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THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE,
CRAW FORD VXLLE, GA.
Many citizens of Santa Clara Coun¬
ty, California, liavc jg-titioned the
Board of Education to introduce
dressmaking in the girls’ departments
in the public schools.
Three-fourthsof the total population
•1 Russia are engaged in cultivating
the soil.
In Englund and th<- United States
most women suicides arc young—
which means tliaf social disgrace is
taken very keenly. In France most
of them are old which means poverty.
Judge Pryor of New York believes
in jurors who read tin- newspapers.
In other words, In* believes that in
twelve good nidi and true the law ex¬
pects to find twelve no n of ut least
ordinary intelligence.
A Japanese editor called the mem¬
bers of tho Legislature “born-less
fish," and gets six months ami a line
for punishment. The New York Re¬
corder opines that the art of vitupera¬
tion is primitive in Japan if that's
aetioiiiilj r
Excepting Dllbllque, foWII, the im¬
portant Clt let* of the middle West pay
considerably smaller tax on actual val¬
ues than do Eastern cities. The Hoiitli
rn cities are heiiy* <n the two sections.
Brooklyn's rate is about the worst in
the country. New York’s rater, rather
low for the East.
The j«-re« i,tage of suicides is every¬
where in this country increasing, but
not so rapidly as the percentage of in¬
sane per. > 11 -. It is possible, suggest*
the New York Recorder, that both in¬
creases seem larger than the facts would
warrant, as the figures have recently
been more carefully kept in the large
cities.
The M»nt«nn University Is to K
locahsi ut Miwtonlu, mi agricultural
college at Bozeman, a school of mines
at Hutto and a normal school ut Dil¬
lon. Bdn,-ation is aj>parentJy appreei
atod iu the far-away Bt-utcn, observes
the New York Nowa. According to re
oeot statistic*, Montana pays higher
salariea to h»-r lady teachers thun any
" ■—1 i i -
OeUui^^i|ip, Krm&Z Olii oniric:—
sc ufft'Sf
the eager publish' r offers fancy prices
for any literary relies of tim. uni. rs.
Here is u relative of Oarlylo selling
some early essays of the gront author
which Carlyle refused to Include in his
printed works because he did not re¬
gard them us sufficiently mature. And
then conics olio of Ruskiu’s admirers
who prints some early verse of the fa¬
mous art critic, and very bad verso it is.
There ought to he some wav to reach
such literary piracy as this, for it is un¬
fair and unjust to the fame of great
w riters.
The Ann-rieun p«>oj>le like pluck
whether show n by man or woman, de¬
clares the New York Tribune. Tln-v
have felt unbound,si admiration for
Mrs. Peary’s gallant conduct in ac¬
companying her husband to Greenland
aud spcii,ling a winter tu the Arctic,
t
and the admiration will be renewed
«nd intensified hy the knowledge that
the has decided to go with the explorer
on his coining trip, which will K longer
and more perilous than the former one.
Her stay m Greenland will K*long and
tedious, but her mis|>t>ns,- during her
hmltu.1V journey over th,- ice-cap will
be fur less than if she r« niHined in this
country aft, r his departure a few days
licuee.
The Supreme t’ourt of California
has lately decided that it is unlaw fut
for a jury to arrive at tin- amount of
damages to K* assess, ,| in a civil suit
by taking an average of their varioua
estimate--. Some time ago a young
lady <»f San Francisco was passing
along the street, and a chisel, falliug
from a s,*afl'.*l.l where n curpeut, r was
at work, inthet.al a painful wound
iqam lw r. Shi- sued for damages, and
th,- jury found it hard to agree as to
the amount which sho should receive.
