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Pay of Congressman.

When a member dies his pay ceases
ON the day of his death, The salary of
the successor COMMENCES the day after
the deOease of the former member.
though the election may not occur for
several months. The new member, in
other words, draws pay for time he
never served.
A member is allowed twenty cents
mileage each way, or forty cents a mile
one way, and he can check for the full
amount of both trips when he takes his
seat. He is allowed SI25 q year for
stationary. The most of this sum is
pOcketed.
The members draw their money in
different ways. There are probably
twenty of the'presept House who let
their salaries run into nest eggs.
Among these are Scott and Everhart,
of Pennsylvania; Powell, Of Illinois;
Boutelle, of Maine Henley, of Cali
fornia; Jones, Stewart and Reagan, of
Texas Ellsbury, of Ohio; Stone, of
Massachusetts; and Wakefield, of
Minnesota. Scott has oyer years
salary owing him-abOut $4,000. The
other members mentioned have from
$1,000 to $4,000 to their credit.
There are Il couple of dozen of men,
bers who always Overdraw, or, rather,
borrow from the head of the bank.
They borrow or get in advance sums
ranging from $40 to $500, and at the
end of the month they have nothing.
The great majority of the members
draw all that is coming to them at the
end Of each month, particularly those
who have their families With them.
Some of them never see an outside
!. bank, but let their monthly salary re-
main and draw it out in small sums.
Others take out their salaries and place
them in other banks. But this is not
done as much as formerly. A number
of them got caught in the Middleton
Bank that broke some time ago.
Most of the members do all their
financial business over the counter of
the Congressional Bank, and some of
them pile checks up as high as 100000
in a single session,
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Free Labor VS.. Unions.

The strike of railroad workers at
Chicago has been renewed, under cir
cumstances which entitle it to especial
attention. In many respects this con-
test resembles the ill-time and ill-fated
struggle upon which the workers of
the Third Avenue Street Railway en-
tered weeks ago under most misguid-
ing leadership. Their demand was for
the discharge of q small number of free
workers who were not willing TO Join
an organization. The only demand of
the striking switch-tenders of Lake
Shore Railway Company is for the dis
charge of six switch-tenders who de-
cline to belong to the union. These
men have been for many years faithful
servants of the company. 1t is by no
one alleged that they are dishonest, or
incompetent, or in any way unworthy.
Their sole offence is that they prefer
to- be free, and do not wish TO surreu.
der any part of their freedom by ioin-
ing trades union. The demand for
their discharge is therefore declara-
tioA of war against all free labOrers.
1t is an attempt by an insignificant
minority of workers, who have pleased
to organize themselves in this country,
to pTuscribe and Ostracize the great
majority of workers who have not
chosen to organize themselves.
The workers who have chosen not
to organize themselves have preferred
to rely upon their personal efficiency
as workers, and their value to en-
ployers, to insure for them satisfac-
tory reward. The employers also,
with few exceptions prefer to pay ac-
cording to the individual merit of the
workers, The trades union steps be-
tween the individual worker who pre-
fers his freedom, and the employer who
prefers free worker, and attempts to
dictate both. 1t is not too much to
say that the union attempts, by force
and lawless violence In this Chicago
case, to establish tyranny over both.
1t is not improbable that other rail-
road companies may conclude that it Is
their duty, and for their interest, either
at this time or at no distant date, to
make common cause with each other
against this attempted dictatiOn. The
right of the employer to prefer the free,
untrammelled and individually respon-
sible worker is as clear as the right Of
any workers to organize themselves for
their own defence. If the workers
may organize, the employers also may
agree.-NelO York TFibHaa>
Smyrna times., 1886-06-30
For The Smyrna Times
Harrington " Enterprise " and
Temperance.

