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The advocate., 1891-10-28
Quick and Comfortable Trip.

Two new trains have been added to
the already excellent connections east
that the Great Rock Island Route has
been offering to It's patrons.
The Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern has put on new train, leaving Chi
cago daily at 1890 a. M, and the Fort
Wayne (Pennsylvania lines) one at
10:45 q. m.
These are daily trains, scheduled on
fast time, and arrive at New York city
next afternoon at o'clock, and via the
first mentioned Boston passengers reach
their destination two hours later.
The fast vestibuled express from Dem
YER, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, via
both Kansas City and St Joseph, arrives
at Chicago at $50 a. m, daily, and the
vestibuled express from Omaha and the
Iowa main line arrives at Chicago at
sos a. m, daily. John Sebastian, Gem
eral Ticket and Passenger Agent; E. st.
John, General Manager.
The advocate., 1891-10-28

choice Of members. Of the presidents
cabinet the private fortune Of the man
under consideration weighs even more
than political fitness. All Of the present
cabinet are men of wealth. and two at
least Of them are millionsires. There is
hardly great city that is not ruled and
plundeTed by rum. Said Wendell Phil
lips In the state house of Boston In 1880,
"BOstOn has not had q mayor for forty
years who would enforce liquor law. "
What is true of Boston is true of New
York, Chicago, St Louis, Milwaukee and
hundred other cities.
"We have written enough to show that
there are signs that are not promising.
It Is not our present purpose to even try
to point out a remedy against the danger.
If we were writing upon that aspect of
the question we would urge that church
and people must set their faces like steel
against all laws which tend to create q
monopoly or to build up the enormous
fortunes Of the few at the expense of the
many. We would say that the tendency
to separate the American people into
classes; one, few in number, of the very
rich, and the other vast, of the very poor,
must be arrested. We would especially
urge that in the family of God the dis
tinctions Of wealth should be forgotten
In the ties of brotherhood and in a heav-
enly love which causes every earthly
possession to be laid at the feet Of
Christ" QUAKER VALLEY REPORTER.
Emporia, Kan, October 10, 1891.
The advocate., 1891-10-28
The Best Ever Used.

G. G. STEKETEE:-Please send me one
more package Steketee's Hog Cholera
Cure. I used one package on horse. l
think these powders are the very best I
ever used for horses. CHAs. ATBEL,
Young Hickory, N. Y.
No farmer should be without package
Of Steketee's Hog Cholera Cure. A stitch
in time saves nine. Read Steketee's ada
vertisement in this paper.
The advocate., 1891-10-28
SUBSCRIBE for The ADVOCATE.
IngersOIl ON California.

In recent magazine article, Mr.. Err
nest Ingersoll, the noted writer, says:
The climate of southern California in
winter closely resembles that of Egypt. It's
equability is constant, and its dryness is
proverbial. The only complaint made is,
that it is too nearly perfect. Residents bred
in the eastern states confess now and then
that rousing storm would give them a
grateful sensation. But this sentiment
meets with no favor from the man who has
just fed from a superhuity of wetness and
chilling gales. To him perpetual summer
seems perpetual paradise, and to the invalid
dreading the advance of disease the still
and arid atmosphere is as the breath of life.
The most comfortable way to reach the
Pacific coast is via Santa Fe Route.
Weekly excursions in Pullman tourist
sleepers at low rates. Apply to G. 7.
Nicholson, G. P. 6 T. A. Topeka, Kas.,
for folder.
The advocate., 1891-10-28

So long as there is one able bodied
man out of employment one woman
compelled to sell her honor for bread, or
one child going supperless to bed our
boasted American prosperity is fraud
and lie.-LiUing Issues.
The advocate., 1891-10-28
OBJECT LESSON IN HISTORY "A WORDTO
TILE WISE IS SUFFICIENT"

