HELPLESS
bottles of
ST. JACOBS Oils
nif.xtmK. No return in Kvcars. FRANCIS MAURER.
a dmuti cr
W AU ill Vf I J vii
Thkkb is n grent deal of talk
amoiifj the democrats as to the
proper mini for them to nominate
lor the presidency. It makes no
difference to the republicans who
the democrats put up, for the re
publican nominee will be elected
o matter who the democrats nom
inate. LAST Friday night Levi Goulds
berry, who is in jail at Marysville,
Kansas awaiting trial for murder
taod off a mob who had overpow
ered the Bherilf and came for the
purpose of lynching hiin he hap
pened to be armed and the mob
concluded not to take him nfter
they had got to where he was..
Senator Shkkman simply states
a well-known historical fact in May.
ing that the republican party ''has
conferred greater benefits on the
people than any other party that
erer existed in this or any other
ouiitry;" and nt the fame time he
presents the argument which is go
M to give that party the victory In
the coming grcrt contest.
The New York Commercial Ad
vertiser is oblidged to admit the
practical success" of the working
f the reciprocity law, but com
plains that "the whole movement is
but another of the many instances
im modern political history of the
stealing of its thunder by one party
from another."
This is comical. The stubborn
pposition of the democrats in con
gress to the passage of the recipro
.dty bill must be regarded as en
tirely Pickwickian if there is any.
thing in this claim of "stolen
Uiunder."
The Italian army will soon be
quipped with a gun which seems
to be the perfection of modern
armament. It is the lightest arm
sed by any country. It is only
four feet long, and the bore is but
little more than a quarter of an
inch in diameter. The cartridges
are so small and light that a soldier
can carry 160 rounds of aruinu
ition with ease. Hut in epite of
all this lightness, the gun is the
the most formidable yet invented.
At a distance of nearly a mile the
projectile will pierce twelve inches
f solid wood, a force never before
attained by any projectile from an
rdinary infantary weapon. Lin
coln Journal.
The fact that Chicago enterprise
stops at nothing is again demons
trated by the proposition just made
t move a big hotel across Lake
Michigan. Over at St. Joe, Mich.,
there is a big tavern, forty feet wide
and 400 feet long, which was de
signed as a lake resort, but which
as proven unprofitable. The con
tractors are now figuring on put
ting that house on a series of big
cows and towing it over to Chi
cago, to be set up on the beach near
Jackson park and used for hotel
purpose during the world's fair.
Neither of the kind has ever been
attempted, but the eugineers say
that It can be done, and the con
tractors are ready to agree to the
safe delivery of the building almost
without causing a single crack in
the plastering. Lincoln Journal.
An epitome of the present situa
tion of American agriculture forma
a prominent and the most practical
and valuable feature of the Amer
ican Agriculturist (New York) for
January, in which issue this old
reliable magaxine celebrates its
fiftieth anniversary. In this epi
tome our relation to the world's
food supply is given, and ;m esti
mate of American production and
requirements. It is the first com
plete presentation of the laborious
studies of C. Wood Davis, and
apparently justifies his predictions
of the brilliant future that awaits
the American farmer. Mr. Davis's
opinions and data carry great
weight in the commercial and agri
cultural world because of his
exhaustive inquiry of production
in its relation to population, not
only in the United States but in all
the principal importing and ex-
porting countries of the world. He
shows that from 1S70 to 1880 the
bread-eating populations increased
11.4 per cent ami the wheat area l.i.U
per cent while the rye area was
unchanged, vbut during the ten
years just closed the iuerease in the
xrfcfat and rye area wa but 1.4 per
cent against U'l increase in' the
bread-eating n-pulatr'nn of 11 per
or
Chicago, II
I wa3 confined to led ; cou! J jiot
walk from lame lack; suffered 5
months; doctors did net help; 2
fe
jimps n nm it." k,
fv
ent. In other words, consumption
I increased ten limes as last as pro
Iduction. These studies shew that
in 1871 the total wheat exports of the
United States, Europe, India and
Australia were only 120,C10,OC:)
bushels, while the price in India, on
the Atlantic seaboard, at Chicago
and in Liverpool averaged $1.40 per
bushel. The price steadily declined
to $1.13 as the average in 1883, when
exports had more than doubled,
and has since fallen to eighty-eight
cents as the price for 1889. Hence
the probability of an advauce in
future.
