Lyon County Democrat from Emporia, Kansas • 1

(County Dtmottat Styon (Joimtt) democrat SUBSCRIBE JiOW Lsa 7 ABVERTISE NOW. One Year Six Months. "ADVERTISING IS THE SECRET OP SUCCESS." P. T. Barnum.

ONLY DEMOCRATIC PAPER IN LYON COUNTY. TIIE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL "WHERE THEY MAY. D. S. GILMORE, Publisher.

IN LYON COUNTY. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. 800. EMPORIA, LYON COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1893. VOL.

1. NO. 52. CIRCULATION SUCCESSOR TO ADMIRE INDEPENDENT. RECIPROCITY ILLUSIONS.

AMERICTJS NOTES. THE WEATHER. ADVERTISING RATES. WASHINGTON LETTER. 1803- -1893 3 mos.

6 mos. 1 year. SPACE. 5 (WOO crrauw oi our exports ana imports, moreover, our exports of manufactured in contradistinction to agricultural products increased at a rate never before or since equalled. Is there any reason why under like conditions like results will not be realized? David A.

Wells, in Forum. 35 00 20 00 12 00 6 00 3 lit) 20 One colnmn One-half column Oue-iuarter column. One-viKlith Reported by I. W. Hicks for April.

Between the 13th and 18th the whole country will feel the effect of Regular Correspondent. Washington, April II, 1893. Secretary Lamont hasn't been do-in much talking he never does 1 20 Mil 12 00 Cards of thr lines or less, per year $5 00 For each additional line over three 1 00 the very warm wave and storms of LAMBS AT SCHOOL. has been doinnr some in- and thinking is shown but that he vestigating. Transient notices, hve cents per line eacn First I'aKO space 75 cents per inch straight.

Four Issues constitute one month. The next prize f'glt he he- tween Slavin and Hall. Mtcii talk is now being made in regard to the annoxation of Canada to the United States. Tun ceremonies of the World's fair are expected to be held outdoors in front of the administration HL CT. TIM So Now Show Complete Lines of Spring: Goods in all Departments and Cordially Invite Inspection ly all Interested.

New Dress Goods. Our line of imported and other spring fabrics for this season is beyond comparison. It can't be described. You must see it. Every new and beau tiful effect, every lovely shade and coloring, and all at the popular prices we alone know how to make.

Spring- Wraps and Suits. Our cloak room is brim full of beautiful spring wraps for ladies and children, and in this department we show an elegant line of "Eton Blazer" and "Reefer" suits, in serges and cloths, which we want every lady in Emporia to see. Wash Dress Goods. Never before have we shown so varied and handsome a line of wash fabrics. No use to enumerate them.

Their name is Legion, and not a homely one in the lot. You can get a pretty, serviceable wash dress at any price from ten cents a yard up to the limit of your pocketbook. Spring Clothing-. Here is where we have outdone all previous efforts. Ready-made clothing has been so vastly improved of lite that it can now scarcely be told from custom goods, and is practically just as good, looks just as well, and often much better, as if made to measure.

And its great redeeming feature is that it costs only about half as much. Fine Shoes. No one doubts our ability to show the largest and best line of shoes for men, women and children to be found in Emporia, but we wish to call attention now to our various lines of fancy shoes, tie and slippers, in black, bronze, tan, gray, and white, and we are prepared to show hosiery to match. Of general Dry Goods, Carpets. We need say nothing, as everyone knows we carrytliing desy-ed in these and other departments.

G-. Newman Co. building. Dr. Graves, the accused murderer of Mrs.

liarnaby, will be again tried upon that charge, at Denver, Colo, in the coming term of court. Toi'EKA women have raised a fund for the purpose of having a huge prohibition sunflower painted to be hung in the Kansas building at the World's fair. great violence are to be apprehended on and about the 15, lo and 17th. The 19th is the central day of the Venus perturbation which lasts with growing power for about 20 days before, and with -decreasing energy for about 20 days after the central day. So that the Venus characteristics hail, startling electrical phenomena enormous down pours of rain and sudden changes from hot to cold may be looked for during all these disturbances covered by the Venus period.

