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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-13

Mr. EREgIpEyT-Tt is evident that the
tariff efrestion is to become, by common
eonsest tire teadgysg issue in the approach
tr,g presidential campaign. In mis- speech
of June "a p1le senator from Missouri Mr..
EeE1 MAKES this uneEsllvocal statement:
81 ana plerzTe1 10 show that the Mcl<in-
ley act has had the effect OF increasing
srings uDon the pecess aries of life to the
z,seal cot this country, and that the state
u1cnt in his resolution referring to the
senator from Mainel that an era of cheap
ness iN the necessities of life is being
brou-ht 10 the people of the United States
IS ai.se!a te.ly anG Internationally false"
Ons OF tiss principal purposes of the tariff
.nuuiry ordered by the senate resolution OF
March 3 1tE1, was 20 ascertain whether
fhis claim OF ths opponents OF protection
was justified. An investigation much
more extensive and thorough than ever
before attempted was Instituted. The
committee determined TO ascertain the
prices paid ft,r all articles of general con-
sumption at retail in every part Of the
United States Oh tie first of each month
from June, 1850, to September, 1891, a
yeriod of seventeen months prior to the
MASSAGE OF tao act of 1890 and eleven
.sSIths 1su bseQuent. The quotations were
kn al cases secured from actual sales. The
places at which GU Citations were obtained
were selected with the view of covering the
enbire country geographically, and in
ciuded typical commercial, manufacturing
and agricultural Gonna ulllties. The prices
were secured by the trained experts of the
department OF labor with the greatest care.
Tie LIST of 2I5 articles was carefully Sc
lected by the uzaaani inols action of the COM
mi1tee, with vie1y of covering every pos
slide expenditure % a family in the average
condition of hfc--tll:EB is, with al income
of $3.50 to 81 Geo PEI aImnm-
The results of 5his comprehensive and
exhaustive inquiry are contained IN the
report recently ulaaa by the finance com
mIttee This report covers $500 printed
pages and contains moro than 200, 900 diff
fercrt quotations
This investigation clearly esta blishes tbs
fact that dectine instead of an advance
has taken place in the prices Of the neces-
earies OF life and the resulting cost of liv-
ing since the adoption of the act of 1890.
The articles were divided into the follow
Ing groups:
Flrss-Food-
Second-Cloths and clothing.
Thiri-Fuel and lighting.
th-HousefurniShing goods
Fifth-Drugs and chemicals.
SiIth-Metals and implements.
Seventh-Lu1nber and building mate
rails
The percentage of decline in the various
groups embraced in the schedule is shown
Sy the following table, prices for June,
July and August, 1883, being taken as a
basis for comparison and represented by
the number 100, changes being shown by
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-13
LA& HoCLS-

cents
The price q tie pound of clean woal Is
Of course the only test Ct actual relative
value 70 the msnufsctuTer. as this Exes
tie csst ct hls material
! also submit table q prices for the
years of ISL 70 1891 inclusive. taken frsE1
q similar statement published hy Justice.
EateuzR & Co. Of Philadelphia IN thls
table TIE coz psTlsca - made between
Quo medium fleece and New Zealand
crassbred- and TIA quotations for saca
grade are tie acreage Prise for s2cn TeaEs
COMPARISON Or PAT * CT AyE~3cAs ASD
AUsT aALIAE s1o1gxo E1oLs-
tJustlex. Eateasz :. Cos Ba.lrfla, &%E =. 81
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-13
Ml]!ll ::;!lle
PROTECTION DEFENDED
Senator AIdrich Strikes the
Keynote Of the Campaign.
EFFECTS OF THE M'KINLEY LAW.

Facts and Figures Collected by Gmcial
Experts Pursuant TO a Senate RescIu-
tim of March 3, 1891, Show the Cost
of Living Reduced and the Wages OF
Labor Increassd-The Farmers Especi-
d. ally ReaeGted.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
FITTING UP THE ouEsr-EooM.

In fitting up guest-room, says Home
and Society, there are many little COM
forts needed by traveller which it is
pleasant to have in place. One of the
most important articles, which is often
forgotten, is the writing desk. There
should be little desk, fitted up with
pens, ink and stationery and stamps in
every guest-room. Such piece of fur
niturc should be small, not taking up
too much room. 1t should have a key,
which the guest may take possession of
If she desires. There are many people
who cannot sleep without some dim
light burning in the room; aud night
lamp should be on stand, ready for the
use of such n guest. Night lamps are
made in such dainty forms at present
that they are pretty bit of bric-a-bra
when not in use. Among the prettiest
night lights are tho fairy lamps, which
shed soft, clear light through the
room. The advantage of the night
lamp is that it sheds no impure gas as n
larger lamp does when turned low. Tho
night lamp is turned up to its fullest ex-
tent and therefore sends out no such
unwholesome gas. 1t should contain just
oil enough to last for a night.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
FASHION NOTES.

