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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

| consideration. The relative condition Of
quiry Of the Senate finance committee, is
briefly this The price received for farm
products subsequent to the passage of the
act of 1890 shows an average increase on
age Of increase on many important arti-
clcs-corn, for instance, at ~ per cent
was greatly above this average. 1t will be
seen by an examination of the report of
the committee that the advance in the
average price Of all cereals, the COM
putatiOn being made according to their
relative importance. was $3.50 per cent.
The price received for meats of all kinds
averaged per cent higher in September,
1891, than in June, 1889. The prices of
the articles which it is necessary for the
farmer to buy for the support of his fam
lily and for the carrying on of his work
were reduced in the period subsequent to
the passage of the act on an average of two
per cent below the prices current prior to
that time. Continuing on this phase of
his subject Mr.. Aldrich said:
at is not necessary for the purpose of
my argument to assume that the advance
in farm prices of agricultural produces
was due entirely TO the operations of the
act of 1890. ! am treating at this time
the statement of the Senator from Missouri
as to actual facts. | believe that in no pc
riod of equal length in the history of the
country has there been such a marked inn
provement in the condition of any class of
people as can be shown to have taken place
in the condition of the farmers of this
country since the passage of the act of
lS9O. There has been great advance in
the sum received by them for their crops
and substantial decline in prices of arti-
cleS, especially manufactured products,
which they are obliged to purchase The
farmers today, with an equal number Of
bushels of grain or pounds of meat, can
buy more and better clothing, machinery
or supplies than ever before. Within this
period hundreds of millions of dollars of
their Indebtedness have been paid off, and
as a class their financial condition has been
greatly improved. BY the operations of
the act of 1890 the farmers got larger and
more paOtitable markets, both at home and
abroad: as an instance of this our exports
to Cuba-largely of agricultural products
were increased during the ten months end
ing June 30, 1892, as compared with the
corresponding ten months of the previous
fiscal year S5,0O0OOO, or an increase of
S54. SO per cent
On the question of the effect of the Nc
kinley law on our foreign commerce Mr..
Aldrich submitted in detail figures which
are already familiar, showing the phenom-
enal growth in our export and import trade
until the totals for the tisca! year just end
ed reached the enormous sum of $751;
726.910, as against an annual average of
only Sj53, 900, 600 during the free trade pc
rod, 1S47 to 1861.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05
SENATOR AIdrIch,s Eieurss.
From the New York Tribune

From the New YORK Tribune
Two years ago the free trade press was
flooding the country with tables of fictitious
mckinley prices.' That was a trick, and
it deceived thousands of voters. Now the
Republican party has its compilation of
genuine prices before and after the McKin-
ley act, and succeeds in demonstrating that
increased protection has lowered the cost of
living. What have our friends the enemy
to say about it? They sneer at Senator
Aldrich as trickster, who juggles with
figures and cannot be depended upon to
tell the truth about them. That is a char
acteristic answer. The Senator's figures
are official statistics, compiled by experts
whose duty it was to collect them. The
so-called mckinley prices of two years
ago were furnished by Democratic grocers
and dry-goods dealers, who made money
out of politics.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

"Thc plain people Of the United States
hare too much good sense and diSceInment
to mistake pretentiOus pldtitudeS for phii-
osophy. They are not likely to erchdngc
the certainty Of satisfactory earnings and
sdrings, of constant employment and com
Portable homes for Democratic promises Of
millennium that is to foll0,o rerolution.
These promises are Lut the shddO,cs Of the
unknoWn, for phich an Intelligent public
luW not surrender the substance Of a
presentsdnd abundant prosperity"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05
a STORY of The Enemy spoIl.d.

