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The record-union., 1893-02-21
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I. FRANK CLARK.

UNDERTAKING PARLORS,
1O17-I019 Fourth St. Sacramento.
JNMBALMING A SPECIALITY. GEORGE
II II CLARK, Funeral Director and County
Coroner. Telephone No. 134.
The record-union., 1893-02-21

No. l. The Pioneer Hop-Y Yard Stake
A trotting sweepstake for -year-olds;
SIS entrance. of which so must accom-
pany nomination, and SIS payable May
lst; 500 added. One mile and repeat.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18
CIRCUMSTANCE ALTER GASES.

The Topeka club decision is going TO have
the effect Of opening saloons all over Kan
sas.-LawrenOe World, October II.
That's right; chat will be the pre-
else effect of it. And where now is
the state temperance union, and all
the good prohibitionists of Kansas?
Who does not remember the howl
that went up when the original pack
age decision was rendered, and what
q hurrying there was to and fro
among the faithful? Who does not
remember how promptly that case
was carried up to a higher tribunal
and how even congress was induced
TO act without delay to neutrslize the
effect Of that decision? Tne case is
different now. The officers who are
nov endeavoring to enforce the law
are Populists, and partisan republi-
can court will sacrifice the law to en-
barrasS q political adversary; and
republican prohibltionists (?) encour-
age this judicial partissnship or are
as silent as an Egyptian mummy
concerning it. These hypoCrites
would prefer to see an open saloon
upon every street corner in this city
rather than that Populists should
have the credit Of enforcing the law
better than it was ever enforced be-
fore. This is the situation, and there
isg no dodging it. The republican
party will atone for it by putting
another prohibition plank in its plat
form.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18
PAUPER AND CRIMINAL IMMIGRA-
TTON,

We are in receipt of another letter
from Mr.. Oldreive upon this subject,
but we do not consider it worth the
time and space to pursue it any far
ther at present. If we have not made
it clear that British psupers and
criminals are being shipped TO this
country to get rid of them, 1t would
be useless to quote further from the
reports in proof of the fact. The
testimony is voluminous and we
might continue to quote from it for
weeks to come without making our
case any stronger.
On the other hand if Mr.. Oldreive
has failed in his former letters to
dlsprove our propositions, neither
does he add anything in this one to
make his case stronger. One thing
cannot fail to be observed by the
reader. He simply denies the facts
which we have affirmed and quoted
authorities to prove, and his denial
rests upon his unsupported assertion.
While he may honestly believe that
he is correct, we cannot accept his
unsupported statements as conclusive.
We are satisfied to rest the case and
permit the reader to form his own
opinions upon the testimony SUBJ
mitted.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18
WHO TOLD HIM9

In Judge Hazen's decision dissolV-
ing the injunction against the To-
peka club, he said the prosecution
had failed to prove that the club
house was q nuisance. His judicial
mind required proof of this fact OF
the most positive and unequivocal
character.
He also said that over so per cent.
of the members of the club did not
drink liquor. Who told HIM Of thisl
Was this proven in court?
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

INSTEAD of so much talk about pro-
tecting our credit abroad, let us have
q little more attention to our credit at
home. A financial policy that de-
prives q majority Of the American
people Of the ability to meet their
obligations, and reduces millions OF
honest toilers to starvation, is not a
credit to anybody, and is not well
calculated to inspire confidence
either at home or sbrord.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

The Topeka ADVOCATE says we run patent
medicine notices in our editorial columns
Once in while we insert such notice for
the benefit of our Popuist readers. There
is something the matter with them and it is
our desire il possible to find a remedy
Emporis Republican.
Populist readers would prefer
your patent medicine tOyour politics.
II is less nauseous and is slower
poison.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

Tm Worlds fair has taken $4,000 out
of lawrence the past week and yet people
wonder at times being hard.-LawrenCe
World.
The Worlds far has taken into
Chicago unknown millions of dollars
and yet the mayor says there are
100000 idle men there, thousands are
on the verge of starvation and bread
riots are threatened. Will someone
rise and explain why these things are
soR
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

TIE Kensington Mirror has changed
hands and in changing hands it also
changes politics. It will hereafter
be published by Allen Sanford and
A. E. Cornell, who announce that
they are on the Omaha platform with
both feet. Next.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18
Shawnee County POpuligt Ticket.

