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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-01-06

are.
In the first ten months of the new laws
existence, ending July 81, our imports of
carpet wool were so, 100, go pounds, y~lued
at $S,464 ,SlS, an average of 1019 cents q
pound. The duty of 81 per cent. ad valor-
EN- brings the price to the manufacturer up
to 13 6-7 cents pound. In the correspond
ing months of last year under the old tariff
impo. $ of carpet wool were 71,031, 768. val
ued at SS. 257, $40, or III SO cents q pound.
The old duty of 211 cents pound added,
made the price at one carpet mill IA LILO
cents pound. In other words, one manu-
facturer has been getting his carpet wool
cheaper on an average this year than last.
Now as to prices. The Dry Goods
Chronicle, which is always reliable in
regard to prices, in noting the drop N
carpet prices, says:
Here again we have rather surprising
outcome or what seemed inevitably rising
market due TO causes which we have al
ready explained, to-wit. the lower price of
raw material and the eager competition
which cuts the profit down to the bare
bones
Then comes the Dry Goods Economist,
another trade paper of integrity and
candor, and also free trade, joins in the
conjecture of the trade that "the new
prices will drop from 10 TO 10 and even
TO 10 cents on tapestries and ingrains.
Of course such papers cannot under
stand such mysteries as these, although
they are as plain as A. b. c. to Repub-
licans, and the Dry Goods Economist
concludes: 'But whatever the cause
and whatever the result may be, the act
stands out, for better or worse, that car
pets are likely to be considerably cheap
er than ever before"
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TRAINING HICHBINDERS.
Flesh from Savage Animals Believed To
Impart the Requisite Ferocity.

Flesh from Savage Animals Believed To
Impart the Requisite Ferocity.
At the corner OF Sansome and Clay
streets yesterday morning half a
dozen Cinnamon were bidding for a
dead wildcat in the hands of a quail
peddler, says the San Francisco Elk
aminer. The beast was shot in Ma
rim County the day before, and the
eagerness of the Chinese, together
with the spirited bidding, was a
source of much amusement to the
crowd that collected.
Representatives of the dreaded
Chez Kung Yong society were there,
and SO also was a member Of the Ping
Ong Tong, and both sides were deter
mined to secure the cat.
Two dollars and half was first
offered, and from this the bids raised
to five dollars.
The old man who had the cat mere
ly smiled.
A truce was declared while the
body of the feline was examined.
Many grunts Of approval emanated
from the warriors when it was found
that the wildcat was fat.
"Fi dolla hap" said one Of the Chi
nese.
six dolla hap" promptly came
from member OF the Pings.
The other side held q conference
and raised the amount another dol
lar.
At the close of the contest the
representative of the Ping Ongs
marched proudly away with the bob
tailed cat, after having deposited
SIS in gold for it.
That's nothing" said the quail
peddler, Il sometimes get more than
that for 'em. They eat 'em SOS to
get brave"
Last night about twenty members
Of the Ping Ong Tong society regalad
themselves on wildcat, and consc-
quently increased their bravery.
The custom Of eating tigers, lions,
and other animals Of Il fierce nature
by the Chinese dates from the days OF
Confucius.
Moy Sing, one of the most intelli-
gent Cinnamon in San Francisco,
thus gave his opinion on the subject
last night.
"A Chinaman believes that if he
eats portion Of lion or tiger the
bravery and courage Of the animal
will enter into his system and he will
become daring. In China the small
est piece of tiger is valuable for this
reason. l have eaten lion meat, and
the effect is TO make man very
brave. Here in California we eat
wildcats and foxes, and think when
ever we eat of the flesh of either
kind we become brave or cunning
like those animals. ] think the man
who sold the wildcat to those China
men made them believe it was a
young lion, or they would not have
paid so much for it, because the flesh
OF wildcat is not of near as much
value rs that OF lion"
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Paragraphs and Illustrations.

