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} “Thad a bad cough for six j weeks and could not find any relicf whatever. I read what a wonderful remedy Ayer's Cherry Pectoral was for coughs and I § bought a bottle. Before I had g takcn a quarter of it my cough § j had entirely left mc.” —L. Hawn, Newington, Ont., May 3, 1899. § Quickly Cures Colds Neglected colds always lead to something scrious. They tun into chronic broachitis which B pulls down your general health fzad deprives you of sicep: or ¥ they cnd in genuine consump- § tica with afl its uncertain results. § Don’t wait, but take Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral just as soon as § R you begin to cough. A few doses will cure you then. But it evres old colds, too, only it takes a Little more time. We refer to such diseases as bron- chitis, asthma, whooping-cough, consumption, and hard winter ca cold a 25 cent bot- é harder eases a etter, For chronic ad to keep on hand, the $1.00 ost economical. 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PAINTING, All nicely painted an ifting bar for shafts. i his furnished with shafts, and floor carpet GUR SPECIAL OFFER: Svr.fartoz.rapte tues sleighs in every Jocality d to interest a special exertion on their SLEIG {ro will send FREE one of the above cUFICR fo any person sending cash with the order for $1 Caters, You can make big money selling these sicighs this winter. ORDER ONE FOR We GUARANTEE these Cutters to be the latest mhortel and dosien. A order Ib hii d direct from inneapolis. GASH cccompanies order we will refund money if gutter is not |. Order at once before they are all gone. Remember price, $16.70 “{HIS CONCERN IS THOROUGHLY RELIABLE—EDITOR, 7. M. Roberts’ Supply House, Binneapolis Minn- MILLIONS of acres of ehoice agri- cultural LANDS now for settlement stern Cun Hers is grown the cel~ ebrated NO. 1 ence THAT. which brings the highest price in the neler of the world ; thousands of cattle are fattened for market without being fed grain and without aday’s shelter. Send for information pnd secure & free home in Western Canada. Write the Superintendent of Immigration, Otta~ wa, oraddress the undersigned, who will mail ou atlases, pamphlets, etc., free of cost. Ben davies, 154 Kast ‘third St., St. Paul, or T. O Currie, Stevens Po‘nt, W:! | { | | $300,000,000 IN GOLD. LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN FROM OUR SHORES. Another Chapter in Our Financial His- tory That Shows Futility of Main- taining General Prosperity and the Gold Standard at the Same Time. The Louisville Courier-Journal, in its issue of Dec. 22, ult., brushes aside as a mere bagatelle our shipments of gold to England. “The gold reserve in the treasury,” it says, “was $241,- 423,427 yesterday, and the total amount of coin and bullion was but a little un- der $400,000,000.” This, with $141,000,- 000 in the banks and about $500,000,- 000 in the country, in circulation, is as- sumed to be a splendid showing, and to elevate the United States to the front rank as a gold country. But now comes a circular from the directors of the mint to the manufacturers of jew- elry, gold leaf supply houses, and all dealers and manufacturers who use the precious metal in their work. The Chicago Tribune gives the substance of the circular in the following succinct language: “Los or strayed—$300,000,000 in American gold coin. Any person who has information of its whereabouts will please communicate with the director of the mint.” The truth is cropping out that we are short of cur gold cir- culating medium the enormous sum of $300,000,000; it is lost. Not from the treasury, but from the circulation among the people. This means that there are $30,000,600 short in our mon- ey, and when we add to this shortage the sum of $241,423,427 in coin in the treasury, and the bullion to make up $400,000,000, we have a shortage of $700,000,000 of gold coin on our total stock of gold coin. It appears that Prof. Faulkner doubted whether the stock of coin outside the treasury was what it was assumed to be, and the director of the mint has been so im- pressed by the professor’s statements that he is going to try to find out. The treasury department knows how much money the treasury contains, and, the banks certainly know how much money they hold, but all our officials have been going upon the theory that | our gold coin in general circulation is exactly the difference between the amounts in the treasury and in the banks, and the public have been fed with that idea until they have been al- most made to believe that we have plenty of gold coin. Even the Courier- Journal, usually so careful in its cal- culations, has been deceived by offi- cial reports. Under these circum- stances, therefore, it does not make a vast difference to the public welfare whether =we ship gold coin to England or not. It may transpire that we are not so heavily laden with cir- culating medium as we have been as- suming; indeed, the recent stringency appears to