the contents fonnd all right. The roads are in splendid condition, and we take occaaion to suggest to si ch of our friends as have promisjd us wood,(oru, hay, etc., that they should take advantage of the state of things and help us out. WANTED— FAITHFUL MEN OR women to travel ter responsible established houses in Indiana. Salary s7ho and expenses. Position permanent. Reference. Enclose self addressed -.tumped envelope. The National, St ir Insurance Bldg., Chicago.

A Home Industry. Make yous city grow by patronizing home industry. Smoke cigars that a. o manufactured in Rensselaer, ai d get the best value for your money. The br-mds are “ deridge,” 69.” “New Court House” and “blor de L.” A. L LWIB, Cigar Mauufactunr. The Woman’s Relief Corps, requests all families, who Imvc any old clothing that they can spare, to send them to the home of Mrs. Ezra Clark,on Cullen street,chairman of the Relief Committee, and she will see that thty are properly distributed among the needy otn s, as this CYmmitlpe finds several families ipnl!y in need of cloihi g to keep tin m warm. The Rensselaer Lecture Club has the following popular list engaged for the dates named: Jan 19, Rev. Frank Bristol. Feh. 18, The Tennesseeans. April 9. Col. Copeland. Death of Mrs. Jas. T. Handle. Mrs. Ruih wife A ,of James I? Randle, and daughter of the l o te Rial P. Benjamin, died at Imr home in Rensselaer, Sunday morning 1 st, aged 63 years, 9 months and 11 days. Handle was hofn in P v oss county, Objo, April 13, 1833. Her parents moved to th s county in 1840, where she has since resided, Her first marriage was to \V . F. Harris, Vpril 10. 1853, from whom »h‘- pflrietj l)i vjeuth ju 1870. Her squ, iibl B Har< is, is theocly survivor of eight chidien. She became the wile of James T. Randle November 34th, 1878, who Jives to moufo her d *a s h,

A Disastrous Fire. Last Tuesday morning, about 7 o’clock, Reusselaer was visited by the most disastrous firt that has ever occurred in the hist ry of the city. Tne fire started iu the basement of Long’s drugstore. Peter Brenner, a clerk, occupied an upper room and was awakened by the smoke. Partly dressed he rushed dowu stairs and gave the alniiu.— Loss of A. F. Long, stock and fixtures, 95,000, insurance 93,000. Tne adjoining building, belong inf to E. L. Hollingsworth, occupied by Porter k Yeoman, and others, was next to succumb to the tlsmes. Estimated damage stock of Porter & Yeoman, 91,000. H. L. Brown, dentist, implements, stock aud fixtures, 9500- uo insurance. E. L Hollingsworth, on building, lobs 94,000; insurance. *2,000. On buildiugsouth of McCoy <fe Co’s bank, loss 91,500; insurance, 91,000. Other loses are R. P; Phillips, W. J. Miller, Mrs. Willis J lines, Ferguson «fc Wil„ son, A. McCoy, roof of bank building, F ltz, Spitler & Kurrie.

