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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1896)
THE SUM COUNTY JOURNAL. L i. SIMMONS, Pray. HARRISON, 1TEBBASKA. Tbe man who keep, hi month shut le-cr has to eat any crow. Russell Sage U now au octogenarian, but bis interest In and from his fellow man doesn't flag. One of the obstreperous Indian chiefs now causing trouble In Arizona Is called "Green Curtain." Why not pall hi uj down? A contemporary asserts that "a mot quito bit a St. I,ouis negro the other night and death was the result. Served the nioaiiuito rig-fit. Robert Chew ate part of the ear of his opponent In an Arkansas rough an? tumble tight, aai yet some insist that there is nothing Ip names. An umbrella covered with a transpar ent material has been indented in Eng land, enabling the holder to see where he ' going when he holds it before his face. Seventeen robberies in one day "do not disconcert" Chicago's chief of po llca In this he enjoys a distinct ad vantage over the citizens and business men wh- have been held up. It the Duke of Veragua really In sists on lighting we believe he can find a bue opportunity to display bis mili tary prowess In Cuba. Why does he waat to fight tbe I'nited States? There Is no trouble over here. ISritisb rifles fetch from 300 to 400 rupees on the Indian frontier, while th line for the soldier who loses his rifle is 100 rupees. The trade in rifles Is consequently brisk acros:- tbe border, whiit the reputation of the native th'eves for ingenuity is kept high. The development of the New Woman received an Impetus in New York re cently. A woman b wrded one of the Broadway open smoking cars, and, pro ducing a cigar, proceeded to enjoy a qur-L smoke. The conductor returned her rlckel and ordered her off the car, but the next day the superintendent reprimanded tbe conductor and issued orders that women be allowed to smoke on the cars when they wanted to. The extiertenee of Louisiana negroes In railroad work in Guatemala is simi lar to that of others who have made la bor contracts with Mexico or any of the central American States. It would seem as though the knowledge that workingmen were little better than laves In any of these Spanish-Amerl-caa countries would deter Americans from entering into any contracts, but the flattering Inducements held out are believed, and once in the net there is no escape. Whenever the agents of these Central American contractors ap pear in this country they should be made to move on. Tht news from Pirta that bicycle rldlns baa Induced the arbiters of fash ion to Increase the size of the waist of women's dresses is welcome. The fash ion plate woman is an impossible crea ture, but, nevertheless, those ladles who are ruled by the orders sent out from Paris have tried to compress their waists as the regulations decree. No otliet result than serious and perma nent detriment to health could follow. But the bicycle has changed all thla. It la Impossible to ride the wheel without free movement of the lungs; hence tbe aftol'tion of tbe fashionable decree In favrr of the slender and unnatural waist. A pretty story of Prof. Herkomer :s told In one of the London , apers. H'.s aged father, who Uvea witn him In bis splendid home at Bushey, used to model in clay In his early life. He baa re cently taken to It again; but hla fear Is tha'. soon his bands will lose tbelr skill, and his work will show the marks of imperfection. It U his one sorrow. At night be goes to hla early rest, and when be has gone, Herkomer, the tal ented son, goes Into the studio, takes up hla father's feeble attempts, and make the work as beautiful as art can make It. When the old man comes down In the morning he takes the work and looks at It, and rubs his banda and , says: "Hi! I can do as well aa ever I didr A talented if rather disreputable play actor hsa Jost began suit for divorce. It Is said that fee wishes to be free to ' . marry a youg Married woman, also " on the stage. Mm, too, mast get rid of l her husband, from whom she is now ""'; separated. Lightning changes of hus bands snd wires bare become one of V the fads of tbe stage, like the absurd v , accents, the vainglorious nosings and ail tha other nonsensical f rummer! e Ifeat toad to make the profession of flayer not what Its true ornaments WoaM Kke It to be. Such marriages as 19mm art no different from open Immor aCty. The complaisance of tbe court snd tha cupidity of tbe minister caatnot cStor too tsssstlal central fact la on : - way tasty art mors oubvsrsivs that ' ca ramswKty. Tbey bring the tart f t3s of marriage Into disreputs. - Uhiw aaatod that Spate win ask ..; fzzi ft C A-wrku etttsaas tsf hi