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como upon rs sooner but for the entire
ordinary demand in Europe for hBeaA-
stuffA growing out Of huge famines and
big wars. and but for the dazzling and
magnificent discovery of gold mines in
California, by which hard money SUI
dcient to buy an empire, has been
called into existence and exported 10
Europe If we could stop. the import
Of the foreign articles. the gold would
cease to dow out to pay for them and
money would then again beeoms more
abundant. labor would then again be
in demand. shoes. clothing and other
commodities would then again be in
demand, and men would then cease to
starve in the streets Of our towns and
cities If it be not stopped the gold
must continue to 60 abroad. and en-
ployment must become from day to day
more scarce, until where there are now
many thousands we shall see tens of
thousands of men everywhere crying:
Give me work! Only give me work.
Make your own terms-my wife and
children have nothing to eat"
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Not being an inventor, I can hardly
describe intelligently the wonder.
there not now existing its like to which
I might refer. Two old cultivator
wheels of equal size placed side by
side and connected by an axle, 4 small
er wheel for steering purposes ahead.
. low-hanging couch. swung beneath
somehow, a crank arrangement and
other contrivances Of which only Pink
knew the name and nature-that,
briefly. was the invention. The opera
tor was supposed to recline at ease on
the swinging couch, and, manipulating
the proper parts of the mechanism. go
trundling gently along.
1t had been some time since the vic
tim of the ague had been able to go
about the neighborhood. but, as the in
vention took shape, the family felt
sure that it would enable him to take
little excursions without fatigue and
be the means of cheering him up con-
siderably if not of Fastening his rccov-
cry. Finally, the masterpiece was COM
pleted and the time of trial at hand,
finding Mr.. Lazenberry in a mild way
interested in it as much as an ague-at.
flicted man could well be interested in
anything but his own woe.
Desiring to make the trial excursion
as easy and pleasant as possible for his
father, Pink decided that he should
ride down the nearby slope, keeping
to the smooth road down the gentle in
cline and across the little bridge that
spanned the gully at its foot, stopping
as soon as he liked on the level be-
yond. Thus he would have little to do
but guide the machine, as it would
practically run itself down the slope.
Mr.. Lazenbury left his easy chair.
crept out to the starting place and
stretched himself on the low-swung
couch with an ''um-ah!" of mild satis-
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berry subjected his father.
When that tenacious and enervating
disease fastens upon its victim he can
take the big doctor book" and the ad-
vice of sympathizing friends and find
himself in possession of large num-
Der of recipes, all believed by their
formulators to be good, or bad, for the
ague.
The granny" remedies, as the form
ulas of kind and experienced old ladies
are sometimes irreverently called, num-
Der more than a score and consist of
as many different comb inaticns of
various roots, herbs and barks, each, if
possible, more unpleasant to the taste
than the other.
After one has been the victim Of vel
low-dock, sumac berries. mandrake.
boneset, poccOon, wahoo, Indian tur-
nip and what-not, in the various delec-
table com binations of which they are
capable, he is pretty apt to be in a
condition to appreciate the fu]lness of
the feelings of the late Job. who de-
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THE OLD MANS WATCH.

