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THE PEOPLE'S ADVOCATE '
C’RAWFORDVILLE, OA.
According to the American Agricnl
tur.-l, a short crop, both here ami in
Europe, has largely caused tie* recent
high prices for seeds. Ordinarily F.u
roj»c ships • teds to the 1 nited Slat'*,
but this year we have been shippm;, to
Euroja*.
_
That community i~ usually tin < *
prosperous, th. ChicagoTinn s d,-<*btr, %
in which the home products life util
iited to the utmost limit If the pram
is ground into flour and tin beevi and
bogs pin do d at home, instead id being
shipped away, it helps to build up a
manufacturing town, Tin* in turn
gives a lietti r murk* t for all products.
Farmers can In lp toward tin end if
they will give tle-ir attention to il.
When G« in ral Dodds, the sucre- ul
French (’oinmaiider in Dalionuy, r.
ceived the brevet of General during
the recent campaign lie was unable,
says a Fur is enrro p.indent, t.» procure
there fin four silver tfnr which.
atitched on the uniform, are a sign of
that rank. It was suggested to make
them with silver coins. An the only
ones that could be found were Kli; ii-1
shillings, the stars bore the le ad til
Gueen Vletoriu, tic- General , original
sovereign.
Hays t )nci‘A Week : “The year 1892
was one of the worst years ever known
in the iron and steel industries of
Great Britain. Attention will be di
reeled lit oliee to the blllbllllg of rail
roads in India anil to the development
of the resources of that country, lt
is in order now for tin to devote all our
energies to tin* development of our
Hew Slates and Territories, and to cul
tivating closer commercial relation*
with South America. The develop
ment of India, forced at last upon
Grcat Britain as a commercial and in
dustrml necessity, will mean a short
Old World market for us."
Tin* Italian immigrants, according
to several bankers who lately testified
licforc a Congressional Commission,
send $20,000,000 a year buck to Italy I
for the support of their relatives, or to
pay their passage to this country,
“For all this," olmcrves the New York
Independent “they have paid nit am
.........indent in work which has
riehed the country more than the
nwnoy they send impoverishes it, not
to speak of what they earn and spend
here. And it must be remembered
that a Considerable , , , part . of , what | they
send conies back again, and greatly
increased in value, in the person of
other immigrants, even if w e put the
value of free men no higher than the
old valuation of slav.s.”
The Washington {Star says: “That
la a plcaaant little story in which tin*
’ Mate Edwin Booth tic ares as having
saved the life of Robert Todd Lincoln,
son of the man who was murdered l*v
Edwin Booth's brother. John T. Ford,
well known here, vouches for its ac
curacy and says that alauit March 1.
1876, while UuWrt Lincoln was wait
iug for a train at Bowling tire, n, Kv
he was drnggtsl oat of tin* way of a
rapidly moving engine by Edwin
Booth. So narrow was the »*scajH*that
Sir. Lincoln’s feet were grazed by tin*
cowcatcher. Mr. Ford was an eye- 1
witness and Ins testimony wtll hardly
Is* disputed, The sav tor and saved
were unacquainted with each other
and it was not until after the .wur
reiice that tlooth Iwaaic aware ,*f
Lincoln* identity. > ure the . law , ,-!
comjHiisation was working at Bowling
Given that day.”
A timber vX|m rt makes the interest
ing statement that the spruce lands of
Mam,* are to-day worth more than
were the pin,* lauds of fifty years ago,
mainly l>e,\*cis< of th,* development of
the pulp business. He estimates tin*
value of wild lauds at $20 per acre,
reckoning onlv eighty five cords to an
acre. There ar> n, arly i*,500.tHH* t*er, -
,*f wild laud in Maine, aud assuming
that only a quarter of this is covered
with merchantable growth, tin* total
valuation would 1 h* something like
$47.»H8»,»88t. Some idea of the un
in, us*- «* it, nt of wild lauds m Maine
mar be gained from th, state tin nt that
they would mato a State twice as L.r .e
as Massochu* Its. twic, as large as \, w
Hai.q-bir* and V* rn nt eouibim d.
