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VMAIAKEH
01 TAXATION
Startling Figures Showing the In
equalities of Taxation Under
Quay Machine Kule.
rhe Farmer and Workingmen Compelled
to Pay $2.94, While the Corpora
tions Pay But One Penny.
Mr. Wannmaker, in a speech delivered
at Huntingdon on Oct. 19, had the fol
lowing to say upon the subject of tax
ation :
1 have boon waiting for an oppor
tunity like this to say something more
to the farmers and laboring men of
Pennsylvania about taxation.
In my Williams Grove address on
Sept. 1 I declared that the people, and
especially the farmers, were unjustly
:&xed. I stated that through legisla
tion passed by the Quay machine there
.▼as unjust discrimination in favor
if corporations, and that the masses
were forced to hear an unequal bur
den of state taxation, and 1 want to
reiterate those statements again to
night, ami to present to you specific
proof of their correctness.
The statements that the farmers paid
too much tax have been challenged in
public speeches by the Republican can
didate for governor and the Republican
state chairman.
Nominee W. A. Stone, In his Pitts
burg speech n Sept. 7, in the course of
his reply to assertions made by me,
said: "There is not a corporation in
Pennsylvania that ever for one moment
realized that it was the favorite of the
Republican party" (meaning the Quay
machine). Speaking of our tax system
he declared: "This is a groat triumph
for the Republican party, and one of
vhich all Republicans should feel justly
proud;" and, continuing, he said: "It
seems to me that it would be much
easier to prove that farmers, laborers
md mechanics are the favorites of the
Republican party, who have been so
highly favored by its legislation."
At Hollidaysburg on Sept. 15 Candi
date Stone is again quoted as saying
that "The people are not taxed, and
not one foot of your land (meaning
the people) pays one cent of tax; we
have taken the tax off the lands and
put it on corporations."
ELK IN QUOTED.
Republican Chairman Elkln, .at Car
lisle on Aug. 31, said: "We (meaning
the Quay machine) have taken taxes
off the lands, occupations, trades and
all personal property, except money at
interest." At Pittsburg on Sept. 7 he
again declared that "the purpose and
policy of the Republican party (mean
ing the Quay machine) has been to re
move the burden of taxation from the
people and place it upon those who
obtain some franchise from the state,
and we (meaning the Quay machine)
have reason to feel proud of our rec
ord."
I am facing an audience composed
largely of farmers. Before me are men
who gain their livelihood by the tilling
and handling of land. If there is one
among you all who does not know that
the statements of Candidate Stone and
Chairman I'lkln are false let him stand
up and say so. There may be some
farmers here who on next election day
intend to vote to perpetuate the Quay
machine. To them 1 want to ask if
it is a fact, as Candidate Stone assert
ed in his Hollidaysburg speech, "that
you are not taxed and that not one
foot of your land pays one cent of
taxes," and whether it is true, as Chair
man Elkin states, that the Quay ma
chine has taken the taxes off land?
If one single farmer in this audience
will come upon the platform and show
that his land is not taxed I will agree
to make six speeches a week for the
Quay machine from now until election
time, and if there is one farmer here
who owns or works a farm that can
not show by his tax receipts that all
these statements are untrue I will
stand by the same offer. And if there
is one farmer who does not know that
he is unjustly taxed and is paying part
of the corporation's share 1 want him
to send me his name and he will he
given proof of his happy ignorance.
The Milj i t of taxation is a vast and
complex question, but there are phases
of It and fa- ts concerning it that can
be reduced to simple, practical and con
vincing propositions. And specifically
and with varied figures 1 want to pre
sent some of thorn to you.
In this argument when I make use of
the word "corporations" I mean those
of that class that have the right to con
demn and take private property for
their own use, such as steam railroads
which pay no local taxes for county,
township, school or road purposes upon
their roadbed anil other property used
in the operation of their franchise. And
also other great combinations of cor
porate wealth, such as pools and trusts
and companies capitalized at millions,
all of which maintain armies of agents
and lobbyists to invade and surround
legislative bodies, whether national,
state or municipal.
Candidate Stone tells the farmers of
the state that the corporations pay the
entire cost of running the stute gov
ernment, and also the appropriations
to public schools. This statement is
grossly untrue, as is shown in the last
official record of the state treasurer.
The total receipts of the state treas
ury for 1897 were $12,475,070.17. Of this
mim the entire amount received from
ill sources, from all corporations, In
cluding the thousands of smaller cor
porations which we are not considering,
together with the tax on hank stock,
was only $0,014,131.67, or about 50 per
cent of the cost of running the state
and paying the school appropriations.
