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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-02

The only complexion powder in the
world that is without vulgarity. without
Injury to the user aud without doubt 8
purifier. is Pozzoni's.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-02

DeaLcsscp's Heaaa !1aecred.

PAfrs, July 2.-'khe health OF NJ. De
Lesseps has been seriously affected by the
annoyance and anXieties which have
grown out of the criminal proceedings
brought against him in connection with
che affairs of the Panama canal
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-02

Prom Boston to Grand Rapids on Bikes.
BOSOM, July , -Elbridce r. Anderson
and Joseph r. Bartlett started yesterday
en- a bicycling trip to Grand Rapids,
Mich
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-07-02
Briee urge. orsanI.ation.

WAsHNGroN, July A-Hon. Calvin S.
Brice, chairman of the national Demo-
cratic committee, has issued cirsulars to
The advocate., 1891-05-13

WHEND0Es YOUR SUBSCRIPTION RxPTREf
Examine the label on your paper
and see if il bears the inscription
MAY 81" II it does the time for
which you have subscribed for THs
ADVOCATE is nearly out. We shall be
glad to have you renew Immediately
SO that you will not miss number.
We believe you cannot afford to miss
a paper at this time. We would be
pleased to retain your name on our
list until such time as it suited your
convenience to send us your renewal,
but with our large list Of subscribers
1t would entail too large an expense
and we have been forced to adopt the
plan of dropping every name from
our list promptly on the expiration Of
the time paid for. You need THE AD-
vocATE and THE ADVOCATE needs you.
The advocate., 1891-05-13

tries is valuable in one respect il is
in others; and unless Mr.. Wansma-
ker can show that Che experience Of
Belgium with its loans upon real es-
tate security has resulted less advan-
tageous than investments in other se-
securities, it will be difficult for him
to interpose a reasonable objection to
the adoption Of that policy as q part
of the postal savings bank system of
the United States. We believe that
if the postmaster general would
adopt this thought and incorporate it
in his recommendations, so that while
Offering the absolute security of the
government to the depositors, he
could likewise offer cheaper money to
the people, he would add vastly to
the popularity Of his postal savings
system. The masses OF the people
who are decidedly opposed to any ex-
tention Of corporate privileges, and
especially the privileges of national
banks, could then heartily endorse
his plan and yield it their most earn
est support.
The advocate., 1891-05-13
"HHE BIG ORATORS"
est support.

The Emporia Republican finds
consolation for it's sorrow on account
of Kansas having become one of the
doubtful states in the prospect that
in the next campaign "the big ora.
tors" will be here. 1t says:
Men of national reputation, who have been &C.
customed to do most Of their talking in New
York and Indiana In national campaigns, will
delgn to visit Kansas and crafty our people with
a sight Of their persons and the sound of their
voices. We shall not have to depend upon the
dozen or so Of our own stock orators whose elo-
quence has, through continued hearing, taken
on chestnutty flavor. We shall not be invited
by big hand bills to attend political speaking and
find, when we get there, that the leading speak
ers had failed to come. Appointments viii DO
frequent and there will be no necessity for listen
ing to common plug spouter single time In
the whole campaign. We shall be In a position
to command the best, and our demands will be
honored. We shall probably have oratory and
noise and smoke till we are heartily tired Of it
all, and be glad when the thing is over.
We are glad to see our friends able
to find something comforting in the
situation, but we wish to remind
them that noise and smoke, brass
bands and 'oratory" have had their
day. The people of Kansas now
have opinions Of their own, which are
based upon careful study of the
politics of the past, and the economic
questions involving the present and
future welfare of the country; and
all the smoke and noise and speeches
Of the 'big orators" will fail to win
them back to the 'grand old party"
The advocate., 1891-05-13

The latest arrival at our exchange
table is the Modern Light, published
at Columbus, Kan. The names Of
Joseph Wallace and our old friend,M
A. Householder, are at the mast head.
1t is a neat six-column, eight-page
paper, devoted to the interests of
the Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union, Knights of Labor, Citizens
Alliance and all labor organizations
of Cherokee county" From our
acquaintance with Brother House
holder we venture the prophecy that
the Modern Light will shine for all
with increasing lustre as it increases
in age. Long may it shine.
The advocate., 1891-05-13
RATS"

