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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-06-24
Knows a Good Thing.

1t has required many years of ex-
perience to convince advertisers that
the newspaper is the only medium
through which an adequate and GER
tain return for their money is assured.
The acquisition of this knowledge has
cost the advertisers of this country
hundreds of thousands of dollars
The lessons of experience were expen-
sive, but as it was the only school in
which they could be learned, the cost
is not to be deplored. Shrewd adver-
tisers now realize that through news
papers alone can they reach the peo-
pie.
There is little doubt that the recent
example of the Pennsylvania Railway
company in resolving to abandon all
forms of advertising except through
newspapers of known value, will be
followed by other advertisers. The
Pennsylvania Railway company ex-
perimented for several years to ascer-
tain the best medium for reaching the
public. The newspaper advertisement
was found to reach more people for a
less expenditure of money than any
and hence it will hereafter
be exclusively used.
The result of the experiments of
this great railway company are wor-
thy the attention of all advertisers.
The fact that after full and fair test
Of posters, hangers, calendars, cards
and sign board mediums the company
discovered that they produced smaller
returns, and were more expensive than
advertising, should be APP
preciated by the most obtuse user of
printers ink" The Pennsylvania
knows a real good thing. Elk.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-06-24
The Future WAY.

When the inhabitants of this coun.
try are % years older, they will prob
ably look back with amazement at
the custom hitherto practiced, of Civ
ing the right of way in the streets to
any corporation that asked for it, with
out compensation, without condition,
without Con the part of the corpora
tom promising anything or give any
thing in return.
But the advertisements in the Phil
delphia papers show that that period
of infancy and helplessness is passing
away; that the people of the cities
are discovering that these rights are
worth mines of money to those who
get hold of them, and that after the
manner of dolts and simpletops the
citizens have handed over these bon
anzas to the first conner without prom
Use, rebate or compensation.
Proposals are solicited in Philadel-
phia for building double track ele.
waited road in certain designated
streets. The highest bidder will be
the one offering the highest rate per
centum ON the gross receipts. Heavy
bonds are required to secure this pay
ment and also the payment of all
damages caused to the city or to pri-
vate parties on account of the struct-
ure.
The idea that the streets belong to
the public; that the right to monopo-
lie them must be paid for, if indeed
the city ought to give monopoly at
all /; that the residents of a street have
no right to it and that their opposition
to its use is a matter of accommoda.
ton and courtesy onIy--these ideas
are gradually getting possession of
American communities.
The advertisements like those in the
Philadelphia papers are destined to
become as common as any other pro.
posals for public work, and in very
short time at that.-Detroit Journal.
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Talks cheap, but when it's backed VI
by pledge OF the hard cash Of flnanoi
ally responsible firm, or company, o
worldwide reputation for fair and honor
able dealing, 1t means business! Now
there scores OF sarsaparillas and Other
blood purifiers, all cracked up to be the
best, purest, most peculiar and wonder
full, but bear In mind (for your own sake
there's only one guaranteed blood. purin
or and remedy for torpid liver and all dis
eases that come from bad blood. That
one-standlng all solitary and ALONGSIDE
on trial, is DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery. II 1t doesn't do good In skin,
scalp and scrofulous diseases-and pull.
monary consumption Is only lung -scrofu.
la-just let It's makers know and get your
money back. Talks cheap, but to back
a poor medicine, or common one, by
selling 1t on trial, as Golden Medical
Discovery" Is sold, would bankrupt the
largest fortune. Talks cheap, but only
Discovery" Is guaranteed.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-06-24
Real Estate Sales.

