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Cures Others Will cure You, is a true statement of the action of AVER'S Sarsaparilla, when taken for diseases originntiuK in impure blood ; but, while this assertion is true of AYER'S Sarsaparilla, as thousands can attest, it cannot he truthfully applied to Other preparations, which unprincipled dealers will recommend, and try to impose upon you, as “just as good as Ayer’s." Take Ayer's Sarsaparilla and Ayer’s only, if you need a hlood-purifler and would be benefited permanently. This medicine, for nearly fifty years, has enjoyed a reputation, and made a ftcord for cures, that has never been •qualed by other preparations. AYER'S Sarsaparilla eradicates the taint of hereditary scrofula and other blood diseases from the system, and it has, deservedly, the coutidence of the people. AVER’S Sarsaparilla “I cannot forbear to express my joy at the relief I have obtained from the use of AYER'S Sarsaparilla. I was afflicted with kidney troubles for about six months, suffering greatly with pains in the small of my back. In addition to this, my body was covered with pimply eruptions. The remedies prescribed failed to help me. I then began to take AYER’S Sarsaparilla, and, in a short time, the pains ceased and the pimples disappeared. I advise every young man or woman, in case of sickness resulting from impure blood, no matter how long standing the case may be, to take AYER'S Sarsaparilla.”—H. L. Jarmann, 33 William st., New York City. • Will Cure You Prepared by Dr. J.C. AyerSCo., Lowell, Mum.

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CRRLISLE'S KEYNOTE

higher prices, in fact, ..itevuiled or contended that they were not produced by the tariff act. The people, however, knew bet-

ter from personal experience and obierva-

~ be Kentuckjt Economist Dis- tiou in their daily transactions, and in No*ects High Tariff Claims. vt ' ,nb ‘' r ’ 18yo ’ thc authore of that tan,T act

Al.DKICH's FALLACIES EXPOSED.

Tfkv- TVndeury of Civilization Is to l*ro-

That Act.

EiMfim So. 22 Soaifc Jachon Street, GEEENCASTLE, IND.

iisriES w Livery and Feed Stable, ?r. Ii. I ESTA LA soy. Props. Just north of the northeast coi ner of Public Square, on North Indiana street. Oivo TLX.*91 ix For fine rigs, good saddlers, and fine drivers

BARNABY BBOS., DEALERS IN Lumber, Lath, Shinies Of all kinds. House patterns furnished at low est figures. Call and see us when you want any thing in the lumber line. Yard.-, just north of city, on Crawfordsvillo Gravel Road. tf51 You Ask Why We can afford to sell goods so cheap. We answer, we buy for cash and discount our bills, and our exnen.se for doing business is very small, and oesides it is worth a great deal to know and have the people know that H r Sell Goods for l.rss Money Than any other house in the county. We have ZMCEiriy lOai’SEYins Too tedious to mention. Beat Flour still goes at 55c Best Package Coffee at 20c Best tndigo Prints at 5c And everything low. All kinds of Country Produce For which we pay the highest price. 13tl6 Respectfully, R. H. BOWEN.

Mm Pp.esident—Perhaps I ought to apologize to the senate for attempting on such a day as this, ami at so late a period in the session, to occupy any part of its time in the discussion of a subject which we all agree cannot be disposed of: but the recent report made by the committee on finance in relation to the prices of commodities, the rates of wages and the cost of living in the United States has been so thoroughly misunderstood or so grossly i misrepresented in the public press and elsewhere, that I have felt it to be the duty of some one on t his side of the chamber who j assisted in making that investigation to

state our views of its results.

I think it is the unanimous opinion of economists and statisticians who have investigated the subject that for many years, in all the great industrial and commercial countries of the world, the prices of commodities have lieen decreasing ami the rates j of wages, especially in those occupations i which require a considerable degree of skill and intelligence, have been iucreas- : ing; of court-r there are very many and I very conspicuous and aggravating excep- ' lions to this general rule, but they are all attributable, in my opinion, to abnormal ‘ and artificial conditions, created by unequal and unjust tax laws and by improper governmental interference with the private affairs of the people, discriminating in , favor of some and against others.

