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The Press., 1888-06-14

Y HAVE 100 M feet logs (whole length) in I my mill pond, and would like to quote price on any kind of native lumber. E. W. BROOKS.
 LSOR SALE-Two New Model Buckeye II Mowers. One that has been used some will sell at very reasonable price, GEO. O. CLEAVE BLAND.
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ENOR SALE, very cheap, few pairs Sec A ond-hand Window Blinds. HI. SPELMAN.
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E1te 9 gteaa,

Thursday Evening, June IA. lsss.
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HAY for sale, in quantities to suit custom
 11 CTS. C. J. HOLMES.
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ELOUNCES.

Embroidered Null and Swiss, 45-inch Flounces, with edges of different widths to match. Black Chantilly and Spanish Gui- pure FlOunces.
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SOY Main-st., SPRINGFIELD. The Apparatus can be seen at our store.
 Prepare for cold weather in the summer months. 14ju7w
The Colfax chronicle., 1888-11-03
BIaine's Turgid vaporings.

The Republican keynote, as sup
piled by Mr.. Blaine, is that wages
can be voted up or: voted down.
1.-The wages of American labor" he
proclaims, ..can not be reduced except
American laborer himself" There is
not an intelligent working-man in the
United States but knows this is ridicu-
lous nonsense. The wages of Ameri-
can laborers have been reduced many
times, under the ''highest tariff in the
worId,' not only without their consent
and votes, but against their energetic
protest and determined strikes Trades
unions and other labor organiza-
tions have done more to force up
and to keep up wages than have all
the laws that were ever passed. The
Democratic keynote is that taxes
which were voted up to meet the
heavy expenditures of war should be
voted down to meet the lessened re-
quirements of peace. Taxes have been
voted up and voted down. Wages
never were. Let working-men choose
between fustian and facts, and relieve
themselves of unnecessary taxation.-
NJ Y. World.
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curiosities Of Plant Life.

In some parts of Nevada is a curious
plant called the ANGRY tree" It il
a native of Australia, and somewhat
resembles the century plant. Its name
Is due to its apparent vexation at being
disturbed. When transplanted each
separate leaf stands up in different
direction. like quilts on porcupine or
hairs on the tail Of an angry cat. At such
times 1t gives forth an unpleasant odor.
like that of rattlesnake when teased.
and sometimes 1t is fully an hour be-
fore its leaves resume their natural
condition. Another curiosity in the
plant world is a peculiar kind Of weed
which grows in the Arkansas valley.
It Is shaped like bell, and varies in
size from one foot or less in diameter
to five or six feet, some specimens be-
ing as tail as man. When ripe these
balls snap of their stems and 90 tum-
bling over the prairies with every
gust of wind. They present a very
strange appearance, and in the distance
hunters have mistaken them for bisons.
Often they come bounding along in
hundreds upon the hunters, who are
compelled to crowd upon the ground ia
escape being hurt.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
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SUB ROSA.

A rose tree blooms by the garden wan,
6howcring its petals over all;
While underneath on the rustic seat
Each day the dearest girl meet;
And who she is nobody krows,
For our secret Is safe, under the rosei
Under the rosei No prying eyes,
No beau from the street views our paradise;
No caller to interrupt our bliss,
Or happen In as steal a kiss;
No one but the climbing roses red,
Nodding approval overhead.
But when autumn comes and bleak winds blow,
What we shall do wish to knowl
Within the house we're never alone;
There's her maiden aunt to chaperone
Our tete-a-tetes, and her brother Jim
(How Id like to cudgel himD
Then four younger kids and her sister Min,
Looking in with knowing grin;
% bother them all, twill never dol
A snug little house for just US two
Will suit me best mid the winter SHOWS
And I'll ask her to-day under the rosei
Alma Penderter Hayden, In Boston Globe.
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The huge palm trees ON the Saunders
place on San Pedro street have long
been a source of admiration to thou
sands of people. They were there long
before the present occupant took pos
session, and are estimated to be from
sixty-6ve to seventy-five years old. The
diameter of the largest is fully four feet
and the height over sixty feet, while
the bodies Of all rise like well-rounded
pillars symmetrically formed for forty
feet or more to the well proportional
but not wide-spreading tops. Recently
Mr.. Saunders disposed of three of them
to the Southern Pacific Company for
ornamentation of their spacious grounds
surrounding the Wolfskill station. The
work OF removing the first of these
stately trees has been successfully ac-
complished, requiring the carrying
along of a body Of earth ten feet
square and six feet deep, attached to
and surrounding the roots. The ap-
paratus for removal is similar to that
used in transferring buildings, and
when the tree was properly placed
upon it in an upright position it was
moved along without the use of guy
ropes to steady it until its place of de-
post was reached. A we'll is situated
between where this tree stood and two
others known as the twins. and the
roots OF the trees penetrated the we'll
at depth Of twenty feet or more
Los An0e}es ErDress
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BRAINS VS.. BLUsTER.
Fortunately for tho Country Biare an
Blaze Don't Vote.