The following is list Of real estat
sales recorded during the past week, fur
nished at the abstract ofloe of O'Brie,
& Sleator
q. G. Heron to John Harrington, $400
lot B, block 10, Hitchcock's addition
Washington avenue.
John j. Harrington to d. p. Buker
$500, same description.
Harriet T. Barlow to F. N. Barlow, will
same description as second above.
+. N. Barlow to Alex A. Harrington
$1,700, same as third above.
Henry NJ. Robinson to Antoine Port
wine, $50, lot A, block 8, Potter's add
ton, Washington avenue.
Julia F. Farwell to Jas. P. Vanworm
er, $500, sw lots II, 10, block 81, Hitch
cocks addition, Second street.
Matilda Jury to Oliver Levere, 400. s
acres of end Of 8 Of s 10, 80, 6, Al
pena township.
Oliver Levere to Philip j. Phillips, $50
same as next above.
Geo. w. Phillips jr. to VIM. A. Scott
S16O, W OF W IA, 81, 5, Long Rapids
township.
Albert Anderson to VIM. H. DAWSON
$176, W OF e "a, 80, 8, Alpena town
ship.
Purvis Bunker to Henry Beebe, 81,
part lots l, 2, block 23, Taylor's addition,
Norwegian street
Frank Bejaul to John A. Doyle, admir-,
81, OF W 20, 30, Z, Wilson township.
7. H. Eaton to Eugene Ranger, $500,
" ! lots 8, g. block 4, divers addition,
Sable street.
A. r. Blakely to Albert Pack, 81, lots
l, 2, 8, A, 8, block 81, Sable street.
Auditor General to A. R. Blakely, &c.,
lots 2, 3, 4, 8, 10, II, 10, block 81, Sable
and Tawas streets. Also, 10c, lots 4, 8,
block 81, Sable street.
Ella Rogers to Albert Pack, $500, part
lot 8, block 10, Fletchers addition,
Washington avenue.
Philip j. Phillips to D. d. Hanover,
$4OO, W OF Q, s W Of n "a, 81, 8, town.
ship Of Green.
VIM. A. Sylvester to D. D. Hanover,
$500, W OF n e. Of n W, n e Of gw, n
Of 80, 81, s, Green township.
Dougald Mcdonald to w H. Dawson,
$500, Of 8 Q 8, 80, Z, Wilson township.
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Facts About Taxes.

The Washington Post presents some
interesting tax figures
For the next two years our Govern
ment will spend annually more than
$500, 100000.
To pay one years expenses Of the
Government it will take nearly the
combined wheat and oat crop.
Our annual output of gold, silver,
copper, iron, coal, petroleum and lead
will not foot our tax bill for twelve
months.
Nor can we do it with years pro.
duct of cotton, wool, rye, barley, wine,
potatoes and tobacco.
The combined capitalization of our
national banks is $599,000,0O0. One
years taxes will nearly swallow it up.
Now, all this is the federal tax
We have also to pay city. county and
State taxes.
We pretend to be nation of plain
people, with no aristocracy, no prime
es, no standing army and no expensive
frills, and yet our taxes are more
enormous than those of Austria, Ger
many, or Great Britain.
When we calmly consider these
facts and figures it must be admitted
that the out look is not very encour-
aging. But such evils always lead to
a reaction. The people will be forced
by stern necessity to demand reform
or revolution, and in a country like
ours such state of public sentiment
is bound to crystalize into reform.
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Richardson's Figures.

One of the most industrious men in
the legislature is Representative Rich
ardson. of Ottawa. He has delved
deep into many questions of the ut.
most Importance during the present
session. One of the special objects of
his Jealous effort is to secure law
which will compel railroad properties
to bear their fair share of the burden
Of taxation. The result of his labors
shows many facts not generally under
stood. He declares that the value of
railroad properties in Michigan is a
triAe less than s266, 100000. These
properties are capitalized at 1857
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stock. Watering" an American Spe-
cialty.


The next item to appear in oul
list of peculiar national industries is
that which has come to be known a;
"stock- watering" have forgotten
when the first great success in thi;
particularly American speciality oc.
Cured, but / believe that New York
in respect to this new fraud, sustained
as usual, its bad eminence. In De.
cember, 1868, the directors of a Ger.
tain great railroad company passed
in substance, a resolution doubling
the stock of their corporation. This
act was in direct violation both of the
corporate charter and of the general
railroad law Of the state, and in Jan
uary, 1869, a powerful corps of rail-
road lobbyists was employed by the
officials of that corporation to push
through a corrupt legislature the
needed legislation to give life to a
deliberate violation Of the laws of
the state. From the date of this col
ossal offense against public policy and
honest commerce, the abuse of stock
watering has assumed gigantic pro.
portions. According to the last
"Poor's Manual" we had in operation
on Dec. 81, 1890, 161, 396.64 miles of
ordinary steam surface railroads.
which cost, on paper, s9,931 ,453,146
These are very startling figures, and
it is perfectly safe to assert that two
fifths of that amount, viz, S2972,5S1,-
258, represents "water.' The street
railroads of the country, horse, cable,
and electric, could not have cost, in
GLIDING equipment, over $4,000 per
mile, but they are stocked and bond
ed up to about 100000; and the
elevated roads in New York city,
which cost less than 100000, are
stocked and bonded for more than
$50,000,00O. Within the last twenty
years many of the great manufacture
ing industries have merged themselves
into corporations and associations,
which are called trusts. These also
are capitalized for at least three times
their actual value. My estimate of
the total of these unwarrantable and
dishonest over-issues of stocks and
bonds is s5,0O0,00O,0O0. This con-
stitutes an indirect mortgage upon
the national products, industries, and
labor of our whole country; and
there is constant struggle against
public welfare and prosperity,-to ex-
tort from patrons and consumers
prices which will pay interests and
dividends upon these fraudulently issu-
ed obligations. Corporate bonds are
unknown to the laws of European
In those older civilizations
all stocks or debentures issued by
railroad corporations are sold for face
or par value and if any were issued
by officials for less than the stated
values, the officials issuing, or rather
attempting to issue them, would be
arrested for crime, tried, convicted,
and punished as felons.-From "Bru-
tally and Avarice Triumphant" by
Gen. Rush 9. Hawkins, in North
American Review for June.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-06-24
High Tariff Tragedies.

