Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 22, Ligonier, Noble County, 6 September 1894 — Page 7

REED’'S ROCKY ROAD.

He Will Find the People Skeptical on the Blessings of High Protection.

Tom Reed says that the republicans will have nothing to do. in the next campaign but read the testimony- of 2\{l‘, Cleveland’s letter upon the tariff bill.

There is something more. Reed will find that the very foundation of protection has been shaken by the contest just conctuded. For the first time the voters have learned by direct observation that protection is synonymous with corruption and fraud. Before this time the majority believed that there had been fraud and corruption in tariff laws. They are at last convinced that when taxation departs from a revenue purpose and begins to be used for the benefit of private corporations, inevitably .corruption is the beginning of the departure and fraud the constant accompaniment. Millions of Americans have read daily how senators demanded and received concessions to the sugar trust, to the iron interest, to the cotton mills, to the glass and pottery makers. None of these senators argued for the public welfare. The argument was in each ezsa for the ‘‘interest.”

Mr. Reed can give in his speeches a few extracts from Cleveland's letter. Then some American citizen will ask him why, if manufacture is the great end of nationdl effort, free choice to raw materials for staple industries is denied to -our manufacturers. And unless he elects to be a willful public liar, he must reply that protection is a pool of interests in which not American industry, but ‘American ‘‘pull,” creates the scale according to which legislative favors are granted.

It is true that a few democrats have been traitors to their party. But the people have seen in that perfidy the working of the republican system of high protection. Intheirtreason these men have been republicans and protectionists. What they have done has been in the usual republican and protectionist way. True of one, true of all protectionists. Protection goes to Washington to get favors: not to honestly govern honest freemen. Every favor it gets is a lever with which to ret another. Protection always favors higher protection and will spend money to buy an advance. Protection is against anything short of prohibition and a monopoly of the market. Itis against extending manufactures. Its plan is always to limit production and grecure scarcity prices for monopoloy. That it does not succeed is due to the opposition of the democratic party and the American spirit of competition.

Another obstacle will arise before Reed. The business world, whose indisposition to approve changes has done more to intrench tariff robbery than anything except the lobby’s manipulation, has perceived that constant and feverish uncertainty is as inseparable as corruption from the protective system. There can be mno permanent tariff schedule when it d4s designed for protection, because new conditions of production are continually arising. There can be no perpetuity in a protective syvstem while it embraces four or five thousand artieles which a few wish to sell at abnormal prices and the many wish to buy at natural prices. The only system of reasonable certainty is a revenue system, and the plain business men have grown sick of tariff tinkering. g

Protection is inseparable from fraud. It is inseparable from tariff tinkering and uncertainty. When Reed takes out Cleveland’s letter he will read it to-a public -opinion which has béen educated to the folly of protéction by the ecircumstances which called forth that document. In 1888 tariff reform seemed radical to scores of business men in Reed’s New England, to whose ears free trade has now rather a pleasing sound. Tariff reform has had its day in the west and south. Free trade and taxation for revenue only will -be the western and southern platform henceforth, and on it will be found crowds -of business men who have been calling themselves moderate protectionists. It is coming to be understood that Christian honesty and a protective tariff are incompatible.—St. Louis Republic.

THE REAL DEMOCRATS.

They Deserve Credit for Wresting What They Did from a Hostile Senate.

Tne democrats in both houses of congress, with but few exceptions, are enfitled to credit for doing all that it seemed to them possible to do toward the fulfillment of the pledges with respect to the tariff whieh their party made in 1899, )

They have made an honest, earnest and persistent attemptto obey the popular mandate delivered when the present democratic, congress and president were elected. They are deserving of great praise for wrestling what they have wrested from a protectionist senete, and their holding out so long. as there seemed to be a ray of hope against the protectionist amendments which that body thrust so plentifully. into the Wilson bill.

The democrats of the ways and means committee labored with great zeal and industry, and finally produced a bill which was fairly acceptable to those who meant what they say when they voted for a tariff for revenue only. They did not produce a perfect bill by any means. They did not produce a bill which was satisfactory to most of their own number.

