People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1892 — Page 3

"'.'III JP II "■""• deptrtment and of great frietton and unrest be- I tween the settlers who desire to occupy it and the" Indians who assert title. The agreement which has been made by the commission is perhaps the most satisfactory that could have been reached. It will be noticed that it is conditioned uponits ratification by congress before o’v 1 *’ 18931 Tbe secretary of the interior, who has given th? subject very careful thought, recommends the ratification of the agreement. Certain it is that some action by which this controversy shall be brought to an end and these lands opened to settlement is urgent. Alaska. The form ofgovernment provided by congress on Mdy 17, 1884, for Alaska was, in its frame and purpose, temporary. The increase of population and the development of some important mining and commercial interests make it imperative that the law should be revised and better provision made for the arrest and punishment of criminals. F The Land Office. The report of the secretary shows a very gratifying state of facts as to the condition of the general land office. The work of issuing agricultural patents, which seemed to be hopelessly in arrear when the present secretary underiook the duties of his office, has been so expedited that the bureau is now upon current business. The relief which was afforded to honest and worthy settlers upon the public lands, by gyring to them an assured title to their entries, has been of incalculable benefit in developing the new states and the territories. The court of private land claims, established by congress for the promotion es this policy of speedily settling contested land titles, is making satisfactory progress in its work and when the work is completed a great impetus will be given to the development of those regions where unsettled claims under Mexican grants have so long exercised their repressive influence. When to these results are added the enormous cessions of Indian lands which have been opened to settlement, aggregating during this administration nearly 26,000,000 acres, and the agreements negotiated and now pending in congress for ratification, by which about 10,000,000 additional acres will be opened to settlement, it will be seen how much has been aoaomplished. The Indian Bureau. The work in the Indian bureau, in the execution of the policy of recent legislation, has been largely directed to the chief purposes: First, the allotment of lands in severalty to the Indians and the cession to the United States of the surplus lands; and, second, to the work of educating the Indians for their own protection in closer eontact with the white man and for the intelligent exercise of his new citizenship Allotments have been made and patents issued to 5,900 Indians under the present secretary ana commissioner, and 7,600 additional allotments have been made for which patents are now in process of preparation. The school attendance of Indian children has been increased during that time over 13 per cent., the enrollment for 1892 being nearly 20,000. A uniform system of school text books and of study has been adopted, and the work in these national schools brought as near as mav be to the basis of the free common schools of the states. These schools can be transferred and merged into the common school systems of the states when the Indian has fully assumed his new relation to the organized civil community in which he resides and the new states are able to assume the burden. I have several times been called upon to remove Indian agents appointed by me, and have done so promptly upon every sustained complaint of unfitness or misconduct I believe, however, that the Indian service at the agencies has been improved and is now administered, on tae.whole.with agoid degree of efficiency. If any legislation is possible by which the selection of Indian agents can be wholly removed from all partisan suggestions or consideration I am sure it would be a great relief to the executive and a great benefit to the service. The appropriation for the subsistence of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians made at the last session of congress was inadequate. This smaller was estimated for by the commissioner upon the theory that the larger fund belonging to the tribe in the public treasury could be and ought to be used for their support In view, however, of the pending depredation claims against this fund and other considerations, the secretary of the interior on the 12th of April last submitted a supplement estimate for feo,000. This appropriation was not made, as it should have been, and the oversight ought to be remedied atghe earliest possible date. In a special message to this congress at the last session I stated the reason why I had not approved the deed for the release to the United States by the Choctaws and Chickasaws of the lands formerly embraced in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations and remaining after allotments to that tribe. A resolution of the senate expressing the opinion of. that body, notwithstanding the facts stated in my special message, that the deed- should be approved and the money. 82,991,450, paid over was presented to me May 10, 1892. My special message was intended to call the attention of congress to this subject and in view of the fact that it is conceded that the appropriation proceeded upon a false basis as to the amount of lands to be paid for, and is by 850,000 in excess of the amount they are entitled to (even if their claim to the land is given full recognition at the rate agreed upon), I have not felt willing to approve the deed, 'and shall not do so at least until both houses of congress have acted upon the subject, It has been informally proposed by the claimants to release this sum of 850,000, but I have no power to demand or accept such a release, and such an agreement would be without consideration and void. I desire further to bail the attention of congress to the fact that the recent agreement concluded with the Kiowas and Comancbes relates to lands which were a part of the “leased district,” and to which the claim of the Choctaws and Chickasaws is precisely that recognized by congress in the legislation I have referred to. The surplus lands to which this claim would attach In the Kiowa and Comanche reservation is 2,500 acres and at the same rate the government will be called upon to pay to the Choctaws and Chickasaws for these lands 83,125,000. This sum will be further augmented, especially If the title of the Indians to the tract now known as Grier county, Tex., is established. The duty devolved upon me In this connection was simply to pass upon the form of the deed; but as, in my opinion, the facts mentioned in my special message were not adequately brought to the attention of congress in connection with the legislation, I have felt that I would not be jretlfied in noting without soma new expression <jf the legislative will The Pension Bureau. The report of the commissioner es pensions, to which extended notice is given by the secretary of the interior in his report, will attract . great attention. Judged by the aggregate amount of work done the last year has been the greatest in the history of the office. I believe the organization of the officers efficient and that the work has been done with fidelity. The passage of what is known as the disability bill has, as was foreseen, very largely increased the annual disbursements to the disabled veterans of the civil wai> The estimate for this fiscal year was 1144,956,000 and that amount was appropriated. A deficiency amounting to 810,058,621 must be provided for at this session. The estimate tor pensions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, is 8169,000,000. The commissioner of pensions believes that, if the present legislation and methods are maintained and further additions to the pension laws are not made, the maximum expenditure for pensions will be reached June 30, 1894, and will be at the high point of 8188,0t0,000 per annum. I adhere to the views expressed In previous messages that the care of the disabled soldiers of the war of the rebellion is a matter of national concern and duty. Perhaps no emotion cools sooner than that of gratitude, but I cannot believe that this process has yet reached a point with our people that would sustain the policy of remitting the care of these disabled veterans to the inadequate agencies provided by local laws. The parade on the 20th of September last upon the streets of this capital of 60,000 of the surviving union veterans of the war of the rebellion was a most touching and thrilling episode, and the rich and gracious welcome extended to them by the District of Columbia and the applause that greeted their progress from tens of thousands of people from all • the states, did much to revive the recollections of the grand, review, when these men and many thousand others, now in their graves, were welcomed with grateful joy as victors in a struggle in which the national unity, honor and wealth were all at issue. Union Pacific Railway. In my last annual message I called attention to the fact that some legislative action was necessary in ojdw\tp-protcct the interests of the government in its relations with the Union Pacific railway. The (commissioner of railroads has submitted a veiy full report, giving ■exact information as to the debt, the Hens upon the company’s property and its resources. We must deal with the question as we find it and take that course which will, under existing conditions, best secure the interests of the United States. I recommended in my last annual message that a commission be appointed to deal with this question, and I renew that recommendation and suggest that the commission be given full power. The Agricultural Department. The report of the secretary of agriculture contains not only a most interesting statement of the progressive and valuable work done under the administration of Secretary Rusk, but many suggestions r ur the enlarged usefulness of this important department In the successful effort to break down the restrictions to the free introduction of our meat products in the countries of Europe, the secretary has been untiring from ft? first, stimulating and aiding all other government officers at bone and abroad, whose offiqial duties