The disturbances from the 13th to 18th are apt to be prolonged by existing causes into the reactionary storms due about the 21st and 22nd. It will be the part of wisdom to keep prudent watch on all threatening storm clouds that may arise during these disturbances or during the- month. Be ready for destructive hail storms and for very sudden changes to cold. The 26th is the central day of the last period for the month, which period embraces the 26th to 28th inclusive. During this period it will grow very warm again, and many heavy storms of rain, hail and thunder will travel from west to east across our continent.

After the storms look for cold and frost. The month promises to end cold. It is needless for us to add, to those who have studied our foundation facts that tornadoes are almost certain to be a feature of the storm in many places in April. But quite, intelligent watching of the indication will always keep you well posted as to what is mort likely approaching your locality. Very warn sultry weather, with strong winds from the east and south, will admonish you of the fact that the center of the storm is still west of you and that the developments are to be closely watched.

Steady winds from the west with rising barometer and falling temperature will always indicate when the storm center has passed, to the east of your locality, and, consequently that the impending danger for that particular time is over. Gentle rain Sunday. Oats are looking fine. Grass is starting nicely. The wheat around here is all right.

Peach and plumb trees are in full bloom. Carl McCurley is very sick with lung fever. J. D. Farebacks new blacksmith shop is nearing completion.

A large acreage of potatoes have been planted in this vicinity this spring. William and Elmer White are breaking prairie for G. W. Hine-man, east t-f town. Rev.

F. D. Loy is at home for a time to make garden and rest up from his pulpit labor. Mr. H.

Prits moved from Ameri-cus to his home northwest of town Tuesday of this week. Mrs. Ben Loy and son Haray, from Chase county, were visitiog in town part of last week. Harve Wrighthas purchased a new incubator and gone into the poultry business on a large scale. Bob Hall and Charless Bell are building an addition to the barn of Mr.

H. Howard, on Bluff creek. Grandma Debaun returned home last week from a four weeks visit on Allen creek with old neighbors and friends. There is already a large amount of corn planted around Americus this spring and many fields are in readiness to plant. D.

A. Stahl received two cars of Cattle last Friday from Kansas City and has placed them on his farm west of town. Harve Wright has moved into the Sheasley house, and Mr. John Craig now occupies the house vacated by Mr. "Wright.

Dr. A. B. Royal returned home Monday after a months visit in California, much pleased with his trip and the country there. Little Rebel and Funny Dreams was rendered at Y.

M. C. A. rooms in this place last Friday and Saturday evenings to well filled houses. Our former townsman, Mr.

L. A. Wood, will return this week from Emporia, and will occupy bis farm house north "of town lately vacated by Joe Wilson. The new city officers met Monday evening and appointed George McAuley city marshal, J. D.

Ja-queth city clerk and Chas. Shepherd street commissioner. The Americus Brass Band went The Cherokee strip boomers are getting so desperate that two railroad bridges, on the line of the Santa Fe, in the territory, were burned by them last week. Now, Who Will Fight the Wool Protection Matties? It is generally supposed that coming events cast a shadow in advance. If so the wool-growers of this country have reason to be thankful that they voted for Cleveland and free wooL Under high protection prices of wools have been declining for thirty years.

They were the lowest ever known on last election day, November 8, when the sheep raisers cut loose from their old allies and advisors, the political wool growers, and wisely determined to try the opposite policy. For two months prices remained stationary. On January 5, 1893, when prices were beginning to stiff en a little, Ohio was quoted at 26 to 26K cents; Ohio and above at 27 to 28; Michigan at 25 to 25; Ohio delaine at 31 to 32; Ohio No. 1 combing at 34 to 35. Since then prices have been getting firmer and prospects brighter.

On January 26, the American Wool and Cotton Reporter said in its Boston report: "Since the 17th the market has evinced even more activity than during the immediately preceding week; perhaps Australian has led. Nearly all new wools that have arrived have been sold, and the bulk of the old. Fleeces have manifested undiminished strength since last writing; stocks are very small and the demand for them has been exceptionally active. Holders of XX Ohio will hear of nothing less than 30c; one cannot buy No. 1 combing under 37c; of fine Ohio delaine nothing can be obtained for less than 33c "Southern wool is largely cleaned out, Georgia steady and firm at market qotations.

