Fkeeland Tkibune. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. TIIOS. A. BUCKLEY EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS, - - $1.50 PER YEAR. FREELAND, PA., OCTOBER 17,1892. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. NATIONAL. President, Grover Cleveland Now Vork Vice President, Adlal E.Stevenson Illinois STATE. Judge of Supreme Court, Christopher Heydrick Venango County Congressmen at-Large, George Allen Erie County Thomas P. Merritt Berks County COUNTY. Congressman, William H. Hines Wilkes-Barre Senator, J. Riilgoway Wright Wilkes-Barre Sheriff, William Walters. Sugarlouf Township Recorder, Michael C. Russell Edwurdsvllle Coroner, H. W. Trimmer Rake Township Surveyor, Juiucs Crockett Ross Township We denounce protection tie a frit lid, a robbery of the great majority of the Ameri can 'people for the benefit of the few. — DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM. The Cost of Hurrisonism. The ordinary expenditures of the first three years of the Cleveland adminis tration, says an exchange, were $027,- 000,000, For the first three years of the Harrison administration the ordinary expenses have been $901,000,000. The years of Harrison cost the people $274,000,000 more than the three years of Cleveland. The average annual cost of the Cleve land administration was $209,000,000; of the Harrison administration over $."00,- 000,000. These figures are for ordinary expen ditures exclusive for expenditures for sinking fund, for interest, for premiums and bond purchases and for the postal service. Harrison costs the country as much for ordinary expenses in three years as Cleveland did in four. The increase under Harrison is entirely due to the Republican policy of taxing earners for the benefit of nonearners a policy well illustrated in the case of the exorbitant direct bounty of over $1(1,000,000 a year paid to a few corpora tions in Louisiana and a few sap-boilers in Vermont. The Republican argument for giving these people public money is that they could not earn it; that they were crip pled veterans of the tariff system, and that having existed under it until they were utterly incapable of independent self-support they thereby became en titled to a pension direct from the treasury. Every year, therefore, between $lO,- 000,000 and $15,000,000 is taken from the pockets of the people who have earned it and paid to these incapables on the ground of their incapacity. There is no metaphor about this, The money is taken directly out of the treasury and put directly into their hands to do as they pleased with, and they are not required to render the least service to the government in exchange for it. The same policy of bleeding the earn er for the nonearner is carried out in every direction—through direct sub sidies to steamship corporations and in a general policy of extravagance intended to prevent the lessening of direct subsi dies aecruingunder the high tariff taxes. The Republican party connot be economical in administration. Its theo ries involve the extravagant expendi-; ture of other people's earnings. It grows more extravagant as it grows more radi cal in the enforcement of its theories, and a vote for Charles Foster for con gress is a vote to continue this disgrace ful policy to which the Republicans are committed. THE little Republican organs of the state are just now indulging in some assertions which do not reflect much credit upon the parties who edit them. The statement that Governor Pattison and his assistants are the cause of the trouble about the size and delay of the ballot is not gulped down by the average j reader without, a little investigation as to 1 its veracity. Those whose duty it is to draw up the form and prepare the \ official ballot liavo followed the law strictly to the letter, and if the county ! commissioners will be inconvenienced | by the short time allowed to do the ' printing the blame must be laid where 1 it belongs—upon the framer of the bill I and the Republican legislature that j passed it, after defeating every amend-1 ment proposed by representatives wiiol wished to make it a model act. The ' governor or the secretary of the state have not gone one step outside tiieir duty so fur, and as both are Democrats there is not much likelihood that they will. The intense hatred of Republican newspapers and leaders to a secret . ballot was never more bitter than at present. Nothing but a Force bill, with its bayonets and intimidation, would satify them. for the TRIBUNE. THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS I | UNDER THE IRON HEEL OF A HEART LESS PLUTOCRACY. I ; Society Cures for the Crimliiul, hut Drives the Searcher After Work to Starvation or Worse Questions We j Must Not Dodge—Homestead. I From a discourse delivered by the 1 ! Rev. Alexander Kent, of Washington, | the following burning words are ex tracted: The employed is a man equally with his em ployer. As a man he has every right that be longs to the other. He has a right to all that is needful iu the way of opportunities and privileges—for growth in manly character, in i intelligence, in culture, in all that carry him toward his true goal as a human being. Simply 1 M a man he has a right to all ol opportunity needed to the attainment of this end. Society, , as the guardian of his Interests, the natural guardian—and therefore the