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MARRIED.

GO 0DSON-SMITH-By Rev. Boyd, at the resi-
dence of solomon Goodson, father the groom,
on Wednesday, Oct. I'D, u. Goodson and Miss
Dora Smith.
The ceremony took place under beautiful floral
asch. DULY few most intimate friends were pres
emit. We wish he young couple all til. JOY posi-
Bile. Cake received.
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Important to Voters.

AT the October term of the Adair
county court the two voting precincts
in Clay township were consolidated and
the place of voting fixed at Olive Hill
school house. The voting place in
Morrow township was changed from
Gilmore school house to Stahl City.
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Public Speaking.

DR.. A. L. Gray, Greenback candidate
for Congress, will speak at Wilmath-
vile, No., at 2 o'clock p. m. on We'd
nesday, Oct, Doth, and Centre school
house, in Clay township at p. M,
same date. Turn out everybody and
hear him.
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Strayed or Stolen.

a dark bay mare, blind IN the right
eye, fourteen hands high. and nine
years old. She had on web halter
and small bell. ANY information
leading to her recovery Will be thank
fully received and literally rewarded
BRADFORD I'VE,
Winnegan, Mo.
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Insurance agent to farmer Jones
who has been examined for a policy
"The Doctor says you are the best risl
he ever examined, sound constitution
perfect health, nothing to prevent you
living hundred years. Come righ
around to my office, III fix the paper.
at once. Farmer Jones: mo, thank
you it won't pay; l am too healthy.
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The prospects of fall trade
being good Halliday Bros,
have added largely to their
stock. Many bargains in
staple goods; get their prices
before buying elsewhere.
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John Hannah. the old and reliable
groceryman, Is beginning to open the
campaign in groceries and you may in
the future look out for first class gro
ceries at prices that will startle you.
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Flour from sl.0O to s1.5oper sack at
j. S. Baker G. Cos. All other groceries
proportionately low. Give them call.
All kind of feed on hand and delivered
to any part of the city.
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NJ Office OF FINAL SETrLEAiESr-xotice "a
IN hereby given 10 al creditors and Others inter-
estet IN the partnership estate Of John Hama ms
deceased. that john Moore administrator OF said
estate Intend To make final settlement thereof al
the next term OF the Probate court, OF Adalr cou-
" TO be held at kirksyilie the ION day OF Nov
1854. JOHN MOORE
Oct. sth, 1884, Administrator =
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A New Grocery and Restaurant.

Has just been opened by Mrs. A. E.
kirkpatrick, one door!north of Smiths
Furniture store. Country produce
wanted. a lunch counter in connec.
ton with the store. Give me call.
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Halliday Bros. have added
another large order of glass,
ware to their already immense
stock. Call and see them and
get their prices.
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When lecturer has has worked the
ladies of his audience so near to the
weeping point that they have gotten
ont their handkerchieis. and then sud-
denly change bis tone and speak of the
merits of DR.. Bulls Cough syrup he is
bound to rouse a feeling of indlgna-
ton.
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Fresh oysters.

Fresh Oysters served IN every style
at Uncle Charlie Allgaler's Kirksvllle
Kitchen. Give HIM call and be made
happy.
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Bring on your cash and get
your groceries where you can
get the most for your money /.
Halliday Bros, are selling
cheaper than anybody.
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Stump orator "Feller citizens, 1
know no North, or South, no East, no
West. Old farmer in the crowd :
Then it is about time you went to
school and larnt Biography.
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We have a nice lot of mack
erel and white fish which we
will sell at net cost to save
carrying over. Call early
while they last. Halliday Bros.
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Lame back, lumbago, sciatica, and all
diseases of the klndneys, bladder and
urinary organs are positively and per-
manently cured by wonderful new
remedy, Prof. Guilmette's Kidney Pad.
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Bring on your country pro-
duce, we handle immense
amounts of it. Halliday
Bros.
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W.. j. Wilkes has quit travelling and
viii now be found al his place of bust
ness. the Creamery Grocery, and would
be pleased to have all Of his old friends
and acquaintance to call and see him
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Try a sack of Mountain
Pink Flour at Halliday Bros,
only S1.25, can't be beat.
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Coal.

The Advance Coal Co. is now ready
to fill all orders for first class coal at
bottom figures. D. j. HOVE G Co.,
Agents.
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Stair work, such as Ballusters, Rail-
ing, Newell posts, etc., on hand or made
to order promptly at the Variety Wood
Works.
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John Hannah says he Is getting hard
up and wants money. Those knowing
themselves to be indebted to hun will
do well to call and settle their bills at
once.
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Tie Makers Wanted

Wewant 100 tie makers and ten coal
miners at once, PIcKLER & CREBs.
27.St Kirksville.
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When You are IN need of Sugar call
at j. S. Baker G. Co.'S, place of business
and look at their Is Id sugar tor
$1.O0.
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Becktol G Snyder still have on hand
Peninsular, Gold Medal and Superior
stoves. Fire backs guaranteed to last
fifteen years.
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Teacher Wanted.

