Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 41, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 March 1893 — Page 4

A MATTER OF HEALTH. lac Powder*. b | ... - ISt Louis Qlobe-Democrat] ' • At the request of Health-Commissioner Brennan, the City Chemist has collected samples of the various baking powders sold in St. Louis and subjected them to analysis for the purpose of obtaining for the public benefit information as to their composition and character, whether wholesome or otherwise. Owing to the fact that alum baking powders are produeed at a cost of less than four cents a pound, while in appearance they are hardly distinguishable from a pure cream of tartar powder costing from eight to ten times as much to manufacture, there have beep many . 1 of them put upon the market, and great efforts made ^substitute them for the more wholesome cream of .tartar compounds. / \ Of course, such powders afford wide margins of profits both to the manufacturers and dealers and it is nobunusual to find them for this reason recommended and urged upon customers who would not, knowing their true character, use them- under any consid

eration. City Chemist Sullivan’s report shows one pure cream of tartar powder only (the Royal); one cream of tartar powder containing free tartaric acid; one phosphate powder containing sulphate of lime, and that all the other brands are made from alum. The samples ranged in strength from 13.47 per cent, of leavening (carbonic acid) gas found in the Royal, tq 6.08 per cent, found in an alum powder. ' The general usefulness of a baking powder depends largely upon the quantity of leavening gas it gives off. A powder containing 13 per cent, of gas will go more than twice as far —that is, one pound of such powder will raise more than twice as much flour—as one that evolves but iJ per cent. The economy thus shown, however, is not the greatest consideration. The low strength powders leave a large residuum in the food, which, being of alum in its various forms, renders the food positively unwholesome. Upon this point, and in describing the character of the baking powder found of highest strength, the City Chemist says: “A high leavening power is requisite. Pure ingredients in proper combination quicken and increase the production of carbonic acid gas. In this the Royal excels all others, ft is the highest in strength, in fabrique a faultless arrangement of agents, pure and wholesome, free from adulteration with lime, ammonia or alum.” The result of these tests Will be read with interest and will prove of great benefit to housekeepers by enabling them to distinguish the pure from the numerous impure and unwholesome powders found in the market. Mrs Bixgo—“Dear, after thi3 you must wear a dress suit down to dinner.” Bingo —“What fori" Mrs. Bingo—“Our new girl has been used to it.”—Clothier and Furnisher. $3 Worth of Hood’s Cured When Others Failed

Air. a. a. Mcuoun Kingsley, Iowa. " In 18791 had an eruption appear on my lcf I leg and arm- Sometimes it would ulcerate and on account of it I was unable to work a greal deal of the time. I hacl seven doctors examine and treat me without success. Some called i! psora sis, some eczema, some salt rheum and one knowing pne called it prairie itch. All the doctors in the county had a trial but none did ^ me a particle of -good. I spent all my spare money trying to get relief. Finally I was persuaded to try Hood s Sarsaparilla. After using one and a Half bottles I caw the benefit. I have now used the third bottle and am completely > cured. HOOD’S Sarsaparilla 1 CURES I received more benefit from three dollars’ worth of Hood's Sarsaparilla than from the hundreds of dollars paid for advice and otheh . medicine.” N. J. McCottn, Kingsley, Iowa. Hood *8 Pills are the best after-dinner Pills, assist digestion, cure headache. Try a box.

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A SHELTER FOR ALL Bov. T. B a Witt Talmagrb TalkS tin the Hen ahd CJhickens. One or Christ’* Similes, Spoken to Those of Jerusalem, as Forcible In Its Application To-Dar as In Days ot Old. The followingdiseotirse was delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talma^e in the Brook* lyn tabernacle, from the text! As a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.—Matt, xxiii., 37, Jerusalem was in sight as Christ came to the crest of Mount Olivet, a height of seven hundred feet. The splendors of&the religious capital of the whole earth irradiated the landscape. There is the temple. Yonder is the king’s palace. Spread out before his eyes are the pomp, the wickedness and the coming destruction of Jerusalem, and He bursts into tears at the thought of the obduracy of a place that He would gladly have saved, and apostrophizes, saying: ‘“Oh, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even ns a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.”n Why did Christ select hen and chickens as a simile? Next to the appositeness of the comparison, I think it was to help all public teachers in the matter of illustration to get down off their stilts and use comparisons that all can understand. The plainest bird on earth is the barnyard fowl. Its only adornments are the red comb in its headdress and the wattles under its throat. It has no grandeur of genealogy. All we know is that its ancestors came from India, some of them from a height of four thousand feet on the sides of the Himalayas. It has no pretension of nest like the eagle’s eyrie. It has no luster of plumage like the goldfinch. Possessing anatomy that allows flight, yet about the last thing it wants to do is to fly, and in retreat Uses foot almost as much as wing. Musicians have written out in musical scale the song of lark and robin redbreast and nightingale, yet the hen of my text hath nothing that could he taken for a song, hut only cluck and cackle. Yet Christ, in the text uttered while looking upon doomed Jerusalem, declares that what He had wished for that city^was like what the hen does for her chickens. Christ was thus simple in II is teachings, and yet how hard it is for us, who are Sunday-school instructors and editors and preachers and Fell formers, and those who would gain the ears of audiences, to attain that heavenly and Divine art of simplicity. We have to run a course of literary disorders as children a course of physical disorders. We come out of school and college loaded down with Greek mythologies, and out of the theological seminary weighted down with what the learned fathers said, and we flv with wings of eagles and

