Ligonier Banner., Volume 23, Number 47, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 March 1889 — Page 7

TARIFF CONVENTION. Proceedings of the Reform Cone ference in Chicago. Tariff Reformers Meet to Discuss the Re- ~ duction of Taxation—Speeches by Men Prominently Identified with the Movement—Resolutions Adopted. The recent conference of the Americam Tariff Reform League at Chicago was well attended. J. Sterling Morton, ex-Governor of Nebraska, was elected permanent chair‘man. Mr. Morton, in taking the chair, spoke of the honor of presiding over a meeting called, not to name a man for an office, but to proclaim ‘‘a.true principle of human government, the essence of liberty itself.” They were there as abolitionists to amake commerce as free as America. had made thought, speech and the free press. Among the letters of encouragement: was an autograph letter from President Cleveland, which was read and received with great enthusiasm. After indorsing the puxpose of the league as set forth in its circular, he says:. The danger which we have toguard against is the misleading of our countrymen by specious theories, cunningly contrived. and falsely offering to the people relief from . personal burdens and the legitimate expenses necessary to secure the benefits of beneficent rule under ‘the sanction of free institutions.

The declared purpose of your league will not be attained until all those instructed in the economic question which is now pressed upon their attention are freed from all sophistries and clouding fallacies and until the subject ofgtariff reform is presented to them as a topic involving the relief of the plain people in their homes from useless and unjust expense. '

The following well-known gentlemen were elected officers of the conference: Vice-Presidents—Charles W. Deering, Illinois; Horace White, New Yark; Henry A. Robinson, Michigan; Enoch Harpole, Kansas; E. W. Judd, Massachusetts; S. 'W. Wilbains, Indiana; Jesse Metcalf, Rhode Island; R. B. Kirkland, Wisconsin; Governor Simon B. Buckner, Kentucky; K. G. Harger, Towa; E. M. Wilson, Minnesota; James D. Hancock, Pennsylvania; J. Lawrence Dunham, Connecticut; Harbert Boggs, New Jersey, and J. 0. Smith, Ohio. S Secretaries—Aretas W. Thomas, Texas; ‘Walter H. Page, Massachusetts; J. Lawrence Dunham, Connecticut, and John Z, White and W. E. Thome, Illinois.

A large number of resolutions were pregented and referred. C. G. McDougal, of Handforth, 111., representing the farmers of the convention, offered a resolution which reads thus: S

‘“We believe, Wwith our facilities for transportation and exchange which enable us to produce upon our land the crop that yields the largest returns, with our long hours of labor, and above all with our unequaled soil and climate, that we are able—in fact, always have been and always will be able—to compete in the markets of the world in the sale of agricultural products.” ;

- The first speaker was Charles K. Ladd, of Illinois. He began by observing that a contest was going on between the laboring many and the crafty few. The issues to-day were the same as the issues of 1860. The masses were contending against-a money aristocracy. For the last twenty-five years the country had been nothing but a great junk-shop, full of slave chains, broken bayonets and polished brass buttons. When a tax bill was presented for payment the politician would harangue the people and say: “Didn't we save the country? ‘Didn’t the war cost something?” The flattered voters would swell up with a consciousness of having saved the country and give: their votes to sustain the schemers. The speaker said the country adjoining the town in which ‘he lived was as beautiful and fertile as any in the world. . :

The people were honest and thrifty, and yet during the last winter more auction sales and extensions of interest had been made than any previous year. The debts for which the sales had been made were due men who twenty-five years ago were not worth a’ dollar and who had grown rich oft the extras of a ‘‘protective” tariff. A merchant in Canada had told him that he had sold American axes for twenty yearsin competition with Canadian axes, although he had been obliged to pay a duty upon them of two dollars ‘a dozen, and. yet the tariffites said that a duty must be levied in order that Americans might be able to make axes at all. In conclusion, Mr. Ladd said the convention should be named the “Emancipation convention’’ rather than a TaritiReform conveéntion. '

Governor Buckner, of Kentucky, said that a President had just been elected by fraudulent votes and that he was about to go to Washington to inaugurate an administration whose chieft purpose. was to perpetuate an odious system of taxation for the benefit of a class. He believed, however, that free trade had only received a check and that the movement would gather such momentum within four years as would gain victory in 1892.