FOREIGN TUAI)E. The Journal attributes oar leige export* to tee meat inspection bill aud to the feat that there are short wheat orops abroaa. Kodoabt, there are many oaaae* contributing to oar great export trade, bat when the matter is considered from t. e piotectionist point of view the aversge citizen oanaot help being a little puzzled. At the present time a new tariff is in prooess of eonstrnetioa, the purpose of which 'is to increase exports by its reciprocity proyiplone, and to cheok imports by its igher duties. The greatest ambition of the protectionist is to have large exports ai d small imports, in order that we may have what is called a favor hie balance of trade, Therefoie, the assumption of the makers of the new tariff mast be that it is needed to accomplish these purposes. The oritio'sin made upon the pres< nt “free trade" tariff is that it does not sufficiently protect our industries—that is, that it allows the importation of too many foreign pro-'u ta 80, when it turns out that under this despised tariff our imports! are small and our experts and trade d.l >nos are large, it is not to be wondered at that proteotlonist speakers and papers turn to short foreign orops and m at inspection bills a explanations for the strange condition of things. nut there seem to be some features about our foreign trade durmg tbe year 1890 whiob do not consist with any koown high tariff theory. For . xumple, the favorable trade balance for the eleven months of the lest oalendar year was $206,004,052. This is the large t balanoe in twenty five years, and there is one month vet to hear from. There are only two y ars in the last twenty-five ih which the exports exceed tbe exporte for the eleven months or I 89«, and if the figures for Deoember hold up, it ie probable that this year will see all reoords b aten. And this under a “fie trade tariff To bo sure, one muT claim that this phenomenal result is wholly due t- the meet inspection law and to short orops abroad. We can not aooept this view But granting that is sound, how are we to explain the ebr nkege in imports? The imports for the eleven months of last year wo e only $622,690,362, as against $770,248,9*4 $076,312,941 and SBOI 689,847 for the years 1893, 1894 and 1895 re speotiveLr. Even with tbe December returns in, there will still be e deolirn in imports Stranger yetis the faotth...there has been a large fnlliug off in the importation of commodities whioh aie on tho free 1 st—larger than in the esse of dutiable commodities. The t tal imports for the ye»r will b# less than for many high 1 turiff years, Es> imating the returns for Deoember at $60,000,000, whioh is at least a fair estim te, the imports for 1896 will be less i han those for 1882, 1883,1887. 1888, 1889,1890, 1891,1892, all lisosl yours and! for the cnlendar years 1893 and 1895. It will, therefore, be observed that tbe Wilson tariff has not resulted in “flooding* us wtk foreign good*. Our balanoe ie due not merely to large exports, wbioh may bo accounted for on the meat Inspection and short orop theorv, but also to small imports, whioh oan be aooounted for in no snoh way. We fi d that there has bean an increase of sbon* $6,000,000 in the export of beef prod icte, and a .decree,-a of about tho lame amount of baoon, as compared with 1895. The exports of fresb pork have fallen off, while the exports of hams have increusedjby about $4,000,000. Th re has been an increase in the export of animals ’t over $9,009,000 and in breadstuff* nt almost $50,090,000. In unmanufactnre < cotton, exports ha ve inoreesed $34,000,000 and in cotton cloth they have increased over $5,000,000. We exported bicycles ano parts thereof to the umount of $3,408,612, as against $202.9 9 for the corresponding eleven months of 1895. rhero has been an inoreaseof over $7,000,000 in the exports of machinery, end of over $'•2,000,000 in iron and steel, not inolndii K ore; of almost $2,000,000 in timber andnnmannfaotnred;wood, and of almost #5,000,000 in total wood and manufactures thereof Our exports of raw wool have risen from $634 090 to $927,372, and of wool manufactures from $685,896 to $876,124 Thus it will buseen the 1 ; other causes than moat inspection and short foreign orops have been at work More start ing yot, on the protective theory, ie that we imported only 133,555,. 365 pounds of raw wool valued at $lB,340,500. as against 224,384,502 pounds last ye»r valued at $30,739,059 These flgu.er are enough to show that under a “free trade" tariff we have large exports, small imports snd a heavily favorable balanoe of t.ade And wo submit that this revelatiou is somewhat disturbing to those gentlemen who are patriotically devoting themselyes to the ta-k|of s iving us from a floodof foreign wares It proves for one thing that there is suoh a thing as a for eign market, which it will pay us to culti vate Every sensible man knows that our home market is far 100 narrow for the splendid genius and energy of the Arner ioan people When our manufacturers find th -t they have produced fur in excess of the home demand at a piofitablejpd e. there are only two things for them to do—eithei to f rm a trust and limit production so a to keep np prices, or else to seek an outlet abroad Every interference with trade tends to dr ve them to ths first alter In all this w# think may be found reas Ous by our ltepublican friends for not going to extravagant lengths in the ccn stiuction of the new tariff our relations with other nations aie every day growing more intimate, «ud it is well that this honld be so Bush olose relations mean prosperity for both ourse ve* ..nd foreign conntr'es Our people are outgrowing the