enabled them to participate in the work. The total trade in hoe products with Europe in May. 1892 amounted to 82.000,0Q0 pounds, against 46AIOO,‘*X> in the same monthof 1891; in June, 1892, the exports aggregated 85,700,000 pounds: against 46,500,000 pounds in the same month of the previous year; in July there was an increase of 41 per cent, and fa August of 55 per cent, over the corresponding months of 1891. Over 40.000.000 pounds of inspected pork have been exported since the law was put into operation, and a comparison of the four months of May, June. July and August, **92. with the same months of 1891 shows aa in•cease in the number es pounds of our export 2t pork products es 62 per cent., and an increase ;* value of 66V4 per cent. The exports of dressed beef increased from 137,900,00 pounds in 1889 to 220,500 pounds in 1892, or about 60 per o»rt During the post year there have teen exported 394,607 head es live cattle as against 905,7® exported in 1888. Fighting Disease. This increased exportation has been largely promoted by the inspection authorized by law and the faithful efforts of the secretary and his efficient subordinates to make that inspection thorough and to carefully exclude from ail cargoes diseased or suspected cattle The requirement of the English regulations that live cattle arriving from the United States must be slaughtered at the docks had its origin in the claim that pleuro-pneumonia existed among American cattle and the existence es the disease could only certainly be determined by a post-mortem inspection The department of agriculture has labored with great energy and faithfulness to extirpate this disease; and en the 26th day of September last, a public announcement was made by the secretary that the disease no 'longer existed anywhere within the United States. He is entirely satisfied, after the most searching inquiry, that this statement was justified, and that by a continuance of the inspection and quarantine now required of cattle brought into this country the disease can be prevented from again getting any foothold. The value to the cattle industry of the United States of this achievement can hardly be estimated. We cannot, perhaps, at onoe insist that this evidence shall be accepted as satisfactory by other countries; bnt if the present exemption from the disease is maintained and the inspection of our cattle arriving at foreign ports,' in which our own veterinarians participate, confirms it, we may ‘justly expect that the requirements that our cattle shall be slaughtered at the docks will be revoked, as the sanitary restrictions on our pork product have been. If our cattle can be taken alive to the interior the trade will be enormously increased. Products of the Farm. Agricultural products constituted 78.1 per cent, of our unprecedented exports for th'e fiscal year which closed June 30,1892, the total exports being 81,030,287,039 and the value of the agriculturral products 8793,717,676, which exceeds by more than 8150,000,000 the shipment of agricultural products In any previous year. Indian Corn in Europe. An interesting and a promising work for the benefit of the American farmer has been begun through agents of the agricultural department in Europe and consists in efforts to introduce the various products of Indian corn as articles of human food. The high price of rye offered a favorable opportunity for the experiment in Germany of combining corn meal with rye to E reduce a cheap bread. A fair degree of success as been attained and some mills for grinding corn for food have been introduced. The secretary is of the opinion that this new use of the products of corn has already stimulated exportations and that if diligently prosecuted large and important markets can presently be opened for this great American product The suggestions of the secretary for an enlargement of the work of the department are recommended to your favorable consideration. It may be, 'I think, said without challenge that in no corresponding period has so much been done as during the last four years for the benefit of American agriculture. To Ward Off Cholera. The subject of quarantine regulations, inspection and control was brought suddenly to my attention by the arrival at our ports in August last of vessels infected with cholera. Suarantine regulations should be uniform at 1 our ports. Under the constitution they are plainly within the exclusive federal jurisdiction when and so far as congress shall legislate In my opinion the whole subject should be taken into national control and adequate power given to the executive to protect people against plague invasions. On, the first of September last I approved regulations establishing a twenty-day quarantine for all vessels bringing immigrants from foreign ports. This order wiU be continued in force. Some loss and suffering have resulted to passengers, but a due care for the homes of our people justifies in such cases the utmost prroaution. There is danger that with the con'ing spring cholera will again appear and a liberal