Every one hud a different Idea on the
subject, though they w- re all of the
opinion that sin «>ught to have some¬
thing. Tln-y finally decided to make
an average of the sums which they
w, r, inclined to award her. ami hand
in tin average on their verdict. They
t**ld the court how they had arrived at
their da-cisi* n. whereupon «n ap|s al
wa- tak» n and th, Supreme Court de¬
rided that th* v.rdnt was r< oehe.1 “by
ehanc*ami ivuU u**t -taiul. Win re
th»* * Ieii» at of rhotiee • liter*, into an
av, r»g« Uut ver. plain t*> an , -id.
ifeOervef, , ■ .M.e.i Sit- li,* N* w t
I*i, avail* l»Ut |* rha|w> U>* Coiifol
*eion- ht. -a.
A DU EA M.
1 that over the winter world
The winter winds were sighing,
And into the Orioles' empty neet
The flakes of snow were flying.
The vines along the garden wall
With crystal lee w*-re gleaming.
And in the garden, dull and bore.
The summer flowers were dreaming.
The snow lay deep over wither*-! grass,
The ski*-- were cold and gray.
And slowly tie- dreary night <-ame on
To end the weary day.
1 woke. High up In the orchard tjotieb*
A hundred Urdu were singing.
And in the t>irch-tre*-s’ pleasant shade
Tho orioles' nests were swinging
Along tho river, toll and green
I saw tho rush** growing.
And daisy petals white as snow
Among the grasses showing.
The flowers held the sunshine bright,
The brecz'-s were at play.
And swiftly the dreamy night < ame on
To end tho happy day.
—-Angelina W, Wray, in Harper's Bazar.
MIKE AM) MATRIMONY.
BY JAMES WJKL JOHNSON.
T was “gr i nd i n’
day” at Thompson's
vSl! mill in Jim Creek,
Lewis County, East
Kentucky. Thoniil!
mr was a rival of Black
\ A burn’s store, two
B ■ /j). miles above, an a
gossip exchange for
SS&yv, a Front largo this territory. dislrib
" v utivo point flowed
out toward every
household the news of deaths, hirtix,
scandals, lights, courtships, marriages
•uni other matters of mono'lit. To-day
a large crowd had gathered, Latimer for aruuior and :
was abroad that Big Tom
Polly Ann Hallin were soon to get
married iu the face of her father s op¬
position. The Rallin family was^ the
leadin' one of the county, old Tom
Italliu having a large farm several
horses and “cow brutes” and, by all
odds, the finest breed of cow dogs that
ever yelped at a tree in Lewis county.
Big tim and Old Tom were at the
mill, and as tho latter was u man of
hot temper, a fight between the men
WI.M hopefully anticipated. Big Tim
was a handsome, good-natured fellow,
who would fight only when necessity
commended. He was standing fitting
a stem into a new cob pipe when old
Tom approached and said :
«< I hearn you an’ my gal wuz fixiu'
ter marry?” filin’, ole man,” placidly
“Woain't
returned Big Tim.
“Ye ain't?” hopefully questioneduld
Tom.
“No; we are already fixed—er haw,
haw, haw!”
The old mail’s fingers bunched them¬
selves into hard fists, and his eyes
glittered like ue« dirk knives a-whirl
Itig ii‘ *h<i • uiAmic.
!■!_-L'l_1 J I * A T‘ ~ “ff™**- 1
You la#y, guotioe; what untilin' ter rascal, I'd
f know you get mu-Ty
’ I've got my .lad , s puncheon i floor
fo up marry on yonrn. on, ejt returned wo mint getter Tim- Btand
loud exasperating laugh
“Yon think yer terrible smart, don t
ye?" said old Tom, curling his upper
lip into a vicious snarl.
“Yhh, 1 am smart whar the hide’s
off, az.ny ole grandad uster say -er
Imw, haw, haw, haw I \ course m
er smart man. and am well awar uv it.
er 1 wouldn’t have the brass ter try
ter marry in the big Rallin family! A
fool couldn’t git a gal .ke your., ter
agree ter walk the puncheon er mater
niony with him. lie must be smart
cnoiigh ter keep up tin-family credit.