and thirteen tubes a- lar^ as Rh* sio
Island I" Ar-s.-t >k County aion,*
I lit.Tt • hf * L i*f *\ •l* HtTt N, w ink*
ill lWataqtus.
tin r« tml as , iti \\*+h
fci*. aitj tli* t » ,
. tlu > ■t tuiicih a* 1 * '^*
mU i il cr H*k 4 Hit »*
1% * 5 mt ill *4 «t
I X t* I li Misilat %«s
HANDS or LOVE
JIr.r,<ls that w. ■-> ari l win yr,n.
( Nm;(‘ th*.-.. bar.-is (*'>n*l»*TiiU i)
•Xlll the heart within you
Wring*. it- wav [•> them !
Wring*. its way. and like a ,l<.v»,
K 1 -th-s ia tin,fte hands of level
Litti< hand too tender
1 r tii thorns of life;
of all the splendor
Hhe’t" r from tie strife,
y. t tf v-hold the lieaveus al.eve
Lightly and a aiotte r's lave!
fi<,. they wc» and win you
In the dark and day ;
And the heart within you
Flutter- neats away.
Till it nestles like a dove.
«;• hUy ill tie* (> Hands of lev!
— 1. 1.. 'allt .ii. In Atlanta (tonstltutlon.
•CIIUISTIW.”
(i - ¥ HP was a German
_ girl who landed in
’ New Orleans from
> an < migrant vessel,
rv-si , y *... friemll. lit.. Her s amide;.,- mother
. 5 1,1 d.ed on the
. **i j , v „.... her
"—’ ’• broth, r IF, , 11. r
j. j .1
to New 0rl . llim
three years before,
to make a In.mi* f.«r
them, had gone, no one knew where.
The woman with whom he had hoard
ed, and whose addr. ss Christina had,
knew nothing of his whereabouts.
“Ach, Gott!’’ Frau W» rlcin ex
Poinc claimed, “But Karts said you would
not for two year.”
“No," Christina answer, d. trying to
choke down hetjjobs. “Hiittlie iu«.ther
wanted to SCI • him, oh so much, and
she gof weaker and sicker all the time.
Then the mother says, ‘I must see my
bov before I die,’ and flic good iieigli
b«n s oh, they feel ho sorry. They sell
our things for us, and they give milch
money to pay our way In-re. And tin
mother is at the bottom of the sea, and
1 Inns is gone, and I am alojie.”
The poor girl l.ursf into a passion of
fiats, while Frau Werlein sat. miieh
troubled in mind, between sympathy
for Iter countrywoman's grief atul pru
liential coii«idcrntioiiH. She was not
an unkind woman, but a long struggle
with povt rti had blunted all d< lictiey
,,f feeling, and in trouble or uot, she
could not afford an unprofitable lodger,
tUie bud found out that Christina v,»e
lieiiuilesH and friendless, and she must
be made to understand that she, Frau
Werlein, could not give her a home
Without some equivalent.
“Hut tliiui, what will you ilo?” she
cried. “1 am poor, and 1 can keep
you not without the money. Mans will
come not back, perhaps, and how will
you live?”
Christina took her hands from her
eyes and looked up. Hhe had been too
stunned l.y grief and disappoint
meat to have given u thought to her
own situation. lint she was practical
aH ,j aeusible, and it did not take her a
minute b> meet 1 he emergency.
«»* 1 «» "'I” 1 '- 1 n,,r *°
children, , I can embroider, and 1 make
^ ^ Aoh . , can maliy things,
and in this great eitv there must be
plenty of work. And ilien when lliuis
comes back."
“Ah, yes, yes," Frau Werlein said,
much relieved. “It you can do all those
things you will not starve. Wi* will go
to-morrow to tlie intelligence-office,
and you may get a fine place. ’
I happened to go to the same office
flint da* in search of a nurse, and beard
Frau Werlcin’s voluble enumeration of
Christ ilia’s accomplishments.
