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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

Those who keep late hours have not mucl
use for early hours.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

a GIEEN-eoops man = The vegetable
vender-Truth.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

OUR Johnny isn't quito sure of the year Of
the battle OF Gettysburg, but you CAM
feaze him on the day and hour of the Sun
day school picnic.-Elmira Gazette.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

II pretty women were conductors mer
wouldn't try to evade the car fair.-Lowel
Courier r-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

THE Gallant Young Lieutenant Arriving
at the Party-s'Ah! it seems as il Heaven
had established a branch here !''-Fliegende
Batter.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

LOOKS down on people-The man In th
captive balloon.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

POLICE Jus7Icn Ito tipsy prIsoner)-"Becn
around seeing the sights, SUPPOSED" Tip
sy Prisoner-"Y ezzer honor; at err snake
SHOWN. Y. Times.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

SuE-"This fur rug is very beautiful. T
what beast does it belong" He (candidly
ITO men-Jury.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

NJ ,NAGER--"What is the mermaid making
suci an everlasting fuss about nowi" At
tendant--"She says the India rubber man
stole her umbrella, and she is kicking about
going home in the rain. Inter Ocean.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

WHEN we feel discouraged we look ct .
cooped up chicken In front OF grocery
store and revive.-Atchison dlooe.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

MADE to order-The waitress.-Truth.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

TIE buzz saw is always&eady to take q
hand in.-Truth.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

The ruling passion is strong in book
keeper.-Picayunc
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

A NOTED Chloroform.-
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

PoETs utter great and wise Things which
they Do ues themselves ulderstand.-piato.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

PAYS as he coes-A paymaster on rail
road.-Texas Siftings.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-08-26

5 CousT-MsnT1AL - A soldiers wooing.-
Truth.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
For the Misinformed.

We ran against Jealous gold bug the
other day whose every interest would be
promoted by the free coinage of silver, but
who had been saturated by the false teach
ing so industriously promulgated by the
corporation controlled press, he insisted the
government debt was all payable iu gold,
and SO permeated was he by this belief that
he was unwilling to be put right. We pub
lsh section of the law for the benefit of all
such misled persons.
The following resolution passed the
United States Senate January 25th. 1878,
and the Honse of Representatives January
18th, 1873:
'That all the bonds Of the United States
issued, or authorized TO be issued, under the
said act of Congress herein before recited
are payable, principal and interest, at the
option Of the government of the United
States, in silver dollars of the coinage of the
United States containing 4l22 grains each
of standard silver, and that to restore to its
coinage snch silver coins as a legal tender in
payment Of said bonds principal and inter
est, is not violation of the public faith nor
in derogation of tine rights of the public
caeditor."
The following is the contract on every
bond Of the United States outstanding at
the present time:
''This bond is issued in accordance with
the provisions of an act of Congress entitled
IAN act TO authorize the refnnding of the
national debt, approved July 14th, 1870,
ameaded by an act approved January Goth,
1871, and is redeemable at the pleasure of
the United States after the first day o July,
A. D., 1907, in coin at the standard value of
the United States on said July 14th, 1870,
with interest in such coin," etc.
When this law was passed silver was, aud
had been from the foundation OF the gov
eminent, the legal tender money Of the
United States, and was worth three per cent
in this country more than gold
1t will be noticed that gold is never
mentioned but coin always, and in the reso-
luton passed by both houses explanatory OF
the law, silver dollars are especially named,
as if 10 satisfy all doubters who had the
gold fever. Coin always is named and that
coin may be either silver or gold or both.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
The National Banks Should Go.

