Ligonier Banner., Volume 24, Number 51, Ligonier, Noble County, 3 April 1890 — Page 4

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THURSDAY. APRIL 3, 1890,

SoMr of the resolutions adopted by Farmers' Alliance out West read very much. &s if written by ¢ither rogues or blockheads. L - : :

ProrLE who calculate on being relieved of hard times by congressional or legislative enactment will find themselves badly left. Remedies from these sources consist chiefly of wind.

Taere are not many protectionists, even, who will regret the action of the ways and means committee in placing works of art.on the free list. -As a rale, American artists themselves fayor the proposition. :

Ty Louisville Coarier - Journal thinks that United States ten thosand dollar notes are a nuisance and ought to be abolished. * That paper has such a quantity of them on hand . that it seriously thinks of using a portion of them as wrappers for its immense weekly edition. ;

IN this IssvE of Tue BannNer will be found two articles to which we- desire to direct especial attention. - The one touches upon the negro problem, and the other relates to the revolutionary scheme to place the election of anembers of congress under federal control.

Ir ANY of the readers of this paper should feel tempted to embark in what is called active political life, let them send for a copy of Brick Pomeroy’s ““Journey of Life.”” Price only 50 cents. Itis thrillingly interesting and admirably caleulated to cure anyone of the politieal itch.

WryonminGg will soon be- a state, sure enough, for there can be no doubt that the senate will concur in the action of the house, which last Thursday passed the admission bill. Surely the Republicans can pretty soon .afford to do justice to New Mexico, which has been keptin a territorial condition for forty years. . . o

It 18 sHowxN by the Toronto Globe that nearly half of Canada’s trade is with the United States, and that fact causes it to cry out more lustily than ever before for reciprocity. Imports from the United States amounted to more than fifty millions of dollars last year, while exports to the ‘States were upwards of thirty-eight nillions in value. ; ; e

WHEN mechanics in the great cities command from forty to fifty cents per hour, i 8 it any wonder that farm hands should grumble upon being told that their rural, employers cannot afford to pay them more than forty or fifty cents per day, by the month? The discrepancy is too great, thqugh of course living in the great cities comes vetry highes . o =

Gov. HiLL has made a most excellent selection of a successor to the disgraced sheriff of New Yorks Flack by name, by the appointment of Gen. Daniel E. Sickles. This gallant sogldier and truly able man will conduct the stieriff’s office on honorable business principles—something that hasn’t dis-

tinguished the management of that oftice for several years. o

. SENATOR INGALLS had better look after the fences on his Kansas plantation. The Farmers Alliance of that state are after him and by a very de¢ided majority ‘have announced that they will oppose the re-clection of any member of the legislature who favors the return of that gentleman to the senate. The farmers evidently mean ‘“‘business” so far as Ingalls is concerned. ; = L

THE GrRAND JURY of New York has been investigating the management of some of ,the county officers of that locality. This inyestigation has resulted in unearthing a frightful state of affairs—the most shameless corruption known since the days of the Tweed regime. The rascals ought to be severely punished, but we fear they won’t. SamuelJ. Tilden is no longer there to push the prosecution.

OUR GREAT CITIES are growing too rapidly. They draw too heavily from the smaller towns and ®he rural dis tricts. A reaction is certain to set in before many years. ‘l'hen there will be trouble in the great cities, while comparatively ‘‘easy times'’ are apt to prevail in the country. We are in the midst of a readjustment. While this is going on, there is naturally more or less hardship to be encountered.

GEN. LONGSTREET is greatly disgnstwith the manner in which the Harrison administration conducts political affairs in the state of Georgia, and has written a letter sharply criticizing the southern policy of the President. This gentleman commenced his administration with the announcement that he meant to please himself—and he seems to be doing it, to the exclusion of a good many of his supporters in 1888, Nink thousand millions of dollars are said to have been expended on the construction and equipment of railroads ‘in the United States, and still the work . goes on. The average cost of construetion per mile is about $30,000 which is fully three times more than actual eost. ° There is an immense amount of swindling done in the construction of railroads. 1f the water was all squeezed out of railroad stocks there would be a shrinkage that would fairly astonish the natives, =~ J

