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the cost OF living to every one, anu Is
especially hard on work people, whose
dollar will not buy them half as much sub
sistence, as 1t would under free trade.
If instead Of disturbing the country ana
wasting their time on strikes for ID per
cent. higher wages, the telegraph operators
and other work people had truck Tor Tree
trade, they would find that II would give
them 80 per cent. instead OF 10 per cent,
the business OF the country would DC
established on a firm basis Of prosperity,
and we should be fortified against the
usual eyery.ten.y years hard times on
which we are now entering.
| If we had never had what Is called pro
lection to American industry, our manu-
featuring commerce would before now
have vastly exceeded its present SIZE, and
there would have been profitable markets
for all of i, Our advantages over Eng
land in land, food, cotton, copper, petro-
leum, wages and in other respects, are so
decided that no conscientious person can
doubt but that under free trade we should
be able to undersell her in every existing
market. Many persons there begin to see
this, and to fear that Tree trade IN TINS
country would be a serious loss TO Eng
land.
One would think that protectionlsts be
tore now would have seen that high ,ariii
must necessarily overproduce, and that 1t
was better to have the markets OF the
world 70 sell in than to be tied up within
one.
What would be the condition Of farmers
if they were restricted to one market?
A gentleman Is sent to England to mis-
represent tree trade, and he boldly an
nounces that her immense commerce Is
performed by paupers
The protectonlsts have been proclaim
ing for more than fifty years that they are
IN an infant state, and should be sucked,
and ted from the bottle; such tall infants,
one would think, ought to be ready Tor
weaving by this time.
What we call prosperity looks to many
people very much like mere speculation.
A large part of the business community
appears to be honeycombed with 1t. Ere
ouent and unexpected bankruptcies are not
usually deemed evidences OF prosperity.
Our work peoples wages average about %
per cent higher now than they we're III
1860, whereas living expenses have dou.
bled. In England 1t Is just the reverse;
and John Bright III recent speech says
that wages there have doubled in forty
wears, and everything upon which wages
are expended Is reduced"
For the information Of workingmen
add, that free trade means tle taxation, on
an equal basis, Of every industry through
out the country.
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TARIFF TAXATIuN AND LABOR,

The following letter, written by Mr.
Thomas Holland, a retired New York
business man, for the american Free Ira
der, but too late for lis October issue, Is
sent to us in printed slip with request &c
publish. As an exposition of the general
effect of tariff taxation on the wages OF
labor 1t can be read with profit by work
ing men:
have no interest in the question except
To denounce the folly and injustice OF pro-
tecuonism, beng nearly fUurscore years
old. and out OF business.
The folly, because the practical effect oil
giving from 80 to 100 per cent to protec
ZIONIST industries, in addition to their
natural profits, such as farming and other
industries have to be content with, is 10
overproduce, until protection ceases to
protect.
The Injustice, because 1t nearly doubles
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From Ransom.

RANSOM Oct. 3.-Miss Lille Jones has
returned alter visiting friends IN Chicago
and Detroit.
Jim Devine came back from Chicago
Thursday, bringing with HIM one OF the
largest stocks of goods ever brought to
Ransom.
Miss Annie Wesbach, of Wenona, is the
guest Of Miss LYDIA Geheber
Mss Sarah O'Mara, Of Grand Ridge
spent Saturday with her cousin d. Z
Jones.
Pete Van Wrinkle has moved his family
from Streator to our village.
jim Devine gave tree cigars to the boys
Saturday It's girl
b. f. Bosey ana Miss II. +. Jones were
among the many that went to Chicago last
week 10 attend the state iar
Fifty couples attended the ball Friday
night. 1t was the prcttiest dressed assem-
blagc that was ever IN the hall. Among
the many bellies we noticed Miss o Mara
of Grand Ridge, Welsbach, OF Wcnona
and Jackson, of StreatOr
Dennis Ryon thinks northwestern Iowa
Is paradise. There will be one angel
less in that paradise when Dennis comes
home
The Hon. John ltyon, assisted by MeSsrs
Phelan, OLaughln and Devine, are col
lecting money to pay the debt of The
Catholic church.
The belle of Otter Creek and her cheyal-
Ter were AZ the ball.
Miss Katie O'Leary entertained some OF
the upper ten circle Sunday evening, ana
a jolly time was had.
The FREE TRADER typo must have look
ed cross.eyed at Bill Evans name when he
set it up Bill Grams.
There Is one girl less in red headed
lane.
What the ID was it, Bob? o. CuTY.
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From WaItham.