I saw r. short, stout girl with large
features ami pale bine eyes. Her cos
tuuie, i* short blue skirt, velvet jacket
witlt innumerable silver buttons, long
earrings, silver rings on her red,
stumpy fingers, only seemed to in
(ensify h.*r remarkable ugliness. But
she was dean, strong-limbed and
healthy, and there was a trank, good
humored expression lit her pale eyes
that took my fancy. 1 thought I
could safely trust baby Ruth toher
care.
lb r English was almost ntiintelli
gle, but that would improve every
»!uv, *.> tin and there l made arrange
meats wM her, or rather with the
frr.u. that In-r protegee was t« * liter
upon her duties the next day.
“lei my word, Uclcti.” nix hns
t ., m, when the new nur-.
ar n-.e I. "w lu re did you pick up that
frightful specimen? Thai girl i a>
clums' asdu* is uglv. She lik.
th* dd woman of Banban ft with
riu*,-< . u her lingers, and I sn-jn-ct sue
ha,- ’alls on her foes as well
“1 mu r said she was handsome." I
answ, r J. ••U.ii I do think, l’aul. -In
has a good >>pi n count* nance.'
•'Vtoi U. ud,, d. b. laugh, 1. r\
oih*i> ' N* month. »*y<s stretch,*,1
to th. ir WM, st W. II. my d, ur.
can o* lV Ilo,K sh. will do latter than
she looks. ”
Ind she divl- la her Strong caj'able
hand- tl , work i!., anrs. rv Uvunu
a trill. Mv children wer. carefully
dr.ss i au.l -t imtic illv card for
But It was on l a *V Ruth that .dl th,
tr.ivsur.sof h, r lovcw.r. pmrnt It
was path, tie i walcb h« r strain tin
child tc h< r l* * . an.l kiss it. with
little H tender G« man love words on m r
i>r* •■•it, -J k>- to nit oft. u of Hans
but tin* baby had brought , healing to
lief sole heart.
"Sh, ,lo suak in, to forget. she
5r , hot Jill had pr,*sirat. I me. a
Il 7 Ml*} dll . 1 l’aul t r.>c •», *1 timt
1 should tak iitltrii m,
th. * f til 1 Ivl ubt T1i« - w ,s
I imliiltic* All i it ir
1 h. ,i.l
I* . * \* :%*•
li it * . j _
It*’ i i
t*.*
it gave rnc rather an uneasy feeling,
for the island was evidently of recent
formation, and w ho could nay but
what it might be submerged again
TZ e i"Z
“For fifty years Lost Island has held
its own against wind and waves,” he
said. “It isn’t likely you’re going to
play the Jonah and sink it.”
A for Chri turn, she looked at the
strange country with dread and stir
j.rise.
“Ach Gott,” she cried, “but it is de
wass.-r all round, and de erf no higher
an dat. When de waves come, what to
do?”
“They have never conic over as yet,”
I answered. She shook her head, but
day uft« r day sin- took her way to the
bench. The scti.e seemed to have a
fascination for her, but the fascination
of terror, for sh- was always
10 .. the height of the tide on the sand,
It i , ,am< a common thing to hear her
.l ily report.
“!>< uieser come two fingers more
high dun y. day,” or “Ue wasser go
down so far.
“ I hat girl has water on the brain,”
Paul mid, impatiently. “If a mighty
‘hi r< should come and sweep us into
tie gulf : he wouldn’t be a bit sur
prised.” life usually
Meantime went on as it
,loe at thus-seaside resorts, hut pleas
an. as it all was I was uot sorry whey,
lb. 15th of September, the time de
eid' d upon fat our return to the city,
arrived.
