Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 August 1891 — Page 4

- INDIANA L WORLD. ol cast iron for an Nave been built in in operation for rapid are three miles m length i 40 and 80 feet below the y’s streets. aburgh man is said to have i ingenious electromagnet gas which will automatically > the gas when the electric light 1 off, and in case the electric l on again the gas will at to the Electric Railway late reports show that elec* are run successfully on railgrades as great as 14 per cent of six miles or more from >wer station, and at speeds as as 88 to 30 miles an hour, with cars, and trains of from two to fo»r cars. %bout a month ago the office of a mercantile company in Pueblo, Cob, was run into and completely demolish- £ ed by an electric car. A new office, a - duplicate of the one demolished, was erected and occupied by the firm, who, t in addition to Die company sign, has placed a sign with the following notice the front of the building: “Hereelectric cars must secure permits itering this building.” Electrical Review says that, there has been quite an epidemic lately in New York city, curienough not one of them has been to electricity. The Review nts that it may be that electrical are getting to be morecareful, and it also be that people whose business to investigate fires and their causes getting to be less rash in jumping at conclusions on insufficient evidence. The Review is inclined to believe in the latter theory. —Among the numerous electrical applications introduced of late into steamboats is a winch designed for light, variable cargoes, the aim being to attain great rapidity of lift with simplicy ity. So effective is this machine, that it will work while immersed in sea water. The motor is enclosed in a stout casing, and has steel-cased coils, such as those now used on electrical launches. The immense saving in time and the great ease of handling attained by this winch constitutes an element of great commercial value. —Since the advent of the electric railway the telephone companies throughout the country, who use - -‘•grounds” principally for the return circuit, have had a hard time of it, owing to inductive noises which are set up in their wires by the power current, and which at times are so loud and persistent as to render all efforts to communicate over the wires futile. The telephone companies have appealed to the Courts for protection, but the decisions of these conservative bodies have - invariably sustainedftthe rights of the electric railway cofl^anies to operate their wires in the streets of cities, notwithstanding the prior occupation of the highways by telephone lines —A Russian named Spochheff is said to have achieved a wonderful success in agriculture by the use of the electric current to aid the growing crops, near^oubling ordinary results in the growth of peas, beans, rye, etc. To accomplish his purpose, he sunk in the .ground large copf>er and zinc plates and connected them by iron wires. The current was produced by pouring dilute sulphuric acid on the plates. The effect of the current on vegetables is said to have been prodigious. The aggregate yield was far above the average, and some of the vegetables attained a remarkable size. A radish, for instance, was found to be 17. S inches long and 5% inches in diameter, while a carrot 10.6 inches long weighed 6.6 pounds. What was almost as surprising as the -size of the vegetables was their fineness of grain, and nothing in either their appearance or flavor gave the slightest suggestion of coarseness.

* IT WAS A SURE SIGN. A learned Astronomer Gets a Few Points From a Countryman. A very learned professor of astronomy—one who was skilled in the signs of the Bkies and the winds and clouds— , was once traveling. While on his jour- ' ney he lost his way, and wandering about, came across a simple looking countryman, who was sitting under a tree tending a flock of sheep. “Friend,” said the professor, “can yon inform me of the direction and distance of the nearest adjacent 1 town?” Now the countryman perceived that the professor was very wise, from, the long words he used; but he presently managed to understand him and replied: “Yes, sur, it is all of five miles; hut," he added, “yon will get a good wetting before you get there. ” This surprised the professor. He could not discover any signs of a storm, and be was so sure of his own knowledge in such matters that he laughed at the countryman, and started his horse on the road pointed out to him. Bnt before he had gone two-thirds of the distance a sudden black cloud covered the sky, the rain poured in rents, and the wise man reached his inn soaked and disgusted. The next morning, before he had proceeded on his journey, he determined \ tp ide hack ana if possible find out by •' wbg,i hidden signs—of which he, a great Paprofeasor, was ignorant—this foolish ^■countryman had foretold the storm. PR So he rode back, and after spendinga H1! day in the search, found the countryman and explained what he wanted to know, ‘ ,ll will not'tell you my sign,” said the ‘without a good Sum of v struck a bargain. The professor 0 anxious to hear this valuable ; that he willingly paid the large at demanded. 1 you see, sir," asked the country- . ‘that black sheep with a white j over there—the only black sheep y flock?” ie professor said he did. Veil, sir,” Said the countryman, i it is the fairest day in June, and i there is not a cloud in the Sky, 1 it is going to fain if I 1 see that old sheep caper i her tail held straight up in -Toledo Blade * A Jnveujle Philosopher. boy was ehaeing a somewhat avenne the other r of the two stum* i other tumbled over «

