Plymouth Tribune, Volume 9, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 21 April 1910 — Page 6

TRIALS of the NKEDEM3

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Munyon's Rheumatism Remedy relieves In a few hours and cures in a few tUya. Price 25c. American Woman'" Display. An interesting story of how an American woman duped the court of Russia has just leaked out. At these royal balte wealth and luxury run riot and the Russians are very proud of their display, says the Delineator. To be outdone by a foreigner Is, to them, almost a disgrace. At a recent court ball an American woman, now a duchess in England, outdid the Russians one season, making a tremendous sensation so loaded down was she with her great tiara and high dog collar, her stomacher and ropes of famous pearls that shj rivaled even the empress. Her gems drew admiration from every one. This proved a great embarrassment to the English ambassador, who realized what a serious breach of etiquette it was. It was some time afterward that a jeweler in Paris, bursting with pride over the achievement, told how he had gone to London to make imitations of the celebrated jewels, especially to be worn at tills St. Petersburg ball, the duchess being afraid to take the genuine ernes upon such a long journey. PERFECT HEALTH AT 73. A Strrkrr, O., IVomaa Telia II "Well Kldneya Help. Mrs. Marie Peuquet, Lynn street, Stryker, Ohio, says: "Sharp pains In the back caused mo great suffering for years. The" kidney secretions showed a sediment and too frequent passages disturbed me. Short use of Doan's Kidney Pills made marked improvement Con tinued use cured me. Although I am seventy-three years old, I am enjoying perfect health. Remember the name Doan's. For sale at all dealers. 50 cenU box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffafo. N. Y. Dommtlr Economy. "Maria," exploded the man of th house, "since we changed the number over our door I have missed receiving several Important letters, and I'm goin? to the postoffice to register a kick!" "Iletter do it riht away. John." said hi3 wife, whos" attention had been only partially i ..rted from the fashion supplement she was reading; I saw it in the paper the other day that the registration fee was going to be higher pretty soon." Kara $20 to f SO Per Week. ! That is the usual pay for trained chauffeurs, drivers and auto repair men. Some earn as much more on the side selling auto supplies and specialties. For an outline of a complete correspondence course In automobil engineering, repairing and driving, such as will fit you to take a position f.s chauffeur, driver and repair man, write the Atlas Auto Supply Co., 837 rorty third street, Chicago. Victim of a Delusion. "Birds and beasts, you know, chil dren." remarked the Sunday schorj teacher, "have no souls, as you hav.'i When they die, that is the last ol 'them." "If th.tt's so," queried Tommy Tucker, "what will the Injuns who go to th-j happy hunti". grounds do for game?" Tala Will Inter eat Mother. Mother Cray's Sweet Powders for Children, cure Feverlshne.s. Headache, Had Stomach. Teething Disorders, Regulate the Dowels and Destroy Worms. They break up colds in 24 hours. Pleasant tc take, and harmless as milk. They never fail. At all Druggists. 25c. Sample mailed FKKK. Address, Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy, N. Y. Uncle Jerr. "O course." observed Uncle Jerry Peebles, "it costs a heap to live now'days, but I notice that the loudest howlin about It comes from the fellers that's livin better now than they ever did before." CUT THIS OUT And mail to the A. H. Lewis Medicine Co.. St. Louis. Mo., and they will send yon free a 1 day treatment of NATl.'KKS RKMKDV (NU tablets.) Guaranteed for Rheumatism, Constipation. S?ck Headache, I.lver, Kidney and i flood Diseases. Sold by all Druggists. P.etter than Pills for Liver Ills, Its free to you. Write today. Aiding- III Lore. Vntlanna. - f i oiKinc eggy is very nappy. Patrice She's engaged, isn't she? "Yes, and the man she's engaged to Is cross eyed and i.e's looking at her all the time and no one can tell it but herself." Yonkers Statesman. Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugarcoated, easy to take as candy, regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. Do not gripe. Environment. "George, I shall have to tell you that you don't chew your victuals half long enough." "That Fort of talk may be all risht in Philadelphia, where you live. Uncle Wiiiiam. but there's no time to Flctcherize in Chicago." Chicago Tribune. WHEN YOU'III- AS HOAR?: asacrow. VIn oi r ,rtf hir.j; r n.i of n tou Te an muishiunn! i:-u-vcatfil ro!d. ta' AHm'm J.in 1 HalVim, sola bf all rKk'i5 : ' ttlc. To Fit the Mtiiatl- o. 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Great, Julius Ca.sar and Napoleon the Great had comets ambling around in the heavens at various important periods pf their careers. Halley's comet itself Just the same old comet that's going to drag the earth with its tail appeared over Europe in 106C, shining brightly for forty days, and it was hailed as a promise of his triumph by William the Conqueror Just before the battle of Hastings, while at the same time Harold of England regarded It as an omen of his own overthrow. Comets appeared at crucial times in the lives of many other great men and at crucial periods In the careers of many nations. Comets have appeared before terrible wars, devastating famines, frightful pestilences and brilliant victories, from the days when Abraham was in hi3 teens down the Rcoseveltian era. And Halley's comet, during all these generations, has been hustling around In space at the modest clip of something like 100,000 miles an hour. This comet appears to the view of men once In about every seventy-five years, requiring that length of time to move around Its orbit. It was last seen in 1835. The comet Is named after the great English astronomer, Edmund Halley, who lived between from 1C5Ö to 1742, because it was he who definitely fixed the orbit of this comet and who accurately predicted Its return in the-year 1733 after It had appeared in 1C82. He died sixteen years' before the comet returned, but by his prediction he established a fame which will endure as long as doe3 the comet. He was the first to discover and prove that the comets which come within the range of man's vision have fixed periods of return. He felt that he would not live to see again the comet now known aa Halley's, but he realized If his prediction was borne out that It would prove to posterity that he had made an amazing discovery. He relied on future

