Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 August 1894 — Page 7

ABOUT CARPETS. Some Interesting Pointers on the Tariff , Handicap. We directed attention, a few days ago to the export trade in American carpets and to the assertion df the seqgetary of the Woolen Manufacturers’ association that the substitution of a protective duty of 35 per cent, for the duties of the McKinley tariff would deal “a staggering blow” to the carpet industry in this country. The follows ing remarks are taken from The American Wool and Cotton Reporter of the 5th inst.: “The move of the Alexander Smitlf Co., of Yonkers, N. Y., in offering their well-known moquettes, or “American Axminsters,’ as the English retailers prefer to call them in their advertisements, has not proved the temporary effort which some English carpet people said it would be. On the contrary, the firm is maintaining its trade with wonderful regularity, and of late has alone shipped more carpets to ‘ Britain than the English and Scotch manufacturers combined have sent to the United States. Here are extracts from the manifests of steamers arriving at British ports from New York during the first week in June and the last week of May; Glasgow, £3i>0; Liverpool, £980: Newcastle, £3*2; Southampton, £1,250, or a total of £2.010 worth of American carpets shipped to Great Britain in a single fortnight. The goods are not° being sold at panic prices. Neither are they surplus stocks unsalable in the United S*utes. English firms are fond of saving that they are. but the facts are not altered. The great thing is that for the first time the trade is being worked on a scale of considerable importance. A turn-over at the rate of £00,000 a*yea£ is not enormous, but it is an important one to be created in a few months. Most of the goods reaching Bradford and Manchester come via Liverpool. The Southampton consignments are principally for London, the American line steamers having their terminal port on the eastward journey at the former port.”

As we have explained heretofore, these exports are made upon a basis of free wool. That is to say, the government refunds to the exporting manufacturers the tariff duties which they have paid on the imported wool used in making the goods. If, with free wool, a prominent American manufacturer can ship carpets to London and other English cities and sell them there profitably, in open competition with English manufacturers, and almost at the doors of the English factories, without the aid of any tariff handicap upon the English goods, cannot American manufacturers beat the English manufacturers in the American home market on the same terms? At all events, it is absurd to say that they cannot defy English competition in this country with the aid of a duty of 85 per cent, on the English carpets. The duty in the senate bill is no longer 35 per cent. Just before the passage of the bill it was increased, upon the motion of the finance committee, to 40 percent. A rate of 35 per cent, is high enough, and we presume that the house will insist upon the rates in its bill, which are lower than that.—N. Y. Times. THE TRUST IN POLITICS. How Combines Control the Politicians of the Country. "When the late unlamented Jay Gould was asked as to his participation in politics in this state he cjmically confessed that he was “a republican in republican districts and a democrat in democsatic districts.*’ President Ilavemeyer makes the same admission as to the sugar trust's contributions to political committees. It has sought “protection” by > giving money to the managers of the dominant partv—to the democrats in New York, the republicans in Massachusetts. and so on.

lne niMury ui me augor uuiv xu iccent years justifies thd shrewdness of the trust's managers. The framers of the McKinley tariff made raw sugar, the crude material of the trust, free, but gave it such an advantage in a duty on refined sugars that it has made a profit, as Mr. Havemeyer admitted, of from 810,000,000 to $12,009,000 a year—and this is no doubt far short of the whole truth. And now the democratic “compromisers” have agreed to a rate and a date that will, if not altered, give the trust a profit of $30,000,000 before the law takes effect, and a chance to levy tribute upon the people afterwards. If this scandalous schedule shall not be altered in the senate the democratic house should make a determined stand . against it.' Sugar can be refined here more cheaply than an3-where else in the world. The trust needs no “protection.” The impudence of its Washington lobby is only equaled by the greed of the monopoly. It will be a sorry day for the democratic party when the pocket interest of stock-gambling senators or the,influence of a corrupt lobby shall be ~ sufficient to enact a trust tax on sugar.—N. Y. World. HOW IT LOOKS. It Depends How You See Things—Stranje Eyes of Protectionists. There are none so blind as those who will , not see. There are none who see with better vision than those who. look with selfish partisan eyes. Four years ago it was impossible for republicans to see any undeserved protection in any ^Jduty levied by their own McKinley. To-day, when the democrats seem like- . ly to leave about one-half as much protection on a few articles as was left on them by republicans,the republicans are decrying against concessions to trusts and local protected interests. Every republican in the senate, except Quay and Aldrich,is horrified at the idea that two-thirds as much protection should be given to the sugar trust in 1894 as it received in 1899Even the Manufacturer, of Philadelphia, the most hide-bound and bigoted protectionist sheet in America (outside of the American Economist), has concluded that any protection to the cans sugar producers of this country is