flamingoes and albatrosses, and it takes a good while before we can come down to Christ's similitudes, the candle uncter the bushel, the salt that has lost its savor, the net thrown into the sea, the spittle on the eye^ of the blind man, and the hens and chickens. There is not much poetry about this winged creature of God mentioned in my text, but she is more practical and more motherly and more Suggestive of good things than many that-fly higher and wear brighter colors." She is not a prirua donna of the skies, nor a strut of beauty in the aisle of the forest. She does not cut a circle under the sun like a Rocky mountain eagle, but stays at home to look after family affairs. She does not swoop like the condor of the Cordilleras to transport a rabbit from the valley to the top of the crags, but just scratches for a living. How vigorously with her claws she pulls .away the ground to bring up what is hidden beneath! When the breakfast or dining hour arrives she begins to prepare the repast, and calls all her young to partake. I am in sympathy with the unpretentious, old-fashioned hen, because, like most of us, she has to scratch for a living. She knows at the start the lesson which most people of good sense are slow to learn—that the gaining of a livelihood implies work, and that successes do not lie on the surface, but are to be upturned by positive and continuous effort. The reason that society and the church and the world are so full of failures, so full of loafers, so full of deadbeats, is because people are not wise enough to take the lesson which any hen would teach them, that if they would find for themselves and for those dependent upon them anything worth having they must scratch for it Solomon said:i“Go>to the ant thou sluggard.”' I say, go to the hen thou sluggard. In the Old Testament God compares Himself to an eagle stirring up her nest, and in the New Testament the Holy Spirit is compared to a descending dove, but Christ in a sermon that began with cutting sarcasm for hypocrites and ends with the paroxysm of pathos in the text, compares Himself to a hen.

One day in the country we saw sudden consternation in the behavior of old Dominick. Why the hen should be so disturbed we could not understand. We looked about to see if a neighbor’s dog were invading the farm. We looked up to see if a storm cloud were hovering. We could see nothing on the ground that could terrorize, and we could see nothing in the air to ruffle the feathers of the hen. but the loud, wild, affrighted cluck, which brought all her brood at full run under her feathers, made us look again around us and above us, when we saw that high up and far away there was a rapacious bird wheeling round and round, and down and down, and, not seeing us as we stoo?l iu the shadow, it came nearer and, lower; until we saw that its beak was curved from base to tip. and it had two flames of fire for eyes, and it was a hawk. But all the chickens were under old Dominick’s wing, and either the bird of prey caught a glimpse of us, or not able to find the brood huddled under wing, darted back into the clovds. So Christ calls with great earnestness to all the young. Why, what is the matter! It is bright sunshine, and there can be no danger. Health is theirs. A good home is theirs. Plenty of food is theirs. Prospect of long life is theirs. But Christ continues to calk-calls with morn emphasis and urges haste, and says not a second ought to be lost. Oh, do tell us what is the matter. Ah, now I see, there are hawks of temptation in the air, there are vultures wheeling for their prey; there are beaks of death ready to plunge; there are claws of allurement ready to clutch. Now X Bee i the peril. Now I understand the urgency. Now I see the only safety. Would that Christ might this day fake our sons and daughters into His sheler, “as a hen gathcreth her chickens under her wing.” The fact is that the most of them will never find the shelter unless while they are chickens. It is a simple matter of inexorable statistics that most of those who do not comfe to Christ in youth never come at all. What chance is there for the young without Divine protection? There are the grog shops. There are the gambling hells. There are the infidelities and immoralities of spiritnalism. There arc the bad books. There are the impurities. There hre the business ras* ceUtie* And *o numerous are these

