RTY PICTURES.
:ratic times prolific
OF THEM.
louses, Cojey Armies end General
|ntIon the Fruit of Democratic
Frlces Going Down All Along
Llue.
I tlmn a month ago the barley
l*s of the United States and those
rude iu barley received news
union that two cargoes of Hus
o-ley had been sold nt Odessa for
tnt to New York. This, of
the direct result of the first
|wunl free trade and democratic
ii for the benefit of foreign
the tariff act of 1883 the
|pon foreign barley imported into
In nt i v was 31.50 per centadvalo
1 This being insufficient to afford
lii-otection to the American farm
Hree-Trade Monument
FREEBREAD
’FUND-,
FOR’WOOR.
7 ' ir
A stoKy without words.
frt Scene in Nno York—Corner Seventh
l, and I2jt/i Sireet—Graver Cleveland
lent, January jf, 1S94.
—From American Economist.
c duty was increased to 04.68 per
under the McKinley tariff. How
[increase benefited our farmers by
nine- our imports of barley is
i n in the following official figures:
IMPORTS O BAHI.EY.
ending June"30. Bushels.
. 8,598,133
. .9,986,507
.10,197,115
.10,855,594
.10,831,461
.11,368.414
.11,333,545
. 5,078,788
... 3,146.338
. 1,970,729
ca n here be seen that under the more
■i‘ protection afforded the Arneri
hi inner by the MeKinley tariff, our
u ts of barley hare fallen off from
leven million bushels in 1889 and
in in 1890 to less than two million
bids in 1893. Where we paid an
rage of 80,750,000 a year from 1884
Value.
85,933,144
6,522,092
7,177,887
•6,178,208
8,076,082
7,728,838
5,029,849
3.222,593
1,592,040
921,605
I '90 to foreign farmers for foreign
ley. we have paid less than ¥2,000,
a year since the time of MeKinley
section and less than ¥1,000,006 last
inn paring our imports of foreign
ley for 1893 with those of 1888, the
in# to American farmers was more
it ¥i,000,000 in this one year- alone,
is evident that protection on bar
' 'vas a good thing for American
■1 ners. The free trade party thought
uus too good a thing and feared
ft our farmers might get too rich, as
|h as the sugar trust, perhaps. It
ks therefore the policy of the demo
ktic congress to grind the farmer
wn and keep him poor, so the duty
| barley was reduced from
P McKinley rate of 64.68
jr rent down to 30 per cent ad val
tm by the Gorman bill. This is a
duet ion of 53.63 per cent, and it
Quid have been more if the Wilson
H had become law, because the Wil
“Tariff Reform.**
" llu proposed a duty of only 25 per
nt ad valorem.
sinee we are to have imports of Kus
^rley into the United States it is
i'll for farmers to learn a few facts
ncerning this new competition that
* > must meet. The total average
11 lev crop of Russia amounts to 135,
'.'MO bushels, as compared with an
’'•'•age crop of 00,000,000 bushels in
f nite<l States. During a period of
' 5 ears. 1800-1800. Russia exported
’ bushels of barley to other
Hu 1 ies this being 15 per cent of all
UnsMa s exports of cetaal*.
*. 1. 0.1 \ recent official report upon
Russian crops has the following infor
mation that is of extreme Interest to
American farmers:
“Notwithstanding the comparatively
small yield per acre and the great varia
tions in the harvests from year to year,
Russia, in the export of all breadstuffs,
has gained the foremost position
among countries placing their grain
supplies upon the world's market,
yielding to the United States otfly in
respect to the export of wheat and
maize.”
As Russia “has gained the foremost
position among countries placing their
grain supplies upon the world’s mar
ket,” and particularly so of barley, it
is evident that the value of Russian
barley does much to regulate the price
of barley in the world's markets that are
not protected; hence it is interesting to
study the value of Russian barley.
During a period of seven years. 1991—
1897, the average export value of Rus
sian barley was ;i5 cents per bushel at
port of shipment. The Uorrnnn tariff
rate of 30 per cent ad valorem
will add 10’^ cents per bushel to
this price, making 45! i cents, to
which must also be added 4 cents
per bushel for freight and insur
ance, making the total cost of Russian
barley, laid down in New York, to be
49!i or 50 cents per bushel.
It may be considered that the future
value of barley in the New York
market will be about 50 cents per
bushel, as compared with an average
price of (10 to 70 cents per bushel dur
ing 1801-1893, when McKinley protec
tion was in uninterrupted operation.
