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Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12
PENSIONS.

Sec 8. This convention hereby reaews
tie expression of a preclation Of the atri-
otisn OF the solIi rs and sailors f the Un-
ion in the wsr OF its praservat on, and we
favor ju aud liberal pension to all disa-
bled Uni N soldiers their widows and de-
pendents but We demand thai the wo k
of tn: lersi n Office shall be done industr-
ously, impartially and honestly. We de-
nounce the pgeent administrator of that
office inc mpe!ent, corrupt, dlsgraccful
and dishonest.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12
REMoNsTRANcE WITH RUSSIA.

Sec II. This country has always been
the refuge of the oppressed from every land
-exilcs for conscience sake-and the spirit
of the founders of our Government, we con-
demn the oppression practiced by the Rus
sian Government upon It's Lutheran and
Jewish subjects, and we III upon our Ma
tOnal Government, in the interest OF justice
and humanity by all just and proper means
to use its prompt and best efforts to bring
abouta cessation of these cruel prosecutions
in the common Of the Gar and to secure to
the oppressed equal r1gnts.
We tender our profound and earnest SYM
pathy TO those lovers OF fre dom VINO are
struggling for home rlle and the great cause
Of self government in Ireland.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12
& Fr. SMITH RAILWAY

Call on the lluddlestons for The
best of seasonable meats, fish, oysters,
poultry, etc. They are always we'll
stocked, polite, clever and accommo.
dating. p-i0-tf
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12
FoREIGN AFFAIRS.

Sec. 10. The Democratic party is the only
party that has ever given the country for
eign policy, CONSTANT aid vigorous, com
reIlng respect abroad and inspiring conf
dence at home. While avoiding eGtangling
alliances, it has aimed TO cultivate friendly
relations with other nations, and especially
with our neighbors on the American CONT
nent, whose destiny is closely linked with
our own, and weview with alarm the ten.
dency to policy of Irritation and bluster
which is liaOIe TO confront us with the alter
native OF bumillstcn or war at sny time.
We iayor the maintenance of navy
strong enough tos all purposes OF national
defense snd 20 properly maintain the honor
and dignity of the country sbroad.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12

Hl WI'FFNlNN fW lMI IA
down fivm oycrwork er household carer.
Browns lron s}itiers RcbuIlda tlo
yHtem, aids digestion, removes excess OF bile,
nd cures maasip 'iai 'he rep,inn.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12
JOD Printing.

The DEMOCRAT Job Office in connection is full and
pete and every description of Job Printing done in the
best style and at reasonable prices
pg Office the old stand next door to the Pacific Ex-
press office, lis State line Avenue.
J. w. GARDNER, Proprietor.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12
WATERWAY IMPROVEMENTS.

Sec IA. The Federal Government should
care fo- aud improve TIE Mississippi River,
nd 9th r great waterways Of the Republic,
so as to secGre Tor the interior States easy
and ehep transportation to tdewaer.
When any waterway of the Republic is of
sufficient Importance to demand aid of the
Government, such aid should be extended
upon q definite plan OF continuous work un-
til permanent improvement is secured.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12
BEST PRINTED PAPER
BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM
LARGEST CIRCULATION

With bran type and other improvements made, the
DEMOCRAT is second to daily outside Of the large
cities. 1t is the newsest local paperin the city.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12

as the stan ard money Of the county as 10
the coinage OF botn gold and silver without
discr minat nc against either metal OF charge
for uIintage, but the dollar unit of coinage
If both metals must be OF equal intrinsic ana
exehangeable value or be adjusted through
International agreement or by such s4se-
guards OF legislation MS shall insure the
ms'nt nance Of the parity of the two metals,
anu the equal power OF every dollar at all
tTes in the markets and in the payment of
eebts, and we demand that oil paper eurren
ey shall be kept at par with and redeemab'e
in such coin. We insist upol this policy as
especially Necessary iorihe projection of the
farmers and labUrihg cissses, the fl st and
most defensele-s victims of unstb money
ard tlCctuatiDg currency.
BANK TAXATION.
Sec. 8. We recommend that the prohibit
tory 10 per cent tax on State bank issues be
repealed.
CIVIL SERVICE.
Sec, 8. Public office is a public trust We
reatfrm the declaration OF the Demo ratio
Convention oi 1876 tor the reform of the
evil service, and we call for the honest en-
lercement for all laws regulating the same
The nomination OF President as in the re-
cent Republican Convention by delegations
composed srgely Of appontees holding office
at his pleasure, is scandalous satire upon
free popular institutions, aud startling il
lustralNn Of the methods by which Presi-
dent may satisfy his ambition. we de-
nounce policy under which Federal Office
holders usurp control Of party conventions
In the States, and we pledge the Democratic
party to the reform OF these and all other
abuses which threaten individual liberty and
selt-goyerpment
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12

