Hid Taith iu the Limited.
KKfM NF.W Y"KK TO A CHICAGO COfRT
K)DM IN TWF.N IV l'OL'R ltOI.RS.
d'lilli Iclpliln Heenrd. .tunn 'MILIEU)
The perfec tion to whicn the art of
railroading has been carried in these
d.iys had a stacking illustration ; last
week in the case of a prominent New
York lawyer, who was a passenger on
the Chicago Limited on the Penn
sylvania Railroad. He had an im
portant suit .pending in the United
States Court of Chicago, which was to
he called at I o o'clock on Tuesday
morning. It was absolutely essential
that he should be there on time, but
on account of a pressure of business
he could not leave New York before
Sunday. The alternative was then
offered him of taking a Sunday after
noon train and spending two nights on
the road, or of waiting until Monday
morning and taking the Chicago Lim
ited, which vouldland him in Chicago
at 0.45 on Tuesday morning.
The consequences might possibly
he serious if the Limited should be
late in reaching Chicago: but, trust
ing to its well-earned reputation for
being always on time, the New Yorker
decided to take it and run the risk.
The result showed that his confidence
was not misplaced. Exactly at o-45
on Tuesday morning the Limited roll
ed into the Union Station at Chicago,
lumping into a cab with his wife the law
yer was driven straight to the temple of
justice wnere Judge Crresham presided.
He reached it in eight minutes, a few
moments later was in the court-room
TheJ court opened promptly at ten
o'clock, and his ease was called first
(in the list.
Just twenty four hours after leaving
New lork he was addressing the
court in Chicago, feeling as fresh and
vigorous after his luxurious trip as if
he had iiv;t cm-.-.o from his own home.
It might add to the story to siy that
.liter ( .oiH'.lu.'.i.fc; iii argument lie took
another train back to New York, and
w.is in cons! there on Wednesday, as
usual, but lie didn't. lie stayed :n
Chicago to see tin; leniocratic Con
vention, and came back at his leisure.
A Point for You.
In view cf what Hood's Sarsaparilla
ha.s done ioi oiLus, is it not reason
able to suppose that it will be of bene
fit to you ? For Scrofula, Salt Rheum,
and all diseases of the blood, for Dys
pepsia, Indigestion, Sick Headache,
Loss of Appetite, That Tired Feeling,
Catarrh, Malaria, Rheumatism, Hood's
Sarsaparilla is an unequalled remedy.
Hood's rn.i.s cure Sick Headache.
Too Much for Him-
A de.v, old clergyman, now dead,
who was, during his lifetime, beloved
by all who knew him, made a practice
to address the children of his Sa
bath school every Sunday afternoon.
He had a little lisp that those who
held him dearest considered rather
adding to than detracting from the
charm of his delivery.
One day he rose and began, '-Children,
I don't think I have an) thing
shpecial to thay to you today." A
gamin rose in the back of the room.
"Then thetup!" he shouted,
The good gentleman stopped short,
cleared his throat, nude one or
two fresh starts, broke down again,
and finally took his seat, completely
downed by this piece of sauciness.
New York Recorder.
As there is no royal read to learning,
so there is no magical cure for disease.
The effect, however, of taking Ayer's
Sarsaparilla for blood disorders comes
as near magic as can be expected of
any mere human agency. This is clue
to its purity andstrength.
More than one thousand men are
now at work on the mammoth manu
factures building for the World's fair.
The total number of workmen at
Jackson park now exceeds 7,000. It
will probably be increased to 10,000
or more.
For the complexion use Ayer's Sar
saparilla. It brings blooming health
to wan cheeks.
A group of Caribs from the Lesser
Antilles, descendants of the cannibal
race discovered by Columbus on his
second voyage, will be at the World's
fair, engaged in making baskets and
other native industries.
The mineral exhibit at the World's
fair promises to be incomparably
liner than every before made, either
in this country or abroad. Cali
fornia and Colorado is each striving to
surpass all other states.
