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The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-05

United States Band played Hail to the
Chief" while heals Were uncovered.
han.ikerchirts waved and the immf nSe
th,OnSs shouted their huzZas.
After Il few moa"n;S' quiet Rev. nr.
John Hall offered Wp prayer. which
was listened to l,y all in defer, ial 81
l"nce. The President OF the Grant Mon
uinrnt s. ociit.on. General Horace
Porter. III, II delivered an address detail
ing in Eric. the GoinSs OF the associa-
tinn and their status since the inception
of the pro;e-t.
The event of the day was the laying
of the corner stone hy President Harri-
son. After putting mortar around the
stone with Il gold tr,wel that Superin-
dent Brady had mad, for the occasion
the stone WIS lowered into position.
The corner sion" OK. made of copper.
WAS then filled with The rrirs which will
bc buried in il. Tney We're:
Constitution af Il e II te safes.
Declaration of Iadrp, n icnrc.
Articles of confederation.
The Bible.
Memoirs of General Grant.
Memorial Day pamph ct. May 30 and 81.
1S>6.
A copy of Mayor G ant's pr c!amation
reg ,rling til, Grant monument.
A new American IA,
Medals and coins fr IN the United States
mint.
Various ILLUSTRATED and daily p,pcrs
President Harrison thea briefly ad
dressed the ass"mtlage. after which the
band played Il selection of national airs.
Chaunccy N. Drpcw then stood up. Civ
ing the audience the signal for another
tremendous outburst Of cheering.
Mr.. nepew began by declaring that
the predominant sentiment of General
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-05
and navy. The whole ceremony was
civil from every point of view.
The Monument

The Monument.
The Grant Monu rent, in which the
remains of the General are to lie, has
leen materially changed in the past
month. but as far as the exterior is con-
cern, il remains as impressive in APP
pearance and design as at first planned.
Many of the central columns within
have been eliminated from the plans,
and a good deal of the panel work will
te omitted. The plan of the crypt has
also been materially changed. and as
now designed will be simply a circular
opening protected by ratings above. but
without the ornamental work first
planned for the sides.
The designer of the monument. Mr.
John ii. Duncan. has reluctantly made
the changes advocated in the line of
economy, and expressed himself grate-
full for the fact that the liberality of the
subscribers has permitted the exterior
of the monument to remain practically
unchanged. but for some slight modifi-
cations at the southern entrance.
1t is now about seven years since the
death of Gen. Grant. and during that
time the movement for the erection of
this monument has been going on slow
ly. 1t took six years to collect the first
Sl50. .0n0-lcss than half the amount
nee,lrd-and il has taken the reorgan- :
lied committee little over six weeks to
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-05
insure the collection of the remainder

insure the collection Of the remainder.
Never i'm the history of similar move
ments has work undertaken,uni Ter such
disheartening circumstances been SO
enthusiastically and successfully con-
cluded, and the praise must go to Gen.
Horace Porter and his splendidly man.
aged departments. Last year. on April
q, he was the orator Of tle day at Riv-
erside Park, and his words then pre-
saged that he was ready and willing to
undertake what other men had failed to
accomplish. He was made the Presi-
dent of the rcorganized association,
which was enlarged by Legislative en-
actment, and night and day since that
time he has spoken enthusiastically TO
meetings of citizens Of every trade and
calling, and has worked with q general
ship worthy of the cause he has put
his heart and soul in.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-05
DEATH AND A PANIC.
Fatal Crash Of the Fcrryboat Cincinnati
at New York.


Every timber OF the double-deck
ferryboat Cincinnati groaned and shiv-
cred as the boat crashed into its slip at
full speed the other afternoon in New
YORK. Men were violently thrown to
the deck and against tho rails, and
horses were struggling to keep their feet
and trampling upon women.
The accident was probably due to the
carelessness Of Engineer Gray and his
assistant, George A. Bowman. Gray
allowed Bowman, who is licensed en-
gineer, but who ranked as an oil r on
the Cincinnati, to run the engine for
him, and 1t was while Bowman was
handling it that the accident happened.
AS the boat neared the slip Pilot Tuttle
gave two bells to reverse the engines,
which was answered in the engine-room.
The boat, however, seemed to be run
ming at as high rate of speed as ever.
The Cincinnati ran straight into the
bridge, striking with such blow that it
tore Of some of the solid iron facing.
While tho excitement was most in
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-05