An bnSBD u&yb Wn0n tn0 0VAIb WHICH
weigh so heavily upon this nation are
often brought to view it Ia doublY en-
couraglng to hear men from the pulpit
speak out clearly against those evils
which are so sorely trying mems souls
and point the people to the fact that the
time has come when we should arise In
che fear Of God and with due regard for
our fellowman and by united effort en-
deavor 70 right these evils with the
strongest, mightiest and most powerful
weapons ever welded by God loving,
God fearing, Christian civilization, the
ballot.
We rejoice to see the pulpit and the
religious press speak out in such clear
and decisive tones on the evils Of monop-
oily, through the aid Of these and the re-
form press 1t is hoped we shall aid in es-
tabliShlng a new era. Equal rights to
all; special privileges TO nOne." Then,
fellow countrymen, take warning by the
object lesson given in the following
brave, earnest words from the Christian
EOGngeVGst;
CERTAIN NATIONAL DANGERS.
"The world has had two great repub-
lies. One was pre- Christian and has long
since fallen; one now Is. The first dom
mated the old world, the second one
dominates the new world. The first after
long and glorious career succumbed 10
influences which first robbed the people
Of liberty in the name Of the republic
and then changed even the republican
forms to those Of Gn imperial despotism.
The second might learn the quicksands
in which the first became involved to It's
ruin, mark them on It's charts and In
stantly dismiss every helmsman who
steers toward them.
"There are some things in history that
have far more interest than the foreign
campaigns, battles and conquests Of q
nation. The internal workings Of ma
TONS life. It's struggles and development
convey much more important lessons. In
Rome there are two periods that are
worthy Of the closest attention Of the
historical student; the first the struggle
Of the people (the Romano Plebs) TO
WTest the full rights Of citizens from the
patriclan oligarchy which ruled the ear
lest republic. This struggle lasted for
generations and resulted at last in the
enfranchlssment Of the people and in
making them eligible to the highest Of
6ceB Of the republic. This triumph, the
era Of peace between the forces that
had 80 long rent the state, was celebrated
by the erection Of the temple of Concord
on the hill Of the capital and from that
epoch Rome marched on to greatness.
The second struggle, struggle which
was finally fatal to the republic, was
strife between the rich and the poor; be-
tween the overgrown fortunes Of those
whom the Roman system had enabled to
build them mp and those at whose ex-
psnSe the few had piled up their wealth;
between the great monopollsts and the
masses Of the people.
%When the state had grown mighty
lhe wealth Of the world poured into its
lap. Vast areas Of public domain passed
into the hands Of the favored few. The
small cultlvators Of the soil were reduced
TO penury. Vast landed estates were cre-
The advocate., 1891-10-28


and neither mill stone. 1t became i'm
possible for one from the ranks +
achieve q success, except as the "client
Of a great nabob. The debtor class grew
10 enormous numbers. Finally half tht
population of Rome subsisted on thu
public bounty provided in the free dlstri
button Of grain. With such q state o
things the republic was impossible and
gave way to the dictatorship Of Sulla
the triumvirate Of Julius Caesar, Pom
pey and Crassus and to the empire Of th'
Caesars.
"Yet there was not a Roman Of the
period who had 8 fortune oue-tenth al
large as those Of the Vanderbilts, Gould
or Rockefeller. There are . hundred
Americans whose fortunes are each
greater than that Of Crassus, the trium.
vir, the wealthlest Roman of the times oi
Julius Caesar. Nay, there are Americans
whose yearly income could buy the vast.
est private fortune known to Roman his
tory. Roman provinces might be farmed
out to FSpacious mobiles, but Rome never
knew an age Of monopoly like our own.
The annals Of the first "Great Republic"
give no record Of any great, overreach-
Ing, stupendous monopolies like the
STANDARD Oh company, the barbed wire
trust, the whisky trust, the "Big Four"
OF Chicago, who dictate just what the
farmers of the nation shall have for
their hogs and cattle, the combination Of
seven packers, who determine just the
price at which the people shall have
their meat and q hundred more combi-
nations which control articles Of neces-
slty and have the people at their mercy.
The land, thus far, is widely distributed,
and there was Q time in the past when
almost every family owned q roof tree,
but at this time the city af New York
has population Of 100000 and only
about $4,000, or one person in 1913, own a
foot of soil This process will continue.
The great and increasing fortunes Of the
many millionaires will seek opportunities
for investment. AS rates Of interest 60
down more and more of their funds will
take the form Of real estate In the city
and co untry. and If the present tenden-
oieS are not changed the time will come
when the masses Of the people will be
landless.
at Is a thankless business to speak Of
the evils that menace a nation. Far more
welcome is he who lauds It's condition
and cries, "Peace and safety" When
jeremiah denounced the sins of Judah
and predicted the misfortunes that
would inevitably follow in their wake
the rulers replied by casting him into q
horrible, miry pit. When Christ por-
trayed the sins Of Israel and sadly ex-
claimed, "How often have / gathered
your children together, as hen gathers
her brood under her wingS,and ye would
not! Behold, your house is left unto you
desolate" Jerusalem'S answer was to
cruelty him. Yet, the student Of history
knows that when nations or institutions
fall this Is simply the effect due to ex-
listing internal causes. The Lord never
lets virtuous nation perish. There are
causes at work in our country which Of
old caused the overflow OF the first great
republic. Unless these forces are stayed
The advocate., 1891-10-28