WALTuAM, Oct. Apple picking, pc
tato digging and sugar cane stripping arr
the orders of the day.
The lost sheep has returned-Nickey
John Aubrey Is erecting new corr
crlb. 1t will be dedicated with the usua
custom-a dance.
A very pleasant party was had at TIT
residence of Mr.. Patrick Conorton o,
Tuesday evening, and among the many
guests were the Coleman family, Of Sprlnl
Creek
The bridge across the brook east Of Geo
True's is being replaced by new one-'
thing badly needed.
Chas. Waliron is preparing for the fal
rams by digging cistern.
Mr. Eugene Hess is building q new
piazza,
Cash Collins is building an addition tC
his house-the one occupied by Mr.
Wood. Mr.. Armstrong is performing tht
carpenter work,
Adam Wylle's barn is newly painted
Hardin tlourlshed the brush.
Rev. Moses Gum, OF La Sale, preached
in the Baptist church on the prairie Sun
day.
Mr. Alpine Myers, our weather prophet
prognosticates that the coming winter vii
be warm, open and wet, with very littl,
snow.
Mr.. Al. Hartshorn started on Wednesday
evening with four car loads Of fine cattle
for Chicago He was accompanied by hlE
son Fred.
James Randall, of Livingston county
was visiting friends here last week.
Charles Clark is occupying his time by
squeezing sweetness from sugar cane.
Teresa Hartshorn is enjoying the re-
freshlng breezes of Kansas.
Arthur Kastler was severely kicked by O
horse on Friday.
Oats having been all threshed we Will
give the average yield-lt is from 10 to &C
bushels per acre.
Prospects for a larger crop of corn are
more promising than at corresponding
date Of 1882.
Married, at the residence of the brides
parents in Utica. by Rev Young, of Otta-
wa Mr.. Samuel Esmond to Miss Mary
Rogers. After the usual fluctuations the
happy couple started for a weeks visit in
Chicago.
Dir. Ned Gilligan, well-to-do farmer OF
this vicinity, came to his death suddenly
on Wednesday afternoon. He was coming
home from La Sale on a load Of coal and
through some mysterious way tell under
meath the wagon and wheel passed over
his neck. He leaves wife and six chill.
dren, with large circle of friends, 10
mourn their loss. Me.
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take this opportunity to bear testimony
10 the efficacy of your Hop Bitters.' Ex
pecting to find them nauseous and bitter and
composed OF bad whisky, we were agreeably
surprised at their mild taste, just like cur
OF tea Mrs. Cresswell and Mrs. Common
friends, have likewise tried, and pronounce
them the best medicine they have ever taken
for building up strength and toning up the
system. | was troubled with costiveness,
headache and want Of appetite. My all
ments are now all gone. | have a yearly
contract with doctor to look after health OF
myself and family, but need him not now
S. GILLILAND,
Peoples advocate, Plttsburg, Pa.
July 25, 1873.
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From Ophir.

