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The advocate., 1890-06-04
THE ADVOCATE.

OPTICAL PAPER or rHE KANSAS STATE
FARMERS ALLIANCE AND lNDU UBTRfAL UNION.
The advocate., 1890-06-04
TOPEKA, KANSAS, JUNE 4, 1880.

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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
"Tuftlll,nter. !"

To any one who knows the original
meaning of the word, "tufthunter" is
charmingly expressive. Undergraduates
of the University of Oxford wear col
lege uniform consisting of a black silk
gown and square velvet cap with tas-
sci in the middle of the top. Until a
few years ago the tassels on the caps of
undergraduate noblemen were gold col
ored These, of course, made them very
conspicuous.
Society ladies, especially mammas
living near the university, had only to
run their eyes over the heads of the
students and pick out the ones with the
gold tufts, make their acquaintance and
invite them to their entertainments.
| he quaint custom was abolished few
years ago, but the word tufthunter,
signifying society person always on the
lookout for people with titles, came to
have general application many years
ago and will probably long survive the
custom in which it originated. -Neao
York Sun
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
lie Got the Pnss

Employees of the Delaware & Lacka-
wanna Railroad tell good story about
a recent application for pass to Super
intendent Reason by former switch
man named Mcpherson. Mcpherson,
who formerly lived in Syracuse, had
been obliged to give up his position
through ill-health, and asked the other
morning, for pass to his old home.
"Why should l give you pass9"
queried superintendent Reasoner. "You
have left the road and been paid in
FULL
"Yes, SIR" replied the switchman !;
''but | have always been faithful. I
worked for the company for over twenty
years, and now that am crippled with
rheumatism / thought was entitled to
some consideration.
THAT is all right" said Superinten-
dent Reasoner; "but if you had been
working on farm and had quit, would
you ask the farmer to hitch up a team
and drive you fifteen or twenty miles to
town."
Certainly not, retaliated the appli-
cant; ''but if the farmer had his team
all hitched up and was going my way, l
would call him very mean man if he
did not give me ride"
Superintendent Reasoner sighed, and,
reaching for his gold pen, filled up an
annual. - Neso York Star.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
CLIPPINGS,

Sioux City comes forward and an
nounces its readiness to pay 800, 900
for corn place at the Chicago fair.
The Mexican government is encourag
'ng the cultivation of rubber trees. A
company has recently planted 300, 900 in
Chiapas
] asst year there was an increase of only
one savings bank in Massachusetts,, but
an increase of twenty seven co-opera-
tive banks.
There were 231S suicides in England
last year. which is the largest number
ever recorded Males largely outnum-
bered the fem lies
A statistician calculates that the total
tonnage of the world, steam and sail, is
50 per cent. is British.
On the luxurious express trains now a
stenographer and typewriter are carried,
SO that business men may attend to their
correspondence en- route.
Dakota has 1500-foot well, six inches
in diameter and throwing 1000 gallons
of water a minute. There are in that
region wells 3 800 feet deep.
Distance is continually being abridged
BY the new route via British America it
will be possible to go from London to
Yokohama in twenty-three days.
The British House of Commons has au-
thorzed the expenditure of $50, coo, coo in
improving and extending the military
barracks throughout the country.
The New York letter carriers find a
good many empty purses in the letter.
boxes Pickpockets think 1t safer to
drop them there than on the SIDE
walks
According to a report made by Bishop
Foster, the membership of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church has increased in
the last forty years from 100000 to
5000, 600.
Illinois has new law under which
criminals who have been found guilty of
robbery for the third time are considered
incorrigible and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
A portable paper house has lately
been made in Hamburg. The walls con-
sist of double layers of paper, of which
the interior is fire proof and the exterior
water proof
An old Alsatian soldier named Zim-
norman has just committed suicide
through grief at having been retired
from the army against his wish on &C
count of his age.
A French scientist, who has been
studying the hands of manual laborers,
. finds that very marked physical peculiar
tiles are engendered by the pursuit of
| different occupations.
1t is supposed by many that Martin
Luther wrote cold Hundred" but it is
now certain that it was written by Clau
dious Combined, who, in 1910, taught a
singing school in Rome.
1t is estimated that $62, 900, 900 is
spent in America each year for cosmet-
les, of which $25, 100000 is reinvested
in advertising. and that of the remain
der SIS, 900, 900 is profit.
There is vast quantity of meat re-
quired in Europe over and above what is
provided. In France, 100000 tons are
yearly required Germany, 800, 900
tons; Austria, $4,000 tons; Belgium,
4s1, 900 tons; England, 672, 900 tons.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
A Relic Of POmneii.