Fortunately for tho Country Biare ana
Blaze Don't Vote.
James G. Blaine and his followers OF
the jingo stripe would, had they the
power. embroil the country in foreign
complications that would lead to war.
1t is the aim of this class of men to
gain as much glorifcation at the ex-
pense of the Government as is pos
sible to be had. As Secretary of State
Blaine brought us to the verge OF an
open declaration of war with England.
and only the councils of conservative
men, whose patriotism was greater
than self-seeking. averted the danger.
Were Harrison President Blaine would
be chief of foreign affairs as well rs
the power behind the throne. Harri-
sons election, were such a thing prob
able, would be a public calamity.
Blaine. like many other leaders in his
party, is laboring for the plaudits Of
his followers and not for his country's
good. Harrison would be nonentity
if elected. He would but afford an IL
lustration of the manner in which mat
ter is dominated by mind. In the next
few weeks Blaine will completely over
shadow Harrison, but when the people
fully comprehend the situation the in
terest felt In the magnetic man win be-
gin to wane.
The strong hold upon the hearts OF
the people which President Cleveland
has will be undiminished- The faith
Of the people in his loyalty to their in
terests will counteract all efforts to
stampede the voters. We may expect
from the Republicans "hurrah cam
paign." with beating of drums, blow
ing of horns and burning of red lights,
but that kind of business will not sue
ceed this time. The voters have their
thinking caps on and are not to be
caught by such child's play. The
National Republican Committee may
beat the bushes and drag the cutters
to make as big professions and great
displays for the Blaine meetings as
possible, but the conservative element
will regard such devices with contempt
and scorn. The bowling Blaine-Har-
rison crowd may make as much display
as they choose, but when the votes are
counted in November they will find that
their work went for naught. Cleveland
| Plain Dealer.
The Colfax chronicle., 1888-11-03
DIAMOND CUTTING.
The Various Intricate Processes the Rough
Stone Passes Through.

Tho Various Intricate Processes the Rough
Stone Passes Through.
The majority of people who take any
interest in diamonds imagine that
the cutting of the stone is the most
difficult part, but that is mistake.
When it comes to the polishing the
most skillful work has to be done. The
first process the rough stone passes
through is the ''cleaving"-which is
what most people call cutting. A
chisel Is used to cleave off the rough
parts, and the cleavage is made into
diamond dust. Then comes the tedious
part. Two diamonds are employed,
each cemented into the end of stick.
The stones are then rubbed together
with strong pressure.
This requires considerable experi-
ence. As it can only be done by hand,
it also requires considerable muscle.
After this process, the skill of the ex-
pert is tried. The gem is placed in
solder setting and is then fastened to
piece of wood about two feet long.
A steel wheel eighteen inches in
diameter, making twenty-five hundred
revolutions a minute, is used as the
polisher. The stone in the wood is SO
arranged as to be balanced on and
against the wheel, producing only a
slight friction. Diamond dust is used
on the wheel. An expert can tell in a
minute as soon as the polishing of a
facet is completed. Sometimes there
are knots in the gems, and their hard
ness can not be imagined. The forms
usually adopted in cutting the diamond
are the brilliant, the rose and the
table. The first shows the gem to the
best advantage. 1t is composed OF a
principal face, called the table, sur
mounted by a number of facets which
are cut upon that part of the stone
which shows above the setting, and
which is called the bezel. The rose,
which is very brilliant, is fiat below
and cut into facets entirely over the
upper surface.-Golden Daus.
The Colfax chronicle., 1888-11-03

