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Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
Tariff Bill Reaction.

There has been a notable reaction of
opinion on the Mckinley law in Europe.
Those who have studied it's provisions
find that IT Is not SUCH q sweeping
athe excessive unpopularity" of the
aggeration on the part Of the American
Democrats, who have spared no expense
or Misrepresentation In raising ppposi-
tion to the scheme" Other English as
well as French papers have been COM
PEELED to make similar admissions. The
first reports sent across the ocean were
la keeping with exaggeratiOns which
were circulated in this country.
While the Nick inley law reduces the
duty on many articles and places many
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

wares; capitalists, spectators, and the
like would not suffer. They would raise
the price of what they had to sell in pro-
portion to the increased price that they
would pay for what they bought. But
the man earning wages would not find
his pay increased in proportion to the
higher prices of the necessaries of life.
He would find fve-dollar bill as hard to
get then as now, and go not near as
far as now in purchases at the grocery,
the meat market, and the stores. Labor
would be the victim Of cheap money, as
it is Of hard times, when wares are low
and employment difficult to obtain. The
harvest would be reaped by capital and
by spectators.
A period of cheap money would not be
for labor repetition of greenback times.
Then wages were high because two mill
ion men were taken from the ranks Of
labor and were consuming all that labor
produced Now there is no such
scarcity and demand for labor as then
existed. 1t Is probable that wages
would be no higher than at present,
while the price of everything bought
with the wages of labor would be 20 Per
cent. or rs per cent. higher than at
prasapt
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
Jack, do you know what knowl-

Jack, do you know what knowl-
edge is ~
No, indeed, said Jack.
II don't, either was the reply.
Then after few minutes
Jack. You will never amount to any
thing if you don't know what knowl-
edge is.
The other day d little five-year old
girl called at toy store and asked il
they had any little dolls for cent.
/. 4 pretty little earthenware doll was
handed out, and the little girl took it
in her tiny hands, gazed into the dolls
ifa,e as if admitting its beauty, and then
Taised it to her lips and gave it q fer
\ MT kiss.
Il just wanted to kiss little dolly
{ It's all / wanted. "
Then she handed the little image
Lack to the astonished salesman and
t1ipped lightly out upon the street
with beaming smile Of satisfaction.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
Dancing Aiarionettes:

Marionettes, says saDguine invent
or, must have an inherent life of their
own. The clown, the Columbine, and
all the figures representing animals
will now caper about on their own hook.
Worn out visiting cards, match
sticks, these are the very simple ma
terials with which people who are fond
of little nonsense now and then can
fashion all the figures represented by
these designs. which can at any time be
set in motion like mechanical toys.
Take, for instance, clown. First
draw and paint the figure on the back
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
Who Will They ia2

Ex-Assistant Postmaster General
Clarkson replying to the question as to
who will be the Presidential candidates
in 1892, in recent interview said:
II must confess that / am not wise
enough to tell. / found President Harri-
son very popular in the South. Harrison
has had an absolutely clean adminiStra-
tion; even Democratic malice could not
attack it in the campaign just closed ex-
cept for it's generosity to the soldiers.
Harrison has followed the party. He has
had no policy, so-called. He has had no
favorites. think he has subordinated
everything to what he thought was party
interest. He has not had, and his Cabi-
net have not had, the activity and
warmth, perhaps, that many would have
liked, but they have attended to their
official duties so we'll that even Demo-
cratic criticism can find no Judgment
against it, and that is q good deal. do
not think the President has any self
seeking in his purposes or actions.
sAs to MIR. Blaine, he is the conspicu-
GUS figure of American politics to-day, as
he will be as long as he lives. / think
he Is the greatest individual force in the
world to-day. don't think he will seek
the nomination. / don't think he really
desires it; but I don't think he would
refuse 1t. If he had proposed his reci-
procity plan in January or February, it
could have been publicly discussed and
gone to Congress with the force of pub
lie opinion behind it, and think it would
have helped us great deal His plan is
likely to become very popular"
Concerning Cleveland and Hill: "Cleve-
land kept silent before the election, but
has been very prolific in speeches since.
The Democratic party believes in fight
ing men. Cleveland got his following in
the party by his courage in dealing with
the elements of his own party and his
courage In putting out his tariff message
He showed no courage in the late cam
paign until after tha fight was over. As
the fighting Democrats reflect over II
they will gradually become discontented
with him. Hill left his own State and
went around to help the outsiders. He
made speeches on the field before cleo
ton, aud Cleveland has made them at
the banquet table since the election.
Cleyeland's veto OF the Silver bill, II
silver legislature proves popular and Is
adopted by his party, viii be a bar which
he would hardly get over. Il silver leg
islation proves unpopular II Will help
him to re-establish himself. This, TOO,
would make practically certain his re-
nomination In 1892. Yet there Is a
larger element of superstition In the
Democratic than in the Republican
party, and this element will not want te
60 into fight with o man who has been
whipped once. That will prove an OBJ
stacle In Blaine's way, too.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
GIFTS that Children Can Make.

