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An Experience With a Steer.

He was sent There lives a steer, inn
meuse in his build, frightful in his appear
ance, ugly in disposition and hoarse in
voice, and there they had erected pole
which revolyed in circle in front of a
roller to which every day the steer was har-
messed, and compelled to 20 round and round
until some OF the savageness was extracted
from his temper. "Bill" was allotted the
work of driving this wicked steer. For
awhile it seemed easy enough, and "Bill"
began to think be had struck "snap" at
last His thoughts wandered away to the
"Point" in Pittsburg, and he grew drowsy
in contemplating the fun he would have
there after awhile.
"Whtop!" and 'Bill" was suddenly
aroused by kick that sent him flying back
ward over the pole. Before he could gather
himself up the steer had again come around
the circumference of the circle, and was
now, with head low, aiming for him with a
lunge. The ring in the bovine's nose had
been pulling hard enough to make hin,
bleed, and he was growing savage. with the
smell OF blood. "Bill" was kept busy for
the next hour, and after two or three dsvs
OF such exercise he begged to be allowed to
60 back to hoeing. He is quite farmer
now.
But the majority Of the prisoners sent to
the fields are fair sweaters, working COM
paratively we'll under the lash-but few Of
them work without i'll mean. of course,
the rhetorical lash.
Two Institutions Compared.
1.-Two years imprisonment in solitary con-
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IT Is UPHILL WORK.
American Merchants Have q Great
Deal to Contend With Ia
GETTING SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE.
The Injustice of Freight Rates and Other
Determinations.
WAR NEWS AND PRICES In CHILE
,connrsroxDrscr OF THE prsrArcH. ]

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DfbPATCH-
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, April 9-Though
President Balmaceda has only about four
months more to serve, his most sanguine
friends hardly thiak he will live to see his
successor inaugurated. Should he succeed
in. completely defeating his foes, which is
not likely, he would surely fall by the hand
OF some revengeful assassin; and in the
event of victory by the opposition, his fate
is sealed. It is said that even the officers Of
the Chilesn navy, many of whom the Presi-
dent formerly loaded with favors, have
signed solemn compact never to lay down
their arms till they have hanged Bslmaceda
in the Plaza Mayor Of Santiago.
The President has not once shown his face
outside the Moneda during the last three
months; but, having sent his family out of
the country, lives in strictest retirement,
eating and sleeping in the presence of an
armed guard. As the close confinement is
telling upon his health, be is about to re-
move to the Quinta Normal--s bea uhful
public garden near the outskirts Of the capi-
tai. One would think that an uDwise plan
for his personal security; but no place is
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CHAPTER XIV

1t was shameful, base, despicable, aud she
knew it. A moment ago she had longed to
tear herself away, to silence him, to stop her
ears, anything not to hear those words that
cut like whips and stung like scorpions.
And now again she was listening for the
next, eagerly, breathlessly drunk with their
sounds and reveling almost i'm the unreality
of the happiness they brought More and
more she despised herself as the intervals be-
tween one pang of suffering and the next
grew longer and the illusion deeper and more
like reality.
Alter all, il was he. and no other. 1t was
the man she loved who was pouring out his
own love into her ears and smoothing her
hair and pressing the hand he held. Had
he not said it once, and more than once?
What matter where, what matter how, pro-
vided that he loved? She had received the
fulfillment of her wish. He loved her now.
Under another name, in vision, with an
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THE wHEELBARRow GANG
produce, but of course, we do not. All we
raise goes into the mouths of our inmates.
Saves Lots of MarEetfne


raise goes into the mouths of our inmates.
Saves Lots of Marketing.
but in addition to raising stuff cheaper
than other farmers do, we have still the
other advantage Of having the stuff right
here on our ground. To feed nearly 300 per
sons would require tremendous amount Of
marketing if we had to buy the food. Just
think of what we are saving each year. Esti-
mating our forthcyming crop of 5000
bushels of potatoes at 80 cents per bushel-
yes, know they are worth from 81 S5 to
81 45 per bushel now, but let's put it at a
low hgure-we will save buying s., 500
worth of potatoes. Our 500 bushels of beans
at % per bushel. will be worth 81 1,000. The
15, 600 heads of cabbage which We are eoing
to have, at cents head, will be the equiva-
lent of $3.50. The winter onions we are going
to put in-258 bushels-will be worth 81 25
per bushel.
besides all these we are growing the
$1,000 scallion onions and many hundreds
of beets and carrots, which you may estimate
for yourself at lower than market prices.
We raise enough of all of them to supply
the prison all the year around. The vege-
tables have mentioned are all necessary Tor
the soups and cooking Of q penal institution
like this. We grow none of the fancier
grades of garden stuff like asparagus, peas,
etc.
Good Thing for the Inmates.
"Here is another blessing that comes to the
prisoner from raising our own stuf-we are
able to set aside one plot OF ground for the
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A GANG IN THE FIELDS.