BLUNDER NUMBER ONE.
It has been credited to a great
many public men, General Grant
among them that they were
authors of the declaration that re
publican success in this country
has often been due to democratic
blundering. It is a small matter
who put forth the sentiment, but it
is evident that the present demo
cratic commas is coino- in ln
the blundering. Uiunder No. 1 oc
curred when the ex-Confcilomti.
brigadiers and Northern dough
faces combined to defeat the reso
lution to enable the United States
government to send food supplies
to starving Kussians. It recalls
the friendly action of Russia in
Bending her war vessels to Ameri
can ports to side with the Union in
case Lngland or any other foreign
nation should side with the Confed
eracy. The democrats have set
their teeth together to let the Rus
sians friends of this country starve
to death because the Czar refused to
let this Union be dis-severed.
Blunder No. 1 is one that makes
every warm nnd patriotic heart in
the land revolt against the demo
cratis who control the national
house and defeated this plan of
generosity.
W C. Showalter Canod.
After the close of the evening
session of the district court last
night there was a very pleasant
surprise to W. C. Showalter, who
has for the past twelve years faith
fully performed the duties incum
bent upon him as clerk of the
district court S. P. Vanatta, in a
brief but appropriate speech, pre
sented Mr. Showalter with an ele
gant gold headed cane as a srus!!
token of the esteem in which he is
held by the Cass county bar. Mr
Showalter has the best wishes of
the people of Cass county, whom he
has so long faithfully served, what
ever vocation he may follow.
Tabus Talk for January ia full of
easonable good things, spread
out before the housewife by Mrs.
Rorer in her own practical style.
To tun a household in a manner
economical, and at the same time
satisfactory to the demands of even
an epicurean stomach, is not, we
should think, an eltocether easy
task. Yet this is what Mrs. Rorer
asserts can be done, and the
province of her magazine is to show
and leach exactly how it can be
done. The Table Talk is quite
equal ?lo the task would seem veri
fied by its six years of popularity
and success. Published by the
Table Talk Publishing Co.. 1113
Chestnut Sf, Philadelphia. $1.CD a
year; 10c. single copy.
The president has issued a proc
lamation announcing the signature
of a reciprocity agreement between
Salvador and the United States
The agreement takes effect February
1 next, and the following is a
schedule of the leading products
and manufactures which the repub
lic of Salvador will admit free of
all customs, municipal and any
other kind of duty: '
Animals, corn, rice, barley, rye
beans, hay and straw; fruits, bis
cuits, coal, bricks, marble, tar, ferti
lizers, agricultural implements,
machinery, railroad materials, tele
graphic and telephonic materials,
electric and gas lighting materials,
wharf materials, wood, iron, scien
tific instruments, printing materi
als, paper and printed matter, gold
and silver in bars.
Whem Col. Bryan gets through
with the McKinley bill he will take
up the subject of baptism by ini-
mersion, wtucli is said to very
vitally effect the silver question and
contract the currency.
Some political parties are born
ith trimmers within their ranks;
ethers have trimmers thrust upon
th'Mu. The democratic party and
nn for in-t :r i e. (i. M, II,
A PROTEC TIVE TARIFF.
That system of tariff legislation
vhich levies dutieson imports such
s are adequate to establish and
Maintain industries, insuring high
ages to laborers, ia called
PROTECTION.
The amount of protection needed
is determined by the difference in
the cost of production at home nnd
abroad.
For instance: If, because of high
wages here, it costs $.'10 to produce a
ton of steel rails, and because of
low wages it only costs fiQ in Eng
.id, then steel rails need a duty of
about $10 a ton to keep our mills
open and to protect our own work
men from the low wages abroad.
Again, if it costs seventy cents a
bushel to raise barley here and
only forty cents a bushel
in Canada, then barley
eeds protection to the amount of
thirty cents a bushel.