The secretary OF the California Prohi-
bition committee tells a Boston man, who
sent him letter of enquiry. that it is not
true that Gen. Bidwell, the Prohibition
presidential candidate, made his fortune as
a wine-maker. According to this state
ment Gen. Bidwell planted a vineyard with
wine-making grapes in 1850, and in 1864
began to make "pure' wine. "both as a
temperance measure and for communion
purposes" employing an expert wine max
er for this purpose. At this time lie was
elected to Congress, and when he came
home at the end of two years he found
1000 gallons of wine in stock and a lot
more in process of manufacture. "Hav-
knew nothing himself of the methods of
wine-making,' and when told that he
must build brandy still refused to do it,
gave his wine to a California hospital,
made the unfinished wine into vinegar and
dug up his wine grape vines and burned
them. This was two years before he was
married, so that it wasn't his wife who set
him straight as a prohibitionist.
The story has the appearance of being
told as strong as it will bear for Gen. Bid
well, but he is entitled to his side of it,
and if his fortune wasn't made in the
wine and brandy making business, as it
undoubtedly was not, the main question is
whether he is now consistent personal
exponent of the principle for which his
party stands.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05
AImy's Trial and Sentence Were Con
stItutiOnal.


stItutiOnaI.
1t is probable that we have heard the
last of attempts to secure a new trial for
Almy, the Hanover murderer, or to save
his neck from the gallows. The full bench
of the New Hampshire supreme court rem
dered a decision last Friday denying the
motion of his counsel for new trial on
the ground that Almy could not waive his
right to a trial by jury. Chief Justice Doe
and Associate Justice Allen, who presided
at the trial, did not sit. The other mem-
bers of the bench are unanimous in their
opinion. The substance of the decision is
that Almy, being of sound mind, had an
undoubted right to waive his constitutional
privilege OF trial by 1ury, and elect, as he
did, to be tried by two judges of the court
There is no contention that his plea of
guilty was made under any misapprehen-
sion. No evidence was excluded, and his
whole complaint is that he was not given a
jury trial; but the constitution does not
confer this right after a plea of guilty.
The prisoners constitutional rights were
in no manner abridged by the trial and sen
teuce under his plea.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05
The Wool Tarif.

A large portion of Senator Aldrich' 5
speech was devoted to a discussion of the
duties on wool and woolens and to the
presentation of facts and statistics disprov-
ing Mr. Vests assertion that the tariff has
been injurious alike to wool growers, man
ufacturers and consumers. A striking
feature of this part of the speech was the
presentation of the following table showing
the average annual price for each of the l.
years 1sSl to 1892, inclusive, of pound
of secured fine Ohio fleece in the United
States, and of average Australian fleece in
London:
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

A new series of postage stamps, in COM
memoration of the discovery of America
and John Wanamaker, will soon be issued.
They will bear various designs, all, how
ever, representing historic character or
some incident in the life of Christopher
Columbus.
A statue of John p. Hale, the gift of
Hon. VIM. E. Chandler, was unveiled in
the state house park, Concord, N. H., on
Wednesday.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

The wheat crop of Minnesota, the Da-
kotas, and the rest of the great Northwest,
promises to be as large as the phenomenal
crop of last year, if no disaster befalls it
and help can be got to harvest it. A st.
Paul despatch says that a conservative es-
innate places the number of labOrers want
ed in the wheat fields of the Northwest dur
ing the next month at 10000. Not less
than ten times this number, probably, are
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

An illustration of the good work which
is being done by the Burlington expert
ment station is found in the bulletin on
the potato blight which is printed in the
farm department in this paper. The in
formation therein contained will be worth
many thousands of dollars to the farmers
of Windham county if promptly acted on.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

tramping the streets of the great cities Of
the country and fastidiously complaining
that they can find no work to do. In Kan
sas, according to the dispatches, recent
rains have Ensured a corn crop that has
neNer been eanalel i'm the siate."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

