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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-10-03

THERE seems to be nothing left now
for the speaker TO enforce his edlcts but
chains and padlocks. The democratic
minority have been deprived of all Fights
and privileges by tins despot from Maine
All the traditional methods OF doing busi-
ness in the lower house have been ignored
by him. If he desires the attendance of
democratic members to be counted, with
out any regard to Themselves, he will have
TO chain them TO their seats and put pad
locks on the doors.
PARTY prejudice dwarfs appreciation
and dulls perception; but still 1t would
seem impossible that there should be a re-
publican in American whose recollection
goes back to the days Of Lincoln, Seward,
Chase, Sumner and others of their class,
who can fail 10 feel the force of Water
sons remarks at Boston, when he said:
wish that / could sec in the republicausm Of
today some reflection Of the spirit which animated
Garrison and inspired Whittier and brought
forth in the authors Of the anti slavery movement
a modern and "A native race of PuladIns for a thou
sand years Of song aud story wish that the
men who have succeeded Lincoln and Seward
Chase and Sumner, Fc-sehdcn, Trumbull and
Greeley IN command possessed little Of their
moderation and patriotism. When I seek for
them / encounter In their plnce1 another and
different set Of LEADERS am chilled by the i'm
placable hostility Of a sherman aud a IIoar: am
amazed by The yiudiotE. and sensational out
cries Of nm Ingalls, and Chandler; stand agha7t
at tho shameless intrepidity of Quay, and find
all progress toward the light and warmth of truth
completely blocked by tho adventurous and un
feeling obesity of Reed
- HE FACTS A. 10 STEEL RAILS
Madison Democrat.
Here is one of the State journal s Wild
assertions in regard TO steel rails:
The facts TO steel rails nre simply and -oIcly
that they have been -e ling in this country, since
1919, at from s. TO 81 ton higher price than in
the Ei gllsh market.
To show the utter lack Of truth in this
abatement, note the following which is
quoted from Iaussig's Tariff History of
the United States It gives the average
price in England from 1871 TO 1887 inclu-
sive, and the average price in tho United
States and the average difference IN pric":
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-10-03
Extra Liability to MaIaTiai Infection.

Persons whose blood is thin, digestion weak
and liver sluggish extra-lisbie TO the attacks
Of uiaIsrial disease. The most triiing exposure
may under such conditions, infect system
which, If healthy, would resist the miasmatic
taint- The only way 10 secure immunity from
lnxaTia n localities where 1t is prevalent, is 70
tone and regulate the system by improving weak
ensd digestion, enriebing the blood. and giving a
wholesome impetus 20 hillary secretion These
results are accomplished by nothing 70 enecuseiy
a. Eosietfer's stomach Biiters, which ion -xper.
-eS bas proved TO be TIE most reliable safeguard
against fever and agHe and kindred disorders, as
vel a. she best remedy for them The Bttiers
ais moreover an excellent inyigorsnt of the or
gans of urination and an active de urent, einmi-
mating from the blood those acid impurities which
originate rheumatic ailments.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-10-03
Cora STUART WHEELER breaks out

Cora STUART WHEELER breaks out
thus in the Boston Traveller:
Sweetheart / need you;
Come, clinging lips, tender yet so bold.
This somehow sounds strongly suggestive
of another Wheeler we wot Of in times
long since past.
In the house there are Kennedy republi
cans, and Quay republicans, and personal
republicans, and political republicans, and
partisan republicans, and patriotic re
publicans, and senate republicans, and
house republicans, and just plain repub-
lican republicans. No wonder there Is
republ can maiorIty-there has to be.
JOHN z. RUSSELL has been talking to
New York farmers this week at Cooper
town and other places. Commerce and
agriculture, = he declared in one of his
speeches, "go hand in hand; when com
merce fourishes land increases in value;
and our protectionist friends, having killed
commerce with taxes and restrictions, pro-
pose to restore it by taxing farmers to sub
sidize ships. "
The rspacious Chicago gas trust has
brought out unanimous vote If the city
council in favor Of municipal ownership
ana operation Of all the gas and electric
light plants of the town; and the corpora
tion council has been requested to frame
some ordinances that will meet these views
Of the council in constitutional manner.
The socialist who SAID Thank God for
these trusts ' comprehended the sItua-
ton.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06