»B6tttlments ib*l it ta it wonder tfaat Kobestyihd Virtde a ire bot lost aria, ■the thirds oi prey, diurnal and nocturnal, of the natural world are ever on the alert They are the assassins ol the sky. They have varieties of taste. The eagle prefers the flesh of the living animal. The vulture prefers the carcass. The falcon kills with one Stroke; while other styles of beak give prolonjfatldu of torture. And so the temptations of this life are various Some make quick work of death, and others agonize the mind and body for years; and Some like ihe living blood of great souls, and others prefer those nlready gangrened. But for every style of youth there is a swooping wing and a sharp beak and a cruel claw, and what the rising generation needs is a wing of protection. Fathers, mothers, older brothers and sisters, and Sabbath-school teachers, :be quick and earnest and prayerful and importunate, and get the chickens under wing. May the Sabbath-schools oi America and Great Britain within the next three months sweep all their scholars into the kingdom. Whom they have now under charge is uncertain. Concerning that sersftvny, puny child that lay in the cradle many years ago, the father dead, many remarked, “What a mercy if the Lord would take the child,” and the mother really thought so to, but what a good thing that God spared the child, for it became world-renowned in Christian literature, one of God's most illustrious servants—John Todd. Kemeniber your children will remain children only a little while. What you do for them as children, you must do quickly, or never do at all. “Why have you never written a book?” said some one to a talented woman. She respited: “I am writing two, and have been engaged on one work ten years and on the other five yeans—my two children. They arc my life-work.” When the house of John Wesley's father burned, and they got the eight children out, John Wesley the last before the roof fell in, the father said: “Let us kneel down and thank God» The children are all saved, let the rest of the place go.” My hearers, if we secure the present and everlasting welfare of our children, most other things belonging to us are of little comparative importance. Alexander the Great allofved his soldiers to take their families with them to war, and he accounted for the bravery of his men by the fact that many of them were born in camp, and were used to warlike scenes from the start. Would God that all the children of our day might be born in the army of the Lord! No need of letting them go a long way on the wrong road before they -turn around and go on the right road. The only time to get chickens under the wing is while they ares children. Hannah Whitall Smith, the evangelist, took her little child at two years of age when ill out of the crib, and told her plainly of Christ, and the child believed, and gave evidence of joyful

trust which grew with her growth into womanhood. Two years are not too young. The time will come when, by the faith of parents, children will be born into this world and born into the bloom of Christ at the same time. Soon we parents will have to go and leave our children. We fight their battles now, and we stand between them and harm, but our arm will after awhile get weak and we can not fight for them, and our tongue will be palsied and we can not speak for them. Are we going to leave them out in the cold world to take their chances, or are we doing all we can to get them under the wing of eternal safety? Hut we all need the protecting wing. If you had known when you entered upon manhood or womanhood what was ahead of yon, would you have dared fo undertake life? How much you- have been through! With most life has been a disappointment; they tell me so. They have not attained that which they expected to attain. They have not had the mental and physical vigor they expected, or they have met with rebuffs which they did not anticipate. You are not at forty or fifty or sixty or seventy or eightyyears of age where you thought you would be. T do not know anyone except myself to whom life has been a happy surprise. I never expected anything and so when anything came in the shape of human favor or comfortable position or widening field of work, it was to me a surprise. I was toldin the theological seminary by some of my fellow-students that I never would get anybody to hear me preach, unless I changed my style, so that when I found that some people did come to hear me. it was a happy surprise. Hut most people according to their own statement, have found life a disappointment. Indeed we all need shelter from its tempests. About three o’clock on a hot August afternoon you have heard a rumble that you first took, for a wagon crossing a bridge, but afterward there was a louder rumbling, and you said: Why, that is thunder! and sure enough the clouds were being convoked for a full diapason. A whole pack of artillery went rolling down the heavens and the blinds of the windows in the sky were closed. Hut the sounds above were not more certain than the sounds beneath. The cattle came to the bars and moaned for them to be let down, that they might come home to shelter, and the fowl, whether Brahma or Hamburg or Leghorn or Dominick, began to call to its young, “Cluck!” “Cluck!” “Cluck!” and take them under the wagon house or shed, and had them all hid under the soft feathers by the time that the first splash of rain struck the roof. So there are sudden tempests for our souls, and, oh! how dark it gets, and threatening clouds of bankruptcy^ or sickness or persecution or bereavement gather and thicken and bracken, and some run for shelter to a bank, but it is poor shelter, and others run to friendly advisers and they fail

