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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27
Telephone Patents Running Out.

Within few months the patents
upon which the telephone monopoly
is built will have expired, and com
petition, with lower rates, will per.
haps haye become practicable. On
Friday last the Blake transmitter,
which transmits messages over the
line wire, became public property.
On March 7th She main patent issued
to Bell, covering the fundamental
principe--the transmission OF speech
electrically over q wire-expires,
and at the same time the first patent
Tor receiver expires There was
a second patent for an improvement
on the receiver" which will not
expire till January 3Oth, 1894, but
practically the right to make, sell
and use fairly seryiceable telephones
will become common property during
the present year. The fact may be
expected to prove beneficial to the
public. which has been paying ex-
cessive prices for the use of the
patented instruments, In other
countries, where our laws do not
apply, telephone service is vastly
cheaper than among us. The Geld
for competition opened by the
expiration of patents is to De occu
pied, it is stated, by various rival
companies. When instruments,
costing altogether not over S. rent
for $75 or 500 a year, there is
evidently a margin of profit that
will tempt capital. At a rental of
$40 or SIS u year there should be
large demand for Instruments, even
though they are no better than those
IN use in 1871.
There are predictions. however, to
the effect that the public will not
alter all profit by the expiration OF
the earlier Bell patents. The
monopoly, the argument runs, is now
too strong to be commended with. If
forced to III Get rivals low rates it
will do so, and then after a war of
rates it wild, in the usual manner,
buy up or ruin its rival -BaHo San
The United States is the worst
monopoly ridden nation in the world,
and the people submit to tue abuse
as quietly as lambs. If the power
to relieve themselves was taken from
them they would fairly raise Cain
with complaining.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27
Not What He Meant,

There are many ways in which Ian
guage may fail to convey the idea that
is in the writer's or speakers mind. A
Scottish story illustrates this form OF
ambiguity.
Our minister was learned and warm
hearted, but somewhat erratic and alb
sent minded. He had pony that had
a great aversion to donkeys, and it was
with much difficulty that it could be
got to pass one of these animals on the
road.
One day, when riding to Forfar, he
met near Quilkfe an itinerant earthen,
ware merchant, whose stock in trade
was drawn by q donkey. The pony
reared and backed, and was only got
past after great struggle The min,
lister at the turn of the road little fur
ther on, and before his mind was quite
composed, met the provost of Forfar.
"A fine day, provost" said the min,
lister.
"Yes, fine day, Mr.. Allen" replied
the provost,
"Do you think, provost, I'm likely
to meet any more asses on this road p
The provost used strong language in
reply, though there was no cause for it.
The success of mberlain's Cough
Remedy in effecting speedy cure of
colds, Group and whooping cough has
brough: it into great demand. Messrs.
Poutius y Son, OF Cameron. Ohio, say
that it has gained reputation second
to none in that vicinity. Jas. Nj.
Queen, of Johnson, w Va, says it is
the best he ever used. b. f. Jones,
druggist, Winona Miss says; 20 ham,
Der aims Cough Remedy is perfectly
re lab e. l have always warranted II
and it never failed to give the most
perfect satisfaction" 50 cent bottles
for sale by E. T. Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27
The American Bimetallic League issue.
the following circular:
THE COMING IssU


THE COMING ISSUE.
-Four years ago the Republicans came back
into power and for the first time in the his
tory Of the country adopted the extreme
protective policy OF excluding trade in COM
peting products in order to preserve the
home market exclusively for home produc-
ers. They assured the country that this
policy would stop the fall of prices and
bring about general prosperity. 1t has not
done So; it has not prevented the continued
fall of prices nor relieved the mass of the
people from the evils of increasing debt and
taxes caused by the continued increase in
the money standard; on the contrary it has
engendered monopoly and led to combina-
lions TO gain for few advantage over the
many.
On the 4th of March next the Democrats,
for the first lime in more than thirty years,
will have the President and both Houses of
Congress. They are pledged to reyise the
tariff on lines leading to free trade, and
promise by this policy to do what the Rep
nhlicans have failed to do. This policy
will also fail, and is likely, by increasing
imports, to draw away gold and precipitate,
instead of preventing, the further fall Of
prices. Then their turn will come. The
force bill will be ont of the way and there
will no longer be solid South. The ties
that bind men TO parties, whether or no,
are everywhere being loosened, and prin-
ciple more and more governs voters.
The continued fall of prices is due to one
cause the increase in the money standard
that is, in the value of gold. In other
words the change is in the measure and not
in the commodsties. This evil cannot be
cured by tariff legislation. There is no
remedy but to stop the increase in the value
of the money unit, and until this is stopped,
the stealthy appropriation of the earnings
of the people by insidious device of an
increasing money standard will 20 on. Such
money standard is no more delersible or
/ tolerable than would be an increasing unit
of length, or of weight. or volume.
The next issue. therefore, will be the
money question; nor will this issue be long
delayed; its suppression by the two leading
parties in the campaign just closed did moi
settle it. The people are being educated on
the money question foster than politicians
comprehend, and they will pot submit
forever to tine robbery of an increasing gold
standard.
Now is the time for bimetaliists to
organize and push 10 the front the issue OF
free bimetallic coinage.
| 4. J. WARNER, President.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27
Cheap Silver.

