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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13
.POPULISTS CELEBRATE
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH
At New Rochelle, N. Y.

OapC. UeO. w. AOyu oOuuo 10
report of rousing celebration held
by the Populists of New Rochelle,
near New York city An interest
ing grograme was carried out, and
some earnest, ringing resolutions
were adopted. A number of prom
inent men were present, and others
sent letters. Among the latter were
Gen. Jas. G. Field, DR.. E. B. Foote
and Mr.. Geo. G. Beecher. We give
the letters of DR.. Foote and Mr..
Beeoher this week, and next week
we will publish Gen. Fields letter,
if received in time.
We publish this report to show
our readers that the Popufists of
New York are alive and at work,
almost under the shadow of the
banks of Wall street.
Following are the resolutions that
were passe
Resolved, That the United States
shall issue all the money, and pay it
out to maintain itself. New money
shall be paid out out until the per
capt. reaches seventy-fve dollars.
Resolved, That the United States
shall lend money on good security
at one per cent. for paper and one
and half for metal money.
Resolved, That all kinds of money
shall be at parity; as between
the gold and silver dollar, that the
ratio be l6 to l.
Resolved, That all metal money
shall be coined for the owner of the
metal, free.
Resolved, That we demand that
the coinage laws Of 1902 to 1878 be
re-enacted, and the so-called John
Sherman act of 1891 be repealed.
Resolved, That we demand the
repeal of the so-called resumption
act, and the national bank act of
1868; and, so help us. God, we will
be free.
Resolved, That the United States
shall build, and run, and own at
least two railroads, across and
lengthwise of our country, and the
first engine shall be called Peter
Cooper.
Amenl Amen Amen !!
JOHN CAHILL, Chm.
CHAs. CLARK, Sec'y.
Capt. Lloyd introduced the follow
ing resolution in the evening, which
was adopted:
Resolved, That we regret to say
the policies of national bankers are
built on the ruins of the wealth
producers homes.
Poems were read by Chas Clark.
The following "New Declaration
of Independence" by Gen. Weaver,
was also read:
TO The Editor Of the World
You inquire what | would rec
ommend inview of the silver crisis.
Just what | have been recommend
ing for twenty years. If we are to
have an independent government,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13

her political yoke. She has. now
struck the blow by closing the In
dian mints, which will cause us to is
sue second declaration of indepen-
-dence and throw off her financial
yoke. She is robbing us ten fold more
by her financial policies than she did
in l77e by her taxes.
We will have a triple system OF
finance, consisting of gold, silver
and paper, which shallInclude the I'M
restricted coinage of both metals at
the present ratio. The change must be
thorough. No patchwork will answer.
The dollar is not in the metal. The
coin value of metal money should al
ways exceed it's metal value. Then it
would stay at home, where it belongs.
To make the metal value equal to
the coin value is to demonetize our
money and prepare it for export as
bullion. 1t strikes out the enacting
clause of the law which makes it
money.
The American people will never
stop short of an independent system
of their own. No self-respecting
citizen will follow England in her
universal robbery Of mankind. We
got along pretty we'll without her
and without her American allies
during our late civil-war trouble,
and we can and will do so again.
The present crisis will bring about
the complete overthrow of both the
old parties. They are the joint
authors of the present distress, and
they will fall before the indignation
of the people. Those who wish to
assert utter and complete independ-
ence will flock to the new.
j. B. WEAVER.
Des Moines, Iowa, July2.
DIR. FOOTE'S LETTER
LARCHMoNT, NY, July 4, 1898.
CAPT. G.. w. LLOYD: Please ex-
press to those of the supporters of
Weaver and Field at the late cleo
ton who gather to celebrate the
national anniversary to-day, my re-
grets that l cannot be with you.
Many thoughts crowd upon my
mind at this moment when Presi-
dent Cleveland's call for an extra
session of congress is being exclt-
eddy discussed by the press and the
people.
In the twelfth century before
Christ, strong man by the name
of Sampson exhibited his great mus
cular strength by pressing his
shoulders against two pillars, where
upon the temple fell, burying not
only the assembled multitude, but
himself included, in the ruins.
In 1882, after Christ, the plutoc-
racy of this country exhibited it's
GREAT nnGhical strength bY knock
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-06-29
JONEsBORo TAXI
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

