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The Iola register., 1900-11-16

place in the family after being cured by
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It
establishes regularity, dries weakening
drains, heals inflammation and ulcera-
ton and cures female weakness. It
makes weak women strong, sick women
we'll.
UI commenced taking your Favorite Prescrip-
ton and Golden Medical Discovery about
the 10th OF last December one year ago." writes
Mrs. Eliza Wright of Mountainvew, Howell
Co., Missouri III have been very slow about
writing to you, although l am thankful l am
here to-day and have the privilege Of saying
thank you a thousand times for your kind ad-
vice. can truthfully say that Il was through
your kind advice aud your medicine and the
will Of the Lord that am living to-day / am
in better health than / have been for three
years ! have taken one-half dozen bottles OF
each medicine. am able to do my washing
for four In family and all my housework cook
ing and milking. In fact, feel like a new
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con-
stipation and Its almost countless conse-
quences. They do not react on the
system nor beget the pill habit.
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OFFICIAL PAPERoF ALLEN COUNTY
OUR GROWTH AS A WORLD POWER

[The Worlds work for NOvember,l
Five years ago the total exports of
manufactured goods from the United
States amounted to about 300, 900, 900.
Within the three years following 1895,
the increase of such exports amounted
to S107 900, 900, or more than one half
the aggregation 1896. Thisincreasewas
largely accelerated during the fiscal
years ended June 30, 1899 and 1900.
According to q recent report of the
Bureau of Statistics of the United
States Treasury, the total exports of
manufactures alone during the fiscal
year 1900 amounted to S432, 900, 900;
and the fact is noted that, besides the
large excess over any preceding
year, these exports show also a great
gain in the extent of territory covered
in the markets of the world.
The rapidity with which the United
States was gaining upon Great
Britain was already apparent three
years ago, and attention was called to
our industrial progress in memo
randum by Sir Courtenay Boyle,
Secretary of the British Board 'of
Trade, which was presented to Par
lament January %, 1897. His con-
clusion, at that time, was that, while
he United Kingdom was still greatly
ahead of either the United States or
Germany in it's power of manufactur-
ing for export, each of the latter coun-
tries, beginning from lower level, "
was, "for the moment travelling up
wards more rapidly than we are, who
occupy much higher eminence. "
, Since then, our progress has con.
9inued at a swifter place. notwith-
standing the interruption of the Span
ish war and the subsequent growth of
consumption at home.
A comparison Of totaleXports shows
that the United States stands second
only to the United Kingdom, and falls
behind even that great industrial
country to the extent of only'sOme $3.50,
900, 1000. OF course, our agricultural
exports are still the great factor OF
this preponderance in foreign trade;
but, as has been shown, the exports
of manufactures are now considerably
more than one-fourth Of the total and
are constantly growing. Our exports
exceed those of Germany, with her
splendidly organized industrial activ'
ity, by nearly $500, OOO,O 600. Her total
exports are nearly 1884, 0OO,0O as
contrasted with our total of $432, 900,
600 of exports of manufactured goods
alone. France falls still turther be-
hind us than Germany, her total O
exports being about 1863, 900, 900.
The Iola register., 1900-11-16
UNCLE SANS SOLDIERS.