Mrs. ELIZA TAYLOR, MCKINNEY,
Writes az follows: "May IA, 90.-Gents:
Nv daughter, now ~ years old has had
A terrible form Of skin disease ever since
she was an infant This spring it was worse
than It ever had been. She has just fin
ished taking one bottle of Saxet, and is
row we'll; there is not a sign of the dis
esse left. Saxet is wonderful medicine"
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12
TEXAS AND PACIFIC,
TRANs-coNTINENTAL
COTTON BELT.

No. A from IT. Worth arrives 6:30 D. m
No. A for Memphis leaves 500 p. m
No. 2, Cairo and st. Louis ar 600 a. m
No. " leave 6:20 a. m
No. | for Waco and Tylerar. 1920 pm
No. for leave 10;l5 D. m
No. 8 for Ft, Worth arrives 1885 a. M
No. 3 for leaves 0:65 a. m
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12
THE WORLDS FAIR.

Sec l6. Recognizing the Worlds Col
umbisn Exposition as national undertake
ing of vast importance in which the general
government has invited the co-operation of
all the powers of the world, and apprecat-
ing the ceptance by many OF such powers
of the invitation &c extended and the troad
and liberal efforts being made by them TO
contribute to the grandeur Of the undertake
ing, we are Of tue opinion that Congress
should make such necessary financial pro-
vision as shall be requisite to the mainten-
ance of he national honor and public faith.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12
NICARAGUA CANAL.

Sec. Is. For purposes of national de-
fensc and the promotion OF commerce be-
tween the States, we recognize the early
constr ct on Of The Nicaragua Canal and its
protect on against fore gn control as of
great Importance to the Unit d States.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12
SILVER corSAvG

H. va denounco Ne Republican
,oc,slnhon Known NJ the shern en pct q lcVV
a. A cowarlly nA6eshnr ifaufns wl'n XXI XXI
WbIlItIas 81 dAnger iu lliQ iutupel wl'eq
should mako an Ql M siQponprA' w w n
IN nnlhnr. Anylnua for ita Hpeooy FVpphl'
Wehold 70 The ueo ofbolb gold Eng 'lvsr
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12

ing, we are Of too opinion that Congress
should make such necessary financial pro.
vision as shall be requisite to the mainten-
ance of he national honor and public faith.
THE SCHOOL QUESTION.
Sec. H. Popular education being the on
" safe basis OF popular suffrage, we recom-
mend to the several States most liberal ap-
propn4lion ior tho public schools. Free
common schools are the nursery Of good
government, and they have always received
The fostering rc of tho Democratic party,
which favors every means of increasing in
telligence. Freedom Of education being an
essential of civil and religious liberty as we'll
a. a necessity for the development of intel
ligence, must not be interfered with under
anv prctext whatever. We are opposed to
State interference with parental rights or
rights OF conscience in the education of
children as an Infringement of the funda-
mental Democratic doctrine that the largest
individual liberty consistent with the rights
of others insures the highest type of Amerl-
can citizenship and the best government.
ADMISSION OF THE TERRITORIES
Soc. IS. Weapprove the action of the
present House OF Representatives in passing
bills admitting into the Union as States the
Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, and
we favor the early admission OF all tho Ter
ritores having the necessary population and
resources to entitle them to Statehood, an6
while they remain Territories we hold that
the officials appointed to administer tho gov
ernment of any Territory, together with the
District of Columbia and Alasba, should be
bona lde residents Of tho Territory or dis
trIot in which heir duties are to be per
formed. The Democratic party believes IN
home rule the control Of their own af-
fairs by the peopls oftne vlcinage.
pRoTEorIoN OF RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.
Sec. TO- We favor legislation by Con-
grcss and State legislatures to protect the
lives and limbs Of railway employees and
those of other hazardous transportation
companies and denounce the inactivity of
tho Republican p rty, and particularly the
Republican Senate, for causing tho defeat
of measures beneficial and protective TO
this class OF wage-goers
THE SWEATING SYSTEM DENouNnEp.
We aro In lavor Of the enactment by
tho States OF laws tor abolishlng the noto-
rIous sweating system for abolshlng con
tract convict labor and prohibiting the
employment in factories Of cnldren under
10 years NJ age. "
susPTuARY LAWS.
va mo opposed ty ali sumptuary laws az
an Interference with tho individual rights Of
tho pAtlHcn-
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12
BANK TAXATION.
CIVIL SERVICE.

