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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

The turnpike companies Of South Jersey
ATE puzzled how to make turnpike law
apply to bicycles. The number of riders
has increased SO rapidly that the compan-
les feel like getting some return from the
riders for the use Of the roads, but find 10
classification under the law in which a
bicycle can be placed. The Camden and
Blackwood Company has taken the bull
by the horns and exacts The same rate of
toll that is charged for one horse vehicles.
The company is uncertaip, however.
whether the Law will permit this, and At
torney George w. Reynolds, of Camden,
has been applied TO for an opinion. lie
has been looking up the subject thoroughly,
aud confesses that it is 2 knotty problem.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03
DEPARTMENT. OF THE ". C. T. u,
OF wooDSTOWN. NJ. j.

OFFICERS OF THE SALEM coUNTY woMANfsc CHRIST
IAN TEMPERANCE UNION:
Pres. Mrs. REBECcA p. PATTERSON, Salem
Cor. Sec. MRS. CoRNELIA WIsTAR, Salem.
Rec. Sec, MRS. o. J. GRoFP, Pennsgroye.
Treas. MRS. MAGGIE CGrsPIN, Sharptowp.
OFFICERS W. C. t. u, wooDsTowN:
President, MRS. HENRIETTA DAVIS.
Cor. secretary, Mrs. j. w. HUMPHREYS.
Recording Secretary, ELIZA p. GIBSON
Treasurer, Mrs. AMY DAVIS.
oFYICERs Y. W. G. T. o., wooDST0WN:
President, Miss JOE MAcALTIoNER
Vice Presidents, Miss MARTIE GAUNT, MISS
Cora WARE
Rec. Secretary, MISS Lulu WRIGHT.
Cor. Sacretary, IRENE b. SMITH.
Treasurer, MISS CORA WARE.
Time ofmeetipg w. c.. t. U. Thursday after
Time of meeting Y. w. c. T. U. Monday
evening at I. so O'Clock
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

This country would have been bank
rupt long ago if it had been IN the power
of our politicians TO do it; so at least it
seems. In this connection we are remind
ed of a good story which runs as follows:
During the war, when patriotism and
sentiment were at flood tide, the rolls OF
the two Houses of Congress were increased
almost weekly to make room for wounded
| soldiers. who had been discharged from the
service. DoorkeepeTs, messengers, and
w%atehman were so thick around the Cap
itol that they were in each others way.
Judge Holman happened to be in the base
ment one day, and endeayored TO 90
through a doorway, guarded by Il one
legged veteran.
Cant get through there" said the
guardian OF the portal unconcernedly.
II am Q member of Congress, said the
Judge, quietly.
II don't know that that makes much
difference" said the doerkeeper, unless
you came from "a district where the people
can walk through wood. That door is
screwed up"
"Then what are you doing here?" ill.,
CURED Judge Holman, whose curiosity was
naturally excited.
Pm here for $500 a day. There's a
fellow from the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry
watching the other side of it, and mebbe he
can tell you more than can"
BY a circuitous route the Judge, through
committee rooms.r reached the other side of
the door. Sure enough, there sat another
veteran ~leisurely reading a newspaper. He
was equally frank in announcing that the
door was screwed fast.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03
SyoP

How much money you have thrown away
buying worthless medicines, prepared by
unpriBcipled parties, who care not what
harm they may do to your system. You
can depend On every bottle of Sulphur Bit
ters as being a reliable medicine. 1t searches
ont and cleanses from the blood all impure
matter, and makes you feel like a new per-
son.-Boston Dahl Globe.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

Connecticut is a small state. but the
authorities, all the same, have a dig time
at settling on her size. The Tenth census
figures her area at q, S45 square miles. The
'Encycloredia Britannica givesi it 4, $50.
Rand. McNallY & Co.'S New Index Atlas
of the world takes a higher figure, 1890,
while Johnson's Family Atlas makes it as
low as AGA. If much of a deficiency
should be found on the eastern border of
Connecticut there is danger that Rhode
Island may be absorbed by the resuryey.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

Woodstown is not the ouly place where
the horse shoe, for luck, is a power in the
land. The New York San says:
Among the Odds and ends Of a some
what famous junk shop. under Essex Mar
ket building, are some thousands of horse
shoes. They are not sold, however, to
either blacksniths or iron founders. but
are bought eagerly at 10 cents apiece by
East Siders, who still have faith in the
horseshoe's powers as a II ascot. A great
many East Side shopkeepers have horse
shoes snugiy hid away in their money
drawers. Many a cheap apartment in the
tenement house region has a gilded horse
shoe over the hall door,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

