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THE SUGAR QUESTION.

The tariff on sugar has been before the
House for several days, but none of the
speakers seem to have risen to a level
with the momentous nature of the problem.
In reality there is no economic question
of quite so much importance before our peO-
pie. There is none Of so much Importance
to our farmers. It is wretehedly wasteful
to allow $100,OO0O00 to be sent out of the
country every year to buy sugar and mo-
lasses. 1t is nearly an entire loss to us, for
the people from whom we buy sweets buy
very little in return from us, and what lit
tie they buy is heavily taxed when it enters
Cuban ports, our flour alone having to pay
an import duty of $3.50 barrel. Other
American products are similarly taxed.
That $100,000,000 ought to be paid to our
own farmers If the cornfelds of Louisiana
cannot produce enough, then it should be
seen what can be done with sorghum or
beets. Government owes it to our people
to take energetic steps in this direction
We are behind every other civilized Nation
in this matter. No other allows such an
enormous drain to be made upon its re-
sources. They all have their sugar raised
under their own flags. If it cannot be done
one way, then they try another. Spain
Portugal, Holland and Great Britain get
theirs from their Colonies. One of the first
| acts Of Germany, after she became really q
Nation, was to offer bounties for beet sugar
and she maintained the policy resolutely
until her people raised every pound thai
they needed, and began to export it.
France has raised at home every kilogram
of sugar that she needed, since the English
blockaded her ports during the Napoleonit
wars fortunately compelled her to rely OF
her own acres for sweets.
Austria, Italy, Russia and Denmark hav,
all fostered the beet sugar culture until they
now keep at home the money they formerl,
sent abroad for this staple.
We will not dispute with any one whethe
we should get our sugar from the sorghum
beets OF glucose. We viii not attempt t
say whether it is better to foster sugar pro
duction by protective tariff or by bountie.
Those are matters of detail upon which me-
may honestly differ. All we want is som
rational policy which will keep at hom
that S1OO,0OO,0OO year and pay it into tn
pockets of our farmers, who certainly nee
every dollar that they can get We ar
strenuous that one of the most pressing dutie
of the Government is the determination an
adoption of ways and means to develop GU
own sugar production, in whatever directio
may seem most practical, so as to stop at til
earliest possible moment this enormous ou
flow of the peoples money.
We think our public men have bee
grossly derelict in notgiving this importar
question the attention that it deserves.
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THE limitation to the arrears of pensions
was conceived in fraud and is continued in
iniquity. The friends of the veterans only
submitted to it originally, because without
it they could not secure any portion of what
was due the veterans, They believed then
that the country's sense of justice would
soon demand the removal of the odious re-
striction. 1t has repeatedly been demanded
in the most formal manner by great politi-
cal conventions and other important public
gatherings. It's continuance is rank Unjust
ice-an ofense against National honesty and
the fair fame of our people.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-07-12

EVERY prisoner of war should be pen
stoned. Among the many who served their
country well, none served her better than
the men who, captured in the forefront of
battle, accepted the worst of fates without a
murmur in order that her salvation might
be secured. To refuse such men as these the
trifing pension asked for them is mean and
ungrateful to the last degree.
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THE eErrYsBURG CELEBRATION.

