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The advocate., 1890-05-28
SPECIAL FEATURES IN THE ADVOCATE
NEXT WEEK.

Next week the first number of Mr..
Morgan's series ofarticles will appear
in The ADVOCATE. These alone will
be worth more than the price Of the
paper. We shall also commence an
other series delineating an inside view
of official and social life in Washing
ton, by a writer who will speak from
personal observation and experience.
This is a subject of which the com
mon herd has been permitted to know
very little, and we can promise our
readers some rich and rare views Of
American aristocratic life. Those who
desire all the articles in these series
should subscribe at once.
The advocate., 1890-05-28

THE ADVOCATE, the Farmers Alliance paper,
has tackled the temperance question and Gov
! emor Humphrey now. That Is the trouble with
those fellows. Theyare always taking big bites,
so big that they Gnd great dlnlculty In mastlca-
tion n the alliance and its organ hope 10 do
good work they win cOnnne themselves 10 the
objects for which they are laboring. When they
undertake 10 run everything they win iAl over
themselves. journal Tribune.
Our business is TO expose fraud and
duplicity in public officials wherever
we find it, and we know Of no more
fruitful locality in which to search
for it at present than about the capi-
tol Of the state Of Kansas
Mr. Conn, a citizen Of Lawrence, is
arrested for the violation Of law.
Court is in session. A committee Of
Lawrence gentlemen visit the govern
or in the interest Of the prisoner TO
solicit his pardon. Sentence is not
yet pronounced. The governor waits
in his Office after his dinner hour in
order that the pardon may not ante
date the sentence. The committee
communicate with court attendants at
Lawrence by telephone in order to
know just when a conclusion is reach
cd in the case. The pardon is ar
ranged before the prisoner is tried,
and with a knowledge Of this fact he
pleads guilty, and the first train from
Topeka bears tho instrument, with
the governors signature, under the
great seal Of the state, to the city Of
Lawrence.
Why? Because Mr. Conn was a
man of means and social standing.
Was ever executive clemency 80
promptly extended to men of less
means or lower social standing?
Where is the poor colored man to-
day who was the ignorant tool in the
very ofense TO which Mr.. Conn
pleaded guilty? Languishing in pris-
on. Is there any executive clemency
for him? Not much. Why? Because
he is poor, and not Of high social
Has the JOupGtTribune
to say in justification Of this
this act of Governor Humphrey? and
will party cowardice prevent its con-
demnation?
The republican party pretends to
be the law and order party of the
state of Kansas II pretends to be
the champion Of prohibition, and to
favor the enforcement Of law. Gov
ernor Humphrey is the exponent Of
that party. He is a candidate for re-
election. The JoURdI-TTbuRe is a
paper. Does it propose
to sanction this fragrant exhibition Of
hypocrisy? Has the editor Of the
JomnaI7ribune courage to speak
upon a question Of this kind, or does
he acknowledge himself a party slave
and an apologist Of Official corruption?
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SPECIAL FEATURES IN THE ADVOCATE
The advocate., 1890-05-28
On the 18th of May the senate passed

ON the 17th Of May thesenate passed
a bill to pay the assignees Of John
Roach $3S,S4O for extra work on the
monitor Puritan, and $20,274 for the
care Of the monitor Roanoke. A neat
little sum that for "extra" work on n
war vessel which has not been a pen
ny's worth of benefit to the country,
Our Roanoke is rather an expensive
plSything.
The advocate., 1890-05-28

THE FARMERS OF STAFFORD COUNTY
HAVE A PAPER.
We have received the first number
Of The Alliance Herald, published at
Stafford, Kansas, by two brave ALI
anco girls, Miss May Garyin and Miss
Anna Lindsley, who have undertaken
the task Of supporting the principles
Of the alliance, and defending It's in
terests in Stafford county In their
salutatory they say; "W'e have taken
the paper to run it in the interest Of
the debt-burdened and mortgaged
farmers, and although only girls, we
will, with your help, make it a grand
success" We commend the Herald
TO the favorable consideration of our
friends, and wish it the most album
dant success.
The advocate., 1890-05-28

passed this Stark monument bill. On
tho 18th Of May the bill appropriat-
ing 100000 for bronze equestrian
statue Of Gen. Grant was before tho
senate. II was thought that the sum
was too niggardly and the sum Of
100000 was appropriated.
Now then, when the sub-treasury
bill comes up for discussion in the
senate let us SEQ who makes the
claim that the government cannot
afford TO appropriate money to put
up safe and convenient storage houses
for the agricultural products Of tho
country.
Possibly, real patriotism might be
better fostered by the erection Of
great grain warehouses than by the
OF bronze men and horses.
The advocate., 1890-05-28

