H 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. i i‘ 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. < 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 ) 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 5> 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. '-. .i; 1 . ' ’’ ' ,, J. : > Cnbden Club Theories Cpset by Banlneu Experience—Arguments of Democratic Paper! Rendered Useless—Not ■ Lsf Left to Stand on. '"’Ci j ' \\ «r 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 t Let the Tram pet Sound* THE PEOPLE ARE FOR M’KINLEY 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 '*.W 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. very rt, whe at }he li go (and*' are ill-1 John, V ‘'labors: VX^re very mf / H,w Intelligence?** the free nd-issuing, inistra resent . His nator ttio effori :\ . and p 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. . V: 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 14 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. » ■>. 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 . Hair Vigor., vmM ,, ■ \ yggtim We all have oar understudies, mnd 'ir* all hate them. * , *r t, .r>ifyr ■ V’*:.': W€ p/: .IV v. T-.v' •/: .• r - “Judgment It” PLUG 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* a .u • • i V I “The Quality of Experience” ? :