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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-03-04
TO FIGHT BIG STORES.
Chicago Retail Merchants Organize
Arainst department. Houses.

Chicago Retail Merchants Organize
Against department Houses.
The retail dealers of Chicago are "out
after the department stores as they new
err have been before. They have all felt
the fierce competition of these big COM
bination houses downtown, and have real
lied they cannot compete in the matter
of prices. They declare that public pol
icy demands the abolition of the big
stores. Through the device introduced
years ago by e. J. Lehman different lines
of trade were combined under one roof,
and a single high-priced man could man
age all of them. Cheap statesmen and
cheaper girls, it is alleged, took the place
of the competent clerks, so that expenses
were greatly reduced, and prices could be
cut down accordingly. It is well known
that the department stores sell hats cheap
er than the hat stores, stoves cheaper
than the stove stores, silks cheaper than
the silk stores, books cheaper than the
book stores, and that every independent
house in every conceivable line suffers in
the struggle. Modern department stores
sell practically everything. They have
ADDED photograph galleries, physicians,
lawyers, dentists and even manicures to
their multitude Of regular lines, and rep
resentatives of those businesses have at
last organized in opposition. Against the
assertion that man has right to rum
as many lines of trade as he wants to-
they reply that the whole body of the pub
lie is damage:; that real estate values are
confused; that good statesmen are thrown
out of work; that child labor is encourage
ed, with all it's possibly hurtful incidents,
and that the general publicfn the long run
pays more for it's goods than it would in
the old way, when each separate line OF
goods was displayed in a separate store.
A big meeting Of retail merchants was
held at the Sherman House and an organ
ization perfected for the promotion Of
the anti-department store bill now before
the Illinois Legislature. The chief reli-
ance of the leaders in the movement Is
what is called the cumulative tax system.
They hold that tax should be levied on
each line of business. If man wants
to engage in a single line of trade, let him
pay tax Of 500 to the city. If he wants
to manage two separate and distinct lines.
let him double the fee. Here is the pro-
nosad scheme of taxation:
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Its First Duty.

There is one important, immediate
and pressing duty upon the National
legislators whom President Mckinley
will call together next month. That
duty is to pass a revenue law that will
restore solvency to the Government Of
the United States; a revenue law that
will put q stop forever to the vicious
and suicidal policy of reducing the in
come of the nation below it's legitimate
expenses; revenue law that will re-
vive the business activity of the people
by securing their industry and invest
ments against unjust competition from
foreign lands.
The next administration is like an
heir at Roman law. 1t is forced to pay
Off the membranes on the estate to
which it succeeds, and it's only inherit
ance is Il deficit. The tariff law under
which the Democratic party has been
pretending to pay the expenses of the
Government has run the country in
debt at a rate never before equaled in
time of peace. The one paramount duty
of the Fifty-ffth, when it assemblies in
extra session, is to wipe out this men
ace to our national prosperity. When
this is done, all other things will be add
ed unto us.-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune
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Seymour, and her daughter have been
waiting for you for the last three weeks.
She says you cannot possibly know that
Mrs. Seymour is seriously i'll, and that
her daughter is very uneasy about her. l
thought l ought to tell you, Damer, and
| have told.'
There was a moments silence. Law
renee had averted his face so that Anne
could not see it, but she was struck by
the fact that the muscles of his arms and
shoulders plainly grew rigid and set be-
meath their covering, and that he clinched
his hand as it lay upon the ground until
the knuckles turned white and the blue
veins stood out in bold relief. She sud-
denly put out her own hand and touched
his shoulder softly with her fingers. The
touch worked wonders. The tension of
the muscles instantly relaxed; he looked
round at her with rather forced smile,
and said lightly:
"My dear Anne, Mrs. Seymour's all
ments ere SO fanciful that one learns not
to believe in them. Besides, if she we're
seriously i'll, do you think l should not
have heard? That is, if she wanted me l
should have heard; but after all, you must
remember that am not my Aunt Adela's
son, ana dnl hot TO De at uef Deck anu ctll
all my days"
There was touch of hardness, of i'll
humor even in his voice which surprised
his listener.
"But, Damer, you would help them
you would go on to them if they needed
you? | am sure you would"
ooh, of course, if they needed me. But
=" He shrugged his shoulders express
sively, and sank back into a reclining pos
ture, with one hand under his head, and
his elbow in the sand.
He did not look at Anne, but he seemed
aware that she was looking ut him, for
presently he said in disturbed tone:
"What is the matter? What do you
want me to do?'
'I?" said Anne, surprised. "Only what
you think right, dear"
"You have only to say the word" he re-
joined. Il really do not see the necessity;
but of course if you wish it will tele-
graph-or 60"
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The Tariff Failure.