Tile Folly of Protection,

Whatever makes it easier for the people , to live decently and comfortably, whatI ever makes the necessaries of life which the people are bound to buy and use cheaper ami less expensive to the masses, is a j blessing to mankind, anil I have never j been able to appreciate the wisdom of that j policy which compels men to work longer ; and harder in order to procure food, rui- ! ment and shelter for themselves and their | families; I have never been able toappreI elate either the economic tntth or thehuj inanity of the proposition that the people I can In' made happy and prosperous by taxation, whether the purpose of that taxa- | tiou he to defray extravagant expenditures , on the part of the government, or to increase the prices which the people pay for

what they eat, drink and wear.

Mr. President, any one who contends in this day, as the senator from Nevada (\Ir. | Stewart) apparently has this morning, that high prices of commodities are l>eneficinl to the community at large, is at war with the spirit of the age in which he lives, at war with the genius of discovery and invention which during the last half century more than during any other like period in the history of the world has ameliorated the condition of mankind by bringing all the neee -arii s of life, and many of its luxuries, within the reach of every man who is willing to work. I speak of production and distribution together, because cheap and easy distribution is just as important, both to the producer and to the consumer, as cheap and easy production; therefore every shackle imposed upon commerce, every restriction upon honest trade, every interference with the free exchange of products in the marketsof the world increases prices and de privi'S the people of the benefits which they have a right to enjoy, and which they otherwise would enjoy, resulting from improved industrial and commercial methods. But, Mr. President.it is unnecessary to pursue this line of argument further, because at last it appears to be admitted by t he friends of the protective system that cheap commodities for the use of the people are la neflcial, and the senator from Rhode Island (Mr. Aldrich), speaking here three days ago as the chosen champion of that system, bases his defense of the tariff act of 1890 almost solely upon thc ground that it has reduced prices and enlarged the for

eign commerce of the country.

That was not the purpose of the authors and supporters of that law at the time it passed congress, its is conclusively shown by the report which was made to the house of representatives when the bill was presented to that body. In that report Mr. McKinley, speaking for himself and all the Republican members of the committee,

said:

"We have not been so much concerned about the prices of the articles we consume as we have been to encourage a system of home production which shall give fair remuneration to domestic producers and fair wages to American workmen, and by increased production and home competition

insure fair prices to consumers.” And again, the report says:

“Your committee has not sought by the proposed legislation to further cut down prices at the expense of our own prosperity, but to provide with certainty against

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were swept from the house of representatives by a majority of more than 880,000 votes. Never in the history of the couni try has there been such a storm of popular indignation against any single act of legis1 lation as that which overwhelmed the adj vocates of this measure in 1890, and us a

dut-r Cheaper Goods and Higher Wages wt . , 1()W have the senator from Rhode Tlie McKinley Hill Reversed That Ten- Island and all the other friends of the prodency—The Cost of Living Increased by ^ tective system who have recently spoken

upon the subject confessing that high prices are not beneficial to the people and that the original and avowed purpose of the act was wrong; in other words, they how contend that the act has been a sucr -s solely because it failed to accomplish

w hat it was intended to accomplish. Aldrich’s False Conclusions.

My purpose here today is to show that the tariff act of 1890 did, in fact, interfere with this natural tendency toward a decline in the prices of commodities and a rise in the rates of wages; that it did, in fact, make it harder and more expensive for the masses of the people of the United

States to live.