j superstition that trade means a loss to one of the parties to it 'they uuUirstau.. thst in an exchange of comnudittes under no.mal conditions, both ’ies to the transaction make a profit 'A Lie more the exoh inges. aud the more freely they ire made, the creator is the ehance for profit So w plead for moderation—lndianapolis News, Republican Call ou Berget & l’enu for Drain Tile. Office ovtr Ellis & Murray’s store AGENTS WA TED Nothing like it: coi ing equal to It. Personal Recollections of General Neisc n A. Miles, Major General U. S. A., now ready. Narntives of Personal Adventures. Wonderful Es°*pes, Fantastic Ghost Dances, Desperate Indt»n Reaves, Soalpitgof Helpless Set. tiers. In all the realms of fiction, nothing more wierd and fasoenating cau be fonnd than the Rtory of the Famous Indian Campaigns of Gen. Miles. A massivi v.luine, Bxlo inches. 000 pa es, near y 200 Illustrations Hold only thro’ our authorized Age In; exclusive territory granted. Rook agents foi two years past sve been ooking for a fast selling book aud in this book you will itnd it. It offers a rar« opportunity for the agent to mke money. Agents who desire choice of territory must not pro > ptly. Complete outfit only *1 00 postpaid. For terms aud territory, aduruss FORBHE & MoMAKIN, Corner sth <fc Elm treats, Cincinnati, Ohio. —w ♦ • es - —— As a very desirable, acceptable present, get a box of cigars made Iy A. Lewis, the Rensselaer cigar manufacturer. They ure put up 25 and 50 t i a box, in handsome boxes especially made for the hoi iday trade. Just the thing for gentlemen who smoko. All of Lewis’ standard brands, “Coleridge,” “69,” “Our New Court House.” For sale by all dealers. Judge Healy, from long, pra< tical experience in the manufacture of boots and shoes, ib undoubtedly the best judge of the make, up, the quality of material, and tho proper price for such goods, iu the* business tn this sectiou HOPKINS. The new partners but old millers, are now m full charge of the owels mill, aud prepared to do custom grinding promptly, in the best inanusr, fiu d all other business in their line. Give them a call. Dissolution of Partnership. The firm of Thompson Bro. is mutually dissolved. The debts and credits of die firm will be paid by and to David J. Thompson. Simon P. Thompson. Marion L. Spitler. David J. Thompson. Montreal K. Mllcote, (icorcc M. Duns, Notary Publlo and Notary Public Abstractor of and Titles collector Chilcote & Dunn, ATTOBNEYH-AT-liAW,! Will practice in all the Courts of Jasper and adjoining oounties All business of the profession attended to with prompt rlss and dispatch Collections a spe oialty Office iu Makeover’s Blook, over Form ers’ Bank v2ln4

DEATH AFTER ALC HOT SO GRIM The Final Hoar UaanMr Hrlng* Neither Fear nor Palo. Familiarity with death in upt to alter one’s earlier conceptions of it. Two Ideas are very generally a< cepted whloh experience snows to be false. One la that the dying usually fear death and the other, that the act of dying is ucoompuniod by pain. It, is well Known to all physiolans that when death is near its terrors d<< not seem to be felt by the patient Unless the imagination is stimulated by the frights fui portrayal o the “pangs of death,"or of the suffer ings which some believe the soul must endu:e after dissolution, it is rare, indeed, that the last day* or hours of life are passed in dread. Oliver Wendell Holmes hat recorded his protest against the custom of telling a person who does not actually ask to know that he * annot recover. Ai that loving observer of mankind a<-, Berts, so must everyone who kn ws whereof he speaks assert that people aimast always come to understand that reoovery is impossible it is rareiy needful to tell t nyone that this is *h», case. When nature gives the warning death appears to bo as little feared as sleep. Most sick persons are very, very tired: sleep—long, quiet sleep is what they want. I have seen many people die. 1 have never seen one who seemed to fear death except when it or seemed to be rather far away. Even those who are con tantly haunted while strong and well with a dread of the end of life forget their fear when that end is at hand. As for the act of dying—the final passage from life to ueath—it is absolutely without evidence that the oftrepeated assert! ms of its painfulness are made. Most people are unconscions for some hours before they die and in the rare ease* where conscious ness ia retained unimpai ed until a few mlautes before the end the last sensa tion must be of perfect calm and rest, it is worse than cruel to add to the natural dread of death which oppresse the majority of us while in good health the dread of dying.—Dr. J. W. Hoes* relti in ticribnar. Woma.n useAto sweep evuryihing before her, but this season she sweep* everything behind her —Elmira S*. petto. The busy men of the world are the best men, provided they are busy with their own ueiness.—Htohmond Be* oorder. Cjuecn Vic’s I>o -.t.ii" The Queen is the i ■ owerful widow on the gl'd e in rules 11,. 4,5,057 square m !e 1 1 artb’s tea* rltorrahd, >0 - pula ilea,

NUMBER 4.

THE SUPPLY STORE.

Pennsylvania Coal Miners Robbed bf TI»Hr Emnlorm, A clerk in a Pennsylvania ooal company “supply store” has made some interesting revelations regarding that particular method of robbing the workingman. There are twenty-seven “supply stores’ In the coal and ooka region, notwithstanding the State law on the subject, and all aro owned by the loal companies, or b. heavy stooknolder* in the corporations. Twenty thou--and auner.i or employes of coke ovens arc amiipelled to deal at these stores, and, a -Miming that the average annual purchases of a customer reach $-'OO, we have $4,005,000 as the total of thn business. All the for a 1 these stores uro bought for oash by one man, who has an oboe in Pittsburg, and the employe quoted says he is enabled, by the magnitude of his orders and spot cash pa> mouts, to buy from l") to St per cent, cheaper than tho individual private merobant, while the stoio pi ices to miners are from 10 to St per cent higher than at other stores In other woids, he figures a profit to the "pluck me store of from 26 to 50 per cent., an i concludes that the st res are often Tar more profit?" Vile ‘lo t ie ooal companies/than the mines are Those oompany stores have no bad debts, as otnor tn ro! ants have. A mino can only obtain good) when he hu* money ooming to him from the ooal company. When he exhau.ts that balance he can obtain no more supplies until he has don t more work, am, as a ro u t of this system, he often sees n > cash for m- nths at a time

Qucer Things About Birds.