A good teacher-man wanted at
the Union School house IN Walnut
township. Apply to J. NJ. Howk or
81. Fillmore. -.
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Take Notice.

D. ]. Hoye & Co., want all the ap-
pies and tobacco raised in Adar county.
Come and see them before selling else
where.
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Notice is hereby gwen that the firm known
as scebee d Carson, at Stahl, MO-, has been
dissolved. Those indebted to said firm win
settle with So. Scobee.
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Uncle Charley Allgaler Is still give
ing good square meals for Is cents at
Huntsville Kitchen.
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Merchants from the country town;
would do well to call and get ou1
wholesale prices on Flour.
HOVE & Co.
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d. ]. Hoye G. Co., want to buy all the
tabacco raised IN Adair county and
will pay highest market prices.
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Jumbo. Jumbol Jumbo Flour.
Every sack warranted at $1.25 per sack
at Hoye & Cu's. Feed Store.
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]. NJ. Mccall on the north side
square viii loan money at 6s on sums
of $500 and over.
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Dockery, I'VE & Co., for complete
and correct abstracts.
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Parties desiring Dental work of any
kind should call on Dr. Carter, in the
New Brick Block, north side square.
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"You may speak, said a fond
mother sabout people having strength
Of mind, but when it comes to strength
of don't mind my son William sur
passes everybody / ever knew"
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A nice lot of California fruits
at Halliday Bros.
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Calland zee the nice assert.
.ment of fancy lamps at Halla-
day Bros. They are very
cheap,
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Nice new honey at Halla-
day Bros.
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For the term ending Saturday, Oct.

Parties having claims of any kind or
unSatisfed judgements against the
Wabash, st. Louis & P. Ry., will find
it to their interest to call at this Office.
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Take y0tice
Dissolution Notice.

ID. J. Hoye G. Co., have downed flour
to bedrock. Cheaper than any body.
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Every lady wants the Jumbo Flour
at Hoye 6 Cos.
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Another lot of that cheap
sugar at Halliday Bros.
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Good Cow for sale. Price $50. In
quire at this Office.
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Two car loads Of ieed and -four just
received at Hoye G. Cos.
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The GRAPHIC till after the election
only IS cts. Send in the names.
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John Hannah will sell IXL ST.
Charles -four as cheap as any man who
will sell good -four.
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Correct Abstracts furnished prompt.
|ly by Dockery, Ivie s. Co.
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Burks' Sarsaparilla does its work
well.
Burks' Sarsaparilla-price LOO; 8
bottls $50.
You will bless the day you began the
use of Burks' Sarsaparilla.
Burbs' Sarsaparilla will not cure IN
durable diseases.
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The obituary of Mr.. Fisher of Pet
lis county, a former student at this
place, will appear in our next issue
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The Grand Jury.

The following is a list of the present
grand jury, now in session, with the
age and place nativity OF each:
VIM. L. Fletcher, 81. Kentucky; c.
E. Leech, SO, Penna.; II. ]. Otto, 40,
West Va; ]. A. Sallada, GA. Penna.
Samuel Preston, 40, England T. D
Bell 4S, Ohio; John Young, 40, Ten
nessee; Hiram Snyder, 81, Penna.; ].
W. Hardin, 81, Mo-; j. H. Smith, 54,
Penna.: j. W. Murphii. Sc, Ohio; W.
c. Hynds, As, OHIO. This makes the
average so years and 4months. Polit-
ically the jury stands az follows as near
as we can learn: Butler l; st. John
1; Cleveland L; Blaine 9. On Cover.
nor they mark up as follows: Brooks
l; Marmaduke 1; Ford 10.
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Said an astronomer to bright-eyed
girl, when talking of rainbows: ibid
you ever see a lunar bow, miss 2" 81
have seen beau by moonlight. if that
is what you nean," was the sly re.
:oinder.
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Flour from 9Oc to $1.25 at Hoye &
Cos.
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Every one should stop and take a
look at the windows of the Rochester
Shoe Co. Have you ever seen anything
like them in town?
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Cranberries at D. c. Pierce's.
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"Aunty,. do your cows give good
milk9" dat dey do, master. Dat
genen dat sent dem Days Cow Pow
der here is de best fren you got" Price
IS cents per package OF one pound, full
weight.
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Willard Bros, have three pumkins
that weigh 400 lbs. and beets weighing
16 lbs.
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Ar you low spirited, "down-ln-the
mouth" and weak in the back Does
walking, hftlng, or standing cause pam
in the small of the back? If so you
have kidney disease, and Prof. Gull
mette's French Kidney Pad is the only
semedy which viii cure you rapidly
and permanently and without filling
your stomach with nauseating medi-
cine. For sale by ]. G. Jamison.
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We suffer day aft er day, and month
after month with lame back, sciatica
lumbago, gravel, diabetes, female weak
ness, etc, when you can be cured by
wearing Prof. Gul!mette's Kidney
Pad. For sale by ]. G. Jamlson.
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Try Smith & Bay
lor for Wire andPick
ct Fencing.