Congressional Record a portion OF the
senate discussion on the bill appro-
printing $4,000 for an equestrian
statue OF General Stark.
Senator Hoar plead for the appro-
priation on the grounds Of patriotism.
tt may occur TO renders OF Senator
Hoars remarks that monuments to
our dead and gone heroes will hardly
foster that degree Of patriotism which
will sustain the farmers Of America
who have lost their hard earned
homes through the infamous financial
Legislation Of the past quarter OF a
century.
The farmers son of average intelli-
gence will ask il we have indeed the
sort Of government which General
Stark fought to establish.
The atrocious feature Of this Stark
monument bill is the fact that il is in
the interest Of real estate spectators
who wish to enhance the value Of their
lots in q certain section Of the city Of
Manchester. A mere triAe Of the
$4,000 will go for the bronze man and
horse: the remainder is for grading
and otherwise beautifying the grounds
adjacent to the site OF the statue
IT seems almost incredible that
United States senators should lend
themselves to such barefaced steals az
this misappropriation Of the peoples
money But they have been for so
many years accustomed to voting for
any and every scheme Of this kind,
and they have been sustained by the
common people who have not been
kept posted us to what was going on,
that they doubtless think they can
continue their shameful expenditures
and depend upon the crack Of the
party whip to perpotuato their official
career
Senator Hoar said this expenditure
wins not "extrayagant or wasteful."
The erection ofsuch monuments would
educate "the poor, the illiterate, the
common people" in patriotism. What
is the reason that Senator Hoar can
not see chat this great uprising Of the
people is for the purpose Of establish
ing conditions under which there
need not be 80 great a number OF
"poor and illiterate" among the COM
mon people The hard working
farmers of America have a right to
such share Of the country's prosper
ity as will enable them to give their
sons and daughters the best eduCa-
tional advantages which the country
affords. The common people, who
are the wealth producers, do not de-
sire that their children shall be
poor and illiterate, and dependent
upon pilgrimages to the shrine of a
bronze equestrian statue in New
Hampshire to receive their lessons in
patriotism. The common people"
would like to be able to own some of
the "historical books" to which SEN
The advocate., 1890-05-28
HARMOYIzE THE ELEMENTg.

county The endorsement OF Captain ~
s. Osborne for congress in the Sixth
district We also have a statement
from alliance men from the same To-
cality which seems 10 indicate that
everything is not straight in connec-
tion with the affair Having no per-
sonal knowledge Of the circumstances
or the men, we give both communica-
tions. 1t is to be regretted that these
differences should arise where the
necessity Of harmony ls 80 great.
This is no time for the advancement
Of personal ambitions, and no time
for the concoction Of political schemes.
In this hour Of supreme necessity,
when the best men Of the country are
bending every energy to perfect and
strengthen an organization through
which it is hoped relief may come, the
thought that individual ambitions for
place and power shall be permittedt to
interpose and interrupt chat harmony
which is 80 essential to success, is so
repugnant to every sense Of honor
that we can find no terms in which to
fittingly characterize the enormity of
the ofense. Ii is IN innovation Of
our principles that should receive the
soverest condemnation, and whenever
we are satisfied Of the existence of
political schemes we shall not hesi-
tate to speak Of them as they deserve.
We do not refer to this subject now
to the prejudice Of Captain Osborne,
for we know nothing about him or
his merits. We have had enough Of
political trickery, however, in the
Sixth district already, and it is about
time for u little honest work We
have only this to say until we learn
moro Of the facts: Ii Captain Osborne
is the choice Of the alliance people of
the Sixth district, and is man worthy
Of the honor proposed to be conferred
upon him, we are prepared to render
him a cheerful support but there
must be no chicanery in securing his
nomination, We give notice of that
fact now. From information in our
possession it would appear that there
has at least been a little haste in the
action already taken that is not con
sistent with the perfectly unselfsh
motive that should actuate the true
alliance man. We may be wrongly
informed upon this question, and we
wish nothing we say to prejudice the
interests Of Captain Osborne here
after We speak from such knowl-
edge as we possess. We have no hes
itation in saying, however, that if
Captain Osborne is a true alliance
man he will not permit his candidacy
for any position to interrupt the har-
mony and good feeling of the people
Of his district Perfect unselfshness
and sacrifice of individual am
bitions is the test Of loyalty to the
order; and any man, we care not who
he is or what his standing, who is not
willing to make all needed personal
The advocate., 1890-05-28