We are often deceived in the age
of people having beautiful and luxur
iant hair, not knowing that they use
Hall's Hair Renewcr to keep gray
hairs away.
An exact fac simile of the San Lou
is Rev. mission, perhaps the finest and
most celebrated of all the famed old
mission ruins in Southern California,
will be seen at the World's fair.
Out of His Way
Husband You say you've had that
bonnet 6ix months. Why, I've never
een it before.
Wife I knew it. I only wear it to
church New York Herald.
SMOKIMU IN CUBA.
Plpaa nrltr, bnt ttia Clgared It
Efi y whrrt.
No one la Cuba, except tin foreigner,
ever smokes a pipp, )Ut cigars and cisr
ettes are universal, toys the Boston
aiobr.:
Of n;nity the is a great demand
for a cheap cigar, and noma of the cigars
that till that demand emit a smoke
which will float a straw hat and wither
the Testation for rods nrotiud.
The cigarette, how ever, is the main re
liance of the workingman. No remarks
are passed in Cuba when a man lights a
cigarette, nor is there anything effemi
nate in the article itself. Five cents pays
for a big bunch as long aa an ordinary
cigar,
It is not easy for the visitor to get
good cigar at the tobacconist's. The
ten and fifteen cent grades seem coarse
and heavy, and a headache goes with
every one. nut a visit to a factory near
Havana makes the old smoker's mouth
water.
There one cau buy cigar all the way
from $33 a tliousaud up to $850. " Eight
hundred and fifty dollars for a thousand
cigarsl Who buys them T" Oh, lota of
people in different parte of the world
mainly wealthy Spaniards and Portu
guese. Very few of these cigars are sold to the
United States. The Yankee is allowed
to bring just forty-nine cigars home with
him without paying duty.
The Roman Matroa.
That august and forbidding person,
the Roman matron, is pleasantly pic
tured in the paper on " Private Life in
Ancient Rome," by Harriet Waters
Preston and Louise Dodge, which appears
in the Atlantic Monthly. The passage
runs:
The union thus formed and. sanctioned
by the divine blessing was at first, and
indeed for a long while, regard od as in
dissoluble. It ensured to the Roman ma
tron a very nuble position. She was
subordinate to her husband in their rela
tions with the world, but her sway
within the homo was undisputed. Her
spouse, no less thau her children and
servants, addressed her with deference
ns domina. or lady. No servile work
was expected of her, but, so far from be
ing confined to one quarter of the dwell
ing, like the Greek woman, she moved
freely through it, overseeing allitsactiv
ities and arrangement, the preparation
of meals, the spinning of her maidens,
the lessons of her children. She received
her husband's guests and sat with them
at table, while the children, and some
times even favorite slaves who bad been
boru aud reared in the house, were
nerved at a sort of side table in the same
room.
It was not thought seemly for a ma
tron to go out without her husband's
knowledge or unattended; but, upon
theee conditions, she was free to walk
abroad; place was deferentially made for
her in the public ways, and the stola
inatronalis, or peculiar outside garment
which she wore, waa supposed to be a
protection from all discourtesy. She at
tended public games and theatrical rep
resentations ; her testimony was received
in the court; she might evon plead for
an accused relative. If she came of
very noble race, she waa entitled to a
funeral sermon, or publio oration of
eulogy after her death.
Such was the ideal wifehood of the
good old Roman times, und there is a
seuse in which it may be said always to
have remained the ideal. Everybody
knows that the mother of the Gracchi and
the wife of Marcus Brutus were ladies of
austere fashion and immaculate mind.
Nay, late iu the fourth century, even,
we find St. Jerome endeavoring to shame
some of the more lawless lambs of his
flock by examples of personal rectitude
and dignity in the first pagan families.