But they did produce one on right lines, based on right principles, and making a long step toward the final goal of commercial liberty and the ultimate abandonment of the entire policy of supporting and enriching favored industries by levying forced contributions upon others. They went as far as they believed it possible to go, in view of the known character of the senate, toward the total abolition of the republican system of legalized robbery. -

The house, led for the time being by such men as Tom Johnson and DeWitt Warner; went further than the committee and voted for free coal, iron and sugarand the immediate stoppage of the McKinley sugar bounty. : A majority of the democratic senators stood ready te go even farther than the house; making larger redustions on manufactured goods and going farther in the direction of the ad valorem rates. But presently they foawd themselves confronted not only by tie republican senators in solid array, but by this body re-enforced by enough senators calling themselves democrats to defeat any bill not aeceptable to them and the interests they represented. o -The question of the loyal democratie senators then was not what they

wished to do but what it was possible to do. They contested the ground inch by inch, and yvielded to the renegade senators no more than they were forced to.yield. The result was a badly mutilated bill, but it was that or no bill. They had saved much that was valuable. The bill, bad as it was, was still vastly better than the McKinley monstrosity, and they accepted it as better than nothing.

The house has at last done the same, but not without making prolonged and heroic resistance. The house conferees, headed by Chairman Wilson, struggled long and manfully against the bad amendments, forced upon the bill by the senate renegades, and their democratic associate® in the house supported them without wavering until they became convinced that the choice lay between the mutilated bill and none at all. - .

The majority of the democrats are entitled to high praise for making a courageous and determined fight in saving the bill from wreck. It is not their fault that the bill is not far bet~ ter than it is.—Chicago Herald.

NOT A WALK-OVER.

The Republicans Will Not Have Everything Their Own Way at the Fall Election.

The republicans foolishly = imagine that they are going to have a walk-over in this fall's campaign—that no democrat will dare to debate the tariff question this year. Perhaps. But imagine the following dialogue between two debaters at a county fair.

Republican—You free traders have at last succeeded in reducing the tariff.

Democrat. — Wasn’t that what we promised to do? , Rep.—lt was; you kept your promise, but see the consequences. ’ Dem.—Did not the republicans promise to reduce the duties in 1883 and 1890°? ’ :

Rep.—l'll admit that they were expected to reduce them. , . Dem.—Did they keep their promise? Rep.—They changed their minds after they had got to Washington and had studied the tariff question. Dem.—You mean that thearguments of protected monopolies overcame them. g

Rep.—Not exactly that, but theysaw the tariff question in a different light after the manufacturers had placed the facts before them.:

Dem.—But the people didn't get any of this new light, for they concluded in 1890 and in 1892 to discharge the party that had been unfaithful and to try the democratic party. It has succeeded in doing what the republicans were unable to do—reduce duties. It has shalken the hold of protected trusd upon this country. S :

Rep.—Behold the consequénces! " Dem.—Are not the times improving? Rep.—They couldn’t always remain as bad as they have been during the past year. ' Dem.—What tariff bill has been in force during the past four years? Rep.—The McKinley bill—the best one ever made. ’

Dem.—Then why isn’t the McKinley bhill responsible for the wage reductions, strikes, riots and hard times? It certainly was, in so far as we have been affected by tariff bills. It seems to me to be a good omen for the new tariff bill that the times began to brighten as soon as'it was born.