Sec. 8. We recommend that the prohibi-
tory 10 per cent tax on State bank issues be
renealad
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1892-09-12
for Infants and Children.

Castoriaiss well adapted to children that
Irecommend 1t as superior to any prescription
known to me-" II. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III So. Oxford st., Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Just big enough to carry provisions for II
men for five or six years, besides the neces-
sary fuel; her size was about 600 tons dis
placement with light cargo. She had an
engine of 160 indicated horsepower, which
would give her speed of six knots, with
consumption Of f2sz tons of coal in "a hours
She would consequently be no fast vessel
nor a good sailer; but this was of relatively
little importance on such an expedition,
where they would have to depend princi-
pally on the speed of the current and the
ice movement. and not that of the ship.
Would Be Raised on the Ice.
In further description of his vessel, he
explained that it was so built that it was Of
q plump and rounded form, so as to leave
no place for the ice to catch hold of, and,
owing to her sloling sides, she would, in
place of being crushed, be raised by the ice
until she rested upon her keel on its sur
face. The vessel was launched at Laurvik
on the 26th of October, and was named
Fran, which meant forward" Fran
would certainly be the strongest vessel ever
used in the Arctic regions. She would be
crushed only in quite extraordinary CON-
blnation of circumstances With this
vessel and a crew of IL strong and we'll
picked men, besides an equipment for five
or six years as good in all respects as mod
ern appliances could afford, he thought the
enterprise had a good prospect of success.
He expected to reach the iarthest posi-
bic point north in open water in August or
September When they could get no
farther they would have nothing left but to
run into the ice at the most favorable spot.
and from there trust entirely to the current
running across the Polar region. The ice
would, perhaps, soon begin to press, but it
would only lift their strong ship. Proba-
bly, they would, in this way. in the course
of some years, be carried across the Pole,
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THE SMOKE MUST 60.
England Thinks She Has Found the
Proper Way to Danish 1t
RESULT OF A SCIENTIFIC TEST.
Plan by Which the Weary Man Can
tupply Himself With CzOne.
BETTER TINES IN TIE BIG CITIES

