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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-10-17

We pay the highest market price for
choice milling Wheak
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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-10-17

Highest market price paid for good
milling wheat at Model City Mills.
EVANS b M'0UIRH.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-10-17

Buy your hats and caps at the New
York Clothing Store.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-10-17
Money to Loan.

On real estate security, in sums to
suit borrower; no delay. Call on w.
L. Morrow. Office in Strauss Building,
over Feibels store.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-30
ALETTER FROM GARSlDE.

To the IForhnleu's Adrocdte,
left Baltimore, after a few days rest,
on Thursday, the l4th, for Washington,
d. c., arriving there little after p. IN.
A meeting had been arranged under the
auspices of the Nationalist Club Of that
city at 8 o'clock, so | had no time to
lose, but at once FASTENED to the hall.
a gcodIy number of people came to-
gether aud for about three hours !
cndeavored to show them what the
sociaIistic doctrine would effect in the
relationship Of the people. Washington
has "A vast number Of socialists who are
devoted to the cause, and who will spare
no pains to push it forward. There are
but few Of what is termed the laboring
class there, but still they 90 ON, proving
that socialism IL not only a "labOr' ques-
ton, but a social one, affecting all sorts
and conditions of men. At 10 o'clock p.
IN. the same evening, hurriedly and at the
last minute, | caught the train for
Cleveland, and, after a dreary ride of
twenty-one hours, arrived in that city.
To anyone enviou8 of the traveller,
would say, try it for month. Cleve-
land is a beautiful city, and just now
enjoying the keen air Of the lake. Our
comrades had made arrangements for
meetings, but the Commune celebra-
ton coming on the 18th, they decided to
postpone them, 50 | spent Sunday in
Sandusky. There we had large meet
ing, a crowded hall, and an enthusiastic
audience A Section was placed under
formation to be organized on Wednes-
day, the Goth, when speak there
again. At present there is no Section,
and the few socialists there labor under
great difficulties, but they are hope
full and full of fight. | had to return, to
Cleveland Monday to speak at the Com
mune festival there. This celebration
was success. Speeches were made in
German, Bohemian and English. As
usual, the press had to relieve its bill
iousness this morning in the usual
fashion. The comrades in Cleveland
surprise me. Few in number, they are
thoroughly united, and are going on IN a
determined spirit of aggression.
T, II. GARSlpE,
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-30
LINCoLN'S OPINION ON LEGS.

AS the story goes, Douglas and a Mr..
Lovejoy were at one Of the haunts in
the village where they used to meet for
news and gossip, and while there Ahra.
ham Lincoln came in and sat down, dis
posing of his lengthy limbs in some
what remarkable manner. They saw
him coming in, and Immediately began
a conversation as to the proper length
of mans legs.
"Now,' said Loveioy, "Abe's legs are
altogether too long, and yours, Douglas,
| think are a little short. Let's ask Abe
what he thinks of it,
The conversation had been carried on
with view to Lincoln's overheariug it,
and they closed by saying;
ABE, what do you think about it;'
Mr. Lincoln had far-away lock as he
sat with one leg twisted around the
other. hut he responded to the question:
"Thnk of what ~
"WeII, we've been talking about the
proper length Of a mans legs, We
think yours are too long and Douglas
too short, and we'd like to know what
you think is the proper length.
"Well,' said Mr., Lincoln, "that's a
matter that I've never given any
Thought to, SO, of course, may be mis-
taken, but my first impression is that q
mans legs ought to be long enough to
reach from his body to the ground. -
Yankee Blddc.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-30