divinely ap pointed guardian in the only sense in which anything ever is divinely appointed—is bound to provide this opportunity ami to keep the ! door of it forever open. Surely the rights of ! the workinginan are not less. Vet society treats him as if they were. Everywhere tho I rights of man as man are being asserted and : acknowledged. Even the criminal, who has arrayed himself against human society ami 1 declared war against its laws and customs, ns soon as arrested is treated as a being for j whose improvement society is responsible. It provides him with wholesome food, adequate shelter, suitable clothing and such instruction 1 and moral influence as are supposed to have a humanizing tendency. Tliis is coming to he the demand everywhere : and the practice in many places. Hut tho workinginan is never thought of as one for whom it should care. He maybe starving or freezing. He may tramp from one end of tho country to the other in search of work, but so long as he is thought to ho industriously in clined—and really anxious for work—so long as he is believed to be honest and above all burglary or theft he may tramp and freeze or j starve at will. Society will never interfere, llut the moment lie is suspected of vagrancy, of unwillingness to work, of readiness to steal or murder,society is all alert. It is ready then to take hold of him und do for him something I that will help him to better, nobler manhood. Our jails and penitentiaries are full because society neglects its duties to the men and wom en, the boys and girls, who without its aid are powerless to keep the doors of opportunity open. Unscrupulous greed and avarice on the part of the great manipulators of our indus trial activities close these doors in their faces, and they cannot force them open. The greatest labor saving inventions, which ought to have lightened the burdens of tho masses and improved their conditions, have ail been turned to the advantage of tho em ployer and often to the injury of t he workmen. More and more machinery is doing the work that formerly required skilled mechanics. As skilled labor gives place to unskilled the aver age wage is relatively lower, ami the put chas ing power of the average workman decreased. This in turn diminishes tho market for goods i and causes still others to be thrown out of em- ! ployment. Add to these things the existence of a large class of shrewd, cunning, unscrupu lous gamblers in real estate, iu grain and pork, in stocks, mines ami railroads, who manipu late all these industries simply to make for tunes for themselves, utterly regardless of tho interests of the people, and it is easy to see why the progress of invention and discovery | lias been more than outstripped by the prog- ! ress of poverty. All of these classes who have preyed upon i tho people organized society has wittingly or unwittingly aided and abetted in their rob beries. These poop!--, feeling that their inter ests were antagonistic to those of their work men, that their profits would be greatest when the wages of their men were least, have natu rally sought by every means in their power *o keep wages clow n and to break the power of all labor organizations through which work ingmen have striven to force them up. In this conflict the advantage has, in the very i nature of the case, been on the side of the capitalist. He bus been able to command for j any use to which he desired to put it much of I the ablest legal talent of the country. Very I much of it, even in our national legislature, j has been ever ready to prostitute itself at liis j call, und the result has been a vast amount of class legislation. Doubtless much of tills, owing to tho bias which men have in favor of their own class, lias seemed to its advocates wholesome anil necessary. Capitalists have such an exalted notion of their importance to tho community, anil men generally are so much inclined to their opinion, that we need not suppose that all the legisla tion which favored them and robbed the people was passed with any clear sense of its wrong ful character. Hut that legislation of this character abounds and disgraces the annals of our professedly republican government needs lio proof. The laboring men of this country | have an indisputable right to have all such i legislation repealed. They have a light iu ' more than this. They have u right to such a I reconstruction of our industrial system us will i give every man and woman, regardless of übil- I ity, training, aptitude, an opportunity to earn an honest and decent subsistence and to put themselves in respectable and wholesome sur roundings. They have a right to this, ami ; they have a right to take whatever actionis necessary to enable them to get it. Have they, then, the right to prohibit other men from working in shops from which they have been locked out, or in which they have struck, for wages they have declined to take? This, I am well aware, is a grave question. liut it is the very question with which we arc brought face to face in the present trouble. We must not dodge it. My answer is: If such action is necessary to secure for labor a just reward, and for all laborers those higher rights of justice anil manhood, the securing and maintaining of which is the one end or business of all government, then they have that right. If the intelligent, thoughtful, hon est