The skirt with only one seam is the
newest fad.
For mourning the most elegant ma.
terial is silk crepon.
Crepon and crepe etamine are two of
the fashionable fabrics.
A lace season is predicted, and the ad.
mixture of lace with wooden fabrics is
much employed.
Fawn gray, tau, celery green, coral
red and bright shades of heliotrope are
favorites in colors.
The newest straw for hats resembles
the cane seats of chairs. Paille a In
chaise it, in fact, is called.
The new moss trimmings are not ser.
viceable. The threads pull out, and the
trimming catches the dust.
Startling effects are seen in the new
silks. A field of azure silk, strewn with
stars, suggests heavenly costume.
Feathers incrusted with gold and
silver are worn in the hair. The enamel
is very thin, and shows the natural tints
beneath.
Ihere is fancy in millinery for old,
faded tints, lightened by bright, effective
tints, such as geranium pink, cherry.
pistache green.
Black bonnets, trimmed with little
palm green ribbon, are in good taste.
Cream and fern green are regarded as q
harmonious contrast of .nts.
Black silk dresses for evening wear ara
coming in. Ribbed satin stripes. bold
artistic designs, MORE effects in black.
indicate nd this as they appear in the new
silks.
A novelty in Paris is the Crispin belt.
It is ribbon of heavy ribbed silk, often
ten inches wide, passed through a tall
buckle of chased silver. These buckles
are often eleven inches in height, and aSsc
slightly curved so that they can be
adapted to the fern.
Black silks of lighter weight, with
narrow stripes of pink, mauYc, green.
blue, yellow, are worn for demi. toilet.
They are made with corselet and
guimpe of some soft silk the color of the
stripe, or with coat effect and wide
revers faced with velvet of the tint of
the stripe. All laccs used with such
toilets should be black.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
no1LEp onEENs IN SEASON.

At this season the true value of boiled
''greens" should be appreciated. After
the heavy diet of wiuter, the homely
wild herbs, daudelion, ragwecd and
purslane, plaintain and other greens
which come before the garden spinach is
ready, should not be despised. Dandc-
lion is especially valuable as tonic, aud
either bleached as a salad or rs screens"
for boiling it is extensively gathered by
people in the suburbs of Albany for the
market. While it is madness to select
wild greens promiscuously from plants
that you know nothing about, there arc
great many wild plants, comparatively
unknown, which are valuable in greens.
Sorrel is sold regularly in the markets,
and is very much used. 1t is simply q
variety of the sheep sorrel of the coun-
try fields, but it is not to be confoundod
with the oxalis, also called sorrel, which
is quite different plant. Albany IN.
W Express.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
SUCH A ROMANTIC AFFAIR.

She was convalescent from la grippe
and as she leaned back in the depths of
her easy chair she played with the roses
in her lap which had been brought her
by the first caller she had been able to
receive, and smiled over some stories he
was telling her of his last summer at
we'll, We'll only say at certain fashion
able watering place on Narrangansett
Bay. "Oae of the beauties whom used
to see at the Casino" said he, "was
young married belle about twenty three
or twenty-four, 1 should think, and her
husband was about sixty, and it was
great fun watching them. There was
such a good story-bona fidc truth it
was, too-about their engagement. He
called at her home one evening and Of
fered his heart, hand, and fortune (Which
was large enough to Gid almost any pilD
in correct style. Pretty Miss Bud said
she 'must ask mamma, and coyly trippcd
upstairs to mamma, who told her that
every girl did not get such a chance as
that, and of course she was to accept
him. Down she went, picturing tho ar.
dent lover awaiting her return with
anxious, throbbing heart, and found the
old gentleman comfortably asleep in the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03

