jneese and salt meat should be spar
ingly eaten.
Many good physicians and rnirses use
Wizard Oil for obstinate rheumatism
and neuralgia. It's the right thing to
do.
"Where bread 13 wanting, all's to be
sold.
I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption sTed
in j life three years ago. Mrs. Taos. Robblss.
liaple Street. Korwidi, X V.. Feb. 17, ISO!
The old man has given all to his
son.
Mr. Winrkowa foottiln(j Sjrnp.
Tor children trzf.cg. aoftensttie guirt, retiaeee ltr
Csiiuiiatlun.aiiaj tps;n.curfes windcoilc iicsbotce.
It takes a level headed man to sur
vive a stroke of good fortune.
Try Oraln-O! Try Gnla-OI
Ak your Grocer to-day to show yon m
package of GRAIN -O. the new food drink
teat takes the place of cotlee. The children
may drink it without injury a well as the
adult. All who try it, lite it GRAIN-O has
that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but
It is made from pore frrains, and the most
delicate stomach receives it without dis
tress. ( the price of coffee. 15c and 25 cttv
par package, bold by all grocers.
Knowledge bereft of reason is tha
most miserable of widows.
Tbe Best Way.
If you are going to take advantage
cf the Cheap Rate to California in
July, account of tbe Epworth League
Convention to be held at San Francis
co, remember that the Southern Pa
cific Company can offer more attrac
J tions In the way of diverse routes to
N' and from and through California than
any other line. Send to the under
signed for a map of California, which
will show how you can reach all
points of interest via the Southern
Pacific Lines and how you can have
your ticket to San Francisco reading
over one line and returning another.
These cheap rate Round-Trip Ticket3
will be on sale July Cth to 13th In
clusive and will be good for return un
til August 31st. W. G. Nelmyer, Qen-
eral Western Agent, 238 Clark street.
Chicago, I1L
An artist's work is finished when
he draws hi3 last breath.
nail's Catarrh Cure
Is a constitutional core. Price, Too,
The dealer in kitchen utensils is one
sort of pan-American.
Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for
10 cents. All other 10-cent Ftarch con
tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran
teed or money refunded.
The obese man has no friends in a
crowded street car.
TTO! FOR OKLAHOMA!
5f land. kon to open, lierradv: Ni'ivftD'uMinnal,
witauileraentcrmiAtninir proclamation. mp stooin?
aMotmetitx. f'otiotv wattf. fir . SI. Suppiemeiit & Mais
SOo. AjcEU V allied- VWK. I. KOKuJ.N, Ferry t O. I.
Fact is the rock against which the
waves of theory break.
GREATLY REDUCED RATES
VIA.
OMAHA AND ST. LOUIS RAILROAD.
V Buffalo. X. T., on sale May 13th to Sept.
- 30th.
Kansas City. Mo., on sale June 7th to
11th.
Ivtroit, Mich., on sale July Cth, Cth and
7th.
Cincinnati. O., on sale July 4th, 5th and
6th.
Chicago, I1L, on sale July 23rd, 24th and
tith.
Louisville. Ky, on sale Aug. 24th, 23th
and 2th.
Cleveland. O.. on sale Sept. fth to 12th.
Half rats to most all points south first
and third Tuesday each month. Summer
tourist rates to all summer resorts now
cn sale. For descriptive matter regarding
the Pan-American Exposition, summer
tours, rates and all information call at
O. & St. L. City Office. 1415 Fjmam street
(Paxtcn Hotel building), or write Harry
K. Moores. C. 1. Ae T. A.. Omaha. Neb.,
cr A. J. Bandy. G. P. A., Kansas City,
Mo.
Tbe "Peanut King's" etart.
F. "VT. Mills as a "peanut king" has
had an interesting career. Ke began
life as a peanut vender on a train.
When only 12 years old he had con
tracts with several railroads running
out of Chicago for the exclusive right
to sell peanuts on the trains. This lad
of 12 had grown men in his employ.
Mills, the peanut vender, is now the
employer of more than 600 men. He
is manager of a company that makes
slot machines, which supply salted pea
nuts. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE
STARCH, the only IS oz. package tor
10 cents. All other 10-cent starca tun
tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran
teed or money refunded.