BAPTIST CHURCH.-Rev. NJ. A. Adams, pas
tor. Preaching every Sunday at l0.45a. Ill.
except second and first Sundays at $50 a.
m. Sunday school every Sunday at 8:l5
a. m. and at chapel at Up. IN. Prayer and
praise service every Wednesday at $3.50 p.
m. Young peoples prayer service every
Sunday evening one hour before church
service. Ladies' Missionary Meeting every
first Friday in each month at p. m.
NJ. L. CHURCH SoUTH.-Rev. +. b. Robertson
pastor. Sunday school . a. m. Preaching
1890 a. m. Prayer and social service We'd
nesduys $50 p. m. Young mems prayer
ary Society first sabbath of each month 3
p. IN. Home Mission Band second sabbath
3p. IN. Ladies' Missionary Society first
Friday of each month p m. Union serv-
ice third Sabbath of each month $50 p. m.
M. +. CHURCH.-E. ii. Mclaughlin pastor;
preaching every third Sunday In the First
Presbyterian Church at 2:30 p. m.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURcH.-Rey. j. p.
DOggett pastor. Preaching every second
and fourth Sundays at 1880 a. m. Sunday
Union service every second Sunday at 7.&
p. m. Prayer meeting every "Wednesday
at $3.50 p. m.
SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.-Rev q
Preaching every Sunday 1890 a. m. sun
day school Ia. m. Y. p. =. G. u. every Sun.
day $50 p. m. Junior 7. L. ). G. y. hrs
Sabbath of each month p. m. Speca
prayer meeting every SuDDaIn NJ iu.io u. Ill
Weekly prayer meeting Wednesday $3.50 p
IN. Ladies' prayer meeting Friday p. IN
Union service fourth Sabbath evening o
each month at 7.30.
THE W. q. L. u, meets every Thursday II
each month, at 2 O'Clock p. m, in the Tenn
perence Hall. Visitors arealways welcome
A union temperance serviceheld every fiftl
Sunday evening.
THE JoNEsBORo LOYAL TEMPERANCE LIE
GION meets the second and fourth SUNDAY
at 3 p. m., in Temperance Hall.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-06-29
DIRECTORY.
COUNTY OFFICERS:

COUNTY OFFICERS:
heriff-J / Hawkins.
Circuit Court Clerks ii L Cooper.
Chairman County Court-H Hart.
County Court Clerk-JacOb Leab.
Clerk and Master-W L Young.
Trustee--J A T Bacon.
Register--A NJ Stewart.
County Surveyer-T 4 Young.
Supt. Public Schools-F T Watts.
Tax ASSESSOR A Bradshaw.
THE COURTS:
CIRCUIT COURT.-Judge, A ] Brown; At
torney General, II 7 Campbell; Clerk, II l.
Cooper. Meets first Mondays in April,
August and December. r
CHANCERY CoURT.-Chancellor John p
Smith; Clerk and Master, w + Young.
Meets first Mondays in January and July.
COUNTY CoURT.-Chairman, II G Hart;
Clerk, Jacob Leah. Meets first Monday In
each month.
LAW COURT, Johnson City.-Same officers
as theCircuit Court, and meets -
CHANCERY COURT at Johnson City meets
first Mondays in June and December.
JONEsBORo TAXING DISTRICT:
Mayor-James ii Epps.
Recorders B Keefaufer.
Marshall NJ Campbell.
Aldermen-J ii Epps, f. Britton and
A b Cummings.
Council and Court meet when there is any
business to transact
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-06-29
SECRET SOCIETIES.

WASHINGTON CHAPTER No. 2, Il. A. M
Meets First Friday I'm each month. ID. G.
Aiken, II. p; NJ. II. p. Panhorst, Sec.
RHEA LODGE, No. II, +. AND A. M.-Meets
Monday on or before each Full Moon. A.
y. Deaderick, w. NJ; ID. G. Aiken, Sec.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBnIc-Post No.
35: p Britton, Commander; ii NJ Slagle
Adjutant; ] A FEBRUARY, Quartermaster
Meets first Saturday In each month.
KNIGHTS OF HoNoR-Frankland Lodge No
5S5: 4 III Anderson, Dictator; NJ stuart
Reporter; ] ii Peoples, Financial Report
or. Meets every Thursday night.
KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF HoNoR-J NJ
Fink, Protector; s ii I. Cooper, Secretary
Meets first and third Friday nights In each
month in Knights of Honor Hall.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-23
FOLLY'SGARB ON WISDOM
Bernhard Gillian Considers the
Province of the Eumorist.
Growing Power Of the Joker-Cartooas
That viii Live Our Republics His
tory-rheir Place In American Pol
itics-Pictures True to Life.
rcopYR1GEr. lsea !