Thomas J. Shearman, of Brooklyn, N.'Y., spoke on ‘‘Protection, the Enemy of Industry.” He began in a droll way, putting the protectionist argument in a shape to convulse his audience. He enlarged his subject and made protection out to be the com-: mon enemy of humanity. Growing serious he fell to quoting dates and statistics to show that protection in the United States had proved itself the enemy of agriculture, of labor, and even of its pets, the manufacturers. He laid the blame for the importation of foreign pauper laborers on the protection tariff and attributed to it the ruin of the iron and steel traude in the East, .while the West, where protection was almost neutralized by reduced railroad rates, had reached a production of iron and steel manufactures eleven times as large as fifteen years ago. . Clinton Furbish, of Illinois, likened Grover Cleveland to Stephen A. Douglas, and ‘proceeded to attack the old political parties, and in a fierce vein of mingled satire and invective rebuked Congress for refusing to obey the dictates of the people to reduce the tarifft. He said: : ‘“ We tried to get a reduction from 120 per cent. tariff and we were told we had to be content with a reduction of 5 per cent., because it was all we could get from a Congress, elected by Democrats. The Republican party have levied on the people a tax which plunges 50,000,000 of white men into a slavery a thousand times worse than the slavery from which they rescued 40,000,000 of black men. I[t's all the same when you have run the gamut of t&e Republican party from Blaine to Wanamakeér, no matter whether you run from Blaine down or the other way.” : - J. Q. Smith, of Ohio, read apape{ on *The ‘Mills Bill” and * The Serate Substitute.” The Mills bill was not perfect, Mr. Smith said, but it was much better than the Senate bill. Mr. Mills’ bill provided for a reduction of $78,000,000, while the diminution by the - Benate bill would be only $13,000.000. The passage of the Mills bill would save to the public $53,000,000 on imported goods and $200,000,000 by the necessary reduction of price of American-made goods of the same c'ass. Mr. Hancock, of Philadelphia, chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, said that after very careful discussion and some compromise the committee had unanimously reported the following resolutions, whose adoption he moved: ;

*l,"We hold that it i 8 the natural right of every man to freely exchange his labor or the product of his labor to the best advantage. We declare ourselves unalterably opposed to the so-called protective system and demand the prompt abrogation of all protective features from the tariff. 1o

‘9. We believe the American Nation will reach its full meastire of prosperity ounly by enacting at the earliest day practicable such legislation as will apply the American principle of free trade between the States to the United States in its relations to the world.” The committee also reported and moved for adoption resolutions providing for the . appointment of a cominittee empowered to prepare an address to the public and to perfect plans for propagating the principles embodied in the resolutions. o The Committee on Resolutions, ahout evenly made up of pronounced free-traders . and tariff-for-revenue men, had wrestled ~over the abbreviated re; %ﬂm& hours. ”‘V :yﬁf‘:’; ‘/ g ;é ’« ; By e e

were strenuously for free trade, and Chairman Hancock, Bleike, of Illimois, and Lehman, of lowa, championed a declaration for 3 modified tariff for governmental expenses. It was finally determined as a compromise to offer the report in two partas so that it, might be conveniently divided. Horace White, of New York, called the attention of the convention to the provision in the constitution which provides for the laying of direct taxes upon the Statesin proportion to their population. Free trade meant direct taxation, and that could not be. Mr. Croasdale, of New York, said: “I want this convention to notify the Democratic party that in this country there are men whu know what they believe. We will declare the truth and the whole truth, We are not responsible for the cowardice of the Democratic party.” . ‘ The meeting was in an uproar when Henry George pressed forward to the space in front of the stage. | There was very great chéering, but one or two adventurous opponents objected. Chairman Morton, however, said Mr. George might speak. Said Mr. George: j : I support this clause as a matter of principle and a matter of policy. I represent the Free-Trade Club of New York and -lam a freetrader. [Applause.] Yes, lam in favor of free trade—/r¢e/ FREE! FREE! unrestricted trade! [Applause.] To-day protective tariffs are prohibited by our constitution and the only way they are maintained is under the guise of a tariff for revenue. A protective tariff is robbery. A tariff for revenue is swindling. We want equity; a square basis of principle upon which we can plant ourselves. We want to go before the American people and show that all tariffs are wrong. Let us sweep away all the taxes.

““As a mere matter*of policy I believe we ought to take this step. The free-trade fight will not go on unless we do. The United States is not England. We are governed by different conditions and we must make a broad sweep. Let us make a fight on principle.. Let the politicians make the compromises. All we have to do is to raise the standard and carry it forward. The politicians will follow after soon enough. ; i

‘“‘When I was a little boy I once asked a big man: ‘How is it that people can charge themselves taxes and yet get rich at it?” ‘Sh! you're only showing your ignorance,’ he replied. Every body else was a protectionist, andsoll became a protectionist. I went to a debating society one night, and in the talk all the arguments for free trade were bunched up together, and all at once the absurdity of protection flashed upon me. I was pressed to say something, and, hesitatingly, I did say: ‘Well, I was a protectionist when I came in here, but I fear lam going to be a free trader.” 1 am a free trader. [Applause.] If protection is a good thing for the United States why isn'tit a good thing for a State, and if a good thing for a State why not for a county? Where are you going to stop? Why not protect the family? ‘Why not hire your own labor, keep your own goods and protect the ‘home’ market? ‘“The trading peoples have always been the advanced people. Trade! Itis buta mode of production. Is it not trade that knits people together, breaks down prejudices and extinguishes the vile hatreds of kindred peoples? lam a free trader. I glory in it because in all things I love freedom. I believe the right to freely trade is as sacred as any other right, and, as the declaration of independence says, a right indispensable. It can never be abrogated by the edicts of Kings or the laws of Parliaments or Congresses. To take it away is robbery. They call protection an American system. There is nothing American about it. Free trade is American. laman American. I used to be proud of it.; Now I am tired of it. Wwhat have we to be proud of? Is it because we have a big country? Did we makethe countryi" t He asked why it was that this country, sqrich and great, so fertile and prosperous, filled with an active, honest people, could not compete with any in the world? :

