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The advocate., 1890-10-15
OBITUARY.

New CAMBRIA, Kan, Sept 30.
EDITOR ADvoCATE:.-Ata regular meet
ing Of Saline Valley Alliance No. s65 the
following resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, II has pleased Almighty God to
bereave Brother M. Davidson of his wife;
therefore be it
Resolved, That we extend our heartfelt
sympathy TO our brother and his family in
this their affection.
Resolved, That copy of these resolu-
tions be furnished for publication in the
Sslina Union and ADVOCATE.
IDA WHEELRR,
Il. r. ROSE,
Committee.
The advocate., 1890-10-15

the best things for the farmers that ever
was done. So another republican pledge
was fulfilled.
The republicans pledged themselves 20
protective tariff to protect American
industries and American laborers, and
this bill was passed and is a wonderful
help 10 the industries OF the country
which could not have survived but for
1t, and the republicans have just passed
the Mckinley tariff bill, which reduces
the revenue collected S06,O0O,0OO, and
puts 10 per cent more on the free list.
II also makes II possible that the balance
Of trade with Central and South America
should be in our favor instead Of against
US, and thus another pledge is fulfilled.
Then there is the meat inspection bill,
which provides that II after our cattle
and hogs have been inspected and any
foreign government refuses to receive
them, that our government shall then
prohibit the importation of articles from
that country. This will increase the
price Of every pound Of beef and pork in
the state Of Kansas. The compound
lard bill passed by Congress is another
step In the right direction. IL prohibits
the adulteratlon Of lard by the mixing OF
cotton seed oil, and will increase every
pound OF lard, whether rendered or in
the hog.
Thus could go on enumerating the
pledges made by the republican party
and carried out by 1t, until there would
not be space enough in both the Graphite
and ADVOCATE to contain it, But this is
enough to show the reader that the re-
publican party has always pledged itself
TO work for the peoples welfare, and
that 1t has always fulfilled It's pledges.
l would like to ask the readers of this
discussion what the peoples party prom
ised to do In their behalf. Peruse lbs
platforms, read the speeches Of it's lead
ers and you will fiud that It's chief corner
stone, its grand central idea, is anarchy
and socialism. viii you step out Of the
tried, true and we'll known paths Of the
republican party to wade into the un-
known future, whose termination you
cannot picture and whose results you
cannot see. Examine the acts of the last
republican Congress, look at the laws
made in favor Of the poor and needy, and
then tell me on your sacred word Of
honor, can you afford to cast your ballot
for such a political Conglomeratlon as
the peoples party ticket? Dear reader,
/ have not summoned witnesses from
any throng, for their evidence would
only be burlesque; but / have called
your attention to some Of the gems with
which the crown Of the republican party
Is bedecked, and l beseech you, go search
the annals of any and all parties since
the foundation of the earth and tell me
where you can find legislation so bene-
fetal to the farmers and laboring classes
as has been enacted by the republican
party. Yours for the truth,
MINERVA d. WALKER.
---ss
The advocate., 1890-10-15

