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Choose the Beat Lands.
, Southwestern Missouri lands are the
tost lertile in the country. The soil
productive and a good crop always
assured. An abundance of the best of
good, pure water. Special inducements
are.being offered just now for those
desiring to secure lands in this part of
the west For particulars, regarding
the rich mineral, fruit and agricultural
lands of southwest Missouri write to J.
M. Purdy, manager of Missouri Land
and Live Stock Co., Neosho, Missouri
See advertisement in another column
of this paper.
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To Strain Jelly.
An ingenious woman says a good
strainer for jelly may be made by us
ing . a wooden chair without rails on
the inside. Turn it upside down on
the table, take a perfectly clean cloth,
tie the four corners on the legs of the
chair, setting a crock or pan under
neath to receive the jelly. The cloth
should be dipped in boiling water be
fore using. Jellies may be strained a
third time if necessary.—Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Hairs Catarrh Cora
Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75a
“No,” she warmly rejoined, “I will
not admit that the spheres of man and
woman are essentially distinct. Cer
tainly not, It is true that .woman can
not at present nail down a carpet, but
yon don’t imagine, therefore, that she
could not, were she properly educated,
, attain to a sufficient command of lan
uage.’’—Detroit Tribune.
We will forfeit *1,000 if any of our pub
lished testimonia's are proven to be not
genuine. ~ “ ~
The Pjso Co., Warren, Pa.
‘ 'When £ J. Olave died on the Congo
last year, after having crossed Africa
in the interest of The Century, it was
announced that his notes, journals
and photographs had been saved.
From these a group of separate papers
has been made up, and the first .one
will appear in the August Century.
This tells of the adventures of Mr.
Clave for nearly a year while he was
with the British troops, who .were
chasing the Arab slave traders..
How to Grow 40c Wheat.
Salzer’s Fall Seed Catalogue tells
you. It’s worth thousands to the*
wideawake farmer. Send 4-cent stamp
for catalogue and free samples of
grains and grasses for fall sowing.
John A. Salzer Seed Co., LaCrosse,
Wis.
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McClure’s Magazine for August is to
be a mid-summer fiction number, with
stories by Octave Thanet, Stephen
Crane, Clinton Boss, E. W. Thomson
and Annie Eliot. Stephen Crane's
story will exhibit the hero of his, suc
cessful novel, “The Bed Badge of
Courage,” grown and old man, but
still capable of a fine act of bravery;
Clinton Ross’ will deal with Perry’s
historical fight and victory on Lake
Erie; and Annie Eliot’s will depict a
sprightly love episode in a Yale and
Harvard boat race.
A GREAT INUUVTRY -The Stark Bro’s
Nurseries, this city and Kockport, 111., is a
i vgritable beehive. The propagating plants
the "Two Hikes,” enla: ged. "Old Pike s”
vstilesmen work from New York Westward.
The office force is hurrying out 5 uO new
style canvassing outfits, photos of fruits,
trees, orchards, packing, fruit painted from
nature, etc. Several departments give all
their time to securing salesmen. Stark
Bro’s have room for energetic solicitors.
With such progress, and millions of fruit
trees, dull times unknown.—[.Louisiana,
Missouri, Press.
Fifteen years ago the Atlantic Month
ly gave Mrs. Stowe a breakfast on her
seventieth birthday at which a nota
ble company was gathered. At her
death it pays a tribute to her in some
ways quite as significant. The leading
article in the number for August is
Reminiscences of Mrs. Stowe by Mrs.
James T. Fields, who was her intimate
friend during the whole period of her
lama
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Personal.
ANY ONE who has been benefited
by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills,
will receive information of much value
and interest by -writing to “Pink
Pills,” P. O. Box 1593, Philadelphia, Pa.
HIh location.
“I live in a town,” said the bewhisk
ered man, who was tilted back in the
hold cnair smoking a rank cigar,
“wuere a father, two sons and an
uncle, all memuors of the same family,
ran for office at tne last election.”
"Pardon me.” ventured a bystander,
“but what part of Ohio are you from.”
—New Yurk Sunday World.
Gladness Comes
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With a better understanding’ of the
transient nature of the many phys
v ical ills, which vanish before proper ef
forts—gentle efforts—pleasant effort s—
rightly directed. There is comfort in
the knowledge, that so many forms of
sickness are not due to any actual dis
ease, but simply to a constipated condi
tion of the system, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt
ly removes. That is why it is the only
remedy with millions of families, and is
everywhere esteemed so highly bv all
who value good health. Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact, that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without debilitating the
organs on which it acta It is therefore
all important, in order to get its bene
ficial effects, to note when yon pur
chase, that yon have the genuine arti
cle. which is manufactured by the Cali
, fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by
A all reputable druggists.
