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BROTHERHOOD IN BUSINESS.
Enterprises which Encourage Thrift and
Industry.

Industry.
Until radical change is made in the
constitution of men no greater exten.
sion of the brotherhood principle seems
possible, for barter and trade, however
warped from their purpose on occasion,
are founded on just enterchange Of
commodities, and no form of brother
hood can give us-more than justice save
In the way of aims. But association
and cooperation, founded upon a sense
of the brotherhood of man, are never.
theless capable of doing good to human.
lty, though they may not be able to
overturn business principles based upon
barter They encourage thrift and in
dustry, two habits that go very far to
correct the evils of poverty; they help
to impart practical knowledge of busi-
ness affairs to the co-operators-knowl-
edge which is of use to them
in all their dealings. A careful
examination of the results of cooper
ative enterprises shows that their i'm
mediate material returns are uncertain
and of no great magnitude or impor-
tance, but that their indirect benefits
are sometimes very great, though in
cldental and unlocked for. 1t is this
circumstance that leads to the never
ending contentious between calcu-
lating mathematicians and the adyo-
Gates OF cooperative enterprises, who,
without reasoning from cause to effect,
are nevertheless sure that they bring
about good results. The advocates OF
building societies, which may be taken
rs one form of cooperation. will claim
less than the legal rate of interest on
moneys borrowed, and that the society
gains much more than legal rate of in
terest on the same sums. Even when
allowance is made for the compoundinR
OF interest the calculating mathema-
tician finds that this is not true.
Ii he is also something of
hnancier he can .prove-on paper
that the building society member
could better afford to save and invest
his money and borrow money when he
needed 1T in the open market than deal
with his cooperative bank But the
mathematician who comes to this con-
clusion is in as much error as the delud-
ed advocate OF cooperation, who thinks
that little sentiment will change the
market rates for money. His theory Is
not practicable theory. 1t does not
take into account the weaknesses of
men and the temptations to which they
are subjected. The building society re-
moves some of these temptations, en-
;ourages the member to save, stimulates
him to make safe investments of q
speculative nature in real property,
teaches him business principles, and,
by promoting his interests in these in.
direct ways, apparently fulfllls the
promise of its advocates. But these and
other cooperative enterprises must fol-
low business principles if they are to
succeed; the brotherhood idea NAV helm
to form them or hold them together; it
must not govern them in their dealings.
Baltimore Sun.
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n Drsgusuea Prorectlon,st.

MIR. j. A. Sawyer, of the Irwin Phillips
Company of Keokuk, Iowa, who de-
scr1bes himself as "a Republican and q
believer in protection to American in
dustries, has expressed very positive
opinion of the Mckinley Tariff bill. He
writes letter on the subject to E. N.
latter, of New York, who is a large
hosiery importer and who is prominent
member of the famous Union League
Club. A few sentences from his letter
Will show how this prominent Republic
an feels over the work that Mr.. McKin-
ley has done. Mr.. Sawyer SAYS:
"Our domestic industries have hesr "a.
tered and protected for many years bv I.gJs-
latiVe action. They have passed the infsn.
tie period, and IL they can not now stand
aione' with protective duties AVERAGING -
per cent, let them fall to the ground Onr
representative in Congress, John III Gaar
sent me the new schedule. 1 consider It AZ
an outrage upon tie common practical sanso
OF the American peoplel wantreduction
In import duties-not the contrary. II the
proposed schedule becomes a law. vonr
business and ours would suffer from the onr.
goods
II am tired of class legislation: the neonla
generally are tired of II. We want Iag<
framed In the interests of the whole peonIa
we want rather to increase than diminish
our trade with other Countries
Mr.. Sawyer evidently agrees with Con-
gresham Butterworth that there can he
too much of good thing-when proteo-
tlon is the good thing in question
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HIS FIRST SERMON.
Rev. DR.. Thomas Admits 1t was M.
Success.

