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The advocate., 1891-07-22

not an Alliance meeting. It was not
called by the officers Of the Alliance.
It was a movement conceived and
executed by mossback Democrats
from first to last, and was designed
to discourage and head off the PeO-
plss party in Texas. The great
Fort Worth meeting was composed
of THIRTY SEVEN Democratic
politicians all told, and this in the
great Democratic state of Texas!
The Southern Mercury has this to
say of the gang:
FORT WORTH scAB ALLlANCE(?) MEETING.
They met, they did!
The HOgg Dixon Scab gang!
Thirty seven all told!
McGaughey aud Jim Moody were there.
Ben Rogers and the rest Of the manifesto gang.
They resOluted extensively.
The air around the chamber Of commerce Is
yet foul with The OdOr Of their denunciatiOns.
Father Kendrick steered the ship.
Lamb was pitched overheard headlOng.
Hall had a skinning performance in which he
furnished the hide and our Harry handled the
Scalpel.
The Gazette, the sewer for all Scab filth, was
In It's glory.
It's columns teemed with political pus, manu-
factured for the occasion.
Only two OF the honorable (?) speakers from a
distance were present.
Hall, the NANCY Scab from Missouri, aud Nc
AliSter, the tool of Wall street,
The personnel OF the ga alg is particularly sug-
geStive
All farmerS(?), and hOnOrable(?) gentlemen.
What a tremendous split! What a
fearful eruption! Next.
The advocate., 1891-07-22
EROM THE TORCH OF LIBERTY.

How many readers Of the Torch Of Liberty
take the Topeka ADVOCATE? II you are not
subscriber TO 1t, we advise you TO become so at
once. Its worth and value increase with age,
and each recurring week we find lt more difficult
to get along without 1t. This is no advertise
ment, but what We regard a just tribute TO It's
editor, DIR. s. McLallln, whose untlring energy to
give the reformers Of Kansas a number one state
paper, and an undiSputed authority on all queS-
tions that concern the people Of Kansas, 10 rap.
Idly forcing THE ADvOCATE.to the front. Send
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Thanks for the compliment. The
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AS a fair specimen of reliability of
Republican papers we cite the story
now going the rounds that The AD-
voCATE favors fusion with the Demo
cratic party. One Of the number
started the silly tale, and it will never
stop until every little seven by nine
sheet in the state has published it
and added its wise comment. It is
not necessary for us to say to our
readers that THE ADVOCATE has never
published a line or syllable upon
the subject except in opposition to
fusion; and yet the Kiowa County
Signal and others of its ilk IN pub
fishing the tale see in it the "cloven
foot" and every imaginable mons
frosty. If these wiseacres would
read and think more and write less
they would get credit for more sense
and more honesty than they are like
ly to so long as they continue to inn
pose their silly twaddle upon the
public.
The advocate., 1891-07-22
THE REPORTS OF THE IMPEACHMENT
TRIAL

We are informed at the Office Of the
secretary Of state that the state Sen
ate, which so proudly acquitted the
Hon. Theodosius Botkin, gave direc-
tions that the reports Of the impeach-
ment trial should be delivered to citi-
zens of the state only on the order of
state Senators. 1t will now be in
order for members of that august
body and their spologists to explain
by what authority they assume to
control the distribution of public
documents printed at the expense Of
the state. This is an unprecedented
assumption, and one which will add
not a little to the unsavory character
of that unscrupulous gang. tits evi-
IDENTIFY the purpose to prevent these
records from reaching the people SO
far as it may be able TO do 30. The
act only adds another nail to the po-
litical coffin OF the Republican party.
The advocate., 1891-07-22

he disapproves, and in his endeavor
to divide the order by opposition to
those principles. His enthusiasm for
the Democracy is only referred to as
showing the motive of his action to
be the control of the order in the in
terest of that party, He can only
hope to do this by sntsgonizlng ALI
snce principles.
The Stars entire editorial is most
humiliating exhibition of ignorance,
both in respect to fact and theory.
The advocate., 1891-07-22
IGNORANCE IS INSPIRATION.

