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McGregor, are hereby notifi) and commanded to appear at the office of the Clerk of tuo Superior Court for Anson Couty, at the Court House in Wadesborough, . on the &th day of May, 1890, and plead by answer or demurer to the Petition of the T now on tile in this office, or judg 1 be rendered accyjrding U) the pray futition, the same fjrayiiie for final i of tiie Ktufes of Th',-s. J. Gaiidy .! -cMi G. d'sd.ly Dona at ofSse in - tl ,.; -. ' U-h '.Hy nf .Anril, I'-'.'J. flE noise wticnVaad startled the party was made by the return of the detective who bad accompanied Hoi brook. and Annie. "They are safely off in a carriage," he said. "Heavens!" cried Tom, "ho didn't take her butheBtreetiTt V1 1 " ' "Ye3, that's what he did," replied the chiefs assistant. . ."What imprudencel, I, didn't want him to d6 that. He might have been se'en by the parties who abducted her." "I don't think they were. He ran her up to the nest corner and caught the cab there, and was off in a jiffy.. They, at tracted attention from nobody; I was "be-" -iind them all tne way.f,, , s tAU right; if the alarm has been given it can't be helped now. I say, chief, station two men at eacb door "opening !f-ota, the outsideV? Lett "each man take his hooter, and one have a bull's eye reads for oaev Ypn and I will take pur HS aK. ttn.inidilej 4F no W each room. . Shadow, you run down into the street and-lip, up .into the ball outside tliere, so to,give us plentyo wring,. if any one comes upstairs." "I can't; the stairs are enclosed and tbi defof locked rpled Jhe; Shadow. ""I had forgotten that, said Tom. f "Pick it, can't you?' said, then. chief. -H-Qsfa set opskelton4't fQ The Shad"ow ""took" them and disap pearod. "N6w,n said Tom; "to, place the table and chairs where they were," G When this was done, he added: NoW, to your places-, and out with the light." They ere'fn? total JarKriess-.J'wnat light there' was came- from-' the '-dormer windows and the broken skylight. They waited some time in silence, re lieved only by the breathing of the men. Presently they heard a light tread on the outside of the door; then a scratch ing sound. "Is it you, Shadow?" asked Tom. "Yes." 1 "All right. Conceal yourself and don't let the man see you when he comes." ; "U makeweof 4hat."-v-y, ', Then thereiwas a longefa and a longer silence. This was broken by the quick patter of bare feet on the roof, and a vce: ; ."He's a-comin' up de street now; Give it to! 'im good." - I .; ;i : It was the imp, who had constituted himself a skirmisher on the outside, at the skylight. ' Tom- could not restrain a laugh. All public service is performed through self ish consideration, he thought. In a moment more a scratching was heard on the door , v. "Some one's coming," whispered Tom. "Watch both doors." - ::J - ' -- ' Then they heard a hasty stumbling on the stairs, a heavy step in the hall; the door, opening into the rear room was tried; and then further steps and the front room door was tried. - r "I must have left that stair door open myself," was heard in a rough voice, with an oath. : i A key wa3 inserted, the bolts drawn and the door opened. , The owner of the voice advanced into the room, closing the door behind him, and shutting a bolt from the inside. "So.nny ladybird, yer didn't light the lamp I pervided yer with, hey?" ,A light flashed in, his face from the chiefs bull's eye, and the barrel of a re volver was presented full in his fefbe. "Down on your kneest" cried the chief. "Death and d ," cried the starting back. - , He turned with the evident purpose of seizing something, for his arm was out stretched in a wild reaching out. . ' Another bull's eye was flashed in his face, and another revolver presented at his head. ' T -. "That's what it is if . you don't drop," said the man who presented the second bull's eye. " He swept the revolver of this man away with a- quick motion of his arm, and made a wild rush at the chief. - Tom, who had entered from the ad joining room, felled him to the floor Jby a quick blow on the head with the butt end of his revolver. - Before the" man, who was stunned by the blow, could recover himself, one of the assistants, at a word from the chief, clapped a pair of handcuffs upon him, . "Search him," said the chief. A pair of deft hands went through his clothes. '' Nothing of consequence was taken from him except a slip of paper, on which was written ;4n a? plainly dis guised hapd, the, wordst.;, f . , . "At half past 10. Be ready. Give the drug at i0. If not taken quietly, make sure. Want no chance for screaming. Be sure the right amount; not too much. Must be no injury done. 