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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-20

HUMOROUS,
A great wag-a dogs tai.
Bang up--A bomb emil
m1d-air.
The agricultural fair-Thh
daughter.
Hot rolls-tossing around /
of a sultry simmer night.
Song of the United Stats
"Oakum oakum with me-
Love is blind. That is WINS
young people like best to caa
dark.
Although your doctor may
owe your life to him, he vilis
it in settlement of bis BILL
George Washington could n
tell a lie as any other uaF
politician tried to pass one %
An anxious inquirer asks
is the best place for salt vds
ing?" In the salt water, da
Can you speak of a young
being brow-beaten when sh
hair banged? Conundrunu
tor.
Does yer kape nothih'
goods here" "No, maan
where will j be after going y
cred silk ?"
Women ornament their dn
hind because they like 70 =
things said about then "
backs are turned.
"There is this difeTe1s
u.s." said the needy tramp e
editor full in the eye, "y0a .
felt want, and ] want a lo4 "
AS Usual.
Now the angler drops hshA
In the shady purling bros
Andh waiteth for a bite.
From the morning tiii =
But the bite It cometh no.
And he curscth at bis lf
Still homeward doth be b
With a most enonpos =
How doyou pronounce
asked the teacher OF ths y.
class. The boy replied:
a great deal on wheiha
refers to a person or a DC
/. Ny daughter, you Dug
some aim in life" said a
thoughtless l6-year-o1
going to, papa" was The
reply. a have got my b"
(. A conundrum 6end al
the difference between ~.
who has a penchant ~
trees ~ AS if we didn't ~
is a sunny cline and the ~
son.
Alas! with the vIrtus'
nant race, the red ln0l'' =.
its vices. We weep =
gilded misery that frOn !, -
has organized a baseO@D
up for itself. -.
A San Francisco n''- ~
nice cage and a wagon
house for a fine speeln'
hog that was offered d..
a sausage. and it TOOK -
see the joke. ,...
why is this butte
asked the spruce yOuD -,
The ribbon counter =.
I looked stsrnly At , y,
. You'd butter settle :, =,
md the cream Of the
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-20

Hoo 70 Cook Green Peas.-Take a
quart Of fresh-sheIled young peas and
put them IN 2 pan Of cold water. Then
place il . saucepan the heart Of let
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-08-20

How many of the farmers whose
manure made during the winter lies
in the barnyard through the summer
reckon what they lose by not getting
the use of tie manure during the
growing season. Ii many did, the
practice of so leaving manure would
be much less common than it is. It
MOI infrequently happens that manure
pays 100 per cent. in a single crop
In such case the farmer who allows
his manure to lie in the barnyard
loses its entire estimated value. In
other words If manure is at once au-
piled TO the crops and its use com
pounded it win be worth twice or
thrice as much as it is in ordinary
practice. There is little or no waste
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31

THE Ohio Senate, in compliance with
the demand of Hon. Alonzo D. Fassett,
Senator from the MahoniDg and Trum-
bull District, on Thursday last appoint
ed com mittee, consisting of Messrs.
Reed, Van Cleaf and Elliott, Demo
Gratis, and Messrs. Dickinson and Ev-
ans, Republicans, to investigate certain
reports prejudicial to the character and
standing of the said Fassett and his
fitness to occupy seat in the Senate
of Ohio. So far as the evidence has
been made public" it goes to show
that the Honorable (?) Senator, in 1868,
while citizen of Ellie, Pa, stood
charged in an indictment with the
crime of larceny, and that he skipped
out to avoid the due punishment for
his crime, leaving his bail to foot the
bill. If the charges, upon full inves-
tigatiOn, shall prove to be we'll found
ed, he should meet the fate that was
meted out to ex-Representative O'Con-
nor, and be promptly expelled from
his seat.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31
PILES! PILEL!! PILES!!!