The Capital is very severe in its
criticism Of the Ell Dorado Industrial
Advocate because it charged the
Kansas Publishing House with being
"rat'' Office It says:
Our advice to the Alliance organ Is to drop
that mode Of warfare, because, though It may
keep Us busy, we shall endeavor to expose every
falsehood which emanateS from that source.
IL is our advice also that Alliance
papers "drop that mode of warfare
and permit the Republican press to
enjoy a monopoly Of it; and although
il may keep as busy we shall en-
deavor to expose every falsehood
which emanates from that source"
While the Capital is so severe in
its criticism of the Industrial Advo-
cate because of it's reflection upon
the character Of the Kansas Publish
ing House, il has not word to say
in condemnation Of the Ell Dorado
Republican because of its libel upon
THE ADVOCATE Office, which it copies
at the head Of it's criticism. This is
not 10 be expected. Republican pa
pers can lie as much as they please
without being liable to Republican
censure. 1t is their stock in trade
and the Capital approves it. BY the
way, viii the Capital look over the
testimony relating to Fletcher Mere
dith's resolution and tell its readers
who probably lied about thata
The advocate., 1891-05-13
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.

POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.
We have received from the post
master general q copy of his argu
ment in favor Of the establishment o1
postal savings banks in the United
States This is a proposition thai
will commend itself to the judgment
Of thoughtful people everywhere
Mr.. Wanamaker shows that nearly
the whole civilized world, with the
exception Of the United States and
Germany, has adopted this system
and that it has uniformly been sue
cessful and Of great benefit to the
people. It is measure which
should receive the hearty endorse
ment of the reform elements, which
are rapidly coming into power. tt if
directly in the line Of the reforms
sought by the industrial classes that
are SO rapidly assuming prominence
in American politics. It is steE
toward nationalism.
Mr.. Wsnamsker regards the ques'
tion of what shall be done with the
deposits, as one Of the chief obstacles
in the way of the adoption Of the sys
tenn; and he cites the experience Of
other nations to show that this is nc
real ground Of objection to it. Speak
ing Of this subject, he says:
What must be done is to make this money
earn interest, so that It may pay the running
expenses Of savings bank system, and at leas
small rate ofintereSt to deposltorS. This poin
was commented upon in one OF the pamphlet
Issued by che State Christian Aid Association o
the state of New York, In 1887, which proposed ,
measure providing that no interest should b
promised upon the money deposited, and the!
state that nothing more Is asked for by th'
laboring masses themselves than safe place II
which they may put their small savings.
The postmaster general does moi
approve of this unremunerstive sys.
tenn Of deposits. He fsvors some
manner Of investment Of the funds
that will yield at least q small rate oi
interest to the depositors. Concern
ing this, he says:
1t is doubtful whether the United States could
successfully deviate from the practice Of other
countries which uniformly pay rate Of interest,
whether 1t be large or small. The United States
must, therefore, before It can receive these sums
from depositors, have certain prospective use
for the money. Can that use be found? Herein
lies the whole problem OF the po|tofice savings
banks, and herein lies the main obstacle which
heretofore has successfully prevented their es
taDllshment.
European countries are not confronted with this
problem. They have their varying indebtedness
not likely to be materially reduced, perhaps for
centuries, possibly In some cases guaranteed to
be permanent Indebtedness, It is not so with
US. The policy Of the government since the ere
alton OF Its tremendous war debt, has been to pay
OF Its obligations as rapidly as its revenues would
permit
As the question, What shall be
done with the money! seems 10 be
The advocate., 1891-05-13
THE MANIFESTO

In pamphlet form, neat and con-
venient Is cents per dozen or $l5O
per hundred. Address the Western
Advocate, Mankato, Kansas.
The advocate., 1891-05-13
SPECIAL CLUB LIST.
AN ApYooATn q ChioaQo Expreea.

Subscriptions under this offer will
be credited to the Alliance sending
them in.
The advocate., 1891-05-13
MPRACTICABLE AND SENSELESS ADVICE.