There is 70 doubt whatever hut that
much, very much, of the so-called Home
Rule question and of the Irish labor agita-
ton, generally. has its origin in this coun
try, in order to rlacate Irishmen and get
their vote for enc side or the other. From
The best authority sttainable, and from
what travellers report. we believe that
where one beggar is encountered in ireland
now, fifty years ago he would have met
with fifty, At that time the towns and
villages literally swarmed with them.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

The Idea, says that out of 800 railroad
accidents which happened in this country
the past year, only thirteen came from
causes beyond human control. Everyone
of the others vas due to drunkenness or
careIesspess,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

embroideries. Every need pertain
ing to a white dress or underwear.
The best selected stock in town,
and by far the best we have ever
owned. This branch is in trained
and experienced hands now.
E. B. HUMPHREYS & co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

The wisdom of the fish has not been so
often dwelt upon as the wisdom of the
serpent, but just wait, will you, until fish
talk as money is now said to do. and hear
them sass" back the fish preyaricator.
1t will be all around fun, you bet.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

We have never lost a dollar that way;
By careful experiments made at the United
States Mint. says The Iron Industry
Gazette. it has been shown that S. ale lost
by abrasion every time 81, 600, 600 in gold
are handled. The experiments were con-
Quoted with bags containing 5000 each,
and it was shown that the mere lifting OF
the 200 bags making up $1,000, 900 to a
truck to be removed to another vault, re-
suited in the loss stated, and that their
transfer from the truck again made a
second similar loss,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

The Flee Nile Beach, published at Wild
wood or somewhere down that way has a
.sbead'' that resembles the printed cut
sometimes seen on grocers orders or
STATEMENTS" 1t is anything but lovely.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

VIM. Parnell is becoming exceeding
garrulous of late and some one asks if that
isn't a sign of approaching old age, etc.
Not necessarily, we should say. Ii so how
ever. then most of our late college gradu-
ates are aging rapidly.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

1t is reported that the Mormons have an
offer of 81, 900, 600 for their historic church
building at Kirkland, Ohio, the first church
erected by the Saints in America, and if
so. we don't see how they can afford ITO
throw the offer over their shoulders. ="
81, 900, 600 would transport a great many
lady paupers from Europe to help swell
the church record of 'the latterd days saints
in America.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

Under Mobammedan rule the sale of al
eoholic liquors, opium and Indian hemp
was strictly prohibited in India. Their
use was considered degrading vice. But
under English rule, in spite of the protest
of Christendom, the sale of narcotics is
not simply allowed, but pushed by a per-
nicious license system that makes it to the
interest of every local officer to extort all
the revenue possible from their sale. Under
this system the number of shops licensed
to sell opium and Indian hemp now num-
Der over 20, 900, and those for selling alco-
holic liquors about the same. The duties
on spirits increased from l ,00O, 600 rupees
in 1906 to 90, 000, 0o0 in 1880. "Drink is
now a rising tide among the masses of
this massed nation,' writes the Rev. H.
c. Stuntz, editor of the Indian Witness.
"Englishmen are rapidly making It's a
drunken nation" writes another. Still
another says, Sober India was hard
enough to preach to; what will drunken
India be-"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

We sometimes think that much Of the
so-called pleasure secured by the modern
tourist, excursionist, picnicker, or by what
ever name known, costs many times more
than 1t is worth, and quite agree with the
witty Englishman who said that life
would be quite tolerable were it not for
its amusements." The people who stay
at home ard let pleasure come to them
usually enjoy the most of it.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

in others??" "Perhaps ten," answered the
surgeon. "Exactly.'' rejoined the char
latan. 'Well you get those ten, and the
rest come to me-"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

