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The People's friend., 1894-07-13
INCREDIBLE FOLLY.
The Country Is Being Robbed Through
Blundering Tariff Tinkerers.

The Country Is Being Robbed Through
Blundering Tariff Tinkerers.
The sugar schedule prepared by the
democratic senators as a favor to the
sugar trust has provoked no end Of
comment, but popular interest has
been centerel upon the effect which
the new duties would have upon the
price Of sugar to the American con-
sumer This is an important matter,
but not less important is the effect
which the imposition of these rates
will have upon our foreign trade. This
point may be more thoroughly ven
tilated when the president responds to
the resolution introduced by Senator
Hoar, calling for information regard
ing the objections to the sugar sched-
ule which have been filed by foreign
countries.
Already it is known that Germany
and Spain are prepared to retaliate
for any discrimination against them.
A bill is now before the Spanish cortes
imposing a duty of twenty-four per
cent. upon the manufactured goods
and agricultural products imported
free into Cuba from the United States
under the reciprocity agreement.
Since the treaty was made our trade
has increased from $12 600, 500 to $685.,
G040 094 That is, reciprocity has near
ly doubled our dealings with Cuba, and
of this great advantage we will be de-
prived if the senate sugar schedule
goes through,
1t is said that the German ambassador
to the United States has filed a formal
notification that the enforcement of
the discriminating duty Of one-tenth
of a cent a pound on German sugar
will be followed by retaliatory meas"
ures practically excluding American
agricultural products. This would de-
prive US of a trade worth many mil
lions, simply to carry out the demo-
cratic bargain with the sugar trust
That Germany is slow to believe us
capable Of such folly is shown by a re-
cent statement in the National Zeit-
ung. 1t says:
1T may be taken for granted that Germany
will not submit to any infringement, either
open or mashed, Of the most favored nation
clause. Americas imports into Germany are
so important that she Will not desire tariff
war with US"
1t is apparent from these facts that
the democratic error is not to be
measured by the increased cost to the
American consumer of sugar. The
democratic cry has been that the mar
-4kSets Of the world must be opened to
our products. Reciprocity accom-
DlisheS lust that. but democratic tariff
tinkering is robbing US Of the benefits
gained through sllillful diplomacy and
wise judgment.-Troy Times.
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DRIFT OF OPINION.

In the line of making the poor
poorer the Cleveland democracy holds
the record.-N. Y. Recorder.
rINIn the column of loss. add for
the year 1854 thirty million dollars
on wool, and then ask the democratic
party to tell you what you are to have
instead of this thirty million dollars
less for one year
- That ''open grave" of which Col.
Watterson foretold yawns. There
seems to be disposition to try to pull
everything in with the democratic
party just now. The people. however,
viii recover their senses.-Chicago In
ter Ocean.
The sugar trust has proved itself
to be the most potent force in tariff
legislation. and at the same time it
has made democratic success impOssi-
BILE SO long as sugar continues to be an
article of general use in this country
st. Louis GlObe-Democrat.
Last fall Secretary Carlisle, in an
official communication to congress, es-
timatcd that the treasury deficit for
the fiscal year would be $2S, S,000,0 900.
The deficit will be SIS, S,000,000. Mr..
Carlisle did not come very near. He
is not good guesser. But what is a
bagatelle Of S50,O00,O00 to democratic
financiers?-Albany Journal.
And cleveland and German
came back" but 1.-The gold continues
to go" and doesn't come back. The
American people would like mighty
well to swap some of their statesmen
now on deck, and would pay a liberal
premium to somebody who would take
good care of them. Two years and q
half more of Grover and clover" will
soon pass The people should not lose
courage. Chicago Inter Ocean.
-wWhen the Mckinley law was
passed there was much democratic
criticism of the administrative sec
-tions. Now the senate leaders have
decided to drop the administrative pro-
visions of their tariff bill, giving up as
a hopeless task the attempt to frame
more effective regulations than those
now in force. If they would go step
farther and give up the whole demo-
cratic tariff scheme it would be the
wisest move they ever made.-Troy
Times.
s8-For the first time in thirty years,
in time of peace, there will be def
icit in the national treasury. 1t
amounts to the large sum of serenity
four million five hundred thousand
dollars. The country is living under
the same law which made 1892 a year
of unexampled prosperity. for the ma
jority has not yet succeeded in maxi
ing radical changes in the tariff law.
! But for year and half it has been
striving for that end, and the fear that
it will succeed has caused the uneasi-
ness and decentralization which has
brought the deficit. When the repub-
lican party was in power, the balance
was always on the right side Of the
books of the treasury.-Albany Jour
nal.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
Minor State News.