demonstrate the fact that we are short, and short $300,000,000. From this may be deduced the actual fact of the necessity of using billions of make-shift money, usually termed “industrials,” but all speculative, and the further fact of the positive recur- rence of panics accompanied by the demands upon the United States treas- ury to rush to the aid of the market. We do not believe that Director Rob- erts can ascertain the whereabouts of this lost money, for it does not exist, except in imagination, unless it be in old stockings and teapots. FALSE PRETENCES. It is beginning to be made clear that William McKinley owed his election to his pledge of international bimetallism, which held enough silver Republicans | in line to insure his election. In his recent annual message he comes out for the absolute gold standar thus manifesting his deceit and duplicity in 1886. Congressman Champ Clark of Missouri, in the debate on the currency | bill, said: “He not only recommends it, but he urgently recommends. The chances are a thousand to one that had he uttered that sentiment in the campaign of 1896 he would not now be in position to send a message to congress and there would be no gold standard congress to receive it. It was the pledge in the St. Louis platform to secure bimetallism by international agreement that landed him in the White house. So says Hon. John M. Thurston, Republican senator from Nebraska. The pledge of an inter- national bimetallism held enough sil- ver Republicans in line to give the election to Mr. McKinley.” By what subterfuge Mr. McKinley expects to be re-elected in 1900 nobody seems to know, but even the devil has a persuasive way of quoting scripture which deceives the children of light, and it is presumable that some great fraud, or fake, will be dressed up in attractive colors like circus posters to draw the crowd. Forestalling an evil is better than repenting for its exist- ence, and a political evil must be fore- stalled. This is an occasion when the personnel of Mr. McKinley is involved, and he is too much mixed up with grievances that go to the destruction of the public welfare to make him a desirable candidate on any platform. He would betray every plank if he were told to do so, and his entourage is of that suspicious character that com- pels one to hold his nose while in his presence, It is corrupt, and could not be its own master if it wished to, for it is in the power of British finan- ciers. STATISTICAL LIES. The ordinary weapons formerly used by the father of lies to entrap mankind are effete and childish. He has, how- ever, invented a new device, which op- erates upon men like fiy-paper on files —it catches them every time. In ‘“‘sta- tistics” modern man will find his down- fall, particularly in that branch of sta- tistics known 18 “financial.” The dev- il scatters them in our midst, and we struggle and grasp after them like drowning men at straws, and every man seizes upon the wrong fact, and, of course, makes a wrong application of it. Anent this new disposition to get wrong and then stick to it in spite of the truth, the Louisvii!= Courier- Journal is a living example and a warning. “During the past twenty-nine months there has been an international trade balance in our favor upon the mer- chandise and gold movement of $1,- 190,000,000, or about $492,000,000. To this must be added silver exports of $25,000,000 yearly: This produces a net apparent value of considerably over $1,200,000,000, but this is subject to the invisible movement of exchange in- volved in the payment of interest abroad, freight charges, travelers’ ¢x- penses, and so on. “How much of this has been settled by the return of our securities from abroad we cannot say. The amount is large, but it cannot be figured out with precision. Beyond question the debt to us is large, and as we are in- creasing our merchandise exports and only moderately adding to our im- ports, there is no chance that we shai! become embarrassed even by the loss of $40,000,000 or $59,000,000 on this movement.” The vinegar in the molasses, the trap, the pitfall and death blow to the statistics is labeled with “How much of this has been settled by the return ef our securities from abroad we can- not say.” The truth is,.our tremen- dous balance of trade has been wiped out by the return of “our securities,” and instead of being a creditor nation, we are a debtor, and paying our debts in gold. Moreover, our debts are al- ways increasing. We are worse off than the little Argentine republic, which actually receives its balance of trade in cash and not wind, and what is paid her in gold is recouped by drawing on us. We are the scape- goats,“the holders of the sack which the whole world draws from and gives us back “our securities.” THEY WILL NOT FORGET. “The voters of this country will nov forget the multitudinous scandals and violations of platform pledges, the in- credible increase in public expenses, and the peril in the tendency of af- fairs,” says the Helena