"Cheap silver" says the London
Standard, "has given US cheap food
and raw materials, and has enabled
England to hold her own in the worlo
far more easily than her rivals
Nothing would be so disasterous to
our foreign trade ss o sudden rise in
silver
This is why Earnest Seyd was sent
over here to buy enough men like
John Sherman to sneak bill though
Congress demonetizlng silver. And
this is why Harrison. Sherman
Cleveland and all the English dupes
and todies are in favor of cheap
silver today. Cheap silver means
cheap wheat, cheap cattle and cheap
produce of all kinds Colorado
Farmer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27

an advance in political thought among the
people.
The Single Tax theory of taxation has
spread all over the country and there is
more discussion every year on the subject.
We notice also that applications are being
made for local option laws for the purpose
of testing the Single Tax theory in practice
on a small scale by way of experiment
Washington, is the first to enter the trial
arena Of the new theory of taxation, and we
look for many more similar experiments in
the near future, especially in the west.
Hyattsvile in our ownState having led the
way the next Legislature ought to be peti-
toned TO enact that any county or incorpo.
rated town disposed to try the experiment of
Single Tax should have the legal power to
do so as far as The town or county taxes
levy was concerned. So that vote of the
citizens, or better, probably, vote of the
tazables only. could put the machinery of
the new law in operations A few expert
mens limited 10 small areas could be tried
without any risk of disorganizing the ma
chinery of taxation of the State and if the
plan didn't please the people Immediately
interested, they could drop it and return to
the old methods.
Local self government is what the world
is contending for, and it is the best, because
the safest plan for testing new theories or
systems of taxation. We have the local
option liquor law in Cecil, letus enlarge our
privileges of local self government by in
GLIDING local option in taxation at the
pleasure Of the people.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27
Judge John Martin, of Topek

Judge John Martin, of Topeka
was elected U. S. Senator by the
Kansas legislature on Wednesday
He is thorough democrat, but a
very honorable, high toned man.
The associated press despatch says
The populists stole clever march
on the republicans when they nomi
mated Judge Martin in caucus last
night. They figured that Mr.. Martin
being democrat there would 60 into
their joint convention not only
enough democrats to elect him
without counting the populist mem
bers, who took the seats of the
unseAted republicans, but also enough
to break the republican quorum
Their figuring was correct, for when
the roll was called in their conven.
ton today three democrats voted for
Martin. OF course those three cannot
now go into The republican joint
convention, and without them the
republicans can only muster 81
member~two short Of a quorum.
The republicans will therefore be
unable to elect Senator, and John
Martin will, without doubt, be the
only applicant for recognition before
the federal Senate.
Judge Martin declared in favor of
the populists last fall,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27

In his speech on the an:i.option
bill Senator Call said "The tendency
to monopoly, to consolidation, to the
solidarity of interests is inevitable
and seemingly overwhelming, and its
heartless greed and oppressive
methods increase every day. An
instance of this is to be found in the
present condition of things. In the
midst Of this extreme cold in which
the poorer people are giving their
life by hundreds and thousands for
the want of the necessary comfort
and warmth and fire. a combination
increases the price of coal; and
although the supply is boundless,
having already acquired control Of
the coal fields of our own country it
is reaching out it's hands to embrace
the supply of the continent and seeks
to pervert the bounties of nature to
the instruments of suffering, torture
and death.'
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27
Local Option in Taxation.

Local option is most democratic system,
aud is the essence of local self government
in restricted sense. Thus far ''local
option" has been confined to the liquor
traffic and when the term is used everybody
understands that it means an appeal to the
voters ola county or town TO answer at the
polls whether the majority are in favor o.
or opposed to the sale of liquor in the pre-
scribed district. This same spirit of local
self government is growing, and we mark il
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27
There are brotherhoods

There are brotherhoods and
brotberhOods, and they are all to
some extent mutual help; hut the
brotherhood that will set the people
free is brotherhood of voters. Who
will begin its organization The
labor organizations of the cities will
effect nothing for the permanent
benefit of their members while they
act on their present selfish lines.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27
When the misgovernment which