laboring men, by a careful study of this question, have reached the conclusion that only organized labor can protect itself from enslavement by organized capital; if they lind that the policy of noninterference mean* 1 a decrease of wages, a falling off in the power ' of the wage earner to purchase goods, and a ' consequent falling off in tho demand for goods, \ , with further additions to the army of the un j employed, then they will feel obliged to use every means in their power to strengthen their organization, force every wageworker into their ranks, and present a united and un broken front to the common foe. This seems to bo tlio growing conviction of , wageworking men. The general indorsement by them of the position taken by the men at Homestead indicates that they are sett ling down to this conclusion. They have reached it, let me spy, very reluctantly and only under serious pressure from the logic of events. They liavo sought very earnestly to reach their ends by other arid more generally approved meth ods, but the agencies through which tliey have sought to work—the dominant political pur tics—have continually failed them. These par ties are controlled by tho money power of the country, which is every year growing more concentrated and vigorous in its grip. | IJut in my judgment there is hope for tho I people yet, without resorting to the violence threatened to nonunion labor. It is in the I lamer of the people still to secure all that they ' have the right to ask. whenever they can agree as to their need and unite and pull together. Fortunately in form we are still republican in government. In this country it is the peo ple's right to rule. And as people have rights only that they may do right it is their duty to rule. They have themselves greatly to blame for the evils under which they suffer. The aims which have ruled the plutocrats have too often ruled them. ! They, too, have sought to serve themselves rather than their country or mankind, and so they have been theeosv tools of demagogues, who, under pretense of serving them, have had no aim but to serve themselves. They ure learning through sore trial and bitter cxperi | ence the great reality of the common brother hood- When they jwwe unity of purpose and ' spirit among themselves they can do what they win. They have tho votes. If they will get tho intelligence to use them wisely, and the courage to use them fearlessly they may soon remedy all these wrongs. That, in my judgment. Is the wisest and sur est way, because it is tho way best fitted to make for the character that such reforms de mand in those who would carry them. Still 1 do not forgot that tho right of revolution is a right made sacred to the American people by their early history, and if the exercise of this right was a virtue in the fathers it maybe come so in the children. All the more perhaps because it aims not to overthrow the form of government, but only to bring its administra tion into harmony with the principles it pro claims to the world. Legally of course tho men locked out of the Homestead mills have no right to interfere with other men who choose to labor on terms they saw lit to decline. Rut the right of revolution is a right that disre gards all law that stands in the way of the cud it proposes to reach. There aro many other phases of this subject that I would like to discuss, but 1 will close by calling your attention to a thought which I have not seen alluded to iu all the voluminous literature called forth by this painful event. Much has been said of' tho disgraceful brutal ity with which the I'inkertons were treated after their surrender. I have not seen it any where noticed that this sort of character is the ' legitimate product of our existing competitive ; industrial system. The same type of charac ter, 1 grant you, is found abundantly else where. And there is much in our present civilization that makes against it. liut the system which obliges men to fight for a place to work, as hogs around a trough fight for a place to feed, appeals only to i he lower and animal element in our nature. So long as it obtains among us our civilization will never bo anything more than a thin ve neering. Scratch through that and you linda savage in all but the courage, nine times out of ten. if you would lift society above tho possibility of outrages such us this, you must so reconstruct our industrial system that life will cease to bo a brutal struggle for tho chauce to exist, or for gain or power, and he roine a generous rivalry in mutual service and brotherly ministration. Two (.'uses Out of Thousands. Mrs. Kate McKinlcy, a widow, of 178 Spring street, tried to kill herself at midnight on Thursday by taking paris green. She was a necktie maker and sup ported herstlf and two children. Her husband died in 1881). Mrs. McKinley wrote tho following letter, which tells her story, to her sister, Miss Maggie Lamb, of 480 Pearl street, before taking the poison: DEAR SIMTKK I cannot work; lost my health and concluded to end my sod life. 1 hope my God will forgivo me. 1 cannot help this act. Huvo struggled for last thrco and a half years. Cannot struggle longer. My cough lias mo worried to death. Put tho children iuto a homo and sell all my things. Whatever they bring, bury mo with it. to put you to so much trouble. Maggie, forgive your unhappy sister. KATIE. Tho