It APPEARS that the entire estate left by the late Gen. Crook will not aggregate over $l,OOO. - A movement to secure a suitable pension for his widow has already been begun, and great as our pension list is, nobody will grumble if it is swelled by an addition for the widow of the gallant Indian fighter. ; :

WOoRD comes from Burlington, lowa, that a professional bird-catcher is at work in that city, and has for the past week captured and killed alarge number of beautiful songsters. He claims to be under contract to furnish eastern wholesale millinery houses with redbirds, which are his favorite prey, He says he has made as high as $2,800 in one year trapping birds. The business may be very profitable to this individual, but it is likewise a cruel and shamefully wicked one. The wholesale killingof innocent little birds to gratify the variety of fashionable society is absolutely revolting to the finer sensibilities of human nature. °

IT 1s A coMmmoN SUBJECT of inquiry whenever a great calamity, like that at Louisville, occurs, whether they used to have cyclones in the old times. The Chicago Tribune thinks it is not likely that there is any deviation in the laws of nature. They operated centuries ago as they operate now. It must be remembered that the region most frequentiy traversed by eyclones is rapidly filling up with towns and villages and arowing populous. Hence it is not remarkable that cyclones should be more destructive to life than they used to be. It should also be remembered that in these days of telegraphs, telephones, fast trains, and increased newspaper enterprise it is impossible for »n event to have happened in any part of the country without being known at once. «There were probably just as many cyclones a century ago as there are now, but a century ago the people of the United States never knew what was going on in the way of cyelones or much of anything else any great distance west of the Alleghanies. '

'~ CI¥.L. REVOLUTION, Lodge’s Congressional Election Scheme, Every day now. brings forth at the federal capital more new suggestions for the. fixing of the next congressional and presidential electoral apportionments, or some fresh regulations for the holding of congressional elections for the benefit and advantage of the republican party. ‘There appear to be several groups of republican leaders ‘and managers at work on the subjects. As to the first, there may not be any definite action had until later in the session, when the census figures of population shall have been footed up; but in the meanwhile there will be ample time to launch upon congress some plan from which a partisan control of next fall's elections may be expected.” The admission of one or two of the carefully manipulated territories, as states; may enable the Republicans to make the senate sure; it is to carry the house that they will bend their efforts and perfect their legislative machinery. - :

Mr. Lodge of Massachusetts has already proposed his plan, under which the federal juliciary is to take charge of elections for representatives, and run them upon the Australian method, wherever five hundred voters shall request that they be no longer conducted under state laws and regulations The judges are to select the inspectors and officers of the polls, and. 630,000 persons are to be thus appointed to supervise the voting and make the returns. Each full biennial congressional election would cost from ten to fifteen millions of dollars. The ballot provided for is to be similar to that in the Saxton bill in our own state. The returns from each district are to be made, not by the governors, but by the federal appointees. In fact, the state as such is to have nothing to do with the choice of its representatives in congress. : ‘;

' Mr. Lodge’s bill is a proposal for a civil revolution. It is an utter perversion of the intent and meaning of the ‘constitution of the United States, as framed, and as interpreted and acted upon for a century. 1t involves a frightful concentration of power in the federal government. Its purpose is to seize upon the elections and consolidate an overwhelming, centralized government. The change from the time-honored custodians of elections, appointed under state laws, ‘to the favorites of life-appointed judges, and the substitution of a new and untried ballot system, involve elements which must elicit the resistance of every Democrat in congress. in every conceivable form, and to the last extremity.—Albany Times. 4 :

To the Public,

I wish to announce to my old patrons and the public generally that I have sold out my hardware, stoves and tin store to Mr. J. K. Mawhorter, who will continue the business at the old stand with the addition of agricultural implements. I take pleasure in recommending Mr. Mawhorter to your confidence and bespeak for you barzaing whenever you purchase of him. Thanking all for past favors, I remain yours truly, A. O. OsSBORN, , ~ Wawaka, Ind.

GERBER & Cfl - Follow the rush ““for Hardware, Tinware, Stoves, (The Garland). Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Wagons, *Flying Dutehman’’ Sulky Plows, Oliver Chilled and Steel Walking and Riding Plows, Deere and Western Corn Plows, Reeves’ Straw Stackers, Advance Threshers and Engines, McCormick Binders and Mowers. The best corn planter in the world is the Moline Champion. Everything in the hard™ ware and implement line. Fresh garden seeds in balk. 50-6¢t

—William: Adee, second door north of Weir & Cowley, has just received a new and fresh line of groceries of every kind, which he is offering at low prices. Give him a.eall. ~ =

OUR NEGRO POPULATION.