A gifted Englishman declared, not
long ago. that the American sense of
humor was a national calamity His
observation is as jnstifable as the
charge against Britishers that they
cannot see Joke. John Bull can see
joke If it be native product. 1t is
only when he goes abroad and finds
the play upon words superseded by the
play upon thoughts that he sees moth
ing to laugh at For the Englishman
dearly loves pun.
But in this country we dearly love
ideas. If humor be not original it
pals upon us The cartoon or the
joke that requires abstruse cogita-
tion to discover the point of it is some
thing we have no patience with. For
this reason orr lecubrations of wit are
very often but transient things. verit-
able mushrooms of fancy, created to
perish with the occasion that called
them forth. The soul of wit was never
meant to fnd in them more than a
temporary abiding place.
It is this very Elasticity that makes
American humor so all pervading.
Nothing is too high or too low to af-
ford it material It's achievements are
the republics history in burlesque.
James Il. Blaine is reputed to have
looked over collection of cartoons
aimed at himself with the remark:
There is my pictorial biogr raphy." In
the same way the humorists of Amer
ica have written their country's his
tory and shaped it as they wrote it.
Who would think of Grover Cleveland
as fieshy gentleman if he had no car
toonist? What posthumous fame has
been recently conferred in caricature
upon the headgear of the first presi-
dent that ever died in office How
many demagogues would there not be
in Office to-day but that American wits
have laughed them out of it?
Hence those foreigners who do not
appreciate our funny men" merely
betray their ignorance of what It is
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-23
Didn't See Theu,.

How old would you take me to be.
Mr.. Griffin?" she iSped, looking unut-
terasle things.
Don't know. I'm sure" responded
Griffin, tugg;ng nerveusly at his mus
tache.
II IN awfully old, assure you,' she
went on. I've seen twenty three sum-
merS."
Then You ought to wear glasses, -
responded Griffin earnestly.
What. Glasses at 1wentv-three
Oh. MIR. Griffin
Yes; your eyesight must be bad
I'm sure | don't know WHY vou
should think so. she pouted.
Well, said Griffin slowly and look
ing for safe exit meanwhile I'm
afraid about twenty summers have
gone by without your noticing them -
brakes Magazine
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-23
FASHIONS FRilLS.

FEATHER bonnets, hats, turbans and
elaborate trimmings are imported in
great variety. Some of these are SO III
ira elaborate that they reach the verge
Of absurdity.
A NOVELTY in the arrangement OF
Sashes for children is shown in a dress
"a which the sash is put in at the front
Of the sleeve seams. The sash is brought
around under the arms and tied in a
loose bow at the back.
ONE Of the handsOnaeSt dresses of the
season is of black armure with lemon
Eellow trimmings The garniture ma
Lerial is a hrocade and gold passemen-
ierie inter1nixed. The dress is worn by
tall and stylish brunette.
A VELVET collarette fehu and COM
bination trimming is made with shoul-
der sections SO wide that. when worn,
they are nearly seven-eighths Of yard
across. Rose ruchings of satin and a
wide faring collar are the finish to this
sxtravagan model.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-23

mentOuS lnnuence II has mad IN pol
itics will be worth long chapter Let
any citizen analyze his impressions of
our public men and assure himself how
far the cartoons he meets with in his
books and papers are responsible for
those impressions. No wonder a can
didate for office once bought up and
burned every copy of a paper cartoon
ing him that came into his district be-
fore his constituents had a chance to
see it. Occasionally, however, the eff
feet is not the one intended. poll
tician of dubious renOwn always re-
manned gra teful to one artist who carrie
atured him inimitably in a cartoon
that attracted attention all over the
United States
Before that picture came out" he
declared, II wasn't anybody. Now I'm
known to the whole country"
1t is tritle melancholy, however, to
reflect that the authors and originators
of the many bright things we see and
read remain for the most part obscure.
These persons who are fond of as
serting that there is no distinctively
y
be unaware that we have cartoon
lists in this country. The work they
do is made up of just such types
There is an American type of business
man, society man, workingrnan and
every other kind of man. as the readers
of Judge have long been aware. These
types are distinctly national Nothing
like them is native to any other coun-
try
This suggests, finally. how familiar
we are all becoming with every kind
of high and low life. as consequence
of comic illustrated journalism. VIA,
plea for tenement-house reform was
ever so powerful as thai made by the
picture and joke portraying the alb
surdities OF such q sard.ne existence2
How often would the street waits be
thought OF did they not afford such
wealth of material TO the American
cartoonist. thanks TO whom one-half
the world has come 10 know pretty
well how the other half lives
BERNHARD GfILAM-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-23
BOB-WHITE.
Unsportsmanlike Enemies OF Our National
GAme-BRd.

