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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-26
MORRISON'S TARIFF BILL.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-The secretary of
the treasury has written to Represents
tive Morrison, chairman of the ways and
means committee, in regard to the prob
able effect of the passage of his tariff bill.
The latter says that the net reduction
would be about $l2,O0O,OOO. In regard to
the proviso limiting the maximum of
duties to certain al valorem rates, he says
it leaves room for controversy Oh values,
but that the values could be approximate
ly ascertained by customs officers. He
suggests, however, that Il provision he
made by which the valuation Of sucn OIL
GERS should be made final, and not leave
this important question to be in after
years uncertain He pointed out other de-
tects in the bill which he hopes will be
corrected
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-26
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH =. .
REGARDING THE FUNCTIONS OF AN
IMPORTANT ORGAN,
or Which the Public Knows but Little,
Worthy Careful Consideration,
. the Edaor otthe Scientific American:

To the Edtor ofthe Scientific American:
WIN you permit us to make known to the
pubic the facts we have learned during the
past years, concerning disorders of the hui
man hldncys and the organs which diseased
hldncNs SO easily break down You are con-
duGtlng scientific paper and are unpre =
udlced except in favor of TKU1H. 1t is need
csS 10 say, no medical journal OF code"
standing would admit these facts for very OBJ
Yious reasons. H. H. WARNER n 90
Perpetrators of "U'drner's Sd6e cure. ."
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-26
THIRD DAY.
Old Probs Propitious Visitors by the
Thousands and Fun Unlimited Skat-
ing, Trotting, Sailing ana Polo Com

When old Sol called around to see how
the carnival sports were getting on, Wed
nesday morning, he found the thermome-
ter lowering in the vicinity OF ten degrees
below zero, aud IA sharp breeze blowing
from the north, that cut the old fellows
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-02-26

The purse was so of which 30 per cent
went To the first horse, 30 per cent 10 the
second and 20 per cent to the third. The
Judges We're +. f. Brownell w. r, Scott
and DR.. q. b. Gibson.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Last week the mints Issued 555 ,273
standard silver dollars.
OF the 365 colleges of the United States
100 publish newspapers.
Visitors to the White and Kaatskill
mountains have been treated to touch
Of winter this week by snow storms.
A Missouri paper says: In war with
Mexico, Missouri stands ready to furnish
all the colOnels needed by the army of
invasion.
A 12-year-Old boy, son Of Henry Bru-
now, of Cerro Gordo, ILL.,, made work for
the coroner by exploding a railway tor
pedO with brick.
While digging post holes near Union,
town, Pa, labOrer found a watch
which had been dropped by one of Brad
docks officers in battle 1870 years ago.
Since 1882 prices have greatly de-
clined in England. Coffee has fallen
more than 40 per cent, sugar fully 30
per cent, tes hearty 20 per cent, wheat
about 40 per cent, and butchers meat
10 per cent. 0.her things have declined
prOpOrtiOnately.
A California tailor grew tired of his
wife, aud started in sailing vessel for
Honolulu. The wife, however, was too
much for him. She sailed for the same
port In a steamer, arrived there first,
met him when he landed, and finally
brought the unlucky man back home.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19

The Indiana Democratic State plat
form has tariff plank that talks sense.
After endorsing the administration they
talk tariff, holding that taxation of the
people for other purposes than raising
revenue for the expenses Of the Govern
ment, economically administered, Is
robbiDg under the form Of law" That
is phrase which ought to go onto rec
ord. II is one of the best presentations
which has been made of the horrible
grievance under which this country has
so long suffered.
In their financial plank they want q
currency of gold and silver coin, and
paper ready convertible into coin;
and they want the useless surplus In
the Treasury TO be applied to the re-
demptiOn Of our interest bearing debt.
Upon the liquor question there Is no
cOncealment, no evasion. The platform
openly denounces sumptuary and pro
hibitOry laws, but earnestly advocates
the regulation of the traffic In spirituous
and Intoxicating liquors,
The labor controversy Is intelligently
handled; and, very wisely, a separate
plank is inserted sympathizing with the
cause Of Irish home rule. The closing
plank, approving the increase of pen
siOns to the widows of soldiers, 's good;
but 1t would have been better if there
had been an addition to the effect that
extra precautions should be applied to
prevent robbers from getting into the
Treasury under the false guise of pen
sioners. Nowhere ls there occasion to
remember Mr.. Dudley more than among
the Indiana Democracy.
The platform will work great good
for the Democratic cause. Upon it the
Democrats of that State should win.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19