" The following resolution, offered by Mr. Bawker, of New York, was loudly applauded, and was unanimously adopted by a rising vote. s | 5

- “We hondgr President Cleveland for his brave, manly and statesmanlike course in making tariff reform the issue before the people; we see in the increased: popular majority which that issue won for him and in theiincrease of his'vote in the industrial centers assurance of the early triumph of ‘ the peoples’ cause,’ and we pledge ourselves to increasing agitation until that triumph is won.” : Chairman Morton announced that letters of regret had been received from Speaker Carlisle, 8. S. Cox, Mr. Russell, W, H. Morrison, W. E. Wheeler, Don Piatt and others, The convention approved as the members of the permanent Committee on Organization and Propaganda: 2

Horace White, of the New York Evening Post: Hon. David A. Wells, of Connecticut; ex-Governor J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska; Hon. Eugene Wilson, of Minnesota; Franklin MacVeagh, of Illinois; Hon. J. P. Smith, of Ohio; Byron Stout, of Michigan; E. W. Judd, of Massachusetts, and Samuel E. Morse, of Indiana. - .

This committee was instructed to issue literature specially addressed to farmers upon the tariff question, and to give it the widest circulation in the agricultural districts, and was also authorized to call another convention at its discretion.

Mrs. Marion Todd, of Michigan, representing the Women's Reform League, spoke briefly. She denounced Senator Sherman’s position on the Chinese question, and his advocacy of the bill for encouraging emigration, and said that although he did not get what he wanted—the Presidency—the people had just about as good a one now.

. Rev. Hugh Pentecpst, an independent preacher to three congregations in New York and one of the. striking figures of the convention, said that although the singletax men, or free traders, had not had things altogether their own way, they would return home without heart-burning, and ready to work hand .in hand with the revenue reformers to lower the devil of protection. The tariff, he said, was but'a superstition, a fetish. In olden times when a man defied a fetish and was not instantly struck dead it was taken as an indication that its power had gone. Grover Cleveland had bowed down in a measure to the fetish of protection when he said that we amust' retain some portions of the protective tariff, but at the same time he had the courage to walk into the temple before the worshipers and slap the fetish in the face. Although not stricken dead he was defeated by the fetish worshipers. At the same time if anybody thought he was dead politically they were greatly mistaken. The convention had added a kick to the slap, and if the Tariff Retorm League; taking courage, would entrench its ¢gctrines in the minds of the people, it would soon learn that Cleveland’s slap was the beginning of the end. - ° ek : - A pleasant conclusion to the convention was the banquet at the Palmer House. Covers were laid for 200. Addresses were made by ex-Governor Morton, of Nebraska; Captain Codman, Lewis Post, R. R Bowker and Rev. Hugh O. Pentecost, of New York; Owen Lovejoy, C. 8. Darrow and James B. Raymond, of Illinois; W, Jones, of Michigan, and Aretas W. Thomas, of Texas.

WHAT THE EYES TELL.

GrAY eyes do not indicate intellectuglity any more than eyes of other color. Dzkp, close set, little eyes of any color indicate temper, selfishness and ignorance, NrearoEes of all degrees of morality have dark eyes; so Indians, good or bad} so other races. ArcEep thin eyebrows indicate the artistic temperament, love of color and orderly arrangement. ‘ I 1 is probable that thin eyebrows do not indicate deceit, or heavy brows honesty, as many think. ; WaoLLY contrary to popular belief, the color of the eye indicates in no instance any moral characteristic. TReT S Tag lids are pregnant with meaning. In the vacant-minded, the vulgar, they are wide; in the cunning, close. © IN the religious fanatic and prayerful the “white of the eye” shows above the lower lid: in the haughty, more of the upper eye. Warrar the brows are thin or heavy, whether they meet or are wide apart; are duly pysiological charddtecistion deudting . nmx.mmwmmmm; v T kel b Siptig Moortind, el vers Sarkagen. o

