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Sharp County record., 1891-11-05

ports. g.ls. ssi isl, s5; Is2. Si,6goD;
crease. q perc nt
High pr tee iy- tariS 1924 to ls32-EIports,
1924. S6.s4g, so; Iss2, sl,726 50; increase, q
rer cent ...
Lover comuromise tariff 1893 to ls42-E1-
port.. lss!. s6I 72S.5ge; Is49, ss9,7se,2 ,2R; in
crease, 4s per cent
High pr itectiva tariff, l'42 to lst5-E1ports,
ls4l. gg7gg 242, ls45, Sl0I,7IS,o4!i increase,
Low revenue tariff, 1916 to 1sji-EIports,
ls45 SOL D4? 1851, SIS 90s,Il3; increase, Ia
per cent
Lover revenue tariff. 1851 to ls60-EIports,
is :, 1856 7I3; 1850, s5ll AZ i23i Increase, la
per cent.
Thus under eight years Of a moderate
protective tariff and eight years Of alb
normally high tariffs our exports be-
came less than they were in 1916, under
a revenue tariff.
These figures show clearly the disas-
trous effects of high tariffs upon our
export trade. On the other hand, un'
der low tariffs our export trade flour
ished and was prosperous
Not less significant are the effects OF
high duties upon the prices OF farm
products. In every case, as shown In
the following table, high tariffs low
cred prices and low tariffs raised them.
Unfortunately we have no figures OF
prices before 1915:
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05

Not being an inventor, can hardly
describe intelligently the wonder,
there not now existing its like to which
l might refer. Two old cultivator
wheels Of equal size placed side by
side and connected by an axle, small.
er wheel for steering purposes ahead.
q 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 recov-
cry. Finally, the masterpiece was COM
pleted and the time Of trial at hand,
finding Mr.. Lazenberry in mild way
interested in it as much as an ague-at-
ficted 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 salts
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05
THE STEEL RAIL COMBINE.
A Meeting Held to Arrange For Another
TnrecInsnre Of Its Iariff Mortgage.

A Meeting Held to Arrange For Another
Foreclosure Of Its Tariff Mortgage.
The steel rail trust held an important
meeting in Philadelphia recently to
complete the arrangements for the ad'
mission of the Spa-row's Point Md
branch Of the Pennsylvania Steel 20.
into the trust aud to manage the allo;-
ment TO each company.
II will be remembered that the
trust" consists of the illinois Steel
Co. Carnegie Brothers & Co., the Penn
sy! ania Steel Co, the Bethlehem Iron
Co, the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Co.
and the Combined Iron Co. This CON-
bine was powerful enough to secure
thelretention in the Mckinley tariff OF
pFohibitory duty, thus giving it abso-
lute control of the home market.
At the meeting in Philadelphia plans
were discussed by which the combine
could be able to take advantage Of any
future boom which may occur in rail-
road building as a result of the enor-
mnIs cereal harvests of the present
year, just as it did in the years 1880 to
1888 and in 1886 AID 1887.
In the three years preceding 1880
trade was poor and the increase in rail-
way mileage averaged only 3,25S miles
per year. During these three years the
price of steel rails averaged s4452 per
ton. In 1850 q change took place and a
boom set in which lasted three years.
Fog these three years the new mileage
built averaged 9,533 miles per year.
The combine foreclosed its tariff mort
gage and raised the price of rails to
$50 o. per ton But in their eagerness
to get from the railroads all that they
could they overstepped themselves and
inspite Of tariff of SIS per ton i'm
portations averaged 175, 495 tons per
year.
Again in 1893, 1884 and 1885 there was
falling off in railway construction,
the average increase in mileage being
only 4,533 and the price of steel rails
fell to an average OF S32.33H per ton.
In 1885 another boom in railway con-
struction began and continued through
the following year, the average num-
Der OF miles built being 10, 4S3. Again
the rail combine put up prices to an
average for the two years OF s35. 81 In
1883 there was decrease in railway
construction and prices went down.
Now, however, all the indications
point to another boom, as the following
from the Iron Age shows: "a discus
sion OF the situation with many thought
fol and experienced members of the
iron trade leads to the conviction that
anotable rise in the price in the leading
lines of iron aud steel must be expected
A consideration Of the condition of az
fairs in the rail trade would point to
the conclusion that a notable rise in
prices cannot we'll be expected during
tha balance of this year, but the antici.
pations OF requirements for 1892 may
lead to the beginning of boom before
the year is closed. "
TO prepare for this boom the combine
held its meeting to prepare for another
foreclosure of its tariff mortgage, max
ing three in less than twelve years
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05
Three Views Of Labor.