THE GETTYSBURG CELEBRATION.
The great Gettysburg celebrationp passed off
most happily. There was nothing to mar it
aside from rather stupid blunders on the
part Of those who assumed to manage it, the
inability of the little town to accommodates
great crowd, and the extordonate prices
that were charged in many instances.
But, after all, these were minor matters.
The weather was delightful-it could not
have been more pleasant, and almost any
place did to sleep in. The tens of thousands
of veteran visitors and their wives and chill
dren did not care anything for the manage
ment, good or bad. They did not go there
to be managed-they had had enough of
that when they were in the army. The ex-
ercises-aside from the dedication of their
own monuments-had little interest for
them.
They went there to see the field on which
they had done heroic deeds; to meet their
old comrades once more upon the historic
ground, and to go over it with these and their
wives and children. All they asked was
pleasant weather, places to sleep, enough to
eat and drink, and liberty to go about the
field as they pleased. All this they had,
and the rest was of small importance to
them. Every one seemed to enjoy every
waking minute of the time, and they should
have done so, for there is no place in the world
so full Of keen interest to thesoldier. Every
part Of the field is now marked by monu-
ments, whose inscriptions tell the story OF
the stubbornly-contested battle, and help
make the visitor live over again the scenes
and incidents of the struggle.
The number of ex-Confederates present
was very much smaller than was anticipat-
ed, but those who came were welcome
guests, and their presence was a decided
addition to the interest of the occasion, fol-
they told the story of their side of the fight
went to the positions they occupied, and re-
counted their experiences in highly-enter.
tanning way. They were all fine, manly
fellows, without cant or swagger, and there
was a most agreeable absence of the God
knOws-who-was-right talk which marred The
former Reunion. The right of the matter
was not obtruded into the discussion. Each
side contented itself with paying well-de
served tributes to the splendid gallantry
with which the other fought, and to dis
cussing the manuvers and incidents of thu
battle.
In this way the meeting passed off mos
pleasantly and proftably, and we hope tina
every anniversary ofthe battle will be SINH
larly celebrated so long as there are any 0
the combatants living.
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THE GETTYsBuRG ORATOR.

In common with nearly everybody else
interested in the Gettysburg celebration, we
are profoundly ignorant of the reasons which
influenced the selection Of George William
Curtis as the orator of the day. He has no
eminence, either as soldier or an orator,
such as was naturally expected in the man
chosen out of a Nation of soldiers and
orators to be the spokesman at the cele-
bration of the 25th anniversary of the
Nations greatest battle Though of
military age at the time of the war, he
confined his participation in the struggle to
carefully polished sentences advising other
men to go to the rescue of their imperiled
country. He was SO studiously decorous
and gentlemanly even in this that his utter
anees never attracted attention, and no man
can recall anything Of special force that he
said during the storm and stress of that great
national purgation.
Among the many things connected with
the celebration difficult for plain, every
| day veteran to understand, one was why the
! orator of the day was not selected from the
many fine speakers who were more or less
prominent in the great battle Such Sc
lection would have been more fitting and
appropriate in every way.
Gems Sickles, Slocum, Fairchild, Berdan
Carr, and several others who can be named,
are fine speakers, and words from their lips,
on the field which they did so much to render
glorious, would have had inconceivably more
interest and attractiveness than the cut and
trimmed phrases of literary Miss Nancy
who in a lifetime of industrious pen-driying
has never written strong, virile, striking
thing that has fastened itself into any one:
mind and heart.
But, then, Mr.. Curtis probably suffered
more from the selection than any one else
Listening to him with his pretty, meaning
less, fOrceless platitudes, was an unpleasant
descent from hearing the words of othe
speakers on the field, who had actually
fought bravely there, and whose utterance
were the pregnant speech of men of powe
earnestly believing in great principles, anC
ready to fight and die for their advancement
1t was the contrast between the strong, rug
ged, earnest man and the sleek, self-satisfe,
diLIctant
1t was of the same nature as the contras
that was forced "a years ago when the Gettys
burg Cemetery was dedicated, between Ed
= ward Everett and Abraham Lincoln. Everett
made long Grafton of balanced period
= and neatly-turned phrases, which every bod
said was very fine, but which no one care
to hear a second time or to remember ser
tence of it. Lincoln spoke less than /
> minutes, but the hearts of his hearers throl
, bed from the first word to the last, and the
= went away feeling like men who had lister
D ed to an inspired voice. Lincoln's matches
{ % lines will live as long as the English IaI
} guage lives, viii be cast in bronze and carve
in marble, while to-day there are few me
: who remember that Edward Everett wa
i even present at the dedication of the Get
tysbuTg monument.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-07-12