We have received from the publish
ers a copy Of a little work entitled,
The Policy Of Plunder or the Con
spiracy Of Capital Against Labor and
the Sovereign Remedy" by Cyrus
Corning. It contains in a condensed
form the history Of the villainous
financial Legislation Of the last thirty
years, systematically arranged and
clearly presented. Every man, woman
and child who knows the alphabet
should read IT, Price 25 cents.
Accompanying the above is another
little pamphlet entitled, "What the
Farmers Should Know" This also
contains some valuable facts we'll
worth It's cost Price 10 cents
Address for either or both Of these
tho Kansas Workman, El Dorado,
Kansas.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-11-06
MUSICAL.

There seems to be little going on
in musical circles of late, but there
is much talk, among musical people,
of the marvellous cure of Miss B.,
the high contralto singer, who has
long suffered from a severe throat
or bronchial affection, superinduced
by Catarrh in the Head, and who
has been perfectly cured by the
use of DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy,
coupled with the use Of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. For
all bronchial, throat and lung affec-
tions, and lingering coughs, it is an
unequaled remedy. When compli-
Gated with Chronic Nasal Catarrh,
it's use should be coupled with the
use of DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
Of all druggists.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-11-06
TABBY IN ANTIQUITY.
She Occupied tho Same Place in Domes-
tic Affairs Thsn rs Now.

She Occupied tho Same Place in Domes-
tic Affairs Then rs Now.
Was the cat, as fireside pet, known to
the ancients? If it was, was it as the
domestic animal familiar to ourselves,
or was it simply as domesticated say
age, like the monkey or the gaelic?
Prot Virchow inclines to the latter
opinion. Having examined the num-
mics of Egyptian cats, he found they
had nothing in common with our feline
friend. The cats of antiquity, accord
ing to other psychologists, were slen-
derer than ours, and approached the
weasel in appearance. But Signor Sag
lilo, the distinguished Italian scholar
who is engaged in the magnificent "Dic-
tionary of Greek and Roman Antiqui-
ties'' now in course Of publication at
Paris, under the editorship of Darem-
berg, read the other day before the
Academy of Inscriptions q memoir on
the subject, in which he holds con-
trary opinion to that of Virchow. The
cat in ancient times was, he maintains,
the identical domestic animal known to
modern Europe. On Etruscan tom bs he
hoS A0unN PoAh0AhSS pICoOhe VIC
cat as regular inmate of the house Of
the deceased, one of these pictures
showing us a company at dinner, and
the cat toying under the table with
bones of chicken or partridge. Signor
Saglio further refers Prof. Virchow to
the British museum, where on two
water jars belonging to the fifth century
r c. domestic cats are denicted in tho
''Scula di Musica." OF these cats one
is held by string and another stands
upright on footstool while a boy offers
it dainty. There are other pictoria l
representations, according to the &C.
complished Italian archseologist, which
prove that the cat was cherished in an
tiquity as one of the most useful, as we'll
as graceful, domestic animals, inspiring
the affection bestowed on it by eminent
persons of all times-from Mohammed
to Petrarch, from Montaigne to zHoff-
man and Dumas.-London Lancet.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-11-06
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Sin has many tools, but lie is the
handle that fits them all.-Denver
Road.
To put off deciding that you will
start for Heaven, is as awful as to de-
eide that you will 60 to hell.-Ram's
Horn.
What man ever courted girl, say
ing: my dear, humbly hope love
you, but am full of doubts and fears "
Yet they talk that way about loving
God.
Along the valleys of the Nile, from
Alexandria to the first cataract, there
are seventy mission stations, seventy
Sunday schools, numbering 4,017
scholars, while the boarding and day
schools have over 5000 pupils.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, is de-
voted member of the Baptist Church,
and has proved his zeal by frequent
large contributions to the enterprises of
that denomination. He made gift of
$50, 900 to the Baptist Theological Semi
nary at Louisville, KY.
The fact that the graduating classes
ut Wellesley College and the Harvard
Annex this year contained the names of
but few Boston ladies leads the Boston
Transcript to remark that the higher
education is not for society girls. 1t
quotes prominent lady educator to the
effect that society girl loses caste by
going to college.
. The executive committee of the A.
RIGA Society of German Catholics is rails
ing $25, 900 with which to erect a mis-
sion house in German Africa, 50, 800 for
the Fathers of the Holy Ghost in Baga-
moyo and SIS, 900 for the White Fathers
in Algiers. The German Emperor has
given IS, 900 to the Evangelical Mission
Society for the erection of hospital in
Zanzibar.
"A visitor to girls school in Hin
doostan is pleasingly struck by the
rows of graceful and eager pupils, with
dark intelligent faces, picturesquely
dressed in bright-colored sarees, or
jackets and skirts, and loaded with
ornaments Of gold or glass. They are
quick and persevering and tolerably at
tentive to the often attractive and
monotonous teachings Of the turbaned
cch001m
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-11-06
FOOLISH VANITY.
Arsenic Improves the complexion by Kill
ing Those Who Use 1t.