iu ucip, auu uiucia uuunutc, oirnpij because they know not where to go, and they perish in the blast; but others hear a Divine cill, saving: “dome, for all things are now ready.”' “The spirit and the bride say, come,” And while the heavens are thundering terror, the pivine voice proffers mei cy and the soul comes under the brooding care of the Almighty “as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wing.” The wings of my text suggest warmth, and that is what most folks want. Th«j fact is that this is a cold world,- whether you take it literally or figuratively. We hare a big fireplace, called the sun, and it has a very hot fire, and the stokers keep the coals well stirred up, but much of the year we can not get near enough to the fireplace to get warmed. The wovld’s extremities are co!d all the time. Forget not that it is colder at the south pole than at the north pole, and that the arctic is not so destructive as the antarctic. Once in awhile the arctic will let explorers come back, but the antarctic hardly ever. When at the south pole, a ship sails in, the door of ice is almost sure to be shut against its return. So life to many millions of people at the south and many millions of people at the north is a prolonged shiver. But when 1 say that this is a cold wo^ld, I chiefly mean figuratively. If yoifvwant to know what is the meaning of tye ordinary term of receiving the ("cold ehouider,” get out of money nndftry to

. ■■ »■ ^nraa-iiVm.■■■ r■ ■ «„mm ■& i■■■■—i borrow. The conversation may hat been almost tropical for luxuriance o thought anil speech, but suggest yonnecessities and see the thermouietei drop to fifty degrees below aero, and in thit which, till a moment before, had ; been a warm room. Take what is an unpopular position on some public Questidn, driJ see jrottr friends fly as chaff before a. Wind-mill: As far as thyself is bonee/ncl, t, have no word of fcoMplalnt. but I look off day by day arid see communities freezing out men. and women of whom the world is not worthy. Now it takes after one and now after another. It becoms popular to depreciate, and defame, and execrate, and lie about some people. This is the best world I ever got into, but it is the meanest world that some people ever got into. The worst thing that ever happened to them was their cradle, and the best thing that will .ever happen to them will be theirgrave. What people ■vast is warmth. Many years ago & aan was floating down on the ice of the Merrimac and great efforts were made to rescue him. Twice he got hold of a plank thrown to him and twice he slipped away from it, because that end of the plank was scovered with ice, and he cried out: “For God’s sake, give me the wooden end of the plank this time;” and this done, he was hauled to shore. The trouble is that in our efforts to save the soul there is too much coldness and icy formality, and so the imperiled one slips off and floats down. Give it the other end of the plank. Warmth of sympathy, warmth of kindly association, warmth of genial surroundings. The world declines to give it, and in many cases has no power to give it, and here is where Christ comes in, and as on a cold day, the rain beating and the atmosphere full of sleet, the hen clucks her chickens under her wings, and the warmth of her own breast puts warmth into the wet feathers and the chilled feet of the infant group of the barnyard, so Christ says to those sick and frosted and disgusted and frozen of the world, come in out of the March winds of the world's criticism, come in out r.f the sleet of the world’s assault, come in out of a world' that does not understand yon and does not want to understand yon; I will comfort and I will soothe, and I will he your warmth, “as a hen gathercth her chickens under her wing.” Oh, the warm heart of God is ready for all those to whom the world has given the cold shoulder.