appropriation should be made at tms session to enable our quarantine and port officers to exclude the deadly plague. - . But the most careful and stringent quarantine regulations may not be sufficient absolutely to exclude the disease. The progress of medical aad sanitary science has been such, however, that if approved precautions are taken at onoe to put all of our cities and towns in the best sanitary condition and a provision is made for isolating any sporadic cases and for a thorough disinfection an epidemic can, I am sure, be avoided. This work appertains to the local authorities, and the responsibUity and the penalty will be appalling if it is neglected or unduly delayed. Should Restrict Immigration. We are peculiarity subject in our great ports to the spread of infectious diseases by reason of the fact that unrestricted immigration brings to us out of European cities, in the overcrowded steerages of great steamships, a large number of persons whose surroundings make them the easy victims ol the plague. This consideration, as well i s those affecting the political, moral and industrial interests of your country, lead me to renew the suggestion that admission to our country and to the high privileges of its citizenship should be more restricted and more careful. We have I think a right and owe a duty to our own people, and, especially to our working people, not only to keep ont the vicious, the Ignorant, the civil disturber, the pauper and the contract lafborer. but to check the two great flow of immigration now coming by further limitations. The Columbian Exposition. The report of the World’s Columbian exposition has not been submitted. That of the board of 'management ot the government exhibit has been received and is herewith transmitted. The work of construction and of preparation for the 1 opening of the exposition in May next has progressed most satisfactorily, and upon a scale of liberality and magnificence that will worthily sustain the honor of the United States. District of Colombia. The District of Columbia is left bv a decision of the supreme court of the District without any law regulating the liquor traffic. An bld statute of the legislature of the District relating to the licensing of various vocations has hitherto been treated by'the commissioners as giving them power to grant or refuse licenses to sell intoxicating liquors, and as subjecting those who sold without license to penalties; but in May last the supreme court of the District held against this view of the powers of the commisioners. It is of urgent importance, therefore, that congress should supply, either by direct enactment or by conferring discretionary powers upon the commissioners, proper limitations and restraints upon the Hquor traffic in the district. The district has suffered in its reputation by many crimes of violence, a large per cent, of them resulting from drunkenness and the liquor traffic. The capital of the nation should be freed from this reproach by the enactment of stringent restrictions and limitations upon the traffic. Protectton of Railway Employes. In renewing the recommendation which I have made in three preceding annual messages that congress should legislate for the protection of railway employes against the dangers incident to the old and inadequate methods ot braking and coupling which are stiU in use upon freight business. I do so with the hope that this congress may take action on the subject Statistics furnished by the interstate commerce commission show that during the year ending June 30, 1891, there were forty-seven different styles of car couplers reported to be in use and that during the same period there were 2,660 employes killed and 26.140 injured. Nearly 16 per cent of the deaths occurred in the coupling and uncoupling of cars and over 36 cent - of tbe injuries had the same origin. The civil service commission ask for an increased appropriation for needed clerical assistance. which I think shoußl be given. I extended the classified service March 1, 1892, to include physicians, superintendents, assistant superintendents, school-teachers and matrons in the Indian service, and have had under consideration the subject of some further extensions, but have not as yet fully determined tbe lines upon which the extensions can most nronerly and usefuHy be made. Evils of Corrupt Election Methods. I have, in each three annual messages which uty 2° submit to congress, called attention to the evils and dangers connected with our election methods and practices as tbev are related to file choice of officers of the national government. In my last annual message I endeavored to invoke serious attention to the evils of unfair at>portionments for congress. I cannot close tills message without again calling attention to these grave and threatening evils. I had hoped that it was possible to secure a nonpartisan inquiry, by means of a commission, Into evils the existence of which is known to F ow v m i?£ c of partisan advantage should be eliminated and only tbe higher thought

