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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

pieces of earthen ware, including a
crucibIe, the remains of ancient min
ing operations. He expressed aston
ishment at the fact that the old miners
we're able to reach depths of 200 or 300
feet through hard rock with the simple
appliances at their command.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

A CITIZEN of Taunton, Mass, says
that he knows a woman who. for several
years, made from 1000 to 1900 pies a
year for a family of three persons, and
one member has eaten more than two
thirds of them.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

CHINA, with a population in the
vicinity of 38O,OOO,OOO, has only three
newspapers at present. Considering
that an editors head is chopped off on
the slightest provocation the wonder is
that there are even three.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

COLONEL NoRTH's dog-house, at Lon
don, is a perfect canine palace, filed
with costly animals. The best dog
cost So, $50. There is a dressing-rOom,
and cIoak-room filed with dogs coats,
and fresh shoulders of mutton make
the dogs daily dinner.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

FIFTEEN years ago Henry Hill, of
Council Bluffs, swore that he would
not shave until Susan B. Anthony was
elected President. The other day his
whiskers, which were three feet long,
became entangled in some machinery
and were mostly pulled out by the
roots, and he is probably pretty well
cured of his foolishness.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

ITis becoming the custom for busy
and wealthy women to have young
ladies for private secretaries. The
feminine private secretary keeps the
run of the visiting list, answers notes,
and makes engagements and excuses.
Her duties require an excellent educa-
ton, high bred manners, and the great
est tact and delicacy.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

FRED HAUN, a CoIlinwood COhio)
man, was taken prisoner at Kingston,
Ga, in '64, and was stripped of &C
couterments, among which was a cap
box with his name stenciled upon it..
He escaped and thought no more of
the cap box until it was found by a
Miss Kerns in a coal shed near Collin
wood last week. How it gravitated to
its owner during twenty-five years
wandering is amystery.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

@. LoNGFELLOW, druggist at Ma
chias, Ne, inserted an advertisement
of his business in the first issue Of the
local paper forty years ago and has
kept it in ever since.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28
10 n.sPEa COLDS

Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse the system
effectually, yet gently, when costive or
bilious, or when the blood is impure or slug
gish, to permanently cure habitual constipa-
ton, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a
healthy activity, without irritating or weak
ening them, use Syrup of Figs.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

PHILADELPHIA ladies are boycotting
merchants who refuse to regard the
comfort and health of their sales
women. a very good argument it is,
too.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

'FWe've got better scheme now than hold
ing up a whole train" remarked a western
train-rObber to a friend. ''What is ity' owe
simply kidnap the porter and hold him for
ransorE1-l -
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28
KAESAB

THERE are five New Yorks, nine
PhiIadelphias, and twelve Bostons in
the United States.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28
B,rBer Duross' Good Luck.

Detroit (Mich.) Sun February 9.
Ticket No. IL, 10 drew the second capital
prize of 100000 in the January drawing of
the Louisiana State Lottery. One-twentieth
of this ticket was held by Cornelius N. Du-
ross. He was therefore entitled TO receive
$1,000.
Mr.. DurOss was found yesterday by a Sun
reporter, at his barber shop, lob Joseph Cam
pau avenue. 81 received the 5000 through
the American Express Co, and 1t came to me
ike a God send, - said the fortunate man. 81
have been investing dollar each month for
over a year and this is the first time I ever
drew anything. L held the ticket absolutely,
and no one was entitled to a division of the
prize as has been reported. The money VIII
invest in real estate"
Mr.. DurOs5 is a young man of exemplary
habits, and the money could not have fallen
into better hands.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

SAN PEDRO MARTIN, in Lower Cali
fornia, it has been ascertained, is not
as has been generally supposed a chain
of mountains, but single one. 1t is
about 100 miles in length and from ten
to thirty in width, containing about
1000, 600 acres of land, one-haIf of
which is covered with fine timber.
Many of the trees are giants. The
scenery in the mountain is grand. Its
average hight Is u, 800 feet.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

RUBBER pavements have successfully
been tried on bridge in Hanover and
a street in Berlin.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28
HE MILKEDTHE COWS
THAT WAS WHAT JAY GOULD DID
FOR SEVERAL YEARS.

Then He Became Clerk in "a Country
stOre-EEfs First Strike, However, Was
When, as a Surveyor, He Made s.IJO0n-
Mark for Farmers Wives.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

SOME remarkable caves have been
discovered in West Australia. Two Of
them are said to be large enough to
afford accommodation for 100000 men
each
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

When the poet wrote of the "breaking
waves" he undoubtedly had in mind the sea
side resort and the grasping summer hotel
keeper.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

SOME one has said that the older q
man grows the smaller his brain be-
comes. This would at first blush seem
to explain why the old man knows so
little and the young fellow everything.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS pleasantly
related this one on himself the other
day in an address: 81 was making a
public speech some little time ago, and
one of my hearers remarked to his
neighbor, who happened to be a per
sonal friend of mine, What a pity
What a PITY Why, what is the pity %
said my friend. Well, it is a great
pity that a man with such white whis-
kers should wear such a very brown
wig"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28
OFHAWARDEN.
GREAT BRTTAIN~s MOST EMINENT
STATESMAN.