Texas and California wools are in fair request, the former indeed in very good demand. "The advance in fleeces has had the effect 'to harden territories and brace them "Good wools are especially firm, and the trade will be, doubtless, wise enough to hold the market at the present prices. "In brief it may be said of the market during the week under review, that it is very strong, that wool of all kinds is in good, firm position." And yet udge Lawrence, the chief of political wool growers and the pilot who has almost wrecked the wool-growing industry of this coun try while steering it straight against the jagged rocks of high protection, says that if free wool comes he believes in "waging a war of political extermination against those who would exterminate our sheep." Who will fight his battles? A WHISKY TRUST. A Growing Dissatisfaction With McKloley-Ism That Is Mot Mentioned By Proteo- tlouist Organs. The McKinley.

organs point with pride to the figures showing1 that the exports of the United States to countries with whom treaties of reciprocity exist have increased from $55,695,644 in the first eleven months of 1S91 to $62,802,003 in the same months of 1892. For this increase the organs can discover no possible reason except in the reciprocity treaties negotiated by President Harrison. Yet, as if they had misgivings in regard to their own argument they do not mention the fact that the imports from those treaty countries have increased beyond all proportion with the exports of the United States to them. Thus during the twenty months of the treaty the imports from Brazil alone have increased to from $111,227,963 in the twenty months immediately preceding the treaty. In the same period the exports of the United States to Brazil have increased from $20,936,079 to a gain of $1,434,009 in twelve months of trade under the alleged influence of reciprocity.

It is not pretended that reciprocity has had any substantial share in the enormous increase in the imports from Brazil; but this enormous increase of imports is what has caused the slight stimulus in the exports of the United States to that country. The statistics, instead of justifying the boasts of the advocates of sham reciprocity, too plainly indicate that the countries with whom treaties have been made go elsewhere for their supplies, while sending increasing quantities of their products to the United States. Nor do the organs of McKinleyism mention the evidences of growing dissatisfaction with reciprocity in the countries with whose governments treaties have been negotiated. In Brazil, especially, the opponents of the treaty declare that the revolutionary government which overthrew Dom Pedro hastily gave away substantial concessions for illusory advantages. Yet the returns of export trade from this country to Brazil shows how little it has profited by these concessions.

In spite of reciprocity the merchants of South and Central America prefer to buy their commodities in Europe, with the proceeds of their enormous exports to the United States. There Is reason to believe from the evidences of trade that the reciprocity treaties have had the effeot of stimulating the efforts of European merchants to overcome the discrimination against them. But in the protective duties of this country upon the raw material of manufactures thej have their most potent ally in competing for the trade of South America. The mistake of the protectionists was in imagining that the reciprocity clauses of the McKinley tariff would deceive the people concerning its iniquities They are making the same mistake now, when there is less excuse for indulging In illusions. The people have looked upon republican reciprocity aa a step only to commercial freedom, for which the republicans have no sympathy.

Reciprocity was a sop whioh, instead of reconciling the country with McKinleyism, has merely whetted the appetite of the people for larger and wholesome drafts of free taade. The foolish embargo upon Venezuela and Colombia, which has now been in existence for nearly a year, has doubtless done more harm to the country's trade with South America than all the good that has been accomplished through the reciprocity treaties. Philadelphia Kecord. FALSE PROPHETS. Patronize Home Enterprise There are only two states that have a larger railway mileage than Kansas, but she still has many towns within her borders tUat cannot be reached except by the old-fashioned stare.

The editors of south-east Missouri organized a press association last week at Popular BlufE. Tom Allen, of Marble Hill, was elected president, and S. G. Tetwiler, of Charleston, secretary. We manufacture a large line of Furniture which enables us to sell Better Goods FOR Less Money Than any house in Central Kansas.

When in Need of Furniture, Carpets, Curtains. Do not Fail to call The Shawnee county Farmers' Alliance has arranged for a basket picnic and celebration at Rossville July 4, and the speakers have been engaged. It is proposed to make the event a state afFair. From the number of sheriff and mortgage sales that are being published in our many Kansas exchanges we think it is about time for our farmers to commence to "stand up for themselves" and vote the Democrat ticket. It is estimated that 40,000 cottages could be bi ilt with the stand-ing timber of the state of Washington.