deeds made the Wailing OF the widow
and the weeping Of the orphan 10 be
heard throughout the land and yet Mrs.
Lease, who pretends 10 be working for
right and justice, says that their "mur-
der precludes the idea Of free speech" I"
II is such enemies TO the government az
Mrs. Lease, forcing her way into the alli-
ance that has been its ruination and will
cause Ito ultimate destruction and down
fall.
From reading Mrs. Leases article, /
could 6nd nothing in II 20 prove that the
republican party has been false TO It's
platforms. She seems 10 be too coward
ly 10 make a direct assertion about any
one pledge in any platform that the re-
publican party has not fulfilled. Does
she not acknowledge In this, her FIRST ar
ticle, that she cannot find one pledge that
has not been fulfilled? Now / want to
enumeate a few pledges TO show the
readers Of this discussion that the re-
publican party has been true to its plat
forms and fulfilled all its pledges 10 the
people. In the first place the republican
party was organized TO abolish slavery.
That was its aim when it started out and
II carried out that obligation and freed
the colored man and put him on an equal
with any citizen Of the United States.
One pledge carried out.
The republican party declared itself In
favor Of the resumption Of specie pay
ment and the redemption OF the United
States notes in coin, and in 1868 the re-
sumption act was passed by a republican
Congress. Another pledge fulfilled.
The republican party declared Itself In
favor Of pensioning the old soldiers. In
1862, while a majority Of the democratic
leaders and some of the present alliance
leaders, were in arms against the govern
ment or plotting insuTection at the ma
tiOnal capitol, the republican party grant
cd pensions TO all who should become
disabled in the service Of their country
or 10 the relatives Of those who should
die from causes originating in the SER
vice, including widows, children, mothers
and sisters. This was the first compre-
hensive measure in their behalf, but IL
was followed by many others. The acts
Of April 0, 1884; July A, 1884; March 3,
1878; June 6, 1874, and June l9, 1874, all
followed under the republican control of
Congress. These measures are all liberal
toward the old soldier The arrearage
acts Of January and March, 1878 we're
also passed and now Congress has just
passed the disability pension bill, which
is more liberal to the soldier than all the
rest; and another republican pledge is
fulfilled.
The republicans declared in favor of
appropriations for rivers and harboTs TO
cheaper transportation, and countless ap-
proprlations were made and the last Con-
gress has just appropriated $6,OOO,OOO for
a deep water barber on the Gulf Of Mexi-
co. Another republican pledge is full
filed.
The republicans pledged themselves In
favor Of an interstate commerce law,
and this law was passed, whereby the
farmers Of Kansas are enabled to ship
their wheat TO New York for 10 cents
per hundred, instead Of 30 cents, which
Il cost them before this bill was passed.
The advocate., 1890-10-15


ei4,400,00O a year and restores silver aa
legal tender. The disability pension
bill, one OF the most liberal pension laws
ever passed. You perceive, Mrs. Lease,
that the grand old party Is true TO lis
platform In regard TO awarding the old
soldiers. Then the antitrust bill 10 pro-
tect the people against trusts and COM
blnes. The political alliance ranters are
all the time bowling against the trusts.
The republicans have taken steps 10 pre-
vent them and for Furnishing persons or
ganlzing them. Then there is the anti
lottery bill, a measure which every per-
son Interested In morality should sup
port The worlds fair bill, the bill ad-
mltting TO statehood Wyoming and Idaho,
the land grant forfeiture bill, heoriglnal
package bill, and the act which repeAls
the act Of 1883, Withdrawing public lands
from settlement This opens up all the
western land 10 settlement, which we're
formerly controlled by cattle syndlcates,
and any man may acquire as much as
800 acres. Then there was relief given
to the food sufferers OF the Mississippi,
also providing for ports and portage lake
on the Gulf Of Mexico. 100000 were
also appropriated for deep water har-
Dor on the Gulf Of Mexico. An act for
the relief of settlers Of the Northern
railroad, Pacific railroad, and in Okla
homa The census enumeration act, and
the Mckinley tariff bill, which reduces
the amount Of revenue, S66,OOO,0OO, puts
10 per cent. more on the free list and
makes It possible by virtue Of the reel
prosltY features that the balance of trade
with central and South America should
be In our favor instead OF Sl4,SO0,00O
against us, and the eight hour labor law,
which provides that man may work
only eight hours day and get the same
pay he did for working ten hours. These
and many other important bills were
passed and the fact that Thomas B. Reed
was speaker Of the House Of Representa-
tives made it possible for every one Of
them 10 become laws. The demo-anar-
ohlstlc leaders Of che alliance should be
ashamed TO endeavor to slander such a
man. The people honor "Tom Reed"
because he made Il possible to leglslate
for the people against the entire demo-
cratic party, whose members openly
stated that they intended to draw their
salaries from the farmers, for whom
Mrs. Lease pretends to be working, not
TO leglslate in behalf of the people but to
impede and prevent legislation.
Then she says "the judicial murder Of
Of the Chicago anarchists precludes the
Idea Of free speech"
80 my esteemed cotemporary bewails
the fact that the anarchists were hung.
| suppose the murder Of the Chicago
policeman was perfectly right and justi-
fable, and the murderers needed no pun
ishment, l have made the statement be-
fore that Mrs. Lease WAS an anarchist,
but never hoped to have her place her
self on record as she does here Although
this does not bear on the subject at issue
yet cannot pass this assertion by with
out notice. "The judicial murder Of the
Chicago anarchists preCludes the idea Of
free speech"
In other words she says the red hand
The advocate., 1890-10-15

Write for prices Of organ and piano to
]. H. Ryan, 7l3 Main street, Kansas City,
Mo.
The advocate., 1890-10-15

Send for catalogue, Topeka Bus. Coll
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
One Swindie Explained.