Riot and blOodshed are rampant in
Pennsylvania. Greed and cruelty are
in conflict with ignorance and lawless-
ness. Corporations have imported
cheap laborers, housed them in novels.
paid them in orders on swindling
truck stores, reduced their wages and
the victims have risen and turned on
their oppressors. The state has or
dered out troops to preserve peace
men, women and children have been
shot down in quelling the riots; and,
after all, the outbreaks, uDjustifiable
as they are, are blind and unreason-
ing protests against gross injustice.
The events that are taking place are
the tragedies of protection. After
getting such laws as they wanted from
congress to enable them to rob Ameri-
can consumers, the iron aud coal
monopolies imported this cheap and
ignorant labor--brutal labor, if you
choose TO call it so-and thus their
greed and cruelty has brought on the
prevailing riot and lawlessness.
Society must protect itself by shoot
ing down men, women and children
when in their wrath they turn upon
their legalized plunderers. How to
rob and swindle within the law is the
study of the monopolists. They have
brought these ignorant rioters to this
country and made them desperate.
They have crowded them into novels,
they have cheated them at their
truck stores, they have forced them
to protest by striking, they are now
evicting them, they have caused an
enraged woman with baby only two
days old to be shot by an officer of
the law in the name of the state, and
amid the disorder men may we'll ask
themselves what does all this mean
Back of all this tumult and dis
order, as the Chicago Times says, is
the greed and cunning that secures
tariff legislation on the ground that
it protects and dignifies and enriches
American labor. These evicted men,
raging like wild beasts at bay, are not
Americans at all. They are serfs
fror, Europe who have caught enough
of the American spirit to desire en-
ancipation and to be willing to fight
for it. They we're brought here by
protected industries for the purpose
of running out intelligent American
labor. These industries, insisting
upon free trade in labor, demand the
right to have closed market for
their product, but since this policy
can not be continued without votes
they have the art to persuade men
that what they do is less for them.
selves than for the great body of
American laborers, whom they would
save from competition with the pauper
labor of Europe. These protection.
lists having sowed che wind are reap
ing the whirlwind. Even here they
cunningly step aside that in the stress
and storm brought OH by their own
voracity for the profits Of labor they
may have society sustain them, fight
their own battles, shoot down the
tigeresses their cruelty and rapacity |
have made, protect them and enable
them to enter anew upon the process
which degrades and impoverishes
labor and concentrates wealth by
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-06-24

millions in the hands of undeservers.
They set society between themselves
and the consequences of their own
tyranny. They use the law to sustain
oppression. And they succeed in
maintaining in the name of American
labor a system Of so-called protection
which drives American labor from
their works and enables them to es.
tablish in free America condition of
serfdom so grinding and odious that
men, ordinarily dumb. driven cattle,
rise in revolt.-Jackson Patriot.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-06-24

The American Mutual Accident Asso.
citation, Of Ashland, Wis, has recently
been admitted to this State. This com.
pany is economically managed, gives low
rates, and having important original fea.
lures, Is giving, without doubt, the best
accident insurance that can be obtained
and is the only company that pays cash
dividend to its members.
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Detroit Markets,