What's that? What are you wanted
to do, anyway Now that's something
like it.
In the first place do your duty as
socialists; use your intellect and abili-
ties for the cause, az you should.
lIelpus make the agitation meetings
popular and attractive by giving us mu-
sic at each and every meeting, We will
not ask you to exhaust your classical
repertoire, acquired by so much labor, or
make yourselves vulgarly common in
doing this
Learn "a dozen or so simple, spirited,
popular melodies, adapt them to proper
words, or proper words to them, for
remember it has been said by one Of the
ablest Of historians, LET me write the
songs Of nation and care not who
writes its laws Take the hint and
teach the public your principles in songs
That they can sing. W. N. W.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-30

other strips are held out Of use, We
cannot conceive of men holding the va
cant strips out of use if all the prospect
i've increase be taken in rent; they would
vacate and allow men to escape the
high rent Of bad tenements. Many poor
men could build houses If land were
free. Mr.. George noticed that they
even now build "sOme sort Of shantles,'
not to prove that poor men could never
do better, but to show the existence Of
desire to escape rent. Men are en-
titled to free land even if they refuse
socialism; and their condition would be
greatly improved if capitalists were al
lowed to build more houses, lower
rents start more industries, and raise
wages, which they would do if the bur
den of rent were reduced to actual
value. But it is evident that some so.
Cialists do not want less suffering, less
hunger and misery, except 1t be re-
duccd by the adoption Of socialism.
The wage system Is not to be tolerated,
even where it is desired This is the un-
democratic and despotiC principle which
people Justly ridicule. In this Connec-
ton Mr.. Gronlund is guilty Of another
Inconsistency. He says socialism and
the platforms Of all the organizations
forming the United Labor Party de-
manded the "abOIitiOn Of the wage sys-
tenn When method is abolished it is
unlawful to use it; when slavery is abol
shed it is unlawful to hold a slave;
when the wage system is abolished it
will be unlawful to receive or pay
Il
"And maintain that socialism wants to
institute the most perfect %ifg0rern-
m1m." It follows that in localities
where men still desire to work for
wages. they shall not; that they can
have self-gOvernment only after adopt
ing socialism, A dining room where
people are permitted to eat whatever
they please after they have deyoured a
plate Of soup would be "A parallel.
| cannot condemn reform which de-
mands all the soCallstlC measures that
the general government has power to
establish, and which demands that all
of Il collective value called rent shall be
used for collective or sOCialistic improve
mcnts, method which must eventually
lead to complete socialism; that is, to
collective ownership Of all public CAPT
tal How much shall be public capital,
every community must decide for itself.
If our country becomes SOclalstic
while all others remain Capitalstic
"our interests would require that all the
goods we Ourselves en- produce ought
to be absolutely protected from foreign
competition, not simply by a protective
tariff. hnt by forb6dng the import of
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-30
SOCIALISM AND SONG IN SAN FRAN
CISCO.
u Inc N-Orhmen,S ALrOc0te

10 the II orhmeH'S A,ir0cdtc
In a former report | mentioned the
musical attainmcnts Of the S. +. Social
istc Manner Chor In reference, how
ever, az to their more important duties
as active socialists, | was obliged to be
silent.
question the correctness Of this
method, for these comrades consider
that they are c0nsclentlously fulfilling
the duties of working socialists,
and rs my report has had the tendency,
if anything, to confirm them in this he.
lief. | think it but proper that their true
position should be kindly and firmly
shown to them.
So comrade editor, if you with your
readers viii kindly act as Judges. we
will place Our comrades of the ). +. So
christie Manner Choir ON the scales,
measure them up, and see how they
stand comparatively with other such
associations.
Now. comrade singers, it is true that
you sing at our socials once every
month, also at any important public eel
ebratlon the Section may undertake,
and do this in creditable manner. You
practice regularly every night for sew
erai hours.
II is true, moreover, that without
your music our sOcals would be very
dull indeed; in fact, there is no deny ing
that you are unquestionably the attrac-
ton thereto. Having rendered this
service, presume that you consider
that you have discharged your duty to
the great cause OF human emancipation.
Perhaps you have done more than some,
but have You done as much as you
should or could?
Let us see how you compare with the
musical branches of other associations,
ostensibly organized for the purpose Of
lettering the condition of mankind.
The choirs connected with the churches
sing, on an average, twice each Sunday
and once a week, nine cases out of ten
without any compensation whatsoever,
their only desire being to render their
meetings more attractive, and draw a
larger crowd TO hear the propaganda Of
their particular doctrines, Thus, you
see that the church choirs discount you
in actual service rendered at a rate of
twelve times to your once, or one thou
sand two hundred per cent. Now can
you claim, comrades, that the cause for
which these people work is any more
noble, any more holy, any more sacred.
than the one to which you are dedi-
| Gated?
Then, again, there is a peculiar band
Of ryangeIlSts known as the Salvation
/ Army, who are making more rapid prog
ress in securing recruits to their doc
trincs than any other denomination.
The musical members of this singular
association sing and play every night in
| the week and five times ON Sundays.
/ besides making nine or ten street pa
/ rades with brass Instruments each week
! Comrade singers, where are goH2
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-30
WHEN THE GREEN GIFTS BACK.