A-since left the village where I lived ~ boy
and man,
And settled in the city here, where things are
spick and span,
I've noticed something queer about the work
ings OF my watch
1t seems to be forever running backward. notch
by notch.
I've took it to the goldsmith and inquired the
reason why,
But he says he thinks the trouble it's mostly In
my eye.
I've bought some new spectacles rhey're
brighter than the old.
But still my watch runs backward, and the
past alone is told
When take it from the pillow, just before the
break Of day,
1t reminds me Of the morning that our Jamie
went away
Went awa-a-ay to the metropolis-and all the
Come surging to my heart again, and melt
themselves in tears.
And when the dawn comes struggling through
the shadows OF the street
I hear a mufded ticking like the pitt OF
feet,
And sairey's little fodder. with his towsled
golden head,
Comes in again and chambers up the side Of
g-andps's bed.
When 'Lindy calls tho time Of day, never see
the hour,
But in its place some picture DER my senses
yields a power.
At noon hear the dinner-horn, and join the
merry band,
For once again feel myself . hungry harvest
hand
At one o'clock at two. at three fond recollec
lions come
And shut away the present scene. and still the
city's hum.
At six O'Clock the cows begin to low. 1t eigh,
the chores are done.
And fairy realms are wrought Of clouds above
the hidden sun.
At nine-I blush and stammer then-rm no,
myself at nine,
For that's the blessed hour 1 asked sweet
'Lindy to be mine.
vent prayer:
20. God. o, Father. hear our plea! In mercy
spare. oh, spare!
And then the hour grows dark and chilli the
night winds, passing, sigh.
As bending low, kiss fareSeli and see my
drstborn die.
No matter what the hour at " hich the watch
may point its hands
Each figure on the dial for some dear remem-
brance stands.
I've took it TO the goldsmith and inquired the
reason why.
But he says he thinks the trouble OF it's mostly
in my eye
Hooked at it this morning 1t q quarter after
eight,
And saw the school, q mi lie away, and knew !
should be late.
But 'Lindy said: Good era cious John, that
watch is awful slow:
You haven't been q schoolboy since some sixty
years ago"
And so my watch goes ticking ticking back
ward toward the past,
And so it will 60 ticking, ticking backward till
at last
I close my weary eyslids and by tender hands
caresSed,
Am Graded in my comm, once again a babe at
rest.
Willis ]. Hawkins in Detroit Free Press.
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HEROIC TREATMENT FOR THE AGUE.
faction. When all was ready, Pink re-
leased the wheel he had been holding.
aud Mr.. Lazenberry. with a feeble smile
of anticipation, started gently down the
slope. Then, the unexpected, which
SO often attended the operation of
Pink's creations, manifested itself.
When the invalid attempted to turn
the crank he displaced the center of
gravity, or from some such cause put q
portion of the mechanism out of gear.
tangling himself up in a most uncom-
Portable fashion in the machinery, and
away went the continuance down the
little hill at an unexpectedly rapid rate
of speed with the victim in the middle
with his feet considerably higher than
his head.
Hold on! Hold onr' shouted Pink,
seeing clearly. when toe late, just what
was the matter.
It seemed unnecessary to offer such
advice, for poor Mr.. Lazenberry,
tangled up as he was in the midst of
the invention, appeared to be unable to
let go. Neither could he steer the ma
chine. 1t did not confine itself to the
road but seesawed from side to side in
and out of it. jouncing and humping
over hummocks and stones in a most
unpleasant manner, jerking and thump-
ing and scrubbing poor, ague-weakened
Mr.. azenberry shamefully.
Pink started to dash down the hill
after the invention. but studded his toe
and tumbled headlong. BY the time
he had picked himself up it was too
late to prevent the mischief. Before he
could catch up, the masterpiece, with
his father in its clutches, ran off one
end of the little unrailed bridge at the
foot of the slope and dropped into the
gully. The cry that Mr.. Lazenberry
uttered as they went over the brink
was surprisingly energetic one for q
man who had had the ague so long.
Upon investigation the invention
was found to be badly wrecked, but for
tunately Mr.. Lazenberry had received
nothing worse than severe shaking
up. but his faith in Pinkney as an in.
ventor was well-nigh shattered.
The vehicular couch received no fur.
Their improvement The wreck was
left in the gully till washed away,
some weeks later, by a freshet Neither
did Pinkney's unique treatment cure
his father of the ague. But finally,
the disease. either succumbiug to the
influence of quinine or getting tired OF
his company, deserted its victim, and
to-day he is as well and hearty as al.
most anyone you could name. Pink.
ney continues to invent and his mother
to encourage him, but his father is less
TON p. MORGAN
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YlGUr0o WAasA PTUve What the RGbse Of
the Mckinley Mn Has Desa.
the American Economist has secured
6Aeresting information concerning the
retail prices Of over 50 articles in COM
non use. The figures were ob&sined
from the books Of 1,4O0 retail dealers
doing business in al parts of the coun-
try and representing every shade Of
political opinion They show the prices
charged for the same articles in 1857,
1889. 1890 and 1891, and justify the claim
that tho effect Of the Mckinley tariff
act has been to lower prices The fig
ures follow:
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His Credentials.

It doesn't make any difference which
United States senator it was so long as
the story told of him cannot be fixed
upon any body he can get his hands on.
Suffice it to say it was United States
senator and he had come to Washing
ton to be indicted into his high Office.
He was out in com mittee room with
two or three senators during the pre-
Eminaries.
by the way" inquired one, have
You got your credentials"
You bet have" he replied on the
spot, yanking a big wallet out of his
pocket and shaping it down on the
table.
1t was . clean give away, but they
never told anybody except in execu-
tive session and that is how it leaked
out-Detroi: Free Press.
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Why Am . Protectionist.