'Want no acoi- Themadsitthii man, 'i rvmVulifoaoVeiit.tT on the floor looked at. hinij sullenly, but did not speak. v ' f ..-' -Th meaning of theVords flashed hpon Tom. Some one , was coming at half past ten, and she was to be drugged so that she could not make a disturbance. He looked at his watch. . It was nearly leu. -"Where is the drug?" he asked. The mau was taken off his guard, and his eyes turned to a shelf in the corner of the room. Tom crossed to the place thus Indi cated. Behind a pile of papers he found a bottle. It was filled with a -colorless liquid. " - ;- . "Ah. ha!" be cried. "Well, my Cno fellow, you won't make sure to-n?-U, ."'! V',:;? f '.' t l orn ' ' I - ' ' - The man turned upon., him a look of bitter malignity, and opened his mouth as if to speak, when he was prevented by a cry of surprise from the chief, Hanford. "- ' ' i ; : ; "Hellol iHelloli Why, rboys, this is' a" capture indeed! And who do you think this is?" bending down and peering into the handcuffed man's face.' .. ' , . , ' "Whor asked Tom. ; : ' ''.l ' i . 'Scar Top Johnny, of "all men In the world.. . This , is a good night's . bauL Twenty-five .hundred dollars reward for this bird. He's been, wanted these eight een months, for the stealing of the child of that rich man near Hartford." -With this, he took the man's head in his hands and parting the hair, showed p. deep scar on it. -. : . ; ' .-' j j . - "An old acquaintance, Tom. I gave him this scar myself six years ago, when he and a gang were robbing express cars in the west." " v; I The nnan had evidently determined that, whatever' else might occur, Bpeech from him 'would not, and he contented himself with bending a look of deep hatred on the jubilant chief. ' " ' Tom,. who( had been looking on this scene with great' interest; said to the man: . - . , You didn't abduct this giri on your own accord. You were hired to do it?" An expression on the scoundrel's face showed, him that he had hit, the truth closely. This time he spoke. ... . ' t "I didn't abduct her." "Oh, you didn't.. You simply took care of her after abduction." 1 This time Tom had hit , the truth squarely, and the man's .face showed it. , "Who was the man who hired yon?" 1 , Scar Top Johnny . regarded Tom with a contemptuous sneer. ... , ; "Well," said Tom, "you can answer or not as you" please. I We can wait for the half-past ten man. He'll telL" . . I The face of Scar Top Johnny lit trp with a passing thought, and n expres sion of resolve passed over it. Tom interpreted it accurately, but be fore he could act upon it, the Shadow gave warning of another comer, and a foot was, heard stumbling in the dark ness. " ' t ; - ; The chief , lio we ver had also penetrat ed the purpose of his prisoner, and press ing the muzzle of his revolver against Scar Top Johnny's head, he said: ' ; "If you utter a cry, or make an alarm, I'll blow your brains out The reward is dead or alive." The next moment there was a knock at the door. . j .-- -Tom," who was closely watching the face of , the villain on the floor,' saw ah expression of surprise flit over it, and saw him turn hi3 head toward the door with a look of curiosity. ' ... The chief called out in a loud voice: : "Enter!" . - . . The door swung open and in walked-r- -Harry Fountain! ; ; i He was dressed in the same kind of a suit as liat the D. S. T.'s had made their uniform. ' - ! ' 1 CHAPTER "XXXIV. THE TRAP. 13 SPRUNG. f ... -. . 'OUNTAIN could isi?! not have been S " more .astonished when he viewed "i the scene before '1 liim than was ' j Tom. r. Jt om was sure, also, tliat the man on : the floor was quite as much as tonished as the rest. Evidently he was not ex pecting Foun tain, and it was also clear that he did not know who he was. . "Take that man into the other room," said Tom, "and don't let him utter a sound. Gag him. Then we'll make sure." He was obeyed. The man attempted to make resistance, but be was quickly overpowered and forced into the other room, where the gag was applied. : Fountain looked upon the scene with undisguised amazement. Tom .waited for him to speak. Finally, having re-, covered from his astonishment, he said: "May I ask the meaning of this strange scene, Mr. Bryan?" " "May I ask the meaning of this strange disguise, Mr. Fountain?" retorted Tom, pointing to his clothes. ' Fountain blushed, but did not reply. . "I will J relieve your astonishment," continued Tom sternlyafter a moment's silence. "This