Pan I had conic for us, but the fif
*• < nth was ushered in by such a storm
'■* wind ami ruin that the daily ateamei
did Hot arrive. I ho main land was not
"* « great distance, but in u storm the
sen between it and the island wan ex
i treiuelv rough.
l 'toward noon the glue increased. 1
j noticed that Paul beeame restless,
hurrying out i<> 1 he beach and exumin
.
» n " ° ,M ‘ ° r two fishing skiffs
motired there. One of them ho drew*
"P K,, J fastened near our cottage, say
H, g :
“I suppose there is not a bit of dan
g.-r, but it’*- well to be prepared, you
know. I think,” try ing to apeak
difV. reully, “1 might as well knock to
get her those ohl shatters lying in the
yard; make a kind of raft. Not that
there’s the least danger, but it's rain
mg and storming so that 1 want some
thing to pass away the time.”
| watched him with a sinking heart,
But Christina was alert in assisting,
and, in fact, did more than half the
w\.rk on the raft. She seemed sudden
ly to have lost all fear in the presence
of real danger and looked brighter
than 1 had ever seen her.
Night cattic black and starless, but
w hen supper time arrived, I’aul in
sisted upon my going to the dining
room. We were in a small cottage,
about two hundred yards from the main
building, but the wind was so high, it
w as with difficulty I traversed the short
distance. Uttio^b
You can imagine that I had
petite for supper that night, t heard
music in tho ball room, where the
young people were dancing, a.; tnev
i i did every night, but my one object
had left with Christina, *°. ,n - v lho two elder J
children were with us.
Suddenly the utmost fury of the
storm burst upon the island, us we
j reached tho door.
“My God,” cried I’aul, “the wind _
lias gone round to the north! Hold
on to me, Helen. I uko one of
| children; I have Mary.” above the
Our first step was in water
ankles. Another tremendous gust,
and we beard a crash behind us, mixed
J w ith piercing shrieks, and knew* the
hotel was gone. Half fainting, 1 was
dragged through tlie water. I knew
not where or how. \\ hen I revived, I
was tossing m a skill with my husbuml
and children.
“My baby, where is my baby? ^
cried.
“Ion have two children, Helen,
j Fttul said hi ii choking voice. ‘The
cottage was swept away with the hotel.
If it liiulii t been for the quick flushes
of lightning, I newr could lrnvc found
the boat, and we would all have been
drowned. •
“My baby, my baby! I cried, _
wringing my bauds.
“Her etmuees are us good as ours, ^
lV.il safll sadly. “If this boat is
driven out it wont , live ..
to sea. an
hour. I think tho wind is lulling ft
little, though. Oh, if duylight would
oulveome."
< I do not know how that night
pass, d; that horrible uight that even
n«*w haunt-my dreams. By daylight
the storm was over, and we found onr
lv« s in comparatively calm water.
“Look. look, Helen! l’aul cried,
.lout yon see that stunted orange tree?
Don't you remember it grew on a
l.iouud to the left of the hotel? \\ t -
Isr.v. t» , n on the i-land all uight.
I looked. With the exception of
that little green tuft above the wares.
not a v,-tige remained of Last Island,
Wc could soc black- specks on tho
water, but whether they were Kwts or
th. d- bn- of buildings, we could not
nil. Lan r wc were told that out of
. v. r one hundred people who were on
F dav U :* r«. not more than twenty
wer. n -cued.
“Steaaier* an.l vess,^-Is will saxui b>*
c .nag t.* ,*ur r, -cue now. slid l’aul.
“Of conrs they know what has haj
i ,i. H, v< conu - a steamer now,
tt :i*i iw I t.vl ’
1 did ;..*! echo his words. I was
numbtxl by grief and exjoautx', and
. viu ihiii w«* were takeu up by
* . i r. and in tlie midst of kiuiL aym
i-atlu/iug frieml*. I sat th* re unable to
grateful, wbea I thought of my
hr’ dt wio Tbaby and berpoorHB*w«x,
I h *rd n.v hnstavnd ask v»m* »*f the of
Ii* T "» 11 h»* Kwt
H*v, manvl«,!i reamed?”
