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WASHINGTON LETTER.
By Our Regular Correspondent'.
Driven thereto by the increasing
power of the trusts, and the appa
rent impossibility of curbing them
any means short of the abolition
0 f the tariff on articles controlled by
them, a number of republicans are
laid to have decided to adopt the
democratic method and to start a
£ght in the next congress for the
heavy reductions of duty on a num
ber of articles now heavily protect
ed. To supply the deficit in the
revenues thus caused, they will ad
vocate the permanent retention of a
large part of the war taxes. During
the last fiscal year the war revenue
act produced about $125,000,000.
It is proposed in a bill now pending
in congress to amend that law so as
to reduce the taxes about $40,000,-
OOO annually. This would leave a
net permanent income to the gov
ernment from this source of $85,-
,000,000. As the country grows this
would materially increase. In the
opinion of certain influential sena
tors the time has come when the
protective tariff will have to be re
duced, and the proposition now is to
put down the revenue derived from
customs duties to a degree propor
tionate to the surplus expected to
-result from the operation of the per
manent war tax act. It is under
stood that the secretary of the treas
ury is in favor of such a plan, and
has advised with the members of the
finance committee regarding it.
The Senate has ratified the treaty
-to buy two more islands from Spain,
but “lack of time” prevents it from
taking action on the reciprocity trea
ties negotiated under the Dingley
bill. The reciprocity agreements
which have been negotiated with
France and other countries would be
of far more practical benefit to the
people of the United States than the
acquisition of the distant islands
of Sibuta and Cagayan, while the
agreements, taken as a whole, would
be of peculiar benefit to a great
number of American industries.
They would open to farmers, ranch
men, dairymen and manufacturers
markets in Europe and in this hem
isphere now wholly or partially
^closed to them. The benefit to
American industries would be meas
ured by millions of dollars.
Killed a Monster Hog.
Valdosta Times.
Sheriff Passmore killed his big
hog January 25 th, and'.the different
parts have been salted down, con
verted into lard, sausage, hog-head
cheese, etc. On the hoof, the hog
weighed between twelve and thir
teen hundred pounds, and when
killed and cleaned he tipped the
beam at 955 pounds. The hams
from this big porker weighed 102
pounds each, while the lard that
was made from the fat weighed. 510
pounds. Three big wash pots were
used to cook the lard and it required
ten 50-pound tins to hold , the prod
uct, then there was enough left to
fill up several smaller vessels. Sus
pended from the block and tackle
which was used to draw him up so
the butchers could do their work, he
measured a little over nine feet in
length.
This porker was two years and
ten and a half months old, and was
raised in Sheriff Passmore’s yard.
He was as gentle as a cat, and lived
on as little as the average hog.
Mr. Bryan’s “Commoner” is to be
antedated by “The Reasoner,” edit
ed by a young woman spellbinder of
New York, who gives her name as
•Grace White. “I want primarily,”
says she in her preliminary an
nouncement, “to counteract the in
fluence which Bryan’s newspaper
may have on the American public. I
shall take up his arguments for free
silver, and by cold reason and logic
-dash them into atoms. I shall do
the same thing with reference to his
arguments on tha tariff and other
questions of the day.”
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Millions of people are familiar
with DeWitt’s Little Early Risers,
and those who use them find them
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«r gripe. Holtzclaw’s Drugstore.
A recent report made to
on the navy of the United _
shows that the government now has
a total of 254 vessels.
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Stop the Cough andWorhs off the Cold
Laxitive Bromo-Quinine Tablets
oure a cold in one day. | No Cure,
No Pay. Price 25 cents.
Growth of Methodism.
Exchange.
The Methodists have been taking
an account of stock for the past cen
tury in the United States, and the
results show an enormous growth.
At the close of the eighteenth cen
tury the Methodist church number
ed 187 ministers and 64,984 mem
bers. Now it has over 30,000
ministers and 2,929,000 members.
Besides the Methodist Episcopal
church, 16 other Methodist churches
have sprung from it, having the
same tenets, which now have 36,424
ministers and 5,985,843 members.