A MAN who believes the credit Of this
government is good enOughto float bond'
but not greenbaOk, is either banker or a
fool.-AmeriCan NonoOnfOrmist,
Or both.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18
TIE STATUS OF PROHIBITION In
TOPEKA.

been the study Of the lsWless ele-
ments to discover some method by
which itg provisions could be evaded.
Each successive expedient tried has
been contested in the courts, and one
after another has been decided ad-
Versely to the CLAIMS and pretentions
of those who seek to engage in the
unlawful traffic, until the friends of
the law came to believe that the last
legal technicslity had been ruled out,
and that full and complete prohibi-
tion depended solely upon public
sentiment and upon the honesty,
energy and efficiency of the officials
whose duty it Is to enforce the law.
It may be safely stated that this had
come to be the opinion Of both the
friends and the enemies Of the law
prior to the recent decision of Judge
Hazen. Of course, there were viola
tions, but the Violstors trusted to
luck to escape detection, or trusted in
the negligence of officials to do their
duty. When arrested, and reason
able proof of guilt was secured, no
one hoped or expected to escape the
penalty of his act; and since the re-
organization of the police board and
Of the police force in this city we un-
hesitstingly affirm that the city has
been freer from joints, gambling
dens, and resorts Of vice than at any
previous time in recent years. In
fact, the town was cleaned out, and
habltual lswbreskers experienced q
wholesome fear Of the majesty of the
law. This was a subject Of Congrstu-
lation with all good citizens; and the
manifest purpose of the officials to do
their duty without fear or favor was
generally recognized and COM
mended. The Ministerial association,
the ''big four" excepted, deemed the
service Of the police commissioners
and the force under them worthy Ct
a vote of thanks, which was cordially
extended and duly appreciated. tits
unfortunate for the influence Of the
Christian church upon the community
that the vote upon this question
could not have been unanimous.
Such was the condition up to the
time the decision above referred to
was rendered. Now all is changed.
That decision clearly points out how
the law may be evsded, and all PEN
alties escaped.
(D The liquors must be kept in
lockers. There must be no bar with
colored decanters, fine mirrors, OBJ
scene pictures, and the customary
pariphrenslia Of the licensed saloon.
There is no objection to the. colored
decanters. There is no objection to
the mirrors or to the obscene pictures.
The objection is to the arrangement
of them. The mirrors and the pic
lures may be upon the wall, but the
liquors must be in the lockers.
(2) There must be some other OBJ
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18


would be an insult to the hogs; if
they drink from the locker they 'sre
gentlemen Of such standing that to
class them as lswbreakerg cannot but
strike one as an absurdity."
This is the plain English of the de-
cision; and if it is not reversed, no
power under heaven can prevent the
establishment of such a place in every
vacant building in the city.
OF course, the pointer furnished by
the Topeka Capital will be observed.
Those who establish these places
will be gentlemen of such standing
that chasing them as lawbreakers
cannot but strike one as an absurd
ity." Laws are made for common,
back-slley bummers; not for gentle
men of standing"
If the decision in question is per-
mitted to stand, such places will be
opened in the near future. Parties
are indeed already arranging for
them; and what will the people of
Topeka do about it? What may the
police force be expected to do about
it? A suit is now pending, IN the
same court which rendered this de-
cision, against each of the police COM
missioners and against each of the
officers engaged in making the arrest
of members Of the Topeka Club, for
large sums Of money sggregating
$42O,OOO demanded as damages to the
characters Sof these gentlemen of
standing" At this rate, for each at
tempt to enforce the laws, what
would be the cost of keeping the city
free of vice? This is the result of q
conscientious effort of these officials
to do their duty as the law defines it;
and since the commencement Of this
suit, not one word has appeared in
the columns Of the great organ Of
prohibition, the Topeka Capital,
either in defense of these officers or
in criticism Of the court or Of the vio-
lstors of the law. In fact, not one Of
the class mentioned by Tom Ander-
son, "who howl prohibition at home,
and go to Chicago to fill up at the ex-
pense of anybody on whom they can
forage" has yet been heard from con-
cerning this latest Interpretation OF
the law.
A republican court that will render
such a decision as the one in question
in order to defeat the efforts OF
Populist police force to enforce the
laws, is quite liable, also, to allow the
damages demanded by such gentle
men of standing" and all things con-
sidered, 1t looks like, not only 6
thankless job to try to suppress vice
but one that is certain to be brought
to naught through the partisan bias
Of the court. The citizens Of Topeks
may contemplate the prospective fu.
ture Of our city with such degree o.
pride IN republican supremacy in the
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