Why Am . Protectionist.
By JAMES N. SwANK, GENERAL MANAGER
OF THE AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL AS
ISOLATION.
am a protectionist because l am an
American. The free admission of foreign
commodities, or their admission at rates
of duty which are levied for purely
revenue proposes, may suit the eco
nomic conditions and meet the financial
needs of other countries, but history
teaches US that the prosperity of our
own country is best promoted by q
tariff which is levied for protection as
we'll as for revenue. Many of our great
industries, including the silk industry,
the pottery industry, the carpet in
dustry and the steel-rail industry, had
only a nominal existence until ade-
quately protective duties were imposed
on competing foreign products. All
other considerations aside, older manu-
featuring countries could command
lower wages for labor than this country,
and protective duties were therefore
needed to equalize the labor cost of
production. Our tin plate industry is
to-day an infant industry because we
have not had protective duty on for
eign tin plates. We shall always need
protective duties as long as orr people
insist upon higher standard of wages
and scale of living than prevail abroad
If they were now willing to accept the
same wages and the same social con-
ditions which the people of other coun-
tries are compelled to accept our pro-
tective policy could be greatly modi-
fed, if not wholly dispensed with.
Whatever it may have been in the past,
this policy is therefore to-day chiefly
question of wages.
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Why 1 Am . Pr0tectionist.

BY HON. WV. W. BATES, COMMISSIONERS
OF NAVIGATION.
1. Because instinct and reason teach
the right and duty of self-defense for
individuals, families. society and the
state.
2 Because protection assures peace.
without which human life has no true
object. intellectual and moral improve
ment no prospect, and the general good
no existence.
Because l believe in human free.
dom. in the improvement of man, and
the happiness of mankind. To this end
everyone should direct his course, each
government intelligently guide its peo-
pie. securing to each employment. and
to all due reward for toll.
T. Because prefer my own country
to every other; and to develop its re-
sources. increase its wealth, augment
its power and improve its people, be-
fore any other. is the bounden duty of
loyal citizens
s. Because without protection all
these things are left to chance-to doom
and disappointment-th poor to live in
ignorance and vice, the weak to fall be-
fore the strong. and the good to serve
the bad. As wisdom leaves nothing &c
chance. so good government cares for
every useful pursuit, that it may rear
its pillars on solid ground
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Mr.. Springer and the Tariff.

The Hon. William NJ. Springer has
been stumping Iowa for Governor Boies-
Mr.. Springer is an earnest and sincere.
albeit somewhat impulsive. man when
he says that the democratic party in
sists that the tariff legislation of the
last thirty years is mainly responsible
for the depression of agriculture. for
the building up of great monopolies.
and for the piling up immense fortunes
in the hands of few people" We sup
pose that he believes that such is the
fact, and such the attitude Of the
democratic party. We hope. however.
that the democratic party of Iowa Is
resting its case upon other grounds than
these, for it would be absurd to imagine
that these are tenable
What would Mr.. Springer have to say
II some hard-headed farmer should get
up on his feet at the conclusion of the
passage which we have quoted. and ask
Mr.. Springer to answer these inquiries:
l. Why has the depression in agri-
culture been so severe. and why does it
promise to be lasting in Great Britain,
q free trade country?
2. Is it the Morrill, tariff or the Nc
Kinley tariff that is the cause of the
short crops in Europe this year?
8. Why do trusts and monopolies
exist and flourish under tho regime Of
free trade as in Great Britain?
4. Why have the greatest fortunes
made in the United States been made
outside of the great protected in
dustries?.
Mr.. Springer is little too hard on
the tariff, which. after all. is not the
sum of all viilainies: and the democratic
party is not so sweeping in its asser-
tions as Mr.. Springer is. As to the
farmers, even those of them who are
most dissatisfied and depressed, and it
is rather difficult to be dissatisfied and
depressed in the face of big and bounc.
ing crops. do not seem inclined to make
the poor old tariff scapegoat.-
Sun, September %.
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Clarence Il. Freeman, tie cham.
paon cbeckerplayer of the land, is .
mulatto with q slight tingc of Pequot
Indian blood He used to be = porter
and GRAND boy in an old tavern in
Providence. where he lives. and began
to play checkers when he was seven
years old. using white and black beans
Tor men.
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HERE are many
ways of treating
the ague, but the
m o S t original
method that ever
C a m e to ID Y
knowledge W a S
{ h q t to which
Pinkney Lazen-
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IHAvE never believed that the prin-
ciples Of political economy are of uni.
versal application Free trade suits Us,
but if had been an American l should
have been a protectionist twenty years
ago-Henry Labonchere. the noted En-.
glish journalist, in n. Y. Herald. Sep.
TENDER %
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////H
THE CRADLE ROCKER GETS IN ITS WORK.