MIR. EDITOR Your many temper
ance friends in Delaware will not fail
to commend what you said in your last
weeks issue in reference to the Har-
rington Enterprise. The temperance
canvass that paper is making cannot
but bring the blush of shame to the
cheeks of many true temperance work
ers, because of the low political meth
ods it employs, and some of the incon-
sistencies that are constantly outcrop-
ping. Its columns are full of personal
hings, and there is an entire lack of that
dignity in the makeup of the paper
which ought to be seen in an advocate
OF the great temperance reform. We
fear that Mr.. HOrney is not in this
movement for the good fthe cause.
HE was blatant and offensive
advocate of party politics until another
got the Harrington postofice. This
may have had no weight at all in bring
ing him over to the advocacy of tenn
perance reform, and yet many have
their suspicious that it had.
2.-Then it is said that certain
pledges made to induce him to throw
off his Independent status and advocate
the election of the Democratic State
and National tickets have not yet been
redeemed, and that this greatly pro-
voked Mr.. HOrney and became a factor
in his transfer from party politics to
temperance. All of this goes to show
the motive that led him to make this
change.
3.-Then it is said he was certain
the change would add to his subscrip-
tiOn list and job work. He would get
the work of the temperance men all
over the State. A monetary consider.
alton.
4.-TheA he was led to believe that
should he champion the cause of pro-
hibitiOn he would be almost sure of a
nomination to the Legislature. And
in order that he might feel untram-
meled he concluded to send his deacon
ate parchments to Conference, and re-
sign his local preachers license at the
first quarterly conference in Harring-
ton. And hence all this goes to prove
that the motives of Mr. Homey in max
ing the change to prohibition were not
strongly unselfsh.
And it is said by some who ought to
know, that before the campaign is over
the Enterprise will be back in the Dem
Ocratic fold. We hope not, and yet the
trend and drift Of things point in that
direction. That he is not actuated by
high moral principles is indicated in
the fact that some of his weekly ad-
vertisements, and especially Whiskey
notices, do not harmOnize with his
present status. Then his last weeks
personal of a certain hotel keepers
visit to his office in which he said,
" Mr.. H. is looking well" was not in
good taste after the hard things he has
said about this fraternity. Then, al.
though he was one of the SECRETARIES at
the Dover Temperance Convention last
week he had not line in reference to
that body save the bare mention of the
standard bearers put in nomination.
Why was this? You found room for
the whole proceedings, inclusive of the
platform and personal notices of the
candidates, although you went to press
a day earlier than the Enterprise.
The temperance people of Delaware
are in earnest and want fairness. And
particularly they do not want in the
fold any who are not heart and soul
with them. PROHIBITION.
June Path, 1856.
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Take Exercise.

One of the most remarkable facts IN
be observed in the remarkable Glad
stonian campaign is the physical vigor
OF the Grand Old Man. Mr.. Gladstone
is long past the allotted span of mans
life. he is nearly fourscore years old
yet he stands up and makes speeches at
every station on the long ride from
London to Edinburgh. and then winds
up with a two hours grafton in the
Northern Athens.
Contrast the rugged health of Mr..
Gladstone with almost any of our
own statesmen. In the recent past
Mr.. Blaine's health, which is now
strong, gave way under the pressure of
politics. Taking very recent illustra-
tions, Mr.. Lamar, Mr.. Endicott. Mr..
Manning, Mr.. Carlisle and Mr.. Ran
dali. All have given way and broken
down in health within a year under
the mere pressure of their regular rou-
tine official work. Mr.. Gladstone. on
the other hand, has just been subjected
to the severest strain put upon anv
statesman since our civil war. He has
not only had as much routine work as
MI Manning, for example, but he has
also had a more exciting Parliamen.
tary struggle than Mr.. Randall, yet he
comes forth unharmed and goes to the
nard work of campaign speaking as
fresh as twO-year-old colt.
Why is it that not only Mr.. Glad
stone, but Mr.. Parnell, Lord Granville.
Lord Salisbury and the rest of Eng
lands foremost men can stand so much
more hard work than their American
fellows? Mr.. Manning has told the
reason when he said recently that he
never walked farther in Washington
than from the door of the Treasury
building to its elevator. He says that
during the Presidential campaign he
felt the veins of his head swell so that
he was forced to seek relief by pressing
them hard against the back of a chair
in fine that he never took any physical
exercise. That is the reason why
Mr.. GladstOne's health seems so re-
markable to an American. Rain or
shine Englishmen do not neglect the
walk which is so we'll named "consti-
tutional," and Mr.. Gladstone's arms
are as busy out of Parliament as his
head is busy in it.
Take exercise is the lesson of Glad
stone on the one hand and of Manning
on the other. The longer that Ameri
can public men neglect this lesson the
shorter and less valuable to the public
will be their lives. To take exercise
and plenty of it seems to be thought
undigniied by our public men. One
hundred members of Parliament regu-
larly use the bicycle. How many
Congressman do the sameJ Yet to the
casual observer the English NJ. P.'s are
as dignifed as the American NJ. C.'s.
Take exercise, and plenty of it, is good
advice to private citizens as we'll as to
politicians.-PhjlGdetphta NeeVs,
Smyrna times., 1886-06-30

