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FELL TO THEIR DEATH.
\ Party of Aeronauts Prccipitatcd 10
the, Ground.

4 frightful accident occurred at the
Crystal Palace, London. \ piece being
given at the palace lately is cal!ci Tho
Tragic Episode but Wednesday the
audience witnessed a real and ierribls
tragedy. Captain Dale, the wellknowi,
acronaut, was 10 give n balloon cxhibi-
ton in the presence of thousands OF
Sunday school holiday seekers. The cap
tain invited any who desired to accom-
pany him on his voyage in the air. Sew
eral volunteered and the balloon started
on its upward Hight, the great multitude,
largely composed of children, watching
il with wondering gaze. Suddenly the
balloon burst. and a cry of terror aro c
from the audience as the balloon coli
lapseei with q noise as of the discharge
of huge cannon. The acronaut fell to
the ground dead, and three Of the pas
sonoprS were seriously in iured
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The Tariff TrapThe Old Parties Would Make Issue.

dogs. He passes by. He may not en-
courage sheep-killing: but the owner
Of the sheep would believe it and cen
sure him for his crime of commission,
in not driving off the dogs. That is
what the government does. 1t sees
these trusts and syndicates robbing the
people. 1t hears their cries for help.
1t hears their demands for relief Ii
simply lets the robbers proceed, when
it is it's duty to stop it.
The government is the people. The
people are shaping it's policy now.
They are expressing themselves on
these questions. They are giving the
inspiration. the prompting and the
motion to the government by what
they do now. BY the way they act and
vote they show whether they favor the
continuance of this robbery. or the
protection of the producers and labor
ers from its continuance.-Allianct
Herald,
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-07-07

- IN W f'S't'" nTatlltt Oh Jaw
in Evansville. In 1851 he en'crel the
Union army as Ma.or of the Twenty
fifth Indiana In 'antty. He was sue
cessively promoted t. Lieutenant Colo
mel and Colonel. During his entire mil
itary service he was connected with the
Western armies OF rant AMI Sherman.
After the war he hccamr litor OF the
Evansville Taly Journal an! in 1863
was appointed 20 ,tmas.rr Of that city.
Four years later he was sent TO M"Al"c
By Pr, sidcnt Grant as nt"i States
Min s.cr, and in 1s"O was II appoint. d
10y President Hayes. The sam" year ha
was transferred 10 Russia, which ,riss:' n
he held about II yea. He then resigned
and returned ho.nc to attend to private
business. lie settled ,irwn i'll WASH
ing:on. giving his attention chiefly to
practicing in international cases hnC
acting as counsel for foreign legations
before courts or commissions.
Mr.. Foster was appointed Minister to
Spain by Prcsid,n. ARTHUR and served
two wears. when he resigned and re-
turned to the United States. While in
Spain he had negotiated an important
commercial treaty which was strongly
opposed in the S. nate and finally re-
jected by that hoay. 1t was withdrawn
by President Cleveland for rcconNidera-
ton. Foster returned tn Spain to nego-
tiatc for modified treaty. hut his mis-
! sion was failure. He has for some
time been acting as diplc matte attorney
for the Department Of State.
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Fifteen thousand soldiers in blue uni
forms are coming to Chicago next Oc
tober to take part in the ceremonies OF
detlicating the Worlds Fair buildings,
says Chicago dispatch. They will DO
here four days at least. under command
of Gen. Nelson 4. Miles. The South
Park Commissioners have refused to
allow the soldiers to camp in Washing
ton Park, and Gen. Miles has been wor-
rying for several weeks to know where
he would send them. Yesterday it was
decided that the troops should spread
their blankets in three of the big build
ings at jackson Park. The infantry
will go in camp in the Electricity and
Mines and Mining Building. Sheds will
be built for the horses. The dedi-
catory ceremonies, unless the date is
changed, will extend from Oct. IL to
Oct IL.
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Useful KASket
IT is best to save all egg shells to set