Arsenic Improves the Complexion by Kill
ing Those Who Use 1t.
In girls school in one Of the Vest
ern States there was lately an outbreak
of peculiar illness, the symptoms OF
which at first baffled the physicians.
One of the pupils died, the others re-
covered slowly, but in several cases
their health was permanently injured.
1t was discovered that they had teen
taking arsenic for several weeks in
order to improve their compilations.
Foolish attempts to gain beauty by
ignorant interference with nature are
not confined to young women. Stout
matrons and middle-aged fat men,
whose vanity is wounded by jokes at
their size, frequently undertake to set
the matter right by sudden extreme
change in their diet.
Four women between the ages of
fifty and sixty, who considered their
figures too stout for beauty, resolved
two years ago to try one of the 'pys-
TENS for reducing fat given in news
paper. They were in perfect health at
the time. They gave up at once and
wholly the use of certain kinds of food
to which they had been accus toned
since childhood. They took each day
excessive and unaccustomed exercise,
and overstrained their muscles by lift
ing heavy weights. All this was done
without the knowledge of physician.
The result was unexpectedly success
full. During the first fortnight they
lost flesh rapidly. The decrease in
weight was accompanied with a sense
of rrostration and pains in the limbs,
but these things mattered little to them
compared with their joy in tho more
narrow waists and delicacy of feature.
They persevered with the experiment.
One is now victim of nervous pros
tration; second contracted typhoid
fever, and after struggle Of weeks for
life died; the two others have suffered
with rheumatic govt. In each case the
physician stated that the weakening OF
the tissues by the sudden and complete
change of diet had rendered the patient
unable to resist disease.
Do not tamper with that most won
derful and complex of all machines,
your body. When you attempt to
change its workings, unless under the
direction of a skillful physician, you lay
your ignorant hand upon the main
spring of life.-Youth's Companion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-11-06
THE WhEELBARROW.

It's Age Il Now Known to BE ut Least
Six Hundred Years.
The history Of the wheelbarrow is of
no great Importance in itself, but it
happens to illustrate we'll the sources of
historical knowledge, and how they
yield the facts mendesire to know.
The invention of the wheel barrow
has been credited commonly to Pasacl,
q French philosopher and writer Of
about the middle of the seventeenth
century. According to Littre's diction-
airy of the French language, however,
the wheelbarrow was invented by
Mr.. Dupin in 1869. One or the other of
these two accounts has been accepted
generally-in France at least where
every useful invention is believed to be
of French origin.
Now a writer in the French scientific
journal, La Nature, calls attention to
an OLD book printed in 1855, in which Is
curious wood engraving that repre-
sents a single wheeled barrow pushed
along by laborer. Another plate OF.
the same book shows a tramway Car
running upon rails. This puts the use
of the wheelbarrow back more than a
hundred years earlier than the time of
Pascal.
Last year, at the exhibition in Paris
of carriages of all kinds, it was reported
that the origin of the wheelbarrow was
to be found in the thirteenth century.
In the margin of manuscript belong
ing to that time there is drawing of a
man wheeling another person in a
single-wheeled barrow precisely like
those in use at the present day.
In manuscript of the fourteenth
century may be seen whee1barrow
used for the carriage of load which
looks like bags of grain. Another
miniature painting upon manuscript
of the fifteenth century represents a
hospital where nuns are attending to
the lame and wounded. There is one
wounded person who is being brought
in on a wheelbarrow. This indicates
that the vehicle was used to carry the
intirm or disabled.
Still another fifteenth century manu-
script shows wheelbarrow used for
moving building materials. As the
picture is intended to illustrate the
history of Rome, the artist of course
saw no want of consistency in repre-
senting this vehicle as in use at that
early period-and who can say that it
was not? The laborer made the work
all the easier by the use of a strap
which passed over his shoulders
At present. then, the wheelb barrow is
known to he at least six hundred years
old, and not two centuries, as was at
one time supposed. The next step is to
show that William, the Conqueror, car
ried wheelbarrows with him when he
moved his quarters across the cham mel
from Normandy to England in the
eleventh century.-Youth's Companion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-11-06
BAREFOOTED AFTER THE COWS


