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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-11-25
That's Bottom Sir,

Some years ago, so the story goes,
when Captain VIM. E. Conner (now
sailing the steamer Darius Cole)
sailed the steamer Flora of Grum-
mond's Line, and carried as mate
Luke Downey, known to almost every
one on the Mackinac route, the steam
er was bound up, when just off Forest
vile thick fog shut her in, render
ing it necessary to have recourse to
the use of lead. Capt. Billy was on
her pilot house and Luke threw the
lead, time and time again, singing out
in his peculiar nasal twang, "no
bottom sir" Finally getting tired Of
the exercise and it being very chilly
job as ice was making at the time,
Luke bethought himself of another
method, so signaling deck hand he
instructed him to 60 to the cooks
galley and get an armful of stoye
wood, then the fun began. Luke
would let 90 a chunk of short stove
wood, and kerplunk it would strike the
water. Conner would experience a
few moments of suspense, listening to
the shuttle Of Downey's feet on the
deck, then the familiar words mo
bottom sir" would come to him. Over
and over again the wood thrown, until
Downey began to believe it as good
as the lead. Just as he was about to
order another arm-flll the steamer
struck, and quick as flash, through
stiffness that could be felt, rang out
from old Luke, there's bottom sir"
N. B. For the authenticity of this
story, address Luke Downey, now a
genial boniface at Kingston, Ont
Marine Record.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-11-25
Public and Private Taxation.

The Republic has forwarded to me
a letter from Mr.. l.. r. Wallis of
Canton, KY, in which he asks me to
explain, for the benefit of some of his
neighbors, how l propose to meet the
expenses of the Government if he
takes the tariff off. They say it takes
all the tariff now to meet the expenses
of the Government"
After their recent experience with
a Billion Dollar Congress I do not
wonder that Mr.. Wallis neighbors are
getting uneasy about meeting the ex-
penses of government, and especially
when they see our long-standing
Treasury surplus is about to give place
to Treasury deficit.
But they need have no fear that
tariff reformers will starve the Govern
ment or compel 1t to resort to more
yexatious methods of taxation.
They are seeking "to take off the
tariff" entirely or to abandon tariff
taxes as the principal source of rev.
enue.
I suspect those neighbors, like
many other good people, are resting
comfortable in the belief that they pay
little or no tariff taxes, because they
never see the Collector with his tax
bill, not understanding that he comes,
as Colonel Mills told the Ohio people,
like thief in the night. with muffled
steps and velvety touch. Undoubtedly
there are grave objections and lurking
dangers in any system of taxation
that conceals from the taxpayer what
he pays and when and how he pays.
1t is difficult to fit such system to
the safe working of representative
government. 1t deadens the vigilance
which is the price at which we hold
our liberties, for unless men clearly
see and feel all these things it is ex-
ceedingly difficult-with the unthink
ing it is utterly impossible-to arouse
them tn the injustice of class taxation
or to the peril and wrong Of extrav-
aoant expenditure
But tariff reform Is not tariff aboli-
ton, and the vital error of Mr.. Wal.
lis neighbors is in their believing that
at takes all the tariff now TO meet the
expenses of the Government"
Under the Mckinley bill. as under
its immediate predecessors, the Gov
eminent does not get all the tariff, or
even the larger share of il. What
the exact share Of the Government is
no man can tell with certainty, but
those best qualified to Judge Of its
working declare, after careful study
of the provisions Of the bill, that less
than one-fifth part Of the taxes it ex-
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-11-25