Outside of the Pora Stabiana at Pom
pei, in stratum of cinders have just
been found the impressions of three bod
les ard tree Casts taken of them
show the bodies to have been those of
two men and a woman. One of the men
was in a kneeling position and the other
stretched flat on his back. The woman
lay face downward with her arms
stretched out. The tree, of which casts
of foliage and fruit, as well as of the
k, were obtained, was Of the species
l.. rus Nobilis, known to have pro
duced round shaped fruit that ripened
toward the end of autumn, and, from
the form and size of the fruit, it was
evidently ripe when the tree was buried,
which goes to confirm the theory that
the great catastrophe took place in No
vember of the year 10 B. c., and not in
August, as has been supposed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
Big Verdict Against the World.

When the suit of ex-Assemblyman Dam
iel w Tallmadge against the New York
World for $4,000 damage for alleged libel
in charging him with having voted corrupt
ly while member of the legislature was
called for trial in the supreme court in
Brooklyn, counsel for the defendant asked
for another postponement. He said that
three important witnesses, Nellie Bly,, Ed
ward Phelps and James McGonigle, could
not be subpenaed. Ex-Judge DAILY
opposed any further delay and Judge
Cullen ordered the trial to pro-
coed whereupon defendants lawyer,
with ex-Judge Daily, then presented the
case and read the alleged libellous article.
Mr.. Tallmadge testified that he was in no
way instrumental in killing certain bill as
charged, and denied that he had ever made
a corrupt bargain with Edward Phelps or
any other lobbyist. Judge Cullen charged
the jury that the article was plainly libel
lous, and as much so when published on
third persons authority. All the jury had
to do was to assess damages. The jury, after
five minutes delberation found verdict
for the plaintiff, and assessed damages at
$50. 600
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
The Newark Launched,

The Newark, the last of the three steel
cruisers built for the government by Cramp
& Sons of Philadelphia, has been success
fully launched The vessel was christened
by Miss Grace H. Boutelle, daughter of
Congressman Boutelle.
The Newark is an unarmored steel cruiser
of 1888 tons displacement, and will therefore
rank in the first class, along with the Phila-
delphia, Baltimore and other recently built
cruisers. She is 80 feet long, 40 1-6 feet in
extreme beam, with a maximum draught of
201 feet and a mean draught of 1S3 feet. She
will be fitted with twin screw, triple eXpan-
sion engines, which are expected to furnish
60O0-horse power under natural and $500
under forced draught, thus enabling
her to attain speed of Is knots per hour.
This latest addition to the navy will be
bark-rigged. She has a double bottom, ex-
tending l29 feet Of her length. Her arma-
ment will consist of u six-inch, high pow
er, breech loading rifles, the same as that
of the Philadelphia and San Francisco. In
addition to these she will probably have
about dozen rapid fire and
machine guns in her secondary battery All
her appointments and appliances for drain
age, pumping and ventilation and electric
light will be of the best modern sort. The
amount appropriated by Congress for the
Newark was 81 ,301 900. Messrs. Cramps
bid for hull and engines being 81 ,24s,0o0.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27