A drummer WHO travels for Boston
grocery concern says that he sees in
Maine some OF the sharpest tricks that
are practiced anywhere on his route.
He gave the following specimen to a
Lewiston Journal reporter:
A farmers wife hustled into a store
in Washington County the other day
and went for the proprietor with:
Mr.. B, | bought six pounds OF
sugar here last week and when l got
home | found a stone weighing two
pounds in the package
Yes, ma am"
eau you explain the swindle. sir?"
q think | can was the proprietor's
placid reply. when l weighed your
eight pounds of butter week before
Ast found a two pound pebble in the
jar, and when l weighed your sugar
the stone must have Slipped into the
scales somehow. We are both growing
old, ma'am, and l am sorry to say that
our eyesight isn't to be trusted What
can do for you to-day. ma'am?n
For moment the woman gazed at
the tradesman over her brass bound
spectacles. Then she rccollected her
self and remarked that she had a
dozen eggs which she wished to ex-
change for hooks and eyes
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
About Watch Springs.

s'How long will it last?" asked a
man OF jeweler who had just told him
that he would have to have a new
spring in his watch.
May be a week; maybe a year OF
two, answered the jeweler.
But this one has lasted four or five
years, said the man, protestingly.
Yes; but they don't make that kind
of spring nowadays. 1t really does
seem as though they had lost the art OF
tempering watch springs. l sent out a
hundred dollar watch the other day,
brand new, just from the factory, and
the spring broke within twenty-four
hours. The manufacturers have spent
thousands of dollars within the past few
years experimenting to get back the
old quality for the springs, and they
have failed. The springs seem to be
getting worse, rather than better."-
~ J. Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
DONATO'S WILL POWER.
What the Professor Accomplishes in thu
Line of Hypnotism

A comely young woman, attired in
a soft clinging robe of white, stood Oh
the stage in Chickering hall last night,
says the n. Y. Times, and under the
spell of one mans will became a rigid
statue. She was picked up like an in
animate thing and laid as a bridge
over the space between two chairs
three and one-half feet apart. Her
head rested on one chair and her feet
barely touched the other. Then Prof.
Donate, who had hypnotized her, sal
upon her body, swinging his heels two
or three inches from the floor. The
professor weighs about 200 pounds, but
tLe girls body remained as stiff and
unyielding as a plank. Half moment
afterward the hypnotic influence was
removed and the girls limp form sank
between the two chairs like the closing
of a iackknife.
This was but one of numerous eX-
traordinary instances of his power as a
hypnotist or fascinator given by Prof
Donate last evening. He compelled
a dozen or more obedient subjects to
assume attitudes painfully unnatural
and awkward. In her unconscious
eagerness to reach rose a young girl
was induced to bend over backward
until her head as well as her feet
touched the stage.
Nine. Donate assisted her husband
effectively in the most interesting eX-
periments of the evening. She was
placed in the hypnotic state, and diff
ferent persons in the audience were in
vited to express to her husband
whispered wishes that she might do
certain things. The lady was not sup
posed to hear or know anything about
these wishes except as they were con-
veyed to her mind by the will power of
her husband. She was in fact, fast
| asleep. 4 gentleman concealed his
seat check in the lining of his hat and
requested that the hypnotized lady find
it. She found it without word being
said to her. A lady whispered that
she would like to have Nine. Donate
take the flowers from her dress and
atfiX them to her own person. That
| was done. A young man asked the
| professor to induce the madame to find
his pocket-knife open the smallest
blade, show it to his (he young man's)
wife, close the blade, and hand it to a
| little boy sitting a few seats away.
All of This was done, and the hypno-
| TIED lady closed her performance by
going upon the stage, finding her way
to the piano, and striking certain key
| that had been picked out by one OF the
audience.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30

"Amenr' said the doctor. MY
gratitude must be expressed in deeds,
not in words, and there is one who
must thank you also-my promised
wife"
Meanwhile the police had returned
to the tavern whittier the doctor and his
friend followed them. They found the
desperadoes drinking in the upper
room. without suspicion that they
had been discovered, while the old
woman who had decoyed the doctor
to the shanty sat at table gloating
over her share of the plumber. They
Were arrested before they had an OPP
portunity to make resistance, and the
doctor was SO unusually lucky as to get
his own again after thieves had stolen
it. As yet fortune favors him. He is
married to the woman he loves, and
by his aid and through his friendship
the man who saved his life has become
happy. respected, and prosperous, and
in their household he is brother
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
We Eat Too Much.