OpuIR, oct. 2-The latest nuisance i
the ladder tiend. He talks one Acarl,
! blind.
Billy Weygandt and Miss Lizzie Hei
man were quietly married last Tuesday
THIS young couple start out in life will
good prospects, and host Of friends wisl
them long life and happiness. Pedro add
congratulations.
On Tuesday Dick Short and Miss Carrie
Skiles were united at the brides residence
In the evening boss supper and RECEIPT
ION was given at the residence OF Mr. }
Short. A large crowd participated. Als(
the charivari boys were well used by Lin
coin. May they prosper.
Mr. Krausse spent part of last week II
Chicago. Ladies, look out for his fal
goods; they will be grand.
Miss Addie Reed, of Chicago, is hel
mothers guest in Homer.
Charlie Williams our jolly junior
blacksmith, says he has read all OF the
Ottawa papers this summer, and thinks
the TRADER is by all odds the best lie
gave me his dimes, and | gave him the
old reliable for one year. OF course when
his time IL up he Will renew. No use
coaxlng those that once take the TRADEF
as the Journal agents have to do.
Homer luxurlates IN a dog law SUIT
Shrader plaintiff Shay Bros. defendants.
The much needed ram to make gooC
fall blowing fell Monday eve, and blowing
now is immense.
counted over 80 loads OF corn Saturday
gong from here to La Sale, that should
have gone to Utica. Poor prices in Ctics
is killing that point for grain market.
Johnny Wylie, the jolly Homer teacher
informed me he had "A scholars the frs
DAY. ~ good turn out surely.
Waltham is tussing with the deacon
ship Of that church.
Mr.. Mike CorrIgan has returned from 4
Kansas business trip. He regards crops
good.
Hank Weygandt is building a new
house.
John WIlsh ay Is IN Chicago attending
the grand Lodge Of A. f. anC a. NJ. lie
represents Shiloh No. 397. James Wylie
ir represents Waltham Lodge No. 3S4.
Geo. Weygandt Is busy marketing his
large potatoc crop. La Sale Is his market
4 good Job was done by some of oui
bows IN cutting down those willows east OF
1NbUl. W y llc =. Istl tuS Sopt "'A n So va "
little further west, about 80 rods west OF
the corners. When those are cut the
roads Will become dry.
Willie Gillespie spent Sunday and Mon
dav here and in the north part OF town,
There must be some calico somewhere
that serves as magnet for VIM.
Billy Wenncr is Dimmick's prize Pig
con shot-one every time he shoots at
flock of 4 or 6.
Pedro met L. and i. last week. They
begin to look rusty. well, no wonder, any
Young man that supports such mustache
can not eat enough to grow fat
Pedro last Sunday listened to a good
sermon delivered by Rev. LAIRD OF Wal
than. II spoken a little louder 'twould
have been better still.
One or two more marriages on deck
and then a long rest. PEDRO NO w.
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HOODS
SARSAPARILLA

Has decided" claims upon the public. This
Is positively proven by the immense good it
has done to those who have been cured Of
diseases from which they have suffered in.
tenScly for years, as verified by the publish
ed testimonials, every one OF which is pos
Tive fact.
CHELSEA, vi, Feb "a, 1879.
MEsSRs. c, !. HOOD Il Co., Lowell, Mass:
The 9th day of last June was taken sick
with a swelling on my right foot and with an
awful pain. The swelling went al over me.
My face was swclcd so that could with diff
iiCulty see out OF my eyes, and | broke out
over the whole surface OF my body; my right
foot up to my knee was one raw, itching
mass, and my ankle and foot so lame and
sore | could not step on II, and II would run
so as to wet bandage through IN an hour.
In this condition Mr.. W. +. Hood (of the firm
of A. Il. Hood & Son, druggists, OF this town,
handed me a bottle OF HOODS SARsAPARIL-
LA, and told me TO take it. | did so, and by
The time had taken one bottle found that
il was doing me good. i have since taken
five bottles more. After had taken three
bottles my soreness began to leave me. ana
that to-day / can walk without going lame.
| have no soreness in my ankle and II mas
healed all up, and does not run az all lowe
my recovery to your SarSaparllla' Wlite
this to let you know that think 1t deserves
the confidence of the public, especially those
who are troubled with humors.
Yours most truly.
JOSIAH PlTklN.
P.S. Every person that saw me said that
never would get over my lameneSS without
having n running sore On my ankle; but
thank God | have. *.
Mother Sarsaparilla has sucha sharpening
effect upon the appetite. No other prepa-
ration tones and strengthens the digestive
organs like HOOPS SARSAPARILLA
Price one dollar, or six bottles for five dol
lars. Prepared only by c. ]. HOOD & CO..
ApOthecaries, Lowell, Mass.
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TWO OF A KIND.