The highest protectionist authorities
are not agreed as to the superiority OF
American labor The American Econs-
mist the organ Of the protective tariff
league, says: "rhe fact that our mills
and factories are filed with English,
Scotch, French and German artisans
disprovcs the superiority Of our native
laborers." -
The New York Tribune, the thunder
ing Jove OF the protection Olympus,
says; ut is acknowledged by foreign
manufacturers and railroad men who
have visited this country and carefully
examined affairs here that the higher
efficacy Of labor secured by higher
wages here TO great extent counter.
balances the differences In wages paid. I"
And James g. Blaine says. "Un.
doubtedly the inequalities in the wages
OF English and American operatives
are more than cqualized by the greater
efficiency Of the latter and their longer
hours OF labor"
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05

Thus under a moderate tariff wheat
averaged Sl.26 per boshel during the
eight years from 1916 to 1924; under
the high tariffs from 1924 to 1882 the
price fell to an average of s11OH. A
low tariff was enacted in 1888 and the
price averaged sl.S5. Then followed
the high tariff of 1912 and wheat went
down to lower point than ever before,
only to recover all that it had lost and
to rise still higher under the revenue
tariff of 1916.
What more conclusive proof Of the
disastrous effects of high tariffs upon
the prices of agricultural products can
be found than this?
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05

HEROIC TREATMENT FOR THE AGUE.
faction. When all was ready, Pink re-
leased the wheel he had been holding,
and Mr. Lazenberry, with 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
portion of the mechanism out of gear,
tangling himself up in most uncom-
Portable fashion in the machinery, and
away went the contrivance down the
little, hill at nm unexpectedly raPid,rate
of speed with the victim in the middle
with his feet considerably higher than
his head.
Hold on! Hold on" shouted Pink,
seeing clearly, when too late, just what
was the matter.
1t 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 confne itself to the
road but scesawed from side to side in
and out Of it, jouncing and humping
over hummocks and stones in most
unpleasant manner, jerking and thump-
ing and scrubbing poor, ague-weakened
Mr.. Lazenberry shamefully.
Pink started to dash down the hill
after the invention, but stubbed 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
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 a severe shaking
up, but his faith in Pinkney as an in
ventor was well-nigh shattered.
The vehicular couch received no fur.
ther Improvement The wreck was
left In the gully till washed away,
some weeks later, by freshet. Neither
did Pinkney's unique treatment cure
his father Of the ague. But, finally,
the disease, either succumbing TO the
influence Of quinne or getting tired OF
his company, deserted its victim, and
.o-day he is as well and hearty as al.
most anyone you could name. Pink.
ncy continues to invent and his mother
to encourage him, but his father is less
sanguine, ToM p. MORGAN
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05
THE TARIFF AND PRICES.

