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posed wholly or in part of wool, the
hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, OF
other animals, valued at more than
fifty cents per pound, the duty pei
pound shall be three and half time,
the duty imposed by this act on Q
pound Of unwashed wool of the frs
class, and in addition thereto fort,
per centum ad yalorem.
Flannels composed wholly or il
part of wool. the hair of the camel
goat, alpaca. or other animals, valued
at above fifty cents per pound shall
be classified and pay the same duty a
women's and children's dress goods
coat Innings. Italian cloth, and good
of similar character and description
provided by this act.
Section $50 Of same law defines un
washed wool as follows: "UnwasheC
woods shall be considered such Al
shall have been shorn from the sheer
without cleansing; that is in their
natural condition. Washed wool shall
be considered such as have been wash
ed with water on the sleeps back
Wool washed in any other manner
than on the sleeps back shall be con
sidered as secured wool"
The tariff tax on unwashed wool o
the first class is eleven cents PEI
pound. The tax on washed wool il
% cents per pound. The tax OF
secured wool is 33 cents per pound.
Woods Of the first class are defined
by section 376 of the law to be "Mer
inc, mestiza, metz. or metis woods, o
other woods of Merino blood immediat,
or remote. Down clothing woods, anc
woods of like character with any o
preceding, and also including al
woods not hereinafter described or DIES
ignated in classes two and three"
The tariff tax is to be paid on i'm
ported blankets and the other article,
mentioned in section 1893, is as fol-
lows:
Valued at less than 80 cents pei
pound, the tax is 16s cents per pounc
and 80 per centum ad valorem.
On those valued between 80 anc
40 cents per pound, the tax is q
cents per pound and 35 per centun
ad valorem.
On those valued between 40 and 81
cents per pound, the tax is 80 cents
per pound and 30 per centum &C
valorem.
On those valued at over so cent.
per pound, the tax is 3S4 cents pei
pound and 40 per centum ad valorem
The tax on fannels which are yalu
ed at over 80 cents per pound. is /:
cents per square yard and 80 pei
centum ad yalorem.
In the past we have worked under
considerable disadvantage, owing tC
not having an official copy of the new
tax law, and we were obliged to de
pend mostly on the supplement sen,
out last campaign by the Republican
State committee. Hereafter we shall
take our figures from the official copy
of the tariff tax law, sent us by Con
gresham Chapman.
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Private and Public Thrift

No sentiment uttered ut the Thurman
banquet will command greater APP
plause from all classes of thinking
Americans than ex-President Cleve-
lands vigorous reputation of the
high tariff doctrine that "the cry for
cbeapness is un-American."
Mr.. Cleveland took the broad
ground that "thrift and careful watch
fullness of expenditure among the peo-
pie tend to secure thrifty govern
ment, and cheap and careful living
on the part of individuals ought to
enforce economy in the public ex-
penditure." The ex-President's bit
terest denunciation was reserved for
those high tariff plotters who publicly
declared that "cheap and nasty go
together and this whole System of
cheap things is badge of poverty,
for cheap merchandise means cheap
men and cheap men means cheap
country"
Nothing could be clearer than the
line of demarkation which separates
these two views of what constitutes
real prosperity. One of stock argu-
ments of the high takers is that al
though the prices of necessaries of
life are increased under a high tariff,
wages are also increased, and hence
the laborer is prosperous. The nat
ural deduction from this theory is that
an era of low prices for the necessar-
les of life is an era of poverty. The
high takers never weary of reiterating
that an era of high prices is an era of
prosperity. Toilers for daily bread
may not be expert political econom-
lists, but the majority of them are dis
covering for themselves the hollow
ness of these sophistries.
Private thrift is recognized under
all governments as the foundation of
public thrift. Not the least democrat
izing effect of an era of high taxation
is the example of wasteful expendi-
ture in official channels. The theory
that money is easily obtained, and
therefore may be easily spent, has
wrecked more private fortunes than
any known statistics will show. The
policy of high taxation is so mex
pressibly vicious in its effect upon the
general community that it is Justly
denominated a national crime. Mon
ey wrung from the people in taxation
under the guise of a protective tariff
and wastefully expended by the Gen
eral Government has a demoralizing
effect on personal thrift.
The day laborer, working for a
mere pittance to keep body and soul
together, reads with incomprehensible
awe of millions spent for public
buildings, millions for other public
improvements, tens of millions for
pensions and so on to the end Of the
chapter. He reads, but he does not
understand. When American work
ing men realize fully that every dol
lar of wasteful national expenditure
is borne by them in the shape of
tariff tax they will rise in rebellion
to which the recent political landslide
will be Insignificant in comparison
Chicago News.
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English SPAWN Iiniment removes al
hard, soft or calloused Jumps and blem
ishes from horses, blood spavins, curbs
splints, sweeny, ring-bone. stiles, sprains
all swollen Threats, coughs, etc. Save
$50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the
most wonderful blemish cure ever known
Sold by Edward G. Spense, druggist. Alpe
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Pain and dread attend the use of mos.
catarrh remedies. Liquids aud snufrs are
unpleasant as well as dangerous Elys
Cream Balm Is safe, pleasant, easily appii-
ed into the nostrils. aud q sure cure. 1t
clcanses the nasal passages and heals the
inflamed membrane, giving relief at once.
Price so Cents
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The beau of 1929.
When grandpa went a wooine
He wore "A satin vest,
A trail of running roses
Embroidered on the breast.
The pattern of his trousers,
His linen, white and fine
Were all the latest fashion
In eighteen twenty-nino.