HIS BABY MAJESTY. How the King of Spain Is Petted by His Mother and His Nurses. Very soon the exceedingly blueblooded little gentleman who was born King of Spain will celebrate his third birthday. Thissovereign, who has been in the world little more than thirty months, and has succeeded in that brief space in calming the spirit of faction. rejoices in a vast variety of baptismal names in addition to the Alphonso by which he is to be known in history. He is, moreover, the ‘well beloved son” of the Roman Pontiff; the “brother” of all other wearers of crowns; the cousin of the Spanish grandees; his mother, the QueenRegent, speaks of him simply yet tenderly as “the child.” Alphonsos XIIL is an. exceedingly handsome little fellow, with blonde hair which falls in beautiful curls upon his shoulders. He is all gaity, lightheartedness and smiles. His joyous little Majesty gives no thought to his exalted position or bis future destinies. He reigns, but does not govern, leaving to his mother the care of signing every day great bundles of decrees and appointments. And when a uniformed Minister comes from the- Queen’s Chamber, carrying under his arm a portfolio stuffed with papers which have caused discussions, intrigues and political debates, his Majesty, from his nurse's arms, smiles upon him as though to say, “What has all that to do with me?”’ King Ba.byjalready enjoys the glories of a military and a civil household. The Generals and aides-de camp of the late King Alphonso are attached to the service of the Queen, but technically they form his Majesty’s military household. The civil establishment consists of the governess, Mme. Tacon, who held the same position toward the late King; the doctors who are attached ex‘clusively to the royal person;two or three major domos, & lady of honor, and several pages, footmen and servants. The famous monteros of Espinosa watch over the King’s sleep, in an apartment adjoining the royal bed-chamber. The little monarch’s life is very simple. He rises at an early hour, is bathed, dressed and handed over to the wetnurse, who, in addition to the semimaternal duties which thereis no longerany necessity that she should fulfil; takes him out for airings and bears him in her arms at State ceremonies. The nurse, Raymunda, at night occu_pies a bed by the side of the royal crib. Directly the King is dressed he is taken to his mother, who impatiently awaits his arrival. He is sometimes present at the early morning audience to Ministers and members of the royal family. His favorite amusement while Queen: Christina is thus occupied is to strum upon the table with his chubby little ‘ fingers. Raymunda is a faithful creature, and isalmost as fond of her charge as the Queen herself. - Upon one occasion a great lady wished to see the King, and the Queen accompanied her to the youngster's apartment; but Raymunda barred the way. ‘You can’t come in,” was her peremptory decision; “he is asleep.” The Queen and the Duchess retired smiling. When the weather is fine the King drives out. Naturally he possesses his own carriage, with an equerry who gallops ‘bravely by its side and forms the only escort. He dines alone at a well-garnished table. King Baby has only one trouble in life. Itisa trouble which might drive some grown-up people to madness; but, since he is entirely unconscious of it, it does not worry him very much. The photographer is always on the lookout for him. Scarcely a week has passed since he was' born without a demand from some fresh photographer to be allowed to take his portrait. He has been photographed standing, sitting, in his mother’s arms, upon her lap, or holding her by the hand; with his hat on and his hat off; full-face, profile, and, in short, in every possible position. It is the ambition of everyeMadrid photographer to possess a negative of the King, since his portraits sell by thousands, not merely in Spain, but in most civilized countries. Aund this is not all. He has been painted in oil, he has been engraved and etched, and is the original of numberless miniatures. Queen Christina experiences a great deal of difficulty in procuring for the little monarch those childish pleasures which are enjoyed by all children of less exalted rank. There is always the fear of causing jealousy; and there is ever intrigue to be reckoned with. There is no lady in Spain, however high her rank, who would not be proud to say, ‘“My boy has played with the King.” Then there is that terrible Spanish etiquette; and it is almost impossible to prevent a youthful playmate from breaking the many regulations with which a Spanish King is hedged around. Usually, therefore, he is surrounded by grown-up people. —St. James’ Gazette. |

An Interesting -Experiment.

In order to ascertain the influence of tight clothing upon the action of the heart during exercise, a dozen young women consented this summer to run 540 yards in their loose gymnasium garments, and then to run the same distance with corsetson. The running time was two minutes and thirty seconds for each person at each trial, and in order that there should be no cardiac excitement or depression following the first test, the second trial was made the following day. Before beginning the running the average hegrt impulse was 84 beats to the minute; after running the above mentioned distance the heart impulse was 152 beats to the minute; the average natural waist girth being 25 inches. a%l‘he next day corsets were worn during the exercise, and the average girth of waist was reduced to twenty-four inches. The same distance was run in the same time by all, and immediately afterward the average heart impulse was found to be 168 beats per minute. When T state that I should feel myself justified in advising an ‘athlete not to enter a running or row‘ing race whose heart impulse was 160 ‘beatsﬁr minute after a lfttl,e exercise, even thoiigh there ‘were not the slights ‘est evidence of disease, one can form ome idea of the wear and tear on this important organ, and the physiological S Tiest gl SY PR RO r. STARY ARy AR Soribner's Magazine,