1‘ollyAnu amt no ham « er, az my
oh. grandad uster say bln s m un
jpnnk ms herself, all she knows , r smart
1“ rs“' 1 ltko in*'- as -...... “' *"' r
runs over his face. I cum from a smart
s,t of people. One uv’em—an uncle
—servesi az roatl overseer in Magoffin
Couuty fer ten years, au’ w«z
lint on tho Pint o Win
* , ......ntuble when a gnu went
oil o m a pat, ft. ho lire-di br.sh close los, to totln the road r at
whar he wuzpusMii a otig, • » *
him. My great grundml wuz also, tr
smart man. lie tu e> M * * '
wimmeu inter the notion o King his
wife. He waz awful smart At <
age of ninety six, he waz still smart,
He w az peart enough ter set out on th.
fence, on nice warm days, an watch
his old woman chop off u hickory bush
log. Oh. I tell ye. old man 1 in not
ter »*e grinned at by them what has no
teeth as my graudad used to say. I in
er mnart feller, an'thar’U be no
grudtu m the stock as >>ng ii* au> <>
the Latimer blood tzraer family r
haw. haw. haa. haw.
lh« monumental impu.l. m, , t um
mer was actually tascmating to om
Tom. While the big. g»o, minor, i
fellow went relln-kiug on in the a we
style, it was imp<>-sibn for < id lorn to
keep his s.Ihi count, nan.v. H, trn ,t
his utmost t*» k,vp 1,H-king tier,v. but
i ver - and anon he would grin in -pito
of himself.
At tbe conclusion of Tim . s jh -ligree
he said: I a*n« gotnotma-ter
»
* h ,l; got
, t The. le null, r MHlauh:’.,
»g,. ... , ». .-.,,, 11 ,,* * .nr -Tindtr'
.rhmt .lark, au.l tgloxi. - at
tdl mg up
th< >un’ ait am m.’ <
.
w.put « H 1 .» H.e‘tsme‘a tm tm I, a Kas«n'‘al M aot
S: ~L“\£u t Hi... .
may . , I, ‘ , »« but I consider
. , , 1 .. v
r. 'i al mtari “• Utv k th. th .ttlv man
! T T * ,..... « l iuol
•f*, . w‘ , . , 1
4
t , , th
t .turn Urn'm*' w
knowledge that’ll stuff me out an’ send
me off pickin’ th* teeth o’ my judg¬
ment with the pine splinter uv good
sense! You're jist that sort nv «r ole
uian, an’ its fer that reason az much
az anything else that has caused me
ter conclude ter lay my matrimonial
claim in vour family, and—”
“Hay, Tim—”
“I’m er savin’ jest as fast az I can,
ole man. Jist yon stan’ back a few
minutes, an’ gimme full swing. Az I
wuz jist a goin’ ter say, I feel that fer
m«- fi r marry in your family will be a
mighty good jump for both sides—it’ll
keep the best looks an’ finest intellecks
in the county ail bounded tergether.
I know you think you can’t bear to
lose yer gal, but lemme say, right
hur, you shunt lose her. She can stay
right with you—”
“Ob, hush, Tim!” said the old
man, grinning ami turning away.
“I see I can’t get no sense outer you.
But I want to tell ye now before you
string out agin, that you can’t have
my gal. I’ll die first. You know
when I say anything 1 mean it. You
are a good-natered sort uv a cuss—in
fact too good-nutered—but you are
not fit ter be u husband, and ye can’t
never how a gal o’ mine.”
“Say, ole man, I want you ter jist
up an’ tell me what you object ter mo
so strong fer?”
“Wal, in the fust place, you hain’t
got no boss.”
“Is that all?”
“Noap ; you hain’t got no cow?”
“Anyth’ng else?"
“Yes; yo ain’t got no good coon
dog."
“What else?”
“You won’t never have none. I won’t
have a son-in-law that has no hoss.”
“Wal, lookee hur, olo mau, you've
got all o’ them things—more than
you’ll ever need. Jist suppose you
give iih; enough to qnalerfy me ter be
come yer son-in-law? You've got more
stock than you need?"
“I’ll see you dead fust!” spoke tho
old man fiercely, as lie turned away.
“I’m goin’ ter have Polly Ann an’
one of your best horses ufore two
weeks ; I feel if. in my bones!" shouted
the big, jolly fellow, us the old man
started off.