Newton, Il vigorous mountain town,
west Of Charlotte, n. c., las Il curiosity
that beats by Il large majority the rain
tree which gained such notoriety in
Charlotte III 1856 1t is a smoking tree,
and battles all efforts at explanation. 1t
is white mulberry tree, and stands on
the sidewalk in front Of the residence Of
Mr. Levi Yoder.
1t WAS brought from Illinois year or
two ago. and is now about twelve feet
high, with Il bushy top and many lateral
branches. Sunday one of the family no
ticed & puff Of smoke proceed from one
Of the limbs. and by watching it closely,
puffs identical in appear ance to cigarette
smoke were seen starting, every now and
then from all over the tree; sometimes
from the leaves, sometimes from the
bloom, sometimes from the bark of the
limbs or trunk of the tree. The pulls
are at irregular intervals; sometimes two
or three at once from various parts of
the tree, and sometimes they are several
seconds or half minute apart. They
Just seem to come at haphaZard, from
any part of the tree, and, us they ascend
in the air, look exactly like the smoke
from cigarette.
Since the curiosity first became gener-
ally known, large crowds, both Of town
and country people, can be seen there at
any time in the day. All doubling
Thomases are soon convinced on the
first visit that the tree 'do smoke"
Among the white people it is only looked
upon as a curiosity, and many Of course
make explanations Of the phenomenon,
which, perhaps, are plausible enough to
their authors, but which carry very lit
tie in conviction to the minds of others.
But the negroes cont like the thing at
all One negro woman, after intently
watching the puffs Il few minutes, start
ed off in run, saying: Il wouldn't lib
dar fur nothin'; people better go to dom
better bout dis town" a negro man
said; I'm gwine stay way from dat
thing can smell de birthstone clear
down to de libery stable. "-Richmond
Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06
A Generally Useful walking Stick.

A very ingenious combination walk
ing cane was put on the streets last week
and met with ready sale. In appear
ance the stick looks like an ordinary eb-
ony one, with large silver plated mount
ing. This head screws off, and in it are
slowed away the seat of Il camp stool
and set of dice. 1t can be used as a
drinking cup or dice box. The ferrule
also screws off and has concealed in it a
fan. The stick itself is composed of
three pieces of bamboo that make the
camp stool. The weight of the cane
complete is only thirteen ounces, and
the stool is guaranteed to bear with ease
person weighing 200 pounds. This
new spring novelty would be a handy
companion for camping out, excursions,
baseball, races, fishing and all outdoor
tournaments or ganes.-New York Trib-
une.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06
The LatcSt TcrrOr.

The always miscellaneous and ever in
geniou3 small boy in Washington has re-
Gently devised new scheme of amusing
himself ut the expense of his neighbor.
This, his latest invention, seems to fur
nish him with an endless amount of fun.
1t is very simple and easily made, and
herein lies one of its chief beauties The
accessories needed are only an ordinary
second hand tomato can, Il piece of stout
string, !. piece of wire and the unasked
for use of the Seventh street cable. One
end of the string he fastens to the toma-
to can; the other, by means of the stiff
wire, hooked at one end, he gives few
quick turns around the moving cable.
The string catches readily enough, and
in a moment the can is sailing graz fully
down the street, apparently flying in all
directions at cnce, but moving steadily
on at the rate of six or seven miles an
hour; cause of locomotion generally I'M
known to the casual observer. If there
is anything that answers the purpose
better of astounding pedestrians and
frightening horses it has yet to make its
appearance, and until it does the small
boy will continue to enjoy to the full his
latest internal invention Washington
Star
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06
The First Step.