This demonstrates Candidate Stone's
misrepresentation No. 1.
Candidate Stone says that corpora
tions are taxed higher !n Pennsylvania
than they are In other states. This
statement is untrue. For tlie purpose
of proving the falsity of .Mr. Stone's
assertion I will compare the tax law
of our state with that of New York.
TAXES IN NEW YORK.
In New York state every dollar of
corporate property Is taxed, yet our
own ex-auditor general, Jerome B.
Nlles, In a public speech delivered In r
1893, made the astonishing statement
that there were from $100,060,000 to $600,-
000.000 of railroad property in Pennsyl
vania that pays no tax whatever, either
locally or to the state. In New York
state the dollar of value Is the basis
upon which taxes are levied, real and
personal, and no corporation of any i
kind can escape paying its share of
taxes. But. by the statement of ex- j
Auditor General Niles, in Pennsylva- |
nia. through discriminating legislation j
passed by the machine, and purchased
by the corporations, one-half billion
dollars* worth of corporate property es
capes all taxation. The fairest way to
show the difference in taxation of
steam rail mads between Pennsylvania
and New York Is to take the trunk
lines and lateral railroads that lead out j
of Pennsylvania into New York, and i
compare the taxes they are compelled |
to pay in each state.
The Northern Central railroad, from j
Williamsport to the New York state '
line, near Elmira, a distance of 70 miles, 1
does not pay one cent of taxes upon i
its roadbed and other real estate used i
in the exercise of its franchise in the
Pennsylvania counties of Lycoming,
Tioga and Bradford, representing a
value of $2,000,000. But when it reaches i
the township of Southport, Chemung ,
county, New York, it contributes in
taxes to that township $372.40. Passing
through the corner of Southport, j
through the city of Klmira, into the \
township .f Horseheads. it pays to that
township $637.52. It touches the corner i
of Cat lin and pays $36.61, and enters the
township of Ve'teran, in the same coun- ,
ty, and pays to the township treasury j
$1,035.50. Then it passes through the
counties of Schuyler, Yates and On- .
tario on to Niagara Falls, paying at
the same rate in all counties named. I
Then again take the Lehigh Valley :
railroad, which does not pay one cent ,
of tax on its roadbed and other real j
estate for local purposes from the Del
aware river at Easton through the
counties of Northampton. L* high. Car
bun. Luzerne. Wyoming and Bradford, j
When it reaches the township of Van
Etten. in the state of New York, it
contributes $1,902.33 to that township j
treasury.
ANOTHER ILLUSTRATION.
Then take the Delaware and Lacka- \
wanna railroad, which contributesnoth- i
ing to the local treasuries in Pennsyl- j
vania. When it reaches the township
of Ashland, New York, only touching
one corner, it contributes $225.60 toward
township taxes. To the township of
Elmira it pays $425.82, to the city of
Elmira $1,199.70, to Horseheads $926.(t0,
to Big Flats $1,157.20, and so on u>
every township it passes through.
Then take the Tioga branch of the
Erie railroad, which runs through Tio
ga county, Pennsylvania, and does not
pay one dollar on its 50 miles of road
bed in that county. When it reaches
Southport, in the state of New York,
on a valuation of $63,000 it pays to the
township treasury $441.
Then the Fall Brook railroad and
leased lines, which pay nothing on
their roadbed in the state of Pennsyl
vania, the moment it reaches the town
ship of Lindley, in New York state,
contributes $1,500 to the local treasury
of that township.
It should be remembered that In New
York all these railroads, in addition to
the local taxes speeilied, pay also a
state tax for the general purposes of
state government. Yet all the railroads
I have mentioned pay no more or no
less in the state of New York than the
farmer, merchant, manufacturer, or the
money lender on their dollar. So again
Candidate Stone's statement that cor
porations pay more taxes in Pennsyl
vania than in other states is proven
false.
This is Candidate Stone's misrepre
sentation number 2.
Again. Candidate Stone assorts that
the corporations in Pennsylvania pay
their full and equal share of taxes.
Now, under our state law, they pay
but four mills on the dollar of their cap
ital stock (not counting the $500,000,000
that escapes altogether); but does not
every farmer here know that he pays
from 15 to 25 mills on every dollar of
his capital stock? Is this equal and
fair taxation? This proves the falsity
of another of Mr. Stone's statements.
This is misrepresentation number 3.