Our farmers are a hard working and
hard worked class of men. 1t is more
than probable that their task is more
severe and continuous than that of any
other set Of laborers IN this country-rising
at 4 o'clock. a. m, and laborIng from that
time until 0 or 10 O'Clock, p m, with the
exception of time allowed fof eating meals
and a possible hour or s for incoming"
The farmer, too, is additionally honest. so
that it has long since passed into a proverb,
''As honest as an old farmer" We grant
readily, however, that there is no monopoly
in the honesty business that farmers may
claim, and that Il lawyer and banker per sc
are Just as honest as tic farmer, as it
seems there is less temptation on the part
of the farmer TO defIaud his fellows, more
perhaps for the reason that less opportu.
nifty is given them to cultivate this vice
than from any innate honesty Of the class.
This latter may explain why the farmer is
so often and so easily the victim of other
peoples wiles, and why they are so thor
oughly suspicious OF everybody else. 4
dapper- looking fellow drives up to a farm
house at noontime. lie invites himself to
dinner and is not refused by the farmer.
While the latter is putting up the ':eritter"
and giving him osts, 'smartie' is joking
with the girls, kissing the babies and in
grating himself generally into the good
graees Of the cook, the lady OF the family.
This done, and lie. is master Of The situa-
ton. After dinner he calls the hest aside
and tells him conidentially that ali iniu-
entail man is wanted from that district as
representative to the great Plow Holders
Convention soon to meet in Dennis, and
m him for the position, and then drives
of. The farmer feels at first like rubbing
himself down front and shaking hands
with himself at the unexpected honor
thrust upon him, forgetting all about the
Inner expense of the stranger until he
finds out there is to be no Plow Holders
Convention anywhere, and that he is too
much OF a fool to represent anything but
himself If there was. Then again
one sells him a wind gibbler
For grinding smoke;
And another gets his name
At the bottom of a note,
both of which are gross frauds. So it
comes that the farmer is suspicious, and at
the first appearance Of a stranger doubles
the pop in the shot gnu ana unchains The
bull pup with his sawed off nose.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

Corsica, it is said, nurtures 9o,ooo goats,
enough. we should think, to absorb all the
old cans, loose paper. scraps oil muslin,
hoop skirts and chunks OF brass lying
loose about Woodstown.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

The following, taken from the Philadel
phia Ereaing Star, may be poor reading
for those of our residents who have money
invested in Western mortgages, but 1t is
doubtless founded on truth:
Senator PETER, of Kansas, says, aud says
it boldly, .that if the whole Staee of Kan
sas was put up at auction it would not
bring near enough to pay her indebted
ness" There can hardly be aquestlon AS to
the correctness of this estimate. Affairs in
Kansas, as In farther Western States, are in
a ~deplerable condition, and all because of
the inordinate thirst for growing rich ia a
hurry. Millions of Pennsylvania money
have beeninvested out there, the temptation
being the offer of ten AID twelve per cent.
interest on mortgages. All experience has
taught that such rates for money cannot be
paid and the borrowing party thrive. That
is especially the case in the West, where
speculation in real estate has been a per-
feet mania, and where millions of Eastern
money have been invested in mortgages
which frequently amount to ts ice the real
value of the land Oh which they are placed.
Such mortgages are net by any means held
By m~illionaires only. a large proportion
of them belong to people of moderate
means, who, having a few thousands to
spare, were induced by the tempting offer of
Usurious rate per cent.
The time will come when the last
feather needed to break the camel's back
will be dropped upon it, and we shall have
a general collapse. Nov is the time to
call a halt; now the time to set solidly and
squarely down upon all get-rich quick
schemes. so many of which have had exis-
tence-ephemeral, il is true,-but for all
that, existence detrimental to the general
interests, and more especially to the inter
ests of those who have been inveigled into
becoming investors. We need not go to
Kansas for warning illustrations. We
have them by hundreds and thousands
right here in our midst. Let them not
pass by UNDECIDED.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

The prohibition forces have appointed a
State organizer for New Jersey who will
enter upon the discharge Of his duties
shortly. The name of this gentleman is
Winans, the first three letters of which
spell out his purpose in entering the held.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

any druggistt tries to sell you his W cough
medicine, remember he does it because he
makes more money on it. Insist on having
kemp'sB alsam for the throat and lungs, for
there is no cough remedy so pure and hone
so quiek to break up a cold. For influenza
soreness of the throat and tickling irritation
with constant cough Kemp's Balsam is an
Immediate cure. Large bottles SOC. and 81.
AT all druggists. 2
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

'Old times are sweetest, old cures best
The best cure for catarrh and Influenza is
Old Saul's Catarrh Cure. Price % cents.
At ali dealers.
"Good actions crown themselves" The
cures of Old Saul's Pile Ointment for piles
are triple crowned" Insist on having
Old Saul's.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03
narnum on Ii sale of Liquor.

