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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-26

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Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-26

TOR SALE OR TRADE-Fine horses and
broad acres for house and lot ). B. Ever
EFT on West street. fourth house north OF
Crosby street. l9otf
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-08-27
A PARALvzER.

Detroit Free Press.
The man had brought in to the
editor of the Weekly Corncracker a
quarter column story and laid it
on his desk.
After the man had gone the edi-
tor picked up the manuscript and
began to read as follows:
"The millionaire country editor
who had"
The next instant he dropped the
copy and rushed to the tube lead
ing up to the foreman's room.
"John," he shouted, "throw out
the champion snake lie you set up
this morning. Eve got something
here that para)yzes it in forty-seven
places at once"
Then he went back to his desk
and resumed his reading.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-08-27

of responsibility as the world had
never witnessed before he filled the
measure Of the vast space al,otted
him III the actions OF mankind and
IN the eyes of the world, is 20 saw
that ne was inspired of God, for
nowhere else could he have ACQUIRED
the enormous equipment indis-
pensable to the situation.
Where did Shakespeare get mis-
genius? Where did Mozart get his
music? Whose hand smote the
Tyre of the Scottish plowman and
stayed the life OF the German
priest? God alone, and, as surely
as these were raised up by God,
inspired of God was Abraham Lin
coin; and, thousand years hence,
no story, no tragedy, no epic poem
will be filled with greater wonder
than that which tells of his life
and death. If Lincoln was not
inspired of God, then were not
Luther or Shakespeare or Burn 1.
If Lincoln was not inspired of God,
then there is no such thing on
earth as special providence, or the
interposition of divine power in the
affairs of men.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-08-27
THEY LEFT HIM ALONE.

indianapolis journal.
Speaking of cyclones" said the
man with the ragged whiskers,
"they do play some queer tricks
sometimes. 1 remember being
being ketched by one as | was
driving home from the grocery
with a sack O seed potatoes in the
wagon-paper flour sack it was.
Wal, what did that there cyclone
do but blow them potatoes over
seven counties, every later of 'em,
and leave that there paper sack
settin' there in the wagon-empty.
Another time when l was in Ne
brasky-" But his audience had
fled.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-08-27
he DIDN'T CATCH ANYTHING.

New York Press.
Employer-"You took day off
to go a-fishing yesterday"
Employe-Yes, sir"
Employer-"Catch anything?"
Employe-"Nothing, sir"
Employer (making a powerful
effort to appear calm)-"Come up
to my house this evening. l want
to have a talk with you about TAX
ing you into partnership"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-08-27
GUARANTEED CURE.

GUARANTEED CURE.
We authorize our advertised druggists to
sell DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs and Colds, upon this condition.
II you are afflicted with Cough, Cold or any
Lung, Throa, or Chest trouble, and will use
this remedy as directed, giving it fair
trial, and experience no benefit, you may re-
,urn the bo,.l. and have your money refunded.
We could not make this offer did we not
know that DR.. Kings New Discove,y could
be relied on. 1t never disappoints. Trial
bottles free at II. ID. Blatchley's Drugstore.
Large size soc. and 81.
The golden wedding gifts pre-
scented to the king and queen of
Denmark at the recent annivers-
airy ceremonies have been exhib.
tied to the people, of whom more
than 100000 came to see the mag
niticent display.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-08-27
OVERHEARD At LONG BRANCH,

Texas Siftings.
Ethel, dear, you are looking
pale and i'll this morning."
Eyes, mamma; 1 went in bath
ing yesterday and got my feet wet"
"Oh, careless girl, and spoiled
your bathing suit, no doubt. Never
let that happen again!"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-08-27
At THE SEASIDE,

Chicago News.
Ethel, where is your betrothed ?"
SIN the billiard room, on the
beach and eating his breakfast. /
don't know where the rest are"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-08-27
LINCOLN, THE IMMORTAL
1 Great Democratic Editors EuloSy of
the Martyr President.
Tho Democratic Platform Maker on the
First Republican Waiter.
sons Grand Tribute.