A sure cure for Blind, Bleeding,
Itching, and liberated Piles, has been
discovered by DIR. William, ian Indian
remedy)called DR. WILLIAMS INDIAN
OINTMENT. A single box has cured
the worst chronic cases of twenty-five
years. standing. No one need suffer
five minutes after applying this won
derful soothing medicine. Lotions and
instruments do more harm than good
Williams Ointment absorbs the tu-
mOrs, allays the intense itching, (par-
ticularly at night after getting warm
in bed,) acts as a poultice, gives in.
stant and painless relief, and is pre-
pared only for Piles, itching of the
private parts, and for nothing else.
For sale by H. Waterman, and mail.
ed Oh receipt of price, $l.00.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31
GAINESVILLE Signal.
WhRtIS Tariff

What is tariff? The origin of the
word answers the question. In the
southermOst part of the peninsula of
Spain which juts down into the straits
of Gibraltar, is a town named Tarifa,
deriving its name from chief who
crossed overSrom Africa to reconnoiter
the country previous to its conquest
by the Moors. After the NJ oorish con-
quest, about the middle of the first
century, a castle was built at point to
command the straits. Vessels passing
out of or into the Mediterranean We're
forcibly stopped and compelled to pay
duties" on their cargoes at certain
fixed rates. From this place and cir
cumstance the word tariff" passed
into the English and other European
languages.
These facts give an illustration of
something more than the origin of the
word. They illustrate the character
of the thing. They illustrate that a
tariff always demands something from
somebody, and never gives anything
to any body. 1t illustrates that there
is always something taken out. In the
case illustrating the system that gives
rise TO the word tariff, each ship that
passed through the straits was so much
the poorer for all that was paid at Tar
ifa. 1t was not an exchange of corr
modities. 1t was an exactiOn it was
extortion. The innermost nature,
therefore. of tariff is that it takes cut
never gives and that TO this principle
the system is as true as the needle to
the pole. "Thou shalt pay" is the
only thing tariff says or can say.
An impression prevails throughout
the land, in the minds of many, that
tariff, somehow or other, is posi-
lively productive agent, spur to the
prog less of industry. something nee
essary to the ongoing of exchanges
while the fact is, that tariff is only
another name for taxes. A high pro-
tective tariff is tax not for the benefit
of the Government, but robbery for
the benefit Of favored few who reap
the reward of the robbery. The origi II
of the system was for robbery, and its
practice has continued as robbery,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31
Washington Post.
The Real Issue.

1--WE are a rich Government and a
poor people," says Senator Morgan.
The condition of the country could not
have been described in language more
happily chosen.
While statesmen are suggesting ex-
pedients for dIsbursing our enormously
REDUNDANT revenues, the wolf is howl
ing at the door of robbed and plum
dered labor.
While the protection extremists are
chanting anthems in praise of " a tar
If in the interest of wage-workers, ,"
the over-production which their tariff
has stimulated is turning the wage
workers out to beg or starve.
Furnaces, mills and factories all over
the country are either closing theil
doors or reducing wages to starvation
point.
Something like the ruin that fell or
labor ten years ago, with the war tariff
in full operation, now p0rtentously,
gloomily looms up in the near future.
We hope and believe it will not be
so fearful night of disasted as that OF
the. last decade. The country is in
much better condition now, as whole
than it was in 1873. But we are evil
iently entering on time of trouble,
and that, too, under tariff that piles
up millions of surplus every month,
No one attempts to deny that the
| operation of existing laws is to gather
the wealth of the country, the earn
| lngs of the millions, into few hands.
You cannot manufacture milliOnaires
| without defrauding labor There is no
device known to mortal man whereby
few can be made sudde My rich by
commerce, manufactures fstock spec
ulations without robbing the producers
of wealth.
A quarter of century ago man
who owned a million dollars, OF its
equivalent, was enormously rich. To
day the pOssessor of two millions is
not notably wealthy. In some of the
States, twenty-five years ago, there
were no citizens worth more than
hundred thousand dollars. To
lay every city has its list of
nilliODaires. 1t is in accordant e
| with immutable laws that while the
rlch grow richer the poor grow poorer.
The practical statesmen in Congress
seeing the poor cruelty and unjustly
taxed to raise money that is not need
| ed, propose to abate the taxes 50 that
we shall not collect mole millions than
| are required.
But whenever any revenue refOrmer
| urges such abatement OF unnecessary
burdens, up rises some agent of monop-
olies to protest, in the name of labor,
against policy that aims to protect
labor fiOm its spoilers.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31
Dan voorhees,, Opinion.