There is something new under the
sun-a new way to make youth and
health and beauty perpetual. Not 3
new method Of physical culture, not q
new dietary scheme, nor yet new ap-
plication of that subtle principle by
which the mind rules the body. None
of these, but measure so novel, so
original and withal so economic that
it finds favor with many who would
none of all the other fads.
A new Hypatia has arisen in the per.
son of New York lady physician, and
the doctrine of physical Immortality
which she teaches is to fast. This
modern philosopher is a we'll known
woman physician, who is fifty years OF
age and looks twenty-five. Her form
is as supple, her eyes as bright and
her skin as clear as a healthy school
girls.
How did it come about?n she said
to writer in the New York Herald.
'Why, in the most natural way. The
human system is not machine-it is
a live thing. and so gets tired and
years ago, and began resting mine
Systematically. When | find the
physical machinery becoming clogged
and heavy abstain entirely from food.
Several times [ have tasted for twenty
days, and every month I take three
days'fast."
But is it not very exhausting?" l
asked.
No" replied the doctor. "On the
contrary, it is very exhilarating. OF
course it is necessary that the stomach
should have a tonic, and l have pre-
pared one" showing bottle contain
ing a dark brown fluid.
What is it?7 | asked.
Il call it a nutrient" said the doc.
tor. evasively. The taste and smell of
the preparation indicated that it was
mostly of cocoa and wine.
The doctor claims that a teaspoonful
OF this mixture. taken at the regular
meal time will not only do away with
all desire for food, but will prevent any
bad results from the long fast.
Il drink large quantities of hot water
| every day" she said, because | be-
lieve the inside Of the body needs
washing as much as the outside"
Every year the doctor takes trip to
Europe, and she says that never since
she began putting her pet theory into
! practice has she experienced a qualm
of seasickness. And she believes thai
the same emancipation will be the re.
ward Of every one who follows hel
| example.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
Grandma's Wedding Day.

When we were merry children, eyes Of blue
and hair of gold
We listened to story by a sweetfaced lady
told;
Yes, in the twilight of her life when she was
old and gray,
We loved to hear the story of Grandmas wed
ding day.
There was a lack of bridal gifts-no gold and
silver fine,
No jewels from across the sea, upon her brow
A man in homespun clothes stood up and gave
the bride away
For all was sweet simplicity on Grandma
wedding day.
There was no supplied minister, no bell above
them hung,
Ihey stood upon The forest Sward-thiS couple
fair and young:
And when the parson called them one and
wished them years of bliss,
The groom received his only gift-a soft and
holy kiss
A cabin in the forest stood to welcome home
the pair,
A nd happy birds among the trees made music
on the air:
She was the reigning backwoods belle-the
bride so fair and gay
And that is why the birds were glad upon heI
wedding day.
Thus life began for Grandma, in the forest
dim and old,
And where she lived city stands, with state
illness untold:
She told us how the Indian came the settler
brave to fight,
And how she rocked the cradle to the wolf s
long howl at night
The cradle was an oaken trough, untrimmed
with costly lace,
But in it nestled, now and then, fright,
cherubic face;
And Grandma was as happy then as though q
mansion grand
Above her rose like some we see throughout
our lovely land
cherish now a lock of hair-'tis not of silver
gray
She clipped it in the sunlight fair, though
years have passed away;
1t is a tres5 of Grandmas hair, as bright as
when she stood
And blushine t ok her bridal VOWS within the
painless wood.
On yonder hill, this golden morn, she takes her
dreamless rest:
The wrinkled hands, SO often kissed, lie crossed
upon her breast;
And gently on her fingers, ere we laid her
form away.
We placed the simple ring she wore upon her
wedding day.
Good Housekeeping.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
The Rescue of Emin Pasha.

