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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-03-03

You must get ''hroad. gray line,
And he sure of the free arm movement
"Do. me. sol of course ION time,
And the sewing needs Improvement.
The Ling System is introduced,
And ''Sloyd Work is cited,
compositions oft produced,
Language Work not sighted.
OF ''Supplementary Reading" many lays,
Thought Problems" Won must hoard.
"'.Around the World i'll Eighty Days,
And go on the ''molding board.
"History" with "Old Colonial Times.
And Boys of IS.
"WorG Lessons, just so many times.
"Monthly Reports" to fix.
Test Papers face You by the score
General Lessons every day.
More and more, and more, and more.
what. mink Uou N,ould he the pap'
IA. n F. in New England journal of Edu-
cation.
Statistics as to pay are al hand The
are forty-five hundred female school teach
ers in this State, to three thousand of the
male persuasion: and says that next to
Methodist ministers they are the poorest
paid OF all our public servants, The
Briduton News. on the other hand. main
tains that first class female teachers com
mand tolerably good pay for the time
actually employed, with exceptions OF
course. The actual figures for Maine are
said to be as follows: Average salary of
male teachers. SD - per month"; and OF
female teachers Sl724 month, exclusive
OF board An exchange says that on this
pay female teachers in Maine can hardly
afford new hat to match every dress, or
TO eat butter on their pie,
Massachusetts is generally conceded to
lead in educational matters, and few
facts submitted by the New England
Journal of Education would seem to war-
rant that claim: In Massachusetts 95
per cent. of the population is in cities
and towns with public high schools,
fact not approached by any other State;
forty towns support high schools that are
not required to do so by law. fact not
approached by any other State: practical
" every city and town in the common
wealth raises very much more money for
school purposes than is required by law,
a fact that will give universal surprise
outside of New England: 90 per cent. of
the population is under local school sup
crNision without atay law requiring it,
fact unapproacAed by any other State; %
per cent ct the pupils are in cities OF
towns With good public libraries, though
no law requires such libraries, a fact I'M
approached by any other State.
The free high school has evidently come
10 stay in Maine In a recent interview
MI Luce State Superintendent of schools,
said: There has been an increase of Is
in the number of towns supporting free
high schools this year There was in 1891
81, $50 more expended for these schools
than tie year previous and of this s., LIS
was the increase in the State aid. There
was also in the gross number of weeks of
such schools an increase OF IS weeks. Five
hundred and forty more pupils registered
in these schools than did any previous
wear Never before has there been such
gratifying results.
To what do You attribute this, MI
Luce2-
80 the facts that these schools are
meeting the needs OF the people and they
The advocate., 1892-06-01
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

To the Editor OF THE ADVOCATE:
The American republic Of the United
States In a few months will elect chief
magistrate by the suffrages of larger
body Of citizens than have voted in any
previous election the world has ever seen.
1t is strange that the corruption practlced
openly by both the great parties should
be so easily overlooked as it Is by the
Christian element-the moral force ofour
nineteenth century civilization. Nine out
OF ten of the leaders Of Christian thought
throughoutthe United States simply pro-
test In an aimless, blind way, while
voting all the time with the corruption
lists. Can the vital forces Of Christianity
long retain their moral power-their
spiritual influence-while thus allowing
these enemies to real growth In national
character to dictate and control political
electlonsS Are not the motives that act
uate the people In any combined pro-
test, such as the Peoples party is now
making, worthy Of support by all the
elements Of society opposed to political
corruptionH Grant that the demands of
the opposition to both the great parties,
forged as they have been, hot from the
furnaces Of rage and righteous lndigna-
tlon burning In the hearts Of all honest
lovers Of their country grant that their
demands are crude, and bold, and far
The advocate., 1892-06-01
A Sunset.