WE all enjoy doing that which we can
do well; and one reason why the hours
outside our work arc SO often mea2er in
the pleasure they yield is because We
attempt a dozen things, none Of which
we successfully accomplish. Of course
the result must be unsatisfactory. II
we will but submit to some degree Of
self-discipline in a single direction
where we are interested, the pleasure
we shall derive will be more than
doubled, and the effective results will
he an added happiness. Mr.. Ruskin
says it is not enough that the function
of art be well imagined; it must task the
beholder also to imagine we'll, and this
SO imperativcly that, il he does not
choose to rouse himself to meet the
work, he will not taste it or enjoy it in
any wise.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-05

THERE is but two sides of the tariff
question. One is for protection, the
other free trade. The agricultural and
working people of this country want
free trade.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-05


Grant was his family
and his home. He
shrank from display all
his lfe, and would
have preferred Eeing
uricd by the side Of
his father and mother,
but Mrpr'ciating the
claim O. his country
men upon his memory,
'hc chose New York as
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-05
rom MIR. NanslcrvOOrt.

I see good deal of controversy
about the platform ut st. Louis; that
a great many swear that We adopted
everything that was voted on or pre-
posed. ! also notice that our friends,
"the enemy criticisc most strongly
the resolution about equalizing pay
with gold. of Union soldiers. You can
find thousands who believe that it
should be done; you can find million
survivors of the late war who believe
that it ought to have been done after
the close Of the war, but you cannot
that one that believes that u ever will
be done.
We have our opinion without regard
to party of the men that caused us to
| he paid in the dishonest dollars of the
| war. We happen to know, many of us,
that they are the same people who
howl about an honest dollar, and wall
and weep at the idea of a soldiers pen
sion being paid in dishonest dollar :"
| Take the fool and knave starter who
sent one circular to the Grand Army.
another to the Germans, and he is
lowling about the enormous draft on
the treasury that would be caused by
| our platform. But l started this letter
to give you scrap Of history.
At the meeting of the Blue and the
| Gray at st. Louis, at which was pres
cnt over one-third of the delegates to
that convention, representing one or
the other class, the resolution in refer
ence to equaliZing pay with gold was
presented for action. and it was laid
on the table by unanimous vote, all
believing it impracticahle. and all be-
lieving that it would never be done,
and all feeling that they would rather
trust the now party without plank
than the old ones tceming with prom
iscs. We can safely refer to our State
platforms, safely point 10 the bills in
troduced by our Peoples party mem
hers of the Senate and House for vim
dication of our policy in this direction.
No Union soldier need be afraid for one
moment that free coinage of silver will
reduce the value of any pension, or
that our party contemplates in any way
adding to the volume of currency an
amount sufficient to dcpreciate dollar.
| Let lis. before We are mustered out,
bring about harmony and union be-
tween the North and the South. Let
us bury under foot the scheming
| knaves who seek to revive bitterness,
and with hearts full of LOYALTY and de-
votion to country and flag, let our last
! great act be the crowning one in our
| history. Patti NANnEEvnuHT.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-05
| will have to pay the bill. Do you
EEn ~ nr.ti,, ,,oJt9

I will have to pay the bill. Do you
like it pretty we'll?
Brother, do not make any mistake.
There is no way out of these hard times
only by roting for yoU o,rn inter-
ests. There is no royal hocus-pocus
short cut out; the machine is made to
grind Just one way. Now, brother,
will you grind or be ground? Decide
now in the interest of Mollie and the
babies.
Yes, brother toiler Of the city. who
lost your job because you would not
work for starvation wages, remember
the gall and bitterness of seeing the
wifc's pinched features and hearing the
children cry for bread.
Go TO the Peoples convention and
work with all your might for a good
man on the ticket from President to
Supervisor. NoT is the time to work,
work as thonSh you were he on whose
sole arm hangs the victory.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-05
TO FEED ON PUBLIC PAP
THIS IS THE OFFICE SEEKERS
MAIN DESIRE.
fhe Question a. Fitness and Honesty
does Not Always Figure Public Office
Has rcgeneratcd Into !, Public Temp
tation- -statcslnansliip in Kansas.
Cur Cfyice Seckin. system.


