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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-14
A HIeA rarIR Laa4.

Americans may take lesson In high
tariff effects from the poor little republic
Of Colombia; poor In spite Of vast
natural wealth, an industrious people, as
tropical industry Is rated, and . iine COM
mercial position. The story IL told
briefly and forciblyi In formal report
Of United States consul. Their valleys
only need farmers to become the gardens
Of the world, their mountains are 80
rich In minerals that the Spanish gov
ernors interested In the Peruvian mines
forbade prospecting for the reason that
1t might ruin Peru, but they nevcrthe-
less became famous for gold, silver and
en,eralds. Petroleum oozes from the
ground in several places, and there are
great forests of fine cabinet wood. But all
this wealth lies undevelored. The needed
farmers are advised to stay away from
the fertile valleys, because the high tariff
on the necessaries of life makes living
there very expensive. The needed in
dustries are discouraged by the duties on
machinery and raw materials. The
duties are 40 highly protective rs to have
defeated their object. The duty on n
ten gallon can of kerosene In $4.37, and
on barrel of tar, $3.50; while a barrel
Of -four Is taxed $6.25. The government
has lately yielded 80 far ~ TO pass law
allowing those who first establish an in
dustry to import the plant free and
also, for few years, the raw materials.
The people in this country who are
shouting for the highest possible tariff
are invited to contemplate the result Of
the indefinite extension Of the process Of
making people rich by high taxes.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-14

Points.
The six hundred Costumes
for Girls and Children at half
prices second floor, Chestnut
street., the superb Brocaded
Ribbons at one-third prices
East TranSebt). the Wool
Challis at IS cents (soukheast
ceutre), and the Koechlins' Sat
eens at T8 cents (noriheaa cen
he) are the points of great and
continued interest. The stocks
won't last forever.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-14
Camel Hair Greuadlue.

Camel Hair Greuaaiue.
For the sixth time this sea
son an arrival Of Black Came
Hair Grenadine with Blocked
Ribbon-band Border. 1t has
been touch and 60 with them
Maybe enough now to last q
week. $3.50 and 81.
Northwest of centre.
Jerseys fer halTaud Tess.
0o,ce Qualities, and this year.
styles. We never had more
welcome news to tell you OF
these favorite garments. A
great purchase puts it in our
way to give you this surprise.
1t wouldn't have come in the
beaten way Of trade. The hap
pening is exceptional all around.
Qualities that almost never get
pushed to hurrying prices.
Styles and stuffs that are in the
full flush of popular favor. And
the Jerseys are here precisely
in the nick of time for you.
Atwood Jerseys, in black, garnet, and
Regular price, $50:
our price to-day 81.
fleece-iined Jerseys aud Blouses, all-wool
cheeks and stripes, In all cDlDrs-
Regular prices sl50 and 50;
our price to-day 10 cents
Tighthtting Cashmere-finishe Jerseys,
shocked yoke
Regular price $40;
Full Garibsidi Waists with belt. shocked
or tucked yoke, or braided vest or down
front, finest material, in black, garnet,
Regular prices $3.50 and 81:
our prices to-day $50 and 81.
Lot OF f,ne Surah Waists, latest STYLES and
colors, smocked or tucked, with belt
our price today $50.
Maybe fifty new styles of
Jerseys just here from the other
side. Latest creation of Paris
fashion leaders. You will find
the like nowhere else in Amer
iCa.
Second floor, Chestnut street side. -Four eleva.
tors,
CorseS.
We never heard of an I'm
ported Summer Corset for less
than SI.25. Look at this for
81. Of course it's a "Tella."
The sensational Corsets lust
now are "Tellas.
Second floor, Juniper street side.
John Wanamaker.
WArCHSPRING CORSET.
BUY THE FAMOUS
Watchspring Corset.
WILL NEVER BREAK.
10 0itwear ANY Custom.
Made Corset.
Mayer, Strouse Co.,
MANUFACTURERS,
AZ BROADWAY, Ny.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-14