From Caesar to Bismarck and
Gladstone the world has had its
soldiers and its statesmen, who
rose to eminence and power through
series of geometrical progression,
as it were, each promotion follow
ing in regular order, the whole
obedient to we'll established and
we'll understood laws of cause and
effect. These were not what we
call "men of destiny" They were
men of the time. They were men
whose career had beginning a
middle and an end, rounding off a
life with history, full, it may be,
Of interesting and exciting events,
but comprehensive and compre-
hensive, simple, clear, complete.
The inspired men are fewer.
Whence their emanation, where
and how they got their power, and
by what rule they lived, moved
and had their being, we cannot see.
There is no exploitation to their
! lives. They rose in shadow and
they went in mist. We See them,
feel them, but we know them not.
They arrived, Gods word upon
their lips, they did their Office,
Gods mantle upon them, and
they passed away, Gods holy light
between the world and them, leav-
ing behind memory half mortal
and half myth. From first to last
they were distinctly the creations
Of some special providence, battling
the wit of men to fathom, defeating
the Vaccinations of the world, the
flesh and the devil until their work
was done, and passing from the
scene as mysteriously as they had
come upon it; Luther, to-wit;
Shakespeare, Burns, and even
Bonaparte, the archangel of war
havoc and ruin; not to go back
into the dark ages for examples of
the hand of God stretched out to
raise up, to protect, and to cast
down.
Tried by this standard, and
observed in an historic spirit,
where shall we find an illustration
more impressive than in Abraham
Lincoln, whose life, career and
death might be chanted by a
Greek chorus as at once the pre-
Jude and the epilogue of the
most imperial theme of modern
times?
Born as lowly as the Son of God
In howell; of what real parentage
We know not; reared in penury,
squalor, with no CLEAN of light,
nor fair surrounding; a young man
hood vexed by weird dreams and
Visions, bordering at times on mad
ness; without grace, natural or
acquired; singularly awkard, un.
calmly, even among the uncouth
about him; grctesque in his aspects
and ways; it was reserved for this
strang being, late in life, without
name or fame, or preparation, to
De snatched from obscurity, raised
10 supreme command at u supreme
moment, and intrusted with the
destiny Of a nation.
The great leaders of his party
We're made to stand aside; the
most experienced and accomplished
men of the day, men like Seward
and Chase and Summer, statesmen
famous and trained, were sent to
Tue rear, while this unknown and
fantastic figure was brought by
unseen hands to the front and
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-08-27
ANOTHER MlscALcuLATloN.

Texas Siftings.
Principal Ito book.keeper)-
"During the last few weeks you
have made 80 many miscalcula.
tons that I must ask you to be
more careful in the future"
Book-keeper-"I hope you will
try and overlook my miscalcula'
tons, as / am 30 deeply in love
with your daughter that half the
time I don't know what I am doing
May l hope?"
Principal-"There, you see, you
have made another miscalculation."
A coNFIolNo WIFE.
New York Press.
my husband is very absent
minded"
"Indeed?"
"He kissed my maid last night
thinking he was kissing me-"
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-15

This was too much Cor Tammany. To
see beautiful little souvenirs of this
kind, bearing good protection senti-
ments, going into the families of Demo
cratic New York would not do. So a
consultation was held in the secret
chambers of Tammany, and blue coated
policemen. re detailed to stand guard
at the schools and prevent the distribu-
ton OF the plate. OF course they car
RED out thelr orders. and when the eager
children next day looked anxiously for
the distributors they found them not,
They bad been Informed that they would
be arrested it. they continued their dis
tributiOu.
But it will not stop here. Under re-
publican administration Of the United
States government the mails are open
to all who want to. use them, whether
Democrat or Republican, black or white.
old or young, of American or foreign
birth. And one Of the pretty little tin
plates, which is accurately represented
in the above Gus, can be sent with safety
by mals. And the children-and grown
people, too-of the city and the whole
United States are smart enough to knew
that. They can outwit Tammany Hall
and Chairman -Harrity and Mr.. Cleve-
land and all the Democratic machines by
sending two cent stamp to Wilbur F.
Wakeman, Protective Tariff league.
New York, and, asking for one of those
cute little tin plates to be sent by mail.
Aud they will get them.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-15
WEAVER IN THE SOUTH,
Rotten Eggs Drive Him Where Powder
and Ball Would Not,