“You won't,” shrieked the old man,
grinding his teeth, and viciously shak¬
ing his fist.
“You’ll see, ole man. Hit won’t do
fer such fine stock as tin* Rail ins and
Lutimcrs not ter mix up iu luutermouy
—er haw, haw, haw, haw!”
Late iu the nfternonn, about dark,
old Tom’s “turn o’ corn" was ground
and he was just should,-ring it up,
ready to carry it out to his horse when
Tim came up and, smiling, said:
• ‘Old man, let me carry out your
turn, an’ put it on your boss. It's too
heavy for you. 1 don’t want ter see
ye kill yerself up, even if I am goin’
ter marry yer gal an’ inherit yer
ertv!”
“Yon go to the d--!" vieionslw* i
j A '■ 1 M! ■ .
slowly strained the nag to
shoulder. .
“Wait jist a miuite, ole
gnoke Tim laughing “rnv turnwA!
|UIll r , Besides n rf, 0 re you’ll want
CLmer3.” good comvanv! ____ the^oid^ it’s an awful f tl j
lonesome road.” But But the old man man
was riding . j. away and j j lie didn’t didn't hear hear
Tim’s iinis last nwu words. worus.
f.qp^'^tohuLTf “Confound that nr Tim I” the Vex! old ,,
fellow “'..V spoke to himself in inan amused
“He “lie beats beats any onv feller feller I I ever ever
He’d H,*’,l tickle tickle ^ » a dog dog ^ to to bear hear ' JS him him
talk. ,lllK ' If 11 he ,u only ' hml i a hoss .7,,?!" I might
give in . arter iVal a while, . miiVlhrow but never,never,
ever ^ ' shall shuH pViarrvim a gal o o' mill,* "a fellel throw herself herself
away by marrying ~ a feller what what ain’t
got no boss. ”
8
Darkness Darkness was was now now tilling ,, tho road
and shutting ahuttin-' out out the the view view ^..^lea of of all
tilings. Suddenly an owl brawled oat out
almost ^ f imnu immediately * , llittU *, ,| y in iu froIlt front ftt at an an an- sn
gle . of the . road. simultaneouslv, the
, si to’om- . spirited ant! animal l.iiii.-.t
side then oh horrors ’
, . .. ■ ..
tm’old teitow te tie lursia ”
,"Y,. Vo ottVi' while heat
•
tcmptc,! _ to t free himself from - the .. am
nml, he's jumped into that big nuery
ho , tf .. With these wor,ls he nude a
,|es|M-ratc si-ramble to get away from
^ ^ ^ lllt> frightentnl animal,
«uuk now to Ins body in the slough,
plVi , ;l ,t„ un aering surge, fell to its
ra tchiug ^ the old fellow’s leg, and
thtf o( mcn j ot y on top of
^ ’ lMh hors,- and man were now
fHM j Utiabu . t „ movo .
- llmost Jelirions
^ ^ ,
w . th t There he was. helplessly
tht . K | ou h .\n,l to add further
terrors it oT^hSSTI was turning colder s«J
ha
^ ^ n as onlv a question of a few
, bonrs w hen he ulus! perish. Aud such
» death! A man. in good health, to
^.luajlv without K ing
ablo u> SUIUIIUin a single human King,
^ |<t an q f,. t q must first get
^ ^ tlraduallv, slowlv his blood
mu ^ t 0 f rom the surface, until, finally,
^ t . lrns |o uv m beort!
He K ean to prav. and the lip* that
K-fore ha l trembled iu divine
anneal ‘ * now became fouutaius of beg
b . ... hottatum
ht . hciiri | the sounds of a
h.'r. sho,.K
Th,a - hk ' “ >*ghtning tlash. broke
on his s»»ul the reeidlection that ltm
Latimer was to follow him on the same
^ ^ n. stopped praying and began
to shout.