James p. Foster is president of the
Republican League of the United States,
comprising over 1000 clubs with q
large membership. Foster in his con-
fidential letter to the manufacturers
told the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the truth when he said
that the manufacturers
not the farmers nor the laboring men,
but the five per cent. of people of this
country, the manufacturers get
ting practically the sole benefit of the
tariff laws" The Republican League
is the real life of the Republican party
and Chairman Foster speaks officially
for that party. 1t is no dress parade
or work of pleasure in which Mr.. Fos-
ter is engaged, but a work Of life and
death for his party. With its very ex-
istence in question he speaks facts
which all know, but no Repub-
lican prohibitory tarifiite would openly
admit. They, one and all, know that
the prohibitory tariff extends benefits
to no one but the greedy, grasping
trusts and monopohes. Blaine is cog
iizant of these facts, but keen, shrewd
politician that he is, he takes sharp
turn at the crank and exhibits that
political craft for which he is so noted
by saying "that this is no fight for the
manufacturer. They can take care of
themselves"
The conflicting statements Of these
two Republican leaders show that the
party managers will stick at nothing
in the endeavor to regain power. The
publican chief" with cool effront-
cry asserts that this is not fight for
the manufacturers, while the commit
tee and managers, hungry for office,
turn to the manufacturers whom they
claim have received "all the benefits
of the tariff laws" and demand money
to buy votes with in order to be re-
turned to power. Down with such
demagogism. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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- : ;
Founded A. D. lsia.
John Tyler,
President Of the u. 8.
Abel T. Upshur,
Secretary Of the Navy.

The building is low and L shaped:
and the practical, unostentatious archi-
lecture indicates the time of it's erec-
tion. On theeriver side is the OBSERVE
tory proper, ia which rests the $4O,O 900
telescope Though which Prof. Hall
gazes o nights and with whose aid this
learned astrohomer discovered the sat-
elites ofMars. To the left of the main
entrance door you pass through sew
erai rooms and finally into the room
where the jury of clocks decides when
high noon has come.
The mechanical operations incident
TO the sounding of the time signal are
comparatively simple. On each clear
night one Of the observers stations him
The Colfax chronicle., 1888-11-03
POLITICAL NOTES.


measure. 1t is, on the contrary,
wet-nurse amendment to our tariff sys-
tenn intended to put our manufacturers
on more solid footing g.-Philadelfhia
Record.
How would it do for Harrison to
resign in favor of Blaine On the eve of
election, since the Republican party
still advertises itself to exist only for
the glory of the plumed knight Boston
Courier.
My personal experience has
taught me" says Congressman Smith.
labor Representative from Milwaukee,
''that cheap raw material never re-
the contrary, has a tendency to raise
them" 1t is the conclusion likewise
OF reason and common sense. Spring.
6eld Republican.
Tho Republican movement to
put Blaine on top of Harrison is rapid
ly eliminating. Yet, though parad-
ing Blaine as the great and only
strong man in the party, the leaders
feared to nominate him in Chicago,
and finally took up man who inspires
no more enthusiasm than a wooden
Indian. Gazette.
-Working-men of America, will
you vote to continue system of fraud
and folly which robs you to enrich
capitalists like Jones, and Carnegie,
and Ammidown, and the manufactur-
ers of Pennsylvania and New York
who are putting up money to elect
Harrison, the friend of the Chinesep-
Louisville CoMrier-Journal
Blaine is the man in the party.
the life and soul of the Republican or
ganization. and it is only half-witted,
blind partisans who think Harrison the
man. If the Republicans win it will
be by Blaine. through Blaine, and
owing to Blaine. ~ Flat, c'est moi"
said Louis XIV. Blaine may rightly
say: "The Republican party is-ME!g''
N. y Herald.
MIR. Blaine has come all the way
from Europe to tell American work.
ing-men that ian element that sought
to destroy this Nation" is now seek
ing to 'reduce them in their emolu-
ments. y Having seen the pauper
labor of Europe from Baron Carnegie's
coach, Mr.. Blaine is rnadder at the
Southern Cohfederacy than he ever
was in his life before e-St. Louis Re-
public.
-" / say here" says Mr.. Blaine,
81 that the wages of the American
laborer can not be reduced except with
the consent and votes of the American
laborer himself" Oh. can't they,
thought When the wages of Mr..
Blaine's Hooking valley miners were
reduced was it done with their con-
sentP When any Of the war-tariff
barons reduced wages and lock out
their employees do they think any thing
about the consent or the votes of the
helpless workmenP Not much. Boston
Globe.
Farmers are cautious and even
slow in moving in political affairs, but
when they are thoroughly awakened
to the necessity of reforms they move
to that end with marked alacrity and
unanimity. Many of them have been
convinced that the war tariff
is an instrument Of general oppression,
and that the cry Of q good home
market for their products through It
is delusion and q snare, and they
will no longer support it Others are
falling into line, and win soon see its
enormities. Investigation Is all that
is needed in the matter for their en-
High taxes and depression
to farming interests are doing the
work-BssleviJgs (IK) Dsmoerak.
The Colfax chronicle., 1888-11-03
puNceNT PARAGRAPHS.