Speaking of the speech of Hon
Henry b. Payne before the recent
legislative banquet, Senator Voorhees,
is reported as saying 1t is the best
speech / have read in twenty-fi
years. was i'll the midst of the prep
aratiOn of my argument when Pitts
burg paper was handed me containing
it. l seldom read speeches. did
read this. Let me tell you this-it il
the best speech that has been delivered
by any public man for a quarter of a
century. L felt so good after reading
it that sent IA telegram 10 Mr.. Payne
at Cleveland, telling him 1 endorsed
every word of it. The speech is a
platform. 1t is a brave speech and a
timely one as well. His aIlusion to
the civil service sham was most pro
Pitious. L believe with him that you
can not clean the Augean stable with
a tooth brush How sententious and
brave that speech 1t covers every
vital issue before the people, and deals
with them in a broad spirit of states
manship rather than hypocrisy. AS
said before, it is the best speech which
has been delivered by any public man
for more than quarter of century.
/ do not know Mr.. Payne intimately,
but feel so toward him that / know
L shall enjoy better acquaintance
with him. [ wish he were ten years
younger. There is timber in such a
man for the highest office in the gift
Of the people"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31

THE year 1888 was a busy one with
the criminals and unfortudates. A
ssatician is responsible for the state
ment that in this country the murders
averaged four day aud the suicides
two per day. In the United States
l494 persons met death, at the hands
of fellow creatures, against .720 the
previous year. Ohio is the banner
murder State, leading with 1l6 cases,
Missouri follows with 104, tying New
York. Only one hundred and five
persons were executed by the law dur.
ing the year, while 81 were disposed OF
by vigilance committees and mobs
C trrying out the DEGREES of Judge
Lynch. The suicides of the year foot
up $40. In this business New Yoi
leads, with POI victims.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31
Senator George F. Edmunds.
VICE PRESIDENT PRO TEN.
The Senate, after rendering the
Honor to senator Anthony,
RG-electS Nr. ed mn IA Ads
President Pro Tenn.

Geo. F. Edmunds, the subject of onr
President Pro Tenn of the Senate oD the
fourteenth inst. after Senator Anthony
of Rhode Island had been elected and
had declined because of continued ill
health.
Mr.. Edmunds, of Burlington, was
born at Ri ichmond, Vermont, February
l, 1928. His education consisted only
of that afforded by the public schools,
after graduating from which he began
the study of law and at an early age
became practitioner of considerable
ability. He soon drifted into politics,
and successfully, as he was elected
member of the Vermont Legislature
in 1854, 80, '56, '57, '5S and '59, serv-
ing three years as Speaker. He was
then elevated to the State Senate and
was it's Presiding officer pro tenlpore. in
1861 and '62. Soon after this Hon.
Solomon Feote, one of the U. S. Sen
ators from Vermont, died and Mr..
Edmunds was appointed to fill the
vacancy, and he took his seat April 5,
1885,.
Mr.. Edmunds has since been con-
tinued in the Senate, his present term,
which expires March 3rd, 1887 being
his fourth election. He was a mem
Der of the Electoral Commission of
1876, and was first elected President
pro tenn of the Senate Immediately after
the resignation of David Davis, last
year.
Senator Edmunds is fine Parlia
mentarian, his rulings while in the
chair being unbiased by any political
preferences he may entertain as Re-
publican. He is we'll liked by all
Senators, and graces his position with
all the dignity and ability becoming
the Vice President of the United
States.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31

Capital and LabOr.-YOu Pay Your
Money and Can Take Your Choice
I hear and see so much nonsense
said and written on the labor and cap
ital questions, and much of it growing
out of confusion of terms, that 1 will
beg a small space in your paper for e1-
planation. A great portion of this
comes from using the term capital and
labor for capitalists and laborers. The
monopolists started this, for it is their
desire to confuse the minds of the peo-
pie to keep them from understanding,
but why it shoRld be kept up by intel
ligent persons who claim to be reform
ers, / cannot understand. Now we
hear them discussing the rights of
labor and capital. AS rights belong to
persons exclusively cannot see how
capital, which is but thing, can have
rights. If they mean the rights of la
borers and of capitalists let them say
so, but then the rights adhere in them
because they are persons and not be-
cause Lh6y AOlu Cd %plCdAs IL VIC eeNuAAU
otherwise we open the door for class
legislation.
Again we are told that there is no
enmity or conflict between capital and
labor. AS both are things, without
sense, no one with sense ever supposed
there ever was or could be, any enmity
between them. But so far from enmi-
ty, labor and capital are counterparts
and the essential ingredients of all
wealth. 1t is when men undertake to
separate them and bestow all the cap
ital upon one class, and throw all the
labor upon another, that the conflict
begins, and that conflict is irrepressi-
BILE. There can be but two ends to it !:
Either the laborers must own the cap
ital with which they work, or the
capitalists will own the laborers. The
people can pay their money and take
their choice, but it is useless to try to
patch up compromise, for no compro-
mise can stand. Labor and capital are
inseperable, and those who control the
one will possess the other in the end,
aud no power can prevent it'll. G..
Truman in Saturday EXP
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31
Fearful Mine Explosion.