The MightT Work* which Chrl.tUH* May Find Constant Opportunity for Doing -No Lack of Material to Work Upon or With. The following discourse was delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage in the presence of an immense congregation in the auditorium at the Oeean Grove (N. J.) camp-meeting. His text was: The people that do kuarw their God shall be strong and do exploits—Daniel if.. 32. Antioch us Epiphanes,- the ohl sinner, came down three times with his army to desolate the Israelites, advancing one time with one hundred and two trained elephants.swinging their trunks this way and that, and sixty-two thousand infantry and six thousand cavalry troops, and they were driven back. Then, the second time, he advanced with seventy thousand armed men, and had been again defeated. But the third time he laid successful siege until the navy of Rome came in with the flash of tlieir long banks of oars and demanded that the siege be lifted. And Antiochus Epiphanes said he wanted time to opBsult with his friends about it, and Popilius, one of the Roman ambassadors, took a staff and made a circle on Hie ground aronnd Antiochus Apiphanes, and competed him "to decide before he came out of that circle, whereupon he lifted the siege. Some of the Hebrews had submitted to the invader, but some of them resisted valorously, as did Eleazer when he had swine’s flesh forced into his mouth, spit it out, although he knew he must die for it, and did die for it; and others, as my text says, did exploits. An exploit I would define to be a heroic act, a brave feat, a great achievement “Well," you say, ‘T admire such things, but there is no chance for me; mine is a sort of humdrum life. If I had an Antiochus Epiphanes to fight I also could do exploits.” You are right so far as great war® are concerned. There will probably be no opportunity to distinguish yourself in battle. Tho most of the brigadier generals of this country would never have been heard of had it not been for the war. Neither will you probably become a great inventor. Nineteen hundred and ninety-njne out of every two thousand inventions found in the patent office at Washington never yielded their authors enough money to pay for the expenses of securing the patent. So you will probably never be a Morse or an Edison or a Humphrey Davy or an Eli Whitney. There is not much probability that you will be the one out of the hundred who achieves extraordinary success in commercial or legal or medical or literary spheres. What then? Can you have no exploits? I am going to show yon that there are three opportunities open that are grand, thrilling, far-reaching, stupendous and overwhelming. They are before you now. In one, if not all three of them, you may do exploits. The threegreatest things on earth to do are a man, or save a woman, or save a child. During the course of his life almost every man gets into an exigency, is caught between two fires, is ground between two millstones, sits ojAthe edge of some precipice, or in some other way comes near demolition. Jt may be a financial or a moral or a domestic or a social or a political exigency. You sometimes see it in court rooms. A young man has got into bad company and he has offended the law, and he is arraigned. All blushing and confused, he is in the presence of judge and jury and lawyers. He can be sent right on in the wrong direction. He is feeling disgraced, and he is almost desperate. Let the district attorney overhaul him as though he were an offender, let the ablest attorneys at the bar refuse to say a word for him, because he can not afford a considerable fee; let the judge give no opportunity for representing the mitigating circumstances, hurry up the case, and hustle him up to Auburn or Sing Sing. If he live seventy years, for seventy years he will be a criminal, and each decade of his life will be blacker than its predecessor. In the interregnums of prison life he can get no work, and he is glad to break a win-dow-glass, or blow up a safe, or play the highwayman, so as to get hack within the walls where he can get something to eat and hide himself from t.hp rvf ihA world