Ignorance must command q pre-
MUM in the Office of the Kansas City
Star. The less its editorial writer's
know of their subject the better able
they are to write about it. There are
really advantages in such editorial
methods. If a writer knows moth
ing about his subject he is under
no necessity of observing facts, and
with q lively imagination really en-
tertaining story can be made without
reference to facts. We are forcibly
reminded of the truth of this state
ment from the reading of the Star'S
editorial on "The Fight on President
Hail." the opening sentence of which
exhibits the writer's knowledge of
his subject. He says:
Editor Macune, Of the Topeka Economist, con-
tlrues to pour hot shot into President Hall, of
the Missouri State Alliance, who Is accused OF
treachery to the Peoples party and Of playing
into the hands Of the Democracy.
That the above is not q slip Of the
Faber is evident from the fact that
the writer proceeds to show that this
opposition all comes from Kansas and
is prompted by Halls opposition to
the Peoples party. One would
therefore infer thai the writer is a
close reader of the Economist.
When was the Economist moved to
Topeka, and when did editor Ma
cune become an ardent advocate Of
the Peoples party2 We have been a
reader of the Economist since it's first
establishment; and, while it has been
a first-class educator upon economic
questions, we have failed to observe
its enthusiasm for the Peoples party.
We do not expect it or its editors to
make q specially OF the interests OF
this party, at least prior to the meet
ing Of February %, 1892, and the op-
position to y. S. Hall is not because
of his antagonism to the new party.
No one questions his right in this
matter. President Halls inconsist-
ency and his absolute dishonesty con-
sist In bis remaining member Of an
Organization the lr,nrii lee o. which
The advocate., 1891-07-22

The statement is so persistently
and repeatedly made that all the
Kansas Alliance lecturers except s.
M. Scott are opposed to the sub
treasury plan, that we are led to ask
those who seem to be so well posted
upon the subject to give US the
names Of some Of these opponents of
this important measure. We viii
venture the prediction that there is
not a state, county or sub-Allisnce
lecturer in Kansas that is opposing
the sub-treasury. If there is one
trot him out till we see what he looks
like. What do our enemies expect
to gain by publishing such tom
foolery.
The advocate., 1891-07-22
THE GREAT FORT WORTH
TREASURY FlZZLE.

TREASUR1 FIAZLIE.
The great organized split in the
Texas Alliance under the auspices of
U. S. Hall of Missouri, which has
been herslded from one end of the
earth to the other through the Asso-
ciated Press dispatches and the col
umns of the old party press as the
beginning of the end-the initial
struggle in the rapidly approaching
dissolution of the organization, turns
out to have been the most gigantic
fizzle on record. The meeting was
The advocate., 1891-07-22
SHAWNEE COUNTY POLTTTCS.

upon the members OF the Peoples
party of Shawnee county which it is
hoped will be Conscientiously OBJ
served. This county has enjoyed the
proud (0 distinction Of being the
banner Republican county of the
state. That party has exercised apo
litical power here that has been abso-
lutely dictstorial. 1t has been re-
garded as beyond question. Its policy
has been controlled, and its candidates
have been named by an unscrupulous
ring which has sought it's own pre-
ferment as a condition even to party
triumph. In this it has until recently
been eminently successful. The
masses of the people, both of country
and city, have become tired of this
ring rule, and they are ready to cut
loose whenever they can find suita-
BILE place to go. The opportunity of
success is presented to the Peoples
party in the approaching campaign,
and the question remains to be solved
whether this opportunity will be use
lessly thrown away. There is but
one thing essential to this success,
and that one thing is the selection of
competent men for the several Offices
to be filed men who are above re-
proach, and who, il elected, will faith
fully and efficiently perform their
several duties. The convention there
fore has a most important duty to
perform. Personal ambitions and
aspirations and political schemers
should be ignored. No man should re-
ceive a nomination simply because he
wants it or may have some wire work
ing friend who may want him to have
it. Extreme solicitude on the part of q
candidate or his friends should, in
fact, lead to suspicion and doubt as to
fitness for official trust, and honesty
of purpose in it's seeking. In short,
the convention should select the can
didates rather than the candidates
impose themelves upon the conven-
tion. No true member of the party will
place his personal preferment above
the good of this cause; nor will he
wish to impose himself upon the party
to it's detriment; and in this every
true man will be willing to submit to
the Judgment of the convention rather
than his own.
Let good men be chosen for every
position, regardless of fear or favor,
and the result cannot be doubtful to
any careful observer of current
events. THE ADVOCATE has no candi-
dates and no favorites for. any posi-
tion. All we desire is that thoroughly
competent candidates will be selected
who will be satisfactory to the people,
and they will receive our most hearty
and enthusiastic support. Let the
peoples WiH be done.
The advocate., 1891-07-22