Rep.—Wait until you hear from the people. Dem.—You count upon the people being fools; we give lhem credit for considerable intelligence. :

Misstated

‘Gov. -McKinley said of the Wilson tariff bill that it is “‘returning to what Buchanan left us.” As he presumed upon the ignorance of his hearers this sounded all right. Of course he knew that the tariff of 1857, which ‘“*Buchanan left wus,” originated in and was passed by a republican house of representative, and received the support of ‘Charles Summer, Henry Wilson and N. P. Bank, of Massachusetts, William H. Seward, of New York, and William "A. Howard and Henry Waldon, of Michigan. It reduced the duties levied under the Walker free trade tariff of 1846 one-quarter. The early republicans were in favor of freedom of trade as well asthe freedom of men. The average rate of duties under the tariff of 18357 was less than 20 per cent. This was the tariff *‘Buchanan left us,” and it was a great stride towards free trade when compared with the Wilson bill, which proposes 35 per cent. on dutiable foreign imports. The modern tariff-for-plunder republicans do not appear to good advantage when compared with the great founders of the party, who were opposed to commercial slavery as well as to negro slavery. The McKinley tariff of 1890 is 250 per cent. higher than the republican tariff of 1857—the one ‘‘Buchanan left us.®—Jackson Patriot.

New Tin Plate Mills.

Since the passage of the tariff bill, with its large reduction of the duty on tin plate, the impending. investment of large sums of ‘money in new tin plate factories has been announced in press dispatches from Pittsburgh and elsewhere. The reduction whiech cuts the duty in two does not appear to have ‘‘dealt a staggering blow” to those who already have invested or who desire to invest capital in such factories. The duty under the tariff which the McKinley act superseded was 1 cent a pound; this was increased by the McKinley law to 2 1-5 cents a pound; the duty under the new tariff is 1 1-5 cents. The addition of 1 1-5 cents to the old duty by the McKinley tariff has cost the people.of the United States more than $17,000,000 in the increased cost of imported tin plate.—N. Y. Times.

Labor Left Out.

Unfortunately for those who toil and for the nation at large the system of protection established in this country has not extended to labor. The fruits of high tariff have gone to the favored beneficiaries who have amassed mill Hons at the expense of the masses. _Labor has been imported free of duty and without let or hindrance. It is the undesirable element thus introduced that is largely responsible for the outbreaks which disgrace the country and work harm to the cause of those who are struggling toward the more favored position which is theirs by every congidsration of right and justice.—Detroj Free Press. i‘ ¢ Effect of Tariff Reduction. " The flint glass scales are being amicably adjusted and there is little danger of any trouble between manufacturers and workers in this branch of the industry. Many of the factories have already resumed and it is altogether likely that they will all be in operation early in September with bright prospects for the seascn’s fire.— National Glass Budget.

WILSON ON THE TARIFF BILL

The Champion of the House Bill Reviews

the Battle.

At Martinsburg, W. Va., on August 29, Hon. W. L. Wilson, chairman of the ways and means committee of the house, was nominated for reelection by acclamation by the most enthusiasti¢ convention that was ever held in his gistricf.

Mr. Wilson made a.notable address to the convention, and it was warmly received. After a felicitous exordium, in which he characterized the recent tariff fight as ‘“‘one of the greatest and most monstrous struggles that has marked our political history,” he said:

“The congress which adjourned yesterday was charged by the people with a duty clear, unmistakable, transcendent, to secure from the grasp of private and selfish hands the power of federal taxation; to lift from the backs of the American people that burden of tribute to privilege and monopoly which under thirty years’ republican legislat{on has grown constantly heavier until it far exceeded their legitimate and necessary taxation for the support of the government; to reclaim and make forever sure that heritage of American youth which'is the true meaning and priceless boon of demogratic institutions—equal opportunity ina land of equal rights. “This was the inspiring mission which the democratic party had long sought from the American people—power and authority to perform. No man could fitly undertake a revenue bill for a nation of seventy million people without being appalled by the greatness of the trust committed to him and the thickening difficulties in the way of its successful performance. No man could worthily approach such a work without putting away from him any petty personal ambition and any selfish concern for his own political future. No man could hope for any measure of real success who was not willing to dedicate to such a task every power of body and mind, with a humble invocation for strength and wisdom. I knew that you were tariff reformers without reservation; I knew that the democrats of West Virginia were not protectionists for West Virginia and reformers and free-traders for other ‘states. You know, for you have followed with watchful interest the varying history of our attempt at tariff reform; you have followed, with rising hopes and hearty approval, the action of the house of representatives in the framing and passage of a measure bearing the. badges of democratic principles and fraught with promised benefits to all the people. ~ “You have followed with waning hopes and angry disapproval the tedious and tortuous passage of that bill through the senate and have seen that despite a nominal democratic majority in that body the great trusts and monopolies were still able to write their taxes as they had done under republican rulein some of its most important schedules. The burden upon you is the same whether they use a democratic or a republican hand as their amanuensis. But the wrong to you is infinitely the greater when those who bear the commission of your ‘own party, thus prove faithless to its highest duties. I need not recite to you the successive steps, the material and baneful alterations through which the house bill quietly passed into a law yesterday morning without the signature and approval of the president, who was elected upon the issue of tariff reform and who anticipated as the signal triumph and historic achievement of his administratign the privilege of affixing his name to a genuine and thorough reform bill. o “You know by what influence that was ‘brought about. The country knows and history will know where to put the responsibility for our partial failure to redeem our pledges to the people and our partial failure to dislodge the great privileged interests from our tarift. I am not sure that this very failure may not be the harbinger and assurance of a speedier and more complete triumph of commercial freedom than the smooth and unobstructed passage of the house bill would have been. The American people are aroused as hardly anything else could have aroused them to the deadly menace which protection begets to the purity and the very existente of free government. They have seen a single great trust empowered by our tariff laws to control the production and sale of a necessary of life, parceling out the country with its partners, and using its law-made wealth and power to thwart the best efforts of “the people to reduce their own taxation. They have seen it hold up congress for weeks and have heard its representatives boldly declare that there would be no tariff bill in which their interests were not protected, and they have realized the final fulfillment of the boast. “When the sugar trust thus challenges the American people to a contest of strength its days are numbered, its temporary triumph is its speedier and more complete overthrow, and with its overthrow will vanish its sister brood of monopolies that are strong through its support.

“But, my friends, there is another and & brighter side to this picture. Withall its monifold failures the new bill carries in it very substantial relief to the people and must be accepted as a substantial beginning of thorough and progressive tariff reform. If we denounce some of its duties and rates, it is because what may be much lower than the duties and rates of the McKinley bill are yet enormities ina democratic bill. We have gained a vantage ground from which we shall continue to shell the camp of monopoly. The day of mad protection is over im this country; McKinleyism will disappear as a dark and hideous blight from our statute books.. The fight will go on—not, maybe, in such a general :engagement and protracted struggle as we have just passed through, but that steady and resistless pressure that will take .one after another of the strongholds of privilege until all shall disappear before the advance :of public opinion and public emancipation. ‘ «‘@e have a right to confess eur own shortcomings as measured by the high standard of our own prineiples and professions. But all this does not imply -dissatisfaction with our own party asa whole-or distrust as to meanings and-intentions. If the closeness of the vote in one house of congress gave .opportunity for a few to combine against the people and against all the rest of their party and obstruct its faithful efforts to redeem its pledges, the overwhelming mass of the democrats in the country are subject to no just criticism. If we have done less in the way -of relieving the people's burdens than we had hoped and promised they would have done mothing at all. If we have anywhere nncovered a trust and found it too strong for our complete dislodgement in the first attack we have never failed to find them sturdily and»solidly arrayed .for its defensa. The weapons with which monopoly has fought us they have forged amd tempered and supplied. The entrenchments and fortresses behind which privilege has shielded itself from our attack they hawve buillded for it, stone by stone and stronghold by stronghold.”

~——With the revival of business and renewed prosperity between now and June, 1886, the call for McKinley to be the candidate of the republicans for president will be audibly less stentorian, even if it does not lapse into complete silence. Without the possibility of any demand for the restoration of the McKinley tariff there will be no demand for McKinley.—Chicago Her ald.

THE WHY OF IIT.

WHITE spots appear on the nails because the vascular tissue underneath is attached to the substance of the nail, but from some accidental cause, such as a blow, occasionally becomes separated.

