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How The Tariff Aids The Trusts.
The Commoner.
A recent number of the Hard
ware Dealer’s Magazine contains
an interesting comment on the
methods of the'wire nail trust. It
says:
“A statement which recently
emanatad from Pittsburg has at
tracted some attention and com
ment among hardware men. The
points that were sought to be
made were as follows: In 1891:1
there were produced in the Unitec
States. 7,418*475 kegs of wire nails
These cost the consumers $1.81per
keg. There were exported during
the same year 807,194 kegs, at
about $1.55 per keg, the foreign
er paying a higher price than the
home customer. These same nails
sold at $1.11 per kegg on ah aver
age during 1894.
“During the last year there
were manufactured 7,599,522 kegs
at an average price of $2.57 to the
domestic buyers. In the mean
time, 752,781 kegs were exported,
at about $1.40 per keg. The
American customers of the steel
wire nail makers paid about $17,-
596,124.87, for the balance of the
manufactured nails (about 6,846,
741 kegs). Had the American
consumers been privileged to buy
at the quotations granted the
foreign buyers, the Americans
would have saved about $8,010,-
686.97 on their purchase.”
More than eight millions of
dollars! This measures the extor
tion practiced upon the hard-ware
merchant, but this must be in
creased by the merchant’s profit,
if his profit is estimated upon s
percentage basis, before it meas
ures the extortion practiced upon
the consumer.
And yet some are so devoted to
a protective tariff as not to protest
against import duties which en
ables trusts to sell at home for a
high price while they sell abroad
at a low price.
It is a characteristic of Amer
ican politics that no sooner had
Maj. McKinley been inducted in
to office on Monday than the par
ty leaders, who had gathered at
the Capital, began discussing his
successor four years hence. While
they did not decide who was the
“coming man”, it is alleged that
the majority inclined towards Sen
ator Fairbanks of Indiana, wit®
Gov. Odell of New York a close
second, for the Republican nomi
nation. Oddly enough, but few
of the political astrologers seem
ed to consider Roosevelt as a se
rious proposition.
— —
' Some few years ago several hun
dred people settled on a Minneso
ta river, organized and incorpora
ted, a village to be known as Reed’s
Landing, voted bonds! for public
improvements, issued the bonds,
sold them to Russell Sage, got the
money, and later left the settle
ment. The .village corporation
was dissolved, for the lack of in
habitants, and Mr. Sage was left
in the lurch. He is now petition-
‘ ing to the Legislature to make the
lands on which the village former
ly stood good for the bonds.
Prof. Ivison, of Lonaconing,
Md., suffered terribly from neu
ralgia of the stomach and indi
gestion for thirteen years and af
ter the doctors failed to cure him
they fed him on morphine. A
friend advised the use of Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure and after taking a
few bottles of it ho says, “It has
cured me entirely. I can’t say
too much for Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure. ” It digests what you eat.
H. M. Holtzclaw.
A Fair Exchange.
.—.
Mocon Telegraph-
According to the New York
Evening Post, “there are signs
that the immigration of Northern
families to the South, "which has
been notably large for the past
five or six years, will be larger
this vear. Western states contri
bute as much to this flow south
ward as do the Eastern states. In
the past six years the Illinois Cen
tral railroad has located fully 15,
000 persons from the West along
its line in the South, selling them
good lands at low prices and on
Shott And Nott
The story of these gentlemen
and their duel—a famous one for
merly—is revived, and the tale is
thus repeated:
A duel was lately fought in Tex
as by Alexander Shott and John
S. Nott. Not was shot, and Shott
was not. In this case it is better
to be Shott than Nott. There was
a rumor that Nott was not shot,
out Shott avows that he was not,
which proves either that the shot
Shott shot at Nott was not shot,
or that Nott was shot notwith
standing.
It may be made to appear on
trial that the shot Shott shot shot
Nott, or as accidents with fire
arms are frequent, it may be pos
sible that the shot Shott shot shot
Shott himself, when the whole af
fair would resolve- itself into its
original element, and Shott would
oe shot and Nott would be not.
We think, however, that the
shot Shott shot shot, not Shott.
but Nott. Anyway it is hard to
tell who was shot.
Conld Xot Report Golf.