Pen-wipers and book-marks are very
pretty, and can be made by children.
For q Ten-wiper take three or four
small oval pieces of channels skin.
Extracts from the pen Of" can be
marked on the top layer with colored
pencil. Put bow of ribbon where the
layers are fastened together, and
through this bow put quill cut in the
shape of pen. When finished it is
odd put pretty.
Sand rolls are very useful to Law
across book to keep it open when laid
on the table, also ON a piano to keep q
book open while one is playing from it.
A small roll can be made of plush, silk
or wooden. with some design painted or
embroidered on it, If you use plush,
take piece nine inches long ami four
and one-half inches vide. Stitch it no
lengthwise, gather mp one end, make q
bag filed with sand, slip inside the
plush, gather mp the end and finish
with ball tassel at both ends.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

of card-the body and head first,
then the two legs aud arms-carefully
cat out these five pieces, place the body
on table, and above it the legs and
arms in a position of rest.
Now these limbs must be joined, and
this is how it is to be done. Take, for
instance, an arm, mark with a
pencil, at the shoulder end of the
arm, the exact spot forming the
axis of rotation, pierce a hole
with pin at this point and put it
through the shoulder in the body.
Bend matchstick at the center as
much as possible without breaking, and
drop little melted sealing-wax, join
ing the two ligaments to the arm and
body respectively, making the part
forming the joint be in contact with
the pin. Do the same for the other
limbs, remove the four pins. and the
figure is complete. Now we have to
give it life.
All that has to be done for this is to
place the side of the figure on which
are the matches in plate containing
thin layer, so to say, of water. The
bent fbers of wood which have not
been broken will swell by means of the
moisture absorbed and will try to re-
gain their rectilineal position. The
figure will then make a series of
abrupt movements, which are very
amusing. The legs and arms will
move apart as those do which are
moved by string. Be careful to use
only large, common matchsticks. The
Swedish ones are impregnated with
parafine and would not move as re-
quired.
Each one can perfect the mode of
fashioning these figures as he likes
best. A ballet girl who can lift her
foot to her forehead, a rooster which
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
Sayings Of Small Ona.

One day Ray and Ernest we're play
ing together, and as they occasionally
quarreled their mother said:
II you are naughty again will
separate you.
In little while Ernest called
Mamma, please come and separate
Ray, he's naughty,
Mamma. what's twins?' asked the
smallest child. W -
Il know, replied an older one be-
fore the mother could answer. aTwina
y two babies just the same AGE three
babies are triplets; four are onad-
ynpeds, and five are centipedes.
Jne day Tommie. aged three wears
and nine months, salid to Jack. ao s.sl
,tWo years; s. e
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

GEN. BOOTH, like poet, novelist, dra-
matte author, social reformer and scien-
tifc discoverer, has, of course, to run
the gauntlet of the critics, who say
that his scheme for helping the poor of
Darkest England is taken bodily from
the plan of Count Rumford, tried a
hundred years ago in Bavaria. This is
mistake. Count Rumford was one of
the most eminent men that America
has produced, and, according to Prof.
Tyndall, his discoveries about heat
along with their practical application
place him in the front rank of his con-
temporaries. But his relief of the
poor was altogether coercive system,
unconnected with moral or religious
agencies, and succeeded only in driving
beggars from Bavaria into the adjoin-
ing countries.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

THE expenses of the Pan-America
Conference were within 800 of the to-
tai appropriation-$125, 0O0 The tour
of inspection cost $46, 495. The ex-
penses of the delegates varied from
$l30 to $3, 240. Some of the delegates
appear to have paid portion of their
expenses out of their own pockets. The
$40 balance has been turned over to
the treasury and the accounts are now
squared. Whether by calculation or
coincidence, the narrow margin be-
tween appropriation and outlay is
curious,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

This is law-abiding country, and
therefore it is that we receive circulars
from lotteries in Mexico, with the cool
assurance ON the part of their man.
ayers that the letters will reach them
promptly regardless of the anti-lottery
mail law, since this is foreign COM
pany, and Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Tyner has no right to stop any
mail if prepaid at full letter rates no
matter what they suspect that it con-
tains or to whom it may be addressed.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
Exchange Comment.