The world will watch with interest
to see what the Paris Government will
do with the other elements of danger
to the Republic now that the Princes
have been banished, Will the enc
mics of all social order, Roohefort and
his like, including the Deputy who
defended the recent murders at Deeaze-
Vile, be tolerated forever? It looks as
if they would. NJ. Clemenceau, who
led the movement against the dynas-
tic heirs, has already begun to gather
in the spoils of victory. NJ, de Frevci-
net has promised te displace royaiists
employed in the civil service in behalf
Of the Radicals radical followers.
Rochefort may calculate upon being
left in peace,
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The French government has insisted
on eziling from its territory the scions
of former royalty who have been dwell
ling and probably plotting there, and,
in obedience to the decree, the princes
lagt week packed their gripsacks and
boarded trains for most hOspitabIe for
eign lands. To Americans this looks
like foolish procedure apd q confes-
sion of inherent weakness by the
French republic, and it would not be
strange if the notQriety thus thrust
upon the exilea should make them
more dangerous abroad than they have
been at home, Still the princes may
congratulate themselves that thev
were not living in the France of 90
years ago. Then their fellow citizens
of the liberty, equality and fraternity
persuasion would assuredly have given
them a pass by way Of the guillotlne
to the land from whence no traveller
returns.
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Work will be commenced this week
upon the new Philadelphia County
Prison, which is to be located near the
House of Correction. The Councils
have appropriated sl5O,OOO toward the
work, but the total cost of the new
building will not be less than 81, COO.
600.
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WHOLE NO. l,6l4.
A Seasonable Rhyme.

Again the zephyrs sigh along the leas,
And blooms the violet and the buttercuD.
Now softly blows the balmy western breeze,
And the thermometer is going up.
The golden dandeliOn mods its head.
Again we feel the Odor of the br:ar,
And Thomas reappears upon the shed
At night to warble to his loved Marian"
Boston Courier.
Smyrna times., 1886-06-30

The small boy has commenced his
annual toying with firecrackers. There
will be many blistered fingers before
the fourth actually arrives.
Smyrna times., 1886-06-30

"Is the man dead ?" asked a re.
porter of policeman after an aeci-
dent. "NOt yet" replied the officer
THE doctors haven't Gomez
Smyrna times., 1886-06-30

The lsdy physicians in Philadel,
pAia are becoming so numerous that
they will shortly form @ medical soei~
ETY. of their own,
Smyrna times., 1886-06-30
The Verdiot TTnoui,,o,,.

v: D. suit, druggist, Bippus, Ind, testifies 81
@ @SAn recommend Electric BitteFs rs the very hest
eyar,, ,suS, E every bottle sold has given relief In
E4le4 ol rheumatism of 10 years standing
aAltAham Hare druggist Bellville, Ohio, afIirms :
an IN my 20 years experience, Is Electric Filters .
- IhhouIsanqs OF others have added their testimony.
80 ~ that the verdict is unanimous that Electric
ID o'sets 40 cure all diseases of the Liver Kidneys
Hoheekers Drug store.
Smyrna times., 1886-06-30

A brilliant young man may make a
sensations but it is the steady-gOing
average chap that wins in the long
run, and stays there.
Smyrna times., 1886-06-30

Oleomargarine has got into the die
tionaFy, 1t would be well if it could
be exclusively kept there.
Smyrna times., 1886-06-30

Custom may lead q man into many
errors, but it iustiGes none.
Smyrna times., 1886-06-30

As whole, the platform, excepting
the first section, may be said to be an
adoption of the views of the Repphli-
can party of this State, and is in hostil-
ity to the views of the great body of
the people of the State. While there
are some good ideas in the platform
there are many bad ones. We do not
believe that the Democratic party
need fear that the people will adopt
the suggestions set forth, or that de-
feat will overtake it in the coming
contest. Delaware has had dose of
progressive parties, and this Is a pro-
gresslon on the progressive rule al
ready had.-Dela,varean (Dem.)
The platform adopted by the Con-
ventiOn on Tuesday is one of the most
liberal that has ever been submitted
to the voters of this State and that
portion which relates to public officers
and the modes and manner of their Sc
lectiGR, ought 10 strike responsive
chord with all voters, irrespective of
Party.-State Sentinel (Rep.(
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WA. FAIRIES & Bro,
Furnishing UldHHtakHTS,
AND DEALERS IN
FURNITURE,
MAIN STREET, opposite The Smyrna EoVH,
Furniture Of all kinds.