The present hotch-potch tariff has
been in operation twenty-nine months.
In only five of those months has there
been a surplus revenue, and the sur
plus in each Of those months was evil
IDENTITY merely technical surplus, due
to methods of bookkeeping, and not a
real surplus. The total deficiency of
revenues in the first Twenty-Five
months of the present tariff, according
to the official reports of receipts and
expenditures, has amounted to the large
sum Of 126,S77,216 while the same re-
ports show that during the first twen-
ty-nine months of its operation the Nc
Kinley bill produced a surplus of $685.
O26,1 1888.
The total receipts under the present
Wilson German law were $73S, 1881, 775,
while under the Mckinley law, for the
same length Of time, they amounted to
$3.50, 964, 800, or, in other words, the
Mckinley law, in the first tWentynine
months of its history, produced S14S,-
977, 114 more than the present law did
in the corresponding period of it's his
tory.
It will not be difficult to revise the
tariff on protection principles so as to
produce enough revenue without the
addition Of taxation of kind to be I'M
pleasantly felt, and that is what the
Republicans propose to do as the first
step toward relieving the present de-
preston and lettering the currency sit
misunderstanding Commercial
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Prosperity Will Come.

In his speech at the banquet of the
Ohio Republican League, at Zanes-
vile, Senator Thurston, Of Nebraska,
who is regarded as particularly close
to Mckinley, made some significant re.
marks on the subject of prosperity.
''The Democrats are asking" he said,
"where is that general prosperity Of
which Mckinley is advance agent? I
will tell you. 1t is waiting until the en-
envy is entirely out of power. No party
can change conditions until the party
has changed the laws of the people. Let
not your hearts be troubled. There
was never single year of business de-
preston in this country under a Repub-
lican President, and there never will be.
Between now and July l the present
tariff will be repealed. In it's stead there
will be Mckinley protective tariff"
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Production of Gold.

During the decade 1831-4O the average
annual production Of gold in the world
was only Co., 291 fine ounces, worth
$13,4S4,O 600 Last year the production
was 1O,164, 479 fine ounces, worth $780,
11S.349. The increase has been sixteen
fold. Even as late as 1S81-S5 the aver
age production of the five years was
only 500, 116, 600, so that in the last ten
years the production Of gold has more
than doubled.
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$40. 300. sol S254. 693. 43o

1t will be seen by the above table
that the appropriations for the four
bills which especially affect and bene-
fit the agricultural community have in-
creased about $50 per cent. The total
of all the appropriation bills in 1877
was S15s, 136,7O2 and in 1896 was $685.,
934, $50, an increase Of only 143 per
cent.
1t will thus be seen that while the
general increase in appropriation bills
in the last twenty years has been 143
per cent, the increase in the bills which
especially interest and benefit the agri-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-03-04
The First.

The Irish Gardeners Association have
had an exhibition Of potatoes and held
a conference in Dublin In November ia
celebrate the tercentenary of the intro
duction of the potato into Ireland. The
first potatoes introduced In Europe
were planted in Ireland In 1896 by Sir
Walter Raleigh In the garden attached
to his residence, Myrtle villa, Youghal,
County Cork. The spot Is shown to
visitors
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CHAPTER XVI.

