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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-02-11
The UtOpian Farmer.


Come here, my dear; want ter say word or
Bout what ] thinks the proper thing for me
N you ter do.
we've gave me mighty good advice sence we
was wed that day
Way back in sixty-one. n now I'd like to have
ye say
Ell you don't think I've got right tn do as
others does,
N sell the crops before they grows. jest like
them fasteners.
Why, Meg, x man out in Moo York hez sold u
lot % corn
Thet's several thousand bushels more then
what the country's borne
N got his money. too. I'm told, n didn't have
peck
OF grain of any kind in hand to back his little
spec.
He cleared a hundrd thousand CASH. N.
Meg. that's more'n we
Have cleared at farmin all our days, or ever
will. by geel
N l can't say sees the use o. workin day by
day,
N only selin what we raise for mighty little
pay,
When them as hasn't any grain can sell up
there in town
A million pecks of wheat n corn. n git their
money down.
The modern plans a dandy. Meg. n eff we
makes it 60
III get you that pianner, n the trottin horse
for Joe.
Wen raise the mortgage off the roof n paint
the old barn red
N send the gals to Paris, France, and buy q
rosewood bed.
Wen get new carpets for the floors n keep q
hired man
Eff only cali 60 to town n learn to work the
plan:
N mebbe, Meg, I'd make enough ter run for
governor,
Or get sent down to Washin'ton a full fiedged
senator.
tell yer gal. this is an age tibet beats creation
Say,
What would yer father've said, dye think, II
he wuZ here today.
Ter see folks sellin wheat and corn, and hull
cars full o. rye,
N 'leven-twelfths of all they sold nowhere but
in their eye?
How he would yell ter think of us a-makin Of
pot
O. gold at sellin felers things we haven't really
got!
What's that We say? 1t isn't straight to sell
what We don't own?
N if goes into the spec, goes it all alone?
The music on the pianner ye think would
drive yer mad,
If it was bought from selin things ye never
rightly had?
WAL. have yer way: I'll let it go: | didn't
mean no harm:
But what is straight in cities can't be crooked
on a farm.
John Hendricks Bangs in Harpers Magazine.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-02-11
Increase In Taxation.

In the house Of representatives the
other day, Mr.. Livingston, Alliance
Democrat from Georgia, said that there
was more distress and suffering in this
country at present than at any previous
time in it's history. In my state. he said,
farms that cost their owners all the way
up to $l75 an acre are being sold under
the hammer every court day, from the
earliest hour to the latest that the law
permits the cry to be made.
The cause for this condition Of things
is taxation. In 1860 the expenses of the
government were $j3. 900. with 3D.
100000 of people, an average of $2.OS.
Twenty-one pounds Of cotton or ~
bushels of wheat would pay my part of
that national tax. In 1891 the expendi-
lures were $685.. 000.0 900. an average of
six dollars per capita. In addition, the
protection of private industries made all
additional tax of $2.75 per capita upon
the producers, so that now it requires
100 pounds of cotton or 81 bushels of
wheat to pay my part of the tax. The
total average amount OF tax assessed
against the residents of this country
national. state and municipal-is over
seventeen dollars. equal to volume
greater than the total amount of circu-
lation of the country. The ultimate
condition of taxation is the sweat of the
face. The people of this country look
for relief to this Democratic house of
representatives. Shall they have it!
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-02-11
pressed condition of our agricultural

pressed condition of our agricultural
interests"
This emasculation of the report with
the reference to 1.-The depressed condition
of our agricultural interests" speaks
louder than words. In plain English ii
means that the conditions revealed were
so damning that official authority inter.
vened to prevent their publication. Some
figures. however, which Governor Alb
bett allowed to go in are to be found on
page 1895 of the report. They prove that
in ten years farm values in New Jersey
declined from 10 to 80 per cent. in nearly
every quarter of the state. with very
few exceptions. Annexed are the figures
of population showing a falling off in
ninety-two townships of New Jersey.
This much of the truth is allowed to
come out in 1890. If we want to know
more we have only to turn to the report
Of the same bureau for 1889 and find
page 1861 that there were then at least
$1,000 farm mortgages in New Jersey:
that over 50 per cent. of the farms were
mortgaged. taking no account of ''sec-
ond mortgages" that the total mortgage
Indebtedness on New Jersey farm lands
was about $50, 100000, or an annual in
terest burden of $1.800.0 900: that there
was an average depreciation of 40 per
cent. in farm values in ten years.
These are the simple facts transcribed
from the official records and publica-
tons of the state, and until the advo-
Gates of unrestricted reciprocity can get
over them and explain them away, it is
worse than foolish to ask the Canadian
farmer to vote for policy which prom
Uses no more than to put Ontario agri
culture in the same condition as that of
New Jersey or any other heavily bur-
dened state Toronto Empire.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-02-11