There was an old man of Tobago, lived on
rice, Cruel and sago," he had headache 80 bud.
eat roast beef and plum pudding all right
They say the winter advertisements Of houses
will run somewhat In this style, A largo and
elegantly furnished house for rent, In ensy dis
tnncc ofa druggist who sells Dr. Bnil's Cough
Syrup.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-14

Ex-CoSsuL SMITH, for eight years the
representative of this county at Carthagena,
In the republic Of Colombia, tells wonder
full stories of the cagerness Of the govern
ment of that land to attract American
capital and encourage immigration. lie
says: Concessions will he given 10 bona
fide capitalists for twenty-five years, and
the government will guarantee 7 per cent.
on the capital invested for twenty-five
years. Emigration is particularly desired,
and the government will pay the passage
Of an immigrant, give him 81 a month, $50
acres of land, u COW, two pigs, n plough,
and help him build his house and trans
port him free from the seaport to
the point where he desires to settle.
He declares that Colombians totally mis-
understood the Monroe doctrine They
thought that "America for Americana
really meant America for the United States,
and that suspicion and jealousy were in
dustrioisly famed by the English, German
and French merchants, to whose interest
IL was 10 control their trade. Tho foreign
trade Of Colombia amounts to So, ,OOO, 600
annually, and the United States gets very
little of 1t. They have an idea now that
the United States produces nothing but
drugs, firearms, tobacco and -four. They
send to Belgium for their potatoes and
onions, and nearly everything else that
IN used IL purchased from France or
England.
This sounds as though the OK consul
was an agent of a transportation company
seeking business and IA subsidy. The official
report of Consul w. B. McNlaster tells a
slightly different story. He says that the
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-14

PROFESSOR" Sr. CLAIR, who made
business Of walking down from balloon in
fair weather, with an umbrella raised, pro-
ceeded In this manner nj the Houston
tTexasl fair on Sunday. He lost his grip
on the parachute, when some three hun
dred feet from the ground, and was killed
in the presence of great crowd.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-14

WAY out In Minnesota. where they al
ways do things on big Western scale.
there is at present a gigantic jam. II IL
made Of large cedar logs, piled ton high,
from bank to hank of the Mississippi and
extending for several miles. II Is rumored
that navigation IL impeded.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-14
- a,,saher's.



PHiLApELrniA. Tuesday, May u. iss.
Tile Cottage BeaMki/Mi.
Did you visit the House
More Beautiful, which found H.
lustration in the furnished
rooms in the third gallery, third
floor?
If SO, you will be tempted
there again. The sumptuous
elegance has melted away, and
instead you will find The
Cottage Beautiful" an original
attempt to show what may be
done to beautify seaside or
mountain cottage-a temporary
Summer home.
The result is an agreeable
surprise. We did not compre-
hend (nor will you unless you
see it) what and how much can
be done with the simple things
adapted merely to Summer
house furnishings.
Mattings. Reed and Rattan
Furniture, Cottage Bedroom
Suites, Sporting Things, are
brought together in realistic
fashion that will please and per
haps teach you. No hint OF
selling in this pretty show.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-14
Tile Hdtyonaaek Camb.


Why are notions like the
above being constantly worked
out here? The answers are
numerous
First, they serve to show the
great resources of our stock.
Second, they give practical
hints of the uses Of things.
Third, they are in harmony
with the unique relations of the
store to the people. This is a
museum and public thorough
fare to you. free as the air |;
you come, you go, as it may
please you. We want you to
be interested in the place.
Fourth, we want you always
to be asking What's new at
Wanamakers ?"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-14
Trunks, ValiSeS and SatChelS,
Light Weight Underwear,

The warm weather OF the past few days hes
given us an opportunity to speak Of
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-14

of which we have n fine line this season.
Mems Gauze and Balbriggan Shirts long and
short sleeves at 25c.
Mems Fancy Baleriggan Drawers at 25c
One case Natural and Angola Colored Bal
briggan Shirts and Drawers, all sizes, extra
value Mt 3sc. each. T5c. ~ suit.
Mems Gauze and Balbriggan Shirts and
Drawers at JOc each, 81 q suit.
=, Mems Superfne Balbriggan and Lisle Thread
Jean and Feather Weight Drawers from 25c To
Inc. $500 -N' "
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-14
The Madame "Rhea."