IT is best to save all egg shells to set
tie coffee.
KEEPING pan of water in the oven
will prevent fowl from scorching.
PEARL knife handles should he rubbed
with salt rag dipped in fine table salt,
then polished with leather
FINGER marks may be removed from
vanished furniture by rubbing well with
very little sweet oil upon a soft rag.
NEVER omit regular bathing, for un-
less the skin is in regular condition the
cold will close the pores and favor con-
gestion or other diseases.
IT is said that if the woodwork in the
kitchen is kept constantly scrubbed
with water in which potash has been
dissolved, reaches and ants will speedily
disappear.
CoMBING and rubbing the scalp of the
head with the hand draws the blood up
to the surface Of the head, and not only
relieves the pain at times, but adds new
strength to the hair.
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DANGEROUS CLASSES.
THE MEN WHO BUY AND SELL
VOTES.
Tribute to the Memory of Col. l.. l.. Folk
Omaha IOrecasts-The Trusts fri
nmphant-lI"w Protection Protects the
Farmer Abolish Banks o Issue.
Political, Panslercrs.

The two dangerous classes in the
United States to-day are the men who
buy votes and the men who sell them.
1t is custom. shameful though it may
be. to buy and sell votes at election
time. This statement is neither col
ored or exaggerated.
1t sends dagger into ones heart to
even contemplate it. Laboring men
see no light ahead. 1t is all class leg
islation-in favor of the rich against
the rCor. And then the devil steps in
with twenty-five dollars in hand and
says: Take this money and cast
your vote for this or that candidate.
More than two-thirds of the people
of the United States are without Il
homeland man without a home is
without patriotism. What matters it
to him what becomes of his country? :?
If his country affords him no home
why should he love or defend his
country? If, in the bitterness of his
heart, he says. as did Philep Nolan.
oh the United States" who shall
blame him.
Without home, without property,
without a country, without honor, with
out principle, they fall easy victims to
the political panderers who offer them
money for their votes. 1t is. indeed. a
dark picture. 1t makes one heart sick
TO think of it. And the worst is vet to
come.
In a short time the same men who
are now buying votes will some day
sieze the government and pat muskets
into the hands of the men whose votes
they are now buying, and at the point
Of the bavonet suppress free speech,
free press and even the ballot box.
The few will rlunder and rob the
people-and then with the plumber
thus gained maintain an army to pro-
tect themselves in the possession of
their i'll COTTON gains.
There has been enough money stolen
from the American people within the
last twenty years to arm and equip a
standing army large enough to keep in
subjection the people of the United
States. And there are men enough who
can be hired to shoulder m,lskets" for
that very purpose!
The men who buy votes are the men
who would usurp and overthrow the
governmental the men who sell
their votes are the men who would act
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The ThcOs0plical Ga cnIar.

From the sophical point of view
the four ages are as follows: Sata
Yuga golden agel. l,72S, 900 years;
Tresta Yuga (silver agc). 1,296. 900
years: Dwapara Iuga copper or
bronze age). S64. 200 years: Kali Yuga
Gron agc), 1872, 200 years. The total
of these four ages make one Maha
Yuga, or great age, of 1920, 900
years. One thousand Maha Yugas
make one Kalpa, or day of Brahma,
equal to 1920, 900. COO years, after
which the night of Brahma, a period
of equal duration. comes on, and the
earth vanishes from the objective
plane of existence. Three hundred
and sixty days and nights Of Brahma
make one year of Brahma. and 100
years Of Erahma make the Great
kalpa, Il period of 3ll. .040, 600, 600, 600
years, after which the entire solar
system passes into its night, and
everything in it is destroyed on the
objective plane. The great night"
then lasts for an equal period, and
then new sun arises on Il new soar
system. and evolution begins once
more, the Karma of the previous
system being carried over to the new
one. According to the Secret Doc
tr;nc" we are now living in the Kali
Yuga. the last of the fodr ages, and
it began nearly 5000 years ago, with
the death Of Krishna, b. c. 3lO2.
The first minor cycle Of the Kali
Yuga will end in the years 1878.
% 1Af
however, before we arrive at the end
of our present age. The Kali Yuga
is known as the black age. the age
of spiritual darkness, and during its
existence the human race pays up for
it's misdeeds in the previous ones
Baltimore American.
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New York gave 3 votes to Basco,n.
When the result was known the band
played Hail. Columbia, aad the usual
shouting and general hurrah took place.
The roil-call for candidates for Vice
President was ordered, and the follnw-
ing candidates We're pres, ntci: Sam
Small II of Georgia, William Satterlee OF
Minnesota, Joshua Lcverins of Mary.
land, J. b. Crantill of Texas, and Thos.
Il. Carskadon of West Virginia. Small
Withdrew before a vote was taken.
The totals on the first ballot for Vice
President were: lowering, $50; Cranfill,
1856; Satterlee, 26: Carskadon, p.
Enough changes were made before the
figures were announced to give Cranfill
OF Texas 4l6 votes, . more than enough
to win. DIR. Crantill was called to the
stage and made stirring address. and
at 2:l0 a. M, Friday, the convention ad-
iourned sine die.
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LII AiemOrx Of COl. Polk.