appear of maintaining the freedom and purity of the baUot and the equality of the elector without the guaranty of which the government could never have been formed and without the continuance of which it cannot continue to exist in peace and prosperity. Legislation Necessary. It is time that mutual charges of unfairness and fraud between the great parties should cease, and that tbe sincerity of those who profess a desira for pure and honest elections should be brought to the test of their willingness to free our legislation and our election methods from everything that tends to impair the public confidence in the announced result. The necessity for an inquiry and for legislation by congress upon this subject is emphasized by the fact that the tendency of the legislation in some states in recent years has in some important particulars been away from and not toward free and fair elections and equal apportionments. Is it not time that we should come together on the high plane of patriotism while we devise methods that shall secure the right of every man qualified by law to cast a free ballot and give to every such ballot an equal value in choosing cur public officers and in directing the policy of the government? Colored Outrages. Lawlessness is not less such, but more, where it usurps the functions of peace officers and of the courts. The frequent lynching of colored people accused of crime is withoqt the excuse which has sometimes been urged by mobs for a failure to pursue the appointed methods for the punishment of crime that the accused have an undue influence over courts and juries. Such acts are a reproach. to the community where they occur, and, so far as they can be made subject of federal jurisdiction, the strongest repressive legislation is demanded. A/public sentiment that will sustain the officers of law in resisting mobs and in protecting accused persons in their custody should be promoted by every possible means. The officer who gives his Hfe in the brave discharge of this duty is worthy of special honor. No lesson needs to be so urgently impressed upon our people than this that no worthy end or causes can be promoted by lawlessness. r Conclusion. This exhibit of the work of the executive departments is submitted to congress and to the publie in the hope that there will be found in it a due sense of responsibility and an earnest purpose to maintain the national honor and to promote the happiness and prosperity ot all our people. And this brief exhibit of the growth and prosperity of the country will give us a level from which to note the increase or decadence that new legislative policies may bring to us. There Is no reason why the national influence, power and prosperity should not observe the same rates ot increase that have characterized the past thirty years. We carry the great impulse and increase of these years into the future. There is no reason why in many lines of the production we should not surpass all other nations, as we have already done in some. There are no near frontiers to pur possible development Retrogression would be a crime. BENJAMIN HABBISOH. Executive Mansion, Dec. 6, 1892.

