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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-30

This is. the kind Of facts which the
Times finds it dangerous to fool
with. Last Monday it tried t0"show
up" the falsityof similar point made
Protectionist paper to the effect that
that indigo prints are selling now
than they sold before the increased
rates placed upon them by the Nc
KinIy bill took effect. It is safe to
say that it will not try the experien-
ce again. It only succeeded in sub
statially confirming the statment
it started out to disprove, and show
ed upon the authority of Mr. NJ, c. D,
Borden the owner Of the American
Printing Company Mills at Fall
River. "the largest indigo print mills
in America" that his prices for indi-
90 prints "are little under
our prices Of seven or eight months
ago"
The Times need not have gone to
the trouble Of sending reporter to
Fall River to make this point. Had
it consulted its own favorite author
itv, the Dry Gc0ds Econ0mjst It
would have found the quotations for
standard patterns Of indigo prints
in the price-lists published IN the IS
sues of April 5, 1890, and March 28,
1907, to be as follows:
Price six months Price
before March 70,
new Tariff 1901
entS. Gents.
American Indigo blue prints a ~ o.
Arnold's "a indigo prints o. ~ o12 @04
Merrimack indigo and white p11nts@t12 y
We do not expect that the Times
will fool with these facts, either
It will deal with them as IS dealt
with those given in our former arti-
Gle in support Of our assertion quoted
bv the ZImes-that is, it will carefully
keep them from its reader and wan
der off i'll a discussion Of some other
subject. This is a marked feature
of the editorial page Of the Times.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-30

WHAT has become of the surplus?
We will tell you. From March 1889
when Mr.. Harrison assumed the
reins of the government, to March
1891, we find that Secretary Window
and Secretary Foster had purchased
and cancelled no less than S265, 900,
600 Of the national Indebtedness,
and this with the millions Of dollars
that have been distributed among
the people in pensions, is responsive
to the oft-repeated inquiry as to the
surplus. The sum Of money de,
voted to the reduction of the nation
al Indebtedness during the first two
years Of Mr.. CIeyelands Admins
tration was $141,ooo, 900 or about
one-half Of that accomplished under
Mr.. Harrison. These figures are
eminently suggestive, and are abun-
dainty able to speak for themselves
and the patriotic impulses Of the
republican party.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-30

are in common use among the peo-
pie. Every one Of them was quoted
lower on March % last than on
April 5 of last year. We have an
nexed to each the rate of duty which
it bore under the old law and bears
under the new law.
Bleached SAlrt5ngs ana Sheetings Upon
achich the McK5n7ey Bill Increased Tx
Duty. bit aohicA are Cheaper Under Tx
Nea0 than tie OLD Lac.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-30

IT is interesting to know that the
exact center Of population of the
United States is in Decatur county,
Ind, eleven miles south and two
miles west Of Greensburg, forty rods
south of the half-mile post on the
line that divides sections 7 and 20,
in township 9 north, range 9 east
II probably got lodged somewhere
en- bad road.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-30

WHEN the citizen of Wisconsin
looks at the pitifuI appearance Of the
Worlds Fair, he will tell the by-stan-
ders that he is from some other
state. There was no need Of this
disgraceful stinginess, since the Re
publicans enabled Wisconsin to re
cover nearly 100000 from the Fed
eraI government under the Direct
Tax bill
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-30

Nor less than twenty generals Of
the volunteer army have crossed the
deep, broad river and entered upon
the life eternal, within the last three
months. Who can reflect upon the
fact that within five or ten years on
" few Of the brigade, division and
corps commanders will be alive.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-30
Free Trade Philanthropy.

If the asseverations of free trade
attorneys are to be believed these
gentleman should be credited with
larger share of philanthropy than
is allotted to the average man.
While persistently demanding the
reduction of all such duties as they
dare not hope to have repealed, they
insist upon being credited with the
desire to help others rather than
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-30
ask for it.

IT is a coincidence that just as
bigotry, aided by demagogism, IS
aiming a blow at the common
schools in different States in the
Union, England is making an educa-
tronal advance. The Liberals and
Conservatives alike are practically
pledged to a free school system.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-30
Increased Tariff Rates, but Lover
Prces

