Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 May 1897 — Page 7

SAME OLD CHESTNUTS. Wf ««M>f Um terilfntn eontritet* from 050.000,000 to (200,000,000 uBiatl; t» «t into oar market we enable our own people to run their business at a profit.American Economist. Organ of Pro tec tire Tariff League. March, 20. 1S97

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Uncle Sam—Say, Dingley, yon might is well come down. You're not getting any chestnuts, and you're not getting voters. McKinley had some experience up that tree—it's a horse chestnut—in 1890. He pretended that be was making the foreigners pay the tax, but he

soon found out what t he people thought of him and his bill. The bulk of Amer- ■ icans are both honest and intelligent. The intelligent voter knows that yon can’t make the foreigners pay his taxes, and the honest voter prefers to pay his own Wn. You can never make yout bill popular by such tomfoolery.

CHAMP CLARK’S WIT. Qvrcrly Show* the Relation of the Poor Mon to lllnrh Dottea. Champ CJark, of Missouri, is not only ana of the wittiest men in the house of repreanatatives, but he is one of tbs best posted on the tariff question. In ridiculing some of the rates of the Dingley bill that to him seemed subject to criticism, he recited how a man of the name of Good year went befoty the m ays and means committee and secured the tariff he wanted by some skillful palaver about the great statesmen that Maine had produced. Then he said: “Mr. Chairman, that piece of ’soft •pap’ made it harder for every poor atom in the United States to build a house. Gov. Dingley swallowed the bait aa quick as a trout would swallow ally (laughter), and next summer some poor devil cut west, living in a dugout 100 miles from a railroad station, who opted for McKinley under the deluded Idea that prosperity would come under his administration and who has not beard of this tariff bill, ciphers it out that he can build him a two-room cottage with lumber and other building materials at the old rate, lie goes to the station to get the lumber and finds that the price has gone sky high, and he goes back to bis home and says to his wife: ‘My dear, I am sorry that we must stay In the dugout. We cannot build our little bouse. A great man by the name of Gov. Dingley has put the price of lumbar and~ other things so high that we cannot do it, but, thank God, he has left dragon’s blood free.’ (Laughter.) Next year, when my handsome friend from Iowa (Mr. Dolliver) returns to that fine agricultural district which he ns presents, some man who has not been able to buy a coat because of tbe high price of woolen cloth will say to his neighbor:, There comes Dolliver, who put up the price of woolen goods.’ Bui the successful candidate for the post office in that district says: ‘Ob, but; Dolliver put divi-divi-on the free list!’ And in chorus they sing: ’Dolliver and divi-divi forever.’” (Laughter. Applauae on the democratic aide.)

Protect I ns Wool*; rowers. Suppose the Dinglev duties on wool would (fire the woolgrowers all the protection claimed and that the price of wool would actually go up the full amount of the duty, which, of course, ia absurd. What would be the effect upon the country at large? Hr. Edward Atkinson, statistician, estimates the annual woo) product at tS5.000.000 out of a total of $13,200,000,000 produced by all the workers of the country and the persons dependent on the wool industry at 300,000 out of a total population of 73,000,000. The wool duty then means that out of every I 140 persons 239 are to be “held up” for the benefit of the other one. This is a sample of what protection does. Of course more than 300,000 persons may sometimes raise a few sheep, but the interests of these others are more those of the consumer than of the sheep raiser, and they would lose more because of the increased cost of woolens than they would gajn by the increased price of wool. The protective tariff system is a farce j when considered in connection with the I fanner or the workingman. Will they ever fully appreciate It? Jackson’s Protection Prophecy. The corjiorations and wealthy individuals who are engaged in large maim- 1 factoring establishments desire a high I tariff to increase their gains. Design- j ing politicians will support it to coned- j iate their favor and obtain the means < for profuse expenditure for the purpose ! of purchasing influence in other quar- i ters. Do not allow yourselves, my fellow citisens, to be misled in this subject. It is a system of injustice, and if persisted in will had to corruption and must end iu rutn.—Andrew Jackson in Hi* Farewell Address. Admits Price* Will He lltKher. With regard to Chr^rpian Dingley’a admission that the d» on wool will I Increase the price of wool, the Kansas CSty Times aava: The consumer and not the foreigner, therefore, pays the tariff tax. It concedes also that the home producer puts up bin price arbitrarily. Hr. Dingley's own words are a confession that the Dingley bill ia a fraud and a robbery of the people for Ike benefit of the few individuals and