DO AMERICANS HATE ENGLAND?

Some Amusing Letters on the Question In gtlie London Papers. “Does America hate England?” A discussion of this pleasant question has been the natural consequence, albeit the connection is not perceived by Englishmen, of the fit of sulks which seized John Bull when the world’s fair celebration forced the latest aspects of American grandeur and greatness upon his attention. According to his own notion, as expressed in print, America does hate Britain with a robust and hearty hatred. The wish is father to the thought, for otherwise John Bull could find no justification for the feeling which animates his own breast when he turns his eyes westward. Not that-he* would confess to entertaining so vvtgar an emotion toward his American cousin. ’ He would scorn the suggestion. He seeks merely a salve for his private conscience when he ascribes to America an enmity which he scarcely resents. Having declared to his own satisfaction, therefore, that the sight of the British flag always arouses in aa American a violent species of humaa rabies, John Bull has wrapped himself in a great cloud of ineffable contempt Poor Boston will purely suffer a bad sea turn which the weather clerk won’t be able to account for the next time the wind is east John’s authority for this conclusion is a series of letters from “an Englishman who has lived in America”' and “an Englishman who has traveled in the states,” etc. These letters depict a condition of popular Englishhating insanity on the other side truly appalling. The only representative of America in the controversy is a bogus one, an editor of the St. James’ Gazette, familiar with the “Spoopendyke Papers,” who has written a burlesque letter, signed “Michigander and Wife,” to that journal, in which he says: “England is one of the peskiest, gosh darnedbst, measly old bit of territory on this almighty planet, and although there fire some good people in England, take them all round, they are about as poor a lot as the tinpot country that gave them birth. Americans are sometimes called blowhards over here, but, great snakes, we’ve got something to blow about on our side of the herring pond. Englishmen are always skiting, but they have absolutely nothing to ■kite about. You haven’t got a river in the dodgasted island that would drown an American mule, and, for your mountains, we have ants out where I hail from that would not find them commodious enough for ant hills. No, siree; we answer your query right on the spot. We do despise your water-logged, vice-laden, wind-broken old territory. It ain’t worth putty.”— Chicago Herald.

The Dead Sea.

One of the most interesting lakes or inland seas in the world is the famous Dead sea, of Palestine. It has no visible outlet, but is subject to enormous evaporation, a fact which accounts for the yearly diminishment of its level, even though it is constantly fed by several good-sized streams. Some claim that it is mere fancy that has clothed the Dead sea in perpetual gloom, but this can hardly be the case. It undoubtedly has the most desolate shores of any body of water in the world. For miles and miles no green thing grows, there being only driftwood and black stones to break the awful monotony of the scene. The dark, sluggish waters, which are always overhung with a thick mist, break in slow, sepulchral tones upon the beach, and it almost seems as if the smoke of the fires that consumed the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are still ascending through the thick, greasy-looking waves to heaven. The waters of the Dead sea do not go dancing and sparkling along as waves of water usually do, but move like heavy billows of oil —a fact which is said to be due to the immense quantities of salt and bitumen held in suspension. Fish cannot live in stick a solution, but the story that birds cannot fly over it is an absurdity that has often been disproved.—Philadelphia Press.

RHYMES OF A DAY. Football aa the Girls Seo IS. X took the gentle Annabel To see a football game. And thus unto a frie&i of here Did she describe the tame: “Ch, May. you should have seen them play. Twas such a lovely sight! And though the first game I had seen I understood it quite. “First came the Yales, all dressed in blue, Then Harvard came in red. One fellow yelled, the rest all tried To jump upon his head. ••And then one fellew stopped and stooped And all the reel got round; And every feUow stopped and stooped And looked hard at the ground. “Aid then another fellow yelled. And each man, where he stood. Just hit and struck and knocked and kicked At everyone he could. “And then one fell upon his neck, And all the others ran, And on his prone and prostrate form Leaped every blessed man. “And then the ambulance drove on, And loading np with men, With twisted necks and broken lungs Went driving off again. “Oh football’s just the cutest game. It cannot be surpassed; But yet it really is a shame To use up men so fast.” —Boston Courier. The Perjury of a Rejected Lover. When I was twenty-one, I swore, If I should ever wed. The maiden that I should adore Should have a classic head: Should have a form quite Junoesque; A manner full of grace; A wealth of hirsute picturesque Above a piquant faoe. But I. alas! am perjured, for I’ve wed a dumpy lass I much despised in days of yore, Of quite the plainest class; Because each maiaen of my dream, Whose favor I did seek, Was so opposed unto my scheme' I married Jane in pique. —Harper's Bazar.