CURLS OR CREST. Little German Teacher Cared Xottalnic for Pcraonal Adornment. In the recent admirable biography of Prof. Carla Wenckebach of Welesley, her close friend and successor, Margarethe Muller, has introduced to the general public a figure long honored for scholarship, loved for kindliness and smiled at for quaint and delightful Oddities of character and aspect within the bounds cf the "College Beautiful." "Little Bismarck." the girls sometimes nicknamed the genial but masterful German professor, with her Bhort hair and serviceable clothc3 of unconsciously mannish effect. Mannish by intention she never was, but she had, from her tomboy childhood, a curious impatience of friperies and lack of personal vanity. She was a girl of fifteen when she wrote home casually from school: "By the way, I wear my hair short now; got rid of braids, hairpins and appendages six months ago; feel very free and light without them. My frknds wail about the loss of my beautiful thick hair, but what is the use of beauty If It causes continual annoyance?" Seme years later. In New York, she received a comically apt reply to thi3 youthfully philosophic query. She had applied to an agent to secure her a position as governess, and was promptly assured that If she wished a recommendation 'she must wear moit- stylish clothes and riimge her way of doing her hair. " 'The essential consideration Is, the agent said, 'not what's in your head, but what's on it." So I went to a little Parisian, who knew what the matter was even before I explained. 'If you don't want to take the trouble to dress your hair every day, she said, 'why don't you wear a false front? I a3 just about to shout a determined Never! when she dextrously put one of those curly things on ray head. And really the little curl3 framed my face quite pleasingly, and looked exactly as if they had grown on my own scalp. Now If fortune comes my way, you will know what has attracted the fickle thing." Quite certainly, after fortune was attracted, the commercially inspired curls disappeared forever. All her girl3 and her friends remember well what one of them describes as "that wonderful square head of hers, with Its crown of short blonde hair, which bristled up over her fine brow like the crest of an alert bird." For details of costume or coiffure she never learned to tare, nlthough on festal orcaslcr.s she donned, with a childlike taste for mere brightness, an abundance of sparkling ornaments and fairies of ätartlingly brilliant hues. Her Interest In her own appearance remained small; but 'to beauty In others she was keenly responsive. In her last illness, when a lovely ycung tudent friend came to call. ?he Inlisted that the girl's chair be so placed that she. from her bed. could comfcrtI bly see the "pretty p::s?y ' n'.I the I time Youth's. Companion. CAI'ir OX A NEW YORK ROOF. I'rlonii IJ etor I'nllJ 100 Retreat on Top of III; Ilouae. There is a good deal of talk nowadays about the value of plenty of fresh air ia sleeping rooms. Dr. Addison W. I'aird tells in the Surrey about ; a roof camp that he ha3 built on the top of his New York dwelling. Here j he sleep!?, ami here he finds rest In the open air is f.uleter and deeper ! than indoors. J "One may Lc sleepy when the alarm soundä In the nicrnlng, but rlse3 re- ' freshed and invigorated," he says. "In ! fact, this urban open air life has p. number cf pka.ant features. Thcrs U a sense of rcmotenes,, of being xwa