Write to this Office and learn how 10
get . course at college free Of charge.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-29
immigration for 1890.

During the past year 914 steamships
brought to this port from Europe 81, 1S1
cabin passengers and 371 ,598 steeragc
passengers. This, with the exception Of
the year 1883, is the largest number Of
immigrants landing at the port of New
York.
The steamships that arrived from Euro
pean ports are; 43 from the Baltic, 237
from Hamburg and Bremen, so from the
Mediterranean, 305 from Liverpool and
Queenstown, 28 from London, 81 from
Glasgow and Moville, so from Rottcr-
dam and Amsterdam, So from Antwerp,
and 55 from Havre and Bordeaux.
In the past year 991 passenger steam.
ships arrived in this port and brought
here 96, 6S6 cabin passengers and 315, ,227
steerage passengers.
The immigration during 1890 was
principally from Eastern Europe, and
when the report of the Commissioner of
immigration is published it will show
that there has been an immense increase
OF immigrants from Russia, Austria and
Italy, nearly all of whom went into the
mining districts.
The immigrants from British ports To-
Gated themselves in New England, Illi-
nois and San Francisco, and it was re-
markable feature in the immigration of
those people that fewer than ever before
settled in the State of New York. -
New York News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-29
The National Jewel Box.

A jeweler says, 81 was once asked by
a lady if there were many precious stones
found in the United States. She meant
minerals. She was of the same opinion
of many others in the country, that
everything precious in that line was
found only in the Old World There is,
l believe, little mining here for precious
gems, but it is not because we do not
have them. Rock crystal, which admits
of such Il high polish, and which is much
used in jewelry now, is found in large
quantities in North Carolina, Virginia,
Georgia and Arkansas. There is jet
in Colorado that is equal to any ever
saw, and believe there is some in Texas.
In Maine there is a mountain called
Mount Mica,Sout of which tourmalines
to the value of hundred thousand dol
lars a year are taken. Moonstone is
found in Virginia, and the soil of New
Mexico is enriched with sappA:res, rubies
and garnets. l wish l could come back
to the United States one hundred years
from now. We think this is a glorious
country now. In another century the
cities of this country will surpass the de.
scriptions we have of the New Jerusalem,
and millionaires will be as common as
poor relations. You and arc living too
soon, believe me. y Boston Transcript
The trials of daily life are lions which ma,
be slain and turned into bee hives
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-29
Ants as Surgeons.

Ants are terrible fighters. They havo
very powerful jaws, considering the size
of their bodies, and therefore their
method of fighting is by biting, says the
New York Examiner.
They will bite one another and hold
on with a wonderful grip of the jaws,
even after their legs have been bitten off
by other ants. Sometimes six or eight
ants will be clinging with a death grip
to one another, making a peculiar spec
tacle, some with leg gone and some
with half the body gone. One singular
fact is that the grip of the ants jaw is
retained even after the body has been
bitten off and nothing but the head re-
mains.
This knowledge is possessed by GER
tain tribe of Indians in Brazil, who put
the ants to very peculiar use. When
an Indian gets cash cut in his hand,
instead of having his hand sewed to-
gether, as physicians do in this country,
he procures five or six lnrge black ants,
and holding their heads near the cash
they bring their jaws together in biting
the flesh, and thus pull the two sides Of
the cash together.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-29
THE MoaUI SNAKE DANCE.
Ghost Dan cling is Sedateness Itself
in Comparison with It..

