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The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

"A man who votes the republican
ticket this year votes for no great prin-
ciple. Every issue that made the re-
publican party great has been settled
and all there is left of that once proud
party is organization and discipline, a
well-drilied army absolutely controlled
by greed and selfshness.-Tol Bee.
The mills at Canton, O., shut down
to let their employees hear President
McKinleys speech OF acceptance. If
they can induce the workingmen to
help reelect Mckinley, the protected
trusts and Infant industries" can well
afford to stand the brief lay-off without
taking it out of the mems wages.-Al-
bany Argus.
The weakness of the Hanna-Mc-
Kinley syndicate before the people is
shown in the eagerness and persistence
with which they urge the currency
question upon public attention in this
campaign. The paramount issue is that
which was declared at Kansas City to
be such, and nothing can set aside that
fact.-Boston Post.
If all the elements in opposition
to trust oligarchism, imperialism and
Hannaism can be fully polled in Novem-
Der the result need not be considered
doubtful. 1t remains only for the
managers of the democratic ticket to
get out the vote. Upon their ability
and success in that matter will hang
the Observation-Disclosures Times.
The handling of the revenues has
been such that the piling up of sur
pluses in the vaults is now threaten
ing scarcity of funds in circulation
for commercial needs this fall, which
can only be relieved by using these IN
necessary taxes in the open market
to purchase bonds at a big premium,
and thus enrich the bond speculator
at the expense of the masses. Either
this or virtual panic now confronts
the country and is the visible and tangi-
be answer to the boasts of "skilltll
fnanciering" which republican organs
and platforms are SO boldJy 1naking."-
Houston Post.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
IT'S ALL IN A NAME.
One Reason Why the Conservative
Negro WhfteUasher Lost HIS
Occupations

whats in a name?" asked Shakes.
peare. Everything, may be answered, and
no one has made the answer more plain to
the ordinary mortal than Booker I. Wash
ington, the noted colored orator, says the
Chicago TimeSHerald. While lecturing in
Omaha last winter he paused in the midst
Of his remarks and asked:
How many, negro boys in Omaha are
learning mechanical trade?"
And from the vast audience came the re-
ply;
Then Mr.. Washington proceeded to tell
the negro boys what they should do The
old colored man with his brush and pail of
whitewash once made a, good living. But
he was a whitewasher." The first thing
he knew a white man came along with an
assortment of brushes and several colors of
wash under fancy names. The white man
called himself an interior decorator"
and the old colored man S job was gone for
ever.
You negro boys" continued Mr.. Wash
lngton, must become interior decorators,
for the withdrawing job is done"
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
Family Ties Exhausted.

At one of the great department stores the
other day a young man was indulging in
airy. perssifage with the pretty shop girl
behind the counter while waiting for his
change. 'What wonderful place you have
here" he said. "What do you sell?"
Everything" was the reply. Every
thing" was the incredulous comment.
'What do you mean by everything" Just
what say," responded the girl. Anything
you want we can supply you with here"
tious Alexander. "Well, let me look at
some family ties" Without remark, but
with demure countenance, the girl went
away, but in a moment returned and said:
II am sorry, but the manager tells me that
we are. just out of family ties, owing to the
great demand. Perhaps you'd like to look
cided, however, that the latter was an un-
desirable commodity, and he would have
none of it,-N Y. Tribune
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
FREEZING ICE CREAM.
Some Points That Will Materially
Aid Those Who Make Their
Own Cream.