The following quotations are copied
from the Detroit Free Press:
Apples. $500 to $3.50 per Dbl.
Butter, i5c to $50 per pound.
Live fowls, SC to sc per pound.
Live turkeys, &C to 1oc per pound.
Eggs, 15c to 16c per pound.
Flour per barrel, s5.2s to 1886.
Hay baled, 5000 to s12.So per ton.
Oats per bushel. 4sc to ACC.
Onions per barrel, s1.75 to $2.2s.
Pork, SI0.76 to $l3.25 per Dbl.
Potatoes per bushel, 81 90 to Si.io.
Wheat. s0.o7 to s1.04 per bushel.
The above quotations are mostly Of a
wholesale nature. The price at retail
stores is higher.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-06-24

English SPAWN LIniment removes ali
hard, son or calloused Jumps and blem-
ishes nom horses, blood spavins, curbs.
splints, sweeny, ring-bone, stiles, sprains,
All swollen threats, coughs, etc. Save
700 by use OF one bottle. Warranted the
most wonderful blemish cure ever known.
Sold by Edward @. spense, druggist. Alpe-
ma. 1,003y1
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What IL Costs.

The imports Of tin plate for 1889
were 7S6.oOo,OOo pounds, valued at
s21, 100000. The Mckinley tax to
be collected on this importation is
% cents pound, or on the importa-
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-06-24

have been troubled with chronic ca.
tarrh for years. Ely's Cream Balm is the
only remedy among the many that
have used that affords me relief.-E. w.
Willard, druggist, Joliet, Ill. '37w2
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-06-24

My son has been afflicted with nasal ca
tarrh since quite young. was induced
to try Ely's Cream Balm, and before he had
used one bottle that disagreeable catarrh-
al smell had all left him. He appears as
we'll as anyone. 1t is the best catarrh
remedy in the market. '87w2
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-06-24
Club List.

Parties desiring to save money can
AXE advantage of the following club
list at this Office, for journals for
1890.
The morning call., 1891-10-01
INEZ CROWNELL'S ROMANCE.
A Deserted, Deserving and Eloping Bride
Widow and Bride Again.

Deserted, DESERVING and Eioping Bride,
Widow and Bride Again.
Twenty-one years ago Captain Leo Crow
nell of this place was in New Orleans on
business. While there lie fell IN love with
handsome young woman, native oil Cuba.
who was then engaged to be married to
wealthy sugar-planter Of that island. The
young woman returned the captains love
and eloped with him. They were married
at Natchez, and took up their residence at
Bushville, where they have lived ever since.
daughter was born to Captain Cromwell
and his Cuban wife. She was named lnez.
Two years ago. at the age OF Is, she had
two ardent sultors. One was young DIR.
George Rouse member of the well-known
PENNSYLVANIA family of that name. The
other was Saul W. Lester, young business
man of neighboriDg town. The girl chose
the dashing and good looking DR.. Rouse,
and a day was set for their wedding. A
week or so before the day came round the
prospective bridegroom went away for
few DAYS on business trip. He had not
returned when his wedding day arrived. and
no word had been received from him. Days
and weeks passed and still no tdIngs came,
and at last Miss Cromwell was brought to
the belief of her friends that DR.. Rouse had
deliberately deserted her.
Two or three months afterward young
Lester renewed his suit for the girls hand
and she accepted him. They were TO have
been married in April, 1890. A week before
the wedding day sensation was created
in the village by the return of young DR..
Rouse. To all inquiries as to where he had
been and why lie had disappeared so mys-
teriously, he would only reply that his alb
sence and silence had been unavoidable.
Whatever the reason for his going and stay
ing away so long might have been, he must
have communicated them in some way to
IneZ Cromwell, and they must have proved
satisfactory to her, for on the eve of her sec
ond wedding day she eloped with her former
lover. telegram from Dunkirk to the
runaway girls father announced to him her
marriage tU DR.. Rouse in that place. The
couple went to Columbus, where the doctor
had made his home. Three weeks later he
died Of typhoid fever. For sanitary reasons
he was buried where he died, and his young
widow returned to the home OF her parents
soon afterward.
At social gathering on July 4th Mrs.
Rouse and the lover she had Tilted met for
the first time since her elopement. The re-
sentiment young Lester felt toward het
must have left him with the meeting. for he
soon became as attentive to lnez as a widow
as he had been to her as maiden. The re-
suit has been another interesting chapter in
this rural romance. which is the announce
ment in the local newspapers that tie
Widow Rouse has become Mrs. Saul w.
Lester at a quiet wedding at the home of the
brides parents.-BushvIlle (Pa.) Cor. New
Orleans Tmes-Democrat.
The morning call., 1891-10-01
THREATENED SUICIDE.