Cold Wave Coming.

Weather reports from all extreme stations announce the early advent of cold waves. In anticipation, thousands of people are completing arrangements to spend the winter in the South. Of all south bound roads, the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad offers the best advantages to ths traveler. It is the shortest line from Chicago to Florida and Gulf Coast resorts. Its trains reach destination six hours in advance of any other line. Its equipment ia unsurpassed. Its popular fast train, the “Chicago & Nashville Limited,” which leaves Dearborn Station, Chicago, 4p. m. every day in the year, connects withall through trains from the West and Northwest, Is vestibuled from end to end, heated by steam, lighted by gas, is composed of Pullman sleepers, Pullman Ladies’ and Day coaches, and a superb dining car. For full Information, time tables, illustrated guide books, mans, eta, apply to, or address any agent of connecting lines; Charles W. Humphrey, Northexn Passenger Agent, 170 East Third St, St. Paul, Minn.; City Ticket Offlee, 204 Clark St, Chicago, or Charles L. Stone, General Passenger & Ticket Agent Room 415 First National Bank Bldg., Chicago. You cannot expeot a man to keep an unmoved faoe when he lets his countenance

A Mammoth Competition.

86,500 in prizes for the best seven stories was what The Youth't Companion offered: 85,000 for the best Serials, and 81,500 for the best Folk-lore tales. No less than 2,063 stories competed for these prizes. The successful stories are just announced to appear in The Companion during 1898. By sending 81.75 at once you will obtain the paper free to January and for a full year, to January, ’94. Address The Youth’s Companion, Boston, Mass. YlangYlano is Chinese. G’lang, G’lsng! is Yankese. *

Fine Playing Cards.

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THE MARKETS.

New York, Dec. 7. LIVE STOCK—Cattle 73 50 @ 5 25 Sheep 300 @ 4 00 Hogs 5 60 &6 20 FLOUR—Fair to Fancy 275 & 3 80 Minnesota Patents 420 & 4 80 WHEAT—Na 2 Red 77%@ 77 Ungraded Red 74 @ 77 CORN—No. 2 50 @ 50% Ungraded Mixed 47 @ 50 OATS-Mixed Western. 36 © 38 RYE—Western 54 © 58 PORK—Mess, New 15 00 ©ls 50 LARD—Western, Steam 10 15 ©lO 20 BUTTER—Western Creamery. 22 © 31% CHICAGO. BEEVES—Shipping Steers.... 73 00 ©5 75 Cows 1 25 © 2 75 Stockers 200 ©2 75 Feeders 280 @3 20 Butchers’ Steers 290 @350 Bulls 1 50 @ 2 50 HOGS—Live. 5 70 @ 655 SHEEP.... 3 00 @5 15 BUTTER—Creamery 18 © 29 Good to Choice Dairy 19 © 26 EGGS—Fresh 28 © 23% BROOM CORN— Hurl 4 @ 5% Self-working 4%@ 5 Crooked 2 @ 8 POTATOES—New (per bu).... 60 @ 72 PORK—Mess 14 12%@14 25 LARD—Steam 985 © V 90 FLOUR—Spring Patents 400 @ 4 10 Winter Patents 860 @3BO Bakers’ 2 50 @ 2 75 GRAlN—Wheat, Cash 71 %@ 71% Corn, No. 2 41 %@ 42 Oats, No. 2 30%@ 30% Rye, No. 2 46%@ 46% Barley, Good to Choice 50 @ 60 LUMBER— Siding... 10 00 @24 00 Flooring 36 00 @37 00 Common Boards 15 00 @ls 25 Fencing 13 50 @l6 50 Lath, dry 260 @ 2 66 Shingles 2 85 @ 8 15 ST. LOUIS. CATTLE—Steers 78 60 © 4 25 Texans and Indians 2 30 @ 3 16 HOGS—Fair to Choice Heavy.. 570 @6 10 . Mixed Grades .. 555 @5 60 SHEEP 475 @4 80 OMAHA CATTLE—Steers 73 00 @585 Westerns 2 75 @ 4 00 HOGS 587 @ 600 SHEEP 3 50 © 4 75

ALWAYS THUS. Pilot Knob, Mo. Suffered Mr. Henry P. Travers, formerly of this place, sufYears. lered with chronic for 20 years, and was treated at times by several doctors. BT. JACOBS OXX. cured him. No No Roturq return of pain O » J ye"?- O G. A. Farrar. Year*.