An interesting English view of Rep
resentatives of Uncle Sam in the Chi
nese troubles appears in London Tel
egraph of October Is, in the letter of
its eastern correspondent written from
Taku. To this correspondent, as to
other foreign observers, the American
troops were an object of peculiar in
terest. Among the regulars, as well as
the volunteers of Uncle Sans army,
personal initiative and individuality
are characteristics entirely unknown to
the armies of other powers. 1.-The Eng
lish journalists, says the Telegraph's 6
correspondent, fused to speak of them
with amusement, admiration and dis
approval at the same time. On occa-
sions we felt inclined to take our hats
of to every American soldier we saw;
on other occasions the army seemed to
US no more than body of tramps."
1t was the army in undress and off du-
ty that seemed to like discipline. ''The
Americans, an officer told me, "says
the same correspondent, "believe that
the fighting unit is the man, not the sec'
tion, nor the company, nor the regi'
ment." However, when work is to be
done, in the hour of battle, with the
bullets whistling and columns formed
for business, the transfo rmation o.
Uncle Sans Cramps" was wonderful
to see. The American soldier as q
fighter is described as every thing ad
mirable and efficient. Says the Tel
egraph correspondent:
81 think if there had been no fighting
all the foreign observers would have
gone back to their homes with poor
opinion of the efficiency of the Ameri
can troops. Luckily for General Cha
flee and his soldiers there was fighting
When you see an American private ad
vancing under fire you begin to thinl
there is something in the idea that tn,
fighting unit of the future is the indi
vidual. Private Silas p. Holt acts b,
himself for. r.himself. He and his com
panions make for a common obiectiv
not like stiff trained soldiers, but lik
panther stalking a prey. Their eye
flash, their 1.-the bodies swing forward
There Is murder and deadly intentnes
in every movement. When the Amer
lean soldier lies down to girt he doe
so with the intention of killing some
body. Most troops fire not at tn
I enemy, but in the direction of tn
1 enemy. Not so the American.
Each man drew his watchful breath slow tol
en- tween bis teeth
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Everywhere tn e
lack of wifely
supervision and
motherly thought
fulness is apparent.
What a change,
then, when this
wife and mother
comes back to take
her old place in the
family. Thousands
of women Yho, be-
cause of womanly
ills, had been shut
out of home life
and home happi-
ness, have been
enabled to once
more take their
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Wndt Makes Inc Home ?

Not the house, however fine it may be !;
not its furniture, pictures and appoint
ments. The wife and mother makes the
home, and to speak of going home
means to go back into the shelter of the
mothers love and care.
And when womanly ills sap the
mothers strength, the home-life suffers.
The food Is not cooked as she cooks it.
The Iola register., 1900-11-16

ONE member of the Bryan family
was successful. A cousin of the Dem
ocratic candidate for president was
elected governor of Florida.
The Iola register., 1900-11-16
Inc "AngeIus
Piano Player
plays any piano-Anyone Can Play Il

plays any Plano-AnyOne Can Play Il
INSTANTLY applied to any piano
! grand, square or upright-making II
q self playing instrument. No musical
talent on the part OF performer required.
A child that has never before seen a
piano can. with the aid of the Angelus
Orchestral Piano Player, render the
most dificult compositions In a manner
possible 10 only the most accomplished
pianists Contains lin addition 70 piano
playing mechanism) two full sets Of
organ reeds which may be played sepa-
rately or In connection with the plano.
A full description OF the Angelus Or
chestra Piano Player is contained in IL
TO any address upon application.
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This signature Is on every boz of the genuine
Laxative BrOmo-Q -Quinine Tablets
remedy that cares = cold In ono day
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30

tons Of coal TO force the water through the 400
miles OF water pipes during a single year. The
pipes vary in size from four inches to four feet
with coal at Sl27 per ton--incuding the cost
OF housng-the annual fuel bill amounts to
SIS 1886.
The plant, in itself, Is complete. modern and
highly efficient. But these conditions alone do
not produce success The one fault is in its ad.
ministration. And for that the people and poll
tics are TO blame. For the management would
make the radical changes necessary to place the
plant more nearly on a business footing 10 the
people would only allow it to do so. But every
movement in that direction is met with such
indignant protests from the rank and file Of the
citizens. that it is simply impossible for the
officials, who, after all, are but servants, to do
otherwise than wait for the slow process Of edu.
cation.
In round numbers, Buffalo Is using water az the
rate OF aO,OOO,oOo gallons per day, or $40 gallons
per capita. No city in the world uses so much
Even New York, with its strong propensity TO
wastetulness uses only about one.thrd that
amount, while the per capita consumption Of
London. per day, is less than 30 gallons. Buf.
falo is none the cleaner for this lavish Use of
water, for all over so gallons per capita is sim.
ply wasted, In this connection il is interesting
to note the figures of the following
a ID rIt NJ, M
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30
Cuba's Real Liberators.