LIKE the lately-deceased Emperor of Ger
many, the King of Italy is paying heavy
price for his youthful follies. His lungs are
out of shape, his liver needs constant tinker
ing, and his stomach is in state of chronic
revolt. There was no wilder Prince in
Europe few years ago than Humbert, and
now the grim collector, who will not be de-
MED, demands payment with interest.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-07-12

THE great army of deaf comrades has
been shabbily neglected by Congress. 1t is
impossible to overestimate the hardships of
men whose service impaired their hearing
or deprived them of it altogether. Many
of them are in much worse position as re-
gardsearning living than if they had lost a
limb All the professions and many of the
avenues of business and employment are
closed to them, when they are not to men
who have lost limbs. Most social pleasures
are diminished if not altogether denied
them. Their social condition is always sad,
and frequently pitiable The pensions al
lowed them under the law is wretchedly
inadequate, and it should be increased.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-07-12

THERE is something intolerably wasteful
and bad about an economic system which
sends out of the country every year $780,
100000 to buy things which we should raise
or make at home. The most important duty
of our lawmakers is to frame such legislation
as will diminish that evil.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-07-12

time, and personalities wers literally INDUCED
in by different Members. Without reaching
any conclusion the House adjourned.
In the Senate the routine work Of aDpropria-
ton bills continues, which gives little chance
for an exhibition Of Oratory OF wit.
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pers Of tie country. The best acay to help all
Veterans is by getting 1t more subscribers
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-07-12

THE reception that ex-GOv. Alger met
with at Gettysburg was very fattering
Everybody wanted to see him and shake
hands with him, and he attracted crowd
wherever he went. This was especially
gratifying on the field of Gettysburg, where
he played so distinguished part.
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You should do this, for it as the best nay TO help
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OUR CARTOON.

Our cartoon uses well-known old fable TO
puncture the buncombe about " tax reduc-
ton"
To the oppressed taxpayer" the burden
Of the United States taxes is Just about as
important as the weight of the gnat upon
the weary oK's horn, and no more If every
dollar Of United States taxes were taken off
tomorrow, the taxpayers would not be con-
scious of it in the diminution of their bur
dens. They would get nothing that they eat,
drink or wear any cheaper. The main differ
ence would be swelling of the profits Of
sugar men, brewers, distillers, rectiiers, TO-
baecouists, etc
The real burden of taxation is not i'm
posed by the National or State Governments
but by the local authorities. Roads, streets
County and city buildings, bridges, water
works, gas works, the support of the schools
police and fire department, the courts, the
poor, sick and insane are what take money
out Of the taxpayers pocket.
If it is vitality necessary to reduce taxa.
ton, the reduction should begin where il
viii do the most good-at home
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1hE LOGAN FUND.
The receipts OF the Logan Fund for the
last week were
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OUR favorite son "--the one which sends
the Thermometer up to 1902 in the shade.
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OUR CLUB RAIsERs.


Our friends sent in the following clubs
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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-04
New York stock Market.

Reported by q. w. Branch Il Co., banker
and Drokera. No. I'LL Main street.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-04
QUEER TRANSACTIONS.

Rob Roy still figures m Russia as Bob the
King, Roy" having been confused with
"ROl.'
A Vienna translation Of George Elio.s
Felix Holt, the Radical was entitled
Felix Hold the Ras' alp
An English translation Of a German novel
rendered lch babe einen Cast Lekommen Il
have got guest by 81 have becomes ghost
In French version OF Guy Mannering'
the phrase "a stickit minister unsuccessful
preacher figured rs un ministre ass lssinc
An Englshman some years ago came 20 q
foreign teacher to be finished "a German.
and was asked 10 write a sentence of colo
quail English and then TO translate d. tie
wrote: He has bolted and has not settled his
biu,r tganslating 10 He has driven IN bolt
and hos not coonlzed his besA
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-04
WHAT THEY ARE WORT.