! took my girl one moonlight night,
And walked down 10 the ferry;
| asked her IL I'd get man
To row US in a wheIry.
''She did not care" she sweetly lisped,
Her wont was my own pleasure;
! asked her If she'd have some cream
"She did not care.n The treasure,
] asked her II she'd ride or walk?
"Do which you think is bettetn'
All right, thought, she wants To walk
You bet your boots let her.
So everything that I'd suggest
She'd do just as wanted;
We were, IL seemed, both Of one mind
The thought my spirit haunted.
What Is this silent powerT quoth she,
(Which makes us both like minded"'
II really can not tell my dear
The tears my eyes had blinded.
81 can not say what power 1t Is
That has your wishes rusied;
But for myself. dear Mary Jane,
To tell the truth, rm busted"
-Y0Eters Statesman.
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NHNar Live un.

II you are suffering with low and depressed
spirits. loss OF appetite, general debility, dis
ordered blood, weak constitution, headache,
or any disease Of bilious nature, by all
means procure q bottle Of Electric Bitters.
You will be surprised to see the rapid i'm
provenent that will follow; you will be in
spred with new life strength and activity
will return; pain and misery will cease, aud
henceforth you will rejoice in the praise OF
Electric Bitters, Sold at fifty cents bottle
bye. Gehrlng. to)
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a Sure Cure for Skin Diseases,

By DR.. Frazler's Magic Ointment: Cures
as il by magic: Pimples, Black Heads or
Grubs, Botches and Eruptions on the race
leaving the skin clear, healty and beautiful
Also cures Itch, Salt Rheum, Sore Nipples
Sore Lips, old, obstinate Ulcers, sores, etc,
Sold by ali druggists and mailed on receipt
of price, 50 cents. For sale by Forbes ~
IOrriallX,
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nine months of 1888 at 4, pa miles, against
sO75 for the same months in 1889. The
estimate for the whole year OF 1883 is 6,ooo
to 1000 miles, which is above any year
before 1880, when the "boom" began,
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We saw on Tuesday afternoon a perfect
formed, apparently human hand, that OF
an infant, taken from the centre of new
grown potato, in field near town. The
formation is so perfect that the smallest
fibres and ligaments are quite apparent,
and by touching the thumb or wrist the
motion is felt throughout the whole hand
Cape Breton ddroedtt.
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4 LOVE IDYL.

LOVE lb1 l.,
They stood together at the gate,
The man and MAIDEN fair;
The sun went down; twas growing late
Yet still they tarried there.
He gazed into her mild blue eyes,
Toycd with her golden hair;
The bright moon rose upon the sky,
And still they tarricd there.
He stopped to kiss her snow white brow,
But he ard her fathers toncc--
''Oh Peggy, 20 and feed the COW,
And let that calf 20 home
In has trial sermon before "a Boston
church preacher said: "Thc children o.
Israel were repeatedly on the point q
manumlsslon, but at the very last moment
the Lord afflicted Pharaoh with auriculal
Justification" He received II unanimous
call.-lr0y Times.
We clip the following from an cX-
change. 1t seems almost too good to bt
true:
The town Of Rushvile IN this state had
mild sensation last week Ii has been q
custom there during some years for the
Young married ladies to give supper ana
an evenings amusement to themselves
every week or two, taking turn about al
their different homes. The husbands at
such times were left to shift for themselves
These gatherings hal come to be popular.
ly known as goose parties,' the ladies
who attended them as geese and the de
serted husbands as "ganders." Last week
tickets Of invitation 10 goose party were
issued by Mrs. Carson, It leading society
lady Very soon after tickets were issued
to all the "ganders" and also TO all the
young unmarried ladies' o. Nashville t.
attend social party at the house OF Mark
BOgue, n prominent young man and a
"gander" The dismay Of the married la
dies may be imagined. Nevertheless the
two parties assembled on the same evening
the geese at Mrs. Carson's, the girls
and "ganders" at Mr.. Bogue's. The mar
ried ladies-thc "geese"-gazed at each
other in CONSERVATION for an hour or two
and then, realizing the danger OF the stu
alton and moved by u common impulse
they marched in a body upon the house OF
Mr.. Bogue, sna,ched their conjugal part.
ners from the impending destruction, and
led them away to their several homes
What became Of the girls IL not stated
neither is there any report of the curtain
lectures endured that night by the wicked
"ganders;" but one thing is ccrtain-thert
will be ho more goose parties" in Rush
VILE.
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Nervous Debility