landlord wants his rent. I cannot pay him. 1 paitl liim live dollars, and how lie abased mo for the other eight dollars! I want to ilio before you go away. Mrs. McKinley was taken to St. Vin cent's hospital. Her condition is critical. Christian Mullcr, sixty years old, of 10G7 First avenue, a German furrier, hanged himself in an unoccupied shed in Sixty-seventh street, between First and Second avenues, some time Thurs day night. lie was dead when some children who were playing in the ad joining lot entered the shed yesterday morning. Muller left a letter written in German setting forth that he was out of work, had no money and was not able to pay his rent. He was a widower with three children, who are destitute. —New York Paper. lluuiorti of au Ironclad Contract. A dispatch from Rochester, N. Y., I sayß: I Railroad employees aro quietly but j ! earnestly discussing tho events con- | 1 nected with the recent strike in Buffalo. | ' {Said one of them this morning: ! The boys have been given something to think of this week by a rumor which i | seems to bo well founded, and which, if true, is of great importance to them. It 1 is understood that all the trunk lines ' have decided to draw contracts which I all employees will be required to sign on Jan. 1, and a provision of each con- j tract will be: 1. That one month's wages i shall he reserved at all times during the i employee's connection with tho com- ; pany. 2. That the men shall give the company thirty days' notice of intention to leave. 3. That any attempt upon the part of an employee to strike or combine ! with others to force tho company to i come to terms will result in the imme diate discharge "I the employee and the | forfeiture of his deposit of one month's j pay. 4. That the company reserves the , right to discharge an employee at once ' for cause. Now, if this should prove to ' be the case, the employees would refuse to a man to sign the contract, and one of tho biggest strikes the country has ever seen would be precipitated. The scheme of course would be a death blow to all organizations among railroad em ployees. A Labor Scheme. Aii article signed by "Walter Webb," ! which appeared in a recent issue of a daily paper, proposed the following so lution of the strike question: Have a law passed by the United States appointing a lion political arbi- I tration board, and when a dispute arises between employer and employed let tho board proceed to the seat of the diffi culty, hear testimony of both sides and render a decision. If the employer did not see lit to abide by said decision, and refused to run his place by its terms, let the government either pension these workmen until they could find other employment or set them at work on some kind of government work —say, build a highway from the Atlantic to tho Pacific, or in building coast de fences. Hire a Dig Lawyer. The great labor unions should each employ the best lawyer that the corpor ations have It ft (>i)en to employment. Associated capital has won by this plan, and associated labor can contend suc cessfully only by following the exam ple. First class legal talent is needed lor guidance all the time, and the very top of the lawyer market for special oc casions. This would take money, hut it would be a practical way of expend ing it.—National Labor Tribune. Labor advocates in Chicago are inters . csted in a scheme to provide hotel ac commodations to mechanics and mem bers of labor organizations during tho World's fair. They want to erect a 1,000 room hotel and rent the rooms at one dollar a day. WAGES BREAK DOWN. SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE OF A LIST OF BOGUS WAGE ADVANCES. Investigation Proves That Pretended In creage In Protected Indugtrle* Had No Foundation in Fact—Protectionist)! At tempt to Hoodwink Wage Earners. Tlio World published several weeks ago a compilation of 500 strikes, lock outs and wage reductions in protected industries. Immediately the protection ists sent out orders for quick returns of increases of wages, and the land was searched from one end to the other. At length returns from twenty-eight establishments were received pretending to show that wages had been increased in them under the McKinley tariff law. On its face the showing could not be said to be satisfactory, but Mr. John Do Witt Warner has examined the beggarly list and has found that even it exaggerates the benefits of the McKinley act to the wage earners. In the first item it was shown that ; just before the passage of the McKinley | bill wages in the establishment had been i reduced twenty-five cents a day in one department and cents in another. , After the passage of the act the wage 3 were restored 12) £ cents a day all around, leaving the wages of the iron molders still less than they had been in , 1888. J The second establishment employed four men and about twenty girls. An i increase of 5 per cent, had been report ! ed. The operatives assert, however, that I there was no increase whatever. I The same tale is told of the third es . tablishment, in which an advance of 10 ' x>er cent, was claimed. This is what is said of the fourth cs | tablishment by the agent who investi ; gated its reported increase in wages <-f I 10 per cent.; "This repoyt of an increase ! of wages in their works is a deliberate and barefaced lie. There has been no j increase