A bitter but seemingly proftless dispute
is raging between Lame and Washington
counties in Kentucky for the honor of be-
ing the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln.
Considering the hard lot of the future
president while he lived in Kentucky, the
contention suggests that of the seven Gre
clan cities which "strove for Homer dead
where Homer living begged his daily
bread. ."-Net0 York World.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05
Price in London


is 80 cents. Another similar table, COM
pairing Ohio medium fleece with New
Zealand cross-bred, shows an average diff
ference of "a cents i'm favor of the Ameri-
can product. These figures, which are
furnished by those highest in authority in
their respective countries, prove that the
American farmer or wool grower receives
the full benefit of the tariff on wool, and
that he obtains ON an average b or 81
cents more per pound for his wool, not in
cluding dirt and other impurities, than his
Australian competitor.
Tin Plate and other Industries.
Mr.. Aldrich next took up the question
of American tin plate manufacturing, cit
ing the treasury statistics which show
the production in the United States, for
the quarter ending June 30, 1892, of
1925, ,69l pounds of tin and terne plates,
., 100000 pounds of this production be-
ing from black plates made in this coun-
try. By the end of this year the produc-
tiOn promises TO reach the rate of 200,
600 pounds year, and unless there should
be reversal of policy growing out of the re-
suit of the election, next November, within
two years we shall see the great bulk of tin
plate used in the United States produced by
our own people by American labor.
The imposition of adequate protective
duties upon lace window curtains, silk and
mohair pushes, pearl buttons, and many
other articles, has transferred important
industries to the United States. We are
now producing large variety of the finer
and more expensive manufactures of cot
ton, wool and iron, all of which were i'm
ported prior to 1890. Manufacturers are
enlarging their capacity for production
and in every branch of industry the great,
est activity prevails.
In Conclusion.
In concluding his speech Senator Aid
rich said;
81 have attempted to answer all the OBJ
iections to the act of 1890 that have beer
brought to my attention; but | have NJ
idea that the work of the friends of pro
lection in this direction is ended, as tn,
crop of such Misrepresentation is peren
nial. There is no limit to the ingenuity o.
resources of the persons employed in man
ufacturing statistics for the purpose o
breaking down the protective system. Blu
as l have unbOunded faith in the brav
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

A common cold should not be neglected
Downs Elixir will cure it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

Arnica & Oil Liniment is very healing and
soothing, and does wonders when applied to old
sores.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-05

ocratic Critics and Proving their FRl-
sity.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-07

Do you ever have the blues? OF course
you do, for there never yet lived man
or woman whose soul cast no shadow.
These times Of depression, from which
we all Of us suffer more or less, are moth
ing more than the shadows cast by our
souls in the road along which we are
walking heavenward. Sunshine rays
produce shadows, and the fact that oul
souls go into eclipse now and then
proves that there is sunshine just behind
u.s. But what do you do when you get
the blues? Do you cry or scold or NOPE:
Is it hard to live in the same house with
you while the shadow falls athwart
your way? Do the children get out of
the road when they see you coming? /
have found one excellent cure for the
blues which mean to tell right here.
Go straight to work and do something
for some one more miserable than your.
self. Whatever your trouble may be,
there is always some one to be found
who has a harder lot to bear. The other
day a young wife was deserted by her
husband and taken to the hospital to face
a terrible illness, without a friend to
stand by her in her hour of need, and
with not cent to defray expenses or un
lock the door Of the future. Suppose you
go hunt her up and offer a helping hand.
Such betrayal and desertion discounts
your putfs of vapor. A mother watched
the coffin lid close the other day forever
and forever, SO far as mortal time
counts, between her yearning eyes and
the face of her only boy. What is youl
transient depression compared to the
heart anguish of such grief as hers:
Don't you think it would help cure you
Of the blues if you sat down and wrote
that mother a letter, or dropped in fol
an hour or two to keep her company? It
seems such a selfish thing to be so exclu-
sive in bearing trouble. A load shared
is load lightened, and the deepest
gloom takes on bright tint now and
then if overshone with the sunshine
Of love. Chicago Herald.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-07
A High Priced Stamp.