The New York Times Of March
81 quotes these words from the
Imcrjcau E90n0mI5t
A fall in the price Of protected ar
ticles on which the duty has been IN
creased is'a marked feature IN the
practical working of the new tariff.
Certain members Of the Protec-
tive Tariff League" it remarks,
must get a great deal Of fun out Of
the neat weekly journal through the
pages of which they supply stories
and arguments to the faithful minor
organs of McKinleyism throughout
the land
Had the Times written simply,
get instead Of "must get, its
comment would have conveyed the
exact truth. For there can be no
doubt that our readers keenly enjo1
the 'fun" which we have in these
columns with the performer" The
editorial from the Times, now under
consideration, furnishes US material
for an installment Of this 'fun.
We are sure the friends Of the
Economist will enjoy it, and as for
the T1mcs-well, it will be instructed
at least as to what we mean by
"fun," though it may not be moved
to hiIarlty thereby,
In the first place, it will seem very
funny to our readers that after quot
ing the Economid to the effect that
"a fall in the price of protected arti
cles on which the duty has been in
creased is a marked feature in the
practical working Of the new tariff,
the Times carefully kept from its
readers the facts we presented in
support Of the assertion. -Four i'm
portant classes Of articles were dis
tinctly named in verifcation of our
statement. Yet our Mugwump
critic did not allude to the facts, but
left its readers to infer that we had
merely made the bald statement
without any show of authority. And
the Er0n0mlStS friends, we have no
doubt, will see much more "fun"
than will be visible to the Times in
the additional examples we herewith
present of articles with increased
rates Of duty which are cheaper now
than they were before the new tariff
went into effect. Nor have the quo
tations been furnished by "Protected
manufacturers. We find them in
the price-lists published in that ere
form" trade paper, the Dry Goods
Ec0nomi5t, whose columns furnish to
the Times so much anti-protection
ammunition. From the "Prices
Current supplement accompanying
the Econ0mist of April 5, 1890 (six
months before the new tariff took
effect, a number of representative
grades of "bleached shirtings and
sheetings" were selected, and their
prices noted. Then We consulted
the same papers prices Current
for March %, 1891 (six months after
the new tariff rates became opera
tive), and found the prices on that
date of the Identical grades of the
same "bleached shirtlngs and sheet
ings." We selected only those
grades upon which the tariff had
been increased, grades, too, which
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-30

THE Malta, the Clan-na-Gael, the
Chinese Highbinders, and now, pos
sibly, Jack the Ripper. If you do
not see any kind of imported vii
lainy you want in the United States,
ask for it.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-30
pub,ic Trial. 2.f7H-Last Halt 1867.
Prairie Prince. Standard--- not reCt


rd dam
superby gated Jeaod k ne w"
makes county ever au
qualities.
Service Fees season
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-30
Gee. King Pine. zee.

by raie First TudeH SUD W
speedy thnk
promising FLIES Kenosha county look for King Enc
is
him his fee made low
vice fee. the
o o catalogues EDWARD r DE- WOLF.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-04-30
CALIFORNIA Homes
AMONG
Eastern People.

Our chicago Settlement is located on the
near his famous Home Ranch" SO frequently
quoted in reference to California fruit culture AS
settlement Of people who will make the most , OF OF
there We donot want a d8scontented person in the
community and urge personal examination on the
ally toward the expenses of the trip: Correspon.
dece cordially invited. Land surveyed and dltched
in TO- 20 and acre tracts. Free irrigating water
MORRIS GANSE & KEMBLE,
1901 Chamber Of Commerce Building. CHICAGO.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-08
The E.rt1, nm Electric Machine.

Every day the needle of the mag
netic compass had been observed to
sway first one way and then the other
upon its pivot with no apparent cause,
thus varying from the true meridian Of
q place. Scientists have for many years
been trying to account for this. One Of
them has just published his theory of
the cause of the disturbance. He as
cribes it to electricity, assuming that
the earth is whirling on its orbit be-
tween two magnetic fields, and that the
varying itensity of the current one way
or the other produces the disturbance OF
the magnetic needle. The two mag
netic currents, he believes, are stream
ing to us from the sun, one sbelng pro-
duced by the corona, the other coming
directly with the suns rays in straight
lines. In other words, according to
ti1is theory, electricity is generated by
the sun. 1t reaches US the same way as
sunlight does, and the conclusion is
akin to, il not identical with sunllgh5
itself, The revolving earth is the 81
rantic dynamo which excites the cleo
tr,c currents and makes them manifest.
-Ch:cago Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-08
Liquor-Drinking in Great Britain.

AuhAuS GreaC Britain.
"When 1 first went to England saws
an old traveller s'the amount of LIQUOR
that was drunk by all classes simply
amazed me. was invited to a country
house where all the old customs were
maintained. At O'Clock all the SER
wants came in, every one got down on
their knees, and family prayers were
said and chapter from the Bible read.
1t was very patriarchal, and after it was
over expected to get candle and 90
to bed, but what was my surprise, after
the servants filed out, to hear the hos
tess ask all the guests into an adjoining
room, where heavy supper was spread.
Ihad choice of dozen different kinds
OF liquor, and in letter home de-
scribed this domestic function as fol-
lows: We had family prayers and then
proceeded to get comfortably full of
good liquor In Scotland the amount
OF whisky that is consumed makes an
Americans hair curl. Some strict Pres
byterians in Glasgow, to whom had a
letter OF introduction, called in turn to
see me at my hotel. After some talk
asked them if they would take some re-
freshments. Yes, they would have
whisky. So the waiter brought some.
strong Scotch whisky and big glasses
that would hold a half pint. Each man
poured out about what would make an
ordinary glass of beer in this country,
tossed in little water, and took it down
without wink. "-Ne,0 York Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-08
O, tho Misery Off