whatever in ten years." i In the fifth establishment an em | plovee, on being shown the report that ; his wages had been raised, exclaimed, , "What a lie!" j In tlio sixth the only changes had been | in reduction of wages. The seventh em ployed fifteen or twenty hands, and | wages had not been raised. There was no such establishment as the eighth, i The ninth employed two men. The pay of one of them had been raised from I twenty-five cents to fifty cents a day, | while that of the other remained sta tionary at §1.25. j Wages in the tenth had not advanced. "There has not been a single advance," is the report, "but there have ben j scores of reductions." One of the pro- I prietors of the eleventh establishment seid that there had been no advance, i adding, "The McKinley bill has not i helped us, nor has it had any material j effect on our business." He is a highly protected gloveinaker, his tariff tax Hav ing been increased from 50 to 74 and 80 per cent. Another gloveinaker, the twelfth, thought that his wages might | have been raised, but ho was very un- i certain. In tlio thirteenth concern the mer. said 1 that their wages were slightly advanced because they were agitating the subject , of a strike. In the fifteenth an advance of per ! cent, was made this year, although in ! 1888 the employers had promised a sub- j stantial increase if Harrison was elected. , In the fifteenth the men obtained it.. I increase of 10 percent, after a fight, and j this advance, to quote one of them, didn't ' put them " 'alf back where wo was eight 1 or ten years ago." In the sixteenth, seventeenth and j eighteenth establishments there had been no increase in wages. There was no i such establishment as the nineteenth. In the twentieth wages had been raised ! from three to four dollars a week. In the ' twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty- j third and twenty-fourth there had been ! no advance. In the twenty-fifth the pay of a few individuals had been increased. 1 The employees in the twenty-sixth ' said that they would nut have known of the alleged increase if they had not read ! about it in the newspapers. In the twenty-seventh a few inc •eases j had been accompanied by more reduc- I lions. In the twenty-eighth wages had been increased in answer to the demands of the operatives, who, however, were ; still dissatisfied. The effort to discredit The World's ! list of 500 strikes and wage reductions ! by twenty-eight falsehoods about in- * crease of wages cannot be called emi- I nentlj successful. The wage earners j know too much about their own incomes to make possible such a game as that ! tried by the hard pressed protectionists. —New York World. "Reduction ad Ultimura." Suppose that pauper labor goods would not only come in free of duty, but free of cost; what a disaster would I befall us! Every one who now pro ; duced these goods would have absolute- I ly liuthin i'• d. This certainty would bo the extension of the free trade idea ! to its worst possible phase, and yet who ' among our protectionist friends would Rot b 1 I around thewharf at dis tribution time? Were he asked why he did not reject the good things, his an- \ swer would bo the free traders', "There 1 is more fun in getting plenty with little | or no work than in working hard to get j few tilings." His concern for the shoe- | maker and tailor would vanish as he 1 saw them imitating his example. And then there would ho time for him to j study the reason why there ever was opposition to any approach to the mil- , lennium of industrial economy.—St. Louis Courier. 1 "Tho tin plate industry is rapidly get ting into the hands of the American," is the proud boast of McKinley. The latest intelligence from the west shows this particular industry to bo largely in the ■ 1 Uands of the Indiana sheriff- ' WORKMEN STARVING!. But the Militia Would Be Called Out if They Averted the Fli nt Law of Nature. A correspondent of a New York daily paper writing from May's Landing, N. J., under date of Aug. 29, told the fol . lowing heartrending story: t Representatives of the United Hebrew Trades of New York are at Ziontown, a Hebrew settlement four miles from Ma laga, investigating the charges that the i people have been induced to go there to invest their money in homes under prom [ ise of work, and were left destitute and actually starving by Jacob Zion, a New ? York manufacturer, who owns all the property of the settlement. The condi tion of affairs was found to be serious. Two or three families have been saved from starvation only by eating green > fruit and what little food they could I beg in the neighborhood. The settlement at present consists of a I two story shirt factory, a half dozen I small frame dwellings and a half dozen . more in different stages of completion, upon which no work has been done for six weeks. There are about thirty He -3 brew families, most of whom came di rectly from Castle Garden and have t every cent they own in the world invest ed either in lots or half finished houses. For six weeks they have had no work. Some of them are only keeping from actual starvation by charity, and two families will be tomorrow thrown out of the houses for which they have given up their last cent because they can't keep up the payments. The process by which this condition was reached is a peculiar one. Mr. Zion 1 declares that