Grandpa was fine-looking young fellow
then, so the old ladies say, and he is fine
looking old gentleman now. For the past
score of years he has been a firm believer
in the merits Of DR.. Pierces Golden Med
ical Discovery. at renewed my youth,
he frequently says. 1t is the only blood.
purifier and liver invigorator guaranteed to
benefit or cure, or money promptly refund
ed. 1t cures liver disease, dyspepsia, scrof-
ulous sores, skin eruptions, and all diseases
of the blood. For lingering coughs and
consumption (which is lung scrofula in its
early stages) it is an unparalleled remedy.
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The most obstinate cases of catarrh are
cured by the Dse OF Ely's Cream Balm the
only agreeable remedy. 1t IL not liquid
or snuff. is easily applied into the nostrils
For cold In the head It Is magical. II
gives relief at once. Price 80 cents.
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Detroit Markets.


The following market quotations
are copied from the Detroit Free
Press.
Apples, $500 to 1915 per DBL
Butter, IL to 25 per pound.
Live fowls, &c TO &c per pound.
Live turkeys, DC to 10c per pound.
Eggs, 10 to 25 cents per dozen.
Flour per barrel, $3.50 to $5.75
Hay, baied, $3.50 to $1,000 per ton.
Oats per bushel, 47c to 4Sc.
Onions, 1.15 to $50 per Dbl.
Pork, $11.00 to $11.75 per Dbl.
Potatoes, so to IS per bushel.
Wheat, $0.s6 to $09S per bushel.
The quotations, given by the Free
Press, are mostly of a wholesale ma
ture. The prices at retail stores must
be somewhat higher.
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MICHIGAN CENTRAL
"The Niagara Falls Route"
limo Card In Effect.

sDaily. Daily except Sunday. Parlor car on.
day trains aud sleeping cars on night trains.
WHITING. Ticket Agent.
o.w. RUoGLEs, O. p. q T. Ast.
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To Owners of lots in Evergreen Cemetery,
You are hereby notified to present your deeds To
lots at the City Recorders Office and have them
entered in the record free Of charge prepared for
that purpose. IL ia very necessary TO do this 40
10 protect your titles n said lots.
NY order Of the Common Council.
DAVID BRUNEAU.
ioiom2 Comptroller
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ileged classes, and it will prove a
blessing to the country and to the
ce.-State Democrat.
, 1890-12-04
WILL NOT BE EXPENSIVE.
The Government to Handle the So
cret of Lymph.