Human wretchedness touches bottom in sea
sickness. Life is held Q feathers weight by the
unfortunate afflicted with it. Why endure it,
stroctous internal commissions when Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters relieves them instanter? Not
only relieves, but prevents. It ID not always on
the 'briney" that travellers nausea is expert
enoed. Railway journeying, riding with ones
back to the horses or the locomotive sometimes
produces it in super.sensitive stomachs. Hos.
letters Stomach Bitters is always tho prompt
remedy. The mischievous properties of brack.
wholesome or unaccustomed food, excessive
fatigue whether bodily or mental the dyspeptic
tendency bred by sedentary pursuits the per-
perature or dampness, all these are effectualiv
counteracted by this genial preservative Of
health Cures also rheumatism, kidney, and
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-08
. Beginning and End of a Century

W. many people are there whose
q, a,e misty as to the time when the
~ oeglns and ends! The first
~ con comprised 100 years, and did
ls,o with the year SO; it was not
d ;s.eo until the last moment of the
esy :. Of o., the year 100. The same
ts a. Is Isl likely to crop out again and
:, n .ne close of the present century
in nvar, and one Of the most fire.
a adI4ulr1es addressed to the omnis-
Ent o IL, 1y the intelligent cores
fiath will be as to whether the
W! ~, century begins with 1900 or
]a sne same difficulty was expert
IN , tL year, when not a few people
s as mat II they had entered upon the
ia a VT. OF the nineteenth century,
Estts o. hesitate y. to say SO, though
N nna:, OF fact that decade did not
# l na the first of January this
haloapr eIple would only think of
by, between a century and the
rifv ' tSo or girl, it would help them
on - .llelr Ideas on this subject.
|amn1a noy passes the age of ten,
ter rpae' It is we'll understood that
! on vi ~ MS eleventh year-he is
Ed h eiteyen," as it is sometimes
tle w Dus ne is not eleven years old
the" nol 8 OF that year is completed.
its h oi course his twelfth year
u tes beginning. So tho century
[yvo vi Its hundred and last year
- Sna the new century will be-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-08
What Poem. are Not wanted,

The Ladies' Home Journal gives
very good advice about poems which
are written and declined and says: The
reason why SO many Of the unsolicited
poems are declined by the magazines of
to-day may. perhaps, best be given by
means of some hints to would-be con-
tributors as to what they should not
do.
All of these hints are based upon
actual experience with poems submitted
to magazines.
Don't send long, gloomy poems of
from one to four hundred lines. From
four to forty lines is the most available
length, and one bright, cheerful poem
does more good than fifty broken
hearted" ones. It also stands better
chance of acceptance.
Don't send poems that have already
been published. To some this caution
seems unnecessary; yet hundreds of
persons send poems already printed
elsewhere.
Don't send the same poem to more
than one magazine at time.
Don't send translations. The average
magazine avoids them.
Don't send poems that you may be
sure are unsuitable. You can find this
out by studying the poetry the maya
zine prints. Notice what it don't print,
and send the other kind. So much
poetry is received that the field of Sc
lection is wide. and only the best stands
chance of success.
Too much stress cannot be laid upon
the last don't" above.j Excellent
poems have to be declined because they
are unsuited to the wants OF the maya
zine to which they are sent. They treat
subjects which are outside the peri
odicals province. They repeat things
which have already been said. They
are faulty in grammer. metre or rhyme.
They have defects peculiar to them
selves and impossible to describe in de-
tail; but those mentioned are most fire.
quently met with, and are the COM
monest cause of declination.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-08
SHILon's
C0NSU M PTIoN
CURE.