. Bishop Dudley ef Kentucky made an address here on Sunday of last week, and he spoke thus sensibly of the race question: L ““Some say.that the remedy is to send the negroes back to Africa. Why, you might as well try to send the Irish back to Ireland, or any other foreign people who have come here and settled. They won't gq. They are citizens of the United States,: and they know what that means. They are in the South to stay, and the South needs the negro. He is the only.possible laborer to bring out its natural resources.”’ , ;

The negroes will not go to Affica, and the South will not let them go. Already agents who are seeking to induce negroes to, emigrate to other States from North Carolina, and even South Carolina, are treated by employers as meddlesome enemies, and are having a hard time of it in consequence. The negroes are wanted where they are, and whatever may be the anxiety about the race question, its solution by depleting the labor market is vigorously resisted. =

- The South will not get -rid of its negro population either by sending them to Africa or by encouraging their emigration to the North. Southerners want them to stay where they are, to be hewers of wood and «drawers of water. And the necroes themselves want to stay. If they were disposed to leave, they would have done so long ago and escaped from the political discrimination against them, of which they complain. When they do emigrate, it is " almost wholly from the more northern to the more southern regions of the South and to States where they are no better off politically. Besides, even if they were ready to accept.deportation to Africa, there is no demand for them there. Africa has negroes enough already, and white nations are competing for the conti’ nent as a field for white immigration and enterprise. & . :

It may therefore be assumed at once that the race problem must be ‘settled here, and with the negroes remaining and multplying faster than the whites, increasing in education, and growing in material prosperity. White and ‘black must contfime to live side by side and in cumpjtition, with the results which will naturally and logically come from such circamstances. 'T'he negroes will also remain as citizens equal with the tvhites in political rights, for even the Southern whites want them to be counted as a basis for representation.

If the negro population of the Union has increased at the same ratio between 1880 and 1890 that it increased between 1870 and 188),it is now 8,862, - 353, as against a white popuiation of 56,076,637, At the same ratio of growth it will be about 12,000,000 in 1900, as against about 72,500,000 whites, or about one-sixth; for between 1870 and 1880 the ratio of increase of the blacks was 34.67 per cent. and of the whites only 29.20 per cent. The negro population is gaining on the white, despite foreign immigration. e The negroes are also improving in every way. The time is approaching when they will all be able to read and write. The prudent and industrious among them, at the South more especially, are accumulating property and gaining the consequent considertion. Ultimately their votes will be desired at the South as much as they are now desired at the North. In all respects of civilization they will be on a higher level ‘and, as Bishop Dudley says, the South will require theiz help to bring out its natural resources.

These are facts which politicians and social philosophers must look in the face. The negroes are to remain as an important political and social factor in our civilization; and we must accept the consequences. They cannot:be deported under% Senator Butler’s plan and they cannot be massacred. They will stay here to increase and multiply, and their presence will have a profound effect on the evolution and deportment of the human race. It is no wonder tbat the South is thinking so seriously over the problem.—N. Y. Sun. ,

RELIGION VS. THEOLOGY

Mr. Junius Henri Browne, one of the most brilliant writers of the day, has contributed an exceedingly Tfiffie\ifing article to the March number of that superb magazine, The Arena, upon the subject, **“What Is Religion?” He draws a distinet line of demarkation between theology and religion. ;