Why don’t his father come and help him? His father is dead. Why don’t his mother come and help him? She is dead. Where are all the ameliorating and salutary influences of society? They do not touch him. Why did not some one long ago in the case understand thal there was an opportunity for the exploit which would be famous in Heaven a quadrillion years after the earth has become scattered ashes in the last whirlwind? Why did not the district attorney take that young man into his private office and say: “My son, I see that you are the victim of circumstances. This is your first crime. You are sorry, I will bring the person you, wronged into your presence, and you will apologize and make all the reparation you can, and I will give you another chance.” Or that young man is presented in the court-room, and. he has no friends present, and the judge says; “Who is your counsel?” And he answers: “I have none.” And the judge says: “Who will take this young man’s case?" And there is a dead halt, andmo one offers, and after awhile the judge turns to some attorney, who never had a good case in all his life, and never will, and whose advocacy would be enough to secure the condemnation of innocence itself. And the professional incompetent crawls up beside the prisoner, helplessness to rescue despair, when there ought to be a struggle among all the men of the profesion as to who should p that have the honor of trying to he! unfortunate. How much would such an attorney have rewived as his fee for such an advocacy? Nothing lars, but much every way in a consciousness that would make life brighter, and- his own dyii in dolhappy is own pillow sweeter, and his own heaven happier— id saved a the consciousness that »he had So there are commercial exigencies. 1 very late spring obliterates the denand for spring overcoats and spring ■ats and spring apparel of all sorts, fnndreds of thousands of people say: ‘ft seems we are going to have no pring, and we shall go straight out of vinter into warm weather, r~J — — ret along without the usual ire.” Or there is no autumn he heat plunging into the isual clothing which is a co letween summer and winter,mired. It makes a difference in — ile of millions and millions of dollars id some over-sanguine at is caught with a vast able goods that will , except at prices

fashion spring overcoats and spring hats or fall clothing out of'date? What do I hear in the way of a hid?” “Four dollars.” “Absurd; I can not take that bid of four dollars a piece. Why, these coats:when first put upon the market were offered at fifteen dollars each, and now I am. only offered four dollars. Is that all? Five dollars, do I hear? Going at that! Gone at five dollars,” and he takes the whole lot. The young merchant goes home that night' and says to his wife: “Well, Mary, we will have to move out of this house and sell our piano That old merchant that has had an evil eye on me ever since I started has bought out all that clothing, and be will have it rejuvenated, and next year put it on the market as new, while we will do well if we keep out of the poor house.” The young man, broken-spirited, goes to hard drinking. The young wife with her baby goes to her father's house, and not only is his store wiped out, but his home, his morals, and his prospects for two worlds—this and the next And devils make a banquet of fire and fill their cups of gall, and drink deep to the health of the old merchant who swallowed up the young merchant who got stuck on spring goods and went down. That is one way, and some of you have tried it ' But there is another way. That young merchant who found that he had miscalculated in laying in too many goods of one kinff, and been flung of the unusual season, is standing behind the counter, feeling very blue, and biting his finger nails, or looking over the acconnt books, which read darker and worse every time he looks at them, and thinking how his young wife will have to he put in a plainer house than she ever expected to live in, or go to a third-rate boarding house, where they have tough liver and sour bread five mornings out of the seven. An old merchant comes in and sayr: “Well, Joe, this has been a hard season for young merchants, and this prolonged cool weather has put many in the doldrums, and I have been thinking of •you a good deal of late, for just after I started in business 1 once got into the same scrape. Now, if there is anything I can do to help you out I will gladly do it. Better just put those fcoods out of sight for the present, and next season we will plan some thing about them. I will help you to some goods that you can sell for me on commission, and I will go down to one of the wholesale houses and tell them that I know you and will hack you up. and if you want a few dollars to bridge over the present, I can let you have them. Be as economical as you can, keep a stiff upper lip, and remember that you have two friends, God and myself. Good morning!” The old merchant goes away and the young man goes behind his desk and the tears roll down his cheeks. It is the first time he has cried. Disaster made him mad at everything, and mad at man and at God. But this kindness melts him, and the tears seeifi to relieve his brain, and his spirits rise from ten below to eighty in the shade, aftd he comes out of the crisis. About three years after, this young merchant goes into the old merchant’s store and says: “Well, my old friend, I was this morning thinking over what you did for me three years ago. You helped me out of nn awful crisis in my commercial history. I learned wisdom, prosperity has come and the pallor has gone out of my wife’s cheeks, and the roses that were there when I courted her in her father’s house have bloomed again, and my business is splendid, and I thought I ought to let von know what saved a man!” In a