NJ. j. Savage Arrested for Carrying
Weapon Concealed.
I" That man is going TO commit suicide,
exclaimed u very much excited individual to
Officer DOwd at the ferry about 1880 O'Clock
last night, at the same time pointing to
wel-dreSsed man who was walking along
East street toward Mission.
The informer said that the stranger had a
big pistol in his pocket and had declared his
intention of shooting himself. Officer Dowd
soon overlook the would-be suicide, and,
after asking him few questions, felt him.
self justified in placing the man under ar
rest. He was taken to the North Harbor
Station and on being searched a new Smith
Il Wesson revolver of the largest size was
found in his pocket with half dozen car
tridgeS of the same calber.
The prisoner gave the name of Nj. j. Say
age, and stated that he had recently re-
turned from Alaska, where he had been
employed in salmon fishing. He is well
known in this city and for several years was
employed as fireman on the ferry steamers.
A charge of carrying weapon concealed
was placed against his name on the register.
The morning call., 1891-10-01
A NOVEL WATCH-CHARM.
The Stone Upon Which Napoleon Cut II
First Teeth.

The Stone Upon Which Napoleo Cut His
First Teeth.
We were sitting out on the front piazza the
other afternoon waiting for a sudden shower
to cease, when the conversation by chance
turned upon curiOs and relics of departed
notabilities. This is rather an interesting
souvenir" said young lady, taking her
watch from her pocket and holding before
our eyes charm that was attached
to it by short chain. At first
glance | thought it was tennis prize, the
Young lady being 4 champion player of that
game; but on a closer examination 1 saw
that it was an antique OF some sort. 1t
was dark blue stone. oval in shape, about
with hieroglyphics, was handsome
thing, and would have delighted an
antiquarian as much on account of its
beauty as for ts apparent antiquity. What
do you SUPPOSE 1t isY' inquired the young
lady. We rubbed our foreheads and thought.
"Pharhoh's signet ring, said one. "a charm
from Washingto tons watch ehain," suggested
another. You would never guess" replied
the owner, $50 | will tell you. 1t is"-aud
she dangled it before our inquiring eyes
sit is the stone on which Napoleon Bona
parte cut his first teeth" Before any Of
the rest of us had time to recover from
the shock of this announcement, prac-
tical-minded member of the party asked,
pointing to the hieroglyphics: "And are
those the prints Of his teeth ~ On closer
inspection they appeared to he Arabian
characters.
Are you sure that the stone is really
what you say? asked a doubling Thomas.
Perfectly" replied the young lady. 1T was
given to my mother by Joseph Bonaparte,
when he lived at Bordentown; and he told
her that the baby, Napoleon. when he was
just beginning to take notice. clutched at
the stone which his mother wore on a chain
around her neck, and was so determined to
have it that she took it from her own neck
and put it around his, and he used it to bite
on until all his little teeth came through"
1t would be interesting tn have the inscrip-
ton on the stone interpreted to see if it was
at all applicable 10 the career of the baby
who learned to bite on its hard surface.-The
The morning call., 1891-10-01

Louis James and Frederick Warde pool Issues
next season anG star jointly. They promise to
produce the new plays The Liou's Mouth" and
"Memnon."
The Bostonians have accepted a new opera,
words by Arthur Macy, music by L. \. New
comb. both Of Boston. Name of opera not yet
decided upon.
Rhea Is said to speak English worse after
every visit she makes to her pdlatlal mansion IN
Belgium. THIS year she TALKS very much ike
the Chinese at Hong Kong or Canton, in Clna-
jargon called "pidgeon English" which would
be immensely popular In farce comedy.
Samuel Grau, brother OF Maurice Grau, died
of CONSUMPTION recently. He was Colonel John
a. NcCauPs nrst assistant In the old days Of
comic opera. SAN" began lie as a New York
Custom-HOuse broker. aud has passed more
theatrical stuff through Uncle Sans clutches
free of duty than any other man In the country
barring Philip RanZone-
There is PROJECT on foot in New York in the
shape of big theatrical fair in December 10
benefit the Actors Fund. The booths are each to
represent particular theaIeT and 10 be attended
by bevy OF handsome actresses. Good looking
actors are 10 appear at certain hours.