fcoRREsPoGDENCE OF THE DIsPATCH.1
LONDON, Dec 9.-The new English in-
vention for the consumption of smoke has
been received with so much favorable criti-
cism in England as to apparently have es-
tablished its claim to be the most practical
method yet devised for graphing with the
smoke nuisance in cities burning bituminous
coal Some time ago an ingenious inventor
show ed how smoke could be robbed Of half
its banefulness by a refining process His
plan was to wash the smoke before it es-
capped through the chimneyA The new in
vention adopts an entirely different prin.
cip1e, burning the smoke by driving II
through the fire itself So adaptable ID
this principle to all Kinds of fires that
various cities in England are now propos-
ing to utilize it for municipal works, in
GLIDING gas, electric lighting and destruo-
tors
The London Lancet, which appointed .
special commission to test the claims and
merits of the system, says: '"The result is
sminently satisfactory, and demonstrates
clearly, not only the fuel-economizing effect
of the system, but also that the production
Of SCOT is practically nil" The results Of
the tests made by the LGscst are interesting.
The report Of the commission gives COM
parison of the deposit made by burning .
specific quantity of coal under the new sys-
TEN and in an ordinary range, over period
of several days Under the new system the
percentage in dry deposit was: Carbon,
7.20; hydrogen, O. %; mineral matter, 49, 1jj
nitrogen (partly as ammOnia) and oxygen,
3.42, as against percentage in the ordinary
range o Carbon. 1916: mineral matter
16 S. and nitrogen (ammunia), b 36. the lnOiS-
ture being respectively 070 and 665 per cent.
Coming from such an authoritative source
these figures carry great weight. Is IS Sig
nificant TACT that in no single instance wero
incomplete products OF combustion like car
bon monoxide or sulphuretted hydrogen OBJ
tanned.
But the inhabitants of cities are now
promised, not only an atmosphere prac-
tically smokeless, but a ready means OF
charging the air over a large area with
ozone. Mr.. Leggott, the inventor OF the
new method OF smoke consumption spoken
of above, at q recent meeting in London
stated that he hoped shortly TO be able to
demonstrate tnat by q twist of the hand the
weaTied Londoner would presently turn on
his supply of life-renewing ozone just In the
same way as he now switches on electricity
or turns on gas or water
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or near it and into the sea between Spitz-
bergen and Greenland, where they would
get into open water again, and be able to
return home. There was, however, a posi-
bility that the ship, in spite of all precau-
tions, might be crushed in the ice, but if
this happened the expedition would have
another resource. Ii would then be time
to use the ice as quarters instead of the
ship, and they would have to move all
provisions, coal, boats, etc, to an icefoe
and camp there.
Two Warm Saloons on the Ice.
For this purpose he had built two big
boats, % feet long, 9 feet broad, with fiat
bottoms. and so deep that they could sit and
lie comfortably inside them. They had q
deck, and were so big that the whole crew
could live even in one of them. These
boats would be placed side by side on the
ice. would be covered with thick warm
tents and snow, and would give two good
warm saloons Thus they could continue
their Journey. When they emerged into
omen water on this side of the Pole there
would not be any great difficulty in return
ing nome in their boats; such a thing had
been done before. Whether they succeeded
or not, ne felt that this was the way in
which the unknown regions would some
day be crossed
II might be possible that the current
would not carry them exactly across the
Pole. but it could not easily be very lar of,
and the principal thing was to explore the
unknown polar regions, not TO reach that
mathematical point in which the axis Of our
globe had its northern termination. 1t
could not be considered improbable that
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EMPLOYERS HARSHLY JUDGED.
A Clergyman Views Labor Questions From
an Unusual Standpoint.