General Weaver, the Peoples party
candidate for the presidency, who never
ran from rebel bullets in 1S61-5, has
been driven out of the south by cx-Con-
federate insults heaped upon himself
and his wife in the form of rotten eggs.
That is why the Peoples party leaders
have suddenly discovered that the Re-
publican doctrine of a law which would
give to everybody the right of express
ing his ro31ical sentiments by voice or
ballot woU.l be good one. Here is
what General Weaver wrote about it to
the chairman Of the state committee of
the Peoples party, explaining his abrupt
abandonment of the Georgia campaign:
DEAR SIR--At the urgent request of your
committee | entered this state on the 10Th inst.
for the purpose of addressing the people of
Georgia on the political situation and the is
sues involved in the present national campaign.
The places named for said meetings were
Naycross, Albany, Columbus, Macon, Atlanta
Madison, Augusta and Elberton. ! find the
spirit of organized rowdy at some of the
points visited within the state so great as to
render it unadvisable for me to attempt to fill
the engagements at the points not already
reached.
ISfSOnai iuulE1litE was threatened at W ay
cross, but was suppressed by the attendance
of a largo number of our friends and the care
full management of Mr.. Reed, the local chair
man.
AT Albany we met with bowling mob
which refused to accord us a respectful and
uninterrupted hearing.
Our meeting at Columbus was grand sue
cess, thanks TO the superior management of Mr..
G. j. Thornton.
About $500 people attended this meeting and
gave us respectful and enthusiastic attention.
At Macon the conduct of the mob which
greeted our advent into that city was simply
disgraceful beyond description.
Rotten eggs were thrown prior to the intro
duCtlon of the speaker, one Of which struck
Mrs. Weaver upon the head.
Eggs were thrown repeatedly during the
continuance of the mob Turbulent crowds
continued to howl and hoot until past mid
night.
AT Atlanta a similar crowd of rowdies gath
cred at the point Of meeting bent on tumult
and disorder. Leaning of this Mrs. Lease
and myself refused to appear either in the
forenoon or evening.
am convinced that similar treatment awaits
US at the points not yet visited. i decline to
meet said appointments.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-15
Priests ere Not Politicians.

A few weeks ago we had occasion to
refer to an infamous forged letter,
alleged by its base and ignorant
publishers to' have been signed by a
number of the American prelates, on
the duty OF Catholics to vote as the
pope directs. Scarcely had the fraud
been exposed, although it exposed itself,
before another campaign falsehool
appeared relative to an alleged letter
which was said to have been forwarded
to the reverend clergy attacking Morgan
and Dorchester, with u view of helping
to elect Mr.. Cleveland. The latter fraud
was as silly as the first, and is only dis
tinguished from it, SO far as absurdity
is concerned, by the fact that such
prominent papers as The Independent
have been fooled by it.
The Independent should know that
priests are not politicians, and that they
have neither the time nor the inclination
to take interest in the election of certain
candidates. A moments reflection would
have satisfied the editor of that paper
that the story was concocted for the ex-
press purpose, not to injure Mr.. Har-
rison, but to defeat Mr. Cleveland by
stirring up a feeling of bitterness against
Catholics, who, according to the story,
desired his election.
Now the whole story has been ex-
ploded by the letter Of the Rev. J. A.
Stephan, who emphatically denies any
knowledge of the secret letter. 70
those at all familiar with the reverend
clergy no 4nial was needed, as like the
bogus letter of the prelates the second
story exposed the fraud intended to be
perpetratcd by it upon the American
people. Church News.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-15

