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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-12-18
Railways of the United States.

The instertate commerce commission
at Washington has issued preliminary
report on the income and expenditures
of the railways in the United States for
the year ending June 80 1896. The
report presents the chief items OF an
income account by 10 territorial groups
for $50 roads representing an operated
mileage OF 172, 1863 miles of line, or about
90 per cent of the total mileage operated
in the United States The gross earn
mos upon this mileage were 81, 1913 ,646,-
562, of which 1923, 46S S91 were from
the passenger service and S772,oll374
from the freight service. As the operat-
ing expenses were $754071,515, it APP
pears that the income from operation
was $36s .675,04
The figures given in this preliminary
statement indicate, at least, a turning
toward prosperity. The earnings OF the
passenger service are shown to he SlS77
mile. an increase of $113 as compared
with the previous year The earnings OF
the freight service also show an increase
over last year OF $349 per mile OF line.
The gross earnings by the mile OF line
were S6519 for 1896 and the operating
expenses S43S0, leaving net income per
mile OF line OF S2139, which is in excess
of that for the fiscal years 1895 and
1894, and compares fairly well with the
net income by the mile of line for 1893
and 1892 The net earnings oil the
172,369 mics of line represented IN
this income report were S36s,o|o,OfI
AGAINST S341 29S.047 for the cores
ponding roads in 1895. This is the item
Increased by income from Investments
from which fixed charges and dividends
must be paid before surplus is declared
The increase in net earnings is fairly
well distributed throughout the United
States. The surplus from the operations
of the year ended June 80, 1896, was So
32S, 667. The fiscal year 1895 closed
witha deficit Of $31 ,O75 ,O30. In the case
of every group in 1895, except group nine
(mainy Texas and Louisiana), which
had a smaller deficit in that year, there
was either a smaller surplus or a greater
deficit than in 1896. The dividends
declared bv the roads covered by this
advance statement were SOL, 1888, 1872,
being almost the same as the amount OF
dividends declared by the corresponding
roads the previous year.
1t should be understood that the
amount stated does not include all OF the
dividends paid, since considerable por'
ton of the dividends paid during the
wear on railway stock is declared from
rentals received by leased roads from the
companies that operate them, such rent
ais being returned by the lessons as fixed
charges. The report closes with bret
argument to the effect that congress
should so amend the act to regulate
commerce as to secure the enforcement OF
its provisions.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-12-18
McKinIey's Tariff Ideas.

Eli Perkins has been to Canton with
other pilgrims and has interviewed the
President-elect with reference to hisvews
on the tariff question. He says he be-
lieves he can prophecy what Major Nc
Kinlev will do. Here is the prophecy;
First-He will make the duty on wooden
cloths, vevets, and plushes both specific
and ad valorem, and raise the tariff just
high enough to have them made in the
United States without lowering our
wages He will not have our gold going
to Bradford to buy these things while
our own mills are idle.
Secondly-We are making three-fourths
Of our tin and plate glass now. The Viii
son bill cut the tariff on tin from 2.2O
to Ito in order to kill the industry. 1t
did kill it in the Eastern states, where
coal was used but Providence sent free
gas to Indiana, and they are now max
ing gas tin from the block plate up for 81
a box, that used to cost Sc in Wales. SO
tin and plate glass will probably not be
touched Plate glass that used to sell
$40 a square foot, is now selling for 40
cents-made at home. The tin tariff
may go up from ITO cents per pound to
p cents per pound, so that it can be
made again with profit with coal
Thirdly-A ten.cent tariff will be put
back on wool. Mckinley believes it has
not been agood policy to send 500, 0O0,-
600 in gold to Asia and Australia for
wool during the last four years when we
could have given $40, 100000 for it to
Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Pennsylva-
MIA and the silver states. He believes
wool, when sheared and washed is a
manufactured product.
Fourthly-McKinley will recommend a
tariff on German and English linen high
enough to bring Belfast linen manu'ac-
turers to the United States, where they
manufacture European flax, which will
come in free. He will capture this S25,-
100000 linen industry as he captured
the tin, plate glass and pottery indus
tries.
Fitthly-McKinley's aim will be to in.
crease the product Of sugar in Nebraska
and California fax in Wisconsin, Mime.
sofa and Dakota, and so increase the
sheep industry, where wheat used to
grow in the Northwest, that 100000,
600 bushels less OF wheat will be raised
wool and fax will take its place, anC
dollar wheat will come to the farmer
again
Sixthly-McKrnley will urge tariff OF
manufactured lumber, grain, eggs, ant
meat against Canada He will max,
this tariff as high as their tariff is agains
us. Cattle, sheep and horses will hav
specific duty against them, which Can
ada will pay. Our Custom Houses alonj
the Canadian border have not paid ex
penses during the last four years. The
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-12-18
State News.