Mr.. Bayneshawe, of the Leeds Forge
Company, says: An English manufac-
turer is bound to kick long and hard
when he is excluded from so important
a market as the United States, but he
is long-headed enough to know, after
surveying industrial and manufacturing
conditions in this country, that protec-
ton is the very salvation Of the United
States. Englishmen of common sense
would be ardent protectionists, if they
lived in this country, and good many
of them who have visited the United
States In recent years are in favor of
giving protection a trial at home, not
wlthstanding the fact that it would ma
terially increase the wages of artisans.
To counterbalance the raising in wages
they look to thousand other adj
vantages enjoyed by country wherein
protection prevails.
Farmers, the free trade orator tells
you that the wicked tariff robs you by
encouraging the binding Irvine trust.
Maybe he knows that the average price
of four grades OF binding Irvine has fall
en- from 1915 cents
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Vcgetarianisn.

A theory carried to an extreme
throws its light on queer sides of
human nature. Many people believe
that it is not only foolish but wrong
to eat meat, and their conclusions,
pushed to their furthest bounds, have
an odd sound in the ears Of carnivor-
Gus mankind. One enthusiastic gen.
tleman announces his intention OF
eating merely the raw fruits and
grains of the earth, believing that
cooked food was not intended for
man or beast. He acknowledges that
diet Of nuts and fruit has hitherto
made him rather i'll, but cheerfully
hopes to adopt it, after longer trial.
Another gentleman, who is not
only a vegetarian but a conscientious
cater OF those fruits and grains which
meet his approval, would not discard
the rind of a fruit merely because it
may be tough. Having grown there,
he says, it must be intended for some
good purpos sc, and he concludes that
this purpose is connected with the
palate of man.
II believe there must be something
medicinal or nutritious in the peel OF
an orange" he writes a friend, land
so | always eat it with the rest Of the
fruit. | must confess, h )wever, that
it never seems to agree with me-"
Far removed from these ultra en-
thusiasts, however, are many persons
who have adopted the mild form OF
vegetarianism which consists in eat
ing vegetables when they are to be
conveniently found. In London,
especially, will such wanderers from
the beaten track find ample sus-
tenance in vegetarian restaurants,
one of which, "The Apple Tree" is so
entirely satisfactory as TO merit many
a visit.
It's bill of fare is long and elaborate.
If one desires French names, they
are here to be found. Translated,
the tempting titles inevitably suggest
the presence Of meat, and inspire the
inexperienced eater with an excited
longing to know how it is all done,
You order "Saronny Steak" with a
triumphant feeling that here, at last,
the cook has been caught in his own
ambitious tolls, and beguiled into
serving up flesh. A sort OF Drowned
cake is produced, and when one in
vestigatcs, it offers hint OF many
grains and vegetables, SO cunningly
mingled and SO deliciously favored
that neither eye nor tongue can dis
tinguish form or distinct taste.
A vegetable ragOut sounds mar
vellously insipid, does it not? Yet
when one has before him steaming
plate OF tender young carrots, turnips
and other spring benefactions,
favored with wondrous herbs, he
must be an exacting man, indeed, IL
he Is not content.
From "The Apple Tree" also are TO
be gathered delicious buildings of figs
and dates, plates of frIit smothercd
In cream, and many-colorcd salads,
which delight the eye and tickle the
palate. Surely, in land where such
provision Is made for the fascinating
.ooth, it Is by no means SO bad thing
to be a vegetarian.
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Carpo, Prices and Carpet Woo.

There is no doubt that many Demo-
Gratis, and especially the Mugwump por-
ton of the Democratic party, stand
dazed at the wonderful operation of the
Mckinley bill as touching the prices Of
important articles. When the tariff WAS
increased on carpet wool there went up
q wall that carpets would be much high
ar. and that the burdens of the increase
) would fall on the poor, who were forced
10 use the cheaper grades of carpets.
Poor mortals, they cannot see the error
of their prediction in the lesson of his
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They Don't Like 1t.