Tue day after a heavy snowfall is usually very clear because the snow in falling brings down with it most of the dust and impurities of the air and leaves the atmosphere exceedingly pure. ;

A cLosED room is bad for sleeping, because air once breathed parts with a sixth of its oxygen and contains an equivalent amount of carbonicacid gas; air breathed six time will not support life. ‘ p PIERCING the flesh with even the finest needle hurts because the nerves are so thickly matted just under the skin that not even the finest point can be introduced without wounding one or more.

THE ears of most defenseless animals like the rabbit are turned backwards, because these creatures are in constant apprehension of pursuit; hunting animals have their ears turned forward. : 2

AGRICULTURAL HINTS.

ROADS IN NEW JERSEY.

Good Work Done by a Man Who Understands His Business.

In Morris county, which is in the hilly part of New Jersey, the road overseers supervise sections ranging from one-fourth of a mile to three miles. They are appointed by the town committees, and a portion of the road taxes appropriated to each section. In order togive a good idea of the different methods and results, I will describe the actual way the work is done under several overseers. ~ An overseer who has been on his section for several years, adopted the plan of plowing up the top of the higher points and hauled the ground, which is first-class material, being sagd{and soft stone, to the lower points. The result is first-class improvement. The hills are lowered, the soft, low places become smooth and solid, and both dust and mud are done away with. He allowed one of the neighbors to haul the accumulation

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PLEA FOR WIDE TIRES.

Try Them First and Good Roads Will Be Easlly Attained.

In those parts of the country where stone does mot abound and the most available road material is - prairie mud, the first, best and cheapest relief is to use wide tires. Next, put in under drains and keep the road well shaped up. Such a road properly looked after comes very near being right for sparsely settled prairie country, and during a large part of the year is good enough for anybody, but it is absolutely necessary to use wide tires, and, what is more, it is profitable to the user in that he can haul double the corn out of the field that he could have hauled with narrow tires and he can get to town with a very much larger load, even when he is the only user of wide tires over that road, and as soon as the flat-footed wagons become generalit is not necessary to spend one-half the amount in keeping up even a common dirt road. With proper drainage and wide tires a long step is taken in the direction of going to town in the spring and fall. Few localilies are so low that drainage is not practical, and even in the lowest “bottoms” a road properly raised,with suitable side ditches and ecross tiles, will be in good shape most of the time, but no such road can stand narrow tires. ¢

Get proper highsvays as soon as possible, but get wide tires now. The meanest road is made better; a fair road is much improved; a soft road is kept smooth; a good road is left so; a hard road is made harder;a smooth road is made smoother; a rough road is leveled; and all roads last longer; larger loads can be hauled; larger bank accounts may be maintained; better profits for the farmer; better prices for the consumer; better nature will prevail, and better citizens are made by the use of wide tires. Therefore get wide tires first and good roads will be easier of attainment.—Good Roads. Biggest Tax Paid by Farmers. Certain statisticians with ample time and patience for figures have found that it costs one billion dollars each vear to transport the goods that are carried in wagons. Of this sum it is estimated that six hundred and twen-ty-five million dollars is due directly to bad roads. If all the roads in the country were as smooth and as hard as a driving park or race track, that vast sum of money would be saved each year to those who drive horses—mostly farmers. The total value of farm products is estimated at two-and-a-halt billion dollars, so that bad roads are responsible for the loss of nearly one-fourth the total home value. No business on earth can thrive with such a drain on it. Talk about the farmer’s loss from tariff taxes—it isn’t a touch to the bad road tax!— Rural New Yorker." j ‘ Internal Temperature of Trees. The internal temperature of trees has been observed for some time past by M. Prinz, of Uccle, in Belgium, who finds their mean annual temperature at the heart of the trunk the same as that of the air, but the mean monthly temperature of the trees sometimes differ from the latter by two or three degrees centigrade. On certain da.ysl the difference in question may be as much as ten degrees centigrades. lln very cold weather the internal temperature falls to a few tenths of a degree below the freezing point, and then remains stationary. In very hot weather the temperature of the tree should be fifteen degrees centigrade or thereabout. A large tree is, therefore, cooler in hot weather and warmer in cold weather than the air, .