hnement," is the substance OF sentence
often heard. .echoing through the courtrooms.
The man whom it is imposed upon goes to
the State penitentiary in Allegheny. When
his term is expired he comes out into the
world again pale and emaciated. The cough
he has tells of the disease he found lurking
between those dark dungeon bastions. Sta
tistics will prove that larger percentage of
the deaths in the Western Penitentiary are
from pulmonary consum ption, the natural
outcome of close confinement.
A pitch-fork Is put in his hand, and he is
told to use it. He laughs at the very idea-
be who neveT worked whole week at any,
thing in town, except, perhaps, the light
fingered accomplishment of toying with
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happens that he has to pay for things he has
never seen. mouths before their arrival. -
The Return Cargo to Europe.

never seen. mouths before their arrival -
The Return Cargo to Europe.
Another inducen,ent TO European trade is
the advantage to the shipper OF being sure
OF return cargo; while with the United
States at the present status OF commercial re-
iations, the voyage one way is pretty sure-to
be dead loss Another unfavorable cir
cumstanee is that the heavier merchants in
Chile are ALMOST universally Europeans, and
they naturally look for European goods,
whereas. were Yankees engaged in business
here, they would use home articles whenever
practicable. The ubiquitous commercial
traveller, with his grIp-sack, firtatious pro-
pensities and chrome smile. is not abroad in
South America as at the North; neither is
advertising carried to any. such extent.
Many leading United States firms issue no.
tiees and price-lists especially for the South
American trade, generally printed in the
two languages; but by tar the better plan
would be to advertise as extensively aud at
tractively in the local papers of these cities
where their wares are little known, as at
home where the public ls familiar with
them.
But in spite of ali drawbacks. Chile re- \
ceived IRON the United States last year
about 81, $50, 237 worth of goods. The last
official statement saw gave the total an
nual imports as apprcximatIhg BOY, 34l ,35l
in value; and the exports $50, ,519. S27-the
latter figures, OF course, including guano,
salt-peter and precious metals.
The principal articles received from the
United States are agricultural implements,
machinery, cotton goods, lumber and para
fine. Our country now does good business
with Chile in the hardware line, though |
formerly England monopolized it. The |
screws nsed in Chill yet come from Great |
Britain, but all the nails from the United |
States. Wall paper is another item OF con-
siderable export. The cheaper grades come !
from Germany. also common printing paper |
and coarse stationery; but everything in the |
"art" line OF wall papers, besides the novel; |
ties and superior grades of stationary, are |
received from the United States.
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BY F. MARION CRAWFORD,
Auhor audus" Singer" and
M0ny Stories
Standard Literature.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH

yet if be had remembered, he would have
seen where he was in the long time that had
passed since his awakening.
Ibid you ever-in your long travels
hear the name Unorna?" she asked, with
smile and little hesitation.
''Unorna? No. I cannot remember. Il
is Bohemian word-it means she of Feb
ruary.' 1t has pretty sound-half famil-
lar to me. L wonder where have heard
it."
"Call me Unorna, then. 1t will remind
US that you found me in February"
~ y ~ .
After carefully locking and boiling the
door Of the sacristy, Sister Paul turned to
Beatrice. She had set down her lamp upon
the broad, polished shelf, which ran all
round the place, forming the top of con-
tinuous series of cupboards, as IN most sac
risties, used for the vestments of the church.
At the back Of these, high presses rose half
way to the spring of the vault.
The nun seemed little nervous, and her
voice auayered oddly as she spoke. II she
had tried to take up the lamp her hand
would have shaken. In the moment OF dan
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| ger she had been brave and determined. bus
now that all was over her enfeebled strength
/ felt the reaction from the strain. She turned
! to Beatrice and met her flashing black eyes.
The young girls delicate nostrils quivered
and her lips curled fercely.
"You are angry, my dear child" said
| Sister Paul. ''So am T. and II seems to me
that our anger is just enough. BE angry
and sin not j think we can apply that to
ourselves"
"Who is that woman?" Beatrice asked.
She was certainly angry, as the nun had
said, but she felt by no means sure that she
could resist the temptation of SHINING if it
presented itself, Us the possibility Of tearing
Unorna to pieces.
"She was once with u.s." the nun an
swered. 81 knew her when she was a mere
girl-and l loved her then, in spite OF her
strange why's But she has changed. They
call her Witch-and, indeed, think il is
the only name for her,"
81 do not believe In witches" said Beat
rice, a little scornfully; "but whatever she
is, she is bad. do not know what it was
that she wanted me 10 DO in the church,
upon the altar there-it was something bor-
rible. Thank God you came in timel
What could il have been, ] wonder?"
Sister Paul shook her head sorrowfully,
bue SaiN hoehthE' ohC AHO" NJ nsSAc bH@A
Beatrice Of Unrna's intention, but she be
lieved In the existence Of Black Art, ful!
0, sacriieglous practices, and credited
Unorna vaguely WIN the worst designs
Wnleh sac could thihk OF, thougn In her
GOODNESS sne was not able 20 imagine any
Inihg ling Hucn "1ise lnas .ne saslns Q.
Iateh Hos.er n,sa oacA~ ~.ru ~ cohsecIsru
piaee. Dug sne Pfe:erfed 70 say notnlng
iess sue snou'a Juage OhoTns unfefa!;
Aiter al,' s"e u'a not Know. "nas sne nxa
seen nao seemed Oad enough ana slf4ngs
enough, put apart rom Ine iaet tnat Psa-
tiice nau psen iound upon the aItar, "nef3
sne feralhly had 20 business 70 oe, ana
!i' .pas norna i'aa as'ed IlHe : gnA.y "oman.
mere was niue 10 ray hoiu 81 Ia tne way oi
iae.;
NY eano; sne salo, ~ iasl, unsi We
',, nno" ,nose .ss .. 'ns uusn LII oshs Ys.
49, 80 ..Ina - :. ~ a. -. 80
,,e.s:s II, :, - Iii ~, ~ IL -
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80 -, sha,'Id a. ~ -
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,,o,,r -, p.r,,a,,p gn,, h,vs so,nsthin,
10 rsnraach xo,.rsaIf II 10 not for nc 70
a.t Th;nt 4 oy.-D
s.I ,riil ali yo,, ,h. ,rh,la .-n+b % p.,-
t-;o. an.rs-.a ras.;n. No. slhr,r ,,-,,,, ~.
,s,1;st'aJ sbaIfaad .n,ror+;,,- bar b.a, =,
her hand wb;Ie sbe looked earnestIv into
Sist.r PMS f,ded svav
"Tbinl well nv daushter b.rs ,a
,;oh, 70 anv copfsssion from von TT th.rs
!. - ssn,,h;ns: ,;
s.s,s,.n p.nt ror - -
mns, nav. : roa.sa,s ss,n hars ,s.rn.J
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sense Of freedom makes them work better, I
am told.
Laxiness Always Crops Out.

an tOlu.
Laxiness Always Crops Out.
Yet it would be mistake to think that
they all work willingly. If there is any
laziness dominant in a man work on farm
Will fetch it to light. When guards back
is turned for few moments two-thirds OF
gang of eonvicts have been known to in
stantly rest on the handles of their hoes.
Left to themselves for ten minutes, 1t is not
at all beyond the range of possibilities that
they would relapse into that favorite amuse-'
ment Of all farming humanity-swapping
stories.
Bill Blank would not work at hoeing this
spring. He "sogered" until he got to de-
moralizing the other men, and the guards
reported him as n. G. He was then put at
pushing wheelbarrow. That suited him no
better, and the axle of the barrow got
clogged up in a few hours. Next he was
tried at unloading fertilizer and Iorking it
over the ground. If any man under the
sun, with sound olefactory organ, can re-
main stationary at this particular employ
ment, then he ought to be given the cake
for Iaziness. Well, "Bill" practically went
10 sleep over this branch of the granger
business.
"Send him down to the barnyard," ad-
vised the boss farmer.
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Brpce Up.

There is prodigious number Of persons
who feel very much down at the heel just
aow. All they really need Is n dose Of St.
Patrick's Pills TO cleanse and reuovate their
system. 1t would do them more good than
dollar bottle Of any blood purifyer. For
sale By all druggists. wsn
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A Bright Child.