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TEACHING HIS SON AND HEIR TO SALUTE. HERE Isn't the slightest doubt but what Alfonso of Spain Is one of the proudest, most affectionate fathers In the world,

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young parents of the masculine persuasion. Rather, he appears to look upon his children from a quizzical point of view. Especially does this seem to be the case with his eldest son. the

hcii" to the throne. Take our illustration, for instance, as an example of this attitude. There is, undoubtedly, much of pride about this young father but there is something else; he thinks, just as we do, that the little follow iu the military suit is very droll and that it is something of a shame, as well as a joke, to have to dress him like that. "Isn't he simply funny?" the king-father seems to be saying. "Do ycu think there could possibly be a sir.aller uniform in existence than that? And doesn't It seem perfectly rica to think that he'll be holding down my job some day? Honest, now doesn't it?" Uniform, or no uniform, it is very evident that this chubby little llaxenhaired fellow has much of the charm of babyhood about him. One feels that he 13 a very estimable and trustworthy baby; somewhat lacking, perhaps, In hilarity and an appreciation of the showy pleasutes of life, but one on whom you could depend who would stay where he was put and never, by any cir-cum-tance, throw blocks at his nurse or attempt to brain her with a miniature train of cars. The Prince of Asturlas, whose mother was Prtnces3 Victoria Eugenie, daughter cf Trine Henry of Battenburg, Is 3 years old.

from the noue and movement of th; city. "Looking out ver the roofs the scf.ne Is often one of great beauty. The o'.octrl ; light streaming upward on the tall büiMings of the neighborhood is ry striking, and further on can be C'-cn the Palisades with their brilliant an- lights and the dark river beneath. !n .vintcr time moonlight glistening on the surrounding snowclad roofs foinis a very attractive picture. "Tills roof hoii3- is twelve feet square and consists of a steel framework covered in with fireproof materials to comply with the building code. Across the front extends a series of doors, so that this, whole side can be thrown open. "The walls are double and the interspace hns openings top and bottom, thus providing free circulation of air, and the roof also Is double, with ventilation through a small cupola, Th