DENVER, January PA dispatch
from Gunnison says that most terri
BILE mine explosion occurred at Crested
Buttes, coal mining town thirty
miles away, the sound of the explosion
being plainly heard there. Fifty-seven
men are buried in the mine, and there
is no hope that amy of them are alive.
The explosion was one of the most
appalling that ever occurred ia this
country. Crested Buttes, near which
the mine is located, is coal mine
town thirty miles north of Gunnison
City, on the Denver & Rio Grande r..
definitely known. but it is supposed
that it was from the fire damp. The
explosion occurred either i'll cham ber
one or two just half ali hour after the
day force of sixty-seven men had gone
to work. There were ten men at work
in the chamber. Four of these escaped
unhurt except one man, John Angus,
who was in the passas seway just out
side of the chamber, and is badly
burned, but will recover. Fifty-seve Ii
men were at work in chambers one
and two, and these are all thought to
have perished. The explosion was of
such force as to completely barricade
the main entrance, and the appliances
for supplying air located near were
badly wrecked, and the roof OF the
tramway blown off. The men at work
on the anthracite mesa We're night
force of the C, G. & /. Comnanv's
mines. The citizens generally were
working hard all day to rescue the
men, although it is thought that none
can possibly escape alive.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31
Congress, Its Employees, and what


To show our readers what large body of as
sistants our Congressmen and Senators require
have collected at great pains from the official
records the following facts, with which the pub
lie generally are not acquainted:
The total number of employees and subordinate
officers of the House is 277. divided as follows:
Under Speaker 35; Clerk, 80; Doorkeeper. 153;
Sergeant alarms, s: Postmaster. l6; Annual
Clerks and Messengers to Committees, 81; Re-
porters, 7.
The Speakers salary is $4,000 with private
secretary at 81 500 and two clerks. one at 1000
and the other at 81, 400. The Chaplain of the
House receives S9O0 tho Clerk of the House S4.-
500, Doorkeeper $1,000, Sergeant-at-Arms 81 500,
Postmaster 81, ,50O The subordinates to the above
officers are compensated, official reporters at
S. COO EACH clerks at $1,000 each. at s.. 500 at
81 250 26 at 81 O00 at 81 800 at $1,000. at ST.
5GO 81 4iO At at $l20, A at 81 0U0. Ii Mt $780,
II at Ss4O 43 $40. II at SG00 $780, % at $780,
These salaries aggregate nearly S550G0l. 10 which
add the salaries of the 326 Congressman at 500
each and we make the discovery that simply the
personet of the House costs the country nearly
S2O00,000 per annum, or an average of about s2o,
, O0U per each day in session.
| The Senate side of Congress have larger pro-
portion of aids than the House. there being a
total OF ZOI SuDOTulnaleS 10 10 SeHllOIs' 1ncIo
are in the Vice Presidents ofice2. Chaplain l,
Secretarys office 81, Sergeant Arms SO, En-
gineer's department TO- Post Office I, Clerks to
committees 49, official Reporters s, their salaries
being the President of the Senate IS 900, his Sec
rotary $500 and messenger 81, ,440. The Chaplain
receives $780, the Secretary of the Senate $4,000.
Sergeant at Arms $i.5G0. Postmaster $l,250, and
Engineer s.. .l6O. Below these there are two clerks
at So 90 each at $500. 80 at S2.250. at $1,000.
at 81 800, AZ at 81 44O. 10 at $1,000. II at $lU0O
q at $500, at $40. 80 at $720 at $780, 70 pages
at $780, and official reporters at S. 900 each, thc
roll aggregating S295, 900. The7S Senators receive
annually $46S. 600. making the personeL of that
branch of Congress cost the people three-quar-
ters of million dollars annually.
The above figures include only the salaries.
and do not represent the aggreate expense OF
for each days session.
The personeL of the Senate averages $4,000 to
each Senator while that of the House reaches
| only So. 600 to each member. If the House in
| dulged in the same ratio of expenditure thai
does the Senate, it would cost $3250.000 yeal
for the personek of the former body, against g..
| 900 600. Its present expense.
The average number of days that Congress il
in Session during year is about one hundred. o
four hours each day.a total of four hundred hour
per annum, at an expense of $4,000 per hour, OF
Sl6666 per minute. The comparative cost t.
| ENGLAND for its Parliament is about $50 600 pc
hour, or $500 per minute.1[ Washington CORES
| pondent.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31

