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, 1900-09-20

Prosperity for the Farmers.
Ii yet the candidate nominated by
the Populists by the Democrats and by
the Silver Republicans voted in 1884
for the Wilson tariff law with its free
wool clause, and today stands where
he stood then. in favor of free wool.
Is not this reason enough for bringing
~ notice at this time the facts, and
figures relating to American Tariffs
and American Sheep" II ever time
was when these eloquent statistics
should be made known to the people
OF the United States. this is the
time.
Instances without number could be
cited bearing out this marvellous pros
perity of the sheep r~aisers. Not long
ago, the Fairfield uowa) Register
printed an anecdote that goes straight
to the point of illustrating the great
Increase that mas taken place in the
productive value and market value of
sheep. 1t appears that last fall, in
making a sale of a bunch of sheep at
So per head. F. c. Hollister of Buchan-
an township had one eve rejected be-
cause she did not come up to the
blduudIu. ne CdItu lOT utI uuIlHB tue
winter, and is as well satisfied as IL
she had been taken when sold. She
had twin lambs in January which
weighed 80 pounds at three months
and sold at 6 cents per pound, or $40.
The eve herself weighed 140 pounds,
and brought $3.50, while she sheared
s pounds Of wool. which sold for 23h
cents per pound, or $1.SS. Here is a
return from this animal of $12.18.
Commenting on this episode of the
rejected sheep. the Des Moines Regis
ter said:
sheep are about the most profitable
and useful animals or the farms, II
they are well cared for; and they on
stitute about the best property barom-
etor to indicate the condition of the
government and the people. Many
farmers insist that sheep pay for
themselves in weed killing and en-
riching the soil. and that all the other
income from sheep Is clear proht-a
pre- fit that will average more than 100
, 1900-09-20

Woodpeckers are destroying he Mis-
souri, Pacific depot at Lyndon, Kansas.
a score of these birds have been demol
ishing the east end Of the depot for
two weeks. Boys drive them away
with stones, but they return. The sta
ton agent says they peck away in
unison with the tick of the telegraph
instruments. as if ~hypnotized by the
electricity.
, 1900-09-20

In 1878 n silver dollar was worth one
dollar and siy-tenths in gold, and in
1896 forty-tive cents. Money may de-
%preciate. hut there is one standard
medicine. which has not changed in
half a century. and that is Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters. 1t always has been
the one remedy for indigestion. dyspep-
sia or kidney troubles.
, 1900-09-20

The Burlington will on June nth and
18th put on sale tickets from Denver to
Chicago, st. Louis. Peoria aud all MIS-
souri, river points at rate OF one fare plus
81 for the round trip. Tickets good Cor
return TIL October 3lst. This rate open
to everybody. G. w. VALLERY.
General Agent.
, 1900-09-20
WOOL IMPORTED.

Fiscal
year. Pounds. Tariff period.
1898. .172, 433, 1913 Mckinley tariff.
1894. 55,152,5S5 Waiting for free wool
1895. 200, O33, 906 Cleveland
1896 .23O, 81 ,473 and
1897. $50, $50, ops free trade.
1888. 1927 95. 2O2 Mckinley and pro-.
1893. T6. 1876. 209 lection to farmers.
Under the Mckinley tariff in 1893
We imported liz, i33,S3S pounds of for
eign wool.
In 1894, while buyers were waiting
for the free trade Wilson bill to become
law, we imported only 90, 152, 5S5
pounds.
In the free trade years, when Ameri-
can sheep were being slaughtered be-
cause it didn't pay our farmers to sell
their wool for a few cents a POUND.
the foreign wool came flooding into
our markets by the shiploads-more
and more OF it each year.
In 1897 we bought. under the free
trade Wilson bill. $50, S52,O26 pounds of
foreign wool. This was It's, 426 tons of
it-enough to load So British merchant
vessels. each carrying 5000 tons of
wool grown mostly in British colonies.
This is the sort of pro-British treaty
that the Democrats make.
A Powerful Argument.
And finally comes the value of the
wool clip. For illustration we take the
price OF Ohio fleece wool as a basis as
quoted by Manger & Avery of Boston
for a series of years.
, 1900-09-20

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10 a ANGER. you will never get well
until your bowels are put right
CASCARETS help nature, cure you
without a grippe or pain, produce easy
natural movements, cost o Just 10
cents to start getting Jour health back.
CASCARETS Candy Cathartic. the
genuine. put up in metal boxes, every
tablet has C. C. C. stamped on It Be-
ware of limitations.
, 1900-09-20