When all other remedies tail, Dr.. Frazier
Root Bltters will cure General Debility, Loss
'of Appetite, Dyspepsia, and all diseases arts.
ing from q jisordered Stomach, Liver and
Kidneys
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Paragraph Fiend.

Esriv Engli-h-Baby talk.
~
-, n, ,ofry-,Iosses.
~ ,,,, wa,lor
But ye'" "''"'''
All that II Is cracNeu "p w
A good prophet-One hundred per cent
Oscar Wilde says that short hair canno
-, ,,roo hrpcches No: il usually
10 VII" "'0o -
rOes with striped lrouscIs'
,,,. posc.ls out-N. y. Sun.
o,,,, .,,rp the r,scals out of the penn
tentiarles IN Ohio for they VIII V"e TIT
Democratic t'che''-o""'50 ~, ,,,''
That's Just "hat ; tue i'''''0''
ocratic rascals are MY III WV P'",''
but the republican raSca'' ''' az
outside.
II see that Dir. liiueh mas WV" '"'"
race 1t he follows pFe'e"ch'' "' wa,
.,-, ,ho nrizn money over to the. II Is
tuIh 'n0 ~ '"0
Hayes.
AZ. croobou hellrveS in one lottery
MI p'esn'"I ,t,o rroe,dnnrv in the
Only-tnh' w ""'o" : lr,,,,o.
e.-Phtld0elP'tt" Nit"J '"'''
10, 81 ,roudli, talk
There Is goou "e"' VI
ehout the Office seeking the man, but we
-, ,ho, uheneyrr the office
have observed Iha' -,
soe' "o'" 'a',.!,, ,ho hor,l
s"iN'' Wv
Ihere was omo1 on a o bent rusty pynu;
He quickly arothes
~ WITH tIe pm iad in n,S ' in grvpn.
""''' ' ,ooor
m,t suicide At the same hour the other
niob, Noxt morning both were up an
bonr earlier than usual TO look over the
manor and their disappointment and dis.
ono. at such conduct on the part of the
o,ber WAS too deem for utterancc.
..,.,,o,,.
,r.u,, ,r .ho mar,v sonI to learn
That seas of molten lava
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The Railway Age figures the construc.
ton OF railways in the L. S. Tor the first
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One OF our best citizens would say to the
public that he has tried Halls Catarrh Cure,
and it is all that Is claimed for il. Price %
cents per bottle.
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Work given out. On receipt Of your ad
dress we will make an offer by which yol
can earn So to 81 evenings, at your home
Men, women, boys or girls can do 1t. IL. q
Wilkinson n Co, 1875 and 1874 Fulton street
Nnw Nnrk
The Dickinson press., 1883-10-13
A Jewel of Servant.