is a rescuing party. These men are detectives. A girl was abducted in broad daylight this morning and confined here. She has just been taken away, having been rescued by my self and friends. Her name, Mr. Foun tain, is Annie Templeton a sister of the murdered Templeton." . -. - - Fountain's face expressed neithei alarm nor fright, nor anything else but intense surprise and interest. "We are -now waiting for the abduc tor," added Tom. "If that's the case, Mr. Bryan, it wen better that I retire." f " : ; 1 He turned to go to the door. I ' Tom made a sign to the two detectives. They stepped forward. - "Pardon me, Mr. Fountain, you can not do that. Ail who enter here are un der arrest." , Light broke in on Fountain, and with it intense anger. He turned on Tom, his eyes blazing. - ; - - . '. - "I I under arrest? YouH find that I am not to be trifled with" Tom interrupted him in a hard, cold. metallic voice, low pi toiles; ; j j.i ; "No heroics, Mrv Fountain, ; . You are my prisoner until you can explain youi presence here in this den. On this partic- " ular night. . Youl"caa frighten no one here; we're used to just such haughty scoundrels as you are, just as we are to vicious rascals like the' one hying in there. ? He's' fwice aa dangerous as you can ever be." .. . t ', ... ; .; The cold self, possession -and master xfulnessof -Tom was 'Irritatine in the highest degree to Fountain; and If" evei; ma coasted, self command : was needed by him it was at that moment. Appear ances wereso strongly against him that, angered as he was, he could, not fail ! to realize It. .j-rt-s ,-. . By a violent effort he put acufb upon his passion, and in a moment heeaid: . " "You think I am the abductor?" . f . "I dont think it; Tm certain of it." "You are mistaken. This was said in a tone as cold and as firm as that Tm had used. . . "Indeed," saiJTorn. "Perhaps you can explain this enigmatical note." Ha handed to To-intn the fV.x ct ' f ountain read it and nanaea it bacK to I I know nothingof It" - ' , r - Tom S was . "somewhat dumfounded. .Then he recollected jthe reputation of the man for coolness and nerve. . .. ,. Fountain in turn took 'from hisvest pocket a slip of paper, and "handing it to Tom. paid:,. ,.; ..... ... v.lFlease;,reaa that,, and .compare it with the scrap you have." . ; Tom read:. - . "If Mr. Fountain desires to see Marian and talk with ' her he must come to No. Mott street, attic floor, at 11 sharp to-nhJr- - . Tom took the other slip from his pock et and compared the two; the writing was in the same disguised hand; he com pared the two scraps evidently, they were torn from the same piece of paper. " ' Tom was puzzled. ' x : "You are an hour before your time," he said. . . . . ; ; ' "I read It ten," said Fountain. "Let me look at it Oh, I see how I made my mistake." Then ha continued: "This is very, mysterious -You and I should have an understanding, Mr. Bryan,. Will you step aside with me?". , . ; ... , , . They went to the dormer window., " "I.am here," Said Fountain, "in obe dience to that writing. Where you. ob tained the other paper I don't know." "From the pockets of that scoundrel lying on the floor in the other room," re plied Tom. "-. 1 ' f , "If you will permit me, I will explain. I am here in this dress because of the place J was to visit and the part of the town I was to pass through. For . some time I maintained a relation with a young woman whose name was Marian Summers. This relation was continued until I became the affianced of a young lady,' whom you doubtless know by name, but who should not be mentioned in this place and in this connection. When that took place, the relation with Marian became an impossibility. . The girl was loath it is a mild word for her feeling to break up the rela tion, and we parted in high passion, but she ; had secured '" certain papers of mine, of exceeding great value and of great damage tojene in any other per son's hands. I have tried again and agam to obtain them.' ' She has sent me several messages of this kind, and it was to go into the strange places she led me to, that I bought. this suit I have never met her, though I, have responded in each instance. I had little hope of see ing her to-night, but these documents were of such value to me that I did ' not dare to miss the chance. t You have the whole story without reservation, except as to the character of the papers. As to those, I can' only 6ay they were letters to my mother and a written statement of hers, which can now only concern me.". : ... ,., ', ;- . 