down nor disintergrate our honestly
conducted industries, but to preserve
them. Yet we do mean the death
knell to all illegitimate combinations
and monopolies that tend to destroy
the very spirit and intent of the Gen.
stitution. We are not here as politi-
clans seeking to disrupt partisan politi-
cal parties or to promote the fortune
of any political aspirant, nor are we
here in the interest of any third party,
for by our very organic teachings we
have the right to vote with whichever
political party we may think will best
advance good government"
81 desire to call your attention to
the last billion-dollar Congress. Its
expenditures reached the grand total
of$1 ,009, &c, All, which is nearly two
thirds of all the existing United States
money. More money was spent by
that profigate billion-dollar Congress
than was spent by all the Congresses
during the first seventy-two years of
the history of this Government. 1t is
more than $2,177,0O0 for every day
from the time that the Fifty-frst
Congress met in December, 1889, till
it adjourned, March 4, 1891. You
can easily calculate it for yourself,
and you will find it to be $50 day
for every day since the birth of the
Saviour of Mankind, and $16 min
ute for every minute since the Decla.
ration of Independence. A billion
and nine millions for two years is
more than $500,0O0,OO0 for one year
1t is more than So for every man
woman, and child in the United States
And, counting the families to contain
five persons each, it takes tax of SAC
a family to support the Government
of the United States alone, and re
member this does not include one cen
levied for State, county and munich
pal purposes. What would the people
of the United States think of a tax O
$40 upon the head of every family
Yet this is exactly what we have"
"How long would they endure it il
collected directly from them instead
of indirectly. as it is now collected
through our tariff? Say what you
please about the tariff, but it mus
and shall come down to REASONABLY
basis of taxation, and these rockies
expenditures by Congress must b
stopped or we will continue to chang
the personnel of every Congress-"
"Yet this is not all, nor is this tina
brought about the uprising of tn
people of all parts of this great coun
try. can best illustrate it by the us
of three rs that are the first letters @
three neutrality-suspicious., Tari1
and Trust. Here is the trouble, ant
there are three C's which are the frs
letters of three words-Crush, Chang
and Control-that unwritten ant
iron-bound oath that our friendl
political newspapers abuse us so nue.
about. 1 will now tell you what tn
oath is. 1t is to crush the trust
change the tariff and control transpol
, tation. What is the condition of tn
farmer? Monopolies, high tariff an
combined Trusts on one side of hin
unjust determinations by railroad
upon the other side and billion-do
lar Congress on top; money power
and the unmerciful manufacturer
controlling a high protective tariff b.
! bribery in behalf of their own interes
and against the farming masses.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-11-25

81 20 for the shirt or $3.50 for the
suit, wool and shoddy mixture or
cotton warp is offered, and this, no
doubt, will bo taken by most people
of limited incomes. IL is not so bad
but il might be worse, as may be seen
by comparing it with cheaper imita-
tions of flannel. 1t takes the place of
the wool and camel's hair mixtures
sold in 1888 and 1889 at so and so so
the suit, and lasting two years, with
wear from September to June of
each year. The imitation flannel,
which must now be taken as Il substi-
tute, loses most of its wool by washing,
only enough remaining with the
cotton to make it hard and stiff. After
a few washings there is little warmth
left in such goods.
But, leaving the limitations of all
grades from very bad to very good
out of consideration, take the real
flannel, the plain substantial, all-wool
shirt at $3.50, or suit at S.. The
lowest possible cost here for flannels
for the winter for one man is $40 for
two suits, or $15 for an extra suit,
such as every workingman should
have against emergencies when dry
flannels are needed and his change
suit is ain the wash"
1t is clear that, under Mckinley
prices, real flannel is out Of the reach
of people who have small incomes.
He must put up with the limitations,
for at the average wages of 81 day
he would have to work FIVE days to
get single suit of fannels. When
it comes to buying for himself. fol
his wife, for the average family of five
persons two or three changes apiece
, including underskirts for the females
he can no more afford it than he car
rubies and diamonds. Under tn,
Mckinley bill real fannels is a luxury
for those whose incomes are $50 Of
over week will be compelled to lay
aside reluctantly the real fannel
when buying for themselves and tax,
cotton and shoddy mixtures, which
however skillfully made as limitations
are very far from being fannels.
Any head of the family who goes t,
lay in the winter supply of clothing
will see at once how greatly the tota
expense for all-wool and importation
wooden goods has been increased by
this vicious and demoralizing taxa
ton. The best grade of all WOO
flannel shirts, ready made, would no
sell for more than $1.25 were Their,
no tax on the material or the finished
goods. The real value of the imitation
wooden shirts is much less, and with
} out the tax they would sell by thei
grade or their merit. AS it is, tn
buyer is compelled to take what h
can get. The retail seller does tn
best he can for him, but with doubl
or TRIBE taxation on every article c
wooden goods in his trade the dealer
: power to please his customers is min
: mized, and his trade is minimize
r with it. For it is not everyone whc
> after paying a real flannel price 70
) an imitation flannel shirt, understand
! the political economy of it. He find
l that he has been swindled, and think
: he has been swindled by a dealer VIII
5 has done his best uuder law whic
, does its worst.-Tariff Department {
the Republican.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-11-25
Catarrh in New England.