I unjust and unwise. Its argument is peculiar. It runs like this: “‘For thirty odd years the republican party has protected the sugar interests of Louisiana in accordance with the republican prin* ciple that every American industry requiring protection should have it. For thirty odd years the sugar planters of Louisiana have voted to send to congress representatives who belonged to the democratic party and who desired free trade. * * * * It is really a strain upon the protective principle to protect a cane sugar industry which after long years of protection, cannot produce more than one-tenth of the sugar required by the American people. Clearly the only hope we have of supplying from domestic sources the domestic demand for sugar is found in the development of the beet sugar industry. Might there not. therefore, be found some justification for placing sugar on the free list and giving bounties to producers of beet sugar, while permitting the cane growers of Louisiana, who want free trade for other people, to enjoy for themselves an experience with free trade? The republican party has no longer obligations of any kind to the Louisian sugar interests. This is a fact to be remembered.*’ V , This is ideal protectionist logic. Because, after thirty years trial, protection has failed in one branch of the sugar industry, therefore it should be abolished on this branch and should be tried on another branch. It failed in one ease because it was tried in the south among the wicked democrats; it would succeed in the west where it would be more appreciated by good republicans. This plan would be one of avenging justice. The southerners cannot be converted from free trade and democracy; let their industry suffer. The westerners may be won over to protection and republicanism; let us protect their industry. All of which shows the blessings of protection and the broad sympathy and statesmanlike qualities of protectioaI ists. _/ - ,:

GET IT IN SHAPE. The Country 1« tu No Condition to Listen to Frot«ctlon Methods. > The overwhelming* sentiment of the country, in favor of the Wilson tariff bill in preference to the senate’s substitute has been voiced and revoiced in so many ways that the latter body ought to see the futility of any contest for the high “protective” duties it adopted. The.plea for increasing the rates fixed in the house bill was that it would not yield enough revenue. Hut rates still lower than those of the house bill would certainly invite larger importations and insure larger revenue than would be realized by the senate bill. If the income tax is to be retained the revenue it would yield will be greatly augmented if its limit of exemption were fixed at §3,000 or less. But whatever revision may be decided on, it is certain the country, is in no condition to stand and will not tolerate the senate's high “protective” duties bn woolen and cotton fabrics, clothing, steel rails and other manufactured goods. The senate bill has been, shaped with very much more concern and tenderness for the monopolists and mamifacturers than for the farmers and plauters. And nothing in its schedules can work so discriminatingly and disastrously against agriculturists and all the non-“protected” classes as the woolen schedule. The conference committee should remember, too, that the people, after the present long era of business depression, are not able to pay 40 and 50 per cent, extra for their elothing and other necessaries of lifa. The rates on all such articles should be put as nearly as possible on a simple revenue basis. —N. Y. Herald. _ BE EARNEST. The House Should Not Fight the Senate Amendment for Mere Elleet. If by making a strenuous fight the house can wring consent from the senate, =Chairman Wilson and his friends owe to their party another effort for the bill which was presented after mature deliberation by the body to which the constitution gives the power of originating revenue measvrss

\Ve nave coniessea oeiore ana are compelled to confess again considerable confidence in the impudence o? the Gorman combine. We, cannot see that any influences can be used to shame and melt that gall which have not been used before. Gorman and Brice have measured and defied all the consequences. The senate so enjoya the immense power with which the chaos of rules invests small minorities that it shows no intention of improving? its methods. The cdBfhtry is in no condition to wait upon a fight made for the political glory of members. >If the senate is to dictate the tariff bill, we would as well accept the terms now as in August. The people have suffered losses from Coxeyism and delays! in legislation and from strikes and boycotts in industry during the past year which no beneficial |aws would enable them to reeover from in several years to come. Let us have no further delays for the display of barren zeal. Without something more to rely j upon than a rough guess at the result Lsqf a new tariff confusion, the house should make the joint conference committee an instrument of agreement and immediate action. Senators Vest, Harris, Jones and Voorhees are earnest tariff reformers and good democrats. If they believe that the Wilson bill cannot possibly pass, the house conferees should get the best they can and reach a conclusion.—St. Louis Republic. * ■ ■ It Will Stick. It is now generally admitted that tho income tax cannot be defeated in this congress, and there is a growing opinion that it will in future become tho keystone of our tax system. The principle is economically sound-—St Louis Post Dispatch. —The senate amended the old phra60 “There’s nothing like leather” by striking out the last word and substituting sugar.—Philadelphia Ledsrer