FARMERS IN OTHER STATES.
Again, Candidate Stone asserts that
the farmers of Pennsylvania are no
more heavily taxed than those of other
states. Yet the average tax in Penn
sylvania on your land, for the past ton
years, has been from 15 to 30 mills on
the dollar, while in New York state it
has averaged from three to ten mills
on the dollar, and In some townships
and cities in that sta'te almost the en
tire loeal taxes are paid by the corpora
tions. This proves the falsity of Mr.
Stone's statements, and is misrepre
sentation number 4.
I might continue the list of his mis
representations on this subject almost
indefinitely, but time will not permit.
You farmers who live In interior coun
ties do not fully understand the way
you are discriminated against, but the
farmers who live along the Ne\v York
state line, in the counties of Erie. War
ren, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Bradford
and Susquehanna realize how the ma
chine made laws of Pennsylvania take
the burden off of the corporations and
place it upon the backs of the tillers of
the soil.
All along tho northern border the
farms in New York state are more val
uable than those of the same size and
kind in Pennsylvania. A $5,000 farm In
the state of New York Is not taxed to
exceed $25, while the adjoining farm in
Pennsylvania of the same value pays
from SOS to SBS. And it is something
New York farmers cannot understand
why railroads in Pennsylvania are not
made to assist In paying local taxes,
and why Pennsylvania farmers support
a political system that compels them to
pay 20 mills on their dollar, while rail
roads pay only four mills on their prop
erty.
Through the machine passed and cor
poration protecting legislation of our
state the corporations are favored to
the extent of millions annually, which
Is paid by the farmer, land owner and
laborer.
The evasions and exemptions allowed
to corporations from the law requiring
them to pay four mills tax on the
dollar are enormous, and I believe that
a thorough and faithful enforcement of
the provisions and even the present un
just tax law would nut millions of
money in the state treasury.
SOME OFFICIAL FIGURES.
For example, the last report of the
secretary of Internal affairs, for 1897,
THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA.
flowed the coat of all corporation! of
:his class (railroads) In Pennsylvania
to le $1,553,072,313. The total coat •of
equipments owned by the railroads was
$180,404,266. Stocks and bonds owned
by railroads, $282,655,815; cash and cur
rent assets. $90,302,269; other assets,
$200,508,217, making a total of $2,315,942,-
880. Taking this to represent the cash
value of the capital stock of these
roads, and multiplying this sum by
four mills, the tate the law requires,
you have what the great railroad cor
porations alone should pay into the
state, amounting to $9,263,761. Yet the
taxes paid by corporations of all kinds
—big and little—together with the tax
on gross receipts of corporations, and
the tax on bank stocks amount to only
f6.044.131.67. showing a discrepancy upon
this too liberal basis of $3,119,631. which
In some manner the corporations are
relieved from paying.
Now, farmers, you ought to ask Can
didate Stone, who declares that there
is no discrimination in favor of corpo
rations, to account for this shortage of
more than $3,000,000.
But the loss of that vast sum of
money is not a commencement of the
injustice heaped upon the farmers by
the present machine made tax system,
since the same amount of property—
-52,315,941,880, the value of railroad stock
and investment—ln the hands of the
farmer is taxed live times as much,
or $46,318,855.
The railroads in this official valua
tion pay only $5,448,120.47, making a
balance against you under this system
that Mr. Stone calls equitable of $40,-
570,735.
But experts say that the value of
railroad property In Pennsylvania Is
double Its assessed valuation, or nearly
$5,000,000,000. If this be true, then the
railroads are paying about one mill
on their dollar, while you farmers are
paying 2ft mills on yours.
Tn Tioga rounty Inst zprlng T was In
formed that $13,000,066 of farming prop- i
erty In that county pays $325,000 an
nually, while the same amount of rail- j
road and mining properties pay less
than $12,000, as shown by the county j
treasurer, a discrimination against the i
farmer of $313,000.
CORPORATION TAXES.
Scores of like cores can be shown j
throughout the state, but time will for
bid more detail on this particular point. !
I want to give you a'few examples of
how great corporations are protected.
The Philadelphia and Erie railroad,
which cost upward of $40.000.000, through
the kindness of machine legislation, is
not obliged to pay one dollar of tax to
the state on ca; Ital stock until the
road shall icrn <i per cent dividend.
Of course, that time has not and will
never come, as its s' ■*■'( can be water
ed. salaries incr Ic lan 1 expenditures
kept high enough to prevent any such
contingency.
