Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 April 1895 — Page 3

THE TAX ON INCOMES. -* , It Already Amount* to Nearly Fifteen Million Dollars — Surprise* From tl»e West—The East, Which Opponents of the Tea 8aM Would Fay Seventy Fer Cent, of the Tax. shows About TwentyFive Fer Cent, on Return*. Washington, April 22.—Widespread interest exists as to the facts shown by the income tax returns received up to this time at the treasury department. So much of ah economic interest will * be had when these retnrns are fully in, and they will be of so much value as indicators of the material condition of the whole country, that their publication will, naturally be impatiently looked, ior.Vr, So far, however, only meagqr. information has been received and only the most general statements can be made from the voluntary assessments now in. Commissioner Miller announces that ^ from the figures on hand he is abfe to estimate that the returns now in will bring iu a'collected tax of S14,365.000. And the commissioner further states this amount is continually rising in all amended reports received from collectors. There are various estimates as to the amount which will be added to this when the ineorae tax collector has made his rounds and all of the delinquents have been enrolled to pay not only, the usual 2 per cent. tax. but the penalty of 50 per eent addition. In making public this aggregate amount the commissioner refuses to segregate the assessments into their respective states or districts. He advances several reasons for this. In the first place, the returns which he has so far jreceived from the collectors are necessarily of hurried making, and in many instances incomplete upon their face. Not only would the publication of thesp amounts, if incorrect, *eause confusion, bat such a publication would be tinjust to many states making a poor showing. In fact, the returns now in show such marked divisions in prosperity "throughout, the country that it is doubtful, if the commissioner will, even in his annual report, make a segregated statement, in view of the sectional feeling wliieh would result.

Sectionally,what is known as the old south makes the most pitiful returns. From Maryland to Louisiana the work 31 the income-taxs collector will be tery light. And the undoubted impruvqgnent which has been going on in this southeastern section for the past fifteen yeaVs will have to continue for some years longer before it Can ^tnake a respectable appearance, in line 'with the opulent northeast and the triumphant west. Yes, triumphant west. For it is from there that the surprises jf the income tax returns come. All during the arguments which for the past two years have been turning the income tax problem up and down and over the statement has been made and generally agreed to that the east would pa3’ the tax. This is not so. The east, it is generally known, will not pay even half of the tax. It will hardly pay a third, unless you include in your estimate all of Pennsylvania, Maryland and WestVirginia. The grow- , ing west, the prosperous west, the virile, bustling, brawny west, is no pauper and is fast taking to itself the riches of the country along with its sunset moving center of population. * Senator Hill, the most careful and dependable opponent of the tax, and those who took his estimates, used to declare that New York state would pay fu}|y 70 per cent of the tax. In this the senator was but a poor prophet. New York will not pay 25 per cent of the income tax unless the forced collections should greatly change the ratio shown by the voluntary assessments now in. In fact with the figures now in hand the returns of New York aud New England together do not far overreach the 25 per cent. mark. In nearly every iustance the western states have overreached the estimate which the commissioner placed upon them. For instance, it was thought after the supreme court had pruned down the law, that the state of Texas would contribute revenue amounting to about $100,000. From the voluntary , assessments now in, Texas promises to pay more than 8140,000 or about 1 per cent, of the whole tax. Western cities,like St. Louis and Chicago, make splendid showings of prosperity, and states like Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Texas and California bring up the returns from the prosperous west amazingly. From the city of St. Louis alone comes more than 8500,000, and the re--v, turns from the rest of the state run this up to about $800,000. While Ohio is not generally looked upon as differing in character from In- , diana and Kentucky, yet its city of Cincinnati and its many manufacturing towns place it far ahead in the returns received as cpm pared with the other states mentioned. After New York comes easily rich Pennsylvania. This big=commonwealth will give in a tax upon its wealth that will, surprise even well-posted economists. And it moreover contains some startling examples of money centralization. One of its corporations alone, the Pennsylvania Bailroad Co., in its last sworn statement, showed that during the past year it had paid over $15,000,000 in interest and had a profit income of over $7,225,000 remaining. The income tax on this one Pennsylvania corporation alone xjriU be as much as that paid by the whole state of Texas. The officers have many methods of checking the returns, and many sources of information which will Verify or disprove the returns made. For iustance, the statements of their condition which all national banks make to the comptroller of the currency from time to time during the year, and which are always made as favorable as possible, will be used in verifying the statements, these same banks have made to? the income tax collectors as to their taxable earnings for the last twelves months. No doubt many an unwary bank will be caught in Ihi* wav.

