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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-06-19

Enterprising.
Dime Museum Visitor Ito bearded LADY,
Il say, mum, wouldn't you like to turn a
good penny by carrying little side liner
Bearded Lady-Well, what is it,
Dime Museum Visitor-It's just this:
You'd be just as big curiosity in mus
tache and Burnsides. Shave your chin,
and take an agency to boom Lather's shaw
ing soap. Pm Lather. and / can fix ye out
good.-Puck.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-06-19
Exacting . Promise.


There n no sentiment whatever in the
soul OF Kits brother frankie, and he often
erievss his mother and angers his father
by the GOODNESS and insensibility with
which he repels his little sisters overtures
of affection.
"She keeps wanting to love me-" is his
only excuse when either Of his parents
tries to persuade him that he ought to let
Kit play with him.
"Why of course she loves you, poor little
thing" said his father the other day in re-
ply to this; 81 should think that would be
reason enough for you not to be SO hateful
to her."
SWELL" returned the youthful Adam
patronizingly, "well. maybe I'll let her
play with my shovel down at the beach
some time If she'll promise not to ask to
kiss me one single time from now till
school is out next June. boston Tran
script
The Maiden Fair and the Drummer.
She sat alone within the seat: the train was
She was little maid well fed and good to look
upon.
Unto the little maiden came a drummer, young
ana falr,
With ways that prentice poets call bearing
debOnair,
Because it's such q pretty word and rhymes
with fair and pair.
Unto the maid the drummer: "Niiss. is this
engaged, this seat?"
Unto the man the maiden then. in prairie &C.
cents sweet,
mo. this seat hain't, but ! be-" Then tho
drummer made retreat.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-06-19
A Coincidence

A Coincidence.
Mrs. Brown-My baby is the prettiest in
town.
Mrs. Black-Why, what coincidoncel
So is mine!-Harper's Bazaar.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-06-19
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and stnrt yn,i. Can work In spare time
or all the time. Big money for work.
ers. Failure unknown among them.
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box $50 IsOrtlnn nd, NJ oino
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Stallion B|ackmont,

Bv AImont Eagle, dam by Black Cloud, by Flying
Cloud. son of Vermont Black Hawk ed dam by Young
Harpinus son Of Harpinus by Bishops Hambletonian,
BY Imported Messenger.
Almont Eagle (record a.27 and full brother to
Piedmont a,17i4) by Almont by Alexanders Abdallah
by Rysdyks Hambletonian Almont Eagles dam by
Mambrino Chief ed dam by Gray Eagle (thoroueh-
b,rd.) Almont's dam also BY Mambrino Chief.
md dam BY Pilot Jr Consider this breeding and what
NAV reasonably be expected from it,
Backmont is black without white, years old Jun. 80
re- az hands weighs 1880 pounds in driving condition.
verv sure foa seter and stands on his merit
stock horse the byoef being ms eoHs We have six Of
them here and below give Of few Of COLTS
a, mares win foal by him. These not picked"
lot as some Of them have never seen but are seattle ed
breeders can examine them and decide for themselves
neither they wish obtain Blackmons services at the
yery low price Of $40 for each mare Zone halt to be pad
vhen marc proves with foal the other half when mare
produces live foal.)
NEWBURY, Carl f. Brock, Everett
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J A. Cotey; WEST FAlRLEE, j.. r. Southwortn,
BENZ Hurst; POST MILLS, Wm Stevens; EAST
KimnalI; PIERMONT, John Bckford; FAiRLEE,
Heath Bros E. B. Rugg, R A. Morris, A. W PANE,
A. H. Chamberiin.
Call and see what we have to shoV you. Send Tor
rd showing pedigree and terms and please yourselves
by pa,ronzng this horse any other you choose To-
j. w. DAVIS,
a. FAIRLEE, VT.
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An Opportunity.