Entsred nc the pOstoflce at Topeka, Kansas ~
second ClRSS matter.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-05-26
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Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-05-26
CHAPTER TX,
YIoLETs.

self unable to shake off the de-
preston caused by Annie's story
and ! went out for q long walk
in the suburbs, resolved to think
only of pleasant things. I would
not call upon Mr.. Bosworth's
client, I argued, for / could not
carry with me the hopeful, cheer
full spirit 30 desirable in the sick
room or among earth's unfortu-
mates.
As / rannbled on, noting the
tokens of advancing spring on
every hand and musing much
on this strange world of ours,
with its mysteries, beauty and
misery, | said half aloud, eyes,
the most sensational story in the
world cannot approach in stating
experiences the facts of everyday
life; il I should write the real
happenings OF my somewhat
eventful experience, all the read
ing world would say, How very
sensational: how can people
write such absurd things% and
yet the truly absurd, the truly
tragic and sensational goes on
under our own very windows,
enters the lives of our families,
and forms a part of the current
events Of the day."
"The question is" said !, still
addressing my inner self, chow
we shall utilize this knowledge;
how use it for the best good o.
the world; how make it a great
moral power instead of a debas.
ing, facilitating, exciting pres.
ence?"
This reverie was broken in up
on in the most prosaic manner
by a grave-digger, who had
dropped his implements and was
drinking at the fountain as ]
passed.
cit is a fine day, lady?"
every pleasant" / answered,
"even for your sad trade"
"Ah, well, lady, if men must
go, its better to have a fine day
for settling the poor bodies, and
I am not sure in me own mind
that some are not better off,
You've a bit Of a posy there, ]
see, like some / dug up but now
and If it's worth your whites to
step down the path yonder you'll
find them. You are Lady Deck,
er's daughter, I'm thinkin', an
/ often see you go over the hills
or fields for an airing"
"Not her daughter" I said
"but niece; show me your pos
les and / will take them to her.
"This way, then, LADY," hi
said, entering the cemetery
"this way for the dryest wall
and view of the bishops monu
ment, as a fine a one as the eoun,
try can show"
/ followed my guide, an honesr
workman well known in tn,
neighborhood, and soon found
myself on the verge of an oper
grave which he had been dig
ging.
"There, miss" he said, as h,
picked up from the soil som,
tiny violets, they'll be none tn,
worse to a lady of sense for grow
ing here, since the Lord himsel
planted 'em."
''Indeed they will not" l an
swered, "and my aunt will b,
much pleased; but tell me abou
your grounds. / was not awar,
that they covered SO large a ter
ritofy."
"That shows you seldom come
miss said the man; folks most
~ think it is grewsome and lone
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-05-26