But long ere that time the standard of
manners had fatally deteriorated. The
enormous iucrease of wealth, and the
habits of eastern luxury which came in
with the Macedonian and other wars of
foreign conquest, were prolific sources of
corruption; while the study of Greek
philosophy, which was affected by clever
women equally with their lords, pro
moted the growth of new ideas, which
rendered the "daily round and common
task" of the older time particularly irk
some. Marriage with manus and religious
rites went more and more out of fashion
except for the priestly caste ; marriage
upon any terms was avoided by very
many. Divorce, on the other baud, be
came of daily occurrence, and could be
had on the most frivolous pretexts, aa
the lives of the Romans whom we know
most intimately, Caesar, Pompey and
their great cotemporaries, only too
plainly show.
A Countryman's Ilabnko.
The countrymau's couterapt for city
knowledge is often very amusing. The
other day, during the warm spell, a
young Boston entomologist journeyed to
a suburban city to meet an euthusiastio
co-worker in the science. Together the
two wandered into the fields in search of
something to dissect; and, though it waa
early for a thoroughly animated nature,
they had a lively talk, and did happen
upon a premature specimen of the ani
mals with wings. The insect was
promptly captured, and the two lada
took it to the nearest fence for examina
tion. Here neither of them could recall
the order to which it belonged, and
the Latin name was variously given by
both.
In the midst of the controversy two
countrymen came up, attracted by what
was going on, and wondering, as they
expressed it, "what the lads were jawing
about." But their perplexity did not
last long. The youthful entomologists
informed them, pointing to the insect,
that they were "tryiug to think of the
name for that " "That?" said the elder
of the countrymen, with an expression
of utter scorn on his face, "why, that's
a bug. Never see a bug before?"
To sweeten salt pork, cut as many
slices as you will require for breakfast, I
and soak liu morning in sweet uiik anu
waters then rinse till the water is clear,
and fry. , . .
COOT.!CF.ft PAVED HIM.
The Duki of Wall melon's Advent ara
With Maniac.
Some years ago the Duke of Welling
ton was sitting at his library table when
tho door opened, Hnd without any an
nouncement in stalked a figure of singu
larly ill omen, says London Tld Hit.
"Who are you?" asked tho Duke in
hie short and dry manner, looking up
without thn slightest chuuge of counte
nance upon thn intruder.
"I am Apollyon. I am sent here to
kill you."
"Kill me? Very odd."
"I am Apollyon, nnd must put you to
death. "
-Bilged to do it to-day?"
"lam not told the day or the hour;
but I must do my mission."
"Very inconvenient, very busy; great
many letters to write, Call again, 01
write me word I'll be ready for you."
The Duke then went on with his cor
respondence. The maniRC, appalled
probably by the stern, immovable old
gcntlemnn, backed out of tho room, and
iu half an hour was in an asylum.
Tho Crowning Frrturc.
"Yes, gentlemen," remarked the ad
vance agent of the only big show on
earth, "notwithstanding the fnct that iu
the past we have ransacked the globe
from -pole to polo, have penetrated the
jungles of South Anv.'ti'a, tho do erte
of Africa, the ice-locked fastnesses of the
Artie region, nnd tho sacred lands of In
dia iu our determination to secure every
thing weird, worthy nud wonderful un
der tho sun, we have still been enabled
to stump improvement on the wings oi
time, and this season we present a bewil
dering array of til tractions totally eclips
ing the wildest imaginations of wonder
land ; n whirlwind of marvels, sweeping
nil our would-be imitators away with an
irresistible impetuosity!"
A V 1 1 i 1 0 tho speaker paused for breath
his hearers prepared themselves for tho
worst.
"Our gigantic universal aggregation of
consolidated wonders was tho fii-st show
on eartli to introduce a female lion
tamer. Tho first yenr she performed
with one lion, tho next year with two,
mid so on till the tenth year, when shu
played w-ith ten of them at once. Then
she began that very hazardous proceed
ing, which might lie termed mixing her
drinks, by bringing tigers, leopards, etc.,
into her family of brute monarclm. Fi
nally, during hint season, she appeared
in a mammoth enclosure nnd played
with a number of lions, tigers, leopards,
hyenas, crocodiles, boa constrictors, wild
eats uud rattle.siiakea all at ouo and the
same time.