"A man is Judged by the clothes
that he wears at business ana WOMAN
bv the clothes that she does not wear
in the ball Merchant 1rdUeter.
1T takes philosophy to make a man
happy in this world. If he cant get
philosophy a couple OF hundred thou
sand dollars will generally do.--jo1r-
nal of Education.
"A cynical man says that there are
two occasions when he would like to Do
ufesent Oneis when the gas company
oavs its water bill; the other is when
she water company pays its gas Dill
Te1as Siflings.
1t is said that in some parts OF
Africa there are birds with bills a yard
in length. Those who believe In the
RECONSIDERATION of souls will at once
lump to the conclusion that they are
plumbers in Observation-Disclosures Free
Press.
-Employe-..Square & Co. OF Peoria
write that mistake of $50 was made
in the footing of their last bill. and
they inclose q check for the amount
Employer-"All right, send a receipt;
but we must look out for that firm
hereafter. They're too honest =
Epoch.
Joseph Cook writes that every
man should spend one dollar on mis-
sions for every five dollars that he
spends on himself Fogg says that
this is the strongest argument for
economy in ones personal expenses
that he remembers ever to have SEEM
Boston Transcript.
-sWhat in the world. John" asked
his wife, 'sdid you open that can OF
tomatoes withp" .sCan-opener, OF
course" he growled; .what do you
s'pose opened it with?' II thought,
from the language you used, you were
opening it with prayer. ."-Ltfe.
Mr.. McDude-sWhat wonderful
thing is space, Miss Ethel! The inn
mensity of it quite fills my brain" "
Miss Ethel (sarcastically) )-'So
should imagine, Mr.. McDude, from the
nature of your conversation" And
blizzard stood between them during the
remainder of the voyage. Ocean.
/
-'.What this country wants." said
the man who talks politics on the street
car, s'is men who are not afraid to meet
their obligations" Then he. noticed
| that in the crowd the conductor had
overlooked him. and he dropped of
the car block away from his destina-
ton for fear the error would be dis
covered. --Bufato Express.
"A Waterbury woman missed 81 900
her husband sent her to put in safe
place, and instead of advertising her
loss in the local papers she went to bed
and dreamed where her money was con-
cealed. This may be cheaper than adj
vertising, but if everybody was to re-
sort to dreaming for the recovery OF
lost articles it would be pretty rough
on the enewspapers.-N -Norrisrille Herald.
-"Ma, demonstrated Bobby, ''when
/ was at grandma's she letme have two
pieces Of pie" .'Well, she ought not
/ to have done SO, Bobby - said his moth
er. II think two pieces of pie are too
much for little boys. The older you
grow, Bobby, the more wisdom you
will gain.' Bobby was silenced, but
only for a moment. ssWell, ma," he
said, grandma is good deal older
than you are. ."-C Christian Adrocatc.
The Colfax chronicle., 1888-11-03