A CHALLENGE.-I challenge the world
on my remedy for worms in animals. One
more testimonial:
KUNKKLE, Ohio, Dec. 20, 1890.
Mr.. STEKETEE: Your Hog Cholera
Cure is giving .he best Of satisfaction.
sold six boxes to one man. He says: at
fetches the worms out Of the horses fly
ing" W. w. STAMBAUGH.
If your dealers viii not keep Steketee's
Hog Cholera Cure on sale, then send me
go cents and l will send by mail. Better
way still: Let q few farmers club together
and send for three dozen packages and 1
win make fair reduction. Address, G.
G. STEKE1EE, grand Rapids, Mich.
The advocate., 1891-10-28

No fictitious certificates, but solid facts,
testify the marvellous cures of Ayers
SaEsapsrilla.
The advocate., 1891-10-28

Ayers Hair Vigor invigorates the
scalp; cures dandruff and itching. An
elegant dressing.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-02-18
To he a Model Hostess.

lfToin lile LADIES home JOuFIAl
All the beautiful decorations on the table
will amount to nothing unless the hostess
herself wears, as a decoration, a charming
manner and an absolute ignoring of any
thing except that which will give pleasure
to her guests. If mistakes should occur
it will be wiser for her not TO see them.
If an swkward servant should stumble and
upset dish she should be as equable as
if some one had only thrown a crown of
roses about her. While it is her duty to
permit no guest TO be neglected, it is also
her duty not to seem clustered or worried,
and she is the best hostess always who
manages to make people feel most at ease.
Don't attempt to do too much unless you
have servants who are capable of carrying
out your orders. y simple dinner, well
served, is always better form than ella
borate one badly served, and with half
cooked hostess at the head of the table
Invite people who will help make your
| dinner a success, people who talk well,
| and yet do not talk too much. Flashes Of
| silence are as much of an art in converse
ton are as flashes of wit. Put together
the people who will grow interested in
each other, and under no circumstances
| yield to the selfish desire of some Young
woman who wants to be near somebody
who won't be interested in her at all, and
who will in this way cause a rift in the
harmony you desire to achieve. Have
your table as prettily decorated as you
can, have your liuen as immaculate as
possible, have everything hot, as hot as it
can be, and everything cold, well iced.
Do not make the mistake of serving any
thing tepid: and as for yourself b.. as cool
rs your ice, as bright as the candle light.
as charming and as sweet :s the bonbUns
that mean dinner is over.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-02-18
COMING TO THEIR SENSES,