Yes, and from the numerous stone quarries of Kansas could be secured material for as many more. We also do Undertaking Business in First-Class order. to Pumpkin Ridge last Friday night to play for the exhibition exercises of the last day of school at that Mrs. I. M.

Flint desires to announce that her stock is now complete with the latest styles and varieties. Her prices are as low as the lowest. Call and be convinced. J. J.

EDWARDS, (Successor to Lewis Edwards.) Tailoi? The Rev. Dr. Tupper, formerly of Leavenworth, this state, whose name was unfavorably connected with a wealthy woman of that city, has been asked to resign his pastoral charte of St. Phillips Episcopal church in Atlanta, Ga. FOUNDATION OP FORTUNES.

-AND DEALER IX- Reacly-jVracfle Clotliixig. I have the Largest and Xewest line of Clothing" to be seen in Emporia, and the prices are the Lowest. Call and be convinced of the truth cf the above statement. I have the best by his statement that no more army oflicers will be detailed for ornamental purposes. This may be a little rough on the army officers who have been calculating to spend the summer at the "World's fair and the various summer resorts, but no one can deny that it is just to the people who pay these men their salaries, and doubly just to the officers without "pull" who have to perform, in addition to their own, the duties of the butterflies of the profession.

Postmaster General Bissell has decided that no fourth class postmasters shall be removed, except for cause, until they have served all or nearly all of a four years term. This is a new rule as these officials have never been considered to have a fixed term, but were removable at the pleasure of the department. The chancre is understood to have been made by the direction of the president, and after all it will make no difference in the end, because there are so many who have served four years or more that by the time they are removed nearly all the rest will have become removable under the new rule. President Cleveland has a remarkable capacity for standing long hours of hard work, and it has been put to a severe test since his inauguration, as it has been the exception rather than the rule when he has been able to retire before 2 o'clock in the morningj and he is always at his desk again before 8 o'clock. Feeling the need of a little undisturbed rest, he, in company with Secretary Gresham, left Washington Saturday afternoon and they will not return until to-morrow.

His destination was not made public for fear that he might be followed by some of the importunate office-seekers, anxious to personally present their claims. They went to see Ambassador Bayard at his home in Wilmington, Delaware. Secretary Morton found not only individuals employed by the agricultural department who were not rendering services in anything like a fair proportion to the salaries they receive, but a whole division of employes who have been practically paid for doing nothing for more than a vear. This was the quarantine division of the bureau of animal industry, which Secretary Morton has just abolished. Quite a howl has been raised by the Republicans because the chief of the division happened to be the late Mr.

Blaine's brother, although it is difficult to understand why they should.have made the slightest difference. Surely they did not expect that a Democratic administration would feel called upon to take care of the poor members of the Blaine family. President Cleveland said he intended to get the very best man in the country, who was available, to be commissioner of pensions, and the general approbation of the nomination of Judore Wm. Lochren, of Min-nesota, to the position, indicate that he succeeded. Judge Lochren was not an applicant for the position, indeed, he declined at first to accept it, but withdrew his objections when his party duty and loyalty were appealed to by the president.

His war record is of the bravest, and although he is not a member of the G. A. R.J no member of that organization has so far had a word to say against his special fitness for the position. He was born in Vermont but has resided in Minnesota since 1857, with the exception of the rime he served in the army. He will take charge of the pension bureau about May 1st.

The investigation of the weather bureau, now being publicly conducted after office hours at the department of agriculture, is a very nasty mess as far as it has gone, and it promises to grow even nastier. The property of the bureau has, according to the testimony, been stolen and sold to junk dealers whenever certain of the minor officials needed a little extra whisky money, and the stealing was done in broad day light the employees of the bureau being used to load it upon wagons. About everything seems to have been included in the thefts, upon one occasion a stone step being taken from the building itself. The principal men implicated thus far are the foreman of the press room and the captain of the watch, but other higher up are said to have received a portion of the money, and it is expected that the evidence will prove it. Secretary Morton is determined to get to the bottom of the filtH and to see that every guilty man is punished, regardless of who he may be or who may be his friends.