Csjatarltt. K h) TM3bf t C aot to swnd TL1 rJBb aurfaOy -ro 'tl3 H m?Jnn do- u tnt err MU ustai tts power to maintain neutrality. Spain would only add to cur diffhtilrles in keeping down filibustering by acting iv.'ly. It might lie a good thing fur the Spanish Government to evince a dis position to be grateful for our pat favors. Officially, the United State ha no feeling iu this matter; but the ma jority of individual Americana cordial ly hope to see Cuba successful. Spain ought to remener. by tbe way, that she has herself proved a difficult debtor. Her statesmen are past masters of toe art of delay, and only pay when it is absolutely iniierative. "A fair exchange Is no roblery." We ha?e lost William Waldorf Astor from the galaxy of American citizens who have shone brlghtiy in our social flrnament by virtue of Inherited mill Ions. Or, rather, he bus taken himself froT. us because lordly grandson of a Dutch fur-dresser as he is he cannot endure democratic Institutions and hoi'es to be counted among the British aristocracy. But have we not gained "Lanky Bob" Fltzsimmons? The erst while champion of Britannia's worhl encircling prize ring ha become an American citizen. He offers himself as a substitute for coast fortifications, and as the defender of American honor against the world. We s'.iall miss thi glldid, if not gifted Astor from the so cial functions of our "fcur hundred," but, gaining Fitzslmmona. we shall fevl thai our republic Is safe, and we shall hav fisticuffs galore. It is estimated that .V) 000,000 Is an nually spent for bicye'es In Europe, yet the London Telegraph says the horse and carriage trade bat not beea serlous ly affected In England by the competi tion of the wheel. Inquiries at the leading establishments where horse are sold show that there has been no decline in prices for fine stock, carriage horses or single steppers, and that the only competition which Is felt in an ap preciable degree is from tbe Importa tion of horses from Canada and the United States. It Is also stated that the demand for "utility" horses Is as great as ever, although It Is admitted tha: saddle horses are not called for as frequently now as a few years ago, Iw for the "bicycle craze" was developed. Hunting, gays the Baltimore Suu, is till a favorite jwstlme in England, and the bicycle hi not yet been invented which will enable the sportsman to fol low the hounds across country, Jumping fences and ditches, and going into places in which the wheel would be useless. Chicago Chronicle: So far as any ef fect upon local financial conditions Is concerned. It does not make any par ticular difference whesher the Institu tion known as the Chicago Stock Ex change closes for a day or for a week or whether It does not resume business at all. It Is a small potato-gambling concern which is exceeded in real im portance by any one of half a dozen La Salle street bucket shops, and Its ag gregate bona fide dally transactions do not equal those of tbe average book maker at an Indiana race truck. It In the cheapest game In town. Tbe only thing that gives it any imiortarice at all Is Its name, and that Is a false pre tense. It Is no more a stock exchange In the true sense of the term than Mr. Skakel's clock is. It is a mere couilrfna tlon of "shoestring" gamblers who prey upon one another when the public de clines to be fleeced. Like all their tribe, too. they are Inclined to "welch" when they lose. Having Inflated a specula tive balloon, rhey run to cover when It bursts. Caught loaded up with wild cat shares, they shut up shop and yell "panic" when the market goes against them. The only danger to be ftred from the midnight ukase of Its directors closing this stock exchange because of the troubles of a firm of local specula tors lies in the fact that the people of other cities may be deceived into be lieving that It mealy has some Influence upon Chicago finances. It lias no such Influence. It has no Influence of any kind good, bad or indifferent. Its gov erning board is the butt of local cor porations whose stocks are listed on the exchange. Its rules are defied by the Issuance of bonds and stocks at tbe will and pleasure of all the professional tblmblerlggera In town, and It Is as un able to protect Itself as It Is to protect Its patrons against any scheme of stock- Jobbing that may be devised by specu lators for tbe robbery of noodles and nincompoops. The people and tbe news papers outside of Chicago need feel no apprehension over tbe suspension tem porary r permanent of the Chicago Stock Exchange. It Is an event of no more financial significance than tbe raiding of a "levee" crap game would be. Mtady of the Crimlaal. Dr. P. Penta, an