How many thousands in every corner
of this fair land, who have listened to
the gle wing eloquence of the now 81
lent hero, will pause to think of the
one who has gone. With bated breath,
with tearbedimmed eyes, will they re-
call the feeling that penetrated every
fiber Of the being. calling forth the
purest instincts, the noblest impulses,
responsive then and ever since, at NEIL
tion of his name.
We see him ON the platform address,
ing multitudes greater than which men
never addressed, in one continuous
ovation covering his term of President
of the Alliance; we see him in the par
lor mingling in the social whirl, in the
jaunt through Florida, on the boats,
the wharfs, the cars, always ready with
a smile, a cheerful word, God bless
you," for every one. No voice has,
during the brief period that marke
his public career, touched more hearts,
cheered more dropping spirits, kindled
the dying embers of hope in more hu-
man breasts, than our own beloved
Polk.
The vacancy now felt is not the loss
of one who has political favor to be.
stow; official perquisites at his com
mand. Contrast the grief that per
vades the humble agricultural homes
of this land with that which pours
forth from the post Offices, the state,
county, and township Offices. when 9
great political chieftain drops from the
ranks. The one is mourned for the
offices he could bestow, the other fo1
the earnes. ambition he ever kindled
to lift his fellow men and women to 9
higher plane of manhood and woman
hood. not an ambition to make of hi.
followers servile, cringing tools. but t.
inspire hope, love for home and coun
try, by insuring to the humblest full
return for the honest labors expended
in the God-given desire to make hom,
happy by making it secure. We say
place those manly sentiments side b,
side with the oft-repeated TRADES 0
hate, setional animosity, pestiferou
mouthings of the political boss, who's.
"total disability" consisted in disabilit,
to get into active service; who neve
earns an honest living, but rants ant
howls to secure sustenance from tn
treasury he has never paid dollar i,
direct tax to replenish. The one is
noble type Of purest patriotism: tn
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-07-07

There is no one thing in political
science that is SO little understood and
SO generally misunderstood as the
meaning of the little word, value" I"
Out Of this want of understanding has
grown thousand heresies and yaga
ries which have been taken up by un
thinking people, and often by intelli-
gent men, and have become with them
fixed principles. Values are all rela-
tive. Values can only be established
by comparison. \ thing is valuable or
cheap measured by a comparison with
other things having commercial value,
| and the value of each thing is deter
mined by the desire for possession of
it and the ability of the people to graf
ify that desire for possession. The
most abused term, probably, in use in
! the discussion of the science of money
is intrinsic value" Some befuddled
| scientists talk glibly about no money
being good money which has no in
trinsic value. This theory has been in
such common use for SO many years,
! and is therefore such an ancient un-
truth that it is difficult to eradicate it
from the minds of the people. In the
| first place. there is no such thing as
bad money Anything which is so
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-07-07

1t sounds very pathetic to hear the
old Republican stump orator tell how
the old party loves the wage-earners,
and how they fight SO manfully to
keep up protective tariff so that the
laborer will have plenty of work at
good pay. Read the following from
the Iron Age, the organ of the iron
and steel association OF America:
Unless all signs fail there will be a
complete readjustment of wages this
year in the iron trade. This readjust-
ment will be on materially lower
scale than that ruling at present.
From present appearance the rednc
tions of wages are likely to he burden
somely heavy to those who have to
bear them. There must be reduction
of wages to keep establishments in OPP
Grafton. 1t will be the part Of wisdom
for labor leaders at such time as this
to advise their followers to make the
best of the situation.
In the meantime Carnegie and his
elan go on piling up millions, and the
old party ringers go on lying to the
people. Mills Weekly World.
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NOT EVEN A POSTAGE STAMP
LEFT.
Worlds Columbian Commission Hasn't a
Cent Remaining in Its Treasury.