No bird of prey has the gift of song Vultures have no sense of smel l Carcasses kept out of their sight a -e never detected by them. The stork has heon known to perish in the fiaraos of a burning hour* rathnr '.ban to desert her young. Tho smallest egg Is that of the tiny Mexican humming bird. It Is soarcely larger than a pin’s head. The smallest bird is a species of humming bird oomm u. in Mexloo and central America. It L ■ not quite so large as u blue bottle fly, and weighs twenty grains. The woodpeoker is an excellent oarpouter; the hole ho boros in a tree is exaotly round as though lined out with a pair of oompasses. An owl cannot move his eyes, as they aro fixed In their sockets. The deficiency is aoned for by great freedom of motion in ihe muscles of tha head and ncok. Tha wings of the owls are lined with a soft down that enable) tho bird to fly without making tha slightest sound, a vo y important matter to a nocturnal bird u! 11 r«v

A UNIQUE INDUSTRY.

'• ww tnbrtoatuif Oil la Obtain** In !'»«•> Mylvantti. The lubricating oil field of French Creek, in Venango County, Pennsylvi* ni» i one of the moat curious spots la dhi/lldom, The business had its start In the well of lllacksmith Evans, at iianklAn. in the '< 0’», und since then i: ,009,) 00 worth of oil has been taken fr m the few miles square of territory where this oil alone Is found. Around ts proscribed limits wells that yield irvely of tho regular Illuminati g oil tieve boon drilled, but none of that kind of oil has ever been found within 'dio lubricating oil limits. This small but rich oil dlstrlot extends into the village of Franklin, tho county scat of Venango County, and there are wells In many private yards in that place. The production has fallen off greatly, though, and the price also. The monthly yield now Is not more than 7,00 barrels, and the price Ih below 1 a barrel. The oil is refined at Oil City, and eighty different commercial products result, be ides the oil itself. Franklin on oys a monopoly of the heavy oil trade, but th j business is conducted on a much more economical basis than when Blaossmith Evans was getting his :0d barrels a day from hii pioneer well and rec iving $3 > a barrel tor it. There is little or no gas In the lubricating oil rock, and every well has to bo pump d. As many as fifty wells are pumped by one engine. This Is accomplished by an ingenious ievtce called the p mpiua rig. The wells to bo pump'd are connected with sucker rods screwed together, reaching out in all directions, frequently more than a mile from the engine. In the woods around I ranklin these sucker rods may be encountered, workin r elowly back and forth with the regu lar motion of a piston, and no engine wilhin sight or hearing. The Bame tiling may be seen in the streets of Franklin, where the long arms reach In to connect with the wells in the vllr lags boundaries. ihe well arc not pumped regularly, but by “head-." Twice a day there is •uffic ent accumulation of oil in the wells to bo pumped out, and then the many-armed engines are stated and k pt going until all the oil of that nead is pumped out. Sometimes a new well will start off with a yle d of ten or fifteen barrels a day, but this fhenome al yield does not last long. a klng It all iu ail, the lubricating oil »rner of the petro.eum fields Is altotether unique.

Hhade and Fruit Tree as for Kale We have a large variety of .Ma-* pie. Ash and CatapaTrtes for fall delivery. Will deliver No. 1 trees .n llenesslaer at 25 cents each. Also a fine assortment of fi uiu trees, g-iapes, etc., ot low figures. F. A. WOODIN, Foreßman, Ind. Anyone »enrt!ne a sketch and description r.r.-r quickly 'in, free, whether an invention .... probably pur ratable. Communications atMir iy confidential. Oi-.est agency foreyeurin'/patt n s in America. We have a Washington • Pat,ants taken through Uuna &Co re... j npooial no! lira, in the I BCl£:mflC AMERICA v.itei. I'Tyest clr. -.il-tinu ot any;? wtn. »««- », ten.rees,T&J 11 , '"*>le«a itiasui Boon u.i I- ”WKTB seat i, v y. cudre - MUnN A CO , Wl I roadway fcrvr l’srk, -