1 J Tom thought he saw it alL "Mr. Fountain," he said, "with this statement of jours now, I think I know more about the matter than you do. 1 think I' see through it alL I think I could even tell you the nature of your mother's statement You are the victim of the sanje plot which has the murdered Templeton and the abducted girl for vic tims. " It touches the elFort to secure old Pierson's" -" ' " j The Shadow put 4da head in the door and said: . 'Hist Some one is coming up the stairs." ' . He went back, closing the door after him. ... -- "Go into the other room, Mr. Foun tain. Quick! Don't say a word or utter a sound whatever you heaT!" Fountain obeyed, impelled by the en ergy of Tom. j The lights were put out, and Tom hastily lit the candle in the back room and placed it behind the door. - , There was a knock. "Come in," Baid the chief in a gruff voice, "it's unlocked." , . The door opened and a man entered. "You should have kept the door lock ed," said a voice. "It's unsafe to leave it so. Is she ready?" " Tom flashed a bull's eye on the new comer. . , , .-. - Before the man could comprehend what was going forward the two men at the door through which he had entered seized him by the arms and' bent them behind lus back. - " Tom moved up to discover who the newcomer was.. , . . . TO BE COSTINtTED. ' A Sermon in Five Lines. By If orris Waite. . ' . "It takes so little to make a child happy tbat it is a pity, in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty bands or ' lonely young hearts." - I found these words in an old news paper the other day. They were headed "A Sermon in Five Lines' and they came heme to me with all the force of a personal appeal. It Uke8 so little to make' a child happy." How many times I had seen the mo trival incident lifs my own little boy into the very esctacy of happiness. How often would some simple gift or a song or a story chase the tears from his eyes and bring the bright smiles to his face. And yet, I thought with a pang of regret, how many times I had chided him need lessly ; how many times I had refused, to exert myself at all for his sake. That very night' he had gorne to bed with' a heavy heart because I ."Would not romp with him. I. was too tired; I s ".Vi ' tX r-.' aj.i-J i-.. ..-Jtr I stepped into the boy's i- room be fore Iwent tobedj thVi InightTand passing my band over his flaxen hair as he. layl' asleep, X i'reaolvel that in the future I would' be a better father : "It isaTMty that ! thert'; should be any wtstfuLrfaoes," empty " hands ibr lonwlyyptjnliart Idropped asieep j-t to j'T -w 1- C ; . . ; j''ji ' '"ryii, i ii NoUse Cutting Flesb Away . to cure cancer, they can be cured by the U8e of Radam's Microbe Killer withoutany opemtion being perform ed, anct w refer you to Dr. W. 11. Park, 202 Oak Etreet. San Francisco, Ca!.; Dr. 11. M. Davi, C, :r.!y Lin-, . DOES ANYBODY LIVE A HUN- . r DREO YEA Its ? . , New York Ledger. ' . ' It "'will be rememberedthat Sir George Cornewall. Lewis .undertook to prove that nobody had ever lived to be a hundred years old. , He' con tended that the reputed centenarians were persons whose history "was.ob. 1 ecu re and whose births could not be verified. ; No one, he maintained who had . lived before.ihe public was included in the number. -Now; on the other hand, an English physician. Dr.' George M, numphrey; brings forward the results of .aa extensive and rigorous investigation, which has shown that the attainment of cen tenarianism is by no means imprac ticable, not less than 6eventy-four persons being enumerated who have unquestionably reached or exceeded the age of a hundred years. Nothing for instance, could be.beter authenti cated than the longevity of the fa mous French savant, Chevreul, who was more than a hundred and two years when he died last year. . . In 1875, Sir Duncan Gibb recorded the case of a great-aunt of a Mr. Williams, who bad sat at the head of her own table for a hundred Christ mas days, having Teen "married at the age of fifteen. We observe that Dr. Humphrey puts faith in the extra-ordinary age ascribed Id Thomas Parr (one hundred and fifty-two years) on the ground that William Harvey, who performed the post mortem . examination. . would have taken pain to ascertain the truth had -he had cause to suspect that an imj option had been practiced. In the case, too, of John Bayles, said to have been, one hundred. aad;.thirty yeai 8 old when he died in 1706, there is extant a medical description with details, that satisfied the observers of the correctness of the reputed 'age. Outside of England there have