The American farmer must prepare
himself for this new value of barley
in New York, deducting freight from
the farm and commissions, so as to
arrive at the new farm price. The
American farmer will appreciate the
loss as his contribution to a valuable
“object lesson” in free trade. He will
also remember that this is but the first
step toward free trade, and that the
democratic leaders have promised to
make the tariff rates still lower, and
consequently to still further cheapen
the farm value of American barley.
Cotton Needs Protection.
In the fiscal year of 18i>3 our exports,
of raw cotton were 4,401,524 bales, or
3,204.131,711 pounds, of the value of
$187,012,080, or 8,484 cent s per pound.
In the same year the imports for con
sumption were of raw cotton 4:1,330,286
pounds of the custom house value of
$4,686,430, manufactured cotton goods
of the custom house value of $10,031,
638, of flax and its manufactures, $30,
670,240. All these foreign products
should have b-en excluded by a tariff
sufficiently protective for the purpose;
all the needed cotton nnd flax and
manufactures of both should have been
produced in our own country.
Of Course It. Will.
The woolen.the textile,the Sheffield,
the Birmingham, and some other of
our representative industriesareantici
pating increased American orders, and
the return of prosperity to these trades
will show itself in greater activity
among the iron and steel trades. Welsh
tin plate, moreover, is greatly advant
aged by the new tariff, and the return
of settled conditions of trade in the
United States also is calculated to help
on the revival which has already com
menced,—Colliery Guardian of Eng
.1 and,
It* “Inspiring Confidence.**
Tlie democratic party is the only
party that has given the country a for
eign policy consistent and vigorons,
compelling respect abroad and inspir
ing confidence at home.—Democratic
Platform, Chicago, 1893.
An instance of its '“inspiring confi
dence at home'’ can be found in the
withdrawal of Mr. Harold M. Sewatl
of Maine from the democratic party.
Aluminum Bouts.
An aluminum torpedo boat, built by
1 arrow for the French government,
j liasj ust had a trial on the Thames.
I The boat is <50 feet |long, 9 feet 3
j inches beam and weighs, with the
| water in its boilers, 9 tons 8
| hundred weight, the hull alone weigh
ing just 3 tons. The material used
was an alloy of 93 per cent of alumi
|. num and 0 per cent of copper. A
I striking result obtained from using the
lighter metal was a gain of three and
one half knots over the steel boat- of
the same model; the aluminum boat
making twenty and one half knots;
but its was also made possible to use
thicker scantling, which stiffened the
boat so that the vibration was not ap
preciable. The boat is easier to lift,
and more buoyant in the water. The
cost of the metal was over £1.000. or
twice as much as a steel boat of the
same model.
The Alaska Indians in the absence
of suitable birch make their canoes of
spruce bark. A measured section of
bark is first peeled from the tree after
it has been ringed at both ends and
scored longitudinally. The ends are
then doubled and sewed with roots,
and a suitable gunwale and frame of
willow are fitted and sewed to the
bark. Two Indians can build one
canoe in a day.
Feeding Milk to rig*.
Small pigs may be reared for not more
than two cents a pound in the elover
| field, with the skimmed milk and a lit*
j tie bran in it, says Column's R\jral
World. It will do no harm if the milk
is a little sour, but if so sour that it
smells offensively it is not fit even for
a pig. If the milk is kept in a barrel,
to which the offensive name of swill is
given, it' is not fit for use, for it is not
wholesome. It is better to mix the
bran with the milk, skimmed, still
sweet, if possible, and feed it imme
diately. For if bran is added to the
milk in a condition of incipient sour
ness, it will produce rapid fermentation
and considerably redueo the value of
the food, besides making it injuriously
unwholesome. The excess of acid
produces indigestion, which is the
cause • of that disease of the swine,
especially of the young animals, which
is popularly called black teeth. This is
not a disease of the teeth, as is sup
posed, but the result of the corroding
products of a sour stomach. There is
more profit in a lot of young pigs fed
properly in this way than in any other
farm product. The milk is without
countable value for any other use, and
is a waste, while the clover costs but
little, and its whole value is returned
in the manure left by the pigs, and due
to the elements of fertility left in the
milk. This, too, is a way of making
money from the atmosphere, for the
fat takes nothing from the soil, and is
made up solely of atmospheric matter,
and thus the soil is enriched, while the
farmer gets ull that is possible from the
land without any cost. A small quan
tity of the soft corn at the gathering
of this crop will finish the pigs in a
handsome manner.
The Wild Boer.