Shylock works a premium on gov
eminent bonds by selling them to
National banks. The banks are
cheated, the people are cheated the
government has been cheated out OF
go million dollars 10 premiums; the
National banks have been swindled
out of untold millions in premiums
on bonds. paid to Shylock, and yet
they uphold this Nat onal bank sys-
ten, the medium through which al
this extortion is effected.
Had there never been a National
bank system established, founded on
government debt, there never would
have been premium on government
bonds. There was never the shadow
of necessity for such banks as can
be readily demonstrated, and the
demands of our cramped rigid finan-
cial system call louder every year for
their abolition. The issue of $50
millions of treasury notes (green
backs would supply the place of the
trifiing amount these nearly four
thousand national banks at the end
Of thirty years, add to the money
volume of the country. The National
Bank must 60
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
Money MaXims.

The hire of money averages more than
the profit on production.
Every great empire of antiquity has beer
destroyed by usury on money.
Usury laws are illogical and conflict wi't
the laws of trade, which are the result o
demand and supply.
The Stale or Government being the maker
or furnsher of money should also be i'll
distributor. Government banks are nee
essary TO effect the distribution of money
with the greatest safety, economy anc
dispatch.
The distribution of menoy through g
system Of government banks would destroy
usury or high rates of interest on money
greatly facilitate business, and protect The
home from confscation by the mortgage.
Money is tool and is used in common
by all the people, and should be furnished
them free of cost, except the necessary ex-
pense of safe keeping, the borrower OIL
user furnishing the necessary security for it:
safe return at the time agreed upon.
If the government were to be made the
custodian of money and rented it-or loaned
the term in common use-at cost of taking
care Of and distributing it as required by
the demands of trade, private usury would
cease. Every person having surplus o
money would have to invest it in business
and earn a living by his own exertors AND
take the risks inherent to business.
Money is a ladder by which map climbs
from barberism TO civilization.
The practice of levying tribute on this
medium between the two estates should be
prevented. The practice is an injury to The
public welfare.
Government banks would stop boarding
Money has three functions (l) To trans.
fer values; ~ to extinguish debt; (3) s
medium of speculation. The first two are
It's proper uses and necessity to the public
The third is misuse and injurious to The
community.
1t is the power Of government to enforce
obedience to law that makes all money
created by it always at par. National
credit is the wrong name for National power
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
False and Suicidal Theories.

The banks would if they were able, fill
the popular mind with the theory that goy-
eminent must make mental of itself 10
issue bonds to buy gold back again, 10 order
that their decisions might not be fully
exposed. The people are fast learning
better. The people haye learned more of
the truth concerning the gold worshiping
mania in the last three months, than before
in the last thirty years. They are fast COM
ing TO see that if every grain Of gold should
be sent abroad, and every grain that our
mines are capable OF producing for the next
twenty years be sent to follow it, still
neither country, business or citizen would
be harmed, not a line of law or word or
pledge would be violated, not principle Of
homer and good faith subyerted, if not a
finger was raised to get it back again.
Exception in the case Of those simple
minded victims who have been induced by
cant and clamor 10 sign gold contracts, Of
course must be made, but with this the
government has nothing TO do. 1t is time
TO learn that bankers and newspapers sub
sidized in their interests, do not make laws
for the United States, even though COM
manded TO propagate false and suicidal
theories by the gold gamblers of Europe
Western Rural.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07