If in the enjoyment of good health,
and the system is regular, laxatives or
other remedies are then not needed. If
afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commended to the most skillful
physicians, but if in need of a laxative,
one should have the best, and with the
well-informed everywhere. Syrup of
Figs stands highest and is most largely
Used and gives most general satisfaction.
BRITISH BUSINESS.
DISASTROUS EFFECTS OF FREE
TRADE EXPOSED.
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Cnbden Club Theories Cpset by Banlneu
Experience—Arguments of Democratic
Paper! Rendered Useless—Not ■ Lsf
Left to Stand on. '"’Ci j '
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A conference of the British Iron
Trade association was held, on May 6,
at the Westminster Palace hotel, in
London, under the presidency of Sir
Alfred Hickman, M. P. Upon opening
the conference, the president remark
ed “that the question which seemed to
be the most pressing at the present
moment for the British manufacturer,
and especially the British iron manu
facturer, was the success of foreign
competition.” Sir Alfred Hickman can
not have been reading the New York
Herald, or, if he has, its childish
economics must have failed to impress
his business experience, for he stated
that:
The suggestion that the progress of
a nation was measured by its Imports
was a heresy which did not require
confuting. It was certain that we
could never become rich by what we
bought unless we sold again at a profit.
We are told that the total value of our
exports was increasing, but our popu
lation was Increasing also and per head
of the population our exports are de
creasing. Our exports per head of
population were, in 1890, £7 Os. 7d., and
in 1894, £5 11s. 2d. Our imports Into
India had decreased no less than 34
per cent, while the imports from Ger
many and Belgium had increased no
less than 700 per cent.
Now the Herald has been trying to
make its readers believe that Eng
land’s prosperity “was measured by
its imports.” But a hard-headed busi
ness man, like Sir Alfred Hickman,
says this is “a heresy which did not
require confuting.” He further over
throws the Herald’s efforts at “a cam
paign of education” by saying that the
English “could never become rich by
what we (they) bought unless we
(they) sold again at a profit.” If Brit- j
ish business, on its Free-Trade basis,
: be such a money making game, what
necessity was there for Sir Alfred to
deplore the fact that “our (British) ex
ports are decreasing,” and still further
to deplore that “the imports (British)
from Germany and Belgium had iu- [
creased no less thag 700 per cent?” j
According to the Herald’s argument :
these larger British imports from Ger
many and Belgium should have added
700 per cent to the wealth of the Brit
ish iron trade. But Sir Alfred Hick
man says this is “heresy.” i
One of those keen long-headed bus- I
iness men of Scotland, Mr. W. L. Jacks :
of Glasgow, added his testimony to re- ;
fute the heresy of the Herald. He
“pointed out that whilst in 1871 Great
Britain supplied over half the pig iron
of the world, and In 1882 about 40 per
cent., it only supplied about a quarter
in 1893, and the tide flowed in the
same direction, . The flgures and facts,
taken together with the steadily de
creasing use of British coal in Ger
many, and especially with the start
ling announcement that Westphalian
coal was being sold in London, and
with the equally serious fact that ordi
nary American pig iron was being
pretty regularly sold in some parts of
England, indicated an amazing and
uncomfortable change in our commer
cial and industrial conditions. It was
not in the raw material alone that
these conditions prevailed, but in the
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form of the completed manufacture
the same result was observed.”
Here the Free Traders tell us that
“free raw material" will enable us to
“capture the markets of the world.”
England has the “free raw material,”
yet she is not only losing her grip on
“the markets of the world,’” but the
markets of the world have the audac
ity to capture the British market both
in coal and manufactured iron goods.
The Scotch manufacturer was con
fronted by this condition, for he
■aid:
Of one thing we might be assured.
No foreign country bad cheaper raw
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material than our own (United King*
dom).
Won’t the New York Evening Post
explain to .Mr. W. L. Jacks ot Glas
gow that he is mistaken? Either the
English manufacturers have no “free
raw material,” and Mr. Jacks says that
"no foreign country had cheaper raw
material”—or else the Westphalian
coal and American pig Iron are not
being sold In England, and Mr. Jacks
says they are—or else the Imports
from Germany and Belgium have not
Increased' 700 per cent, and Sir Alfred
Hickman says they have—or else the
British business man's Idea of a’“here
sy” is all wrong, and only the Herald
and the Evening Post of New York are
all right. ■■ 101
Perhaps, (hough, an effort will be
made by our Free-Trade friends to ex
tricate themselves from their dilemma
by attributing these English' Protection
arguments to the existence of “enor
mous strikes and lock-outs which
from time to time arose" In the United
Kingdom. But to acknowledge this
as the cause of BHtlah Inability to cap
ture other1'markets' or to hold their
own; would be a ‘ confession that
“strikes and lock-outs" do exist in a
Free-Trade country, wbereas every
Free-Trade paper In this country de
clares, especially during a political
campaign, that “strikes and lock-outs”
are the outgrowth of a Protective Tar
iff and are unknown In Free-Trade
countries.—Charles R. Buckland, edi
tor, American Economist.