A Busy and Useful Life Briefly sketched-
Home Life Of the Grand Old Man
Personal characteristics ~ EIrs- Glad
stone.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

No soap in the world has eUer been ini-
tated as much as DObbins' Electric Soap.
The market is full of limitations. Be careful
that you are not deceired. y. B. DObbins,
Philadelphia and New York, " is stamped Cd
every bar.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

lilo NAIR E
Jay G. uId was
born at STATIONS
Falls, Delaware
County, n. Y, in
1886, so that he is
now 81 years of
age. Gould was
the son of q small
stOrekeeper. a n d
often complains
now that his duties
for many years
consisted in milk
ing the COWS. He
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

BoswoRrH SMITH, IN a report on the
Kolar gold field in Southern India,
records some finds Of old mining i'm
plements, old timbering, fragments Of
bones an old oil lamp, and broken
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

We often hear a man say: 81 would do
such and such if had a mind" But that's
just the trouble; he hasn't a mind.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

Maryland producers expect to grow u, 900
0O0 quarts of Strawberries this year, but all
the same they are ordering 20,00O,OOO Quart
boxes.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

Chemists are seldom henpecked husbands.
They have too much experience with retorts.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

A dead-beat can usually stand a loan, even
If he can't support himself.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

The man who sincerely and truly loves
himself has no fears of being Tilted.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

Is it not odd that our fOndes5 recoliections
should be about wasted oppOrtunitiesG
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

Soda water fountains are going into a
trust. It seems fzzical impOssibility 80
keep anything out.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

Readers who skim over q mGgazins ara
after the cream Of its contents.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

It is hard sometimes to realize that you are
boring the man who is polite enough to treat
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

GIynne Arms Hotel, HaWarden, and
just opposite the main entrance to
Hawarden Castle, the home of William
Ewart Gladstone.
Armed with a letter of introduction,
he soon found himself ushered into the
presence of the best-knOwn man In the
British Empire. His reception of the
newspaper man was at the same
time dignifed and affable, but as far
removed from any appearance of
patronage as from familiarity.
Respecting the probabilities of his
accession again to power, Mr.. Glad
stone remarked that though the result
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

HE correspondent
of an A M eric a n
newspaper travel
ling in England re-
GENTLY stopped off
at Chester, and a,f-
ter a short drive
found himself at the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

Josie: ''Can Mr.. Hugg drive with one hand,
Ethel?'' Ethel: ''NO.' Josie: 'tNot much
fun driving with him, then" Ethel: so,
yes there is, I drive"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-03-28

OPIUM As. ss: !s FL . * s:. "a
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-11

comments on the comparative increase
of production in the iron, cotton, and
other manufacturing industries in Eng
land and America. The much higher
rate of captallstic accumulation on this
side Of the Atlantic would appear in a
still stronger light by considering that
while the agricultural interests of Great
Britain are on the decline, there is a
constant opening of new country on
this continent, neCcssitated by the in
creasing population not Of the United
States alone, but of Europe as we'll In
the last ten years we have added to our
numbers a population equal to nearly
onehalf Of that Of the United Kingdom,
and the area under cultivation must of
necessity have been extended in proper
ton. On the other hand, while new
competitors in foodstuIfs have made
their appearance on the markets of
Europe, and large supplies are now
drawn by the Old Western Continent
from India, Africa, Australia and South
America, yet the increase Of its popula,
ton is such as to require considerable
export of American produce and raw
materials All Of which is grist to the
mill of the American capitalists.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-11
BOAST OF THIS !

In proportion to the value of real
estate, the public school property Of the
metropolis is less than in any other city
or town in the State having more than
1000 inhabitants, except Cohoes, Herki-
mer, Hudson, Lansingburgh, Lockport,
Long Island City, Rochester, Tarrytown,
Troy and Yonkers.
For supervision and teaching she ex-
ponds each year, per capita of the
average attendance of her schools,
$19.49, representing % cents for every
hundred dollars of her assessed valua-
tion-a lower figure than is reported
from any other city or town in the
State, except Canandaigua, Catskill,
Cohoes, Geneva, Hudson, Rochester,
Tarrytown and Yonkers.
In proportion to the actual amount of
wealth within her boundaries, including
not only real estate but all kinds of pro-
perry, New York does less for education
than any city or town in the Eastern
and Western States.
And yet, at every public meeting or
banquet, the bamboozling politicians or
capitalistic magnates of this misery
city praise education and boast of their
unstinted support of the public school
system!
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-11