generations to give him his due in fame, which Vip.y have done. Sixteen years aTter his death the comet duly returned, as he had foretold, from which time the wandering constellation has been known as Halley's comet. Since then many famous astronomers, including Clairaut, Pontecoulant and Iaplace of France, have calculated the dates for the comet's return. In 1S35 the comet appeared within a few day3 of the prediction, while this time the comet has again kept to schedule. Halley's comet isn't by any means the only comet whose orbit has been determined. The orbits of 100 comets have been accurately calculated and determined. Of these sixteen have known periods of short duration. Enke's coim.t has a period of three years and four months, while Peter's comet has the longest period of the sixteen. It runs to its perihelion at the end of fifteen years and eleven months. None of these nearby comets are visible to the naked eye. The great comets which have been the cause of so much fear and trembling on the part of the ignorant and superstitious are those having long periods of revolution, ranging from Westphal's, with an orbit requiring sixty-seven years and eight months to traverse, to the great comet of 1864, which is calculated to return after 2,800,000 years. The distinctive featr.re of the comet is the tail, although there are comets which are seemingly tailless. Pictures of some of the well-known comets show the remarkable variations of the caudal appendages of those heavenly bodies which are neither sun, moon nor stars. The comet v.? 1S61 had seven brilliant tails and several not so bright. The upper one rsoaibled the wing of a flying lish. The Cheseaux comet of 1744 looked like an Illuminated porcupine. The broad-tailed visitor of 1811 was notable for the two side stripes Inclosing a thin veiling of gas through which many of the more brilliant stars were visible. The most remarkable tail of all known comet3 was the one sported by Newton's comet of 1CS0. It looked like a titanic tapeworm and its length was 120,000,000 miles. Its nearest approach to the sun was 147.000 miles, and It Is due to return In the year 2335. This tall, however, was surpassed by the tail of the comet of 1811, which was 132,000,000 miles long. Reside these the tail of Halley's comet looks like a dot. It has been computed that in all there are probably about 7,000,000 comets dashing around through space. But of all these millions of comets and of all the scores of these millions which are said to have appeared to the eyes of men just before great historic occurrences, that which gets its name from Halley is said to bt one whose appearance has been attended with the most baneful results to humanity. Here, of course, we leave science behind and get Into the midst o! a lot of superstition, more or less distorted history and a vast realm of the mystical. A,t that, however, there is no question that Halley's comet has been seen prior to some events of the utmost significance in the annals of the human race. Among the great events of history which are stated to have been signalized by the appearance of comets were the sacking of Rome by Alarlc in 410, the overthrow of Attila in 443, the birth of Mohammed in 570,. the death of Charlemagne in 814. the Black Death of 1347, Tamerlane's invasion cf Europe in 1402, massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572, birth of Napoleon in 17C3, invasion of Russia by the Grand Army of France under the Emperor in 1S12, death of Napoleon at St. Helena in 1821. the beginning of the Civil War in 1SG1 and the Russo-Japanese war in 1904-5. In addition, many sacred writers have held that the Star of R".hlenem. whose shining trail guided the wise aien from the East, was a comet. Chicago Record-Herald.

PRINCE-OF ASTUMAS. .v f , . ., v.-).''. , . ? . i rj. vBvK . .in... . l-.-LisH-,. .-. ' ji seems to be lacking in that serioustiarirricl Vil I v tvVifK ctamna mnct effect cf this cellular construction is to prevent the apartment from becoming overheated when the sun's rays play upon it throughout the long summer days. The whole cost was 1-3 than $100." Too 3iueli to Uelleve. "I should like to be excused, your lordship," said the man who had "been .summoned on a jury In Eu3!and, says Cassel's Journal. "What for?" "I owe a man 5, and I want to hunt him up and pay it." "Do you mean to tell this court you would hunt up a man to pay a bill instead of waiting for him to hunt you up?" "Yes, your lordship." "You are excujed. I don't want any one on the jury who will lie like that." It is age that makes a man look '1; in a woman's case it is trouble.