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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-28
EQUALIZATION OF TAXES.
West Hoboken Will Not Help
Kearny In the Matter.

The West Hoboken Common Council
met last night. and held q ute a long ses-
sion. The Commissioners of the Monas-
terry Street improvement reported that,
having received communication from
Town Attorney Rich, they were unable to
make final report last night.
The Council directed Clerk Schneider
to inform the Kearny authorities that
West Hoboken did not think it would be
for the best interest Of the town to advo-
cate the repeating of the act constituting
a Board for the Equalizing of Taxes. The
West Hoboken authorities think. how
ever, that the Board should be composed
of one member from each Assembly dis
trict, with half the present salary.
1t was decided to direct Senator Hud-
speth and Assem- blyman Zoeller to
oppose Senate Bill No. 12 if its provision
would affect West Hoboken. The Clerk
was directed to ascertain from Town At
torney Rich whether Jane street has ever
been legally dedicated. The bond of G.
Mulbach, Town Surveyor, was accepted
and ordered filed.
The request of the Catholic Benevolent
Legion to have Improvements made TO
the old engine house was referred. 1t
was decided to notify the Board of Free
holders of the bad condition of the bridge
on Paterson Plankroad. Clerk Schneider
was requested so prepare list of delin-
quent taxpayers for the nurpose OF adver-
tisement. Chairman Chandless, Clerk
Schneider and Treasurer Nolan were au-
thorized to negotiate load of $1,000 for
four months to pay improvement certifi-
Gates. The Board then adjourned.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-28
NEW CITY HALL SITE.
The Mckenzie Property Must Be
Condemned By Law.

The City Hall Commissioners held a
short session this morning. but trans
acted only routine business. Robert Nc
Andrew representing the Mckenzie
estate, did not appear. The Nc Kenzie
heirs ask ST., 900 for the property included
within the site. but the Commi ssioners
refuse to increase their offer of $13 600.
Condemnation proceedings have been
begun. The occupants of the houses
already acquired by the Commission are
pre- pairing to leave. A number have
already moved Every--h must be
vacated by February l. On that day the
houses will be sold and the work of tear
ing down at once begun.
Mr.. Julius Wittpenn, the grocer, is
also preparing to take his departure. He
is having the two-story frame building
recently erected by him on Montgomery
street, which was also included within
the site, removed to a plot on Gregory
street, near Henderson,
President Pearson was to have gone to
Trenton yesterday in the interests of a
new City Hall bill, but frozen water pipes
in his hot house kept him in the city. Mr..
Pearson feels satisfied that Governor Alb
bett will confirm the appropriation of
$3.50, 900 more for the purpose of erecting
n suitable City Hall. Commissioner
Burke was unable to be at the meeting,
being confined to his bed with inf1amma-
tory rheumatism.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-28
SUPERSTITlONS OF DEATH.
Curious IDEAS of the Dreadful Influences
of the Departed.