The Worlds Columbian Commission
IS now without even Il postage stan p.
Every dollar of the appropriation of S5a.'
300 has been exhausted and SEC retail :
Dickinson hasn't enough money left Il
pay the stationery expenses OF his
office, unless he goes into his OWE
pocket. Dire Tor General Eavis has
not drawn his salary for several
months. Colonel Dickinson has gone
without pay for the same period in rrd"r
that the clerks in his Office could draw
their salaries in full. They have hcs II
paid to June 1, and. even in case Il de-
nciency bill is passed, will get no more
money until early in August. But few
members OF the national board who at
tended the April session have received
the money they advanced for railroad
fare and hotel expenses. Wednesday
night the last postage stamp in Sccre-
tary Dickinson's office was put on a let
ter to Secretary Foster. informing him
Of the condition of the National Com
mission S finances.
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Important Information.

Mrs. Emery, in her great little book,
the "Scven Financial Conspiracies, "
tells us that the bill making green
backs legal tender for all debts public
and private except duties on imports
and interest on the public debt, was
passed Feb. %, 1862.
The act creating the national bank
ing system was passed June , 1864.
The act providing for the contrac-
ton of the currency is the simplest,
most innocent little thing ever created.
1t is entitled "An act to amend an act
entitled, An act to provide ways and
means to support the government.
passed April II, 1866.
The credit strengthening act by
which the $50 bonds were made payn-
BILE in coin, was approved March 1S,
1862.
The refunding act providing for the
perpetuation of the national debt. and
placing upon posterity continuous
burden of interest was approved July
IA, 1870.
The act demonetizing silver was
passed February IL, 1873.
The resumption act by which all
these series of notes and bonds were 70
be redeemed in coin was approved Jan.
uary IA, 1875.
These are the seven steps to Shy.
locks throne.
The issues of greenbacks, treasury
notes and coupon bonds is very com.
plicated subject, and cannot be fully
discussed in one article. That which
most interests our readers is the his
tory of paper money beginning with
the war. The first issue of this kind
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-07-07

SAMUEL T. DICKIE. Wednesday morn
ing. A huge American flag surmoantcd
the stage and supported portraits of
Washington. Lincoln, Neal Dow and
Frances Willard.
The first cheering was that which
greeted the massachusetts, delegation,
which entered in ii body carrying opened.
Eght-gray larasols, and singing a cam
paiyn tune. II was 1880 o'clock when
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-07-07

Tom Anjerry, a student at the Uni
versity of Texas, applied to Professor
Snore for permission to he absent: Il
would like to be excused from my
geography lesson this afternoon, us
want to take my sister out riding.
The old professor, who is no fool
looked at the young man over the
top of his spectacles and said, slowly
want to take your sister out riding
do you? Is she any relation to yoa?'
Texas Siftings.
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The Peoples party is opposed to ma
tional banks and all other banks of
issue. They are not opposed to clear
ing houses for banking purposes, which
under proper regulation will be useful.
Justice to all is quite different from
favoritism to few, such as now en-
ioyed by the national banks. Abolish
the banks of issue, is the demand.
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,raska Farmers Alliance.
The Trusts Triumphant.

Judge jackson of the United States
Circuit Court at Cincinnati, has held
in the whisky trust indictments that,
as the trust was organized be-ore the
antitrust law was adopted, its arpli-
cation to the whisky trust makes it an
err poH factO law and unconstitutional
He further holds that Congress has no
right to forbid business combinations
for mutual profit. This makes the
trusts solid.
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arms OF the several
States, pain 5, and
60 Scrs, and prohioi-
ton in s Grip tion $
when the delegates
to the sixth annual
tOnvent.On of { he
Prohibition party
more prompt than
the delegates of til.
older political par
1ias t,cpan fn flo in
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WHILE both the old parties axe
wrangling over the Offices. the Peoples
party is discussing principles. Note
the contrast! With the Peoples party
principles are first, nominations Sec
ond: with both the old parties, nomi.
nations are the chief thing. In such q
contest. principle must finally win,
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-07-07