SEPARATING CREAM.

Cold Water Will Hasten the Process and Save Labor and Expense. :

‘Butter made from cream in submerged cans has not that delicacy of flavor of butter from cream raised in open cans, and is readily detected by a critical observer. A method is fast coming into use which is simple, inexpensive, a saving of 7ice and labor, preserves the quality of the open can and saves time almost as well as the mechanical separator, without the expense. :

The milk, warm from the cow, is strained into a can till it is half full; then fill the can with cold wate®, which aerates milk, and immediately reduces its temperature to about 70 degrees F., even in the. warmest of weather. All the cream will rise to the surface in less than three hours.

The combined milk and water is drawn by a faucet from the bottom of the can till the cream appears, which is then drawn into a separate vessel. As the cream is separated in less than three hours, the can or cans used for the morning’s milk are ready to be used for the night’s milk; all that need go into the house is the sweet cream, thus lightening the labor there. The diluted skim milk is fed to the pigs, the costly butter fat extracted from it being replaced by the cheaper fat of cornmeal, in such proportions as are needed to feed to growing or fattening stock. ¢

No time 'is lost, no labor required, nor expensive machinery to keep in repair when using the dilution process. As soon as the milk is mixed with water the separation goes on naturally, while the farmer is attending to other duties, This quick, inexpensive process, requiring no ice even in the warmest weather, enables the farmer to convert his cream into butter at home without the expense of carrying or having it carried to a.creamery. It also enables those farmers who are supplying the large markets to maintain a fair price for milk. They can manufacture it into butter for a time and reduce the quantity of the milk sent to market till it will command a fair price. The farmers can ¢ontrol the price of milk if they wish, instead of the contractors dictating what they shall take. Any improvement in dairying that will cheapen the cost of production will run up the profit, the same as an lincrease in the selling price. Good pastures are an essential element in profitable dairying. Without manure no good farming is possible. — Andrew H. Ward, in Ohio Farmer. !

ENSILAGE FODDER RACK.

A Device Which Saves Much Labor and Lots of Annoyance.

Although the growing of a good crop of grain as well as fodder and allowing it to ripen for ensilage gives us much better ensilage than the old plan of growing fodder only and cutting ahd canning it green, it does not in ‘the least aid us in the solution of the “problem -of transporting our ensilage 'material from the field to the cutter. l The long stalks with large, heavy ears ‘are very difficult to handle. Many devices have been gotten up to aid in handling this fodder, and one of the best which we have seen is a low-down ' wagon described in the Ohio Farmer by F. P. Stump, of the Ohio state university farm, as follows: The plan is to fit an‘ordinary farm wagon with a rack low enough to allow one man alone to load, conveniently, a fair load. It requires for material two pieces of pine 5x6 inches by 16 feet, one piece of oak 5x6x12 inches, four pieces of pine 5x6x15 inches.

\ -\i LD SRR~ g Wi HARVESTING ENSILAGE MADE EASY. About 50 or €0 feet of inch lumber and four good, strong standards, of oak preferably; then four bolts B{x26 inches; one I}{-inch jointed kingbolt with. two iron keys, one iron plate 4x83% inches, four iron plates each Bxllsx3¢ inches, eight standard bands —four large, four small—with two small s'¢-inch bolts for each. Then a long ' chain completes ' the outfit, though the chain is not essential. The front bolster, rear hounds and coupling pole or reach must be removed from the wagon and the rack bolted under the rear axles and suspended under the front axle as shown in the cut.. We find this rack convenient for many other uses on the farm. It comes in very useful where one stocks his corn and draws it to the barn to husk, or in drawing the stalks to the barn after husking in the field.

DAIRY SUGGESTIONS.