Benjamin Brink, Moqui, Ariz., ;" was
written on the register at the Palmer
House yesterday by robust-looklng
man of 60, somewhat stoop-shouldered.
"From what have heard of the ghost
dance,'" said Mr.. Brink, ~ cannot see
why it should stir up such row. The
snake dance ] believe, is ten times
more exciting, ano the Zuni, Navajo and
Moqui Indians on the reservation near
my home work themselves into perfect
frenzy during its progress, but never
think of molesting the whites
''lt is part of their religion, though,
and if any attempt were made to stop it
believe there would be bloodshed. The
dance takes place once in two years.
The last one was celebrated in July.
Preparations were made several weeks
before it came off, and was as anxious
to be a spectator rs they were. A
stranger or wilder ceremony never saw.
l hope shall never see it again. The
dance took place just before sundown,
and | got upon a high ledge where l
could get a good view. The space
allowed for the dance was not large, and
was enclosed. Fifteen fine looking In
dians began to walk rather slowly at first
around huge stone in the centre of the
enclosure. They were almost naked,
and every part of their bodies, even to
their feet, was smeared with a red and
green paint. Each man had fox's
each hand carried rattle made of a
gourd. Hoofs of deer were tied around
their ankles and wrists, and at each step
and movement of the arm noise enough
was made to wake the dead
The snakes to be used in the dance
had been caught several days before the
fete, and just before the dance had been
placed in cluster of trees beneath where
stood. After the men had yelled till
| they were hoarse, and had made them
selves tired with stamping on the ground,
/ fifty more painted redskins came rushing
down hill filed into the enclosure, and
then began such tumult as | never
| want to hear again. At a gwen signal
/ the sixty-tive now thoroughly frantic
men made rush for the grove where
! the snakes were hidden. Each man came
rushing back with a wriggling and
/ squrming snake, its neck between his
teeth so it could not bite him, re-entered
the ring, and began slow walk around
the center stone. The reptiles hissed
and dashed their tails aid bodies around
thenecks of the apparently mad red
men. Several of them were bitten by
the snakes, which were the most veno-
nous in the country. 1t is wonder all
of the performers were not bitten. Two
of them died in day or two after the
dance, the herbs applied not being suf-
ficient to draw out the poison.
"After the ceremony each man snatched
his snake from his mouth, ran down into
the valley below, and there the reptiles
were set free. The indians were thor
oughly exhausted after their violent
exercise and could scarcely crawl back
up the hill From what could learn
such ceremonies as the snake dance ,
have been held for centuries. y Chicago
Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-29
/" Nell Came Singing

The train was running at high rate
of speed across the country, with every
thing apparently going well, when the
speed suddenly slackened and presently
we came to dead stop. There had
been an accident by which the engineer
had been terribly hurt, and he was
brought back to the baggage car and one
of the train men sent forward.
''How bad is it, Jim2" asked the con-
ductor, as we were trying to do what we
could for the poor fellow.
$50 bad that shan't pull through,
Tom"
Don't say that! You'll be home in
twenty minutes, and the doctor won't
find it so bad.n
At the end of the time specified we
stopped at small country station, and
as the wheels ceased to roll the suffering
man looked up at the conductor and
said:
"Nell will be coming, Tom.n
"Yes "
"Male it as light as you can. Poor
Ncll"
And as we were lifting the burned and
bleeding body out of the side door of
the car bit of woman wearing the
whitest of aprons and the cutest of straw
hats, came up the platform, singing
"Annie Laurie" She had some flowers
in her hand, culled from the front door
yard for her Jim, aud she had almost
passed us on her way to the engine when
she caught sight OF our burden, cried
out in her fear and agony, and fell as
one dead.
Poor Nell, she came singing" f."
moanea the engineer.
"Poor Nell" whispered every one
gathered about, and for long hours as we
sped forward each signal whistle from
the hand of the man who had looked
upon that picture of woe and misery
seemed to shrek out the words, "Poor
poor Nell i''- New York Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-29
Tigers Braver Than Lions.