"The public unanimously declared that
woman coul 1 do nothing more to dem
onstrate her utter fearlessness of the aui
mnl creation, but she bus."
Every ouo held his breath awaiting the
tattling revelation about to tie made.
"Yes, Bir; recognizing the fact that the
press and people demand something
newer and more slartliug every year,
Mine, de Slainbatiggio has this year (lis
curded lions and tigers and everything
old, aud now nclually enters a cage con
taining three live and unfettered mice!'
It required tho combined efforts of the
strong men of tho party to resuscitate
the weaker members who had fainted
uway. Chicago Times.
Iler llomiel.
l'rofrtulty followed Hint bonnet
A United cerulean ry
Her father heaped curse upou It
liccause of the hill he must pay.
Her rivals grew madder than thunder
And frleutU of u hole yeur, alas!
Were hopelessly riven asunder
A wonderful bonnet It rt.
Hut he that swore deepest and loudest
Waa iu the Hunter one night
And that bonnac, an proud as the proudest,
hhut out all the stage from hi sight.
Exchange,
Aaalalance Still N'rcded.
Distressed Female Oh, please, sir,
give me soinethiug all the same?
Benevolent Gentleman Why "all the
same?"
D. F. (weeping) Oh, sir, you don't
recognize me. I'm the blind man's wife.
B. Q. Yes, I remember you, but
what's the matter?
D, F. Oh, sir, we're in fresh trouble.
My poor husband has recovered his sight.
Drake's Magazine.
A Settlement Wanted.
Mr. Harlem Bridges was asked by his
grocer to pay for six pounds of coffee.;
"When did I get this coffee?" asked
Mr. Bridges with rage stamped on every
lineament of his countenance.
"It waa last year you got that coffee, "
"Then it is settled long ago, aud if it
isn't, coffee that won't settle in a year
shouldn't bo paid for, anyway,"
A motion to consider was promptly
laid on the table. Texas Sif tings.
Clearly Untrue.
"What do you think of that artist who
painted cobwebs on his ceiling so truth
fully that the hired girl wore herself into
an attack of nervous prostration trying
to sweep them dowu?"
"There may have been such an artist,
but never sucli a hired giri, "Indianap
olis Journal.
A Dlatlnctlon.
A tuning fork, II may be mild.
In spite of why and which.
Although tin used, an U well kuuwu
Toaseertaiu the pitch,
Cuu ne'er be called by any stretch
Of Imagination's plea,
Hy what would seem a proper name
A pitchtork, don't you seeV
Philadelphia Tread,
Exhausted by Ilia Profession.
Seeker Who is the fellow that comos
out of your boarding houso every morn
ing uud lakes the cur to ride three blocks
to Iiia place of business?
Sttgemiiu Is it possible you don't
know him? Why, that's Samson, the
champion runner of the Olympian Ath
letic Club. Boston Courier.
A u((rsllva Foot,
"We nre frequently surprised," says
Mrs, George Archibald, "to find that
some one else stole our original thought
long before it occurred to us, "Judge,
A NEW $12.00 SUIT SALE ON
TOO LATE in the season now to sell all of our
Spring and Strnmcr Suits at a profit ; so they arc
yours at a loss. But it is not toj late to wear th'.'m.
You can wear thetn three months this year and t'v;
next. You r,ee, it vi!l pay to buy now. Men's and
Youns Men's $25, 822. 520 and $18 Homespun.
Cheviot. Worsted and Serge Suits for $12.00. All
sizes, hundreds to j:cl; from and not an old garnvfit
in the lo. All new and manufactured by us this
Ger.son. Great bargains in large and small Hoys' Suits.
Browning, King & Co.
Leail ng Amor, can Cothitrs
910 and 912 Chestnut St.
Warren A. Reed.