The boys" had come back to the farm,
Which all through ones life bears a charm;
And though we were all sturdy men,
We thought to live over again
The days when we halloed and hooted,
And ran down the pasture barefooted;
We stole out Of childhood a day,
And filled it up brimful of play.
The pond and the swift Swimming. sw allow
The wood where the owl used to halloo-
Who-oo! whooo
The barn full of hay,
Where many day
We tumbled down over the mowS;
The grass in the meadow was growing,
The cows in the meadow were lowing
Mo-oo! mo-oo!
All life has no Joy
Like that Of boy
Running barefooted after the cows!
We ate of the apples that fell
From the harvest tree over the well;
For never in life could we meet
With apples that seemed half so sweet;
Nor water had we ever tasted
Like that which the spring ever wasted;
For God made the vintage to flow
From the winepresS Of pebbles below.
The squirrel proud Of his tail,
The chipmunk, who travels by rail,
The blackbird, the robin. the jay
Each gave US u greeting that day
The paStimes of boyhood We courted
In places where once we had sported,
And when the old dinner horn blew
We felt the old hunger anew.
Twas more like enacting dream!
We waded and tiShed in the stream.
Which somehow looked shallow and small,
Nor did the old trees seem as tall,
Each idol Of boyhood seemed shattered,
And even the kingisher clattered
No power can bring back the joys
or childhood to overgrown boys.
Not the same was the pond nor the swallow,
The wood where the owl used to haloo--
Who-oo who-oo!
The barn full OF hay
Seemed smaller that day
We tumbled down over the mows,
New grass in the meadow was growing,
Strange cows in the meadow were lowing
MoOoo. moo-oo.
We felt not the Joys
We were not the boys
Who ran barefooted after the cows.
Fred Emerson Brooks, in N. Y. Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-11-06
WOMAN'S INTUITION.

Nearly Always Right in Her Judgment in
Regard to Common Things.
An old gentleman over seventy, came into
the city from his farm, without his overcoat.
The day turned chilly and he was obliged to
forego his visit to the fair.
To friend who demonstrated with him
for going away from home thus unprepared,
he said: II thought it was going to be warm;
my wife told me to take my overcoat, but
wouldn't. Women have more sense than
men anyway"
A frank admission.
Women's good sense is said to come from
intuition; may it not be that they are more
close observers of little things. One thing
is certain, they are apt to strike the nail on
the head, in all the ordinary problems OF
life, more frequently than the lords of crea-
ton.
According to DR.. Alice Bennett, who re-
Gently read paper on Brights disease be-
fore the Pennsylvania State Medical Society,
persons subject to bilious attacks and sick
headaches, who have crawling sensations,
like the flowing Of water in the head, who
are tired all the time and have unexplained
attacks of sudden weakness, may well be
suspected of dangerous tendencies in the
direction Of Bright's disease"
The veteran newspaper correspondent,
10 Howard, Of the New York Press, in noting
this statement, suggests: POSSIBLY Alice is
correct. in her diagnosis, but why doesn't
she give some idea Of treatment I know q
man who has been tired all the time for
ten years. Night before last he took two
doses Of calomel and yesterday he wished
he hadn't"
A proper answer is found in the following
letter of Mrs. Davis, wife Of Rev. VIM. j.
Davis, Of Basil, O., June 21st, 1890:
II do not hesitate to say that owe my life
to Warmers Safe Cure. had constant
hemorrhage from my kidneys for more than
five months. The physicians could do moth
ing for me. My husband spent hundreds of
dollars and was not relieved. was under
the care Of the most eminent medical men in
the State. The hemorrhage ceased before !
had taken one bottle Of the Safe Cure
can safely and do cheerfully recommend it
to all who are sufferers Of kidney troubles"