Will Candidate Stone show where the
machine made tax system of Pennsyl
vania. which he declares favors the
farmer, lias ever exempted $10,000,000 of
farm lands until the farmers have
made 0 per cent clear, after enjoying
like privileges with the Philadelphia
and Erie railroad, of voting high sal
aries to their sons and friends and rais
ing the valuation of their farms as
they see fit?
You farmers who are paying 20 mills
on every dollar of farm lands you have
should ask Candidate Stone to explain
the following figures taken from the
auditor general's report of 1896. That
report shows that the Philadelphia and
Delaware Connecting railway, costing
$536,566.82. paid into the state treasury
only $35.22 in 1896.
The Kinzua Valley railroad, costing
$113,450.21, paid $28.12: the Allentown
railroad, costing $1,085,747.94, paid $.5.02:
the Baltimore and Harrlsburg railroad,
costing $4.80.000. paid $43.73: the Balti
more and Philadelphia, costing $9,840,-
000, paid $675.41; the Bustleton railroad,
costing $100,090. paid $10: the Clarion
railroad, costing SIIO,OOO. paid $1.60. and
the Pickering Valley railroad, resting
$481,399.08, paid the sum of 92 cents.
TAXES ON RAII-RGADS.
In other words. $12,777,164.05, of rail
road property paid a total tax of $8,0.63
in 1806. At the same time $12,777,164.05
of your property at 20 mills (the aver
age) paid $255,513.28. Slated In a sim
pler way: $12,777,464.05 of property be
longing to corporations and a like
amount of property belonging tn the
farmers, together amounting to $25.-
554.328.10, paid taxes in 1896 amounting
to $256,413.31, and of this sum the far
mers paid $255,543.28 and the corpora
tions $870.03: or, to still further show
the inequality, every time the farmer
paid $2.94 of taxes the corporations, tin
der the tax system that Candidate
Stone says is fair to the farmer, paid
hut one penny.
I could prolong the list showing the
inequalities of taxation almost Indef
initely, hut time will not permit to
night' After all, it seems much like
a waste of argument to try and con
vince the voter of what every intelli
gent citizen already knows—that there?
is no fairness or equality in our ma
chine made system of taxation.
But there is another side of this great
question of taxation that must appeal
to every person within the hearing of
my voice. It is the remedy. It Is far
easier to justly criticise the deficien
cies of economic policies than to rec
ommend intelligent and adequate meth
ods for their equitable adjustment. It
Is impossible for me tonight to do more
than give in general terms the funda
mental principles upon which, I helive,
the taxation of our people should be
founded.
A REMEDY SUGGESTED.
The dollar of value should be the
basis upon which taxes are levied. The
man owning SI,OOO worth of property,
either in railroads, farming lands or
corporate interests, should pay ten
times as much tax as the man who
owns but SIOO worth.
No taxable property should he given
advantages or concessions in the hands
of one owner that the like property or
Value does not receive in the hands of
every other owner. A full assessment
of all property should lie made, and an
impartial Indiseriminating tax should
be imposed.
The assessed valuation of property in
Pennsylvania, real and personal, accord
ing to the last census, that of 1890, was,
in round numbers, $6,500,000,000. Ac
cording to the best expert authority the
actual valuation of real and personal
property in Pennsylvania at the pres
ent time is $10,000,000,000. If the value
of assessable property is $10,000,000,000,
the present tax rate of four mills (that
corporations are supposed to pay, but
do not, though it is only about one
fifth the rate the fanners pay) would
yield to the state annually, or j
about three and one-half times the
amount collected under the present law. j
This would pay the running expense j
of the state government and give the
$5,500,000 to public schools that Is now
allowed, and leave. $28,000,000 to he paid
back to counties to aid in or
wiping out entirely, local taxation.
Nothing Is plainer than that the
heavy burden of taxation borne by cer
tain Interests results alone from the to
tal or partial exemptions granted vast
corporate interests, as the result of ma
chine legislation.
The resources of Pennsylvania are so
vast and her wealth so great that, if
each dollar of property paid its Just
share, taxation would lie so light ttyit
it would scarcely he felt by any. But
the machine paid speakers will reply to
this statement by telling the farmers
that Wanamaker advocates a tax sys
tem that will place (we will say for ar
gument) a four mill tax on their lands.
To this I want *o say, yes, I favor the
placing of a four mill tax on your lands
and your homes, if by so doing I can
strike off the 20 mill tax that the ma
chine made laws now compel you to
pay.