Ely's Cream Balm gives satisfaction to
every one using it for catarrhal troubles.
G.. X. Mellor, druggist, Worcester, Mass.
l believe Ely's Cream Balm Is the best
article for catarrh ever offered the public.
Bush & Co., druggists, Worcester, Mass.
An article OF real merlt.-C. p. Alden,
druggist, Springfield Mass.
Geo. A. Hill, druggist, Springfield, Mass.
sults.-W. p. Draper, druggist, Spring
field, Mass.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-11-25
Paupers of Protection.

The Massachusetts, manufacturers
of cotton goods are protected from
competition by tariff taxes of from 40
to over 100 per cent, and as they
have been long established under this
protection they ought by this time to
show its full effects on wages. On
page lat of the Statistics of Manu-
facture" just issued by the State of
Massachusetts,, there is some valuable
information on this point in the shape
of a table showing the wages paid in
1890 by 157 Massachusetts, protected
cotton manufacturers. We reproduce
it for the benefit of all concerned:
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-11-25
In The sneecb sent ont bv

In the speech sent out by the
Associated Press Mr.. Tillman says:
ut is in the farming and laboring
people who feed the world, who fought
the battles ofthis country and to whose
energy and patriotism this great and
glorious land of ours is indebted for
its richest blessings of liberty and
peace. It is not our mission to tear
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-11-25
Wednesday. Nou. %, 1891.
The Band Mill Does the Work.


The new saw mill recently erected
by Captain Davidson at La Crosse,
Wis, is the only mill at the present
time running at north La Crosse,
owing to the scarcity of logs on the
Black river. In relation to the excel
lent service performed by this mill,
some interesting comparisons are here
with given.
Capt. Davidson states that he had
lot of Chippewa logs sawed at two
of the mills in La Crosse, and the
average overrun was IA per cent. The
balance of the lot he sawed himself
producing an overrun of "a per cent,
which, on $12 logs is gain of $40
over the other mills. He also says
that the old mill produced about
eight cords of sawdust per day more
than could be burned under the
boilers. The new mill with the same
boilers does not make enough sawdust
to keep up steam, and he is obliged to
haul edgings to it.
This is about as good an argument
for the band mills as one could ask.
The saving of eight cords of sawdust
out of s12 logs means about 10000
feet of lumber worth SIS per thousand
or $3.50 per day. Taking it another
way and computing saving of 20 per
cent. on 100000 feet of s12 logs per
day makes 100000 feet worth in the
log S240. There is certainly a big
thing in the use of band mills.--EI.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-11-25

English SPAWN Liniment removes all
hard, soft or calloused Jumps and blem-
ishes from horses, blood spavins, curbs,
splints, sweeney, ring-bone, stiles, all
swollen throats, coughs, sprains, etc.
Save $50 by use Of one bottle. Warrant
ed the most wonderful blemish cure ever
known. Sold by L. G. Spens, druggist,
Alpena, Mich. 105Sm6
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-11-25

Itch on human and horses and all ami
mails cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's
Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Sold
by L. G. Spens, druggist, Alpena, Mich.
1058m6.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1891-11-25
WHY
Royal Baking Powder is Best.