short time after, the old merchant who had been a mood while shaky in his limbs and who had poor spells, is called to leave the world, and one morning after he had read the twenty-third Psalm about “The Lord is my shepherd,” he closes his eyes on this world, and an angel who had been for many years appointed to watch the old man’s dwelling, cries upward the news that the patriarch’s spirit is abont ascending. And the twelve angels who keep the twelve gates of Heaven, unite in crying down to this approaching spirit of the old man: “Come in and welcome, for it has been told all over these celestial lands that you saved a man.” There sometimes comes exigencies in the life of a woman. One morning a few years ago I saw in the newspaper that there was a young woman in New York whose pocket-book containing 987.88 had been stolen, and she had been left without a penny at the beginning of winter in a strange city and no work. And although she was a stranger 1 did not allow the 9 o'clock mail to leave the lamp post on our corner without carrying the 987.33, and the case was proved genuine. Now I have read all Shakspeare’s tragedies, and all Victor Hugo’s tragedies, and all Alexander Smith’s tragedies, but 1 never read a tragedy more thrilling than that case, and similarcases by the hundreds and thousands in all our large cities. Young women without money and without home and without work in the great maelstroms of metropolitan life. When such a case comes under your observation how do you treat it “(let out of my way; we have no room in our establishment for any more hands. I don’t believe in women anyway; they are a lazy, idle, worthless set John, please show this person out of the door.” Or do you compliment her personal appearance, and say things to her which if any man said to your sister or daughter -you would kill him on the spot? That is one way, and it is tried every day in the large cities, and many of those who advertise for female hands in factories and for governesses in families have proved themselves unfit to be in any plape outside of hell. But there is another way, and I saw it one day in the Methodist Book Concern in New York, where a young woman applied for work, and the gentleman, in tone and manner, said in substance: “My daughter, we employ women here, but I do-not know of any vacant place in our department. You had better inquire at such-and-such a place, and I hope you will be successful in getting something to do. Here is my name, and tell them 1 sent you.” The embarrassed and humiliated woman seemed to give way to Christian confidence. She started out with a hopeful look that I think I must have won for her a place in which to earn her bread. I rather think that considerate and Christian gentleman saved a woman. New York and Brooklyn ground up last year about thirty thousand young women, and would like to grind up about as many this year. Out of all that long procession of women who march on with no hope for this world or the next, battered and bruised and scoffed at, and flung off the precipice, not one but might have been saved for home and God and Heaven. Bnt good men and women are not in that kind of Alas for that poor thing! the thread of that sewing

great that no measuring line short of that of the infinite God can tell their bound. Fashioned to refine and sooth and lift and irradiate home and society and the world. Of such value that no one can appreciate it, unless his mother lived long enough to let him understand it, or who in some great crisis of life, when all else failed him, had a wife to re-inforce him with a faith in God that nothing could disturb. Speak out ye cradles, and tell of the feet that rocked you and the anxious faces that hovered over you! Speak out, ye nurseries of all Christendom, and ye homes, whether desolate or still in full bloom with the faces of wife, mother and daughter, and help me to define what woman is. But as geographers tell us that the depths of the sea correspond with the heights of the mountains, 1 have to tell you that a good womanhood is not higher up than bad womanhood is deep down. The grander the palace, the more awful the conflagration that destroys it. The grander the steamer Oregon, the more terrible her going down just off the coast. Now I should not wonder if you trembled a little with a sense of responsibility when 1 say there is hardly a person in this house but may have an opportunity to save a woman. It may in yonr ease be done by good advice, or by financial help, or by trying to bring to bear some one of a thousand Christian influences. If, for instance, you find a woman in financial distress and breaking down in heaiy> and spirits trying to support her children, now that her husband is dead or an invalid, doing that very important and honorable work—but which is little appreciated—keepings boarding-house, where all the guests, according as they pay small board or propose, without paying any board at all, to decamp, are critical of everything and hard to please, busy yourselves in trying to get her more patrons and tell her of divine sympathy. Yea, if yon see a woman favoi ed of fortune and with all kindly surrounding, finding in the hollow flatteries of the world her chief regalement, living for herself and for time as if there were no eternity, strive to bring ber into the Kingdom of God, as did the other day a Sabbath-school teacher, who was the means of the conversion of the daughter of a man of immense wealth, and the daughter resolved to join the church, and she went and said: “Father, I am going to join the church, and I want you to come.” “Oh, no,” he said, “I ne.ver go to churCh.” “Well,” said the daughter, “if I were going to bo married, would yon not go to see me married?” And he said: “Oh, yes.” “Well,” she said, “this is of more importance than that.” - So he went, and has gone ever since, and loves to go. I do not know but that faithful Sabbath-school teacher not only saved a woman, bnt saved a man. There may be in this audience, gathered from all parts of the world, there way be a man whose behavior toward womanhood has been perfidious. Repent! Stand up, thou masterpiece of sin and death, that I mqy charge you! As far as possible, make reparation. Do not boast that you have her in your power, and that she can not help herself. When that fine collar and cravat, and that elegant suit of clothes comes off and your uncovered soul stands before God, yon will be better off if you Shve that woman. There is another exploit yon can do, and that is to save a child. A child does not seem to amount to much. It is nearly a year old before it can walk at all. For the first year and a half it can not speak a word. For the first ten years it would starve if it had to earn its own food. For the first fifteen years its opinion on any subject is absolutely