Independent. “They will keep their wits about them from this time forth. There never was a time when so many voters knew so much about the history of their coun- try, and so much of the science of political economy; every year the number grows. These voters. will know, most of them know already, that “booms” are ephemeral affairs, and that over-capitalization of trusts and monopolies must react upon somebody, and they know full well that the work- ingmen will be the “somebody” upon whom the reaction will fall. “Not a voter will go to the polls next November without having studied the question of the menace cf militar- ism in a free country, the deception and treachery practiced by the admin- istration toward silver, the violation of the pledge to improve the civil service, the departure from the teachings of Washington and the fathers on the subject of foreign entanglements, the operations of Gage and the United States treasury at the demand of stock gamblers and a favorite money clique. “Panics have been coming so fast as a result of Republican legislation that temporary conditions of boom will not convince the intelligent voter that reaction will never come. They will not forget.” REASON FOR SUSPICION. There appears to be grave reason x the suspicions of the Kansas City Times in referring to the great bank, the National City bank, which is to receive all of the govern- ment’s internal revenue receipts, mak- ing a clear profit of about $18,000,000 out of the fund. Added to it is the other suspicion anent Mr. Gage resign- ing his present office as treasurer of the United States and taking upon himself the presidency of that new bank in which are Hanna, Rockefeller, Morgan, Sloane, McCall, Schiff and others. “Yet,” says the Times, “why should not Gage, at the beck of the president, afford them the opportunity ef manipulating the millions of reve- nue taxes, wrung from the people for the purpose of promoting the growth of militar'sm and prosecuting the plan of imperialism now in process of de- velopment in the Philippines? Have not these men given freely of their money to the Hanna slush fund, by whose potent hocus-pocus William I. of Asia and America was chosen to sit on the throne? And, shall our noble executive be recreant to the trusts which elevated him? Shall he prove ungrateful to his benefactors? Shall he not so distribute his favors that no worthy and contributing plutocrat shall ever become impoverished? “This bread. which he now commands his secretary of the treasury to cast upon the waters will return to him be- fore many days, when the presidential campaign begins to warm up. Then will the coal oil trust and its moneyed following throw into Hanna’s slush fund a liberal percentage of the mil- lions that Gage’s philanthropy has de- livered into the vaults of the big bank- ing institution owned by the Standard Oil magnates, trust monarchs and rail- way baront:, who are the main bene- ficiaries and chief owners of Republi- can prosperity and sole proprietors of prosperity’s advance agent,” |ple of the Un NO CAUSE FOR GRIEF. So the trusts are on the point of movingintoCanada? That is the report, and it bears the impress of truth from the statement of a representative of the dominion government, who recent- ly went to New York to confer with several trusts having their main offices in that city. Broadly stated, the rea- son given is: “Proposed anti-trust legislation and the rapid spread of the anti-trust spirit.” “We despair,” say the aggrieved benefactors of the public, “of obtaining favorable treatment through the en- actment of federal laws, for the rea- son that it would be necessary to amend the constitution of the United States before this could be done.” This is certainly a deplorable condi- tion, but if the trusts will possess their souls in patience, Mr. McEinley, should he be re-elected, will at least attempt to secure an amendment to the con- stitution which will give the trusts more latitude. At present he is doing everything in his power to accommo- date the trusts by overstepping the constitution. But the downtrodden trusts go cn with their declaration of grievanccs. “We are har ed and subjected to petty annoyances in various | states, and by obtaining national charters from the Canadian government we would iree,ourselves from state in- terference, and could be sued in this country only in the United States | courts,” Here is a threat that unless the peo- ed States totally sur- render to the grasping monopolies they will go to Canada and put themselves beyond the reach of any interference. What a commentary upon the servility of the federal judiciary! What an apt illustration of the encroachments of McKinleyism, which is another name for American imperialism! It is the same subterfuge, a deception and a de- lusion, as McKinley's attitude in favor of silver. In a short time the Repub- lican press will be dampened with tears at the wicked trusts, and holding up the good’and benevolent trusts for our