beep trustworthy examples of centenarian ism. not mentioned . by Dr. Hum phrey. When we bear in mind the fact tbat the bishops of the Greek church are eyen more careful to reg ister birth than are the English paro chial clergy, we must accept, as de serving-of credence,: the - statement made to Sir Henry Halford, by Baron Brunow, the Russian Ambassador to the Court of St. James, that there is, on the borders of Siberia, a district where a year seldom passes in the course of which some person does not die at the age of one hundred and thirty. Then, again, from official accounts of deaths' in the Hussion empire in 1839, it appears that there were eight hundred and fifty eight persons hose ages ranged from one hundred to one hundred and five; one hundred and thirty ranging from one hundred and fifteen to one hun dred and twenty; and three from one hundred and fifty to one" hundred and fifty-six. At Danfzic,one was said to have lived to one hundred and eighty-four, and, in the 'next year, 18-10, another died in Wallachia at the last mentioned age. In ancient times, also, there are official records of centenariamsm, whqse accuracy it is not easy to im peach. Thus, when Vespasian made his census in A. D. 74, there were found to be, in the Roman empire, fifty-nine persons who were just a century old ; one hundred and four, teen who were from one hundred to one hundred and ten years of age; two from one hundred and ten to one hundred and twenty i-five; four from one hundred and twenty-five to one hundred and thirty; three from one hundred and thirty-five to one bun dred and forty. Among the distin guished persons whoso age there would be abundant means of verify ing, may be mentioned Fabius Maxi mus, who died a centenarian; Tereri tia, the wife of Cicero, who, according to some, lived to be one hundred and three, according to others one hun dred and twelve; Claudia, the wife of the Senator Aurelius, who died at one hundred and fifteen, . It is, also, to be noted that on the. tenth anni versary of the taking of the Bastile, Bonapafte, then first consul, received two invalid soldiers, ono of one hun dred and six, the other of one hun dred and seven years; and that, in 1822, PietroHuel, who was then one hundred ajad seventeen years old, and the only Frenchman living who had seen Louis XIV., assisted at the in auguration of the statute , of the Grand Monarch. - It is interesting to learn that of forty six centenarians with regard to whom Dr. Humphrey procured de tailed information, fifteen took ho alceholic beverages, while only one isdescribed ns taking a great deal of beer." Out of forty-five, only twelve smoked tobacco And. bui three took snuff. Only three -out of forty-one were' vegetarian 9. - Less than' one in five was fat, and none was'talL Out of forty-five,''' only seven - were be'd ridden and .only one is depicted as absolutely ..childish,. v. .The memory -of ten . failed,, but, .on thdwhole, the po were of reasoning and observation remained " unimpaired: - From 'the post mortem exam inations' of Thomas parr and ' John Bayles the inference seems justified tbatan extraordinary vigor of certain vital .organs rather than any special regimen is th con dition of extreme longevity. - Imperfect dipTt'on ani assimilation pro- duco disc-rdored cmd:t:iv of !-! s"v.m A, KENTUCKY VKNDKTTA. y : - -;i .- s -i Graphic History of the Howard-Tamer , ' ,'"-,. .Warfare. r ' . Chicago Inter:Oceaa. . . . ( . Wicks Howard and Bob Turner had been - drinking moonshine whisky in a doggery in the village of Harlan, which is the county seat of Harlan, in the state of Kentucky .n -Jurnor be came drunk, then. sleepy; and-he slept While he was sleeping a fellow, named Little struck a match and set his hair on, fire. Turner woke and demanded to know, who was burning bim before his appointed time. Little said that Wicks Ho ward had applied the match.. This, was nearly ten years ago. Turner .and; Howard fought, with pistols of course, and Turner was killed Howard, was tried, and ac cording to the custom of the country, acquitted, . ..: . . i .Then, it now .being. 