Says the Argonaut: A city which it is
natural to compare with San Francisco is
Melbourne, the chief seaport of Victoria
an Australia. The two cities are coeval.
California was admitted to the Union in
1850; Victoria was set apart from New
South Wales, of which it had constituted
Che southern division in 1851. In 1887
Lord Melbourne consented to give his
name to the new city at the head of Port
Philip; ten years later the name of
ferba Buena was changed to San Fran
cisco. In 1851 a census gave Melbourne
a population of %, 900; in 1852 another
census gave San Francisco 1880.
Gold was discovered in California in
1S4S; the like discovery was made in
Australia in 1851. In 1859 the advcn-
furious, the hopeful, the cntcrprising
from all parts of the world flocked to
San Francisco; two years later the same
classes steered for the Antipodes. The
two cities are certainly contemporary.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
THINNING OF THE rHA1CH.

thouyh the vernal leave, are sprouting, and
$50 bright days are coming in,
And the breezes still ara chilly, and my hair
is getting thin
I've a comfortable income, and my age is
thirty-three,
But my thatch is thinning quickly-yes, as
quickly as can be!
was once a merry urch;n-curly .aeaded l
was called
And laughed ut good old people when saw
them going bald
But it's not a proper subject to bs lightly
joled about,
For it's dreadful to discover that your roo f
is wearing outl
l remember asking uncle, in my innocent
surprise,
How he liked his head made use OF as skat-
ing rink by flies:
But although their dread intrusion shall
manfully resist.
I'm afraid They'll soon have got another rink
upon their list.
When invited to party Pm invariably late
For l waste the time in efforts to conceal my
peeping pate;
Though coax my hair across it, though l
brush away for weeks,
Yeti can't prevent it parting and dividing
into strcaks!
I've tried hair restorsr, and I've rubbed
my head with rum,
But tho thatch keeps getting thinner, and
the new hair doesn't come,
So gaze into this nlirro. with gloomy.
cant stare,
For tho circles getting wiler of that open
space up therel
People tell me that my spirits must not Ill
low to fall,
And that coming generations WON'T have
any hair at ALL
We'll, they'll never know an anguish that
can adequately match
With the pans. of Watching day by day the
thinning OF your tlatch
New York Ledger.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
AN o1p.rAsn1oxrn 1nxcn-

Why does not some fashionable woma&
venture upon the experiment of an old
fashioned lunch7 A lunch at which the
flowers shall be the sweet cabbage
roses, that for perfume will hold their
own against the best French extract
ever bottled, and at which the viands
shall be beat biscuit AID fried chicken.
done in cream; pink ham aud omelettes
light as air, with hommade cakes, and
that royal dessert known as floating
island2 Have women, by the way, that
is, of course, those favored creatures who
always "feed upon strawberries, sugar
and cream" lost their taste for old
fashioned daintiesl Does the feminine
epicure prefer croquette de volatile to
a breast of chicken powdered with flour
and fried in thick cream? Is n made
lainc or tutti frutti really better to her
than floating island whose islands are
Jumps of whipped cream' If so, she is
to be piticd.. Not all the old things are
best, but among those that will never
be improved on are homemade beat bis
cult and their proper accessories. New
Orleans Picayune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
THE NEW VEIL.

The latest phase of UBIQUITOUS develop
ment In wells is n kind of follow-my.
leader attachment in the back quite as
dist ractingly inviting us is the effect OF
the insidious meshes over bright ewes
ana deiicately rouged cheeks in front.
rms new veil, which is distinctly Paris
ian In sentiment, is of fine mesh net,
sprayed at wide intervals with tloral
pattern, finished on the lower edge with
deep border, and fastened at the back
with flash of diamonds to hang in two
bo}rdered streamers quite down to the
waist. The veil pin is growing in size as
well as popularity.-St. Louis Republic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
The Paddock Pure Food hill, wh;