Trouble was reported brewing at the
Leavenworth coal mines owing to a
reduction in wages.
tramp was recently killed while
attempting to steal ride on a Santa
Fe passenger train at Great Bend.
The state prison board has decided
to begin the investigation of the
charges against Warden Chase, of the
penitentiary, on July % at Lansing.
Cal. Connolly shot and killed Joseph
Mapes at Goodrich a few days ago.
They were both engaged in the black
smith business and the trouble arose
over a title to the shop.
A man named Alexander was arrest
ed at Leavenworth the other day on
the charge of stealing a car load of cat
tie while employed on a stock farm,
shipping them to Kansas City and SELL
ing them.
Paragraph 2543 of the general stat
utes of 1889, so far as lit attempts to
confer on county attorneys the power
to commit witnesses for contempt on
account of a refusal to De sworn or
testify in regard to the violation of the
prohibitory law, has been declared un-
constitutional by the supreme court.
Special pension examiners were re-
Gently appointed for Kansas as fol-
lows: A. Shipmen, c. Davis, Harry L..
Arnold and Samuel G. Gaiher.
On account of the strike the Rock
Island closed its shops at Holton and
abandoned all through freight trains.
Six hundred men were thrown out OF
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
the American people from the heights

the American people from the heights
OF prosperity into slough Of despond.
The facts in the case are plain, so
plain taat he who runs may read their
meaning, which is that the democrat tic
politicians are responsible for all the
industrial and commercial depression
which has afflicted the American
people since Cleveland's Inauguration.
as Wei as for the great deficit in the
national revenues of the fiscal year
now closed. Surely the average
Scotchman who remarked: IF man
cheats me once he deserves to be
hanged, but if he cheats me a second
time it is myself that deserves it,
Chicago Tribune
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
On to WASHINGTON,

Three years ago, the only authentic map
of the Virginia battlefelds was prepared in
the War Department for the Chesapeake &
Ohio Railway Co 1t can with safety be as
serted that it the most interesting map
ever published; and so great was the de
manG for the first edition that 1CO,l % were
soon absorbed, but it has been re-issued for
the occasion of the X. Of =. Encampment
at Washington in August, and will be
mailed free after June 1st, upon application
to =. B. Ryan, Assistant General Passenger
Agent, c. q 0. Ry, Cincinnati, o. In con-
nection with the map is also description of
the grand and varied scenery Of the Viz
ginias, and the delightful Mountain and Sea
Shore Resorts along the G. q o., as well as
o sketch of the battetields.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
THE NATURALIST.

THE silk of the great spider Of
Madagascar is fine, strong and elastic
1t is used by the natives to fasten
flowers to sunshades. A single female
spider has been known to spin two
miles of it in twcnty-seven days
Mr.. MICHAELs has recently studied
the relations between many mites
(Gamasids) and certain ants in whose
nests they are boarders. A strange
case is that of a species of Bdella,
which lives habitually in a spiders web
in harmonious relations with the other
wise ferociOuS host
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
The Voracious Missouri.

The Missouri river continues to cut
away and destroy property at East
Atchison. Three of the four railroad
tracks running east from Atchison
have been washed away and all four
companies are using the remaining
track.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
Still PerrinS AWay.

The adjourned meeting Of the Second
congressional district republican con
vention assembl at Lawrence on the
10th and resumed balloting with the
old deadlock on hand. The 1.0OOth
ballot stood. Funston. 40; Buchan, 39;
Howard, 21; Parker, II: Smart, II.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
No. 1.0CS.

The last convict received at the peni-
'tentiary in June took the number Z, OPS.
There were 250 received and 80 dis
charged. One man escaped during the
month. There were five deaths, one
of them a colored man. the rest were
white. There were three men par
doned during the month.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
BV Violence

Little is accomplished in this civilized era,
but with the gentle laxative Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, the bowels are relieved
without abruptness or subsequent weaken
ing Dyspepsia, malaria, rheumatism,
weakness and kidney trouble yield to this
reliable curative, foremost also among in
vigorants and recommended by physicians.
Give this medicine fair trial and be con-
vinced.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
Trouble for the Governor.