When the misgovernment which
has fallen upon the country. and the
corrupt and impotent hands into
which all legislative and executive
power has been placed is considered
the future prospect becomes disheart
ening; but the tempest which is
beating on this rotten and corrupt
condition from thousands of reform
papers and books, revives hope in the
earnest workers that this modern
Babylon cannot stand very long the
increasing power of the storm.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27
Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky, ha

Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky, has
consented to take the portfolio of
Secretary of the Treasury under the
incoming administration. This de-
termination places the chief counsel
of the great whiskey trust at the
head of the most important Depart
ment OF the Government. Can any
good come out of Nazareth Mat.
Watchman.
land they said twait) and see.-E Ed ]
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27

All who are troubled with Constjpa-
ton will find a safe, sure, and speedy
relief in Ayers Pills. Unlike most
other cathartics, these pills strengthen
the stomach, liver. and bowels. and
restore tae organs TO normal and regular
action.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27

Cleveland is going to be a success
in one direction at least. If there is
any manhood left in the democrat
party be is determined to kick it to
the surface.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27

Use Bulls Head Horse and Cattle
Powder in all cases of general debility
among your animals. Price 25 cents
per package of lib. full we gut.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-01-27
Truth, Not Fiction!

Many customers have availed themselves of the
present opportunity and purchased sup
ply of such goods offer
ing from center counter.
They have learned by experience, when say a
bargain just what say and that
it's not merely advertising dodge.
Some good things yet remaining.
r. BURLINGTON.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-04-22
Boys Composition on Chick ems.

Chickens is the result of hen stick
ing to one idea long enough 10 accom-
plish something. They all look alike
When they is first born, but by and by
you wouldn't know they belonged to
the same set. Then ma is their nat
ural parent and protection. Spring
chickens is the best because they cost
the most. Pa bought spring chicken
at bargain counter in meat shop
the other day, and with coal at ~. rs
4 ton ma figured that we did not make
expenses that day trying 10 cook that
spring chicken done. Pa saws you can
never tell until it is too late what
spring the chicken first had pin feath-
ers. Ma says what pa don't know
about good many things would sup
ply lot OF folks with college educa-
tions. He said that IL she had given
those thirteen eggs that she used for
angels food to some hen with good in
tentions and hatchway VIC could be
living on the top shelf this fall. am
of the same opinion rs ma now. Last
spring thought ma was o. h. George
Bezan says they are going to set their
clock and raise waterberries. He says
their bed ticks, and he has that run
down feeling in the morning. Chris
Columbus made an egg stand on its
head, which had never been done be-
fore. Pa said there was money in hens
and he was going into the chicken
business when the contry went Demo-
cratic. A mau can't do big business
unless he is protected. Chickens can
swallow their food whole and they is
to be envied. Grand Rapids Reciew
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-04-22

In a sketch that has recently been
printed of living literary mau, We
are told that "it is his custom to write
about 5000 words every day." There
is no man In the world who can write
every day 5000 words that are worth
reading. or one half that number writes
the N. Y. Sun. For a good solid days
work of man of thought and knowl-
edge !, 900 words are sufficient, and IL
on any one day he writes twice that
number he should take rest the next
day.
We are not speaking of copists or
shorthand reporters, but OF men who
think with all their soul as they write
with all their power.
The fast-writing author whose bi.
ogrsphy lies before US is sometimes
seized with the scribbler's mania. and,
while it lasts. he surpasses on a long
stretch, MS ordinary daily record ~
6.OO0 words. A short while ago he
knocked of in twenty-five days book
containing $4,000 words, and, as
he wrote on the eight-hour system. he
must have thought and written $50
words every hour Of his working day,
right straight along, or ut the rate
of about thirteen wor,is minute. We
are disposed to guess that this authors
literary value. remarkable as it is,
might be enlarged If he had some ex'
perience OF the writer's cramp.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-04-22


IF. NJ. MePetrie In Sioux City Tribune.
Annette,
They are clogging your spirit and mine
my pet;
Let them gasp out their breath
In the goblet Of death
While we float 10 the islands divine
Annette
To the islands that swim in the haze
Annette,
OF our dr. amful, our passionate days, my
pet,
With the purple of hills
And the flashing Of rills,
And their fragrant and foresight ways
Annette.
And, oh! for the magical hours, Annette
When the lotus breathed balm from it's
flowers, my pet,
And the wind in the palm
Sang slum berous psalm.
As We drifted meath amethyst towers,
Annette
Then away for our islands again, Annette
They rise with the chaiiee we drain, my
pet
And along the white sands
OF their mystical strands
Wait the spirits OF hopes that are slain,
Annette
"We are drifting" you say, ito the
grave" Annette,
What is life but the froth Of the wave, my
pet,
When the trees overhead
Wrap their roots round the dead
We may drain the deep draught that we
crave, Annette.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-04-22
KNOWLEDGE

Erings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the'needs of physical being, will attest
the value TO health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy. Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
In the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative; efiectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and teyers
and permanently curing constipation:
lit has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it Is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and 81 bottles, but IT is man
iifactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name Is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup OF Figs,
aud being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute il offered.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-04-22
Her Rivals. Valentine.