But notice that some one mast take the storm for'the chickens. Ah! the hen takes the storm. I have watched her" unde* the pelting rain. 1 have seen her in the pinching frosts. Almost frozen to death, or almost strangled in the waters, and wlut a fight she makes for the young under wing if a dog, or a hawk, or a man come too near. | And so the brooding Christ takes the storm for us. What flood of anguish and teal's that did not dash upon Ilis Holy soul? What beak of torture did not pierce His vitals? What barking Cerberus of hell w^s not let out upon llira from the kennels? What He endured. O. who can tell, To save our soulds from death and hell. Yes, the hen took the storm for the chickens and Christ takes the storm for us. Once the tempest rose so suddenly the hen could not get with her young back from the new ground to the barn, and there she is under the fence half dead. And now the rain tnrns to snow and it is an awful night, and in the morning the whiteness about the gills and the beak down in the mud show that the mother is death nnd the young ones come out and can not understand why the mother does not scratch for them something to eat, and they walk Over her wings, and call with their tiny voices, but there is no answering cluck. She took the storm for others and perished. Poor thing! Self-sacrificing even unto death! And does it not make you think of Him who endured all for us? So the wings under which we. come for spiritual safety are blood-spattered wings, are night-shadowed wings, are tempest-torn wings. In tlio Isle of Wight I saw the grave of Princess Elizabeth, who died while a prisoner at Carisbrook castle, her finger on an open Bible and pointing to the words: “Come unto Me all ye that labor and arc heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Oh, come under the wings! llut now the summer day is almost past, nnd the shadows of the house and barn and wagon shed have lengthened. The farmer, with scythe or hoe on shoulder, is returning from the fields. The oxen are unyoked. The horses are crunching tfie oats at the full bin. The air bewitched by honeysuckle and wild briar. The milkman, patil in hand, is approaching the barnyard. The fowls, keeping early hours, are collecting their young; “cluck!” “cluck!” “cluck!” and »soon all the eyes of that feathered nursery are closed. The bachelors of the Winged tribe have ascended to their perch, but the hens, in a motherhood divinely appointed, take all the risk of a slumber on the ground, and all night long the wings will stay outspread and the little ones will not utter a sound. Thus at sundown, lovingly, safely, completely the hen broods her young. So, if we are the Lord’s, the evening of our life will come. The heats of the day will have passed. There will be shadows, and we can not see as far. The work of life will be about ended. The hawks of temptation that hovered in the sky will have gone to the woods and folded their wings. Sweet silences will come don a. The air will be redolent with the breatli of whole arbors of promises sweeter than jasmine or evening primrose. The air paay be a little chill, but Christ will/6all us, and we will know the voice land heed the call, and we will come under the wings for the night, the strong wings, the soft wings, the warm wings, and without fear, and in full sense of safety, and then we will rest from sundown to sunrise, “as a hen gatheretli her chickens under her wings.” Dear me! How many souls the Lord hath thus brooded. Mothers, after

watcmng over sick eraums, iuiu men watching afterward over way ward sons and daughters, at lastitliemselves taken taken care of by a motherly God. Business men, after a lifetime struggling with the uncertainities of money markets, and the change of tariffs, and the underselling of men, who, because of their dishonesties, can afford to undersell, and years of disappointment and struggle, at last under wings where nothing can perturb them any more than a bird of prey, which is ten miles off, disturbs a chick at midnight brooded in a barnyard. Feir-Examination. Kev. Dr. Alexander Maeclarn, of Manchester, England, whom many regard as the foremost of British preachers, said the other day that self-examina-tion would reveal sin to any man, and added: “Only go and__Jook for your sins in the way /they looked for Guy Fawkes at the house of commons before the session. Take a dark lantern and go down into the cellars, and if yon do not find something there that will take .all the c onceit out of you it must be because you are very shortsighted or ' phenomenally self-complacent” —The need, of restricted immigration is shown in the epigram of an eastern journal that forty yearsagoimmigrantj ’ came to America to escape from opi pression, while now tkey.-'game to e* 1 cape Um repreeslen. )

tARi^F Reform. Spvelftc n. Ad Valorem Uutlei- lloth llan Faults But Ad Valorem Outlet litre the Best Record. Apparently, indirect taxation Is fastened to tt is country for some | time to come. An income tax may be levied by our next congress to enable us to meet 6tir fcn&rtnous Cipfifldittlres without increasing any dtiiieS. but the billls bf tthr te Venue mil continue to tonic from duties on imports. It is, therefore, \4ell to consider whether our next tai-'.ff bill should be based upon specific or ad valorem duties. In most of our high and protective tariff bills specific duties have predominated. This is particularly true of the McKinley bill. In the proposed Mills bill, and in most low and non-protective tariff bills, ad valorem duties were the rule. In the Walker bill, in force from 1846 to 1857, and In the so-called “free trade bill,*’ In fobee from 1857 to 1801, alt duties were ad valorem. Protectionists ahd makers of high* tariff bills naturally turn to specific duties as an easy way of increasing duties on the sly. Thus nearly all of the numerous “jobs” in the McKinley bill were perpetrated by means of specific duties. Nobody except a few interested persons supposed that when the ad valorem duty of 85 per cent, on pearl buttons was increased by a specific duty of 3cents per line, the increase would amount to much; yet the increase amounted to from 200 to 3,000 . per cent, making the actnal duty in some cases as high as 400 per cent. In this same tricky way duties on cutlery, gloves, music, wire and many other articles were greatly increased. But protectionists also favor specific duties, because they are certain means of preventing the natural decline of prices and of giving increased protection. Thus a duty of 5 ceflts per yard on unbleached cotton cloth gave a protection of 50 per cent, when this cloth was selling at ten cents in 1864. Because of improved machinery, this cloth, in 1890,4could be sold for 4)^ cents, and the protection had increassd to over 100 per cent. This same process has been going on with sugar, steel rails, structural steel, and in fact with most dutiable articles in the McKinley bill. “The title of the bill should be so changed” (said Hon. John A. Kasson, in 1866, of a tariff bill), “as to read: ‘A bill to prevent the diffused blessings of Providence from being enjoyed by the people of the United States’” If he had said: “A bill to prevent the diffused blessings of Providence and of improved methods of manufacture from reaching the people and to turn all over to combines, corporations and trusts,” he would have accurately described the McKinley bill, with its specific duties to prevent consumers from gettingmuch benefit from falling prices abroad, and at the same time giving increased protection to our