valueless, aim men mere are so many of them. My, what lots of children! And some people have contempt for children. They are good for nothing but to wear out the carpets and break things and keep you awake nights crying. Well, your estimate of a child is quite different from that mother’s estimate who lost her child this summer. They took it to the salt air of the seashore and to the tonic air of the mountains, but no help came, and the brief paragraph of its life is ended. Suppose life could be restored by purchase, how much would that bereaved mother give ? She would take all the jewels from her fingers and neck and bureau and put them down. And if told that, that was not enough, she would take her house and make over the' deed for it, and if that were not enough she would call in all her investments, and put down all her mortgages and bonds, and if told that were pot enough she would say: “I have made over all my property, and if I can have that child back I will now pledge that I will toil with my own hands and carry with my own shoulders in any kind of hard work, and live in a cellar and die in a garret Only give me back that lost darling!” I am glad that there are those who know something of the value of a child. Its possibilities are tremendous. What will those hands yet do? Where will those feet yet walk’ Toward what destiny will that never-dying soul betake itself? Shall those lips be the throne of blasphemy or benediction? Come, chronologists, and calculate the decades on decades, the centuries on centuries, of its lifetime. Oh, to save a child! Am I not right in putting that among the great exploits? But what are you going to do with those children who are worse off than if their father and mother had died the day they were born? There are tens of thousands of such. Their parentage is against them. Their name is against them. The structure of their skulls against them. Their nerves and muscles contaminated by the inebriety or dissoluteness of their parents; they are practically at their birth laid out on a plank in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, in an equinoctial gale, and told to make for shore. What to do with them is the question often asked. There is another question quite as pertinent, and that is, what are they going to do with us ? They will, ten or eleven years from now, have as many votes as the same number of well-born children, and they will hand this land over to anarchy and political damnation just as sure as we neglect them. Suppose we each one of us save a boy or save a girl. You can do it Will you ? I will: —As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else hut love softened by a degree of sorrow. In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together and blends them in a common lot—Addison. —A colored brother thus addressed his congregation: “De fo’ part of de house will please sit down; fo' de hind part can not see de fe’ pairt if de fo’ part persist in standing befo’ de hind part, to de uttah obsclusion of de hind part by de fo’ part” •, ■ —When your heart is so heavy that >u can’t laugh yourself, the next best ting is to do something that will make imebody else laugh with joy.

demand high tariff speak ests of labor, and that when they go away they leave behind them all thoughts of their working men, than the actions of Ur. Niedringhaus, of St. Louis. When Mr. Niedringhans took his seat in the Fifty-first congress he made a speech decfaring that he was there as a representative of labor; that he did not want to go to congress, but was forced to by the workmen of St Louis. * Now Mr. Niedringhas has a factory in St Louis in which he makes kitchen utensils Ex-Congressman Niedriughaus is president of the St Louis Stamping Co., a concern with factories in St Louis, engaged in the production of kitchen hollowware. It also imports tinned plates and is one of the prospective tin-plate manufactories called Into existence by the McKinley tariff. While Agitating the question of a higher duty on tinned plate the manufacturers held a conference with the leaders of the Amalgamated Iron nnd Steel Workers, at which, according to Mr. Weihe, president of this association, the following occurred; . “When the tin plate association, ol which Mr. Niedringhaus was a prominent member, went before congress to have the tariff on tin plate raised, its members were afraid to go before the ways and means committee themselves, though they did a sight of lobbying. They came to our association and represented that an increase in the tariff would start the tin plate industry on a boom and would be a big thing for us, and they wanted us to help them out. It was necessary, they said, to have ns, the laborers, go before the committee. We took in their talk and were really persuaded that it would be a good thing. So wo sent committees to ap-" pear before the ways and means committee, and, in consideration of t his work on our part, the tin plate association agreed to a tin plate wage schedule by which its members would pay 15 per cent extra for soft steel work and 90 per cent forehanded iron and steel. Now they want to crawfish out They say they cannot manufacture at such a price. They are right —they cannot Another thing, they will not be able to turn out the amount of tin plate by 1897 called for by the McKinley bill. They got the association to help them, and now they want to recede from their agreement with us, and Mr. Niedringhaus, who should be the very last, is the first to try and back out.” Now \>. Niedringhaus refuses to carry out his part of the agreement The result is his workmen have gone on a strike, and he has telegraphed/ to the treasury department inquiring whether the importation of contract laborers from abroad is permitted. The first reply -.sent to him was that the con tract labor law would not prevent him from importing skilled workmen and that no special forms were necessary for doing it But it was soon found that the Amalgamated association controlled more votes than Niedringhans could muster, and accordingly, in view of the campaign in Ohio, Secretary Foster wrote to Mr. Niedringhans repudiating the letter of his subordinate and declaring that the treasury department was not in the habit of deciding supposed cases. Here the matter stands for the present, but it will be hard for them to desert in bis hour of need this lively gentleman to whom they have looked with confidence for tin dishes and tin bills of fare whenever they advertised a high-tariff banquet, but when they understand the situation* he will cut a very small figure by the side of the Amalgamated Association f Iron and Steel Workers and its votes. Secretary Foster has already silenced the officious and learned Owen, and Niedringhaus will soon discover that he has permitted his business to encroach unwarrantably upon the domain of practical politics.