High Tariffs Depress the Prices of Farm
4 a Products-Low Tariffs Raise Them-The
Lessons of Our History.
The relation between tariffs and the
prices of agricultural products is an in
teresting one. Commerce or buying
and selling between nations is nothing
but barter when unrestricted by legis-
lative acts passed to force payments to
be made in certain products only
When commerce is free, when trade is
free, nations buy what they need and
pay for it with a portion OF that Of
which they have surplus. Thus, for
instance, England never raises sufi-
cient breadstuffs for her own consump-
tion; she is therefore an importer Of
them. At the same time she makes
more Of certain kinds OF manufactured
products than she can consume, with
these, whenever she can, she pays for
her imported breadstuffs.
On the other hand the United States
always has surplus of breadstuffs, be-
yond the need Of home consumption,
and must sell it abroad At the same
time there are many manufactured
products for which there is a greater
demand than supply at any price and
resort must be had to importation.
We're trade between England and the
United States free, the United States
would send England breadstuffs and
receive manufactured products as pay
ment But here the high tariff on man
ufactured products steps in and pre-
vents the exporters of breadstuffs, or,
in other words, the farmers from re-
ceiving payment in manufactured
goods, Under It's restrictions payment
must be made in gold. Nations, like
individuals, find IL 10 their advantage
to sell at the same time that they buy.
Just as the grocer will pay more for the
farmers potatoes, butter and eggs
when the farmer will take groceries in
exchange, so nations will be willing TO
pay more for what they need when
payment can be made In goods. This
Is especially true Of the commerce be-
tween Europe and the United States
Whenever our laws have permitted us
TO accept payment in goods, the prices
Of farm products have been higher
than when payment in goods has been
prohibited,
High tariffs restrict imports and ex-
ports and raise freight rates. Thus
they tend TO make exporting unproft-
able, and this In turn acts disastrously
upon prices
This Is not theory but plain fact, and
our experience In the past proves II 10
be true From 1850 10 1916 we had a
low revenue tariff which did not Sc.
riousy affect foreign trade; from 1919
TO 1921 the tariff, though higher than In
the former period was generally low
upon most products, except Iron and
eottoni from 1894 /, 1882 we had a
period Of abnormally high duties,
from 1888 to 1912 the duties were again
low; from 1912 to lsi6 they were raised
again only TO be followed In 1916 by
another low tariff, and In 1857 BY n
stil lower tariff, or what high pro.
tcctionists chose TO designate us Il tariff
for revenue,
Our exports of domestic products,
mainly agricultural, under the opera.
tions Of these various tariffs show the
following results
II venue tTId,, 1850 TO isl6-ESportt, 1850,
sIv,OOO,0O 1916 NL2lS1i increase, al Der
cent
Noderato protective tarltf. 1916 to is!i-Es.
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05
THE OLD MANS WATCH.

A,ince left the village where I lived as 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
II seems to be forever running backward, notch
by notch.
I've took it TO the goldsmith aud inquired the
reason shy
But he says he thinks the trouble it's mostly in
ny eye.
I've bought some new spectaeles they'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 dag,
It reminds me Of the morning that our jamie
went away
Went awa-aay to the metropolis and oil the
hopes and fears
Come surginR to my heart again, and melt
theirselyes in tears.
And when the dawn comes struggling through
the shadows Of the street
hear a mufied ticking like the pit-a-pat Of
feet,
And Sairey's little toddIer, with his towsled
ROluen heaQ,
Comes in again and chambers up the side Of
grandpa's bed.
When Lindy calls the time OF day, never see
the hour,
But in its place some picture Ger my senses
wields 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 recoIlec-
tions come
And shut away the present scene, and still the
city's hum.
AT six o'clock the cows begin to low, at eight
the chores are done,
And fairy realms are wrought Of clouds above
the hidden sun.
At nine-I blush and stammer then-rm not
myself at nine,
For that's the blessed hour I asked sweet
'Lindy to be mine
At ten kneel beside crib and breathe a fer
vent prayer:
70, God, o. Father, hear our plea! In mercy
spare oh, sparer'
And then the hour grows dark and chill; the
night winds, passing, sigh,
AS bending low, I kiss farewell and see my
hrstborn die.
No matter what the hour ut which the watch
may point It's hands,
Each figure on the dial for some dear remem.
brance stands.
I've took 1t to the goldsmith and inquired the
reason why.
But he says he thinks the trouble Of it's mostly
In my eye.
looked at It this morning at a quarter after
eight,
And saw the school, a mi lie away, and knew l
should be late.
But 'Lindy said; Good graclous, John, that
watch Is awful slow:
You haven't been a schoolb oy since some sixty
years ago"
And so my watch goes ticking, ticking back.
ward toward the past,
And so 1t will go ticking, ticking backward Till
at last
close my weary eyeids and by tender hands
caressed,
Am Graded in my cofin, once again babe at
rest.
Willis J. Hawkins, in Detroit Free Press.
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05