Ada Rehan is worth $4,000
Agnes Booth is worth 10000.
Rosina Vokes is worth 10000.
Kate Claxton is worth 1925 600
Edwin Booth Is worth 81 100000.
Nellie McHenry is worth $4,000
Mary Anderson is worth s2jO0O0
Maggie Mitchell is worth 10000
Joseph jefferson is worth $4,000.
Helena Mod ieska Is WORTH 100000
Fanny Davenport Is worth $4,000
Lawrence Barrett is worth S725,OOo.
Mrs. d. p. Bowers is worth sljO,Oo0
Mrs. Lily Langtry is worth s55o,ooO
Oliver Doud Byron is worth s7jO,0O0
c ara Louise Kellogg Is worth $4,000.
Mrs. Thomas w Keene is worth slOOOOl
Augustin DAILY, New York, is worth
100000.
Henry c. Miner, New York, is worth
100000.
A. NJ. Palmer New York, is worth
$4,000
Tony Pastor, Now York, is worth
s200,0OO
Mrs. Crabtroe Lottas mother IS worth
$500 OC0
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-04

SO bushels com on at 100. Total sales OF
wheat. 4. $40 bushels.
Corn White. l06 bushels prime old a.
sic: 80 bushels good at Sc. ~ bushels
damp new a. l6c., 100 bushels domp new at
45c. Total salts of corn, 300 bushels
Oats Rust proof 10 q bushels very good
on private trims Winter, 10 bushels pr me
az soc.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-04
MARKET firm

Market firm.
Quotations -Middling. 9ic., low mid
ding, SIC. good ordinary, &c.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-04
LEMON ELIAiR.
A Plea.ant lemon Drink.

DR.. II. Mozley's Lemon Elexir Is pre-
pared from the fir sh Juice OF Lemons,
combined with other vegetable liver ton
les, cathartics, aromatic stimulants and
blood purifiers.
50 cents and 81 per bottle Sold BY
druggist generally, and by all wholesale
druggists.
Prepared only by II. MozLEy, NJ. ID,
Atlanta, Ga.
For Biliousness and constipation take
Lemon Elixir.
For indigestion and foul stomach "a K
Lemon Elixir.
For sick and nervous headache take
Lemon Elixir.
For palpatation Of the heart take
Lemon Elixir.
For sleeplessness and nervousness take
Lemon Elixir.
For loss of appetite aud debility take
Lemon Elixir.
For fevers, malaria and chills, take
Lemon Elixir.
Lemon Eiexir will not fail you IN any
of the above named diseases, All Of which
arise from a torpid or diseased liver and
stomach.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-04
FINANCE AND CON NJ ERCE
TOBACCO.
RICHMOND, Va, November 3.

RICHMOND, Va, November 3.
Mr. John NJ. Taylor IL. ]. Parrish Il
Coz received letter this morning from
oxford, n. C., which reads as follows ::
There will certainly be a much less
quantity OF fine tobacco than usual. |
say lot sold yesterday at Davis & Greg
ory's warehouse-I don't know the guam
tity. but il seemed to be two or three
hundred pounds-ai $40 per hundred.
John Booth and Dorsey Jones were the
bidders. Booth got II
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-04
Grain and Cotton Market.
RICHMOND, Va, November 3.

OPFEaTNGs REPORTED TO SECRETARY.
Wheat IS, 72S bushels.
Corn. -524 bushels.
Oats - loo bushels.
Rye-5O0 bushels.
SALES REPORTED TO SECRETARY.
Wheat -Longberr, 800 bushels PRIME at
l.l5- $50 bushels very good at liz 80
bushels very good az l.l3; 30 bushels COM
mon Al soc. Mixed, 81 bushels prime at
/ is. $50 bu.hels prime on private terms
800 bushels very good at LIZ az bushels
common att 90. shortberry, 81 bushels prime
AZ LIS: 100 bushels very good al N go
bushels very good at lib; 80 bushels good
AT ~; 3ls bushels good at LII; ~ bu,hels
fair at Ito; 100 bushels common at LOS;
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Notice.