Tohn Hannah will sell -four as cheap
as anybody who sells good -four.
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IHEi
MISSOURI STEAM WASHER.

TT REORLESAxC
=
the erMrs
n
JOHNSON BROS, 500 St. ST. Louis, Mo-. General u A.
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where.
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Some Holland People.

The men are a strongly built race,
with clean-cut, serious features, bright
dark eyes that look through you, and
yet kindly enough natured l found
them, for all their stern look. The
woman are very bonny now and then.
a bright, clear complexion, rosy = and
fresh and strong, and as much given TO
smiles and levity as the men are to
grimness and gravity. OF course am
still speaking of the country people, for
even the peasantry arc extremely we'll
to-do.
The towns-people are like nearly all
town people the world oyer-just one
regulation pattern, as IL clad by the
same tailors, "as per sample" But in
towns like Middelburg the servants are
often from the country round about,
and they keep 10 their costume relig-
iously. was buying some god head
gear here such as they sell TO the coun-
try girls, and wishing to find out how
it went on, the jeweller called in his
servant from her window splashing,
who took Off her own corkscrews and
dangling disks of gold-much more
gorgeous than those / was bargaining
for-and with a certain air Of conde.
scension tried on for me my simpler
arrangement.
The children are too deli ghtful, as
they are when quite correct, dressed
exactly like their elders, and the effeca
is often too much for gravity.
The attitude" SO to speak, Of the
Zeelander is more dignified-proud even
than that OF the natives in most parts
of Holland; In fact doubt II in al
Europe you will find people with more
Of the afr Of the"grand seigneur" abouI
them. In fact, / have heard that tn,
air Of repose about some Of the otc
Dutch towns is not stagnation from
their point of view; it Is what they
admire. They don't wish t9bustle, o.
be hustled about. They are oil as ricl
as they care to be, and they don't wan
TO be any happier. When stray tour
ist arrives at one Of their old-fashionet
inns, he Is made TO feel that he is oni,
entertained as favor; they don't reslI,
soGnt him. -Harper's Magazine.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-10
(,|'pii'' .@i'tip''.
TRANSFIGURED.


How obanUed IN an instantl What was IL?
A word ar the glance Of nm eve.
Or n tSon0ht flashed from spirit to spirit
can not tell how-yet know it
THAT once unto me II was given,
Mid the MONDAY stir of the city,
The Heayen that IA hidden within US
For a moment was open to me,
And oauvbt a GLIMPSE of the glory
And sudden hush in the tumult-
A misty glimmer of trees.
And ripple of shaded water
A li0ht and life whence the freRhneGA
The color and GOODNESS grew;
A baptism on human faces,
" came in the calm of communion
With a soul that had entered in
To the life over self victorious
As spirit responds unto spirit
Without the sound of word,
Ny heartstrings awoke TO vibrations
OF music by some unheard.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-10
CHAPTER XVII.
MIR. wHrrrLRsrAFr MEDrrArEs A JOURNEY

MR.. wHITTLEsTAFF MEDrTATEs JOURNEY.
The next day was Sunday. and was
passed in absolute tranquility. Moth.
ing was said either by Mr.. Whittlestafl
or by Mary Lawrie; nor, to the eyes Of
those among whom they lived, was
there anything to show that their minds
were disturbed. They went 10 church
In the morning, as was usual with them,
and Mary went also TO the evening SER
vice. Il was quito pleasant TO see Mrs
Baggett start for her slow Sabbath
morning walk, and TO observe how her
appearance altogether belied that idea
ofrags and tatters which she had given
as 70 her own wardrobe. A nicer
dressed old lady, or more becoming
black silk gown, you shall not see on a
Sunday morning making her way TO
any country church in England. While
she was looking 30 pleasant and demure
one may say almost so handsome, in
her old-fasbioned and apparently new
bonnet-what could have been her
thoughts respecting tho rqinosed, one
aegnl3. vaHi@, and Aer. h3znsed Lie
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-10

The w. &. l.. e. r. II. will run an
excursion Sept. 9th TO Montreal via Toledo
and Detroit. Tickets from Wellington for
the round trip S13.05 good for ten days.
Optional by rail or river.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-10
elm Trees Wanted.