“What s the matter?” asked Tim.
r S? idn g mar “Ar, vo A.. rx pent in’, ole
1- a- C., .w„.
trvm’t, r ait f* rgix, m for th. wav
v. K n talkin' L...J t.r met Bullv f«*r v,>u,
a ..r
J ff.u> J up all right* Git . u v,r h r-e,
i u r w . It . ,«,cddto
IsrM ;! nt n .n thor’ tbt n,* ...
j, r at. au. whit. w.
-
: X
* vid W». - K— -i'-ha - fc i-m.
and a [f ife “I’m hur in the ola
mjerv # _ - .’4 - v
“ftsl! % n yon are!" shonted Tim.
“Why . hot yo in the notion ter
git do- i Nch er place az that tei
pray ed ter be az humble az
poaa’i j ekon? Wal, the Lord
likes • I tie sinner. But git up,
now, V-M hits er gittin’ too cold to
Btav ?
‘‘Of ! , u , can't ye umk-rstand? My
%T>
flopj e rossme!
"i r_ hew, haw, haw, haw, haw, er
wah don that grai t sieh ’t i uster ah-wah!” know beat night say! that’s anything roared Why, no this? place az Tim, ole I'm my ter man. “ef olo be
a lavlr’ er as sur
priv t a man o’ your sense gittin’
do' ! har. You didn’t appear so awful
dru i ‘ when ye left the mill! Hit must
er “Ch, Bef ter yer hed awful quieK.”
Tim,” desperately spoke the
old fTHow, “hush yer foolishness now,
an’ gt me outer here. I’ll die here
before much longer. ”
“I, course ye will, ole man, an'
that * just be ter my hand! I won’t
Slav no trouble then erbout gittin’ yer
gal. Whoop! I knowed thar wuz some
goo luck waitin’ ter rejuvernate my
long.’ sout! Wal, hit’s er gittin’ too
eolTf.or me ter stay hur enny longer.
Got*! by, ole man !”
“dh. Tim, Tim, Jim !” shouted the
old Wetlow, breaking into a cry,
“pl’.-se, for God’s sake, Tim, don’t go
off at’ leave me to die! I’ll pay you
emi.' hing you ax ef you’ll git me
out.
* Will ye give me Polly Ann ?”
tJea, yes,” eagerly spoke the old
fj*.iw
‘‘An’ a hoss?”
•Sartinljr—hurry up, Tim!"
“.In’ er cow?”
'ourse, course!—hurry, Tim!"
• \n’ er good brood sow air’ pigs?”
‘Oh, Lordy mighty, yaa! Hurry
at come, Tim!”
“An’ er good coon dog?”
‘ Yixs, yas, yos! the best one I’ve
g,.*! Hurry!” screamed Tim,
a^l.e „ “Whoop, whoopee!” Ho
leaped from his horse. rar
tc * fence neur by ami got two rails,
■e soon had the old man pried out of
n mud, and then the tw'o released
tji horse. Tim rode home with the
e|d fellow. On the way he stopped at
1 arson Ado’s and forced the latter tc
^company him. An hour later he was
die old mans sou-in-law.—Yankee
finds.
Can Oilers Cause Deafness l
Everyone docs not know that aro
viatic salts and very strong, pungent
plers jmcll, arc injurious to tho nerves of
and often produce serious, if
pot iucurablo difficulties.
jbeents j It is well understood that certain
Btnrt tho action of the secretory
^glands of the nose and throat, and
the eyes fill up with tears. Fre
indulgence in the use'of such
jjprfumes will soon overtax the score
. Some
day the person observes that the hear
is less acute than usual, and the
of smell seems defective.
Tins is, of course accredited to a
and but little is thought of it.