Mr.. BodWell, the Republican candi-
date for Governor of Maine, was born on
the 18th of June, 1918, In that part Of
Methuen, Mass, now known as Lawrence.
When he was eight years of age his
father, being at that time In straitened
circumstances, was persuaded by his
brOther-in-law, Robert Fleming, to com
nit the boy to his care. Young Joseph
thus continued at farm labor until he
was sixteen. Iu 1885 he began to learn
shOemsking, attending school during
the day. Three years later, in cOnj0nc-
tion with his father, he purchased farm
In Methuen, in the cultivation of which
he found occupation until the death of
his father In 1848.
When the Lawrences, of Boston. began
to utilize the waters of the Merrimac at
Lawrence, Mr.. BOdwell was employed to
haul granite from Pelham, N. H., for the
construction of the dam, This gave him
familiar knowledge Of quarryiDg, and
in 1852, in company with Hon. Moses
Webster, be began to work the granite
quarries of Fox Island, at the mouth Of
the PenobscOt Bay. Up to that time the
granite islands and headlands of the
coast of Maine we're for the most part
untouched. Mr.. BOdwell began work
at Vinalhaven, Fox Island, with one
yoke of oxen, which he drove himself
and sh0d with his own hands. From
this small beginning arose the BOdwell
Granite Company, one Of the largest
granite companies In the union. The cor
poration elected Mr.. BOdWell President,
which office he still retains. In 1865 he
removed with his family to Hallowell,
Me-, of which town he Is still a resident.
He discovered in that neighbOrhOod
granite of lighter color and more deli
cate texture, the kind of material de-
manded for monumental and artistic
purposes. After securing control Of the
extensive deposits, he organized the
we'll known Hallowell Granite Company
in 1870, and he has been Its head ever
since.
MIR. Bodwell still retains his love for
farming and fine stock, and Is an extern
sive importer of thoroughbred Hereford
cattle, black-polIed Angus and Sussex
breed. He is President of the BOdwell
Water Company of Oldham. He always
carries on extensive numbering opera
tiOns at the headwaters of the Kennebec
river, and is stakeholder and promoter
of several railroad enterprises. He has
twice represented his fellow citizens in
the Lower House of the Maine Legisla-
ture; has twice been Mayor of Hallow.
ell. and delegate.at-large to the Re-
publican Conventions at Chicago In 1880
and 1884. He is friend of public
schools and temperance, and, remember
ing his own early days, has always an
encouraging word and helping hand
for struggling, poor young men.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19
UNCLE sAM's GENEROSITY IN PEN


The generosity of the Government In
the matter Of pensions Is illustrated by
q case reported In Montpelier letter to
the Boston Journal Mrs. Elmira Fl.
FsrIsr, of Waterbury, Vt. has just re-
ceiVed the large sum Of $4,125 In cash
as arrears, and insurance Of SIS month
as long as she lives, as the pension due
a dependent mother. 1t appears that
son Of Mrs. Waldo enlisted In the army
In April, 1861, a. d was killed al Gettys-
burg in July, 1868, and the pension is
allowed upon the ground that ne was
her only support. But it also appears
that, when the soldier son died, Mrs.
WaldO's husband and three other sons
were alive and lived on good farm we'll
stocked with horses and cattle, and that
these other sons are still alive and able
to support the mother. II is not sur
prising to find ttat there ia considerable
excitement among the neighbOrs" of
Mrs. F8rrar In the little town Of $50 peO-
pie where she lives at her receiving
q sum that In that region is a for
tune, upon the ground that one of her
sons was killed 10 the army nearly
quarter of century ago, and that she
was dependent for support upon this
particular one of her four SONS. Such
case as this has bearing upon the
Presidents vetOes.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19