1882, Turner's surviving brother sought to kill Wicks Howard. Both Turner the second, whose name was Will, and. Howard were wounded in this second duel, which- grew . ouV oE tha joke of a drunken, mau. ; ; tVill -Turner fled to Texas, but soon returned, then Turner the - third, whose jpame .was George, made - proclamation , that "Bull dog Will" was on his native heath again, and defied the clan of Howards to do battle, with the clan of Turners. . The battle was fought, and Bulldog Will was slain.. Twenty Turners and twea ty . Howards took part in this third fight, which had occasion in a drunk ard's jest. Wilson Howard was in dicted for the murder of Will Turner, Wilson Howard was not kith-or kin to Wicks Howard; he just fought against the Turners because be did not- like them. -- One of "them - had whipped -him when he was a boy. Wilson (commonly 'WUV) also es caped justice, according to the custom of the country. After this Wicks Ho warS drops out of the roster of fighters, -and "Wila" becomes leader, of the 'Howards, though alien to the family. - Wicks, however, had killed Turner, the fourth, whose name' was Robert, on ' March 7th, 1882. 'The Howards defied the law; Sheriff King tried to arrest the ieaders of the clan, but in vain. : WThile 4WTils" Howard was on bail for the killing of Will Turner, he shot : at George Turner, who returned the fire, but neither, was hurt. In July, 1886,- five years after the perpetration of the drunk ard's joke,''Wils" Howard shot and killed James McKnight. McKnight was a friend of the Turners; he had come to Harlan to pass an examina tion for the place of school teacher. His crime was that he boarded with some of the Turner tribe. - The same day " Wils" shot and wounded Charles B. Turner, he ran amuck, shooting at women and children, and fled beyond the stream of Clear Fork. This was on a Monday. Oo Tuesday he 6hot and killed Alexander Bailey, who was a friend of ihe Turners. After that he shot and killed George Turn er, " Then be fled to Missouri. , Will Jennings was with ''Wils'? Howard'at the killing of Baily ; he has been arrested, and the whole clan Howard, with its numerous allies in Harian county, is in arms to overawe the jury irapannelei to try him, and to rescue him if convicted. Three regiments of the state troops of Ken tucky have been called on to send parts of their forces to surpress the clan Howard. Six of the state troops have been Hhot by the Howards; no Howard has been shot by the state troops. All this in Kentucky in the year of our Lord 1890. Gloves of Human Skin. Philadelphia Record. ' - "Gloves which" are sold as kid are often made of human skin," said Dr. Mark. L Nardyz, the Greek physi cian, of Philadelphia.' the other day. "The skin on the breast," continued the physician, "is soft and pliable, and may be used in the making of gloves. When people buy gloves they never stop to question about the materialof which they are made. The shopkeeper himself may be in ignorance, and the purchaser has no means of ascertaining whether the material is human skin or not. The fact is, the tanning of human skin is extensively carried on in France and Switzerland.- The product in manu factured into gloves, and these are imported into this country. Thus, you see, a person - may be wearing part of a distant relative's body and not know it."" ' '" - -'"-"'". "' Then the doctor drew from a drawer a brand be w' pair of gloves. .' , . 1 Tnere, he said, 'is a fine article made from the' skin' of a child. . As the hide of a kid compares with that of an adult, and it is much sought In Franco for glove purpose.. .vi ;;iA Boj'p Compoaltlon. t'''i From Tom Kvans, Latter to the North State. I heard of a boy'B composition to day that struck me "as purely origi uoL'Here itis. lie- wrote on man. Said be: "Man's an animal, & He bus eyes -that he sees with ; nose that he smells with, And mouth that he eats with. He is split at the end and walks' on that end," - If Joo Caldwell can beat that the hatis bis, , DOES PARU1SO PAVr Effect of the High Tariff on the Farm ' ' "; ' ' , era. " .' ' ' " . Baltimore San." 'u , The readers of the Sun have noted the results of our recent inquiry, "does farming pay?" in the shape of numerous .replies from those who know. "A little inquiry lias .been prosecuted by an Indianapolis journal with substantially similar results. The farmers of Indiana are not, it is found, in as-good a position financi ally, as they were a year ago. . Wheat 6ells for 75 cents, against $1 a year ago Command oata have fallen six cents abushcL .There is a depression of two cents a pound in the live bog market, while barrel pork has fallen to $5 a barret Other bog products are down in the sams proportion. The i cropa have been satisfactory, but they bring less than formerly, and the decline continues, from year to, year. With this decline of the value of , the fa'rmer's product, there has been "a corresponding decline in the value of his land investment. Lands situated near manufacturing towns