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The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
RECIPROCITY FAILURE.
The DingIey Law Retained Only the
Appearance of Reciprocal
Relations.

The period of making reciprocity
treaties under the provisions of the
Dingley tariff act expired July pa, on
which date reciprocity agreement
with France was concluded. This
| treaty is by all odds the most important
of those which have been entered into
under authority of the Dingley act.
There have been but six of them, all
told, most of these being with islands
in the West Indies. The South Ameri-
can countries, for the encouragement
of trade with which the reciprocity poll
icy was especially developed, have seen
no advantage to themselves in any
treaties that can be formulated under
the Dingley law. Nor have they mani
tested any fear of the so-called retalia-
tory club given to the president for
Furnishing those countries which refuse
to enter into reciprocity agreements.
Under the reciprocity clause of the
Mckinley law of 1890, many treaties of
Importance We're entered into, which
soon began to develop trade with other
countries of this hemisphere. The
Wilson tariff law very foolishly struck
down all these reciprocity agreements
by repeating the reciprocity clause of
the Mckinley law. When the Dingley
law was framed the appearance of
reciprocity was retained, but the sub
stance was sacrificed. 1t was under
stood at the time that few important
treaties could be made under it, and
such has proved to be the case. The
treaty with France is the only one of
even moderate Importance, and the
value of that cannot be known until it
has been in operation for time.
South America is a field for trade
which ought especially to be cultivated
by the United States, and broad reci-
procity agreements would have tended
materially to that end. By comforting
only narrow authority for making re-
ciprocal traffic agreements, and by
striking especially at South American
industries, as was done, for instance, by
putting a duty on hides, congress has
shown little appreciation of the trade
interests of the United States in other
countries of this hemisphere.-Chicago
Record Gnd.).
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
NOT ACQUAINTED WITH THEM.
Men Dead Fifty Years Elected to once
by Benighted Aldermen TN
New YORK.

A New York alderman INDUCED in little
fun at the expense Of his associates the othGf
day, and through his influence that honor.
able, body elected two men,. eminent men.
dead these 30 years, to the position of com
missioner of deeds. The names of tie dead
thus honored are: Noah Webster, lexicog-
rapher, and Lindley Murray, grammarian.
The world says the trick was worked this
way:
A slip of paper containing these names,
with Brooklyn addresses, was circulated at
the meeting of the board Alderman Dixie
approached Alderman Bridges and said:
Say, Jim, I've done favors for you. Here
are a couple of men who want to be made
commissioners of deeds. That fellow Lind.
ley Murray told me he was friend of yours. >,
Alderman Bridges looked at the slip and
II don't know the gent, and amt going
to present his name"
Alderman Dooley, another member from
Brooklyn, was persuaded to sign the apphca-
ton, and in less than ten minutes the
formal vote electing Lindley Murray and
Noah Webster commissioners of deeds was
passed.-American.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
ALGER. THE SCAPEGOAT.
Made TO Bear the Blame for Political
BIunders of Mckinley,
Hanna & Co.

With the removal of Alger-a removal
just the same, although cloaked under
the guise of a ignation-repubiican
politicians, with Mckinley in the lead,
hope to disarm criticism of the admins
tration.
Alger has been made the scapegoat
and has been burdened with all the sins,
mistakes and political blundering of
Mckinley, Mark Hanna & Co.
But the hope to escape criticism is
vain. Measures, not men, are the issues
before the people, and a bad policy can
not be bolstered up by securing a new
man to conduct it.
That Mckinley and his aids are
scheming to secure a second term as
president for the present occupant Of
the white house is patent fact Alger
was elected from the cabinet to forward
this ambition, but change of policy
must be made if success is to be secured.
Either the Filipinos must be con-
quered quickly or they must be pacified
promptly if McKinley's hope to succeed
himself as president is to have the
slightest excuse IOf DelHS enteFtdlHeu'
Neither contingency seems imminent,
and the conclusion is not favorable to
the republican scheme.
Doubtless the results flowing from
the removal of Alger will disappoint the
schemers. For a time the people will
restrain criticism and give the new sec
retary Of war a fair chance, but as the
policy of the administration is not pop
ular the end will be more criticism and
more trouble for the PRESIDENT Chi
caOO DcmOcraf
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
PRESS COMMENTS.