The highest priced postage stamp in
existence is the famous Dundee stamp,
worth $4,000, and not purchasable at
that price. James Chalmers, of Dundee,
was the inventor of the adhesive postage
stamp in 1884. The stamp is in the pos
session of Sigmund Friedl, an extensive
postage stamp merchant of Inter Dol
berg, Vienna. 1t was exhibited at the
Vienna Jubilee Stamp exhibition. The
postage stamp museum, held on May 20,
1891, at Vienna, displayed this gem as
the greatest attraction among 100000
stamps and other objects exhibited there.
Yankee Blade.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-07
The BrOtherless Girl.

The girl without a brother is especially
to be pitied. She is the girl who is never
certain Of getting the, pleasures of life
unless she is very attractive. OF course
she has no brother who she is certain
will take her everywhere she is apt to
get a little bit vain, for she has no
brother to tell her, as only a brother
will, of her faults and mistakes. 1t is
only the somewhat doubtful tact of d
brother that announces, II wouldn't
walk up the street with you in that
frock," and the girl whose brother says
this to her may be certain that he is only
expressing the opinion of other girls
brothers. He may not do it in the most
gentle way, but he does tell the truth
and if you ask him why paying visit to
another girl is more desirable than to
one you know, he will sit down and look
at you, and then he will say:
"Well, you see, it is just this way.
From the time you get there she is a nice
girl who gives you a pleasant welcome
and yet doesn't gush over you. She is
entertaining, and yet she has a fashion
OF putting down nasty gossip or silly talk
among whoever is there. She is rest
full sort of girl, she is not always want
ing to do something that tires you half
to death and where the game isn't worth
the candle, and when she says goodby to
you you feel certain that she is pretty
glad you came and that she will be glad
to see you another time, but that she
doesn't look upon you as the one and
only man in the world" That is the
kind of description that the brotherless
girl can't get. Then she doesn't hear of
men that fellow would rather not have
his sister go with. Probably the wisest
course for her to pursue is for her to
choose as her most intimate friend a girl
who has wise brother; then she can
reap the benefit of his counsel.-Ruth
Ashmore i'll Ladies' Home Journal
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-07
Heavy Wind at Gainesville,

Special to The Statesman.
GAINEsvILLE, Text Jan. "A de
structiye wind storm visited this city
last night, doing much damage to
buildings and other property. Sew
eral houses were blown down and
many others unroofed. A number of
buildings ON the fair grounds were
wrecked. The damages in the county
outside ofthe city are quite large, but
so far no lives are reported lost. It
was the heaviest and most destruc-
tive windstorm that has visited this
part Of Texas for several years.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-07

and troops in the persistent pursuit
they have kept up against a portion
of Garza's forces for the past week.
Just two days before Cara crossed
the last time into Mexico, Senator
Atlee and Hon. Albert Urbhan met up
with couple of Mexican gentlemen
in an ambulance driving along q by
road in Encinal county, who stated
they were en- route from Brownsville
to Houston, Tex, but from the
description they gave of one of them
it was undoubtedly no other person
than the notorious Catarino Cara,
and their appearance at that time in
a carriage confirms the report that
Cara had not been able to direct his
latest revolutionary MexicaGs, on &C
count of his suffering from an old
wound in the bowels made by gun
shot year ago in a difficulty with
Sergeant Sebree.
In addition to the special cores
pondents sent to Laredo several days
ago by the New York Herald and
World. Col. r. D. Bogart of the Chi
cago Herald came in this evening to
post his paper on the situation.
Whilst no active move has been made
by the revolutionists for several days,
yet there is an evident uneasiness
that the worst has not yet come and
there are many who fear that the end
of the Cara movement has not been
seen and in less than forty days gen
eral uprising will be witnessed in
Mexico against Diaz by the church
party. The hardships now to
be endured by the United
States troops operating in
the jungles of the lower Rio Grande
can best be appreciated when it is re-
membered that in this particular Sec
tion of the country no rain has fallen
of any consequence for the last
eighteen months, and not only all the
feed used by the horses has to be car
ried in carts down to Garlic from La
redo and then carried on pack-mules
along the trails the cavalry has to
follow through the dense brush, but
it is even necessary to haul water,
and the soldiers now ordered to the
front are going to have fearful time
of it, even if there is no fighting done.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-07
Don't Monkey With the Snake,