States Attorney Rowland made his
first complaint since he took the Office
against the liquor dealers in Rutland last
Friday, and warrants were issued for
the raiding OF ] + bars. Sheriff Peabody
and Deputy Sherlffs Stearns and Whit
taker did the business and discovered
liquor in all the places searched except
four. No claim was made to the liquor
at the other bars and it was forfeited. In
each OF these cases the costs of seizure,
amounting to $15.73, were paid.
In the Washington county court SEN
tence was suspended in the case of Mar.
tin and Sarah Nokes, found guilty of
manslaughter, and the case goes to the
supreme court on exceptions by the re-
spondents' counsel. Mrs. Nokes was adj
mitted to bail in the sum of $1,000, fur
nished by the selectmen of the town OF
Worcester. The case of the state against
Charles Wales OF Barre, for attempting
to blow up Goddard seminary with
dynamite last March, has been continued
until the March term. The case of the
state against Mabelle Marshfeld of
Mortified, for poisoning her husband,
has again been postponed and is now set
for trial Monday, December %. Arecess
will be taken during Christmas week to
allow Chief Justice Ross to be at his home
at ST. Johnsbury. The marriage of his
daughter and John w. Titcomb occurs
during that week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-12-18

will be made to pay a revenue. Canada
has prohibtory duty Of three cents a
pound against American meat now, and
Mckinley will see that it does not con-
tinue. He will set all our mills to run
nlng, let the laboring men earn $4,000
900 900 a year, as they earned in 1891.
This will make money so plenty that
there will be no further cry about coin
ing more silver, for the $3.50 600 600 in
silver now rusting in the Treasury will
get into the hands OF the people.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-12-18
Public Notice.

We druggists are authorized to refund
the money on ilty-cent bottle of DR..
Balls cough and lung syrup, "Hustena,"
lit does not cure your cough and prove
the best medicine ever used for severe
coughs lung troubles and asthma; also
on a twenty-five cent bottle. Try it,
A. F. WALKER, FRANK G. LANDRY,
c. c. BINGHAM, A. {. RANDALL,
FLINT BROS, BoYNToN & EASTMAN,
O. B. CUTTING, West Concord.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-12-18
A Gard.

We, the Undersigned do hereby agree
to refund the money on fifty cent bot
tie of Greene's syrup of tar if it fails to
cure your cough or cold; we also war
rant twenty-five cent bottle to prove
satisfactory or no pay.
A. c. RANDALL, c, c. BINGHAM,
FRANK 6. LANDRY, FLINT BROS,
BoYNToN g. EASTMAN, A. F. WALKER,
d. c. HARRINGTON, West Dauvile
L, D. STILES, st, .Iohnsbury Center.
J, b. ROGERS, Walden.
O. B. CUTTING, West Concord.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-12-18
Very respectfully yours,

HENRY Il. ALVORD.
Seven years of careful trial have proven
this article to be a success. Thousands
Of dairymen pronounce it the best COW
medicine made. 1t goes to the seat of
the trouble, the blood, as well as acting
directly upon the womb.
Kow Kure is medicine and not food
and for cows only.
1t cures abortion barrenness and re-
tanned afterbirth 1t makes rich blood
and increases the flow OF milk
Kow-Kure comes in three pound cans
and sells for $100 per can. There is
enough medicine in one can to treat one
cow from five to eight week. One can is
often worth sos 100 to daryman. For
sale by Griswold & Mackinnon, St. Johns
hurry
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-12-18
ABORTION (sLINKING) IN COWS