Proportional representation, Initiative
and Referendum are questions in the reform
movement which should be made familiar
to the people. While the financial question
stands al the head of all questions in polit-
ical economy and completely blocks the way
TO advance, these other questions should be
kept before the people in order that they
may by degrees acquire fair understanding
of them. As soon 40 the money question is
settled, or rather, as soon as that question is
put in fair way of proper adjustment, the
question of fair representation, which is
undoubtedly proportional" representation,
will be found pressing to the font. And
honest government, which is even now
claiming much thought and causing grea;
deal of anxiety in the public mind, must be
secured. The reign of bribery and corrup-
ton must be stayed, and This cannot be
accomplished while the present system of
delegating the power of the whole people
periodically to few, who are sent to the
state house 10 make laws. These delegated
law makers become irresponsible servants OF
the people, and can and do, act in defiance
of their constituents. This system of dele
gated unresefSed power, opens door to
bribery and corruption which is always
filled with bribers and corruptors. fhe
rights and substance of the people are sold
for pelf. asa public opinion has become but
a by-word in our politics. These abuses
which are becoming more confirmed and
defiant, can only be abolished blythe people
retaining The correcting power in their
hands, And to accomplish this the Init
iative and Referendum iG the only apparent
method. This is simply depand by the
people that all important epactments, before
they become laws, shall be referred back to
the people who, by their ballots, shall veto
or confirm The acts of the legislature.
Our censtitaiiaaG are all put to this test
before becoming the fandalaeHial law of the
State, and why not the mors imfoglspt
statutes The answer is, they should. Our
''i0eat option" laws are all of this class. and
the system has only 10 be extended to en-
brace other important Save.
Proportional representation is the very
essence of justice in popular government,
while our present system of majority rule is
a species Gftyranny only surpassed by the
old systems Of medieval absolutism or one
nan despotism. Oar experiments in ma
jority government has brought us & crop of
corruption and NAL Standardization, which
the eorruptions of the old monarchical
systems do not excel.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
Fruit of Their own Raising.

Tue labor organizations are crying
out in agony against Judge Rick's
decision. 1t is the fruit of their own
raising. And now that they have
gathered when the fruit has reached
full truition and And it of the dead
sea apple kinl4, Trey are amazed.
But why should sensible pen haye
expected spy other eFopS They
have presistent,y east their Votes year
after year in a way to insure SaOh
result and nothing else. They hold
the reWeay IL their own hands still.
Their votes are free aaG ~ 9 wise
use of them they can undo what they
hsye for years steadily, blindly work.
ed for. Nip they do it, or must the
scoerge be applied 70 their backs
still harderS
In place of brotherh0ods % the
labor unions claim they are only
clans, ever willing to tramp all other
iaboreys in the dust if they can by
SO doing add to thsir own wages.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
Resolutions Of Coincidence.

WHEREAS, Death has entered the
precincts of our fraternity and re-
moved from our midst our beloved
brother, VIM. Fl. Mcdowell, and
WHEREAS. The members of this
Grange being DESTROYS to make pub
lie acknowledgment of their sppre-
citation of his pure upright life and
blameless character, do hereby
ResolUed, THAT in the death OF
Brother Mcdowell, Cecil Grange has
lost one of it's most faithful and val
liable members one who ever labored
to build up and sustain the interest
of our order and exemplify its frater
nal principles; kindly words and wise
counsels ever made him a welcome
brother at our meetings.
2.-That we extend to sister
Nc Dowell and family our most sin
cere sympathy in their great bereave-
ment, and pray that Divine support
may be granted them in this, their
time of need.
3.-Tbat thesess resolutions be
spread upon the minutes OF the
order, and an engrossed copy be
made by the Secretary and forwarded
to the family of our deceased brother,
and published in the MIDLAND
JOURNAL.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
The Logic of the Decisions.

Even the corporation papers in
commenting on the late decisions of
Federal court judges in the case Of
the railroad strikes, are forced by the
logic of these decisions to confess
the railroads are public property.
The Philadelphia Press one of the
stoutest monopoly papers in the
country is forced while commenting
on the decisions to step ON to the
ground preempted by the Peoples
Party, because there is no other
firm ground to stand on. The Press
says:
"Meanwhile,. it must not be for.
gotten that these decisions emphasize
the public character of railroad cor.
porations. 1t is impossible in the
light of these and like findings to
look on their traffic, in whole or in
part, in detail or in the mass, as
private. 1t is public. The public
has right to know all about it,
"The people have right to know
all about it," of course they have.
And the only way they can ever
"know all about it" is to have a full
it, mixed statement published by the
companies, which will never be done
till the roads are in the hands of the
government.
Again the same paper says;
1T will be impossible for railroad
corporations to invoke the public re-.
sponsibility of their employees to
enforce the discharge of their duty
and maintain the opposition to public
supervision urged by some railroad
men on the ground that the inner
working of railroad corporations is
private business with which the pub.
TIC mas no concern
And still stronger point is made
in the following admission.
"The railroad is public hig hway.
Those who are engaged upon it are
discharging q public service. This
public service no one can check, In
terfere with OF interrupt These
legal obligations are IS binding on
railroad operatives as on railroad
corporations-on one no more than
the other and on one as much as the
other"
The interference by the companies
in arbitrarily altering the wages of
the employees is as radical an inter
ference with the "public service" by
provoking the men to protest by
strikes, as the striking by the en-
ployes. Observed fir ON every point
of view the only natural conclusion
to he reached is that the railroads
must be taken in charge by the gov
eminent. There is no escape from
the position the Peoples party have
taken on the railroad question.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
Presiding Elder Barrett.