Italian criminologist, has discovered a new feature of crim inal anthropology, which goes to con firm still farther tbe views of Prof. Lombrosso. According to modern med icine Dr. Penta has studied tbe fingers snd toes of 4.B00 criminals, and finds a deficiency In the number, as well as prehensile toes, marked by a wide space between the great toe and the second toe; also a webbed condition of the toes, an approximation to the toeless feet of some savages, He found the little toe rudimentary In many eases. Showing a tendency toward the four toed animal foot The most common of all the abnormalities wss tbe web bed condition of tbe toes. Theciimina' la tndf a degenerate type. Hlht for Baaglag Mirrors. When hanging a mirror see that it I: aot so placed that tbe rays of the sun win aU directly on It, for by so do)h)a tha glass will be less likely to becorto Jocded. ' Wo hare noticed that few men caIc; dying requests, but did you ever aottcc hat moat woman makt themT SHOULD BANKERS HANG BRYAN SMILES HIS APPROVAL OF THE IDEA. The Bar Orator' I'Iao of DuUjIcg the BaDhers la aa Endeavor to Scare the Labor Vote The silver l'artjr'i Notifi cation, The notification meeting at Lincoln, on tbe 8th hist., in which Mr. Bryan was of ficially iiifiirnMHl of bis nuiuiuatiou by the National Silver party at St. Louis, suggfuts several thiut that are worthy of note in this campaign. It was a luwting of the Silver party. It was not a Democratic meeting, not Popoorstie uii-eliiig. Dot a Populist uii-et- HiB. but a silver meetiug ot me rviver party 1o notify the silver cauiliiinte of ilia nomination, on a platform that is nothing but silver. Mr. Bryan says silver is tbe iwue and the uuly'iwue." lie calls it the imra Uinutit intdie. If silver is the paramount iiwue then the nilver party in the para mount party anil this silver un-etiug uiay be julj;ed as (he paramount meeting ami at this meeting tlie silver cause should have touched its highest (siint. Mr. Bryan was met at the It. & M. deiot by a straggling crowd of shout people, some of whom followed him in draggled prKiBioii through the streets to his home. Not the buHiies men of Lincoln, not the business men of Oma ha, not the business men of any city iu the L'nited States. No part of the busi ness mind which the nation limks to for the guiilam-e anil the maintenance of its iu(!utrml and business energies was rep resented in that -parade or at the notifi cation ceremonies which afterwards took place. Where are the business forces of this country in this contest? Are they for silver? If it is the paramount thing, then the biininess men ought to have been so notified, they should have been represented here, and the idle people who gathered at the depot and followed the candidate through the streets would know that this silver movement has the confidence of someone who can and will use it, when it is put into law, as a means of restoring industry ami giving employment. If a new yardstick had Is-en proposed by Mr. Bryan, and if a new party had been organized on the sole issue of this new yardstick, and if this was the oniy issue of iniisirtan'v, if a revival of business depended solely upon the adoption of this new yardstick, then would it not be reasonable to sup pose that the merchants ami business men who are expected to use this new system would manifest their approval of it in some way, and give (he waiting people some reason to hoe that this newsy-stem would le put into use after it wns put into law? If a new business plan is proposed and ptit into law, which the business forces of the country re jects as unsafe and unpractical, then of what use is this new plan If the mer chant cannot and will not tise the new- yardstick, then why have a new jdrd stick? Mr. Bryan says we will compel them to use it. Very well, if you pass a law declaring that eighteen inches is a yard when it is not a yard, but i.nly half a yard, and if you compel the mer chant to use this new measure, 'hen he will change bis price to suit the ueiv measure and he will narrow his busi ness into as small a scope as possible and wait nnlil the new experiment 1ms snent its force and is abolished. You will simply confuse the merchant in stead or assisting him. Mr. Bryan smiled upon the small crowd who gathered about him as he moved along the streets of Lincoln, but his smile took on a pale and painful ex pression when he glanced at the win dows and saw McKinley's picture every where along the business streets. And not only along the business street, but out all over the city McKinley looked from the window of the houses. Not that Lincoln people felt unfriendly to ward Mr. Bryan ticca use it was be. or friendly