A crank named Geb +. Miner at Per-
ry, Ok, demands $50, O,O00 from Gov.
Lewelling for false imprisonment, and
threatens to sue for s.. ZOO, 900 unless
his demand is acceded to. Miner
claims that he served eight years in the
Kansas penitentiary in the place of a
man who really ought to have been
there
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
53S Pages for 5 Stamps.

A copy Of Health and Pleasure on Amer
ica's Greatest Railroad" containing 53S
pages, with over 800 illustrations and de-
scription of more than 1000 tours; finest
book of its kind ever issued; will be sent to
any address free, postpaid, on receipt of five
two-cent stamps, by GEORGE H. DANIELS,
General Passenger Agent, Grand Central
Station, New York.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
Sad Accident. 1

Miss Lena Breyfogle, aged % years,
her sister, aged II years, and Edith Car
roll, aged 13 years, were recently killed
by by a train st 2 s..ceejsg ssaatr L4eaexa.
The two former were daughters Of
Hon. Lewis Breyfogle, chairman of the
county commissioners of Johnson coun-
ty. They were driving two horses to a
spring wagon and attempted to cross
the road. not seeing the train which
approached through a cut.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13

TOBY Ito eccentric manl-"What are you
do ng with that box.'' Popperkaq-"Going
to make wagon of it, Toby 'Where'll
you get the wheels?" Popperkaq-''Ou
of Your head."-N. 7. Journal
The People's friend., 1894-07-13

Il UNDERSTAND now" said a guest at a
fashionable resort, why they call this the
overlook House Unless YOU are tipping
the walters all the time your wants are en-
tirely overlooked Richmond Dispatch
The People's friend., 1894-07-13

CHIT am er fack," said Uncle Eben, ''dat
it aim no use ter worry. But hit am jes' ez
much er tack dat hit ain no use ter tell err
man dat it aim no use ter worry. Wash
ington Star.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13

''DE great trouble bout conversation"
remarked Uncle Eben, ''am dat hits onpos-
sible ter show ez much originality in talkin'
bout de Weddah ez yoh kin talkin' bout
yOh neighbors. Washington Star
The People's friend., 1894-07-13

MEDICAL men say that there is alcoholic
gas in the skull of man who dies of de-
lirium tremens. The nose is probably the
gas-burner, then.-ChicagO Times.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13

Ii WEh.S-.fn actress is young she has her
photographic likeness, and when she is old
she does not depart thcreflom.- Boston
TRANSCRIPT.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13

THERE is one thing to be said in praise of
the doughnut, and that is that the vacuum
in its center will not distress the weakest
stomach Boston Transcript
The People's friend., 1894-07-13

You can't have your penny and your cake;
but if you are sufficiently able and unscru-
pulous, you can have your penny and some
one else's cake.-Puck.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13

a sALLOw skin acquires healthy clear
ness by the use of Glenns Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, so cents.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13

@and yet they really do you moro good
Their refined and concentrated vegetable
extracts act upon the liver in natural
way that lasts. They havo c. peculiar
strengthening effect on the intcstines. They
not only relieve, but permanently cure
In every liver, stomach, and bowel disor-
der-Constipation, Biliousness, Indigestion.
Windy Eructations, "Risings of Food" Sick
or Bilious Headaches, Sour they're
guaranteed to give satisfaction, or your
money is returned.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
Pcnitentiary ReDort.

Warden Chase's report showed the
following transactions at the penitcn-
for the month of June: Cash receipts
for the month. $9,741.1S, of which So
119.40 was for coal sales, - .262.57 for
convict labor and S1.96S If for board
ing United States prisoners, The total
expenditures for the month were SO.
054.91. The coal output for the month
was l06,0l4 bushels. of which POOLS
bushels We're supplied to state institu-
tons
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
THE SMALLER. THE RETTEP

if you can only
be sure that q
small pill will do
you as much
good. DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets
arc smaller than
any others, sugar
coated, easier to
tal1c and easier in
the ESv thew act,
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
Halls Cararrh Cure

The man who is not conscious of his own
faults has no charity for anOtner.-Ram' S
Horn
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
Crop Report.

The weather crop report for the
week ended July Q showed corn to be
and oat harvest begun. oats generally
turning out much better than had been
expected. Meadows and pastures have
improved much, and the new hay com
ing into market in the central counties
is very fine. In the west the seed crop
of alfalfa is about ready to cut, while
in the central counties it has generally
been secured in good condition. Apples
are growing fast and promise good
crop. Potatoes are generally large.
The People's friend., 1894-07-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Kansas CrOl5S.