your sufferings from Ca,.'.sS u.S
That is; if you go about it ''1a in 4.
right way. we
There are plenty of wrono v,,.
that perhaps you've found ~, ~
They may relieve for a tina % h..
they don't cure. W.
Worse yet, they may drive a,
disease to the lungs. You c,n,. "s
afford to experiment.
But there is a right way, and .
sure way, that does cure. T6ou
sands of otherwise hopeless cssa.
have proved it. It's with DR.. SaeS' .
Catarrh Remedy. By its Mill h
soothing, cleansing and heaTDa
properties, it permanently cures tIs
worst chronic. cases. Catarrb,l
Headache, "Cold in the Head i''l
everything catarrhal in its natvr,
is cured as if by magic.
It's way so sure that the nm.
prietors of DR.. Sage's Remedv
offer, in good faith, $500 for !
case of Catarrh which they c..
not cure.
If it's sure enough for them IL
make the offer, it's sure enOurI
for you to make the trial.
They risk $500. What do Won
risk?
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05
His CrclIcnIlnlA.

II doesn't make any difference which
United States senator IL was so long as
the story told Of him cannot be fixed
upon anybody he can get his hands on,
Suffice II 10 say IL was United States
senator and he had come TO Washing.
ton TO be inducted into his high office.
lie was out in u committee room with
two or three senator's during the pre-
liminarics,
"l'y the way inquired one, "have
You got your crcdcntials?n
you bet have" }" he replied on the
spot yanking big wallet out of his
pocket and slapping II down on the
table,
1t was clean give away, but they
never told anybody except in exccu.
tive session and that is how II leaked
out Detroit Free Press.
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05
where Tin Plato Taxes Pinch.

Last year the people were taxed on
the tin plate imports s7,OOO,OOo This
year the tax at the same rate OF i'm
portation will be sl5, 400 900, Is the
people that must pay this tax. The
National provisioner, the organ Of the
canning industry, OF this week tells
how they are doing IL II says that
lard cans of flvc.gallon size, which sold
ut 10 cents each Wholesale before the
Mckinley bill vent into effect now
cost ~ 0 cents aud that square dinner
kettles, with tray, flask aud cup, cost.
ing formerly 81 cents, now cost $40
cents each wholesale, and that the
same percentage OF increase holds good
as to all articles made Of bright tin
used for canning purposes II Is here
where the tin plate tax pinches, Pitts.
burgh Post
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05

berry subjected his father.
When that tenacious and enervating
disease fastcns upon it's victim he can
take the big doctor book" and the adj.
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 irrevercntly called, num-
Der more than score and consist OF
as many different combinations Of
various roots, herbs and barks, each, II
possible, more unpleasant to the taste
than the other.
After one has been the victim OF yell
low.dock, sumac berries, mandrake,
bonesct, poccoon, wahoo, Indian tur-
nip and what.not, In the various delec-
table combinations OF which they are
capable, he Is pretty apt to be in a
condition TO appreciate the fullness OF
the feelings Of the late job, who de-
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05

sired to be delivered from his friends
and likewise, perhaps, their remedies.
II by this time neither the patient
nor the ague have succumbcd TO the
treatment there remains, II he does not
retain energy enough 10 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.
Mr. Watts Lasenberry and his aguc
had survived all these cures, and while
Yoor man, by reason Of the disease
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05

Clarence II. Freeman, the cham.
pion chcckcr'plOycr Of the land, is a
hulatto with slight tingo of pequot
Indian blood He used 70 be porter
aad errand 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
fW men.
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05
LIN lsNO oheese 10 ihn vnlnn md All