After a time, the entire head become*
i fleeted, fleeted, heuriug hearing and and smell smell are are almost, almost,
1 < if not not altogether altogether locking, locking, and and there there are are
and and lung lnug^ complications complications which which
likely to end in chronic, if not fatal
klness. \
i.*uv I It It has lms taken taken the the medical medical world world that that loss loss agrest a great of of
t^Uiy uisring years years to to discover discover
l Hearing is is almost aim.,st invariably invariably esnsed canoed by by
hlth n0 dmease of the throat or nos,', or
Vt Ml
is said that the use of smelling
s » „ne of the most prolific causes
1 ,,f ‘eefness, operating by weakening
tho^dfactory nerves, and through them
the'auditory the 'auditory system. system. All All strong strong or
pungent |-tgnt odqrs olqrs should should lie be avoided avoidcl as as
far far ap a* possible, possible, especially especially those thorn- which which
act upon the secretory processes, a nd
**-' > )•<-pillar .-xpr.-ssiou go.-s, “make
1 the uoae run.’’—Yankee Blade.
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The Rent is a Rose.
An interesting ceremony took place
at ... the Lutheran T Church at ,lanb ini,
Penn., the other Sunday. It was the
payment of the annual rental for the
ground on which tho church stands,
aud is locally known as the “feast ol
roses." In 1772 Baron William Henry
Stiegel, the founder of Mauheim,
i donated the ground to the Lutheran
congr. -.rstioi:. upon which Zion Church
now Hands. The Baron exacted for
hie Uud “five shillings iu cash aud the
annual rental of one r,sl rose in Juue,
when tho same shall be lawfully de
mamlcd.” That clause is iu the deed
of transfer, and for 120 vears the red
rose has K^n p*ud by the congrega- Baron,
ti<>n to some descendant of the
i At the services Mrs. Elizabeth Boyer,
of Hnrriabnrg. a gTeat-grauddaughter
of Baron Hteigel. was the representa
tive of the laudlor.L On tho altar, ic
s vase, was a huge red rose. An
! official of the church council made au
address and formally tendered the
rose to Mrs. B,-yer. who then signed
a receipt for a year s rent of the
property.—New *—t— Orleans Picayune.
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Two Hatched Brilliants Worth $500,000.
At the Imwru! Institute. London,
th, Pnnce of Wales lately ms^ted
the splendid Mrlchrtvs* diamonds, a
pair of magnificent brilliants which
were found in lbi Toit s pan mine,
Kimberly, South Africa, in 1885, by J.
Mvlehreeet. Originally the weight of
th, stone was li»9» karats, but it wa
cleft m two and cut regardless of
mu. . w work, «* i-a-m togeth.
of tnlhaucy. Thi* t
with euttiug an 1 pi-lmhin^. was done
.UteriS. WUOM.-i.l
to K* the tine* pair *u existence; fot
it .« th. opmitm «f aXAH-rt- that ther,
u no other pair o< IwdlrnnK of th*
„ -ire cut fn-m th. mum stone.
Itfcsy mi a cornpM* match and th. »i
atpkmdntfoOG ». Uwtim
THE REFORM MOVEMENT.
/
Cnrrent Comment Concerning the Great
Me Against Oprassion.
Yote to repeal the silver law, or you
•"'p^SL^CIevefa'ndt nl5
c —
When the mortal remains of Roths
ehild, John Sherman and Cleveland
are placed in the grave the monument
should be inscribed: “Sacred to tho
Memory of Three Twins .”—Pioneer
Exponent.
• *
These are the days when great men
are born—when if there is any patriot¬
ism, loyalty, courage, unselfishness,
good, old fashioned every day honesty
in a man, it will surely manifest itself.
— Weekly Republic.
- %e Chicago Easiness Rigtster says;
“What the country needs is another
Andrew Jackson at the head of affairs
—not snipe shooters and fishermen as
it had last year and as it has this
year.” We’ll have one in ’96.
Since the first of May more than
306 banks, many of them the largest
in the country, have failed. Mora
than 8,000 business concerns have
gone under since the first of January,
most of them large ones. Vance uud
the bulauee of us “doty cranks” ure
right. Get in the reform ranks
friends.
* *
When a farmer’s home is taken from
him under mortgage, it is because of
laziness and extravagance; when a
factory cuts the wages of laborers or
shuts down entirely, it is because of
stringent money matters; when a bank
fails it is because of the “withdrawal
of deposits.” Yet, cold, hard, indis¬
putable facts say it is because of un¬
equal, unjust and iniquitous class leg¬
islation.— Exchange.