1t is stated that the rattlesnake can
not bite if held up by the tail. Would
you like to put the statement to q
practical test? Probably not; but how
often do you take far greater risks? A
snake-bite is not the only means of in
Producing poison into the system. If
your liver is sluggish, it fails to re-
move the Impurities from the blood
which passes through it, and deadly
poisons are thus thrown into the cir
culation, all the more dangerous be-
cause they are insidious. If your
blood is impure, if your liver is out of
order, if you have blotches, pimples,
boils or eruptiOns, "don't monkey
with the snake!" Take DR.. Perce's
Golden Medical Discovery, the only
specific against all blood poisons. no
matter of what name or nature. ID is
sold under q positive guarantee that
1t will benefit or cure, or your money
will be refunded.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-07
A Simple COnundrum.

The mathematical smart Alexis are al
ways proposing some new and puZZlin9
question with which to confound those
whose bump of calculation is not well
developed, but the most exasperating eff
fort in this direction was sprung on a
small company the other evening, when
one of these human calculating machines
inquired: eff five cats catch five rats i'll
five days, how many cats will it take to
catch 100 rats in 100 days." Every an
swer was given, from 100 cats to 100000
cats, until it happened to occur to some
one that if five cats caught rat day
there was nothing to prevent their con-
tinuing to do so till the end Of time il
their patience and the rats held out. But
before this conclusion was reached over
ten dollars had changed hands in bets
on the subject, and three quarrels were
started which have not yet been settled.
Unfortunately, however, none of them
involved the originator of the problem,
who escaped before matters had gone SO
far. Interview in st. Louis Globe-Demo-
GRAFT.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-07

women who save up all the trouble .
and vexations they have had all day,
and who sit down as soon as their
husbands come home and tell them
off as though they were telling their
beads-why it makes one feel aston
ished that more men don't commit
suicide. fl can just quit that, YOU
know-Oh, yes; Pm one of them! i've
always done it. don't say that Pm
gong to swear of, but Pm gong to
quit; Pm just resolved on that. Well
make the evenings time for healing
the wounds of the day, not for MAX
ing them worse.u
Nv
And then the candid confession led
to variety of others, which closed
with this most unexpected one from a
bright-eyed girl: 81 have just dis
covered that have a besetting sin.
l haven't always had it; it has come
on me by degrees. 1 didn't think
much about it until few days ago
when 1 was out making round of
calls. | went from place to place and
met a number of my friends, and
wherever L went the whole of our
conversation was gossip. sat down
and thought it all over afterwards.
Some of it was mere idle gossip.
frothy and harmless, but a good deal
OF 1T was far more serious. At one
place little piece of 'hearsay' was de-
tailed which cast an imputation on
one of the loVeliest women in this
town, ard all of us shrugged our
shoulders and acted as though we be-
lieved it. You wouldn't have thought
we would do that, would you? And
we showed conclusively that Mrs. AIS
sweet little Christmas charity was
all done for effect and that Mrs. B did
not get along well with her husb stands
family, and that Mr.. G. was unkind to
his wife, and oh, L don't know how
many other things of like kind. And
when came home and thought it all
over, and saw that was degenerating
into mere heartless, soulless gossip
Observation-Disclosures, why just said
TO myself, See here, my dear, it's time
to quit So [ just quit, right there.
! didn't swear off, you know, or any
thing of the kind l just quit"
wv
And this little speech was received
with enthusiasm, even the very young
man clapping his hands and crying
"Bravop' while the greyhaired old
grandfather came over and kissed
her, and told her how like
her mother she was!-and growing
more like her every day.
NV
And then the little schoolgirl over
in the corner read aloud from the old
scrap-book she was holding:
THE new year? Well we will call IL so
But each new shower is the same old rain
Ana the new year, some of us happen to know,
Is only the old year over again."
JULIA TRUITT BISHOP.