Some writers on swine believe that
most of the present breeds of swine
come from the wild boar, an illustra
tion of which is given in connection
with this article. Domestication and
crossing have greatly modified this
animal, and the time needed to mature
has been greatly reduced. The obser
vation has been made that when swine,
even after long domestication, are com
pelled to run at large and hunt their
food, after a few generations, they
greatly change toward the old types.
They become good travelers, long
legged, and if they have to burrow for
their food, become long snouted. Com
paring our modern breeds with the old
wild hog, we can but realize how great
Is 313 degrees Fahrenheit. When
part of this pressure is removed by
ascending to higher levels, water will
boil before coming to a heat of 313 de
grees, or if a descent is made into a
valley below the level of the sea the
boiling point will rise accordingly.
Thus it is plain to see that in highly
elevated regions, where there is less
atmospheric pressure upon the water,
the boiling point is much lower than
at sea level—in other words, it will
boil before it is sufficiently heated to
cook potatoes, beans, etc. An eleva
tion of but 910 feet makes a diminu
tion of but one degree in the boiling
point. At the City of Mexico, where
the elevation is 7.471 feet above sea
level, water will boil at 198K degrees;
at Quito, which is 0,541 feet, the boil
ing point is reached at 104 degrees. It
will be seen, therefore, thut boiling
water is not always equally hot. At
the places mentioned, and in several
localities in our country, many articles
of food can not be cooked at all by
boiling, or, if they can, it takes several
hours, where a few minutes should
suffice.—St. Louis Republic.
Irrigation and Fruit Shrinkage.
A California fruit company has been
investigating the effect of irrigation on
fruit as regards its shrinkage when it
is dried. They found rather unexpect
edly that the irrigated fruit had less
shrinkage, and was therefore worth
more in its green state than fruit grown
without irrigation. The conclusion is
that the greater amount of water in
the soil enabled the roots to take up
more mineral matter. It also made a
more vigorous growth of leaves, and
through these the air contributed a
greater proportion of saccharine pulp
than was possible with the poorer foli
age on trees that had a deficient sup
ply of water.—Ex.
Surplus Stock
In all flocks of poultry there
are more or less stock to be
sold as market poultry such as
hens and males over 2 years old;
also the culls picked out from the
chicks raised the past spring. And
during the present is the time to get
all such stock into the market, ns prices
generally get lower after game makes
its appearance. This is also the month
to purchase cockerels for new blood
next spring, as they can be bought for
a half- less now than they can next
spring. There is also the advantage in
having a larger number to select from.
If you buy now you take your elioicj,
THE WILD BOAR.
utility there is in the science of breed
ing. The old boar had a large tusk, a
long snout, and a much larger head in
proportion to the rest of the body,
than is the case with our boar of
to-day. His ears were small and point
ed upwards, and these were generally
black at maturity. His growth was
not attained until he was about 0 years
of age, and the duration of his life was
supposed to be about thirty years.
The sow had but one litter per year,
and this was usually composed of only
five or six pigs. They were suckled for
three or four months before being
weaned, and followed the sow about
for about three years till large enough
to protect themselves. It was common
for a single sow to be followed by
three litters of different ages.
Eaisi.v Farming in Utah.—To the
newcomer the mountains towering
from 9,000 to 10,000 feet above the
oeeam level, with snow mantled winter
lingering on their crests, sending down
cool, refreshing breezes at night to the
parched plains below, are ever attract
ive. They become huge magnets that
hold him at their feet. When lirig
ham Young yielded to their magnetism
he did well to limit the holdings of his
followers to a unit of twenty acres per
man. The prosperity of the communi
ty was due to the small plots of ground
highly cultivated. It was this that
made a success of irrigation on the
three rivers emptying into Salt lake,
the Bear, Weber, and Jordan. Irriga
tion in Utah, so far as it is ever seen by
the average tourist, is confined to
the tracts along these three rivers,
for they embrace the life and vital
ity of Utah. In this district are
Ogden, Salt lake city, and the
towns around Utah lake: here are
found the agricultural college, the
great sugar beet factory, and the host
of smaller industries that have given
Utah a world-wide reputation. There
are many small districts redeemed by
canals and ditches, especially in the
southern portion of the territory, but
they are off from the main line of
travel and seldom seen by the visitor._
Ex.
Where Potatoes Can't Be Boiled._
When the barometer stands at thirty
inches sea level, showing an atmos
pheric pressure of fifteen pounds to the
1 square inch, the boiling point of water
but if you wait until next spring you
must take what is' left.