The Toons Crockrrt Not "Horary."
It is regarded as somewhat singular
that neither Richard Croker's sons has
taken to the turf, or even to horses ex
cept in a small way. They prefer to
be dog fanciers and each has some very
fine animals bull dogs and bull ter
riers. Later on they may take up "the
sport of kings." Their father had
nothing to do with racing until he was
SO.
A GLORIOUS SIGHT.
FU.M of Wht In Which tbe S bocks
fTcrs So Thick It Was Almost Im
possible to Drive Between
Them.
To the Editor: A gentleman from
Dulath made a trip through a portion
of Western Canada last summer and
writing of what he saw, says:
"Wheat, for instance, will average
twenty-five or thirty bushels to the
acre.- I saw shocks so thick, in th9
field that it would be almost Impossi
ble to drive between them. Winters,
It 13 said are longer than near Du
luth, but the Japan current, warm
chinook winds and dry atmosphere
make the winters comparatively mild."
Thousands of such testimonials are
to be had from settlers who have taken J
advantage of the low-priced lands of
Western Canada. During the present
year new districts will be opened nj
In the Saskatchewan valley and ad
vantage should be taken of this at
once. Information can be had from
any agent of the government, whose
advertisement appears elsewhere In
your columns. Tours truly.
OLD READER.
i REPUBLICANS DIYID
ON THE PROBLEMS OFTHETAH
IFF AND THE TRUSTS.
Reciprocity or Tariff Reform Is Retains;
Cain la tbe Ranks of the "U. O. P."
Facing a Crisis la Careei
The republican party is facing a
dilemma that will not 'down and must
be met at the meeting of the Fifty
seventh Congress. The domination of
the trusts has been so, imprinted on
the public mind, especially regarding
those trusts that are directly bene
fited by the protective tariff, that many
of the most partisan republican news
papers and politicians have already
pronounced for the repeal of those
schedules that cover the products of
some cf the most monopolistic of the
trusts. The other faction, to which
Hanna and President McKinley belong,
declare that the tariff law must not be
meddled with and that reciprocity is
the only relief that must be attempted.
Section 3 of tbe Dingley tariff act un
der the head of the Free List is the
reciprocity section and provides that
the president may, for the purpose of
equalizing the trade of the United
States with foreign countries produc
ing and exporting the following ar
ticles: Argols, or crude tartar, or wine
less, crude; brandies, or other spirits;
champagne and all other sparkling
wines; still wines, and vermuth; paint
ings and statuary; may enter into a
commercial agreement that will allow
the before named articles to be im
ported at special rate of duties from 5
to 15 per cent and on brandies, cham
pagne and wines from 35c to f 1.75 per
gallon.
Under section 4 the president is auth
orized to make reciprocity treaties that
will admit, other articles under a re
duction of 20 per cent off of the regu
lar tariff duties, or may transfer from
the dutiable list to the free list, "such
goods, wares and merchandise, being
the natural products of such foreign
country or countries and not of the
United States."
Thus it will be seen that the reci
procity powers granted the president
are very circumscribed and does not
touch the trust monopolies except as
the 20 per cent reduction of the pres
ent duties may affect them.
As the duties on iron and steel range
from 4 7-10 to cent a pound it will
be seen that the reduction of 20 per
cent on that schedule would not injure
the trust or allow foreign steel to com
pete In our market especially as the
steel trust i successfully competing
with foreigners on their own ground.
The same remarks apply to other
schedules.
Reciprocity is a one-sided affair that
will allow a few luxuries such as wines
and champagne to be imported at re
duced duties, but the necessities of life
would remain about the same, at all
events not enough reduction to bring
competition and reduce their cost to
our consumers. It can hardly be
wondered that the United States Sen
ate refused to ratify the reciprocity
treaties already made by the president
and it is doubtful, even if the republi
cans should have the necessary two
thirds which they will not have In
the next Congress that all these will
be found ready to ratify such reciproc
ity. There remains for the republicans
the other horn of the dilemma and that
Is a reform of the tariff by adding to
the free list such articles as are mon
opolized by trusts or reducing the
same to a tariff for revenue basis. This
is the Democralc position and doubt
less the Democratic members of con
gress will be quite willing to Join
hands with those republicans that are
ready to act for this sensible reform.