BLAINE OPPOSED IT. Saw the Great Folly of Tallin* Rides Off the Free List. The following letter, from Secretary of State James G. Blaine in 1890. is sup* posed to have had great weight with the ways and means committee: Washington, April 10. 1S90. Dear Mr. McKinley: It Is a great mistake to take hides from the free list, where they have been for so many years. It is a slap in the face to the South Americans, with whom we are trying to enlarge our trade. It will benefit the farmer by adding five to eight per cent, to the price of his children's shoes. It will yield a profit to the butcher only, the last man that needs it. The movement is injudicious from beginning to end. in every form and phase. 1’ray stop it before it sees light. Such movements as this for protection will protect the republican party into a speedy retirement. Yours hastily. JAMES G. BLAINE, lion. William McKinley. Chairman Ways and Means. Where Is the Blaine this year who can head off the westerners who want their share of protection and foolishly imagine that they can get it by a duty on hides? It is perfectly consistent with the protection system to tax hides, especially as the bulk of the tax would probably go to a few monopoly butchers and ranchmen. But observe some of i the effects upon our industries: The importations of untaxed hides | and skins last year were val-ued at $20,216,258. The goatskins were valued at $10,303,359. The former were mostly converted into sole leather, beltings and such like heavy material, for which our native hides are not thick enough. The goatskins are not produced in this country. From this raw material we not only manufacture boots, shoes and leather goods for our own people cheaper and better than are made elsewhere in the world, but we exported finished products of the value of $20,242,756. Without free and cheap raw material this export trade would have been impossible, and our own people, as Mr. Blaine pointed out, would be compelled to pay I more for their footwear. The wages paid to our workers in leather laat yeai j amounted to $25,542,166. THE PROTECTION UMBRELLA, j .tri, iMitiMMWSlUBUt

An Odlooa Tat. The tin plate makers wish to boon ; their business by increasing* the duty ) on imported tin plate, to the injury of j the canning industry and other in* dustries that Sourish by reason j of cheap tin plate. Another blow is struck at business by abolishing j the rebate on exported tin cans. Mow canned goods exported in cans made of imported tin are allowed a draw back of the duty paid, and thus an export bust j ness has been built up in canned fruits, j oysters, vegetables, petroleum, etc, j Over 4,000,000 tin cans are sent abroad J annually, containing oil which com* : petes with that of Russia. When Bus* j sia can buy tin plate at $2.70 n box, ! while we have to pay $3.50 for it, it ia » evident that our competition will be j rendered difficult, Mr. Dingley robs i Peter to pay Paul.—Baltimore Sun. Fool I not the Farmer. Sample taxes from the Dingley bill, with comparisons showing the overwhelming foreign competition to which the farmer is subjected and wbat protection the ways and means committee regards as indispensable: Duty, Dingier bUl. Imports Exports to U.8. from 1*96. Barley, fee per bu...... 137,3*4 Corn. 15c per bu............ 4.3W Oats. 15c per bu... 47.506 Rye. lOc per bu.t. 154 Wheat, Sc per bu..1,110.696 Flour. Sc ad ral. (bbls)... 1.2M Butter. 6c per lb..... 52.067 Potatoes. Sc per bu. Total value of these exports bis the fiscal year 199tT7.... Total value Imports175.240 star* tpoi Mu' * m 7.690.W 12.012.590 *8.4* •9,450.0*0 14.630.964 t9.rn.ns

A SCIENTIST SAVED. Preildeat Bornnby, of HirtiTill. College, Survive* a Serioa* IIIbcm Through the Aid of Dr. WlUiau' Pink Pill* for Pole People. From the Republican, Columbus, Ind. The Hartsville College, situated at Hartsville, Indiana, was founded years ago in the interest of the United Brethren Church, when the state was mostly a wilderness, and colleges were scarce. The college is well known throughout the country, former students haring gone into all parts of the world.