E. G. McCormack.
Vermillion county, Ind.
Killing Catalpa Stubs.—A writer
asks: How can I kill my catalpa trees?
I liave girdled. They are sprouting
vigorously from the roots. By all ordi
nary methods the catalpa is about as
difficult to exterminate as the Canada
thistle. We know of only one sure
way. In the spring when the bark be
gins to peel, tear the bark on the
stumps downward in strips as low as
you can after digging away the surface
dirt, but do not break it loose at the
bottom. After tearing it downward in
strips to the roots let it flare outward
like a funnel to carry the rain water
to the base. This rough treatment at
this stage of growth will set up a sap
ferment that will kill the roots of ca
talpa or even the willow.—Iowa State
Register. __
Cost of Making Hay.—A corre
spondent of the Country Gentleman
tells of an experience of a business-like
widow in getting her hay cut. She
paid #3 per acre, or $18 for six acres.
The yield was nine tons. The woman
kept a little run of the time consumed
and help employed in making this hay,
and allowing $1.50 per day for man
and the same for team and 50 cents for
use of machine, the cost was less that!
81 per ton to the man doing the job.
With fairly good weather and good
machinery, hay can be made as low as
75 cents per ton, where it stands in
large flelds and yields two tons and
upward per aere, and the haul is not
longer than the average on quarter
section farms.
Beneficial Use of Lime.—If lime is
used freely in the poultry house, by
dusting it over every portion, it will
not only prevent disease, but also keep
lice away. Never minil about its lib
erating ammonia from the droppings,
as that is a small matter compared
with the benefits derived. The drop
pings, however, should be cleaned out
often. Take air-slacked lime and force
it everywhere, using a paris-green
duster. It is the best and surest pre
ventive of gapes that is known, and
it is seldom that roup appeal's where
lime is used liberally. If preferred, a
pint of crude carbolic acid may be in
timately mixed with every half bushel
of lime after it is slacked, and it will
be found an excellent disinfectant.—
Hartford, Conn., Times.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
Til* Vintage of Franca.
Returns of the French vintage of
1804, Just received, report a yield of
80,000,000 hectoliters (000,000,000 gal
lons), only three-fifths of the yield of
1003, while the qualities of the red
wines is apt to he inferior, owing to a
cool summer and a very lute vintage.
The best vintage in Franco this year
has been in Champagne. There is no
fear of immediate scarcity of good
French wine, however, as the last seven
years (1887 to 1803) havo been rich
years both for quantity and quality,
and the storehouses are full of ripen
ing wine. For 1804 the yield of the
leading Bordeaux vineyards is as fol
lows: Medoc, 1,000 hogsheadsof forty
eight gallons; Chateau Lafltte, 700
hogsheads; Mon ton Kothsohikl, 830;
Cos d’Estournel, 000, and l’ontet Canct,
800.
You Deserve a Good Shaking,
And chills and fever will Rive It If you don't
take defensive measures to escape the perlodto
scourge In a region where it ts prevalent. The
best snfoRuurd and remedy Is Hostetter's
Stomach Hitlers, which Is free from uny objec
tions applicable to quinine, und Is infinitely
more effectual. Wherever on this continent
and in (he tropics mulurlul complaints are most
virulent und general, llio Hitters Is the rocox
niaod specific und preventive. It does not mlt
leute. but erudlcutes chills and fever, bilious
remittent, dumb uyuo und ague cuke. For
rheumatism, Inactivity of tho kidneys undbliul
der, (or roustlputlon, biliousness und nerve in
quietude. It Is of the greatest efficacy, and the
unsolicited testimony In Its behalf o( eminent
medical nion leuve no reasonable doubt that it
Is ono of the most reliable family medicines In
existence. Uso it continually, und not by Uls
und sturls.
He Explained.
Two strungers in a first class railway
carriage have got into somewhat friend
ly conversation. The windows havo1
just boen let down on account of the
closeness of the day, and the desultory
chatter is consequently turned to the
subject of ventilation.
"I make it,” says ono of the two, "I
make it an Invariable practice to advise
people to sleep with their bedroom win
dow open all the year round.”
*‘Ila, ha!” laughed the other. "1 per
ceive that you are a doctor.”
"Not at all,” was the confidential re
ply. “To tell you the truth, strictly
between ourselves, 1 am—a burglar.”
-Tit-Hits.
• mu Kemira, wiuu.
The roatler» of thin paper will he pleaded
to learn that there in at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to enre in
all its stages, and that is ('atari'll. Hull's
('atari'll Cure Is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Hull's Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blond and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution
aud assisting nature ill doing its work.