Americans want to know, and
have a right to know, all that their sol
diers are doing and suffering in the
Philippines.-Chicago Tribune (Rep.).
1t is useless to pick flaws IN the
details of Mr.. McKinley's administra-
ton. The whole thing is covered with
a blanket mortgage of error.-St. Paul
Globe.
The leather trust has put UP the
price of leather, and up will go the price
of shoes. 1t will be remembered that
the Dingley law put tariff on hides
Utica Observer,
In Gen. Otis preference for the
blue pencil over the sword there is a
suggestion of Weyler which does not
tend to endear him to the American peo-
ple.-St. Louis Republic.
Eastern papers which have been
declaring Bryan's denomination i'm
possible have finally conceded that he
at least will be delegate to the next
national convention. - Illinois State
Register.
BY his dilly-dallying, by his cow
ardly fear of political consequences, the
president has murdered many men upon
both sides; has weakened our hold upon
the archipelago, and rendered its future
control unnecessarily difficult.-Detroit
Tribune (Rep.).
The intolerable situation in the
Philippines will continue so long as
Gen. Otis remains in command of the
troops. There is no hope in that quar-
ter. Criticism will only add to his OBJ
stinacy. He is above accepting advice.
N. Y. Journal.
In the opinion of the Bingham
ton Herald, its just little bit sicken-
ing to see democratic papers roasting
AIger." In the opinion of most demo-
cratic papers Alger is no worse, but
rather better, than the administration
he has served. The sickening spectacle
has been the effort of the republican
Dress to make Alger a scapegoat for all
the Mckinley Administrations mis-
deeds.-Albany Argus.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
HANNA, NOT ROOSEVELT.
The Republican Boss May De the
Presidential Candidate Five
Years Hence.

1t is announced with some appear
ance of ostentation that Marcus A. Han
na has sold out all his business and COM
mercial interests at Cleveland, his coal
mines and his other property, except
real estate, and will substantially re-
tire from active business. Mr.. Hanna is
not scholar who can occupy his leis-
ure time in studies of science, literature
or the arts; he was not built that way
nor educated for intellectual pursuits.
He has been a money-maker and for the
last three years he has been successful
in politics.
To be sure, he had not been trained
to politics. 1t might, therefore, be said
that there is no reason why he should
fail in literature, science and art, which
he has never studied, any more than he
failed in politics, which he had never
studied. But there is difference. In
politics he succeeded by the use of
money. He could buy an election for
Mckinley or for himself: But he can
not buy knowledge. Mental enlighteh-
ment and culture are not ptrchaseable.
Even a trip to Europe cannot give him
literary inspiration and classical tastes.
1t is evident that Mr.. Hanna is going out
of business SO that he can go more ex-
tensively into politics. There is moth
ing else that he can 90 into.
Some time about the close of the cam
paign of 1896, after the votes had been
counted and the result announced
there was a banquet in Chicago at
tended by large numbers of men who
had been active in the successful cam
paign. Even then it was understood
that Mckinley would be candidate for
reelection in 1900. But toast to Hanna
was improvised by one of the enthusi-
astic banqueters, who took time by the
forelock. He suggested that they drink
to ''Marcus A. Hanna, the republican
candidate for president in 1904" 1t was
looking eight years ahead. But the poll
ticians at that symposium were capable
of parceling out all the political land
from Dan to Beersheba for two genera
tians in the future. Il little matter of
eight years was nothing.
Commencing at that banquet, the sue
cession to Mckinley was predetermined.
All the recent talk about Roosevelt as
the republican candidate for president
in 1904 to succeed Mckinley was fore
stalled in 1896. The plans for the cam
paigns of 1900 and 1904 were outlined in
the minds of the Hanna machine con-
stituted Of the managers and assistant
managers of that campaign. We may
be assured that the sale of Hanna YES
sells, docks, tugs, mines and other prop
erty means that he is making a further
investment in politics to carry out the
schemes foreshadowed Immediately
after the close of the campaign of 1896.
Roosevelt will find these to be facts
when he runs up against the Hanna
campaign of 1904.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
Fee Strangely Earned.

1t was on the night of the Jeffries-Fitz-
simmons prize fight, and a man reached the
West side apartment house in which he
lived about two o'clock. A search of all his
pockets failed to bring forth his bunch of
keys. He rang the bell repeatedly for the
exceedingly tired, there was no hotel in the
lily reasons why it was .inadvisabe for him
to spend the. rest of the night away from
home. The sight of physicians night bell
gave him an idea. He pushed the button
hard for 80 seconds or more. In due sea-
son the physician came to the door and
opened it.
"What is your fee for night calls?" asked
the locked-out individual.
-Four dollars" was the astonished reply
All right, here you are. l was locked out
and couldn't get in. Sorry to trouble you,"
and he began his weary march upstairs,
happy in the thought of the evils he had es-
caped.--N. Y. Tribune.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
Goldite SoIicItude.