Mrs. Black-Why, what coincidencel
So is mine!-Harper's Bazaar.
An Opportunity.
It was in Ludlow street yesterday that a
gamin about ten years old was heard call
ing:
Jimmy! Jimmy! Oh. there, Jimmyr
whats de racket" queried Jimmy from
third story window.
"Git yer bruther Sam, and git yer bruther
Bill, and git yer sister Mary, and git all de
kids yer can and hurry up!"
"What fur?'
"Cause a banana peddler out here has
bin token sick and fell down, and derc's
dc awfullest chance to git away wild good
thing we'll ever have in all dis wOrldr'-
New York Evening World.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1891-06-19
What It Was to Her.

What It Was to Her.
Maud-Why do you call that ring war
relic?
Ethel won it in my first engagement.
New York Evening Sun.
The Colfax chronicle., 1891-05-09
Australia.

The Legislative Assembly OF Queens
land has passed bill for the imposing
of a tax of three pence on the pound on
capital land values, irrespective of inn
provements. The upper House, how
ever, threw out the bill on the second
reading. This is the first start of the
single tax in Queensland, and good
one it is. The landlords of the upper
chamber may resist for little while,
but viii soon have to give way.
Sir Henry Parks for the Government
of New South Wales has introduced .
most sweeping elective reform bill,
which provides for all that the most
thorough Democrats have asked. 1t
gives female suffrage, provides for
single electoral district, sbolishes
property qualifications and cumulative
voting, does away with hustling nomi-
nations. vides stringent provisions
The Colfax chronicle., 1891-05-09
Is Tax On Ground Rent Paid BY the
Tenant2

have sometimes irreverently made
fun of those opponents of the single tax
who insist that it will be distributed
it has no advantage over any indirect
taxes. If it were in the least likely
that the chief opponents of the tax re-
form would believe this theory, we
would keep silence ON the subject, be-
cause jine-tenths of all the opposition
would be removed, and the single tax
would at least be adopted in several
States.
But landlords are not so simple
minded as to be deceived by any such
plan as this. They know very well
that they now charge all the rent for
land which they could possibly get, tax
or no tax. Not one of them can be per-
suaded that tax on ground-rents can
ever be shifted upon tenants. So we
must meet this idea with facts and
figures inorder to convince the tenant
majority of the Ricardian doctrine that
tax on ground-rents will always be
paid by landlords alone.
Suppose the ground-rent of the United
States to be 5000, 600, ,OO0 Suppose the
single tax, unlimited, to be adopted;
and this is the particular form of tax
which Mr.. Edward Atkinson and the
other advocates of this distribution the
ory are considering. Something over
$500, 600, 900 would then be collected
On Mr.. Atkinson's theory, the landlords
would add this to their rents, and the
tenants would add it to the prices of
goods. Very well; then rents would be
raised to S1,700, 900, 900. Instantly the
taxes would be raised to about 81, ,6OO,-
100000. Rents are then put up to sS,-
800, 900, 900. But the taxes are Just as
quickly put up to SO, 200, 100000 Rents
are again raised to $500, 600, 900. Taxes
instantly swallow up So, 400, O00, 900.
Rents are now raised to $4,000, 600, 900.
But taxes as swiftly follow, absorbing
sl2, 900, ,0O0,OO The all-powerful land
lords once more raise rent to 500, ,000,-
600, ZOO. But, as this is more than twice
as much as the whole productive power
of the whole United States, how are
the landlords going to get it? And if
they could get, how can they keep it?
There is no use in going any further,
although the figures might be carried
into infinite numbers. The idea that
landlords can add to their ground-rents
taxes on ground-rents, SO long as the
people are determined to take even
half the ground-rents in taxes, is trans
parently absurd. But the idea that
they can add any taxes at all to ground
rents, when they are already charging
all the rent which they can possibly OBJ
tain, is equally absurd, though not per-
haps so transparent. The American
landlord very properly charges now all
the rent for land which he can possibly
get. He can get no more, if compelled
to pay quarter or half of the whole
of his rent in taxation, for the plain
reason that he gets now all which he
possibly can, and no man can get more
than he can get.-ThomasG G. Shearman,
in the Standard.
The Colfax chronicle., 1891-05-09
SINGLE TAX DEPARTMENT..
AND THE SINGLE TAX.