A SUGGESTION to the rising politician
Get a farm.
DEMOCRATIC success and monetary in
sanity go together.
THE Farmers Alliance is less interest
ed in agriculture than in politics.
A TEXAS paper says Cleveland will be
the nominee of the Farmers Alliance in
1892. Perhaps the Alliance in Texas are
fishermen instead of farmers.
FREE trade with European countries
means the next thing to free trade and
free labor from China
The November elections gave the
Democratic party just rope enough, and
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

discover that natural law cannot be re-.
vcrsed by political char atanism the All.
lance may be expected to flourish and
threaten to take the reins of government
into its hands. The schemes of govern
ment thus far proposed by the Alliance
leaders are as visionary as tho hopes that
have been aroused in the breast of the
struggling farmer.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
I'm q Nut shell.

The Farmers Alliance is an aggrega-
ton or agriculturists led by d compare
lively few politicians who have personal
ends la view. The leaders pretend to
see way to- the cpre of economic diff
:ficuities that are the result Of NATURAL
causes, end until the misgHidad farmers
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

ANOTHER American girl is to wed an
Englishman of title, and the wedding
will be one of the social events of note
in New York. It may be said of the
girls who wed English titles that they
at least generally get one that is real
though that does not imply anything
regarding the man.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

IT is not so well known as it might be
that Cincinnati has an industry which
is now the largest of the kind in the
world, viz, that that Of Of Woodworking ma
chinery. The products of the various
firms engaged in it are shipped to
every cline and nation.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

A MAN in Fort Wayne, Ind, was de-
tected stealing pair Of shoes. In
twenty minutes he had been committed
for grand jury action, and in forty-fve
minutes he had begun serving sem
tence in Jail.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

CONFIDENCE is not only plant of
slow growth but an extremely sensitive
plant. The great house of Barring
Bros, built up after infinite pains for
100 years, went down in day.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

can move it's legs about are pretty
easy to make. A horse with twelve
different joints is a bit too difficult for
an amateur. For the horse each leg is
composed of three different portions.
Instead of placing the figure on a
plate we can put drop of water on
each joint with the finger or with q
paint brush, and the effect will be the
same.
The winter evenings are present
which cause young and old to assemble
round the family table. The time
seems favorable to recommend to our
readers those new dancing marion
cites,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

A BosToN paper proposes that the
death penalty be inflicted by means of
chloroform. This shows the kindly and
humane instincts of Boston, but it is
curious that it hasn't suggested that
the pleasantest death is good square
clip by its eminent citizen, Mr.. Sull-
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

BILL NYE complains of being COM
PEELED to pay for the rich food he gets
at the public banquets by making
funny speech. Does he wish to gorge
himself for nothing? The price he pays
is infinitesimal,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

Mr.. GLADSTONE is the owner of the
largest pencil in the world. It is the
gift of q pencilmaker at Keswick and
is thirty-one inches in length. In place
of the customary rubber cap it has q
gold cap. It's distinguished owner uses
IL for a walking stick.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

The log cabin in Washington Coun-
ty, KY, in which, it is said, Abraham
Lincoln lived as boy, and where his
father was married, has been bought
by committee from Chicago. The
structure will be taken down and re-
moved to the Worlds Fair grounds,
where II will be re-erected,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

The most ancient mode of writing
was on bricks, tiles, and oyster shells,
and on tables of stone, afterward on
plates of various materials, on ivory,
on banks of trees, on leaves of trees.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

BRAzIL has set good example for
some other countries to follow in deal
ings with stock companies. 1t requires
that d certain percentage of the capital
shall be paid mp before the company
be allowed To begin operations, and pro-
hibits al dealing in the shares till 40
per cent Of the capital has been real
lied. Possibly it will be found that
the reform Ii too sweeping to be prac-
tical, but II Is j step II the right direc-
zion even II II should b. discovered that
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

A SPECIES of willow grows in Scot
land, the slipping of whose flowers will
make humble-bee drunk, but it takes
him about day to get the necessary
load aboard.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

EVERY stone in the tower and spire
of st. John the Baptist's Catholic
Church, on West Thirtieth street, New
York, was hoisted to it's place by der
rick the motive power of which was an
old white horse. The congregation is
going to see that its last days are its
best DAYS.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