PROP. ALVIN P. BARNABY. . A reporter recently called at this famous ■eat of learning and was shown into the room of the President, Prof. Alvin P. Barnaby. When last seen by the reporter Prof. Barnaby was in delicate health. To-day he was apparently in the best of health. In response to an inquiry the professor said: “Oh, yes, I am much better than for some time. I am now in perfect health; but my recovery was brought about in rather a peculiar way.” “Tell me about it,” said the reporter. “Well, to begin at the beginning,” said the professor, “I studied too hard when at school, endeavoring to educate myself for the professions. Alter completing the common course l came Un-re, and graduated from the theological course. 1 entered the ministry and accepted the charge- of a United Brethren Church at a small place in Kent County, Mich. Being of an ambitious nature, 1 applied myself diligently to my work and studies. In time 1 noticed that my health was failing. My trouble was indigos tion, and this with other troubles brought on nervousness. “My physician prescribed for me for some time, and advised me to take a change of climate. I did as requested and was sonu improved. Soon after 1 came here as a professor in physics and chemistry, aud later was tinanciai agent of this college. 'Hie change agreed with me, and for awhile my health was 1 letter, but my duties were heavy, and again 1 found my trouble returning. This time it was more severe and in the winter 1 became completely prostrated. 1 tried various uiediciues ana different physicians. Finally 1 was able to return to my duties. Last spring I was elected president of the college. Again I had considerable work, and the trouble, which had not been entirely cured, began to affect me, and last fall I collapsed. 1 had different doctors, but none did me any good. Professor Bowman. who is professor of natural science, told me of his experience with Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, and urged me to give them a trial, because they had benehted him iu a similar case, and 1 concluded to try them. “The first bo* helped me, and the Second gave great relief, such as I had never exjierienced from the treatment of any physician. After using six boxes of the medicine I was entirely cured. To-day I am perfectly well. I feel better and stronger than for years. I i ertainlv recommend this medicine.” To art ay all doubt I*rof. Barnaby cheer fuffv made an affidavit before LYMAN J. SCUDDKR, Notary Public. l>r. Williams* Pink Pills for Pale lVoplf are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on Receipt of price, 50 cents a l>ox oi six boxes for $2.50 (they are never so’d in bulk, or by the 1001, by addressing Dr. Wil hams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. The Future. Truth determines our status. Clod does not determine arbitrarily the fu ture whereabouts of men—the mar himself determines it. The association* of the future life will be according1 t< the bias and deliberate choice of tbit life. Birds of a feather flock togethei in the other world as in this. There i* a truth that is always true, and a right that is always right.—Rev. S. U. Aude: son, Congregationalism Toledo, O. Theosophy. Theosophy teaches a man to know himself, to detect the finer forces, of nature and his relation to all that lives, and to obey the laws that govern him is the path to happiness and progress here and hereafter. There is but one authority for belief that is the individual conception of truth. 0 Each one’s belief and conception will differ from those of others, henee theosophy teaches toleration toward all.—Dr. Allen Griffiths, Theosophist, San Francisco, Cat , THE MARKETS. New York. May 17. 1*37. CATTLE—Native Steers. ....... 4 25 ft* 5 iO COTTON - Middling . 7^ft FLOUR W iuter Wheat. S 25 ft WHEAT-No. 2 Red.. S2\ CORN—No. 2. OATS—No-2.... PORK—NewMess...._....a 8 75 ft ST. LOUIS. COTTON-Middling.. 7 Hft BEEVES— Steers... 3 25 ®i low. and Heifers .. 2 75 4® CALVES -eacn.................. 4 Ob ft HOGS-Fair to Select.. . 3 iO ft SHEEP—!• air to Choice....... 3 uu ft FLOUR Patents .. 4 «5 ft Fancy to Extra da3 73 ft WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter... WJ ft CORN-No. 2 Mixed. 24 ft OATS-No. 2... RYE—No. 2 33 TUB ACCO- Lugs. $ UU Leal Hurley. 4 so HAY—Clear Timothy . 9 OJ BUTTER -Choice Dairy-. 9 KUUS— Fresh.. PORK - Standard <oewj. BACON-Clear Rib.. ft LARD— Prime Steam. ...... ft CHICAGO CATTLE Native Steers.. 3 75 ft IftXiS—Fair to Choice.... 3 50 ft SHEEP Fair to Choice........ 3 25 ft FLOUR—Winter Patents...... 4 40 ft Spring Patents,. 3 90 ft WHEAT - No. 2 Spring.. .... • ® Na2Red. .... ft CORN-No. 2. 85i,ft OAT’S—No. 2. ft PORK—Mesa tnew>. ft KANSAS CITY CATTLE —Shipping Steens.... 3 50 a HOGS—All Omdee.... 3 *) WHEAT-No. 2 Red.......... OATS—No.2 White--...- 21V CORN—No. 2... lift NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Grade.. 4« ft CORN-No. 2. OATS-Western. 25 HAY—Cnoiee. I«5n PORK—New Mesa.... BACON - Side*....... COTTON —Middling ... ft LOUISVILLE WHEAT—Na 2 Red.. CORN-No. 2 Mixed. OATS-Ne 2Mixed.... PORK—New Mesa . B ACON —Clear Rib. «vvi-n >n—Middling.