The Farmers Alliance, which has, within
six months, become the most powerful
farmers organization that Kansas has ever
known, has, through its president, addressed
an open letter to the Kansas delegation in
Congress in which it says: "We call atten-
ton to the effect that single law firm in
one city in southern Kansas now has the
contract for the foreclosure of 1900 mort
cages. This means 1900 homesteads trans
4erred from the hands of so many indus
trious families to the hands of
capitalists, either domestic or foreign.
The foreclosure of these mortgages
in accordance with precon-
ceived purpose to gain possession Of these
farms and people them with more servle
tenantry imported from foreign lands for this
especial purpose. Foreclosures and evic-
tions are taking place in very many parts of
our state, and we need not 60 all the way to
Europe to witness scenes of cruelty in mat
tiers of this kind. All over the state TIE
homes of our people are imperlled. They
were struggling against adverse circum-
stances and almost against hope, to sustain
themselves until relief shall come.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
new ENGLAND NEWS.

Charles Blodgett, fireman ON the Old
Colony railroad, suffered a compound irac-
ture OF the left leg in a freight train COLI
sion at Concord junction, 1t appears that
the freight trains were both wild One
o. them was Just drawing away from the
station when the other crashed into II from
the rear BlOdgett was riding n the collid-
ing engine ON his way home TO Manchester
al the time of the accident, IL is said that
both gangs of train hands were green, and
confusion OF signals led TO the collision,
Several cars We're somewhat smashed and
burned, The train hands were considerably
shaken up,
Two boys fishing in pond in the rear Of
Hargrave's block, this morning, pulled out
the body of Fred Hemmenway, who had
been missing,
What promises to be case of many sem
satioral developments is being aired in
Lewiston, Me The principals are well
known, both in Auburn and Lewiston.
Sheriff Lamb of Auburn served writ on
Walter :, Mayo, n member of the firm of
Gay, Woodman a Co., sworn out by
Philip Morris n, n well-known and
respected dealer in fruit and confection-
cry in Auburn, Morrison claims that Mayo
has aliena,ed his wiie's affections, and brings
suit for 5000 damages Mayo furnished
bonds, Mr., T. NJ, Woodman being his
poHusmdn, MIS-, MOTTlsOn Is ioTtWoiuuli
in the stitching room of Gay, Woodman Il
Co. Mayo belongs in Boston, and came
here TO superintend matters in the factory,
and there met Mrs. Morrison, The case
will be tried at the April term.
Amos n. Cross, who has been confined in
the Butler Hospital for the Insane at Provi-
dence, r, l., for the last five years, and who,
by writing to New York paper caused a
deep sensation, IN that sane man was al
legged to c held in duress to cheat him out
of his property, has been declared insane
and too dangerous to be at large. Cross
epistleS have resulted in one libel suit and a
verdict against publisher, and other suits
are talked of bv the brother who caused
Cross to be conf ed
There has been received at the state
house, Rhode Is and, a number of protests
from manufacturers who do not want state
election days to be made legal holidays.
The Vincent fund IN Boston is now over
$1,000,
Hubbell Lee of East Fairfield, VT, died
from injuries received at the hands of his
nephew, Frank Mitchell, while the two
were in a drunken quarrel.
Farmers in the hill towns of western
Massachusetts are in the miust of the annual
maple sugar harvest. The sap is reported as
running very plentifu'ly, and there is q
pr spect of good yield.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27

Thousands of women owe their fresh,
blooming countenances to the restorative
effects of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton. 1t is positive cure for the most
complicated and obstinate cases of leucor-
rhea, excessive flowing, painful menstrual
ton, unnatural suppressions. prolapsus, or
falling OF the womb, weak back female
weakness" anteversion, retroversion, bear
ing-down sensations, chronic congestion, in
fiammation and liberation of the womb,
Inflammation, pain and tenderness in ova-
ries, accompanied with internal heat
As regulator and promoter of func-
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
Too Long 10 Matt.

Elderly but rich admirer-I know, my
dear Miss Lillian, there is some disparity
in our ages, but it is not too great, l
hope. have known cases in which
Young Beauty-Please excuse me for
asking, Mr.. Means, but what is your
agel
/ shall be fifty-three years old one
week from next Friday, Miss Lillian"
with a sigh)-"The disparity is not
great enough, Mr.. Means, by about
twenty years. D. Chicago Tribune.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
ALCOHOLIC 1uSAcy INCREASING IN FRANCE.