Perhaps you are run down, can't eat,
can't sleep, can't think, can't do any
thing to your satisfaction, and you
wonder what ails you. You should
heed the warning, you are taking the
first step into nervous prostration.
You need a nerve tonic and in electric
bitters you will find the exact remedy
for restoring your nervous system to its
normal, healthy condition. Surprising
results follow the use of this great
nerve tonic and Alternative. Your appe,
tite returns, good digestion is restored
and the liver and kidneys resume
healthy action. Try a bottle, price SOC
at l.. II. Kinks drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06
Senator Vests Views,

Senator Vest sums up the farmers
tronbles thus: Overproduction, scarcity
of the circulating medium, combinations
between spectators in grain options
and tariff taxation. While the protec-
tionists says that prime solution is
the Investigation Of industries by fos-
tering manufactures, he says: Zone
cause beyond question of The present
conditions is the fact that we have alb
normally and unnaturally stimulated
manufacturers at the expense of agri,
culture and commerce."
But he has very general sympathy in
the following: Another cause of the
unfortunate aspect of the agricultural
question is the insufficient quantity OF
money now in circulation. For many
years the money power mas controlled
the finances with the dominant idea
always active of making the circulating
medium smaller in erdar to increase its
incomes. Silver, which has been de-
graded by the sane influences, should
be fully remonetized and placed upon
the same basis with gold as money
metal. If this is done it will 90 far
towards relieving the farmer from his
present difficulties.
With other misfortunes, agriculture
has been the victim OF that most un-
worthy mass Of speculators--the gam
blers in grain options-whose business
directly preys upon the farmer. An
example of their disastrous work was
seen in 1891, when the entire wheat
crep of the United States amounted to
100000 bushels, and the limited
supply induced many persons to enter
the market with the expectation that
the price OF wheat would certainly go
up. In order to secure the margins a
combination was made at Chicago,
which decreased the price from ninety
six cents to sixty.6ve cents per bushel
in few days, and the result was loss
Of many millions, not only to specu-
lators, for whom there can be little
commiseration. but to the farmers who
raised the wheat.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06
A Tremendous Sensation.

The burning of a Mississippi River
steam boat causes considerable excite
ment in New O,leans, just think Of the
astonishment which DR.. Lees live
regulator has caused by curing dyspep-
STA, billousness, indigestion and constipa
ton, don't fail to try it. Trial bottles
free.
When people suffer pain they want to
be cured and quickly too, nothing
equals red flag oil for all pain. Price
25c. at G. G. Sill's drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06
The Alliance and knights in New
JERSEY.

The Farmers Alliance end Kni ghts
of Labor are pulling together in New
Jersey, their main object just now being
to further ballot reform. They have
what they call "the industrial senate,
representing 10000 wage workers OF
state of New jersey" and are trying to
make it very unpleasant for politicians
who do not help them in that matter.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06
Every Home Should Have It.

1t is not always convenient to call
a physician for every little ailment
Having Red Flag Oil in the house you
have Physician always at hand, 1t
kills Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Burns,
aud all Aches and Pains. Price 25c.
There are few things in this life of
which we may be certain. but this is
one of them, Puritan Cough and Con
sumption Cure has no equal for Coughs,
Colds and Consumption. Price 25c.
Al G. q. Sllls drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06

Tie above is fair estimate of the
cost of raising an acre OF corn in Cass
county, aud the yield given is good
one. In order to come out without
any loss the expense must be reduced
$3.50 per acre, and it cannot be done.
But on that same corn on which the
farmer loses in unrecom pcnsed labor
nearly five cents per bu>hel, the rail
road makes net gain Of II cents per
bushel.
Now you know who owns the farm.
The railroad owns it, and owns it b,
virtue of the laws the people have made
and the laws the people have neglected
to make. Without any investment,
without any taxes, repairs, insurance,
Without any bother Of any sort from
nominal ownership, the roads take a
net income Of $2.75 10 $3.50 per acre
on every fifty bushels Of corn shipped
oyer their lines. This is what Stanford
called 'thc essence Of ownership" and
he knew what he was talking about
Farmers A lliance.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06
WHO OWNS THE FARM?
The Story of an Acre of Corn Which
Settles "the Essence of
Ownership;