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LIQUOR BILL FOR 1909. Whisky Alone Coat Cunsamcri Tbret Hundred Million Dollars. During the fiscal year 1909, 116.8Ü2.I 90S gallons of spirits were distilled from grain In the United States. What the value of this flood of liquor may! have been cannot positively be statedj The output of the distilled malt and vinous liquors and allied products in the year 1903 was reported by the census bureau to be worth more than $440,000,000. In the year 1903 1,591, 738 gallons of brandy. 610.303 gallons of rum, 2,497.070 gallons of gin and 56,183,652 gallons of whisky were placed on the market In the United States. The total '"value of all .these products at the place of manufacture was probably not less than $135.000.000. But these figures in no way measure the cost of distilled liquor to the consumer, McClure's says. They do not Include the government internal revenue tax or the cost of wholesaling and retailing the "goods." As sold in the "saloon" at 10 or 15 cents a "drink," the cost of whisky, or what passes for such among consumers, is. not less than $6 a gallon. This would mean that the annual bill of the American public for whisky alone would be much more than $300.000.000. There are many who place It at twice as high a figure because of the excessive adulteration undergone by the liquor for the purpose of increasing its volume. Ilancball and Grandma. I remember being on a Chicago street car, says Ellis Parker Butler, In Success Magazine, sitting beside a nice old. lady in mourning, a year or so ago. She was nervous and kept glancing at me, and then glancing away again. It made me uncomfortable. I thought she took me for a pickpocket or some other bad man. Finally she could contain herself no longer. She leaned over. "Excuse me," she said, "but have you heard yet how the Cubs' game came o it?" I hadn't, and her face fellbut in a moaient she saw a possible opportunity for consolation. "Well," she asked, "can you tell me who they are putting In the box to-day?" How was that for a gray-haired grandma? In Chicago they all talk baseball, from the cradle to the grave. Up to three "o'clock In the afternoon no one talks about anything but the game of the day before. From three o'clock on the cüly subject Is the game that is being played. The school child who can not add two apples plus three apples and make it five apples with any certainty of correctness can figure out t!v? standing of the Chicago nines with ciw hand and a pencil that will make a mark only when it is held straight jp and down. Suuie Uuoinlns Toitdi, If we are to take the growth of cities and towns in the Dominion of Canada represented by the provinces of Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchwan there is a wonderful future for some of them. Winnipeg, the largest city, in eig'it years has increased from 42,000 to 140,000. Other places for the past eight years show this expansion: Calgary from 4,DuO to 29,:uJ; Edmonton from 2,00 J to 25,000; Regina from 2,200 to 13,500; Brandon from 5.C00 to 13,000; Saskatoon from 113 to 12,200; Moost Jaw from 1.C00 to 12,000; Lethbridge frcm 2,100 to 10,000; Prince Albert from 4,00 to 7.000; Fernie from 1,900 to 5,300; Medicine Hat from 1.G00 to 5,000.In these places $47,000,000 has been invested in new buildings In the last three years, and in five years their taxable values have been increased from an aggregate of nearly $57,000,000 to about $220,000,000. Bores talk about themselves; gos ip3 talk about others.

.ciir tlie I-. nd of a (lmiKer. The year which brings the count of the country's inhabitants has a pec i-