The July crop report issued by Sec
retary Coburn, of the state agricultural
department. says:
The yield of wheat is estimated to be 2S. 320-
900 bushels The acreage planted last fall. ac-
cOrdlng to the assessors returns, was 6707
acres. The acreage actually harvested was D
666,61 acres. The report says the rains of the
past month have brought the wheat out Won
derfully, making in many fields five to ten
bushels per acre. where month ago it was not
thought possible to raise anything
The crop is all in shock or stack, except in
the northern and northwestern counties. and
the determination to stack before threShing is
more general than in any preceding season AS
q rule the harvest has been from week to
twelve days earlier than usual except in some
OF the southwestern counties where either SOW
ing or termination were very backward. AS to
the quality. only single reporter from each of
five of the 105 counties uses the word poor" to
describe it. while all the others quote it as
medium plump" good" very good"
extra good and from seventy-three counties
the description is good" or very good"
Very little spring wheat was harvested and
the oats yield will not exceed half crop The
yield of rye is about the same as Of winter
wheat: the quality is good.
Without exception. reports indicate that
Kansas presents at this time an area Of grow
ing corn the equal of which for extent, even
ness Of stand, vigorous growth. prOpitiOus soil
conditions and freedom from weeds has sell
dom, if ever, been seen before in any state.
The acreage appears to have been increased
during the mouth 10 per cent and perhaps
more by planting ground upon winch oats,
spring wheat. etc. made an Cnp"oIising start
The weather at this writing continues very
kindly to the corn. In some localities where
there Lave been more or less chinch bugs in
winter wheat fields the harvest has caused
their migration to the borders of adjacent corn
which. if backward and small. they have left
their marks upon. but as vet not to an extent
likely to be appreciable in the state S aggre-
gate product.
The total Weld of wheat promises to be large
but the conditions vary widely
The condition of barley is 49 per cent: broom
corn, 81: castor beans. 90: flax, 50: millet. 81;
sorghum. -: clover, II; timothy, 50; bluegrass
so: alfalfa, ,S6; prairie grasS.S0
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-12
THE REMEDIAL USES OF APPLES.

In all temperate climates the apple
grows freely, and might be obtained
in practically unlimited quantities.
That it is not more used than it is is
probably due to the fact that, being
so plenty, it is undervalued. Yet al
most every one likes the fruit in some
fashion, and it should form part OF
at least two meals out of every three
during the year round for even when
the fresh fruit is notin season, canned,
dried or ''evaporated" apples may al.
ways be had.
Chemically, says a writer in the
North American Practitioner, "the
apple is composed of vegetable fibre,
albumen, sugar, gum, chlorophyl,
malic acid, 9allic acid, lime and water.
Furthermore, the German analysts say
that the apple contains a larger per-
centage of phosphorus than any other
fruit or vegetable. The phosphorus
is admirably adapted for renewing the
essential nervous matter-lecithin-
of the brain and spinal cord. 1t is
perhaps for this reason-though but
rudely understood-that the old Scan
dinavian traditions represent theapple
MS the food of tine gods who, when
they felt themselves to be growing
feeble and infrm, resortel to this
fruit to renew their powers of mind
aud body"
Not only the phosphorus, but the
acids of the apple are of singular use
for persons of sedentary habits,
whose livers are apt to be too slow OF
action. These acids aid the liver in
its work of eliminating from the body
the noxious matters which, if retained,
would make the brain heavy and dull,
or, in time, would cause rheumatism,
iaundice, or skin eruptiops, and other
allied troubles.
The malic acid of apples, either raw
or cooked, will neutralize any excess
of chally matter engendered by eating
too much meat.
Ripe apples are probably the least
fermentable of all fruits, except, pos
sibly, the banana. For this reason
ripe and sound apples may be eaten
by most persons in even the hottest
weather; bat even the apple is safest
when cooked.
We have the support of eminent
medical authority in saying that the
most healthfnl way to cook apples is
to pare and core them, and bake in a
moderate oven. 1t the apple is of a
quite sour variety it may be necessary
to add little sugar, putting about a
saltspoonful in the hollow whence the
core was extracted. The next best way
to cook them IS stewing. Contrary to
common belief, apples baked in their
skins are the least healthful OF cooked
apples. -Harper's Bazaar.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-12
THE HARVESTERS,