~ w ASAoAAP
Leland Stanford says the essence Of
ownership is control. He applied this
statement to railroads, and intended to
say that whoever controlled and admin.
istered the revenues of the roads was
practically their owner. We suppose
that 10 as applicable to farms as it is to
railroads. Whoever controls and ad-
ministers their revenues possesses the
essence of ownership. If one can con-
troll revenues without the bother of
nominal ownership-without the trou-
BILE of repairs, taxes, insurance, and
without the expense and labor of cul-
tivation, certainly the bother of nom
inal ownership-without the trouble of
repairs, taxes, insurance, and without
the expense aud labor of cultivation,
certainly he has found the essence of
ownership-in fact, the oil of it, the
soul of it. Has any natural or artificial
person found this? In trying to solve
this question we publish the following
account of sales of one acre of cprn:
SALES.
One car corn. GA bush. IS lbs, at % lac.
Per 0"Sn cHAnaxs sit' 30
Freight, $3.50; inspection, 40c.; com
mission, $3.37 Observation-Disclosures. 81 80
Total net product. .....................$ ST SO
1t will be seen that the freight on
above car Of corn amounts to little
over 81 cents per bushel. This is the
gross share the railroad company gets.
Its net share is about half that amount,
or 4 / cents per bushel. Now, let us
see how much the farmer gets out of it.
This corn was raised in Cass county,
and it is fair to suppose that the land
it was raised on was worth $50 per
acre 1t was raised in good corn
year, and it is fair to suppose the yield
was about fifty bushels per acre. The
account then would stand thus:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06

Prohibition is to be tried in east
rennessc. a great land company.
recently org .nized, with Clinton b.
Fisk at its head, has purchased $780,
300 acres of agricultural, mineral and
imber lands in esSt Tennessee and pro
poses to establish manufacturing
valley city and uplands health resort.
placing in every title deed and lease an
absolute prohibition clause. This fca-
ture they declare to be based, not upon
moral or political sentiment but upon
the wisest business policy,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06

Mrs. Matilda b. Carse, the leader Of
the enterprise to build Nationa. TEN
perance temple in Chicago, says that
the corner stone of this building will
probably be laid on the 4th of July,
and hopes that it may be SO, in gracious
prophecy of the nations speedy dec
laration of independence from the
tyrant alcohol.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06

The fact that the Kausls w. G. T
u. has organized more than half as
many new unions since its state convcn
ton as were organized during the whole
IF last year, is hut one Of many illus
rations Of the ways in which the W.
G. L, U. is "rapidly disin;egrating'
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06
NOTICE
ORPHANS COURT.

The Stated Meetings of the Orphans
Court Of Cecil county will be held on thu
second Tuesday ofevcry month. Executors
and Guardians, wanting
their accounts stated, will please bring in
their vouchers few days before Court.
Test r. f. LAMAR, Register
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06
~. g. q u. Go1nnln

The United States supreme court
decision, pronouncing unconstitutional
state laws providing for the seizure Of
liquor brought into the state in its
original packages is the talk of:he day
1t is the general opinion Of the prohi-
bition leaders that there is no remedy
against this decision but to make pro-
hibition a national question and to get
it incorporated in the federal con>titu-
ton as an amendment. A leading
Chicago daily tersely puts the situation
in nutshell as follows:
"This decision is onl y another proof
that the prohibition movement, instead
of being out of place in national pol
itics, can never be effective without
federal cooperation. Ever since the
war the general government has been
the real saloon keeper. 1t has been
the great dispenser of liquor licenses,
and has continued to issue them even
in states that have enacted prohibition
laws. The federal courts 10 these states
have held that these licenses cannot be
offered in state courts in proof that the
licensees are selling liquor. The gov
ernment has even open beer,saloons Of
its own at several of the soldiers
homes"
In this connection the observation
seems not altogether irrelevant that
while in Italy the tobacco business is
run by the government, in this country
the government is run by the whisky
business.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06