i liar interest for most of us. It will tell us the growth of the decade, and will point out to us the relative place which we hold an;ong the world's peoples. That year is here now, and the count has begun. Quicker work is promised than we have seen thus far, for, by June 1, according to present ! plans, we are to know the grand se cret. Guesses among the census experts as to the aggregate population range from 83.000,000 to iXTOO.000 for tho continental part ct I5x United States, as compared wtz ri.000,000 in 1900. In any case the United States will be found to bj i!ie .most populous of the countries txcept China and Russia. It will be far in the lead of both of those nations In volume and variety of activities. In wealttr it will exceed China and Russia combined", twice over. Practically th'.s will be the g.-owth of a century only, for la 1S10 the country's population was 7,000,000. Pennsylvania has more people to-day than the entire country had a hundred years ago. New York City has several hundred thousand more inhabitants than the whole United States had at the time of the inauguration of the country's first President, in 17S9. Millions of people remember the year of Lincoln's election, yet the country's population has almost tripled In that half a century. Thus, in the Störy of our national life, we are near the end of a chapter. The tale is a serial one that, so far as we know, will never be finished. Possibly somewhere in th! future the cataclysm may come to us like that which ca.me to Assyria. Babylonia and other countries of antiquity, like that which came in historic time when Odoacer, with his Germanic mercenaries, in 476, ups'.t the shadow throne of the "Little Augustus," and closed the career of th? Roma;. Empire. Within historic time events have written "Finis" in th story of Poland, Venice, Ireland and many other countries, as independent peoples. If such a fate Is reserved for us it Is so far in the shadow that we of the twentieth century are not called upon to concern ourselves with it. A few weeks hence another "To be continued in our next" will write itself for us, some secrets now hidden will be revealed, a new leaf in our story will be turned, and another decade's issues and mysteries will begin to shape themselves. Treat I ii jj lllffh Prlee Practically. At a meeting of representatives of cattle growers associations In Illinois a movement was organized to encourage the raising of more cattle throughout the State, and not alone for tin sake of increasing the meat supply. Raising stock is one means by which the soil is rendered more fertile. In many parts of Illinois corn is almost the exclusive product, and the rotation of crops is neglected, though its advantages are generally 'known. More pasture land:) would be beneficial to the tillable lands of the State, and this idea will be systematically urged upon farmers at their institute meeting?. It is little to the purpose to enlarge on the increasing cost of meat without taking into, consideration the fact that the supply of meat in the United States in relation to population has been declining ever since 1840. In the last ten years the population of tha country ha3 gained nearly 20 per cent, but there has been no Increase in cattie. The ratio of decrease ,in hogs and sheep has been about the same as iu beef. Meanwhile the export of meat and Its products, which were 32,000,000 pound3 In 1S53, was 419,000,000 last year, and averaged much more between 1S91 and 190S. Numerous official investigations of the high price of food are going on, but so far clear conclusions have not .appeared. Öfter the subject Is approached with the intent to make partisan capital. The starting point with many is a hard and fast theory of same kind, as the tariff or the machinations', of trusU. One of the abstruse reasons assigned is the great increase in the production of gold, with a resulting decline in its purchasing power. A more valuable class of reasons is that not enough cattle are raised, and too small a proportion of the people are engaged in farming. The Illinois cattle growers are safe in claiming that more cattle should be assurod and more land devoted to pasturing, and that these measures will build uti agricultural interests generally, as well as stop the relative decline in cattle production. With a highly remunerative market certain, Ihe Intelligent worker on the soil has better prospects than ever before. St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. They Will Rejoice. Imports continue to' increase and exports to decrease. In January, 1910, we imported goods to the value of $133,CG9,67S, an increase of more than $30,000,000 over the same month of 1909. In January, 1910, our exports aggregated $156,712,842, or more than $15,000,000 less than In January, 190f. Those who think that the country will get richer by buying more than it sells ought to rejoice over these figures. They will, probably, until it begins to dawn upon them that it Is not a very profitable plan for a debtor country to keep piling up its obligations, as we are lately showing a disposition to do by resorting to foreign .markets for things which we are able to and ought to produce at home. San Francisco Chronicle. FlKure That Don't Look flood. Figures from the Department of Commerce and Labor do not look göod to Amer' ans. For the month of February the imports aggregated $129.SSfi.OOO. an increase of $11,232.474 over those of February, 1909. while our exports decreased during the same month . . -. ! $534,194. The total expons were ,- j 517,540. Newton (N.J.) Register. The I.sft Mmw. An attendant at a Kansas Institution for the doaf and dumb was undergoin.; a pointless rapid-fire inquisition at the hands of a female visitor. "But how do yoa summon these poor mutes to church? she asked, finally, with what was meant to be a pitying glance at the inmates near by. "By ringing the dumbbells, madam," retorted the exasperated attendant. Judge. The United States makes 137, noo.000 pounds of rone a year, enough, If reduced to clothes-line sizes, to encircle the earth CS times. Experiments are being made to transmit music Vy wireless telephony.

RETURN OF A SINGED CAT.