toward Mr. McKinley because it was he, but some how- Lincoln eoplc feel that McKinley and his plan of gov ernment are safer, are more matured, and have the confidence of the business mind all over the nation. After all. what will this new financial plan avail if the men who are expected to use it iu business are afraid of it? Every man in Lincoln. Omaha, Kansas City and Ie Moines who are expected to engineer the labor industries in those cities during the next four years is afraid of Mr. Bryan and his new silver dollar. If the notification had 1m "en in either of those cities the business men would have been absent from the parade just the same as in Lincoln and McKiniev's tiic- ture would have lieeu in the business I houses just the same. Mr. Bryan gets a great deal of sport out of the cam paign shaking his fists at the bunks and J the business of the country. Mr. (Jroot, I who was the chief reireaentative of the ! silver party ami who presented t tie notification to Mr. Bryan, shook his fist iu excited anger at the bankers and ( said they ought to be hung to I he tele graph poles. When Mr. (iroot said this, ja number of men who Bfood out in front nf him shook their fists also and said: ("That's right." While all this threaten ling to hang the bankers and shaking of fists was going on, Mr. Bryan nodded his head and smiled his approval. He j not only nodded and smiled, but when it came his turn to speak, he shook his ' -1. - 1 .t- ......J ni aiso aim me orKingiiieii suouieo kinder than ever at the prowt of hang ing the bankers as a means of restoring confidence and bringing back good times. Mr. Bryan seemed to enjoy himself us he looked out over tbe crowd and said as many things as he could think of to please the people and encourage his fol lowers all over tne nation. As I said before, Mr. Bryan had exhib ited some symptoms of panic in his face when he saw that the business men had put McKinley's picture instead of his picture in the windows. But when he saw how the crowd cheered the prospect of hanging a few of these bankers and business men, it seemed to restore Ins confidence. And then again, when he himself stood up to address them and one man shouted, "(iive it to 'cm, Bil ly!" and another shouted "You bet:" be seemed to Interpret this as a sign that the workiiigmeii were in tbe ma jority and would elect him just the same in spite of the business men. And so be told them be bad no fear of tbe oppo sition of the business men so long as he saw so many of the brave and honest toilers who were resdy to reject the advice of their employers and follow him. Mr. Bryyi knows it will be a good thing for him to get the labor vote, even if he paralyse industry in the attempt. Rome of tbe laboring men seem to think it will he a good thing fur them also, hut just why they think so is not very clear. ' It may be jut the thing for .Mr. Bryan's onndldicy to bully the hankers and scare the business mind of tbe country. It may lie that scar ing the men who employ lsbor is the way to get tbe lalsir vote, but Just why such a course will get tbe labor vote snd where the lalsirer himself will be benefit ed is a pnfzle. Prom the McKinley pictures which hsng in the windows of Lincoln, from tbe anti-Bryan and anti-silver sentiment which is almost universal among the men of bnsiness affairs st Omaha snd in sll the commercial centers of the na tion, it may now be recorded ss s per manent living fact, that Bryan, with all his eloquence, with sll the nlsnsihility with which he has presented the free coinage plan, has utterly son .ompVtely failed to gain the confidence of the busi ness judgment of this country, and if eleeted his triumph will be a victory of majorities over judgment. Those who believe that a country is better off without hanks than w ith them, that a section hand on a railroed knows lietter how to run it than the general manager, that the clerk iu tiie store is a Is'tter financier than the owner of it, that the janitor of a bank is more hon est than the cashier, that a bricklayer knows more alsmt law snd has more conscience than a supreme judge, that the hired man on the farm has more sense than the man who ow ns it. that all men who read and think are f-sils unci all who don't read and don't think un wise, that the man who holds nW is always rorrupt while the man who is seeking' tbe ollii-e is always honest, that the farmers of the West sn get a mar ket for their prisiuc-e while the bilKirilig men of the Kast are iiiieinpioviHt. that lnlsir can get employment while the fac tories are shut down, that idle indus tries will start against the judgment of the men who own them, that industry and commerce are niansg"d