Curious IDEAS of the Dreadful Influences
of the Departed.
Many are the superstitions of death. A
cuckoo sang three times upon the ridge
pole of woman's house in the town of
Bowdoinham, England, twenty years ago.
The good woman said that she should
die within the year. She fell sick and
came to the point of death, but she did
not die Her husband fell from load of
hay and needed her attention, and she
got well quickly so as to nurse him. No
body died, but she laid it all to the
cuckoo.
The belief that diseases are caused by
the dead is of great antiquity. 1t was
applied in the case of vampires, which
were supposed, in the Middle Ages, to be
the spirits of deceased individuals. which
left their graves at night and sucked the
blood of the living. The horrible part of
the fancy. which set all Europe panic
stricken few centuries ago, was the
theory that the victims were obliged
themselves to become vampires alter
death.
To prevent this, thousands of suspected
corpses were dug up in order that their
hearts might be transtiXed with stakes to
prevent the fienus from going abroad. Iu
1875 the body of a woman in Chicago who
had died of consumption was eXhumed
and her lungs burned under the persua-
sion that she was drawing others after
her into the grave. Passing over hid
den grave is thought in some parts OF
England to produce rash, while in New
Jersey the same cause brings about incur
able cramps in the foot.
~ China and Scotland also people are
reluctant to save drowning man for
fear tnat the latter, il his life is
d eserved, will do some dreadful
,,,S., 10 vi Tho Scotch haliaua
that the spirit of the last person
buried has to keep watch in the church
yard until another is entomed there, to
whom he delivers his charges. The duty
of the latest inferred 10 stand sentry at
the graveyard gate every night until re-
lieved often gives much uneasiness to the
deceased's surviving friends in thinly in
hahited parts of the country.
All over New England you will find
occasional men who believe still il
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-28
RAILROAD NOTES.

Baltimore & Ohio men must have theiI
watches tested every three months.
1t is announced that the Lehigh Valley
will build line from Scranton to Pitts
burg.
Congress has been asked to make ma.
tioual law to compel railroads to adopt
automatic couplers.
There are 1,061, $40 freight cars in the
United States, and nearly 100000 of them
were built last year. ~
The Rockaway Valley Railroad Com
pany has elected j. Nelson Pidcock,
and James H. Sayre, Secretary.
A new survey has been made for the
extension of the Caldwell road to Nor
ristown and Lake Hopatcong, and it is
said that much easier grades have been
established.
No less than eight different kinds OF
u ut locks for rail spices are made by six
factories in Newark. New nut locks are
constantly appearing, and the improve
menLS are striking.
The Snohomish, Skykomish & Spokane
Railroad is the name Of new line in
Washington. The names are as euphon-
ious as those of new Maine line, the
Skowhegan 81 Norridgewock.
The Erie recently issued orders to sta
ton agents to remove all advertising 9
signs from station buildings and to ex-
pose no notices on the walls except those
emanating from the company's Office.
Rutherford people are asking the Erie
| to give them decent station instead of
| the miserable wooden shed now used
| They claim that they are entitled to such
| consi 1erdtlon because they pay $50, 600 a
| year in passenger fares.
Under decision Of the New York State
| Board of Railroad Commissioners the use
| of oil stoves in the buffet cars TOR cooking
| purposes will be allowed. provided sperm
| oil of 800 degrees fire test is used and the
stoves are securely bolted to the car
The Railroad Gazette last week de-
scribed the wonderful trestle and passen-
| ger elevator ut the Weehawken ferry.
The illustrations were half-tone reprodu uc-
tions of excellent photographs, and be-
sides these there was a big inset folder
| depicting the structure in detail.
| The Erie has Baldwin compound en-
| gine which is said to be the largest i'll the
world. 1t has sixteen and twenty-eight
inch cylinders. a boiler six feet in diam e.
| ter and tank capable of holding 4, 500
gallons. Its total weight is ninety-six
and one-half tons.
The last report from the Chief Engineer
of the Pennsylvania Railroad shows that
the company owns and controls 7.S45 miles
of railroad line, which embrace 1856
miles of railroad track besides 324 miles
of canals and ferries, an increase during
1891 of l02 miles of railroad, and 374 miles
of tracks of all kinds.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-28
NEWARK NOT DRY.
A Fictitious Water Famine Invented to
Help Company.
Special to the Jersey CITY Ne,os.