The Paddock Pure Food bill. which
recently passed the United States Senate
and then went to the House OF Repre-
sentatives, has been denounced by many
newspapers rs an offensive and unjust
attempt to supervise the business of pri-
vate citizens. The New York Sun saws
it "opens the way for most offensive aud
unnecessary inquisitlon into the bu siness
of private citizens, attending to their
own business in their own States; and it
confers upon the Department of Agrcul-
ture extraordinary powers. 1t intrusts
to changing body of exports or mex
perts, to be known as the Food Section
&of the Chemical Division of Mr.. Rusk's
department, the duty of Analysing or
having analysed samples of food and
drugs exposed for sale lin any State or
Territory other than that in which they
were manufactured, or in foreign coun-
try if they are in the original package.
1t makes q misdem eanor, punishable by
fine and imprisonment, the introduction
into one State or Territory from an
other of any food or drug adulterated
or improperly branded. A drug,
under the provisions of this act, is any
medicine, internal or external. A food
is anything plain or mixed, simple OF
compound, which is used for food or
drink by mortal man. Every person who
ships food or drugs from one State to an
other, or exposes the same for sale, must
furnish samples to the agents of the Food
Section of the Chemical Division of the
4 Department Of Agriculture. Refuse and
1t costs you from SO to 500, and i'm
prisonment for from thirty to one hun.
dred days. Who asks for the supervision
proposed BY this billa What is its real
object2 Why,are the States not able to
take care of the food and the drugs that
are manufactured or sold within their
ibnitsY We need not dwell upon the Cd.
portunities which the bill offers of an
s, lnoyiDg and Matchmaking manufacturers
sol drugs and articles of food. We have
mot heard that the citizens of the United
States are complaining about the quality
OF their focd or their drugs"
"a 4
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
lstrlctivo, declares the New Yol

T istructivc, declares the New York
~, is thy failure of somc state-aided
n Stlemcnts in New Zealand Govern
SS,; SSAH gives an eligible tract to a colony;
III they bring thirty or moro children
Government builds school; needful
roads are paid for by Government, which
hires the colonists themselves, for tho
xoik, and these are real roads laid out
and superintendent by engineers. These
colonies have very generally failed be
cause the settlers argue, "Thc Govern.
ment sent, us here and the Government
hns got to help us out, whether we work
or are idle"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
STRAW MATING

Straw mating is the grand resort for
people with ugly, wide cracked floors.
1t is as good a background for rugs as is
hardwood floor. The plain white sort
comes in beautiful shades, aud that with
green threads through it goes we'll with
green curtains. If one must put up
with the cheap rice straw mating, one
must, that is all, but it has such pro-
voking way Of clubbing up" in the
middle of the breadths. No one can
persuade it to lie smooth. Tho firm, 6ue
sorts, once well laid are pleasure to
see.-Chicago Post.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03

\ The Austrian meth Pd OF execution
sasms, to the Chicago Herald, to be but
sslight improvements d. elcctrocutiorl
5 iShc Austrians swing halter over ftho
+ 7eeE ofa murderer and string him up,
;ghile the eSecutioncrs-in-o chief, wearing
i SHIT kid gloves, calmly beholds the vic.
.em wrlsgle, and two ponderoys assist.
ant ants pull him down BY the lcgsl
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03

IL was remarked during thk American
G t5g'' Wer that soldiers ordcAs Id to some
g AnlPossiblo service pinnea papbrs on their
!, sl o.. n =. Identifying whnt wJbuld shortly
be the remains. observation-disclosures lends
interest to the fact that {the Belgium
Minister of War; has just decided that
IN future each faoldics wilkbo furnished
with small bo9e disc b)hss1 mi; tho nomn
~ '4'0 "lv slmeatal numbsr of the
e -o, - 49, event of hisfboing
injured on tho field of battle
Notification will be easy and rapid.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
CoMBUsTIBLE BUTTONS.

a woman standing near an open fire in
England the other day burst into flames.
1t appears that decorative button
which She wore was made of gun cotton
combined with sulphur. They arc said
to be common, initiating ivory aud tor
toiso shell. The heat from fireplace at
the distance folks usually stand outside
fender will easily suffice to set them off.
10 test them you rub them smartly on n
bit OF cloth, and if they then emit tho
scent OF sulphur, avoid.-New York Sun,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
Smoke to Keep or Frost.

Experiments were made during the
winter at the Paris Jardin d'Acclimation
In Paris, France, in producing artificial
clouds as protection against frost. A
series OF vinewood fires were lighted,
emitting columns of black smoke, which,
according to the inventor of the method.
ought to have been converted into a
thick stationary fog, raising the temper.
allure by four or five degrees. New
York Journal.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03

biggest armchair, while an occasional
snore attested to the depth of his slum.
oers." "Ihope she didn't wake the poor
ola thing up" said the convalescent
when she had got her breath again after
her laugh. "Oh, yes. she did Catch
her losing that chance! She woke him
up aad told him it was all right, and
she'd have him. She'd never have been
at the Casino in diamonds and hces if
she naturalization Saturday Gazette.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
RECIpES.