sired to be delivered from his friends
and likewise, perhaps, their remedies.
IT by this time neither the patient
nor the ague have succumbed to the
treatment there remains, If he does not
retain energy enough to resist them,
the water cure. the earth cure, the old
Uncle Darby Hicks cure. the pack and
one or two other that do not now re-
call
M Watts Lazenberry and hi. ague
had survived all these cures. and while
the Poor man. b. reason Of the disease
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TIE TIN ARGUMENT.
harm

Mr. NEIpRINeHAUs distributed sam
n,os suitably inscribed, Of the "Ameri-
can tip-ulate" made by his st. Louis
Scanning Company, among the states
men Of the Republican State Committee
81 Massachusetts, who met in Boston
the other day. These, it is UNDERSTOOD
are for campaign use.
To give force to the lessons which
,base scraps OF tin are supposed to
teach. however. will be necessary that
tho gentlemen who exhibit them as
tangible evidence of the establishment
thew industry shall state that we
are paving st the rate of about $500
600 a year in needless taxes In order
cha, Mr.. NE1DRINeHAUs may make sam
,lasof this size; and they may properly
odd the Information that TINS mAnu'ac-
s~~sr coufesses his inability to make
.,n.Dlate in commercial quantity unless
hais allowed to import cheap lOfe'Sn
Thor to take the place Of his American
workmen Who have gone out on Suffice
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FRANCE AND rar VATICAN

1t Is rumored that France and the
Vatican have come to an understand
Ing, which will be of great Importance
In European politics. The reported
agreement is said to consist OF financial
aid to the Vatican from France In re-
turn for An agreement to support the
Republic at home and abroad. Such a
compact is entirely Ineligible, singular
as it may seem when the events only of
the past two decades are recalled. Very
possibly there is not much more real
sympathy between Paris and Rome now
than there was when a clerical" was
naturally an enemy of the Republic.
But times have changed. and both par
ties to the imputed contract have
changed with them. The best men In
the Gallican Church have come to the
conclusion that 1t is no longer to their
interest to cooperate in royalist
intrigues. Cardinal LAvIGERIE has
almost openly sent the con-
spirators about their business. Mon
signor FAvA, Bishop Of Grenoble, has
made an ostentatious profession of faith
in the powers that be. The Archbishop
OF Paris is at the head Of a movement
to form an "Union Catholique" which
shall be distinctly non-political. These
episodes-especially since they are CO.
ordinate-show how fully the church
realizes the hopelessness Of the cause
to which in the main it has hitherto
given constant support. The speech
of the Comte D. JACKSONVILLE at Tou-
louise two Sundays ago vase melan-
choly recognition of this fact. 1t was
plea to the Clericals not to desert the
Royalists, and yet it was an admission
that they were DESERVING them. All
this throws light upon the rumored
friendship between France and the
Vatican.
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Wanted to whip Somebody.

ST. LOUIS. August s.-Daniel Burman
stopped at the house Of Michel Becker
at late hour last night, where num-
Der Of people were gathered for social
purpose, and being belligerently inclined
offered to whip any person present.
The challenge was followed by blows
from the whip Burman carried In his
hand upon the head and shoulders OF
those present. So many people seemed
unwilling to receive the punishment
that it required squad OF police to
rescue Burman from the hands OF what
soon became a mob, whose evident in
tention was linching, for he was being
dragged to the nearest lamp post by the
mob, several Of whom were climbing
and hitting him in the face and body
with their fists. Burman was badly
hurt, but will recover.
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Served Him Right.
Huntington TiNes