On Great Salt Lake Is but one Of the
matohless spectacles to be seen in Utah.
The new book "UTAH, peep into a
mountain walled treasury Of the Gods,
Is now issued and can be had postpaid by
sending 25 cents to j. H. Bennett, Salt
Lake City.
1t is expected that the Knights Tenn
plar and others visiting Colorado the
coming season will extend their trip to
Utah, via the Rio Grande Western Rail-
way in both directions. THAT road af-
fords choice of three distinct routes and
the most magnificent scenery in the
World. Equipment unequalled in the
West. Two trains daily across the con-
tlnent.
The advocate., 1892-06-01
BLOSSOM HOUSE.

Opposite Union Depot, Kansas City, Mo.
The Blossom House Is convenient to
all parts of the city. Cable cars run In
every direction. 1t is just across the
street from the union depot, just the
place to meet your friends. Members of
the Alliance make the Blossom House
their headquarters when In the city, and
their general place.of meeting when at
tending conventions abroad.
The advocate., 1892-06-01
COOPERATION w. INDIVIDUAL COMPE-
TITION,

TITI0N.
To the Editor Of THE ADVOCATE.
I have been much surprised at Mr..
Cooper's remarks on cooperation in last
weeks ADVOCATE. 1t is quite evident
that he has no true conception OF what q
cooperative store is, and this is more sur
prlsing as he comes from England where
cooperative stores have been magnii-
cent success all over that country for the
last fifty years. To start a competitive
store on the ordinary plan in any locality,
where there are already more than
enough, would be very unwise indeed,
but co operative store on the Rochdale
method Is quite another thing. Such an
establishment would not try to under
sell the other stores. Supposing there.
should be a membership Of 500 stock
holders (here there are upwards OF 800
members) their custom alone would sup
port good sized store. The great ad-
vantage the society would have as their
membership increased, would be that
their purchases would be In much larger
quantities than any individual retail
storekeeper could buy. AS to the prices
of goods being so low now that it would
not pay to 60 into a cooperative business,
that is another mistake OF Mr.. Cooper's.
1t Is true that some goods are sold at
cost and less than cost as bait, but the
loss is amply made up on other goods.
Those who doubt the success OF a CO.
operative store conducted on the real
Rochdale plan should come down TO
OlSthe and see the grand success Of the
store started here fifteen years ago.
Started with q capital of only $700, now
doing business of $9SO,OOO per annum,
aud that In spite of the competition Of
Kansas City, which Is only twenty-one
miles off.
But Mr.. Cooper's benevolence comes
Into play. He thinks to start co-opera-
tive store would hurt some of the other
merchants who have invested In q store,
and we ought not to hinder them from
making a living! The same reasoning
would prevent any reform for the bene-
fit Of consumers. Free trade, or reduc-
tion Of the tariff would hurt good many
who are now making fortunes at the ex-
pense of consumers. Must we continue
to be 30 good natured as TO sacrifice JUS
tIce to a false benevolence? Respect |
fully yours, j. Z. SUTTON.
Olathe, May ?, 1892.
The advocate., 1892-06-01

reaching, cannot the moral impulse OF
the true yeomanry that gave them birth
be trusted TO modify them il necessary
for the public good, when once these
moral elements gain political powerH
What assurance has our republic OF per
petuity unless guided by just such moral
impulses as have brought the Peoples
party into being? Does not the cOntin-
ued control of parties which have passed
their period Of usefulness, riding simply,
as both the old parties are, on the tide of
past achievement, guided as they are, by
uuprincipled manipulations of men and
measures-does not the continued con-
troll of such parties mean national de-
gredstion, public servitude, loss Of moral
control? For myself, would rather
trust the future of the state or nation to
new elements, however angry or crude
their demands, than to let 1t drift on
without moral purpose. In the one case
the opportunity for political manipula-
ton would be used to further individuals
and class interests, In the other the moral
impulses that moved the masses to
action could be depended on to wisely
guide the ship Of state through the waves
of political agitation into the quiet sea
of judlclous political legislation. II
there be no moral purpose behind the
Peoples party, this will not be true, but
no lover of his country who studies to
learn the true state of the public pulse
but will be convinced, on investigation,
that the Peoples party is actuated by
noble impulses pro bono pubIGcO. Those
that think differently are ignorant Of the
true facts. A large percentage Of the
people are all ready to join hands and
heart In the movement for purer politics
and wiser legislation when once they
learn the facts. The result of the next
election depends on the re-
sponse that the moral elements of our
country shall give at the polls to this
movement. Let the issue be confined to
one burning question, one comprehen-
sive demand for reform, such as the in
terest question, which overshadows all
others in importance, and the political
heart of the country will throb in such
response that victory in many state, If
not In the nation, will result. God speed
the dAy SNoERITAs.
The advocate., 1892-06-01