- This distinction, it is contended, has never been kept clearly enough in view; on the other hand, religion and theology -have been so long used as synonyms that they are ordinarily accepted as identical, but nothing could be more incorrect. Mr. Browne draws the difference between them in his remark that “‘religion is technically thought to refer to the feelings and conduct of man to God; theology to the existence and nature towards God and his relations to man.” In other words, religion is the normal rule of life and divine in its origin. Theology is a speculation upon the characteristics of the ruler of the universe and his relations to man. Religion was enunciated by Jesus Christ and is a simple, plain statement not of theological speculation but of moralty. Theology, Mr. Browne contends, was invented by the: French scholastic Abelard, who reduced Christianity to science, and is an attempt to think the unthinkable and to explain the unexplainable, which has never added anything to thetruth; on the other hand, has only complicated and obscured it. There is more religion in the sermon on the mount or the golden rule, for instance, than in all the writings of the so-called fathers from Athanasius to Calyin or from Origen tv Leo XIIL, and yet the confusion of the two has always continued. 1t is not uncommon even now for the enemies of the Church, even Mr. Ingersoll makes the mistake, to set forth the wars and cruelties that have been practiced in the name of religion when ‘in reality they have been practiced in the name of theology, and have been the outcome not of

religion but of theological ' differences. The old adage, ¢‘believe as Ido or be damned,’’ does not mean ‘‘believe as 1 do religiously,”” for all men believe alike religiously, but it means *‘sceept the dogmas of my polemical theology or be damned.” it is pointedly asserted that any man can be religious withont the'ology, but a belief in theology alone does not make him better or worse, though it will be strange if it does not harm his religion ‘and blunt his religious sense. .

The Chicago Tribune is quite correct in saying that he is not an acute observer who ‘‘does not see that the Church itself is rapidly doing away with formal theology. He has not noted the signs of the times in the Presbyterian, hitherto the most theological, and in the Episcopalian, bitherto the most exclusive of churches. He has failed to see the leaven that is working even in the Roman Catholic Church. The trend of the Christian world is away from theology and towards religion. It is constantly growing. less narrow and intolerant and more liberal, enlightened, and generous.” Theology is not only greatly modified but it is inevitably doomed.

It will pass away just as surely as astrology and other ologies of the middle ages have passed away, and men will come out into the clearer regions of truth and duty and see more clearly when they are no ionger blinded and’ confused by dogmas. There is a’great spiritual evolution going on and when it reaches its consummation churches and warring sects w‘ivll realize 'how much simpler and more beautiful, grander and more reasonable is the religion of Jesus the Christ than the theology of Abelard or of Calvin.”’ 2

Go where .you will, and this sentiment will be found to have taken deep root among progressive adherents of pretty much all the relicious denominations represented in this country. -

A Sad Affair.

Several days ago I. J. McLallin, of ISparta township, returned from Con'neautville, Pa., where he had been sud‘denly called by the death of a favorite ‘brother, Edgar R. McLallin. Imagine his surprise, upon reaching Pennsylvania, to find that his brother had committed suicide. It seems that several months ago the unfortunate man suffered a severe injury to his spine while assisting in some heavy work, and the pains resulting, made it almost impossible to get a ymoment’s rest. After suffering for several we:ks, the pains gradually growing worse, he found it mmpossible to lie down or sleep at all, but at no time did he give the least intimation that he would attempt to end his terrible suffering in death. But it seems that he could no longer stand the strain, and after a sleepless night be went out early in the moraing to attend some work about the barn. Not returning for some time, a son started out to search for him.} and ‘he was easily tracked to. an vld well where his lifeless body was found. “ He had cut his throat with a small| pocket knife, completely severing the jugular vein and then jumped into the water. - The deceased was one of the leading citizens of that part of the state, and aside from the brain trouble, no cause 1s assigned for the terrible deed. Ihe Conneautville Courier says in concluding an article upon the suicide, that he was *‘an honest, upright man, against whose name no word of reproach could be uttered.’’

The New Railroad. [Aupurn Dispatch.)

~ On last Monday a prominent Wabash R. R. official was in town in consultation with the officials of our new enterprise. While we are not permited to reveal the secrets of either ' offi: cials, we feel certain that evervthing is being done that can be done 'in the interest of the town and vicinity, and we would advise our friends to give our local directors all the encouragement they can. We shoald not for a moment distrust them.

- A meeting of the executive committee of the board of directors of the Auburn & Chicago R. R. will be held here tomorrow (Friday) for the purpose of employing engineers tov make a perliminary survey. This means business and speaks louder than any words we can write. !

Our people have done well, and can do more. Not much fuss or excitement has been raised, yet everything ig going on as rapidly and smoothly as any one can reasonably ask.

Why Take the Trouble ?