The question is often asked: Can ice
cream be frozen rapidly? Machines of
different kinds which accomplish this
, work in five minutes or loss offered
for sale, and there is no doubt that
they will, if used according to direc-
tions, accomplish their purpose. In
fact, says the New York Tribune, any
first-class ice cream freezer, if packed
in the same way, will do the same
thing. 1t requires no special freezer
to do this. No ice cream freezer will
freeze cream to a smooth, creamy, even
consistency such as the best ice cream
should possess in less than ten min
utes, with the time taken for whip
ping, beating and packing it down..
for the period of rest in the freezer
which such a cream should have before
a dozen varieties of ices. Some of these
require rapid freezing; some slower
freezing. Some are rough, like a gran
ite," others ''mossy" like a mousse,
others simply solidifed, like a sherbet
or water ice, and some creamy, though
firm, like an ice cream. Any first
class ice cream freezer made of the
best materials, any of those which
have been tested by time are made,
will do all this. 1t will freeze a cream
quickly, when it will be rough as
granite should be, or more slowly, al
lowing time for opening and scraping
the sides of the can and beating the
frozen and unfrozen mixture together
to make smooth, creamy ice. Any ice
cream should rest after it is frozen
in the packing of ice and salt around
it, covered from the air, at least two
hours. 1t does no harm if it rests six
hours. y great many ices, especially
fruit ices, are now frozen frappe.
These are especially grateful served
in the evening of a hot day in little
glasses. They are sometimes served
at dinners after the roast course. In
preparing any of these ices, remem-
ber to use abundance of fruit juice.
The fruit juice in some cases cannot be
diluted with water in the least, but
must be used pure. Each one of the va
riety of ices is differently treated when
of ices is differently treated when
frozen. and owes it's special excellence
as much to the process of freezing as
to the process of PREPARATION; there
fore, the most minute directions for
freezing it will be given. Any good
frst-class freezer, even long slender
can of tin, properly packed in a pail
of ice and salt. will do the work of
freezing any of these different ices if
the directions we intend to give are
carefully carried out.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
STRANGE SMELLS IN STREETS.
The Varied OdOrs Which Unac-
countabIy Salute NOstrils of
City People.

A man in this city who prides HIM
self on a keen sense Of smell says that
in walking the streets he frequently
encounters many odOrs which other
people do not seem to perceive. These
are not the odors pleasant or offensive,
as the case may be, which come from
trades and manufactures. but the per-
fume of things not seen and whose
presence cannot be easily accounted
for He AYERS that often in walking in
Washington street between Dearborn
and Clark his sensitive noStrilS en-
counter the unmistakable odor of law
ender, although there is no reason why
he should smell lavender in that block
any more than in any other, says the
Chicago Chronicle.
In another part of the downtown
district he meets with an odor not
quite so pleasant. 1t is the smell of
wash day. And yet there is not a laun-
dry within several squares of the place.
Another smell frequently encountered
and testified to by several people is
that of skunk-weed. This, too, in the
ticed in the daytime, but more fre-
quently at night, where, of course,
there is no probability of the pres
ence either of the weed or the peculiar
animal from which it takes its name.
These peculiar obsessiOns of odor do
not, of course, take into account the
perfumes arising from natural and OBJ
vious reasons. Little, slanting River
street is redolent with perfumes, some
of them of Araby and some from less
blessed lands. From the importing
houses situated along that brief thor
oughfare there float sometimes the
most exquisite tea and spice-laden
breezes. mingled at intervals with the
odor of the strongest of German or
Italian cheese. Along South Water
street one gets whiffs of all the vege-
tables, from the pungent onion or cab
bage to the delicate aroma of aspara-
gus.
Those who cross State street bridge
are treated to delicious smell of
roasting coffee from adjacent mills.
From hay stores come breaths of far
OiA hClNo anu IucduONS. ClON6I-ldlDlGQ.
Talking of bad odors, those of the stock
yards have been greatly abated in the
last few years and the mephitic stencil
of the Chicago river promises soon to
be thing of the past. One of the
pleasant features of the long trolley
rides now made possible is the per-
fumes through which one rides for
81 4
grapevines, crab apple blossoms, lilac,
lavender and the clover flowers, to say
nothing of myriads of common roses,
make the air in places heavy with their
delicious odor.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
A Large Family.

whats your name, young man?"
inquired an employer of an applicant
for a post as office boy.
Revelations. sir" was the reply.
Funny name that. Whose inspira-
tion was Revelations?"
"Well, it was like this" said the
boy. My eldest brothers were trip
let's, and they were christened Mat
thew, Marx and Luke, so father
thought he'd better stick to the New
they's got through it,
''Were you the last. then?"
Last but one, sir; they went to the
Old Testament for the baby and
called him Numbers. - London
Spare Moments.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
He Got Posted,