MILK FOR THE PIGS. Good Thing When Fed la Cooaoetllon aritb Something; Cine. There is hardly any doubt that with good management a better profit can be realized in feeding' the milk to thrifty growing pigs than to make into butter, take to the country stores and sell at the price usually received, at least during the greater part of the aeason, and at a considerable saving of time and labor. But in feeding milk to pigs to make the most of it, in nearly all cases it must be fed in connection with something else. From the time the pig is farrowed until it is ready to finish for market, milk can be made its entire food, and later on its principal food. The milk must at first be supplied by feeding the sow with good milk-producing food, and as soon as the pig learns to eat it can be fed milk, and if the sow is feci sloppy foods made up with milk the pig will learn to eat much earlier than if corn or grain of any kind is depended upon. But in nearly all cases the best way of feeding milk is in connection with other foods, as it requires too large an amount of milk alone to make a pound of gain in a pig. But made into a slop with middlings and bran, oil meal and bran, or cornmeal and bran, it not only makes a healthy, but an economical food. But even then the lowest cost of growth will not be realized unless, in addition, good pasturage is provided. Give growing pigs the run of a good pasture—clover is always 'best—and then feed a good milk slop night and morning, and in a majority of cases the best growth at the lowest cost can be realized. And if this is done milk can be sold at a better price, fed in this way to vigorous, thrifty pigs, than will be realized by making into butter at eight or ten eents a pound at the country store, and all of the labor of butter making be avoided in addition. It is true that in a, majority of eases the same milk and the same amount of labor spent in making poor butter will, with different management, make butter that will bring two or three timei that much.—Prairie Farmer.

THE KEY TO SUCCESS. it Pays to Pat Thlnjt on tbe Market In Prime Condition. The farmer who is contented with average Crops sold in the average condition must expect only average prices. He who produces anything and puts it on the market in prime condition is the one who is going to make sales first and get top prices. The average man comes alopg later. No matter what you have, lo sell, put it in the best possible condition for market and see to it that you can adopt the same motto that we once saw in a barrel of apples in the east. When the head was taken out of that barrel there was exposed a printed slip which said: “This package was produced and packed by John Smith, who guarantees that when you see the top you see the whole.” The commission man told us that he never had any trouble with anything that man sent in, for his reputation had been made. He not only packed his fruit and vegetables in the best manner, but sorted the sizes, and when the package was opened the buyer knew just what to expect from top to bottom. We know a farmer who takes his grain to market and dumps it wherever the buyer tells him to, and is then asked how many bushels he had. His grain is never looked at nor weighed by the man who has weighed it for years; if it is not in good condition he insists on inspection, but if he knows it is all right he unloads and gets his pay. A reputation of that kind is worth more than a good farm, for it brings a greater return. Honesty is not only the best policy, but it is absolutely necessary to final success Carelessness is the costliest habit a farmer can fall into, and trickery, while it may seem to succeed for a time, must cost more than it comer to in the end.—Connecticut Farmer. SWINGING TROUGH. Every Farmer Who Keep* Bogs Shoalc Examine Thin Device. The illustrations show a hog trough that is pivoted in the partition, and swings out into the walk to be filled, and is tipped back into the pen for the hogs to feed from it. One can thus clean out the trough and fill it

without molestation from the occupant of the pen, and will be in no danger of turning half the feed upon the hog's head, as in the case with the trough with a spout. The construction of the trough is fully shown in the cuts and needs no further explana* tion.—Farm Journal. £** " 1 —■— - ■ Simple Care for Lock]**A writer in Clark’s Horse Review gives his experience in curing lockjaw, in which he says: 4‘If a nail is picked up get it out, of course, as soon as possible; then get a half pail of hot water —as hot as the horse ean possibly stand it—pour in plenty of vinegar and also plenty of salt. This is all, only it must be so hot that at first when you put the horse’s foot in it he will pull the foot out of the water; put in again and keep on doing so until you can hold the foot in steadily. Hold it in half an hour or longer and repeat it again after two hours. Do this at least four times or more the first day and repeat the process ne^t day. , In nine cases out of ten it will save the horse. It has been tried on man, and I used it myself on my own horse. Some one may say that this remedy is no good, but if I had a valuable horse it is the remedy I would try. Nothing will kill the poison quicker if taken in time.” Ik France old, worn-out horses are converted into chicken food.