STRONG COLONIES. WttAovt Them Beekeeptnt la Su» «• Be a Disappointment. One of the difficult things for the novice in beekeeping to learn is that ten strong colonies will store u»ore honey than twenty weak ones. There is an anxiety for large numbers, and each colony is counted one, no matter how feeble it may be. So the inexperienced is of i n delighted at getting two, three, or even four or five •warms from a single colony, notwithstanding the fact that the last two or three swarms contain only a handful of bees. They make sure to die before the winter is over, and then he decides that he doesn’t care for such very weak colonies, but still clings to the thought that one strong enough to live through it is all right. Many times, however, it is true economy to lessen the number, even with the view of having the largest number possible in the succeeding fall. Suppose, for instance, there are four weak colonies in the spring, each one having enough bees to fairly cover two combs. Unite two of them and leave the other two without uniting. You now have only three colonies instead of four, and yet you may be better off; for the one colony, with bees to cover four combs, will go right on iucreasing in strength, and by the time the white clover harvest is fairly under way it will be strong enough to give you a rousing swarm, and you will now have two strong colonies for it, while the two weaklings have only just begun fairly to build up. They stood still, not showing any increase in number for a long time, evidently needing i all the strength they had to keep up ! existence and make good the loss of the dying bees by the young bees raised. If, instead of trying to increase, the j effort be to get all the honey possible, j supposing neither colony offers to j swarm, the difference is fully as notice- | able, if not more so. The united colony j will have more bees than there are in ! both the others. It is easy to see that j it will store more surplus. But if you’ve j hud no experience in the mutter it may j be hard for you to believe how muel j more.—Farmers’ Union. AN EXCELLENT PLAN. Vesting and Breeding Arrangement for n Poultry Farm. Dark nests and convenience in gathering eggs from them characterize the plan shown herewith. The right of the cut represents the hallway, from which the nests are reached by lifting the hinged cover, as shown. The entrance to the nests is seen on the pen side of the partition, the dotted lines showing position of partition between the dark walk and the nests. A hinged cover, shown by dotted lines, gives access to this alleyway, so it can be swept occesionally. Below the dests are grated 4 i4 I

- ' ' l ' / NEAT NESTING ARRANGEMENT. Openings iuto the hallway so that the fowls can be fed and watered in the hall, thus affording no chance of spilling or soiling the food or water. With tins arrangement nearly all the work of caring for the fowls oau be done from the hallway.—American Agriculturist. AMONG 4hE POULTRY. From 33 to 40 ducks and drakes are allowed in a pen. The shell of an egg contains about 15 grains of salt of lime. Forty dressed ducklings are packed in a barrel for shipment. The duck averages ten dozen eggs in about seven months' laying. Build the house ten by ten feet for ten fowls, and the yard ten times larger. Ducklings are marketed at live pounds weight, which they attain in ten weeks. Thirteen eggs are considered a setting, though many breeders are now giving 15. Ten dozen eggs a year is the average estimate given os the production of the hen. About four dozen eggs are given as ar average for the annual output of the turkey. Duck feathers sell at 40 cents per pound; goose feathers bring double the amount. Between 40 and 50 degrees is the proper temperature to keep eggs for hatching during winter. Fggs intended for hatching should not be kept over four weeks. They must be turned over every day or two. It will require seven pounds ol skimmed milk to equal one pound ol lean beef for flesh-forming qualities. One dollar per head is the average cost of keeping a fowl a year, and the same amount is a fair estimate of the profits.—Poultry Monthly. Sawdust Is Daaverous. Do not put sawdust in poultry pens it the fowls eat it there may soon be some cases of cropbound chickens, as it is liable to pack in the crop. It also gathers moisture and causes dampness. No matter how convenient a pile ol sawdust may be it bad best be let alone. Road dust is much better. This applies to fowls that are confined. When allowed a free range they are not likely to eat so much of any thing so undesirable as sawdust that It will injure them, but when abut up they do not discriminate very closely when it cornea to filling their crops.—Dakota Fiaid and i