The most dreary season of the year
comes for bob-white in rnidwinter.
when there may happen to be heavy
SHOWS. II thick icv crust form every
covey in the region will sometimes be
caught huddled up beneath il. and be
frozen to death. At this time the flesh
is dark and lean and bitter with feed
ing on laurel shrubs and evergrecns.
The birds become very tame again ia
their season of want, and will in very
heavy weather visit the farnhouse-
and barnvards in search of food No
true sportsman kills them in such con
dition: but the local darky. who rarely
attempts TO shoot them on the wing. is
too apt ts get out his old musket and
deal slaughter among the defeuseless
little creatures II he finds them
in their fsvorite position. huddlee
up. heads together. in small
excavation they have made In the
snow, single weil-or rather
ill--directed shot from the old queens
arm will kill and main dezens Of them.
leaving the remainder TO scatter and Toe
frozen 70 death.
In the sportsnans code there Is ne
crime so heinous a. shooting a quail
before he has taken wing You NAV
claim that every bird your compa MON
shoots has fallen 20 your gun, there's py
making yourself very unpleasant. and
still ne an honorable man, with the
chance of living il down. You may
even take the shot when a single bird
mas been flushed and has flown across
another mans territory. and ne reluc-
tantly excused on the score of excite
ment aud inadrertence. hut the sport
ing reputation Of the man who
viii fire an ounce Of shot At a bird
sitting on the ground. wher. a Eve
year-old could hit IL. - irretri-vabiv
and deServedlr blasted. and buried
without benefit Of eiergy. y.-Chzrlss D
Lanier. IN HarpeT's Magazine
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-23

the score colonial aining-room,
wherein lackeys were removing a
painting of George Washington and
substituting for it one of the prince of
Wales, was both artistic and harmoni.
Gus.
Are cartoonists true to life? is some
times asked. That is, are their por-
traits like the original? As rule,
yes. A well-known anecdote made
Garfield say that it was a convenience to
be universally caricatured. for it re-
suited in general familiarity with ones
personal appearance. The comic
artists are>no fatterers. but they are
faithful. Queen Victoria is proba bly,
as adipose in real life as she is in a
funny picture and the race track
gambler has equal justice done him.
There is such a thing, too. as honesty.
to be considered in connection with
this work. The humorous with pen
or pencil may not ethically allow his
talent to be debased into an instrument
for the propagation of error. If there
be no conscience in his work. our mod
ern satirist is merely an intellectual or
artistic buffoon, paid to make people
laugh like clown in a circus We are
not perhaps so rigid in this respect as
they are in Europe. But the artists
there seem to lack the wealth of idea
which we show. They are satisfied to
make perfect works Of art. We like to
have our pictures tell story. How
ever, it is difficult, perhaps presump
tuous, for Americans TO sit in judgment
upon their fellow workers in other
countries. French humor is for French
men. German wit for Germans and our
fun has that briskness and breezincss
which makes it reflex of our life SO
the Englishman who styles our humor
national calamity merely shows
that he does not understand us.
A defeated statesman once pointed
to political cartoon with the remark;
THAT picture defeated me for con-
gress.' II a true history of American
caricature is ever written. the mo-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-23
sUPERsTITIous RAILRoADERs
The Eject Which Acc dents Have ON En-
gineers and Firemen.