FASHION: LETTER. ! New Spring Goods and Styles—Attractive ‘Designs Produced by the Ingenuity, Taste and Originality of Modern Modistes and Tailors. i : [Special New York Correspondence.] : The new spring fabrics are still marked by great purity and beauty of coloring. They depend indeed very largely upon this attribute of color for their novelty, their elegance, and their charm. Nothing could be more fresh and attractive than the present exhibition of fine wools, English tailor fabrics, Fremch carmelites, India cashmeres, Voiles and Mousselaines de laine.. The displayl of French challies, daintily brocaded mohairs and vailings is very alluring and the qualities and designs were never more artistic. Many lovely Empire gowns are made of these materials, and in a fashion so charming asto render them fit for full dress wear. Princesse dresses, however, and olassic clinging toilets in Grecian style will strongly rival the directoire and empire models so popular the past season. These will appear among elegant evening toilets, and also in G o | modified forms 4 | for carriage and ' ’«’434’ | promenade cos-. ﬁ | tumes. . Hitherto, : , | also, the almost inA | variable rule in ; (///%/ { %ombination‘ has AN | een to associate %« 2 . abrocaded, striped gh,x oo embroidered ) 7 §) | fabric with a plaip 2 o 7 . |, . one, but the rule is BAT ;Y,'//,;& . | broken very freely 7 il ?/‘\ | this spring, and i //i",,‘\‘\\ ' two silks, two N 7 10 «}\, | tweeds, cashmeres, Iy ,?,‘.,'/,,\\’g\\ | etc., are combined. All /,,,/’,,lﬁ"j,"/;\ ?,'-.\,(v Two sorts of striped s/ IA, t, \@ d . goods are also inA ch\\?ﬁ,l'@ termixed, and -17 /*"' (LA § sometimes a large ¥ ' l%\ i} plaid, a small 7 M //ﬁ?;" U'@\ check and anarrow ;//// /4’%2 bl stripe, are made up 4 /////////?é/? 4§l i conjunction. A %{//%%%% 40 London model in /44 o)) 477 ik, this style is shown =p——==——— = and the arrange, ment of the three patterns is far more attractive than it.reads, as there is a beautiful blending of soft spring shades of similar color, which, as a whole, produces an artistic and stylish effect. Whatever change may take place in the style of the corsage, in the near future,there is yet,generally speaking, no such a thing as a plain waist, outside of shakerdom or the convent. ‘ The directoire polonaise is a very popular garment. These models have their side breadths applied to s the glove-fitting ‘; ) corsage,the breadths ,‘% set back far enough BN to reveal the rich G %h . gkirt beneath. It : =t falls straight in the S S back, and is nowhere N} 2 y draped, depending {(- wholly upon the fine : §§\\ DR graceful adjustment Y %\3\\\\3 gf its folds for its 1 BN elegant effect. This ;Q\\%;‘\j polonaise does not W/ require many yards , Q“; 1 IdpT of fabric, therefore i Vil 2p A J’a a vesy handsome QRN ,;/;’L’“" T overdress is formed ¢NN W ,é’/g‘ 2 Y&N I I Y, at no great expense. \ §\ NS As regards the \\’? p f 7 / ‘,% spring jacket, iv is f’/lf‘\\ /,/{/li ‘{z,/‘l made absolutely of Y¥EER % f//’,‘é\\ B all fabrics and in [UEER )70/ NEH all shapes. The pre- Y 7 ;?;,,3% .eminent model is £ : ”f: virtually a tight-fit- S/ j‘ % ting corsage in silk Voo AAkE ", cloth or velvet, with e and without revers, braided or embroidered, very elaborate a la militaire, or very unpretentious, according to the material composing it and the character of its garniture. New models of mantelets and pelerines . appear daily, aﬁo combinations of both. Braces and bretelles again appear upoh the small wraps of Vietoria silk and jet. This is a manper of trimming that is almost universally beeoming to the figure, to which it imparts aa appearance of length and slenderness. | ‘‘Sea-wrack’ green velvet is much ysed for-dresdy wraps, to be worn with a costume-that is partkty of this : { eolor. It is trimmed S, | with marabout to £7%% | match, ftudded with ¥ =) | bronze balls 'embed- : | ded in a Qatk green ; lg/ :!,| ~. | Silk-metavork. £ "’cfi _\\\ | Exampration of the % » z]7 | newest Parisian gowns %/ Y 'i | shows them mnot (o CYis| = wholly innocent of Coo ey | ‘‘hustle.” %he pres/j;s:gsz)\ .| ent faghionable wom- \/ AN |an does fot look as if Al L B\B3 | she wore any, but the ;‘ = ‘-3_\’, art is in wearing a 7 7 SRS 54 slicht one and nob I i) looking as if you 7/, GERANY R did. The skirt must EE Qs| = have the ‘lift” of a 7/ ilN©D| = cushion ‘and may be GIAN g ‘"; | a single steel, but it / G ‘a |is cunningly hung—--7 = lgl | the skirt that hides it 7 GAUEERY. = —and this skirt has a GRYMYNE flowing classical air, C }’}]‘“ (\}\‘% that deludes the inno=P\ cent beholder. No ' === | more dromedaries, . however, thank | the ‘fickle goddess.” Fringe is fast coming into favor and the beaded ‘‘rain” fringe formerly so popular is set in ldrge creseents at intervals on the petticoat fronts of evening dresses and also decorates in fancy designs cloth gowns, overdresses and wraps. sThe toque is the rival of the princesse bonnet in popularity. Collars in military style are still in high vogue, but the fronts now turn back in natty revers. Beads are still worn in a profusion that would delight the untutored squaw, and the gold and sil, ver passementeries are still in demand. Bonnets and hats/present a curious mixture of high and low crowned styles, but with no radical departure in the matter of trimming. Stylish effects are introduced in the plaiting of fancy braids, and 'in straight and diagonal puffs and tucks on Greek toques, Garnitures are still massed in front, and the dainty flower montures are beautiful beyond the production of even nature itself, Superb Persian nets, richly colored, ribbons of every sort, gold ornaments and half wreaths of flowers are used upon novel straws that are fine, flexible and extremely stylish C.D.F