HIOu1 1eAdS ot1IluSS.
A gentleman in Austin has a new SER
want. and the other day he undertook
to teach him in regard to certain credit
ors who invariably bounded him the
first of each month with ag%gravating
bills.
"Now." sai1 he to his servant, eff a
nan should call for me to-day, you tell
him ! am not at home"
"Yis, sor," replied the man.
Fearing a misunderstanding in some
way, he again sald:-
Now, Pat, what will you tell the
"Tell him 1 am notat home. sor."
"No, no, blockhead, tell him that /,
myself, am not at home"
"All roight, sor."
"Now, what will you say to him."
81, myself am not at home"
"Pshaw! Tell him your boss is not
in. Understand that donkey: Now,
what will you say?"
"Your boss is not in. Understand
that, donkey?"
Fool! That's not right: Say to him,
81 am out" Can you do that"
well, let's hear you"
II am out"
"Thunderation! Can't you under
stand? Tell him your master is out.
Now, what will you sa' q"
"Iour master is out"
"No, you don't say anything of the
kind, you ignoramus. Tell the man
that [ have left the house."
Certainly, I'll tell him that I have
left the house, but he won't behave me
when he sees me in the house."
"Pshaw! Can't you simply say 1 have
gone out for a WALK"
"yhin he'll think I am q lying, sor."
Chow 500"
"Why whin I tell him 1 have gone
out for a walk"
"Great Potiphar? You are the stupid
est fool l ever knew. See here, l ..don't
want to see any of the people that will
call to-day, and I want them to UNDER
stand that there's no use of tn en- calling
as they won't find me at home. Can
You give them an ambiguous answer in
your own Words"
SIS it an ambiguous answer? l should
say | could, if you jist lave it to me?"
well, what will you say??"
"Ill say, when they ak me if you are
in: 'Yis, the boss is in, but he has COM
mitted bigamy and gone off on a we'd
dim tour wild a wildly woman, an if they
don't arrest him for the nbiggity req
Ill niver see the color av his hair again.
Thatll fetch 'em."
The Dickinson press., 1883-10-13

of natives a veritable cowboy, mounted
and fully equipped. He wore a broad
brimmed felt hat over an honest, pleas.
ant face deeply tanned by the sun and
atmosphere, a WOODEN shirt, and short
gray jacket and gray pants. Over his
legs, from his hips to his knees, extend
ed a wide piece of leather, the object of
which is supposed to be to protect him
from rain and brush. He was asked if
he owned the herd of sheep grazing
near, and Indignantly responded that
he did not-that he was a cowboy.
"Let us see you lasso that COW.
"Huh! that's nothing; the boys d
skin my head"
"Then let us see you catch the train"
With a word The little pony was urged
to the other side of the track, and, as
the train started. horse and rider made
a dash going ahead of the train. Grad
ually, as the train got under way, it
gained upon its opponent until it and
the horse stood neck and neck Then
as if to tempt the rider to his fate, cigars
were handed to him from the -car win
dows. Without a moments hesitation
the little pony was headed for the road
bed, which it reached by a plunge from
the higher ground. The train increased
in speed, and the cowboy, being intent
only upon the prizes offered him gave
the rein to the pony and his attention
to taking the cigars from the hands of
those inside the cars. Over washouts
and Uneven grounds, through cuts and
over elevations the animal dashed, and
sc close to the train that the riders feet
came in contact with it. The animal
was left entirely to itself, and one mis-
step or a stumble would have thrown both
horse and rider beneath the wheels.
For fully three-quarters of q mile The
race was kept up, and at the end of it
tine daring rider al greeted with shouts
which he acknowledged by a wave of his
hat as the horse mounted the embark
ment.-Cor. Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Dickinson press., 1883-10-13

They kiss and stand on the do orsteps
twenty minutes in the rain. "Sar ah,it's
so good to see you; how have you. been?"
80, ever so ni,e; have gained twelve
pound in seven weeks" t'And how is
your husband?" 30, he's all rigtst; out
every day; the very picture of malaria"
Hartford Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1883-10-13

The Luzerne Legal Register says:
"The new law in Kentucky, fixing one
mile as the legal distance bet ween a
purpose of %ascertaininy how rapidly a
kentuckian can get over the ground.
Some crest bursts Of speed are reported
as having occurred"