f.....—.•.. 1 ""'— —One result of the hard times has been a tendency to restrict club credits. * Most clubs hare a rule upon this subject that is not too strictly enforced in flush times, and every large club expects to hare some thousands of dollars owing to it from members who hare enjoyed the good things of this life on credit. When hard times come arrears of this sort tend to swell to an embarrassing size, and probably erery club in New York, sare two or three of the richest, has been forced to pat its own regulations strictly in force within the last eighteen months. —Hose wagons are steadily supplanting hasp'llreels for use in fire departments^ When a new hose apparatus is ordered it is generally a wagon. In the wagon the hose is simply laid down in folds. The wagon may not be so picturesque as a jaunty four-wheeled hose carriage, but a well-built hose wagon is by no means a bad-looking rehicie, and is found to be more useful in serrice. I COMPLETELY PARALYZED Physicians Are Astounded by a Peculiar Oass. A Young Man Stricken with Undrjr'i Paralysis and Yet Recovers. IFrom the Times. Philadelphia, Pa] » Stricken with Landry’s Paralysis, and yet rured. That means but little to the average layman but it means a miracle to a physi:ian. Such is the experience of O. E. Dallimore now a resident of Madison, N. J., and a rare experience it is. “Yes, it is true that 1 had Landry’s Par aljrsis,” said Mr. DaUimnre to a reporter, “or else the most celebrated physicians of London were .mistaken. “It was on the 15th of March, this year,” he continued, “when I was. in New York city, that I first felt the symptoms of my trouble. I experienced difficulty in going up stairs, my legs failing to support me. I Consulted a physician who informed me that I had evpry symptom of Locomotor Ataxia, but as the case developed be pronounced it a case of Landry’s Paralysis and knowing the nature of the disease advised me to start for my home and friends. I gave up my work and on April 1st started for London, Out. A well-known physician was consulted but I grew rapidly worse and on Saturday, April 7, several eminent physicians held a consultation .n my case and informed me that I vva. at death's door, having but three to six days to live, still I lingered on, by this time completely paralyzed, my hands and feet being dead,. j could hardly whisper my wants and could only swallow liquids. Ob, the misery of those moments are beyond all description and death would really have been a welcome visitor.

‘ .Now, comes tnepart mat lias astounded the physicians. Rev. Mr. Gondy, a clergyman who visited me in my last hours, as he supposed, told me of the marvellous cures of paralysis that had been performed by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. I started to take the pills about April 28 and a week after that felt an improvement in my condition. There was a warm, tingling sensation in the limbs that had been entire ly dead and I soon began to move my feet and hands, the improvement continued until May 28 when i was taken out of bed for a drive and drove the horse myself. By the beginning of July 1 was able to walk upstairs alone and paid a visit to Niagara. “Slowly but surely I gained my old health and strength leaving Ontario for New York on October 11 and be ginning my work again on October 2d, 1894. Cured of Landry’s Paralysis in eight months.” To confirm his story beyond all doubt, Mr. Dallimoremade the following affidavit. Sworn ana subscribed before me December 8,1894. , Amos C. Rathbi x, I SEAL. I Notary Public. >r. Williams’ Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for sale by all druggists, or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, 8cbeuectady,N. Y., for SO cents per box, or six boxes for $2.50. Wifb (to unhappy husbandv*-“I wouldn’t worry, John; it doesn’t do any good to borrow trouble.” Husband—1 ‘Borrow trouble! Great Caesar, my dear, I ain’t borrowing trouble; 1 have it to lend.”—Colorado Sun. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than ail other diseases put together, and until the last lew years was sup posed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to crje 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 aundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send xcr circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. O. df“Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills, 25 cer ts. THE MARKETS. New York, April 2?, 1S9N CATTLE-Native Steers.* 4 80 sat 6 00 COTTON—Middling.. 6*@ 7 FLOUR—Winter Wheat. 2 40 @ 3 25 WHEAT-No. 2 Red.5 «JX«a CORN-No. i.. @ » OATS—No. 8.. . 52 @ PORK—New Mess... 13 50 it 14 00 ST. LOUIS. COTTON— Middling. @ BEEVES—Fancy Steers...... 6 75 @ Medium. 4 50 fit HOGS—Fair to Select. 4 65 a SHEEP—Fair to Choice....... 3 23 it FLOUR—Patents. 8 00 a Fancy to Extra do.. 2 40 WHEAT—No 2 Red Winter. CORN-No. 2 Mixed. Oats—No. 8 . RYE-No.2. 56 TOBACCO-Lugs.. 3 00 Leaf Burley....... 4 50 HAY—Clear Timothy,..... 9 00 B UTTER—Choice Dairy.. 13 EGGS-Fresh ... PORK—Standard Mess (New). BACON—Clear Rib . LAUD—Prime Steam. OHICAUU CATTLE—Shipping.. HOGS—Fair to Choice—«... SHEEP—Fair to Choice....... FLOUR—Winter Patents..... Spring Patents.. 3 10 _ W HE AT—No. 2 Spring. d2)*@ No 2Red. 57?»@ fci CORN—Na 2. 43X® 45: OATS—No. 2.... ... PORK—Mess (new).. 12 27)4® 12 40 KANSAS CITYCATTLE—Shipping Steers.... 4 50 @ HOGS—All Grades.. 4 40 @ WHEAT-No. 2 Red. & OATS-No. 2. 28X@ CORN—No. 2.i.. it NEW ORLEANS FLOUR—High Grade .... 2M @ CORN—No. 2. 51 @ OATS—Western. .. a HAY-Choice. 15 59 @16 00 PORK-New Mess .. .... @ 12 82)4 BACON—Sides. @ 7* COTTON—Middling. . 6)4 a 6s LOUISVILLE WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 63 @ 64 CORN-No. 2 Mixed. 48)4@ 47)4 OATS—No. 2 Mixed.. 31M@ 32), PORK-New Mess.... IS OO @ 13 50 BACON—Clear Rib.. 7)4 (6 7X COTTON—Middling .. @ 6* 250