Owing to delay in the mails on the
Umgagi and Mbawa Northern railroad
the following from Lite's African cor
respondent has just come to hand. 1t
is, however the first authentic report
of the meeting of Emin and Stanley.
Mr.. Stanley approached Emin's
headquarters about o'clock in the af-
ternoon, softly whistling Little Annie
Rooney" He raped at the door of
Emins tent, and Emin himself answered
the summons.
How do you do, Emin?" said Stan
ley.
Il beg your pardon" said Emin.
You have the advantage of me-"
Il am Henry M. Stanley
Il don't care. [ don't want any
subscription books, and I read The
Dark Continent a long time ago"
But | have come to rescue YOU"
II don't want to be rescued"
''WeIl, you've got to be rescued. Put
On your coat and come along. life
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
Nothing Saved.

A little boy was walking with his
father one day. As they trudged along
the father saw an old horseshoe lying
in the road, and babe the boy pick it up
and take it along.
The lad looked at the shoe carelessly
and replied that it was not worth car
rying. whereupon the father said moth
ing more, but quietly picked it up him
self. He pretty soon sold the old iron
for penny at a roadside smithy, and
invested the coin in cherries.
The day was hot. and presently the
man noticed that his son was begin
ming to cast longing eyes upon the
box of cherries, but did not offer any
to his son. He made pretense Of eat
ing them, and dropped one to the
ground as if by accident.
The boy picked it up quickly and ate
it with relish.
a little further on another dropped,
and this, too. the lad lost no time in
securing. So one by one all the cher
ries were dropped and picked up.
well" remarked the father, when
the last one had been eaten, lit did
not pay to pick up that horseshoe, per-
haps; but if you had stopped once for
that you wouldn't have needed to bend
twenty times for the cherries"
The moral of the story is an old one,
/ bat more generally known than heed
ed: Lazy folks take the most pains"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30

too small for its ready escape at the
ebb. Some of these salt water cata,
racts are as much as twelve feet high.
There is miniature example Of the
gorge near this city.
On the Yukon River the upper wat.
ers are rendered quite clear by the
deposit of all their silt in a chain of
lakes. but lower down a stream called
White River enters from the south so
charged with glacier mud that the
Yukon thence to the sea is too dirty
for even the bottom of a cupful 10 be
distinguished. Cravings rise rapidly
to the fly above; no fishing without nets
is possible below. Moreover, where
the great river crosses the arctic circle
the tributaries from the tundra lands
are like rivers of tea. so deep is the
strain of vegetable matter from the
moss swampS of the far north.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-30
Being Best Man.

1t is no small undertaking to be best
man at a wedding writes Hepburn
Johns in the Pittsburg Dispatch. The
awful responsibilities of the groom
usually fill the minds of the spectators,
and the best mans trials are rather
lost sight of. Still important as the
chief male assistants duties are, they
are not really so formidable as they
seemed to an Allegheny man who re-
Gently was called upon to fulfill them.
This young man was asked by an old
friend to stand up with him when he
entered the solemn estate of matrimO-
ny. He consented willingly. He is of
a nervous temperament, and a number
of his friends, for a joke. resolved to
give him a fright. So they went to
him one by one and impressed upon
him that being best man carried with
it 70 small obligations. He would
have to wear 4 new dress suit, they
told him, and new hat, new shoes, a
new tie and so on. Besides he would
have to give the bride an expensive
present, and contribute literally to the
groom's expenses One particularly
soIicitous friend was kind enough to
figure out exactly how much his per-
Torrance at the wedding would cost
him. The sum total, by this fictitious
figuring was $3.50.
Now to a young man on a small
salary, as the best-man-to-be was $3.50
was no joke, Being, as l have said, of
a nervous temperament, the obligation
of spending a sum so far beyond his
means affected him powerfully. He
could not think of backing out, yet how
to scrape together the money to do
the thing welp' he hadn't an idea.
He worried himself sick about it, actu-
ally sick, and, to cut a long story
short, when the wedding day came the
young man who should have been best
man lay seriously i'll in bed in hos
pital.
And this is strictly true. The joke
was carried much too far.