The success of this Great Cough Cure i
without parallel in the history Of medicine.
All druggists are authorized to sell it on a DOS.
tive guarantee, test that no other cure can sue.
cessfully stand. That it may become known,
the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, are
placing a Sample Bottle Free into every home
in the United States and Canada. If you have
Cough. Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use ii, for
1t will cure you. If your child has the Group,
or Whooping Cough. use it promptly, and relief
Is sure. If you dread that insidious disease
Consumption, use it. Ask your Druggist foe
SHHOH'S CURE, Price 10 cts. 50 cts. and
tI.oo. If your Lungs are sore or Back Lama,
use Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Price IS cts.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-08
gin enoo with 1901; its second year will ID
iSua: ana na SO on until its hundredth and
Tie Mystery of Crovt,,


r. VINO mas ever seen anything grow!
!! must be that one who could keen
vigil long enough might do so, for last
night when l looked into this fiower.pot
mere was nothing there but earth. and
so-night there is q slender stem or blade
o1 something half an inch long. There
lnust nave been o moment when the
green point protruded through the soil.
or perhaps it was white point. and
would have been very possible for me
20 nave remained in position to watch
u steadily for twenty-four hours. Peo-
pie have done things requiring more
patience than that. But though I have
Deen near this fower-pot most of the
Tune, L only know that one sunset went
down upon the mold, the next upon a
green thing growing.
Shortly shall see thicker stalk. n
broader blade. If no accident happens.
there will be plant OF some sort be-
tore me in few weeks. But, though I
vow to watch it, I shall not see il grow.
L shall say at intervals: SLOW it has
grown!" but never know when it took
this new start or unfolded that new leaf.
ut what instant the bud appeared or at
what moment it opened.
Has any one actually seen q rosebud
open? There is no record that know
OF any such fact. The motion that is
required is evident. We have seen
flowers in every stage. and the process
IS brief. We almost fancy we have seen
it performed, each one of us; but, as I
think, I know I never have-haye
you?
believe that no mortal ever watched
mushroom take it's shape. The thing
is usually done in darkness and secrecy
yet. with lantern, it would be possible
to see what could be seen. And yet I
am sure that if we should try the ex-
pertinent, all that would happen would
be that we should be aware at some
moment that mushroom had sprouted
up-no more.
As to the large plants-the shrubs,
the trees, the vines-botanists can tell
you how every stage of growth is arrived
at; but no one ever saw nature at
work.
At what hour does the Eaby begin to
grow? The mother who holds it in her
oAAS AoI WeohS ~ OILY conscious GnaG IL
has changed. The wrinkles vanish, the
red turns to pink and white, it's eyes be-
come Intelligent, its ears curl up, its
lips grow plump, its nose acquires a
shape. With her arms about it, he,
eyes upon it, she would say every hall
hour:
why, of course, the baby looks ex.
actly as it did when began to put it tc
Sleep"
But in EIGHT weeks there lis smiling
little creature in the cradle that could
not be recognized as the hour-old chic
| pronounced very fine boy by the
nurse and the doctor, but to unac
customed eyes, hideous enough to h,
horrifying.
That fair baby, too, how does i
change to the boy, to the strong man
The baby knows himself.
To almost every one it has occurred
to come suddenly to realizing sense
that he is grown up-without having
tho slightest idea how it has happened
-Ne,o York Ledger.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-08
George.

SyerY difficult for q man unlearned
tntraveled to understand, in the
tet degree, the customs of foreign
Ps' George Mabbedy, a Copt, born
Prusalem and educated at an En-.
school there, has for many years
ed as guide to travellers in the East.
alter all this acquaintance with
|nks." he fails to understand their
pms. With the Bedouins" con-
the following illustrations of his
Ia'lons in regard to an English law
and his mode of life.
proposed going to England and
ing me in my Office.
WAT would you do there, George? 2"
stand at door with my sword. This
come in, 1 let him come. That
60 out, l put him out"
nam idea is that I must be con-
engaged on murder cases, and
nose whom I am opposing must
p my guard against avenging
Forge has been much puzzled to un-
ana exactly what I do when I am
me, and how I earn my living by
law. :, After much bordering he
oses this question:
men one man kill another, and
u 70 see you. what you tell himr
nen one man kills another, he does
vae to me. He runs away. If he
lglt, he will be hanged"
WI, ~ II ne bride the judge?"
.uges in England do not accept
t ELL 1t. it is different in syra," says
r. =. with a sigh of perplexity. Life
s a@ Is :: 10 him an open book, but
sua is too much for him.-Youth's
panion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-08
Trouble Expected.

Mayor (of Missouri town)-"Jones,
where are all the police?"
City misunderstanding order at a
sparring match. don't expect any of
them back before midnight"
Mayor-''Then tell those folks down
at the red-brick church they'll have to
put off that debate on infant baptism till
tomorrow night. That's all there is
ahnnt IT, -
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-08

The Rev. David c. Kelley, who was
suspended from the Methodist ministry
for six months for running as a candi-
date for governor of Tennessee on the
prohibition ticket, has been restored to
favor. but the bishop is not yet able to
say whether fresh appointment will be
given him Immediately.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-08

D'ORNoN, the man who started out
from Paris to walk on stills to Moscow,
didn't so all the way. The police on the
Russian frontier wouldn't let him pro-
coed, and, after vainly trying to pass
them, it commenced to D'Ornon him that
he'd better dismount. He is now with an
ordinary circus in Prussia.