Father-Remember, my son, hens lay. but
shtps lie.
Johnny-A--as. ssy--don't ships lay to?
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other peoples pockets. 1t would make you
laugh to see that man use that pitch-iork.
He nearly stabs comrade by accident
several times. Next he is told TO drive the
piow or harrow, or take pail of seeds and
go along the "hills." You will roar to
watch him. S He makes such comical breaks,
but gradually be improves. He can't help
1t. He is an idiot if he don't. And every
night ne goes back to that prison with
greater appetite than you can find in
prison OF the solitary confinement sort.
Sleep: Yes, he sleeps 60 we'll that there are
none OF those prison ghosts to haunt him in
the quiet yigils behind bars and locks.
When that mans term OF so-called i'm
prisonment is over he goes back to Pitts
burg, brown as berry, healthy as a child,
and cheerful as bird-how could he help
il, when birds have been his constant com
paaions among those orchard trees?
ASK him, docs farming pay?''
L. E. SToFIEL.
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HOw THE LAND HAS BEEN FERTILIzED
IwRIrTEN FOR THE pIsrArcr.a

.ARMERS from the slums
ofa great ethyl "Toughs,"
fresh from the Central
police station in Pitts
burg. or the lookup in
Allegheny, sweating over
hams Of fartilizer IN the
The advocate., 1891-10-07
Poison in the Kitchen.

No article entering generally into the food of every
household is generally and vanousy adultered bak
ing powder These aduterated powders showed upon
the public with the greatest persistency.
Throbbing advertisements in newspapers claiming this
brand that is absolutely pure backed by analyses and
tcates and yet they adulterated with ammonia alum
1t is be hoped the law will take hold of these mercess
manufacturers and punish them for destroying the stomachs
of the unsuspecting consumer
Amid all this fraud and deceit DR.. Prices Cream Bak
ing Powder stands almost alone battling for pure food and
continues to furnish pure of tartar powder at almost
the cost to the people the ammonia and alum pow
ders sold at yet costs much to manufacture
DR. Prices Cream Baking Powder is of the highest
strength It produces the largest amount of eavenng power
attainabe in pure baking powder 1t is free from ammo
MIA any other adulteraton No powder does such work
Housewives who have tested all use DR.. Prices only
The advocate., 1891-10-07

gentleman called on j. G.. Prather, a
member of the national Democratic COM
mittee, and requested Mr.. Prsther to
furnish transportation, ETC., for him to go
to Ohio and take the stump for Camp
bell. Thereupon Mr.. ]. G. Prather said:
ave do not desire Mr.. Campbell's cleo
ton, nor will we do anything to assist
him, as it would mean the triumph of
the free silver idea"
The applicant had spoken for Democ-
racy in every campaign for the past
twelve years, and spoke jointly with
Hendricks all over Indiana, also with
Thurman in Ohio in 1883, and is bril-
liant and able speaker. So 1t cannot be
said the gentleman Is not representa-
tive man. But the fact Is that Mr..
Prather simply told the truth. They
want Campbell defeated. Now compare
this with the fact that the Democratic
papers of New York City, Memphis,
Charleston and New Orleans are sup
porting John Sherman for the United
States Senate, and any sImpleton can at
once discover that the old parties are the
tools of the money power, and every
thing Is sacrificed in shape of principles
for Office,
The advocate., 1891-10-07
WANTS TO KANsAsIzE MISSOURI.
To the Editor of The ADVOCATE.

To the Editor of The ADVOCATE.
I will just say that our order is getting
along fine. Since our state convention
our members seem to have new life.
Let me say to the brothers of Kansas that
the Alliance of Missouri is with them in
all that the platform demands. The
greatest drawback here Is our members
don't read enough of our literature. We
need some good lecturers here. I have
been in this place one year and l have
heard none Of our state officers. / am
In hopes that we will be able to secure
the assistance of Brother s. M. Scott or
some other good speaker of Kansas this
fall or winter.
So far as I can learn, the people here
congratulate the brothers of Kansas for
the showing you made in the last cleo
tion. You may well feel proud of the
results. If this does not find its way in
the waste basket will come again when
/ feel more like writing. Yours for vic
tory, JOEL SHAW,
Mable, Missouri.
The advocate., 1891-10-07
CAMPBELL WILL BE DEFEATED IN OHIO.