PLEASE do not send any more post
age stamps for subscriptions. The
post Office regulations do not permit
Of their redemption, and we are get
ting more Of them than we can possl-
bly, use
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-09-27

The Pacific Bridge Company, which
was yesterday awarded the contract of
building the steel bridge across the
Nooksack at Ferndale, is one of the
most reliable companies of the entire
country, and can be depended upon to
do creditable and safe piece of work
manship. One element in favor of the
company, in addition to its employ
ment of skilled engineers and me-
chanics, is its uniform policy of secur-
ing as many of its supplies and spend
ing as much of the money earned as
possible in the section in which the
work is being performed. The county
commissioners will have little cause to
regret its action in accepting the bid of
the company which is to construct the
new bridge.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-09-27
Agriculture in Russia,

The predominating trait of rulers from
Caesar downward is an invincible hypo.
crisy. People of education and expert
ence are invited to occupy themselves
with agriculture, but they are we'll
aware that no sooner have they arrived
and settled down than they will be un
mercifully expelled again. The Jews
are blamed for avoiding agriculture, and
are accused of not wishing to live by the
sweat of their brow, yet they are forbid
den to colonize without the pale or to
own property.
The Jew might turn on his perse
cutors and say to them: "You condemn
me for not taking kindly to farming
while you yourselves, pharisees that
you are, have reduced your farms to the
last stage of impoverishment. God be
praised, we Jews have had no part in
it; but to envy you or to wish to be in
your position is more than can be ex.
pected of u.s."
All this talk of agriculture is mere
clumsy hypocrisy. The peasants fly
from the land, happy, indeed, to find
some other occupation. Others are nor
permitted to take their place; those whu
have the right are too ignorant to do
anything, and the result is chaos
Contemporary Review.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-09-27

Not infrequently some Democratic
editor so far forgets himself as to tell
the plain, unvarnished truth about the
incalculable advantages which Amer
lean workmen enjoy over the workmen
of all other lands. One of the latest
examples of this kind of forgetfulness
is furnished by the Philadelphia Times,
whose editor, Col. A. X. Mcclure, is
one of the leading lights of the Democ-
racy. In an editorial article on Labor
Day the Times said:
"The cold facts are that the working
classes in this country are so much bet
ter off than elsewhere that the working
people of the old countries crowd every
ship to share in their pros
perity. The working people enjoy more
privileges and enjoy more prosperity in
this country than in any other and enjoy
them in greater measure now than at any
former period. In other words, the con-
dition of the American workmen con-
tinues to improve with that of the rest of
the community and probably in very near
the same ratio. This being the case the
working people could not make better use
of the leisure of their great holiday than
by resolving to let well enough alone
during the coming year,
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-09-27
Cholera,