P. T. Barnum's death recalls his impress
siye putting OF the cost of liquor drinking.
1t is startling enough to eclipse the Key
stone Bank sensation. II will undertake
to give bond for the fulfllment Of a con-
tract that if the city of Philadelphia will
Stop selling liquor and give me as much as
was expended for liquor last year to run
the city next year, [ will pay all the city
expenses, no one shall pay taxes, and there
shall be no insurance on property, and a
coed suit of clothes shall be given to every
poor man, woman and child, a barrel of
flour to every needy and worthy person, and
then | shall make a half million by the
operation" This statement made in tie
newspapers stands yet unchsllenged by
any one, and no one disputes its verify
in facts. What stupendous financial folly
is the liquor system. We shall always have
hard times while rum remains with us.
But some time the intelligent American
mind will see so plain a truth and will
sweep the curse away Observation-Disclosures.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

acreage of 2755; Cape May Is, 1000; Mon
mouth 5, a15; Ocean 1e, 9i6; Camden . M no
acres given; Passaic 10, 1884; Bergen ~,
$50: Cumberland "a, $40; Mercer 10, 6S8;
Middlesex IL, 456; Morris 5, 1870; Bulling-
ton 33. 9o3, Gloucester 8, $50; Somerset ~
1000; Hun,e rdon 1,73; Sussex 80, 323S;War
rem S, 953. Total 313 farms, 1S,4S1 acres.
There are "a, 307 farms il New Jersey, with
a total acreage Of z, 9a9, 773. Average price
per acre, sos.
In Atlantic county, 1889, falms, 1o5, 12G
acres, value 500 per acre; Cape May, DAT
farms, SO, O3s acres, value $50 per acre;
Monmouth, 1861, 212,617, ss5; Ocean, S3l,
81, 442 s3l; Camden. $50, 81, 792, $50; Pas
sale, 9O6, Sc, 915, s45; Hudson, 145, 292l,
1915; Union, 757. So, 426, s206; Bergen. ITO,
"a, 200. s135; Cumberland, 2230, 156,237,
s45; Mercer. 1542, 100, 90s, $50; Middlesex,
20s5, 154, 066. SIT; Morris. 2554, 242, IT'S, $50:
Burlington. 2512, 1853. 534, $50: Gloucester,
2034, 14s, lat, SOL; Salem, 1925, 1888
$50; Hunterdon, 1853. 245, 037, $50; Somer-
set, 2046, 1851, 500; Sussex, 1892, 255,-
6SS, s3e; Warren. 1856, 1875, 1888, $50.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-03

wooDsrowN. FRIDAY, July 3, 1891.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-02-14
yica-s Floral Guide rar 1901.

No lover of a fine plant or garden
a Afford to he without q copy. Ii
i IA elegant book OF over 100 pages,
SSH inches. beautiful coiorcl Mus;ra-
lions OF Sunrise Amaraa;lius. lily
drangea ana Potatoes. Instructions
Tor planting. culiTatiHg. &c. FAN
list OF every hin" That can be desired
i'll the way Of vegetable and flower
SEEDS, plants. bulb. sc. Also fall par
]iirulars regarding the cash prizes of
Si.0G9 AID see. The novelties have
been tested and tnuE! worthy of cul-
tivation. We hope il viii he orr good
luck 20 sec the Nellie Lewis Carnation
ami taste the Grand Rapids Lettuce.
Il costs nothing because the 10 cents
You send for ii can he deducted from
The frs ort'r forwarded. We advise
II friend, to secure Il cop; of James
Iich, Scotsman. Rochester. n. Y.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-02-14

ag . ,.aatH"
o. .ra.''. by a hs- d.,sre
favor a. wa7. a..a.r aoa, ..- %"
good cav Tsi- .l-
caarr@e groaujng aao crying during
surgical operations. and is OF the
opinion that such patients as yield to
their emotions nra let natures grand
outlets for the alienation OF pain re-
main unchecked recover more Quick
ly than those who, from 4 feeling that
it is IN exhibition of weakness TO ut
ter groans TEi cries, restrain them
selves. lie cites the case Of a man
who lowered his pulse sixty beats by
giving himself up noi,ily to his
strained and nervous condition for
two hours. Nor that science sane
lions 4 good cry" there seems TO be
no TcasoI why women should no.
have all they want of them.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-02-14
The f.ay ans! tt.c $40. Machines.

!; You drop nickel with a string
attached, keeping the end Of the
>triu@ in vnur hand. have You already
dropped the coin: An Iowa Judge
haz decided i'll The affirmative. An
inGcHiuS youth in The State tied Il
t:T,ai to . nicklc, dropped tie rickte
III 4 s!ot machine. GOT what he wanted,
then withdrawing the nickel by the
tlrca! repeated -" operation ua,iI
lie aH! mad = c'cGn sweep OF The
r2ccrtac.a's contents. lie WAS arrest
cd on 4 charge o: theft. but the judge
Who tried him held that he had COM
mitted neither burglary. larceny. nor
robbery. nor cvcn obtained property
under false pretcncos. lie had merely
done what the inscription on the
machine told him 20 do-drop 4
nickel in the s!ot-and had kept on
dain" ii. Nothing was said about
!caviEgthc coin where il was dropped.
This decision will probably abagc Il
nuisaEcc.-Chic"gO JorIaal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-02-14