* A DETROIT BUILDER. Be Tells a Remarkable Story ©I Hie Life. CAME TO DETROIT ABOUT FORTY TEARS AGO. Ltfi Eltfj'i Expqrtone* Worthy Serious Attention. tFrora the Detroit Evening News.] Away out Gratiot Avenue, far from the dia and turmoil of the business center, there me many attractive homes. The intersect* ing streets are wide, clean and shaded by large leaf-covered trees, and the people you meet are typical of industry, economy and honest toil. There are many pretty residences, but none more inviting fn its neatness and homelike comfort than that of Mr. Levi Elsey, the well-known builder and contractor, at 74 Moran street Just off Gratoit Mr Elsey is an old resident of Detroit, having moved here about forty years ago. He has erected hundreds of houses in different parts of the city, and points with pride to such buildings as the Newberry & Mo Muilan and Cam paw blocks in which he displayed his ability as a superintendent. “I have seen Detroit grow from a village to a city,” he observed yesterday in conversation with the writer, “and 1 don't think there are many towns in America today equal to it in point of beauty. I know almost everybody in the city, and mi incident which recently happened in my lile has interested all my friends. “It is now about eight years ago since 1 was stricken down with my first caseof illness. One cold, blustering day I was down town and through my natural carelessness at that time 1 permitted myself to get chilled right through. When I arrived home that evening I felt a serious pain in my left leg. 1 bathed it that night, hut by morning I found it had grown worse. In fact, it was so serious that I sent for my family physician, and he informed me that I was suffering from varicose veins. My leg swelled up to double its natural size and the pain increased in volume. The agony was simply awful. I was laid up and never left my bed for eight weeks. At times I felt as though I would grow frantic with pain. My leg was bandaged and was propped up in the bed at an angle of 80 degrees in order to keep the blood from flowing to my extremities. «

“l naa several doctors attending me, out 1 believe my own judgmeuthelped me better than theirs. After a siege of two months I could move around, still I was on the sick list and had to doctor myself for years. I was never really cured and suffered any amount of anguish. « “About two years ago I noticed an article in the Evening Sews about my friend, Mr. N orthrup, the W c od ward Avenue merchant. In an interview with ham he stated that he had used Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People and-that they cured him. I knew him very well, having built his house out on Woodward Ave., and I thought I would follow his suggestion. I must confess I did so with marvelous success. From the time I began to take the Pink Pills I felt myself growing to be a new man. They acted on me like a magical stimulant. The pain departed and I soon was as strong and nealthy as ever. Before trying the Pink Pills I had used any amount of other medicine without any noticeable benefit. But the Pills cured me and 1 was mvself again. “When a person finds himself relieved and enjoying health he is apt to expose himself again to another attack of illness. Some three months ago I stopped taking the Pink Pills, and from the day I did so I noticed a change in my condition. A short time since I renewed my habit of taking them with the same beneficial results which met me formerly. I am again nearly as strong as ever, although 1 am amafi about 56 years of age. 1 tell you, sir, the Pink Pills are a most wonderful medicine, and if they do as well in other cases as they did in mine they are the best in the world. I freely recommend them to any sufferer.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills Contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They areanunfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ danoe, sciatica, ^neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache,' the after effect of la grippe, palpation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. Pink Pills are 1 sold by all dealers, or will be sent postpaid on receipt of price (50 cents a box, or six boxes for $3.50—they are never sold in bulk or by the 100) by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co, Schenectady, N. Y. Theological Discussion. “Had a long rebate wid Parsom Smiff dis morn in' ’bout who invented chickens,” said Uncle Mose. “Well, did you decide it?” “No, sah, we des couldn't. I ’lowed fum de way dey tastiz dat de good Lord hisself must ob made ’em, but de parson he ’lowed fum de way dey makes his flock fall fum grace dat dey must ob ben got up by de debble hisself.— Indianapolis Journal.