The London correspondent of the
New York Tribune gives the following
in regard to the feeling in London re-
speeding the Presidents message:
English comment as to the domestic part
of President llarriSOn'S message is all col
ored by irrepresslble prejudice touching
the tariff and free trade. The free trad
erS are aStOnished by his figures, SO much
aStoniShed that one amiablc critic suggest
ed that they had probably been cooked.
English free traders believed, as one of
them says, that the direct, immediate re-
suit Of the Mckinley tariff would he to di-
minish the total volume OF the American
export and import trade. Both have
nevertheless shown their disregard OF
economical laws by increasing. What re-
source have.the dOctrinaires, except to sug-
gest that presidential statistics are open to
a good deal of criticism? The increase of
free imports by S100,000,000 and the de-
crease of dutiable imports by the same
amount are another blow to the doctrin-
aires. Why, they eXclaim, that is just
what the protectioniStS desired and pre-
dicted. They wanted 10 keep out the
foreigner where he completes with home
industry, and let him in where he does not.
But the triumphant protectionists need
not be too triumphant The free trader
has had an answer ready. "a more
accurate analysis will soon disclose til at
much Of that increase in the volume
of trade is emphatically bad trade"
Why wait for more accurate analysis
Why not say at once that all trade is bad
which is not free trade? That is what he
means. No trade in America can be good
which does not enrich the British manu-
facturer at the expense of the American.
Let that be understood once for all. The
advantage of this method of economical
criticism is obvious. 1t renders the free
trade critic Independent of all the facts
and figures which do not support his
theory.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-01-06
MARK TWAIN'S BROTHER.
He IL SO Aforementioned He Ate Yeast,
Thinking 1t Was Salad.

Mark Twain has brother at Keokuk,
Ia, who is absent-minded enough for
Mark to "put in book" 1t is related
n that town that he drank violet ink
for blackberry cordial, and then took
an allopathic dose OF ammonia instead
of his cough medicine; hut his latest
absent-minded adventure occurred last
summer when his wife had gone to a
Sunday School picnic.
The maid and Mrs. Clemens both be-
ng gone for the day, Mrs. Clemens in
structed her husband that he would find
his lunch nicely prepared in the refriger-
ator. Upon her return home she in
CURED of Mr.. Clemens as to his bachel-
orhood, and how he had enjoyed his
lunch.
"Well," said Mr.. Clemens, 81 didn't
think the salad you spoke of was espec-
ally good, but ate it,"
Upon investigation Mrs. Clemens dis
covered that he had "eaten it," indeed /;
that is, the yeast put to raise for the
next days baking, while the salad prop
er remained untouched.
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A BASEBALL glove has been invented
having in the palm pocket containing
an air-cushion or pad, which can be re-
moved and inflated. IL is made in com.
partments, between which are free but
restricted passages, and IL surrounds q
central portion, which Is unpadded as
dead" The cushion thus serves To
protect the hand without receiving too
violent an impact from the ball.
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MR.. CRISP'S TROUBLES.
SCENES OF OLD BABEL TO BE
REVIVED BY THE DEMOCRATS.

Numbering Into Truth-Carpet Prices
ana Carpet Wooi-Dangerous Tariff
Tinkering-Some New Industries-En-
Eiish Comments ON the Presidents Mes
sage-Paragraphs and Illustrations.
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LENA: IL had dreadfully dull time
with Mr.. Sillyman last evening"" EN-
ma: "Did you have to do all the talk
Ing?" mo; / had to listen to him.
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/ ZOO, 900 this year. So that Yankees
ties now tie Yankee cotton, and that,
too, with practically no increase of cost
IN the cotton p,anter
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Some Now industries.

