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NOVEMBER 4, 1904
The Commoner.
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The "Daisy" $ J j 95
Sweep Mill 1 1
Costs
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$16 to $25
elsewhere.
Has 19-Inch
steel burrs
of finest
quality.
Tho flnostllno of standard implcmontsln
tbo world at your command Ollmax Plows, Ulno
Jay Sulkies, 8 stylos of Peg Harrows, Champion
Disc Harrows, 817.15: Corn Shellors, Hay Tools,
Windmills, Scales, Diamond Grinders, Gas En-
ginos, menoators, tsiooi xanKS, oto. Alio XJnlsy
wcop Mill as horo illustrated, capacity 10 bu.
Tilnmonta. tolls abont onr nlan of ahlnnlncr frnm
warohonsos atChlcaco, Toledo, O., or St. Louis j
explains how wo can mnko onr own prices; ex
plains our binding guarantoo, in which wo agroo
to take back any tool not satisfactory, and elves
muohvatuablo implement information. Now edi
tion now ready. Ask forlmploinont Catalogue
Montgomery Ward & Co.
Michigan Ave. Madison and Washlneton Sts., Chicago.
tho scene from trie silent bivouac of
twenty thousand of our dead com
rades on the other side of the Po
tomac. And I would ask my comrades
and fellow citizens shall this spirit
and sentiment prevail, or shall it he
discontinued?
Answer that on the 8th of Novem
ber. On the banks of the noble Hudson
there dwells an eminent citizen, a
courtly gentleman, a distinguished pa
triot, a profound statesman, a just
judge, who, If elected president of
these United States; will carry to that
responsible office dignity, ability and
high character; and his administra
tion, I know, will be marked by pa
triotism, integrity and earnest efforts,
not only to promote the welfare of
the people now living within-our bor
ders, but to preserve for those who
shall follow us this blessed inheri
tance within the bounds prescribed Dy
the fathers wno founded our great re
public. With enduring memories of those
anxious da'ys when the perpetuity and
the honor of the Union were at stake,
and with a high appreciation of the
service our comrades renaered to the
country, I remain
Very sincerely yours,
NELSON A. MILES.
A Bargain
Burton Holmes, the lecturer, who
recently made a tour of Alaska after
material for his illustrated talks, wa3
telling of the cost; of living in the
Klondike, says the New York Trib
une. He said that a newcomer lad
become accustomed to paying ?1 for
a drink, the same price for a shave, ?2
for a can of beans, 50 cents for a
newspaper. So when he went to a dent
ist one day to have an aching tooth
removed he was prepared to pay what
would be considered an exorbitant fee
back home.
"How much do I owe you?" he
asked after the operation.
"One dollar," said the dentist.
"That is the only thing I have
found up this way that Is cheap," said
the man as he paid the bill. "How
does ii; come that the price for dent
istry has not been raised along wi-n
the price of everything else?"
"Oh, replied the dentist cheerfully,
"the prices have been raised all right.
SLEEPLESSNESS
You will have no flifllcnlty In procuring rest
and Bleep If yJu Jot; Dr. Miles' Nervine sooth and
strengthen t$e tired, (agitated, weakened brain
nerves. ; olonga9theyi(eniRnlnHhtfc$huui6n,
.youWmtoef effaces, irritable, melancholy. You
aro welcome to.yout jnoncy back If first bottlo
does not helfe ' '"rt " ' '
HIGH?
I usually charge ?5 for pulling a tooth.
But, you see, your case is different
The fact is, I pulled the wrong tooth."
The Good of Books
I want books not to pass the time,
but to fill it with beautiful thoughts
and Images, to enlarge my world, to
give me new friends In the spirit, to
purify my ideals and make them clear,
to show me the local color of unknown
regions and the bright stars of im
mortal truth.
I wish to go abroad, to hear new
messages, to meet new people, to get
a fresh point ol view, to revisit other
ages, to listen to the oracles of Del
phi and drink deep of the springs of
Pieria. The only writer who can tell
me anything of real value about my
familiar environment is tho genius
who shows me that after all it Is not
familiar, but strange, wonderful,
crowded with secrets unguessed and
possibilities unrealized.
The two things best worth writing
about in poetry and fiction are the
symbols of nature and the passions of
the human heart. I want also' an es
sayist who will,, clarify life by gentle
illumination and lambent humor; a
philosopher who will help me see the
reason of things apparently unreason
able; a historian who will show mo
how peoples have risen and fallen;
and a biographer who will let me
touch the hand of the great and the
good. This is how real books help
to educate in the school of life. Harry
Van Dyne, in Harpers Magazine.
Decay of American Ships
In nothing has the republican party
of the nation failed more signally than
in fostering tho American shipping
trade. For forty years prior to the
passing of the government into the
hands- of the republican party 80 'per
cent of American foreign tradq 'wan
r.vrtii in LimnriMm rIiItih. During the
past forty -0ata tho republicans .have
t. 'i ..iivTrtV1vrtf thn flVlminifitration
of of bnMouse of congress tusjljeing
able to block democratic legislation
except for a short period, and during
those forty years every republican
platform has promised relief for tho
shipping trade and every administra
tion has failed to carry out the prom
ise. Tho only shipping measure of mo
ment proposed by a prominent mem
ber of the party was the subsidy bill
suggested by Senator Hanna, and .that
was nothing but a plan to pay many
millions of dollars a. year to favored
interests. It was a variation of the
high "protective" policy under which
tho great trusts have accumulated
enormous fortunes for their promoters.
Tho utter failure of the republicans
to deal adequately with this question Is
a matter of public notonelj'.' Judge
Farker touches upon it as follows in
his letter of acceptance:
"Our commerce in American bottoms
amounts to but 9 per cent of our total
exports and imports. For forty years
prior to 1861, when the republican
party came into power, our merchant
marine carried an average of 80 per
cent of our foreign commerce. By 1877
it had dwindled to 27 per cent Now we
carry but a contemptibly small fraction
of our exports and imports.
"American shipping in the foreign
trajlo was greater by almost 100,000
tons in 1816 nearly 100 years ago
than it was last year. In the face of
the continuous decline in the record of
American shipping during tho last
forty-three years, the promise of the
republican party to restore it is with
out encouragement. Tho record of the
democratic paity gives assurances that
tho task can be more wisely intrusted
to It
"It is an arduous task to undo the
effect of forty years of decadence, and
requires the study and Investigation of
thoso best fitted by experience to find
the remedy which surely does not He
in tho granting of subsidies, wrung
from tho pockets of all tho tar.payers."
It is undeniable, as Judge Parker
points out, that the record of the re
publican party warrants tho people In
turning to another party to put the Hag
in tho place which it formerly occupied
on tho seas. Tho policy of discrimi
nating duties that Is,, of lower cus
toms duties on goods carried In Amer
ican ships is well worthy of consid
ation as a means to attain that desir
able end. Denver News.
Real Sympathy
Sonic time ago, while the archbishop
of Canterbury was attending a penny
reading "in darkest London," ho was
accosted by a working man of tho
out-at-elbow, red-nosed variety, who,
noticing the archbishop's clerical dress,
remarked casually:
"Curate, I suppose, sir."
"No, I was once, but"
"Ah, yes, I know, tho drink," inter
rupted the man sympathetically, fellow-feeling
making his volco "won
drous kind." Exchange. .
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