seems more and more evident that the
method of persuasion should at last be
resorted to. In the past many a back
was bent by the burdens it had to carry;
but, singular to say, the sons and daugh-
ters Of parents thus deformed Were
found at their birth to be erect bipeds,
with not the least symptom Of ten
dency to become quadrupeds. We should
say that the law of heredity was here
plainly at fault, were it not for the law
Of natural selection In the light Of
this Darwinian law, what seems at
first sight a violation of evolutionary
progression or retrogression is readily
explained. 1t was against their will
that mems backs were bent-not by
natural selection.
From what precedes, if the reader has
followed us with care, he will not only
comprehend as we do the real purpose
of the Brooklyn Institute, but he will
not question the ability of the ancient
ID. d. S and l.. l.. d. s who conceived its
Department Of Humbugology to conduct
it in the interest Of retrogressive evolu-
ton by availing themselves of the latest
discoveries in natural science. The fact
that this Department has been placed
in charge Of Professor Richmond NJ.
Smith, of Columbia College, and the
established ignorance of that respectable
gentleman, need not cause any anxiety
to those who desire its success, but
should rather heighten their expecta-
tions
The principle of natural selection
being admitted, too much ignorance
cannot be displayed by the Professor in
inducing the working classes to become
quadrupeds for the benefit of such
bipeds as he and his employers.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-11

could be neither overproduction nor
underconsumption; whereas under a
government of politicians, by monopol-
lists and for monopolists, there must al
ways be underconsumption, even when
production is reduced to a minimum.
But of what use is it to discuss with a
fellow who unbushingly declares that
Bellamy "abruptly descends to the hui
morous" when he demands that the
miners be "humanely dealt WITH"
Away with the Pest
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-11

Percival Chubb's address on Socialism
in England delivered at the Chicago
Economic Conference and published in
these columns last week. was most
assuredly a very sober, quiet, peaceful
production, not at all suggestive of
gunpowder or dynamite. And yet the
Chicago papers are abIaze with denun-
Citations of it. In vain, also, did our ex-
friend Tom. Morgan, in the debate that
followed the address, impress upon So
ciaIists the Importance of treating the
capitalist press with great respect and
white gloves. The said press acknowl-
edged his obsequiousness, Sullivan
fashion, by knocking him down, toge-
Their with Chubb and "other anarchists"
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-11

This table is instructive. 1t shows the
results of the competitive system as
plainly as the number of mangled
corpses on a field of battle shows the
results of war
In New York city, where competition
in trade is on the highest scale, the num-
Der of failures increased from 312 in
1885 to G73 in 1899.
Another significant feature of Brad
streets statement is that the per centage
of assets to liabilities decreased from SO
in 1885 to SO in. 1899, As we ''progress"
the failures are more complete and
disastrous. This tendency has been
most pronounced in the highly developed
States, such as Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island and Pennsylvania. 1t reached
its worst stage early in 1899, when the
WOODEN, boots and shoes, dry goods,
iron and rubber trades were the greatest
sufferers. With large number of COM
petitors out of the way the remaining
establishments had clear field and have
since then been remarkably prosperous.
This condition, however, cannot last
very long, competition will soon again
become destructive factor, and bank
ruptcy VIII resume lts aonwardn march
with the usual result, in the end, of
greater concentration of the means of
production and distribution.
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-11
COMPARATIVE GROWTH OF
CAPITAL IN ENGLAND
AND AMERICA,

According to Mr.. Citizens estimates.
which are the result Of comprehensive
inves tigation made by the British Board
Of Trade under his management, the
total value Of all kinds of property in
the United Kingdom ia 1885 was in
round numbers ten thousand million
pounds sterling, equal to about fifty
thousand million dollars. The principal
components of this grand total were as
follows In million dollars:
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-11
SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY
JANUARY II, 1890.
REVIEW OF THE ECONOMIC
MOVEMENT IN 1889.