sumo NOW inUustries.
Warman & Hazelwood, of Coventry,
England, who are said to be the largest
bicycle makers in that country, with
&c, 600 paid-up capital, are to erect a
big factory in Philadelphia for the
manufacture of bicycles for their
American trade. England is said to
have $50 factories to Americas %.
A company from Bradford, England,
making arrangements to establish
worsted dress goods factory in Philadel-
phia.
Vollath & Wadlinger, also of that city,
have recently begun the manufacture of
Brussels lace curtains. This is the first
attempt to make these curtains in this
country.
John Bromley & Sons are already op-
Grating an immense plant making lace
curtains, and George Brooks & Sons
have recently imported machinery for
another plant. The hands in the Brom-
ley factory are under the instruction of
skilled workingmen from Nottingham,
the center of England's lace industry.
Horner Brothers, likewise Of the Quak-
er City, are building a lace-making plant.
And the American Economist makes
the following note of additional new in
dustries that will soon be transferred to
this country. England has hitherto bad
practical monopoly Of their manufact-
ure, and one quite large town grew up
| there whose inhabitants have been de-
pendent on the cotton tie industry. As
there was no manifest reason In the ma
ture Of things why this country, the
greatest iron and steel producer, as we'll
as the greatest cotton grower, in
the world, should depend upon mills
5000 miles away for it's cot
ton ties, the Mckinley tariff changed
the duty on them from 80 per cent. ad
valorem to $40 cents a pound, consti-
tuting material increase. Results:
American mills began making them,
and the imports of 1904, Ala pounds of
hoops or ties for bailing purposes"
ETC., during the first nine months of
1890 fell to nothing for the correspond
ing months of this year; and instead OF
over IL 600, 900 pounds Of hoop, band
or scoll iron or steel'' for nine months
OF last year, we imported less than
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-01-06

"SALLY, what would your father like to
have me- give him for Christmas pres
ent ?" "Well, James, he wa saying this
morning at the breakfast table that his
gas bill receipted for the last quarter
would please him more than anything
else in the world, except our marriage"
Boston Gazette
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Making total of..................1,62 3, 74G


American manufacturers and iron
makers, with the workmen, reaped the
benefit of this reduction in imports I'M
der the Mckinley tariff.
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Dangerous Tarifr Tinkerine.

If the report is true which states that
the course upon which Speaker Crisp
has determined to steer is that Of
"tinkering" with the tariff it will dis
turb the country more than if there was
a general attack on the whole Mckinley
bill, because it will make capital con.
sentative and cause manu- acturers to
run their factories on short time until
they see the outcome of the tinkering.
1t will disturb all lines of business,
directly or indirectly, and cause distress
among the employees of large numbers
of industries.
Among the articles which are cited as
likely TO be made the subject of bills fol
their free importation are wool, salt
binding Irvine, cotton ties, iron ore,
coal and large lines of wooden goods.
The cry is to enlarge the free list. The
abolition Of the duty on wool would
strike the sheep-growe disastrously
putting salt on the free list would close
up our salt works, and leave us depend
ent on other nations for an article abso-
lutely essential TO life; cotton ties are
cheaper in this country than before the
Mckinley bill went into effect, and if
put on the free list would soon 90 to
high prices, because we would be at the
mercy of foreign manufacturers; iron
ore is already virtually free if manu-
featured into articles of export. and in
whatever direction the proposed tinker.
ing is suggested similar reasons extend
to make it obnoxious. The law should
be allowed to stand substantially in its
present form. Any attempt to tinker
with it in the interest Of free trade will
prove not only dangerous to business
interests, but disastrous to the thinkers.
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Economy in Building in Mexico.

in the way of building on account of the
high price of materials, and points out
chances for enterprising Americans for
money-making in studying and supply
ing the needs of the people. Take the
matter of nails for instance. These cost
from Is cents to 20 cents pound, and
they are 80 expensive that a great
part of the building of Mexico is done
with ropes instead Of nails. Here in
Mexico city, within stones throw of
the lturbide Hotel, an immense build
ing is being erected.
The scafolding about this building is
tied together with ropes, the ra.ters
being spliced in this way. Many of
the huts of the southern part of the
country have roofs of thatch tied to
rafters with ropes, and some of these
huts have not nail in them.
Few wooden buildings are known in
Mexico. The average house has Meth
er cellar nor garrett, and the fastenings
which we make with nails are ingen-
iously constructed with bricks and NOR
tar. All classes Of building material are
costly here. You have to pay $50 to $40
thousand for flooring, and glass is
very high. A great many of the cheap
er houses have no windows, in the glass
sense of the world. The openings are
covered with iron bars and are fastened
at night with close wooden shutters
Iron has during past years been largely
imported from Belgium.
Breaks His Neck Often. but Lives.
Albert Patterson, the man whose neck
literally hangs by thread and who has
been an inmate of Jefferson College
Hospital since September last, intends
leaving the hospital in the course of
day or 30 as comparatively cured, that
is to say as near cured as he ever will
be. When the man entered the hospi-
tai he had already broken his neck on
three different occasions. He showed
up at the hospital all of q sudden one
had his neck broken some time before
and felt little pain in the back of it
yet. DR.. Egan admitted him to the
hospital, and found the case to be one of
the most remarkable in the annals of
surgery.
DR.. II. A. Wilson, the lecturer on
orthopedics, afterward examined the
man and lectured on his case before a
clinic. At this time Patterson was
wearing a sort of stiff bandage round
his neck, and, owing to il being an in
sufficient support, he jerked his neck
out of place three times while in the
hospital. On each occasion he fell
down paralyzed, and but for the prompt
attention of DR.. Egan in replacing his
neck in position he would have died.
DR.. III. A. Wilson, in order to obviate
the recurrence Of these accidents, de-
vised particular and special apparatus
to hold the mans head in place. and
also a pair of tongs, which fold up small
enough to go into his pocket, but extend
out far enouhg to permit him picking up
things from the floor without bending
his neck.-Phitodelphia Times.
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No man can cultivate an optimistic
mind on a pessimistic stomach Wash
inJton Star.
You can't measure a girls love by its
signs. Elmira Gazette.
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sos cents
a pound in 1890 TO