An uptown pharmacist has novel
tlytrap in his store window. 1t is run
10y little electric motor. and gathers
in the flies with great celebrity and ab-
solute certainty. A piece of strong
brown paper about four inches wide
and fifteen inches long is fastened in a
continuous band around two rollers,
which are kept revolving at slow rate
by the motor. The band is slightly
smeared with a sweet substance. Two
thirds of the length of the band is
freely exposed, but at the other roller
1T runs under wire cone and then
against brush. The flies alivht on
the slowly moving band and unsus-
pectlngly remain there slipping the
sweets until brushed off, when they Hy
up into the cone, from which they can
find no exit. The cone is species of
iiytrap. quite common device, but the
electric motor does not leave il to the
flies to get into the trap, but railroads
them to destruction. The way it
catches flies is a caution. N \: .S,ys.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-15
A Labor-s,aving Device

l was immensely amused Ghe other
day. says writer in the n. Y. Record-
er, at hearing of the device of New
port swell who, while we'll up in the
"l50" is rather careless about his at
tire, to avoid the labor Of dressing
completely twice day. # seems that
he particularly objects to changing his
clothes at evening for dinner at home,
and SO absolutely declined, unless he
had to 60 out to dine, to put on even
ing dress, much to the horror of his
mother and sisters. He finally con-
tided his troubles to a young lady to
whom he is somewhat devoted, and
she suggested to him that when he
dressed in the morning. he should care
fully cover his shirt front with nap
kin and wear high-cut vests so that
this would not be noticeable. This,
she further added, would obviate the
necessity of changing his shirt at even
ings and do away with at least part
Of the labor. He accepted the sug-
gestion and now wears a dress suit ev-
cry evening, Joy reigns in his ma
ternal household, and the swell is more
devoted to the young lady of suggest
i've ideas than ever.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-15
FOREIGN BRlBES.
Officially Offered to Try to Desire,
American Reciprocity.

OHicially Ohered to Try to Destroy
American Reciprocity.
Nothing has proved more conclusive
ly the great advantage which our reci-
procity treaty gives the United States
over the European countries than the
development of the scheme on the part
CT Germany to induce South American
governments to break off their reci-
procity treaties with the United States.
The evidence seems to be beyond ques-
ton that an offer was sent from Ger
many to President Heureux, of Santo
Domingo, proposing to pay him $50, 900
year if he would break off the reci-
procity treaty with the United States.
President Heureux, it seems, sent spe-
cial envoy to the United States TO see if
this country would make higher bid.
Secretary Foster replied promptly that
The United States is neither to be
blackmailed or bullied. If your coun-
try breaks the treaty it must be prepared
to bear all the consequences, for in my
mind the word reciprocity is associated
with retaliation.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-15
The Idols Game of BunkO.

In free trade Belgium, women, girls
and boys are worked in the coal mines.
Why? Because the wages earned by
man are never more than about forty to
fifty cents per day and are not sufficient
to support family, and the wife ard
children IL ust work or starve. The
average daily wages paid coal miners
in this country are $l.7O. The Demo-
Gratis want free trade. Do you want to
work for the wages paid in Belgium CT
any other free trade country? The
Mckinley bill has advanced the wages
Of workinsmen in America, and the
Democrats are pledged to repeal it.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-15
A LITTLE TIN PLATE.
NIL TAMMANY AND THE DEMCCHACY
TRY TO SUPPRESS IT.