was planted within eight feet of them,
both miner and wild goose was enOr.
mOusly productive, and carried to ma
turity fine crops of fruit. These are the
facts of this location, and have sbund-
ant absolute proof for them. A mistake
is almost impossible; for | have places
In which trees of each are by them
selves, no other variety near them. In
all such cases they have been barren en-
tirely, never having fully matured
plum. In such situations they flower
freely, set fruit in abundance, but 1t all
drops off, mostly when very small; only
some Of 1t, especially on the Wild Goose,
growing to nearly full size. By cutting
into one of these more developed speci-
mems, 1t can be seen at a glance, that
the CVary has not been fertilized. The
Newman, one of our most valuable ma
tive plums, will give good crops when
standing alone; but scarcely seed will
grow. When near another variety with
acceptable pollen, it gives more and
larger, later and higher cOl0red fruit.
The best results are obtained, where q
variety of one type is fertllized with one
Of another type. The Wild Goose plum
Of the Prunus Chicass type, for instance,
does better In close proximity to the
Miner of the Prunus Americana type, or
to any variety of the Prunus DOmestics
type, than when planted with the New
man, which Is of the same type and
therefore closely related to 1t.
In order to make lone healthy native
plum tree, which has thus far proved
barren, bear fruit In abundance, l would
advise to graft or bud other varieties in
to the end of the branches As soon as
these branches are large enough to
bloom, you will be astOnished about
the prOductiveness of the tree which be-
fore was entirely barren.
My experience seems to prove to me
that the curculio does not destroy or
materially iDjure our native plUms,
even where no means Of protection are
employed. The native plums are not
breeders of the curculiO, but rather
check its increase(?).
The three best varieties and we'll WOr-
thy Of extended cultivation, If planted
according to the suggestions in this ar
ticle, are the Wild Goose, Newman and
Miner, ripening In succession In the Or
der named, from the first Of July to the
middle of September.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19

CONGRESSMAN FoRAN, Of Cleveland, in
an interview on the work of the late
session of Congress, maintains we have
lost nothing by delaying work on our
sea coast Notifications, as science in
gunnery and resistance to projectlles Is
undergoing constant change. Ihe great
Krupp guIs are now thought to be USE
less on account of the discovery of cocoa
powder. This powder burns much
slower than other powder, bnt 1t has a
tremendous strength. The great steel
guns which are made to Withstand the
pressure of the sudden explosion of COM
mon powder VIII not do for cocoa pow
der, which burns slower and gains
strength as 1t moves the proj ctlle
toward the mouth of the gun. On this
account return 10 the OLD cast iron gun
will be necessary. 1t Is useless now to
cover ships with iron or anything else.
Projectiles can be thrown with such
tremendous force that they will pierce
any armature. Other nations are con-
stantly experimenting In this direction.
We are resping the benefit Of their dis
coverles, so that when we do provide for
coast detenses the very best and latest
will be built.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19

Both principles and practice should be
taught, 80 that when boy leaves school
he will have his head and his hand al
ready trained for some form Of work In
the shop or the factory. The colleges
might well take up the course of IN
structIOn where the humber schools
end 1t, and push pupils onward to the
higher things in the aTts. But he Is a
sanguine man who expects the old col
legiate institutions to lessen their affec-
tiOn for dead languages and pure theory.
The hope of advanced industrial educa-
tiOn, therefore, lies In the creation of
technical schools, of which there are
now but two or three Of high quality
In the country. There Is encourage
meDt In the growth, plainly discernible,
of public opinion favoring such schools
and such training for the young. This
is the greatest manufacturing nation In
the world. and as it becomes independ-
ent Of other countries for Its supplies of
fabrics, so 1t should become dependent
solely upon its own population for its
skilled wOrkers.-The Textile Record.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19
HOW TO FRUIT PLUMS.

Mr.. D. B. Wier, of Northern Illinois,
who has been q successful plum grower
gives In Orchard and Garden his ideas
on the subject. He says as follows:
The secret is easily told. Simply
plant quite branch Of native plum
trees of at least three varieties on good
rich soil, not more than six to ten feet
apart. The more varieties the better.
/ have had the best success with trees
planted In single row, running north
and south, four feet apart In the row
and with no two trees Of any one variety
next to each other. II more than Que
row Is wanted, these rows should be
from twelve to twenty feet apart. The
native plums planted In this way here
I'm Northern Illin0is) have proved legu
larly productive for the past twenty
years; most Of the crops being simply
enormous, while the wild goose, miner
and other native plums here, when
standing alone and not near other
varieties, are completely barren, never
maturing fruit.
10 discover the reason for this behav-
lor has been the hardest problem In hor-
ticulture which l ever undertook to
solve. Now 1t Is plain to me, and as
simple as the Egg Of Columbus" Their
own pollen does not fertillze their own
ovaries. The stigma rejects pollen from
the same variety.
There were two distinct varieties sent
out frNm Galena, Ill, as the miner"
though very near alike In general ap-
pearance. When IL so happened that
tnese two were planted near together.
oOth were moderately productive; but
IN every case that the wild goose plum
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19