wsiter Muir. President of the North Da-
kota state Farmers Alliance, Writing to
the New York Journal.
A goodly number of single tax men
were among the delegates to the recent
Farmers Convention at. Ocala, Fla,
where represented North Dakota A
resolution would have been presented
at the convention favoring the single
tax had we been sure that the members
were not in want of thorough informa-
ton on the subject
i am a single tax man, and recon-
mended it to our people in this State.
/ would not do this if held to the be-
lief that the single tax would increase
the burden of the farmer. That is a
myth that will be exploded among the
farmers in few more months of edu-
cational work.
Then they will see. as the Knights of
Labor have long seen, that a single tax
levied solely on the value of land, ire
spective of improvements. can not bur-
den worker, be he farmer, mechanic,
or professional man.
The adoption of the single tax by the
Colored Farmers Alliance is but an in
dication of what Is coming. When the
farmers of the country take up the
single tax there will be such an awaken
ing as this country has never seen. 1t
will be greater than the anti-slavery
movement because it will not be Sec
tional.
The man who is riding the storm of
rural discomfort is Henry George.
Once the single tax is 'platformed," /"
there will be a fighting issue that will
wipe out all past issues of race, section
and religion. The farmers of to-day
are not the farmers of twenty years
ago. This time they are going to the
root of our social troubles. They are
coming to see that all other reforms are
fruitless if monopoly and speculation
are permitted in land-the source of all
wealth. The eastern farmer needs the
single tax just as much as the western.
If it were not so the single tax would
be but local and temporary expedient
of relief. The farmers are a liberty
loving class, and the single tax, in levy
ing no tax on the products of labor, and
in giving to individualism the freest
scope, feeds their aspirations for free
dom
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against fraud, ar q compeis the closing
of liquor saloons on election day.
The bill also admits the military and
police to the franchise. This is the
most sweepingly radical measure that
has ever yet been proposed. bat it's like
ly that it will go through. The Govern
mcnt have not yet announced specially
their financial proposals, but they have
limited at sweeping reductions to the
tariff and the imposing of taxes on land
values and on property to supply the
loss on customs revenue. The single
tax men welcome the proposition but
will fight the property tax.
The single tax men throughout Aus
tralia seem to be in the highest spirits.
Although the great strikes have result
ed in much loss, they have done q great
deal to call the public attention to the
social problem. Tbe Government OF
New South Wales has appointed q
Royal Commission to take evidence and
report upon the cause of the conflict be-
tween labor and capital, and the best
means of preventing labor disputes,
Several single tax men have been
named on this commission, Mr.. Frank
Cotton being of the number. Rev.
DIR. Roseby, Of Sydney, Chairman OF
Congregational Union, the leading man
of the Congregational clergy of New
South Wales, has delivered an address
upon the relations of Christianity to the
social question which has attracted
much attention. He declares that it is
hopeless to attempt to elevate men SO
long as they are placed in conditions
where their integrity is impossible.
Hence the most urgent reform is the adj
justment of the land laws on the basis
of Justice to all
The Colfax chronicle., 1891-05-09
A Little-Known Russian Caste

The Listok of Revel reports that in
the neighborhood of Goldingen there
are seven villages whose inhabitants do
not belong to any of the classes of so
ciety in which the subjects of Russia
are divided. ''They are neither Counts,
nor Barons, nor Princes, nor mobiles, nor
merchants, nor townsmen, nor peas
ants" They style themselves Kurische
Koenige, and enjoy the privileges of
mobiles, although they live and work
for themselves like simple peasants.
Upto 1854 they paid no government taxes
and were exempt even from military
duties. In their local administration
they subject themselves only to the rul-
ing of their '.ober hauptmann, with
out whose permission not even the
simple ''hauptmann" may leave his
village. Historically no one knows
how those peasants have procured for
themselves the rights they enjoy. But
there is a tradition currenG among their
neighbors that for important services
they had rendered to the first Russian
conquerors of their province those
privileges were granted to them.
Among themselves they cherish the
tradition that they are the descendants
of the ancient kings of Kurland. They
keep in their church flag with the
picture of king of Kurland on horse
back, which they regard as their family
heirloom and their escutcheon. The
some image is cast even on the old bells
of their church.-Chicago News.
The Colfax chronicle., 1891-05-09
THE ILLS THAT NEVER CAME.