| Of the superstition of sailors. fisher
| folk and others we have all heard, but
| that such a distinguishing character
| istic should have attached itself to
railway men does not appear to be gem
! orally known. 1t savors somewhat of
| the anomalous that such preeminent-
" practical class of men should be the
victims of credulity regarding the SUI
pernatural. Such. however. is the case.
! recently had occasion to interview
a prominent railway official, and in the
course Of the conversation that ensued
that gentleman incidentally alluded to
two collisions which had lately oc-
CURED in the neigh hborheod. following
up his remarks with the announcement
that the local men would be in state
of subdued excitement and ''flurry"
until third mishap took place. Such
is the superstition of the railway men.
Upon expressing considerable astonish
ment | was assured that this kind of
thing was notorious among railway
men in general. and in this particular
instance it was known that the circum-
stances OF the two previous accidents
We're the chief topics among the work
men in all departments, who were also
counting on the possibilities of third
disaster
Curiously enough touch of realism
was lent to the information just i'm
parted by the explanation that the sec
ond of the two collisions referred to-
was due to the driver of one of the en-
l,aI III I.
alertness and precision, with an hon
orable record of some forty years serv-
ice. who was, it was believed, SO dis
turbed over the ''omens" of the first &C.
currence and so engrossed with what
he felt would be two other catastro-
phes that he committed the slight err
ror of judgment which caused his loco
motive to crash into another coming in
an opposite direction. The statement
is given as the conviction of one who
has spent upward of quarter of a CEN
tury among railroad men of all classes.
and who has known the driver alluded
to for long period of years. SO came
a bout second collision. Surely super
stition could go no further thar this.
But here is tragic sequel-a sequel
which unfortunately. will in all proba-
bility do much to strengthen the rep
rehensi BILE beliefs of these men, Two
DAYS after the interview above men
toned. within fifteen minutes drive
from the scene of the second collision,
an express mail failed to take the
points. portion of the train with the
tender of the engine was violently
thrown across the rails and one poor
stoler killed This is what the rail
way men will term their third mis-
hap" There's the third" they say:
and now perhaps they will breathe
freely for a season.-London lid Bits.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-23
OCCUPATION AND AMUSEMENT.
The Mechanic Arts In the Farm Honss fer
the Winter Day.

! In the long and lonesome winter
months that occur annually in every
/ farm house, where even the most ac~
I cessible society can hardly prevent
many weary DAYS There may he found
( company. occupation and much more
/ in the CARRYING on Of work in tbs.
I trades, such as carpcnterinT, wood
| carving, printing. and other kinds %
| handiworls which may suggest them
selves to any thinking pe-sou. Non4
OF these trades can be learned in per
fection. of course i,ioui expert in
struction. bat cscn one can be followed
in a manner that will give entertain
ment and occupation after few short
lessons. taken from manuals. and in
manv instances the village expert y
there is one viii be ready to give m
struction. We have known 90 farm
ing couple. n man and mr. wife. who
taught themselves teieg-a pning to-
amuse their wiuter solitude aud nov
find IT not only entertaining. nut also
source OF news as well. a. they can call
up the regular operator at the nearest
village and find oui what - going on ia
the faralvay worla by a fess taps
In carpentering. nearly any farmer
boy - ho - not very stupid fellow.
can master enough details to make all
the boxes. stats and small boartiiHgs
required about the house and can DO
almost ali OF ia. wood fnsnding that fx
needed on the farm His kit need
not be either large or expensive. MS
manual viii give him start. and
any woodshed ,sill ssrvs a. a shop until
he can build himtsf better one Most
bows will enjoy the work and in =
short time there sill De fever broken
fences or battered gstss about ihs
farm The usefulness Of even a littls
pottcrin2 IN this trade is almost meal.
culable Moreover. one boz in a farm
neig n Dorhood. who has passabl.
xnack az saeh a trade wiIi DO ..
enough value to whole neigh oorhoo.
to insure him fail supply of poke.
money. WooG carving is something %
kindred trade and can 30 Easily
learned n ita rudinents by any smars
boy or girl while the price o. table
and tools Is not very lsrge and 7-iIl "a,
socn repaid Dy the income Of tAe worx
itself
he at Of printing ia not or. thai
has very many lntEseacies "a deter the
beginner. though u requires a Qo<sk
deal Of irae To re aaier ss.e ss~xpsrt suf.
Recently cIeft fvstn ois finger. u, ,r.zk~
very RAPID progress 10 4 IL could nos
Do of such pr@etlc@i servic. .s the car.
peuiersng - shoa' the farm. vet i..
often very -eli ~ nave tss ordia.s-s
farm documents. relating 10 rent.
nor gases- etc drawn np in typ. .ni
sf'e Aft - ana sTii4 - p~rsnniAllY % ia.
lsfest and Importance III. ssr-s-s.ll,
Nei adapted 20 sas gsriN-s. \. In.
br5ne
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-23
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, VINO live bet
ter than Others and enjoy life more. with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products 10
the needs of physical being. will attest
the value tn health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced il the
remedy, SyruI of Figs.
lis excellence Is due TO its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant To the taste, the l~freshin- and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
ati1e: effectually cleansing the system,
di>pcllin- colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because il acts on the kid-
neys. Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and il is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup Of Figs Is for sale b. all drug
sists in Soc and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured bv the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name Is printed on every
package, also the name. Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you viii not
accept any substitute il offered.