BITS OF BOTANY. o Dew on growing vegetables is said to be produced by the condensation of the transpired moisture from the plant on its own leaves. A BOTANICAL explorer has discovered on the Phillippine Islands a wild flower that is a yard in diameter. The petals areoval and creamy white, -~ . Miss CARrIE HARRISBN, of the Agricultural Department, Wasbington, D. C., has discovered in an old wella plant which has never but once before been found in this country. e e el THE thistle at the autipodes seems to attain a most vigorous growth. Its root penetrates to a depth of from twelve to twenty feet, and this root, even:when cut: into small pieces, retains vitality, each piece producing a new plant. | Tun Paris Academy of Scienceis justnow excited over a plant called Colocasia, This ‘plant, oftpn-exhibits a trembling'or a vibrating motion without any apparent cause, and as many as one hundred or one hundgd and twenty vibrations have been observed in a _ Oxmof Scotland’s rare marshy plants, & genus of the order of arrow f#‘g&"“‘ . according to Prof, Hillhouss, become exsl g o e el mrsialy o Ser % alipnionie »;a%j . oo iﬁ =“=zs':%”“ﬁ‘r‘ ’«7%' rﬁ?"x"gg:”i\{*{{” iDL s G

GOSSIP ABOUT WRITERS. E. P. Ror’s most popular novels are being translated into German. - Iris said Mrs. Burnett took a week to decide upon the name ‘Fauntleroy?” for her beautiful child story. . THE latest gossip about poet Browning says that he wrote ¢ Lady Geraldine’s Courtship’’ in two consecutive hours. Luocy LArRcoM says she never makes any plans, but gets interested in what she is writing and waits tosee how it will come out. :

OLivE ScHrREINER (Ralph Iron) says she began ‘“ An African Farm’” when almost a child, and left it for some years before she finished it. i

“BrRET HARTE is fifty years old. He was about thirty when he began writing, and before that was a compositor working at the case. i

THE poet Whittier has acknowledged -the authorship of ¢ The Song of the Vermonters,” which has been once or twice of late years reprinted as his. AMANDA M. Dougrass, who for the last fifteen years has been the chief support of her father, mother and sister, writes novels at the rate of two a year. :

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE has never earned more than $2,500 any year of herlife, and her yearly income from her books is now much less than $2,000. ,

Mgs. BuRTON HARRISON, the wife of Jefferson Davis’ former secretary, iz of Virginian birth. Few literary women in New York are better known and liked than she. Miss KaTe UprsoN CLARK, whose name is now seen frequently in current literature, is a witty little woman of thirty-five or so, with a husband, three boys and domestic tastes.

SARAE WINNEMUCCA, the Indian Princess who atténded Wellesley College, and has written stories under the nom de plume of “Bright Eyes,” is now teaching an llndian school. s .

- F. C. PamLurps, the author of the mnovel #Asin a Looking Glass,”” has been a soldier, a journalist and a theatrical manager, and he is now a successful barrister. He has more than once been asked to stand for Parliament. ]

THE person known in literature as Miss Braddon is described as' a tall, active-mind-ed woman of fifty-two, with gray hair and ruddy complexion. sSheis an expert horsewoman, writes three novels a year, and is married to her publisher. e

INTERESTING STATISTICS.

' IN the United States the telephone is used 595 times, the telegraph 136 times in a minute.

i Losses from fires in this-country last year foot up over $123,000,000, against over $129,000,000 for 1887. : THE business failures in the United States for 1888 amounted to §123,820,973, against $167,560,944 in 1887. TaE business annually transacted on the London Stock Exchange—the world’s great center of speculative enterprise—amounts to about £4,550,000,000. ARCHITECTURAL construction in Chicago last year resulted im the building of 4,985 edifices, cesting $20,360,800, and having a frontage of more than 2214 miles.

A Silent Appeal for Help.

When your kidneys and bladder are inactive, they are making a silent appealdfor help. Don’t disregard it, but with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters safely impel them to activity. Theg are in imminent danger, and it is foolhardiness to shut‘one’s eyes to the fact. Be wise in time, too, if yjou experience manifestations of dyspepsia, malaria, rheumatism, constipation or nerve trouble, The Bitters before a meal add zest to it.