Messrs. Editors: Knowing bow many expectant Mothers In the land will appreciate the information, and desiring to save all the anguish and pain of the trying hour, I wish to give my experience. I used two oottiee of Mothers* Friend with great relief, suffered but little pain, and was not sick over twenty minutes. I did not experience that weakness usual In such cases, and looked and felt so well afterwards that my friends wondered at It; as on previous occasions of this kind I suffered greatly. I used the remedy on my breasts and aid not have the least trouble with them. I passed through the crisis with so little trouble that even my physician was astonished, and after I told him that it was the result of the use of Mothers’ Friend, he advised his daughter to use the remedy, and she says she cannot praise it enough. I have known many ladies to use Mothers* Friend, and they all pronounce it a great blessing to expectant mothers. Mas. Bam Hamilton, Eureka Bprings, Ark.

If You Leave Chicago 6 P. M.

fer either St Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha or Bioux City, via the Chicago, Milwaukee ft St. Paul Railway, an exoelleat supper will be served in the Dlniifc Car. Vou can then enjoy a fragrant eigar and ‘'swap lies” with your fellow travelers in the smoking room, er read a novel by the light of tin electric berth lamp, and than go to bed in a steam heated apartment car with a sense of comfort and security that all travelers desire. In the morning you are at your destination ready for breakfast and business. For further particulars address Geo. H Hoofford,General Passenger Agent, Chicago, HI. Extract from a sentimental young lady's letter: “Last night I sat in a gondola on Venice’s grand canal drinking it all in, and life never seemed so full before.”—Scraps

She's Off!

Who or what? Why the good ship ——, and it there is a pasienger on board of her unprovided with that grand preventive of sea sickness and all disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, all wo have to say is, he or she is very unthoughtful. There is nothing comparable to this medicine in oases of malarial fever, rheumatism, nervousness and loss of strength.

Football players are an odd lot. As soon as their favorite game begins they commence to kick.

Playing Cards.

You can obtain a pack of best quality playing cards by sending fifteen cents in postage to P. 8. Eustis, Gen’l Pass. Agt, C., B. & Q. R. R., Chicago, 111. ’ A tramp is always willing to receive a cold shoulder, but he prefers a porterhouse. —Binghamton Republican. “That unrivalled complexion,” said a prominent New Yorker, alluding to a lady acquaintance, “was the result of using Garfield Tea.” Send for free sample to 819 West 45th Street, New York City. Tax bu&oman is not fastidious. He lives on the simplest things he oan find.—Elmira Gazette. J. 8. Parker, Fredonia, N.Y.,says: “Shall Rot call on you for the 1100 reward, for I believe Hall’s Catarrh Cure will cure any case of catarrh. Was very bad.” Write him for particulars. Bold by Druggists, 75c. The record breaker isn’t dishonest, although he tries to beat his way through life. —Elmira Gasette. Thb Throat.—“ Brown’s Bronchial Troche*" act directly on the organs of the voice. They have an extraordinary effect in all disorders of the throat. Atlas must have learned something about the weigh of the world.—Yonkers Statesman. Explosions of Coughing are stopped by Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. A chopping sea doesn’t seem to make much impression on the sea-board. —Boston Courier. ... Who sumus with his liver, constipation, bilious ills, poor blood or dizziness—take Beecham’s Pills. Of druggists. 26 cento.

tROOT AND BRANCH. the poison in your blood, however is may have come or whatever shape it may be taking, is cleared away by Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It’s a remedy that rouses every organ into healthful action, purifies and enriches the blood, ana through it cleanses and Invigorates the whole system. Salt-rheum, Tetter, Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils, Carbuncles, Enlarged Glands, and the worst Scrofulous Sores and Swellings, are perfectly and permanently cured by it. Unlike the ordinary Spring medicines or sarsaporillas, the “ Discovery" works equally well at all seasons. All the year round and in all cases, it is guaranteed, as no other blood medicine is. If it ever fails to benefit or cure, you have your money back. You pay only for the good you got. Isn’t it safe to say that no other blood - purifier can be “Just as good!” If it were, wouldn’t it be sold so!

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