nuuureus ui iruata wj prevcut tuu uaiuial decline from home consumption. For these very reasons makers of the next tariff bill should avoid specific duties. There are other serious objections. Specific duties always discriminate against the poor, who are compelled to use the cheap articles, and in favor of the rich, who purchase expensive articles. Thus a duty of 44 cents per pound and 50 per cent, ad valorem on West of England broadcloth, that sells for $3.60 per yard, gives a protection of only 63 per cent. The same rate of duty on diagonal cheviot that sells for 76 cents per yard yields a protection of 140 per cent. It is safe to say that for every dollar spent by the millionaire or by the day laborer the latter pays five times as much tariff taxes jfe the former. Ad valorem duties are open to none of the above objections. If levied equally on cheapand costly goods, they tax the rich and the poor at the same rate—though, of course, the poor must spend a larger proportion of their earnings for tariff-taxed goods than the rich. Ad valorem duties permit consumers to get the full benefit of declining prices and they will not subserve the purpose, of those who wish to put up tariff “jobs” on the people. The one gi-ave objection to ad valorem duties is that they lead to undervaluation, especially when the duties are high or when the goods are extremely valuable. Thus the duty of about 70 per cent, on most kind of gloves is a strong temptation to importers to undervalue their goods. It is said by good authorities that the undervaluations in this line will average 15 or 20 per cent The dishonest glove importer then has an advantage of about 10 per cent over the honest one in our markets. The temptation to undervaluation decreases rapidly as duties decline, and on most goods practically disappears when duties do not exceed 20 per cent, because an undervaluation of 10 per cent then give an advantage of only 2 per cent in our markets—nol| enough to compensate importers for the risk of being caught As a means of obtaining revenue, ad valorem duties are as effective as specific. With duties of from 5 to 30 per cent—except on tobacco and liquors— in the Walker tariff of 1846, the amount of duties collected increased from $28,000,000, in 1847, to $63,000,000 in 1867. The revenues then exceeded the expenditures so much that the rates were lowered about 25 per cent The great increase in revenue from 1847 to 1857, under this comparatively low tariff, came from increased imports due to great prosperity. Imports rose from $116,000,000 to $333,000,000; exports from $150,000,000 to $279,000,000; the price of wheat rose from an average of $1.02 from 1845 to 1847, to $1.51^ from 1848 to 1856—a price never equaled before or since; prices of corn, cotton, butter, wool and other farm products also increased about 33 per cent; farm values increased about 50 per cent. The “free trade” tariff act of 1857 showed the same general effects.

These are some ox tne accompaniments of the low tariffs of 1843 and 1857. We hope our new tariff-makers will not neglect to study these lessons of history. Let them not forget that the only time the tariff question was ever settled to the satisfaction of all parties, so that neither party mentioned a tariff, was during our “free trade” ad valorem tariff period. If an impending' war had not necessitated the raising of a great revenue, neither party would have dared to advocate higher duties. The farmers and the hard-working people can stand more of such “free trade” tariffs.—Byron W. Holt 1 anada (letting in step. The protectionists in the Canadian parliament show more sense than their brethren in this country. Recognizing the demand of the people they are moving for reduced tariff taxation, themselves, and intending that the liberals shall get all the credit for the reforms that are bound to come. The first move is to place corn- and coal oil on the free list. The liberals will follow this up with a bill to repeal the tax on binding twine, something which the democrats in this country have been trying to have done for several years past, and which will be done before long.—N. Y. World. —Wages are regulated not by the tariff, but by influences independent of the tariff; by supply, by demand, by dull trade or brisk trade. Wages are directly influenced, if not mainly controlled by agricultural conditions. When farming is profitable it is attractive and draws off from »he cities the men who are waiting lyf to Nowitie,

A Word m To American Housewives. Cpfatv-ebi* &/3 'l&Z 4*** frrueb Qt*. 'tu* 00 £&*** Ct^i^C* i>A%str Aj ^4 * >***&£- Author of “Common Selist in the, Household?