heV' DIR. Thomas Admits 1t Was Not
Success.
My Introduction to the ministry was
not formal began speaking in sscIass-
meetings" and when the '1eader" came
near was greatly frightened and tried To
relate what little ''experience" / had.
not knowing what would say nor what
had said when done. BY degrees
more composure was gained, and L was
urged to ''exhort" at little gatherings
for worship; and then as student at
the age of eighteen was pressed to
preach at school-house one evening as
number of US were returning from =.
camp-meeting. There were severaI
ministers in the company, all were on
horseback. l rode aloae all dav To nre-
pare Tor the service, and arranged NV.
suDJect under four heads or divisions.
as was then the custom in sermonizinp.
was in very happy state of mind re-
lg1ously; the little log house was light
eo with candles and filed with plain
country people. The preachers sat on a
oench back OF me, and went through
the opening exercises in a devotional
spirit and without embarrassment and
In the same state of mind announced the.
text, and had spoken perhaps not moro
than three minutes when NV tbouobta
left me and the dimly-lighted room be-
gan 20 grow darker. / thought of nv
second division" and tried that but
all seemed vacant; not able to remer,-
Der the third division. l caught the
fourth" but it brought no relief. and
oy great effort 1 recovered myself suf-
nclently to say in broken words that T.
had consented to try to speak but could
nos' ana SAT down in the confusion deep
~ mortified over the failure.
One of the preachers, fiorid soeaker
arose and gave brilliant exhorta tion
that served to fill out the hour verv
well, but it brought me no relief for
the contrast made my own littleness an
pear still less. The next day | read /,
alone and thought it ali over:
l ieit l had mistaken my calling
and had been deserted and left
to stand alone and fall; but the conyic-
tion of duty returned, and urged by NV
teacher consented to try again; and
This time, too, it was in school-house.
out In the afternoon. Only a few were
present, and had been in such fear for
hours that it could not grow worse, and
SO managed to get through, speaking
some thirty minutes.
Returning homo once, perhaps q year
after, spoke Of having preached" at
certain place. Ny father thought
tul man, inclined to the Quaker faith
and worship, looked up from the paper
he was reading and said: s.Son. saw
you tired to preach" and that is what I
have been doing ever since. Long ex-
perience has given more confidence.
but IL has not lightened the deep sense
of burden and responsibility, and of de-
pendence upon higher power for help.
w. ID, Thomas, in Chicago Tribune.
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BLAINE OR M'KINLEYq
ga Cheap Attempt to Throw a Tub to I'll
Agricultural Whale"

ga Cheap Attempt to Throw a Tub to the
Agricultural Whale"
Western farmers are discontented and
unhappy over the low prices of all their
products. AS every body else is getting
the benefits, real or supposed, of protec-
tion, the farmers of the West have Justly
contended that they should have their
protection too; and so Mr.. Mckinley has
attempted to introduce the era of pro-
protection to farmers. But what good
will this protection do the farmers?
Mr.. Blaine has argued that the general
effect of protection is to reduce the price
of protected products. Everybody will
admit that Mr.. Blaine is a high authority
on this question; but how are his views
and those of Mr.. McKinleyst to be recon-
ciled? If Mr.. Blaine is right the farmers
may expect to see their prices go still
lower. Are they ready for that? Are
prices not already low enough? If Mr.
Blaine's views are sound, what are
farmers to think of the protection that
Mr.. Mckinley is offering them? Will it
cure the disease, or will it only serve to
bamboozle them little while longer
and get them to give protection one
more vote and thus postpone the day of
reckoning?
Meanwhile some of the more thought
ful Republican newspapers are assuring
the farmers that the protection to be
given them will do them no good at all.
One OF these papers ridicules Mr.. Nc
knley's protection to farmers and calls
it "a cheap attempt to throw a tub to
the agricultural whale"
The problem for the Western farmer
to work out now is this: What is the net
advantage to me of protection on what
sell which does me little or no good,
along with very high protection on
what buy that does me great harmp
That is question which will bear
thinking over till next Noyemher
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In "Home To For
MaFkaf - ofunar-
The Farmer.s Comne,,,,o,

There is an attempt all along the Pro-
tectionist line to hoodwink the farmer
and make him believe that his turn at
projections wheel has come at last.
This attempt is based on the assertion
that our farmers are suffering from ruin
Gus competition from agricultural prod
ucts imported into the country from
abroad
The New York Tribune gets up figures
to show that these foreign farm prod
ucts, counting all the way from live
stock to shrubs and plants, amouted last
year to S75, 927, coo.
But our farmers exported last year
about 5000, 000, 900 worth of their prod
ucts. This sum does not include manu-
features into which farm products en-
tered; and it can, therefore, be greatly
enlarged.
In this competition, then, between the
foreign farmer and his American rival
the account would stand about thus: For
every dollars worth of produce that the
foreigner puts into competition with
the American, the American puts abon.
seven dollars worth into competition
with the foreigner.
with such a showing as that tho
American farmer has no cause for alarm.
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GOLD.