The only short vamp shoe where the seams do
not strike the ball OF the foot. They are made
OF the finest Dongola Leather, Hand Turned
Soes and are glove fitting. Do not look else
where, as we hold the sole agency for these
shoes In Lancaster and Harrisburg.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-28
Secret Hiding Places.

One of the most interesting features
of our country houses is the secret
hiding place. This generally has been
contrived with much architectural
skill, and in days gone by baff1ed dis
covery from the most observant and
experienced eye. In certain cases it
would appear that, for some reason or
other, the hiding place has been
specially kept a secret among men,
bers of the family. Thus in the North
of England may be mentioned Neither
hall, near Maryport, Cumberland, the
seat of the old family of Senhouse. In
this time-honored mansion there is
said to be real secret chamber. its
exact position being only known
to two other persons-the heir-in-
law and the family solicitor.
According to the popular tradition,
the secret of the hidden room has
never been revealed to more than two
living persons at a time. This mystic
rious room has no window. and despite
every effort to uncover it, has, it is
said, defied the ingenuity of every WIS.,
itor staying in the house. With this
secret chamber may be compared the
one at Glamas. the latter possessing "a
window, but which has not led to the
Identification of the mystic loom.
Liverpool Courier
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-28
A New Industry in Russia.

During the last few months new
industry has sprung up in Russia in
the form of nicotine extract. This
product not only finds a sale in Russia
but is already exported in consider
able quantities, especially to South
America. The lees obtained, when
preparing the tobacco leaf, have been
used for a long time for destroying
parasites on plants, and they have also
been found efficacious when applied as
an antidOte to the various skin
diseases to which sheep are liable. It
has now, however, been discovered
that the product affords a remedy
for another destructive agent-name-
iy: the dry rot among Sheppard last
autumn the Russian firm of Nikolai,
Bog5anow & Co., started works in
Moscow for the production of nicotine
extract on large scale. Four to five
pools of common Machorka tobacco
yield only about one pood of the ex-
tract, but in such concentrated form
that a teaspoonful is sufficient for
nearly two pints of water, and the
works produce about fifty pools of the
extract per diem. The Russian Gov
ernment has decided to exempt this
product from excise duty. Amy other
uses to which this nicotine may be ap-
piled, although not difficult to imagine,
have not yet transpired.-St Peters,
burg Letter.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-28
IMPROVE YOUR LAWNS.
How to Make the Grounds Around Country
Homes Attractive.

How to Make the Grounds Around Country
Homes Attractive.
Nowhere does individual taste more
clearly betray itself than about the
homes of the more or less well-to-do
people scattered all over the country.
Village improvement societies have
done something toward awakening
public sentiment in this direction, but
individuals can do more by making
their own grounds attractive and keep
ing them in order. Herein lies the
secret of success. No amount of elab-
crate designs can compensate for I'M
shorn grass, untrimmed trees Or neg
lected fower-beds. If only one of the
practicable, namely, grass. trees and
flowers, by all means give us grass.
distant hills and plains may be made
beautiful by trees alone, but all near
grounds require this velvety covering
to render them attractive to the eye
and interesting to the mind" Indeed
it has been truly said that mo splendor
of flowers or of foliage would COM
pensate for the absence of grass" in
which exists the purest green of vegeta-
ton. We find, however, poor and
Indifferent article on many country
lawns. This is usually the result of
too much shade and neglect to keep
up the soil. The best way to remedy
the trouble, if moss and weeds pre-
dominate, is to pillow up and enrich the
soil. Grade, if necessary, and SOW with
lawn-grass seed, and take proper care
thereafter. If grass is only thin. more
food is evidently wanting. An occa-
sional top-dressing of some approved
fertilizer through the summer is adj
visable, but it should be put on just
before rain. A coat of well-rotted
manure is beneficial in the fall. When
this is raked off in the spring, grass
seed should be sown wherever bare or
thin places are visible. This treat
ment, with the frequent use of the
lawn-mower, leaves little to be desired
in this direction.-American Agricult-
uriSt
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-28
PlTn AND POINT.