Our readers are aware of the sensa-
tional Catiestsburg dispatches that have
been filing the columns OF the daily pa
pers for some days concerning the
Wayne county tragedy (?) a copy OF
which found It's way into the Times OF
Tuesday morning. On Tuesday even
ing, we are told, the good people OF
Catlettsburg called an Indignation
meeting. The meeting they say
was largely attended and the talk
INDUCED in was not such as to make
the reporter" feel very much at home.
The feeling Of repugnance was said to
have been intense, and when 1t was
talked that the reporter would be re-
ouested to vamoose from the city he
the reporter) arose and announced that
he would 90 without any further
trouble. He is the man Porter who re-
Gently edited Republican daily paper
In CatIettsburg. Let Psrkersburg arise
and kill their liar and West Virginia
will soon have a better reputation.
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YOUNG's HAUL.
1t Amounted to Nearly Forty Thousand
still No Trace Of tho Fugitive.

It Amounted to Nearly Forty Thousand
Still No Trace Of tho Fugitive.
LOUISVILLE. August 9.-SyI Young's
rake-of amounted to $4,000 The off,
GERS of the Newport News and MIssis-
sippi Valley Railway completed the IN
vestigation little while before noon
to-day, and General Echols said that the
figures given above tell the story.
1t is impossible to say how
long the stealings has been go
ing on, and all of Young's assist
ants are astounded at the magnitude OF
the defalcation. II that Chicago real
estate, which Is to net the emDezzler
money, shows up for anything on the
10th, as promised by him, IT must come
up with snug pile. The railway will
lose all over $4,000, the amount of
Young's bonds.
1t IS certain that Young lost the
money in speculation. His billiard
playing cost him about SIS week, and
that is about all he spent except moder-
ate living expenses.
No trace Of him has been had up to
this time. The city Is full OF detectives
who hope to pull In some Of that $1,000
reward.
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Cant. Palmer,s Career.

ALBANY, Aug. Capt. John Palmer
was born on Staten Island, March %
1s47, aud removed in early manhood tt
Albany, where he has been twice elect
ed Commander of the New York State
g. A. R., and has also been Senior Vice
Commander-in-chief.
His four years faithful service during
the war established his record as a gal.
liant soldier and efficient officer. Com.
rade Palmer enlisted in Company b,
NInety-irst New York Volunteers, Sep.
TENDER 10, 1861, and during his continu-
Gus service with the regiment In camp
and field was successfully promoted
from private to corporal-sergeant, SER
geant-major, second and first lieutenant,
adjurant and captain.
He participated in every engagement
in which the regiment took part, and
the fact that it lost over three hundred
KiiIeo -~d wO"--'-I &c the best evidence
OF its services.
Comrade Palmer is charter member
of Lew Benedict Post, G. A. r., OF AL
bany. which was organized in 1867. and
during its existence has spent over $780,
600 In charity. He has been Com
mander of the post five times, and he
presided at the National Encampment
OF the G. A. R. held at Dayton, Ohio,
while Senior Commander-in-Chief.
He was chairman OF the committee
appointed at the national encampment
10 visit President Cleveland and the
heads of the department In Washington
in the interest of the veterans OF the
war. 1t was through the exertions OF
this committee that many veterans were
retained in the public service.
Palmer is chairman Of the Executive
Committee of the Board of Trustees OF
the Bath, n. Y, Soldiers Home, OF
which he has been ten years member,
In politics he is a staunch Republican.
He has never held political Office, how
ever. Since the close of the war he has
been actively engaged in business In
Albany.
The receipt of the news Of the cleo
ton of Capt. John Palmer, ex-Depart'
ment Commander Of New York, caused
great rejoicing among Albanians, espec-
ially among the old soldiers. A meeting
OF War Veterans was held in the room
of Post ) tonight, which was largely
attended. A dispatch of congratulation
was forwarded to Comrade Palmer.
A committee consisting OF Comrade:
Blaise HUFFMAN and Sterne OF Post 5,
Shoemaker OF GO, O'Connor and Holmes
of 1e1, Blackwood Of COL and Davey oil
GA was appointed to arrange for the
reception OF the new Commander-in
Chief on his arrival home.
1t will be made grand demonstra
ton. Enthusiastic and conRratulatory
addresses were delivered by Past De
partment Commander Clark, Comrade'
Blaisic, McFarlane, Graham and others
The whole city will be requested to joir
in the reception.