A comprehensive review of last years
events would unquestionabIy be full
of valuable lessons. Space is wanting
here to present one--such at least us we
understand that 1t should be done, We
shall, however, undertake to summarize
few facts and to generalize some of
the tendencies which those facts are
plainly revealing.
With fewer labor disturbances than
in many previous years there has been,
especially in the last six months, an UNI
precedented movement of organization
among the working classes, not only
in this country, but throughout Europe.
On this side of the Atlantic old trade
'"ions have enlarged their membership,
ones have been tahllshed. in.
branches heretofore unorganized, and
the principle of solidarity has been
greatly advanced by the rapid expan-
sion of the American Federation of
Labor throughout the United States
and by the amalgamation of the central
bodies of this city. While there are
still many elements of discord in the
ranks of labor, consisting chiefly in diff
ferences of opinion upon economic prn-
ciples and in the persistent use of leader
ship for selfish purposes by willing tools
of the old political parties, whom it has
been impossible to eXpel; and while
large numbers of wage.workers are still
unorganized, it is literally true to say
that at no time were the working classes
30 united and so determined to avail
themselves of every opportunity to inn
prove their condition. In the Ola World
the gigantic strikes that took place in
che earlier half Of the year throughout
Germany and elsewhere IN Central and
Western Europe contributed largely to
the development of socialistic ideas;
while in England the Dockers Strike,
conducted to successful issue 10y Social
lists, had similar effects and promoted
the organization of many trades hereto
fore at the mercy of British Capitalism.
The International Labor Congresses held
in Paris were also, questionably, fac
tors of the greatest import in this gen
eral awakening of labor; and their in
fuence has only begun to be felt.
Coincident with the almost univer-
al advance of the wage,working classes
toward closer union for offensive and
defensive purposes, there has been a
movement Of capitalishc aggregation
and consolidation for which the year
1889 III remain noted in the history Of
economy. The trust system was applied,
partially or completely, to almost every
leading branch of industry in this coun-
try, while combinations of extra
ordinary magnitude placed the chief
arteries of our railway system, with a
vast number of their feeders, into the
hands of few railroad kings. 1t is true
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-11
THE EVENING PES -

THE EVENING PEST.
The man who produces the Pest in
this city every evening except Sunday
has undertaken to criticize one of Bella
mys declarations in his recent address
to the Nationalist Club of Boston.
Said Bellamy: 1--WE demand that the
coal mining business, which is at present
most rapaciously conducted as respects
the public, and most oppressiyely as
regards a great body of laborers, be
nationalized, to the end that the mines
may be continuously worked to their full
capacity, coal furnished consumers at
cost and the miners humanely dealt
with"
Says the EUening Pest Goal is very
cheap. n Coal companies sometimes
combine to make it dear, but soon fall
out among themselves and engage in
war with disastrous results. \ Amy
industry employing large number of
men in coal mining is subject to disturb
ances from overproduction, strikes,
etc. The skill required for coal min
ing is of so low an order that the COM
panies have no trouble in adding to their
force when demand is good this force
must be decreased when demand is
less ~ The same thing is done, for
instance, in the Government navy
yards. There have been pitiable
scenes in some districts because of
strikes against low wages, but those
districts are not so advantageously To-
Gated as others and the miners there
must accept the smallest pay"
All of this is true, except that coal is
cheap at any time, since the consumer
must pay for it, when it is cheapest
two or three times its actual cost of
mining and transportation, 1t is true,
because it is mere statement of the
very state of affairs which Bellamy and
millions of Others are complaining Of
To state that it is so is no argument in
favor of its remaining so. To state that
a certain mode of living is productive of
the pest is rather an argument in favor
of changing it.
But the man who produces the Pest
every evening does not intend to change
a system that has proved so profitable to
those of his class. 1t cannot be done, he
says. 'If the Government operated the
mines to their full capacity, there would
be an overproduction of coal; and, if
the wages were not then reduced, the
National Treasury would be bank
rupted."
He does not see, in his wilful blind
ness, that the trouble is not from over
production. but from under consump-
ton; that the profits of capital and the
low wages of labor are the very factors
that curtaiI the purchasing ability Of the
people; that if the people operated their
own mines-not through a government
of politicians in the service Of capitalists,
such as we now have, but under truly
industrial self-government of the people,
by the people and for the people there
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-11
THE MARCH OF BANKRUPTCY,

AS reported by BradStreetS, the total
number of failures in the United States
for the past five years was as follows:
Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-01-11

Furniture, works of art, etc. 4,SO0
From the above statement it is seen
that the value Of the highly improved
land of Great Britain is less than one
sixth of the total wealth; so that the
actual Gland value, in the sense given
to that term by Henry George, cannot
be more than one twelfth of the grand
total. And here we can realize at a
glance the absurdity of the single land
tax theory.
AS compared with its estimated
amount in 1915, the present wealth of
Great Britain shows an increase of Z, 800
million dollars in ten years. But this
does not include the investments of her
capitalists in colonies and foreign coun-
tries A complete estimate would prob
ably show that the present rate of in
crease in the wealth of the capitalist
classes of England is about one thousand
million dollars year, or one.third of
the increase in the wealth of the capital
list classes of the United States, which
we persist in estimating at three thou
sand million dollars a year, as previously
and repeatedly stated in these columns.
Without, for the present, going into
particulars as to the many data upon
which our estimate of this country's
capitalistic progress is founded, we
may refer in support of our statement
to the enormous development of Ameri-
can industries as compared with those
of Great Britain. OF this fact we lately
gave some striking Illustrations in our