The advice Of the Platte County
(Mo.) Argus to the Alliance, not to
go into politics until it Is sure Of
electing it's ticket, is very much like
that Of the old lady to her son. not to
90 near the water until he had
learned to swim. The one exhibits
about as much sense as the other.
The advocate., 1891-05-13

eAAV OAAA~A VUcv0OAO Ira O210 Wny w OAO
adoption OF postal savings banks, MIR.
Wanamaker proposes q solution Of
this question. Up to this point we
can heartily support his proposition.
His plan for the disposition Of the
funds, however, will be hardly salts
factory to the people. 1t is as fol-
lows:
Ihave recommended that all the postal saw
Ings funds received within state be placed on
deposit with the national banks of that state, In
such amounts and at such rates of interest as
the secretary Of the treasury shall prescribe.
There iS thus provided channel for the dis
posal Of the money which will place 1t rapidly In
circulation In the locality from which 1t Is gath
cred for original deposit In the postal savings
banks, and through which 1t will unquestiona-
bly, earn SUFFICIENT sum to pay expenses, and
moderate rate OF interest to depoStors."
Now while it is right and proper
that these deposits should be
put in circulation in the localities
from which they are received, the
method by which this is proposed to
be done is open to serious objection
for several reasons.
First-Whils the government
would afford ample security to the
depositors, there would be no guar
antee against loss to the government.
The failure Of the national banks
might result in serious loss.
Second-H it is proper for the
government to loan this money as
recommended to national banks, it
would be equally proper to loan it to
individuals on equally good or even
better security. The constitutional
ity and the right Of the principle of
government loans being admitted, it
simply becomes question Of pro-
priety and of safety how far and in
what line this right shall be exercised.
We are most heartily glad to welcome
the postmaster general to the ranks
of those who believe in the constitu-
tionslity OF government loans. But
it must be apparent that the national
banks could not afford to borrow this
money unless they expected to re-
loan it for a sufficient rate of interest
to enable them to pay the rate to the
postal savings banks and yield in sd-
dition profit TO themselves. To
whom would they loan il, and on
what security? Evidently to the peo-
pie and on security that should be
deemed amply sufficient Why the
necessity of imposing the added
rate Of interest which they would
charge, upon the people? Why place
national banks thus between the gov.
ernment and the people and force
them to pay eternal tribute to corpo-
rstionsi Perhaps Mr.. Wsnamaker
can give some good reason for this,
but unless he can, his plan will hardly
meet the approation of the people.
In his argument in support Of the
postal savings system he introduces
the experience of other nations in
testimony; and we desire to call at
konk:o,> - n .>o-k:av - ALoL o.:
The advocate., 1891-05-13
TOPEKA, KANSAS, MAY 10, 1891.

(Entered as second class matter in the Post
Once at Topeka, Kansas.)
The advocate., 1891-05-13

6UBsORuBu for Tim ADVOCATE
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-06-19
FOOTLlGHT FLASHES.

Minnie Palmer announces that she will
not appear in America next season.
Fanny Davenports two weeks engage.
ment in Chicago with Cleopatra" drew
something like $4,000 into the box office
Many of the properties" used in
Wang" Hopper's new opera, We're really
brought from India. where the scene of the
opera is laid
Ada Rehan is a very witty and charming
woman of the stage. She has played $50
different roles since she made her first bow
before the puplic.
Helen Dauvray, Carrie Wallace and
Grace Henderson are all well known act
resses who have left their husbands and
afterwarl kissed and made up
Toma Hanlon, an ACTRESS who toured the
country with Miss McGinty," is to marry
Gerard Warmer. rich Englishman who
displays crest on everything that belongs
to him.
Marie Stone, the prima donna, is the
wife of w. II. Macdonald, manager of
"The Bostonians" He is singer of great
ability himself Miss Stone is said TO have
permanently retired from the stage
Over and above all receipts of the recent
season ol Eldhu opera AT the metropolitan
Opera house, in New York, there was de-
felt of S54,+l9.5l when it ended, which the
stockholders will have to make up.
Electricity has almost entirely super.
seeded gas in lighting most of the largest
theaters; and is almost Invariably used
now when power Is needed behind the
scenes for operating mechanical devices
Mrs. Potter, while on her recent tour
through India, recited before the 100 in
mates of the zenana (hareml of the uyzam
Of Hyderabad. Although the women could
not understand her, it is said that they
were deeply affected by the pathetic pas
sages
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-06-19