The Bank of France, although nom¬
inally a private banking house, is, in
reality, a semi-official institution, for
the reason that its operations are made
under state control because it has the
monopoly of issuing bank bills. Tin
single fact that tho bank issues the
French greenback (which is blue and
rose) makes the average citizen believe
Hint the institution belongs to tho
government, and he has the same cou¬
fidence in it that ho has m the govern
nient itself.
* *
For twenty-five years we have been
told that the tariff was robbing the
people and the cause of all the hard
times. For twenty-Jiec dags the same
papers and speakers have told us it is
J^AjyiTman bought since silver the Jaw, Sherman If all law the was «»•
vor
passed was put it one pile one o le
tariff speeches made and put in ought print
would cover the pile. Somebody
to be arrested for slandering e
or the Sherman law. Which is it?
Exchange.
The Boston Daily Traveler, one of ,
Bostons great daily papers, has no
only opened its columns for a fair
presentation of the views and transac
tions of the People’s party, but it has
Retired the services of an able and
distinguished representative of
party to take charge of this depart
meut. The Traveler has always been
disposed to deal fairly with the new
party and this mw evidence of its
good intentions will be regarded with
favorbyniombersofthepartyexery- marked contrast with
where. It is in
the policy of the great «ty daihea
generally.
between ,? Russ •
The tarifl war is
and Germany is instructive m show
iug the evils of protection
ism, and conclusively proves
that it always benefits others than
tlioso mtendoAl. Ikussitt iimtgjuou that
harvests in Germanv would make
h,r dep,nd,ut .l,. 1)on deut on on Russia Kussia for for her ner food
many ^ ’I*,!V'.V s presumed umed helplessness helple-su. 'S by bv plwc plac
ing » is*, rimina ff ■
„ -
may he
already looking for other n >,
the only good we can see in the trans
action is that she will turn her eyes to
»°rd **“■ jonntrv, as we can supply
w,th a11 re, l ulres '
* *
In a communication m the Maternal
Watchman Jerre Simpson says: “You
have asked me for n.y views on the
future of the People’s party. Peoples Broadly
stated, I believe the
should keep its “ear to the ground
and listen to the wishes aud needs of
the people, and at all times seek to
direct legislation to meet their de
mauds. Th, immediate future of the
party, however, is a matter for delib
crate and careful consideration. There
are so many grave responsibilities de
pending upon its course that great
caution is imperatively necessary. The
time has come in mv judgment when
the people, the pre^s, and their sena
tors and representative. ,n ,N,ngre«
should set nnderstandingly an«l as a
unit.
*
Kansas exchange
Bank Commissioner BreiJenthsl is
a f t , r the promoter, of the Kansas
LaK.r Exchange. For some time this
. ^ ... a.,.™, ,«»«.
p, numbers, which are used among
uum Kr, a, a m. dium of exchange and
to ,h, <*
ni- toy. The tVanmissioner eiaims
thtt t the certificate. ,r< Mtl.yect to a
ten ,s r , ut. tax nn.br th • law tax
in \ t%x . , u .k- V r y. r- e..tto„
mill* h»x paid th* ir U ten input
with check. *r
tn-ir a****, • ,
currency between man and
in the vicinity. Yet the gov¬
ernment does not jump on them.
Only recently the New York banks
issued over ten million dollars in
“clearing house certificates” to be
used as money. But the government
says not a word against this. The
Kansas exchange does not call its cer¬
tificates money. A man can put
wheat or corn, land or anything of
value in the exchange as collateral and
get a certain amount on it in the
shape of certificates, which pass as
current money. The national bank¬
ers have the government by the horns,
however, and the exchange must stop.
« *
A GOTHAM CALAMITY HOWLEB.
The New York Times, like all papers
published in Gotham, has been clamor¬
ing for the repeal of the Sherman law
and declared that nothing else was
needed. Since the thin crust has been
crushed, the Times evidently sees
where we are at. Recently it con¬
tained an editorial more than a column
long on “The Business Outlook.”