COMING TO THEIR SENSES.
Kansas has already had pretty forcible
illustration of what the Farmers alliance
schemes would do for the people who be-
ieve in them and are willing to help carry
them out. The alliance in Kansas has been
calling for more money. 1t has also caused
bills to be put before the legislature calcu-
lated to make trouble and loss for people
who have lent money with Kansas farms
as security. In consequence of this many
of the holders of the mortgages have be-
come alarmed and are not willing to give
the Kansas farmers any further accommc-
dation,- ,-and it is impossible to get new in
popular. So much trouble has already
been made that a kind of panic has
struck the public authorities of Kan
sas by reason of the rapid calling
in of mortgages and the difficulty of
obtaining new loans Accordingly the Re-
publican members of the State senate have
held "a caucus and passed a adeclaratory reso-
luton that they will reject the absurd
financial measures which have been passed
by the Alliance majority in the house.
They (the senators) could not wait for the
slow forms of parliamentary procedure,
but must needs declare their intention at
once. 1t is said that the Democratic mem
bers of the senate (there are only two of
them) will vote with the Republicans to
reject the bills, so that the vote will proba-
bly, be unanimous.
This is the wisest thing the Kansas SEN
ate can do. The Farmers alliance, in
Kansas and elsewhere, will discover that
it cannot create values and credit by dis
honest measures
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-02-18
1rt3 6unds.
Howe & StetsOl.
SPRING DRESS GOODS,

IS pieces all wool Novelty
Plaids Stripes, etc, at soc per
yard These goods are confined
to US in this city and cannot
be found elsewhere. Styles and
quality much better than most
goods sold at soc.
20 pieces Grey Checks (half
wool HI joc per yard sold for
sc usually.
Large assortment of High
Noveltie S in Dress Goods from
75c to s.. SO per yard. Special
Bargains in Broadcloths and
Costume Cloths at 75c, 85c
per yard Canel's Hair and
E1omespun Suitings in all
grades and colo1s, at popular
prices. Special values at ST.
and Si.25 per yard.
Black Mohairs, 54 inches,
at 48c Per yard. This is the
CSC quality.
Great assortment Black and
Black and White Dress Goods
from 25c to $1,5o per yard.
ALWAYS IN STOCK
PriestIey's and Ecroyd's Black
Silk Warp Hcnriettas, special
values at SI.25, $3.50 and
S1,75 per yard. We have only
a few pieces Of this lot left and
cannot duplicate them at the
prices.
Spring Opening Wash Dress
Goods-The largest and best
line of Anderson's Scotch
Ginghams ever shown by us at
only 25c per yard, and All
Are New Fresh Goods. Also
a line of French Printed India
Batistes, both in light and dark
grounds, at CSC per yard.
We shall open On Wednes-
dav Of this week a line of fine
quality Sateens, in desirable
patterns, at I8c per yard.
One case of Black and
White Checks at 12Hc yard.
Perfectly fast colors and the
best imitation of Wool Checks
ever seen.
All the latest styles in the
new Printed Serges and Nov
city Dress Goods at 10 and
II Hc per yard.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-02-18
THE AUSTRALIAN STRIKE,

Mr.. Fl. H. Champion, one of the best
known ''labor men" of Great Britain, was
in Australia during the recent great conflict
between capital and labor-the greatest
that has yet taken place. AT the start the
trade unions apparently had the advan-
tage. But Mr.. Champion feels forced to
believe that the most extensive federation
of labor, unless handled with more ability
than is available in Australia, will surely
be defeated by the resolute opposition of
employers who are also federated. The
operations of the trade unions were on a
gigantic scale. For instance, the Mel
bourne strike committee, finding that they
could not bar non-union men out of the
gas works, determined to cut off the coal
supply and thus not only stop the gas
manufacture, but all industries dependent
upon steam, including the railroads. AS
the coal used in Australia comes from New
South Wales, an international colonial
conference was called in Sydney, the capi-
tai of that colony. The first act of the
conference was to order a strike of the
shearers all over Australia with the
avowed purpose of destroying the years
wool crop, valued at s100,O0O,000. This
of course turned all the sheep owners who
had hitherto employed union shearers into
! deadly foes of organized labor. The next
act of the conference was to order a strike
of the coal miners. This second edict was
repudiated by the men to whom it was ad,
dressed, and as the first, directed to the
wool shearers, had proved imperative, the
| whole attempt of the trade unions tc
coerce the employers suddenly collapsed
1t had lasted three months, and had cos
| the workingmen s10,000,000, including
| S75, 900 forwarded from London.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-02-18
DoTries in France.
Madame Adam in the North American