like South Bend have depriciated like the rest A farm for which $65 an acre 'was offered in yain a few years ago, was recently sold at $36. , One farmer, who has for .many years kept a record of his operations, states that formerly, he made 15 per cent, profit yearly on his investment in a farm of 110 acres,' while during the past ten years he does not average over 3 12 per cent. On 320 acres he cannot now do as well as he formerly did on 110. At the same'time that the profit and capital , have been growing less the cost of living has been increasing. The sugar, trust has, put up the prce of sugar, and the other trusts, thanks to ihe protection they.get from a high tariff, has f ollqwed its example. The "home( market" afforded by the es tablishment of manufacturers hear at hand has proven a delusion, as it pays for the, farmer's products only the prices fixed in" the foreign market. In New Hamspjiire the steam whistles of. the factories reverbrate over the fields, of 851 abandoned farms. In VermomVthe case is still worse though the farmers there use the bells and whistles of neighboring factories in lieu of dinner horns. .A cash market for produce at one's door is of no avail if the cash received does not pay a profit on the value of one's la bor and investment. The railroads, with their cheap transportation rates, have destroyed the superiority of the home market over any othor. vVhat the consumer of agricultural produce does nowadays is to send to Chicago for his beef, to Minneapolis for his flour and to Nebraska for his corn, if his farmer friend in the neighborhood asks a paying price for his produce.' The prices prevailing at centres like Chicago, and Minneapolis are deter-1 mined at, Liverpool and London, where the , farmer's surplus is sold. . It amounts to this, then, that the farmer buys his sugar and other necessaries in a home market mado dear by the protective tariff and sells his products in a cheap foreign market in compe tition with all the world. How has he gotten in this, absurb position? Everybody is prospering just now but he. Evidently somebody has been too smart for him. An Indiana farmer tells bow it is. 'Thelawsof the coun try," 6ays he, - "are made in the in terest of anybody but the farmer, and until be" wakes up to that fact and demands his right he can never have hisbhare In the coun try's prosperity." The Tariffost of Being an American. New York Herald. McKinley prices to Americans' are going to be. higher than present prices, , for the McKinley tariff puts higher duties on almost everything that Americans use. . Bui prices to foreigners are to be as low as ever. The tariff cost of being an Ameri can citizen is 60 great that it would be money in his pocket to make him self a foreigner, rThe highly protect ed "home rnanufacturer",ilay8 . his heavy hand on the American citizen, and that is what , he wants a tariff for. For instance:- .t A v , .... Under the present tariff and before we get to HcKinley prices - American axes cost, American citizens $7 76 per dozen, but the same axes are sold by the same American manufacturers to foreigners for $6.75 per. dozen. A plough for which the American farm er is charged by the American manu facturer $11 is sold to foreigners by the same manufacturer for $3.40. A plough for which the American man ufacturer charges bis fellow citizens, the American farmer, f 5.60; the same manufacturer. Bells ta a foreigner for $5 04. -- For a gang plough the Amer ican manufacturer charges the Amer ican, farmer $53 80,; .but ha charges the ,foreigneii only $52 92, Fois a dozen shovels ' the Amricm tnanu facturer charges his fellow citizens $9.20vbut he lets the foreigner have them for $186. ? -, . t -A , - . The copper lords having got in 1S61 so, .heavy a duty on foreign copper ores aa to excludeahfse ores entirely and thus give them a mouopuly of the celebrated, f'hocne market." have for many years sold the surplus cop per in Europe a'cent or two" per pound rhap?rnhii they -would ed! it to American to the great injury of American copper workers and tlm depression of tli ws.j of this Kire in ci"'s or r ever anii-.w.e, bi.xxl is as ciasa ot mechaiiics. What is the use cf helr Arum-i cans w r.eu i.iws ar t: NEff NOTES. A thousand sajoons have been ck ia Baltimore by high licence. A man dropped dead in Spok; the other day oa hia " way . to in a letter lo his wife telling her he w well. v 7,; . . - It ia reported that a rein f bla marble has been discovered iw Fincastle,Va. There is i noue f u: elsewhere in the United States. Gen. Alger