Major General Scofield and Maj. Gen. Miles have had a squabble at long range over the trouble in Indian Territory. The quarrel is unJ derstood to have occurred over the earring out of an order for the detail of an army officer to investigate the trouble. No United States troops will be sent there unless the secretary of the interior requests it.

The Illinois Legislature Inquiring Into the Acts of a Great Monopoly. Senator Salomon recently presented In the a joint resolution providing for the appointment of three members from the senate and four from the house to investigate the operations and alleged violations of law of the corporation known as the Cattle Feeders Distilling but popularly designated as the "whisky trust" The resolution asserted that the trust, having a capital of $45,000,000, with its main office at Peoria, has resorted to business methods which gave it almost a complete monopoly in the manufacture of distilled liquors, and by which it has extorted millions of dollars from the people, and that to make this monopoly complete it is a matter of record that it has resorted to conspiracies to destroy by a dynamite explosion the property of a competitor. Mr. Salomon in explaining the resolution said the trust was not content to charge a fair price for its goods, but is now exacting 23 cents per gallon more than a fair cash value. The acts of the trust are a violation of the criminal code.

He declared it to be the duty of the state to fight this monster which kills all competition. This whiskey trust, like all other combines, is but the outgrowth of a protective system that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. assortment in BOYS' CLOTHING A 1 The long fight made by the stalwart Democrats of Kansas has ended at last in the confplete discomfiture and triumph of Senator Martin. The president Wednesday sent to the senate the nomination of Frank S. Thomas to be postmaster at Topeka.

He is the man on whom the stalwarts had centered their fight, and his nomination is generally held to mean that the Mitchell-Crouch wing of the Democracy has been defeated by Senator Martin and his forces. I Have Eyer Shown and at the Lowest Prices No Trouble to Show Goods. 509 Commercial St. ARMOR KING, 31G Commercial Street, Are selling Their BEST FLOUR $1.00 per Sack, Also FEED at LOWEST Prices. Senator Farwell began life as a surveyor.

Cornelius Vanderbilt began life as a farmer. Wanamaker's first salary was $1.25 a week. J. T. Stewart made start as a school teacher.

Jim Keene drove a milk wajron in a California town. Cyrus Field began life as a clerk in a New England store. Pulitzer once acted as a stoker on a Missippi steamboat. "Lucky" Baldwin worked on his fathers farm in Indiana. Dave Sin ton sold sugar over an Ohio counter at SI a week.

Moses Taylor clerked in Water street, N. Y. at $2 a week. eo. W.

Childs was an errand boy for a book seller at $4 a week. J. Flood, the California millionaire, kept a saloon in San Francisco. P. Barnum earned a salary as bartender in Niblo's theatre New York.

Jay Gould canvassed Delaware N. Y. selling maps at $1.50 apiece. C. P.

Huntington sold butter and eggs for what he could get a pound and dozen. Andrew Carnegie did his first work in a Pittsburg telegraph office at $3 a week. Whitelaw Reid did work as correspondent for a Cincinnati newspaper at $5 a week. Adam Forepaugh was butcher in Philadelphia when he decided to go into the show business. Senator Brown made his first money by plowing his neighbors field with a pair of bull calves.

UI3SCRIT3E An aerolite fell near Osawa-tomie Saturday at 12:10 p. striking the monument of John Brown, or "Osawatomie" Brown as he was sometimes called, erected to him by private subscription originated by Horace Greely in 1863. The meteor struck and broke off the left arm of the statue on the top of the edifice, passing through the dome and nave to a slightly southeasterly direction and through six feet of clay just south of the crypt, stopping only at bed rock. M-------------- The coal miners association of Ohio, adopted resolutions last week thanking members of the general assembly who supported the screen bill, and boycotted two senators who caused its defeat. That, we think, was the proper action to take, as the -FOR Till The Folly of Tariffs.