Wh»t the People Went.
The people want a good Republican.
They want something more than a
wise, patriotic statesman; they Want a
man who embodies in himself not only
all of those essential qualifications, hut
who, in addition, inW|e highest possi
ble degree typifieajjr’Tjl^ientary char
acter, in regardJpAtion and in
purpose the ex^pi' * all that
is signified an
trade, deficil
labor-saving,
tion. (Cheers
to this conv
name is W
Foraker.
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rt, whe
at }he li
go (and*'
are ill-1
John,
V ‘'labors:
VX^re very mf /
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The news of McKinley’s nomination
was publicly telephoned throughout the
United Kingdom.
Making BrlfcUh “Melton*."
Brandford, June 22, 1896.
“Well, Ben, and how is trade?” This
I said by way of introduction to a nan
ager in one of our shoddy factories just
outside town, and I got the confes
sional answer: “We’re very busy, In
deed. In fact, we are thinking soberly
of enlarging our place, not being able
to get goods out fast enough. I want to
tell you something—how we make our
Meltons. Here Is a blend of materials
typical of all the lot; it’s just come off
.he machines:
1,750 pounds of mungo costing l»4d
ier pound. *•
84 pounds white TexaB cotton at 7d
„;er pound.
This yarn, when mixed together, is
jcribbled and spun to nine skeins weft
yarn. We find that f ’.ribbling, spinning
and weaving cost us one shilling (25
cents) per yard per whartron (six
pounds is a whartron), so then one pound
of yarn, when made of this shoddy,
costs at the rate of 6%d, or 13 cents
per pound in the cloth, which Is in
deed a marvel of cheapness. For mak- ]
ing these Unions a Lancashire cotton {
yarn is used for the warp, which costs (
about 6s. 6d., and this nine skeins ■
shoddy weft is used for filling. For
weaving these pieces we pay the
veaver 8s. (or 31.92). Our weavers
am from 10s. to 12s. per week on'an
verage. We find that when all other !
harges are added, such as mill ex- ;
jenses, dyeing and finishing (which I j
.vill give later), we are able to produce j
i Melton cloth -weighing 11 to 12
ounces to the yard, 50 inches wide, at
the nominal figure of 9%d. (19% cents)
per yard.”
“Why, that Is very cheap,” I said,
“and how much profit do you reckon
you have when you have sold a'whole
piece?”
“We generally find that we get Is.
9d. clear for every piece turned out,
and that we consider a fair, respectable
profit.”
This Is just one sample of how this
shoddy is done and made up, and your
buyers, I have good grounds for know
ing. are paying lid. (22 cents)) per yard
for this class of goods in Bradford. Of
course, there are better qualities, but
when you get up to a 24-cent dress Mel
ton, 50 inches wide. It is considered
here that you are buying a good article,
while Charles Scrath of Morcly & Leeds
la making such stuff at 6%d. (11 cents),
42 and 60 inches wide. Is this the stuff
to keep out your blizzards and cy
clones?
YANKEE.
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Commerce and Daslnevt.
It has become the fashion of late to
decry business as unpatriotic. We
hear much of the “sordid considerations
of capital," “employment,” “industrial
energies” and “prosperous labor.” The
United States, differing from the me
diaeval conditions which govern older
countries, differing from the militarism
which is the curse of European nations,
differing from thrones which rest upon
the sword, is pre-eminently and pat
riotically a commercial and a business
nation. Thus commerce and business
are synonymous with patriotism. When
the farmer is afield sowing and reaping
the crops which find a market that re
munerates him for his toil, when the
laborer and the artisan find work seek
ing them and not themselves despair
ing of work, when the wage of the
toiler promises comfort for his family
and hope for his children, when the
rail is burdened with the product of
the soil and of the factory, when the
spindles are humming and the fur
naces are in blast, when the mine is
putting put its largest product and the
national and Individual wealth are con
stantly increasing, when the homes
owned unmortgaged by the people are
more numerous day by day and month
by month, when the schools are most
crowded, the fairs most frequent and
happy conditions most universal in the
nation, then are the promises fulfilled
which make these United States of
America the home of the oppressed and
thp land of the free.—Hon Chauncey
M. Depew.
noth Tariff League Man.