No Marks of Violence. A lady who has a trustworthy cook who is quite a character gave her permission recently to go and nurse a sick friend. When Bridget returned she told her mistress all about it, and also that the husband offered himself before the funeral: “Oh, Bridget, I hope you won't marry and leave me?” “And sure,” said Bridget, “he’s a very fine man. 1 laid out the corpse, and there wasn’t a black mark on her.”—Boston Herald._ A New Prescription. A physician was recently laying down a course of diet for a dyspeptic patient. “And above all things,” he concluded, “not more than one cigar after each meal.” He saw the patient again in the course of a week, and asked hov^the diet agreed with him. “Bad, doctor, bad,” was the answer. “That one cigar after each meal has nearly been the death of me; you see, I had never smoked before.”—Truth. Her Idea. A caller had mentioned that a neighbor had been obliged to shoot his dog because it had grown old and cross. After he had gone, little Edith, who had been very quiet since the dog had been spoken of, surprised her mother by asking: “Mamma, when do you think papa will shoot Aunt Sarah?”— Tit-Bits. —The practice of throwing overboard from ships letters inclosed in sealed bottled is centuries old. Hollow copper spheres and oaken barrels have also been used as sea letter carriers in attempts to trace the direction of ocean currents or to send word from persons at sea to friends on land. Barnacles readily attach themselves to these drifting letter holders and sink them. Only a very few of the many messages that have been thrown into the sen have ever been recovered.

FARM AND GARDEN. ALL UNDER ONE ROOF. Plan of a Bin Which Is Suitable for General I'srniNl Your correspondent who ask* for a plan of barn, the roof of which shall “corer horses, cows, sheep, ^^igs, poultry, hay. grain, straw, tools, carts, everything useful where general husbandry is in practice,” asks for some-1 thing that a great many people would like to see. 1 do not wish to be regarded as advocating the desirability: of bringing every farm interest under one roof, for such a plan is not in all respects desirable: but yet it has many; excellent features, particularly in the line of economy of labor and likewise eeonomv of building, if one has natural conditions that are favorable. Your correspondent appears to have one of the natural conditions that aids great; ly in making the plan of “everything

ALL UNDER ONE ROOF. tinder one roof" feasible. A bank twenty feet high adjacent to the pro* posed site of the building' can be so utilized as to aid greptly in reaching the desired end. An illustration is given herewith that shows how a building may be constructed against a bank in a way to give entrance at grade to three different floors, and that, too, without having very much of any floor under ground. A floor-plan is given of the main or feeding floor, ller® are located the horse and cow stalls, colt pens for young calves, a feed room, a granary, hay bay and a silo. Scaffolds and floors above the feeding floor afford room for the stirring of additional hay, straw and grain, a horse fork and carrier raising these materials and placing them in any desired position. At one end of the manure gutter on this floor is a trap door covering a chute that conveys the manure to the lowest basement. Communication can he had with the same chute on the floor below the main feeding floor, which is devoted to the use of young cattle, sheep, pigs and fowls, feeding chutes coming down to this floor from beside the mangers in the horse and cow stalls. This floor should be excavated buck the full size of the barn, and the excavation lined with rock-work laid in a mortar of lime, cement afid sand. To insure perfect dryness, a tile drain should be laid outside the bas? of this rock-work when the wall is built. The lowest floor of all extends back uuder about one-third of the barn, and ,so requires but little excavation. This floor has a manure pit upon one side, •while the remaining space is devoted

FLO OK l'LA.> OF FAlul. to the storing' of farm tools, large doors being placed on either side, so that a team can be*driven in one side and taken out the other without turning about. The floor devoted to young stock, sheep, pigs, &c., eau have entrances on two sides. For greater capacity the silo may be extended down to the floor of this basement.— Webb Donnell, in Country Gentleman. NOTES ABOUT HORSES. - .1 No part of a breeder's time is more profitably spent than that employed in looking after young foals. Kino Wiijjam, the largest horse in the world, being 2V4 hands high and weighing 3,0‘27 pounds, died recently in Indiana. The only Derby winners in twenty years which have done really well as four-year-olds are Ben Or, St. Gatien. Ormonde and Ayrshire. The present low prices have discouraged production so that it seems plain that by the time the foals of '94 and '95 are marketable the supply will be much reduced. Animals must show speed nowadays or they will bring but little money. It” is useless to tell a man that a horse is fast. He won’t believe it unless it is demonstrated to him. In England, in old times, when wet ground covered with moss was being drained and worked before it was thoroughly dry the plow horses were shod with boards ten inches square to prevent their sinking into the drains, which were covered with turf. At a recent sale iu England good driving horses sold briskly at 8550 each, good hunters and saddle horses sold for 81,000 dollars each, while tine, wellmatched carriage horses sold for $1,000 to SI,500 a pair. England has plenty of horses and uses electricity, yet there is a demand for good horses which are bred for special purposes. Dipping Hens for Hoe. It is not pleasant work to dip a lot of hens in order to rid them of lice. The best substances to use are some of the well-known sheep dips. The hens should be held by the legs, heads down, with one hand holding the head. Dip them with the head under! first, and let fhe solution cover every, portion of the body, not even the toes excepted. Pull them to and fro in the tub two three times and set them, free. It should be done only on Warm, clear days.—Farm and FireHide.