If our goldite friends are so dead
sure that they have got congress
fixed so that no free silver legislation
can possibly be enacted during the
life of the next administra ton. what
need have they to worry over the GER
talnty that the democrats will adopt
q Dlmetallic plank in 1900? Indeed.
il this blessed assurance is so lively
as they claim, why should any demo-
crat tlnctured with golditeism hesitate
TO heip his party into power, no mat
ter how radically bimetallic the NOM
NEE OF his party may be on the money
question? He or his bimetallic plat
form can't do any harm from the gold
lte standpoint. Why not just let us
Tree silver fellows have our fun whoop-
ing 1t up for bimetallism during the
campaign and electing our candidate
on our platform? The goldites can en-
JOY themselves afterward in quietly
watching Us fail in securing the re-
nlonetization of silver.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
Initiated His Mnfher-

He criticised her pudding and he
didn't like her cake; she hadn't made
the biscuit like Ibis mother used to
make" She didn't wash the dishes,
and she didn't make the stew; and she
didn't mend his stockings las his moth
er used TO do" o, well, she wasn't
perfect, but she tried to do her best,
until at length her time had come to
have little rest; so when one day he
growled and whined the whole day
through and through, she turned him
up and famed his pants ''as mother
used to do.''-Gldsgow Echo.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
THEY ALWAYS GET THERE.

''The New York and Chicago cab
drivers ought to take a few lessons
from the French, and particularly the
Parisians,' observed the Cincinnati
woman who had just returned from Eu-
rope. Il had been shopping and took
a fiacre to return to the hotel. We had
scarcely gotten under way when we
knocked down pedestrian and pulled
the strap and said to the driver:
Did you not see that you ran over
a man?'
Very plainly, madame he replied,
but he should not have been in my
way
Five minutes later a hind wheel
came off, and 1 pulled the strap and
asked:
"'Why don't you stop? Can't you see
that you have lost wheel?'
~ see, madame he replied, but we
have three wheels left
I'VE went scraping along for few
minutes said the lady, land then the
other wheel came off. 1 thought the
man would stop then, but as he didn't
pulled the strap and said:
"'We have lost both hind Wheels
"'Ah! yes, madame he answered,
with smile: but we have not lost
four!'
And he whipped up his horses and
dragged along for a quarter of mile
and brought me up to the hotel with a
great flourish. When l got out l asked
him what he would have done if the
other two wheels had parted company
and he waved his hand towards them
and shrugged his shoulders and re.
Piled:
1T is impossible, madame. l never
lost but two wheels in carrying beau
tiful lady!'"
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

Miss Susan Wymar, teacher in the Rich
mond school, Chicago, H., writes the follow
ing letter regarding Pe-ru-na. She says:
"Only those who have suffered as I have
can know. what blessing it is to be able tc
experience. A friend in need is friend in
deed, and every bottle of Pe-ru-na l ever
bought proved good friend to me. Susan
Wymar.
Mrs Margaretha Dauben, 1914 North Su;
perior St., Racine City, Wis, writes: Il feel
SO well and good and happy now that pen can
not describe it, Pe-ru-na is everything to
me. L have taken several bottles of Peru
ma tor female complaint. | AIN ii the
change of life and it does me good" Peru.
ma has no equal in all of the Irregularities and
emergencies peculiar to women caused by
pelvic catarrh.
Address DR.. Hartman, Columbus, O., for
free book for women only.
Remember that cholera morbus. cholera
infantum, summer complaint, bilious collie,
diarrhoea and dysertery are each and all
catarrh of the bowels. Catarrh is the onlv
correct name for these affections. Pe-ru-na
is an absolute specific for these ailments.
which are so common IN summer. Dr. Hart
man, in a practice of over forty years. never
lost single case of cholera infantum, dys.n-
terry, diarrhoea, or cholera morbus, and his
only remedy was Peru-na. Those desiring
further particulars should send for free
COPY of Summer Catarrh." Address DIR.
Hartman, Celumbus, o.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
:sSo'tso"So''sos'eo..So"s .so..so"sosso"so''
/ n QUAD'S
5 VEIN OF HUMOP ,
IT.wAs A PICNIC.