by oratory ami not by business mind, that a Isiy knows more than a man. those who l lieve these things will regard the elec tion of W. 4. Bryan as a victory for the American people. But so long as tbe people who read and think are In the majority, so long as Ihe majority of American farmers know that their market is the tabic of the American workingman, so long u a ma jority of the workingmen know that they arc employed only when there is confi dence iu the mind of the employer, so long as mind and conscienee has influ ence at the polls, there will be no bank ers hung and no boy orator in the jiresi ill-mini chair. A SHORT CURRENCY DIALOGUE. Ijcarner Dr. Socrates. I can get a bet ter watch today for than I could twenty-five years ago for 1"I. Is that not because the old watch was made by hand, while the new one is made by machinery? lr. Sis-rates Silveraiilpe By no means, most simple youth. The true reason is Is-cause the value of gold has doubled since 1S73. and the value of products has Im-cii halved. I -earner Well, my mother lsinght a sewing machine twenty-five years iigo for Jfl.'i. and yesterday she bought a much better one for PHI. The seller said that since the patents had expired and there was no royalties to pay. sewing machines had fallen greatly in price. I suppose that was true. Ir. Soernte Silversnipe By no means. The seller had never rend Coin Harvey's works, or he would know that the fail iu the price of the product was caused by the demonetization of silver, and that the royalty had nothing to do with the matter. Learner Well, grandpa bought a pfiir of nice, new boots yesterday for ?". He told me that when he was married his boots cost him f jt). and that he car ried them in his hands to the bride's house and then put them on. He said that the ne of machinery was the cause of the fall in the price of the product, boots. Ir. Socrates Silversniie Your grand father has not read the works of the wise men, Bland, Vest and t'oxey snd Marv Kllcn I-ease. so he is an illiterate gold bug. It is really shameful that he does not know that intchinery had no relation to the boots, but that Ihe fall in mice was caused by the "Crime of 1ST:!." I-arner I noticed that Deacon Miles had closed his distillery and the deacon told me that on account or over-pro duction the profit on whisky was so small that all the distillers had agreed to make no more for some time. Was he right in saying that tbe market was over-stocked : Dr. Socrates Silversnnie No. Ib-ncon (!iles is an ass, or he would see clearly that the trouble is that Jones. Stewart & Co. are not allowed to dump ail their ore into the mints. Help for the Farmer. Maj. McKinley seems to have struck a ressmsive chord in the minds nl hearts of the pinple when, in one of his speeches, be suggested that tin-re would lie more sense in oiH-uiiig the mills than in opening the mints. This is a short, terse, and common sense presentation of the difference between the sound-money people and the free silverites. Maj. Mc mlcy said iu a recent address to a dele gation of farmers: "Fti-e silver will not increase the de mand for your wheat or make a single new consumer. You don't get consumers through the mints. You get them through the factories. You ill not get them by increasing the circulation of money in the I'nited States; you will get them only by increasing the iiiniiiifaclur ing establishments in tbe I'nited Slates." No mutter how free the coinage of silver be. that or any other coin must get to the jieople through some natural channels. The government will not even under the control of the most r vo lutionary and anarchistic Populists, make a free distribution of silver. They only propose that the government hhall coin whatever is brought to Ihe mint, for the individual who owns the oielal. therefore to get the benefit of free and unlimited coinage, it will be necessary for tlie farmers to get bullion, and how shall they get bullion any more easily i than coined silver? What they want is a market for their products. Increased demand can foUow only increased con sumption, and increased consumption will only come afler increased general business, particularly increased manu factures. The policy suggested by the I'osK-rafs, namely, lnileH-nden.