GOLD.
Goldi goldi goldi
Everywhere goldl
Mems hearts are sold
And welded to gold.
And they tighten the links Of their slavtsh
chains,
And greedily gloat DER their sordid gainA
In the crowded street
Where the people meet
And hurriedly greet
They talk OF gold II they talk at all
OF the yellow gold, and It's rise and fall
'Tis the magnet strong
Which hurries along
The feverish throng
Toward the destined mart, where fraud and art
And all things evil enact their part.
'Tis the nations king
And the people bring
To this impiOus thing
All the homage due to that God alone
Who will try each heart on His judgment
throne.
IT'S the test Of worth;
And the coarsest Garth
OF plebeian birth
Crows fne and precious when gold transforms
The vulgar rich into Haunting worms.
Conscience and truth
Beauty and youth
Zen life, forSooth.
All fall prey to this god OF power
And we forfeit Heaven for Mammon's dover.
It's glanor lies
On the maiden's eyes
Who barters the prizc
or priceless heart, for its trappings vain,
And blackens her soul with perjury's stain.
Corruptible gold
The ulcerous sore
In the hearts foul coro.
Thou coverest DER;
And the leprous spots show white and fair
When they neck the breast Of tho millionaire
We hear thy tone
In the widows moan
And the orphans Rroan,
And the plant Of the poor, in the last great
day,
Shall witness the curse OF thy murderous sway.
In the lawyers plea
IT'S plain TO see
That the yellow fee
Is mightier far, than the righteous cause,
And for gold he mangles the sacred laws
In the gorgeous fame
We note with pain
Thy rampant reign,
Where tho pcrse-proud man, and the Pharisee,
And the surpliced priest, all worship thee.
Goldi goldl goldl
Everywhere goldl
We are bought and sold;
And II half were told
or the monstrous crimes which are wrought by
gold,
The brain would reel and the blood run cold
Adelaide TrowbriGge in N. Y. Ledger.
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Tax on Clothing.

The increase Of the clothing tax, pro-
posed by the Mckinley bill, is heavy
one. On wools of the first and second
class tits from the present rate of 4s per
cent to 81; on the third class from 90 to
So and for the three classes on an aver
age increase or IL per cent. The aver
age increase for the entire clothing
schedule (wool and manufactures of
WOOL is from the present rate of So per
cent 10 1871 eents.on the dollar Of for
eign price.-St. Louis Republic.
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MAMMALS BABY BOY,
How He Entertained the Passengers on
Railway

How He Entertained the Passengers on n
Railway Train.
She was one of the most aggressive
women these broad United States ever
produced, says the New York Tribune.
She bounced on board a Pennsylvania
railroad south=bound train at Newark,
and took the car by storm. When she
had planted an unpromising infant in a
vacant scat, and arranged Wilderness
of bundles with appropriate remarks,
which might have been heard by the
engineer across the tender and four
coaches, she seated herself by tho child
and began a continuous and distractinp
comment about papa and grandma and
auntie, which made all the passengers
shiver and crane their necks to see
where the conversational blizzard came
from.
Think you'll know grandma, Char
I1e?" she vivaciously inquired.
Yep"
And dear Aunt Fanny?"
Guess so. Ma, will Aunt Fanny need
shaving as much as she did last sum-
mer?n
You mustn't say that, Charlie. Won't
you have nice time playing with little
Willie Corrigan, next door?''
You bet l will! Ma, has Willie got
that dorg we used to fool with?''
Il expect he has, dear; and Willie is
such manly little fellow like to have
mammals good little boy with him."
"Ma."
'Yes, darling"
Gimme cake-one of them big fiv-
cakes, ma"
And when that car reached the Broad
Street station there wasn't a man among
its cargo of frantic humanity whose
fingers had not twitched from Newark
70 Philadelphia with the longing to
huri ma and Charlie through the near
est window. bag, bundles, fy-cakes
and all.
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Aroused to Action.