ARAFAT, Pa, is the abiding place of
man who has lived in Susquehanna
County all his life, and has never yet
set foot upon a railroad car, though the
Erie tracks run through his farm.
When the road was built he declared
that the locomotive was the invention
of Satan, and he wanted to die before
one whitfield through his meadows.
All attempts to induce him to take
ride upon train have thus far proved
futile.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has
issued book of regulations ordain-
ing, among other things, that "the dis
lance between the rows of gold lace
on field officers sleeve shall be
OFT. 559 of an inch,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

EMPEROR WILLIAM has taken to
playing upon wind instruments. The
young commander is evidently deter
mined to leave no stone unturned in
preparing for conquest in Europe,
but the laws of humanity ought to de-
ter him from planning to annihilate ar
mics by murderous and wholesale pro-
cesses.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

THE sun is tremendously large. It is
equal to 300, 900 earths, but owing to
its small density its weight equals that
of only 332, 900 earths.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
Home from school.

The western sun comes softly IN
Through hall door open wide;
Young Rover lies with low-stretchoa chia
Upon the steps outside;
The great hall clock ticks sleepily;
A hint of clucking hen
Comes from the yard uncertainty;
Then all is still again.
But bark A banging of the gatel
A chatter up the walk
A tangle Of blithe sounds elate
In song and laugh and talk
Loud strikes the clockl The chickens flee!
Rover's a frantic fooll
The very sunshine laughs. to- see
The children home from school!
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

THERE is little newsboy in Atchison
with large babyish eyes who can wiring
nickels out of the biggest miser on
earth. ALI he does is to cry and trump
up the old story about mother beat
ing him. We have noticed that the
Lord usually gives large, pathetic,
soulful eyes to the biggest hypocrites.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

! IT is gravely announced by Partisan
savant that nine-tenths of the birds of
the French capital are suffering from
influenza. If the disease is fatal and
contagious there should at once be a
subscription started to pay for it's intro
duction here with view to, the thinning
out of the detestable English sparrows.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

FRANCE will not permit consign-
ments of the Koch lymph to cross her
frontier. Perhaps it is feared that Ger
man ideas may secure a place in the
patients who may be charged with the
lymph between the shoulder blades. It
won't do to permit German influence
to sneak into France even through q
syringe.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

The Salvation Army has money and
property in the different countries
where it is established valued at 3d.
al, 500. The trade effects, stock, ma
chinery and goods on hand are valued
at $500, 600. Some idea of the trade
department may be gathered from the
fact that they sell $4,000 army bonnets
every year to the female soldiers.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

SOME practical improvements in div
ing apparatus have been effected by
III. Albert Marcelhacy, French engi-
neer. Instead of the heavy electric
hand lamp hitherto used by divers, he
affixes light but powerful glow lamp
on the top of the helmet, so that the
divers hands are both at all times free
for work.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

AT Birmingham, England, penny
in-the-slot" machine has been devised
for small consumers Of gas. A penny
put into the slot gives twenty-five feet
Of gas, Or at the rate of SO cents
thousand. The gas company thus are
sure Of their pay, and the consumer
buys what he wishes from day to day.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
. shorter stride would have been

sIT is calculated" says one of the
New York Telegrdm's exchanges, shat
a man walking day and night could
make journey round the earth in 428
days" This is the sort of information
the people pine for, although it may be
months before we can find man cap
able of walking continually for 428 days
and nights. A somnambulist might sue
coed if he could only be hypnotized into
going in the right direction while
asleep.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

JoHNNY-I wonder why I can't make
my kite fly? Elder sister p Perhaps
the candal appendage is Interpretations
ate to the superficial area. Johnny
i don't think that's it. I believe there
isn't weight enough on the tail.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
DUR LITTL i ONES.
Al COLUMN DEVOTED TO YOUNG
FOLKS, READING.

Complete Instructions for Making the
HANGING Marionettes-s Some Funny Say
ings from the Little Ones-Neat and
Pretty Gifts that Children Can Make.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

During October, 1889, we imported
1882, $40 dozen eggs.
The Mckinley bill duty on eggs went
into effect October 9, 1890. From the LIST
of October to the 9th we imported
1,139.3O3 dozen eggs,
but from the eth to the s1st we imported
only
I23,5S9 dozen.
In other words the Mckinley bill made q
home market for
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05
A Tariff Picture.
2,2S2, $40 dozen egg

'uring October, 1889. we imported
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-05

l,oIe,ess doFsn eggs in 20 days

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