The American Protective Tariff
League has good cause to be satisfied j
with the work of the Republican Na
tion Convention at St Louis. Both the
nominees for President and Vice Presi
dent—Hon. William McKinley of Ohio
and Hon. Garret A. Hobart of New
Jersey—have been members of the
League almost from its inception. Both
are advocates of the policy of protec
tion, as against free trade, and the
American people can rest assured that |
the advocacy of this policy, which the
League represents, will be maintained
with our usual vigor during the cam
paign. While we regard the result of
the election as a sure victory for pro
tection, all friends of the cause must
give active co-operation to insure over
whelming success in order that protec
tion may become the permanent policy
of the United States.—American Econ
omist.
A Question for Labor.
Whenever the workingmen of the
United States—I mean skilled and un
skilled laboring men—whenever they
are ready to work for the same wages,
the same low wages that are paid their
rivals on the other side, their rivals in
England, in Germany, in Belgium, and
in France, engaged in the same occu
pations—whenever they are ready for
that, which, I hope, will never be,
then we are ready for the free-trade
doctrines of the Democratic party. It
is a question that addresses itself to
the bone and sinew of the United
States; it is a question for the work
ingmen to determine.—William Mc
Kinley.
Carmany*. PratwUog Policy.
As late as 1893, the value of British
imports into Russia exceeded that of
German Imports by eleven million of
roubles; yet, in 1894, pnly one year
later, Germany exported to Russia
goods worth fourteen and one-half mil
lion roubles more than England; in
fact, Germany has now displaced Eng
land from its old position at the head
of the list of countries exporting com
modities to Russia. This is largely
due to a wise policy of reciprocity
shaped by the different economic ne
cessities of the two countries.
He Stood Like » Rook.
There, representing Imperial Penn*
sylvanla and her interests, he (Senator
Quay) stood like a rock, resisting the
combined power of a free trade Presl*
dent and party, until the deformity
known as the Wilson bill was altered
and amended so as to save at least some
of the business Interests of his state
and country from entire and utter
ruin.—Governor Hastings.
What Potatoes Hooch t.
One Barrel. Pounds of Sugar.
January 1, 1892. 28
January 1, 1896. 14
Democratic d'V'reasc
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Her MeJeily Approves.
Queen Victoria has bestowed her
gracious countenance oh. women's
clubs, and they are Increasing in num
ber!. TKc Green Park Club is cine ol
the best ui these organisations in Lon
don, and is at the same time one of the
most aristocratic. To this club the
queen has sent her portrait, with her
autograph. The Ladies' International
Club.is one of the newest clubs in the
.English metropolis. Its home is in
Bond's tree t. Its avowed desire is to
entertain friends from all parts of
England and from foreign countries as
well, particularly the United States.
New York club women have, therefore,
a warm personal interest in the new
London International.
A Yell of Mist
Rising at morning or evening from some
lowlands, often carries In Its folds the seedB
of malaria. Where malarial fever prevail
no one Is safe, unless protected by some
efficient 'medicinal safeguard. Hostetter's
stomach Hitters Is both a protection and a
remedy. No person who Inhabits, or so
journs In a miasmatic region or country,
should omit to procures this fortifying agent,
which Is also the finest known remedy for
dyspepsia, constipation, kidney trouble and
rheumatism.
If the hens are well eared for while molt
ing they will lay before winter.
The dust bath is absolutely necessary for
fowls,
II the Baby is Catting Teeth*
fissure snd in that old and well-triad remedy, Has,
WntsLow's Sooranra Strut for Child ran Tssthtng.
A diet of fruit and milk, it is said, will
reduce fleah at the rate of five pounds a
week.
In Future Warfare.
••Fire low!”
The general wee experienced in wars,
fare, and his troop* treated him.
‘•It will be a hard light,” but wewilf
win if you do as I say. Fire low and
puncture their tirea"—New York Sun*
day World.
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Ilrgrman'i Camphor le> with Qlyrorlna.
Cure. Chopped Banda and race. Tender or Hora>'aet
Chilblain., File*. Sc. C. O. Clark Co., New Haven, Ct
Poor
Pilgarlic;
5 there is no need for you
® to contemplate a wig
when you can enjoy the
pleasure of sitting again
under your own “tliatch.”
You can begin to feet
your hair back as sopn
as you begin to use
Ayer’s .
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We all have oar understudies, mnd 'ir*
all hate them. * , *r t, .r>ifyr
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The umpire now decides that
11 BATTLE AX ” is not only
decidedly bigger in size than any
other 5 cent piece of tobacco, but the
quality is the fine ever saw, and
the flavor delicious* / u will never
know just how goci it is until
you try it*
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Pay $100—you have a Columbia—the |
result of 19 years' experience* |
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Pay less—you have experiment, at your «
expense—the result of competing
doubtfulness*
More Columbias each successive year*
Catalogucof Truth, face at Columbia ageacka
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