II you wish to have beautiful. clear
white clothes. uke Russ Bleaching Blue.
the famous bag blue.
, 1900-09-20

Are you interested in your wife's In
dian corner?' Yes; | get off war
whoops over the money she spends"
, 1900-09-20

What. another ice bill! Hang it, 1
can't pay" "Oh. Harold. don't be so
violent; you ought to be hankf we can
anord to buy ice If we can't afford to
pay for it,"
, 1900-09-20

The Manufacturer OF Carter's Ink have had
forty years experience in making IL and they
certainly know how. Send for "Inklings, free.
, 1900-09-20

All goods are alike to PUTNAM
FADELESS DYES. as they color all
hbers at one boiling.
, 1900-09-20

Did the chemist find anything wrong
with the milk what a foolish ques-
ton! He was cooking for deadly germs.
wasn't he? Well, he couldn't AFFORD not
to find them"
, 1900-09-20

That woman lecturer said it was vuI-
gar to sneeze." "Well?'' Then she
sneezed."
, 1900-09-20

THAT marriage is Off again" Did she
try to make him give up smoking No:
he tried to make her give up chewing
gum"
, 1900-09-20

at is saddening to see autumn draw
Yes; IL makes the foliage OF
ones summer hats look so tacky."
, 1900-09-20

Here's ~ picture of that famous au
thoress and her cat" (Which Is tn,
cat?"
, 1900-09-20

Ladies who take pride in beautiful.
clear white clothes should use Russ
Bleaching Blue. the modern bag blue.
, 1900-09-20

. you seem to dislike superior people"
10 merely dislike inferior people who
, 1900-09-20

Has your wife tapped you for her fall
pat yot2' Hat? Hats"
, 1900-09-20

when l asked her to marry me she
answered me In a word-a single little
word Yes or no. she said
, 1900-09-20

Keep looking young and save your hair, its color
ana beauty With PAHKER's HAIR BALsAM,
hiSDkRcoHSs, the best cure for corns. l5cts.
, 1900-09-20

aUnired States government report
for 1899 not yet published.
In the history of industrial and eco
nomic conditions no more wonderful
result OF the benefit of protection can
be shown.
, 1900-09-20

Sheep owned in March, 1900
tDingley law, protection pc
riod) 2.5Of .215
Increase, 1900 ,042. All
Percentage OF Increase. 71.44
Average value per head March,
1896 Wilson law, free wool
period) S1.76
Average value per head March,
1900 CDingley law. protection
period) $3.50
Increase of value per head for
lSUU $2.l4
Percentage of gain in value
per head for 1900. ......... 121.59
Prosperity Extraordinary.
1t is only fair to say hat the extra
ordinary increase of prosperity which
has come to pass since the country
repudiated free-trade and cheap dol
lars has in some measure acted as a
bar to the more rapid increase of
American fiocks of sheep. Having
more money to spend our people have
eaten sheep at an unprecedented rate
in the past two years. For this rea
son the consumption of lambs has in
creased enormously. Lamb is a gas
tronomtc luxury, and so great has
been the demand and so high the prizes
in the early months of this year that
sheep raisers have yielded to the
temptation and sent to market vast
numbers of lambs which should have
been kept at home for breeding pur-
poses. Only a few days ago | was
told OF a sheep owner in one of the
western states who sold to a Chicago
packing company 10000 lambs of this
years produce. why did you do it?''
he was asked: "how could you afford
10 so curtail your Increase" Because
the offer of 81 per head in spot cash
was too tempting to resist was the
reply.
Four years ago, with tariff reform
in the saddle. mutton sheep sold in
Omaha and Kansas City at 81 to $3.50
per head, and lambs sold at $3.50 to
$3.50 per head. In March of this year.
with Mckinley and protection. sheep
for mutton sold in Omaha and Kan
sas City at $3.50 to S6.25 and lambs at
s. to $40 per head.
But this is not all of the story. I'm
der the action Of the Mckinley law
the imports of foreign woods have fall
en- off enormously.
Here is a statement of the wool i'm
ports into this country for the various
years, showing first that after the ac-
cession of Cleveland to power in 1898
but 80, 600 900 pounds of wool were i'm
ported into this country. but that I'M
der the Cleveland and Wilson free
trade bill We imported nearly 500, OOO,-
900 pounds, and so utterly overstocked
the market that no such impression
was made by the Dingley bill at first
as we had a right to have expected.
Wool Imports.
hi history of wool imports into the
United States should be conclusive
proof to every owner of sheep in this
country that free trade means the use
of foreign wool in American factories,
while protection means the use OF
American wool. Study the following
figures:
, 1900-09-20

Primley's California Fruit Gum contains
the most delicious qualities of western
fruits.
, 1900-09-20
Fl WOOL GROWERS.
WHY THEY WILL SUPPORT THE
M'kINLEY TICKET.
Sheep and Wool Have More Than
Doubled In Value Since the DingIey
Law Was Placed on the Statute
Books.