no blame attaches to him, i but he would have received a very warm welcome had he visited the settlement yesterday, as was expected. Zion, who i 3 the head of a large New York cloak . manufactory, purchased a large tract of i land at Zion. He erected a factory and offered steady employment to all who would purchase a lot and build a home. He arranged with a building associa tion for the erection of the houses, the . settlers to pay for them in installments from the wages he guaranteed them. The factory was fitted up, and in Feb ruary My. Zion brought about thirty Hebrew families from New York. A majority of them were newly arrived immigrants, and most of them had about enough money to purchase one of Mr. Zion's lots for twenty dollars, and pay the building association sufficient to jus tify them in beginning work on the houses. The settlement was to be conducted on what was virtually a co-operative basis, the men and women having the factory practically placed in their own hands, being allowed to choose their own foreman and being assured good wages. Things went along swimmingly for some tipie, the settlement prospered and new houses were built. Then the work fell off and wages fell to five dol lars and six dollars. Mr. Zion was ap pealed to, but said it was the dull sea son and he could do nothing at this time. Then ho leased half the factory to a firm of cloak manufacturers, and they brought most of their work people with them. Work soon ceased altogether in Zion's part of the factory, and the settlers, see ing nothing but starvation ahead, sent one of their number away to secure work. They finally got some cloaks to make, and the goods were sent to them to the factory. Then, they say, Mr. Zion refused to allow them to do the work. They appointed four of their number to try to reach an agreement, the result being a fight in which every one took a hand. The men gained pos session of the mill and went to work, but the next day Mr. Zion arrived and attempted to arrest them. Their friends, including the women, came to their as ; sistance, but the sheriff arrived with twenty-two men, and part of them were arrested and sent to jail. Then Mr. Zion left them upon their own resources. They had no work and no inonoy. Tho carpenters and builders ceased work on their houses, and the , building associations demanded the pay- I ment of assessments, with the alterna tive of foreclosing the mortgages on the houses. This is how things have stood for six weeks, and now the settlers' for tunes are at their lowest ebb. Those working in the new factories livo well and divide their food as far as possible. Five children of the settlers are fed regularly every day. The men cannot go away because they have no money, and for the same reason they can't stay there much longer. Almost all of them are in the same plight, and those who are destitute have been living on apples and pears gathered from the neighboring farms. Karly Hlnt-urbance*. Those who think that strikes in Amer ica are of recent origin are much mis taken. The first strike of which there is any record occurred in New York in 1741, when the journeymen bakers de manded an increase of wages. As this was refused the men left their work in a body. Their action aroused public in : dignation, and the leaders were ar rested and tried for conspiracy. No ; other strike occurred till 179G, when the makers of fine boots and shoes in Phila j delphia demanded more pay and were refused. After remaining idle a few days they went back to work at the old prices. Two years afterward, however, they started another strike und suc ceeded. From that time to this strikes have constantly increased. —Bethlehem | Times. Street Cur Employee*. ! In a communication to the New York Advertiser Mr. John Henry makes the charge that on some of the lines of street cars in New York city the drivers and conductors are compelled to work fifteen hours a day. He calls attention to an other outrage put upon the employees by the street car syndicate. It is the practice of compelling the employees to pay full fare when riding over the lines from their homes to the point where they go to work and from their work I back to their homes. 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Those tliat have heard of it and seen something of its wonderful power, are curious to know how an instrument so small and so simple can accomplish cures so great. Now, while the Kleetropoise is very wonderful, it is not at all mysterious. Its operation falls in with what we know of sf ience and anv one at ail fumiliur with the simplest facts of ltiology and Physics can understand. HOW IT OI'KKATKS. The way In wliich the Electropoise accomplishes its cures is very simple and natural. It consists of a pnUirizcr, which is connected by a. woven wire cord with a small plate and garter. This polarizer is ini- A mersed In cold water, or put on ice. The plate at the other end of the cord is attached to the warm body of the patient, generally at the ankle. From the Inherent nature of tiiis polarizer it becomes ncyutfvclii Chuiyctl. Hy the well-known laws of induction, the plate, and with it the body of (lie patient, becomes intuitively charged. The body thereby becomes a centre of attraction for inutility bodies. Oxygen is the most negative form of matter in nature. Ileuce the body, bathed in the atmos