BERLIN, Nov. 2g.--In diet to-day,
Minister Won Gossler, replying to in
terrogations said that aspersions were
cast upon certain physicians engaged in
using Koch's lymph which proved
groundless.
Care was taken, he said, to make the
remedy perfectly accessible to the poor.
In course of time the preparation of
lymph would be entrusted to competent
persons employed by the state.
There was no good ground yet to hope
the remedy would be found eiiicacious
in the treatment of other diseases than
Tuberculosis. a private gentleman
had given million marks to be used for
tie benefit OF poor persons suffering
from Iubercuos
Regarding the question of placing the
manufacture of lymph under exclusive
control OF the state Won GOssler thought
feeling of satisfaction would be e1-
perenced throughout the world IL
Prussia should set her stamp
upon lymph. The govern ment
would eventually unite other nations
to send represe entatives to study the II SO
OF the remedy in order that they might
apply IL in their own countries. The
ministerial statement indicating as 1t
does, the intended prolonged guarding
OF the secret OF lymph, greatly disap-
points the foreign medical men here.
, 1890-12-04
WESTERN INTERESTS
A Most Complete and In
structive Document.
LANDS, FORESTS, AND MINES
The Men Who Preserved the Union
and the Amounts They
Are Paid.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.--Thc secretary
Of the interior has submitted his annual
report to the president. II is very vol
luminous and touches the minutest details
of the department. as well as the more
wsighty questions. He says:
This has been year ofmuch executive
achievement in all the bureaus OF this
department
From the public domain a new terri
tory has been formed and organized
former territories have advan ced to
states; four, admitted to the union last
year, have obtained full representation
IN both houses of congress; and two
more, admitted this year. have elected
their state officers and are about to
choose their national representatives.
No small part of the satisfaction and
good feeling of the people OF the states
of Washington, Montana, North Da-
kota, South Dakota Idaho and Wyom-
ing, exhibited at their most recent cleo
tions, is known TO be due to the liberal
and lust execution of the land laws,
the pension laws and the sympat hetic
interest OF the ofiice Of the general
government In the rights and welfafe OF
the Western settlers.
As territorial organizations have
changed into permanent state govefn-
ments, so "Okiahoma" has become
territory by act Of Congress approved
May 7, 1880. and is shown by the census
of 1890 to have over So, 900 inhabitants.
And again, while this territory has
been forming, great additions from the
Indian reservations have been IN ade to
the public domain soon to be opened to
settlement. The various Indian COM
missions have made agreements, now
awaiting congressional action, with DIFF
ferent tribes for many millions of acres.
This formative period is one of intense
interest not only to our lawmakers and
constitutional rulers but 10 our whole
people as they view the present and
prospective great increase of states over
which the national constitution contin-
ues to expand, and this period will here
after, 1t is believed, be found to have
been one during which the republics
vitality and stability were very severely
tested. The line of states Is now, how
ever, continuous across the continent
and from Canada to Mexico, and yet no
weakness In government has been found
to arise from the distance at which its
power must be exercised; while tho in
crease of the population over which 1t
prevails tends only to make 1t stronger
and more permanent.
PUBLIC LANDS.
The vacant lands Of the United States,
exclusive of those in Aluska, at present
extend over $50, 2l6, S6l acres, Of which
2S2, 772, 439 are already surveyed.
Alaska contains 577.39o square miles,
or 369 500 600 acres. of which not more
than 1000 acres have been entered. The
aggregate reaches 055, 5,7i5, 46l acres. The
following table exhibits this area by
states and territories, from official
sources, ns estimated:
VACANT LANDS IN THE ST ATEs AND TERRI
TORIES
, 1890-12-04

persons OF mixed blood In the tribes.
This question Increases In interest with
the advancing values OF the Indian
possessions. Some tribes own enough
IN land and money to confer on every
member homo and competency for
life. Tho claimants to membership are
of.ovory degree of blood, and some who
are white point to some far distant
ancestor as the source of their right.
The educational branch of the Indian
service has received throughout the year
the special attention which its impor-
tance demands. The effort has been to
extend and improve the system already
existing to enlarge the school facil tiles,
TO increase the attendance, to make
more uniform the course of study and
instruction and to secure teachers OF the
best qualifications.
The Indian children, with tine habits
and prejudices of sayaScs and the isola-
tion of each tribe by it's own separate
language, require process OF training
and education especially suited to their
peculiar conditions. They must neces-
sarily be taught English, and by Eng
isl-speaking persons, so that AT the
very outset the teacher In the Indian
school has to accomplish an immense
task not met In our other public schools
VIZ, instruction In n tongue foreign to
that of the people.
The industrial training schools and
reservation boarding schools have been
found irom experience to be those best
adapted to the end In view.
the day schools located on the rcser-
vations are attempted to be managed so
as 10 be eventually merged into the pub
lie school system.
An attempt will DO made to organize q
uniform course of study. This will be
followed by the use Of tho same text
books in all tho schools.
Teachers and employees arc now Sc
lected for high personal character, and
must be thoroughly equipped for their
task.
The secretary submits the following
table, showing tho amounts set apart Tor
the various religious bodies for Indian
education tor each OF the fiscal years
1889 to 1891, inclusive;
, 1890-12-04
THE FReNCu CHAMBER.
Putting u Higher TaeiT en- Americas
Pork.