Popovers-Onc cup milk, one cup
dour, one-half teaspoon baking powder,
two eggs, beaten separately; baked in
cups, one tablespoon in each cup.
Garnishes-Dress fowls and light
meats with the yellow slices of hard
boiled eggs, and fish and dark meats
with the white rings from which the
yolks are taken. T.
Bread Omelet-Soak stale bread in
hot milk and mash it well; add three
beaten eggs and cook like an omeet,
using salt pork drippings instead of but
ter for frying.
A Supper Dish-Beat SIX eggs and
add n tablespoonful of minced young
onions and one of parsley, two ounces OF
melted butter, two of grated cheese and
salt and pepper to taste. Melt a little but
ter in frying pan, turn in the mixture
and fry lightly, stirring meanwhile.
Take from the fire while rather sof..
Drop Biscuit-one quart -four, two
teaspoons baking powder; lump of
lard the size of q walnut, one teaspoon
salt, mix the baking powder we'll in the
flour by sitting, and add the salt. In
cold weather have the shortening
warmed, so that it will mix easily; use
water enough to make stiff batter; stir
all together with spoon and drop into
a well-grcased dripping pan; bake in a
hot oven.
Fruit Salad-Allow ak sweet, juicy
oranges, six or eight ripe bananas and
half of n pineapple; peel and slice che
oranges across the grain, leaving the pitb
and core in one piece, peel and slice the
bananas crosswise in a separate diNh.
Peel and dig out the eyes of the piiie.
apple and then CRATE it. Take deep
glass dish and put in layer of oranges,
then layer of fine sugar, then layer OF
bananas with sugar, lastly a layer of
pincapples with plenty of sugar; fill the
dish with alternate layers of fruit, then
over the top pile fresh grated cocoanut.
This should be prepared two hours be.
fore you wish to use it.
Fricasseed Chicken-Cut tho chicken
in pieces rs for frying and roll in flour.
Slice salt pork and lay in the frying pan;
on this lay the chicken and fry light
yellow. Put pork and chicken in pot
and pour water in the frying pan to get
all drppings from them. Pour this in
the pot with chicken with enough more
hot water to cover it. Cook slowl,
until tender. Toast bread and lay it on
meat platter. Put chicken on this
with part of the gravy. Put the rest in
the gravy boat. To make the gravy sti,
tablespoonful OF flour in cupful OF
cream or new milk, then add to tn,
gravy IN the pot, stirring until III
thickens.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-06-03
Where Civilization aud savascry Meet


Upon the 1900 miles of the shore Of
Lake Superior there are living now les:
than 100000 persons, and these are
mainly in bustling cities like Duluth,
Superior, and Marquette, in industrial
colonies like Calumet and Red Jacket, or
in struggling little ports like Fort
William and Port Arthur. Even there
the wilderness an l primeval conditions
are face to face with the robust civiliza-
ton which is shouldering its way as cap
ital is accustomed to do rather than as
natural growth usually asserts itself.
Not that it is not wholly natural
growth which we find at all points on
the lake shore, for it is all in response to
the memorable laws CT supply and de,
mand. Yet the communities there have
sprung into being far apart from we'll.
octtled regions in answer to these laws.
Thus it happens that to-day one may
ride in an electric street car to the start.
ing-point for short walk to trout
stream, or one may take the steam rail.
road, and in an hour alight at forest
station, breakfasting there, but enjoying
for luncheon cut of the deer or dish
of the trout or the partridge which h,
has killed for the purpose. 1t is, SO tc
say, region wherein the wholesale fish
erman with his steamboat disturbes the
red man who Is spearing fish for sup.
per, where the wolf blinks in the glare
of the electric lamp, and where the
patent stump pullcr and the beaver work
side by side.
The strange condition is most star
tlingly illustrated by recent occurrence
in Michigan, in the same region. Close
to watering resort which is crowded
in summer by persons from all over the
West, some men were cutting timber in
the winter. Two brothers were among
them. One hit himself with an axe,
cutting open an artery in his leg. The
other hurried away for surgical help.
AYhen the messenger returned, nothing
but the bones of his brother was left.
Wolves, attracted by the scent of nj:
blood, had eaten him up.
1t is thus that there is forced upon the
comprehension the principal newness Of
this giant fresh-water sea, which geologist.
would have us believe is millions of years
old, and which even history mentions in
detailing the exploits of men who died
in the seventeenth century. But with
the youth of this new civilization have
come the vigor and enterprise needed to
develop industries and to rear cities OF
which al the people of all the States,
new and old, may we'll feel proud
Harper's Magazine.