Under the present system Of Office
seeking and Office getting the question
Of fitness and honesty does not always
figure. writes G. \. Robinson. Public
office, instead of being public trust,
degenerates into the questionable
plane of public temptation. 1t car
ries with it cmoluments greater than
the responsibility and labor necessary
to the successful performance of tn"
duties belonging to said Office demand,
hence, like humanity everywhere. the
occupants Of such Office begin soon to
regard his position of such importance
that he thinks he must secure a fat
salary. A salary which he considers
equivalent to the responsibility of his
position. The question of who pavs
the salary. and the financial condition
of the heaviest tax payers does not en-
ter his mind. He seems suddenly
pulled up with vanity, which is hnt
the result of self laudatiou. and the
evils Of the system in operation, which
allows him SO much more for his labor
than it is ever worth, and he assumes
to be possessed of Il knowledge of some
grave charge that rests heavily upon
his head but which is not for the ''rif-
raf' to know of. He looks very wise
and shakes his head meaningly when
the question of salary is touched, as if
to say:
II heard n voice yon cannot hear
see a hand you cannot see.
For long while We who belong to
credulous masses. accepted this false
assumption of wisdom as part of the
truth, and tho ght, i'll fact were
taught, that it WIS not for us to ques-
tion the motives of any man i'll public
Office. nor the workings of any system
of taxation. We thought that only
those that administered the govern
mental affairs of the state and nation
were able to know, or had any right to
know of the inside workings of the gov
ernmental machinery.
Too long have the people been con-
tent with ''ralsin corn an hogs alone.
and each year makes semi-annual
pilgrimage to the seat of government
and visiting the wellkept gentry who
''sit at the receipt of titl,es and Gus
toms" Too long have they been con-
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-05

The New York Legislature has adj
journed
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-05-05

On the Diamond.
Following Is a showing OF tho standing Of
each of the teams Of the different asso< -.
tions:
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-26
Notes and Gossip.

The Worlds Museum building is fast
being transformed into theatre and viii be
known as the Lyceum.
nee. and took the opportunity to personally
congratulate Mr. SesbroOke upon his decided
success in Boston with "The Isle of Cham
pagne."
The battle scene in the new war play,
"Across the Potomac was rehearsed under
the supervision Of Major Wallace Randolph
Of the United States army, and the correct
ness OF its action is youched fer by the high
est military authorities.
The o d Homestead" will be revived at
the Boston Theatre on Labor Day for q linn
tied run. Denmau Thompson will, of
course, have his own role of Uncle Joshua,
and will have the support Of his entire
original company. The scenes and appoint
ments will be the same as last year.
NJ. Ovid Musin, the Belgian yiolinist and
his concert company sail from Australia
Sept. for this country, ant they viii be
seen IN Boston the present season.
Charles Frohman's comedians, now at the
Fifth Avenue Theatre. will follow the pro
duction Of "The New Wing at the Column
bis Theatre in "Settled Out of Court"
Fanny Rice comes to the Bowdoin Square
Theatre Sept with new version Of "A
Jolly Surprise. James O'Neil follows Sept.
II with the initial production OF his new
romantic drama.
Mr. William II Crane occupled n box at
the Globe Theatre on the a0th, at the matt
The handsome Bowdon Square Theatre
will open for the season under the sole
mana ement OF Mr.. Charles F. Atkinson
Monday, Aug. %, with Bobby Gaylor,
the bright comedian, and his fsrcical com
cdy play, sport McAlister,' which has a
record OF 20 consecutive nights at the New
York BUou Theatre.
OZSoLA.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-26

An English writer tells an amusing
story of country house where regular
daily routine is observed, and where no
chance is given one Of breaking the
monotony. 1t is of man who wanted
to stay in a country. house, thinking it
would give him the opportunity of pro-
posing to a girl with whom he had been
in love for long time. His visit was
to last a fortnight, but the last evening
came without his having had one
chance of being alone with her during
the whole time. AS he sat at dinner
lot course he was at the opposite end OF
the table to where she wag, he felt the
time was fast passing away, and in few
hours he would no longer be in the same
house with her. When the ladies went
to the drawing room, he would have TO
sit on in the dining room. His host
might allow him to look in at the draw
inc. room for few minutes that evening,
but after that his presence would be re.
auired in the billisrd-room. In utter
desperation he took up the menu card,
and on it wrote: "Will you marry
met" He doubled 1t up, telling the
butler to give it to the lady in question.
He did so. She read it, and, with the
perfect sangfroid born only Of the nine
teenth century, said: "Tell the gentle
man. 'Yes.,9
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-26