phere, drinks in the life-giving oxygen at every pore. Every process of life is thereby quickened. The temperature rises; the pulse tilrolis with a fuller beat; the skin tingles with new life; every organ acts with renewed vigor, and the effete poisonous products of "the body are thrown off with ease. That quickened change of matter which oxygen produces throughout the system, is accompanied'by a largely increased genesis of Nerve Force. Organs hall dead and stag nant are born again, and begin to perform their wonted functions. The heart, the lungs, the liver, the organs of the external senses, the organs of reproduction all these throw off their derangement and weakness, and even the disordered intellect is otttimcs reeiithronisl. Where disease has not already made 100 great ravages, restoration to perfect licalili is in evitable. The Kleetropoiso is generally used at night while the patient is asleep, imt may he applied, of course, at any time, aud to several persons during (lie twenty-lour hours It will list a life-time, never wears out nor loses its strength, never needs mending nor recharging. One in each family will render that family largely independent of doctors and druggists, aim thus will save every year im.n> times its -nulll cost. NOT AN KI.KCTKH'AL A I'l'El A N'fK, The Kleetropoise is not in any way akir to the numerous electrical appliances, such as lulls, insult s, curst Is, shit Itls, Yc„ palmed oil upon the public. Il has no method ol generat ing a current means ot conducting one. It acts upon well-known biological principles, and is heartily endorsed by many ol tho best physicians in this aud other countries, ami is daily used by them in their practice. It is pro nounced by tliein (lie greatest discovery in the history of medicine, in that it does awa\ with , tin- use <f medicines. DIRECTIONS FOR I SI \H. Accompany ing each instrument lsahook of instructions fully explaining its uses. Its method of cure is so si Hi pie and free from danger, that the un initiated and even children can use il witli per fect ease and success. Editorial in Ihtsltni ('hrislhtn Witnessn.nl Atl vnctifenf llll,lc Holiness, .Septemberff, IH1M: "A method ol treatment of disease without the use of any medicines or drugs, which lias * been quietly extending itself over all parts of the United States during the past three years with very gratifying results. We uro slow to commend new discoveries of any kind, for the reason that so many of them prove to bo worth less. Ihit we can commend the Electropoise us a safe and effect i\e hen I 111 restorer. We do not pretend to explain the philosophy of its workings, but, having realiz ed its lienellciul effects, we can speak of its re sults. About one year ago we recommended it to Hro. I. i). Ware, of I'hiludclpliiu, for his son, i who was a great sufferer from Sciatica. He had sought relief in various ways and found , none. He was almost helpless, und rapidly de ( dining. The use ol the Electropoise restored i him to period health, and now. after nearly a year, he is rejoicing as one who lias found great spoil. We have seen testimonials of most re markable cures. ThisAjutice of the Kleetro poise is without solicit.iNm, and entirely gra tuitous. We do it for the good of the afflicted, j We have no personal interest in it, and are not ! paid for what we say in its lavor." The following editorial in ('rutml Millnslisl, ('utlcttsbiirg, Ky., was written by Xcplmuhili ,j Mock, I). I)., editor: "Unless about ton thousand men, mainly pro j| fessionul men, lawyers, doctors, editors, piviioli -1 ers, and all other classes, including the writer, are very much mistaken, the Kleetropoise el foots cures and gives relief where all other known remedies have failed. Especially is it efficacious in the ease of delicate women and feeble children. I have used one for the past two years, aud lind it invaluable as a curative agent." Names of prominent people in all sections of the (J. S. generally can be furnished on appli cation. (Mir cures cover all parts of the United Stales aud Europe. Over uO,00l) people have been treated Willi the most gratifying results. In the large majority of cases tlm cures have been speedy, bid our claims arc modest, and in long-standing, chronic eases you cannot expect sjieedy cures. Wo posltivcly refuse to sell the Ivk'ctropoise in hopcles.-' coses. rc,r Iook oi testimonials or for any informa tion, send stamp or call at Kleet ropoise Trent ment Company, bill Arch Street, I'll I LA DEI.I'll I A, I'A. lis. F, MCDONALD. Centre and South Streets. . Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Notions, Furniture, Carpets, Etc. It is sufficient to state our stock throughout is the most complete to be found in the region. We Invito you to call and judge for yourselves. '*' will compare prices -villi any dealer in the same line of goods in Ini zorue county. Try us when in need of any of tlie above articles, and especially when you w ant LADIES', GENTS' A:JJ) ('IIIT.DUKN'S BOOTS and SHOES. In every department we offer unparalleled inducements to buyers in the way of high class goods of quality beyond question, and t< those we add unlimited variety in all new novelties and Tlie strong inducements of low prices by which we shall demonstrate that tlie cheapest as well as the choicest stock. 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