Help a Company.
Special to the jersey City Ne,os.
NEWARK, Jan. 2S, 1S92.-The announce
ment yesterday that this city was threat
ened with a water famine, and that the
river was so low that the North Beleville
pumps were sucking air, seems TO involve
a mystery. At all events, word was at
once sent TO the office of the East
Jersey Water Company. and the gates
were opened so that Is, 600 gallons of
pure PequannocK water could run into
the Newark pipes in twenty-four hours.
Then the Belleville pumps were shut
down.
Yet less than week ago the people of
Paterson were Dragging about the beauti-
full display Of water at the falls, and COM
planning about the dangerous height of
water in the river. The pumps at Belle
vile have never before failed to draw
water, even in times of prolonged
drought. and yesterday morning citi-
zens of Belleville were unable to see that
the river was unusually low. One man
said that he had seen it Two or three feet
lower on many occasions. No complaints
were heard from the Jersey City pumping
station, which is situated less than a mile
down the river from the Newark station.
The panic seems to have been invented
for the benefit of the water company.
The contract as to The condition of the
reservoirs has not been carried out and
serious question has been raised about
the acceptance of the work as it stands
today. But the water is in now and all
is serene-perhaps.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-28

Church where the funeral services will
take place. The Rev Arthur Johnson
pastor of the church will officiate, as
sisted by the Rev. Mr.. Demarest, ot
Yonkers. a former pastor of the Second
Reformed Church. Invitations to act as
Albeit, Chancellor McGill, Vice Cham
cellors Bird. Green. Van Fleet and
Pitney. and all the judges OF the Supreme
Court, representing the Bar of the State,
r. Il. G. Young representing the laymen
and eX-JUdge W. S. Banta, the people OF
Hackensack, and ex-Governor Bed!e,
people of Hudson county. 1t is not be-
lieved that health will permit all of these
men to attend, for some are known to be
i'll, but all who can will be present. The
interment will be in Konder Hook Gene
terry, Hackensack.
In the court room heavy draping will
have been done. The bench will be par
TALLY covered with black bunting. and
the archway that leads TO chambers will
also wear the sombre garb. Black will
be arranged along the gallery also. In
no place is this hue relieved except by q
few white rosettes.
The Bar Association is expected to meet
promptly at three O'Clock to take suitable
action concerning the death of Judge
Knapp. Eulogies will be pronounced by
large number of lawyers, who will glad
ly seize this opportunity to pay last
tribute to their dead friend and adviser.
TRIALS MAY GO OVER.
Unless some Supreme Court Justice Is
designated to try the cases on the Court
Calendar they will all go over until the
next term of Court. which begins in
April.
The trial of Patrick Mulvihill for the
murder of Jacob De Boer, lamp lighter,
will also go over until the April term in
all probability. De Boer was engaged in
adjusting lamp November 25.
on Nelson avenue, when Mulvihill, a
stranger to him approached and shook
him off of the step ladder he was using.
MulvihilI then beat De Boer with the lad
der until he became unconscious. The
injured man died in the City Hospital
two days later.
The Board of Freeholders will at four
O'Clock hold a special meeting and adopt
suitable resolutions concer ming the death
of the Judge.
THE COURT HOUSE DRAPED.
The Court House is being heavily
draped by Upholsterer q. d. Schwenck,
of Hoboken. When the Bar Association
assem- bles today at the building, the mem
bers will observe heavy folds or black
along the portico and entwined about the
GreciaD pillars. The doors that open into
the corridor and stairway including the
one that leads to Prosecutor Winfield's IS
office will also be draped.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-28
GAELIC DANCE AND MuSlO.

The Historic "Rincefada'' for the First
Time in America.
The New York; Gaelic Society will give
its annual ball at Central Turn Hall,
Sixty-seventh street and Third avenue,
February 20. A special feature of the
event will be the illustration of Irish
folk dances and the "Rincefada" that has
not been danced In public since the land
ing of Henry II. in Ireland. will be danced
for the first time in the United States.
The musical entertainment which has
usually been given with the bill will this
year be given separately, probably on
Easter Monday.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-28
WATER TANK BU RST.