A mass meeting of the labor organiza-
ton known as the Associated Trades
was held in New York City some davs
since. Resolutions were adopted de-
nouncing the Mckinley Tariff bill and
calling or the Republicans in the differ
ent States TO use their honest endeayors
to crush the bill as odious, mercenarv
and degrading to the masses of citizens
OF all classes of the Republic.
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nonor ana pronJ? Inc loea, you see, Is
ridiculous. Not only will the European
manufacturers refuse to take part as
exhibitors in our Fair, but they will re-
frain from attending it. Any man who
would expect any thing else of them is a
fnnl -
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But the list of differential prices is not
half exhausted. The first quality of
bronzed axes sell in the home market at
s7-76 per dozen; they export at So. .25 per
dozen. These axes beveled sell in the
u }s'e market at ss.24 per dozen; to the
exporters at $7.20 a dozen. The duty is
45 per cent Not long ago the axe manu-
facturers of the United States formed
trust, under the name of the ''Ameri-
can Axe & Tool Company" The trust
was formed by the consolidation of four
teen of the largest manufacturing con-
Germs in the country. Concerning it the
Iron Age, of March 81, 1890, saws: The
general feeling among the trade is that
the axe makers have formed a very
strong association and have complete
control of the market, or so nearly so
that the outside makers will have
scarcely any appreciable effect on prices.
1t is found that scarcely any orders can
be placed with outside manufacturers
who are not under the control of the
American Axe & Tool Company The
trade will do we'll to note the changed
condition in this line of goods as re-
CARDS the higher prices now ruling, and
the strong probability of their mainten-
ance for some time to come. On first
quality goods an advance is now made
Of SIT to 81. .25." A further advance is
contemplated.
The lock factories of this country are
peculiarly fortunate. They enjoy duty
of As per cent, and by reason of the skill
of their workmen and the high develop
ment of their machinery, the labor cost
of their product is extremely low COM
pared with the labor cost of foreign
locks. OF course there are marked diff
ferences in the prices of locks for home
consumption and for export. Here are
the contrasted prices:
In "Home To Ex-
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the pocket knife has been attacked
oy Major Mckinley. The present duty
on them is so per cent, but the high
tariff maker doubles this and makes il
loo per cent Hereafter, then, any man
who buys an English made knife at the
Mckinley price" may be sure that lust
half OF what it cost him is tariff tax.
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"A lady's maid, seeing her mistress
struggling with stamp that would not
stick, took the stamp, rubbed it on the
mucilage on the flap of the envelope.
and put it in its place 1t was an in
genius way out of common difaeulty
well worth remembering. .--Roston Tran.
sariut
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CHURCHES.


BAPTIST Preaching each sunday AT II II.
Om. and at Z 80 p. m, Ht the courthouse. sun
day school at 10 o'clock, a IN. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening of each week. Rev. w. a.
Cain. Pastor Residence on Cor. Lincoln Ave.
and Cherry Streets.
CHBlSTIAN.-PrCach every Sunday at
- II O'Clock, n. m, aud 80 p. m, 10y Elder
J. u. Nicholson. Prayer meeting every We'd
ncsdHy night. sunday school Ht 10 O clock II. IN.
every Sunday. Pastors residence at the par
sOnagc study at the chapel,
METHODIST EPISCOPAL.-Services every
lN4 sunday at II 100 u. IN. and so p. III. Sun
day school every sunday at 10 IA. IN. Prayer
mcctiu- every Thursday evening at 1880.
Strangers invited. ID. W. PHILLIPS, Pastor.
DRESBYTERGAN.-- every Sunday at
y II II. IN. and 30 p. III: Sunday School at
10 a. IN. j. B. NORTH, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH Services on End
sunday OF every month at SherOcks hall, at
1000 a. IN. REV. BITTER Pastor.
GERMAN BAPTIST BRETHBEN-IIod reg
" ular services at MingOna, Barber county,
the second and fourth Sundays i'm each month.
At Forrest school house ON the second Sunday
Cedar Creek school house ON the third Sunday.
by Elders ShambCrgCr, Smith and Ncher.
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These are the prices for home and ex-
port trade of the shovels manufactured
by one OF the most prominent members
OF the famous Home Market Club" of
Boston. Other manufacturers of shovels
offer similar discounts. One firm in par
t1cular, whose advertisement has very
prominent place in the Australasian and
South American, gives discount on its
list prices to the ''home market of
from Is to 25 per cent, while for the ex-
port markets its discount is 33% per
cent For export all goods are deliv-
cred "free on board" at Boston or New
York.
Here is long list of various tools,
with contrasted prices, in all cases the
protective duty being As per cent:
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What is true of cultivators, locks and
axes is true of grinding mills, mill ma
chinery, sewing machines, and fifty
other articles. Here are few quota
tions:
In "Home To For
Market eignera
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Barser County Omeers.
pngTHL

POstoficc at Medicine Lodge open from A VI
to PM. Sundays one hour on arrival Of mail.
n Mouey order Once. l.. Vi. AXLINE i. NJ.
II. 4. BRowN, Assistant.
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.gans r1ows, = nor,es,

gang F1ows, nOrses,
oN stccl. $3.50 62.92
The above prices are the best offered
by the manufacturers to the large home
dealers for goods delivered on cars at
the factories, and to the exporters, with
out reference to quantity taken, for
goods delivered free on board at New
York.
AS is the case with cultivators so with
ploWs. American made instruments are
sold in all parts of the world. Some
manufacturers have very large trade
with England.
An eminent New Englander named
Ames manufactures shovels, and insists
that the duty of 45 per cent. is a neces-
sity In his business, but these figures
seem to arouse some doubts on the sub
ject:
In Home To
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The literary Life.