y n THE opinion of one writer, mot
since the visit of Peter the Great
Il to England has there been such
a momentous politico- economic
event. as the visit to this country of
the 1000 Cuban school teachers whom
Harvard is to treat to a free course
of summer instruction. to be followed
by an educational tour of the princ-
pal cities. This may be the language
Of enthusiasm: but the visit is GER
tainly noteworthy and we trust that
it will. as to consequences, fulfill eX-
pcctatons.
1t is a tribute to the size of the scale
upon which the United States does
things that cuba, which two years ago
was the focus of all our talk and
thought, has since been dwarfed into
relative insignificance by the far
greater consequences of the war with
Spain. But as two years ago we suf-
fered from an exaggeration of cuban
Importance, so today we are threat
ened with and have need to guard
against a intimidation of it. Time has
taught us better to discount the Latin
braggadocio and innate predisposition
to substitute imagination for facts: but
we must not forget that. in spite OF
racial foibles and faults, from which
no people are exempt, the Cubans are
in the main teachable people, for
whose right going we are responsible
and whose guardianship We cannot es.
cape save through their honorable
graduation from under it.
The enterprise of taking on board
boat an excursion composed of prac.
tically the entire educational corps OF
a people aspiring to nationhood and
sailing it to neighboring land for a
three months study of object lessons
in how to do things is characteristic.
ally American and Americans have q
right to be proud of it. 1t will BE-
Americas best contribution yet to free
Cuba.
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THE AVERAGE MAN.

When il comes TO a question Of trusting
Yourself to the risks of the road.
When the thing is the sharing OF burdens,
The lifting the heft Of load,
In the hour Of peril or trial,
In the hour you meet as you can.
You may safely depend on the wisdom,
And skill OF the average man.
'Tis the average man and no other,
Who docs his plain duty each day.
The small thing his wage is for doing,
on the commonplace bit Of the way,
'Tis the average man, may God bless him,
Who pilots us. still in tho van,
Over land, over sea, We travel,
just the plain, hardy average man.
So, on through the DAYS Of existence,
All minglng in shadow and shine,
We may count ON the everyday hero.
Whom haply the gods may divine,
But who wears the swart Crime Of his calling
And labors and earns he can,
And stands at the last with the nobest,
The commonplace, average man.
-lIsrpers Weekly.
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NEWSPAPER NOTES.

The Troy, ~ y. Times has entered upon the
fitCth year Of its existence. Founded by the
late John NJ Francis June 2j, ls5l, ii is among
the oldest as well as the best and most prosper.
Gus newspapers in the United states; and con.
vincing demonstration that mcrt will win.
The illustrated monthly, How to Grow Flow
crs, which, 10y the way, is a valuable aid to
those interested in home Horticulture, has dcdi'
Gated its columns to the booming OF village inn
proyement associations and proposes national
organization Of these local societies
Since its purchase by George 7. Oliver, the
Pittsburg Commcrcial.Gazet has secured the
New York Tribune special service, strengthened
its local news and started in to make things
hum in the western part Of the state.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30
What If Bryan Should Win ?

HOtLD the country next fall
elect Colonel Bryan president
and give the Democratic
party Il working majority in
the house of representatives, contin-
genCias not probable yet possible,
would it lead to the overthrow of the
gold standard; and if so. how? The
question i, a natural one and proper
for present consideration. In the
Washington correspondence of the
New York Tribune We find some in
formation which tends TO shed light
upon these points.
Among the states To elect United
States senators who will take their
seats at the beginning of the Fifty
seventh congress are the following:
Colorado-To succeed Wolcott. Repub-
lican. Delaware-To succeed Kenney,
Democrat, and also to fill a vacancy.
Idaho-To succeed Shoup, Republican.
1llnos-To succeed Cullom, Republi-
can. Kansas-To succeed Baker, Re-
publican. Minnesota-To succeed Mel
son, Republican. Montana-To succeed
Carter Republican, and Clark, Demo-
crat. Nebraska-TO succeed ThurstOn,
Republican, and Allen, Democrat Pop
ulist North Carolina-'ro succeed But
Ter, Populst. South Dakota-To sue
ceed Pettigrew, Silver Republican.
West Virginia-To succeed Elkins. Re-
publican. Wyoming-TO succeed War
rem, Republican.
"Thc representation of these states
at present" the Tribune correspondent
points cut, Consists of fifteen Repub-
licans, one Democrat, and six Populists
and Silver Republicans-the Nebraska
vacancy caused by the death of Hay
ward, Republican. having been tenn
porarily filled by the appointment of
Allen, Populist. OF the twelve states
mentioned. eight-Colorado, Idaho,
| Kansas, Montana. Nebraska, North
Carolina, South Dakota and Wyoming
were carried by Bryan four years
ago. If he is elected president this
year there is at least a reasonable
probability that he will carry two of
the others-Delaware and West Vir-
gina-and that the representation of
the twelve states in the senate will
stand: Republicans, S; Opposition, 16,
as follows
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30