Mother Goose was no myth, as is COM
monty supposed, but an actual parsonage,
a Mrs. Goose, who resided in Boston at the
beginning of the eighteenth century. One
of her daughters was married to a printer
named Thomas Fleet. The old lady had
an endless stock of old rhymes and jin-les
in her memory, with which she was wont
to delight her grandchildren and all the
other little folks of the neighborhuod.
Mr. Fleet took up the idea that it might
be worth while to collect these ancient dit
ties and put them in permanent form for
the use of future generations. He there
fore brought out "A book. of which the earli-
est edition now known bears the following
title: Songs for the Nursery; or, Mother
Goose's Melodies for Children. Printed by
T. Fleet, at his printing house, Padding
lane, Boston, 11l9. Price. , coppers"
There is little doubt that this was the first
edition Of the work, since the old records Of
Boston give the date of the marriage of
Thomas Fleet and Elizabeth Goose as 1,15,
says the Inter Ocean.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-06-19

For many century there has been rung
in the ancient city of Sandwich, the old
Cirque port of Kent, the curfew bell,
which marked at one period so distinctive
a feature OF English life. The Church of
ST. Peter has maintained this custom up
to the present day, but adverse fortune
now threatens to eXtinguish this honOred
relic of past ages. y Sandwich paper says
that relations are somewhat strained he
tween the rector and the sexton of st.
Peters, and as the fund from which the
latter was paid is now claimed by the
churchwardens the sexton is consequently
in the dilemma of having a time honored
office without any salary. AT the Easter
vestry his reelection was mOoJcd and he
thought it very hard, and nntur4ii p. TOO,
that he should have to work f.. nothing.
He inquired il in the event Of ni, Giving
up the office the rector would have bower
to prevent him from carrying ouJ his duties
as ringer of the curfew bell, but no one
could inform him.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-06-19
FIN, FEATHER AND FUR,

A citizen of Cordele, Ga, caught rabbit
the other day that had gold watch chain
about his neck.
1t is said that between 10000, 900 900 and
100000, 0O00 900 codfishes are taken from the
sea around the shores of Newfoundland
every year.
There is a large lake in Hutchinson
county, S. D., well filled with corn fed
fish (bullheads). They got away with
seven acres of corn which was left in the
field, shocked but not husked.
The roe deer is the smallest and most
nearly domestcated of three species which
inhabit Germany. 1t is likewise the most
beautiful, and its flesh is the daintiest ven.
ison known to the epicure.
Ornthologsts tell us that when feeding
the stride of the ostrich is from 20 to %
inches: when walking but not feeding, 20
inches, and when terrified, 1115 to II feet,
or at the rate of about 25 miles an hour.
Divers in the clear waters of the tropical
seas find that fish of different colors when
frightened do not dart in the same direc-
ton, but that each different kind takes
shelter in that portion of the submarine
growth nearest in color to that of the fish.
Mrs. George +. Stage, of Frankfort, Ky,
is credited with catching with hook and
line tarpon weighing 2C5 pounds, the
largest silver king fish ever caught The
fish was taken recently near Fort Myers
Fla, and Mrs. Stagg was one hour and
twenty-five minutes landing her catch.
a Florida woman has a canary bird that
is highly priced for its beautiful singing
About three weeks ago. during high
wind storm, the bottom of the cage dropped
out and the bird was gone. Nothing more
was seen of it, and was given up for lost
when one day it made its reappearance in
the family circle. The door of the empty
cage was open, and birdie voluntarily EN-
tered.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-06-19
MARRIAGES Or FAMOUS PEOPLE.
The immortal Shakespeare numbered
ten years less than Ann Hathaway