CARTAS
CURI
Blcx Ilcadaf be tnd relloTe alt tbo trembles lna
ilcnt to a, bilious atstoof tbo system, such ufl
I'luina, Nauwa, Drowplnues, Dintnwa ait
riMni-, 1-uln In th Hl.lo, kn. Whllo tlinlriiiouS
ruiuukabltt uucceui liu boon s'uowa L'i eurli.;
Urnnirhe, yt Cnrter's Little Hvr Pills vst
tnu.i'.ly valuiblo In Constipation, ev.rtimauil pro
Tintiui! tUlsannoyln(Coa)plalnt,wlii!a tl.cya'.iv
rorrocUUiUsorduraof tboatomnch.aclniu::.! it: .
;.v( r aua re;uiAie wo ikjtovio. ji.y-su -j vu.jr
,Arbri(yTroniaboiiltnostpricoloiisHt'-.ri':flr''Mj
.. 11... r.. ... i 1. la .1 iulpftatnif r.nT'.ltihilnt: br.t t ar'. W'
;-..'-t'ji',tli';:rTfncl!iai''l'1esno'.i-i.'I'i"rtv'i !t'i' '5
Vrf'iiii'iicotrjrttioujwlllflna tbost llttlo piii.ivu'.ii.
f n'o i:; ."'jiLi.u. . vaw tlut til1- -.ill l"-.f. Lj-v.:-litj
t: n.tiibut t'usa. Eut xf.sr r.l'.jicSi 2i.vi4
'.3tanHnsif o mfiny live" thnt hern l.i wl'.wi
nn;akemir great boast. Our plllacureifwUsla
f.artT-B titl tlw Plllr vary nmM nnd
Tory oasy to taao. Ouo or two pills uialioa d.u,j.
Ua.ty n-.oBtrlctly vciiotablo and do nut rlpo or
IiirjV. but by tbelrpontlo action please nil vhn
luoliiem. lnTialaiit'J5uenta; livefortl.
ty druteUta ovorywUoro, or scut by uiiiS.
CARTER MEOICINR CO., Now York.
SHALL FILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICs
"ASAKF.SIS" (rives lntnnt l
n.-lit-t ana 19 iin iiituiiinio
lure Tor IMImu rrlccfl. ny
liruirtfifttftorniHil. Pttinplcs
Tre. AildrrW'ANAKESIS,
liox ilo, Mew lorn city.
M'Killip Bros.
Photographers.
Only the best
work done. Fin
est effects in
light, and shade;
negatives re
touched and
modeled for sup
erior finish.
Copying view
ing and life size
crayons.
Over II. Clark &
Son's store.
BLOOMSBURG.
A W8SMSMER
KOH ALL DISEASES IS
MANNERS'
Double Extract kimik
IF I'KOPERLV TAKEN.
Headache, Loss of Appetite, Languid and
Tired IceUiig. fifty Cents a lioltle.
MANN Kits1 llOUIII.e EXTRACT SAKSAt'ARILL
lias no equal as a Wood Furificr and Tcnic.
Kash, 1'imples and liuils can lie cuied. A
all druggists,
KIKTV CENTS UOTTLR
Try it and you will never regret it. Foi
sale by all druggists. Fifty cents a bottle.
Also at Moyer tiros,'
We Can't do it
l ilt nre willing to pay for learning how to
make as good an article as Woi.tr'8 Acme
I'.i.ackinu of cheap material so that a
retailer can profitably sell it at 10c
Our price is 20c.
The retailer says the public will not vf
lU We say the public will, because they
will alwavs pay a fair price fur a good
rrticlc To show both tho trado and tho
publio that we want to give them the test
lor the least money, we will pay
$10,000.00
Reward
For nriove informati.-in ; this offer la epen
until January 1st, 1893.
WOLFF RANDOLPH, Philadelphia.
Pik-Ron Is tho r.amo of a paint whir h
loo. work that no oilier ralnt cut do. Anr
.(f Milntec! with ltlooKH llkotho iinturu)
winirl u hen It Ik KUilm-d uud vnrtu.-ln'l.