There Is another phase of reciproc
Ity that has been suggested by the Chi
c-ago Chronicle, which says:
The administration is said to have
arranged with the different govern
ments concerned to keep the reciproc
ity treaties suspended another year In
the hope of bringing the senate over.
Probably it will avail nothing to keep
the treaties pending. Senators opposing
them may be influenced by constitu
tional as well as protectionist consid
erations. They may be satisfied that
the supreme court would declare the
treaties void in case they should be
ratified, on the ground that under the
constitution congress alone has the
power to lay duties and cannot turn
that power over to the president and
senate in their treaty making capa
ity. That the framers of the Dingley
law perceived this difficulty appears
from the fact that In framing section
4 of that law, relating to reciprocity
treaties, they Inserted the provision
that "when such treaty shall have been
duly ratified by the senate and ap
proved by congress" then the duties
therein agreed upon shall be effective.
This is obviously an attempt to get
around the constitutional difficulty.
But probably senators are convinced
that the attempt would not prove suc
cessful if the question should get up to
the supreme court, as It almost cer
tainly would if the treaties were rati
fied. CHEAP GOODS TO FOREIGNERS.
The trusts and combines have In
augurated a new scheme to fceep the
home market to themselves at the
highest possible figure and not de
crease their output. To do this the
surplus after supplying the home trade
must be disposed of. To reduce the
Price here would 'make it Impossible
to pay Interest on the vast over-capitalization
of the new corporations. To
reduce the production would entail the
shutting down of plants and bring on
a depressed condition of trade that
would make It Impossible to market
the stocks which have been issued in
such enormous sums and which have
been, in many instances, put up with
the banks as collateral for loans. The
interest on those loans must be paid
and a five or six per cent dividend
must be declared to cover the bank
charges.
To dispose of these surplus products
the markets of Europe were looked
over and it was found that by making
a price at about cost and in some cases
even less, the foreigner's would take
them. This amounts in a great meas
ure, for the increase of our exports.
It also shows the wonderful workings
of the protective tariff, which while
protecting the home market for the
benefit of the trusts, forces cheap
goods on the foreigners at our expense.
As evidence of the fact that while
our people are paying the highest
price and in addition the profit that
should be paid by the foreigner, the
Chicago Chronicle says:
The industrial commission continues
to accumulate testimony to the effect
that the tariff protected combines not
only can, but in fact do, exact higher
from their own countrymen than
from foreigners. A Chicago witness
Herman B. Butler, representing the
iron firm of J. T. Ryerson & Co., tes
tified to that effect Thursday. He said
that "merchants" sold iron goods much
cheaper in foreign markets than in
home markets. This implies, or at least
very strongly suggests, that the mer
chants can get concessions from the
manufacturers when the goods are for
export. Merchants would have no
strong motive to discriminate against
home consumers if they were not get
ting a "divvy" from the manufacturers.
Mr. Butler expressed the belief that if
combines put up prices so as to insure
abnormal profits competition would
arise and bring prices down. No doubt.
But from the fact which he stated
about Belling cheaper abroad we must
conclude that some competition, on a
level basis from the outside, is neces
sary to protect the home consumer
against extortion. That is to say, free
trade alone can protect the home con
sumer. THE UNPARDONABLE SIN,
The Worcester Methodist ministers
are stirred to their depths, says the
Johnstown Democrat. Their moral
sensibilities have been shocked. Their
religious feelings have been deeply
outraged. And today they are look
ing upon the major as a man of sin.
All because the major is said to have
locked down his imperial Napoleonic
nose at the bottom of a champagne
glass.