SENATOR elect Payne, in his banquet
speech at Columbus last week, said:
IAN Augean stable cannot be clean
ed with tooth brush You must turn
on the hose, ply the hickory broom
and scrub brush, disinfect the premis-
es and give them a wholesome atmos-
phere for honest incumbents. Then
let care be taken that none but such
as bear the Jeffersonian stamp of "hOn-
esty and capacity" be allowed to enter,
and those only from the Democratic
party until its full ratable share enter
to guard and protect the public inter
ast
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31
A Most Remarkable Case,

Dying-yet living DIR. MILLER, OF
129 South Tenth Street, Philadelphia,
Pa, says: " [ am personally acquaint-
ed with middle-aged lady in PhiIa-
delnhia, who had been given up to die
by consultation of many physicians.
She was confined to her bed for months
and was momeDtarily expected TO die.
In this condition she took PeruHa and,
to the surprise and disappointment of
all, she recovered her health perfectly.
Her case is reported ia DR.. Hartman's 8
Book on the Ills of Life" 3Ist page.
Ask your Druggist for one, or address
DIR. Hartman, Columbus, o.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31
THE cattle industry of the centennr

THE cattle industry of the centenn1
al State is something enormous. Al
the recent session of the Colorado Cat
tie Growers Association it was reported
that there are 1000 900 cattle in til.
State of the value of $50, 100000 The
herds are owned 10y some 800 men who
employ 1900 herders, at wages aver
aving $35 to $40 IA month and board
The foreman is usually paid 500 to
SIPS. A herd of 10000 head of cattle
requires about 22 herders. AS an aver
age of 20 acres per head is said to be
required for the maintenance of the
stock the ranches have to be of pretty
good size, an 10000 herd would re
quire 4OO, 900 acres for its maintenance.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31

AS THE iron mills, under extreme
prott ction are shutting down all round
and turning workmen out into the cold
at the beginning of Winter, would it
not be we'll to try the experiment of
taking off the extreme strain to see if
that will not let the wheels of industry
20 round? And when the extreme
protective duty on iron fails to fulfill
the assurance that it would give the
workers in iron steady work and high
wages, and when, on the contrary,
they are turned out in the Winter, the
extreme protective duties laid to make
high prices for woolens, clothes, COM
mon carpets, bedding, common crock
cry, common dress stufs, sugar and
molasses, stoves, furniture, and the
rest, come with great hardship on the
discharged workmen.-Nsws Journal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31
Worthy of Praise,

AS a rule we do not recommend
Patent Medicines, but when we know
ofone that really is public benefactor,
and does positively cure, then we con-
slider it our duty to impart that inform
alton to all. Electric Bitters are truly
most valuable medicine, and will
surely cure BilIiousness, Fever and
Ague, Stomach, Liver and Kidney
Complaints, even when all other rem
edies fail. We know whereof we speak
and can freely recommend them to all.
LEX. Sold at fifty cents bottle, by
q. ?. Reed. 6b
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-01-31
Given AWAY.

We cannot help noticing the liberal
offer made to all invalids and sufferers
by DIR. Kings New Discovery for Can.
sumption. You are requested to call
at G. P. Reeds Drug Store and get q
trial bottle free Of cost. if you are suffer-
ing with consumption, severe Coughs,
colds, asthma, bronchitis, hay fever,
loss of voice, hoarseness, or any attec-
ton of the throat or lungs. 1t will
positively cure you. 6b