—Dakota originally formed a part of Minnesota territory. It was a portion of the great Louisiana purchase in 1803. The Nebraska territory was formed in 1854, and comprised a part of what is now Dakota. The latter territory was organized by act of congress, approved March 2, 1861, and included the present states of Montana and Washington. In 1S63 a part of the territory was in* eluded in Idaho, of which the northeastern part was organized as Montana in 1864, and the southern part was transferred to Dakota. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many 1 years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to euro with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. tSTSolu by Druggists, 75c. With all respect to the proverb, it may be stated thatit is not necessary to give the devil his due. He- is quite competent to collect it with in teres t.—Washington Star.

Life Is Worth Living, Trying as its vicissitudes are, by those unvexed by chronic disease. Mainly because Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters fortifies the system against disease by promoting a vigorous performance of the functions of the system, it possesses a wide, general utility. It promotes strength through iiuMmved digestion. This is the first, the mos^ssontial step. Subsequently the Bitters insures regularity of the bowels, liven and kidneys. Malarias rheumatism and rorvous trouble yield to it. It's the man who has no music in bis soul that is able to harp on the faults of others, ---luter Ocean. - Best of All To cleanse the system in a gentle and truly beneficial manner, when the Springtirjjo ooipes, use the true and perfect remedy, Syrup 6f Figs. One bottle will answer for all the family and costs only 50cents: the arge size $1. Try it and be pleased. Manufactured by the'California Fig Syrup Co. only. Solomon was pretty good at writing proverbs; but, then, a man with eight hundred wives, more or less, had abundant opportunities for getting wisdom, don’t you see.—Sotnerviile "Journal. YOU Can obtain a large handsome Burlington Route Map of the *Jnited States, mounted and suitable for the home or the office, by sending 15 routs iu postage to D. O. Ives, Gen’l Pass. & Tkt. Agt., St. Louis, Mo. Some men are so conscientious that they never put off anything, till to morrow but the bill collector.-" Elmira Gazette. “That unrivalled complexion,” said a prominent NetY Yorker, alluding » a lady acquaintance, “was the result of using .Garfield Tea.” Send for free sample to 319 West 45th Street, New York City. “Have you ever had fever and ague In these flats!” Laudlord—“YeS, sir-ee; there isn’t a modern improvement you can mention but what we have.”—Inter Ocean. Cocon. and Colds. Those who are suffering from Coughs, Colds, Sore Throat, etc., should try Brown's Bronchial Troches. Sold only in boxes. Better Off.—‘What makes the bicycle popular with the many, rich and poor, is that after trying to ride on one they feel they are better off.—Philadelphia Times. Beecham's Pills take the place of an entire medicine chest, and should bo kept for uso in every family. 25 cents a box. Hard pressed for money—Th8 productions of the mint.

CHILDREN who are puny, pale, weak, or scrofulous, ought to take Doctor * Pierce’s Goldbn Medical \ Discovery. That builds V up both their flesh and ] thoir strength. For this, / and for purifying the f blood, there’s nothing in all medicine that can equal the “ Discovery.” In recovering from “Grippe,” or m convalescence from pneu

—v —' - moma, levers, or wuer wasting diseases, it speedily and surely invigorates and builds up the whole system. As an appetizing, restorative tonic, it sets at work ml the processes of digestion and nutrition, rouses every organ into natural action, and brings back health and strength. For all diseases caused by a torpid liver or impure blood, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Scrofulous, Skin, and Scalp Diseases—even Consumption (or Lung-scrofula) in its earlier stages—the “ Discovery” is tho only ffuctranited remedy. If it doesn’t benefit or cure, in every case, yon have your money back.