Miss Erizaßera MoRRIS was elected pres-ident-of the Morris Refuge Association for Homeless and Suffering Animals at its recent annual meeting in Philadelphia. Last year the association received 2,549 dogs and 12,784 cats.

A Sensible Man Would use Kemp’s Balsam for the Throat and Lungs. It is curing more cases of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Croup and all Throat and Lung Troubles, than any other medicine. The proprietor has authorized any druggist to give you a Sample Bottle Free to conyinee you of the merit of this great remedy. Large Bottles 50c and §l.

BeENJAMIN F. BUTLER has become a more inveterate cigar-chewer than ever. He sometimes indulges in twenty cigars a day. His cigars are spoken of as ‘‘ Widow Butler’s weeds.”

MusT not be confounded with common cathartic or purgative pills. Carter’s Little Liver Pills are entirely unlike them in every respect. One trial will prove their superiority.

Tae California Legislature has evolved a new word. Itis ‘difflequibble,”” meaning a flank attack on a main question by criticising some minor detail.

THE MARKETS. NEW YOREK, March 4. LIVE STOCK—Cattle.......... 83370 @ 4 45 B Sheep. ... ... ... 450 @6OO Hoes = L isns D@o6 FLOUR—Good to ch0ice....... 365 @ 5 60 Patents .. .. 490 @5OO WHEAT—No. 2 Red............ U@ 98% No. 2Chicago. ... ... .-... 110 @ 1:10% CORN.. "= o 450 4% OATS —No.2 White.... .... ..... RNy @ 33 Y - Western. ... ... i.0...s 52 @ 57 PORK—-MeESS......cc.iveeennone 12 50 @l2 75 LARD--5team............. ... 710 @ 7 12% RIS Lo e e 102@ 11% WOOL~-Domestic........ «ueu-. 32 @ 38 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Shipping Steers.... $3 8 @4 9 Mexans: il 00200 @8 QoWws sal @ g 0 SIOCReYS 0 e R @2O Fevaers. ol L 2 @ 340 Butchers’ StocK.... ........ 27 @32 Tnlerior Gattle. ... .... ...... 1. @B HOGS—Live—Good to Choice.. 435 @ 466 SHERERE . o i 3R @R BUTTER—Creamery........... 14 @. 2 (Good to Choice Dairy....... 18 @ 20 EGGS—Fresh....c.. .....ccooee 12 @ 12% BROOM CURN-- i Self-W0rking......... ...... 2 @ 84 T s SR 3 @ 34 qnferinr . L o s 2 @ R 4 POPATORS (b)) ... .00 0 24 @ 30 PORIK-MEss: .. .. v 1116 @156 LARD-5team........c......... 6 67%2@ 690 FLOUR—Spring Patents....... 600 @ 660 Hakers' ... ... . .0 30 @4OO WARLOr 20 .0 v 500 @5OO GRAlN—Wheat, N 0.2......... BY@ 9% FCorni Nl 2.0 niius e U@ 34% SO INO. S e 2@ 26 : Hya Now 2. 4 @ 42% Barley, 5amp1e5............ 0 @ 6o LUMBER—- " Common Dressed Siding.... 17 00 @22 00 } Flooring ...........c........ 3200 @B4 00 Common 80ard5............ 1300 @l4 00 Fenclng. .. " i i 1250 @16,00 ; Al s 10 e Lo RRlngles .. s n s R IRO KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Best......cc..eeneeee 5100 @4 20 Fair t 0 G00d......c.eeee..c0 280 @8 75 HOGS—Best......c.cccooeen... 430 @435 Med1um:........ ..o i..iveens 4150 @ 420 SHEEP—Best.... ccec veec..oo.. 430 @4 60 S COMINON vaoi i ps..is oonda 250 (@ 890 ‘OMAHA. 4 CATTLE—8e5t..........c...... 8350 @ 3 90 MOMIOM. . i i s 100 @3N HOGE (i i aiiinvion 428 @4B

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ETYMOLOGY is a great leveler of pride. It has been discovered that “lady” originally meant the ‘‘kneader of the loaf,”’ or, in plain language, the cook. “Lord” really means the ‘“‘keeper of the loaf.” e e For Throat Diseases, Coughs, Colds, etc. effectual relief is found in the use of_ “Brown’s Bronchial Troches.” Price 25 cts. Sold only in boxes. —_———— A FUND is beinmglra.m' ed in San Francisco to found a memorial Garibaldi school, where Italian :history can be taught to young Italian-Americans. : i Tae Public Awards the :Palm to Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar for coughs. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Wit g e DAY THERE were only 254 daily newspapers in the country in 1855 oniéSS'? in 1868, but 574 in 1870, 981 in 1880, 1,428 in 1888 and 1,583 January 1, 1889. : e — e e ' Areunlike all other pills. No purging or %a.in. Act specially gn the lﬁeli- a.gcii ‘gile. arter’s Little Liver Pills. One pill a dose. Jorx CHINAMAN has no reason to complain of the ine%lalities of the tariff. Joss sticks are on the free list; Bibles pay a duty of twenty-five per cent. S 1r afflicted with Sore Eyes use Dr, Isaac Thompson’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25¢ Nor a single baby has been born in Liberty, Ky., for thirteen years. Liberty has a population of 700. : ;