If a duty is imposed on any
article less than the cost of pro
duction, it cannot be protective.
Twenty cents per yard might be a
protective duty on a grade of plush,
while eighteen cents per yard
might not be protection at all.
A protective tariff system not
only means high duties on some
things, medium duties on others,
and even low duties on certain
articles, but it means no duty at all
on such things as we cannot pro
duce or manufacture in sufficient
quantities for our own use.
On tea and coffee, for instance, we
levy no important duty, for we can
not raise them in this country.
And raw sugar, too, we admit free
of duty, for we have not yet devel
oped the industry sufficiently to
supply our own people. So, instead
of a duty a bounty is given.
A protective tariff, therefore, be
sides being a source of revenue, de
velops and maintains our agricul
ture and innumberable manufac
turing industries; it enables us to
pay our millions of workmen high
wages, thereby insuring a home
market of several times greater
value than the whole world's mar
kets combined; it keeps hundreds
of millions of dollars in the coun
try that would otherwise be sent
abroad to pay for things we can
raise and manufacture ourselves;
it incites invention; it enables us to
live better, eat better food t.nd wear
better clothes thau any other nation;
t enables us to keep our wives at
home instead of in the fields or in
the millsjit enables us to educate our
children; in short, it makes us the
most prosperous, most contented
and happest people on the face of
the earth. American Economist.
THE CHILI TROUBLE.
The people of the United States
will believe the plain affirmations
of her own citizens who were on the
Baltimore, as they are made with
out a motive of self-interest, and
there will be neither hesitation nor
retraction if war comes by the
wrongdoing of Chili.
The democrats are treading upon
very thin ice when they make a
move toward repealing the third
section of the McKinley bill, which
provides for reciprocal trade with
the countries of South America.
The declaration that they wish to
substitute a section that will be
constitutional "and less onerous"
will be taken with a great deal of
allowance by the public. There is
no doubt that the object of the
movement is to embarrass the ad
ministration, which now" has the
negotiations for reciprocity well in
hand, and thus to cause the partial
failure of the whole plan for reci
procal trade. The majority in the
house of representatives take this
underhand method of dealing a
blow to the scheme because they
dare not attack it openly. It ought
to be self evident to every good
business man that the work of the
state department in securing con
cessions from other countries can
not be safely interfered with while
negotiations under way are yet in
complete. A change in policy now
will be simply to throw away over
a year of glorious work for the up
building of American commerce
and industry. Lincoln Journal.
A hkight new nickel mounted
upon a pin would make a very ef
fective campaign badge in the
elections of next fall, when the peo
ple are to pass judgment upon the
results of the first session of the
Fifty-second congress. New" York
Sun.
OCR great and glorious five-cent
congress has begun the noble work
of retrenchment by knocking out
the proposition to deliver at a Rus
sian port the grain given by the
Americans to help the czar's starr
ing peasants. This is the same
kind of economy which in private
life finds expression in the contri
bution of plugged nickels to the
Sunday morning collection. -
Petroit Tribune.
1 In Police Court everything is
quiet, Judge Archer informed a
llKKALD reporter that there has not
eeu hii arrest made since Decein-
, ber 22' 1X01.
Judge Ramsey this inorninguver
ruled the motions to the quash
service in the contest cases of Salis
bury vs. Peering and Edson vs
Tighe and they will now proceed
to count the ballots.
Mrs, Nettie Moldenhauer, wifejof
Fred Moldenhauer, died to-day of
pneumonia aired 31 years. 2 months
nnd 15 days. Funeral will occur
eniiesday, January, 13 at 2 o clock
trom ttie German Presbyterian
church.
F. W. Ridall died this morninc at
1:30, aged 32 years 3 month and 14
nays. Deceased was born in La
Crosse, Wis. September 22, I860. He
moved with his family from Colunr
bus to this city threeyears ago, and
has been employed in the cigar
factory of Juhua Pepperberg "ever
since. Mr. Ridall was a member of
the A. O. U. W.andthecigarmaker8
union. He leaves a wife and two
children. The funeral will occur
VYedesday January 13, at 2 p. ni.
from the residence 220 Vine street.
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