1t was an open car A man of years and
sedateness sat next to young man who
was consulting pocket dictionary BY and
toms, the sedate man said:
"It's in here; I was looking over one of
them books yesterday, and l picked out
the very words"
"What do you refer to?" asked the young
man.
''To what woman up my way called me
when | asked her to marry me-"
"And what was it?"
"a concave cataleptic semiSnnual old
idiot. At first | didn't exactly know
whether she meant to say yes or turn ne
down, but after looking in the dictionary
made up my mind that she was not for n
Mighty handy, those dictionaries are, VIII,
you get stuck on hard word, eh?'-Wash-
ington Post.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
She'd Do It.
CrashI

Crash!
There came the sound of falling dishes
from the kitchen. The cook appeared at
the dining-room door.
"Plaze num-" she said, "the whole av
your besht dinner set is broken fwhoile Oi
wuz washin' it!"
The housewife wept.
"B'gee!" said her husband, IF the, pow:
ers could only get that girl, the. job of
breaking up China would soon be finished"
N. Y. World.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
Terribly ReyengefuI,

Carrie-I think Tom is the most re
veneeful person [ ever met.
Bcrtha-What has Tom been doing
now?
"Oh, it isn't that he has been doiTe
anything; but the horrid thing h'
said about Willy Webber. He said l.
wished he was a dentist, and ha
Willy to operate on. Isn't he te,
riblc! !"-Boston Transcript
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
An Amateur Fisherman.

Brides Little Brother Ito bride
groom)-Did it hurt you much when
she did it?
BridegroOm-Nhat hurt me?
"The hook. Did it get into your lip 81
81 don't know. what YOU mean.
Johnny
Brides Mother-Leave the table this
instant, Johnny.
Brides Little Brother-What for?
l only wanted to know if it hurt him.
You said that sis had fshed for him
a long time, but she hooked him a last,
and wanted to know if-''-N. Z. Mag
azine.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
The Rural Hum

Farmer Dunk Ito his nag)-Whoa,
there, Filipino! Whoa. confound you!
Farmer Hayroob-That's a funny
name fer hoss. Why in tunkett do
We call him Filipino?
Farmer Dunk = B'cuz he's ALWAYS
runnin' away.@Judge.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
A Draw.

Tommy-Hello, Jimmy, what KEEP
you?
Jimmy-Me and the old man had an
argument He wanted me to haul some
coal into the back yard.
"How did it end?''
''In a draw; I drawed it. Answers.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
Wasted Mind.

Did you ever try mud baths for
your rheumatism?"
NO. l once ran for political Office.
but that WIS before rheumatism had
asserted itSelf."-Chicago Times-Her-
aid.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-Iwass sick for
two years with falling of the womb, and
Inflammation of the ovaries and bladder.
was bloated very badly. My left limb
would swell SO l could not step on my
foot. had such bearing down pains I
could not straighten up or walk across
the room and such shooting pains would
go through me that L thought I could
not otstand it. Mymother got me bottle
of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and told me to try it. Itook six
bottles and now, thanks to your won
derful medicine, 1 am a well woman"
-MRs. ELSIE BRYAN, Otisville, Mich.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
A NnrvcI nf Economy.

y billion dollar congress was regard
ed as a wonder few years ago. Now II
would be looked upon as marvel OF
aeonumy.-l Illinois State Register.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
OVARIAN TROUBLES.

Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Cures Them Two Letters from Women.
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-I write to
tell you of the good Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has done
me. Twas sick in bed about five weeks.
The right side of my abdomen panied
me and was so swollen and sore that
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30
Fruits of Imperialism.