When misfortune comes to you, then. time
enough to bear It:
And when danger is at hand then time enough
to dareit;
Give honest tears to honest griefs-but ali /
think with shame
OF all the anxious hours I've spent for Ills that
never came.
God giyeth His beloved Sleep" but have
walked to watch
Some dim. uncertain sorrow lift, with slow, sad
hand, my latch
Even while sorrow passed my door, watched
and feared the same
And wept away the midnight hours for ills that
never came.
Oh, weary hours. Oh, wasted hours, that might
have been SO bright!
Had but trusted Gods great love, before my
own weak light
had been richer by some years; 1 had not
known the shame
OF weeping like q coward soul, for ills that
never came.
No more I'll doubt. and fear, and watch. but
sit in calm content;
And take with loving trusting heart, each bless
ing that is sent.
To-day is full Of peace and joy-I will not weak
ly sigh
Der trials that may never come, or if they
come, pass by.
oh, sinful watch! Oh. bootless care! Oh, life SO
sadly spent!
Waging fruitless warfare to which was not
sent,
Meeting in my own strength foe without a
form or name,
And hurt and beaten in fight with ills that
never came.
God sent me many sunny hour and many a
dreamless sleep;
He sent me many q simple joy was afraid to
keep.
constant blame,
For trials 1t had put far OF, and ills that never
came.
Lille E Barr, In Housekeeper.
The Colfax chronicle., 1891-05-09
The Soap
that
Cleans
Most
is Ienox.
Syrup

G. Gloger, Druggist, Watertown,
Wis. This is the opinion of a man
who keeps drug store, sells all
medicines, comes in direct contact
with the patients and their families,
and knows better than anyone else
how remedies sell, and what true
merit they have. He hears of all
the failures and successes, and can
therefore Judge: "I know of no
medicine for Coughs, Sore Throat,
or Hoarseness that had done such eff
fective work in my
Coughs family as Boschee's
eo-.r rhro.+ German Syrup. Last
winter a lady called
Hoarseness, at my store, who was
suffering from very
severe cold. She could hardly talk,
and I told her about German Syrup
and that few doses would give re-
lief; but she had no confidence in
patent medicines. told her to take
q bottle, and if the results were not
satisfactory I would make no charge
for it. A few days after she called
and paid for it, saying that She
wouldnever be without it in future as
q few doses had given her relief" O
The Colfax chronicle., 1891-05-09

Mr.. Stanley is very interesting in
priyate conversation as well as in pub
lie lectures, and is quick to answer any
question in the least with his
African explorations. He has high
opinion Of the integrity of the natives,
and says they do not know how to lie
He tells of q missionary who contracted
with the natives to build him house
for certain number OF brass rods
When the house was finished the mis-
sionary tried to get the natives to take
less than they had bargained for, and he
told the missionary that he must pay
Just what he had agreed upon. This he
did, reluctantly, but the natives had
learned to distrust him, and he was
obliged to leave the country.-Minneap-
oils Tribune.
The Colfax chronicle., 1891-05-09
The Single Tax in Minneapolis. MINI


c. j. Buell., of Minneapolis, writing
to the Standard, says: The single tax
is moving right along here. The fact
that Mayor p. B. Winston has joined
our league has caused considerable
comment in the newspapers Very
many of our leading business men here
are single takers; while as to the
masses of the people, have very little
doubt that they would give large ma
jority for the single tax, if the matter
could be presented to them on its mer-
its. In the meantime we are trying to
so amend the constitution that the peo-
pie of any country or city, or of the
State at large, can vote upon the mat
ter. There are a good many single tax
ers in the Legislature. The entire
Democratic contingent from this coun-
ty--nineteen in number-with one pos
sible exception, will favor our bill, and
one of the two Republicans will also
favor us. Mayor Stivers, of Brainard,
who is in the House; also John Sheets,
of Todd County, Mr.. Bull of Wright
County, and John A. Keyes, of Winony-
are single takers. 1t was Keyes who
put through the Australian ballot Law
two years ago, and he is now at work
on bill to apply the reform to the en-
tire State. ] don't know how many
other single takers there may be in the
House, but our bill is so framed that
any opposition to it has got to deny the
Democratic principle of local self-gov-
ernment. We have great hopes of be-
ing able to carry the measure through.
The Colfax chronicle., 1891-05-09
An Amusing Economist.