-*ihr *. h,s*»er Ik* <>nt vond r
.m ,i up »v,rwl. fie red *T
tl,. m take up * woman and child
”
. a....
I think I was wild n'bf-n I heard that.
I can just nun mlxr entreating the
captain to take ns to the Gem. It might
bo Christina and my baby. And then
w . ,*■ in my cars, ami baby Ruth in my
arms,
“Ach, but when do _ I
wasser come
put baby on de raft, and I hold it
tight, tight all do time, and do wind
blow as never was, and do waves come,
but I hold it tight, tight.”
A man with staring eyes came rush
ing np to Christina us she spoke,
“Christina! Christina!” he cried.
“Mein brndder!’ she screamed, and
then there was a scene I have n«» space
to relate. I had found my baby, and
Christina had found Hans, who was
employed as second engineer on the
steamer.
Paul’s gratitude to Christina took a
substantial form, in the shape ofa neat
little cottage just out of the city, where
sh'- lias made a ?>r«ttv home for Hans,
who, through his new friends, secured
a position m a manufacturing estab
lishment. We often see each other,
for the “heavenly sweet baby,” whose
life she saved, is the darling of ( hns
tina’s heart.
I have heard that a hotel has been
rebuilt at Last Island, and that people
go there. Uut one tragedy satisfied
mo of its insecurity. The island has
too recently come up out of the sea not
to be reclaimed by it time and
until many years have paused.—The
Household.
Russia in the Pamirs,
Close upon the announcement that
fj r ,, a t Britain has lately practically
recognized the Chinese claim to sov
j e |. e jg n ty j n the Pamir country, in
Central Asia, conies the news that Rus-
8 i a Kas already established a garrison
j n the disputed territory, mid that she
j H j )r ,.j| U rtng to move a large number of
p f0() j )8 jjito the region during the com
f in^summer.
p> alu j r K trip is generally recog
nized us being without the Russian
i sphere of action in Asia, anditiscom
! monly accepted ascertain that neither
China nor the Government of Great
j Brituin can assent to the occupation of
the territory by Russian troops,
> Threatened raids into the country have
already been the subject of urgent
protests on the part of Great Britain,
and once already this same subject has
been the cause of seriously strainedre
lations between the two countries,
The elnim of the Chinese Government
to sovereignty in the disputed territory
would seem to point to trouble between
China and Russia should the report
of the Russian occupation he confirmed,
and ns Great Britain has practically
assented to the Chinese claim, and has
herself already protested against the
advance of Russia into the Pamirs, any
trouble that may grow out of the affair
is sure to involve that power.
The news from Central Asia will,
therefore, be watched with interest,
the more particularly as there is a
deep-seated conviction from that Russian the next
-mr is likely to arise world.— ng
greosidh in that parT of the
New Orleans Picayune.
Clialccdouy.
“Hero is something new anil neat
ami sure to be popular,” said a dealer
j a crockery ware and china to a Mail
I (and Expressman.
"It. is called chalcedony, nnd is tho
: latest product of tho kiln.”
It was a beautiful piece of ware and
looked as if it was cut from agate.
There were the same pretty veinings,
fractures and seeming cracks with
gold moulding.
“The manufacturers are turning it
oat in all sorts of shapes anil for every
kind of use,” continued the man, “and
j s finding considerable favor.
j ; “Here you see is a complete dinner
set from soup to coffee These white
and gold pieces aro for soup and meat
i and then, of course, these plates with
the fish designs aro for the fish, Tho
j same idea, yon see, is carried out with
plates for game, all of them being
decorated with birds and tilings of that
kind, ami then here we have the salad
,tjsh like a cabbage lettuee leaf and
little lettuce leaf plates to match,
“Makes a very duinty set, doesn’t
it! Oh, there are constant novelties
j u OHr business as in all others and
| changes occur continuously. A . , Glass
war., is bting decorated now, too, with
I garlands aud wreaths and other things,
but it will uever crowd out cut glass,
That has a field entirely its own.”—
York Mail uud Express. '
New
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Iuoncof the kindergartens the teacher
was endeavoring to familiarize the
children with the words “cold and
“hot at sight without spelling them
by letters. When she asked them what
thev would get it thev went out of
doors in winter w it hout their coats and
i»oiutod at the word, they caught the
cue at once and answered “cold m
stantly. but “hot proved a puzzler
for a moment.