[The senator here read an extract from the speech of Senator Aldrich, whodaimed that prices tiad so far declined and wages so far advanced as to make a total gain to the people of 8325,000,000 per year as a result of the Mckinley bill and continued]: Mr. President, I admit that on a single day after the passage of the McKinley bill, and during the period covered by the investigation, the retail prices of the 215 articles selected by the committee, taking them altogether and giving to each one the same importance, 04-100tbs of 1 one percent, lower than they were at the beginning of the period, and that on the same day, which was the last day included in the investigation, the cost of living in the United States, giving to each artie’e its relative importance ns an element in expenditures for consumption, had decreased 44-100tbs of 1 per cent, from the rate prevailing at the beginning of the investigation—that is, the cost of living, including rent, which was not investigated by the committee at all, had been reduced 44 lOOths of 1 per cent, below what it was during the first three months of the investigation. But that single day has been separated by the senator from Rhode Island from all the other days embraced in the twenty-eight months, and taken ns the basis of all the tables presented and statements made by him, as if it was a fair representative of the whole period. The investigation began on the 1st day of June, 1889, and continued month by month in seventy different cities in the United States until the 1st day of September, 1891, embracing a period of twentyeight months. The prices of these 215 articles for the first three months at these seventy different places ami at quite a number of establishments in each place were taken as the basis of the investigation—that is to say, the average prices which prevailed during the months of June, July and August, 1889, on all the articles were taken as the unit of price, each unit or index of price being represented by 100, and ns the prices subsequently rose or fell the fact was noted, and the percentage of rise or fall was recorded in the tables. Now I submit to the sena'e and the country that no just or valuable conclusion for any purpose whatever can be drawn from calculations based upon prices which prevailed on one single day during those twenty eight months, that day being, as I have said, the Inst one on

which,an investigation was made. The Cost of Living Increased.

[Senator Carlisle here referred to a statement of Senator Aldrich that in the same time the cost of living had increased in England. He declared that the committee had made no such inquiry; that no such results could be drawn from any facts before the committee, and that other statements in Senator Aldrich’s speech were not in evidence before the committee,

and continued]:

Mr. President, I propose to show, or at least endeavor to show, that the prices of commodities in the United States, whether considered by wholesale or by retail, were enormously increased by the passage of the McKinley act and the agitation w hich preceded it, and that the cost of living in the United States, giving to each one of these articles its proper degree of importance in expenditures for consumption, was increased during the period covered by this investigation more than $245,000, 000, ami that over$185,000,000 of that in crease occurred after the passage of the act

of IKK).

1 venture to make the statement, which I think nobody can refute, that a very large proportion of the increase in prices of manufactured articlesaml in thecost of living which occurred before the passage of that act was on account of the fact that it was pending In congress with an almost absolute knowledge on the part of the producers of pmteeti 1 articles everywhere that it would be passed ami become a law. I propose to show, in the second place, that the rates of wages in fifteen substantially unprotected industries in this country, selected by the committee, were increased during the period covered by the investigation, and that during the same period the rates of wages in fifteen protected industries in the United States, also selected by the committee, fell, and that the fall was greater after the passage of the McKinley bill than it was during the whole period preceding its passage. Unless the 215 articles thus se’ected by the committee are fairly representative of the total quantity of articles consumed by the people, our investigation is worth but little, so far as it attempts to ascertain the cost of living. It would of course be valuable to show the course of prices on those 215artides; hut I repeat, unless they fairly represent all the articles which enter into consumption, thc investigation is of but little value so far as it attempts to state the effect of increase in prices upon the cost of living. [The senator here presented elaborated tables showing a trick in the committee’s method of proving a decline in prices: it

O.V TRIAL. That’s a good way to buy a medicine, but it’s a pretty hard condition under which to sWI it. Perhaps you've • i notie si that the orIjdinnry, hit or miss ^^medieine doesn’t at-

tempt it.

The only remedy of its kind so re-

Edward Atkinson, a gentleman who has -Ries alR l ' n various establishments in given inis subject a great deal of thought. eilch cit 3'- anJ 111 Y statement would not be estimates from our census reports and twroplete without giving the result of that other data that of the total population of investigation. That investigation shows, 63,000,0)0 people in the United States *J3,- what is the common observation of every000,000 .vre engaged in what are called gain- kody, that wholesale prices respond more ful occupations, earning wages, or salaries, promptly to disturbing causes than retail ar.d that the average annual income of prices. The reasons for this are obvious, these SI,000,000 people, upon which they the ^rst place the wholesale trade is and all the other people of the United located almost exclusively iu the jrreat tx&x&ssx assr. :