Scriptor-I'm miserable, family sick.
rent due, not dollar in my pocket and
here I'm writing away without hope of
ever being paid for it.
Amicus-Aot so bad rs all of that,
hope; what are you writing now2
Scriptor-An article on Success in
Life-The Jury.
Working -man-''Give me work and
] no not care for the rest of the world. y
Tramp-"Ncli. give me rest and don't
care for the work Of the world
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

PRESIDENT. T............... BENJAMIN HARRISON
United states Senators, ...........P. B. Plumb
kuusne, (.J l. Ingalls,
Member Of Congress. 7th Dist ..... s r. Peters
Judge Of 2ith judicial Dist.........C w Ellis.
state senator. 3Sth District Chester 1. Long.
NenresentntiXe A0ih Di-fricf. - Ii. l.. Carrier.
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DETPHIA LODGE, No. 40, X. of r., meets ON
Monday evening of each week. at the X. of p
hall Visiting Knights In good standing invi-
sCd TO attend. SCOTT RUBERr, g. &.
II. A. BROwN. X. of K. ~ :.
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SOCIETIES.

SOCIETIES.
a \. r. 6 a. NJ. Delta Lodge No. y
N Regular communications, first and
AA third sat1TaSX eXelinRS s IN eaGh eii
atina mascns In good standing, cordially in
viied to attend FRANK BEERS, W. NJ.
II. NJ. iNGRAnAN. Secretary.
CYPRUS CHAPTER No. C3, r.. y. NJ, meets
I'm Masonic Hall every 2d and 4th Thursday.
Visiting brethren cordially invited.
CHESTER |. LONG, III. Z.
Il. -. PECK. sec'y.
n 2 q LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 80.
and third Monday evenings in each month.
Mrs. EVA l.. ALRRELL, W. NJ.
NASNIE V. o. BRYAN, Sec.
DELPHIA LODGE, No liO, X. of r., meets ON
Monday evening of each week. AT the X. of p.
ball: Visiting knights in good standing invi-
IL. A. BHowN. X. of Il. y :.
@EA LOO. r., Pioneer Lode
I1|rNS d No. l19.-Rcgulur meetings.
~ ~ 1SESHSd every Tuesday even.ng.V :
~ itnghrcthrcn i'm good stand
EfSD ing cordially invited.
Il. l.. LfNDLEY, ". G..
- Il. NJ BYERLEY, Sec.
ENSIGN ENCAMPMENT No. 81, /. o. o. F
Meets first and third Friday Of each month
Visiting Potriarchs cordially invited To attend
". " T r. fI'SG. R6GsE. g. j. j. C. = w4LsT46, Si s S.
NAOMI No. 81. REBECCA DEGREE.Lo.o.F
Meets the I'd and Attn Wed. nights, each month.
Mas. r. NJ. ALLEN, n. q,
Mrs. AUG. SCMDT, Sccy.
X X D ELDRED POST, No. ia, meets
VI ~ NJ the last Saturday i'm each month
OF the court house In Medicine Lodge, at : =. NJ.
All comrades cordially invited.
LOREN EDWARDS. Post Commander.
JoHN W. UPPEHMAN, Adiutant.
O " LOREN EDWARDS CAMP, No. l52,
%, Y ;. OF ", meets ON lSt ana 3d Saturs
day evenings of each month, in X. of p, hall.
T.. \. MORRIS, Capt. T.. ". SNoDDY, lst Lieut.
ROBT. CAMERON, lat Scargcnt.
A, q, D, w u McSi5 ga's "a and and 9Th hi Friday
night. W. :. FINNEY. NJ. ".
T.. NJ. BYERLEY, Recorder.
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Farmers, especially in the West, use
improved plows of great power. They
are accustomed, perhaps, TO believe that
these articles are sold at moderate
proft to the maker, and that the duty Of
IS per cent is absolutely necessary to
protect the home manufacturer from
the product of foreign pauper labor. i"
These truthful contrasted prices throw
strange light upon the case:
In stHnrna