L was LOT Tree WOOL IN 1884 Wnen l
voted for the Wilson free wool tariff,
and 1 am for free wool now in 1900"
William Jennings Bryan.
The wool growers of the United
States know what to expect II William
Jennings Bryan is by any chance elect
ed to the presidency. He has nailed
his colors plainly to the masthead. He
who uns nay read. There is no quail
ifcation whatever in his declaration.
He is for free wool now and all the
time.
Progress and ~ProSperIt
The condition of the sheep is an ac-
curate barometer of the progress and
prosperity of thu entire country. Tell
me how stands our sheep in respect
to value and productiveness," said
Congressman Grosvenor of Ohio, and
l will tell you how the country stands
in the same respect"
AT the time of the election of Presi-
dent Mckinley in 1896 there were in
the United States S6.S1S,6i3 sheep,
which at an average of sl.S2 per head
were worth S67 .02O, 942. Four years of
protection under the Dingley law has
resulted in an increase of the focks
to G3.121.SS which at an average value
of $3.50 has brought the value to S2i6.-
175.335.
-Four Years of Protection Has
NEARLY DOUBLED THE FLoCKS.
MORE THAN DOUBLED THE
AVERAGE PRICE PER HEAD.
NEARLY QUADRUPLED THE
VALUE OF ALL SHEEP.
1t is for the sheep owners to decide by
their votes whether they want a return
of the free trade days under the Will
son law or a continuance of prosperity
under the Dingley law. 1t is for then
to say whether they want to be paid
for their wool and their mutton in 10
cent dollars or in dollars worth 100
cents each.
If they want free wool, let them vote
for the advocate of free wool. William
jennings Bryan. If they want protec-
ton and prosperity. let them vote for
President William Mckinley. If they
want to be paid in Ascent dollars, let
them vote for Mr.. Bryan: II they wish
to be paid in 100-cent dollars, as good
as anybody's money on earth, let them
vote for Mr.. Mckinley.
There is no middle purse. 1t is for
the sheep r~aisers, great and small, to
vote decisively on this issue.
Some Prosperity Figures.
There is a world of material for
study and reflection among the produc-
ing classes in the study of the statistics
of sheep raising in the United States
in the last twenty-five years. The
government reports, which cannot be
questioned by anybody, show this state
of affairs for the years since 1878:
Number Average
of price Total
, 1900-09-20

''Confucius teaches the beautiful doc
trine of nOn-resistance.' That's all
right, but a man can't lend another man
money when he hasn't got it, can he2"
, 1900-09-20

Please Try Fauitiess Starch
once and you will never use any other. All
grocers sell it-large package l0c.
, 1900-09-20
The Happy Result.

February 10th, 1900.
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just simply wonderful the change your medicine
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work is now n pleasure to me, while before using
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would use your Vegetable Compound there would be
less suffering in the world. / cannot express the
relief l have experienced by using Lydia e. Pink
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Cor. 10Th Avenue aud Yeslar Way, Seattle, Wash.
, 1900-09-20

Hairs Catarrh euro
Is taken internally. Price, Toe.
, 1900-09-20

Prosperity Reaches Texas.
Now let us turn our steps toward the
banner state of b~ourbonism and free
trade, a state which a yea ago had
2.3S3, $50 sheep and sheared about 15,-
500. 900 pounds of wool, but which will
this year show over 5000, 900 sheen
and over Is, OO0, goo pounds of wool
From Texas we have 90 reports. and
they tell us that in March, 1896. under
the administration to which Texas
gave such a tremendous majority
these owners had 100, 953 sheep, worth
to them S1.45 each; N that in
March, 1900, under an administration
whose success at the polls Texas did
so much to prevent. these same 60
owners had 124, 1875 sheep, and their
average market value was s2.75 per
head. Would o think that Texas
farmers would next November sit up
all night and stand in line waiting for
a chance to put in a ballot for Bryan
and free wool? There are sheep own
ers enough in Texas, lot to turn the
scale from Democracy to Republican
ism. for that is too much to hope for
Just now, but enough to at least cut
down the big majority OF 1896. and
that Texas has some apprecia-
ton of what has been done for her
by Mckinley. protection and prosper
ity.
How was 1t in Nebraska, the home
OF him who is at once the hope and
despair of his party? From that state
20 reports have thus far been received.
They show that under the provisions
of the law of 1894, which the Boy
Orator of the Platte helped to pass,
the parties reporting owned 23.56S
sheep. worth $1.G9 per head. while in
March. 1900. these same parties owned
1880 sheep. marketable in cash at an
average of SAT- per head. Nebraska
will remember who 1t was that said.
Il was for free wool in 1894, when I
voted for the Wilson free-wool tariff.
and l am for free wool now in 1900"
The sheep census taken by the
League in detail Is as follows:
Reports received ............ 964
Sheep owned in March. 1896
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-05-10
A Woman's Awful Peril.