*‘>ow, Mary. -nuJ the teacher to
the little girFin the cud scat. *‘suppose*
that you were standing right ekiae up
in front of a great big nre. jnst flaming
and flaring and burning and blazing
away—what would yon get'*
1 d get right awav 1’rotu there, re
plied the child in a matter of fact tone
that upset t.ie instructor for the after
mum. — Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zvttc.
Alive With Snakes.
The Isle* of Shoals, mere rocks
Btandmg t, a miles from New Hamp
ahirc eoa»t m a cold sea. are -alive
with «nak«*s. On a warm day one will
oe« vloteua of them running »n and out
of the buggy piac, «. r sunning them
aelve* on th* lair, ridge* They are
nothing to la* afraid of. however, for
they are ot ouly one variety the e.«m
m«*n lilt!, gre, u snake, that aeiiom
to a length oftwo feet.
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iJSiUrLilU DPODT PO* DiDfflV lAKi PflT uUilUMrl TTMW
1
CBMl Cmdt CueenU tie Great
CmS2(l6 AfdlUSt OPPFfiSSlOIL
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Interesting Selections Called at „ Ran*
dom from the Reform Press.
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A Topeka special says: The Popu
jj 8t8 „f Kansas took action a few
days ago which indicates their
purpose to reorganize the Kan- j
„ aB nv jlitia in such a manner that
it Ciin he depended upon in the event
G f B condition of affairs arising simi
j ar p, that which confronted them at
t )„. legislative session last winter to
earrv out Populist orders. It will be
remembered that the militia refused to
£ tt . y or j t . r „ t(J dislodge the republican
j, onge f r „ m the representative hall.
The board D f military affairs has or
d<;m , Adjutant General Artz to dis
band the four companies in and about
Topeka and to organize in their stead
fonr envies of cavalry As a mat
p. r 0 f ColirBe the members of these
companies will be staunch Populists,
, .
uefokm arithmetic.
What is the present taxable value of
the United States? It is estimated at
«G6,000,000.
What does the last census show our
population to be? About 66,000,000.
If this wealth was divided, how
much would there be for each man,
woman and child? One thousand dol
J arg
How many millionaires would it
make? Sixty-six thousand.
When there are sixty-six thousand
millionaires, how manv paupers would
we have? We would have 65,934,000.
How many millionaires have we
now? Tliirtv-oue thousand.
Ts there any prospect of increasing
the number to 66,000,000? Most eer
tainlr there is.
The census of 1860, 1870, 1880 and
1890 demonstrates that the farmers
and laborers’ share of the fruit of
their industry decreased, while the
share that capital got increased.— l'or
cujtim.
MOKTUAOES IN OBF.OON.
The per capita indebtedness nf Ore
gou is $73, being less than in most
northern and western stateo. From
1880 to 1890,54,923 mortgSjrfs were
recorded, representing a total debt of
$61,477,158, 64.15 per cent on farms
nnd 35.85 per cent oh town and city
lots
On the first,of January, 1890, the
total real estate indebtedness was $22,
928,437, 69.71 per cent being on farms
and 30.29 per cent on town and city,
The average debt on farms for ten
years has been $1,053 on each farm
aml $1,262 on each lot. The rate of
interest ranges from eight to tea per
cent.
South Carolina has more than three
. Oregon—ab
times the population of
most font times. The debt or Oregon
is nearly five times as large as that of
South Carolina. In round numbers
tht« people of Oregon are debt about the thir-.