Effort to Exclude Tin Plate Education
from the New York Schools Coat.
ell Policemen Prevent the i5istr,bu. lion
of Cam v,aign Souvenirs to Children.
One of tie curiosities Of the campaign
is cute little tin plate souvenir and an
attempt of some big Tammany police
men of New York city to suppress it.
1t all came about in this way: There
had been so mnch doubt expressed by
Democrats and English tin plate manu-
facturers as to whether there really was
tin being made IN this country that
somebody who was interested in proving
it devised a pretty little campaign SOU
venir, which could be used as badge
The Democrats have insisted that the
Mckinley bill, which put a high tariff Oh
tin for the purpose Of encouraging the
manufacture of tin in the United States,
was a great injustice, because, as they
urged, tin plate could not be made in the
United States. But the manufacturers
and workmen of this country showed
them that there is nothing done abroad
that Americans cannot do as well. So
millions of dollars have been expended
III building some forty or fifty big tin
plate works, and thousands of men have
been employed in making bright Amer
lean tin, which the experts say is better
than foreign made tin.
To prove to the people that there was
really plenty of nice American tin being
made in the United States, pretty little
tin plate, just the size of the accompany
ing picture was made, bearing she fol.
lowing:
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-15
BEERS AND SlCkLES.
Two Democratic Generals Who Cannot
support Cleveland.


support Cleveland.
General Slckles, the one legged vet
eran, who reiterated at Washington his
belief and hope that the old soldiers will
not vote for Cleveland, has an earnest
supporter in General E. 0. Beers, of the
Thirtieth New York regiment, brave
and valuable officer of the war. In
long letter to the old soldiers General
Beers says:
Il have arrived at the age of fully
threescore, and have been a lifelong
Democrat. But am fully satisfied that
Mr.. Cleveland is not the friend of the
soldier boys Of 1S61-5, and is not enti-
tied to and should not receive our sup
port. 1t seems very plain to me that
with the past record of Grover Cleye-
land, if any veteran casts his ballot for
him he not only stultifies himself, but
goes back pom every comrade of the
Union army. We must not let general
apathy run this campaign. Let us en-
list once more under general activity
and carry on one more vigorous cam
palgn IN the maintenance of our rights
In another part of the letter he says:
when our country was sorely in
need of men did Mr.. Cleveland hasten
to buckle On the sword and offer his
services to put down that gigantic rebel
lion? History says no. Although bound
by no stronger home ties than General
Harrison and thousands of others lin
fact not as strong, for he had no wife or
children dependent upon him), still he
did not offer his services except through
substitute. He was like that cele-
brated humorist who was willing to sac
ritice all his wife's relations to put down
the rebellion"
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-15

Ex-President Cleveland has not a word
Z" say In his letter of acceptance in be-
half Of the proposition Of the Democ1 attic
platform for return to wildcat currency.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-15
Cost of Living Under Mckinley Law.

A committee Of the senate composed
of distinguished Democrats and Repub-
licans. after an exhaustive examination
Of the cost of living in the United States
under the Mckinley tariff, found that
prices had been reduced in every i'm
portant article except food, which had
increased through the great demand in
foreign markets. Their unanimous re-
port show cd the following reductions:
No. OF Prices Prices
articles. in 1850. In ZEE,
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-15

The Democratic party offers IA pro-
gramme of demolition. The policy Of
the Republican party is, on the other
hand, distinctiyely a policy of safe pro-
gression and deyelorm ent-of new facto-
ries, new markets aud new ships.-Harri-
sons Letter Of Acceptance.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-15

An official estimate puts the losses by
holders of state bank notes during the
last ten years of the existence of that
wretched system at $75 100000. Tholnp-
sons Bank Note Detector Of 1858 gives
the following list of broken, closed and
worthless state banks:
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1892-08-26
Dr.. Gregg's Electric
Belts and Appliances

Do you Know why? BECAUSE It Is plain
enough. The surprising promptness with.
which all classes of people respond to our an
nouncements, and the rapidly increasing
troduced, conclusive prove that true mod
esty is always recognized and the quality of
merit takes care of itself. Metaphorically
our statement is the Button-the Public
Press it and