The Secretary of the Treasury has re-
quested the Secretary of State to in
struct the United States consular officers
everywhere to refuse to certify invoices
OF goods on and after September 1st un'
less the merchandise is invoiced after the
metric system. This action is taken or
information received from the consuls at
Paris and Lyons, who say that the
"aune" system of measurement now in
use in France on invoices OF goods in
tended for the United States, facilitates
frauds on the Custom House, and that
the metric system would greatly simply
commercial transactions and facilitate
a comparison Of invoices and prices.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-26

A beggar sat on stool near the
curb-stone Offering lead pencils for
sale. Near him stood n ragamutfn
selling newspapers. Both were mis-
erably clad, and it was bitterly cold.
A nice-looking old man came down
the street. The uewsboy ran up to
him, and the old man purchased an
afternoon paper. The bcggar held
out his hat and cried out for an aims
The old man looked at the bcggar
for a moment and was about TO pass
on without giving him anything.
The miserably clad newsboy looked
up at the comfortable old man with
surprise in his eyes. Then the boy
pushed his hand into his pocket,
pulled out five pennies and dropped
three Of them into the beggar's cap.
This unselnshness Immediately
touched the old mans heart. He put
his hand into his well-lincd pocket
and gave the boy and the beggar each
q quarter, then passed on with some
thing like tear in his eye.
The boy and the bcggar tried 1t
with success on everybody who passed
along the street that afternoon.
Kate Fields Washington.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-26

A man up from Venezuela, where
they have been cutting one another's
throats in a revolutionary matinee, says
of that unhappy countrys warriors:
"Falstatf's ragged regiment wasn't in it
with the soldiers down there. They are
the hungriest looking creatures you ever
saw. I've given pennies to them on tue
street. They wear linen breeches and
an uudershirt, and when they come into
town they wrap their blankets around
them to cover their nakedness. They
carry old fint-lock muskets. There
are few Remingtons and Winchesters,
but mighty few. They have machetes.
A machete is a sort of big butcherknife
without point. 1t is about three
inches wide and thirty inches long, and
pretty heavy. They cut wood and kill
snakes and enemies with machetes.
Some of them have shoes, but the most
of them wear leather sole with strap
soross the heel and toe. The bare heels
and toes stick out"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-26

The system of public irrigation In
Colorado has met with an unexpected
and disastrous chsck from a land slide
on the side of Table Mountain, where
the moisture from one OF the main
bitches has undermined great mass Of
earth, which, as the water penetrates,
is slowly slipping down the side OF the
mountain, carrying with it house and
a section OF railway. The ditch is also
likely to be carried away, and in that
case thousands OF acres Of farm aud gar
den lands will go dry. As they are en-
tirely dependent on this artificial supply
of water, observes the New Orlean.
Picayune, the loss from the destruction
OF the ditch will be very great. The
success of irrigation has been abunda ltly
demonstrated, waste lands being coz
verted into fruitful farms, it will be
more painfully manifest when, by the
shutting off of the water, the farms are
turned back again into waste lands.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-26

Although C. P. Huntington does not
expect to live to see it, yet he is con
vinced, says the Atlanta Constitution,
that on the Fourth of July, 1926, there
will be great city at Newport News,
Va. Mr.. Huntington regards that port
as sure to concentrate the traffic from the
South and Southwest which seeks the
ocean. Railway lines will centre there,
in his opinion; the main shipments OF
cotton and tobacco from abroad will be
from this port, and he is OF opinion that
on the level plain whereon once Genera!
Buffers armies were encamped and
whence the Union soldiers witnessed the
sea fight which revolutionizcd the naVies
of the world, there will be built city
containing $50, 900 people
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-26
WORLDS FAIR NOTES.