•teen times as much in as peo
pie of South Carolina, in proportion
to population. Friends, will you allow
the story about “cotton raising rnu*
uiug the South” to influence you any
longer ?—ProtfrcHttive Farmer.
•
TRY THE ISCOME TAX.
The income tax continues to grow
more popular. As the tax is constitu
tional and equitable, aud as it is plain
that there will be a deficit in onr rev
eniu« when wt» reduce the cuntorn du
ties, it is natural that public attention
should center upon th in mode of rain
iug monev for the expenses of the gov
eminent.' The masses are not able to
stand a direct tax levied on everybody
and the burden will have to fall upon
the wealthy classes who are able to
bear it. The opposition to the mens
are comes mainly from the capitalists
of the east who have grown rich uu
.h r the favoritism of the government,
They declare that it would be very ex
pensive to collect such a tax aud that
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revenue service say that the svs
tem would uot make it necessary to
employ many extra officials, and the
matter of perjury is only a fanciful
objection. Rich men in England
do not perjure themselves to escape
the income tax aud there is no good
reason for supposing that thov would
do it here and risk the penitentiary.
When we consider the tremendous
drain upon the people fora genera
tion in the shape of a 60 per cent
tiiritl. federal pensions and other ex
. it will la* seen that the income
^ H ^ woulvl aff,*ril a greater degree of
relief than anv other one thing could
, The tax should U* a graded one,
Thomas Jefferson anggested. It
sh) , |lU1 begin with $10,000 incomes
and the percentage of the tax shoml
imTmae with eai . h additional $10.1881
ot iacome This is the wav to lift the
burden from the masses who are nn
a bh* to l»ar it and cause the expense
c f the government to be paid by the
men who enjov most of its In-netits,
atJl j T jj a art , a tde to pav a tax without
fwli , t lt is „ pi , r ,; ivt . an j un j nst
to tax the |HH>r man’s little $l,00t>
cottage and exempt the $16,188) iu
of his millionaire neighbor.—
. t tfaata (\tnrtiMitm.
SIUNS Of PB.VVrERlTY ?
B- ©• P M* .... - w*, k!v rejs-r. of
a rec nt date contain* the** chcs.Vp
contribution* to th«* multiplicity o(
evidence* of «ur wonderful pr,«|w-rity
a* a p-ople: the Indian
“The closing «.f mint*
against ail'er. H»t !*•• **f silver bullion
*• »"• nt» in New l ork and 32 I -4 i
rt London ; th. fall in »b< •**«»< 2 14
c. nts at t i.jcag>' and .M cents at New j
York, the suspension of operations by
the miners and smelters of Colorado
and some other silver producing of states
have made the past week one unu
sual interest.
“Trade with the farming regions is
expected to improve with better crop
prospects and a larger export demand.
“provisions are steady, but wheat is
^ ] owee t price for forty years,
though ujj now products'have held bv strong declined parties. 65
cents for pork per barrel and 15 cents
f OT j ar< j JK . r hundred pounds, with in
creasing receipts of hogs, stubbornly
“Cotton, though most stocks
supported * is one-eighth lower,
of American 'and here and abroad, being
nearlv two a half million bales,
though fc new cotton is but sixtv davs
awav
“Business in iron and steel products
WftS remar kably depressed, and expe
rieucetl observers pronounce the situ
ation an(1 ou tlook most unfavorable
ever known The volume of business
wa6 ouite large ° but at the lowest price
on r e Cor( ]
“Trade in woolens was much re
striete j a nd j s waiting for future de
velomuents neither manufacturers nor
merchants earinir to take risks which
thev f can avoid •
In boots and shoes a sornew ,, hatgen
eral suspension of manufacture at the
east seems foreshadowed, and while
the cotton men are in good shape, there
is much reluctance to enter into large
engagements for the future.