Cl1aI LIN "A l..
Ramleh relapsed into sudden quietness
upon the departure of the ships, and Mrs.
Dumaresq found herself at liberty to car
ry out a plan for her niece's enjoyment,
which as yet she had postponed from
week to week. This was an expedition to
Cairo and the Pyramids. In very short
time the weather would be too hot for this
visit; but as the season had been cool
one, it was still quite possible; and to her
great delight Anne found herself installed
at Shepherds. in company with Mrs. Du
maresq, Michele Harold and Mr.. Damer
Lawrence, who had quietly made his
plans fall in with theirs. He travelled in
the same train. and indeed in the same
carriage, for the hundred and twenty
miles between Alexandria and Cairo.
How they visited the Pyramids and the
Sphinx and the Boulak Museum and the
Cairo Bazars, and how they bought guam
titles of antiquities manufactured in Bir-
mingham), and picked up for themselves
various beads and scarabei and pieces of
mummy cloth in the sand outside the city
gates, it is not my province to relate.
Such visits and expeditions were new to
none of them but Anne.
Lawrence was lying on the warm sand
at Annes feet She sat on block of
marble, with her sketch book upon her
knee and a white umbrella over her head.
The others were wandering about in the
neighborhood, picking up beads and num-
my fragments, or driving bargains with
Arabs for curiosities.
"You remember Mrs. Burton?" Anne
said presently.
Eyes. Not pleasant woman"
oSbo hos been writing to me- Damer."
"Yes?" Lawrence OWNED from her
tone that Mrs Burton had made some
communication which Anne did not par
ticularly relish. and he listened with sud
denlv aroused attention. "Mrs. Burton
did not like me-" he said, smiling.
.It was not that said Anne, letting
nor mcneil fall and looking rather ques-
t;oningly into the dark face upturned TO
hers s.but-she asks me to explain to her
why YOU are still in Egype-
"What business is it of hers :! said
Lawrence quickly, while his face dark
ened. -, -.
"No business at all" said Anne, also
Nth some appearance of haste, "only she
is a great gossip, and she mas hearu sohie
thing that think ought to tell YOU
.sThe old story of my engagement OF
marriage. suppose. You might know
me better, Anne! -
ut is not that story said Anne, color
,ro somewhat. but speaking with nreat
resolution. "She simply asks why you 10
.,ot 90 70 Venice. where your aunt, MIS-.
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Bryan's Idea of Municipal Reform.

Mr.. Bryan, in the intervals between
his visits to the photographer, has ad-
yised the Chicago Democrats to nomi-
nate "silver man" for Mayor. No
''gold man" will suit Bryan. His posi-
ton is that gold man would ruin the
police force, disrupt the department Of
public works and play hob generally
with municipal affairs. William under
stands, says the Times-Herald, why it
would be impossible for man who does
not believe in the coinage Of silver at
16 to 1, with or without the consent of
foreign nations, to inspect waste pipes,
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cultural communities has been ESQ per
cent.
After all the farmer seems to have
had his fair share in the increase in ex-
penditures made by Congress.
A. B. CARSON.
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The old board of directors, with one ex-
ception, was reelected at the annual
meeting of the National Lead Company
stockholders in Jersey City, N. J. The
regular quarterly dividend Of ~ per cent
en- the preferred stock was declared.
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CHAPTER XV-(Continued.)