per cent, from that for federal, state and <> ' ,r ,,u ' country and is in the covr ' rv :l pjood - cleanser, strength - reutuuicipal taxes and 10 percent, for sav- hands of a great many men. storer, and J • .1 huiller, there’s nothing like it lags or additions to thc permanent wealth Tho wholesale dealers and the manufaC- known to ::i .I science. In ev rv disease of the country, there is left $11,582,000,000 turers of the goods they sell look forward when* the fault is in the liver or the blood, as to be expended by the people for their sup- u> coming events, keep themselves in- Dvspeiwia, 11.digestion, Biliousiiess, nnd the niirt formed of movements iu congress and else- , most stubborn hkm, Scalp, and Scrofulous The Hon. 1). A. Wells, by a different pro- '^ere, •■’>>'! tal fe ad'antage of them in ad- ! ofyt^hive y“ur ZLy bLt cess, arrives at the conclusion, after de- vauce, while the retail dealer, as a general J _ ducting 6 per cent, for taxes and 10 per rule, gives less attention to disturbing in- , ’ cent, for permanent savings or additions to fluences, because he has hisstock on hand, ! To every sufferer fromjCntnrrh, no matter

Z&S&iXZXZZ ssrr .£*35 sum of $11,957,400,000, or a little more than I P r > c 'cs unt il he lays in a new stock at the

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Mr. Atkinson estimates, but he thinks that * P n . ce . 8 ’ .. . I $oU0 in coah.” Sold by all druggists. I

j c? rfcctly niitl permanently, we’ll pay you

is somewhat too large. ! [An elaborate table on the fluctuations ^ hy \ [

If $10,000,000,000 represents the annual of wholesale prices was here presented.] : w*. b. vustal. expenditures for commodities, then $s:u,- | Tllis table shows that during the four .SSi,™ represents the monthly expendi-| ,,lonths preceding Oct. 1, 1889, wholesale Hires, and as we have the increase of prices i prices had never risen above the normal or according to the importance of tho articles iuitial point, except in August, and then

stated by quarters, the result is not ditii-

cult to ascertain.

This is the table heretofore referred to, and it requires no explanation except to

JUS. M. AU.IN

VESTAL & ALLEN, A.XJO'nOKTIHJISJXl.S

GHEK5H ASTLK, IND.

Will attend end unke sales on best terms, Leive orders with us parsmally. or address

through poftofhee. Greeneastle. Ind.

they were only 22-100ths of 1 per cent, higher. In September they were lower

than the initial price, and they never! Sales of stock every Saturday alternoon on

receded to that point again until August, I the public square.

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say that the second column shows the iu I ls91 - a Pcrjod of nearly two years, and then WALTERS' METALLIC arc made from the best crease iu the cost of living at the end of ' "'vre only 7-P-iths of 1 percent.be b r a . nd ®_°I

I tch quarter over what it was at the be-

ginning of the period:

Last quarter. First (matter. 1890 Second quarter. 1890... Third quarter, 1890 Fourth quarter, 1890... First quarter, 189] Second quarter, 1891... Third quarter, 1891

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100.94 99.56 I 1*9.85

101.11 101.80 100.61

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HSMIW 100.11 90.76 w .’d 99.05 100.88 '.will 95.15

[One hundred assumed as the price at the beginning of the time inquired into.]

that increasing competition from other Look prices at a date in 1H89, when they had countries whoso conditions our people are r i | 'C | H n imUctiutHoii <>f the McKinley 1*111, unwilling to adapt. "V hay, not believed ■ il1 "' ,, another in 1891, when they were at

that our people, already suff ering from j lowest. He added]:

low prices, can or will be satisfied with ' 1 o go no farther back to find the infltilegislation which will result in lower I kiicc of the McKinley act upon the retail

prices.”

11h Advocates Swept Aside.