1T WAS PICNIC.
First came a farmers wagon with
one man driving and two others lying
on the straw at full length. Then there
was a man on foot with his right arm
In sling, a second pedestrian limpins
badly, and another wagon with three
men on the straw. These had passed
when a bare-headed woman hove il
sight. She was walking rapidly anC
looking neither to the right nor TO the
left, and was followed at little dis
tance by man with double -barreled
shotgun over his shoulder. He had one
hand tied up in a handkerchief, and the
e blood stains showed that he had been
hurt. The colonel descended the steps
of the hotel veranda and held up his
hand to the man and said:
My friend, there seems to have been
trouble somewhere down the road"
''Yes, a little scrimmage over at Cor
don's Grove" answered the man.
'You seem to have been hUrt?'
'Yes, got shot.in the hand, though ii
didn't amount to much. Here you
Mariar!"
''Mariar" was the woman ahead Of
him, evidently his wife, but she con-
tinued her pace without looking back
what was it at Gordon's Grove ?''
asked the colonel.
''Oh, jest a Sunday school picnic. We
have one there every year, you'know.'
"And there was a scrimmage, as you
call it?'
There was. Had to be one, sab
Never had no Sunday school picnic yet
without scrimmage. Yes, sab, had a
right smart scrimmage."
''And there was shooting?'
Fur suah. Can't have no scrimmage
without shootin'. Yes, sab, there was
shootin'-heaps of it,"
Lord Lord! You had a Sunday
school picnic and shot at each other!"
gasped the colonel. "Some one must
have been killed"
"Of co'se."
''And 1 have seen four or five wound
ed men pass here"
Reckon you have, sab. Joe Bailey
and Jim White and Henry Davis and
Tom Pool all left befo' [ did"
'And how many were killed?"
Didn't count 'em, sab. When 1 got
a bullet in my hand Marian reckoned
it as time to go honse, and so we start
ed
But L can't understand it, mani
can't understand it," continued the
colonel, as he threw up his hands. you
assemble for a Sunday school picnic.
You begin to shoot. You-you-"
Its jest as easy as rubbin' coon's
fat on a sore heel" interrupted the
man, as a smile lighted his face. ''We
assemble for Sunday school picnic.
Old man Aaron Sykes was there; young
Pete Hendricks was there. They glared
at each other and called names. Then
they began shootin'. Then Aaron's
friends mixed in, and Pete's friends
mixed in, and everybody had high old
tie. Some got killed, some got hurt,
and. some got away, and there you are.
Can't be no trouble to understand
that"
But it was Sunday school picnic!"
shouted the colonel.
'''Of co'se. Don't reckon a can do all
our shootin' at church and camp-meet-
ms, do you? Yes, it was a Sunday
school picnic, and some got killed, some
got hurt, and some got away; and now
L reckon I'd better be movin' along
arter Mariar, and get this hole in my
paw plugged up"
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
A GOOd-Luck Cross.

A cross recently discovered in the grave of
the beautiful Queen Dagmar is supposed 20
keep away all evil influences. There is no
more evil influence than i'll health, and there
is nothing which has so great power to keep
it away than Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
1t is worth hundred good-luck crosses to
the man or woman afflicted with dyspepsia
and indigestion. A private Revenue Stamp
should cover the neck of the bottle.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
A SLOPPY Announcement.

A Kansas printer IN making up the forms
one day in hurry got marriage and gro
GERS notice mixed up so they read as fol-
united in the bonds of holy sauerkraut which
will be sold by the quart or barrel Mr..
Smith is an esteemed Goldfish at ten cents;
while the bride has nice pigs feet to dis
lay."-Michigan Lyre.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

"Mrs. Young says she has solved the ser
the soIution?' "Why, she says all you've
got to do is never find any fault, submit to
everything, do as you are told, keep out o.
the way, and pay good wages, with privileges
and you won't have bit Of trouble. Phil
adelphia Bulletin.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
Ladies' Cnn Wear Shoes

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease, powder for the feet. Itmakes tight
or new shoes easy Cures swollen, hot,
sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns
and bunions. At all ruggists and shoe
stores. Csc. Trial package FREE by mail
Address Allen S. Olmsted. LIE Roy, n. Y.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

"Something must be done with those boys
of mine at college, exclaimed staid old
citizen. They're wilder than March hares
and in hot water all the time" ooh, well,
they're young yet, and you must make al
lowances." Make allowances, man? That's
what's keeping me oor.'-Detroit Free
Press
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
The Truth.