PARIS Nov. 20.-The defeat of the
government yesterday in the chambers,
on the question OF taking the loan dis
cussion up, was considered by the min
istry to-day. They decided It ought not
affect Minister Rouviers position. The
government tariff proposition proposed
II duty of II francs per double hundred
weight on all kinds of salt meat. The
tariff subcommittee has made new
classification, imposing a duty of 30
francs on sausage and other preserved
meats, and 10 francs on hams, bacon
and lard.
Minister of Commerce Reich informed
the committee that the government per-
sisted IN demand for II francs duty, as
a low tariff is indispensable In order to
procure from the United States modi-
Iication OF the Mckinley law. He also
objected to a proposal in the increase
for the tariff on canned meats, fresh
mutton and pork products.
The committee report, however, dis
regards protests, and will be opposed by
the government, the ministers concur
ring in the opinion that it is necessary
to keep the tariff sufficiently elastic to
make II possible to offer reciprocal ad-
vantages to the United States.
, 1890-12-04

tho miners taxed, and their valuations n
aro supposed tn be worth Sol
The total bonded indebtedness IL S-oo'-
9B7.aS, This Is considered most ~
markablc showing
MINING.
since tho discovery OF Fold III iooo
the mines of Idaho havo yielded ABOUT
Sl75, 900, 900. AT first the efforts were
confined to placer mining; then quartz
mining was undertaken. But the want
of transportation and high freights have
much retarded the development oi
these industries. Each year now now
ever, shows an increase. IL ~ sta'eu
that there are mammoth leau.sllVcr
mines awaiting railroad lacil litics ior uo-
velopment and evidences OF sreh, VII
versal wealth are givon, which industry
and enterprise will bring to the surface
In the near future. ,
The increasing demand for labor, due
to new industries, has Teen steadily Uet
by new arrivals from the states. lhere
is harmony between labor and capilal,
and wages are liberal, ranging rom
Sl.50 to 81. 30 per day for ordinary iapor'
ana from 81 to So for skilled labor
TERBtToRIEs.
A very interesting report about the
condition and prosperity Of the terrI-
tories, their resources, growth IN popu-
lation and industries accompanies the
seoretary's report. Especially Is this re-
port interesting in regard to Utah ana
Alaska, where salmon canning ana ish-
erles generally arc the principhl inuus-
tries. The people OF Alaska exhibit q
strong feeling upon the subject OF having
n delegate to represent them III inc nv
tionai congress.
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK.
In the preyions portion of this report
relating to the public lands, the great
Importance of protecting the forests
was dwelt upon at some length. those
in the Yellowstone National Park are
composed in large part of great trees;
the area of the woods is far reaching, 80
per cent OF the 3, 400 square miles being
timbored, and the heau- waters of some
ol the greatest rivers rise WITHIN its
borders IN the West. The loss OF these
forests would be disastrous to the vast
valley lands that the rivers irrigate aud
their preservation is alike necessary Tor
the beauty and grandeur OF the park
and the safety of the lower valleys.
In regard to the fact that last year
forest tires were more disastrous than
ever Leiore in the history of that reg ion,
he would recon- mend the establishing
of regular camping grounds where
campers should be required to stop.
| 1t is standing order of the depart
ment that no wild animals shall be killed
or destroyed in their haunts. There are
still some buffalo there. Herds of elk
winter there. Last year 1000 young
trout were put in the different streams in
the park. IL should be the pride OF every
American citizen to take an interest in
this park, and see that the laws in re-
gard to the preservation OF animals and
tish are strictly enforced.
There has been established in Cali
| fornia national park known rs Gen
eral Grant National Park. The
Yosemite park has also been established
as national park. 1t is to oe remarked
that not one OF these parks have as yet
received a national appropriation and
the secretary earnestly pleads for one.
, 1890-12-04
SENATOR ALLEN.
He Preserves a Discreet silence ON
the Senatorial Question.