On leaving him she went up 70 her room,
and found Phoebe there doing some dusting
and general arranging.
The girl looked pale and troubled, but she
spoke quietly
II you please, miss" she said, "Pve been
TO the village"
"IndeedW said Vida; swell, you often 20
there. What iheny'
II came back by the churchyard, miss"
Vida turned quickly to her wardrobe, and
opened IT,
Game home by the churchyard, did your
she said; "that was very courageous Of you
seeing 1t Is broad day"
I'm not afraid Of the graves, miss" said
~ nbe quietly, 'but was going to say that
found your handkerchief there, miss, and
I've laid IL here?"
Thank you, PheSe," said Vida sweetIy;
u did not miss it. Have you finished your
dustingg'
Yes, miss
Then do not remain"
Phoebe left and Vida with frowning
face went to the tolet-tabie and took up the
handkerchief the girl had placed there.
ut is good thing for me that yon cannot
speak. she said, arosiTophising II; "a bless
ed thing you have no tongue"
Barely had the words escaped her, when
she saw something that might have spoken
TO Phpbe, and told the bitter tale in part.
A spot of blood!
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-04-22
CHAPTER Y.
GROWING SUSPICIOUS.


Smokey Fair was in full swing, and It
was said by the majority OF inhabitants that
!, was the best fair they had known for
years.
This was not saying much perhaps, for
the sports and pastimes of these ancient
revelries are growing out of popular favor,
or being superseded by pleasure more suit
able to the taste of the age.
Music-hails, and an increase in the num-
Der Of theaters, the railway, the telegraph,
and hundred other things have ali COM
bined to help towards the determination Of
the strolling player who performs In booths.
Pig-faced ladies, spotted boys, six-legged
calves, and other ancient favorites, no long
er hold their own, and 1t Is only in odd
places that some remnants of this class of
exhibition llnger still.
Smokey was one Of those outside places.
The chief caterers for the public were
gipsles--mostly half-bred, for the Romany
daughters are not so faithful 10 the tradi-
tions OF their race as they used to be, and
there are many men and women who, like
Bardolph Dimsey, owe their birth to asso-
citation with the house e-dweller.
Many of these were ut the fair, the men
showing -sc.t 90 the alien blood. and the
women ciinging to the tricks of the nomadic
race.
They told fortunes while the men bought
and sold horses, and their smooth tongues
wheedled many piece Of silver out OF the,
pockets Of ignorant listeners who believed
In their forecastings.
Jim the showmaa's wife was there, while
Jim exhibited peepshcw bearing the am
bilious title of the Victories of England at
Sea and on Shore
He stood outside to vaunt the praises of
his pictures, and TO take the money. A big
handsoms man with grey hair, and silver
rings In his ears. broad-shouldered and
strong--a man who might have made for
tune as an exhibitor Of fests Of strength II
he had not been, like all his race, Unborn
idle and fond Of life of ease.
He had succeeded in filling his show, and
was standing outside smoking his pipe
when Sabina. his wife, came up. She bore
an infant at her back, and carried In her
hand some small wicker brooms-a hand
some daringlOoking woman, with eyes that
flashed as Jewels never flashed, and figure
that at an age on the right side Of forty
would have made q sensation In Bsgravia.
''Well what Is Ii, Sabinaw asked Jim.
THAT horse Is back at the fair" she an
swered.
who's got ity'
'harac, and he's washed the marks Oh.
He says that they take In nobody, and only
spoil the SALE"
rs he mad?v
lyon see he knows nothing" hInted S.
bina.
go to him." said Jim, 'snd tell him that
he must take the brute away. u haunts "
like one Of the polics."
1t Isn't the poor brute's fault"
II sold Il V maR going h Cornwall"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-04-22
Full OF Peril

Are those disorders which beginning with
an apparently trivial inactivity ot the
kidneys or bladder, terminates in Bright's
disease, diabetes and cyxitis. The first
two not only interrupt the functions oI
the renal organs, but destroy their struc
ture with as much certainty as tuberculal
consumption does that of the lungs. Hos
letters Stomach Bitters is an excellent
diuretic, promoting the activity of these
organs without over exciting them, thus
averting the deadly maladies in which
their inaction IS so prone To culminate
The removal from the blood Of impurities
which the kidneys should, but do not
when in active, secrete, is another bene
ficient effect of this incompatible medi
Gated stimulant and depurent. The Bit
ters is, in all cases, too, a fine restorative
of vigor and aid 10 d gestion, remedies
malarial disease. and banishes liver com
plant aud constipation.