In 1890 cheese TO the value OF 81.
300, 300 was imported into this country.
Tho same year we exported choese tc
the value OF Ss,b0l, ,Ois, What we im.
ported came In the shape OF the small
and rich Swiss and French eheeseA
with which the article we export oan,
not possibly compete, Rural Ne-,
Yorker
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05

HERE are many
ways Of treating
the ague, but the
m ost original
method that ever
C a m C to N y
knowledge W as
I h a I to which
Pinkney Lazcn-
Sharp County record., 1891-11-05
German
Syrup

Those who have no.
used Boschee's Ger.
man Syrup for some
severe and chronic
trouble of the ThrOs.
and Lungs can haul.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-08
A Warning.

According to THE RICHMOND DISPATCH the diff
f,culty in the way OF a settlement of the debt
question with the Olcott Committee seems to be
the refusal Of the State to increase its debt
paying resources by reducing its appropriations
10 the schools. Tho State.is right. In this age Of
enlightenment and progress We cannot AFFORD tc
deny the children OF the State necessary educa-
tional advantages, and zee ,eiH not. The credi-
tors might as we'll agree to let the schools alone
In any debt proposition they may make.-Indez-
Appeal.
Yes. And tho creditors might as well
make up their minds to accept the Offer
made by the State in the RIDDLEBERGEr
bill, or one so much like it as to render the
difference between the two Of little or no
consequence. We ought not to be mealy.
mouthed in this matter; and so we say
once more that Reputation lies just back
of Rejection. We would, not have tine
State repudiste; but we know that there
are thousands of virginians who have be.
come so thoroughly disguised with the
State.debt question that they are not only
not ready to bear the ills they have rather
than fly to others that they know not Of
but are ready to fly to ills they know not
OF rather than bear the ills they have
Again and again have We warned the
States creditors that the country people
in Virginia do not sympathize at all with
the debt-payers
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-08
Not a small Matter.

II IL not the falseboods which peopie
toll about us which ought to give us any
concern. We may be sure that Whatever
IA not true will fail to injure us per-
maneptIy. 1t is the truth that hurts.
The following paragraph from the wash
ngton Port is based upon the assumption
that parties. like men, need not fear the
false charges which may be brought
aeains. them, but only the true ones. In
spesking of the counts in the indictment
which the third party has found to be q
true billn as against both the Democratic
party and the Republican party. that
paper says:
aft there IL solitary CONT In that indictment
which calls the policy Of the party In question, IL
must be answered In one way or another, or
Judgment will be entered against It, II In any
respect the party has fallen short Of the reasons
Bile expectations Of the people, It therein dscloses
an inherent weakness IN itself, and furnishes 10
the third party reason for its being which ought
never TO have been.
"As matter OF fact both Of the great parties
are In a measure responsible for the situation
and whatever Of evil there may be In IL. They
are both In measure responsible for any new
party that may be born Of this situation. They
both have something TO fear, whether much or
little, from movement that has Its origin in the
discomfort and unrest Of the people that neither
has honestly or successfully sought to allay."
These suggestions are worthy or con-
sIderation whether you agree fully with
the Post or not.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-07-08

charged With not raising finger 70 defeat
the force hill; but We arc surc that mr..
nu.x aid not intend for II TO bear that
construction. Therefore, - We acquitted
Mr.. CLrvrLAxD OF any purpose to cast Q
slur upon the South, 20 We acquit Mr.. HILL
Of any purpose to cast . slur upon hr.
CLEVELAND.
Mr.. Hr4 appropriately dnd fcrcefully
refers 70 that moment Of threatened dan.
ger and disaster when the South appealed
10 her Democratic brethren in the North
for sympathy and assistance, and says that
though In some quarters the appeal
seemed to fall on deaf ears and irresponsible
hearts y Tammany was not found wanting.
II no were ovef-sensitive Mr.. CLEVELAND
might object to that language, too. But
we must stop. II you have not read these
two letters carefully read them now. fou
cannot help being profted by their pc
rusal and struck by their differing charac-
teYistics.