WAsHINGroS, Nov. Ex-senator John
b. Allen, accompanied by Mrs. Allen, ar
rived in the city this morning, and they
are at their former residence, No. 10 B
street northeast. Senator Allen Is great
ly improved by his two months outing
and will enter upon his legislative duties
with renewed vigor. lie says that sew
eral interests OF Washington will need
the attention of the delegation this
winter. He expects an early report
from the commission to locate a dry
dock on Puget sound, and to carry out
the recommendation in tho report VIII
require an appropriation ut this session.
The senator says that he hopes TO see
the bills for Washington's public build
ings pass at this session. With refer
cnce to tho senatorial contest in WASH
ington the senator would say nothing,
except that the friends of both Squire
and Culkins seemed very confident.
Senator Allen was ut the interior de-
partment urging early action upon IN
structions about the land forfeiture piii'
SO settlers might make entry ana ac-
quire the lands. He will call on the
president to- morrow and suggest tiat
the sooner tho commission settles tie
Puyallup difficulty the better II woulo
be- Tor the people of Tacoma and the IN.
diuns. Senator Allen still believes that
tue legislation of the first congress was
wise, and says the election bill ana the
apportionment bill should be pu'
through during the short session.
, 1890-12-04
New PoIitical Doctrine.

SCRANTON, Pa, Nov. 20.--Powderly
to- night said in AL interview that the
general assembly authorized him to call
a convention OF labor leaders and work
ers in FEBRUARY next to frame II platform
of the principles TO bo presented to tho
people of the country Tor ratification.
II Will bear ON an issue to he voted for
in congressional and legislative cleo
tions. He hinted tho new party would
not result from the Florida convention
next week. That hereafter alliance
members and knights OF Labor will
vote for, as well as work for their prin-
ciples.
, 1890-12-04
BUREAU OF EDUCATION.

BUREAU OF EDUCATION.
The commissioner of education makes
a very suggestive report on the work
done, and to be done, by his bureau
Its object, as he states, is to collect and
distribute information showing the pres
ent status OF education in the United
States, and also the educational progress
of other nations He goes on to say
that inasmuch as all supervision has for
its first object the increase of enlightened
directive power, the function of this
bureau Is an important one, for through
a knowledge of whatever has proved of
value in the entire field of education the
progress is made at the smallest
cost, each person protiting by the ex-
perience of all.
In PROOF OF the extending interest in the
work OF the bureau, the commissioner
gives a table showing an increase OF
letters received over the previous year of
nearly 80 per cent, aud an increase OF
letters sent out OF AZ per cent.
The number of documents sent
out the past year, 1S2, 2l5, slightly
exceeds the number OF the previous year.
The commissioner states that there is
more active interest taken in educa-
touul matt ers now than ever before, es-
pecially is this SO in the South. There
has never before been so much co-opera-
tive interest manifested.
The school commissioner report is
very lengthy, and enters into the
minutest details OF education in this
country, rejecting great crodit upon the
various superintendcnts.
IDAHO.
From the secretary's report were
CLEANED the following interesting facts
concerning Idaho. which has nearly
doubled its population in the last ten
years.
There are 55 22S, 1G0 acres of land In
Idaho. of these there are classed 49,
600, 600 acres as agricultural lands, 20,
900, 900 Us grazing lands, and 10, 900, 000
as forests. The total assessed value OF
real property is S25. 5s1 ,305 This does
moi include lands unpatented. Nor are
, 1890-12-04
THE REICH STAG.
A Bill to Raise the Revenue on
sugar.

BERLIN, Nov. 29.-The first bill TO
come before the rsichstag Tuesday will
be one providing for raising the revenue
on sugar from Go.000 600 to $4,000, 900
marAs, to be effected by abolishlng the
tariff on raw sugar and increasing the
duty on refined
The bill says the export bounty sys-
tenn has cost German consumers thirty
one and half million marks annually,
nineteen and half million of which was
cash paid IN bounties ard the remainder
additional cost to consumers
The reichstag will be asked for fifty
millions of marks for the army, partly
to provide new munitions and partly to
alter is uniforms. Henceforth no gilt.
ter OF head-pieces or arms will be per-
mltted. A sombre uniform is necessary.