THE Appointment division of the In
terror Department has made compare
tive statement Of the number of days OF
leaves of absence granted clerks during
the calendar years of 1884 and 1885. The
former year was the last under Repub-
llcau administration and the latter Is
the first year of the present administra
tiOn. There are about 3,400 persons en-
DlOyed In the department. From the
statement it Is found that In the year
1884 there we're granted 103,724 days
leaves of absence. In 1885 there were
granted 1886, leaving a balance In
favor of the number granted during the
present administration of 1888 days,
which, being reduced to working days,
would amount tn the services Of forty
one clerks for one year at an average
salary of 81 600 per year, making Sal,
600. The remarkable feature shown by
the statement Is that 10000 days of the
$4,000 leaves granted In 1884 came alone
from the Pension Bureau under Colonel
Dudley's administration. They were
bulldozing pensioners into voting the
Republican ticket.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19

August K. Cutting was born In the
little town of Hudson, N. Y, In 1889
After a few years In the public schools,
at an early age he went into the village
newspaper office, the Star, to learn the
trade Of printer. He worked In var
iOus newspaper offices In the east, and
was on the Albany Evening Journal for
several years. In 1858 he was employed
on the Cleveland Leader. Growing
tired of the place he drifted south. He
finally got to Nashville, where he Joined
an Independent home company formed
to protect the city. When Nashville
was taken by the Federal forces Cutting
returned north. From this episode In
his career has arisen tbs various stories
that he was in the Confederate service
and deserted 1t; that he belonged to a
Union Missouri regiment, and deserted
to the enemy.
After his return North Cutting worked
In Cincinnati at his trade, thence com.
ing to Detroit, where he stayed short
time. From Detroit he went to Perrys-
burg, O., thence to Toledo At Toledo
he married. The marriage proved an
unhappy one and the couple separated,
divorce being subsequently obtained.
He afterwards located at Kansas City
for few years and published the daily
Times. Cutting married again at Kan
sas City aud his wife has lived with him
ever since, being now IN FL PssO, thus
dispOsing of the story OF his bigamOus
relations with four women. After
disastrous fire in Kansas City, In which
Cutting lost all his personal property,
he went to Colorado and started paper
at Trinidad. Later he set up his edito-
rial tripod at Las Vegas, New Mexico.
From boyhood A. K. Cutting has dis
played marked characteristics that
stamp him as a man Of more than Ordi-
nary mold. OF nervous temperament
and restless, adventurous dispo-
sition, he could never remain long
in one channel His energy pushed him
to constant activity, and his cOmbatlve
nature led him into the fields where his
talents found congenisl exercise. As a
writer he is exceptionally vigorous,
fearless and bold. Some of his expert
ences in border journalism were cbarac-
teristic of the man. While at Trinidad
he fought to victory the Iawless element
of the town through the columns of his
paper, when such course was intensely
unpopular, If not . TsOnally dangerous,
Indeed, all that has been told of Cutting
by those who know him bears out the
impression that he is just such a person
most likely to get into the ENHANCEMENT
In which be now finds himself.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19
Lost Faith In PhYsicIans .

There are innumerable instances
where cures have been effected by SEQ
Wills Sarsaparills, or Blood and Liver
Syrup, for all diseases of the blood,
when the patient has been given up by
physicians. 1t Is one of the best reme-
dies ever offered to the public, and as 1t
Is prepared with the greatest care, as a
specific for certain diseases, 1t is no
wonder that 1t should be more effectual
than hastily written and carelessly pre-
pared prescriptions. Take ScOvill's
Blood and Liver Syrup for all disorders
arising from impure blood. 1t Is en-
dorsed by all leading professional men.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19

SANDY" GREEN, late conductor on
the Lake Shore railroad, has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Medina to succeed
a Republican editor by the name of 1.
H. Green, who has been loud in his
proclamstiOns that there were no Demo.
Gratis qualified to fill the Office. SANDY"
Is we'll known In this city az an enthus-
iastic Democrat. He has long had his
home at Medina II Plain Dealer.
We believe SANDY" Is son of Norton
Green, whom we remember as an active
Democrat in Medina county fifty years
or 80 ago.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.