The singed cat is coming back. Democrats all over the country whosa long identification with high finance marked them as unavailable during the reign of Bryan ism and the relegation of the tariff issue have taken heart of hope. The special Congressional elections, in districts as far apart on the maps as East Massachusetts and West Missouri, an bringing them out of long-enforced retirement to offer themselves again upon the altars of their country. The surface of the waters everywhere is growing dotted with the "heads of then, bobbins up serenely from beloy, under a conviction that the skies above are clearing. They seem to f?el sure at last that there is again a possibility for a "conservative" Democrat to get something. They appear to harbor the delusion that nothing but tariff is to be talked in this year's campaigning. And when tariff Is the paramount issue of a campaign, nobody's heart can bleed for the plain people and the common people like that of a Democrat loaded up with the gilt-edged securities of a predatory trust. Nobody can feel for the poor ultimate consumer like a Democratic candidate for Congress who is interested in enterprises for cornering the necessities of life. The late Senator Gorman was the spokesman of this class throughout the making of the Democratic tariff law during the uncertain, hesitating, doubtful years of 1893-94-95, - when panic was precipitated. He had been chairman of the National Democratic Committee in one or two of its great tatiff campaigns. Preceding him in the chair of the National Democratic Committee had been William H. Barnim., of Connecticut, and Calvin S. Brice, of Ohio, men as thoroughly identified with corporate monopoly as ever Gorman was. A growing consciousness of the inconsistencies of such leadership with Democratic "party professions of solicitude for the masses was the root of Bryanism In the Democratic . organization. Th3 wretched performances of 1 $93-95 brought conviction and clinched radical action. Since 1S9G the great Democrats who had so long yearned to relieve the people of all other burdens ( than those in which great Democratic leaders were financially interested, or could get an interest, have had to lie low and wait for the tariff question to rise again. It has been a long wait. The country has prospered long and well under the protective policy. It has been brought up out of the slough of despond. Into which it sank during the years of the early 90s, in which a Democratic administration at Washington hesitated, trembled, and finally split Into fragments. But so many new voters have come into the electorate since then that it seems now this old and hoary chestnut of an issue 'must be argued all over again. The party oT protection Is as certain to win In the final analysis as American Intelligence Is certain to take care of Itself. But in the meantime. Democrats without any other hope of getting Into Congress than this false issue affords them are already found offering themselves In many States as candidates for one or the other of the houses. They are already "subordinating" all State questions and all other national questions to what one of them calls ''the one supreme, overshadowing issue of tariff reform." The workingman Is to be given rest by the millionaire Democrats who gave him . such a long rest before. We are to wash away our sin with the water of watered stocks. Burdened consumers will be eased of their burdens in being deprived of a chance to consume so much. All monopoly is to be charged against the tariff and let it go at that. The singed cat Is coming back. It Is badly singed, and has many bald spots, and its cry is not yet loud enough to have aroused energetic protest in the two neighborhoods in which it has been heard. But it is rising toward the higher scales now, and when the entire country is aroused the cat must remember all of its dodges to escape annihilation. They are all old dodges. The singee- cat has learned no new ones, for there are none to learn. St. Louis Globe Democrat. Hitve llecn Ilonroetl That Way. The meat dealers in the East are beginning to retaliate. They are asking that the tariff be taken off and Mexican and Canadian cattle admitted into the country. But the American people ljve been buncoed once in that way. The shoemakers for years' told the shoe wearers that if hides were duty free shoes would be so much cheaper. So the last Congress took the duty of 13 per cent, from hides and made them absolutely free, but shoes have been, going up Just the same, and so has leather. The government simply is out the revenue. Before we make any more such deals we would like to have the free hides failure explained. Xo, it is not the tariff. The American cattle grower has not been getting too much for his, cattle. In the markets steers, from ordinary to best, range In prices from about $4 to $6 a hundred. The average Is probably about 5 cents a pound. Do the American people want to make cattle clieaper than that? Tbey are cheap enough. If they were much cheaper the farmers could not afford to grow and fatten them. Freeport (111.) Journal. Will ot fiel It. About half of the Imports of the United States are on the free list, but that fact does not seem to cheer the advocates of free trade, because the six hundred .millions or ao of goods that come into the country without paying duty are foodstuffs and raw material which we cannot profitably produce ourselves. The kind of free trade asked for by the advocates of downward revision is flic sort that would displace American worklngmen's products, but they are going to got it while the voting masses retain their sensesAmity ville (X. Y.) Enterprise. The WIe lad). Lover Dearest, do you enjoy a brass band? Beloved Don't try me on that old one, C.corgc. If you give me a ring that makes a black mark on my finger, all is over between us! Cleveland Loader. Tbe Idealistic. Miss Hogers How did you imagine anything so beautiful as the angel in your picture? Artist Cot an engaged man to describe his fiancee to me. Brooklyn Life. M ore riltliiK. He It looks to me as if JlcCrabi'j intends to discharge the butler. She How much nicer it would ne if the butler could discharge McCrabbe. Life.