Little or nothing is said about tho
Sherman bill. That old soreback
fraud seems to have been laid on the
shelf. The editorial on the business
outlook surpasses anything ever done
by us along the calamity howling panic ligo.
The Times first describes the
of 1884. It declares that money was
harder to get, rates of interest higher
than at any time during the past two
months. But soon after the panic was
over (it was artificial) money began On to
accumulate in the banks rapidly.
tho first of July, less thun two months
after the panic subsided, the banks re¬
ported a reserve fund of §16,000,000.
But the Times says “no such thing has
happened this year. ” Instead of hav¬
ing a reserve fund on the first of July
they were down to the '25 per cent le¬
gal limit. Since the first of July the
25 per cent limit has been cut into to
the amount of over §5,000,000. Still
the Times does not once declare that
the “Sherman law is responsible." bad
It next says the outlook is “even
if the cause is removed.” The trade
in mercantile and manufacturing cir¬
cles will be comparatively small for
months. The World’s Fair will help
certain railroads, but most of the
roads are already preparing for dull
times by stopping further purchases and by
ears or other improvements re¬
ducing the number of employes.
Manufacturers are reducing their
forces, mines are closed, hence thous¬
ands of people will be out of employ¬
ment. Next tho Times makes the fol¬
lowing admission, something rarely
done by a plutocratic New York paper:
“As the great body of consumers whether aro
people who work for wages,
as laborers, artisans or clerks, and tho
cutting down of their wages or lack of
employment diminishes their ability to
consume; and as the great farming
class are hurt in the same way by tho
extremely low prices to which tho
products they raise have fallen, it will
lie seen that the shrinkage in the va¬
rious departments referred to is a ne¬
cessary consequence.” admission tho
After making this
Times says: “This appears like a
gloomy picture. It is not a cheerful
one, but tho situation must bo met,
and prudent people should prepare to
meet it.”
After declaring time and again that
the repeal of tho Sherman law was all
that is needed, tho Times admits that
tile repeal will not make matters right.
The truth is it will ruin tho country,
if it is not already ruined, If repealed
without a proper substitute. The
Times admits further that there is not
enough money, that is concentrated,
that underconsumption is hurting and
that tho low price of farm products is
another great cause, and does this,
too, without suggesting a remedy.—
Progressive Farmer.
Records of Great Value.
In the old Ford’s Theater building nil
the records of the volunteer armies wero
filed so that at a moment's uotico the ea
rcer ofsoy mau in the union army could
be ascertained.
The voluminousness of the document
arv matter therein contained is hard to
The military records include
400.000 muster-rolls and about 150,000
buund TO i umM .
The copying has been done upon cards,
They were printed filled in black and then the
blanks were from the records,
The car , is were sorted by State*, then by
Kg - menta and tonally alphabetically, so
that a score or more referring to one mau
eventually come together from widely
different sources and take their places
under h» name.
The system of indexing and sorting
was marx-elous, the result beautiful m .U
building was divided bv little
£, part i t ions. The three great floors were
ver cl with rows of desks for clerks.
j a a wor ,j tbe building contained
within its walls an illustration of one of
the most remarkable feats of systemiz
ation ever brought and to Pension success, offW
The Record was
created by executive ..rde-r in 1>8 ', that
is. the office as existing up to the time
of the di-a-ter. OnMav 9.I892. it wu«
giv«i permsneat extabhshment by an
act of Congress, and Col. Ainsworth was
^ in^ devc^Il to New * A*ork alone
t a record of cnHst
th ,. fa;nc lKin „ k „ pt in
boxea. About 21 of tho^ boxes referred
to the Mexican war and the others to
the reVllion.
The system of record* as in operation
mved 1^0.000 in clerical salaries annu
«tIy.-, New Ymk News.
m M m .
Phyvtcns—I see the physuLas are
- « of O.
neaahiest of gam*
hoeihng .hol.ra llieyd e unteaanee
the . f germs *.. bene
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