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THE 8URAL HEW-Y0RKE8. 
GRAND JUBILEE. 100 pays anights 
CELEBRATING THE 
lOOth ANNIVERSARY HISETTLEMENTjLdK’dMM'JLXI, 
The OHIO VALLEY anTthe NORTH- WEST TERRITORY. 
ART SCIENCE INDUSTRY. 
MONSTER NEW BUILDINGS, 
in the heart of the city, 
within ten minutes’ ride of 
all hotels and stations. 
GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT 
of Treasures from the War, 
Navy and other Departments, 
the Smithsonian Institute, 
National Museum and Fish 
Commission. 
All Buildings brilliantly 
illuminated by innumera¬ 
ble Electrical and Gas Jets. 
Wonderful display of 
ELECTRIC LIGHTING. 
AN ART DEPARTMENT 
of the finest collection of 
Paintings and Sculpture 
UNSUnPASSBD 
ever made in America, val¬ 
ued at $1,000,000. 
Horticultural Hall of un¬ 
equalled beauty. 
PIONEER RELBCS 
from all parts of the North¬ 
west. The great 
MUSIC HALL, 
devoted to Music, Spectacles 
and Performances. 
MACHINERY HALL, 
1,500 Feet in Eengtli, 
through which will ply gon¬ 
dolas from Venice. 
EDUCATIONAL, 
and numerous other De¬ 
partments perfectly ar¬ 
ranged. 
f or tf)c firnmg. 
TALKS BY UNCLE MARK. 
Last week I had to stop right in the middle 
of a sentence. I began to tell how the Repub¬ 
licans were like a man who wants to get into 
a place he held some years ago. Now let us 
see what he proposes to do if he is taken back. 
Let us look over the Republican platform. 
The Republicans point to their great lea¬ 
ders of the past, and ‘‘in the spirit of those 
great leaders” congratulate the people of Brazil 
upon the end of slavery in that country. They 
hope the Irish people may soon secure home 
rule. The Democrats have also “resolved” 
that the Irish ought to have home rule, so we 
may suppose that America is solid for that 
measure. The Republicans say they are m 
favor of free suffrage. They want every voter 
to have the power to vote as he wants to. 
They still claim that the Democrats would 
like to keep colored men from voting when 
they vote the Republican ticket. They want 
to keep all Chinese and “pauper labor ’ out of 
the country. They want Congress to pass laws 
that will put an end to all Trusts and all other 
combinations that propose to control trade to 
suit themselves rather than the people. They 
take issue with the Democrats on the public 
laud question and say that they have helped 
settlers more than the Democrats have. South 
Dakota, the Republicans say, ought to be at 
once admitted as a State and other Territories 
should follow as soon as they have the neces¬ 
sary population. The Republicans pledge 
themselves to stamp out Mormonism and say 
they are prepared to support temperance 
measures. They demand a reduction of letter 
postage to one cent per ounce and they want 
to support all free schools. They want to 
build up a new navy and erect fortifications, 
pay pensions to the soldiers, support Civil 
Service Reform and adhere to what is known 
as the Monroe Doctrine. The main point of 
difference, as I said last week, between the 
two parties is the way they feel about the 
tariff. Last week I gave as nearly as I could 
the Democratic position. The Republicans 
look at things another way. They want to 
keep up the protective system, because they 
say that whenever it has been abandoned, the 
country has suffered. They don’t seem so 
much afraid of the surplus as the Democrats 
are. They think there are plenty of public 
works needed that could be built with this 
same surplus. If any reduction is to be 
made in the funds they are in favor of repeal¬ 
ing the tax upon tobacco and upon spirits 
used in the arts and for mechanical purposes. 
The only reduction of the tariff they would 
make, would be upon the articles that cannot 
be produced in America. They want even high¬ 
er duties for wool than are now levied, and, 
in fact, they would give up the entire internal 
revenue rather than give up the protective sys¬ 
tem. The Democrats say the protective system 
makes the rich richer and the poor poorer, 
that it makes our goods cost more than they 
should, because competition is confined to this 
country, that Trusts can only thrive under a 
protective system, that the farmer and the 
city workman have to support a lot of rich 
men, and that a partial free trade would make 
everything cheaper, break up monopolies, and 
even things up all around. The Republicans, 
on the other hand, say that protection has 
made this country the richest and most pros¬ 
perous nation in the world. People here, they 
say, have, on the average, better food, better 
clothes, better pay, and better homes than the 
people of any other nation can show. This, 
they claim, is due to “protection.” Trusts and 
other combinations, they say, can be put 
down without troubling the tariff if the people 
really want to do so. If prices come down, of 
course less money must be paid in wages. 