The proprietors have so much faith in its
curative powers, that they offer One Hun
dred Dollars for any case that it falls to
cure. Mend for list of Testimonials.
Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo,O.
OfTHold by Druggists, 78c.
Hall's Family Fills, 25c.
Syllogistic.
Forty years since "Porte Crayon” was
down on Albermarle sound and told a
native that there were men with mouths
eight inches wide. The native declured
that was a iisli story, Porte reproved
him for his increduality and pointed
out that deductions from down facts
proved this statement. "We know,”
lie said, "that oysters must be eaten
whole. We know that there are oys
ters eight inches across the minor di
mension. Therefore there must be
mouths eight inches, wide to take them
in, or the beautiful chain of harmony
in the universe is brokeu.San Fran
cisco Argonaut
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smell, heals the sores aud cures the disease.
In proportion as people love they l ecome
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Milk.
It Is trange Hint with all the scion*
title tests applied to milk suspcolion
there is no recognized standard of the
purity of milk. Science cannot as yeti
distinguish the difference between wa
tery milk from a poor cow and good
milk adulterated with water. The
cheap grades of condensed milk ar»
generally skimmllk, and even the best
-Is not as nutritious us fresh milk. —Po
mona.
A Child Killjoys
The pleasant favor, gentle action and
soothing effects of Syrup of Pigs, when
in need of a laxative, and if the father
or mothor be costive or bilious, the
most gratifying results will follow lt»
use; so that It Is the best family rem
edy known, and every family should
have a bottle on hand.
Qualified forgiveness.
"You ought to have been at the
prayer meeting lust night," said Dea
con Sobers. "Hill Abnerford got U|»
and told how he hud forgiven you for
that boss you sold him."
"Oh. yes!" said Deacon l’od berry,
"bo's ferglve me all right enough, but
ail the same ho ain’t paid for the
hoes. ”—I udlanapolis Journal.
liegeman's Camphor lee with Glycerin*. '
The iirlglmil sml only genuine. Cures ClispneU Hnmls
ami Koch, CuM Sores, 4c. u. O. Clark Co.,N,llavuu,Ct.
When the heart speaks the -whole man
will say umeu.
*• Hanson's Single Corn Males."
Warranted to euro or moiin rutuudeii. Am. your
druggist for It. 1'i-ice 15 cents.
There is nothing more cowardly than bo
lug afraid of the truth.
It the Itaby In Cutting Teeth.
'ftoiuro amJ line that old and well-tried remedy, Mml
WiMu.ow'a BooTiiiNa Syiilt for Children Teething*
There are men who like to Njieak well of
others— on a tombstone.
98%
of nil cases of consumption can, if taken in
the earlier stages of the disease, be cured.
This may seem like a bold assertion to
those familiar only with the means gener
ally in use for its treatment; as, nasty cod
liver oil and its filthy emulsions, extract
of mall, whiskey, different preparations of
hypophosphitos and such like palliatives.
Although bjr many believed to be incura
ble, there is the evidence of huudreds of
living witnesses to the fact that, in all its
earlier stages, consumption is a curable
disease. Not every case, but a large per
tentage of eases, and we believe, Jit tty tfi'
per teal, are cured by Ur. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, even after the disease
has progressed ho far as to induce repeated!
bleedings from the lungs, severe lingering
cough with copious expectoration (includ
ing tubercular matter), great loss of flesh,
and extreme emacintiou and weakness.
Do you doubt that hundreds of such case*
reported to us as cured by “ Golden Med
ical Discovery ” were genuine cases of that
dread and fatal disease ? You need not take -
our word for it. They have, in nearly every
instance, been so pronounced by'the best
and most experienced'home physicians,
who have no interest whatever in mis
representing them, and who were often,
strongly prejudiced and advised against
a trial of “Golden Medical Discovery,”
but who have been forced to confess that
it surpasses, in curative power over this
fatul malady, all other medicines with
which they are acquainted. Nasty cod
liver oil and its filthy “emulsions" and
mixtures, had been tried in nearly alt these
cases and had either utterly failed to Irene
fit, or had only seemed to benefit a little for
a short time. Extract of malt, whiskey,
and various preparations of the hypophos
phites had also been faithfully tried in vain.
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those cured of consumption, bronchitis.
lingering coughs, asthma, chronic nasal
catarrh and kindred maladies, have been
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You can then write those cured and learn
their experience.
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mark on salmon-colored wrapper.
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