WISDOM LINGERS. The Lesson of the Ages Slowly Learned B j the People or This Country. Governmental meddling has taken many forms at various times. Once nearly or quite all countries did everything' in their power to keep the precious metals, in the shape of coins, at home. There were laws against exporting gold and Rilver, laws against sending the coin of the realm to the molting vat; laws to encourage the bringing in of gold and silver. All this was done because men, through a curious confti sion of mind, associated gpld and silver above all else with the idea of wealth. Presently men came to perceive that gold and silver were neither more nor less valuable than other products of labor, and presently political economists discovered that the precious metals, when used as coins, tended tc flow back and forth from one country to another, according to the state of trade. Then came a repeal of the Bilver law against exporting coin, and most governments ceased to meddle with the freedom of trade in this pap tteular. They kept on for a long time, however, meddling with trade in other particulars, and they are at it still, though political economy has shown the ahBurdity of such meddling not only in the matter of coins but in all other matters. A few backward countries still retain an export tax on gold and silver; but half a dozen well advanced countrios continue to vex the current of trade by import taxes. When the English corn laws were repealed the great mass of Englishmen had come to perceive that justice to themselves required that they should be permitted to buy wheat in the cheapest market One might think that this great object lesson would have lasted for all time; but it did not, and at this moment there stands along with other absurdities upon the statute books of the United States a duty on whoat —An interesting investigation into the cost of labor and materials in manufactured products has just been completed by the bureau of labor statistics of Massachusetts. It completely refutes the doctrine of the McKinleyites that the cost of labor is the chief item In the cost of manufactured goods and that the tariff is levied solely to equalize labor cost here and abroad. This report shows that the cost of labor represents only SO per cent, of the cost of the product, while the cost of the protected materials is 68 per cent, or over twice as much. The average rate of duty under the McKinley tariff is 60 percent, and is largely added to the price of the goods made. Tariff reformers aim to decrease the cost of materials by making them free, thus not only increasing the wage of labor, but decreasing at the same time the total cost of production. Workmen will thereby be brneflttcd in two ways, by. getting more money for their work and more goods for their money. It is for the workmen to decido which they want __* —If the transfer of the tax on on raw sugar to other schedules and its transformation to a direct bounty cheapens sugar it will demonstrate once more the axiom that the less the tariff on any article • the cheaper the price of th« article. And it will also demonstrate nnco more that the tariff i* » tax.—St j "jfcsfa