3 49, "a 3. q = & s ~
unsettled sT Harry and the old
man toe, They wers close
mouthed folks and never said :
word; hut one day solneshins
happened, and no one ever saw
her afterwards until she was
dead, and only a few then, Her
grave is down yonder, and it was
neglected for years-not even a
stone to mark it-vand her so
sweet and fair and happy once
"Poor child" l said, feelingly.
"You may well say that. miss.
If you will come this way I will
show you bit of tree she plant
ed herself, for it stood in a corner
of the garden, and the boss he
humored me in leaving it here
| | found the tree tall, graceful
and. thrifty, an elm planted SO
long ago,
81 think she erected her own
monument here" | said, as |
plucked twig for my aunt.
"There's many a one round
here who Will remember her if
you speak her name,'' said the
grave-digger, "and some that
would like to see her sweet face
once more"
did you ever know her broth
er Lorep-I have heard him spo-
ken Off"
! Indeed | did, miss; a harum-
searum boy, two or three years
older than Miss Annie, and it
was queer about him, too, for,
you see, he went away, and some
thought him dead and more
thought him living; but the old
man died and then Mr.. Harry,
and, as far as | know, MIR. Loring
has never been heard from. He
was proud, / remember, and not
like Mr.. Harry, and they did say
that the old aunt made the house
warm for all of them, seeing that
she was particular"
"And where is the aunt?"
dead, miss dead. She went
soon after the old man, and left
her money mostly to the mission
except a few hundreds to Mr..
Harry. It's a queer way, isn't it
miss but I've seen it often, that
these very pious folks mostly
lerve their money to some public
thing when their own flesh may
need it. Maybe it is their read
ing of the gospel, but l never
saw it that way"
''It is a poor gospel" | said,
'for | well remember text in
my good book which reads, He
who neglects to provide for his
own household is worse than an
infdel.'"
And it would make a sermon
worth hearing, miss. So you
must be going" he said, as |
arose to leave, "Well, thank
you, miss, for this visit, and if it
is not too grewsome and unpleas-
ant you might find more violets
here again"
II have enjoyed it very much"
l answered, ''and l hope some
day you will tell me about those
queer thoughts you have here,
for | shall certainly come again. ~
GLOW strange" ] said, as
hurried home; "Annie Sorr
seems living presence to me
now and all that day her little
violets perfumed the air of my
room.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-05-26
400 Men wanted

To buy business and residence
lots in the town of Cottonwood,
the future Town of the great
Camas Prairie. Consult,
J. S. RHoADs,
Cottonwood, Idaho.
Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1893-05-26


heads and the bother never eets
in here. You'd smile, miss, at
the queer thoughts ] have some-
times over my work; but you
was askin' about the groun's.
This, you see, to the fence yon-
der and down over the bit of hill
is the new land just took in last
year, and just now where you
are standing, miss, was part of
the old man Sorr's garden"
I found myself deeply interest
ed at once. The very violets |
held In my hand were perhaps
the offspring of some planted by
the gentle Annie or her father.
In trying to escape the haunting
sadness of her story had touched
another link In the chain of
events.
eff you are tired, miss, you
could rest bit on the box there,
while I smooth over these graves
near, so the family will not find
it SO desolate like"
/ sat down at once, wondering
why fate had led my steps that
way.
"Did you know the Sorr fan1i-
ly?" I asked, trying to conceal
the eagerness which impelled me
to question the grave digger.
"Know them, miss? Why,
Mr.. Harry and meself went to
the same school, and little did ]
ever think he would come to
such an end"
"Was he a pleasant gentleman!
"He was all that, miss, kind Of
sorrowful to himself, maybe, aft
er his sister an the old man
died, but full of his jokes when
you met him, an never lookin
down on them as hadn't his
chances. You see, [ must bt
content with the small teachings
OF the primary, and then l must
work; but Mr.. Harry he went or
and graduated at the grammar
and the high school, and by and
by at the college. I was very
proud of Mr.. Harry; he was &
sensible, fine gentleman, anG
never was twitting you with thu
old Irish father or mother, likt
some"
"And he died here, did he, il
the old home2"
"Bless me, MISS" exclaimed
the grave-digger with real sur
prise in tone and manner; "blesl
me, do you mean to say vol
don't know that fine gentleman
as he was, and great scholar, too
that Mr.. Harry hung himself il
his own Officer"
II have not always lived here,
| said.
"True, miss, and that's why
Yes, he did that thing, and why
none of us can tell, for he neve.
said a better good-morning will
more heart in it than he did tina
very day. | was going to m,
work and he says: Hello, Dan
ME, plenty of work and good pay
| hope and l says: Plenty of it
sir, and the pay as good as tn,
rest, so | am not unreasonable,
enough to ask for more Ant
then he passed ON down tn
street and | looked at his fine
broad shoulders and says L; Mr.
Harry ought to marry and fl
up the old place for a better fig
ure of a man never was, not t,
mention his kind heart and i
was that very night he did til,
deed"
And did you know the sister
/ asked.
Little Miss Annie; indeed W,
all knew her. You see Mr.. Har
ry just set his eyes by her, ant
he'd have her out coasting il
winter and boating in summer
and she was as pretty a bit a
you'd see 'twixt this and the enc
of the world; a trifle too small
for elegance like your aunt, now
or yourself, miss, but just tn,
kind of girl that makes 20,
stop with the tools on you
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-10-17
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE SUB
Il URBAN real. ESTATE at Ballstop,