1t Is enough to give anybody the chol-
era TO read the scientific opinions on the
subject-it is indeed One fellow has
been trying to find out in his mind
whether the sickness this summer is
cholera autochthonous, characterized by
endemlcity, or whether it is cholera
Asiatica, characterized by epidemicity.
No doubt it is.
Meantime it is sufficient for common
people to know that every now and then
nature gets enraged at the human race
On account of its filth. meanness and
foul air and simply clears it out, some
times by cholera, again by typhus fever,
yellow fever, black plague, diphtheria
and other things. When these occasions
come it is always the dirty, overcrowd-
ed portions of the great cities that suffer
first and most. Then the pestilence
skips and attacks clean people in other
places, country and city.
Cholera is at ports in Europe whence
many of our immigrants come-Havre
Hamburg, Antwerp and Stettin. In Ham
burg it attacked the old part of the city
the poor, dirty quarters. There is not
much likelihood that the plague will be
here in force this season, though it may
fall upon us next summer. Frost kills
the germs. Meantime we are sufficiently
warned to clean up and disinfect. Soap,
water, chloride of lime, carbolc acid
are excellent disinfectants. Sewer pipes
and their contents are nests of the dis
ease. So are the horrible outhouses
usually found about farms and villages.
Finally scare and panic are a main
cause of death by cholera. If cholera
ever comes your way, clean up and
think of what Grant said when some
body told him he was in danger of
assassination, what you are not afraid
Of won't hurt you"
In November, 1865, a case of cholera
was brought to New York from Havre.
In April it appeared IN the city itself.
Altogether, during the summer of 1866,
some 1900 persons died of the plague in
and about New York and Brooklyn.
Many Of these were emigrants attacked
on shipboard, coming over. After ex-
posture to cholera the disease develops,
if it is going to, in from one to three
days. Patients in Hamburg this sum-
mer have died within an hour after be-
ing stricken. The best precautions
against it are-keep absolutely clean,
breathe pure air and drink pure water.
Eat no unripe or rotten fruit or any
tainted meat, and do not eat too much
Of anything. Keep your head on, keep
cheerful and go about your work as
usual.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-09-27
Suppress Mars.

It's Mars, they say, who is bringing all
this trouble on the world. He is nearer
us now than he has been for fifteen
years or than he will be in fifteen years
again, for which let us be thankful if
the present year furnishes specimen
of how the old rascal gets in his whack
when he has a chance at us.
Famine in Russia and India; anarch-
lists lively in Paris; fires, foods, storms,
steamboat and railway accidents all
over the world; the cholera spreading
through Europe and threatening to visit
America; thousands of deaths in Russia
from it, likewise in Persia, where panic
reigns, whole towns are depopulated
and the lazy old shah has lost his head
completely, endeavoring to compensate
for it by making other people lose
theirs. In Europe the past two weeks
the heat has been torrid beyond de-
scription. Horses and cattle have
died by the hundred, soldiers have
dropped dead from exhaustion, and
the usual military maneuvers in Austria
were omitted ON account of it. In Lon
don there is an epidemic of CHAMBERS
among the horses, and hundreds of them
have died and been killed. In order to
be English some of the horses in New
York City got CHAMBERS, too, and had to
be shot.
In America we cannot have famine
because our country is too great and too
rich, but we have done our best to keep
up in the way of big fires, foods, acct
dents and storms. Then we have strikes
enough to do whole world. That is
how we take our share of the visitation
of Mars, apparently in strikes, and
there seems no prospect that they will
be definitely settled before Mars comes
around again.
1t is time to sit on Mars. There ought
to be town meeting called to suppress
him.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-09-27
LEGISLATIVE NOMINEES

The coming prosperity of Belling-
ham Bay will find an important aux
Hilary in its steamboat and railroad
lines. Its chief dependence, however,
will consist in its indigenous resources
in the line of coal, iron and the precious
metals, lumber, shingles, farm produce,
fruits and other elements of wealth
which exist here in such prolific abund-
ance. These cannot be put upon the
markets of the world without adequate
facilities of transportation from the
base of supply to tide water, which,
with the present condition of Whatcom
county roads, is an almost practical i'm
possibility. Patching up piece of road
here and there throughout the county
is an unbusinesslike and impracticable
solution of the difficulty. The ques-
ton should be attacked and mastered
on broad-guage principle. If bond
ing the county is deemed inadvisable
because of a want of honesty on the
part of those into whose hands the dis
bursement of the money would fall,
then let some other means be pursued
by which broad thoroughfares to the
remotest limits of the county could be
built and thereby make it possible for
the resources of the county to be
brought into active commerce. The
day of conservatism in this needed and
essential line of activity is a mark of
shame to any community. During
the past year the population of What
com county has largely increased,
owing to the arrival of farmers from
the East and to the erection of numer-
Gus shingle and saw mills, and these
new industries and increased popula-
ton will rapidly intensity the already
urgent need of transportation facilities
from every part of the county to the
Bay cities. 1t is merest folly to ex.
pect railroad and steamboat corpora
tons to build us a great city if we are
unable to develop and take care of the
wealth which lies wrapped up within
our own limits.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-09-27
Hutton.s Collection of Death Masks.