Eli Perkins has been lecturing in
Kentucky. AT Petersburg three dis
,illers were on the lecture committee.
Upon beng asked by the lecturer if he
might say few words that evening f5r
temperance, they answered, do SO by
al MEANS and declared that although
iistllers, they were emphatically tor
temperance IN kentucky, saying I've
want you to understand that we don't
make this whiskey for our Kentucky
boys; We make it to poison the Yankees
and the Irish :"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06

A certain saloon in Denver Colorado.
IS said to be paved With silver dollars,
me displays sign made out of twenty
dollar gold pieces. Its proprietor be-
ieves in high license.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06

The national W. G. T. o., through
is president, has rpccived a bequcst Of
$1,000 from Mrs. Dinah AIenden hall,
IF Pean,ylvania, whose death occurred
n November.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06

Mrs. j. c. Batehan, who is working
in California in the interest of Sabbath
observance carries with her a phone
graph which delivers short speeches
tlom leading orators.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06

1--WE must have the liquor tax to
pave our Streets says politician.
"If mothers had the CONTROL
They could pave today
The broad highway
With something not so white as The souls
OF the innocent boys at play.
Why cant men pave the business marts
With something harder than women s hearts?
Is there gold that will serve their turn,
Save the shining gold of the heads that rest
Soft on loving mothers breast?
Must these go down to the drunkard S grave
In order that we the streets may p&ve?"
-SALLI. F. CHAPLIN in Union Signal
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06

The Woman's Lecture Bureau Of the
W. G. 7. U. now has forty seven speak
urs on its list This is the only Lee
cure Bureau controlled entirely by
women. While it is called Womau'>
Bureau, it makes engagements fol
pcakers of both sexes. 1t iuclul,,
Aot only those whose work bears il III,
temperance reform bnt also supplies
Sund-y schools, Chautauqua assemblies,
summer camps, G. "A. r. posts an.
nther organizations, with mu>ic.l CT
literary as well as temperance entertain
men;s. MIS-. II. a. Emmops, OF
Chicago, is sceretory Of ,he bureau aud
IS in constant Communication with
5 peakels and local unions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06
STATIONS.


Trains leave oxford FOR Philadelphia at 4s m.
6 30 a. m. and Uj p. m. Market Train. TUESDAYS
and Fridays only at II 90 a. NJ Sunday Trains at
90 y. N. and 40 p. N.
LEAVE GOING SOuTu
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06
Meetings Of County Commissioners

The regular meetings of the COUNT
Commissioners will be held on the
second Tuesday of every month. Col
lectors and others having accounts to
be stated or settled will apply to the
Clerk during the recess of the Board.
Persons having claims against the
county will please file the same in the
Commissioners office, with a legal
voucher, as no account will be allowed
not properly chargeable to the same.
By order. ]. ID. DAVIS, Clerk.
Commissioners Cecil County.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06

Oae woman's toot,tep may cross the
saloon threshold noiselessly, but when
Two hundred thousand cross it, there is
i trembling behind the bar Mas o.
SCOTT.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06

w. f. LOOMS, of Missouri, writes ::
II was out in Kansas the first of the
present month. l saw houses vacated
and large orchards destroyed BY horses
and rabbits where | stayed all night,
wanted to know what was the trouble.
They can't pay their interest; corn Is
cents per bushel. They prefer to let
their stock destroy the improvements
than let the money changers have
them.''-Chicago Sentinel.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06
PHILADELPHIA, WHINING
4 TON 4 BALTIMORE R.R.


CENTRAL DIVISION
On and after Sunday, May 3Oth, 1886, train
will run as follows:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06

If YOUR BACK ACHES
Or you are all worn out, rally uood for nothing
ii is general Gcui.ity. Try
BROD MS IROY 1iIT2ERS
1t will cure you. and give q good appetite. Sold
by all dealers in medicine.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-06-06
STATIONS.
Philadelphia, Broad st
Chadd S Ford Junction,

CHAs. E.PUdH,
SeR'lAahageT,