The awful power Of niiro-glyccriGe
was illustrated IN Ohio yesterday
when a wagon load OF This compound
exploded, eatciua!lv removing every
vestigc Of horse. wagon and driver
from the face of the earth. Nothing
but a hole in the ground remained IL
tell The story.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-02-14

4 piTNF$TGATOE'S SOTfgE-Nstice Is
- hereby given that l-.t"Ts % administration
Hla1 iar ,-e pf .i:T4i!y3a &. Wilson. dc
g 7-r.. Ia. LH"r @-rst,l t. th. U4der-iir,i
T. IT, ca-Ik 70: ,ha CaYr G!rlrleaU court of
common Ei,-. 4 '-l-s GI-@-!-aG cogutN. NH--
seyr., bearing cate III tGiTi Gay OF January,
lst!.
Al lrT='r EayiaECjS-mS against sid estate
GTc required to exhibit them 20 him for allow
Gnco within one vC-r from Bite Ia" Of said let
lev 1Ttney mas 'a u-ssiGiCI from any benefit
--cA "stctc; a"i il sT.i claims Le rIt a.h-H-
i ! within tTCy-4rs from tio date u -. uri,-
j. .t.CH %. this lotlc. :l-y vii b. forever boz
Tet- G+LHI.tT II WILSON.
tsnl.Ec2 ACniristr.:s-.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-02-14

Representative Cofiman, of Scott
county, has made a hero of himself
lie has introduced a bill to regulate
freight rates on TatcrInolons and III"
melon growers are happy. When the
melon growers learn that their repre-
tentative voted for the goose bill they
Will CHANGE their tune.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-02-14

The Missouri Legislature i all right
'on the goose question" 1t has pass
cd 4 law to restrain geese from run-
ming Al large and nov ii is after the
goats. Gcor-r &. Vest has been
elected, 4 goose law has been enacted.
Row let the goa; bill pass and then
our able statesmen MAJ adjourn aE.'
return home.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-02-14

Mach interest is manifested n med
zeal circle, III Paris in regard to the
goats blood cure" for tuberculosis
advocated by Doctors Berlin and
i'icq. Of the Nantes faculty. These
doctors, il viii be remembered. il
iccied i;ttcon gram, Of goat, blood
into tho tLi2Es "f two patients. and
on Jan. = asserted that cures can b"
brought about hy renewing -uch III
jectipHs every t,n days. On Jan. -,
they announced tina: III ihc case OF
bo.L ihcsa patients the fever had
ab3:cd.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-02-14

One remarkable feature of The late
embryo blizzard has so far escaped
the attention of newspaper writers.
VIZ: Not 4 word has been said about
the destruction OF the coming peach
crop in Maryland, Delaware and New
jersey.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-02-14

For several months the cditcrCf!hc
Charleston Dcbioc.fd has kept stand
ing at the head Of his editorial col
ANN i.ic>e words: ~ r2w court
house or h"rst. Friday ni"ht Ii" ell
court house burned down. The origin
of the fire is shrouded in mystery, but
= new court house will be- built. This
is another instance where the press
has made is power fclt.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-02-14
T.otice to Contractors.

Motto IS hereby given tn; the unicTsicre'l
Road al Bridge Commissioner of Cape GiTAT-
dean county Missouri. will, or saturday,
Mach eth. l-HI. 81 - O'Clock Il let o%"'trgct
Tor the T pair Of the unTtE per Of The bridge
fc=oss mite Water near White " lter station.
Said repair consists Of taking down ard re
placing laid pier or ~ : pa rig- said pier Tith-
out taxing 4 dOwn. Plan and specifications
furnished On the day Of Lifting.
l. VI. Bean.
Road & Bridge Commissioner
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1891-02-14

In the tariff discussion tbs free
traders are, Is a rule. silent regarding
fhc free list. But il plays a very large
part in an import trade. Forinstancc,
The Official figures. just received, show
that in November last the imports
which came in duty free were valued
at $29.557,526. as compared with
S3I63S.990 CT dutiab'e imports.
There was. moreover, al increase OF
- per cent in The free imports. and q
decrease OF % pc: cent in the dull
able imports. When the provisions
for the admission O. free sugar takes
effect, The proportion Of free imports
VII he sill further increased, and
over half our total imports will be
articles which pay no duty.