I believe I can do no greater service
fo the people of my state than help to
change the perpetual machine laid
mortgage of 20 mills for a reasonable
and moderate tax rate of four mills or
less.
The above article by Mr. Wnnn
mnkor Is a full expansion of the gen
eral points made by George A.Jenu*,
the Democratic candidate for gover
nor, In several of Ills now famous
campaign addresses. Vote for Jcnks
and equality of taxation and equality
In all other respects before the law.
The Democratic party has for many
years Insisted that the management
of the finances of the state of Penn
sylvania has been reckless and inde
fensible. Tlie late developments inci
d ntal upon the failure of tie- Peopi.*3
bank, and the admission that the man
ipulation of state funds in various oth
er hanking institutions wore of a cor
rujtf character, should be no news to
the people, because at various times
disclosures have been made through
the Democratic minority in the state
legislature of daring and flagrant mis
use of the people's money entrusted to
the state treasurers and auditors gen
eral. In the most direct way the spe
cific charge was made in the session
of tlie legislature of 1889 that a fraud
ulent misuse of the sinking fund mon
eys were being, and had been, made by
Mr. Quay and Mr. Quay's creatures.
These charges were formulated by
Mr. P. M. "Wherry, of Cumberland
(. unty. who made a strenuous, hut in
effective, effort to have the abuses cor
leeted. Mr. Wherry did more than that
—he showed beyond question that a de
liberate and corrupt misuse of the se
curities in the state sinking fund had
been made. On March 22. 18S9, he intro
duced a joint resolution calling atten
tion in a conservative way to the fact
that tlie sinking fund was being im
properly manipulated. On March 25
he offered a series of resolutions, re
citing the further startling fact that
the sinking fund commissioners had
sold, in December. 1887, and January,
1888. $1,000,000 of United States bonds,
which were under the law a permanent
Investment of the fund. This sale vio
lated not only the constitution, but the
statutes made in pursuance of the
constitutional requirements. In con
nection with this series of resolutions,
Mr. Wherry had spread upon the rec
ords of the legislative proceedings of
that date a carefullly prepared memo
| randum showing that this sale of bonds
had resulted in the loss of a quarter of
a million dollars to the state. These
United States bonds were deliberately
taken from the sinking fund treasury,
then under the domination of Mr. Quay,
and by the direct action of Mr. A. Wil
son Norris, then the auditor general,
and Mr. Livesey, of the treasury de
partment. Mr. Livesey soon after left
the state ar*d has been absent ever
pince. He Is supposed to be still absent
from the state because of his connec
tion with this and with other misuses
I of state funds. The facts presented by
; Mr. Wherry showed conclusively that
j for the two years of 1886. including
! transactions from Dec. 1, 1886, to Dec.
1. 1888, these manipulations had en
tailed a loss directly of two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars upon the
I state.
It showed that In the early part of
the fiscal year of 1887 one million dol
lars* worth of United States 4 per cnt
bonds were abstracted from the vaults
of the treasury, where they belonged as
a eonstltutional part of the sinking
fund, sold and the proceeds placed In
the various banks favored by the state
political ring, of which Senator Quay
was the head. Mr. Wherry, in a very
conservative statement, declared that
after a careful examination of this
transaction, so suggestive upon its
face, ho was of the deliberate opinion
that It was so much In violation of the
constitution and the law, and that the
bondsmen and the state officials who
constituted the state sinking fund com
missioners were liable for the loss en
tailed, and should be held accountable
for every dollar of Interest lost on the
United States bonds sold, and for
other losses to the state. He declared
that in the aggregate the losses in two
transactions alone exceeded sixty thou
sand dollars In one year. The actual
and Indirect loss, ho declared, sustain
ed by the state would amount to nearly
$2,000,000. He said: "At the very time
the sinking fund commissioners were
selling United States bonds at a loss
of Interest and buying 5 per cent state
loans, payable in 1892, at from 115 to
11X34, the state's 4 per cents, payable In
1912—25 years to run. were selling on
the market at 121. Discussion of Mr.
Wherry's resolutions were, of course,
inevitably cut off. After a number of
Ineffectual attempts to have his charges
considered, even after the report from
the ways and means committee provid
ing for an Investigation and adjustment
of this mismanagement of state funds
had been presented, he was compelled
to abandon bis effort. His resolutions
were carefully buried In committee.
Such Is the mere record spread upon
the journal of the house of representa
tives, showing a transaction even more
daring than that by which the Peo
ple's bank "plum tree" was shaken.