OF the eleventh hour expires, the
wheels single tooth comes in contact
with the spring. In the instant of
that contact the circuit is closed, With
the swiftness of lightning bottled
to do mems bidding the impulse beats
over the wire. In that instant, re-
sponsive to it, the time-balls drop, the
bells in hundreds of spots, far and near,
ring out and hundreds of clocks in this
city and hundreds of more at distant
points change their indication auto
matically, so that hour, minute and
second hand alike point to exactly high
noon. How little time is lost in tfans-
mission may be judged from the fac.
that signal was sent from Boston to
San Francisco and back-7 900 miles
in half second.
The extent of the distribution of
time from observatories in this country
may be seen from the fact that 124,00
miles of railway are thus supplied
1000 from the naval observatory
here, $4,000 from Allegheny, Pa, 22,-
600 from st. Louis and $4,000 miles by
nineteen other observatories, two of
which are in Canada. The system used
by other observatories differ in some
of its minor details from that adopted
here.
Experiments in the distribution Of
time have been in progress for great
many years. DIR. John Locke, of Gin
cinnati. in 1849 devised the first ap-
paratus for transmitting time signals
automatically. Congress paid him
SIC, 200 for clock, which to this day
stands in the Naval Observatory. Its
only duty now, though, is that of
common time-piece.
The latest phase of scientific devel-
opment in this direction is the inven-
ton of Mr.. Gardner, the electrician Of
tho observatory. 1t is the automatic
clock which hangs in the White House
and in the rooms of the various de-
partments of the government. This
clock being placed on the time circuit
as are the time balls, is corrected auto.
matfcally. The same impulse which
drops the time ball pushes down a
lever in each of these clocks. The
lever striking the cam which controls
the hour, minute and second hand.
throws them back to the perpendicular
where they mark the exact hour of
twelve o'clock. Thus at noon of each
day FIVE hundred clocks in the public
departments are made automatically
to coincide with the big time-piece' at
the Naval Observatory.
Mr.. Gardner, who had just returned
from the Cincinnati exhibition, where
he had been arranging the clock con-
nection with Washington, referred to
the awkwardness of the different times
kept in different Western cities.
Think of there being two or three
twelve o'clocks in one city," he said.
Take Pittsburgh, tor instance, the
point where Eastern standard time
ends and Central standard begins. One
man can claim that it is eleven o'clock,
another that it is only ten, while the
chap that carries the real local time OF
the city can assert that neither Of qaff,lihee; liihe
ought not to be. There should be but
one time in each city. The railroads, OF
course, must note the difference, but
the citizen need not be worried. ~
Washington Cor. Indianapolis Journal.
1
The Colfax chronicle., 1888-11-03

From Mr.. BIajns's
Framiaghom speech, Au-
gust ~, 1883.
I'VE will let the
Democratic party know
that this.is no fight for
the m o n u ia tn er.
They can take care of
themselves. But this
IS a fight for the strong
arm and sturdy heart
Of American labor"
The Colfax chronicle., 1888-11-03
TWO STATEMENTS.
The Sickening Demagoyism of the Lead |
ers of the G.. o. p.

Hon. james r. Fos-
fer's tsffer to the mdgs-
fdcfuyers of the United
States, Moy "a, 1855.
1t may not be OF
your personal know
ledge, but tits n fact
nevertheless, that the
manufacturers of the
United States, srho ere
Ds0sf benefited 6y Our
tariff iasCs, have been
the least W ling to con-
tribute to the success
Iof the party which
gave them protection.
+" The c u m p al 8 n
which we are about to
ENTER concerns more
than any body else the
manufacturers OF this
country. "-"I ould
Ivote to give them Q
lpension but that ]
did not propose myself
to contribute money TO
adUdace the inferests of
men sch0 srere getting
practically the sols bene-
| IL of the tariff kdtgs."
The Colfax chronicle., 1888-11-03
Two Views of Trusts.

What finally is to come of the Chi
cago platforms? 1t is sought to ex-
plain away the free-whisky plank, and
now slight difference arises between
the conventions utterances and the
leader of the campaign regarding the
trust plank. Parallel half-columns
will inllicate what that difference is:
We declare our OPT When President Cleve-
posit on to all combina-lland delivered his mes
lions OF capital organ-lsage he had something
lied in trusts or 9th r-lt say to the American
wise to control arbitrar-lpeople about the dan
lily the condition oflger of trusts" think
trade among our c,ti-Ithere have since been
zens, and We commendIno Democratic papers
TO Congress and thelin the country, whether
State Legislatures, nIthey understood the
Their respective juris- meaning OF the word or
dictions, such legislR- not that have not been
zion as will prevent the constantly warning the
execution of all,people as to the horri-
schemes TO oppress the bic danger OF "trusts." :"
people by undu e Laughter.l Well
harges ON their sup shall not discuss trusts
plies, or by unjust rateslthis afternoon. shall
for the transportation not venture to say that
Of their products to- they are altogether
market.-7ne Chicago advantageous or disad-
ftdg0rm. vantageous. They are
largely private affairs
with which neither
President Cleveland
nor any private citizen
has any particular
right to interfere
Blaine at Portland, Av-
gtpf rs.
The Colfax chronicle., 1888-11-03

you were up before me about two
weeks ago.
"Yes, sah."
''For stealing?"
''Yes, sah."
sand you were fined"
s'Dat's so."
And here you are up again for steal
ing. What made you repeat your
crimep"
Huh! how does yer 'spect me ter
git back de money paid fur de fine ef
l doan steal some NOAH n-Tezas Sifl-
ings.
The Colfax chronicle., 1888-11-03

m. Chevreul, the ecentenarian chem
ist, says that the modern dyer controls
$4,000 different shades OF color,