Mr.. Lewis remarks that we are now
reaping the fruits of the harvest sown
by this administration while under the
influence of its dream of imperialism.
He says:
''We must take one of two courses:
Humiliatingly step out of China with
dead Americans unavenged, or proceed
to revenge the infamy by marching our
armies into country which can band
together a standing army equal to
every man, woman and child we have
in the United States and still not begin
to exhaust their surplus"
1t is clear that if war is to be made
in China we are both unprepared and
unable to reach a victory, while losing
the trade because we have made enc
mics of the people.
The question is, are our people still
willing to take the woeful result which
the policy of the administration, as
proposed in the Philadelphia conven-
ton and admitted by the president in
his speech at Canton, inevitably pre-
cipitates upon us? Is it to be empire of
war and bankruptcy OF republic of
peace and prosperity? It seems to be
up to the administration.
As if to emphasize imperialism as the
most important issue, the news comes
from the Philippines that Gen. Mac
Arthur not only cannot spare any
troops from the Philippines, but that
he actually needs 100, 900 men to subdue
the insurrection. The Filipinos are bet
ter arrned and in better shape to fight
for their independence than they were
year ago.
The net result of the Chinese trouble
so far seems to be the loss of life among
American citizens In Peking. the de-
feat of the Ninth regiment, acting with
the allied forces at Tientsin. and the
disabling of that splendid battleship.
the Oregon. 1t has been known for
months that the administration would
be glad to wash its hands of the Philip
pines, only that its understanding with
Great Britain made the islands seem
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30

could not walk. The ezzyza
doctor told my hus- f
band I would have to * E8
undergo an operation. - ~1
This / refused to do ( M~.-NX
until had given your [SESlI lE.lssSsSsVsAsA l.ssSVs
medicine trial. Be- * ~
fore I had taken ~ HSAS1 NJ
one bottle the III wZl11fsI4ff
swelling be- GYTTSM III 81
gan to disap- S W
pear I con- s. MN
your medicine wi
until the swelling
was entirely gone. IN
much much 81 surprised to as
see me SO much
better. ."-MRs. MARY SMITH, Arlington
Iowa.
The Winslow mail., 1900-08-30

better. ."-MRs. MARY SMITH, Arlington,
Iowa.
The age-herald., 1900-06-25
OIL PIPE LINE IN RUSSIA

United States Consul Thomas Smith sends the following interesting informa- tion from Moscow:
 '.The first section Of the largest oil pipe line in the world for the transportation of refined oil has jus, .'- . completed, and it's operation will started on the 7th of April The pipe hHe was constructed by the engineers of the Trans-Caucasian Rus sian State Railway, The pipe runs parallel to the railway track. which is 56o miles long. It is intended to run it the whole length of the Trans-Caucasian Railway, from Baku to Batum, the first section, just completed, being 1i5 miles.
 'rhe pipe is wrought iron, lap welded, having an internal diameter of eight inches, and was made in Russia from na- tive materials. The first section has three pumping stations, each station having two pumping engines, one for continuous work ing and the second for reserve. The pumping engines are the largest and most important which have ever yet been put to work in connection with the transporta- tion of petroleum through pipe lines. There are six compound high-duty pump ing engines with condensers and compen- sating cylinders, each engine having steam cylinders 21 and 42 inches in diameter, plungers of Sh inches, all having a uni- form stroke of 24 inches.
 Each engine works against a pressure i'll the delivery pipe of G50 pounds to the square inch the steam pressure being 150 pounds to the square inch. Against this heavy pressure 65O pounds per square inch, each engine will be required to deliver 416, 2I5, 200 gallons per year this being the quantity of oil which will be pumped through this pipe"
The age-herald., 1900-06-25
HORSE FAMINE PROSPECT
rom the Chicago Inter Ocean.

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
 Colonel Wm F. Cody, familiarly known as Buffalo Bill" prophecies that we shall have a horse famine in this country next year. He advises farmers and ranchmen to go into the business of raising good horses, as the demand for them will be greater and the prices better than for many years. Colonel Cody's opinion is that all the talk about bicycles and auto mobiles driving the horse out of business is nonsense Horse breeders were fright ened when the bicycle became fashionable he says, and "the magnificent herds that used to make the prairies of Texas, Color ado, Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada fairly roar and tremble beneath their hoofs are reduced to small bunches." Consequently the prices of horses are 40 per cent. higher than they were two years ago. and he pre- diets that the advance will be more rapid in the future If Americans were to fur nish the horses required by the British in South Africa at the present time, our market would become exhausted As it is, we are on the eve of famine in horse- flesh and it will be several years before stock raisers can relieve it.
The age-herald., 1900-06-25
In Anticipation oi the Census.