Their point is not unlike the story told of the 
Irishman who said this was a dreadful coun¬ 
try—they charged 75 cents for a bushel of po¬ 
tatoes, when he could get the same in Ireland 
for 15 cents. Somebody asked him why, in 
that case, he didn’t stay where potatoes were 
cheap. He was obliged to confess that it was 
because he could earn 75 cents in America 
easier than he could earn 15 cents in Ireland. 
Now, it is going to take a pretty long and 
keen head to get the right of this matter. We 
want the right of it. Let us think it all over, 
and keep cool while we are thinking. The 
right thing will come to us if we stick to it. 
The Prohibitionists have one great feature 
in their platform that absorbs everything else. 
They say the tariff is not the great question 
of to-day, but that temperance is. If they had 
their way, not a single drop of liquor would 
be sold for drinking purposes. I fully believe 
them when they say that if this state of affairs 
could be brought about, nine-tenths of the 
country’s crime would be wiped out. All good 
citizens are in favor of doing Away with in¬ 
temperance. We do not yet know the best 
means of working to accomplish this end. To 
my mind, the weakest point in the Prohibi¬ 
tionists’position is that we are not told just 
how to go to work to kill intemperanoe. There 
are plenty of changes that I would like to see 
made in all three of the platforms, but such as 
they are we had Better pick out the one that 
suits us best. This is a year for studying. 
Let us start at it. 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I am 10 years old and 
live on a farm in Kansas. Papa has taken the 
Rural about five years. I like to read the 
Cousins’ letters, and I can drive a team, cut 
corn-stalks, or harrow. I milk two cows every 
day. Uncle Mark, did you ever see a rain¬ 
bow after nightfall ? I saw one last Sunday 
night. There was a storm coming up in the 
northwest, and when the moon rose there was 
a bright rainbow; it was about seven o’clock. 
FREDDIE KETCHUM. 
Ellsworth Co., Kan. 
[No, I never have seen such a rainbow. It 
must have been a beautiful thing. We have 
some very beautiful cloud effects where we 
live. The sunsets are generally very beauti¬ 
ful. I am glad you can drive a team. A good 
driver is in a position to do good farming. 
I always dislike to see a poor driver, because I 
know that the horse does not do his best work 
unless he is well handled. tr, M.] 
TOOLS. 
1 find the following in the Manufacturer 
and Builder. I think it is sensible and I hope 
all our boys will pick up tha good habit of 
putting tools away properly. 
Every tool should have its exact place, and 
should be always kept there when not in use. 
Having a chest or any receptacle with a lot 
of tools thrown into it promiscuously, is just 
as bad as putting the notes into an organ with¬ 
out regard to their proper place. If a man 
wants a wrench, chisel or hammer, it’s some¬ 
where in the box or chest, or somewhere else, 
and the search begins. Sometimes it is found 
—perhaps sharp, perhaps dull, maybe broken; 
aud by the time it is found he has spent time 
enough to pay for several tools of the kind 
wanted. 
That habit of throwing every tool down, 
anyhow, in any way, or any place, is one of 
the most detestable habits a man can possibly 
get into. It is only a matter of habit to cor¬ 
rect this. Make it an inflexible end of your 
1 fe to “have a place for everything and 
everything in its place.” 
It may take a moment more to lay a tool up 
carefully after using, but the time *is more 
than equalized when you want to use it again; 
and so it is time saved. Habits, either good 
or bad, go a long ways in their influence on 
men’s lives, and it is far better to establish 
and firmly maintain a good habit, even though 
that habit has no special bearing on the moral 
character; yet all habits have their influence. 
Keeping tools in good order, aud ready to 
use, is as necessary as keeping them in the 
proper place. To take up a dull saw, or dull 
chisel, and try to do any kind of work with it, 
is worse than pulling a boat with a broom, 
and it all comes from just the same source as 
throwing down tools carelessly—habit. No¬ 
thing more or less. 
The man who has learned to take care of 
tools is to be envied by his neighbors. Don’t 
forget this. 
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nature to throw off tho causes and tone up the 
digestive organs till they perform their duties 
willingly. Among the agonies experienced by tho 
dyspeptic, are distress before or after eating, loss 
of appetite, irregularities of the bowels, wind or 
gas and pain in tho stomach, heart-burn, sour 
stomach, etc., causing mental depression, nervous 
irritability and sleeplessness. If you aro dis¬ 
couraged he of good cheer and try Hood’s Sar¬ 
saparilla. It lias cured hundreds, it will cure you. 
IHlood’s Sarsaparilla 
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Mado 
only by C. I. IIOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 
IOO Doses One Dollar 
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