The senior senator, when he wanted a
loan for his family of a hundred thou
sand dollars, agitated the golden fruit
Plant of the state treasury to the extent
In one case at least, of one hundred
thousand dollars. In this instance,
when his friend and chum, Mr. Norrls,
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can, whose course of true love tloes
not by any means run smooth, but
leads him into safe harbor at last.
The tale is one of this favorite author's I
best, and perhaps the longest which I
has ever appeared in I.ippincott's. |
"Mercer's Best Shot," as described
by Joseph A. Aitsheler, was a very re
markable shot indeed, at an enemy
wiiose shadow only could be seen.
More vigor of conception and descrip
tion has seldom been put into two
pages.
J. Armoy Knox, in "The Petrified
Legs," revives and amplifies the Irish
legend of Lough Neagli. "The De
stroyer" is an allegory by Paul R.
Hey I.
Jessie F. O'Donnell gives an ac
count of "The Horse in Folk-1.0rc."
Paul Ward Beck describes "A Ute
Funeral." "Fanciful Predictions of
War" and "Our Soldiers' Songs" are
the titles of two brief papers by Will
iam Ward Crane.
Jane Ellis Joy has a little essay on
"The Craze tor the Unconventional," j
antl J. K. Wetherill another 011 "The
Golden Gift," which is Imagination, j
"Oriental Stage-Craft' is considered j
by L. W. The familiar question, "Who !
is your Favorite Author," is animad
verted upon by Annie Steger Winston. I
The poetry of the number consists '
of quatrains by Julia Schayer and
Mary E. Stickney, and couplets by
Carrie Blake Morgan and Clarence
Urmy. |
OASTO XII A.. I
Bears the /) Kind You Have Always BuugW •
Signature
of /-CS-ZcJUte 1
l)e Tanque—"When it comes to
drinking, he can hold his end up."
Old Soak—"Of course; he his to
when he's full up to the neck, or he'd
spill some of it.
WHAT SHE WAS TOLD.—"I was
severely afflicted with salt rheum. I
also felt weak and sick. I was
told there was no medicine that
could cure me, but I began taking
Hood's Sarsaparilla and it gave me
strength. When I had taken four bot
tles the salt iheutn was cured and I
have not had it since." MRS. A. B.
AMY, BROWNHILL, PA.
Hood'sPdls cure all liver ills. Mailed
for 25c. by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell,
Mass.
"He dosen't smoke, does he?" "No,
your Majesty." "Thai's well. He must
have been very dry. Probably a Pro
hibitionist." So saying, his Satanic
Majesty resumed his perusal of his
Spanish grammar.
Chronic nasal catarrh poisons ev
ery breath that is drawn into the
lungs. There is procurable from any
druggist the remedy for the cure of
this trouble. A small quantity of
Ely's Cream Balm placed into the
nostrils spreads over an inflamed and
angry surface, relieving immediately
the painful inflammation, cleanses,
heals and cures. A cold in the head
vanishes immediately. Sold by drug
gists, or will be mailed for 50 cents,
by Ely Bros., 56 Warren St., New
York.
Sagasta—"Well, now, isn't that the
refinement of cruelty ?" Aunon
—I think the Americans have treat
ed our captured heroes very well."
Sagasta—"Yes; just to make trouble
for Spain. Instead of killing their
soldiers, they send them back to us
to draw pensions."
COULDN'T ESTIMATE ITS VALUE!—
Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart never
fails. It relieves in 30 minutes, it
cures. It is a beacon-light to lead you
back to health. W. H. Musselman, of
G. A. R., Weissport; Pa., says: "Two
bottles cf I)r. Agnew's Cure for the
Heart entirely cured me of palpitation
and smothering spells. Its value can
not be estimated. I feel like a new
man."— 41.
Sold by C. A. Kleim.
He—"He tells some of the wildest
hair-raising stories I ever heard." She
—"His own experience?" He—"No;
purely imaginative. He's drumming
up trade for a fake cure for baldness."
I DEAFNESS OF 12 YEARS STANDING.
[ —Protracted Catarrh produces deat
' ness in many cases. Capt. Ben. Con
' nor, of TOl onto, Canada, was deaf for
! 12 years from Ca'arrh, all treatments
! failed to relieve. Dr. Agnew's Catarrh
-1 al Powder gave him relief in one day,
and in a very short while the deafness
left him entirely. It will do as much
for you.—42.
I Sold by C. A. Kleim.
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