1 ‘Business failures the last seven days
were 360. For the quarter ending
June 30 there were 3,199 against
2,119 the second quarter of last year.
For the six months of 1893 the failures
were 6,401, against 5,503 during the
same period in 1892, showing an in
crease of 898. The total liabilities of
all failures in the first six months of
1893 are $168,000,000, while for the
same period in 1892 they were $42,
000, showing au increase of $106,000,
000.”
Who says we are not a prosperous
people? Who says we need any more
i money?— Advocate, Topeka, Kas.
THE SHEBMAN LAW*.
“The fashion now,” said Senator
Dubois is a recent interview, “seems
tv be to charge all of the ills of the
country to the so-called Sherman Law.
The McKinley Bill ami high tariff
have been lost sight of. My own
opinion is thut the large city journals
entirely mistake the sentiment of tho
country in their never-ceasing attacks
oD silver. The people are in favor of
bimetallism. They are in favor of
both gold ami silver as money ami
without subterfuge. The present
tendency of money centers is toward
a distinct gold standard, pure and
simple. The Sherman Law has notli
jpg to do with gold leaving our shores,
( Apv thinking man knows that. Re
j, ea l the Sherman Law to-day inexact- and
go ld would continue to leave
ly the same quantity if trade condi- „
tions remained as they now are. The
■ Sherman Law does not suit me. , It is
a makeshift. It will not be voted
out by the senate, however,
unless free coinage or something lead
' j ng t 0 it j g substituted. Ever since
silver was demonetized in 1873 wo
have hail trouble with onr finances,
w c will not have stability until silver
, 8 remonetized. You must base your
currency upon coin—gold and silver—
| in order to hare sufficient and safo
money to transact business. The Sher
man Act provides that certificates is
sued against silver bullion shall bo re
deemed in coin. The President and
Secretary of the treasury insist . .
upon
redeeming them in gold alonu, argu
I that if they are redeemed in ailver
8°^ 8° ft prenuum. The first
\ *nd H they natural try to inquiry curry out ih, howtodo the law fairly thm?
<
1 «« ‘ p » ,mt not otherwise. Again,
if K” 1 ' 1 should go to a premium tho
Hwretary of the Treasury could re
«««“* ‘he paying out of gold for notes
“D'l thua reduce the premium. Again,
not gold considered as a basis of onr
currency, going to a premium under
the present policy, as witnessed by tho
,al hng prices occasioned by thesearei
tv of money. The silver advocates
are the most conservative financial
— <•
tug « the ridicule heaped upon
Sherman Act is re
, , , iv: , t „ 1
i... 1. » , _ Nt
,. . .? government onlv -1 .* Manv
. . , bv^free«ina^e ..
. *7 one .ttenoits*' J to «rra« b
that , there , ls B ■ ufficlent . amount wf
gold to serve as a safe basis for the re
quisite amount of circulating medium.
Some advocates of the repeal of the
Sherman act contend at the same time
for a repeal of the tax on State banks,
ao that we will have money issued on
the credit of the different States. The
, Po P ull , "* s * ^^P^table .. party m
’
P‘*int of numbers are m favor of free
coinage at It, to 1, but only as a step
l»fig st "fic to hat money. They care
nothing for free coinage per se The
Mjver men believe in both gold and
*dver equally as a basis for money aud
mnotlungelse.andtheyarenot con
cerned .* to what the views aud wishes
of other countries may be.
“The people at large understand
this subject better than the bondhold
ers and money centers think, and un
less I mistake, yon will see a practical
demonstration of their views in the
votes on financial questions in the
coming and succeeding congresses. —
Fi< hangr.
A Wi$foi»ii Towo Flooded.
A deluge of water aneb aa never be
f or e was seen in the vicinity of Bnra
Wi*., fell Friday night, flooding
almost the entire city. Stumps of
trees, uJewalka and outhouse* were
flo sled through the principal street*
Saturday morning, in some place*
people hod to move out of Ihei! house*
on account of the water.