The immortal Shakespeare numbered
ten years less than Ann Hathaway.
Bishop Pinkney had sixteen years less to
account for than the agreeable woman he
made his wife.
John Stuart Mill married Mrs. Henri
eta Taylor, a cultivated and intelligent
woman many years his senior.
Miss Thackeray, the novelist, despite the
opposition of her friends, married a man
nine years younger than herself.
Benjamin Observation-Disclosures created
Lord Beaconsfield-so long a leader in the
English parliament, married Mrs. Levin,
widow nineteen years older than him
self
Merry King Hail." of England, was five
years younger than Catherine of Arragon.
He gave her no peace during her widow
hood until she consented to marry him
precious little did she get afterward.
Miss Muoch, the author of John Hall
fax Gentleman" married in her thirty
ninth year George Craik, the Scotch his
torian, who only lived year. After his
death she married a man many years her
junior.
The great Napoleon made Nine Beau
harnais' name celebrated for all time as
the Empress Josephine, six years his
senior She was the widow of an officer
in the French army and the mother of two
children.
The world at large threw up it's hands in
CONSERVATION on the announcement that
the Baroness Burdett-Coutts had married
her young secretary, whose age would not
have precluded the possibility of her being
his mother
Mrs. Caroline Norton, the poetess, grand
daughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan,
from whom she inherited her diversity of
talent, at the advanced age of seventy
united her fortunes to those of Sir Will
lam Sterling Maxwell, who had just closed
his fifty -ninth year.
One of the most romantic marriages on
record is that Of the beautiful and inter
esting Mrs. Thrale, long and intimately
associated with the erratic DR.. Samuel
johnson during the lifetime of her hus-
band Mrs Thrale married after his death
the Italian professor of music, Piozzi,
many years her junior
Aaron Burr, who stands out as one of
the mos; fascinating men of his day and
generation. turned aside from the beauty
and wealth which New York society offered
him and chose for his wife mature
widow named Mrs. Provost. The elder of
her two sons more nearly approached the
age of the famous man than did she.
The attractive and brilliant Nine. de
Stael late in life became the wife of the
Italian officer, NJ Rocca, who counted
nearly sixteen years less in the notch of
life than the remarkable woman he mar
ried. His devotion carried him so far that
he declared, 81 ask for nothing better than
to he near her and wait on her during her
declining years. w shington Post.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-06-19
WHIP AND SPUR.

Tenny was bought by Pulsifer as a year
ling at the Wilson sale in Lexington for
$40
St. Florian is considered another Poto-
mac, and even superior to that great colt
in speed and finish.
Frank Work, of New York, fancier in
road trotters, has bought the fast gelding
Orange Blo- som, 2:2615, for personal driv-
ing
Balsora Wilkes 2:17A, one of the fastest
of PAGERS three years ago, is to he revived
and trained for a campaign. L. Graben-
slater, Buffalo butcher, owns him.
American horses are being shipped to
Aberdeen, Scotland, for coach and driving
purposes, and one dealer there has opened
stable for the exclusive handling of
American bred horses.
The horsemen of Mason City, Ia, have
secured the full amount necessary for the
purchase of sixty acres of ground just out
side the corporate limits for regulation
oval mile track, which, from the nature Of
the soil, is expected to be fast.
Red or its shades predominant among
the lucky racing jackets of late years.
Pierre Lorillard, August Belmont, the
Dryers, Captain Sam Brown and John A.
Morris have used or are using jackets of
red shades. The red era began in 1876.
Some jockeys are possessed of great
pluck. In the Brooklyn Handicap race
Prince Royal kicked George Covington,
Judge Morrows jockey, and broke his
ankle. The boy rode the race with his
broken leg and his foot hanging out of its
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-06-19
SNAP SHOTS.

In taking interiors always stop the clock,
if there is TO be one in the picture.
Photographers have succeeded in obtain
ing pictures of cannon projectiles on their
flight after leaving the cannon.
Experiments have recently been made
with transparent celluloid for use as Ian
tern slides, but they have not been salts
factory
English amateurs have hard time of it.
In London sometimes weeks 90 by without
the amateurs getting any sun to take their
pictures.
A new roll holder has been invented by
DR.. Feeney This will compete with the
Eastman rolled films that hitherto have
monopolized the trade.
Catherine Weed Barnes, a grandniece of
Thurlow Weed, resides at Albany, and is
recognized as the leading woman amateur
in this country in the art of photography.
The diploma received by the Society of
Amateur Photographers of New York
from the Paris exposition has been framed
and hung in the hall of the society's build
ing
An amateur photographer in Boston re-
Gently developed a negative which he had
taken of an interior, containing three dis
tinct colors These colors came out dis
tinctly on the negative, forming positive
on the glass, with the natural colors. He
is unable to tell the cause, but supposes
that on the plate which he used there must
have been some curious combination of
chemicals.
A new printing paper, which promises to
eclipse bromide prints, and eventually sill
yer prints, has been invented 1t is part
gelatine, part albumen emulsion, combin-
ing the salts of iron, platinum and silver.
1t is about double the speed of the present
platinum paper and three times the speed
of the ordinary silver paper, and is apple
able to both mat and shiny surface paper,
which can be FURNISHED