JAMES wHITcONB RILEY.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-30
TRADES UNION CALENDAR.
Meetings Regularly Held at Trades Coun-
ell Hall, 1G9 Chapel Street.

Delegates to the Trades Council received at the
regular meetings, on the FIRST and Third
Sunday evenings In each month
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-03-30

In the spring, when the green gifts back
in the trees,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
AIWays Be Doing.

To one of nervous, sanguine temperament,
patient waiting is the most difficult of attain
ments. Quicksilver people must be in motion.
Very we'll then. While waiting for the special
thing for which you are called upon to exercise
patience, grapple the nearest thing. Discharge
the obvious task. This will at once proftably
occupy the time, and be likeliest to lead out to
the object waited for.
In the many days gone by Simon Peter was
obliged, on one occasion, TO wait for the PROM
ised vision of the risen Christ. Meantime,
what to do? He was not natural waiter; so
he said: II go a fishing" And oh Joy! right
there in his boat. as it rose and fell with the
breathing of the water, he gained the longed-
for sight, and beheld Jesus. Suppose he had
stayed moping in Jerusalem. What if he had
dawdled up and down Galilee? Why, then his
waiting might have been eternal.
If you cannot do the thing you want to out of
hand, do the thing you can-the thing in hand
Often the path to the desired object lies
straight through what is less desirable, on the
principle of the provero, THE longest way
round is the nearest way home"
But for those who are sequestered from
active life by age or infrmity, and who rest
under the weight of years or beneath Gods
hand, waiting Is serving. Milton, old, blind. in
poverty felt and expressed this in his famous
sonnet on blindness:
God doth not need
Either mans works or his own gifts: who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best; his state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed,
And post DER land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
THE PROMISE OF SCIENCE,
How the Earth is Gradually Being Used Up
by Mankind.
Chicago News.

Chicago News.1
Everybody knows that the world is wesr-
ing out-that the time is coming when we
Will have no coal to burn in our CRATES, and
no iron to make our CRATES out of, even had
we the coal. A close record of the output
of the oil field discovers the fact that the
petroleum reservoirs are running dry and.
investors have not the faith in the inexhaus-
tible flow of natural gas that the sellers of
wells could wish. We know that precious
metals are dug out in less quantities than
formerly; that the diamond market, in spite
of Kimberly, is cornering itself; that maho-
gany and pine will some day be things of
the past, like the buffalo robe and dodo.
We are confronted with the fact that the
guano deposits will not last forever, that there
is human limit to the production of elec-
tricity, and that our children several times
removed will have neither quinine, chloro-
form nor aniline dyes.
OF course this general exhaustion of old
earth's treasure house is some time ahead
of us. 1t will not happen in our day nor in
the next century. We can go on burning the
candle at both ends for a few hundred wears
before humanity has to adjust itself to the
newer or more economical conditions. But,
despite the fact that the time of stress is so
far ahead of us that we can look on to it
jokingly, it is pleasant to learn that science
is getting ready for the rainy day. We ale
on the eve of a new age and on the thresh-
old of new civilization. Aluminium ac-
cording to nature, is making ready to take
the place of steel, and it will be cheaper,
lighter, stronger and ], 900 fold more plenti-
ful and cheap.
Its price now puts the new elements in the
debatable land between pure chemistry and
practical commerce, and, it is question of
time merely when we shall build our
houses, our telephones, and our air ships
out of the silvery core of our common clay,
instead of heavy and refractory iron.
Heat and food, according to science, we
are to gather from the sea in proper fish
culture and wise electrical work. The eco
nomist brightly believes that we will solve
the labor problem before the middle of the
twentieth century, and solve it to the salts
faction of both parties.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
Death viii Always Prevail.