Panic in Hoboken Tenement House
Not Much Fire
The tenants in the apartment house,
No. 722 Park avenue, Hoboken, yesterday
afternoon. were almost panic stricken by
d loud explosion in the apartments OF
Henry Hesse on the second floor. The
explosion was followed by an outburst of
smoke. The Fire Department responded
promptly to the alarm sent out and soon
had the flames under control Upon in
vestigation it was found that the hot
water tank of the range had exploded
The water had been frozen. The damage
will not exceed $500.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-28
UNION Hill COUNCIL.
Cash on Hand to the Amount of Thirty
Thousand DoI1nrs

Cash on Hand to the Amount of Thirty
Thousand Dollars.
The Union Hill Council met last night.
The first payment on the Main Street
Fire House. $500, was voted to c. Wool
mington. Treasurer Brauenstein re-
ported s2S, 79s. .9S in the General Fund, and
the Collector of Arrears reported So, 103 73
on hand.
The request of Engineer Bush of the
North Hudson County Road, to be heard
on the subject of putting the road through
Main street, was referred.
The ordinance ordering commencement
of the work on the sewer through the
Hackensack street passed its third read
ing Engineer Moylan was ordered to
draw the plans.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-28
{ X I R A !!
DOUBLE MURDER.
Arthur StoCker Shoots His
Wife and Sister
in-LaW.
MRS. sTOCKER KILLED INSTANTLY
Miss Mary Tierney, Her Sister,
AL Christ Hospital With Two
Bullets In Her Side.
NO MOTIVE KNOWN AS YETI

What will probably prove double
murder took place this afternoon at fif-
teen minutes before one o'clock opposite
Moss Zabriskie street. The murderer Is
Arthur Stocker, tinsmith, twenty-nine
years old. residing at No. 80 Zabriskie
street.
He shot and almost instantly killed his
wife, Katie Stocker, and also shot and
probably fatally wounded his sister-in-
law. Mary TierneY.
The latter is lying in Christ Hospital,
where there is very little hope of her re-
covery. No cause is assigned for the
murder.
Stocker was arrested and taken to the
Sixth precinct station by citizen named
Richard White, who was an eye witness
to the tragedy.
Stocker was seen at half past twelve to
rush from his house wildly fiourishing
revolver above his head.
Almost in front of his home he met his
wife and sister-in-law, who were just re-
turning from shopping.
Rushing up to his wife he screamed,
Il am going to murder you."
DEAD SHOT.
Before she could utter word the loud
report of a pistol was heard, and Mrs.
Stocker dropped to the sidewalk, bleeding
from an ugly wound in the head.
Mary Tierney, her sister, made an at
tempt to escape, but before she could 60.
or assistance could reach her. Stocker
was beside her and cooking the pistol
hurriedly, he emptied two chambers into
her side. The woman sank to the side
walk apparently dead.
Greatest excitement prevailed. and In
short time crowd gathered and carried
the apparently dead woman into neigh-
boring store, An ambulance was sum-
moned, but before its arrival Mrs.
Stocker was dead.
Miss Tierney still showed signs Of life
and was removed in all possible haste to
Christ Hospital.
UNDER ARREST.
Stocker made no attempt to escape and
still held the revolver in his hand when
Richard White took him to the station
house.
The prisoner has not as yet made any
statement as to what prompted him to
commit the crime. but 1t is thought prob
able that domestic troubles was the di-
rect cause.
Mrs. Stocker, the murdered woman.
was a pretty brunette. and it is said her
husband was insanely jealous. Detectives
are investigating the case.
MISS TIERNEY's STATEMENT.
From Mary Tierney it has been learned
by the hospital authorities that the trag-
edy is the outcome of family quarrel
which took place early this morning.
Stocker has not been living with his
wife for some time, but has been known
to follow her frequently.
1t is presumed that after the quarrel
with his wife this morning he returned
to the house. Failing to find her at
home he started in search of her. nesting
her, as has been stated, almost in front Of
the house.
He drew his revolver and without any
warning shot his wife.
Miss Tierney says she is at loss to un-
derstand why he shot her. as she had no
part in the quarrel. The hospital ply
sicians will probe for the bullet this af-
ternoon.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-28
JOSEPH WOODS WILD JUMP.

Tried to Drown Himself in the Hudson,
But Failed.
Joseph L. Wood, New York sales
man, jumped from the Hoboken ferry
boat Bergen as she was leaving her slip
on this side of the river for the
one o'clock D. m. trip. A passenger who
saw him jump gave the alarm. the boat
was stopped and Wood was rescued and
sent to St. Mary's Hospital. where the
physicians said he might possibly die.
Wood was unsconscious at latest ad-
vices and no reason could be learned why
he wanted to kill himself.