L
| 1T takes two to tell ! lie-one Ia
speak and one to listen.
A skeptic Is ! man with faith IN
nothing who believes in himself bal
timore American.
The poorest education that teaches
self-control is better than the best that
| neglects it.
The voice of conscience Is so deli
cate that it is easy to stihe it. But #
is also so clear that it is impossible to
mistake it.
1t is often more necessary to con-
ceal contempt than resentment; the
former being never forgiven, but the
latter sometimes forgot Lord Chess
terrified.
The truly generous man is he who
denies himself some luxury, or. better
still. some necessary, in order that he
may have wherewith to give to those
who are in need.
Nothing is so narrowing. contract
ing, hardening, as always to be NOV
ing in the same groove, with no
thought beyond what we Immediately
see and hear close round us.
If a man could make single rose
we should give him an Empire; yet
roses and flowers no less beautiful are
scattered in profusion over the world.
and no one regards them.-Luther.
A mans individuality is what
brings him success in this world, and
there have never yet been laid down
any set rules or regulations by which
men are made to gain distinction
among their fellow-men -Brunswic
GA Times.
Unless we can cast off the pref
udices of the man and become as
children, docile and unperverted, we
need never hope to enter the temple
of philosophy.
The blows of workman must be
judged not merely by their Immediate
effect, but by their relation to his
down a wall and clears away the rub
bish in order that he may build some
thing better in it's stead is engaged in
constructing work.-Boston Chris
tian Register.
Day by day we are making the in
1uences which will presently be our
rulers; we are making our destiny.
We are choosing our habits. our asso-
ciates, our traits, our homes. In time
these acquire a power over us which
enslave our will, and from which we
neither will nor can break loose.
-Self-confidence and self-respect
grow from habits of decision; not those
feelings which set up self as the only
oracle, and despise all opinions OF
others, but such as lead a man to con-
slider well the dignity of his nature
that noble self-government which also
fails not in duty toward another
Thomas Arid.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-28
ANOTHER FOOD FISH.

4 Valuable Discovery Made in the Fish
ing Grounds or the Pacific Coast.
The recent discoveries of new fishing
grounds off the coast by the scientists
of the Fish Commission ship Albatross
came up in conversation with San
Diegan, who has given the subject of
ichthyology much study. There is
yet another discovery" said this stu
dent, (which have seen no mention
Of It is a food fish of much import
ance that was very recently discovered
in the waters of San Diego. It is
known to scientists as Ophtodon clon-
gatus. Hitherto it has not been found
to exist further south than Santa Bar
bara, but has been discovered in album
dance from there north to Alaska, and
in northern waters reaches a weight
Of from thirty to forty pounds.
The other morning one was brought
in from outside the harbor by fisher
men, and the fish weighed five or six
pounds. The men said it was as
plenty as any of the fish caught. It is
variously known along the coast as
the Cultus cod, blue cod, Buffalo cod
and ling. 1t is long, rather slender
fish, not unlike the barracuda in shape,
but shorter and of a blush green
color, spotted on the back with brown.
The blue or green color is considered
Objectionable by some. but this need
not deter any from taking it, as the
flesh becomes white in cooking, and in
San Francisco it is considered to be a.
finer-flavored fish even than the es-
teemed rock fish or rock cod.
There is another fish of similar
bluish-green color, more or less mot
tied with green and brown, which is
not nearly as fine for food. and should
not be mistaken for the first, although,
like the other, its flesh becomes white
on cooking. This is broad-headed
soul pin, much shorter and stouter than
the first, but the Cinnamon sell it as U
cod, name that would be misleading"
San Diego (Cal. Sun.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-28
LIES LIMITATIONS.
Conditions Under Which They May Be
Made Help to Success.