Here is a clear and emphatic declaration by the authors of the measure, that it was not intended to reduce prices, that it would not, in fact, reduce prices, and that the

prices of commodities, wo find that from and including Oct. 1, 1890, until June 1, 1891, the prices increased ns follows: On Oct. 1, 1890, the increase was $1,833,833 over the prices on Sept. 1; on Nov. 1, 1890, the increase was $3,416,600; on Dec. 1, $7,500,-

We find that during the last quarter of the year 1889 the increased cost of living over and above what it was during the third quarter of that year—the quarter which was taken as the basis of the investigation—was $27,750,000. For the tint quarter of the year 1890 the cost of living over and above what it was during tho first quarter covered by the investigation was $45,000,000. For the second quarter of the year 1890 it was $15,250,000, and I desire to call attention here to the fact that during the second quarter of the year 1890, before the passage of the McKinley act, the cost of living fell considerably below whnt it was at the end of the first quarter. Thc third quarter, which closed Oct. 1, 1890, the very day on which the McKinley act was approved, the increase was $12,000,000; but during the next quarter, immediately following the passage of the act, the in crease was $45,750,000. The next quarter the cost of living was still going up, and the increase was {289,250,000; but the next, tho cost having begun to decline somewhat from the point it had reached, it was $53,730,000, making, in the aggregate, the increased cost of living to the people of the United States during the period covered hy this investigation $288,750,000. Mr. George—How long? Mr. Carlisle—For twenty-four months, excluding September, 1889, and the three which were token as a basis. Thc increased cost of living to the people of the United States during the twenty-four months was $288,750,000; but during the lart quarter coven d by this investigation, taking the three months together, there was a slight decline of 15-100ths oif 1 per cent, in thecost of living, amounting to $'),7. r '9,000, which I have deducted from the gross sum, allowing a net increase in the cost of living of $'>3,<*XUKK>, the largest proportion of which, or $185,000,000, ex' enrred after the passage of the McKinley act, and a large part of the $100,000,060 increase which occurred before that time is directly attributable to tho fact that the bill was pending in congress with almost absolute knowledge on the pan of the people that it would pass and become a Taw. Now. Mr. President, how does this con* pare with thestate-im nt made by tho . enntor from Rhode Island, that there was such a decline in the cost of living during that period as to represent a saving if •-025,000,000 per annum to the people of th. 1 United States? Here is $285,000,000 added to the cost of living during that period, which the people have paid; and, no mat ter what decline may have come* at its close, not one cent of it will ever be reimbursed to those who were compelled to ex pend it for the necessaries of life. Tout money is gone from them—gone forever and even though prices may continue *u decline without fluctuation after the x pi rat ion of the investigation, it does not follow that such decline or a greater one would not have taken place if the McKinley act had never been passed. On the contrary, if the McKinley act had never been passed there would have been a greater decline undoubtedly, and this enormous additional expenditure of $285,000,000 would not have been extorted from the people. Mr. Grosvcnor, a gentleman whom this committee must indorse, because it had him employed for some time to assist in collecting prices, made an investigationcovering the eighteen months just preceding the beginning of this investigation, June 1, 1889, which showed that the prices of commodities in this country had declined 14 per cent, during

that time.

Mr. George—During what year? Mr. Carlisle— During the eighteen months next preceding the beginning of this investigation. Fortunately it so happened that our investigation began the very day that his investigation closed, and, while his investigation showed that during t he eighteen months covered by it the prices of commodities declined in this country 14 per cent., all the senator from Rhode Island can now show is that after twenty-four months of unnecessarily high prices the cost of living on one day at the very end of the period had declined 44-lOOths

of 1 per cent. I

Is it not perfectly clear, then, that the

people would not be satisfied with any w;l; °u Jan. 1, 1891, it was $10,033,833; on legislation which would produce that re 1 * 1 ’• 1. 1881. it was $11,083,333; on March 1, suit. 1891, it was $11,086,666; on April 1 It was The theory that high prices of commodi- 1112,606,666; on May 1 it was $8,750,000, and ties are beneficial to the community at on June 1 it was $3,666,066.

large, and that the McKinley law would increase them, was abandoned by the advocates of that measure immediately after its passage, and in every part of the coun-

W bat the People Spent!.

Mr. President, there have been many attempts made to ascertain the total annual expenditures of the people of the United

try they faced about and either denied that | States for articles of consumption. Mr.

low it.