The production for July was fixed at
$1,000 tons. The actual production
in July. 1891, was 3,IGl, ,'39 tons; in
July, 1890, 3,5lo.o7s tons, and in July.
1889, 3,627 ,522 tons. TIL Western sales
agents also held "A meeting and dee ded
upon an advance in price of - c, nts a
ton On all sizes.
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as soldiers These two classes consti-
tute the dangerous classes. They rep
resent the extreme of society-the
enormously rich and the monstrously
poor-the nnprincipled aristocrat of
wealth and the depraved pauper.--
Georgia Farmer.
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UP GOES THE PRICE OF COAL
Sales Agents Meet and Decide 10 Advance
Their Rates.

TNCfr l.lte3.
New York sp cal: Coa' prices W re
advanced sharply on Thursday. sub
s'antial increas" had gcnelaly been
looked for, luc the advance dee del up
on in the eases of some sizes OF Goa, was
greater than had been lr"ihesieF. he
Eastern sales agent. o. the anthracite
companies met at the Central Ru l'ing,
on Liberty street, AID decided TO raise
rates as follows: On chc-tnu' and stove
sizes, % cents a ton: egg, ~ cent :;
CRATE, l. cents. These advances are
from the figures of the June schedule.
The rev prices take effect immediately.
Quotations for JU,y. Is 10, 1891, and 1S''2,
are shown in this table. viii h gives
pretty good evidence o. the workings of
tho Dal cn,n Ii n .lf ion.
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A New YORK parcr offers a first
class revolver for the best so-and-so.
Of course this cvangel of peace will
be accompanied bv rolice permit to
carry it.
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ton made by the
President.
John W at $ o II
Foster was born
in Indiana, Marct
?, 1896. He was
Sraelua' cd at the
In | ANA Sta t e
I niv' rsity in
1>J', AMI after il
year iii the Har-
V. ri law So no
was admitted tt
the bar and began
a.
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''BuRGLAR-PRoOF GLASS" is among
the late inventions. The domestic
window cleaner would be more inter-
ested in dirt-proof glass.
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No MAN is born into this world
whose work is not born with him;
there is always work, and tools to
work withal. for those who will, and
blessed are the heavy hands of toll.
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was for $3.50. 900, 900, approved July


II, 1861. This act was amended Au-
gust 5. 1862. This was further
amended February II, 1862, and in
these three acts the famous S60,OOO,O 900
of demand notes were included.
The greenback proper as commonly
understood, was authorized by the act
of February 25, 1861. And stripped
Of the exception clause contains the
principle that is the root of all conten-
ton. Stripped of all confusing verbi-
age this principle is that our govern
ment may issue legal tender paper. re-
deemable in no particular substance or
commodity. bearing no interest, and
payable at face value for all debts pub
lie and private. 1t does not say that
gold and silver shall not be money.
All subsequent financial Legislation is
a history of the struggle of the gold
bugs to drive the greenback ont of ex-
istence.-Alliance Farmer.
C"ct and rroiit of Bonds.
In speech made January IL. 1874,
by Senator Beck, of Kentucky, the fol-
towing table was given and it's correct
ness vouched for. Since then the
bonds thus bought have been made
PAYABLE in gold, brought to a pre-
MUM over gold. and used as IA base for
bank circulation. 1t is no wonder the
few are millionaires and the masses
0nd their homes under mortgage and
themselves in Strengthened circum-
stances Save the table and draw it
on every one that offers plutocratic
argument:
Up TO 1865 there had been sold the
following amounts of bonds payable
in La full 1nnnny
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Priscilla's Family.

Mrs. Priscilla Scroggins, of Georgia,
Who is said to be lis years old, has l,274
descendants living, Of whom $50 are
freat-grandchildren.
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other parasite feeding upon the ami

other parasite feeding upon the ami
mosities he purposely keeps alive.
Soldiers of the blue and gray: Let
your tears fail alike i'll memory of the
grandest spirit of reunited country.
He has fallen, but not in vain has he
lived. Let us show our love for him
by CARRYING forward the work which
was more than life to him.-Noncon,
fOrmiSt.
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Then why should the government
aid and encourage the syndicates and
trusts to rob the people! 1t does not
aid nor encourage them, some will say.
A man passing an open road with a
fold of sheep being prayed upon ly