" 'oi RSE GoldWln Smith,
who delights to be contrary,
~ could not resist the tempta-
tion to get on the off side of
the Chinese question. If Goodwin were
really to concur with a representative
public opinion of his time it might fan
10 project him into public notice ard
that would truly be misfortune. Let
US, therefore, hear him with due awe:
THE partition of China, on which
the powers had evidently resolved
under the pretense of carving out
spheres of influence, was" says he "a
match for the partition of Poland. Not
a shadow of provocation had been
given by the Chinese. That they should
wish to exclude foreigners was not
wonderful, when they themselves were
excluded. Nor could they be expected
to recognize a claim to the open door
preferred by the author of the McKin-
ley tariff. The pretense of protecting
missionaries in the work of conversion
recalls the zeal of the Russian En-
press Catharine, herself a free-thinker.
for the protection of religious inter-
csts in Poland. The motives for tramp
ling under foot this ancient civilZa-
ton, are en- .irely selfish; those who act
on them are not unlikely TO defeat
their own ends.
"The Chinese themselves are ex-
cluded as pestilential aliens from the
United States, and are refused admis
sion to British colonies on equal terms
with other immigrants. To NOV them
down for antipathy to foreigners would
surely be the most barefaced injus-
tice. There is no reason to doubt that
commerce and friendly intercourse
would in time open China as they have
opened Japan. China might become 4
mercial greed which is the real
motive of this attack. II she is wrecked
the spoilers may fall out among them
selves. in which case the profit from
the investment may be small. The coll
lapse of the religious beliefs on which
general morality was founded seems
to have been followed, as a similar
collapse was in the era preceding the
reformation, by a failure of those
moral restraints which protected the
weak against the strong. The chief
difference between the two eposhs Is
the use by the imperialists and the ex-
pansionists of the present of unctuous
terms, such as the white mans duty
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30

Depew sailed for Europe on
Il the American liner, the st.
Paul, he spoke at a meeting
called to iatify the Philadelphia nomi-
nations and i'm the course of his re-
marks he made use of the following
striking illustration:
Tomorrow I sail on one of the great
steamers. Her speed and magnificent
performance on the ocean are the
triumphs of the American shipbuilder.
Innumerable times she and her COM
panion ship have carried passengers
and cargo safely across the great sea.
If I should leave her IN midoCean with
all her comforts, her luXuries and the
certainty of her safety and for her de-
livering me on time and happy on the
other side. to take raft for the pur-
pose of padding ashore on some un-
known coast or to ne picked up by
some wanderer on the wave, | should
be furnishing an example for the voter
who leaves the certainty of everything
he cares for in this world for him
self and his family by leaving McKin-
ley and Roosevelt for Bryan and
Towne and the rudderless unknown"
Could the case be more forcefully
stated?
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the steam pump, and an additional saving has
been effected
The per capita consumption for lsos was %
gallons per day-a reduction Of Al per cent
from that Of 1890 and the quantity Of water
used now Is 81 per cent. less than in 1890, al.
though the population has increased 20 per
cent. during that period.
From these two examples Il will be readily
seen that Buffalo is needcsslyN wasting water
The possibility Of eficcting a large saving in the
administration Of its water bureau annually is so
clearly demonstrated that he who runs may
read. Taking into consideration the reduction
Of the clerical force in the office the amount Of
coal used at the pumping station and other cx.
penses incident thereto, IL is conservative to
estimate that 100000 could be saved annually
by the adoption oi the meter system and plac.
ing the plant more nearly on a business basis
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30
UNPRECEDENTED


From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
There are no precedents for such a career,
personality and national popularity as Roose.
vclt's in all the list Of vice presidents from the
foundation Of the national government down
to the present. So. whatever may he said or
he the truth concerning either the functions Of
the office or the records of former vicepresidcnts,
they present no reason for believing that this
remarkable hero Of American confidence and ad.
miration, will not maintain his popularity
through the brief term about to cnsuc and then
be lifted to the highest station Of honor and
responsibility in the republic.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30
REPl BLICANS
OPPOSITION.