Our mutual friend. Mr.. Smith, "a very
numerous mani is projected into the year 2SS9
by the wizard pen of Jules Verne. The i'm
aginative Frenchman's latest fight Of fancy is
his highest. He gives prophecy and a
history-a prophecy of 1,OOO years hence, and a
history of, an editor in that millennium.
Well, Mr.. Smith (anybody familiar with the
directory would know that the Smiths were in
no danger of petering out, but might expect,
like Tennysons brook, to 'go on forever'') is
no paltry millionaire like his brother of to-
day. No; Millionaire is he. An air coach
borrowed from Elijah, 1,000 years and more
ago) conveys him in flashes which annihilate
time and distance. He chats with his wife in
Paris through the telephone. Nay, he sees her
as she sits at supper, through the telephote
(not yet inv entedl, Just yonder on the boule-
ward des Italiens. He receives her promise to
be back and home IN America by ii o'clock
that night Ia disreputable hour for woman to
be scurrying through the air. But perhaps
woman will then be thoroughly "emancipated."
and singing bass in the choir. Mr.. Smiths
reporters gather the news by pneumatic con-
trivances. His journal blazons its advertise
ments on clouds-but is careful to exact pay
ment therefor in more substantial form.
Two things, however, are disappointing to
our hopeful anticipationS of the good time
coming" Mr.. Smith, with all his gettings, has
not got rid of care and worry. These ( Sin
namesake of to-day. His brow is as drawn. his
manner is as restless, his increasing business
anxieties are as burdensome as are those of the
editor of this Journal. Moreover, "in Mr..
Smiths presence, much-heralded experiment
was tried of bringing back to life one whose
years. But it failed then, just as disastrously
as it would fail now" So, then, wrinkles and
death reign down there, lust as they do up
here. Try again, Jules Verne.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
A RELIGIOUS War in Canada.

There is grave talk of religious war in Can
ada. In Prince Edwards Island, in
New Brunswick, in Quebec, where the
balance between Protest ants and Ro-
man Catholics is so even that it is
easily disturbed the feeling is angry aud bellig-
erent. 1t is race against race, creed against
creed, church against church, house against
house.
Charges of bad faith, and no faith at all, are
freely banded Rusty old swords are being
rough ground, end firearms are kept cooked
and primed.
The Canadian Confederation bids fair to
blow up with an explosion that will shake the
continent
See here, friends across the line, what is the
matter with you? Don't you remember that
this is the afternoon of the nineteenth century?
Haven't religious wars bled out? What do you
expect to gain by cutting one another's throats?
Is this the way to illustrate and commend the
gospel of the Prince of Peace? Are you 'liv-
ing episJles" written in the ink of the New
Testament?
Come now, have done with your squabbling.
Take the advice of Brother Jonathan and let
your ONLY. rivalry be the rivalry of good will
and good works. Isn't the Canadian weather
cold enough this year to keep you cool? Go
into the ice palace at Montreal, then, and cool
off therein summer attire.
One thing is certain; you Canadians can't
come into this glorious union until you Christ
ianize your morals and your manners.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17