Presiding Elder Rarrett's engage
ments for the ensuing quarter are as
follows:
Preaching-April 9th, Bethel,
Glasgow and Chesapeake City; April
10th, Elkton. Elk Neck and North
East; April 23d, Zion. Mt. Pleasant,
Md, ana Rising Sun. Md; April 80
Port Deposit, Asbury, Md. Perry
willie and Hopewell; May 9TH, Scott,
Madeley and Epwortb, May l4th,
Newport, Stanton and Hockessin
May 2lst, Wesley and Harrison
Street; May 2Sth, Newark, Salem and
Cherry Hill; June 4th, Silverbrook
and Union; June 18th Kingswood,
Swedish Mission and New Castle ;
June 18th, St. Georges, Port Penn
and Delaware City; June 2lth, Grace,
st. Pauls, Goodman and Asbury
Quarterly Gonference-April Sth,
Bethel sad Chesapeake City; April
10th, Glasgow; April 18th. Elk Neck
and North East; April 18th. Elkton;
April 22d. Zion, Mt. Pleasant, Nd,
and Risipg Sun. Nd; April 2Sth,
Port Deposit, Aqril goth, Asbury,
Md, and PerryVille; May ist. Hope
well, May 4th. Madeley; May 5Lh,
Scott; May 9Th, Epworth; May 18th,
Gewpart end Eockessiu; May 10th
stanton; May lsth, Wesley; May
I'D. Harrison Street, May 27tb
Newark and Cherry Hill; May S0lb,
Salem; June 9Th, Kingswood; June
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
At The Threshold.

The following significant paragraph
appears editorially in last weeks
Democrat.
The decline Of marriage due to
the employment and consequent in
dependence of women; the growing
poverty of the masses which prevents
the males from assuming the respon
sibility of raising family; the trend
of population from the country to
the cities, where it is consumed as
Goals in furnace, and the spread of
immortality in these dense communi
ties, are mentioned as some of the
causes that are operating to destroy
our existing civilization and re-
trograde society back to the barbarsm
from which it sprsng.'
This is a hopeful beginning. If
the Democrat will walk right into
this storehouse of knowledge and
carefully investigate, the cause of this
threatened decadence and return to
barbarism will be discovered to exist
in, and spring from, our political
systems which are the makers of our
social systems.
The above picture which seems to
have been the result of an accidental
snap shot by the Democrats Kodak,
is a true image caught from the
panorama of passing events and does
not accord with the boasts which are
constantly published in our state
papers, such asPresidential messages
declaring the great and growing pros
perity and wealth of the nation and
people. This "prosperity" the con-
slant boast of our purblind states
men, is the hectic flush which has
shown on the consumptiye cheek of
every dead nation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07

one County Commissioner to elect next fall.
These are very important Offices to fill and
their filling should not be controlled by a
mercenary ring. The republican party, as
such, cannot elect one of them, and the
independent spirited democrats would like
to have an opportunity to handle the party
whip and crack it over the bosses. The
latter have cracked it over them long
time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
Friday, April z, 1898.
THE DIRECT ISSUE.