TO nc "VsS"'
In answer to the many inquiries that
have been made at the Exposition Build
ing where the Old Virginia Cheroots are
being made) will say that they can be
found at any retail house that handles
cigars and tobacco, and are sold at > for
10 cents. Trade supplied by my agents,
Messrs. Powers, Taylor & Co, whole.
sale druggists, 1905 Main street, and
Messrs Whitaker, Zander & Co, whole
sale and retail dealers in cigars and to-
bacco, 1928 Main street.
=. WHITLocK,
Factory 2004-6 Franklin street
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-04
Mothers VIII Find

that DR.. David's Cough Syrup will Gre
their little ones Of coughs, colds, Group,
bronchitis, etc etc, and no careful
housewife will be without bottle Of this
Old-fashion remedy
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-04
Lemon Hot DROPS

Cure all Coughs. Colds, Hoafseness, Sore
Throat, Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and all
Throat and Lung diseases. Price %
cents. Sold by druggists. Prepared
only by DR. II. Motley, Atlants,Gs
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-04

The Western markets are sitter for
common grades, which have advanced
quarter 10 half.
Our market is apt to be quiet until at
ter the election. c. Mel.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-04

Mr.. w. W. Mallory says Il have sod
about twenty hogsneads of double-old
tobaccos this week From all the in
formation | get, the new growth Of sun
cured tobacco is the mesnest that has
been made for years. My reports come
from such men as Messrs. Winston and
Others of Louisa county"
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-04
Meat. Flour and Meal.

Bulkmeats-S Sides, lOc; s. oulders &c.
Bacon-Western shoulders, lOci dear-ri0
sides lie breasts l24c: hams lac.
Flour Richmond patent roller family
Sc. IS to 500 fancy family, So 5 10 $500;
family. s.. % 20 $500. city extra, $40 TO
s. 90. city supertne, 81 p 10 $50 city
fine g.. rs 10 "a 90.
Meal-City, per bushel, zoe, country 90 to
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WHOLESALE PRICE, CURRENT.
Country Produce.

Reported by Paine x Houston, Commits
ion Merchants, 1905 Cary Street.
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Richmond stock Market.

RICHMOND VA, November 3.
Reported by John L. Williams K Son,
bankers AMI brokers. I'LL Main street
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1888-03-02

Below IS a list of the 90 school teachers
being examined at the Court House this
week, with their P. o. addresses
Shedd-J G Gibson, Geo II Burtt, Lille
A Davis, Ida Porter
Jefferson-Anna T Greene, Agnes NJ
Greene, Nellie NJ Allen.
Oakyille-Bertha Mcdaniel.
Salem-Lottie L Perry.
Lebanon-Miss M G Reynolds, Mrs
Mamie Grisham, Rial NJ. Smith, Laura
Farrow, Maggie Sutton, Efie NJ Miller,
Charles A Smith, AIDA G Smith, julia
Thayer, Martha Charlton, Sarah Williams,
Mary Mothorn, LEILA Edwards, Alice Ches-
shir.
Albany-NelIie Colby, s A Newberry,
Lura Campbell. F NJ Mitchell, M Pogue,
Geo skee.s, P B Tharp, Mary Blount, Jen-
ME Bfount, Isabella Bodiae, Ella PhiliPpi.
Scio-B @ Altman, Mark Peery, g l.
Sutherland, Maggie Mcknight, Rosa Moore,
Belle Meyers, NJ F Paul, Jane Cyrus, Min
ME Smith.
HaIsey-Oliye Long, t A Crisp, Florence
Pearl, / II Van Winkle, r G Michael, Ida
Black.
Turner -Mayro Mckinney.
Crawfordsville-H Robe.
Harrisburg-F 6 Eby.
Crabtree-W E Queener, Clara Crabtree.
PhiIomath-N G Wilcox.
Jordan-G L Callavan.
BrownsviIIe-sg / Warmoth, lone Ar
thurs.
Plainview-Mary Brandon, Bertie Bran
don.