CHAPTER XV-(Contnued.)
The sounds in the house died away. She
fancied she heard the door of her fathers
alttle private room open and shut. Was
Paul talking to him now? She sat down,
leaned her elbows ON her dressing table,
and clasped her hands over her face Ev-
cry nerve was tense with excitement and
emotion. Presently knock came to the
door.
Niche, Miche," said the voice of one
of the children, papa wants you in the
Hbrary-quick!
The moment had come then! Michele
gave her hands Il sort of impatient nerv-
GUS twist, turned a little pale, and went
down to the library. She could not lift
her eyes when she entered. Eastlake
was not there. Mrs. Dumaresq took her
daughters hand and drew her toward
her chair.
"Well, Michele" said Mr.. Dumaresq,
gravely, but with suspicion of amuse-
ment in his face which the girl could not
see, Il suppose you know that Paul East
lake has been talking to me?"
Michelle's lips moved, but she could
mot utter word.
1T seems that he does not consider you
the child that we have thought you to be.
You are very young, Michele, to have won
the affection of a man like Mr.. Eastlake,
and | hope you will value it. l under
stand from him that you-you- Do
you care for him, darling?"
Michele leaned her head on her moth
.er's shoulder and whispered a reply which
Mr.. Dumaresq did not catch. His wife
looked at him over the girls head and
nodded.
''In that case" he said, as if he had
heard her answer. "the only objection
that we can possibly have is that of age.
We have the highest opinion of Paul
Eastlake, and should trust you to him
with all our hearts. But you are very
young"
81 shall grow older" murmured Mi
.chelle, whose courage was returning
eyes, you will grow older" said her
father, smiling, ''but in the meantime.
for year or So l think there had better
be no public enga cement OF course you
and Paul will understand each other, and
as he-he makes some objection to this
time of waiting, l have yielded one point
Your mother will probably take the chill
dren to England in May. l think that you
need not therefore leave Egypt before she
goes"
ooh, papa, thank your Michele lifted
up her face with a sweet, bright light
upon it. 1T would be very hard to go
away just now"
"Would it? Well" Mr. Dumaresq
looked at his wife rather queerly-''it is
odd to hear the child talking like that,
isn't it, Charlotte? Michele, 1 can't have
any nonsense, you know. You must be
careful what you do. l will leave your
another to talk to you more in detail; [
only want to remind you now that you
are not to consider yourself engaged to
Paul at present. And now, my dear,
come and give me a kiss, and be good
girl for the future"
He took her into his arms and kissed
her, and Mrs. Dumaresq shed q few tears
and kissed her, too, and so Michele felt
herself forgiven. And in a minute or
two Paul was with them again, and there
were, for the girl at least, some moments
of unalloyed happiness. Eastlake protest
ed rather strongly against the year of pro-
baton on which Mr.. Dumaresq insisted,
and prevailed in the course of week or
two in reducing the time to six months.
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Thomas L. Johnson, who was convict
ed at New Bloomfield, Pa, of murder in
the second degree for the killing of DIR.
George S. Henry of Duncannon, Pa.. was
sentenced to twenty years imprisonment.
He attempted to kill his wife at the same
time, alleging that she had been intimate
with DIR. Henry.
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been blue. Everything about 1,er-even

been blue. Everything about her-even
her dress-now was ashen gray.
Mrs Burton introduced her friends.
Mrs. Seymour had been lying down on a
very uncomfortable looking sofa; she in
sisted on sitting up and talking in a dry,
matter-of-fact way, concerning the things
she had seen and the things she meant to
see, as soon as returning strength en-
abled her to continue her journey.
Il expected my nephew to be here" she
said in a tone of dissatisfaction. HE last
wrote to me from Alexandria"
He went to seek you, did he not?"
Mrs. Dumaresq ventured to inquire.
when we parted from him in Cairo a
few days ago he said he hoped to meet
you in Venice
"Indeed?' Mrs. Seymour looked incred-
ulous. "Why did he not telegraph, thSn?"
she said, rather tartly. But it is just
like Denzil; he never does anything in the
way other people do
THE Mr.. Lawrence we know is not
called Denzil," said Anne, suddenly stimu-
lated to speech-she hardly knew why.
John Denzil Lawrence-that is my
nephew's name," said Mrs. Seymour, in
her dry voice. "He is sometimes called
Denzil, and sometimes Jack. l call him
Denzil. 1t was he who wrote to me from
Alexandria"
"What was our Mr.. Lawrence's name,
Amer" said Mrs. Dumaresq, with
smile. "It was neither John nor Denial
that | know"
''It was Damer," said Anne, coloring in
spite of herself under Mrs. Seymour's
cool gaze.
"Ah!' said the elder woman. '"That is
another nephew of mine. heard that he
was cruising about in the Mediterranean.
l hope you have not made much of
friend of him, for l believe there is no
worse scamp in all Europe. That's my
opinion of Damer Lawrence, at any rate,
and he knows If -
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14