We demand the free and unlimited coin
age of gold and silver at the present
ratio of 10 to I.
We demand that this amount of gold and
silver shall be supplemented with full
legal tender paper money in sufficient
volume to maintain equitable prices.
We demand that all money shall be
issued by the government direct to the
people and that all money so issued
Shall be full legal tender for all debts
private or public.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07

IT do not write this at the request of
any one, but because l feel it duty to hui
manity, so that others afflicted as my boy
was may know where to find relief.
"When my son was seven years old he
began to complain of soreness in his right
leg. A white swelling soon appeared just
below the knee joint, and extended from
the knee to the ankle. At the same time
he was taken with an attack of fever,
which was broken up, but the leg became
very badly swollen, causing him great
suffering, and the muscles so contracted
that his leg was drawn up at right angles.
He was unable to walk, could not even
bear to be handled, and l thought him
Confirmed Cripple.
"After time we had the swelling
lanced, midway between the knee and the
ankle and it would discharge over pint
of pus at times. decided to take him to
Cincinnati to have the leg operated upon,
expecting he would lose it. But he had
become so poor and weak that 1 thought I
would let him gather some strength, if
possible, and bought a bottle of Hood s
Sarsaparilla and began giving it to him.
This medicine soon woke up his appetite,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
Persons who are subject to attacks of

PERSONS VINO are suOJect 10 attacks or
bilious collie can almost invariably tell,
by their feelings, when to expect an
attack. If Chamberlain g Collie, Cholera
and Diarahoea Remedy is taken as soon
as these symptoms appear, they can
ward off the disease. Such persons
ALWAYS keep the Remedy at hand ready
for immediate use when needed. Two
or three doses of it at the right time
will save them much suffering. For
sale by E. T. Reynolds.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07

Beauty" may be "only skin deep"
but the secret of a beautiful skin is pure
blood. Those coarse, rough. pimply
compilations may, in most cases, be
rendered soft, smooth aud fair by the
persevering and systematic use of
Ayers Sarsaparilla.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07

18th, New Castle; June 18th, Swedish
Mission; June 18th, St. Georges,
Port Penn and Delaware City; June
10th, Goodman; June Both, Grace.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
Hoods s s::;s; Cures

and he ate more heartily than for long
time. At this time the sore was discharg-
ing freely, and soon pieces of bone began
to come out. have in my Office one piece
of bone IA inches long by nearly half an
inch broad, which came out of the sore.
We continued giving him Hoods Sarsa-
parilla. The discharge from the sore de-
creased, the swelling went down, the leg
Strengthened out, and soon he had perfect
use of his leg. He now runs everywhere,
as lively as any boy, and apparently
As Well as Ever.
Il was about six months from the time
that we began giving him Hoods Sarsa-
parilla till we considered him perfectly
cured" JOHN L. MCMURRAY, Notary
Public, Ravenswood, W. Va.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
Ne1O EXrHktuJp

consisting Of parlor chairs. dining room chairs,
{$bIss. lounges bedsteads. Sc. also lot Of second
Sna fngGilskS. '- -
TERMS OF SAILS months ered.t o. sum;
over $500. VIM, GRASON.
saml. II. DoWland, Auet
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
MARRIED..

RUssEL-CRAIG April 9th at the
parsonage by Rev. S. A Gayley, D.
d. Robert b. Russell and Sarah E.
Craig, both of Liberty Grove.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07

We are little behind this week
and last in getting the MIDLAND
JOURNAL issued on account of NOV.
ing the Office.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-04-07
! oRu,7vRE,
CARPETS and
WALL PAPER

Now head the list of sales and although anticipated
good trade the sales have grown far beyond expectations
and left out of lots Others have been purchased
take their place and will soon be stocked with supply
the largest of the 1t will be aim be prepared
to meet all demands.
Headquarters for Dress Goods and Ladies' and Misses
fine facorymade Shoes. Call and view the line and
upon your judgement.
Truly
Err. BURLINGTON.
P. S-The Ladies' Muslin Underwear has at last arrived
from the factory Cell upon Emma Garvin who will take
pleasure in showing the line