ALCOHOLIC LUNACy INCREASING IN FRANCE.
Recent investigations conducted by y.
Paul GARNER and embodied in report to
convention. of French doctors gives startling
facts as to the increase of insanity in that
country, and especially as to the increase OF
that form of insanity due to the excessive use
OF alcoholic drinks. From 1871 to 1855 IN
sanity increased in France by thirty per
cent. Fifty-six per cent. OF the insane are
men and forty-four per cent. are women.
The-increase during the last seventeen wears
has been almost entirely in the branches o.
alcoholic insanity and OF general paralysis, o.
paresis There has neen very little increase
in mania, meanchoiia, and chronic delirium.
Alcohol and overwork are therefore he'd re-.
sponsihe for the greater part OF the increase
OF insanity during recent years. The FIRE.
auencr of alcoholic insanity has doubled iu
fifteen years, and the cases have increased
twenty-five per cent in the last three wears.
Fifteen years ago the proportion OF women
among tse cases of clcJholie insanity was
one-sixth Now tits one-tifth. A singular
fact noted is that the number OF new cases OF
insanity is greatest in the soriny, AMI that
this is especially true OF general paresis, OF
which the month of May seems to inaus Hrate
annually an epidemic.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
Fight Between siberian Exiles and
Troops.

Troops.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of the
Daily News says the Russian government
has been disagreebly impressed by the meet
lngs which have been held in England and
America to denounce the outrages COM
mitted upon exiles in Siberia A CORE
spondent in Siberia sends the details of the
Irkutsk affair. He says that the prisoners
involved in the affair were exiles, who were
suspected of having been concerned in the
explosion at Zurich last March. They
were allowed to live without restraint
in Irkutsk, and easily found employment
among sympathizers who are opposed to the
Russian system of exiting political prisoners
to Siberia. All went well until the police
discovered that the exiles were printing
proclamatons and sending them to Moscow.
As soon as the authorities learned what was
going on, the leaders among the exiles we're
sent to labor in the mines and the others
were told to prepare themselves for journey
into the interior. The unfortunate prisoners
appealed in vain, and at last resolved to
sell their lives dearly. Barricading them
selves in a house, they awaited an attack.
! hey had been well provided with arms and
ammunition by friendly Siberans, and
they received the troops who were sent to
capture them with a heavy fire. Several
soldiers were killed by the first volley. A
fierce fight ensued the besieged exiles hold
ing out until a majority of their number
were either killed or wounded. After it was
all over the ring-leadar, who had survived
the battle, was hanged.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
Eight Hours for Railroad Men.

1t was stated at st. Louis that demand
will be made by all railroad employees for
eight hours work after May /. The men
affected will be ali those in al St. Louis
yards and in all yards of all lines leading
out of St Louis. he four orders, it is said,
will stick together. These orders are
the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers and Firemen, he
Broth. rbood of Railroad Conduc-
tors. the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Associa-
ton and the Brotherhood of Brakemen.
The O. r. e. S, as they are termed, are not
in. This is the Order of Railway Conduc-
to 3, an old organization, which is claimed
to be hand in glove with railroad managers,
and viii, Ii recently contained nearly every
superintend mt dispatcher and road master
west of here.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
The Girls My Mother Knows.