Prof Henry AIvord, one OF the best known
agricuIturists in America, when director of
the rlary land Agricultural Experiment Sta
tom in a letter tells how he treated this dis
ease.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, p. o., MD,
Dec. 26, 1890.
Dear Srs: The following statement of
facts is sent you TOR what it is worth.
There was certainly an epidemic OF abor-
ton in the herd OF dairy cows here under
my charge. We used your ow-Kure,
and we have apparently got rid OF the
abortion. My previous experience with
this trouble has been such that | don't
feel able to say the powders stopped it,
but the facts here strongly favor that
assumption.
During the years 1888 and 1889 there
were ten 10Y abortions here on the Agr-
cultural College Farm, and but three 81
calves were dropped on time and lived.
In January, 1890, at the suggestion Of
Mr.. A |. Hayward we obtained some OF
your Kow-Kure, and began using it as a
preventive OF abortion. During this year
we have had eight (S) live calves, and
good ones, and but one case of abortion.
This one case was late in the season, and
heiter; this animal had refused to eat
her grain when the powders were mixed
in it, and thinking the disease had disap-
peared, we made no special effort to get
her to take the medicine. We have
pure bred AYRSHIRE that aborted first
calf in 1888, and again in 1889; she is
now carrying her calf well, and is within
few days Of her right period OF eaIv-
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Deaths.

At Danville, Nov. 80, Mrs. Lucinda f. Bad
ger, wife of the late Lathrop Clark of Dan
vile, aged II years 8 months.
At Glover, Dec. g. after lingering illness,
Miss Etiie Hagar Burial at Morrisvile.
At West Burke, Dec. / 3, Edwin J.. Roundy,
aged about 50.
At West Burke, Dec. 10, Electra ", wife of
Perry Porter, aged about 81.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-12-18
Births.

At McIndoe Falls, Dec. 49, daughter to
Mr., and Mrs. Charles Bell.
At Danville, Dec, 8, daughter to Mr.. and
and Mrs. Charles Perkins.
At Danville, Dec. ID, a daughter to Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Woodward.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-12-18
Marriages..

At Omaha, Neb., Dec. o. David Choate,
formerly of West Barnet, and Harriet Bailey,
formerly of Peacham
At st. Johnsbury, Dec. 8, by Rev. II, II.
Hoyt Rush J. Cole and Mrs, Winnie Mood
ard, both OF Danville.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-12

brakes for drivers, tender and train. 1t
also has the engine truck brake and air
signal. The boiler is Jagged with mag
nesia sectional covering. Two round
case lights have been furnished, and
the sand feeding apparatus; the
coupler is carried on the pilot and rear
of the tender. The water brake is ap-
piled to the cylinders, and the CONSOLE
dated steam car heating apparatus anu
the speed recorder are also used. The
tender frame is of 61hx4A inch angle
iron, and built according to the stand
ard, as are also the tender trucks, which
are center bearing, with channel irons
and diamond frames. The engine
truck has rigid center and four
wheels.
More engines of this type would
doubtless be built TO use in inspect
ing railroads were it not for the fact
that they cannot be used with comfort
at all seasons of the year. In summer
especially the heat from the boiler.
over which the inspection cab is con-
structed, is uncomfortable, and then
the element of danger is greater than
when nicely fixed in the rear end of
private car. This manner of inspec-
ton is far preferable to the active rail-
read official, but with the directors
who once or twice year inspect their
property the case is different. The
ordinary railroad director regards
modern locomotive steamed up ready
to make a dash down the track at
sixty-mile gait with very great respect
and for private reasons prefers to do
ais inspecting from well-stocked car,
rather than sitting over boiler which
may blow up.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-12

who is making a tour Of the country
for the purpose OF agitation and prop
aganda, is not the wild-cyed, shaggy
haired type of men witk which many
Americans are acquainted in his
brothers" on this side of the water
The English red" is a neatly dressed
man, of good education, pleasing adj
dress, and easy manners. He does not
rave, but speaks of his mission" quiet
ly and with urbanity. But while all
this is true, Turner was compelled to
sail in the Storage of a big ocean
liner under an assumed name. The de-
tectiyes of the Scotland Yard know him
we'll and keep a pretty bright eye on
him. Had he not sailed covertly the
United States authorities would have
been notified and he would not have
been allowed to land. This goes to
show that he is not regarded as an in
offensive, harmless person in Scotland
Yard. Turner has a little history. He
succeeded to the editorship of the Com
monweal when its editors we're put in
Jail for advising the assassination OF
the chief justice and he is now the
editor of another flrebrand periodical
called, Freedom" He says he hopes
to restore to the anarchists in the
United States the same fiourishing
condition that prevailed before the lit
tie setback that was given them by
law in Chicago after the Haymarket
affair
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-12