A Clergyman Views Labor Questions From
an Unusual Standpoint.
At least one man has arisen who thinks
that the grievances involved in the discus
sion OF labor questions are mostly against
the employers Rev. E. II. Hall, of Boston,
has q remarkable sermon in the last issue of
the Christian Register in which he takes the
following ground:
'For one, must confess that the abuses
which have stirred me most profoundly of
late have not been the sutferings and priva-
tions of the poor, but the false ideas of
their rights aroused among them bY the
mistaken zeal of their triends-not the
indifference of society toward the outcast
and oppressed. but the encouragement which
society has given them to feel that in every
struggle in which they are engaged they are
always in the right and others always in
the wrong. What has made my blood boil
oftenest of late has been the insolent as
sumption on the part of the laborer, prompted
by ill-adVised friends, that all the social
troubles that arise are the fault of the
moneyed classes, intent always upon gain,
and ready always to grind the poor to the
earth. l have noticed that any degree OF
violence on the laborer's part is coudoned
or apologized for; while, if the employer
uses the slightest force in the defense of
his property or his rights, the vials of the
whole community's wrath are poured upon
his head have noticed that, if the man.
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April 30.-The day IS clear and sunshiny,
with a strong wind from the northeast. 1
think am dying.
So ends the record. The last days entry
is scarcely legible.
It was not until June that the first of
the whalers reached the island. IT they
had come o month earlier it is barely
possible that they might have saved some
of the wretched sailors. In front of one
of the bodies was some bread and cheese of
which the man had made his last repasti
and before the body of the man who had
written the last words in the journal was
an open prayer book.
Hudson First Found the Island.
1t is worth while to correct blunder
which is to be found in many encyclope-
dias and books The Dutch sailor, Jan
Mayen, whose name was given to the is
land, was not its discoyerer, as nearly every
work of reference asserts. In 1907 the great
English traveller, Henry Hudson, while ex-
ploring in Arctic waters, discovered the
bleak island and gave to it the name of
Hudson's Touches 1t was not until four
years after that the Dutchman, Jan Mayen,
in the ship Esk visited the island.
1t is another case OF Columbus and
Amerigo VespuccI. The original dis
coverer was not honored in the name of the
thing discovered. The name of the Dutch
man was given to the island, and one oil its
extinct craters is known as the Esk, from
the name of his vessel; and, strangely
enough, we have a more satisfactory ac-
count of Hudsou's discovery of the island
than Of the subsequent visit of Jan Mayen.
CYRUS c. ADAMS.
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ayers Of important concerns or superintend-
ents of large industries surrender to every
demand of labor and pocket every afront,
they are loudly applsuded; while, if they
stand firmly for their simple rights they
are ssvagely denounced. The only thing
which is praised in dealing with social
troubles is weakness and coWardice. the
only thing which is blamed is spirit and
courage. The militia, the police, the law,
are considered excellent institutions 80 long
as they keep wholly in the background or
wink at disturbances of the peace; they are
an intolerable despotism the moment they
are called in to enforce order and obedience.
There are organized bodies of laborers at
this very moment claiming for themselves
the right to drive all other workmen from
their occupation, and declaiming against
the State militia and the police as their
natural foes, simply because public senti-
ment has aoetted them in this belief, and
made it impossible for them to discriminate
between out and out tyranny on the part
of government and the necessary mainten-
ance of safety and peace.
''Now, with all possible allowance for the
advantages which the WELL -to-do have over
the poor, and which capital has over labor,
and all possible respect for organized labor
and the good it has already accomplished
plain that this condition of things is intol-
erable. 1t is as great wrong to one side
as to the other. Say what we will of the
need of mutual understanding and mutual
forbearance, cowardice and subServiency
can never be heroic traits. The state of So
ciety which makes the cultivation of these
traits necessary and requires one class to
fawn upon another is a bad state Of society.
1t makes no difference whether the poor
lawn upon the rich or the rich upon the
poor; 1t is equally au evil In the true
order of society there will be no favning
anywhere; no terrified laborers toiling on
starvation wages lest they lose their places,
no frightened employers on their knees
before their workmen lest they block the
wheels Of trade and make costly machinery
useless. A community which breeds these
Ignoble traits in any of its ranks is hope
lessly rotten, and does not deserve to pros
per, even If prosperity were possible on
such humiliating terms. The hope of every
community, whether in ancient or IN modern
times, lies in the resoluteness and courage
of its citizens The State is no stronger
than the members Of whom it is composed.
If they are weak and time-serving, and
ready to sacrifice everything for the sake of
peace and safety, or in order to escape
pecuniary loss, the State is itself weak. If
they are brave and strong and contemptu-
GUS of any loss, SO their honor and selt-re-
spect are preserved, the State is vigorous
and able to insure blessings in the end to
all its citizens In the modern State no
class has interests apart from the rest or in
antagonism to them. The good Of one class
is the good of all, nor can any one really
flourish at the expense of another.
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dam, which had large whaling interests in
the Northern seas, determined to send
small party to Jan Mayen to pass the win
ter Very little was known then of the
long Arctic night, and the company de-
sired to ascertain if it were feasible to win
ter whaling parties on Jan Mayen, where,
in the spring, they would be in the neigh
borhood of their seasons work. The COM
pany selected seven sailors who were to re-
main on the desolateisland a year Only
one of the sailors could read and write and
the record was to be kept by him.
On August 26, 1888, the seven sailors
we're landed on the island The company
had provided them with everything that
was thought necessary for their comfort
and we'll being, They had provisions in
abundance, but unfortunately, the COM
missary supplies consisted largely of salt
meat. This shows how little was known at
that time of the food required in Arctic
regions. Such diet was certain to breed
scurvy, and the sad fate of men placed in
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The voyagers on the Manche were greatly
surprised when they landed in Marie Muss
Bay and advanced into a, valley somewhat
sheltered froo the winds, where they saw
the little wooden building that had housed
the Austrian Circum-Polar party for 13
months in 18S2-S3 The storms of decade
had bleached and worn the exterior, but
within, everything was as the Aussrians
had left il. Not drop of water had
entered In the Kitchen was a dish full of
frozen birds eggs. One sailor had
forgotten little package he had
wrapped in handkerchief. A
shirt was hanging on a line where,
ten years before, it had been placed to dry
Maximum and minimum thermometers
hung on the walls.
In an excavation under the house, which
had served as bathroom and dark cham
Der for the photographer, were some bottles
of wine, and the visitors drank it, we'll as
sured that this particular fruit of the vine
was at least 10 years old. A zinc box in