and they are relegated to the rear to
become either ideal anarchists or the
wandering "hoboes' of the future. We
erect danger-signals on our railroad
crossings; beacon lights on our harbors
to safely guide the ship to its moorings
and help avoid the impending wreck
that must inevitably follow if the
warning is unheeded. So should the
parents be to their children, beacon
light, so to speak, to direct them while
starting out on the voyage of life, to
impart to them the knowledge and
wisdom they have gained by three
score years experience with human
nature and the world in general, and
there will be fewer heartaches and dis
appointments, fewer human wrecks to
be met with along the pathway of life,
fewer unmarked graves in potters field
and considerable less youths in our
penal institutions. JASPER,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14

they created them; and who can be
greater than the creator? Surely not
the imitator, even though imitation
and development have broadened the
field of vision. Their art remains un-
rivalled: their literature, its delicate
distinctions, fine, keen reasonings, fine
subtleties, deep metaphysical and psy-
Geological speculations, all the intrica-
cies of thought are followed with an
acumen that enlightens, yet bewilders
the modern student of letters. The
basis of modern scientific thought,
some even of the sO-called discoveries
of this century, rest upon the ancient
soil of Greek inspiration. The utilita-
rian philosophy of Bacon was born in
Aristotle; mathematics and it's kindred
sciences in Thales and Euclid and
Hipparchus. The atomic theory comes
from Democritus; the life property of
the atmosphere from Anaxemenes, and
so the list goes on, every addition serv-
ing to place the laurel wreath of fame
on the intellectual brow of "Heathen
Greece "Heathen Greece which if
transplanted into the present era,
would outrank, upon the acquisition
of the mechanical progress of the day.
the most cultured class on earth.
The true test Of civilization is the
lasting truth of its ideals; ideals which
raise man to a higher. better, truer
life, which lives on and on, as time
with its ever-rlnging changes brings in
new nations and customs and laws;
ideals which increase in purity and
truth, and in their fell realization,
along all lines of thought, physical,
mental, moral, and spiritual, leaves
man as God made him, 'after His own
image" LEONARD.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-01-14
Written for The Prison Mirror.
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF
PARENTS.
PARENTS.

Approximately speaking, we believe
that the evil inclinatiOns of the youth
Of today are, in great measure, due
10 the neglect of parents in not teach
ing their children the dangers that
they must encounter when starting out
on the voyage of life. TO the youth,
Just budding into manhood, the world
appears to him as one grand panorama.
AS. he looks out upon the world all
appears to be scene of activity,
pleasure and smooth-sailing, and be-
yond this he has no true conception of
the stern realities of life or the Obsta-
cles that must be overcome in order to
make life success and enjoy hap
piness in its true sense.
If parents shirk this all-important
duty of informing their children of the
vicissitudes of life and it's attending
dangers, they start them on the voyage
of life badly handicapped; for although
we acknowledge the profound wisdom
that is gained by experience, neverthe-
less, experience has its drawbacks. it's
miseries, its lost opportunities and
hopes that have never been realized.
If the neglected youth was placed be-
side his more fortunate brother who
had been taught of the hollow mockery
that existed on every hand, the in
sidiOus designs of the treacherous and
grasping, the virtue Of friendship and
the value some men place upon it, the
evil consequences of drinking and the
degrading influences surrounding the
companionship of low associates, we
would find the one step by step ele-
waiting himself IN the social scale of life
to honor, fame and wealth, while the
other would be struggling with the ad-
versities of life and, perhaps, would be
soliciting subscription in order to
take the Kelley cure, or kicking about
the bill of fare in one of our penal in.
stitutions.
This should be the self-imposed task
of all parents and should never be put
off or neglected, for with the parents
rest the future career of the sons and
daughters of each rising generation,
and out of them will be hewed the
timber that will direct and guide the
ship of state and to enact laws to
secure the peace and security of our
republic.
AS the ship at sea, without rudder,
is buffeted about by the elements, so
it is with the youth of our land, for if
their moral and intellectual faculties
have been neglected, their incapacity
to keep up with their more successful
competitors soon becomes apparent,