It is readily perceptible that the high prices of commodities, consequent upon so-called "protection," not 'only must cripple commerce, retard the growth of inland and seaboard cities, take away the carrying trade, kill ship building and its allied industries, but also directly hurt, though they cannot kill, those occupations which can derive no benefit whatever from "protection," such as furniture making, milling, farming, quarrying, cotton, fruit and tobacco growing, the building trades and the like. For, the lower the prices of implements and tools, of wire and cordage, of steel and mineral products, of lumber and building stone, of railways and steamboats, of. store fixtures and office furniture, etc, the cheaper the products' of all the abore mentioned industries will be, the more the people will be able to buy of them, the livelier and more profitable foreign as well as domestic commerce will be, the more ship building and its kindred occupations will develop, the cheaper house rents will become, the higher will be the wages the laboring men receive, and the more steady employment they must have Diagman Versteea. place. A good time is reported.

Americus can boast of some of as good mechanics as any town in the state. Among them is John McPherson, our leading blacksmith, who has just finished a fine job of work for A. M. Pitzer, in the shape of a pair of fine forcips for extracting teeth from horses and cattle. Tim.

Removal. S. F. Ricker Son are removing to 522 Commercial street, and will occupy the north side of Kraum's drug store. OLPE ITEMS.

As it is our lot to mind the baby while mama is out shopping we will write a few lines to the Demokaat. Mr. S. V. Bitler went to Emporia last Saturday.

Our hardware establishment is doing an immense business this spring. Mrs. McCormick, of Hartford, is in town this week visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. M.

Young. Mr. S. McCormick, -of Emporia, was in our town on business last Saturday. Returned same day.

Mr. Jacobs, the hustling Kansas City made our hardware merchants, Young Diebolt a call this wTeek. We are glad to see Mr. Cannon among us again. He has been traveling for his health and comes back looking like a new man.

Miss Maud Bitler came home last Friday from Emporia quite sick with bronchitis. Her health was sufficiently improved that she returned on Monday however. We noticed a much needed improvement in the way of a mecada-mized walk between the postoffice and hardware store. We think it would have been more highly appreciated by the public a few weeks ago. Our prosperous friend, Mr.

Ev-ertt, appears to be doing a prosperous business in the sale of family groceries. Mr. Everett makes us almost as good a postmaster as a Democrat Democrat is the highest standard of comparison we can think of you know. If we were a literary giant, had a prolific brain and vivid imagination, were an ornamental lommon, and had plenty of time to write, we would, we could, furnish some splendid contributions for the waste basket. But the preacher told us to do the best we could and make no complaint, so we haver A.

Y. D. W. LOOK HEBE! Martin Martin are agents for the Best flour in the state and quote as follows: flour: sack Peacock, (High Patent) 1 00 Golden Belt, (Straight Patent) 90 LX.L..... 85 FEED AS FOLLOWS: Shorts, per hundred.

75 Bran, per hundred TO Chop, per hundred 75 Oil Meal 150 Corn Meal, per sack. 25 Graham Flour, per sack 25 Subject to change in market. Subscribe for the Democrat. DEMOCRAT The Only democratic Newspaper in Lyon County. SUBSCRIPTION EATES: The Facts Do Mot Sustain Them in Their Predictions of "Dire Disaster" From Tariff Reform.

As might have been expected, any anticipated reconstruction of the tariff having in view any reduction of the taxes on imports has been productive of prophecies of consequent national disaster. These have ever been the accompaniment of every extension of rational liberty, and in no instance have such prophecies been fulfilled. It was so when Sir Robert Peel instituted the first measures of tariff reform and abolished the "corn laws," and British commerce thenceforth increased by leaps and bounds, imports rising from in 1841 to $3,700,000,000 in 1890. It was so when Great Britain in 1849 repealed her antiquated navigation laws and Mr. Disraeli arose in his place in the house of commons and declared that such action "endangered the (British) empire of the seas;" and to-day Great Britain owns more than seven-twelfths of the world's ocean shipping and seventy per cent, of the world's steam tonnage.

It was so in 1884 when the New York Tribune predicted that "democratic victory would mean the failure of thousands of establishments, loss of work, and great suffering to millions of families," and when such was achieved nothing of the kind happened. That the country may experience something of disturbance consequent on the practical work of tariff reform is not improbable. It should not, however, escape attention that such disturbances, if they occur, are rightfully chargeable to the ingrained vices of past economic and financial profligacy and not to the struggle for economic and financial reform. All reformation Is a painful process, but let the pain be credited to the old vices and not to the new virtues. There is much, furthermore, to indicate that if the work of tariff reform is intelligently conducted any possible resulting disturbances will be reduced to a very small minimum.