vicT.l
The question of money in the dowry is
the tender spot in all French marriages.
a poor girl who goes into a rich family of
the middle class of society has to climb 8
veritable Calvary before she can bc united
10 the man she loves. All the ciucunstan-
ces connected with the wedding presents.
with the furniture which her Eancc buys,
all the matters connected with her trous-
seau and with the contact which establish
es her share OF the property in the future,
are so many hIniiiating obstacles which
distress her TO the heart, and intiict upon
her pride wounds that will never cease to
bleed. To what length do these we'll
known defects and in;rigues extend,
And how many young girls go soTrowful-
ly to marriage with the feeling-the Ger
tainty-that they are being married for
their dowries. There is no class of French
society, from the peasant to the nobleman,
where the same spirit of covetousness and
the same scenes do not reappear proper
tionately, altered only by the different
systems for the settlements of the brides
personal pIoperiy-that is, her dowry.
Equal marriages or equal conditions of
marriage among the peasants, or the mid
die class, or the aristocracy, are called
marriages de eonvcnance; and they are
generally the happiest, not because they
bring the blessed joys OF choice and love
with them, but because, owing to the fact
that the prejudic'-s of French families in
the matter of dowry are not in that case
shocked or forced TO make concessions oI
sacrifices, the life of the Young people
flows on less disturbed by reproaches. less
tormented, and therefore happier.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-02-18
rhe Husband Dared Not Explain.

Edward ". Box Literary Budget
a well-known literary woman not long
ago sent poem tn one Of the prominent
New York magazines She had repeated
ly done so before, hut in each case she re
ceived back her effusions with the custo-
mary editorial declination blank. After
two or three weeks this particular poem
followed its predecessors. The poetess
| did not happen TO be at home when her
letter came, but her husband was, and as
| is his custom, he opened the letter upon
seeing the magazines imprint on the en-
velope His wife had told him how often
this same editor had returned her poems,
and finding the same editorial blank in
this letter which he had so frequently
seen, he became impatient, drew out a
| pencil and wTcte across the face of the
! blank the single but striking word RATS -
He replaced the blank and poem in the
I envelope, which abseut-Inindedly he sealed
/ the mucilage not having adhered when
sent from the magazine Office. The letter
was not opened by the pOetess until after
supper, when her husband had gone out
| for the evening. Mechanically she opened
| the envelope, and was about to tear up the
editors blank when the word written
across the face of it struck her eye. She
became furious. Not recognizing the
handwriting, and thinking some one in
the magazine Office had written it with ap-
plication to her poem, she sat down and
wrote the editor letter which must have
opened his eyes. a spirited corTespon-
dence took place, the editor disclaiming
( while the poetess accused. The inter
change of letters has ceased, understand,
but firm as ever is the conviction of the
rassionate poetess of the editors intent to
insult her poem. Only two persons rec
ognized the HANDWRITING, but neither was
in position to EXPLAIN matters.
Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-02-18

funerals are being organized in Baden, Ger
many. The parent society in Wiesbaden
was founded by clergymen, against the
bitter opposition of all gardeners in the
neighborhood, who denounced their action
in public meetings and in the newspapers.
The direct impulse to the movement was
given by the repeated experience that at
house funerals the flowers occupied SO
much space that inadequate room was left
for the mourners. At the funeral of
high official named Won Wurmb recently,
81, 800 worth of flowers so blocked the
halls and filled the space around the coffin
that half of the persons who wished to
attend the services were compelled to wait
in the rain outside. The new society pro-
poses to allow only relatives to send
flowers hereafter.
Carroll D. Wright's report on the cost
of production of pig iron and steel in this
country and in Europe shows that the
average cost of pig iron in the southern
districts of this country is S10.76 per ton,
in the northern districts 1884, and in
Great Britain s1022 The cost of steel
rails, according to his figures, is from
$24. so to S27.69 in the United States; from
$19.5S to S26.71 on the continent of
Europe, and from $tS.59 to $20.1S in
Great Britain. The labor cost of steel rails
he shows to be $11.59 in the United
States, $50 on the continent of Europe,
and $7.S1 in Great Britain. Colonel
Wright says that the present duty on
steel rails of S13 A ton is about S3.44 for
the benefit of labor, and $40 for the bene-
fit of wealthy manufacturers, $50 far as it
operates as protection at ALL"