Some North siders, through enmity, are putting themselves to a great deal of trouble trying to tell stories °that anyone in this day -and’ generation must laugh at as absurd. I eannot see how they can imagine that thier talk can hurt mein any way. I am obliged to sometimes laugh myself at the trouble they take. 5 :

GeORGE W. ELLIOTT.

We the undersigned, living the nearest to the residence of Mr. George W. Elliott, say that those stories concerning him and his property, as far as we know, are false and untrue. - , Gro. R. MCMASTER, - MRgs. Hasry, ‘ : Mg. AND Mrs. C. HUNTSMAN, Mrs, Lipa McCLUKE, - E. GRAnAM, JorL SELIG.

MARRIED., Mr. Alva Nowels and Miss Geneva Knepper, all of Wawaka, were on Sabbath evening, March 30th, joined in marriage by J. M. Deweese. May Fpace attend them as they jou-rnef; in ife, is our wish. - J. M. D.

Af Smith’s boarding house on Saturday, Mar. 29, 90, by Esquire Jackson, Mg. FraNk RepMaN und RozELLA MyERs, all of Perry township.

—The York township Democrats have nominated the following ticket: For trustee, Jacob Beard; assessor, John C. Lane; justice, Wm. Growcock; constables, Edwin Masters and Jacob Busz. il

AROUND ABOUT UsS.

The Sayingsand Doings of Our Neighbors. Samuel C. Driver, of Fort Wayne, was fatally injured last Friday, a circular saw flying to pieces and one of the fragments penetrating his lungs. The Whitley circuit court will again l convene on the 7th of April, and it is hoped and believed that the new building will be ready for occupancy by that time. - Preliminary airangements have been made for a grand race meeting to be held at Fort Wayne the latter part of June. The other Indiana cities in the circuit are Rushville and Cambridge City, both with mile tracks. The store of A. E. Wilden at Goshen was burglarized again on Monday morning. The outside doors of the safe were blown open, but the inside doors were not forced. Goods estimated to amount to $2OO in value were carried off. ; Elkhart county’s sheep killing dogs destroyed sheep from March 1, 1889, to March 1, 1890, to the amount of $l.361.25. The tax-payers had to pay the bill. It is more than likely that Elkhart county’s total dog tix is but little more than the above ftigure. In Whitley- county, says the Colum bia City Post, some townships are taking strong grounds on the gravel road question, even going so far as to require a candidate for trustee to pledge himself to make a gravel road levy and proceed to. gravel the roads of his township, if elected. Frederick Wesson’s residence in the outskirts of the city of Fort Wayne. burned at an early hour Monday morning. A tall wind-mill stood beside the house, and Wesson, climbing upon it, was stifled with smoke and fell into the fire, sustaining fatal injuries. ‘ Gen. Milo S. Hascall has left Goshen and is now a resident of Chicago. In a late issue of the Goshen Times, the General presents his compliments to several of the citizens of that city, and -bids good-bye to nis old home' He has been of considerable service to Goshen and he will be missed. : ‘While a kettle of boiling sugar-water was standing in the rear of William Dorner’s residence, near Goshen, last Friday, his eight-year-old son stumbled and feel headlong into it. He strucogled out of the steaming mass and threw himself into a creek near by, but he was frightfully scalded, and will scarcely live. ' Walter S. Bennett, a weil known young man who has diyided his time between ‘Goshen and Bristol for the past few years, is now badly wanted as a thoroughbred rascal. He has been selling fine jewelry and other stolen articles, and when last heard from, had just given the officers the slip at Louisville, Kentucky. - The supreme court has.denied a rehearing in the case of the city of Elkhart vs. Melvina Whitman and the ‘city will have to pay the $l,OOO awarded by the circuit court, for one of its defective sidewalks, and quite a bill of costs besides. Th's ought to be a warning to look after bad sidewalks a little more closely. —Elkha.t Review. Dave Carpenter told a Review reporter that he hag sixteen ball players under contract, and that he has entered the Indiana League. The men will report at Elkhart April 19th, and he will put them into practice at once, as the season opens May Ist. He considers it probable that his club ‘will open either in Muncie or Fort Wayne. - George and Magdalena Culp reached their 60th wedding anniversary on the 15th inst. Eleven children have been reared by this now aged couple and not a death has yet been recorded in the family. Mr. Culp is now 80 years old and his life companion 78 "This goes ahead of any record in this part of the state. so far as our knowledge extends.—Nappanee News.