Cows SHOULD by no means be hurried over their calving. It is a mistaken idea to take them away from their stalls at this period. After the calf is born give the cow about two quarts of cold water. Linseed and flour gruel for a few days will be found to be a good diet, strengthening' the cow and promoting the flow of milk. - Ir it be deemed advisable during the time when cows are dry for calving to feed them on an inferior guali--ty of hay—and this is practiced by the best of farmers—a handy method of % : : improving the hay is to scatter a - handful of cornmeal over it in the mangers before the cows. It will also pay to treat good hay in this manner. For the first two or three weeks young calves destined for dairy cows can profitably be allowed all the new milk they want; after this period they may be fed on skim milk, which, however, should by all means be improved by ground linseed. or similar preparations, with ground wheat or oatmeal added. These additions to the skim milk should be boiled or steamed, and not given raw to the calves, being in the former condition more easily digested.—Farmers Voice. The Best He Could. : * The young man had recently come into possession of a handsome estate, and he was blowing it in at such a rate that an old friend of his father’s felt called npon to remonstrate with him. ' " “You don’t know how to treat a fortune,” said the old gent, after he had talked himself into a bad humor. ‘“The deuce I don’t,” responded the rapid youth; “I’'m sure it gets champagne every day and all the concomitants. You don’t expect me to treat it on beer, do yOu?’?—-Detrqit Free Press.

NIDE from the fact that the cheap baking ,p'oivdcr"’s; contain alum, which causes indig"est‘io/n, and other serious ailmegts',' their’ use Is extravagant. . It takes three po'unds of the vbé_st of them to go as far as one pound of the Royal Baking Powder, because they are deficient in leavening gas. v There is both health ‘and economy in the use of the Royal Baking Powder. o ROYAL BAKING POWDgR 65.1109 WALL a-r ;Naw4vonx.,%

THE custard pie is the poor man’s natural dessert. There is no aristocracy about thecustard ple. That is to say, no upper crust. —Boston Transcript. ‘ : ' 1 ee s e : The Voice of the People Proclaims one fact as true, namely, that Hostetter’'s Stomach Bitters effects a cure whenever it is persistently used for the ailments to which it is adapted. Among these are malarial and dyspeptic ailments, rheumatism, nervous and kidney. complaints, constipation and biliousness. A tablespoonful three times a day is about the average. e e e i - DEesPEßATE.—Clara—*‘Would you accept zn apology??’ Mamie—*Yes, anything, if it nly looked like a man.”—Truth. ~ ses » . ' HEALTH, comfort and happiness abound in homes where ‘‘Garland” Stoves and Ranges are used. ' A e T £ S e A A TST iR THE MARKETS. ' : NEW YORK, Sept. 8. LIVE STOCK—Cattle.c...... 33 40 825 MBEeN nL La 2 80 300 . L HORN o e 0D 630 FLOUR—Minnesota-Patents. 340 @ -3 70 City Mills Patent.......... 400 4 28 WHEAT-N 0.2 Red,......... .58 % 88% No. 1 Northern.....:ecsivs 6434 65 CORN—NO. 2....covcicacseinon 63 ' 831 NODUEIBDEr. v vv:issinonves o 02 623 PDATLSNO, 2. i v inscavase 335 34 RYE “Jorsey.....; ciaciviecons 47 % ‘.49 ¢ PORK—Mess, NeW............ .15 25 13 90 . LARD—Western..........o... . 865 % 870 BUTTER—W 'tern Creamery. 20 24 Western Dairy............ 134@ 17 CHICAGO. g BEEVES—Shipping Steers.. 325 @ 590 COWR i vaiiiieavens, -102 D (@ SDO SUOCKOTS ...owvasaoiivnanses o L V@R 4D BIOEAOrS. .. ... cordeasesis 0000 (@ 4 208 Butchers' 5teer5......,... 28 @ 360 BULISs i nasiiiiniisiy ol D 0 G S N VOGS B % 615 SHBREE i iivasasins TilbY 370 BUTTER—Creamery.....ces .. 14 g 23% Dairi_‘ 12 @ 20 EGGS—FTesh......ciicavevesian 13 @ 15 BROOM CORN— . Western (per t0n)......... 50 00 80 00 Tllinols, a11'Hur1........... 100 00 80 00 Illinois, Good to Choice.. 80 00 @lO5 00 POTATOES—Rose (per bbl.). 17 @ 225 . PORK—MesS......c.vovreee... 13795 @.14 00 LARD—5team................. 845 @B 47% FLOUR—Spring Patents..... 320 % 350 %&)ring Straights.......... 220 260 ! inter Patents.... ... .. 280 @ 280 Winter Stralghts..... ... 24 @ 2 60 GRAIN-—-Wheat, No. 2 Red... 523 @ 534 Corm No. R oioiuia 56%% 58y, OIS NOL Dvicieveni siviaes 29 i 3914 ERYBINO 2. o s 4644 BArley, NO. 2....ccivuvniss 4 @ 53 LUMBER— 5 Siding.........cceooioooaee. 19 25 @22 50 FIOOTING ... . civois Tiiesess 3400 1@ 80 00 Common 80ard5........... 00 %14W HEHCING o i s sovean 1200 15 00 Eath, Dly, ic. i venees 240 @ RBO Shingles. ...t oo 2 2@y Ral : ST. LOUIS CATTLE—Texas Steers...... $2 55 @ 325 Native 5teer5.......i..... 800 @ 885 HOOS v vviiidiioive s 440 0@ 0 00 BITHRE i 285 @2OO OMAHA. - CATTLE—Steers........... . 2 80 400 WOBAPIS -2 i ivvnsisens ) DRD 2 65 HOES iLebi D H 590 BIBERE 000 (it st iOU 32