S. Government, through the Agricultural Department, has been investigating baking powders for the purpose of informing the public which was the purest, most economical and wholesome. The published report shows the Royal faking Powder to be a pure, healthful iparation, absolutely free from alum or any ulterant^ and that it is greatly stronger in leavening power than any other brand. Consumers should not let this valuable information, official and unprejudiced, go unheeded. . , : ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 108 WALL ST., NEW*YORK.

To tTaah ChalUen. Rice water is recommended in which to wash challies- Boil a pound of rice in five quarts of water; Cool it to the tepid point; then put in the (foods and wash well, usinif the rice as soap. Pour off the water, leaving the rice sediment. Rub the challie well in this, rinsing in the pou.red-off water. Use no rinsing water, but hang the materials to dry direct from the rice water.—Boston Budget.. THE MARKETS. © New York. Auk. 13, CATTLE—Native Steers .* 1 00 <fh COTTON—Middling.... .... (ft FLOUR-Winter Wheat. ..... *00 © WHEAT—No. 2 Red. ... 58*rt CORN—No. 2... © OATS—No. 2... PORK—New Mess..14 50 ST. LOUIS corroN-Middling._<_ © BEEVES—Shinplng Steers... 4 30 © Medico. __... 4 10 © BOGS—Fair to Select.. . 5 0>> (fa SHEEP— Fair to Choice 2 25 © FLOUR—Patents... 3 60 a Faocv to Extra do.. 2 P0 © WHEAT—No. 3 Red Winter... M*ft CORN—No.2 Mixed. .. © OATS—Nc. 2. © RYE—No. 2. 50 (ft TOBACCO-Lngs. .. 4 50 © Leaf Hurley.,. S 00 (ft BAY—Clear Timothv___ 9 .*0 (ft BUTTER—Choice Dairy_ 10 (ft EGGS—Fresh. © PORK—Standard Mess (new). © BACON—Clear Rib. Cm LARD—Prime Steam... 7*© CHICAGO CATTLE—Shipping.. 3 S3 © HOGS-Fairto Choice. 5 10 © SHEEP—Fair to Choice. ..... 2 50 (ft FLOUR-Winter Patents. ... 2 90 It Spring Pa tents...... 3 31 © WHEAT—No.2 Spring .... . 34*© No. 2 Red.. 84**3 CORN—No. 2. 55*© OATS—No.* .' .... © PORK— Mess tnew) . 13 35 © KANSAS CITY, 1894. 4 90 6* 4 30 59* 03 35 14 73 e* 4 75 4 50 5 32 H 2 73 2 75 2 40 52* 33* 31M 53 10 00 12 00 12 00 11 14 00 7V 7* 5 on 3 35 3 40 3 00 3 70 . 57* M* 53* 31 * 13 40 CATTLE—Shipping Steers... HOGS—A!1 Grades ... WHEAT—No.2 Red ... . OATS-^Na 2...... CORN—No. 2.r..... -.. NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade . J.. 2 «> CORN—No. 2.«l OATS-Western.,... 38 HAY-Choice... 14 50 PORK—New Mess............ BACON—Sides...... .... COTTON—Middling... .... LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 2 Red ..... 50 CORN-No 2 Mixed.• 53 OATS-No. 2yMixed (New).... 33*© PORK—New Mess.... 13 75 © BACON-Clear Rib. . 8*© COTTON—Middling .. & ©

Bw* m Bonn. A large number of flowers are boredr as it is believed, by humble-bees. They collect the nectar in this way, instead of entering by the mouth of the flower. Dr. J. Schneck, of Mt. Carmel, 111., one of our most observing botanists, believes these are not humble-bees—mem-bers of the genus Bombus—but belongto the genus Xylocopa. popularlyknown as Borers, or Carpenter Bees. He has certainly seen these creatures, slitting the tubes of clover, and bmn-ble-W&s entering the mouth in the legitimate way.—Meehan's Monthly. j. K ~ —One at a Time.—Bradley—“Say, Flannigan. why don’t yez take the elevator up wid that trunk?” Flannigan ; (just over)—“Indade, I’ll not. I’ll take but the trunk. It’s yourself that kin carry up the elevator.” Breakfast is the proper place to call theroll.

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