My mother says girl she knows
Whose face with love and kindness CLOVIS,
Who carries sunshine where she goes
A darling human rose,
Another girl she knows well, too,
Who frets at all she has TO dos
With sulky face she scowls at you,
While anger clouds her eyes of blue.
And all ths time it's plain to see,
From mothers laughing face, that she
Means one of those two girls for me
Now, which | wonder, can il be-
-.udrch Vide Aiodke,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
Deafness Can't be Cured

By local applications, as they caunot reach
the diseased portion of the ear There is only
one way to cure Deafness, and that is by con-
stitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by
an l.! famed condition of the mucous lining of
the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have a rumb ing sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness Is the result, and unless the infam-
nation can be taken out and this tube estored
toits normal condition, hearing will be de-
stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness Caused by Catarrh) that we
cannot cure by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circula S, Tree.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27

tlonal action, at that critical period O
change from girlhood to womanhood. "Fs
yorite Prescription is perfectly safe r,
medal agent, and can produce only goo
results. 1t is equally efEicacious and valua
BILE in its effects when taken for those disor
ders and arrangements incident to that late
and most critical period, known as 9Th
Change of Life
For Book l1G0 pages) on Woman: He
Diseases and their Self-cure, (sent sealed 1
plain envelope enclose ten cents. in stamp.
to WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL Assc
CITATION, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, n. Y.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27

Advertising patent medicine in the peculiar
way in which the proprietor of Kemp's Balsam
for Coughs and Colds does, it is indeed won
derful. He authorizes all druggists to give
those who call for it sample bottle Free, that
they may try it tefore purchasing. The Large
Bottles are Soc. and 81. We certainly would
advise a trial. 1t may save you from con-
sumption.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
AN OLD MAIDS sOLILOOUY.

the quesi
career
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sought
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Prescip
a cheek
restore the health who
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having regano her health blooming ~ A"n' az"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
SAVED BY A GIRL.
Daisy Garnett Averts Disaster to
Georgia Train.

Georgia Train.
Miss Daisy Garnett, who lives at White
House, cross-road ON the Port Royal &
Western Carolina railroad, 40 miles from
Augusta, Ga, while walking on the track at
dusk, by the light of her lantern discovered
a broken rail. 1t was time for the up pas
senger train to pass, and so Miss Garnet
ran down the road to give the signal. The
engineer saw the girl in the centre of the
track waving her lantern, and brought his
train to dead halt, Cheers were sent up
for Miss Garnett, and purse was raised by
the passengers. Miss Garnett will also re-
ceive handsome testimonial from the rail
70 d company.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
- T J. VHENEY q Co, IOItU0, .,
TT Sold by Druggists. TIC.

There were but twelve deserters in the
Ninth cavalry tcolored) during the whole of
last year.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27

And wearied grows of being praised"
But never wearied grows the pen
Which writes the truths that have amazed
the thousands who have been given up by
their physicians and who have been restored
10 complete health by using that safest of all
remedies for functional irregularities and
weaknesses, which are the bane of womankind.
We refer, of course, to DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription, the only guaranteed cure for all
those chronic ailments peculiar to women.
Read the guarantee on tho bottle-wrapper.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
The world grows weary praising men,

France has half as many people as the
United States, but her national debt is twice
as great as ours.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
Desertions from the Army.

Senators Plumb and Hawley have intro
duced identically the same bill to prevent
assertions in the army. The bill provides
that there shall be retained from the pay of
each enlisted man S4 per month of his
monthly pay for the first year of his enlist
ment, which sum shall not be paid him
until he is discharged from the service, and
shall be forfeited unless he serves
honestly and faithfully to the
date of discharge. The sums retained
from the enlisted men shall be
treated as deposits, to bear interest from the
end of the year of the soldiers enlistment,
Enlistments shall continue to be made for
hye years as now provided; but at the end
of three years from the date of his enlist
ment, every soldier whose previous service
has been faithful shall be entitled to fur
Tough of three months. The President may,
in his discretion, permit any enlisted man
to purchase his discharge from the army,
the purchase money to be paid to the pay
master,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27
Juterested PeonIe

The ladies in Bermuda have started a
rifle club, of which the governors wife is
president
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27

THIRTY families OF immigrants. who re-
Gently arrived at Talcahuano Chill, were
plundered of the whole of their baggage.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-03-27

John A. Davis, defaulting ex-city treasur-
er of Rochester, \. Y, has been arrested on
a bench warrant on charges contained in an
Indictment returned by the grand jury. The
indictment is for grand larceny in the first
degree. He was held In $4,000 bonds.