A LOAD of miser%is taken from women, by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Weaknesses that Y distress your womanhood can be relieved and cured by it, safely and certainly. It has done this for thousands of suffering women—and the makers are willing to guarantee, if it doesn't benefit or cure you, th%retum the money. ng-down pains, internal inflammation and ufoeration, organic disi)lacements, weak back, and all kindred ailments are cured by the * Favorite Prescription.” _ L Nye, Putnam Co., W. Va. DR. R. V. PIERCB: Dear Sir— Mine is a case of eleven years’ standing, which baffled the skill of the best medicalg ald frocurable. I obtained no good effect, until began the use of the ** Favorite Prescrll])‘tiion-” which lifted the burden which was' Bee ng my life. , : ‘ M{ gratitude I owe to the *‘Prescription.” I hope that all suffering humanity¥ as in my case) may profit by the result of my experience. Surlome. Ji b

; What , | Women = ## | Know . ' ‘ - About , < . Rubbing, Scouring. . Cleaning, Scrubbing, ..- - is no doubt great; but what they | all should know, is that thg time 2 ' of it, the tire of it, and the cost : ‘ of it, can all be greatly reduced by | ‘Santa Claus Soap. mcevs THE NKFAIRBANK COMPANYecticage THE POT INSULTED THE KETTLE BECAUSE , THE COOK HAD NOT USED GOOD COOKING DEMANDS CLEANLINESS, SAPOLIO SHOULD BE USED IN EVERY KITCHEN.

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- “SomeTriMEs,”’ said Uncle Eben, ‘?g)h kain’t intiahly trus’ er man dat keeps talkin' "bout de beauty ob honesty. Hit soun’s toe much es ef he wus argyin’ wif hisse’f."— Washington Star. i McVicker's Theater, Chicago. O'Keefe. & Wales’ new. comic opers “Athenia" begins Septémber 10, and expectatiom 1s on tip-toe regarding it. Seats secured by mail. : eet e et “Dip that young girl that Tompkins befriended at the séa-shore show anly I%rx'atitude for what he’d done?”’ - ‘“Well, 1 8 ould say not! She married him.”’—lnter Ocean.

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