"The Royal Baking Powder is absolutely pure,
for have so found it in many tests made both for
that company and the United States Government
60 facilities that
obtaining perfectly for other dependent
method Of its preparation
ssthe Royal Baking Powder is undoubt-
edly the Purest and most reliable
baking powder offered to the public.
"HENRY A. MOTT, PHI D."
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-13
HOW CHEAP is FAME.

The current number of Demorest's
Magazine contains an illustrated write
up of what the writer claims to be the
leading southern beauties, several we'll
known Virginia names figuring in the
article. The artist has done some clever
work in the matter of portraits, and the
faces which smile forth from the printed
pages are, for the most part, young and
fair to look upon.
But to the initiated, the man or wo-
man of the world who knows how these
things are done, the first question that
suggests itself is:
How much did these rare and radiant
creatures, who yearned for fame and
who were satisfied with the cheapest
Sort, pay for the advertisement?
Fnterprising newspapers have of late
years, made a good thing of personal ad-
Vertising, that is, of writing up in con-
nection with a mans business a short
biography of himself, the steps by which
he rose to prominence in the financial
world, his ability and standing as a man
of affairs
And this was all right. Q
1t was legitimate because it was un-
derstood to be IN advertisements mat
ter of dollars and cents alike to patron
and publisher. A man who does bust
ness and asks the confidence of the pub
lie has a right to let that same public
know how far he is deserving of such
confidence, and the public has a right TO
demand it.
In the literary world too, much of this
paid advertising has been done in a way
to appear to the general reader as the
work of a real critic and as an honest
recognition of true merit. Every anna.
eeur scribbler in the country who has
ever succeeded in getting his nan
tackled on to a doggrel verse in his
county paper has received at one time or
another printed circulars and type
written letters from secondhand pub
fishers asking for a sketch and photo
graph, proposing to give said amateur
space in their forthcoming works on
Popular Writers of the Day." provided
the subject Of the sketch will send mat
ter for the sketch with selections from
his best efforts and further agree to pay
cost of electrotyping the CLASSIC features
of the young inglorious MILTON and
take IA or more volumes at agents
prices when published. Such PROPOSE
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-13
ABOUT FAKES.


The following appears in the Salisbury
Daily Herald, a most excellent paper, by
the way:
A special from Statesville to THE DUR
HAM GLOBE of Saturday says another
alleged attempt was made Saturday morn
ing to wreck the passenger train at Bos-
tian bridge. The engineer happened to
see a pile of rails across the track and
stopped the train when the obstruction
was removed. The dispatch states fur
Their that the man who tried to wreck the
train was arrested, that the rust of iron
was found on his coat and that he was
placed in Jail. The Herald believes there
is no foundation for this report and
thinks some sensationalist has been i'm
posing on THE GLOBE. No train passes
Bostian's bridge by daylight except No.
II, which leaves Salisbury about moor
and reaches there between 1 and 3 o'clock.
Inquiry was made at the depot this morn
ing and nothing was known of the at
tempt to wreck the train. Nor is it be
lieved that an attempt was made.
THE GLOBE may have been the victim
of a joker, but knowing our correspond.
ent, we believe it to be absolutely correct.
If it was a fake, THE GLOBE wants it
distinctly understood that no harm was
meant, we thought we were printing
news when news was news, as is a very
happy and very successful habit of this
paper.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-13
Ghe AurIlam Daily Globe.
By AL