Purify Your Blood i y ‘ ‘When spring approaches, it is very important that the blood should be purified, as at this season im* purities’ which have been accumulating for months or even years, are liable to manifest themselves and seriously affect the health. Hood’s Sarsaparilla is undoubtedly the best blood purifier. Itexpels every taint, drives out scrofulous humors, and gives to the blood the quality and tone essential to good health. Now is the time to take & 2 . g ’ - HOO,‘d s Sarsaparilla *My daughter suffered terribly with sore eyes caused by scrofula humor. We were obliged to keep her out of school fér two years. We had medical attendance, but she failed to gain relief. At last, knowing that Hood’s Sarsaparilla had cured my mother of rheumatism, and believing it mustbe good for the blood, I concluded to have my daughter try it, and it has entirely cured her.”? CORNELIUS YEAGER, 412 East Main Street, Marshalltown, lowa. g Purifies the Blood **Tlood’s Sarsaparilla has cured me of salt rheum, which T have had for years. Ido think it is a splendid medicine. lam 40 years of age and my skin is just as smooth and fair as a piece of glass.” MRS. . LILLA CLARK, South Norwalk, Conn. y 's 8§ ilf Hood’s Sarsaparilia Sold by all druggists. $1; six for §. Prepared only by C.l. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass--100 Doses One Dollar Rare Chance for Settlers. The Railroad System of Texas having developed #oo as to bring within easy access of good interior and seaboard markets the lands granted to the : 9 HOUSTON &TEXAS GENT’LRY.CO. It has been determined to offer to settlers the Renowned Agricult’l Lands Located alonﬁ the line of the Fort Worth & Denver City R. R., beginning with Wilbarger - County, comprising - B 200,000 ACRES In farms of 160 acres and upward. These lands were located by the Company among the earliest, with especial care as to soil, timber and water. They are adapted to the growtil of cotton, corn, oats, wheat barley, rye, vegetables, orchards and gardens and the various domestic grasses. ; Situated in the elevated and healthy region known as the Southern Panhandle of Texas, they possess a genial climate, favorable to man and beast, where outdoor work can be carried on the year round, and are in marked contrast with regions of early and late frosts or of destructive ** blizzards.” Population is fast souringin. and local government is already established, with schools, churches, &c. TERMS OF SALE: One-fifth cash, balance in four equal yearly payments, with interest on deferred gaf' ments. For futther information as to these and landsin adjacent counties, apply to i l’l s. NAP‘ER’ Vernon, Tean, (who is prepared to show to purchasers); {or to C. C. GIBBS, Land Ag’t, Houston; Tex. $-NAME THIS PAPER every time you write. -

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Swift’s Sgecmc cured me of maliﬁ‘nnnt Bloo%{oison after I had beentreated in vain with old so-calleti remedies of Mereurg and Potash. 8. 8. 8. not only cured the Blood Poison, but relieved the Rheumatism which was caused by the poisonous minerals. GEU. BOVELL, 2422 8d Avenue,N. Y. Nine years ago Scrofula attacked two of my children, and théy were badly afflicted with that disease, which resisted the treatment of my family physician. I was persuaded to use Swift’s Specific by seeing an account of cures in my count{ Imper. The imgrovement was apparent from the first few doses, and in a short. time my children were cured, and are still sound and well. - JOHN WILLIAMS, Lexington, Va. . SwlFT’s SPECIFIC is entirely a vegetable remeay, and is the only medicine which permanently cures Scrofula, Blood Humors, Cancer and Contagious Blood Poison, Send for books on Blood and Skin Diseases. muailed free, THE SWIFT SPECIFICCO. - % DRAWER 3. ATLANTA, GAs

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Of, all the ills that human flesh is heir to, Scrofula is most prevalent, Very few, indeed, are entirely free from some taint of Scrofuls. Young people of delicate constitution are often aflicted by this disease, which manifests itself in various forms. The glands of the neck, groin, abdomen, ete., become enlarged, either persistently, or with slight impairment of health. : e Swellings in the Neck frequently become so engorged with scrofulous matter that abscesses are formed. Painful running sores may also appear on the arms, legs and feet; sometimes continuousand sometimes of an intermittent character. Occasionally,the sores appearin the ears and nose, and on or about the eyes, causing deafness and blindness. . Pimples, cancerous growths, swollen joints, etc., are other symptoms of the disease. It must be treated through the blooad if a permanent cure is to be obtained. ¢« Whatiis more beautiful than a rich, soft complexion in man or woman? This can be obtained only by the eradication of all scrofuloustaints from the blood by the persistent use of

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