THE representation of the thirty
three other states in the senate in the
Fifty-seVenth congress will stand as
follows: Republicans, 3S; opposition.
2S. The senate would then stand Re-
publicans (Or gold standard), 46; oppo-
sition, A. The reelection of a Silver
Republican senator in New Hampshire
or the loss of a Republican senator in
Illinois (Which state sent a Democrat
to the senate nine years ago) as the
result of a fierce factional fight. would
divide the senate equally on the money
question, and the existing financial
policy and legislation might be over
turned and reversed next year by the
casting vote of a Demo-Pop vice.
president, as the protective tariff was
| overturned in 1916 by a Democratic
vice. president carried into office on the
war cry of Polk, Dallas and the Tariff
of 1872"
While, as said before. this contin-
gency is not probable, 1t is not impos-
sble. The Sound Money Democrat
who accepts Bryan on the theory that
his free silver ideas are no longer dan
gerous takes risk which prudent citi-
| zens would do we'll to avoid.
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ing to fortune hunters who are pre-
pairing TO rush into South Africa as
soon as peace is restored. The land
that can be cultivated with profit is
already held by the Dutch at fabulous
prices and as for gold and diamond
mining interests, one might as well
attempt to stake out a coal claim in
the Lackawanna valley as look for a
mine in Africa. All available property
was occupied by the representatives Of
big snydicates long before the Trans
vaal war was thought Of. The oppor-
tunities for chance fortunes in South
Africa passed away nearly a genera
tion ago.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30

the finger Of destiny the command
of Providence and the promotion Of
civilization
"The Chinese have their vices AMI
weaknesses, but not such vices and
weaknesses as would warrant an
otherwise unprincipled Invasion. When
those traditions of the past, by which
the huge empire has hitherto been
held together. have been destroyed
what will the conqueror put in their
places? Bishop Earl Cranston, OF
Colorado. is reported to have said
II would be worth any cost in blood
to Chrstianize the Chinese. Is this the
voice Of the churches? If it is the day
may not be very far distant when
people will spare themselves the eN-
pense of maintaining the clergy. The
breath of the pulpit is not needed to
fan the flames of rapaciOus and muir
derous passion. We may need learned
the worship of God. We can do our
demon worship for ourselves
AS matter of fact Bishop Gran
ston said nothing of the kind. The
report that he had was manufactured.
But what has Goodwin Smiths har-
rangue 20 do with the condition of af-
fairs officially reported to be now ex-
listing in China, where thousands Of
citizens of foreign nations, in China
in accordance with treaty stipulations
and privileges, are mcnaced, tortured
and in numerous instances shot by
armed nobs of natives. who want to
put all foreigners to ignomin'ous
death? Would Goodwin Smith assent
peacefully to the murder of his own
wife. son or daughter under such con-
ditions, because of his theory that
commercial, greed is the real motive
of the whole trouble? What good does
such talking do at a time when action
is what is required?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30

In the absence of General William
Skaters blackboard, the war in China
will lose one of the picturesque fea-
lures of modern fighting.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30

The Philadelphia North American is
obliged to use large quantities of dis
play type almost every day in exposing
people who attempt to "do 1t dirt"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30

The professional poet might as well
keep his stock packed away in moth
balls until the girl graduates have
completed exercises for this season.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30

Seriously speaking, the Chicago
platform should be provided with
few rapid disappearing trap doors.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30

The large amount of smoke in the
air would seem to indicate that there
| is a connagration in the vicinity of
the Scranton fire department.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30

Prohibition principles according to
reports from Chicago consist princi-
pally in desire to roast" the admin
istration at Washington.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-30

There is a disposition to talk Mr..
Hill ous of range before the exercises
begin at Kansas City.