by local application*, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When' this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can he taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any' case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. Hardly any of ns like people who talk so much about their own troubles that they can’t listen to ours.—Washington Democrat. Don’t refuse or excuse—St. Jacobs Oil’s the cure for bruise. Lecturer—“The entire historv of the world has moved in cycles.” Sprocket— “What make?”—Philadelphia North American. Why the Warehouse Bill Should Pass. For a number of years the tendency in •>riees of grain has been downward and the intermediate charges on grain between the producer and the consumer in the way of commissions have become of more and more importance to the producer. The reduction >f such chaiges to a minimum has become an absolute necessity. The reduction has come about naturally through active competition by dealers in a half dozen cities which are reaching out for the grain business of the west. The public warehouses have been a most important factor in furnishing to the farmers of Illinois a broad and active market. This has been done without interfering with the business of the country grain merchants. A system has been developed which has proved entirely satisfactory to the country at large, but apparently is not satisfactory to a little coterie of dealers on the Chicago Board of Trade. This coterie has attached the proprietors of public elevators on every- possible ground and has denied them the'right in common with other grain merchants to buy and sell grain. The public warehousemen for years have dealt iu grain and the competition stimulated by their position in the trade has be#n most beneficial to the interests of the farmer. While the custom of warehousemen dealing in grain has been established by custom the Illinois statutes are silent as to their rights and powers. The bill now in the legislature clearly defines their rights and meets any objection which could be raised to their acting in the capacity of grain merchants and warehousemen at the same tune. The proposed legislation is in the interests of the producers of grain throughout the state and should be enacted. The opposition comes from the Chicago Board of Trade people who have been persistently lighting the elevator interests for years. They have raised the cry of monopoly and arc attempting to discredit the warehouse bills. They have made the most reckless assertions as to the prospective results under the proposed law, while the fact is that the law does not contemplate any new order of things, hut simply a continuation of the system which is familiar to the state at large. The people leading the attack on the Dill are singularly inconsistent. Their objection to a warehouseman dealing in grain is that he is placed in a position to discriminate between himself and other owners of grain stored in his warehouse to the prejudice of the other owners. This objection is full? met by the section which provides for su pervision of the warehouse business by the state. The Chicago Board of Trade less than two years ago made a demand on the warehousemen for just such supervision as is now contemplated, but which could not be granted without a change in the state ’aws. Minnie—"I want to introduce you to a young lady—a very nice young lady—and she's worth her weight* in gold.” Bob— “Stout girl, I hope.”—Tit-Bits.

r THOUGHT THAT KILLED A MAN! llE thought that he could trifle 11 with disease. He was run down in health, felt tired and worn oat, complained of dizziness, biliousness, backaches and headaches. His liver and kidneys were out of order. He thought to get well by dosing himself with cheap remedies. And then can the ending. He fell a victim to Bright’s disease! The money he ought to have invested in a safe, reliable remedy went for a tombstone. Is the only standard remedy In the world for kidney and liver complaints. It is the only remedy which physicians universally prescribe. It is the only remedy that is backed by the testimony of thousands whom it has relieved and cured. THERE IS HOTHIHC ELSE THAT CAN TAKE IT8 PLA To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals, and to nave a deference for othert governs our manners.—N. Y. Weekly. TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL*. The Lowest Rates Ever Made to an Exposition la This Country. The Exposition in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the admission of Tennessee into the Union is not a local affair by any means. It far surpasses in extent of buildings, beauty of grounds, interesting exhibits and number of both foreign and home attractions any exhibition ever held in this country, with the possible exception of the Columbian of 1893. Located as it is on the main line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad it is in the direct line of travel between the North and the South, and can be visited en route with loss of but little time. The extremely low rates that ! have been established make it cheaper to go j a little out of your way, even, to take m this great show, while its own attractions will well repay a special visit. Write Mr. C. P. Atraore, Gen’l Pass. Agent, Louisville, Ky., for matter concerning it. Gorge the memory and starve the understanding.—Ram's Horn. Pains and aches break down. St. Jacobs (Jil builds up and finishes with a cure. A man who has a job the year round and is earning a living ought to be happy.— Washington Democrat. “Star Tobacco.1? As you chew tobacco for pleasure, use Star. It is not only the best, hut the most lasting, and therefore the cheapest. The people are so hungry for sympathy that no one is ever pleased at being told that he looks well.—Atchison Globe. Just try a 10c box of Cascarets candy cathartic,finest liver and bowel regulator made. Why are you afraid in the dark?—Atchison Globe. They who clamor for their rights, multiply their wrongs.—Ram’s Horn.

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Who opened that ‘ bottle of HIRES Root beer? The popping of a cork from a bottle of I Hires is a signal of good health and plea-' sure. A sound the old folks like to hear —the children can’t resist it. HIRES Rootbeer la composed of the very ingredients the system requires. Aiding the digestion, soothing the nerves, purifying the blood. A temperance drink tor temperance people. MaSaatiyky i Charts* a Bins Cs..

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