Conditions Under Which They May Be
Made a Help to Success.
Limitations are often deemed him
drance, when they might be a help. to
enjoyment and to power. Every mans
life has its own peculiar and inevitable
limitations. If he works cheerfully
within them, he can be happy and sue
cessful. If he does not accept them,
but chafes himself against them as the
pining canary frets herself against the
iron bars of her cage, he will be mis-
erably unhappy, and will accomplish
nothing. We may be hopelessly cut
off from the very things we long for
most. We may see the very avenue on
which we had proposed to achieve
splendid success being closed before
our eyes. We may not possess the
iron constitution and physical strength,
or the well-stoclxed and magnificent
library. or the grand church, or the
magnetic voice. or the abundant 1915
ure, or the affluent Imagination, or the
influential connections, or the prestige
~ blood or wealth, which we ara
deeming so essential to our welfare;
.nd vet. without them, and within our
own peculiar limits, there are wonder
fnl opportunities for doing great things
with what We have, and there Is won
derful happiness, after we have made
I'm our minds not to cast covetous eyes
on what it is not ours to possess. in
using those powers which the Lord has
placed at our disposal. Both success
and happiness will crown our life II
there be cheerful acceptance OF lifc's
limits, and faithful service within
those limits. IS. Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-28
SENSATION OF COLOR.
Notes on the Comparative Cost of Differ
ent Impressions.


Prof. S. P. Langley, it is said, has
recently succeeded in measuring the
amount of energy which is used in
impressing upon the retina the sensa-
ton of certain kinds of light. His re-
suits give u good idea of the minute
measurements which physicists can
make. The standard or unit of meas
urement in these minute matters is the
amount of work done in raising a
gramme, which is about fifteen and
One-half grains, to Il height of one
centimeter, or less than two-ffths of
an inch. Insignificant as this seems
to be, Prof. Langley estimates that the
same expenditure of energy would suf-
flee to give us the sensation of crimson
1000 times and the sensation of green
light 100, 900, 900 times. 1t is curious
to note that the sensation of red is
100000 times as difficult to produce as
that of its complimentary color, green.
Here is at once a most beautiful eX-
PLANTATION of the reason why green
gives the eye repose and red disturbs
it. Red strikes the sensitive nerve
with all this additional force. ANA
teur photographers well know how
fatiguing it is to work many hours in
q deep red light, and they may see
from these measurements that it is
really the most wearying to the optic
nerve. Moreover, when we reflect
that the commonest form of color
blindness is an inability to see red, we
are impeled to ask whether this may
not also have some connection with
the comparatively large amount of
ton on an ordinary eye. The sensa-
ton of red is the most difficult for ma
ture to produce, and many eyes are not
sufficiently sensitive for it ever to be
produced at all.-Boston Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-03-28
Love in a Cottage.

General Horatio King, formerly
Postmaster-General, has been writing
his views on the question of the size a
mans income should be before he gets
married. ut depends" he says, ION
where he lives-in city or country
what his habits of economy, and above
all, whether Or not he is sure of care
full. economical wife, Ii he is all right
in these respects and has a small capt.
tai, as he should have, to begin with,
he may be entirely safe on an income
of from four to six hundred dollars a
year and save something out of the
larger sum. provided no expensive ILL
ness intervenes to prevent. They
should live frugally, denying them
selves the theater and all other costly
entertainments, as we'll as all luxu-
ries until fairly out of the woods. -
Lewiston one. journal.