K>YAL BAKING POWDER is the purest and strongest baking powder made. It has received the highest award at the U. S. Gov’t official investigation, and at all th?Great International Expositions and World’s Fairs wherever exhibited in competition with others. It makes the finest, lightest, sweetest, most wholesome bread, cake and pastry. More economical than any other leavening agent ROYAL BAKING PGWOCR CO., 106 WALL 8T., NEW»YORIt

“Kind hearts are more than coronets,*’ But somehow with the belles, In choosing mates for life, it is The coronet that tells. —Washington 6 tar. This Mom Basin***. On the principal lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway passenger trains are electric lighted, steam heated and protected by block signals. With these modern appliances, railway traveling at high speeds has reached a degree of safety heretofore unknown and not attainable on roads where they are not m use. Electric lights and. steam heat make it possible to dispense with the oil lamp and the car stove. Block signals have reduced the chances for collisions to the minimum by maintaining an absolute interval of space between trains. A path may look pleasant and yet be filled with footprints made by the cloven hoof.— Ram's Horn. * A Cheap Trip South. Tickets will be sold at one fare round trip to points in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida, on the line of the Louisville & Nashville, and Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroads, on January 8, February 5, March 5, April 2 and 30,1395. Ask your ticket agent about it, and if he cannot sell! you excursion tickets write to C. P. Atmorei'General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky., Jackson Smith. D. P. A., Cincinnati, O., or Geo. L. Gross, N. W. P. A., Chicago, 111. Hanging and Wiving go by destiny.— Shakespeare. Attbr physicians had given me up, I was, saved by Peso's Cure.—Ralph Ekieg, Williamsport, Pa., Nov. 22,1393. Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.—Burke.

Manchester people are not yet posted in sea-faring lingo. Thus, a Manchester ship canal hand was overheard shouting at the top of his voice to a captain: “Are you bringing in the blunt end or the sharp end of that ship?’"—Tit-Bits. “How’s tocr infant son!” “First ratejust like a student.” “How so!” “Sleeps in the daytime, kicks up a row at night. "— Fliegende Blatter. “I don't think your arguments against Wagner are sound.” “Well, if they are not, that's where thev differ from Wagner's music.”—Harper’s bazar.

What an ordinary man eats and the way he eats it would be enough to give dyspepsia to an ostrich—unless the ostrich were wise enough to assist his digestion from time to time an efficient combination of veget able extracts. Such a preparation is Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They are the pills par excellence for those who

- sometimes eai the wrong things and too much. They stimulate action in all of the digestive organs. They stop sour stomach, windy belchings, heartburn, flatulence and cure constipation, biliousness, dyspepsia, indigestion, sick headache ana kindred derangements. „ Once used they are always In favor.