The Peoria Qll.) Journal prints, with
editorial commendation, communities
ton from Eli c. Lisk. Mr.. Lisk de-
clares that the farmer now pays ninety
two per cent of the taxes of this coun-
try. One reason for this is, that ''all
/ his property lies open to the assessor
and it all goes on the assessors books, T"
whereas 1.-The rest of the community,
manufacturers and merchants excepted,
have their wealth laid aside in their
drawers and safes and can not be seen
by the assessor, but he has to depend
on their word alone for the correctness
of their listed property" Mr.. Lislk is a
little foggy in his English, but his
meaning is quite clear, and he sensibly
declares that this mode of assessment
is all wrong" What do our readers
suppose is the remedy Mr.. Lisk pro
poses? It is to exempt land entirely
from taxation and assess improvements
and personal property alone. OF course
he suggests new and drastic methods
for ascertaining the amount of bonds
and mortgages, ETC., held by each indi-
vidual, and equally, of course, fails to
remember that those concerned have q
perfect right to remove themselves and
their possessions out of any State adopt.
ing such law. Having started out by
showing that personal property can moi
be equitably taxed, he insists that il
alone shall be taxed. The Peoria Jour.
nal sapiently remarks that ''it will be
observed that the writer does moi
espouse the theories espoused by Henry
George, but, on the contrary, takes just
the opposite view" Yes, this will be
observed.
The Colfax chronicle., 1891-05-09

A firm in New York City imports
large quantities of bort II did not
know until few weeks ago.. said an
official of the custom house, s'what bort
is Sort is the small fragments removed
from diamonds in cutting. When too
small for jewelry it is used for powder.
The sparkling powder is often sprin'.led
on The heads of society bellies, and their
hair sends forth sparks as from thou
sand miniature diamonds. Edison uses
a gr, ,at deal of bort IN The manufacture
Of monographs, ".-Chicago Maj.
The Colfax chronicle., 1891-05-09
Prepare
for Spring

Now IL the time to attend TO your personal condf-
non In preparation the change TO spring season.
II you have not "wintered WE'LL" II you are tired
out from overwork. II your blood has become im-
pure from close confinement In badly ventiinteo
on1ces or shops, you should lake Hoods sarsapa'
rlla At once Il will purify and vtalze your biood
and give your whole system tone and strength
NIB. Be sure TO get
The Colfax chronicle., 1891-05-09

The single tax idea is steadily com.
mending itself to earnest thinking men.
1t is q rank injustice that man should
hold property vacant, with nominal
taxes, and gain the increment of value
produced by the improvements made by
his neighbors, who pay taxes upon
those improvements. The bed rock OF
taxation is this: no tax on the products
Of labor. This principle is world &wide.
1t applies with equal force to the town,
the State, the Nation, the world. BY
its adoption labor would receive .
healthy stimulus, and would create
wealth A. never before. Throughout
the world the burdens Of taxation have
fallen upon labor, and in all forms OF
indirect taxation the burden falls with
almost equal weight upon all, regard
less of their circumstances But place
this burden upon land values only and
at once the basis of taxation becomes
absolutely equitable, land speculation
becomes improbable, and the induce
ments to labor to place improvements
upon the land and to advance to its
more general ownership are vastly null
tiplied. Rapids Building and
Realty.
The Colfax chronicle., 1891-05-09

WHEN land increases in value it doea
not mean that its owner has added to
the general wealth. The owner may
never have seen the land or done aught
to improve it He may, and often does,
live in q distant city or in anothes
country. .-sacial Problems.
The Colfax chronicle., 1891-05-09
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