The group of “cloths ami clothing” selected hy the committee for the purpose of

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investigating wholesale prices contains | proof, are P more sixty-two articles in general use among ; durable andPovnamental than in possible to the people, and on the 1st of December, ! make a tin roof, put on in the old fashioned 1889, when the Fifty-first congress assein style. Write tor price list R. bled, the prices of only five of them had |THE Sa « KT METAL Rook.no Co.,

advanced since the beginning of the period. Tho prices of thirteen of them had fallen, and forty-five of them bad neither advanced nor declined'. The tariff act passed the house of representatives on tho 21st day of May, 1890, and by the 1st of June following the prices of sixteen of the articles embraced in this group had increased, and any one who will examine the report of the committee will see that from the 1st day of August, 1890, the articles embraced in this important group, taking them all tog'dlier, never fell to their original or initial price until Sept, 1, 1891, the last day of the investigation, and then they were only 2-100ths of 1 percent, lower. Increase In Wholesale I*ri«:c»s. Now, Mr. President, by the use of this table, which is a part of the unanimous report of the committee, and assuming as before that the annual expenditure for consumption Is $10,000,000,009 and the monthly expenditure f5:i3,:!33,:i33, we can ascertain without difficulty the effect which the increase in wholesale prices would have had upon the people of the United States if the whole quantity of commodities consumed during the period covered by the invi- ligation had been sold hy the wholesale dealers during that time. That the whole quantity consumed was not actually sold nt wholesale during that time is shown hy the fact that the aggregate increase in retail prices or in tho cost of living did not equal the aggregate increase in wholesale prices. On the 1st day of October, 1889, upon thc basis just stated, which is less than tho total expenditure for consumption, the increase over the initial price was $5,150,000; on tiie 1st day of November, 18-4), it was $7,808,333, anil on the 1st day of December, 1889, it was $12,583,333. Congress met on the first Monday in December, theeommittee on ways and means was appointed, and it was soon well known to the ce intrysul*stantially what its policy would be in reference to tariff legislation, and on tlie 1st day of January, 1890, the increase of wholesale prices over the prices prevailing at the beginning of the investigation was $18,750,000. The next month it was $20,400,000, and then there was a slight decline from that figure until K pt. 1, Ison, when the increase was $24,900,000. The McKinley bill was approved Oct. 1,1890, and from that date the increase of wholesale prices continued to grow larger month by month until on the 1st day of April, 1891, it was $35,410X00 But I will not detain thc senate by a further statement of these increases in detail, but will insert the following table, which will show that the total g-oss increase from Oct. 1, 1889, to July 1, 1891. amounted to the sum of $413,618,885, but during the months of July and August, 1S91, there were small decreases, amounting to $3,108,333, which, being deducted, leaves a net increase of $442,510,352. INCBEA8K IN’ WHOLESALE PliK'S FROM OCT. 1, 188), to JULY 1, 1MI.

$5,150,0(16

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3,104,333 445,618.885 8,108.388

Net Increases $442,510,562 Notwithstanding these undeniable facts, the senator from Rhode Island asserted, if not in express terms, at least by necessary Inference, that the prices of commodities and the cost of living declined during the js-riod covered by tlie investigation. He said, "There can he no longer any question ns to the course of prices for the period covered by t he committee’s invest igation,” and 1 think every one who heard his speech understood him to maintain that prices and the cost of living were lower during that period tlinn they were before. Protection Did Not Help \\ ngeq. But, Mr. President, I must pass on to another subject. The committee also, an I have already said, caused an investigation

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Daily except Sumlny. Lodisvili k, Nkw Albany and Chicago. •itUNti -V.IKTH -12:47 a. m , 12:7.9 p. m., loeal freight 11:30 a. m. >ciN« muith-2:28 a. in., 2:22 o. in., local (reight l:2i p. m. Vantlalftst liiuo Time Table. In effect June 12, 1892. Trains leave GreenOMtle, Ind*, FOR TIIE WEST. No. 11, Daily 12:12 a. m., for St. Louis. “ 5, Ex. Sun 9:27 a. in., “ “ “ 1, Daily 12:53 p. m., “ “ “ 21, Daily 1:32 p.m., “ “ 44 3, Ex. Sun ... 5:28 p.m.* 44 Terre Haute. FOR THE EAST. No. 4. Ex. Sun 8:84 a. m., for Indianapolis. •• 20, I >;iHy. 1: It* p. m., “ “ 8, Daily 3:52 p. m., 4 4 44 44 2, Ex. Sun 6:20 p. m., 44 “ 44 12, Daily ... 2:24 a.m., 44 44 44 6, Daily 3:36 a.m., 44 4 4 For complete Time Card, giving all trains and stations, and for full information as to rates, through cars, etc., address J. S. DOWLING, Agent, Greencastle, Ind. Or J. M. Chesbrough, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agt., St. Louis, Mo.