If the lines be true it is certainly very ap-
propriate that the three worthless named
should be inferred together an one common
grave, for the names of st. Bridget ana
COLUMBIA are as dear to the Irish people as
st. Patrick. st. Bridget, whose father was
a Prince of Ulster, was the first Irish nun,
taking the required VOWS soon after her con-
version through the instrumentality of st.
Patrick. Under a great oak, which had
served the heather Druids as a temple. she
built her first cell and called it Kil-Dara.
Around this primitive nunnery the town of
Kildare gradually sprang up. COLUMBIA
was an Irish missionary priest to whom be-
longs the honor of introducing Christianity
into Scotland.
The miracles, legends, traditions, super
stitions and quaint folk-customs and observ-
ances associated with the name of st. Pat
rick would fill many large volumes. One
of the most familiar of these is his expulsion
of snakes, toads and other reptiles from Ire
land by beating a drum and driving them
before him into the sea. This exploit and
the general fame of St. Patrick have been
commemorated in countless quaint folk
songs, from one of the most characteristic of
which make the following extract:
''St Patrick was gentleman, he came of
He built a church in Dublin town and put on it
steeple.
Success attend st. Patrick's fist for he's the
decent saint, o!
He gave the snakes and toads twist, he's
beauty without paint, or
woNDRoUs MIRACLES.
In his efforts to convert the Irish pagans,
ST. Patrick met with much opposition from
their heather priests, the Druids, who EN-
ployed every possible trick and deception
to retain their hold upon the people. 1t
was to expose these impostors that many of
st. Patrick's most remarkable miracles were
performed. He cursed the kettles, which
the Druids employed in the performance of
their mysteries, so that nothing could be
boiled in them. He transformed the fertile
lands into bogs and banished the fish from
the waters to show the miraculous power he
derived from God. But the Drui6s still
remaining obstinate, he caused the earth to
swallow them up, and so put an end to
Druids in Ireland forever.
Another OF st. Patrick's miracles is thus
described in the old Irish ballad of ''Polly
Roe"
'St Patrick as in legends told,
The morning being very cold,
In order to assuage the weather,
Collected bits of ice together;
Then gently breathed upon the pyre,
When every fragment blazed on fire.
There are at least three physical relics of
st. Patrick now in this country. They are
three teeth taken from his jawbone, In
possession of Belfast family, and given to
three of its members on immigrating to
America.
Though ST. Patrick taught the Irish to
distill whisky, which they called poteen in
his honor, he became an advocate of tenn
perance when he saw the evil effects of that
liquor. Considering St. Patrick's virtues
and the good work he did, we must agree
with the old folk song that
''For saints and for men you may search the
globe round
You may go from the East to the West
But all the world over there's none to be
found
That can equal st. Patrick, the best"
FRANK FERN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-17
TRIVIAL INCIDENTS.
Not Easy TO Draw the Line Between Them
and Important Occurrences.

Not Easy to Draw the Line Between Them
and Important Occurrences.
London SPECTATOR
What may be deemed trivial incident?
What is an occurrence of serious import
ance? Those who have observed life most
closely will probably be the least able to
furnish to these queries replies altogether
satisfactory. The choice of boys school, a
young mans start in profession, marriage,
serious injuries, illness, sudden wealth or
poverty, would probably be included in the
latter; while meeting an acquaintance
in the street, forgetting to post a letter, ac-
ceptlng an invitation to particular party,
the expression of random opinion, missing
railway train, are likely to be relegated to
the former category. Yet an unbiased an
alysis of the experiences of the majority of
mankind would, in our opinion, show that
what is variously termed by different orders
of persons providence, "chance," or the
chapter OF accidents" acting extremely
often through the agency of the slightest
imaginable circumstances, plays most i'm
portant, not unfrequently an overwhelming
part, in the drama of human affairs.
The arising of a certain idea at a given
propitious moment is another most weighty
factor in life. 1t may be replied that New
toms apple or Watts tea kettle only brought
to definite expression reflections which
had long been working in the philosophers
brain; but there can be no question that
many thoughts productive of momentous
consequences flash on the mind suddenly by
what can only be termed an inspiration.
Then, again, as to a particular line of con-
duct and its results. The novice is taught,
and rightly taught, that the good apprentice
succeeds, and comes in his special sphere to
honor and credit But we could name an
eminent public character who owes his
brilliant career entirely to Grass neglect of
his duty as railway booking clerk; and
also an idle Ounce at school, held pre-
destined to the workhouse, who retired from
business about the time his contemporaries
were taking their degrees, on a fortune ac-
quired through timely developed genius
tor blending and tasting tea.
We know of young Austrian to whom
vast wealth was bequeathed by an aged
gentleman whom the lucky youngster met
in railway train returning from his only
sons funeral because the bereaved parent
was touched by the close resemblance of the
strangers features to those of his departed
boy. Similarly. we are acquainted with
person who distinctly traces his entry on a
distinguished professional life to the selec-
tion one day of certain thoroughfare in a
large city, where several ways met. Above
all, to mention the most critical of steps, the
origin of very many marriages would dis
close this woof of destiny crossing, modify
ing and not seldom canceling the operation
of the warp of law generally controlling
events.