!Hrra'. as aaeld we gol
We w!!k AM reap as the hours drift on,
We ra5e anl binl and our plumy sheaves
Are fair to LOOK upon.
tos the hours OF coming winter ewes
Neare gathering comfort and mirth;
Her bins oerlowinc with ripened grain
Are the JOY of all the earth
On Earth is goo lily sight,
With its billowy fields of gold,
Ihe fnr7ow that last years plowshare turned
br'nSs riches hundred fold.
The sower who cast the seed.
How he sings in his inmost heart,
For ioyth in this harvest wealth
HIS hand bore goodly part.
Then hurrah as afleld we go,
For the pr.zo that awaits our hands!
AMI wa'il sing, us our scythes flash in and
oar,
Oi! songs OF the harvest lands;
O.d songs whose rhythm holds
The We oldei music of stone and blade
And the psalm OF the winds, from seas oil
grain.
Ashley fly over hill and glade.
Harriet Smead, in Inter-Gcea
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-12
transformers lnr Raif.

Engineer Carlisle Laughead, wish
ing to try his luck at fishing, and de.
string some bait for that purpose, sta
toned boy on the cowcatcher of the
engine on the way up to the front of
the Oregon Pacific with large sack,
the mouth of which was distended
with n hoop. As the grasshoppers
would rise before tine engine, flying 20
one side, The boy would hold ont the
sack and scoop them in, thus being
able to swoop down upon the unsus,
pecting hoppers with the power and
swiftness Of steam. He gathered in a
half bushel or more. With those fat
grasshoppers Mr.. Laughead succeeded
in Turing from the placid waters ol
French Creek 302 speckled beauties
to attest to his prowess as fisherman.
Albany (Oregon) Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-12
RECIPES.

A Cream OF Chocolate Take pint
OF milk and three ounces ofchocoiate.
Boil this with five tablespoonfuls of
sugar until thoroughly mixed, then
remove from the nre and add four
eggs beaten light. Pour into cold
bowl to cool, and when cold, add a
pint OF cream beaten stiff, and u tea-
spoonful OF vanilla.
Potatoes Maitre d tel-Cut
about qGarU OF potatoes IN Slices
Put one and one-half ounces OF butter
in T. saucepan, and when melted sud q
small teaspooniul OF hour, stu til
turning yellow, then add quart OF
mill. and salt to taste. Let it boil up
once, take from 5he fire and add the
potatoes Put it back over slow fire
FOR ten minutes, add teaspoonful Of
minced parsley, the yolks Of two eggs,
and serve
Calls Head Cheese-Boll calf's
head in four or five quarls of w-ter
ior three hours, or until the meat
leaves the bones, Take up The head
with 8 skinner, remove the bones
and chop TIE meat very fine. Season
It with tablespoonful each OF salt,
pepper and sweet heros. Mix thor
oughly, Pa5 it into deep dish, lay
place oyet 1t, pu5 on weight and
sci away in cool place. When cold
!. can ne served ou5 i'll Thin slices or
for sandwiches, seasoning each slice
with made mustard.
CheeseI:ns-Take three ounces OF
fna bceai crumbs, four ounces of
c-ltaf rtaa.n tvo s-po,e of l,,4.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-12
Killing Field Mice.

An engenious method was recently
employed in France of ridding the
country OF small rodents which had
become so numerous and destructive
that it was impossible to produce any
crop. Every acre of land furnished q
home for thousand of these pests
The method adopted was to dissolve
some gclatine cultures Of pathogenic
bacteria capable Of producing an in.
fectious disease in mice, then soak.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-12
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS
CLEANING DELICATE LACEs.

Here is recipe for cleaning deli
cate laces, which an old lacemaker,
who has woven many gossamer web
for the great connoisseur and lover OF
laces, Nine. Modjeska, gave to her
pupil and patron: Spread the lace
out on paper, cover with calcined
magnes1a, place another paper over ii
and put it away between the leaves OF
a book for two or three days. Then
all it needs is a skilful little shake to
scatter the powder, and its delicate
threads are as fresh and clean as when
first woven. Nine. Modjeska is quite
an adept at the art of lacemaking and
fashions many dainty patterns witt
her deft fingers. New York Tele.
gram.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-12

ing great number of small cubes of
bread in this solution, aud placing
the bread near the holes every day TOR
three days in succession. Within
two weeks from the time when this
treatment was begun, scarcely live
mouse was to be found in the district.
When the burrows were opened, their
galleries were found to be filled with
dead mice Literary digest.
A FACT is something that will keep
going straight en- forever.