If every custom house in the land was closed and perfect free trade established, not more than five dollars' worth in every hundred of our agricultural products could be imported; and It is also probable that under a "tariff for revenue only" any consequent displacement of labor from old occupations would be more than compensated for by the opening of new industries contingent on free crude materials and freedom of exchange. The experience of the country under the low tariff policy that prevailed from 1847 to 1860 is exceedingly instructive on this point and, very curiously, has hitherto attracted comparatively little attention. The so-called "Walker tariff" reduced the average rate of duties on dutiable imports to 25 per and this average was further reduced in 1857 to 20 per cent. The result was that the aggregate of our foreign commerce exports and imports increased 37 per cent, the very first year, and notwithstanding the disturbing inflvence of two wars the Mexican and Crimean continued to increase, until in 1860 the increase over 1846 was in excess of 200 per an increase far greater than any corresponding' increase in national wealth or population. Durinsr this great in- laboring man's vote is as good and will count as much as that of the Farmers, take your produce to Crow Neighbors, who will pay the highest marget price.

318 Commercial. HORTONBUEG HOWLINGS. millionaire, and when a senator or any other candidate for an office of ONE public trust fails to do what he pro SLX MONTHS. -75 mises in his campaign speeches pre vious to his election, he should never be allowed to return and act Subscriptions payable in advance. No subscription taken for less than six months.

We publish an Independent, Non-Fusion, Non-Republican Democratic Newpaper, and on this basis we solicit your support and patronage. as a servant of the people. The April report of the of the department of agricul ture makes the average condition of winter wheat on the first of April 77.4 against 81.2 last year, and that of rye 85.7. The average of the prin The Language of Presents. George What's wrong? Jack I can't make out what MlsS Pinkie's little present to me means.

George If it's useful, it means that she is interested in your comfort, and would probably say 'yes. If it's only ornamental, it means that the present is sent merely as a little token to a friend. Jack The one she sent me is both useful and ornamental. It's a handsomely decorated individual salt-cellar. George That means that she considers you both useful and ornamental, but a little too fresh.

N. Y. Weekly. What She tShould Do. Bertie had been forbidden under severe penalties to play in the rain barrel, but the other day, sad to relate, his mamma and grandmother found him splashing in it in high glee.

His mamma's face hardened, but the grandmother's kind heart led her to make a plea for the offender. Bertie heard the plea, and when his mamma asked him sternly what she should do to a little boy who did not mind what was told him, he answered, promptly: "I fink you had better mind your mnvyer." Mr. and Mrs. E. J.

Hudley spent Sunday in the Emporia. Wind wind wind How the howling wind does roar. Mr. Dan Simpkins has gone to Chicago to spend the summer. The Hawkins Bros, have leased the old Stafford farm this year.

Mr. and Mrs. Disking are the happy parents of a bouncing baby boy. Mr. J.

Miller expects to supply this neighborhood with sweet potato sprouts. Mr. Norman has resigned his position as section foreman at this place and will move to New Mexico. Mr. G.

W. Parkman is having very poor success with his incubator this spring. The eggs refuse to hatch. Mr. R.

T. Harvey had a runaway Thursday completely demolished his buggy and harness. He escaped uninjured. Peggy Short. OF ALL KINDS PR ll cipal wheat states are: Ohio, 87; Michigan, 74; Indiana, 82; Illinois, 72; Missouri, 86, and Kansas, 62.

ZlNHELA-TXiY executed. The averao-e of these six states is 74.2, against 77 in April, 1892. It is 88 in New York, 87 in Pennsyl vania, 89 in Maryland, and 87 in Vir ginia. The southern states ranging We Guarantee Lower Prices and BETTER WORK than any other office in Emporia. Give us a trial.

D. S. GILMORE, Editor and Proprietor. from 83 in Tennessee to 100 in Texas. The Pacific states show a favorable condition with the exception of California where too much rain is reported.

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