ParlOr and Chamber Suits. Bureaus, Bedsteads.
Chairs Lounges, Tables, Stands. Mattresses Spring
Beds and every thing in the Furniture Line, guar
quality goods ian off
Smyrna times., 1886-06-30

One of the reporters at the Temper
ance Reform convention at Dover on
Tuesday telegraphed to his paper that
there were a good many ministers in
the convention. We suppose that this
means that the churches of the Penin-
sula are very generally Interested in
this new political effort. The women,
too, young and old, who are banded
together in the Christian Temperance
Union, are earnestly in favor of this
new ticket The lawyers, by reason
of their hope of political preferment,
are very generally faithful to the old
parties but all other professional men
very generally sympathise with the
objects aimed at by the Temperance
Reform organization, and will undoubt-
edly furnish many active supporters of
it. Here are three elements of strength
which in ordinary circumstances do
not figure largely in our politics. The
Temperance Reform party appears to
lack such men as counted Mayor
Rhoads in at the city election of 1885
and manipulated the recent nOmina-
ton election in this county for sheriff /;
but on the other hand it appears to
have a good deal of new and active po-
litical blood of its Own.-lEorniag
Ne'CS (Rep.)
Smyrna times., 1886-06-30
Newspaper Discussion on the
Temperance Reform
Ticket.

The temperance men have made a
good State ticket. Messrs. Hofecker
and Cooper are spoken of as very wor-
thy men, who, in the improbable con-
tingency of election, would be likely to
serve their constituents conscientiously
from their standpoint of public moral
ity. The convention might perhaps
have named a stronger ticket, but
hardly a cleaner one.-EUery EUeninq
(Dem.)
The platform of the Temperance
Reform party adopted at Dover is
moderate and dignifed, and claims the
respectful attention of other parties in
making up their platforms. Upon the
liquor question the privilege is only
asked to vote directly upon that issue.
Believing that district representation
in the Legislature and Levy Courts
would bring with it an approach to
equitable representation, the conven-
ton simply asks for district represen-
tatiOn, request to which there was
not a dissenting voice. A popular
chord was struck in the demand that
all State and county officers should be
elected by the people, and the express
sion in favor of a constitutional conven-
ton chimes in with the general pOpu-
lar feeling. The condemnation of bri-
berry of the franchise will meet with
general approval by all who desire a
free and honest ballot and the demand
for registration law as a means of
suppressing the debauching of the bal
lot will be condemned by none but
those who desire to profit by election
frauds. The sympathy expressed for
all legitimate movements, for the de-
velopment of American labor and
American manufactures, though briefly
worded means all that is demanded by
labor, and the declaration that the head
of the National Department of Agricul-
ture should be made a Cabinet position
invites the favorable attention of the
farmer. The demand for constitu-
tIonal convention covers all these
points, as they would no doubt all be
brought before such a body for discus
sion. Whatever may be said for OF
against the convention held on Tues
day the platform certainly embraces
the live issues of the day, and they
would be as appropriate in a Demo-
cratic and Republican platform as they
are in Temperance Reform platform
Daily Republican (Rep.)
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-11-30

SOME villanious wretch poisoned
Davis & Mautz's kitten-Jumb o-last
Thursday and the following day pois-
ened Mautz's hunting dog Prince.
The dog was doctored and saved.
The dastardly work was done ny some
beast in human shape who held some
groundless spite against Mautz or
Davis, or both of them. Neither the
dog or cat troubled anyone, so it is
evident that the work was prompted
by the beastly instincts of some low
cur, who belongs to that breed of dogs
with instincts 50 cowardly that they
are afraid to approach man, but will
sneaking'y poison his cat and dog,
that have in no way injured him. Any
one who will stoop to that kind of work
would poison the owner of the cat and
dog if he could do it with no posi-
bility of being found out. Without
this positive proof of the fact
we could not be made to believe
that there is such a despicable, villain
Gus sneak living in this community.
The villain who could be guilty of
such sneaking, cowardly, low grade
inhuman act as to poison a cat or dog
simply because he doesn't like their
owner, would steal, set town on fire,
or assassinate man in the dark if the
opportunity presented itself of graft
flying spite in that way. Those are
| his instincts. It's wonder that a
wretch of that kind doesn't shoot him
self, take poison, or commit suicide in
some way to put himself out of misery,
or hate himself to death. Old Prince
is good natured dog, a good hunter
and a faithful old canine, and ten
thousand degrees above the brute that
poisoned him in every attribute
Davis and Mautz's enemies in the com
munity are few--very few-and il
ought to strengthen any mans good
lopinion of himself to know that, as
"birds of feather flock together,
that such a brute has no friendship
for him.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-11-30
LOWER PAYETrE LETTER
EMMETT, Idaho, Nov. 20, 1886