In 1800 there was not one Metho
dist educational institution. Now
the church controls 225 schools oi
various grades, with an endowmenl
of $14,543,489. and debts aggregat
ing $2,336,338. The financial re
ports of the missionary society be
gan in 1820, when the collections
were $823. In 1900 they were $1,-
233,904. Old World Methodism,
which in the days of John Wesley
had 313 ministers and 76,968 mem
bers, now has 6,330 ministers and
1,169,188 members. Such has been
the work of Methodism during the
past century. In the opening year
of this new century the Methodists
propose tp add 2,000,000 converts
to their number and to raise $20,-
000,000. Of this sum they have al
ready raised $8,192,638. The Meth
odist church is altogether a vigorous
organization.
Not a Successful Type-Setter.
It is often said that one difference
between men and women is that
with men second thoughts are best,
while women are more likely to be
right when they act or speak upon
the first impulse; but there are some
things which even clever women
cannot do perfectly without some
preliminary practice, says Tit Bits.
A lady whose husband is the edit
or of a very small country paper said
to him one day: “Type-setting looks
so easy, I know I could do it just as
well as anything. Let me help.”
Although the editor is his own
foreman and compositor, he didn’t
accept this offer at once. But his
wife was in the office alone when a
wedding notice was brought in.
“Obi” she said, gleefully, “I’ll just
set this up and slip it into the form,
and won’t George be surprised when
he sees it in print?”
It therefore appeared as follows in
the next issue of the paper:
maRRIED at Hcirst cHurch, on
wennay Se! 9 5981 Mr! Jnho jacknos
to mi78 kaly Rev.mR Decen Inn
the resence oF a large number of
F Redisn of the gnouy couple & was
BeRyy joyful occrasino. Mr. and
mrss will be at Hoem to their at 2x
HaPt Traes Vyere in het wne reay.
An unknown exchange very truth
fully remarks that the newspaper is
i law book for the indolent, a ser-
non for the thoughtless, a library for
ihe poor and an admonisher to the
awless. It may stimulate the most
ndifferent, it may instruct the most
profound, but it cannot be publish
ed without cost, and mailed free to
subscribers.
Ton Know What You Are Talcing
When you take Grove’s Taste-
ess Chill Tonic because the for-
nula is plainly printed on every |
eottle showing that it is simply!
ron and Quinine in a tasteless-
‘orm. No cure, no pay. Price 50c. *
Young Men at Panning.
Prof. J. F. Duggar in Southern Farm Magazine
of Baltimore lor February.
For one properly qualified to su
perintend a large plantation a period
of service aB superintendent is the
best means of earning at least a few
hundred dollars for investment later
in farming operations of his own.
The demand for skilled superintend
ents will increase as our farming
operations become more diversified.
Where a cheap negro foreman is
now supposed to supply all the su
pervision necessary on many a farm
devoted almost exclusively to cotton,
a change will be found imperative
when low prices for cotton through,
a series of years make diversification
an absolute necessity. Ignorant la
bor may profitably grow cotton, but
it cannot, without skilled direction,
successfully conduct the complicated
operations of a diversified farm—the
cutting of hay, the selection and ro
tation of crops, the handling of ma
chinery and the care and feeding of
live stock. Let the intending farm
er, if penniless, work for a time for
low wages in whatever capacity he
may. If, in time, satisfied of his
ability to make a crop on his own
account without going too deeply
in debt, he may begin as a renter on
a surprisingly small capital. In this
case he should secure a lease run
ning for several years, and if possi
ble include the privilege of renewal
or of purchase at the expiration of
his original term. He must beware
of beginning operations on too large
a scale, and must make purchases of
expensive machinery with the ut
most caution.
Live Without Toil.
One of the greatest curses of soci
ety, as now constituted, is that too
many people want to live without
toil. Everybody is willing enough
to be boss, but somebody else must
do the work. Now, this is all wrong,
and the result is mortgages and mis
ery. The Creator never made a man
or woman too good to do a fair
share of honest toil, and those who
shirk their duty in this line are only
breeding trouble. There is work to
do everywhere—in the office, on the
farm, in the store, in the workshop,
at the bank counter, and, in all the
departments of life. Blessed is the
man who cheerfully and faithfully
performs the work his hands find to
do, for therein alone is the true phi
losophy and genuine happiness of
this life.—Exchange.
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Only in 17 stotes can a married
woman dispose of her separate and
independent estate by will. In the
remaining 28 states she must have
the consent of her husband before
she can will her own property as she
may wish.
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