Lightning rod swindlers are working successfully in counties south of here. They get owners of rods long ago to sign a paper on the pretext that the oid guarantee has expired whica the’ company wants to renew, but which the operator renews in the shape of a Inote. Notwithstanding the numerous warnings through the press, the operators are roping in. many a victim.— Goshen News. v ~ The Goshen News says that on Saturday last Sam Wisler, living near Wakarusa, was rearrested by Deputy | Sheriff Kidder, on the charge of abortion. It will be remembered that Wisler is charged with conspiracy with Dr. Luella Day in committing the alleged abortion on Cora Etta Chupp, but the indictment was qrashed at the time of the Day trial, and the last grand jury found a new bill against him. He appeared in court and gave bond in the sum of $5OO. ° Several months since John J. Weirich jr., of near Shipshewana, was arrested in Pennsylvania at-the instance of a young lady named Morris, whom he had seduced under a promise of marriage. He married the girl to settle the difficulty, but deserted her immediately, and the poor girl was compelled to seek sheltér at her father’s home. She became despondent over her troubles, "and last week, one. day, took a dose of st;rychnine,’ dying a few hours after. v

Goshen Times: Plank’s Tavern, at St. Joseph, Mich., was sold at sheriff’s sale on Monda. at the court house in Berrien Springs, and was bid in by Preston & Collins, who held a claim aga nst the building for material used in its construction. When we saw that immense building a year or two ago, erected, as it was, upon a-desolate and {stormy beach, we made up our minds ‘that unless Mr. Plank had an almost ‘unlimited amount of fundslying around loose, the enterprise would swamp him. Maple syrup has been quite scarce in this market this season, while at the same time it cannot be disguised that the attempt, a few years ago, of quite a namber of the manufacturers of the syrup to enlarge the product of the use of cheap sugars, -has had the effect to lessen its sale everywhere. Even those who would disdain to furnish an impure article, are suspected, and made | to suffer because dishonest people have swindled their customers. We know of several families who refuse to purchase maple syrup. at all now who formerly used large quantities of the article. It is always so, however, the innocent are made to suffer with the guilty in too many instances.- -Warsaw Daily Times.

—The bicycle fever has seized the editorial fraternity of South Bend, without exception to age, sex or size.— Indianapolis News: : Well! now we imagine we can see our old fellow townsman J.B. Stoll astride of one of these machines. What a figure he would cut. indeed,