Ed. WORLD: Thanksgiving has come
and gone, and we suppose brought many
turkeys to grief, and was the occasion Of
many happy reunions.
We are having splendid weather-warm
and sunny, after few days Of buster aud
cold. No snow in the valley yet, though
the low hills have had ligh, fall.
Mrs. Watson, of Emmett has been very
low with sickness, but is better again.
The people Of the valley, with the ex-
ception Of colds, are tough and hearty.
The squeal of the dying hog has been
the music of the day for sometime past.
and hog meat is cheap.
A good many deer have been killed in
the low hills within few days.
The election is over. and the good peo-
pie of Emmett think they have done it,
in getting good man for the place, in the
Legislature-Mr. d. L. Bailey. We cx-
pect him to do some good work there.
Very little blowing has been done in the
valley this fall, it has been so dry The
ground has not been wet down half an
y
| inch. The hills that usually at this time
are SO green and fresh, are now brown and
bare, and the cattle look discouraged, and
it will be indeed hard winter If it's at all
cold, as there will be no feed.
Items of interest are very hard to find
Everybody seems to be attending strictly
to his or her own business, and don't seem
to care whether newspaper men find fill
ing" for their papers or not
The chronic grumbler is around, predict
ing, as usual, very hard winter, but be
Is always the man with the smallest wood
pile, and hasn't shed his summer clothes
CATCH ALL
Since writing the above | have heard O.
the death OF P. J. Kinney. in Boise City
| He was the engineer for the company tina
holds the right Of way for the big Payett,
lirrigating ditch. He had been on pro
traeted spell of drinking, and that was til,
cause Of his death. He was we'll liked b.
all who knew him. He had gained man,
4 friends on the Payete this fail, while here
His brother was the Mayor Of Utica, y
Y, and was this fall elected 10 Congress.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-11-30

STATESMAN: OF the FIVE prisoners
who escaped from the Blackfoot Jail
recently, four have been captured,
and three of them, Ferren, Sullivan
and Elting are now in the pen here.
The fourth one, VIVA. Donnellv, was
so reduced by exposure and starva-
ton, that when arraigned in court, he
was attacked by hemorrhage of the
lungs, which nearly resulted fatally.
He has been convicted of burglary in
blowing open a safe at Eagle Rock,
last September, in company with Sui
Ivan and Thomas, but has not vet re-
Iceived his sentence. Donnelly is also
to be tried on charge of counter
feiting. The captured escapes were
out In the mountains nearly three
weeks before being captured and suf-
fered greatly from cold and hunger
1t is thought that Donnelly will re-
cover from his present sickness, when
he will be tried and sentenced.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-11-30

Among the novel sights along the
Union Pacific through Wyoming is
that of great herds of antelope. One
band, which has been about Rock
Springs the past ten days, is supposed
to number over 10000. A party
went out from that town one day and
returned in two hours with seventeen,
which were all they wanted, but they
could have killed many more
Another party went from Bryan and
bagged thirty-six before they got
tired of the sport, and were glutted
with meat. So it is along the road
from Laramie to Carter.
Old railway men say that the bunch
ing of antelope is a good indication
that the winter is to be severe one
They refer to the Fall Of 1871, wher
the antelope gathered in great herd.
and remained together during tn,
winter, which was the worst ever ex
perienced on the road. The sam,
was the case several other winter
which proved very severe. But the,
say they never saw them in such larg,
herds before. Not only antelope
but all other kinds Of game appear t,
be more abundant in the West thai
for many years. Tuscarora Times
Review.