-e of Kurope and repudiation in a measure of our obligations to I'll rope, is not likely to increase our foreign commerce. It is not likely that with the repudia tion of our foreign indebtedness, our foreign exsirts of cereals will be vastly increased. Such a policy on our part would show such an unfriendliness that the nations of Kurote would prefer to import w heat from' South America nnd meats from Australia, than to have anything further to do with the Ameri can people. The farmers of this coun try will come to see, before next elec tion day. that we are not independent of all the world. Tbey will realize that Kuroe binds u In our obligations In a system that is at least honest and fair, if not friendly. The hoe of the fanner lies in a revival of business, and also in increased exHirtations of our grain. The farmer is not. therefore, indeii.-nd-ent of the old world, but must deal hon estly with it. St. Joseph (Mo.) News. Bryan's New Theory. Since bis advent in the Bluegrass re gion of Kentucky, Mr. Bryan lias pro mulgated s new theory Iu regard to gold, lie told bis audience at MiiiHville that so 'lunch of the yellow metal was used in plugging decayed molars, and in the manufacture of engagement rings, and for use in the arts, that after consuming the residue for bi- blorlde of gold solu tions to counteract the "Jag" habit.' there whs none of the metal left for money. This is a remarkable statement from a msn who is continually preaching the woe of the gold standard. Itei-eutly Mr. Bryan declared that all tbe gold was ts-ing manufactured into crosses whereon to crucify the workingman, but now be hss changed his tune. Accord ing to this Maysville speech, tbe people are so well-to-do that tbey can use up the entire product of our mines iu srtl-cb-s of personal comfort, and are so prone to marrying and giving la mar riage that a great poition ol the annual gold output is nsed in the manufacture of the tinv cir clet symlsdieal of plighted troth, snd also of jfissj limes. Jor peop. no uoi marry when they sre in the thr-s crucifixion. Mr. Bryan's little !liug at the convivial habits of the majors and the colonels of Kentucky, by suggesting that a great portion of our annual gold prisliictiun is used in correcting an sl noriual apfs-tite for straight and mixed drinks, will not 1 relished by the high spirited gi ntleuicii of that hospitable re gion. When they need their systems bracts! up a good lot of strictly baud made sour niai-h is Considered the pros-r thing, although it is absolutely certain they would prefer a gold cure to any of ihe silver remedies prilis-d by Dr. Bry an. tine thing Mr. Bryan did not explain, and that is. if a dowii-tnslden and af flicted M-ople can use the entire gold supply of a great nation iu making safety deposit vaults out of hollow- molars, and iu the free coinage of wedding rings, how docs it come that we have the neat little sum of 7SU 'Msi of gold in circula tion and iu the treasury? He ought to ssy something alsmt this snd relieve a natural suspicion that he is trying to dc eive the toiling masses as to its exist eui-e. Kansas t'ity Journal. MOTHER OF TRUSTS. rree Trade, Kot I'rotrrtlon, is the Parent of Monopoly. This example of needless excitement has just ls--n received: To the Kdltor of the Press-Sir: I submit tlist In one Instance Protection Is complete ly pis veil out: It Is In the one Item i-oul! A retail .lesler tolil me yeterla that the reii-iil outrageous mlvmiee In coal are ow ing In the bunking Arm of lirexel. M.irgnn It Co.. who positively n-fusi-il In undertake Ihe rcorgaiilyjitloii of Heading unless and until the oilier coal companies agreed In advance the price of coal Just l'" done! If you will Imik Into this I sin sure you will, iu Ihe Interest of the people. d-v.s-ate the adiiill"ii free of duly of all kinds of coal! And If not. liy not? PUOTKt'TIO.NlST. ninomncld. X. J Kept. 4. There is no duty on anthracite coal, the only kind of which the prii-e has been "outrageously advanced," the kind of which our corressniileut is talking, the kind which the Coal trust sells. 'I h'-re never has tsi n such a duty. There never will be such a duty. The protec tion which this trust enjoys was con ferred by the Creator of the world when lie pot anthracite coal ill the Schuylkill and Wyoming valleys of the state of Pennsylvania, and in paying quantities nowhere else, so far as mull has yet dis covered. The anthracite Coal trust has abused Ibis mitur.