One time, in order to test the cour-
age of Bengal tiger and lion, said
well-known Snowman, we placed n
shooting cracker in the respective cages
aud fired the fuses. AS soon as the fuses
began to burn they attracted the atten-
tion of both animals, but in Il widely
different manner, The lion drew into
corner and watched the proceedings
with dis'rustful and uneasy eye. The
tiger, on the contrary, advanced to the
burning fuse with a firm step and un-
flinching gaze. On reaching the cracker
he took his paw and began to roll it over
the floor, and when it exploded beneath
his very nose he did not finch, but con-
tinued his examination until perfectly
satisfied. The lion betrayed great fear
when he heard the report of the explosion,
and for quite time could not be coaxed
out of his den.- Boston Transcript.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-29
A Buried Georgia Village.

In his historical collections of Georgia,
White mentions the unearthing in 1882,
by party of gold miners, of buried
village of log cabins, on Dukes creek,
near Mount Yonah. These cabins were
about thirty in number, made of hewn
logs, and in one was found willow
basket, and in Others earthen vessels.
These houses were ten feet beneath the
surface of the ground, and the large
oaks growing upon them, and other evi-
dences, showed that several centuries
had elapsed since they were erected. We
asked Captain Nichols about this dis
covery, and he says that it is true, and he
has talked with old men who saw the
cabins unearthed. His theory of the
history of this buried town is very
plausible, and we believe the correct
one. The captain says there is a story
that DeSoto and his soldiers, in their
march to the Mississippi, after reaching
the headwaters of the Savannah river,
struck across into this valley. This Sec
tion then was occupied by two very
fierce and warlike tribes of Indians, in
conflict with each other, but when they
heard of the white strangers marching
into their country united their armies to
resist the invasion. They succeeded in
checking DeSoto, who was finally driven
upon Yonah, where he fortified himself,
and it was his soldiers who built these
cabins as protection against the win
ter. Captain Nichols says he has himself
seen near the cabins, on this side of the
mountain, ba-ricade formed of loose
stones, and this is said to have been the
work of the adventurous Spaniard anu
his men. To strengthen this theory, the
opal-eyed death-head was found near
here, and it is too fine trinket to have
been the handiwork of Indians. At
lanta Constitution.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-29

pire were in immediate prospect, and so
he subjected himself to an operation in
England. 1t was only simple matter
OF crushing the stone. Besides the spe-
cialist, Sir Henry Thompson, Sir W.
Gull was in attendance, and after the
operation gave the Emperor every evening
dose of chloral. The Emperor did not
bear the drug well, and finally, on the
evening of January 8, refused to take
more. He was persuaded, however, by
the Empress to reconsider his refusal.
At . o'clock he fell asleep He awoke
first for a few minutes the next morning
at 10, and then died, poisoned, as Heris-
son says, by the opiate that was too
strong for his weak condition. The
facts of the case were not generally
known. The trusted councillor of the
Emperor, Count La Chapelle, however,
knew of the true state of affairs at once,
as he was the unwilling listener to the
resulting quarrel of the two English doc
tors at the Emperor's bier.-LSt. Louis
Star Sayings.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-29
A Judicial Irish Bull.

The following anecdote of a minor
light of the Irish bench, though not
precisely "bull' pure and simple, be-
longs more or less to that fertile family.
A wife had suffered untold cruelties at
the hands of barbarbous husband, and
in self-defensc she "took the law of
him." but just before the trial she re-
Tented, and told the Judge she wished to
leave the punishment and the case to
God.
II regret, my good woman" replied
the great official that we cannot do
that; the case is far too important. -
London World.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-29
SUNRISE.

The colors of the morning spread,
Der all the eastern sky,
Pale-green and gold and tea-rose red,
And purple of porphyry.
The wet grass g'istens like silver thread,
And the still stars fade and die.
The day begins her wistful chase
For the fleeing night to seek,
And the oroe sings his song of grace,
But my heart is weary and weak;
For the thought of one absent face,
And u longing l cannot speak.
-TDetroit Free Press.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-29
Chloral Killed Napoleon III.

Count Herisson, in the last volume of
his Memories" gives this new account
of the fatal illness of Napoleon III. and
its termination. The Emperor was suf-
fering, as is known, from stone in the
bladder. In January, 1878, his return
to France and the restoration of the En-