Nature has always been liberal with
her children. Indians. even. don't
starve. An acre of land will support
Ian, II he works it right; but that acre
can sustain no one if it is fenced in by
some speculator holding it for rise in
Value.-Kansas Agitator.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
Taken ut Her Word.

Mrs. T. J. GillingtonGiggs IS awfully
mad at the newspapers; she says they treat
ed her so shabbily."
did they? Such prominent society
woman, too"
'Yes she told them they must not say
anything about her reception, and they
didn't. ."-Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

"Well, I never thought that Jonesy would
die, a natural death" said Snaggs, when he
had been told of the passing away of a man
he had known. II didn't say he died nat
me he dice, in bed "But it was in a fold
ing-bed. Pittsburgh Chronicle telegraph.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

Caller--I have here several bills which
are long overdue and
say that our cashier is out to-day.
"Oh, well, it doesn't make much differ.
ence; I'll call and pay them at some fu.
ture date. Good day, sir. r."-Philadelphia
Record
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
Apurecfated.

Wife--John, let me tell you that as surely
as you keep on in your present career, just
so surely will you pay for your indulgences.
Husband with air of pride)-Thanks,
dear, for that tender tribute to my financial
probity.-Boston Courier.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
Porous Plaster.

"What are the holes for?" asked little
Edna, looking at the porous plaster that
her mother was preparing to adjust on
Willie's back. TITS funny you don't know
that, sis" interposed Willie. "They're to
let the pain out, of course. Boston Tray
eler.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
why They Are Nervous.

A correspondent says that those who dine
with the queen are usually painfully nervous
Perhaps they are tortured with doubt of
the propriety of praising the pie, not know
ing whether her majesty or the cook made
it.-Denver Post.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

Rev. (now Bishop Joseph S. Key, wrote:
owe gave your Teethina (Teething Pow
ders) to our little grandchild with the hap
piest results. The effects were almost
magical and certainly more satisfactory than
anything we ever used"
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
Work for All.

Thousands of men are making good wages
in the harvest fields of Minnesota, North
and South Dakota There is room for thou
sands more. Half rates via the Great North
ern Railway from St. Paul. Write Max
Bass 22O South Clark Street, Chicago, iii.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

Mrs. De Tanque-"You horrid wretch!
Aren't you ashamed of coming home in this
condition." De Tanque-"No, shir;. I'm
(hic) proud of it. Amt many fellows'h can
fin th' way home when they're full's this. y
-Philadelnhia Record
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

'EHe says his wife can't cook little Bit" !"
"That's unfortunate" Yes. But that isn't
the worst of it.. She insists on cooking a
lot. ot."-Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

It is terribly hard for boy to'believe IN
the veracity of his father when he hears him
declare that no one is truly happy and con-
tented unless he has work to do.-Atchison
Globe.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

Fish being rich in phosphorus and phos-
phorus being the essential thing in making
matches, it therefore stands to reason that
girls should be partial to a fish diet.-Chi-
cago Daily News
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
An Exccption.

Mother Clearing Ethel say hel
prayers. And let Us all live TO 4 gcco
ia age
Ethel-l1l not pray for aunty Il .
to old asse
Notte9 ss.ourded)-Why?
Ethel- suse she's ashamed oi her
49, l-.,r-- eek.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
AIternatfxe Hxnofhescs.

" love you," he whispered.
Ernestine trembled, and regarded
him perpleXedly.
''Do my ears deceive me?" she asked
herself. ''Or does my complexion de-
ceive him?"
For it was her misfortune to lack
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

When the hostess no longer apologies for
the lack of pie, a wise guest knows her vel
come is worn out, and talks of going
Atchison Globe
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

Williams-'I understand you moved
your family last week" Jackson-"Yes; ;
our servant girl didn't like the location we
were n."-Columbus Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

"How?" Harry-"To show her how little
he cared for it, he spent every cent she
had. Answers.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is a Constitutional Cure. Price, 75c.

Some girls don't seem to think of much
but wearing good clothes, and we don't
blame them.-Washingto (Ia.) Democrat.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

at the shore in great style, but they go away
broke.-Phiadelphi Record.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

Never do to-day any wrong thing you can
put off till to-morrow.--L. A. w. Bulletin.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

1t is mighty good thing that the Lord
does not enforce the law as He did against
Ananias. s.-Washington Qa.) Democrat.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-07

Piso's Cure for Consumption relieves the
most obstinate coughs.-Rev. d. Buch'
mueller. Lexington, Mo-, Feb. "a, '94.