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Concerning his experiences while studying the life and habits ef the house fly,' Henry Hill, the well known lecturer, says In the London Standard: T wish I could explain why a fly never walks down, but always up, a clean window pane, and why, on the other hand, it will walk down the slanting glass front of a picture. It 1 also a mystery to me why a fly always rests head downward on a walL These are habits of the house fly which offer a field for Interesting study. Sienalttve. With great fervor the St. Louis young man had kissed the St. Louis girL "O, Reginald," she said, turning pale, "you mustn't be so so hrtisterous!" "Why not?" he demarfied. "Because I am sure the city selsmo1 graph recorded that one'." Chicago Tribune. , Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, at they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Iafnes la caused by an Inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube In Inflamed you hare a rambling sound or imperfect hearlne. and when It 1 entirely cloned. Deafness is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and this tabe restored to Its normal condition, hear in? will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which U nothing but an InQameJ condition of the mucous surf a res. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused ty Catarrh) that cannot be cured by Il.Ul'a Catarrh Cure Send for circulars, f-ee. K. J. CIIKXEV CO., Toleo. O. Sold hr Dnijrzists, 7.V. " - Takt Hall's Family Pllla for constbatlon. lCraklne'M l'sai. A great wit of the Scottish bar was the Hon. Harry Erskine, who was lord advocate. Though punning is not, as a rule, a high form of wit, with Erskine it beca.me a fine art. On on occasion he undertook to pun on the subject of his friend's first sentence. His friend began, "The king" Harry intervened. "The king," he said, ii no sub;ect." Again, a Mr. Dunlop challenged him to pun on his name. "Xothlng easier," said Erskine. "Lop off the last syllable and it is done." London Standard. The House Cleaning Joke. Thousands of jokes are written each year on housecleanlng by men who do not realize what a small tragedy housecleanlng Is to women. It has to be done, and it has to be done thoroughly. Housecleaning is fun, though, if Easy Task soap is used. Made of pure cofoanut oil, borax, naphtha and clean, sweet tallow, it can be used on woodwork, floors, curtains, rugs, laces, china, cut glass and everything else rids them of dirt and dust in half the I H m o nf rlioan vt.llnw ninc j IKUV V ..v ..'.-. Feel Tbat Way Sometime. "Cclonel, vhat would you . do If you had your life to live over again?" "Well my boy. I'm proud of my war record, of course, but sometimes, when I get a twinge in that missing foot f m'Jie, I feel that If I had it aU to do over again I'd serve my country' by petting an army contract." Chlcas Tribune. TOUR JOINTS ARK STIFF and muMles aoro t rum cold. rbmatim or neuralgia: bn roa slip, strain or brulM yourvlf vm i'trry Darii' fatnillrr. Tbe borne rumedj 70 rear To De Sur. Young Wife Gregory, dear, what is the trouble? Worried Husband Xothing. Mlllk; nothing except that I've lost the combination of the lock on the office safe. Young Wife Is that all. dear? Why. you can advertise for it. can't you? Chicago Tribune. Owl l:oUKkevers use th lwst. That is why they use Kuss bleach lug blue, leading grocers l'V. Sbeppard I'lald. Of co rse everybody knows the popular M-ck and white check pattern-.! cloth 3hppard's plaid," but ninet--nlne people of every hundred ascru ' the origin of this cognomen to som connection with the pastoral personag which is apparently Indicated. 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