' . BRIMFIELD, IND,, March Ist, 1 . The sulky plow that I bought of your agent last fall,is far beyond : what [ expected. I plowed torty acres of “dry, hard, clay ONNG, - and very stony, and £ did it in good shape I used only four points, ' while my neighbors used one point each day with their wal ng plows, and I did better work. I think the Fiying Dutchman superior 10 any other sulky piow in thesmarket. 1 can plow more ground with LWO horses in a day, than any man can with a walking plows it will do the work betser, and will not tire a team as much as a common i plow. = S a i - E.A.CHAFFEE. = = 3 " I2GONIER, IND., March Bth, 1890, : I bave used the Flying Dutchman the past season, and find it works like a charm. 1 plowed forty acres of hard, stony ground with light draft. 'The plow turnsa nicé furrow each way. 1 would ° not have a plow without & tongue. GEU. DODSWORTH., A S . CROMWELL, IND. 1 will say that I purchased the Flying Dutchman a year ago last . August, have done all my spring and fall plowing with’it since. and am well pleasea with it, S SIMON ARCHER. | o LIGOWIER, IND., March 17th, 1890; - -I have a Fiying Dutchman Sulky Plow .anql' like it very much.. : Have used it in the hardest kind of ground as well asin Sticky, marsn . land, 'and it can not be beaten in either. 1 would advise all turmers ( needing a sulky plow to buy none but the Dutchman,: 2 / : : "GEO. W.MiLLER. , - KIMMELL, IND., March 17th, 1890, ; We can honestly say that the Flying Dutchman Plow which we ‘bought !ast spriug bas given good satisfaction. We did our spring plowing in good shape, and last fall+t he ground was so hard thut we could not have plowed our wheat ground without the Dutchman, 1t ’ wiil go in the hardest ground, and we do not think it runs any hard- ' er than a hund plow running thé same depth and turning the same furrow, We. consider it superior to any .other sulky piow in the market. : ! S GLOYD BROTHERS, Worr LAKE, [xD.,’ March 18th, 1560, The Flying Dutchman Plow uséd on my place s perfect in every respect, doing the finest kind of work in every kind of ground. L think it the most durable and the most substantial .plow made, Points are solid and heavy and outwears any point used on walking plows two to one. I would not exchange for any plow I eversaw, 1 would not want a plow withouta tongue, that you have to hiteh to the other end to pull it out when you get fast, ~ I have sold several Flyiog Dutchman Plows and they are giving excellent satisfaction, : / sl GEO. B. MILLINGER. i ) - LIGONIER, IND;, March 6th, 1890, lifind the Flying Dutchman to be excelient for fine work in plowing on stony land or nut stony. Tt will make a better corner turning either way than any sulky plow I ever usedor ever. saw, and ; with: lighter draft. 1t can plow with two horses just the same as a walking plow.and at the same time ciit'a furrow.at least three inches ; wider. : : S "ARTHUR MORROW. : ; LIGOIER, IND., March Tth, 1890, : No. more sore necks:. I bought a Flying Dutchman Pilow and -must say it works elegant in every respect. I'have used different sulky plows, but this on¢ takesthe lead., It turns.asquare corner ° either way, keeps a straight furrow and gives pertect satisfaction. 1T would not be without one. - ° JOHN F.MOORE. . . .~ TIGONIER, IND., March, 1890, With my Flying Dutchman T ean plow one third faster, turn a wider furrow and do 1t betterand easier than with a walking plow; it makes a better corner foo, without. any lifting or balancing of plow. I'll venture to say that it can’t be beat, and any man will verity the above it he will only try one. CYRUS POLLOCK. N ; . S WOLF LAKE, IND;, March 17th, 1890, " The Flying Dutchman Plow is giving e good satisfaction, and 5 I consider it far superior to the Cassidy or Solid Comtort, as 1 have tried them both. It islight running, easily handled and turnsa good furrow. : e : w THOMASSMITH. @ . CEDAR BEACH, IND., March 11th, 1290, After having used the Flying Dutchman one season, I have ; found it a complete success. - It is easily handled and well adapted to all kinds of ground, especially to stumpy ground. I would advise all who wish to purchage a sulky plow to give the Flying Dutchman a trial, and lam sure they will buy no other. - M. WOODS. . : . WAWAKA, IND., March 22nd, 1890, ; Messrs. Gerber & Co:—My Flying Dutchman gives perfect satisfaction, it works fine in any kind of ground, i 8 easy on the horses and the easiest plow to ride on I'ever saw,.and I have sqen nearly all ~/' of them work, and would buy noother. = . DAVID JORDON. : % LIGONIER, TND., March 20th, 1890, Gerber & Co.:—The Flying Dutchman. Sulky Plow bought of you is the finest thing in the plow line I ever saw. T ean plow with the Dutehman when the ground is so hard no other plow wili stay in the ground, and enough can not be said in praise of the Dutchman. The . plow runs light and rides easy, and I advise any onethat wants a plow to get a Dutchman. Respectfully, = < DAVID WYSONG . - WOLF LAKE, [ND., March 18th, 1890, The Flying Dutchman is the best, and the hest is the cheapest, 1t is the third sulky plow I have owned, and would usge no other, - .~ DANIEL NORRIS. . WoLF LAKE, IND., March )Bth, 1390, Gerber & Co., Ligonier, Ind.-—Mv Flying Dut¢hman Sulky Plow is a dandy, all my friends and. neighbors who have seén it work will : testify to the above. 1t leads the procession, ©= . WM. PRICE.

i MILLERSBURG, IND., March 24th, 1890, - Gerber & Co.—My Flying Dutchman-suits me exactly, and I don’t think I could get a sulky plow that would do better, and 1 have : seen a good many work, can take a wide furrow in clay with two : horses, in fact it is splendid. L.A. J. PHILLIPS, B For Sale by GERBER & CC., Ligonier.

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