worship and to get votes. Does any one suppose that a single trust will move to Canada to avoid the anti- trust spirit? Not as long as McKinley is president and Mark Hanna his chief counselor. The more one thinks the matter over, the more he is persuaded that it is one of Mark Twain’s witti- cisms. American Feudalism, Napoleon destroyed the old feudal- ism, which was the slavery of the ten- ant to the owner of the soil. Ther he established in its place a military aristocracy and the feudality of the sword. Our Napoleon has discovered a new feudalism which the Los An- geles Herald thus defines: “It may with equal truth be said that, to the aspiration in this country for equal opportunities to earn a live- lihood and a comfortable competency, capital has replied by creating cor- porations, syndicates, trusts and mo- nopoly, to shut the door to competi- tion and to hold a position through which the class of dependents can be enlarged and the labor of the masses exploited. Instead of feudalism based upon land ownership, the country is rapidly becoming subjected to the feu- dalism of money. “The policies of the government, un- observed by the masses, but not the less surely, have promoted the growth and maintenance of capitalistic feudal- ism. Unless the trend in that direc- tion is speedily checked the system will become absolute and irremovable. Through the increase of dependents and of political corruption capitalism seeks to become the feudal lord of the nation.” Senator Aldrich, in discussing the gold standard bill from the Republican standpoint, uttered the following re- markable thought: y “No sane man believed for an in- stant that the opening of our mints to the free coinage of silver at the ration of 16 to 1 would raise the value of sil- ver bullion from its current commer- cial price to its mint price.” When it comes to “value,” there is no intrinsic value of any kind of bul- lion converted into money, not even gold. In trust circles the “value” of a thing is the price that can be ob- tained for it. So the waole of the senator’s argument amounts to the cu- rious supposition that, with silver bul- lion raised to $1.29 per ounce at the mint, people would still sell their silver bullion at 60 cents. This is what the silver producer is now uoing, and it is what the Democratic party protests against. If it be insanity to desire an advance in the price of our most val- uable product, then the sooner we all become insane the better for the coun- try. The professions and practices of th president have become so mixed that the average citizen can hardly tell whether he is speaking politically, morally, or just for effect. In his an- nual message he proclaims the fact that we are at peace with the whole Wo.u., and then he wants a large standing army. At the last session of congress Senator Cockrell stood up like a true American citizen and declared that no such undemocratic statute should be engrafted upon our legis- lature to shame our institutions, bur- den our taxpayers and menace the perpetuity of our form of government, if he could prevent it by the exercise of every legitimate resource of opposi- tion within his power. The senator has again declared his determination to set his face against the schemes of the imperialists, and, with his strong personnel and dogged determination, something will have to yield. | j WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES Regard Peruna as Their Shield Against Catarrh, Coughs, Colds, Grip and Catarrhal Diseases. S \ SNS S <S aoe BS: oe SEES GY) 7 MRS, BELVA A. LOCKWOOD, LATE CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY. Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the eminent barrister, of Washington, D. C., is the only woman who has ever been a candidate for the Presidency of the United States. in the legal Peruna Medicine Company, she says: She is the best known woman in America. ofession she has gathered fame and fortune. As the pioneer of her sex In a letter to The «] have used your Peruna both for myself znd my mother, Mrs. Hannah J. Bennett, now in her 88th year, and I find it an invaluable remedy for cold, catarrh, hay fever and kindred diseases; also 2 good tonic for feeble and old people, or those run down and witii nerves. unstrung.”’ Yours truly, Catarrh may attack any organ of the body. There are one hundred cases of catarrh of the eatarrh of the pelvic organs. pelvic organs to one of catarrh of the head. Belva A. Lockwood. Women are especially liable to Mest people think, because they have no catarrh of the head, they have no eatarrh at all. Thisisa great mistake, and is the cause of many cases of sicknessand death. ‘“‘Health and Beauty” sent free to women only, by The Peruna Medicine C A Physician’s Suit. “About a year ago,’ says the Medical Record, “a wealthy resident of Cort- land, N. Y., attempted suicide in the village of Mclean. but failed to : his obj and repented, The latter rendered all s, both medical and d the man’s life. the phy jan sued his patient $10,000, claiming that the man’s life, which he had saved, was worth that amount. The claim of $10,000 was not allowed, but the plaintiff was awarded $500.” A MINNESOTA FARMER Does Well in Western Canpda. Virden, Man., Nov. 18, 1899. Hon, Clifford Sifton, Minister of the Interior, Ottawa, Canada—Sir: Think- ing that my experience in Manitoba might be both useful and interesting to my fellow-countrymen in the United | States who may be looking to Mani- toba and the northwest with the in- tention of settling there, I have much pleasure in stating that through in- formation received from Mr. W. F. McCreary, immigration commissioner at Winnipeg, I was induced to visit Manitoba in February, 1898. When I called upon Mr. McCreary he spared no pains to give me all the information, etc., in his possession, the result of which was that 1 came here with a letter of introduction from him to the secretary of the Virden Board of Trade. That gentleman provided me with a competent land guide, and, although there was considerable snow on the ground, | had no difficulty in selecting three homesteads for myself and sons. Having made the necessary homestead entries at the land office in sSrandon, I returned to my home in Lyon county, Minnesota,and came back here in May following, accompanied by one of my boys, bringing with us two teams of horses, implements, etc. Our first work was to erect a tempo- rary shanty and stable, after which we broke and leveled seventy-five acres and put up thirty tons of hay. I went back to Minnesota about July 20, leaving my son here. 1 returned in October, bringing my family with me. I found that the land we had acquired was of good quality, being a strong clay loam with clay subsoil. Last spriag I sowed 100 acres in wheai and fifty acres in oatsand barley. (Seventy-five acres of this grain was sowed on “go-back” plowed last spring.) My crop was thrashed in October,’ the result being over 2,700 bushels of grain in all. Wheat aver- aged fifteen bushels per acre and graded No. 1 hard, but that which was sown on !and other than sod (‘‘go- back”) went twenty four and one-half bushels per acre. To say that I am well pleased with the result of my first year’s farming operations in Manitoba does not ade- quately express my feelings, and I have no hesitation in advising those who are living in districts where land is high in price to come out here, if they are willing to do a fair amount of work. I am ten miles from Virden, which is a good market town, and nine miles from Hargrave, where there are two elevators. This summer I erected a dwelling house of native stone and bought a half-section of land adjoin- ing our homesteads, for which I paid a@ very moderate price. There are still some homesteads in this district, and land of fine quality can be purchased from the Canadian Pacific’ Railway company at $38.50 per acre on liberal terms. Good water is generally found at a depth of from fifteen to twenty feet. I have 175 acres ready for crop next year. The cost of living here is about the same as in southern Minnesota. Some commodities are higher and others lower in price, but the average is about the same. I remain, your obe- dient servant. (Signed.) JACOB REICHERT. Columbus, Ohio. Hebrews in the British Army. Hi ry esting to note that among the troops mustered into the service by the British war office are several com- panies composed entirely of Hebrews. In Bombay there are two companies or Hebrew 's, and the army regis» that thousands of Hebrews ter show: have enlisted in the British ar in re- cent ye . most of them be now with the in South Afr Louis Repub: List of Patents Issued Last Week te Northwestern Inventors. Joseph W. Bates, Minneapolis, automatic coupling; John Hoallor an, Chatfield, Minn., hay rack; Ozello R. Hunt, Minneapolis, Minn., spring: bed bottom; Jens Jensen, Page, N. D., bread or cake cutter; Benjamin FL Ke Minneapolis, Minn., cylinder Jobn F. Kukacka, Mont- Minn., cutter bar; John F. Minneapolis, Minn, cable sawy . Stevens, Long Lake, pep- William H. Welsh, Stillwater, Minn., Patent Attor- 2 Pioneer Press Bldg, St. Paak Benevolent feeling ennobles the rast trifle actions.—Thackeray. Salzer’s Rape gives Rich, rite them. We wish to gatm ee will send on trial ORTH FOR 10c. is, Salt Bush, the 3-eare@ bay ne st grass on earth; Salzer a ring Wheat, &e., including our mam- - Fruitand Seed Catalog. telling al about Saizer's Great Million Dollar Potato, all mailed for 100. posiage; a Boritixelvewertn $10 to retanrart. Potatoes $1. 5666 6606: ‘Meat smoked in afew hours with i KRAUSERS” LIQUID EXTRACT OF SMOKE. Beatakreeasiuer Line tas caine bea circulag, 2s MBAUSEL 2: BAO, 285lton, Pas Locomotor Ataxia con- quered at last. Doctors puzzled, Specialisie amazed at recovery of patients bought Incurabie. by DR.CHASE’S BLOOD AND NERVE FOOD. 4 te me about,your case. Advice and proof o1 cures DR. CHASE, 224 N.(Oth St., PHILADELPHIA,Pa DR. 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