The Secret 0ut-The National Democratic
Committee in the Conspiracy.
From the Monitor.
We have all the while known that the
two old parties were in complete subjec-
ton to the money power, and now we
have proof. We will review the status
of the affair. The common people are
demanding many reforms, and among
them Is the free coinage of silver, and by
the constant demand coming from the
laboring people the issue Is pushed to
the front for solution. A short time ago
the Democratic party Of Ohio convened
in convention for the purpose of nomi-
mating ticket for the various state Of
ficers.
The convention, among other princi-
pies, declared In favor of the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver, and nomi-
mated Campbell for reelection. Hereto
fore it has been customary for the ma
tienal committee to aid in the state cam
paigns, and accordingly some honest
Democrats offered their services to help
the Democrats Of Ohio In this present
campaign.
On September 10Th, 1891, a certain
The advocate., 1891-10-07
Don't Read This.

With each succeeding day comes an
increased demand for better service on
the railways Of our country. The Union
Pacific and Missouri Pacific railways to
the front as usual, have been leading in
these lines of improvement for some
time and running through Pullman
sleepers between Salt Lake City and St.
Louis via Denver.
The advocate., 1891-10-07
Ingersoll on California.

In q recent magazine article, Mr.. En-
nest Ingersoll, the noted writer, says:
The climate of southern California in
winter closely resembles that of Egypt. It's
equability is constant, and it's 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
grateful sensation. But this sentiment
meets with no favor from the man who has
just fed from a superAuity 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. s. T. A.. Topeka, KAs.,
for folder.
The advocate., 1891-10-07
THE sUB-TREAsURY PLAN.
or OF THE ADVOCATE.

To the Editor OF THE ADVOCATE.
wish TO make q short reply TO Mr..
Wards attack upon a statement made in
my letter in your issue Of Sept. 8. | was
so busy with my farm work that ] was
not able to do so for the following issue.
cannot see wherein Mr.. Ward and
myself differ to any great extent after all.
However, as wrote the letter hastily, /
can see now where / gave him slight
chance to clock horns"
Yet l think my statement, "That one
of the objects Of the subt-reasury plan is
to increase the price of produce, we ad-
NIT, and that this would be one Of the re-
suits we firmly believe" does not nee
essarily infer that it will raise the price
to the consumer. For do not think it
will do 80 as a rule. However, l do think
there is a possibility of this being mi
nority result And, If so, / still am un-
able to see wherein 1t will be detrimental
to the laborer, since he is to receive ben
efits which will more than counter
balance this, as named in my previous
letter.
Does not Mr.. Ward virtually admit
that there is a possibility of such re-
suit when he states: "a farmer who is
out of debt can hold his own grain in his
own granary and no thanks to anybody?
If all American wheat growers were able
to hold their grain, etc?" Again, at the
close Of what he chooses to call one Of
his "wlld-wind fancles," which we con-
slider quite sound logic, however, after
sllotting to the laborers certain portion
Of wheat, he says: "This would be about
6 l-6 bushels per capita, or 80 5-6 bushels
per family Of five. AT an increase in
price Of 80 cents q bushel this would
mean an increase cost of bread amount
ing to only " cents a month for each
family Of five persons"
One more question l should like to ask
Mr.. Ward: Since the profits of the specu-
latorp, gamblers, ETC., are to be eliminated,
does he not believe that instead Of their
always being added to the selling price
Of the farmer and the benefits being one
sided, that they may sometimes be de-
Quoted from the buying price Of the con-
sumer, or that the benefits will be some
what divided at least ?
If there are any points In the Sub-treas-
ury plan still undlscussed we should like
to hear more from Mr.. Ward and the
editor.
/ have read their articles with great in
terest and, dare say, have learned some
thing. JAS. r. MCKEEvER.
Valley Falls, Kan, Sept. 23, 1891.
The advocate., 1891-10-07
Do You Want Reform Paper From
Dixie?

The MOntezuRG Record Is the only
square, out, shoulder hitting, all wool
and a yard wide, reform paper in
Georgia. 1t is an eight page, six column
paper and ID red-hot all over. Price 81
a year, so cents for six months. Sample
copies five cents. No free samples. Send
us your name and help us in this great
battle for reform and good government,
controlled by the people and not the
politicians. Address, Record, Montezuma,
Georgia.
The advocate., 1891-10-07
for Office.

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And who will say that this remedy is
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Read Steketee'S ad. in this paper.