THE GLOBE is published every day Sunday
excepted and delivered by carrier at S6.W a
year. or so cents a month. THE nc circu-
lates throughout North Carolina.
THE WEEKLY GLOBE is a large eight-page
paper, containing all the news, and is sent by
mail at $3.50 a year in advance.
~Offce-Corner Main and Church streets.
GLOBE telephone, No. 50.
ADVERTISING RATES.
Space for one week s cents per inch per issue,
when over 5 inches are taken.
Space per month, 81 per inch.
Reading matter 10 cents a line each insertion.
Business notices 5 cents per line each inser-
ton.
All advertisements and notices continued
until ordered out.
Address all communications to
THE GLOBE,
Durham, \. G.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-13

lions have become too common to take
in the greenest and the firms which re-
sort to this species of cheap speculation
are placed in the same catalogue with
the man who offers to make you a life
size portrait for nothing provided you
buy a frame at a fabulous price.
But when the paid advertisement,
directly or indirectly, gets into the So
cial world, when young society bellies in
their insane desire to paralyze the world
with their charms, to gain newspaper
notoriety without having done anything
to earn it, allow themselves to be writ
ten up with a job lot Of other beauties,
like prize pumpkins at a fair,
Why,
The GLOBE says,
1t is pretty tough.
1t is also noticeable that the so called
beauties whose portraits and accom-
plishments are here given, are all
wealthy, and Demorest will doubtless
make a good thing of it financially. But
to a man or woman of ordinary delicacy
such methods can only excite amuse-
ment or disgust, inviting as they do all
the just and unjust ridicule which for
eigners have heaped upon American So
cietY.
THE GLOBE is sorry to see women, and
especially southern women, losing any
of the old time modesty which has made
them lovely in the eyes of their fathers
and brothers, and which has given them
their hold upon the sterner sex.
Let US have no more such stuff IS that
in the Demorest article.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-13
AS TO THE GLOBE.

In rounding out a full year under the
present management, THE GLOBE takes
a pardonable pride in referring, to-day,
to The numerous notices which that oc-
casion has evoked. The Wilmington
Messenger, the leading paper Of the
largest town in North Carolina, has gone
out of its way to say many nice things
about THE GLOBE.
DR.. KINGsBURY, WHO is its editor, is a
man who talks only what he believes
and people who read this paper know
what he has said.
JOE CALDWELL, who prints the neat
est and by all odds the ablest weekly
paper in the state, has said a third Of a
column of nice things. The News and
Observer and the Oxford Day and other
papers which are reliable and able have
accorded to THE GLOBE much which we
feared we lacked. These notices were
unsolicited. No marked copy of our
paper, as is a custom here, was eve sent
to the editors, intimating as is done that
the paper is not read unless a marked
CODY is sent. Our mail went out and
the editors read our paper and knew
that the first mile stone in our journey
il North Carolina newspaper work had
been passed. Accordingly what has
been said of US, is doubly appreciated.
We read our exchanges and make it a
point to notice nothing that comes to a
%one-horse newspaper marked. That is
business and it is not begging.
But beyond the borders of North Caro-
lima, in the Office of the New York Morn
ing Advertiser, the little GLOBE is read,
and COLONEL CocKERILL, decidedly the
best newspaper man in America-the
genius of this continents journalism, the
little sheet we print mere every day is
read by him, and he writes thus fatter-
ingly:
"The esteemed and excellent DURHAM
IN. c. GLOBE has rounded out the first
full year of its management by COLONEL
FAIRBROTHER. 1t is weaned, strong on
its legs, and in full standing with the
substantial journals in the Old North
If such endorsements are not compli-
mentary, if they are not triumphs when
such men as joe daniels called upon
the good people to run out of the State
this editor who had come to live here,
and who purchased a home here, and
who expects to live always here, why
then the people will judge in a different
view than we believe.
The GLOBE is a winner and no mis-
take, and it is respectable because re-
spectacle men commend it, and it is a
newspaper because the brightest news
paper mind in America has said so.
And what are you going to do about
II 9
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-10-13
We Did Him Up.

Dir. I. B. Eldridge, one of the editors
OF this sheet, vent down to Durham Sat-
urday night to see his wife and children.
lie was 20 return at oon to-day, but as
the train came in without him it is pre-
sumed that he has been captured by DR..
CaldweiPs santer Or has been devoured
by the blood-thirsty editor of THE DUR
HAM GLOBE. In his absence 'tother half
OF the machine holds down the points
tries TO grind out stuff to fill the
devils insatiate demand for more COW"