This was the straw that broke the
ministerial camel's back Worcester
Methodist pulpiteers could regard the
abandonment of plain duty without a
sense of shame. They could contem
plate a criminal aggression without a
qualm. They could see slavery rein
6tituted under the flag with pious
equanimity. They could brook the
recognition of Mohammedan poly
gamy under government protection
without wincing. They could read the
story of Cuban betrayal to the greed of
syndicates and trusts and the nation
branded in the face of the world as a
perjurer with a sense of righteousness
fulfilled, and of religion vindicated
They could even applaud the butchery
of the Filipinos who had been our
friends and allies; they could magnify
the name of an alien conqueror who
steeped a hapless country in blood for
the gratification cf lust and greed and
glory; but they draw the line at a
glance of sparkling champagne.
The major may shed oceans of blood;
he may burn and lay waste whole cit
ies and towns and villages in pursuit
of duty and destiny; he may betray al
lies and degrade the nation's flag; he
may trample on the constitution and
belittle the Declaration cf Independ
ence; he may mouth pious lies and
bubble over with cant and affection in
the concealment of hi3 shameless im
morality In dealing with weaker peo
ples; but he must not look upon the
wine when it is red, when it giveth its
color to the cup. Nay. For wine i3 a
"mocker and strong drink Is raging.
Let his only libations be of blood. Let
him kick over states and set up im
perial satrapies on the ruins of free
institutions, but let him not take a
drop for his stomach's sake.
And let no man wonder that the
church is losing its hold upon the
masses. Let it rather be wondered that
it has not fallen into absolute con
tempt. That it has not so fallen surely
Is no fault of the Worcester Metho
dist Ministerial association.
CIFTS AND OBLIGATIONS.
The most Insignificant of us much
dislike to place ourselves under obli
gations to any one to whom we cannot
reciprocate. Those who are rich and
powerful seldom do so, especially when
to receive gifts would cause their mo
tives in taking them to be called in
question.
William McKinley should have in
formed the corporations which are
junketing him and his imperial suite
across fne continent that he would pay
his own bills, which he can afford to
do out of 1450,000 a year and "found."
It would have been good politics as
well as good taste for Mr. McKinley
to have added that it Is unseemlv for
a president of the United States to as
sume personal obligations to interests
which may be affected by bills coming
before him for official consideration.
As, however. Mr. McKinlev has hppn
dispensing his official favors from th
beginning of his first term into th
second, according to his sense of pri
vate obligations, such an expression of
Republican delicacy and equity was
not to be expected at his hands.
Mr. McKinley is of the trite which
takes everything it can get without
sensitiveness as to the source or the
implied obligation.
Cheap Artificial Stone.
The preparation of a simple and
cheap artificial stone is becoming an
Important German .industry and is
likely to eventually suplant brickmak
Ing. The ingredients are only lime and
sand in the proportion of four to six
parts of the former to between ninety-six
and ninety-four parts of the lat
ter. The materials are thoroughly
mixed and shaped into blocks of the
desired size. The latter are then put
in a boiler, which is sealed, and sub
mitted to a steam pressure of from 123
to 150 pounds to the square inch. This
operation gives a flinty character to
the blocks, making them very hard.
For Health and Decency.
Disregard for the law against ex
pectorating in public conveyances has
at last moved the New York health
department to action. Tuesday morn
nig seventy officers of the department
in citizen's attire were detailed to
travel all day in the cars of the various
companies throughout the city and on
all the ferry boats. They had orders
to arrest any person found violating
the ordinace. Before noon several men
were compelled to accompany the offi
cers to a magistrate's court, where
they were fined and warned against a
repetition cf the offense.
Couldn't Wear 6b o. a.
Sumpter, 111., June 10th. Mrs. J. B.
Flanigan, of this place, had suffered
with dropsy for fifteen years. She was
so very bad that for the last three
years she has not been able to wear
her shoes. She had doctored alf the
time, but was gradually getting worse.
Last winter Mr. Flanigan, who was
very much discouraged, called for some
medicine at Mr. J. J. Dale's drug store
in Carmi. Mr. Dale persuaded him to
have his wife try Dodd's Kidney Pills,
and he bought six boxes. His wife used
five out of the six. before she was en
tirely cured. She is now as sound and
as well as ever she was, completely re
stored to health, and free from any
symptom whatever of dropsy.