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE SUB
a URBAN REAL ESTATE at BaIlston,
Alexandria county Va, 1.-TWO and a-half miles
west of Washington city,
BY virtue of a deed of trust bearing date
August 14th, 1890, aud duly recorded in
liber L., No. 4, folio 10. of the land records
of the county of Alexandria, State of Yir-
ginia, aud at the request Of the parties Sc
cured thereby, /, the undersigned, being the
surviving trustee in said deed of trust men
toned. will offer for sale. at public auction
on TUESDAY. THE SEVENTEENTH DAY
OF OCTOBER, A. d., 1895 AT FOUR
O'CLOCK p NJ. Oh the premises. ALLTHAT
CERTAIN PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND
AND PREMISES situate ut Ballston, in the
county of Alexandria, aud State ofVirginia.
known and distinguished as lot No. l in the
Cathcart recorded subdivision, and being
more particularly described by mctes and
bounds as follows TO wit: Beginning at "A. ,
a large stone buried in the center of the cour-
ty road. running from the Free bridge to
yards Falls Church by way Of Ballston, said
tone being about four rods east of Lubber
run. and being corner to the lands Of Birch
md Garrison; thence S. 1212 degrees +. 80
rods to o. thence y. 15l, degrees Z. 16
rods to 'k:" thence n. 12l, degrees w. 30
rods to IS" thence S. 1913 degrees w. 1G
rods to "A" the place OF begnninS contain.
ing five acres of land. more or less.
JcrEis OF sale: Cash sufficient to discharge
the costs Of executing this trust and the sum
II six hundred $4,000 dollars, with interest
from the 18th Cay OF August, 1880, and as to
the residue of the purchase money, if any.
the terms Of payment will be made known Oh
the day Of sale. a deposit of $50 will be re-
luired at time of sale. Terms to be complied
with in 20 days from day of SALE or the trus,
rec reserves the right to resell the property AT
the risk and cost OF the defau'ting purchaser
All conveyancing and recording at the cost OF
purchaser.
ARTHUR w. CATRCART,
Surviving Trustee.
For further information see or address,
JAMES Z. CLEMENTS,
1921 I street, H. W,
oct1 til Washington, ID. C.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-10-17

How BURGLARS GET THEIR Tools
Every little while the police arrest
man with kit of burglars tools in his
possession, and one naturally wonders
where they all come from. 1t is easy to
buy gun of any description, and the
most reputable citizen would not be
ashamed to be seen purchasing the
most wicked-looking knife ever made
but who would know where to get
slungshot, or a jimmie, or device for
drilling into safe, or any of the many
tools used by the professional burglar in
the ursuit of his calling? There prob
ably are places in many large cities
where these things are made and sold
to the users, but such places are scarce.
Once in while the police find such a
factory, and then things go hard for the
proprletors. 1t may seem little strange
10 learn that most of the tools used in
buiglaries are made by mechanics who
are regarded as respectable men in the
community.
When a burglar wants any particu-
lar tool made he goes to mechanic
who can do the job, and pays him per-
haps five times whatit is actually wor
for making the tool and keeping still
about it. Superintendent Elbridge, OF
the police department recalls many
cases of this kind that have come TO
light in Boston. One in particular oc-
Cured three years ago, when an es.
capped convict named Williams went to
blacksmith in Roxbury and got him
to make lot of drills to be used in
safe-cracking. He personally superin-
tended the tempering Of the steel, and
when the job was nearly completed it
leaked out, and Williams was arrested
In this instance the blacksmith knew
nothing of the use to which the tools
were to be put, and escaped punish.
ment. In the opinion of Superlnteud
ent Elbridge most of he tools used by
burglars are secured in this way. The
only regular establishment w lcre they
were made ever discovered in Bostor
was at the West End. This was year:
ago, and the place was soon broken up
Boston Globe.