On the occasion Of the Democratic
State Convention at Toledo, August 18th
and 18 b, 1886 the Wheeling & Lake
railway will sell excursion tickets from
all stations between BOwerstOwn and
Toledo at half fare. Memorial Hall,
where the convention is to be held, is
within three minutes walk of the
Wheeling Depot, making this route the
most desirable for the various delega-
tiOns situated on or near it's line.
The Tilden Club of Cleveland, three
hundred strong, go to Toledo over the
Wheeling & Lake Erie railway Dy
special train.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19
NEAT REPLIES.

Andrew Jackson, it is related, was at
one time entertained at dinner by gen
tleman, and among these present was
one of those people who often find their
way into story books, &C., as the type of
that offensive class of Americans who
are always trailing their nationality in
toe dust In the effort to exslt their indi.
viGual independence. This particular
gentleman, over the wine and wRlnuts
after dinner, in order to emphasize his
own independence of disposition, of
which he was loudly bOastful, remarked
with rare exhibition Of self comDla-
Cence to General jackson:
81 always voted against you, sir"
The company was naturally rendered
speechless by this unexpected disclos-
ure, and the scene actually looked squal-
ly; but General Jackson put stopper on
the bOastful individual and avoided
further trouble by smilingly remark
"And |, sir, have always fought the
battles Of my country that you might
enjoy that privilege.
Another instance of happy response
Is that of an old Southern Judge but
whether Judge by courtesy or In fact
the writer cannot st8te-who must have
had the faculty of quick and appropriate
reply pretty well developed If the story
related of him Is true. He had been
fierce secessionist, and the fact was not
forgotten when, after the war, he re.en-
tered the political arena of his native
State. Speaking at certain place one
evening In the Interest of his own can
didacy for Congress, some one In the au
dience, who evidently had good men,
ory, inquired:
didn't you speak here just before the
WARP"
81 did," proudly responded the Judge.
"And didn't you say we could whip the
burned Yankees with pOp-gunsP
Il did" replied the unabashed Judge,
"but cOnfOund 'em they wouldn't fight
that wayP-[Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19
hem,s Our Sentiments reww ~

The Cleveland Leader Is firmly of the
opinion that Major Mckinley will have
no trouble whatever in being renomin
sted and reelected to Congress from the
18th Ohio district Il y Orld.
Having bought off King, scared off
Taylor, and ehOked off Fassett, the Ma
jOr has q walk-over for the nomination.
But his election or defeat rests entirely
with the DemOcraey--it can fo0llshly
elect him or wisely defeat him. As yet
the Major has no sure thing, by any
MEANS youngstown Saturday Night.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19
A Walking skeleton.

Mr.. e. Springer, of Mechanicsburg, Pa,
writes: 81 was afflicted with lung fe-
yer and abscess on lungs, and reduced
to walking skeleton. Got a free trial
bottle Of DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, which did me so much
good bought dollar bottle. After u.s.
ing three bottles, found myself once
more a man, completely restored to
health, with q hearty appetite. and a
gain In flesh of 4S lbs" Call at Dur
bin, Wright & Cos drug store and get a
trial bottle of this certain cure for all
lung diseases. Large bottles 81.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-19

Ely's Cream Balm was recommended
to me by my druggist as preventive to
hay fever. Have been using 1t as d.
rected and have found 1t specific for
that much dreaded and loathsome dis
ease. For ten years or more l have been
a great sufferer each year, from August
9th till frost, and have tried many al
legged remedies for Its cure, but Ely's
Cream Balm Is che only preventive l
have ever found. Hay fever sufferers
ought to know of Its efficacy.-F. B.
AinswOrth, of +. B Ainsworth & Co.,
Publishers, Indianapolis, Ind.