To say that Mrs. Flanigan is pleased
at her wonderful deliverance does not
half express her feelings, and she and
Mr. Flanigan are loud in their praises
of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and of Mr.
Dale for recommending this wonderful
remedy to them.
The fact that Dodd's Kidney Pills
cured Mrs. Flanigan of such a severe
case of dropsy, after the doctors had
given her up, has made them the most
talked of remedy ever known in White
county.
Honors for a Very Old Painter.
Thomas Sidney Cooper, the dean of
English painters, will celebrate his SSth
birthday In September next, and prep
arations are being made by the Eng
lish Royal academy to observe the oc
casion by one of the largest artistic
-dinners ever given in London.
ass your grocer ror DEFIANCE
STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for
10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con
tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran
teed or money refunded.
Beware of meat twice boil'd, and an
eld foe reconcil'd.
S"lTS TVrma.nrnl'y Ctjrwl. IToPtt ornerrmcnafta
Srwt dy a wa. of lr. Kline's Orat Kerve ftutcrcr.
Send for FREE SZ.OO trial bottle anrt trvallna.
Its. . U. Ka-lc. Lui.. Wl Arub St.. 1-fcuatleU.lut. fa.
O fool! to undress thyself before
thou art going to bed.
25c
ALL DRUGGISTS.
Allfl" all bowel troubles
I I I U la looineu, bad breaitb
APPE
ST) PREVENTED BY Yj
1 1 I II on the stomach bloated bowels ton I
W W I Ini month beadaebe lodizestlon pimples
pains after eatlnz liver trouble, sallow complexion
and dlzzluesa. I hen yortr bowrlsdoot move rejn.
larlr yon are getting tick. Constipation kills more
people tban all otber diseases together. It is a
starter for tbe chronic ailments and long years) of
suffering that come afterwards. No matter what
alls yon, start taking CASCARKTS to-day for yon
will newer get well and be well all tbe tlmenntll
you pat your bowels right. Take our advice; start
with CASCARKTS to-day. under an absolute guar
antee te cur or money refunded.
FOR SYSTEMIC CATARRH
Peculiar to Summer Pe-ru-na Gives Prompt
end Permanent Relief.
Clem G. Moore, Editor of the Advocate-Democrat of Crawfordsvllle. Gn.,
writes the Peruna Medicine Company as follows:
Gentlemen "After four years of Intense suffering, caused by systemic
catarrh, which I contracted while editing, and traveling for my paper, I hare
been greatly relieved by tbe use of Peruna. I gave up work during these years
of torture, tried various remedies and many doctors, but all tbe permanent
relief came from the use of Peruna. My trouble was called indigestion, but It
was catarrh all through my system, and a few bottles of Peruna made me feet
like another person, noting the improvement after i had used the first bottle
Peruna Is undoubtedly the best catarrh remedy ever compounded. Clem G
Moore.
Captain Percy W. Moss, Paragould,
Ark., says: "I think Peruna is undoubt
edly the finest and eurest catarrh cure
ever prepared, and it has taken buftwo
bottles to convince me of this fact."
Judge Wm. T. Zenor, of Washington,
D. C, writes from 213 N. Capital Street,
Washington, D. C:
"I take pleasure in saying that I can
cheerfully recommend the use of Pe
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that dreadful fiend that threatens the
life of rich and poor, can attack and
kill only those whose bowels are not
kept thoroughly cleaned out, purified
and disinfected the year round. One
whose liver is dead, whose bowels
and stomach are full of half decayed
food, whose whole body is unclean
inside, is a quick and ready victim
of appendicitis.
If you want to be safe against the
scourge, keep in good health all the
time, KEEP CLEAN INSIDE! Use
the only tonic laxative, that will
make your bowels-strong and healthy,
and keep them pure and clean, pro
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runa as a remedy for catarrhal trouble
and a most excellent tonic for general
conditions." Wm. T. Zenor.
If you do not derive prompt and
satisfactory results from the use of Pe
runa, write at once to Dr. Hartman,
giving a full statement of your casa
and he will be pleased to give you his
valuable advice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President cf
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O.
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