Bile Bewts Small Guaranteed to cure Bilious Attacks, BlokHeadache and Constlpatloiii. *3 In each bottle. Price 25c. For sale by druggists. Picture “7,17, 70" and sample dose free. J. f. SMITH A CO., Pr p'leton. NEW YOSK. Garfiald Tea =*5 Cures Constipation

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“Did you t ear about ' ha theatric! 1 canpany that got stranded on a c^nnital island!” “Jio.” .“Well, it happened, a id the head of the tribe said afterwards tint the lest pan of tiia meal got away i" “ was eating the supe.’—P. <St S. Ijj. Cel’s Bulletin. HrsBVXD—“But I don’t want to qtjii chewing totmoce.” Wife—“I gavepup ipy weeds 1 samel ring 101uuci yi lie-— jl giivo^up Is for veu, and I think you maV do t he i for me ’’—Kate Field’s Washitgtotf row Can obtain ii pack of best quality Fvarlii eon Route Playing Cards by sen<> insfil3 cents in postage to D. Oi Ives, Gena Pals. & Tkt. Agt. tit. Louis, Mo. H fountry To one traveling through the ..umi .i jr milestones ire n'etty good signs <f progress.—Troy Press. “Wht do thoy call that daughter cf tbeira Olive!”’ ‘‘Esi.-s.use alikiug for her has to je acquired."—I hicage News.

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Milroy,• Mifflin Co., Pekka. To t kr Ei iior of the New York World ; “ Mrs. John Gemmill, of th^s place, wa3 thrown from a wag on, sustaining a roost serious'mjury to her spine, and wan A HE .PLESS CRIPPLE FOR 19 TEARS, una Die t< walk. Her daughter providentially procured two bottles ST. JACOBS OIL, which ty re.. Gemmill used. Before the second bottle Wll exhausted, She was able to walk about, and has been Cl 1MPLETEI.Y CURED." • Ij Very truly, M. THOMPSON. Post master. v|.: -'.| . •'

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*4.00 & *5.00 Fiuc Sewed Shoos* $o cn 0 iOU Farmers, etc* $2.50, *2.25, $2.(i0 For Working Men;

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IT <S A DITTY yon owe yourselt |o get the best value lor f our money. Economize In your ootwear by purchasins W. I*. Dou«lns Shoes* which represent the best value at the prices advertised, as thousands can testify? DO YOU WEAR THEM?

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t ft is now a “Nostrum," though at first It was compounded after a prescription by a regular physician, with no idea that it would ever go on the market as a proprietary medicine. But after compounding that preseription over a thousand times in one year, we named it “Piso's Cure for Consumption,” ahd began advertlsingitin a small way. A medicine known all over tho world is the result Why is it not just as good as though costing fifty cents to a dollar for a prescription and an equal sum to have It pu t up at a drug store!

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IMMSHORN'S SHADEROI Beware of Imitation*. NOTICE AUTOGRAPH 5*4sK ^NUINE H» RUMELY TRACTION AND PORTABLE NGINES. Threshers and Horse Powers. Write For Illustrate! Catalogue, mailed Free. M. RUMELY CO.. LAPORJE. IND. • jrHAM* THU PATER •*«* tua% j MAKE NO MISTAKE. by Ridpath, the historian, and ex-Goy. Connor of Maine. Only authorised lift* of the great statesman, written by tiis consent and assistance. Great book of the century. A gents wanted every when, on salary or *9>3AUX IE 19 PAPER wray faijCTTOa NEEDLES, SHUTTLES, REPAIRS. For all SewlngMftcbines. Standard goods Only. The Trade Supplied. Send for wholesale price list. Blelock M’f’o Co., 915 Locustst.St.Louis.Mo EfiTN AMS THIS PAPER ire; tio > you write. DON’T FORGET iJK* Nyman, of Tiffin, Ohio, make drst-ciass Machinery e nd Tools for Boring and QUILLING WELLS* KT2UMX Tlili PAPER*T.ry tin. /oavnte IVUST HAVE M&ij&3BRft.&Sa lor in. Stamp. Immense. Unrivalled. Only good oee ever inrontecU Beats weights. Sties unparalleled. PIS a Iter. Wirite quick. llnhard llfjr. Co., Phlla, £yNl«E THIS PAPXXwtetr ite>ra«nte. R|f A1VgVI tHl SHOP SOILED, 25 per cent. off. SecIJ|UIVK%>J end hand, 75 per cent. off. Special oaaace. Lists free. Kkiqh : Ctcus Oo. SL Louis, Me. IPiso'8 liemedy Tor Catarrh is the Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. CATARRH I Sold by 160o. E. T. _ists or sent by mail, aze.Line, Warren, Pa. A. N. If.. B. w»i*sn wmrraw to a»v*k Mat. that m M, »«