"There is only one chance to save
your life and that is through an opera,
ton" were the startling words heard
by Mrs. l. B. Hunt, of Lime Ridge
Wis, from her doctor after he had
vainly tried to cure her of frightful
case of stomach trouble and yellow
jaundice. Gall stones had formed and
she constantly grew worse. Then she
began to use Electric Bitters which
wholly cured her. It's wonderful
Stomach, Liver and Kidney remedy
Cures Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite
Try it. Only 80 cents. Guaranteed
For sale by w. r. Smith 4 Co., drug
gists.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-05-10
LIKE A DENTISTS VICTIM.
An Initiative MOckinR BIRD That
Made the Same sounds of
Torture.

81 was lauding my mocking bird the
other day." remarked a lawyer to
New Orleans Times-Democrat man,
when friend of mine began to cuss the
entire mocking-bird race with vol
ubiiity born of conviction. l demanded
an explanation, and he answered.:
Its this way: have a little gallery
at the side of my bedroom, and every
morning at about six o'clock a gray
demon of bird came and squatted
down on the railing and for one hour
gave utterance to a sound which I had
heard somewhere, think it must have
been in a nightmare, sickening, blood
curdling sound, broken by an occa-
sional yawp like the gasp of an alliga-
tor with New Orleans Group.
1.-THE sounds, as said, seemed famil-
lar to me, but could not place them
until the other day was awaiting my
turn at the dentists. All at once from
the open door of the operating room
came the voice Of my mocking bird, but
now realize that the noise was made
by the buzzer taking the hide off of
some ones bicuspedal nerve. Every
now and then the patient would let out
a yell, which told me where my bird
had chosen the model for his floriture.
On investigation l learned that a
dentist had occupied the house I was
living in, and that he had kept Gagged
mocking bird in his work room. The
creature must have died and its spirit
now returns to haunt its former prison
as possibly the bird escaped"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-05-10
Not the shady Side.

Among the true and graceful sayings
credited to the late Bishop Brooks, is
one which is especially well worth re-
membering.
A friend was speaking to the bishop
of clergyman whose congregation
had begun to feel that it would be
advisable for them to have a younger
man in the pulpit.
"Oh. well, it's the way of the world"
said this person, in reply to an indig-
nant remonstrance on the part of the
bishop. "You see, he's on the shady
side of 65."
"The shady side!" echoed the bish-
op, quickly. you mean the sunny side!
It's the side nearest glory"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-05-10
A Centinapian.

Such is the record the SCioto Ga
zette claims for itself as it comes to
our table this week. The make up
and matter show none of the marks
of decripitude. In fact the appear
ance of the "Cenitarian' would lead
one to attribute the same conditions
to the Gazette which are claimed for
good liquors, namely, improved with
age" Space forbids extended COM
ment on our welcome contemporary.
Our wish is that the teeth of time
may never gnaw the rollers and that
no paragraph may ever get pied, !"
but that each successive edition of
the uncompromising Scioto Gazette
may be brighter, spicier, more well
come to its readers and exchanges
than its predecessor. Success to you
Mr. Perry
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-05-10
ORDERS HUSBANDS CLOTHES.
Great Pains to Have Him
Properly Dressed