Inquiries are oi’ten beard in i ,— . about the large breweries of this country, and in view of the interest people take in the history of all successful enterprises, a few facts short and to the point, about one of the largest and best known of the Western Breweries, viz., the P. Bchoenliofen Brewing Co. of C hicago, kindly supplied by that concern, may not be out of order. Business was commenced in 1858 by the founder, P. Schoenhofen, on a small lot of 3,500 square feet, for which he paid about COOL The ground now taken up by the brewery amounts to 101,575 square feet and is valued at over $800,000. Add to this a targe piece of property acquired a few months ago at a cost of $75,000, for the building of an enlarged bottling department made necessary toy the fact that although working day and night in their present location they are unable to fill the demand for their bottled goods, and there is enough ground for a good sized farm, ail to be devoted to the production of Oambrinus foaming beverage. The brewery proper Is known to be the best fitted up in the United States, andis well worth a visit, if only to view the two enormous copper kettles In which the brewing is dona Each kettle has a capacity of 500 barrels, so that by brewing twice a day every day in the year, a total annual output of over730,000 barrels can be obtained. The elevator and malt house have a storage capacity of over 840,000 bushels and a malting capacity of over 1,500 bushels a day. As for their various brands of beer, it is not necessary to say much about them. Host people have heard of them, and the popularity of this class of merchandise is perhaps one of,continent. The brand they sell most of however Is the Select, this being a high quality draught beer and a much feared competitor or the products of Milwaukee and Su Louis, Schoenhofen’s Chicago Lager having a reputation for purity and standard quality acknowledged even by their bitterest rivals. Their depots are at Louisiana, Ho., with Mr. Bent C. May as wholesale agent, and at Matioon, 111 , Mr. M. Thode wholesale agent. Consoling.—“You boro me," said the stick of timber, wearily. “Well, I’m near^through,’’ answered the auger.—Chicago GO AND VIEW THE LAND. Three Cheap Harvest Excursions. On August 25th, September 15th and September 29th Low Rate Harvest Excursions will be run from all stations on the Wabash i railroad to the Great Farming Regions of the West, Northwest, South and Southwest. Tickets good returning for thirty days from date of sale. The crops were never so good as this yeer, and the Railroad Rates, via Wabash, never so low. Whatever section yon wish to visit, be sure and write to or call upon the nearest Wabash ticket agent for particulars as to rates, time of trains, accommodations, etc. If you do not live adjacent to the Wabash, write at once to F. CHANDLER, Gen’l Passenger and Ticket Agent, , St. Louie, Mo. New Jersey has no nightingales, but she has the mosqnito, and, as a night soloist, it is a bummer.—Philadelphia Times. The Only One Ever Printed. Can Ton Find the Word? Each week, a different 8 inch display is published in this paper. There are no two Vwords alike in either ad., except Ono word. This word will be found in the ad. for Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic, Little Liver Pills and Wild Cherry Bitters. Look for “ Crescent’’ trade mark. Read the ad. carefully and when y ou find the word, send it to them and they will return you a book, beautiful litho graphs and sample free. Cannot a pugilistic assembly correctly be termed a pound party!—Baltimore American. The Best Teacher, The surest lamp to guide our wayward feet, is experience. It points to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the best medicine, the surest safeguard in cases of malarial disease, whether in the form of chills and fever, bilious remittent, dumb ague or ague cake. The same guides indicate it as sovereign in constipation, rheumatism, “la grippe,’’ liver complaint, kidney trouble and dyspepsia. The man who wants the earth need not expect to get it without advertising.—Indianapolis Journal.