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Little Johnny thinks it a good deal nicer to be tanned at the seashore than to be tanned in school. Indigestion! Miserable! Take Beecham’s

Pills.

“I wonder whnt your father will say when I ask him for your hand?” 4, Don’t worry about that, dear. He rehearsed it with me this morning, and he does it beautifully.” Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Teter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions and positively cures Piles, or no pas required. It guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Albert Allen. 43-ly Woman proved her ability to take great strides in reform when she adopted the divided skirt. * Hall’s Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer has restored gray hair to its original color and prevented baldness in thousands of cases. It

will do so to you.

The reason why Southern planters are unable to hold their cotton is that it is sure to be admitted to bale. r

Modern Miracles.

A singer for breath was distressed. And the doctors all said she must rest,

Rut she took G. M. D.

For her weak lungs you see,

And now she can sing with the best. 1 An athlete gave out, on a run, i Ami he feared his career was quite done; €

G. M. D., pray observe,

Gave back his lost nerve, I

And now he can lift half a ton. I A writer, who wrote for a prize, »

Had hea laches and pain in the eyes;

(4. M. D. was the spell

That made him quite well, i

And glory before him now lies.

These are only examples of the daily tri- if umphsof Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dig- L‘ v f*nvi>rv in rout nri o * S

covery, in rcHtorini; health and reviving lost

vitality: Sold by all druggists.

It is when a young fellow in love has lost his head tliut the girl in the case is likely to meacifully lay her own on his shoulders.

Strength and Health.

If you are not felling strong and healthy, try Electric Bitters, if "La Grippe" has left you weak and weary, use Electric Bitters. This remedy acta directly on Liver, Stomach

to lie made ns to the rates of wages during ; and Kidneys, gently aiding those organs to this same period in fifteen of what are | perform their functions. H you are afflicted

called general occupations, most of which • w jth gi cl ,

are almost entirely in thc nonprotected in

proposition with which I started out, that ! dustrlcs, as will he seen when I come to the McKinley act had interfered with and ! state them, and in fifteen special occupaarrested this natural tendency toward a tions which are highly protected by the

decline iu the prices of commoditiee, was tariff law.

correct, and that hy its passage the jieoplc | result of that investigation is shown of the United States were deprived of , by the report. The fifteen general occupathosc benefits which the people of all other Lions selected by the committee us fuirly civilised countries in the world were re- I representative of the rate of wages received ali/.ing on account of modem improve- p 11 a ** ^he general occupations in the counments and discoveries ami the practical try were as follows, and I asks senators to

Headache, you will And speedy and

application of them in their industrial and

commercial pursuits?

Rut, Mr. President, we also investigated

give their attention to them as 1 state

them, In order that they may determine e \ i a current from

for themselves how far they are protected:

the wholesale prices of the same articles | Bakers, blacksmiths, bricklayers—I supduring the same period in several different ' l’ OHI ' there is scarcely anybody who will in

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permanent relief by taking Electric Bitters. One trial will convince you that this is the remedy you need. Largeibottles only 50c. at the drugstores of Albert Allen and W. D, Thompkins, of Bainbridge. "A man may be drove to drink,” said Officer McQobb, "but to git ’im away from it I find

he has to be pulled.”

There can he no health for either mind or body so long as the blood is vitiated. Cleanse

all impurities by the

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use of Ayer's Sursuparilla. This medicine’ll recruits the wasted energies, strengthens the nerves, and restores health to the debilitated

system.

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