-il protection. It has far ex-ceedi-d the slight advance which was due and proper in view of years of ruin ous war among the separate "coal Imr ous." But such tibnse cannot Is- reached by prosecutions under such statutes as tlie anti-trust law which the Itepublican party passed when last ill siwcr mid which a Democratic ndmiliiKtration lias not sought owe to enforce. t If bituminous conl there has Is-en no increase in price, though it is alleged to have tariff protection. That protection is such that more than 1.1'SI.IHMI tons, worth nearly S.'i.rs x t.i s I. were inisirtiil in eleven months of hist year, while Ihe inii- tract for supplying the New hnghind roads, which ai-t conjointly in this mat ter, came near going to Nova Scotia. The Wilson bill duty of 4! cents a ton does not equal the diffcreiii-c in cost of produc tion here and abroad. There has been no prolit in the mines, im.l very often no work for the miners simi that law went into effect. But were the duty on bituminous enn! ltsst x-r cent., no bituminous trust could oppress the consumer as has tin an thracite combination. For bituminous coal is found in every section of the country, north, cast, south and west. It is mined in Pennsylvania. It is mined iu Washington. It is mined in Tennes see. It is milled in Colorado. Thus it conies under the operation of tbe prin ciple of domestic comis-tition, which has foiled th- schemes of every trust in this country, not having, like anthracite coal mid coal oil, It natural protection to sup Mirl it. A bituminous coal trust would meet the fate of the great trusts cordage, whisky, tobacco and rubber ami the little trusts in umbrellas, win dow shades and the like, which have ls-en ruined, or crippled or forced to dis solve as the result of their attempts to control the home market. Kvoryono of the three great successful trusts of today is n free-trade trust. Coal and oil have their natural protection, as we have shown. The sugar trust flourishes sole ly liecanse the Istunty which had be gun to foster the American sugar crop was abolished by the Wilson law. Had that bounty remained in operation, ihe cultivation of the sugar Iwt would have caused the erection of a sugar refinery in every Western town. To restrict the production of all these plants would have lieen found as impossible as it was found to restrict the production of the distilleries. Free trade, not protection, is the moth er of trusts. New York Press. TH K KKfllUCItAT'S UlAXUAIIV. Waal, yes. come to think It over, It Is sorter hard to say. In this mlel-up mess o' pollytlcs, where I do stun' today. There Is Hrvan an' thsre's Kewalt, an' there's this here Walsou, too, Au' a feller with a inorgiige don't know what Is Imh' to do Some ihey 'low Ihet KID an' Bewail will reduce the thing by half: Others say that this here Hewnll's Jest - ttllln' us with elm ft; l-r they 'low thet he's s bunker, an' l hence a pluiverot Till a fellow w-lili a niiirgage Jes don't know where lie Is at. Yen, I Mjild with Hip Republicans fer rnore'u twenty year. An' I never had uo trouble yet to read my title clear. Till I got thet cussed mor'goge, sn' the nelghlsirs did the same. An' SI Slnqiklns said he reckoned thet the goldbilgs were to blame. Course we'd mostly hiilll new houses, au' In dulged in kerrslgrs. Hut SI 'lowed he was entitled to whatever goldbilgs Is; An' he likewise use" to tell us. In a loon' convliichi' way. That the government 'ud fix us wllb a Hat loan some day. Ho of course we all turned flat, fer Kl said ' Unit tint drew About 1 per cent, per milium, with provis ion to renew All of which was gratifylu', anil Si 'lowed 't 'ud break Ihe lieHrt Of that "party" In Ihe nior'gnge that wss nsmed ss "second part." Now there's them thet says that Walsiin was engaged to see it done Hy running some new rny show thet I hey call sixteen to one; Hut n lumen' man gits pur.T.lcd how to tote, an' sorter 'frsld Thet he'll make some fatal error, an' his fnor'giig" woa't be pnhl. Allsprt Itlgelow Paine In Harper's Weekly. The Itemcdy, When "the great crime of 187T' was enacted, the statistics show that the I'nited fttiites had just 774.0fSMm in circulation. In 1 H! ." this same oppressed and down-trodden H-ople had .'Jl7.lSI, (M); but owing to free trade, tariff for revenue and free-silver excitement, it was piled away. The plain thing to do is to start that f2.217.tSSl.lMsi on its rounds. It csn he done by nS'iilng up the nation's workshops and giving the millions work; and In no other wsy. Tbe largest kite ever made In Eng land was one owned by (leorge Porock of Bristol (grsndfslher of W. (I. (irsce), for tbe purpose of drawing s carriage along the roads. It wss 12 feet ty 15 feet, snd nroved the feasibility of such a mode of conveyance. TEMPERANCE TOPICS HOMES ARE RUINED BY STRONG DRINK. Tbon.ani. of Live.. Character. I Fortune. Ar. Wrecked Along the Glided Pathway Havia IU Ma'lns " ha Wi" Alcohol. r..,unr anniied. alcohol Is an an tiseptic and a disinfectant, though It iu nrtneinflllv used as a bsal irritant. and by allowing it to cvniHe-ate. as a cooling lotion to tbe skin. If the va por Is confined and penetrates to the flesh underneath, or ir the nieono, diligently rtiblied Into the flesh. It hardens it. In this way it is of use in preventing led -sores ami tbe like. Spirituous ilnlmctits which contain essential oils and other stimulant are sometimes applied with friction to In crease nutrition at the place which Is the seat of lons-stnn-ling inflamma tion, pain and stiffness, such as Is pr.