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worK it saves, ana time, ana r iDDing, noming seems more absurd than to try to clean ho lse without it. Pearline— no soap with it—just Pearline- -makes house-cleaning easy. A GREAT GOUGH REMEDY. Perhaps you may think that Scott’s Emulsion is only useful to f atten babies, to round up the angles and make comely and attractive, lean and angular women, and fill out the hollow chee m and stop the wasting of the consumptive, and enrich and vitalize the blood of the scrofulous and anaemic persons. It will do all this —but it will do more. It will cure a Hard, Stubborn Cough when the ordinary cough syrups and specifics entirely fail. The cough that lingers after the Grip and Pneumonia will be softened and cured by the balsamic healing and strengthening influences of this beneficent food-medicine, namely, Scott s Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil and Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda Refuse substitutes. They are never as good. Scott & Qowne, New York. All Druggists. 50c. and SU

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■n v.t KKVsaBOHU Did jm tt« >kf to think ho* completely tho AarmuSW ©a. mad* tho madam windmill basinsasf gBo* it hoi money •Used this entire lino of manufacture honooo of iti lit*. deaiftis, qualities and priose. or forced othma he ho litoral and servile imitator* t Witneoa tho itn! k geared pumper, tho high t fared paean to eon, ftxod and bkioc. tho galvaniiinm completion, tho (Tinder centrifugal feed, tho impreead irrigating and ether pump*, tho all eteoi polo caw—amo of tho moot popular thing* or* ***r put oak —the a tool atarag* and dock tanks. Everything m keen touched or* have bettered and cheapened. It is the thing a* haoo delighted in and it has paid, We have established e seven of branch hoosea, ao as to haoo all the** goods near those ate want them. The AermotorOa. has bet one mors ambition. ft want* to bnild and tU an* mar* new building. It be* 3 acres of land at it» present lacatiem unaacupiad by bafldinga. M as* peats to commence in Janata eovsr that t acres with a single building. I stories high. Ibis will fie* it 11 more sens of low ipace. Then when thi public demand require* mar* guodn than can be produced with this added space, it will refuse On •stand further, or mah* say effort. ’It will hsosdoao its shat* to supply that d» stand. It will then tarn away ail' new real era. nrritthat ti«* it tinosro corriTtk to stmt THE WOULD WITH THE GREATER PART OP RE WIMft WHEELS TOWERS, GRUDgRS, PEED CITTEKS PTEPS. STEEL FRAME Bl» SAWS. STEEL STORAGE AMD STOLE TASKS STEEL SrfcTRrCTVRER ETC, ETC, SAL. TA5IZEO AFTER COMPLETION. IT WILL COBTIBPR TO BEAL MOST UBERAIXT WITH THE FCRLIC, MRIEH HEPAIRS AT A LOW PRICK, AMD BE THE GEE At MODEL. aCABE-OEALUG W10O POWER Alt., WATER StPPLH iCER OP THE WORLD. AESHOTOR CO, CHKaGD. I was qjJHcUd with catarrh last autumn. During the month of October I could neither taste or smell and could hear but little. Ely's Orvam Balm cured it— Marcus Goo. ShauU, Bahway, X T. CATARRH ELY’S CBEAX BALX Opens end cleanses the Nasal Passages. Allays Pal tv and Inflammation. Heals the Sores, Protects the Membrane from colds. Restores the Senses of Tastm and Smell. The Balm Is quickly absorbed and gleam relief et once. _ A particle taapplled Into each nostril and le agree able. Price 50 cents at Druggists or by mail, ELY BROTHERS, SB Warren Street. Mew York. The Greatest Medical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY’S MEDICAL DISCOVERY. DONALD KENNEDY, of ROXDURY, HASS.. Has discovered in one of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a common Pimple. He has tried it in ov$r eleven hundred cases, and never failed except in two cases (both thunder humor.) He nas now in his possession over two hundred certificates of its value, aii within twenty miles at Boston. Send postal card for book. A benefit is always experienced from the first bottle, and a perfect cure is warranted when the right quantity is taken. When the lungs are affected it causes shooting pains, like needles passing: through them; the same with the Liver or Bowels? This is caused by the ducts being stopped, and always disappears in * week after taking it. Read the label. If the stomach is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first. No change of diet ever necessary. Eat the best you can get, and enough of it. Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bedtime. Sold bv all Druggists.

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