The total number Of business failures
in the United States during the past
three months is Asp, by coincidence
exactly 700 more than in the like quar-
ter last year, an increase of almost one
fifth. The only preceding quarter in
which the total number of failures was
as large as 1000 was in 1885, imme
diately following the panic of 1884,
when the total was 1850. In no like
quarter before or since has the num-
Der of failures been as large as in the
past three months, although in the first
quarter of 1894 there were nearly four
thousand business failures reported
3,969-compared with which the in
crease during the past quarter is about
one-ninth.
After year of extreme depression,
following the panic of 1898, and par
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-12
HORSES MADE OVER.

Some of the Tricks of Dealers to Re-
store Brief Youth to Aged Equines.
The bolstering of ancient horses has
become almost an art. An expert in
this practice can take the most decrep-
it street car wreck and in short time
so alter his appearance that the care
less buyer would consider him bar
gain at fairly good figure.
The tricks employed to gain the ends
of the owner of the time-worn horse
are as numerous as they are cruel.
One of the most recent and ingenious
inventions of the INSCRIPTIONS is a
treatment for filling out the eyes,
which, as rule, are sunk far back in
the head. This operation consists in
cutting an opening in each optic, in
which the nozzle of a small air bel
lows is inserted. Wind is then gently
pumped into and around the organ.
putting it out and giving it the appear
ance of a horse in perfect condition.
OF course, like all other fake" RENE
dies, the apparently beneficial results
last for a limited time only, after which
the normal conditions return. Another
and fayorite method of Improvement
is the injection of large dose OF whis-
ky into the animal, hypodermic syr-
inge being employed to pump the in
vigorator into the beast TO be disposed
Of Several secret compounds are also
employed by various INSCRIPTIONS
traders In fact there are many in
jections compounded which contain a
limited amount of the fire of youth
Then the broken down animal is often
fed on alcoholic essence OF oats, while
we'll moistened hay will fill out an ema-
ciated frame in short order. Add to
these careful grooming and clipping,
and judicious exercise, and it doesn't
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-12
Burnaby's Light Lunch.

The late Colonel Fred Burnaby had a
prodigious appetite. When at private
tutors in Wales he went on walking
tour, and turned in for a midday meal
at village inn.
On inquiring what he could have foe
lunch, the landlord announced a roast
goose, hot, and ready to be served, and
an apple tart. Burnaby was informed
that IS Cd. was the price for the re-
past.
Having demolished the goose and
tart, leaving only few bones and an
inch of crust to tell their tale, he prof
fered the IS Cd.
The landlord woefully accepted the
coin, and, with a sardonic grin, ejacu-
lated:
Next time you are down this way.
give my friend Jones at the Red Lion
call. I will give you IS. Cd. if you
will serve him the same way."-An-
swers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-12
Mckinley the Protectlonist.


"The year 1890 found him at the head
of the Ways and Means Committee and
leader of the house. In that position 1t
fell to his lot to frame and secure the
enactment Of the Mckinley law. Gap
plause) That measure has made his
name familiar in all the world and has
made him. exceedingly unpopular in
almost all the world outside of the
United States. Great Applause) But
it has correspondingly endeared him
to his countrymen. Time has vindi-
Gated his labor. The last three years
have been years of trial. They have
been years of Democratic rule: they
have been years of education for the
American people in the school of practi7
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-12
Important Information by Telephon