--eut In chronic rheumatism, stiff joints and para'ysit;. Internally the action of nb-obol Is both local and general. If nilowed to come directly Into contact with tbe walls of the stomach It irritates them, causing them to assume nu Inflamed appearance. If the quantity of alco hol Is large, or more or less continu ously applied, actual inflammation of the lining of the surface follows. When alcohol is taken with food, and mixes with the contents of the stom ach, it Is partly decomiswed Into sub stances which In turn decompose the gastric Juices, rendering them luert and thus depressing digestion. What ever may sometimes be mi hi In favor of the use of stimulants with meals. It Is very doubtful If the slight tempo rary effect of sinb drinks Is at all compensatory for their Interference with the action of the gastric fluids. Alcohol enters the blood unchanged, and Is distributed by It to t.be various organs mid purls of the body, where it Ik rapidly absorbed, nnd where Us ac tion Is nearly th" same as in tbe stom ach. It first stimulates the orgnu to In creased activity, but nt the same time causes the chemical change In the sul stance of the organ by which the organ Itself is weakened; so that eventually depression ensues. It is this peculiar double action of nlcobol which Is misleading. So Ions (is the organs of the ImmIv are In a iienlthy condition, alcohol Is little short of a imiIsoii. The organ. In order to do its work properly, needs food, and uti lot8 there Is liilerfi-tein-e. the food will be absorbed and i hiingcd Into proper forms of nourishment. Alcohol rnl the organ of the power of doing this. In these days of prepared foods nnd general advance In science, there are many ways of securing the only bene iiclnl result which alcohol gives, that Is to say. stimulation, wit hoi'' resort lug to Its use. Youth's Companion. pontolic Times. In a religious conference, when n res olution culling upon Individual Chris tians to practice total abstinence from intoxicating drinks us a duty In view of the present fearful ravages of Intem perance, one clergyman stoutly op posed the passage of the resolution be cause total abstinence was not preval ent In apostolic times as the resolution would have It to prevail now, nnd ho desired a return to Htolie methods. Perhaps the brother Is right, Tee totalism was not as prevalent In apos tolic times as we would have it to pre vail now, but we see no proof to the contrary, so far as tbe true followers of Jesus were concerned. There Is no evidence of the nestles and their brethren In -the faith partaking luxur iously and ordinarily of any drinks of an Intoxicating quality. Perhaps not then, we say. But neither did hospitals, colleges. Bible societies, missionary In stitutions. Sabbath schools, mid fifty other right and lawful things, prevail then os now. But that the brother's argument may be of any value, even were we to admit the accuracy of the alleged fact on which be grounds It, he must put the iiiMMttolIi: tlun-s on tbe sauie platform as tbe present, so far, at least, as drinks, drinking, and drunken ness are concerned. There waa then no whisky, brandy, rln, rum, no port, sherry, burgundy, champagne, or other "doctored" wines 111 common us', and sanctioned and partaken of by tbe good and respectable In society among tba Jews. There were no houses of common re sort seoliilly net apart for the ys temntlc drinking of these liquors; no "saloon" licensed by a paternal (?) gov ernment for this and no other purpose; the domestic ami social customs of Judea were not soaked and saturated in alcohol; drunkards were not to be found In every gutter; and drunkenness was not the special pest and shame of tbe nation, plunging It Into crime and poverty and death. Make our respec tive eras equal as to these things, and then Institute a fair comparison as to the needfulness for such means of so cial reform aa friends of total ab stinence now advocate. Stray Shots st th. Saloon. Total abstinence Is always safe. Drink Is ssvage and relentless. Sup press It. A brewer's horse fares tx-tter than a drunkard's child. Tbe drink shop Is the nursery of crlnis. Suppress It Many a man puts bis family In the lark to help the saloon pay lis gas bill. The man who begins by drinking some tiros may end by baring to drink all the time. No man has a rlgtit io destroy bis rea son by drink, to become diseased by drink, to destroy bis moral sense and i eonoeptton of right and wrong. ' i. ; 1 " -c ' ' ' - V ,) .t