landed in Detroit at tl close of the war " without a cent, ar had to borrow money to pay b board bilL At present be is woittj sometning over $20,000,000. , Jay Gould's daily income has bees estimated recently at $6,446, Coru-e , nus v anaerowt e at -fid., ouu j. liocseieiier s at $i,na anu v iuia Waldorf Astor's at $23,593. There are one hundred and forty seven clerical and one hundred an forty six lay del-gates present at lb Methodist Eyiscopal Conference t session at St Louis. A well thirteen hundred feet deep is to be sunk in the suburbs of Lon don, furnished with stairs and illum inated, to enable students to study the geological strata of the little island. ; . The poor house and insane asylum at Preston. N. Y-, were destroyed by fire Wednesday nizht; the inmates were all safely removed, with the exception of eleven idiots, who were burned to death. In 1888 We Paid in penfons $S0.. 2S8.508.77. In 18S9 we paid $37,624, 779.11. The cost of tho German army it may be interesting to note, is for this' year" estimated at $91,726,298. Besides our pensions our army costs $30,000.000. ' - " ' ' - J ;'v A novel way of raising money to build a'church has been adopted by a congregation in an Iowa town. They borrowed $120,000. and gave life in surance on a number of the members, which' ia.to be applied on the debt as fast as death ensues. - ' . Gen. B F,- Butler, in a speech in Boston last Thursday night, predicted a financial panic in this country ia consequence of the $3,450,000 farm mortgages in the Western States, which, he said, cmnot be paid, prin cipal or interest. . Texas contains 274.623 square miles, equal in extent to the New Fngland States, New .York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey arid Delaware. If all tho . people of the United States were set tled in Texas, it would not be as -densely populated as France. y In Missouri the Farmers': Alliance - - ' has undertaken to build alarge eleva tor i-i which members can store their wheat until it .can be sold, for $La bushel. A bank is to be started to tide over the farmers who have wheat thus stored, by loans at low interest - Some ' Missionaries in Africa are greatTy troubled by the fact "that the natives are not at all eager to adopt the drees of "white men. Not even the.con verts are willing to wear the amount of clothing which, according - to missionary ideas, is . essential" to ..." respectability. ' -'" ' The site of a prehistoric village has been discovered on the banks ef the Ohio river, near Parkersburg, W. Va. It covers, about four acres and :the earthy ia thickly .intermixed . with fragments of pottery, streaks of ashes and fragments of bones of animals and human beings. .. ; . . ; . ..." In England in 1863 69 there was one known thief to every 1,000 persons ; in 1887-83 the percentage had fallen by nearly half, and there was only one konwn thief to every 1,945 per sons. The decrease in the receivers of stolen goods is still greater. In 1868 69 there wai outf to every 8,43'J people; in 1SS7 8S': there was 6ue : to every 25,599.' ' " - -' ;'" ' The. Congressional .commit tee ap pointed to inyestigate the immigra tion business reported the discovery of a single square mile of territory in New York city where 270.000 people live, which is 8.000 more human be ings than can be-found dwelling in any other square mile on the earth's . surface. ; These people are said to be all Italians, speaking only their, own language and observing foreign cua- tom. , - . - . ; : . .-, ? S. G: "McFadden - of Murfreesbro Tenn., writes tbat he has been suffer ing with, a enncer of Uie face for sev eral yeare and had despaired of ever being ' anyf better, but by the ue of nine jugs of Rada-n's Microbe Killer his' face is"nearly entirely healed up and his general health is better than it , has been for a number f years You cau address him with a stamp enclosed and he says he will giv full infermation to those who are afHict d. I'i'fw j '. ' - . . For - sale by IV J. Huntley & Co., Druggists. . . - ; . . -I hav uffrcf for nearly a year with a. very bad varaeo- u!cv r. I could scArcely walk and although I was under mtUcid tralnifi-.t duti -that tune I received no bn!:'.;, nu , hnd abut given up a!l hopo of rt ' . f inrougtt the- recurutjier; Jatvin friend i tried lUduui silicr...', 11 k- a orl of. la.-t, rt- ; . ' lit'li h-pe. I !: ua v. - 1 .. with Ih m-t, .-f - ran n'.t; : -
The Messenger and Intelligencer and Ansonian (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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