A messenger boy called up the Cen
trail telephone Office yesterday and
asked the operator il she knew what
love was.
'No." she replied. Say, If you find
out let me know will you?"
"All right" said the boy.
In little while he called her UP
again and said: Say, | found that
out. About love. you know"
What is it?" asked Central.
IAN itchi .g of the heart that one
can't scratcs," said the boy, and he
rang off.-Syracuse Courier
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-12

falling behind the work of the Nc
kiniey law, which they denounced ae
inefficient. Even in it's closing months,
when importations had fallen off by
reason of the expectation of reduced
tariff rates, the Mckinley law produced
more revenue than has the German
law. It's receipts in the last nineteen
months of it's operation were forty mill
lion dollars greater than those Of the
first nineteen months of the German
law, while as for it's first nineteen
months, the Mckinley exceeded the
German law by eighty million dollars
in its receipts. Here is statement
which shows, in three lines, the com.
paratve revenue producing qualities OF
the two laws, whether in the beginning
or closing periods of the Mckinley act,
Mckinley law receipts first
10 months. ............. $685., 9l9,0O4
Mckinley law receipts last
10 months. ............. SCI ,S19, or
German law receipts first
ID months. ............... All ,423, o0a
In every particular, the new law has
been a failure, whether in customs re-
ceipts or internal revenue receipts.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-12
Wanted More.

Banker Spudde-I didn't hear you
knock at the door of my Office, young
man.
The Young Mani didn't knock. I
wanted to be sure of seeing you.
You don't appear to be lacking in
nerve, sirn'
81 am, though. That's what I've come
for"
"Hey?"
Yes, sir. And l come by permis-
sion"
. !'Wh-hatr
That's right. By permission"
f'Whose permission?" =.
Hers"
Hers? Whose?"
"Your daughters"
(Which one?"
Miss Nerya."
Good heavens
Eyes, sir. See?"-Chicago Tribune.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-12

almost Immediately became city editor.
In 1888 he became managing editor and
he is now one of the two owners Of
the paper, which is one Of the most
valuable newspaper plants in northern
Ohio outside of Cleveland and Toledo.
He has been all his life a warm
friend of Major Mckinley and is close
in the councils of the great republican.
Governor Mckinley appointed him
trustee of the Ohio institution for the
blind. This office he still holds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-12
Janet Waited.

Little Janet, aged four, noticed the
family helping themselves literally to
mustard.
Nobody offering her any, she waited
until something drew away the atten-
ton of the others. when she lifted the
mustard spoon, literally daubed a
piece of bread which she was eating
with the fiery condiment, and took a
substantial bite.
Her hand Immediately went up to her
burnt mouth; but, bravely suppressing
an cutlery, she put the bread away
from her, remarking:
Il think I'll wait until that jelly gets
cold."-Phila. Inquirer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1896-05-12

ticularly after year in which there
was a moderate boom in leading COM
mercial and industrial lines and a gem
eral advance in prices, as in 1895, it
would have been natural to expect a
year with conditions looking TO i'm
provement, the outcome of which could,
of course, hardly help lowering the
commercial death rate.
The most unfavorable feature of the
report concerning the quarters fail
ures is the relatively heavy increase OF
liabilities compared with gain in num-
Der of embarrassments. Thus, while
the increase in the latter is Is per cent,
as compared with the first quarter Of
1895, and about IL per cent. compared
with the first quarter of 1894, total liza
bilities aggregating $62,513,000, are
about 80 per cent. larger than in the
corresponding period one year ago, and
27 per cent. larger than in the like
period two years ago. No correspond
ing period during the previous fifteen
years has presented so large a total of
liabilities as that the statistics for
which are now made public. In the
first quarter of 1895, when there were
only 1850 failures, total liabilities
amounted to i1,464,O00, nearly one
third less.
1t is when we come to records from
western and the middle states that in
ereases, not only in number of embar-
easements, but in aggregates of .indebt-
edness, becomes striking. The western
states show an increase of the num-
Der of failures of more than As per
cent, 1895 compared with $50 year
ago, but with respect to liabilities the
increase there is more than 200 per
cent, s16,905,900 as compared with $5,-
336000 The states of New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware re-
port 1,030 business failures, against $40
a year ago, an increase of only Is per
cent, but they furnish s21, 1O2 900 of in
debtedness for the first quarter of 1896,
against $17,445,000 in the like quarter
OF 'ast year, an increase of "a per
cent.
In New York City alone the total
number of business failures by quarters
jumped from los last year to 25S this
year, about so per cent, but the total
liabilities increased from S4,924,OOO to
$S,S9S,OOO, nearly 20 per cent.