When the amateur golf championship
was played at Wheaton in 1S97 there
was but one Chicago newspaper man
who had the remotest conception of
what the game was. Accordingly, the
newspapers, with the exception of the
Chicago Tribune, agreed to syndicate
the work and put it all in this one
man’s hands. The Tribune refused to
enter the combination and depended
upon the exertions of a member of its
own staff. But the Tribune reporter
speedily realized lus helplessness- and
appealed to his brother of the syndicate
for aid. The latter obligingly handed
over his copy, and the Tribune man set
to work to make a few minor changes
so that its kinship'to the original should
evening he met his generous bene
factor and told him of the changes he
had made.
“In particular, the account of the
play at the sixth hole between Porgan
and Douglas. You said that ‘Porgan
rimmed the cup for a half.’ Well, you
know, old chap, that Porgan is a bank
er down town and a big man, while
Douglas is just one of those Scotch
men. It sgemed to me rather cheap to
have Forgan doing that sort of thing
for a half, so I just made it read that
‘Forgan rimmed the cup with Douglas
for a hundred/’’—Washington Capital.
easy terms; while probably 8,000 Inot be too apparent Later in the.
others from the Northwest have
settled in ; Georgia. Largely
through the influx of Northern
farmers, agriculture is broaden
ing in the South, a much greater
variety of crops being raised. In
ducements to emigration are the
fertility of the land and its cheap
ness, the mild climate in con
trast with the severe winters of
the North, and the opportunity of
raising early fruit and vegatables
for the liberal Nothern market.
Some sacial and political changes
may follow this emigration, but
none are visable as yet, competent
observers say. — After a short stay
in the south the newcomers are no
more favorably inclined towards
the, negro than are Southern
whites.”
This is a welcome movement,
almost as welcome as the drifting
of negroes northward. The
one movement is made the
more possible by and completes
the other. More negro emigrants
for the North and more Northern
white emigrants for the South
will result in vast improvements
and benefit for this section.
Ants That Fight Spiders.
Few more wonderful adaptations are
seen in the whole round of nature
than the webs spiders spin to entrap
the wary ant. They are not high hung,
lacy affairs, caressing every breeze, but
low set, silken tubes stretched in the
grass, the crevices of rock or about
tree roots. Ants of every size creep
heedlessly, into them. The spiders eat
them with relish, but occasionally 4 a.
very little spider and a very big ant
engage in a duel to the death. I-f the
spider can bite, the ant can sting, and
does it with a right good will. The
spider does not try to get rid of such an
ant as he does of a wasp or bee too
strong to be safely attacked. Such an
insect, which threatens destruction to
the web, is often cut out of it by the
web builders. , The entangling cables
are not loosed, but the web rays neatly
snipped in two, first those underneath
and at the very last the highest fila
ment- Often the letting go of such a_
captive means destruction to half the
nest. But some spiders are wiser than
some people. They know not merely
when they have enough, but when they
have too much.
For Infants and Children,
The Kind You Have
Bears the
Signature of
Lord Wolseley, the comman
der-in-chief of the British army,
complains that he has been made
only a figurehead, and he doesn’t
like it. Gen. Miles, the general-
in-cQmmand of the United States
army, is in a position to send him
sympathy and condolence. Miles
knows how it is himself.
State of Ohio, City of Toledo )
Lucas County. )
Frank J. Cheney makes oath
that he is the senior partner of the
firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing
business in the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum of
One Hundred Dollars for each
and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of
Hall’s Catarrh Cim>.
Frank, J.‘Cheney.
Sworn to before me and; sub
scribed in my presence, this 6th
day of December, A. D. 1876.
(JUS i A. W. Gleason,
( ^^3 Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in-
teenally and acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the s
system. Send for testimonials,-
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Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best,
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A Mr. Hostetter chartered a
special train at Montgomery the
other day to carry him to Tboin-
asville, 211 miles away. There
was no special reason for Mr. Hos
tetler’s hurry, but he had a'pock
etful of money made by selling
people stomach bitters, "and did
not mind a little matter of a few
hundred dollars.
The Best Prescription foie Malaria,
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Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic.
It is simply iron and quinine in a
tasteless form. No cure—no pay.
Price 50c.
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