THE Fine Arts bui'Atug at the WorlTs
Fair will have mosaic floor. the con-
tract for which has been let at SIC, $50.
ONrAnIo Canada breeders OF thorough
bred animals have already applied for space
for l63 horses, 1913 cattle, 2iS sheep and
ninety one swine.
A SEPARATE building at the Worlds Fair
FOR the shoe and leather industry exhibit Is
now an assured fact as the required $780, 0Oo
has all been raised.
A MODEL OF the figure Of Lots wife in
salt" will appear in the Kansas Worlds
Fair exhibit to represent or illustrate the
salt industry OF the State.
THE German exhibit at the Worlds Fair
will contain an architectural displa includ-
ing drawings illustrating 200 or moro OF the
NEST notable buildings in the empire
THE New York State Board of Charities
is preparing an industrial exhibit for the
Worlds Fair OF the products OF the charita-
BILE corrective, reformatory and eleemosy-
nary institutions under its supervision.
FULLY 100000 men, it Is believed, will
participate in the parade on the occasion OF
the dedication OF the Worlds Fair buildings
in October. The miitismen and regulars"
who will participate will number about TO-
OOU.
AN Indiana stCra quarry company 10
having life-szc figure OF an elephant
chiseled out OF a solid block OF stone. II
will be eleven feet high aud weigh thirty
tons. 1t will be exhibited at the Worlds
Fair.
RHODE ISLAND will present its Worlds
Fair building to Chicago after the Exposi-
ton closes The structure will be very po-
turesque in appearance, being a reproduc-
ton in part Of the famous '0ld Stone Mill"
at Newport.
MRS. POTTER PALMER President OF the
Board OF Lady Managers, and Archbishop
Ireland have agreed upon plan for secur-
ing for the Worlds Fair an exhibit OF the
work of the Catholic women of the world.
This project has the special approval Of Pope
! Leo XIII.
A WHALING party is being fitted out at
Massachusetts, port with view OF obtaining
live whale for exhibition in the Fisheries
/ department at the Worlds Fair. IL cap
tured, the whale will bo confined in q tank
and towed to Chicago by way OF the St.
Lawrence River.
MORE than 900 panels OF native woods
VIII enter into the interior decoration of the
Washington's Worlds Fair building. Some
oil them will be carved and others decorated
with paintings Of Washin gton scenery and
groupings OF flowers, fruits grains hsh,
game, birds etc.
| lhE ooutu hrhsinsIon MUSEUM, LONDON,
recently pail ESQ ts4OC a yard for some
lace manufactured in the south Of Ireland.
1t is said that this is the highest price on
record and that the lace Is OF the most
} exquisite workmanship. The lace will be
exhibited at the Worlds Fair.
AN international congress OF charities
correction and philantrophy will be held at
the Worlds Fair to consi Ter questions
relating to the care OF criminals, paupers
and unfortunates. The congress will begin
June IL, 1898, and last one week. Ex.Presf[
dent X. b. Hayes has been invited to pre-.
side over its deliberations
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-26

According to German Investigations,
tramps are remarkably healthtul lot.
Out of the many thousand wanderers
who were entertained last year at the
tramp stations established by the Gov
ernment, but two per cent. needed med
ical attendance, twenty per cent. OBJ
tanned work, and sixty per cent. pre-
ferred to wander.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-26

Says the Galveston News: "The peo-
pie OF the United States are thoroughly
organized in one way or another. 1t
would not take a week to convert thes'
standing armies into very active and ef-
fecsive armies ready for battle. The or
ganization begins with political parties
and runs all the way down to amateur
baseball clubs"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-26

Professor R,cy of Cambridge in 8
recent lecture on household pests,
recommends bcnzinc (used with care)
for bedbugs, carpet beetles, and clothes
moth.
For cockroachcs and feas. pyrethrum
powder; and for mosquitoes the pyreth-
rum powder moStcned made into cones
and burned in close chamber.
According to the Professor it is the
female mosquito only that gets in its
fine work, the male remaining at home,
practicing at his fiddle. Hereafter, say
- herr
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-26
A woman voted at the recen. Parlia-

A woman voted at the recent Parlia-
mentary election at Birmingham, Eng
land. Some question arose as to the
validity of the vote, but the mayor and
town clerk agreed with the Liberal
agent that as the lady's name had some,
how got upon the register the returning
officer had no option but to receive her
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-26

France points with pride to its Tuuis.
ian colony, where there are now 81, ,OOO
French citizens and persons claiming
French protection. Great results are ex
pected from the opening OF the harbor
of Tunis next year and of Bizerta the
year following.