in 1891, but he isn't going to dwell
on that fact. You must study the facts
for yourself when free trade orators in
dulge in glittering generalities.
For the ten months of 1890, to No
vember !, there was imported into this
country in articles of steel and iron
manufacture gross tons to the number
...-....................... 564 ,0SY
ana iron ore........".. ,Oo9,66O
Making total of...................1,6 23, 749
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Next Lesson -"Overcome with Wine "
Isa %: lila.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-05-24

servants bill the report is false. Ire.
ter you to R. NJ. Higgs of Fort Worth,
Texas, who was one of the railroad
employees sent by the fraternities to
Austin to lobby through this and 9th.
er bills for the protection of laboring
men. Mr.. Higgs conferred freely with
me touching the passage of this bill
and knows | did not oppose it. You
Will doubtless remember that you and
had a conversation about it, YOU
were favoring it and | referred you to
the supreme court decision which held
that such legislation was not class leg.
lslatlon and not unconstitutional
Yonrs very truly GEORGE CLARK.
Mr., c. w. Shoff writes
SAN ANTONIO, May r6, 1892.
Hon. j. E. McCOmb, Houston, Texas.
DEAR SIR-Yours Of MAY 12, re.
celved reply to same has been delay.
ed awaiting a communication from n.
ii. Worley, vice president of Hogg
and commission club On receipt of
this | will communicate with you Civ
ing you all facts requested in yours of
above date together with any addition.
al information that l may be able to
obtain which | desire that you in any
way for the benefit of the Clark cause.
If the railroad employees of Houston
will note the appointed committee for
Clark's San Antonio reception they
will find at the head of the same a
great MANY Of their fellow employees.
his plainly indicates that George
Clark is their friend and so recognized
IN this part of the state where he is
well known. If railroad employees
through the state will give the matter
close attention aud study it l do not
see how any railroad employee can
conscientiously work for the interests
OF Hogg. Yours truly,
c. w. SHoFF.
So another is added to the long list
OF misrepresentation by Gov. Hogg
and his cohorts, which have been
nailed to the cross by the friends OF
truth and good government.
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A Mothers Mistake.

Mothers frequently make mistake
in neglectiDg the cough of a child. A
Fort Wayne, Ind lady writes: My
little daughter 6-y ears old had severe
cough but as it was nothing unusual |
thought nothing of it, and allowed it
to run on for or 5 weeks, when it
became so obstinate she began losing
flesh. l called in a physician who
treated her three weeks without bene-
fit. A neighbor insisted upon my try
ing Billiards. Horehound Syrup; it re-
lieved her from the first desc and she
began gaining flesh rapidly, when we
had used two bottles her cough had
entirely disappeared. | would not be
without it. 1t does not constipate my
children. Billiards. Horehound Syrup
is free from Opiates. It's the most
soothing throat and lung medicine in
the world. Price 500. and $1.OO. Sold
by H. q. FISHER.