?mmt and mmw
will find !t pmfltabla to Investigate.
p:uatutorcs acll Iu
Thr Chainnt evidence
In now complete that
OR. HEBRA'S VIOLA
CREAM Is the only
rreDaration that posi-
thvlv does ell tiiat Is
i claimed for it. It removes
Frccklri. Livtfr.mnles. Black
heads, Pimples, Tan, and all
Imperfections of tho skin, without injurv.
A few applications will render a r.viKh or
red f kin eoft, smooth hnd white. It is not
acoHuietic to cover detect, but a euro, and
(tnaninteed tOKivesatisfaetion. rricefite.
At druggists; or seut by mall. Send for
testimonials,
1. C. BITTNt & CO.,
n TOLEDO,
OHIO.
READ THIS.
K I J ft.
Mil
DOLLARS OFF.
When you want a suit
of clothes, a new hat,
gloves, neckwear and
gents' fit rr. ishing goods,
you should looh for the
nlace where you can get
iust what you want, in
the latest styles, at reas
onable prices, vl few dol
lars off is always an ob
ject, and lam now mail
ing up spring and sum
mer suits from a large
assortment of goods, to
suit all customers, at
prices as low as are con
sistent with good work.
Good fits guaranteed.
The latest tiling in straw
hats are now here. Light
as a feather. A beauti
ful line of neckwear,
and summer shirts. Ac
curate measures taken
for silk hats.
Aext door to f irst Na
tional Bank. Bertsch,
The Tailor, Bloomsburg,
Fa.
tiltATEiaTI.:-l'HMl"OKTlN(i.
EPPS'S COCOA
liUEAKt'AST.
"Hy a t imouyli knowledge of the natural law
which Koveru Hie operations, ot dlgi'MUm and
nutrition, and by a careful application of tun
tine properties of well-selected cocoa. .Mr. Epos
has provided our breakfast tables Willi a deli
cately llavored beveiai-o which may save us
many heavy doctors' lillls. It Is by the Judicious
use or such articles of diet that a constitution
may be gradually built up until sirciuK enoiiKli
to resist, every tendency to disease. Hundreds
of subtle maladies are tloatltni; around us ready
to attack wherever there Is a weak point. V. e
may escape many a taiai suan ny Keeping our. ;
selves well fortined with pure blood aud a prop, j
eiiy nourished frame." Clod Servti Uatetto.
Nude simply with boiling water or milk. Sold
only iu half pound tins, by grocers, labelled
thus i ,
jaheh Eppa k CO., llomoeopatlilo
Chemists, London, Cnglaud.
VA
S03IE i:;siDK FACTS.
TARIFF R033GRS WAMTXD TO WRECK
THE WORLD'S FAIR.
Th iJlrpctor Clenernl AVas Obllgwl to
Itecnll the Olinnxlini On'er, or PorrIt,n
Exhibitor Would Ifuva Withdrawn In
a Body A Complete :xpnuro.
Tho country 1ms littlo knowledge of
the extremity to wlituh tariff robbera
will go to prevent intelligent peoplo
from disco veritifr the robbery practiced
on them in the tintne f)f protection.
Little information has been permitted
to escape from committee )xma and
confidential conferences about a pro
posal which, if adhered to, wonld have
totally wrecked tho foreign exhibits at
the World's Columbian exposition ano
left that colocsal undertaking withon .
representation by any producers excej '
those of the United States. The ator.
ia ouo of the most striking illustration-,
that could be added to those of tariff
history.