At.t. who wish to aid Nature in her efforts to maintain good health should use Dr. John Bull's Sarsaparilla. It is as pleasant as wine, and far more strengthening. It is beneficial to every part ana every function of the body. It is truly the old man’s need and the young man’s friend. It coses of debility and weakness it acts like a charm. Tee man who occupies tho front seat is not always tho most "advanced thinker.”— Columbus Post —----— e Harsh purgative remedies are fast giving way to the gentle action and mild effects of Carter’s Little Liver Pills. If you try them, they will certainly please you. Sweet.—"I am a candy-date for your favor,” as the bonbon said to the boy. —Brooklyn Eagle. Mast little children owe their good health to Dr. John Bull’s Worm Destroyers. “Nice Mammas to give them such nioe candies.” A shine on your shoes Is worth two on your coat. Are as small as homoepathic pellets, and as easy to take as sugar.. Everybody likes them. Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Try them. It takes an unusually good swimmer nowadays to float a loan.—Boston Herald. A fair lady becomes still fairer by using Glenn’s Sulphur Soap. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, SO cents. Sunday ts the summer landlord's day of wrest—Boston Transcript A'o Opium in Piso’s Cure for Consumption. Cures where other remedies fail. 25c. Always making clerk. -Mail and f hotel [press. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. August 24, CATTLE—Native Steers.8 3 84 a COTTON-LMIddling . 7%« FLOUR—Winter Wheat. 3 75 ® WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 1 1214® CORN—No. 2...• 8! ® OATS—Western Mixed. 37 ® l’OHK-New Mess. 11 80 B ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling. 711® 1891. 8 73 8 8 30 1 1514 84 41 12 0) 714 8 8) 8 70 8 83 4 83 4 73 4 50 1 will. 6114 3114 92 8 10 7 00 13 00 19 13 10 6U 7 V* 61. 31 h BEEVES—Fancy Steers...... 5 70 a Shipning... 8 80 * HOGS—Common to Select.... 4 73 ® SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 3 63 ® FLOUfi-Patenta.... 4 65 ® Fancy to Extra Do.. 4 01 ® WHEAT-No. 2 Red Winter.. 1 00149 CORN-No. 2 Mixed. 61W® OATS-No. 2. 31 ® RYE—No. 2... »3 ® TOBACCO—Lugs. 1 10 ® Leaf Burley..— 4 80 ® UAY-Clear Timothy . 9 03 a BUTTER—Choice Dairy. 16 « EGGS—Fresh. ® PORK—Standard Mess. ® BACON—Clear Rib. ® LAUD-Prime Steam . 6189 WOOL—Choice Tub. 81 « CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping..' 8 80 ® « * 5 HOGS—Good to Choice. 8 00 ® 5 .5 SHEEP—Fuir to Choice. 8 73 B 6 0 FLOUR—Winter Patents. 4 SO « 8 00 Spring Patents., .... 4 85 B 5 4 > WHEAT-No. 2 Spring. 1 04 B 1041s CORN-No. 2... ® ««s OATS—No. 2. ® 3Hs PORK—Standard Mess. B U2> KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers... 3 25 ® 5 83 HOGS—All Grades. 3 50 9 5 2714 WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 1*114® 94 OATS-No. 2.l......... 281s® 2bls CORN-No. 2. 6614® 67 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—H Igh Grade . 4 23 ® 5 lu CORN-No. 2.. 72 ® 73 OATS—Western. ® 39 HAY-Choice. 15 00 9 15 60 PORK-Now Mess.... B li 35 MACON—Clear Rib. B COTTON—Middling. ® 74v LOUISVILLE. WHEAT-No. 2 Red. B 98 CORN-No. 2 White. 61 B 62 OATS—No. 2 Mixed. 29 • 30 PORK—Mess. ® 11 75 BACON—Clear Rib. « 714 COTTON—Middling. 7%B 8 Tull's Pills ■tlmnlntea the torpid Uver, strength* ena the digestive organa, regulates the are UI (equaled as sn itaathe digest! ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE. Iu malarial districts ttieir virtues are ^^sshtssi^xssss. -' —- Elegantly augur Price, Meta. BE

jfiwrvv msnymin a cough—more ton ever when your blood is ** bad.” It makes things easy for Consumption. But there’s a cure for it ito Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. Apositive cure—not only for Weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Bronchitis, Asthma and xll lingering Coughs, but for Consumption itself in all its earlier stages. It’s reasonable. All thhee diseases depend on tainted blood. Consumption is simply Lung-scrofula. And for every form of scrofula and bloodtaint, the “Discovery” is a certain remedy. It’s so certain, that its makers guarantee it to benefit or cure, in every case, or the money is refunded* With a medicine that is certain, this can bo done. There’s a cure for Catarrh, too, no matter what you’ve been led to believe. If there isn’t, in your case, you’ll get $500 cash. It’s a bonafide offer that’s made by the proprietors of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. There’s risk in it, to be sure, hut they are willing to take the risk—you ought to be glad to take the medicine.

ONE ©NJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is takes; It is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 8yrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have' made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figis is for sale in 50c and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any Substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. ban macaco, cal. LOUISVILLE. KY. HEW VOSK. H.t. “German Syrup J9 G. Gloger, Druggist, Watertown, Wis. This is the opinion of a man who keeps a drag store, sells all medicines, comes in direct contact with the patients and their families, and knows better than anyone else how remedies sell, and what true merit they have. He hears of all the failures and successes, and can therefore judge : "I know of no medicine for Coughs, Sore Throat, or Hoarseness th at had done such effective work in my Coughs, family as Boschee’s anroThm,* German Syrup. Last Sore Throat, T/il5ter a fad/ca]ied Hoarseness, at my store, who was suffering from a very severe cold. She could hardly talk, and I told her about German Syrup and that a few doses would give relief; but she had no confidence in patent medicines. I told her to take a bottle, and if the resists were not satisfactory I would make no charge for it. A few days after she called and paid for it, saying that she. would never be without it in future as a few doses had given her relief.1 ’ ® 3 o Tower's Improved FLICKER d f H Guaranteed L/., Water. /AT"'btnd« the Fall 3-18 t ■ AU s 45*5oftWooleo % Collar, Watch Out! * J. TOWER, m BQSTOf!, eUS&'«MW»

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