It is believed that the middle line of the country will be located by the new census in the states of Michigan, Indiana, Ken lucky, Tennessee and Alabama. So far as population is concerned these are the mid dle states of the union. The center of pop ulation will be very near Indianapolis.
 In a general way the northeastern states are growing steadily; the central west IS tagging, and the far west is rapidly in- creasing in population and wealth. The percentage of growth in the south will not greatly vary from the percentage in the last decade.
 The growth of urban population has been cities with over million of population each-New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, and all told it has about forty cities with 100000 or over. In 1900 there were but six towns that contained 5000 persons, In 1870 there were fourteen with over 100000 populations; in 1880 the number had been increased to twenty, and in 1890 to twenty eight. The number at present has not been accurately ascertained, but it will be in the neighborhood of forty. The four teen new aspirants are Toledo, Syracuse, Atlanta, Columbus, O., Richmond. Los Angeles Paterson, Worcester, Albany Nashville, Scranton, New Haven St. these fall short of the mark the number will be increased to thrty-eight, which maintained.
The age-herald., 1900-06-25
SACK COAT FOR WEDDINGS

From the New York Sun.
 One of the noticeable features of a fash ionable wedding at Tuxedo last week was the presence of a number of young men who were dressed in dark gray or blue sack coats and straw hats instead of the conventional frock coat and high hat Nearly all of the guests had come from New York for the wedding, and many of they had not been courageous enough to wear short coats. The men who did ap- pear in the latter did it by choice, and not from necessity, and it was suggested that with few more object lessons of the same sort the frock coat might be tabooed at similar weddings in the summer. The bridegroom, best man and uSherS wore dark blue sack suits at one of the conspic- weddings two years ago, and as the bridegroom was man who has been pho tographed in almost as many changes of clothing as a comic opera star, his short coat innovation was looked upon as merely one of the eccentrcities of genius. Moth ing more uncomfortable for railroad journey than a frock coat and a high hat has yet been devised, and if the light sack coat and straw hat can be substituted for them at country weddings in the summer more men would be willing to accept inyi- tationS
The age-herald., 1900-06-25
GERM ANTS CAPITAL ABROAD

Vice-Consul Monaghan, writing from Chemnitz, says: Germany is rapidly ris- ing in importance as a money-lending as well as a money making nation. It has hun dreds of millions in various parts of the globe. In North Africa, Germany has in- vested nearly s, 900. In South Africa, the German element has lost it's identity as part of the empire, immigrants having taken on new citizenship. Still, investments in Cape Colony are estimated at nearly S10 0000 GOO; in the Transvaal, at ST, 100000; in Portuguese territory in Africa ,at nearly $5,000,0 900; in East Africa, at $23 10000 of which $1, 19O 900 is invested in Zanzibar In Turkey Germany owns real estate valued at $7,140,OO0 ,and have $53, ,550, ,00O in various industries. This sum does not include the amount for the Bagdad railroad
 "The capital in the Persian-Arabian pen insula is stated at $11,9oO,O ,Ooo In Mexico, the figures are $95 GOO; in Central America, $59, 800 900; the West Indies, s59.500 coo; north coast of South America. $47, 7,600,oO0; west coast, $71 400, O00 east coast, $142, 500, ,000 in North America, between $952, ,000, 900 and $1,- 190, ,000 OO0 In other words, the empire has nearly $2 100000 working for the welfare of its citizens in the various parts of the world"
The age-herald., 1900-06-25
The Gas Question.

The suggestion of Mir. Frank s. White that the citizens of Birmingham should meet and make a formal protest against the Board of Aldermen binding them up into a thirty-year high-priced gas contract has taken definite form. A meeting IS cali ed at o'clock this afternoon in the Com mercial Club rooms of all citizens inter- ested in this question.
 The Age Herald thinks it well that the gas consumers and citizens of Birmns- ham should meet together and express themselves on this important question: The Board of Aldermen should be instruct ed as to whether they shall or shall not bind up the citizens of Birmingham to pay a higher price for gas than other less la vorably situated Southern cities. And the people should say whether they want dol lar gas delayed twenty-five years or not If so. they should say to the Aldermen, go ahead with your proposed contract