It has always been the privilege of
foreign exhibitors at international ex
hibitions to make their own description
of their own exhibits. Any other prin
ciple would be necessarily absurd and
intolerable. If foreign exhibitors may
not Btate in a catalogue, on cases con
taining goods, in price lists and in ad
vertisements what they pleaso abont
their own exhibits, they will pimply re
fuse to exhibit, nnd there aa mutter
would end. One great object in hold
ing international expositions is the com
parison of cost of production ns well a:
of processes aud mati rinls. It is these
comparisons that make international ex
hibitions great schools of progress. In
innumerable lines of industrial activity
revolution has been brought abont by
the study of experts among exhibits of
rivals. One reason why a number of
British manufacturers refused to par
ticipate in our fair was frankly stated
that our skilled work-men would dis
cover the secrets of their workshops and
avail of the chettper methods by which,
being older practitioner thrn we, they
ar ubln ;it lower Mtt t. put many
grades of popular goods on thn market.
It h:is also lieen an invirinble rale of
foreign exhibitions to admit duty 1'roo
all foreign exhibits, nibject to the do
mestic tariff only if f ib red for sale after
the conclusion of nn evl--;i,;tion. This
rnlo hivn been observed in all British,
continental and colonial cr""sition.i. It
has also been recognized in tho interna
tional exhibitions previously held in the
United States that i;t New York, a
failure, in lboii; that at Philadelphia, a
success, in 1S70. It was covered among
the rules officially promulgated for
foreign exhibitors by the director gen
eral of the World's Columbian exposition
at Chicago, 189.3. Notwithstanding all
but universal grumbling among foreign
producers when requested to participate
in our fair, they have gradually ac
quiesced to a considerable degree. They
accepted our invitation on the terms in
which it waa conveyed. These terms
implied that the same rules would op
erate that were recognized by previous
international exhibitions.
Meanwhile the American tariff robber
was slyly at work. He became alive to
the fact that if foreign goods were
marked in the World's fair at the figures
for which they can be produced and pay
a profit to the manufacturer in addition
to the cost of production he would be in
danger of undoing. Many of the coun
tries from which foreign exhibits are
coming are themselves protection coun
tries. Yet they cau place on the market
goods in many respects superior to ours
at prices running from one-third to one
half. While the cry of starved British
labor is rang by Republican demagogues
the cry of starved French labor will not
serve. Causes that starve labor iu Eng
landcauses not at all related to tariffs
-do not exkt in France. There land ia
free and the people are able to feed as
well as clothe themselves. How should
the American tariff robber keep from
the knowledge of Americans visiting
the World's fair the fact that in France,
a highly prosperous country, its labor
the happiest and gayest in the world
and a protective country, goods can be
put on the market at one-third to one
half their cost in our market, controlled
exclusively by the American tariff rob
ber? An expedient was adopted which camo
near wrecking the World's fair. Pres
sure was brought to bear on the director
general to prohibit foreign exhibitors
from placing any prices on their goods
except with the addition of the Ameri
can JIcKiuley robber tariff.
Two objects were to be accomplished
by this. The first was to sustain tho
grotesque untruth of McKinley and his
followers that "the foreigner pays tho
tax;" secondly, to deceive the great mass
of unreflecting Americans about the real"
cost of production minus the tariff tax.
British, French, Italian, South Ameri
can and Canadian exhibitors raised so
furious a protest that tlnirector general
was compelled to annul the outrageous
order, which would have made every
foreign exhibitor commit willful false
hood in representing as the price of his
goods what in fact w;is nut their price.
but the prico with the tribute added
which the American buyer pays to the
American tariff rubber. Had the pre
scription for falsehood not been recalled
the foreign exhibitois would have with
drawn in a body. The benefits of the
international exposition to the people of
Ilie L nueu states these patriotic tariff
robbers were ready and anxious toanuul
rather than thut their robbery should be
laid bare in the exposition itself.
The lesson ia timely. No more com
plete exposure of the tariff robbery could
have beeu made. Chicago Herald.
The 1'o.ters' Diplomatic Tnulentlea.
It was a man named Foster who went
to Uloster iu a shower if rain; who
stepped iu a puddle up to his middle
and never went there again. Perhaps
this tradition of the diplomatic tenden
lies of tho Falters to get in out of the
tvet is what makes Mr. Harrison so fond
f the family. St. Louis Republic.