The wife of a man who served with
distinction as a cabinet officer during
recent administration entered tailor
shop near Fifth avenue a week ago,
says the New York Sun, and said to
the proprietor:
81 am Mrs. So-and-so. and don't sup
pose that women come into your shop
very often"
| "a good many women help their hus-
I bands to select their clothes" said the
proprietor.
We'll, l am glad to hear that" said
the woman. 81 have bought my hus-
bands clothes for him ever since we
were married. and if did not look out
for them he would not have any clothes.
He never thinks of them. Didn't even
when he was in Washington, though
he was always properly dressed. Now
| want some spring clothes for my
husband. l win select the samples for
three suits and / win tell you just how
to make them. When my husband
comes to get measured don't pay any
attention to his orders about the
clothes if he gives any. If he orders his
anyway"
The proprietor found that this wom-
an knew as much as the average man
about mems clothes, and he accepted
her directions. On the following day
when her husband came in the propri-
etor recognized him from his pictures
and said:
"AIr. So-and-so, your wife selected
goods for three suits of clothes for you
yesterday, and if you viii step back
l will show you the patterns"
young man." said the ex-cnbinet Of
ficer, 81 would not dare to interfere
with my wife's selections. just take
my measure as quickly as you can ant
make the clothes as directed"
After the measurements had beer
made the eX-cabinet minister hurried
out without asking what style of suit.
had been ordered for him,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-05-10

ing. Inc practl- The Nine spot.
cal politician is fond of countering
with the charge that the theoretical
reformer never goes out of the house
without buttoning his overcoat up
tightly to his throat for fear that
somebody will steal his watch.
$50 far as politics goes the best he
ever gets is a chance to make a speech
at some political meeting during the
campaign, and far from lucrative
job as vice president of some alleged
reform association, which one of the
regular machines had most to do with
organizing as a feeder Chicago
Tribune.
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6 GGeYeeYseaey.e,1.se.Nv.s,ysss
: Just Fun for the Bear J
q Uncle Jabez and the Despoiler of J
N His Beehves.
t3A0.A AsHANANA
80 pEAKING of bees" said Deacon

&c PEAKING of bees" said Deacon
- Todgers, reminiscently, to the
crowd at the corner grocery store,
"did any of you ever hear of Uncle
Jabez and his Rdventure with the
bear, or rather with the drunken bees
and the old bear?"
None of the boys had, so the dea-
con began: "Uncle Jabez caine over
to my house a spell ago, and blamed if
he wasn't more kinds of bunged-up
man than any I had ever seen before.
His neck was scratched, his arm was
in a sling, and all over his face and
hands were marks like bee or hornet
stings. What particular form of at
tempted suicide have you taken up for
your latest fad?' inquired.
"T've been trying to catch bear,
growls Uncle Jabez, like a man out of
humor with the world.
"'And did you trap nest of hor-
nets instead? Or have you been in a
wrestling match with buzz saw?'
cit amt any laughing matter,
sneered Uncle Jabez. Wildcats, bears
and drunken bees are 'sponsible for
this wreck
"Well, l was mighty curious to
know how one little old man could
get mixed up with that combination
and. after awhile he opened up his
heart.
"'Don't tell me that a bear, espe-
cially an old Pike county bear, can't
reason out things and plan how to get
out of scrape,' says Uncle Jabez
sorrowfully. You know that old bear
which has been troubling people here
abouts for months? Well, that par
ticular animal is cut out for a banl,
burglar, and a good one at that. It's
my belief that a mistake was made
when he was born n bear. This fall
after / had lost three valued pigs anC
some honey, | started out to make c
business of hunting that bear.
caught his trail one morning ant
started in all the innocence of my
heart, thinking I would come back al
night with the skin of the knowinges
old bear that ever lifted a pig. My
dog followed the trail all right unit
we came to one of those little on
runs, and there we lost it. The dog
nosed about for long time, but i
was no good. 1 was clean puzzled
The ground was hard, and there
wasn't a hole and scarcely busl
near, and how an old bear dog lk
mine could lose plain trail wa
more than I could understand. A
last we gave up and came home,
saddened and wiser dog and man
That evening while I was ponderini
over the problem, all of sudden al
idea came to me.
"Tt amt the dogs fault says t.
myself. That dogs been trained t.
chase bears, not oil barrels. That oil
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-05-10

Ihe GraLter. HNe dOllCfa more
for election expenses. Because of the
fact that he is usually a good tal)ier
and is persistent to the last degree
he often imposes on the reformers.
though he by no means conGua- his
attention to them
but the man who is held in the su-
premest contempt by the practical
politicians is the nine spot. lie can
be found at present in large l0cks
about the headquarters of all tha can
didates., He knows nothing about
politics and cares less. His only am
bition is to hear himself talk He
makes wild predictions, waves his
arms and gathers a crowd about him
at every possible opportunity. The
sound of his own voice is sweeter to
him than a promise of any political
office. no matter how large the salary
attached to it. Speaking generally,
he is looked upon as harmless nui-
sance. He rarely touches the candi-
dates, and serves to swell the crowd
at the headquarters.
"Then there is the theoretical re-
former, who is to be differentiated