The earliest death masks in my collec-
ton are those of Dante, made perhaps ir
the first part of the Fourteenth century,
and of Tasso, certainly made at the end
of the Sixteenth. The latest mask is that
of Lawrence Barrett. They range from
Sir Isaac Newton, the wisest of men, to
Sambo, the lowest type of American ne
gro; from Ben Caunt, the prize fighter
TO Thomas Chalmers, the light of the
Scottish pulpit; from Oliver Cromwell
to Thomas Paine; from Keats to Robert
Burns; from the First Napoleon to Robert
the Bruce.-Laurence Hutton in Har-
per's,
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-09-27

That is what the new public library
of Boston will contain when it is filed.
There are at present twenty miles of
shelves, and these can be added to as
need comes till there will be thirty-five
miles. The magnificent building itself
will have cost when completed $2,1O0,-
600, and there will be room for 2,OOO,-
900 books.
The library now has ready to go into
the new structure 100000 volumes.
There is no other such library in Amer
lea as this. The Congressional library
at Washington contains as many books,
but not such valuable foreign collec-
tions. Among these is George Ticknor's
library of Spanish literature, the richest
in the world. There is also the Barton
collection of Shakespearean literature,
one of the three noted ones in existence.
Both the other two are in England-one
belonging to the Bodeleian library at
Oxford, the other in the British mu-
scum. Here, too, is Theodore Parker's
famous theological library, the mathe-
NAUTICAL books collected by Professor
Bowditch, besides a famous lot of his
torical literary treasures.
All this is free to the people, without
money and without price. There are
books for circulation which the Bos.
tonian, without regard to age, sex or
previous condition of servitude, may
take home and read and inwardly di-
gest. There is magnificent reference
library where he may sit all day in soft
ly shaded rooms with aesthetic surround
ings and study. Here is something for
Boston to be prouder of than of her
score of millionaires.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-09-27
What the Preacher Learned.

A celebrated preacher, when speaking
to some 5000 children, after delighting
them with variety of stories, thought
1t might be well to point the moral of
one of them. He had hardly, however,
begun to say, "Now this teaches" when
little ragamuffin on the front bench
cried out: Never mind what it teaches.
Giles another story" II learned from
that rascal" he said, "to wrap the moral
well in the heart of the story, not to put
it as a sting into the tail. London Tit
Bits.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-09-27

The Woman's Journal corrects state
ment to the effect that this fall will wit
ness women voting for president of the
United States for the first time. Women
not only voted for the first three presi-
dents Of this Union, but they voted in
New Jersey. A majority of the Jersey
women were Federalists, however, and
it is said their votes carried the state for
John Adams against Thomas jefferson.
So when the Jeffersonians got possession
of the Jersey legislature they disciplined
the ladies by DISTINGUISHING all women
in the state. SO says the W.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-09-27

Hon. John L. Wilson, of Spokane,
and Attorney A. F. Burleigh, of Sc
attic, are announced to address the cit
liens of Fairhaven Friday evening on
the issues of the campaign from the
Republican standpoint. The members
of the local club owe it to themselves,
as well as to heir distinguished guests,
that the fullest publicity possible be
given to the announcement, and every
means pursued towards securing an au-
dience some little in keeping with the
occasion. 1t should be seen to also
that the ladies of the city are encour-
aged to attend, for though the primary
purpose of a political meeting is to win
votes, it should nevertheless be source
of humiliation to any American woman
TO find it necessary to confess ignorance
respecting the great political questions
now agitating the nation. The gentle
men who are to address the residents
Of the city Friday evening are speakers
Of pronounced ability, and may be de-
pended upon to give an intelligent dis
cussion of the questions involved in the
campaign, and are well worthy hear