We want a few good elm trees.
Parties having them for sale will
do us a favor by leaving word at
our Office,
w. r. sANTLEY & co.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-10

"A Pittsburgh doctor holds that
corns are inherited Nevertheless, says
the Cincinnati Commercial Gasette, tho
ill-ftting boot or shoe is the parent Of
most Of them.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-10
AN OLD MANS LOVE.
BY ANTHONY TRoLLoPR,

Author Of " BOctor Thornc,"" FTdnlv pdrson
aJe,""Is he Popenjoy" Phineds Finn,
tbG Irish Nomb6r" THE Warden"
''Bdrchestcr 1occrs," Bic, Etc.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-10

Tomorrow morning lot of c. Coffee
sugar will be opened at No s North Main
street which will be sold 10 pounds for
dollar
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-10

The dwellings and farms Of wild
bws, minors and spinsters are exempted
from taxation in several States Of Tho
Me4joaRR Renpblic
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-10

Tomorrow morning a lot Of c. Coffee
sugar will be opened al No. s N. Main st.
which will be sold 10 pounds for 81. tip
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-10
Legal Notice.
PETITION FOR DIVORCE.

PETITION FOR DIVORCE.
rTIhe defendant IL hereby notified that the plain.
i til above named, filed, August 7th, 1894 in the
Office of the clerk Of said Court his petition for
divorce, charging the defendant with being will
fully absent from him for more than three years
last past He also asks for the control Of his
minor children. Said charge will be for hearing
at the next. term of said Court, which will be
holden at the Court House in Elyrin, ON the Goth
day Of October next
HERRICK g. RICHARDSON,
Attorneys for Plaintiff
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-12
CODE SUMMONS.
No. 1878.

STATE OF COLORADO, COUNTY OF ARArA-
In the County Court in and for said County
of Arapahoe. EHtg.JE E3r-'.
THEODORE GILL, Plaintiff, \
WI4HELMISA GILL, Defendant.
The People of the State of Colorado send
Greetings: RI ',,-s'
To Wflhelmina Gill, Defendan above
named: -. r.ga "
You are hereby required to appear in an 40
Plaintiff, in the County Court, in and for the
County of.Arapahoe, In the State of ofColoradO
and to answer the complaint filed therein,
within ten days exclusive OF the day of ser
vice, If served within this County; or If served
out of this County, but in this Second Judi
cial District, of the State of Colorado, within
twenty days; otherwise within forty days;
or judgement by default will be taken against
you, according to the prayer of said complaint.
The said action is brought to procure de
cree of this County Court dissolving the bonds
plaintiff and defendant. on the ground that
the defendant has wilfully and without cause
deserted and abandoned the plaintiff and has
continued in such desertion and abandon
donment for the space of one year and more,
as will more fully appear by the complaint on
file herein, to which reference is here made.
And you are hereby notified, that II you fail
to appear and answer the said complaint, as
above required, the said plaintiff will apply
to the Court for the relief demanded in the
complaint.
Witness, R. W. Steele, Clerk Of said Court,
and the seal thereof at Denver, in said
County, this 18th day of May, A. d. 1884.
[Seal. r. w. STEELE, Clerk.
Sullivan & May, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-12
The Position in Britain.

Editor Labor Enquirer.
EDINBURGH, BRITAIN, 40 ARTHUR ST., |
'.f June rs, 1884. !
1t is no easy task to set forth the exact
position of movement in any country
at any particular moment. Events ale
happening daily which are constantly
tending to change the aspect of affairs
Besides this, the movement. here il
really in its infancy, turbulent infant
enough to be sure, but an infant never
theless. Still, when we recollect thai
there is steady evolutionary movement
going ever onward, that amid all the ap'
parent jumps forward and backward
the tide of progress moves regardless o.
the paltry actions of puny men, it en-
courages one to make an attempt to clear
the smoke and dust away from, events
and endeavor to get glimpse, if it be
but momentary one, of the social stu.
alton. .,n Pc ., -..
In Britain, the most notable fact, for
the observing Socialist, is that the power
of political parties to interest the people
in their proceedings is fast decaying
But few days ago, and Mr.. Gladstone
could rouse the country with series ot
speeches, or smart conservative leader
raise hue and cry about national
hanorn and succaed IN turninp ont a lib.
eral government. Not long ago the peo.
pie were chiefly occupied in contrasting
liberal and conservative finance; to-day
they are occupied contrasting the condi.
ton of the hard-working producer with
that of the lazy loiterer who appropri-
ates the fruits of their toll. I do not by
any means wish my American readers to
imagine that the people are all becoming
Socialists, and that our propagandists
have succeeded in making them look
with Joy for the coming of a Social Rev
olution. Our agitation has scarcely be
gun yet, we are still looked upon as nov.
elites, very amusing and somewhat
interesting novelties, too. But I can
assure our American comrades that the
| fight is beginning. The press has begun
to boycott us, the politicians to misFep-
resent us, the economists to sneer ati us,
and the public generally pricks its ears
! and eleyates its eyebrows when the $50